Kid jokes about school

Routine childhood vaccinations are still below pre-pandemic levels in Colorado, and health officials are pushing to catch kids up before they return to school. The number of shots given to Colorado kids tanked during the stay-at-home order in spring 2020, with a roughly 38% decline compared to the same period in 2019. The numbers have mostly recovered, but about 9% fewer shots were given between March 20 and July 30 of this year than during the same period in 2019. Dr. Meg Tomcho, a pediatrician at Denver Health, said her office saw a major decline in routine visits in the first months of the pandemic, but that patient volume is now slightly above normal. She said she’s seen some “spillover” hesitancy about routine vaccinations because of misinformation about the COVID-19 shots, but it’s not a huge shift. “It is so much easier and safer to prevent disease than to treat disease,” she said at a mobile vaccine clinic at Clayton Early Learning in Denver on Friday. “We can get back on … [Read more...] about Colorado kids improving on routine vaccinations, but still lagging behind pre-pandemic level

Youngsters are likely to suffer the brunt of the worsening health effects of rising global temperatures due to record levels of obesity and physical inactivity, a new comprehensive analysis of recent studies on the topic gave a clear warning. The research led by Dr Shawnda Morrison, an environmental exercise physiologist, argues that while physical fitness is key to tolerating higher temperatures, children are more obese and less fit than ever before and her findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Temperature. This could put them at greater risk of suffering heat-related health problems, such as dehydration, heat cramps, heat exhaustion or heat stroke. She says that current climate change policies fail to adequately address child health needs and that encouraging children to make exercise part of their everyday lives must be prioritised if they are to cope with living in a hotter world. From Slovenia’s University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Dr Morrison is an … [Read more...] about New Research Says Children’s Health Can be Impacted As Global Temperatures Rise

Click here to read the full article. Pallavi Sharda didn’t have to look far to get into character for “ Wedding Season .” The Australian actor and dancer stars in the Netflix rom-com as Asha, a New Jersey-raised attorney being pressured by her Indian parents to find a man and get married. To get them off her back, she convinces one of her set-ups (Suraj Sharma) to pretend that they’re dating during a summer wedding season. “When I read the script, I just thought, ‘I know this story,’” says Sharda, who is best known for her Bollywood career and television work in Australia. “I know this woman. I have friends that are this woman. I have family who grew up in Jersey, like a lot of my cousins are from this part of the world. And my grandparents migrated to the U.S. in the 1980s. All of my maternal cousins are Indian Americans.” More from Variety 'Prey' Star Amber Midthunder Auditioned for the 'Predator' Film in English and Comanche 'Wedding Season' Review: Two … [Read more...] about ‘Wedding Season’ Star Pallavi Sharda on Why She Left Her Native Australia for a Bollywood Career

AMONG all the attractions of Geneva, none had appealed to me so much as the possibility of finding some background for Amiel’s Journal. The other literary backgrounds had already been elaborately explored, and were at the traveler’s disposal, but Amiel’s had never been furnished. Though he was the last Genevan to add one to the world’s classics, his trail seemed to have been lost. Amiel himself gives us hardly a trace of where he might be found, and no one of all the readers and lovers of the Journal had ever sought out his home and his surroundings. It seemed impossible that those who knew Geneva well should not be familiar with the house of one who had been the most recent of its scholars and writers to achieve a permanent place in the world’s thought. His home might be a block away from where I began my search for it, but nowhere was there a clue. The last Amiel had disappeared from the directory. Guides, of course, had never even heard the name, and frankly doubted whether … [Read more...] about In Search of Amiel

WHEN Robert Louis Stevenson was asked what lack in life caused him the keenest pain, he answered, “The feeling that I ’m not strong enough to resent an insult properly, — not strong enough to knock a man down.” With civilization at a point where the resort to elemental weapons is practically obsolete, it might seem that there was something antiquated and unreal, more imaginary than genuine, in this complaint of the frail-bodied Stevenson; probably in all his life, as in the lives of most gentlemen nowadays, he was never confronted with the alternative of knocking a man down or accepting a wound to his pride. If the occasion ever arose and he had to charge to the feebleness of his body his failure to sustain his dignity, the recollection might indeed tinge him with bitterness; but it is difficult to believe that the gentle and lovable Stevenson argued from an actual experience of humiliation. Yet it is not alone the painful memories or the logical apprehensions of ill which awaken … [Read more...] about Brawn and Character