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Falls, fractures and self-harm: 4 charts on how kids’ injury risk changes over time and differs for boys and girls

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Donnerstag, April 18, 2024

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At least a quarter of all emergency department presentations during childhood are injury-related.

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At least a quarter of all emergency department presentations during childhood are injury-related.
Injuries can be unintentional (falls, road crashes, drowning, burns) or intentional (self harm, violence, assault).
The type, place and cause of injury differs by age, developmental stage and sex.

children aged 1–4 years are the age group most likely to present to an emergency department with injuries
adolescents aged 16–18 years are the age group most likely to be admitted to hospital for injuries
boys are more likely to be hospitalised for injuries than girls. This continues into adulthood
girls are five times more likely to be hospitalised for intentional self-harm injuries than boys
falls are the leading cause of childhood injury, accounting for one in three child injury hospitalisations. Falls from playground equipment are the most common
fractures are the most common type of childhood injury, especially arm and wrist fractures in children aged 10–12 years.

For children under age one, drowning, burns, choking and suffocation had the highest injury hospital admission rates compared to adults.
In early childhood (ages 1-4 years), the highest causes of injury hospitalisation were drowning, burns, choking and suffocation and accidental poisoning.

What about sports?

Cycling causes the highest number of sporting injuries with almost 3,000 injury hospital presentations.
For the top 20 sports that are most likely to cause injury hospital admissions, fractures are the most common type of injury.
How to spot a serious injury now school and sport are back

Balancing risk and safety

To prevent injuries, we need to balance risk and safety.
Embracing risk is a fundamental part of play in all environments where children play and explore their world.
But with proper guidance and supervision from parents and caregivers, we can strike a balance between offering opportunities for risk-taking and ensuring children’s safety from serious harm.

What can governments do to prevent injuries?

This will provide clear guidance for all levels of government and others on prevention strategies and investment needed.
Better reporting on childhood and adolescent injury trends will better inform parents, caregivers, teachers and health professionals about the risks.

She is currently undertaking a project specific short term contract at the AIHW, in the Family and Domestic Violence Unit.
Dr Sharwood is recognised as a Professional Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and IT, UTS, for her industry expertise in product related injuries.
Warwick Teague is Director of Trauma and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne (RCH).

Poolwerx Teams up with Goldfish Swim Schools During Learn2Swim Month to Promote Swim & Water Safety Nationwide

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Montag, April 1, 2024

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DALLAS, April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Drowning is the nation's leading cause of death for children ages one through four. Swim lessons can reduce the risk of childhood drownings by up to 88%, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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Swim lessons can reduce the risk of childhood drownings by up to 88%, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Throughout Learn2Swim Month, April 1-30, 2024, customers can visit the Poolwerx Learn2Swim Month website to sign up and redeem a free trial swim lesson at nearby participating Goldfish Swim School locations.
The goal of this initiative is to promote swim and water safety ahead of pool season and the upcoming summer months, when families begin dipping their toes back in the water.
At Poolwerx, we pride ourselves on our expertise and always strive to give our customers the best and safest swimming conditions.

British Swim School Expands with New Location in Kentucky

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Dienstag, März 19, 2024

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LEXINGTON, Ky., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- British Swim School, the nation's leading "learn to swim" franchise, proudly announces the opening of its first location in Kentucky, British Swim School of North Lexington.

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LEXINGTON, Ky., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- British Swim School , the nation's leading "learn to swim" franchise, proudly announces the opening of its first location in Kentucky, British Swim School of North Lexington .
That's when I decided to partner with British Swim School."
That's when I decided to partner with British Swim School."
"Chris's decision to open a British Swim School franchise after observing the importance of swim lessons for his own daughters highlights the critical role of water safety education," said Ashley Gundlach, President of British Swim School.

Christian Author Writes New Book Teaching Mathematical Patterns in the Bible

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Dienstag, März 19, 2024

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ST. LOUIS, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- From author C. Thornton Chick's perspective, true believers of Christ accept that all 780,000 words of the Bible are the Holy Spirit inspired by the expression of God. However, an unbeliever may question these words and want proof. Now, they can have it, according to Chick's belief in mathematical proof presented in his new book, "The Messiah Code: Empirical Proof The Bible Is of Supernatural Origin and Time Is Running Out."

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Now, they can have it, according to Chick's belief in mathematical proof presented in his new book, "The Messiah Code: Empirical Proof The Bible Is of Supernatural Origin and Time Is Running Out."
During my time, I learned you cannot defy the law of mathematics, specifically towards the events in the Bible."
In the book, readers are introduced to multiple mathematical codes created to cipher any speculation someone may have regarding the Christian faith and its telling within the Bible, through the exploration of numerical patterns, positing these mathematical structures to have an underlying correlation to the book's text and a potential new wave of meaning.
During my time, I learned you cannot defy the law of mathematics, specifically towards the events in the Bible."

British Swim School Expands in New Englad with Hartford Location

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Dienstag, März 12, 2024

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HARTFORD, Conn., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- British Swim School, the nation's leading "learn to swim" franchise, proudly announces the opening of its newest location in Connecticut. British Swim School of Hartford is owned and operated by new franchisee Hamid Sakaki. Lessons are being taught at the Esporta Fitness in Farmington 1600 SE Rd Farmington CT, 06032.

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HARTFORD, Conn., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- British Swim School , the nation's leading "learn to swim" franchise, proudly announces the opening of its newest location in Connecticut.
British Swim School of Hartford is owned and operated by new franchisee Hamid Sakaki.
"At British Swim School, we believe in the power of personal experiences to drive change," said Ashley Gundlach, President of British Swim School.
For more information, or to sign up, visit British Swim School of Hartford or call 860-986-6768.

Local Collegiate Swimmer Makes a Splash By Opening British Swim School

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Freitag, März 1, 2024

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- British Swim School, the nation's leading "learn to swim" franchise company, continues its rapid expansion across North America with the opening of its newest franchise location in Bloomington. Kelci Wood, one of the youngest franchisees in the brand's history, is leading the new location that's set to open on March 4, 2024.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- British Swim School , the nation's leading "learn to swim" franchise company, continues its rapid expansion across North America with the opening of its newest franchise location in Bloomington.
While in college, she spent three years as a swim instructor at another British Swim School location.
The first pool from British Swim School of Bloomington is located at Home2 Suites by Hilton Bloomington (1410 N Walnut St).
"We're thrilled to welcome Kelci Wood to our British Swim School family," said Ashley Gundlach, British Swim School President.

Women in Entertainment Announces Seventh Annual Summit

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Dienstag, Februar 13, 2024

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Women in Entertainment (WIE) announced today that it will host its seventh annual summit on February 28, 2024 at the iconic Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California. This year's summit brings together renowned and innovative figures from the television, film, and media industries for a lineup of inspiring fireside chats and informative panel discussions.

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This year's summit brings together renowned and innovative figures from the television, film, and media industries for a lineup of inspiring fireside chats and informative panel discussions.
Founded by Renee Rossi ( Relativity Ventures ) and Gretchen McCourt, WIE brings together experienced leaders in the entertainment and marketing worlds to address a range of pivotal and timely issues that affect women.
"We're excited to continue our mission, spotlighting amazing, successful people in entertainment and media who generously share their valuable guidance and expertise," said Renee Rossi, Co-founder of Women in Entertainment.
Additional Summit sponsors include Dreamworks Animation, Morgan Stanley Global Sports & Entertainment, FOX Entertainment, Amazon MGM Studios, STX, MoviePass, Lionsgate, Buzzer PR amongst others.

Forget flowers, the greatest gift for 18th century romantics was the heart of a deceased lover

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Dienstag, Februar 13, 2024

My research into 18th century preservation practices led me to a favourite book that details these heart histories of the famous and infamous: historian Charles Bradford’s quirky tome, Heart Burial (1933).

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My research into 18th century preservation practices led me to a favourite book that details these heart histories of the famous and infamous: historian Charles Bradford’s quirky tome, Heart Burial (1933).
Amazingly sweeping and entertaining, the book narrates the heart journeys of many – primarily western – military, religious and political figures.
One such figure, the diplomat Sir William Temple (1628-1699), is buried next to his wife in Westminster Abbey.

The practice of preserving the heart – the ancient symbol of the soul and emotion – was not uncommon.
But for people in the 18th century, as this case and others show, it also symbolised lovers being united in death.

Literary hearts

Perhaps the most storied literary heart is that of poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).
Italian law required the cremation of a drowning victim’s body, so Shelley’s corpse was laid upon a funeral pyre on the shores of the sea, with literary luminaries such as Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt in attendance.

The Shelleys’ son, Sir Percy Florence, had his father’s heart encased in silver and placed on display at Boscombe Manor.
Upon his death in 1889, the heart was laid to rest in the family vault at St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth.

Hungry hearts

In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte’s corpse was autopsied over two days before it was to be transported from St Helena to France.
Napoleon had requested his intestines be preserved and given to his son, and his heart be sent to his wife Empress Marie-Louise.
When rumours circulated in January 1928 regarding the heart of renowned English novelist Thomas Hardy, many were in disbelief.

Placing the dead cat with the remainder of the heart in a box, he left the Hardy residence, surrounded by mourners, and proceeded to St Michael’s where the contents were buried.
Though Napoleon’s and Hardy’s storied hearts also serve as reminders, perhaps, that we shouldn’t take romantic traditions too seriously.

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Jolene Zigarovich does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job – and it ruined their short story

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Montag, Februar 12, 2024

We are professional editors, with extensive experience in the Australian book publishing industry, who wanted to know how ChatGPT would perform when compared to a human editor.

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We are professional editors, with extensive experience in the Australian book publishing industry, who wanted to know how ChatGPT would perform when compared to a human editor.
To find out, we decided to ask it to edit a short story that had already been worked on by human editors – and we compared the results.

The experiment: ChatGPT vs human editors

The story we chose, The Ninch (written by Rose), had gone through three separate rounds of editing, with four human editors (and a typesetter).
The first version had been rejected by literary journal Overland, but its fiction editor Claire Corbett had given generous feedback.
We had a wealth of human feedback to compare ChatGPT’s recommendations with.
By comparing it with human examples, we tried to determine where and at what stage in the process ChatGPT might be most successful as an editorial tool.

Round 1: the first draft

(Authors submitting stories to magazines and journals generally don’t give human editors a detailed, prescriptive brief.)
Interestingly, ChatGPT did not pick up that the story was now published and attributed to an author.
Nor did it define the genre, which is one of the first assessments an editor makes.
And the advice for more foreshadowing, dialogue and description, along with shorter paragraphs and an alternative ending, was generally sound.

Stage two: AI (re)writes

Could you please suggest places in the story where the pace needs to speed up or slow down?
Could you please suggest places where there is too much imagery and it needs more action storytelling instead?
Could you please suggest places in the story where the pace needs to speed up or slow down?
Could you please suggest places where there is too much imagery and it needs more action storytelling instead?
ChatGPT also changed the text from Australian English (which all Australian publications require) to US spelling and style (“realization”, “mom”).

What did the human editors do?

The biggest problem is that final transition – I don’t know how to read the narrator.
For me stories are driven by choices and I’m not clear what decision our narrator, or anyone else, in the story faces.
It’s entirely possible I’m not getting something important, but I think that if I’m not getting it, our readers won’t either.
It incorporates intellectual, creative and emotional capital – all gained from lived experience, complemented by technical skills and industry expertise, applied through the prism of human understanding.
(After all, the author doesn’t have to do what we say – ours is a persuasive profession.)

Round 2: the revised story

Next, we submitted a revised draft that had addressed Claire’s suggestions and incorporated the conversations with Nicola.
Again, it didn’t pick up that the story had already been published, nor did it clearly identify the genre.
It was a laborious process: the 2,500-word piece had to be submitted in chunks of 300–500 words and the revised sections manually combined.
Read more:
'The entire industry is based on hunches': is Australian publishing an art, a science or a gamble?

Round 3: our final submission

In the third and final round of the experiment, we submitted the draft that had been accepted by Meanjin.
This time, we followed up with separate prompts for each element we wanted ChatGPT to review: title, pacing, imagery/description.
ChatGPT came back with suggestions for how to revise specific parts of the text, but the suggestions were once again formulaic.
There was no attempt to offer – or support – any decision to go against familiar tropes.

Sometimes editorial expertise shows itself in not changing a text. Different isn’t necessarily good. It takes an expert to recognise when a story is working just fine. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. It also takes a certain kind of aerial, bird’s-eye view to notice when the way type is set creates ambiguities in the text. Typesetters really are akin to editors.

The verdict: can ChatGPT edit?

But we recommend editors and authors don’t ask it to give individual assessments or expert interventions any time soon.
A major problem that emerged early in this experiment involved ethics: ChatGPT did not ask for or verify the authorship of our story.
Human editors demonstrate their credentials through their work history, and keep their experience up-to-date with professional training and qualifications.
In Rose’s case, her oceanic allegory about difference, with a nod to the supernatural, was turned it into a story about a fish.

ChatGPT is ‘like the new intern’

AI suggestions can be scrutinised – and integrated or dismissed – by authors or editors during the creative process.
But when used by human editors, it’s like any other tool – as good, or bad, as the tradesperson who wields it.

Renée Otmar is affiliated with the Institute of Professional Editors, the Australian Society of Authors, Writers Victoria, Small Press Network and Life Stories Australia.
She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health, Deakin University.

Morocco dinosaur discovery gives clues on why they went extinct

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Sonntag, Februar 11, 2024

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And that suggests their demise came suddenly, with the impact of a giant asteroid.

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And that suggests their demise came suddenly, with the impact of a giant asteroid.
The discovery of the 180km-wide Chixculub asteroid impact crater in Mexico suggested a sudden extinction of dinosaurs and other species, driven by the impact.
But others have argued that a long, slow decline in dinosaur diversity contributed to their extinction.
It’s not just that dinosaur fossils are so rare; the fossil record is also patchy.
Because it’s such a huge landmass, Africa probably had far more dinosaur species than North America.

What we’ve found

Dinosaurs may have swum out to islands searching for food, as deer and elephants do today, and some might have drowned.
Other dinosaurs might have been washed out to sea by floods or storms, or drowned in rivers that carried them downstream to the ocean.
And so, studying marine beds, and working over many years, we’ve slowly put together a picture of Africa’s last dinosaurs, bone by bone.
It was smaller than Chenanisaurus, about five metres long – small by dinosaur standards, but large compared to modern predators.
If so, that means dinosaurs were cut down in their prime; burning out rather than fading away.

What our findings show

For over 100 million years, they evolved and diversified, producing a remarkable range of species: predators, herbivores, aquatic species, even flying forms, the birds.
Then in a single, catastrophic moment, everything was wiped out in the months of darkness caused by dust and soot from the impact.

Nicholas R. Longrich does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.