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A quarter of parents lied when they learned their children were or likely to be infected with the COVID-19 virus at the height of the pandemic, according to a newly released study.
A survey of a few thousand parents found that they face other pressures than childless adults, which could have led parents to seven types of false statements (lies) that would allow their children to break quarantine and potentially spread the virus.
The study indicated that the most common reason your child’s condition is distorted is “a preference to work outside of private liberty as a parent. “Other everyday jobs to stay at home.
The researchers say that the fact that one in 4 parents represents their child’s point of infection is a sign that we want to locate tactics “to address parental considerations that have been known as the reasons for those behaviors (p. e. g. , preference for autonomy) and putting in place greater support mechanisms for parents (e. g. , paid leave for health problems due to family circle illness) such crises so that misrepresentation and non-compliance feel less necessary.
A state senator I admired used to warn his colleagues that other people have the right to be idiots. Tennessee Senator Doug Henry is in my head when I look at the Nevada Athletic Commission’s “slap fights” rulebook, meaning when two others people stand face to face and slap each other unconscious. TBS televises.
Kurt Streeter of The New York Times televised occasions “indefensible. “
But Ultimate Fighting Competition advertising director Hunter Campbell, who defends slap fights, told the Nevada Athletic Commission, “The procedures and regulations around you are a harmful environment. . . The factor of the moment is the integrity of the sport. The other thing you notice is you. “I’ve noticed cases where a guy can weigh 400 pounds and slaps a guy who weighs 130 pounds, and that’s not what we’re looking to do either.
Nevada regulates regulations but, as happened with the UFC, interest in this kind of violence will spread and regulators say they want to be ready to replace regulations quickly. The Associated Press quotes the chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission:
“So those guys want to take the game seriously and it looks like they’re doing it,” said Anthony Marnell III, chairman of the commission that also regulates boxing and other fighting games. “It seems they want to replace the rules. a committee, we have to stick to them at lightning speed on how we’re going to look at this. And we want to have a procedure for that because there’s going to be controversy.
It’s an attractive time. Slap fights evolve just like professional football and hockey adapt to ongoing physical upheavals through head injuries.
This can evolve into many tactics in other states. One would be to allow regulated slap fights, which would be supervised in the same way that states oversee boxing and UCF lately. Wyoming jumped into Nevada regulations by allowing online contests. Wyoming is not new to this box since in 2018 it became the first state to sanction boxing with bare hands in more than a hundred years.
Wyoming’s Cowboy State Daily reports:
Officially, Wyoming rarely much debate is whether it’s right or slapping someone stupid for sports.
State officials simply say it’s okay to bet on it. And that means anything, given that gambling is still in its infancy and bookmakers still don’t know how to harm or act accordingly.
The European Slap Fighting League SlapFIGHT has been around longer than Power Slap. Bets on those occasions have been placed through DraftKings since last year. Punters from Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado and Connecticut bet on this action DraftKings, FanDuel and others.
On February 8, Wyoming became the first state to approve Power Slap League events. On the same day, a deal between Power Slap and U. S. Integrity was announced, making the country’s top technology-driven sports watchdog the manager in 2023.
Still, it remains to be seen what bettors can put in.
Betting industry giant FanDuel is one of the online sites that toys with the concept of placing bets on slap fights.
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UFC defender says the slap is indefensible:
In slap fights, unless you bite your mouthguard and expect your opponent to obey the rules opposite to pointing your ear, the “defender” doesn’t have much to do, but stand there and take it. “There is nothing helpless athlete,” he says. Chris Nowinski, a professional wrestler turned neuroscientist and co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation. “[Slap Fighting] is one notch above the old Bumfighters videos. Very sad. “
One can argue that this foray into slap fights through UFC leaders is itself a bit of a clever jiu-jitsu. Well, now it feels downright quaint (and a little marginal) to fight with slaps.
But there’s a more compelling argument: Slap fights have the effect of delegitimizing the UFC and validating old, misguided criticisms that organizers were just building a business based on bloodlust. MMA would arguably never threaten the NFL, as White predicted long ago. It has its position in today’s sporting landscape, and has come a long way since it was dismissed as a human cockfight. Why threaten this progress by associating it with something as vile as the slap fight?
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Let me put my cards on the table ici. Me I am so opposed to the concept of an instructor or principal beating a child that it is difficult for me to know how 15 states explicitly allow it and seven other states do not.
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Schools, basically in the South, still beat young people under what is euphemistically called “corporal punishment. “It should be noted that 16 per cent of corporal punishment meted out to young people through schools reaches young people with disabilities. Black schoolchildren are twice as likely to be legally beaten an adult in a position of authority as white scholars. In five states, 851 preschoolers were physically disciplined in one year of singleness.
The Shorenstein Center for Media, Policy, and Public Policy has assembled a collection of studies on this factor to help journalists explain why school principals beat black youth more than other young people. These are the first paragraphs of this report:
Although college studies point to harms related to corporal punishment, U. S. public schools are not allowed to do so. The U. S. Department of Education uses it to enroll tens of thousands of students a year, according to data from the U. S. Department of Education. U. S.
Public schools in 22 states reported using the physical field to monitor student habit in the 2017-2018 school year, the most recent year for which national knowledge is available. Twenty-eight states have banned corporal punishment in public schools, but 15 have particular authority to use it and seven states have no legislation permitting or prohibiting it, according to a September 2022 report from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
Meanwhile, corporal punishment is legal in all personal schools, those in Iowa and New Jersey.
Maximum practice is not unusual in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
That year, public preschool programs, found in public primary schools, reported that they applied corporal punishment to a total of 851 children between the ages of 3 and 5.
Here are some statistics from the U. S. Department of Education. U. S. Keep in mind that the knowledge is five years old, which is typical of knowledge that is popular to track.
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Now, a piece of context. Of all the members of the UN, only one, the United States, has ratified the 1989 treaty that protects young people from “all bureaucracy of physical or intellectual violence, harm or abuse, neglect or neglect, mistreatment or exploitation. ” Most of the countries followed it more than 3 decades ago.
This is what global studies say about violent physical punishment. Some studies have found that “normal” corporal punishment and aggression toward young people have links to delinquency and domestic violence later in life. Here are 62 years of studies compiled through the American Psychological Association.
The U. S. interest The U. S. government in whipping, whipping or whipping children came to a head in 2014 when NFL running back Adrian Peterson accused his son of hitting him with a “switch. “Fine for offense of attack. )
But, as the Brookings Institution notes, “Perhaps America has lost interest because most Americans beat their children, and most think that’s the way it should be. “with a good, hard beating. “
Brookings notes, “In terms of short-term habit modification, corporal punishment is sometimes effective. “, according to some studies. Children whose parents beat them regularly would possibly also expand more remote parent-child relationships later on. There is also strong evidence of an increased occurrence of aggression in young people who receive regular spanks.
Pediatricians have also taken a firm stance on how and why hitting young children is not helpful. The American Academy of Pediatrics said doctors are consulted about disciplining young children. The PAA discovered the following when interviewing members:
Only 6% of the 787 U. S. pediatricians (92% in number one care) who responded to this survey had positive attitudes toward spanking, and only 2. 5% expected positive results. behaving” (78% disagree) or that “spanking is an integral component of parenting” (75% disagree).
There have been plenty of rumors about a secret launch that was erased at Cape Canaveral planned a few days ago. The launch is not on a public schedule, but it is transparent that the Space Force launch site is preparing for something. Observers noted that a danger zone had been established a few days ago, a warning to pilots to stay away, but no known launch window for a rocket.
The Defense Secretary’s office showed the Space Force was preparing to test a hypersonic missile on Sunday, but the flight was canceled.
Hypersonic missiles are a generation of weapons that, according to the Department of Defense, will fly at least five times the speed of sound and can be maneuvered to avoid detection. America is not alone in this generation. The Russians and Chinese also use hypersonic systems.
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