Feb 20 2023 - Silly News on Family Day

 

Let's play!  Silly News Yes or No.  From UPI:  Flaco, the owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo, will be allowed his freedom Feb. 18 (UPI) -- An owl who became a celebrity after he escaped from the Central Park Zoo in New York City and defied capture for weeks will be allowed to keep his freedom. For now. That's because they haven't been able to catch him.  He's Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl.  Zoo staffers tried to lure him with bait and recordings of eagle owl calls.  There's lots to eat in Central Park. Swan hitches a ride atop city bus in England Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The bus operator in a British city shared a photo of a swan utilizing public transit by taking a ride atop a city bus.  Reading Buses tweeted a photo showing the swan riding on one of the operator's buses in Reading, Berkshire. Pig that 'looked cold' gets a ride home in Alaska police cruiser Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Police in Alaska said a wandering pig that "looked cold" at the side of a road got a lift home in a patrol cruiser. The Anchorage Police Department posted a photo to Facebook showing the pet pig riding in the back of one of the department's patrol cruisers in Fairview.  Police wrote the "portly dude was quite friendly."  His name is Elvis Pigsley.   Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Dec 27 2022 - FIFA vs Summer Olympics

 

Did FIFA overrun the Olympics in 2022?  It seems to be the headline for what major events happened this year.  It looks like Queen Elizabeth's death and funeral  is far behind the FIFA World Cup.  And even though the Tour de France has 3.5 billion viewers, so would be the biggest sporting event in the world, it only shows up in one article.  It is the World Cup and the Olympics that are compared.     So which is it?  FIFA or the Summer Olympics? Here are  Quora  answers:   1.  "Due to the fact that last Olympics Games and last FIFA World Cup were in the same country, it will be easier to compare both. During the Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro received 1.2 millions visitors.  According to Rio’s city hall, 410 thousands of those were not from Brazil During FIFA world cup Rio received 886 thousands tourists, 471 thousands of those were foreign tourists." Of course FIFA world cup have more than one host city, so there were much more tourists than this. Also, Rio received less tourists from Brazil because there were lots of other cities hosting FIFA World Cup." 2. "If you talk about audience, both events are watched for about half of the Earth. Fifa World Cup reached 3.2 billions viewers, while Olympic Games 3.5 billions." Quora has many more answers, but most are opinion-based.  Here are more analytical articles' answers. 1. The number of countries participating: in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, 208+1 countries participated in qualifying events which narrowed down to 32 in the main event. Meanwhile, a total of 206 nations participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics. 2. Younger audiences show a preference for FIFA 3. Differences are observed based on gender.  The World Cup is the favourite event of men globally (55%) with the Summer Olympics at 52%.  For women it is Summery Olympics 47% and World Cup 35%. 4. Gamers are markedly more drawn to the World Cup than the overall population Finding out how many watched the 2022 series will likely take some time.  My bet is that FIFA wins. The expectation was over 5 billion people.  What do you think?

A swan at Charles Daley Park pond.

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June 12 2020 - Alarm Fatigue

Alarm fatigue is where we are in the curve of the Pandemic.  We have been exposed to a large number of frequent alarms/alerts and consequently can become sensitized to them.   Normally this is associated with patient safety, where there are false or clinically irrelevant alarms. But here we are:  many weeks into the constant alarms of staying inside, social distancing, gloves, and masks and we are experiencing the same stresses as health workers.  I wonder how this might change an entire population's social fabric. Another expert has given this a new name - moral fatigue - where we are barred from making the appropriate moral choice by existing rules or policies, or we have to deal with a new set of moral choices and not able to rely on habits and existing patterns.   The result is the same for both alarm fatigue and moral fatigue: exhaustion.  And this results in being less attentive to the needed activities like washing hands, social distancing, and so on.  And if we think we might get used to the new rules, there are even more new rules coming out.  What's the latest alarm?  As patio season is about to open: don't use the restaurant bathrooms.  Don't share condiments.   This is a pandemic that will be remembered for bathroom activities.  Our beautiful swan today lives at Whistling Gardens.  He is one of the two swans there - both are named Brutus.

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