GP brings forward their retirement plan in looming crisis for profession, they say that they spend their time at doctor's office from 8:45 am to 6:30 pm. They said that 10 year ago they spent less time in the doctors office. But today there is more patient than before and a GP earn more money than before. It is easy to solve this problem, do a part time job for GP.
Only partitioned work hours of medical practitioners, part-time (5 hours) of work will be sufficient to carryout a decent salary, and the computer system that has the NHS can provide good service to the public. Thus, the bottleneck of the GP would improve and so will not be retiring early.
What is happening now that each nurse cares for 8 patients, also can be solved by partitioning the work schedule to part-time thereby alleviating its heavy work, opening up opportunities for volunteering to be part of the solution of problem, besides you have to creating new job descriptions of care nurse giving less responsible, with a short and easy course to meet the training needs to cover existing in the health system in the UK. This can be done if hourly wages are high, and not harm the economies of each individual family nurse or physician.
This is a logical consequence of the growth of the system, today there are more population living in the UK than 10 years ago and therefore are more patients to meet and work systems to make them more productive have to decrease professional to be adapted to the existing reality of the economic crisis which we live, so does the computer systems to be updated and upgraded software and hardware.
All this said above is further complicated with increasing life expectancy, that is, people live more years and therefore are more elderly patients seeking consultation with the GP, this is part of the problem than comes the demographic analysts saying that Europe is doing with more old people than young population, and the birth rate is lower by the crisis, in short that less young people work, pay taxes and social security traded, and more people are getting older or senior and experiencing changes in their workplaces, but the worst is that more people are getting old and retirement age and the system of economic balance between inputs and outputs of the audit health system, as the system of tax breaks to pensioners who have more people paying social security than people are paying to NHS for their work.
Alex Rojas Riva
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Nueva manera de ver la vida
Tenemos que ir comprendiendo que el mundo y la vida como la conocimos está dejando de existir, y no hablo de nuestras pequeñas vidas, hablo de un sistema global e histórico de creencias sobre el cual estuvo basada la vida del mundo, de toda la humanidad.
Ese sistema de creencias es el que se está derrumbado progresivamente y cada vez un poco más rápido, y todas las cosas terribles que estamos viendo y viviendo tienen que ver con los esfuerzos que hacen los amos del sistema en caída, precisamente para evitarla. Lo que llaman los estertores de la muerte, los cuales parece que en buena parte, si no siempre, son violentos.
Tenemos que aprender:
Primero, a soltar el pasado. Lo pasado pasó y punto. De él nos queda la experiencia, pero de él debemos deslastrarnos, ya no nos sirve, y quienes se aferran a él (a lo bueno y a lo malo de él) sufren profundamente. Los buenos recuerdos nos alegran el momento y disfrutamos el momento, pero ya. Eso es lo que fue: un momento.
Segundo, tenemos que aprender a no juzgar(nos) y con ello a perdonar(nos) y sobre todo a aceptar(nos) porque, aunque la mayoría de las personas aun no se dan cuenta, la raza humana es una, somos uno. Difícil, verdad? pero eso es lo que nos dará paz individual y socialmente. Ese es a mi entender, el gran legado de Mandela. El luchó contra las injusticias cometidas por décadas contra su gente y pasó 27 años de su vida preso, pero en vez de gastar sus energías en acumular odio y resentimiento, comprendió, aceptó y perdonó. Y por eso, cuando llegó al poder buscó la forma de hacer justicia para todo el país y no venganza para una parte de él. Eso lleva a la paz.
Tercero. Los tiempos por venir van a ser cada vez mejores, pero como todo proceso global, va más allá de los tiempos individuales, así que, aunque ya estamos viendo los signos, no sabemos qué tanto veremos de este nuevo inicio.
Ánimo, lleva a tu vida las cosas que te hagan feliz y suelta el resto. Te vas a ir sintiendo cada vez mejor.
En los orígenes de los tiempos, un grupo de diablillos se dieron a la tarea de esconderle la felicidad al hombre y pasaron días analizando y discutiendo cuál sería el mejor lugar para ello, hasta que llegaron a la conclusión de que al hombre nunca se le ocurriría buscar la felicidad en su interior y allí fue donde la escondieron.
Claudia Roffe
Monday, May 12, 2014
Meditation Instead of Medication
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Meditation Instead of Medication
Posted: 10/15/2013 7:00 pm
Have you ever reacted poorly towards a friend or family member, only to regret your reaction later, thinking, "I should have been more understanding, more patient, more lovable." If, by meditating, you became slower to anger and quicker to love, how might that affect your relationships?
How many distractions do we live with today? Diversions include smart phones, laptops, iTunes, Netflix, social media and texting, to name a few. What if, in the midst of all this, you could maintain more focus? How would that affect your future?
Science is wonderful. But brain scans cannot show how the heart changes. I heard a news piece on NPR this month, describing a program called, Honoring the Path of the Warrior. Based in Northern California, they offer meditation retreats to returning combat veterans, most suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. I clicked on their website and discovered this statement which deeply touched my heart. The words were written by a participating soldier. He wrote, "The experience of the mindfulness/meditation and events afterward have inspired me to practice taking a small respite every day. I encourage any veteran to participate in these events that give a battered mind a place to heal." -- Mike Smith, U.S. Army
Stress, in any form is detrimental to health and happiness. If meditation can alleviate the stress of a brave warrior, what might the practice do for you? Science and spirituality agree. Meditation can work wonders. You deserve the gift of serenity today. Follow this link to begin your journey into peace of mind today.
For more by Dr. Marcia Hootman, click here.
For more on meditation, click here.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Navigation Internet Incognito or Private Browsing on Firefox, Chrome & Explorer
Private Browsing: A How-To for Firefox, Chrome & Internet Explorer
Even if you've got a clean conscience, there are advantages in keeping your online activities to yourself. Perhaps you're planning a surprise party for the family member that you share a computer with. Perhaps you're on a computer at the office and don't want your co-workers poking around in your business. Or perhaps you just have concerns about someone sneaking into your top-secret bunker and finding out about your search history ("time travel," "building wormholes," "how to + global domination"). Whatever your reason for going undercover, private browsing will help keep other people from being nosy.
Now, while private browsing is useful, it's not all powerful. Private browsing won't protect you from keyloggers, tracking programs, nasty viruses after your personal info, or government surveillance efforts. But as far as the average Joe is concerned, your private online activities will remain shrouded in mystery.
As with most browser-related things, enabling private browsing is all a matter of knowing where to look. I'm going to show you how to fly under the radar with Firefox 4, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9. Each set of instructions has a few handy screenshots to help you along.
Firefox 4
Open up the bright orange Firefox menu in the top-left corner of your browser window. Click "Start Private Browsing."
If this is the first time you've used Private Browsing, you'll get the following message. Go ahead and check that box to avoid getting the same message every time.
Once you've got Private Browsing active, the orange Firefox button will turn purple, and the address bar will be marked with an icon of a mask.
To stop Private Browsing, go back to the Firefox menu and click "Stop Private Browsing". Your non-private tabs will appear right where you left them.
Now, if you've currently got the Menu Bar active within your Toolbar settings, you won't see an orange button in the top-left corner. Instead, you'll find the "Start Private Browsing" option within the Tools menu. Everything else will work exactly the same way.
Google Chrome
Open up the Settings menu. It's the little wrench-shaped icon in the top-right corner. Click "New incognito window." That's right. You're about to go incognito.
Chrome will open up a separate window for your private browsing needs. Your original window will remain in the background. Appropriately enough, Incognito mode is marked with a little fedora-clad gumshoe.
To return to normal browsing, just close the Incognito window.
Internet Explorer 9
See that little gear in the top-right corner? Click it.
Next, mouse-over the Safety menu. Click "InPrivate Browsing."
Like Chrome, IE9 will open a new browser window, leaving your open tabs intact. You'll know the InPrivate browsing window by the dark blue "InPrivate" icon to the left of the address bar.
Close the InPrivate window whenever you're ready to stop being sneaky.
Photo by ngiley
See Also
How to Set Your Internet Explorer Home Page
How to Clear Browsing History and Cache in Firefox and IE
How to Clear Your Cache on Any Web Browser
Tails OS, navigation internet incognito used by Edward Snowden, employee of CIA & NSA.
Tails (Operating System)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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| OS family | Unix-like |
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| Working state | Active |
| Initial release | June 23, 2009 |
| Latest release | 1.0[1] / 29 April 2014 |
| Supported platforms | x86 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| Default user interface | GNOME 2 |
| License | GPLv3+[2] |
| Preceded by | Incognito LiveCD |
| Official website | tails.boum.org |
Contents
Bundled software
- GNOME desktop
Networking
- Tor with:
- Stream isolation
- Regular and obfsproxy bridges support
- The Vidalia graphical frontend
- TorBrowser patches
- Torbutton for anonymity and protection against JavaScript
- HTTPS Everywhere a Firefox extension which transparently enables SSL-encrypted connections to a great number of major websites
- All cookies are treated as session cookies by default; the CS Lite extension provides more fine-grained cookie control for those who need it
- NetworkManager for easy network configuration
- Pidgin preconfigured with OTR for Off-the-Record Messaging
- Claws Mail e-mail client, with user-friendly GnuPG support
- Liferea feed aggregator
- Gobby for collaborative writing of text
- Aircrack-ng for Wi-Fi networks auditing
- I2P, an anonymizing network
Encryption and privacy
- LUKS and GNOME Disks to install and use encrypted storage devices, e.g. for USB sticks
- GnuPG, the GNU implementation of OpenPGP for e-mail and data encryption and signing
- PWGen, a strong random password generator
- Shamir's Secret Sharing using gfshare and ssss
- Florence virtual keyboard as a countermeasure against hardware keyloggers
- MAT to anonymize metadata in files
- KeePassX password manager
Timeline
| Version | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.7 | Thursday 7 April 2011 | N/A |
| 0.7.1 | Saturday 30 April 2011 | N/A |
| 0.7.2 | Monday 13 June 2011 | N/A |
| 0.8 | Wednesday 21 September 2011 | N/A |
| 0.8.1 | Sunday 16 October 2011 | N/A |
| 0.9 | Friday 11 November 2011 | N/A |
| 0.10 | Wednesday 4 January 2012 | N/A |
| 0.10.1 | Monday 30 January 2012 | N/A |
| 0.10.2 | Monday 5 March 2012 | N/A |
| 0.11 | Wednesday 25 April 2012 | N/A |
| 0.12 | Wednesday 13 June 2012 | N/A |
| 0.12.1 | Wednesday 6 July 2012 | N/A |
| 0.13 | Monday 17 Sept 2012 | N/A |
| 0.14 | Tuesday 13 Nov 2012 | N/A |
| 0.15 | Thursday 28 Nov 2012 | N/A |
| 0.16 | Saturday 12 Jan 2013 | N/A |
| 0.17 | Saturday 25 Feb 2013 | N/A |
| 0.17.1 | Saturday 23 Mar 2013 | N/A |
| 0.17.2 | Tuesday 9 Apr 2013 | N/A |
| 0.18 | Saturday 18 May 2013 | N/A |
| 0.19 | Wednesday 26 June 2013 | N/A |
| 0.20 | Friday 9 August 2013 | N/A |
| 0.20.1 | Thursday 19 September 2013 | N/A |
| 0.21 | Thursday 29 October 2013 | N/A |
| 0.22 | Thursday 11 December 2013 | N/A |
| 0.22.1 | Tuesday 4 February 2014 | N/A |
| 0.23 | Wednesday 19 March 2014 | N/A |
| 1.0[1] | Wednesday 29 April 2014 | N/A |
| 1.1 | June 2014 | Will be based on Debian 7 (Wheezy) and will bring many new versions of the software included in Tails.[1] |
| 2.0 | TBA | Will focus on sustainability and maintainability. Most of the work put into this release will aim at reducing the workload of creating new versions of Tails through infrastructure improvements and automated testing. The developers' objective is to be able to release same-day security updates.[1] |
| 3.0 | TBA | Will focus on changes in the internals of Tails to make it more secure. That includes sandboxing critical applications and software hardening.[1] |
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Old version
Older version, still supported
Latest version
Future release
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See also
Keepod Unite Aims to Bring Computer Access to Africa with $7 USB Sticks and Refurbished Laptops (Crowdfunding)
February 11th, 2014
The Raspberry Pi foundation has done a great job to bring to market $25 and $35 computers for kids to learn programming, but they have many other uses including hardware “hacking” and bringing low cost computers to developing countries. Keepod and NGO LiveInSlums have thought of an apparently more cost effective way to bring computing access to people living in slums in Nairobi, Kenya, by providing USB sticks (about $7) to boot refurbished laptops. This is absolutely NOT a $7 PC as a few other websites have mentioned.
The
goal is to facilitate NGO communication, the spread of knowledge and
economic development in a way that’s personal and secure. The USB flash drives
will belong to one person, and contains a Linux based operating systems
with all files saved in the stick, and no modifications on the host
computer which does not even need an hard drive to work, and if it has
one, it would probably be removed or disconnected to save energy. The refurbished laptops
will be shared by several people. This bring costs down, reduces the
risk of theft, and makes the setup more resilient to computer outage as
the USB stick that just boot any other computer, and the users won’t
lose their personal files.The USB stick is flashed with an operating systems similar to Debian, Ubuntu or Mint Live CD image, but the company claims to have put lots of development effort into security, drivers & compatibility, performance, file system reliability, system foot-print, etc… The device is preloaded with applications such as Google Chrome, Thunderbird, Skype, LibreOffice, VLC, FileZilla, Steam, XMBC, Pixlr, Pidgin… The refurbished laptop or computer needs to features an x86 processor (32- or 64-bit), 1GB RAM, a graphics card supporting 1024×768 resolution, and a USB 2.0 host port.
They are currently running an Indiegogo campaign to gather funds ($38,000) to source 1,500 Keepod Unite USB sticks, and 50 refurbished laptop for the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Provided they reach their goals, the total cost per user would be around $25, which should be much lower than alternative solutions. Pledges start at $1 to support the project, $90 will get you one Keepod Unite, and send 5 others to Africa, and $12,00 will get you 5 units, and provide 100 to the project. Others pledge are also available, and you could even fly to Nairobu with the team if you wish.
You can follow the project on Keepod.com.
Thanks to CSilie for the tip
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Having a desk job leads to a shorter life as sitting down all days doubles the risk of diabetes and heart attacks.
Having a desk job leads to a shorter life as sitting down all days doubles the risk of diabetes and heart attacks
- Scientists found a big difference in health outcomes between the most and least sedentary workers
- Those who spent the most time sitting down had a 112% greater risk of diabetes
- Risk of cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks or strokes increased by 147% in the most sedentary
Research shows that lounging in a chair for too long can double the risk of diabetes, heart disease and death.
The findings indicate that sitting is bad in itself, irrespective of other time spent exercising or playing sport.
Bad for your health: Sitting at a desk all day can increase the risk of diabetes, heart attacks and strokes
Professor Stuart Biddle, from the University of Loughborough, who was one of the researchers, said office staff should take a stand for health by refusing to sit down at meetings and moving their work station to the nearest filing cabinet.
He added: 'Currently society forces us into too much sitting, sitting at school, sitting at office desks, sitting in cars and so on.
'There are many ways we can reduce our sitting time, such as breaking up long periods at the computer at work by placing our laptop on a filing cabinet.
'We can have standing meetings, we can walk during the lunch break, and we can look to reduce TV viewing in the evenings by seeking out less sedentary behaviours.'
Prof Biddle practices what he preaches. He has a reminder note on his white board at work that says: 'First 15 minutes of a meeting standing up'.
He added: 'I get a few odd looks - sometimes people think you're nuts or assume you have a bad back. But I've had quite a lot of positive feedback too. Standing up at a meeting makes you appear more animated and seems to make a good impression.
Lifestyle choices: Professor Stuart Biddle, who
was one of the researchers on the project, encouraged workers to fit
ways of being active into their routine - such as walking or cycling to
work
He advocates the use of 'standing desks' which can be raised or lowered and are mainly designed for people with back problems.
'You can have a posh electrically operated version or a hand-cranked one, or you can create your own standing desk by putting your screen a little higher, for instance on top of a filing cabinet,' he said.
The study, published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, analysed research data on people with different levels of sedentary behaviour.
Compared with the least sedentary, those who spent the most time sitting down had a 112 per cent greater risk of diabetes.
Similarly, the risk of cardiovascular events such as heart attacks or strokes was increased by 147 per cent in the most sedentary, and death linked to heart disease by 90 per cent.
Prof Biddle said it was not possible from the study to say how much time spent sitting is too long.
But he pointed out: 'As a rule of thumb, if you can break up sitting time by at least five minutes every half hour we think that will benefit you.
'What we're seeing is these negative effects that are independent from the physical activity we do, and that's really crucial. So you can go for a 30 minute run every day but if you're sitting around for the rest of the day you're not doing yourself any favours.'
The research suggests that despite the stress and discomfort, commuting to work on packed trains or buses might have some health benefits.
'It's likely that you get more walking and standing on a commute to work than if you travel by car,' said Prof Biddle.
Study leader Dr Emma Wilmot, from the Diabetes Research Group at the University of Leicester, said: 'The average adult spends 50 per cent to 70 per cent of their time sitting so the findings of this study have far reaching implications. By simply limiting the time that we spend sitting, we may be able to reduce our risk of diabetes, heart disease and death.'
The idea that sitting down might be bad for health dates back to the 1950s, when researchers found London bus drivers were twice as likely to suffer heart attacks than conductors.
It was assumed this was because bus conductors benefited from being active and moving around. Less attention was paid to the negative effect of drivers sitting for long periods of time in their cabs.
The scientists wrote in their paper: 'In the following 60 years research has focused on establishing the links between moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity and health, largely overlooking the potentially important distinction between sedentary (sitting) and light-intensity physical activity.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2217867/Having-desk-job-leads-shorter-life-sitting-days-doubles-risk-diabetes-heart-attacks.html#ixzz310lqsVAE
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