TALES FROM DARKSIDE -THE LOVERS by Mark Antony Raines

 Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality.


But...there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit...a dark side.



Preston likes looking at the large gargoyle made from stone as it keeps him company whilst he is beavering away in his studio creating his latest piece of art:he does like being a struggling artist as other dies not pay the rent or feed him as he often lives on just bread and soup.


Later that day Preston meets up with the art gallery owner to see how his works of art are being received by the public but is informed by the owner his art is unpopular and not selling. 


This depressed Preston whom cordially reacted in his usual manner by getting inebriated so he staggers on his way home as the bar was in throws him out afterhe ran out of money. 


During his way home Preston gets the call of nature and relieve s  himself in a back alley; suddenly he hears a loud noise as he looks towards the sound he is becomes terrified when he sees a gargoyle monster brutally decapitate a mans head from his body.


Terrified, he tries running away, but the creature flys towards him and  corners him. The     gargoyle  spares Preston's life as he grabs him by the throat makes him swear never to reveal what he saw or describe its appearance to anyone.


At this point the gargoyle rips open Preston's shirt to reveal his shirt then scratches and small cross and in a female voice says 


"Cross your heart or hope to die"


 Preston is traumatized and confused, but bound by his oath, can say nothing about what happened,as he doubt s anyone would believe him as he even question his sanity. 

  As he runs away out of his flight or fight early man defence kicks in he sees a woman named Carola who claims to be lost whilst being out with her friends on The town.

Preston convinces her to call a taxi from his apartment. While there, Carola cleans the gargoyle-inflicted wound on Preston's chest, then they make love.

After some time together,Preston and Carola decide to go flat share and spend time as a couple this leads to Prestons  life improving due to Carola's connections. They eventually marry and have two children.

Ten years later Preston starts to have tormented nightmares of memories of the night he encountered the gargoyle.

And although he promised never to speak of the dreadful night he breaks down to reveal all to Carola who immediately appears uncomfortable And emits a heartbroken wail revealing herself to be the gargoyle screaming at Preston he promised never to tell anyone.

With Preston's vow broken, Carola can no longer remain human and begins transforming back into a gargoyle. Their children, now awake, are terrified as Carola writhes in pain as hideous-looking arms and legs burst from beneath her human flesh. A terrified Preston pleads for Carola to change back, but she cannot assume a human form again. Their children are screaming in their bedroom as they also transform into gargoyles.[5] Carola, now fully transformed back into a gargoyle, wraps her wings around Preston and the couple proclaim their love for each other, but with the vow broken, Carola is still reluctantly forced to kill him by biting his neck, before remorsefully flying away with her gargoyle children. The final scene shows the three gargoyles now turned to stone and sitting upon the building ledge, staring down at the city with sorrowful expressions.


The dark side is always there, waiting for us to enter — waiting to enter us. Until next time, try to enjoy the daylight.

SIMON CHADWICK -AUTHOR -FOR THE PEOPLE :A CITIZEN 'S MANIFESTO TO SHAPING OUR NATIONS FUTURE.






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 Simon Chadwick – 




Simon is Managing Partner of Cambiar Consulting, a change management consulting firm he founded in 2004. Prior to this, he was CEO of numerous market research companies in Europe and the US. 

Simon is deeply involved in the insights industry. He was the inaugural Chair of the Insights Association and is Editor-in-Chief of Research World. He and his colleagues are frequent contributors at conferences and seminars.

He is a prolific writer, having published over 400 articles on the research profession, and is author of For the People: A Citizen’s Manifesto to Shaping Our Nation’s Future, an in-depth study of American politics and society.

Simon is a Fellow of the Market Research Society and a Laureate of the Insights Association, and holds a Masters in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.

For the People: A Citizen's Manifesto to Shaping Our Nation's Future 

How the Constitution Can Guide America Back to True Greatness

America has become a country lacking in both physical and psychological security—and this insecurity is a clear and present danger to world peace and stability. This must-read, political call to action is for anyone dissatisfied with our dysfunctional government and seeking real change. Author Simon Chadwick argues that the true American dream is realizing self-actualization (The Pursuit of Happiness), the pinnacle of psychologist Abraham Maslow’s famous Hierarchy of Needs. Chadwick sets out in simple and straightforward terms how we can save US democracy by fulfilling every citizen’s innate needs, including the top echelon of achieving his or her creative potential. In order to generate greater overall contentment for its citizens, Chadwick proposes that a country must establish a democratic libertarian government, a form that is much closer to the general intent of the Constitution, which gives every person the right to live in peace, without fear, under its protection.

By dissecting current events and framing them in Maslow’s hierarchy, Chadwick offers fascinating historical and cultural context, and clear, positive advice for how our country, culture, and government can move toward democratic libertarianism, self-actualization, and ultimate satisfaction.

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Wednesday, 23 December 2020

Survive by Mark Antony Raines

 DARKNESS IS SURROUNDING US,

DEATH IS IN THE AIR,

SOME JUST DON'T CARE ,

IF YOU WISH TO SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD,

JUST DO THESE SIMPLE RULES

WEAR A FACE MASK

SOCIAL DISTANCING

WASH YOUR HANDS

OPEN A WINDOW

HAVE THE VACCINE

THEN MAYBE YOU WILL SURVIVE?

WHO KNOWS ,

NOT I

PATIENTS RIGHTS

 

  • To receive NHS services free of charge
  • Not be discriminated against
  • Be treated with professional standards by qualified and experienced staff
  • Expect NHS organisations to monitor and try to improve continuously the quality of their services
  • Be treated with dignity and respect
  • Accept or refuse treatment and only be physically examined with consent
  • Be given information about any test and treatment options open to you, what they involve and their risks and benefits
  • Have access to your own records
  • Privacy and confidentiality
  • Have any complaint acknowledged within three days and properly investigated
  • Compensation if harmed by negligent treatment

Some of our key pledges to patients are to:

  • Ensure that any transfer between services is as smooth as possible and you are fully involved
  • Provide a clean and safe environment
  • Share with you any letters sent between clinicians about you
  • Treat you with courtesy and give support in the handling of any complaint and ensure it has no effect on any future treatment
  • Identify, acknowledge and learn from mistakes, complaints and claims

Some of your responsibilities are to:

  • Treat NHS staff and other patients with respect
  • Keep appointments or cancel within a reasonable time
  • Give positive or negative feedback about your experiences and the treatment and care you receive
  • THE RIGHT TO TREATMENT AND THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TREATMENT

    Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D.
    Adjunct Professor, Columbia/Mailman School of Public Health
    Medical Editor for Mental Health, Huffington Post/AOL

    All patients have both a right to treatment and a right to refuse treatment. These rights sometimes become the centerpiece of debate and dispute for people who are hospitalized with an acute psychiatric illness.

    The Right to Treatmentsederer

    There is a long legal history on the right to treatment. Much of the law derives from court cases in the previous century involving people who were admitted to state psychiatric hospitals where they languished without proper treatment, sometimes for many years. Laws compelling a right-to-treatment law developed and became instrumental to the quality-controlled public psychiatric hospitals that exist today. In fact, in order for public psychiatric hospitals to receive Medicare and Medicaid (and other third-party) payment, they must obtain the same national certification as academic medical centers and local community hospitals. For patients and families, this means that a person admitted to a public psychiatric hospital has a right to receive—and should receive—the standard of care delivered in any accredited psychiatric setting.

    The Right to Refuse Treatment

    It may seem odd that a person can be involuntarily admitted, or “committed,” to a hospital and then refuse treatment. But the right to refuse treatment is also fundamental to the legal requirements for psychiatric treatment.

    Someone who enters a hospital voluntarily and shows no imminent risk of danger to self or others may express the right to refuse treatment by stating he or she wants to leave the hospital. But a person admitted involuntarily, due to danger to self or others, cannot leave, at least not right away. However, despite having the authority to keep the patient in the hospital, the professional staff cannot treat the person against his or her will, except by court order.

    The concept of a right to refuse treatment was built on basic rights to privacy, equal protection under the law, and due process. In other words, involuntarily hospitalized patients still have a right to decide what happens to their bodies.

    Unfortunately, the right to refuse treatment can, and does, result in some patients being locked up in a hospital where doctors then cannot proceed with treatment. What’s worse, and deeply ironic, is that insurance companies may refuse to pay, stating there is “no active treatment.” This state of financial affairs, by and large, does not happen in state psychiatric hospitals, which represent the true safety net of services for people with serious and persistent mental illnesses, because these hospitals are not wholly dependent on insurance payment and cannot refuse to treat someone who cannot pay.

    Exceptions to the Rule

    There are exceptions to a patient’s right to refuse treatment. In an emergency, all bets are off. A doctor may provide involuntary treatment, usually a medication given by injection or by mouth, but only to control the emergency—which, again, is defined as “an imminent danger to self or others.” Whatever treatment is provided in an emergency cannot be continued after the immediate danger has passed, unless the patient agrees and gives informed consent. Clinicians cannot continue the medication, even if it could prevent another emergency situation; the patient has the right to decide whether to continue or not.

    For involuntary treatment (treatment without consent) to be delivered outside of an acute emergency, the doctor and hospital must petition a court to order it. Laws vary from state to state and, of course, no two judges are alike.

    Generally, judges rule in favor of well-prepared doctors and hospitals that show that

    1. the treatment is necessary for safety and recovery;
    2. all efforts at voluntary treatment were exhausted;
    3. family and others were engaged to help persuade the patient to accept care (and were not successful); and
    4. the benefits of treatment are likely to outweigh its risks.

    Inpatient stays often last several weeks (or months) longer if court-ordered treatment is required. Notably, as clinicians have seen, once a court order is obtained, almost all patients comply with treatment within a day or so, and then, hopefully, proceed to respond to treatment.

JONATHAN HABER -AUTHOR -CRITICAL THINKING-WWW.JONATHANHABER.ORG







 Website -https://www.jonathanhaber.org

Jonathan Haber has been a company founder and CEO, an executive and Director at publicly traded, privately held, and non-profit organizations working at the intersection of education, employment, and assessment.  He is author of multiple books, including the best-selling Critical Thinking, part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series.  His unique One Year BA research project on massive open online courses (MOOCs) was featured in The New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education and other publications.


His work in education has included developing the Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³) used for over fifteen years to teach and certify student digital literacy skills around the world.  As employee number three at the Woodrow Wilson Graduate School of Teaching and Learning, he helped get a new innovative graduate education program launched and accredited in just two years.  


Most recently, he has been working as a consultant for for-profit and non-profit educational organizations in areas such as academic standards, innovative online course development, and COVID-response teacher preparation.


Jonathan believes the key to educational equity is to help every student develop critical-thinking skills that can be mastered by learners of any age or background.  His books, curricula, as well as the high-leverage critical-thinking teaching practices he developed for educators are all focused on a single mission: to make every student a critical thinker, ready to thrive in the twenty-first century.

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How the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught.

Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential twenty-first century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given our propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said that critical thinking is vital to the survival of a democratic society. But what, exactly, is critical thinking? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Jonathan Haber explains how the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught and assessed.

Haber describes the term's origins in such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, and science. He examines the components of critical thinking, including structured thinking, language skills, background knowledge, and information literacy, along with such necessary intellectual traits as intellectual humility, empathy, and open-mindedness. He discusses how research has defined critical thinking, how elements of critical thinking have been taught for centuries, and how educators can teach critical thinking skills now.

Haber argues that the most important critical thinking issue today is that not enough people are doing enough of it. Fortunately, critical thinking can be taught, practiced, and evaluated. This book offers a guide for teachers, students, and aspiring critical thinkers everywhere, including advice for educational leaders and policy makers on how to make the teaching and learning of critical thinking an educational priority and practical reality.


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