[-] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I think that could work, I can lock the NewToPiefed and redirect it to NewToLemmy and rename the later

Alternatively I can keep both open and pin a thread in NewToPiefed saying that they can also post in the larger and more active NewToLemmy, and edit the sidebar of each to say that its ok. That might keep the friction to a minimum so that people are more likely to post wherever they end up.

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I have also heard good things about https://beehaw.org/ in that regard (both are excellent instances, I'm not suggesting one over the other)

I hope you and the community here is able to find a place that meets your needs! I enjoy reading and learning from the posts in this community

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Kaitlin Stockton's lawsuit claims her job was threatened after she took action to warn patients of ER delays

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45803716 | [email protected]

I appreciate how little fluff there is on this channel.

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I appreciate how little fluff there is on this channel.

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I think it has been like that for a while. ~~It's not paywalled, but rather account-walled~~ (edit: I was wrong)

There may also be different versions of the article, since I don't always come across the wall

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Journalists from a few major Metro Vancouver news publications that closed earlier this year are now banding together in a fight to save local news.

[...] The three publications that closed were Burnaby Now, New Westminster Record and Tri-City News.

Now, journalists who formerly worked at these publications are hoping to launch a new publication. Daily Hive spoke with Cornelia Naylor, who has over a decade of experience and was part of the Burnaby Now and New Westminster Record teams.

They’ve launched a fundraiser with a goal of $100,000 and hope to launch a new publication later this year. We asked Naylor why Glacier Media shut down the local news publications.

“They cited financial problems or financial challenges, and there was not much more explanation than that.”

Naylor says the end goal is a community-owned, worker-run news cooperative, and the hope is that this publication will fill all the gaps left behind by the shuttered Glacier publications.

“I think this model is already working in Quebec. It would be the first in Western Canada.”

We often hear politicians talk about local news and its importance, and asked Naylor if the government can play a role in this journey to build a new publication. Naylor first expanded on the situation in Quebec, where six daily newspapers were set to be shut down.

“The government, I think, jumped in with interest-free loans, and there was fundraising.”

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I've copied some of the story below

Dr. Donald Craig greeted by surprise guest during award presentation in Saint John

Dr. Donald Craig was an intern at the old General Hospital in Saint John on a snowy night in January 1968 when a doctor asked him for help.

The doctor had to deliver a baby at nearby St. Joseph's Hospital, but a woman at the General was also about to give birth. That child was three months premature and expected to be stillborn.

"Can you handle this?" the doctor asked.

Craig had delivered babies before, but only under the supervision of a doctor or a resident. So he grabbed a book on human labour and began to review it.

Then a nurse came and told him the baby was breech — something the doctor hadn't mentioned. So he went back to his book to look that one up. A few hours later, a nurse came to take him to the delivery room.

"She screams at me, 'Craig, she's ready, she's pushing and she's crying. Let's go.'"

Craig had to break the baby's clavicle on its way out, but he manged to deliver the baby, still expecting it to be stillborn.

And then the baby started to cry.

"My heart took off faster than the baby's heart, and the mother started crying, 'Is that my baby crying?'"

The baby was alive and Craig's thoughts quickly turned to her survival. She weighed two pounds and was three months premature. Her odds of survival weren't great.

He knew the General had just hired a pediatrician who specialized in newborn child care and premature births — and she happened to be in the hospital overnight in case she was needed during the storm.

Craig said that doctor soon appeared, wearing a bathrobe over her pyjamas. She looked at him and asked, "Did you deliver that by yourself? Give me the baby."

He said the doctor "let the mom kiss her baby and said, 'We're just taking the baby down the hall. We're going to be fine.' Then she disappeared."

To this day, Craig says the doctor's skilled care was critical to the survival of the baby, who was in the hospital for a month before being released. Craig checked on her every day and gave updates to her mother, who wasn't allowed to stay in the hospital with her.

"I delivered that baby, but [the doctor] had the skill, and was trained to handle it from there," Craig said.

More than 55 years later, Craig is retired after a decades-long career in family and emergency medicine. He has served as president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick and the Saint John Medical Society.

He also founded the New Brunswick Medical Education Foundation, which provides scholarships to the province's medical students who agree to set up practice here — a critical part of the efforts to increase the number of doctors in New Brunswick.

In April, the foundation gave Craig the Champions of Care Founder's Award at a gala at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre. The person who presented him with that award was Krista Barczyk, the premature baby he delivered as an intern decades ago during that January snowstorm.

It was a planned reunion the foundation kept secret from Craig until the moment Barczyk was called to the stage.

"I didn't hear half of her speech because I was so shocked," Craig said. "Then I got a copy of her speech and I printed it off to put up on my wall."

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https://lexiglobe.com/olive-in-different-languages/

It seems that there are a few common types of sounds

  • O-live: English, Basque, Dutch, Czech, etc. Potentially even Albanian and Japanese which kept the "Oh-Lee..." Portion
  • Zay-Toon: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Farsi, the language you are learning

Then some unique ones that still might fit into those bins:

  • Marathi is listed as "Jai-fa-la", which is still somewhat similar to the second type

  • someone commented Gan-lan, which seems to be different

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Right at the end of the video, there is a twist that may raise the graying eyebrows of Commodore fans around the globe. Perifractic reveals that he received a message direct from Commodore Corporation B.V. that states “yes we can grant you an exclusive license, but your team seems to know Commodore better than we do, we might like to sell you the whole company.”

What 😄

Sadly, we are left with this cliffhanger. Viewers are told to stay tuned for Part 2 of this video, “live and Let Buy.” But we don’t have a date for the video publication. Stay tuned, indeed.

:(

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Parking apps is an interesting one:

  • it is very convenient to not have to run back and put more money in the meter if your appointment / event goes over time
  • there are some significant privacy issues
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I'm sharing this because of this context:

Doctors urge vaccination following death of Ontario infant infected with measles in the womb

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pregnancy-measles-1.7553851

However, when talking about this story, please also note the last line from this blurb. There is indeed a risk, and in this case there were other complications as well:

A premature infant who contracted measles before birth has died in southwestern Ontario, the province’s chief medical officer of health says,

According to Dr. Kieran Moore, the infant’s mother was not vaccinated against measles.

In a statement Thursday, he said while measles may have contributed to both the premature birth and death, the infant also faced other serious medical complications unrelated to the virus.

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Author: Robert Diab | Professor, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

For sure, you are now a moderator in [email protected]

Feel free to build the community here, or redirect it as you prefer. Cheers!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

We're also learning as we go :) In addition to the features mentioned in the post, a big one for regional instances like ours might be the topic lists (once we set those up anyway)

Congrats on the expansion!

Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

The collapsing of downvoted comments is configurable in the user settings, so it's possible to disable it or fine tune it to the way you want it. The discussion is still valid for what the default settings should be

I'm still learning about the karma side, so I don't want to comment on that yet

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45609571

Would you like some pie? Check it out here: https://piefed.ca/

What is PieFed

PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc. Thanks to how the fediverse works, you can use either lemmy.ca or piefed.ca to interact freely!

We will put together some guides on our non-profit's website at some point. In the meantime, we have created [email protected] for us to learn from each other. There is also the official [email protected] community which has a similar purpose.

We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going 🙂

Other Links & FAQ

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Would you like some pie? Check it out here: https://piefed.ca/

What is PieFed

PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc. Thanks to how the fediverse works, you can use either lemmy.ca or piefed.ca to interact freely!

We will put together some guides on our non-profit's website at some point. In the meantime, we have created [email protected] for us to learn from each other. There is also the official [email protected] community which has a similar purpose.

We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going 🙂

Other Links & FAQ

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