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Peyton Gadsby is a pediatric speech-language pathologist (SLP) in Southern California. Her tagline is “SLP to tiny humans” because she works primarily with young children. A speech therapist can be a lifeline for a struggling child. Peyton Gadsby employs a unique and adorable method to coax words from a toddler. @peytongadsby I’ll do anything to get these kids talking P.S it’s pajama day #foryoupage #speechtherapy #earlyintervention ♬ Girls just wanna have fun 2k19 remix – KB Peyton’s first rule as a speech therapist is to “Make it fun.” She uses play to engage her young patients. With that in mind, Peyton coaxes the toddler to say “bye” by shaking her butt. A rule imposed by the child, no doubt. Whatever works is the order of the day. It brings laughter and verbalization from the child while causing no harm. Whether they are nonverbal, have an injury or birth defect, or are English language learners, speech therapy can help a child succeed in this thing we call life. Peyton receives many rewards for being a speech therapist. One day, your client may offer you a special flower they have carried in a pocket for hours. On other days, they might say your name and offer you real flowers. @peytongadsby In the blink of an eye your tiny humans will go from not even looking at you, to bringing you flowers and saying your name obsessed with my job and these kids #foryoupage #speechtherapy ♬ Everybody Wants To Rule The World X Electric Love – darcy stokes Even on a rough day, seeing a child learn to communicate will bring smiles. Working as a speech therapist and watching a child progress from little to no communication to full sentences is heartwarming. Speech problems can have various causes. Some problems result from developmental disorders. Birth defects, brain injury, and neurological conditions can also cause communication difficulties. Often, early speech problems can be corrected before a child begins school. Early detection and correction can be a huge boost that helps the child throughout life. To see more helpful videos and get tips from a pediatric speech therapist, follow Peyton on TikTok. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here and here. The post Speech Therapist’s Clever Way Of Getting Little Girl To Talk Is Too Cute! appeared first on InspireMore.

There was no scene in 1990s Leicester waiting for Kasabian—so they built one themselves, stitching together beats, riffs, and revolution in a city not known for spawning chart-topping rock bands. What began in 1997 as a small collective of school friends calling themselves Saracuse—Tom Meighan, Sergio Pizzorno, Chris Edwards, and Chris Karloff—quickly evolved into a force with a distinct sonic identity. Their early recordings experimented with rock structure layered over electronic textures, pointing toward a new kind of British band unafraid to fuse traditional guitar energy with synthesizers and breakbeats. With a rough edge and an obsession for pushing boundaries, The post Complete List Of Kasabian Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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The Pentagon is seeking contractors to build and maintain a secure software platform to track data and investigations for its All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which handles reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) that may threaten national security. A new notice reveals plans for a custom case management system on the Defense Department’s top-secret intranet (JWICS). “The intent is to field this capability for AARO personnel at AARO HQ and for use at supporting organizations,” officials wrote. A defense official told DefenseScoop this is AARO’s first solicitation since its 2022 creation. UAP includes UFOs and trans-medium objects. “AARO currently uses a variety of tools for its mission management needs and seeks to integrate them,” the official said. AARO was formed under Biden after congressional pressure, but details about its budget and operations remain limited. The office oversees government-wide efforts to detect, identify, and address airborne, maritime, or spaceborne objects near sensitive areas. Its key task is resolving a growing caseload of UAP reports from officials—and eventually the public. “A case management system, or CMS, will assist AARO in tracking the status of the UAP reports in its holdings and in meeting its records management requirements, particularly as the office works to launch a public UAP reporting mechanism,” the official said. The proposed CMS must categorize cases by type and priority, convert documents into searchable data, track case progress, auto-respond to submissions, encrypt data, and offer role-based dashboards. If approved, the contract would cover software development, training, and upgrades, with a one-year base and four optional extensions. The defense official declined to share cost estimates or update the number of UAP cases since November 2024, when AARO reported over 1,600. Contractors with top-secret clearance must submit proposals by June 9. The post Pentagon Seeks Contractors for Secret UFO Tracking System appeared first on Anomalien.com.

While PBS can't even breathe the names "Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson" on the News Hour, NPR gave their book extensive time. First, there was 11 minutes in two segments with the two authors on Monday's All Things Considered. Then Tapper was interviewed for the hour on Tuesday on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.  The two parties came up in the questions.  Gross said "Republicans, I think, are very happy with your book," and "Many Democrats are unhappy about your book."  Gross began with Biden's cancer news: "I'm really sorry, as I'm sure are you, to hear the news about Biden's prostate cancer. Does it make it awkward for you to criticize him now at this moment?" Tapper said "I want to be extra careful with how I talk about it because I don't want anyone to feel like I'm reveling in any of this. But the book was written, as you know, as a tragedy," and the cancer news is a tragedy. Next, Gross asked, "Do you feel like you were misled or lied to?" Tapper replied "I do, but more important, what we uncovered in our reporting was that far more important people than me were misled and lied to. I mean, I'm just a journalist." Then came the party talk:  GROSS: Republicans, I think, are very happy with your book. And James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, is going to continue its investigation into a cover-up of Biden's mental decline and his use of the auto pen, which is like an automatic pen. And there's questions that Comer has about whether Biden had the mental capacity to sign bills, and also whether the auto pen is a legitimate way of signing them. He also says that those involved in the cover-up will begin to put on notice. Do you think that what you found in your book is worthy of a congressional investigation? Is that an appropriate response to what you found, in your opinion? TAPPER: Well, I don't think James Comer has read the book, and we don't have anything in there on the auto pen. GROSS: Right, and I think a lot of this comes from the Robert Hur audio. TAPPER: Yeah. I think there are serious questions about his capacity to be president, and that's not questions raised by me. They're questions raised by people in his administration talking to us. So it's kind of a Yes that congressional probes are appropriate. Gross left out the reaction of many Republicans that the reporters here are cashing in on belated revelations that they should have been covering while Biden was still president.  Then came Democrat reaction:  GROSS: Many Democrats are unhappy about your book, and this dates back to before the news of the past few days. A lot of Democrats feel like, why are you going back and talking about Biden and his problems? It distracts from putting the focus on how Trump is using or abusing his power. The Democrats want to put the past behind them and move forward. What's your response to that? TAPPER: I mean, there are a lot of responses to that. First of all, you know, books like this get written all the time. When a presidential term is over, participants in the term are much more willing to speak than when it's going on. Terry Gross is not in the habit of asking all of her liberal guests writing books about how the Republicans are semi-fascist crackpots about how Republicans are unhappy with their work. Because she doesn't care if they are.  To her credit, Gross played a damning snippet of Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur, and Tapper told her Team Biden wanted to edit out Hur's report that he came across as an elderly man with a poor memory. But Gross somehow felt compelled to end the interview by asking about Trump attacking the press and seeking to defund "public" broadcasting:  GROSS: So, you know, Trump was very opposed to the press during his first administration - enemy of the people. There's more lawsuits now and, you know, legal attacks against the media, funding attacks against public radio and television. I think it's designed to have a chilling effect. How do you fight against that? TAPPER: Well, I mean, you described the terrain correctly. And the president has shown himself to be rather litigious, whether it's the lawsuit against George Stephanopoulos and ABC News that Disney settled to the tune of something like $16 million, or the lawsuit against Paramount for the "60 Minutes" edits of the Kamala Harris interview, a case that most legal experts say is entirely without merit but that one informed source told me they expected to settle for something between $30 million and $50 million. It's something to keep in mind, but that just means get your facts right. I do not like what he's doing with NPR or PBS or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or Voice of America or Radio Free Europe or any of them. I don't like it. We've had guests on to talk about it. I tried explaining to a Republican congressman how "Sesame Street," "Mister Rogers" and "The Electric Company" basically taught me how to read and write by Age 3. Those shows are so incredible. And I just saw that "Sesame Street's" coming to Netflix, which is great, although not something accessible to every American with a TV. So, I mean, it's disturbing, but I think we just have to keep doing our job, and most importantly just keep our head down, not get emotional, not take it personally, make sure that we report the facts. You know, the news media is in a crisis. And I don't count you in this, Terry, because you are your own industry, and people revere you. But reporters in general - CNN, NPR, ABC, CBS, all of us - people don't trust us. One of the reasons they don't trust us is what just happened with Joe Biden and his acuity, and the fact that we in the media were pretty late to the story. Let me say we in the legacy media were late to that story because conservative media was not late to it. And I think that we really need to - we are in an existential fight, I think, for a free press, not that it's going to be taken away, but it certainly runs the risk of not thriving as it has. And that just calls on us to be as good and professional as possible. Tapper's book underlines why Trump can call the press "fake news," when almost all of them spread the "Joe Biden's just fine" fakery for years. 

The state of Washington has declared war on the Catholic Church, and it could cost Americans their free exercise of religion — all under the guise of “helping children.” Washington State Senate Bill 5375, passed earlier this month in that state’s ongoing crusade against what it claims is “abuse,” would force Catholic priests who hear admissions of abuse within the context of the sacrament of confession to break the seal of the sacrament and report those admissions to the state, even though all other recognized privileges — like those between doctor and patient and lawyer and client — are preserved. What happens to Catholics today may affect many more Americans tomorrow.The practice of confession isn’t just “therapy for Catholics”: It's a sacrament where we believe God extends His forgiveness for our sins, which we must lay out to a priest, Christ's representative on earth. It’s a ritual: You list your sins in conversation with a priest, often anonymously or from behind a screen, and in return, the priest assigns a penance and grants absolution.It’s also a ritual critical to the spiritual life of Catholics. Without forgiveness and absolution, Catholics who die in a state of sin could go straight to hell, and Catholics who live in a state of mortal sin are barred from communion, which is the heart of our faith. Our very souls depend on it. It’s not some optional counseling; it’s a critical practice of Catholicism. Washington is not alone in trying to compel priests to tell law enforcement what’s said in the confessional, but it’s the state that’s gotten the furthest. It’s also certainly the first state to bring the issue of repeating confessions to the public in a way that gives regular Americans a glimpse into how the Catholic religion works. Even right-leaning media has gotten the issue wrong: Shortly after the bill was passed, Fox News and others announced that the Catholic Church had threatened to excommunicate any priest who complied with the law and spilled secrets to cops, almost as if the battle over the seal of confession was a war between the state and the Church.In reality, it's a war on the Catholic Church. Priests and religious workers, especially those who work around children, are already mandated to report abuse if they can identify it everywhere other than in the confessional, and the Church has taken significant steps to address issues of clergy abuse in its past, including involving law enforcement right from the moment of discovery, rather than handling it through church administration. The problem, while an embarrassment for the Catholic Church, is also one of the past. Recent reports show that incidents of abuse peaked in the 1970s and 1980s and dropped off significantly after 1989. The Catholic Church is now on notice and has the data to prove it. But Washington wants to continue to subject the Catholic Church to punishment for past sins in a way it does not subject any other organization. Washington also wants to intercede in only the penitent privilege. The bill specifically demands clergy report abuse to law enforcement but takes pains to note that no other privileged communication is affected: Lawyers do not need to report crimes confessed in their conference rooms, nor do therapists nor doctors nor members of other occupations where privilege applies.Nope, in the bill's own words, “Except for members of the clergy, no one shall be required to report under this section when he or she obtains the information solely as a result of a privileged communication.” Priests who are found to be uncompliant could face a year in jail or thousands of dollars in fines. And as the local diocese has already said, in a statement made directly to legislators, it simply won’t comply. And priests who do comply would face excommunication, not because of a threat from the bishops, but because the issue of confessional confidentiality is covered right there in the Church’s own catechism. Canon 983: The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore, it is a crime for a confessor in any way to betray a penitent by word or in any other manner or for any reason. Canon 1386: A confessor who directly violates the sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae [automatic] excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; he who does so only indirectly is to be punished according to the gravity of the offense.This isn’t a matter of the bishops facing down the state of Washington and threatening priests with excommunication if they comply with the law; it’s the bishops letting the state of Washington know: Priests would rather serve jail time than be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. The left has engaged in this type of intimidation before in the name of “saving” children from sure violence, but it all has the same intent: bullying the religious institutions that keep our community healthy and help individuals and families loosen their reliance on the state and bullying those with sincere and orthodox beliefs at odds with the left’s agenda. Washington is just one front in a large and aggressive war on the rights of Americans to exercise their freedom of belief. Luckily, the Trump administration does not appear to be taking Washington’s threat to religious liberty lightly. In a statement issued May 5, it vowed to fight the Washington law on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment’s right to free exercise since it infringes on a core, sincerely held religious dogma. President Trump has also welcomed several members of the Catholic clergy onto a council that will seek to protect religious liberty — because what happens to Catholics today may affect many more Americans tomorrow.

Grinding Gear Games has big news as it details Path of Exile 2 patch 0.2.1, the next update for the early-access ARPG. With the current seasons for Last Epoch and Diablo 4 now in the rear-view mirror, GGG is ready to entice us back to the continuing Dawn of the Hunt by “significantly improving” the drop rates on a lot of items and crafting currencies that it has deemed too rare. It’s also aiming to make sure the endgame feels a lot more interesting, without constantly forcing you back into Hidden Grotto. Continue reading The next Path of Exile 2 update promises endgame variety and more unique drops MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Path of Exile 2 builds, Path of Exile 2 classes, Path of Exile 2 quests

Wondering if Death Stranding 2 is coming to PC? It's been a long wait to see what happens to Sam and baby Lou in the follow up to the hit 2019 game, now we're asking the question about which platform the action-adventure game will be available on. There's not long to go now until the Death Stranding 2 release date, and we already know a fair bit about what to expect from the story as well as who's in the Death Stranding 2 cast. If you're keen to play Death Stranding 2 on PC, you might have guessed what the answer is to when it'll be available, but if you're new to the series, here's everything you need to know. Continue reading Is Death Stranding 2 coming to PC? MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best stealth games, Death Stranding 2 release date, Best open-world games

I love Maomao because her brain never clocks out. Give her a symptom, a rumour, or a smear of strange powder, she will chase the answer even if it means poisoning herself for data. My quest today was simple: who else scratches that nerve?