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Does anybody currently make piñatas of hated dictators like Hosni Mubarak and Muammar al-Gaddafi?

Piñatas are brightly-colored decorations made from a cardboard shape covered with papier-mâché, in case you don’t know what one is. Inside are candies or little gifts which children can get by beating the piñata with a big stick until the piñata breaks open, usually while blind-folded. Each kid takes his/her turn until the piñatas is completely opened up and nothing remains inside.

It’s something I imagine a lot of people like to do to those dictators!

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H1N1 Virus Diagram (click to enlarge)

The following eight PDF fact sheets on the H1N1 virus and pandemic were written for a variety of audiences, covering a variety of coping mechanisms. This combination of preventative topics, coping mechanisms and target audiences make them rare among similar “H1N1 Fact Sheets” out there that mostly cover basics and locations for vaccination. Furthermore, there are three tool kits to deal with pandemic prevention and containment at various places (child care, schools, universities), and two working documents for the same thing at work.

— Strategies for Building Resilience

— Strategies for Building Resilience:  Health Care Workers

— How Recognize and Manage Stress in Children During a Pandemic:  Parents and Caregivers

— Tips for Managing Stress During a Pandemic:  Teachers

— Tips for Managing Stress During a Pandemic:  Long Term Care Facility Residents

— Tips for Managing Stress during a Pandemic:  Health Care Workers

— Tips for Managing Stress during a Pandemic:  Adults

Tips for Building Family, Friends and Community Supports During the H1N1 Pandemic

— Best Practice Guidelines for Workplace Health and Safety During Pandemic

— General Guidance for the Prevention of H1N1 in the Workplace

— H1N1 Tool Kit for Child Care Programs and Family Home Day Care Agencies

— H1N1 Tool Kit for School Administrators

— H1N1 Tool Kit for Colleges and Universities


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These documents were produced by the Government of Nova Scotia. However, they are not just for Nova Scotians. They are meant for people, in general. Furthermore, most of the content could be broadly expanded to be useful for future flu and cold outbreaks. That’s my analytical opinion, but you can decide if you agree in reading the documents.

Please note I am NOT a physician so do not ask me questions on the information in these fact sheets. If you are in Nova Scotia, you can contact the Joint Health Emergency Operations Centre with your questions.
Telephone:  902-424-3544
Fax:  902-428-2149
Email: JHEOC@gov.ns.ca

This post is also neither a case for vaccination or not. I am choosing not to get an H1N1 shot, in case you thought I was pushing it with Fact Sheets from a government with a vaccination campaign. My choice is a personal one and should not be interpreted as a contradicting policy statement. It is a personal choice to be vaccinated or not and people should make that choice after informing themselves. The content of these Fact Sheets is useful whether or not you get an H1N1 shot.

These documents were sent broadly in the Nova Scotia government with permission to be “posted / circulated broadly to ensure it reaches as many people as possible”.  That, and good quality of information described above are why I am posting them. Should I see updated documents, I will replace these.

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Reading Level: 9.2

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I found some of these large graphics from the movie and children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. I enhanced them with more colour and resolution to make some wallpapers. However, some of the graphics were big enough I though I could enhance them to a size big enough to be a pretty good sized picture, but I just didn’t want to make some big pictures. That’s when I had the idea of placemats.

This was stuff for kids, as well as adults, but the original was a children’s book kids loved, so I thought, wouldn’t they love it if they had placemats of it?

Some pictures for stuff they had, whether to put on the size of their pencil cases or notebooks, or in their room, wouldn’t hurt either.

So here it all is below… with a banner 28″ long to boot!

These are not official merchandise so please do NOT sell them… just make them for your own family fun.

The photos you can just print at your typical photo machine.

There are 7 placemats so plenty for the kids. They are the typical 12″ x 18″ in size, but you can get that printed at a Wal-mart or some other place. Make sure you get them heavily laminated, though. If you’re going to use it as a place mat, it’s going to take a lot of beating, and the prints will cost you something like $11 in Canada, plus tax, so do laminate them well.

Otherwise, just print it as a big print for your kids’ room… or yours. :-)

I also have Where the Wild Things Are wallpapers for monitors and backgrounds for iPhones, Palm Pre and Blackberry Bold 9000s.

Enjoy!

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