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ÁINE RYAN IS 11-years-old, and is from Raheen in Limerick.
She’s just had surgery for a brain tumour, and now faces treatment with radiation and chemotherapy.
Áine is also helping to raise money for charity, with her family, friends and the local community rallying together to support her and her cause.
“She’s super, she really is”
Her mother, Trish, told TheJournal.ie that, following surgery, Áine’s condition is quickly improving.
“She’s doing great,” Trish said. “She’s the healthiest child in Ireland. She had very slight symptoms but was then diagnosed with a brain tumour.
She was diagnosed on 1 September, and then had a big, big operation on 8 September. Áine was treated by really brilliant people in Beaumont, and she was just so patient through it all.
Now set for an intensive period of post-surgery therapy, Trish said the Knitivity campaign was a great way to give back after the care she received, as well as a distraction for what’s ahead.
“The local priest rang me,” Trish said. “He asked if there was anything they could do to help.
We’d the seen the sign [about Knitivity], and we knew people could knit. I thought it’d be a great way to give back. All the staff here were wonderful from the get go. Áine’s thrown herself into it.
Trish said that the local community has responded magnificently.
“It’s lovely,” she said. “People that I might have worked with years ago. Everyone came out of the wordwork, with knitting groups and the lot.”
How does it work?
Knitivity is an initiative from the Beaumont Hospital Foundation, inviting people countrywide to knit one, or all of, three Christmas characters.
The resulting decorative figures will be sold in gift bags, along with a card identifying the name and county of origin of the knitter.
They cost €15, with all proceeds going to the foundation. They can be bought at the hospital itself, online here, or at Haven pharmacies nationwide.
There are already over 300 knitters around the country, with the hospital preparing for thousands of knitted elves, reindeers and Santas to hit the shelves in the coming weeks.
People who want to take part are sent patterns for each of the characters, ID cards to put their name on the figure and an optional message to give the purchaser. They can then freepost their knitted figures back.
The Beaumont Hospital Foundation raises money to help provide the 400,000 patients who go through their doors every year better care.
“It’s terrible for any parent to go through, but I’m 100% confident Áine will make a full recovery,” Trish said.
This was just a way of giving back, something for her to focus on, and it’s gone so well. Everyone’s reaction has just been lovely and I’d encourage people to get involved if they can.
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Possible Flooding in South East France and nothern Italy next weekend, if ventusky.com weather forecast predictions come true.
@P. V. Aglue: nothing on the local forecasted for South East France shows anything abnormal so far. Next Sunday forecast is for 4 to 10 mm of rain.
@P. V. Aglue: forewarned is forearmed David, Fri 7 the sat 8th. Buy wheat futures too!
Climate change modelling is an outrigger of the scientific method, which is based on Newton’s clockwork solar system modelling. That awful perspective has a central principle that the Earth doesn’t turn once in 24 hours and a thousand times in a thousand 24-hour days.
The topic of how to demonstrate a round Earth was brought up a number of days ago, and unfortunately, readers once again were unable to affirm the correct equatorial rotation velocity, which affirms that not only is the Earth round, but it is also a sphere.
A pizza is flat, but it can also be round, so the more developed perspective of the Earth as a sphere supersedes the crude flat vs. round choice. The Earth’s rotation demonstrates its shape.
@Gerald Kelleher: So you’re saying it’s the far right, right? Just don’t vote for them, whatever you do! It’ll be floods a go go if you do do.
@Ray Dunne: I doubt ChatGPT is capable of that.
Not funny though, those floods in Germany… (the actual article we’re commenting on)
@Jerry LeFrog: To demonstrate that the Earth is round and a sphere rather than round and flat ( like a pizza), only the maximum equatorial rotation velocity based on the maximum circumference is required.
The basis of all scientific method modelling, including climate change modelling, insists that the value is 1674.4 km/h for a circumference of 40,075 km.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
Clocks and Longitude, including the GPS, base the actual rotation value at the Equator as 1669.8 km/hr.
The day/night cycle, which includes sunrise, noon, and sunset happens once every 24 hours due to one rotation. The academic community denies these facts.
“Owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time, the Earth rotates once more often than 24-hour days in a year” NASA.
@Gerald Kelleher: Same ‘copy and paste’ nonsense every day
@Trevor McCormack:
I had to respond in another article.
@Ray Dunne: I see through thumbs-up approval that most Journal commenters refuse to accept that the sunrise/sunset cycle every 24 hours is not also one rotation of the Earth.
That more than anything demonstrates how easy it is to convince society of the need to control the weather/temperatures (climate change modelling).
@Gerald Kelleher: Again, not all puzzle are created equal. As I pointed out before, some may be square. And calzone better not be flat …
The Earth has been turning and creating the day/night cycle long before humanity appeared on Earth, long before the dinosaurs, and long before life on land and in the sea, so it is the oldest observation people have and perhaps the most precious and immediate experience of a moving Earth.
What could be more beautiful and inspirational, and so what if I am the only person to affirm the connection between the rotation and Earth science?
If people choose a ridiculous notion through a misadventure with timekeeping, these pizza earthers ( round and flat earth) might believe they are in some way superior to others; they are best left to their own devices.
Climate change modelling, like natural selection, will fade without being dealt with properly. They are symptoms rather than the disease
@Gerald Kelleher: You believe in the heliocentric spinning ball in a vacuum MODEL. Flat earthers don’t have a model and don’t think earth is a pizza in space.
@Science: It is late as my location (and me with it) rotates into the dark hemisphere for a number of hours before rotating back into the light hemisphere and the radiation of our parent star
Only scientific method modellers dispute this intimate experience, and they are the foolish people promoting climate change modelling.
Cowardice before basic facts is the worst so you believe what you need to, people need to be courageous and considerate and not silent.
@Gerald Kelleher: If you brought all the theories and counter theories of climate change modelling and all the facts and figures and dropped them on top of the flood in Germany would they be enough to soak it up. If anyone has a spare opinion or theory feel free to add to the pile .
These regions were always prone to floods, and the investment to prevent this and maintenance is discovered often not matching what should have been done. Nothing to do with the end of the world BS climate change
Ha, ha, pięknie…
Mam tego tyle już, że… Że… Żebyście zmiękli
Spróbuj powiedzieć to, nim uwierzysz, że
Nie warto mówić kocham
Spróbuj uczynić gest, nim uwierzysz, że
Nic nie warto robić
Nic naprawdę nic nie pomoże
Jeśli Ty nie pomożesz dziś miłości
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Musisz odnaleźć nadzieję
I nieważne, że nazwą ciebie głupcem
Musisz pozwolić by sny
Sprawiły byś pamiętał, że
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Moja i Twoja nadzieja
Uczyni realnym krok w chmurach
Moja i Twoja nadzieja
Pozwoli uczynić dziś cuda
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Oni sobie poszli i nie powiedzieli nawet do widzenia
W ten oto sposób dobiegliśmy końca
Dla niektórych nareszcie, dla niektórych szkoda
Pewne, że jest to koniec
Dziękujemy, że przyjechaliście, naprawdę
I… I za wszystko dzięki, zobaczymy się może w przyszłym roku
Jak Bóg da
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