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A Derry 'Bookstagrammer' has discussed the importance of using social media to encourage off-screen time and the increasing popularity of physical books with young people.

Holly O'Doherty uses her Instagram page to promote reading to like-minded young people who follow her.

The 22-year-old told MyDerry about the increasing popularity of reading among young people, particularly in favouring physical books over e-books.

She said: "Young people enjoy the aesthetics of physical books, of vintage books, colourful books, ones with intricate designs. It is almost like y ou get swept into the assumption of if you do not have an actual book you're not fully participating.

"Also, I think a lot of people my age, with the negative light that is often cast on social media, want to have time away from screens. You see it as a small win when you take yourself away from technology.

"Having a physical book means there are no emails or messages that you have to reply to, there is no guilt and no pressure. You try and cement yourself back in the real world again.

"When I got into reading it was the start of the pandemic and there was such an increase in the social media usage and I would end up just scrolling endlessly. I had to take time to turn my phone off and take myself away from it.

"It is nice to know you have an escape from social media and the news when you are reading. Additionally, it is almost as if it wouldn't be expected from our age group so there is a sense of pride that comes along with picking up a physical book to read rather than reading from a screen."

Holly explained how, in dedicating her social media presence to an activity that she enjoys and can take people offline, she regained control of her screen time.

She said: "One of the main things that why I use my Bookstagram is that social media can be all about how trend-worthy you are and how perfect your life appears. I feel like I am taking control of my use of social media in that I am actively using it to promote reading, which takes place offline.

"I have started book clubs and I am hoping to do ones in person to take away from being online. I enjoy using social media now because theres no pressure. My prime purpose in interacting with people now is for something that is outside of social media. It has become less superficial."

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However, Holly has noticed that often, girls are more comfortable in immersing themselves in this world of promoting books on social media than boys.

She said: "If I ask a girl what their favourite book is I get a lengthy discussion and explanation but if I ask a boy they are almost embarrassed to answer.

"There is a huge gender disparity in terms of people interacting online about reading books and discussions around that."

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The maiden in peril is an American staple and has been for almost two centuries. In our now-mythic past, the prospect of white pioneer women being hauled off to an unknown netherworld by the continents Native people stirred our fear. (The victims, for their part, were expected to resist and die rather than submit.) The formula, then as now, was to portray women as helpless victims forever in need of rescue. And the stories had a habit of going viral long before that term existed.

In 1897, it was a wealthy young Boston woman, Betsy Stevenson, whose unknown whereabouts transfixed the press. Like many stories, hers went national thanks to the news wire services of the day. (She was found a decade later performing in a New York theatrical production.) In 1909, the New York newspapers went wild when a 13-year-old named Adele Boas vanished during a shopping excursion with her mother. (Turns out, she ran away.) In 1910, 25-year-old New York heiress Dorothy Arnold disappeared and set off a nationwide search. The New York Times covered the Arnold story day after day and returned to it periodically over the years when unidentified bodies were found. False sightings Boston! Philadelphia! Muskogee! streamed in from wherever a newspaper picked up the mystery. When Arnolds mother died in 1928, the unsolved disappearance was still newsworthy. It was the really great search of the age, United Press reported, one that did much to develop modern newspaper 'police' coverage.

A 1910 missing person poster for Dorothy Arnold. | NYPD via New York Daily News

The scandal-mongering yellow journalists of the 1890s designed the storytelling templates modern newspapers and cable networks still rely on, the endangered-girl trope being a primary one that drove whole campaigns. Publications in New York and elsewhere stumped against prostitution by portraying young prostitutes as victimized white slaves. William Randolph Hearst went beyond covering maiden-in-peril news to actually making it when his very yellow New York Journal broke an 18-year-old Cuban woman named Evangelina Cisneros out of jail during the lead-up to the Spanish-American War. Missing women were good business outside journalism, too: 1914s serialized The Perils of Pauline silent films (produced by Hearst), placed a young, attractive heiress in dangerous jams and then extracted her.

Those circulation-hungry tabloid barons were scratching at something we can trace back to Greek myth. The drama of the maiden in peril awakens in us archetypal patterns seeded for centuries by culture, history and literature. Its a story we cant stop listening to, or reading, or clicking on. Never mind why Rapunzel got locked away, its simply enough for the purposes of the plot that shes being held against her will. The same goes for the evil fairy who renders Sleeping Beauty comatose, for Darth Vader, who imprisons Princess Leia, and for the evildoers who kidnap Buttercup. Even when the Gone Girl abducts herself in Gone Girl, her abduction and implied peril are enough to move the plot. The abductions of Liam Neesons (movie) daughters have managed to prop up his entire late career.

So when journalists picked up their laptops and video cameras to report the disappearance of Gabby Petito story, they surely knew from experience that they would get scolded for telling the story. But they also knew from experience that the vast majority of their audience would lap it up and if they didnt serve extra helpings, other outlets would.

Shouldnt it be a story, you ask? Abduction (and, in this case, possible relationship violence) are real issues, of course but its worth noting that neither the press nor its audience is all that interested in those issues per se. Missing men dont rate breathless, Petito-style coverage unless theyre celebrities, nor do missing women who have exceeded their child-bearing years. (As a sociobiologist might argue, society invests more deeply in the fates of fertile women because they are essential to the survival of the species.) When deciding which stories to pump up, the press may not consciously pick women of the young and white variety, but the roster of stories in the decades before Petito fits a clear pattern: Laci Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, Chandra Levy, Polly Klaas, Natalee Holloway, Lori Hacking, Robyn Gardner, Mollie Tibbetts, Michelle Parker and others. These cases obviously deserved some coverage, but at any given time thousands of young adults are missing. Youd have to do some fancy gymnastics to rationalize why so much journalistic firepower is concentrated on a few white women.

Besides tapping our psyches, the "missing woman" story endures because its the kind of story that reliably pulls in readers and viewers even when there is no news to report. Since Petitos body was found, the story has gone on as media outlets have manicured their competing timelines of her disappearance and murder and continued their coverage of the search for her at-large fianc. Were not in Natalee Holloway territory yet, but were getting there.

Will all that scolding force some self-examination? Dont count on it. The chances are slim that the press will control its appetite for the genre, or even acknowledge the cultural origins of its cravings. The next time the networks flood the zone with a "missing maiden" story, console yourself with this: Its only a fairy tale cable news loves to tell itself.

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Lando Norris was just a handful of laps away from converting pole position for the Russian Grand Prix into a sensational maiden victory when the heavens opened and he was left stranded on the track on slicks with a devastated Norris only able to finish P7, as Lewis Hamilton ultimately claimed his 100th F1 win.

Ironically, it had been a perfectly timed tyre change to slicks on Saturday that had given Norris his maiden pole position at the Sochi Autodrom while Norris then lost and regained the race lead as the Grand Prix got under way, before holding off the charge of Hamilton in the latter stages.

READ MORE: Hamilton takes 100th F1 victory after late rain shower denies long-time leader Norris at Sochi

But uncertainty from both Norris and his McLaren team on when to switch to intermediate tyres as rain started falling in the final few laps was ultimately their undoing, with Norris slewing over the track on his slick tyres before finally pitting, leaving him P7 at the flag.

I dont know where to start, said an emotional Norris. Obviously unhappy, devastated in a way. I guess we made a call to stay out; we stand by that call but it was the wrong one at the end of the day. I made a decision just as much as the team. In fact it was more they thought I should box and I decided to stay out. So, my decision I thought it was the way to go.

I think I had the confidence beforehand, added Norris. I knew I was capable of doing it, Ive felt capable of doing it for a while so I dont think thats really changed. Just a bit of heartbreak. I felt like I did everything I could, even when it got tricky at the end. I made a couple of mistakes but still kept Lewis behind and started to pull away a little bit.

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Hamilton had piled on the pressure against Norris as the lap count ticked down. But asked if he felt that he would have been able to resist that pressure and hold on for what would have been a second consecutive McLaren win (after Daniel Ricciardos Monza victory) if it had remained dry, Norris replied: For sure. Everything was under control. I had to do quite a bit of fuel saving and thats when he got quite close to me.

But as soon as I stopped and I could push, then everything was fine. Even the first, like, four or five laps when it started to drizzle, it was tricky but I still had it under control. I made some mistakes but I guess thats what happens when youre at least leading out of those two [cars], and if hes putting pressure on, you cant just drive slowly and let him past.

Lando Norris: 'Everything was under control' until heavy rain fell at Russian GP

So it was tricky, but what we just, for some reason, didnt see was how much more rain was suddenly going to come. I didnt get told that, I didnt know about that, and I made my decision on the information that I got before that the drizzle was going to remain a drizzle, not pouring with rain! So I dont know it was just all going so well, so I guess it makes it even worse.

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Not the result we wanted in the end, Norris concluded. I could have won the race and I didnt so Im never going to be happy like this. But its the way it is, the way it went. We made the decisions, I made the decisions that I made and we were obviously wrong at the end of the day, so a tough one.

"But on the positive side I guess I got a couple of points and Daniel [Ricciardo, who finished P4] did a good job as well, so for the team its still a decent day.

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SYRACUSE, NY U.S. Rep. John Katko (NY-24) today announced $125,000 in funding from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has been awarded to Farnham, Inc., in Oswego, NY, to prevent and address youth substance usedisorder.In Oswego, Farnham, Inc. delivers criticaladdictiontreatment programs.

The funding is available through CDCs Drug Free Communities (DFC) Support Program, a program that provides funding to community-based organizations that work to address youth substance usedisorder. With this award, Farnham, Inc. will expand its efforts to involve and engage youth in Central New York to prevent addiction. In Congress, Rep. Katko has advocated for robust funding for the DFC program and expanded access to treatment services for substance use disorder, including through his work as Co-Chair of the Mental Health Caucus.

Im pleased to announce Farnham, Inc. has received $125,000 in federal funds through the CDCs Drug Free Communities (DFC) program,saidRep. Katko. With rates of addiction rising in Central New York during the pandemic, this award comes at a pivotal time. The DFC program is considered the nations leading effort to prevent and reduce youth substance usedisorderand will provide Farnham, Inc. with the resources they need to continue engaging and educating local children.

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Members of the federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team listen at an orientation at the Alaska Native Medical Center on Friday morning, Oct. 1, 2021. The team of over 30 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and logistics managers, arrived the day before. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media)

Nearly 500 emergency health workers are arriving in hospitals across Alaska this week as the state struggles to get the COVID-19 crisis under control.

Dozens of them arrived at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage this week, where COVID hospitalizations recently led the hospital to announce crisis standards of care.

Administrator Bob Onders said that the influx of new workers will hopefully give exhausted staff a break, but many staff will also be required to expand the current ICU capacity to care for an expected increase of COVID hospitalizations.

We have, you know, 600 to 700 nurses here, he said. So 40 nurses is a help, but as a proportional response it still is challenging.

In addition to about 50 workers contracted by the state, ANMC is also getting a federal emergency team of about 35.

On Friday, that group, the Disaster Medical Assistance Team, was sitting under the fluorescent lights of a conference room for orientation.

The team, which includes doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and logistics experts, heard they were being deployed to Alaska just two days earlier.

We landed last night, we started right away, said Gina Smith, the team leader.

As part of the group, Smith has been to disasters from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina. Since COVID hit, the team has been on the front lines of the pandemic.

We were in California when the cruise ships came in, she said.

Now, Alaska is on the front lines of the COVID crisis with five times the case national average case rate.

The team is learning about Alaskas medical system, ANMCs daily operations and will get an orientation on Alaska Native culture.

Nursing Director Sadie Anderson said that staff has been working extra shifts to keep up with the patients and the new staff will be a big relief.

A lot of the nurses have been having to work five and six shifts a week, she said, So were begging people to work extra. So this is going to help give those nurses a break.

She said it will also help decrease the nurse-to-patient ratio. She said COVID patients require more nurses per patient because of the complicated care they require.

This will really help us to be able to have a safer patient load for each nurse and to be able to provide better care for the patients, she said.

Most of the incoming staff are used to seeing disasters and trauma. Nursing assistant Tracy Williams, who is here as part of the state contract, said shes not burned out, even after a year and a half of traveling the country helping with COVID patients.

To me, its just like any other job: being a mom, you know, being a parent, period, said the mother of four. Thats not the only place I can say that Ive cared for people.

Williams, who is from Georgia, just got done with a stint in Michigan. Shes worked in Colorado, Maine, Montana and North Dakota, and already did a stint in Alaska while studying to become a physical therapist.

I was in Georgia for three days, well, four days, and I was here by Saturday, Sunday thats exhausting, she said, But its the motivation for what you love to do that gives you the push to say, Come on, girl, you can sleep on the plane, she said.

Despite her exhaustion, Williams said shes excited to help her fellow health workers in Alaska when they need it most.

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