29 August 2012. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Mobile Psychotherapy

Mobile Psychotherapy

Sergei Yolkin

2012

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This is another example of Yolkin’s love of punning. The psychotherapy is “mobile” because it happens in the classroom, and because it uses a “mobile” (“cell-phone” in the American dialect).

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The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Dr Gennady Onishchenko, said that if we allow students in the first year of primary school to use a mobile phone, they’d be able to adapt more quickly to school life and avoid much of the stress of the first day in class, as the children would have the opportunity during difficult times to ring up their parents.

28 August 2012

Sergei Yolkin

http://ria.ru/caricature/20120828/732270295.html

30 June 2012. Sergei Yolkin’s World. The Doctor Prescribed a Siesta

The Doctor Prescribed a Siesta

Sergei Yolkin

2010

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The Chief of Rospotrebnadzor (RF State Public Health Service), Dr Gennady Onishchenko, believes that employers should to give their staff the opportunity to rest a little longer during the lunch break on hot days. On Wednesday, he said, “I didn’t use the word ‘siesta’… for me; it’s a four-letter word. Rather, I suggested an extension of the mid-day break. Due to the heat, we should limit strenuous activity to earlier and later in the day, and longer breaks are essential during peak temperatures with the highest sun exposure”. European Russia is already in the third week of a heat wave. To avoid health problems, doctors advised Russians to wear light clothing, drink more, not to abuse bathing, only use air conditioning in offices and cars moderately, and always wear a hat to protect themselves from the sun and heat stroke.

14 July 2010

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://rian.ru/caricature/20100714/254652268.html