Psychology By Saundra K. Ciccarelli
Psychology, Saundra K. Ciccarelli and J. Noland White employ a learner-centred approach that maximizes student engagement. Clear learning objectives, based on the recommended APA learning outcomes, guide students through the material.
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• A learner-centred approach engages students deeply in the study of psychology.
• An engaging writing style helps awakens students’ curiosity and energizes their desire to learn about psychology.
• A greater emphasis on APA learning goals helps students master the skills they need to succeed.
• Inclusion of Indian research helps create a friendly learning context for Indian students.
• Some Indian topics added to the text are Culture and Psychological Processes, the Notion of Intelligence in the Indian Cultural Context, Health and Healing in India, Love in the Indian Cultural Context, etc.
Table of Contents
1. the Science of Psychology
2. the Biological Perspective
3. Sensation and Perception
7. Cognition. Thinking, Intelligence and Language
8. Development Across the Life Span
9. Motivation and Emotion
10. Sexuality and Gender
11. Stress and Health
12. Social Psychology
13. Theories of Personality
14. Psychological Disorders
15. Psychological Therapies
Appendix A Statistics in Psychology
Appendix B applied Psychology and Psychology Careers.
- Publisher: Pearson Education; Fifth edition (15 October 2017)
- Language: English
- Number of Pages : 768 pages
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- Adult learner/employeeStudentTeacher/trainer
- Teaching and trainingThe future of VETUpskilling or reskilling
In one of our lessons, we learned about the negative impact of batteries on nature, and researched the topic. We learned that batteries contain coal.
We carried out a project to improve our professional skills and to salvage unused batteries in schools, contributing to our economy and to ecological sustainability through recycling.
It reminded us that most of the waste in the world can be recycled and that, by using waste, many projects benefitting both nature and people are possible. We promote our product in foreign markets with the slogan ‘ecology and economy’, or ECO-ECO.
It warms people using the coal in the batteries that is harmful to nature. The idea is for people in an emergency or a natural disaster to heat the carbon rods in the batteries with copper cables and spread the heat with the help of a fan.
It is one of the few items that should be in any natural disaster kit because people must maintain their body temperature regardless of environmental conditions.
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LOW DOSE NALTREXONE
Naltrexone is a class of drug known as an opiate antagonist. Its typical use is in treating addiction to opiate drugs such as heroin or morphine. The dose used for this purpose is usually between 50 and 300mg daily.
Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) refers to daily dosages of naltrexone that are approximately 10% or less of the typical opioid addiction treatment dosage, commonly up to 5mg. At these low doses naltrexone exhibits properties including analgesia and anti-inflammatory not reported at larger dosages.
LDN is a safe treatment that has been used for over 20 years in patients for a variety of conditions involving chronic inflammation or immune dysregulation such as Crohn’s disease, CPRS, Fibromyalgia, Celiac disease, Inflammatory bowel disease, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Rheumatoid arthritis, Ulcerative colitis, and Lyme disease.
DIGGING DEEPER: HOW LOW DOSE NALTREXONE WORKS
The mechanism of action of Low Dose Naltrexone is still being researched, current theory as to the mechanism of action of LDN is summarized below.
LDN is an opioid antagonist that blocks the reception of opiates and endorphins. Given its low dose LDN briefly, e.g. for 3-4 hours, obstructs opiate receptors and the effects of endorphins. Blocking opiate receptors produces analgesia. The endorphin deficit causes increased production of endorphins.
The elevated levels of endorphins usually last around 18-20 hours. During this time the elevated endorphins up-regulate key elements of the body’s immune cells.
LDN may also antagonize Toll-like receptor 4 that are found on macrophages, including microglia, and any reported anti-inflammatory effects may also be due to this effect.
These LDN effects are not been seen at standard doses.
Low-Dose Naltrexone has been shown to be effective in boosting immune systems in doses of 1.5-, 3- and 4.5-mg capsules, generally not more than 5mg.
To obtain LDN have your doctor send the prescription to Belle Mead Pharmacy. Should your doctor not know of LDN they can call Belle Mead for clinical guidance.


OpenOffice is a popular free software package that will help you create, open, and edit a document in any format. OpenOffice is an international open source project that was created to develop a universal office suite with an open API and an XML-based file format. OpenOffice is one of the first software products installed on computers. This is not for nothing, because with the help of the application you can work with text documents. Follow the link on this page and download the free official version of OpenOffice for Mac OS.
The package includes:
- editor HTML "Writer";
- spreadsheets "Calc";
- program for creating presentations "Impress";
- graphic editor "Draw";
- databases "Base";
- formula editor;
- modules for importing and exporting documents in the most common formats;
- support flash.
- support for different file formats;
- creating presentations;
- saving to the cloud;
- inserting charts and graphs into a document;
- working on a project in a team;
- protection of information about projects.
Installing of the program
Follow the link on this page and download the program for Mac OS for free. The installation file will be displayed in the downloads folder. If you click on the icon, the automatic installation of the program will begin. After the program is fully installed, its shortcut will appear on the desktop.
Creating and editing presentations
In the OpenOffice package, the Impress program allows you to work with presentations. Users can:
- create animations;
- add musical accompaniment;
- various effects.
The main part of the interface is occupied by the workspace with slides, and the other half is the area with slide settings. The side part of the interface is responsible for adding and processing effects and animations.
The upper panel contains elements for quick insertion into the slide and tools for document processing.
OpenOffice is a set of applications with which you can create a document in a modern format. Using the application, you can work with text documents, spreadsheets, databases. The OpenOffice program is easy to use and suitable for users of any age.


The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) introduced seven problem areas and related solutions for the current unrest in the Middle Eastern countries, defining the basic problem as a lack of education, adding that the diversification of economic sources of income and changes in the social structure into a more “competitive and productive” manner could make way for a solution.
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About CHP EU Representation
The CHP was founded on 9 September 1923, about one and half month before the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey. The first President of modern Turkey’s oldest party was M. Kemal Atatürk. Today CHP is a social-democratic party, member of the Socialist International and associate member of the Socialist Group at the European Parliament. The scope of the CHP bureau in Brussels is not limited to the bilateral framework of Turkey's EU accession process. Issues such as the information society, energy policies, social development, climate change, international trade and security are among the different focus areas. The EU-Turkey relations are about integration and need multiple, plural and horizontal channels of communication. The CHP supports and promotes Turkey's EU membership process also by being more present and active in Brussels The CHP's Representative to the EU is Ms Kader Sevinç who previously worked as an MEP advisor at the European Parliament and in the private sector.
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Ways to get clear feedback that can inform further instruction.
G. FAITH LITTLE
Initiative Director, 21st Century Learning
We check for understanding constantly, don’t we?
“Does that make sense?”
"Know what I mean?”
When it comes to our classrooms, we’re looking for more precise ways to check for understanding. Here are some simple ways and a few tools to use in your class as soon as tomorrow!
A simple and positive hand gesture can check to see who is hearing your instruction and who needs more support to move forward. You can use this:
Choose your emoji
Expressions are a helpful way for students to share how they’re feeling or thinking about new or challenging content. It is especially useful for English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. Using emojis (which can be individual cut outs or together on one piece of paper), ask students to choose the emoji that best represents their current experience.
As you move around the room, you can customize your questions and support. Find out more about what the happy faces understand, what the thinking faces are working out, and what the sad faces need to make their struggle productive.
See how the homework informed thinking or where yesterday’s mini-lesson landed by collecting a little data at the beginning of class. You can even combine this tool with the emojis you've used previously:
Whatever the tool, getting clear feedback is key to differentiating your instruction and increasing communication with your students!


Measuring the Immeasurable
One of the big problems with education is how to measure student results. We tend to measure what is easily measurable rather than measuring what’s truly important. And this especially true in measuring language ability.
The purpose of language is to communicate a message. How do you measure the ability to communicate? That’s a challenge.
Educators typically default to measuring the things that are easy to measure: vocabulary and grammar. And they do it in written tests because those are much easier and faster to grade. However, most of our communication happens verbally. And although vocabulary and grammar are elements of language, they are not communicative activities, which is the thing we need to evaluate to determine a student’s skill level.
In other words, in testing vocabulary and grammar, we are testing a student’s KNOWLEDGE OF the language and not their ABILITY TO USE the language.
What’s the solution?
Bill VanPatten and Walter Hopkins have outlined a unique approach used at the University of Michigan using American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) can-do statements. They take the general can-do statements, like…
- I can participate in conversations on familiar topics using sentences and series of sentences.
- I can handle short social interactions in everyday situations by asking and answering a variety of questions.
- I can usually say what I want to say about myself and my everyday life.
…and break them down into smaller can-do statements that reflect their curriculum goals. Like this…
- I can answer basic questions about my daily schedule including classes, work, and study time.
- I can ask someone basic questions about his or her daily schedule related to classes, work, and study time.
- I can say when I get up, when I go to bed, three things I do every day, and if any of these things are different on the weekends.
Then they have students audio record themselves performing the tasks on whatever device they have available. Those activities are graded using a rubric.
Voila! The thing that should be measured, the ability to communicate, is actually being measured. Is it more work than traditional pen and paper testing? Absolutely! But it provides a true reflection of the student’s skill level.


Cinco De Mayo Celebrates What Exactly
Do you know the true reason Cinco de Mayo is celebrated?
Well, don't feel bad if you don't. You're not alone.
A recent survey asked people what they thought Cinco de Mayo was about and only 10% of people had the right answer.
The #1 wrong answer was Mexico's Independence Day. Mexico's Independence Day is actually September 16th.
The #2 wrong answer was a celebration of Mexican culture in general. Nope.
The #3 wrong answer was that it's a day for drinking. Well, I'd say they're about half right.
And lastly, people just admitted they had no idea.
The real reason for celebrating Cinco de Mayo is...the anniversary of Mexico kicking France's butt in the Battle of Puebla on May 5th, 1862.
So, now you know. Celebrate accordingly.
About three-quarters of Americans plan to celebrate. 59% will eat Mexican food, 32% will drink margaritas, 17% will drink Mexican beer, 14% will go to a party, and 8% will go to a bar.
A very studious 8% of people say they're going to use today to read up on Mexican history.
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I wrapped up my five-week Portuguese learning project last night with my final video.
My goal for this project was to reach level B1 of the CEFRÂ in five weeks. While reaching for that level in such a short period might usually be a tough task for someone with a monolingual English-speaking family and a full-time day job, I felt confident I could reach my goal because of the similarity with Spanish, which I already speak fluently.
Experiments with shortcuts in related languages
In fact, part of my reasoning was to experiment on how the learning process is affected when you already speak a closely related language. There are numerous resources online that give an idea for how long it should take an English speaker to learn a language, depending on the similarities and differences, the “difficulty” of the language.
Spanish and Portuguese are both listed in the “Level 1” languages – the easiest class of languages for an English speaker to learn. Still, some estimates say it should take upwards of 600 class hours to learn these languages. I wanted to know how long it would take for a Spanish speaker to learn the closely related Portuguese.
We don’t really have a similarly closely related language in English. Because of the huge influence of French after the Norman Conquest of Britain and the dramatic grammatical shifts that occurred in Old and Middle English, the similarities of English to its Germanic cousins aren’t nearly as transparent as in the case of Spanish and Portuguese. True there is Scots, but it’s not very widely used or even well known outside of Scotland. In contrast, Spanish and Portuguese are both well known and widely spoken. In fact, both of these languages have more speakers outside of their countries of origin than inside.
Where I’m at
As I mention in the video, I feel comfortable using the language at a B1 level now. In fact, with the right preparation beforehand, I can sometimes even function at a B2 level. Still, for the most part I’d confidently say I’ve reached B1 level.
Going forward, while I won’t be putting special focus on Portuguese for now, I’ll continue to use the language and maintain it, and maybe even improve it, albeit probably much more slowly than during the last several weeks.
I’ll also be getting ready for my next project. What will it be? Stay tuned!


This year we have 40 children in our EYFS unit. We have two teachers; Miss Healey and Mrs Taylor who is the Early Years Leader. Mrs Stocks, Miss Edwards and Mrs Bevan are our wonderful Teaching Assistants.
Excellence is at the Heart of everything we do
‘Every child deserves the best possible start in life and the support that enables them to fulfil their potential. Children develop quickly in the early years and a child’s experiences between birth and age five have a major impact on their future life chances. A secure, safe and happy childhood is important in its own right. Good parenting and high quality early learning together provide the foundation children need to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow up.’ (EYFS Statutory Framework 2021)
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is based on four principles:
Areas of Learning
The EYFS is made up of seven areas of learning and development of which three are “prime areas,” and four “specific areas.” The prime areas are
The specific areas are
The children are split into three groups this year and are taught in small groups for phonics, guided reading, writing and mathematics throughout the day. The rest of the time the children have access to continuous provision both indoors and out. Throughout this time the children also complete enhancements that link to certain areas of the curriculum.
The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning. When children feel emotionally safe and secure they are able to explore and find out about the place they are in and the things they can see, touch, manoeuvre or manipulate. In the EYFS the environment is described in terms of three aspects: The emotional environment, the outdoor environment, the indoor environment. These three aspects of the environment together make up the environment for learning in the EYFS.
At Thorn Primary School our vision is that all children are taught in a stimulating learning environment with high quality resources. Our Reception classroom is organised into separate areas. Each of the areas are carefully planned and resourced in order to provide the children with many different learning opportunities in their play.


Raw jackfruit, also known as kathal in Hindi, is a popular ingredient in many Indian and Southeast Asian dishes. It is the unripe fruit of the jackfruit tree and is often used as a meat substitute in vegetarian and vegan dishes due to its texture and ability to absorb flavors. In this article, we’ll explore the nutritional benefits and culinary uses of raw jackfruit.
Nutritional Benefits of Raw Jackfruit
Raw jackfruit is a low-calorie food that is high in fiber and a good source of vitamins and minerals. It is particularly rich in vitamin C, which helps to boost the immune system and support healthy skin, and potassium, which is important for regulating blood pressure and maintaining heart health. Raw jackfruit is also a good source of antioxidants, which help to protect the body against free radical damage and may reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
Culinary Uses of Raw Jackfruit
Raw jackfruit can be used in a variety of dishes, from curries and stews to burgers and tacos. When cooked, it has a meaty texture that makes it a popular meat substitute in vegetarian and vegan recipes. Raw jackfruit can be boiled, roasted, or sautéed before adding to dishes, and it can be flavored with a variety of spices and seasonings to suit your taste preferences. It can also be used in sweet dishes, such as desserts or jams.
How to Prepare and Cook Raw Jackfruit
Before cooking raw jackfruit, it must be cleaned and prepared properly. To prepare raw jackfruit, first cut off the spiky outer layer and remove the seeds and the fibrous white portion. Then, cut the remaining flesh into bite-sized pieces and boil or roast until tender. Once cooked, raw jackfruit can be added to your favorite dishes and flavored with spices and seasonings to create a delicious and nutritious meal.
Raw jackfruit is a healthy and versatile ingredient that is used in many dishes throughout India and Southeast Asia. It is low in calories but high in fiber, vitamins, and minerals, making it a nutritious addition to any diet. Whether you’re looking for a meat substitute or simply want to try something new, raw jackfruit is a delicious and healthy ingredient to consider.


Seems the voids that have been discovered under Bath Abbey – during a trial excavation along 50 square metres of the north aisle – are proving to be much bigger than was expected and the situation is likely to be repeated across the rest of the church floor.
That’s what l was hearing from Footprint Project Director Charles Curnock on a tour of the site.
Ground radar images really do illustrate the problem but – before we talked about the work to remedy the situation – l asked Charles to set the record straight about the integrity of the Abbey building itself.
Was it in danger of falling down? It seems most definitely not!
(Apologies for the poor sound. It was a very noisy site)
It’s not the walls but the floor that is at risk from subsidence. It’s now reckoned that around six thousand people have been buried under the floor and – over the years – voids have opened up.
Here is an illustration of just a small example of what lurks beneath our feet.
With the pockets located it’s a question of careful drilling to provide a channel for filling them.
Some people may remember the voids created under parts of Combe Down – created by stone quarrying – and the thousands of tons of material needed to fill them.
The work that is being done is giving one lady an opportunity of really examining what lies beneath – in terms of Tudor and Norman material.( Again apologies for the noisy recording)
Human remains – as we hear – will be re-interred once the work is completed but some finds will stay on the surface.
Several decorative coffin labels have been located – including one in the name of this man – James Anderson – whose memorial tablet looks down upon this space from the Abbey’s north wall.
They may be put on display and, perhaps, someone could do some research on Mr Anderson to discover if he has descendants who are still living in these parts.


Caroline Young, artwork and text
Zanha is the name the Dai people give to their singers. At all important occasions, such as weddings or the completion of a house, Zanhas are invited to sing for three days and nights. To celebrate without a Zanha present is ‘like a meal without salt, and even wine loses its flavor’, say the Dai.
In ancient times in Yunnan province there lived a rare and solitary songbird called Nuogeluo. He was said to have the sweetest of singing voices,
“as pure and sweet as spring water flowing through a bamboo forest, and sweet and sticky as rice dipped in honey.”
The villagers all loved listening to the songs of Nuogeluo, but none more than the beautiful village maiden who became lovesick if she missed hearing it’s music for even a day. Each morning, she would go into the forest and lose herself in the songs of Nuogeluo.
The chieftain’s son was very much in love with this girl and wanted her for his bride. He promised her wealth and splendor, but she told him she would rather stay with Nuogeluo than be his wife. Much enraged, the young man hunted down the songbird and killed it with his bow and arrow, thinking he would now have the maiden’s full attention.
Nuogeluo was dead, but not the girl’s love for the special songbird. She cherished its memory, which lived on in her heart, and began to sing, exactly as Nuogeluo had sung, of the joys and sorrows of her people. She became the first Zanha of the Dai people, and taught her sweet songs to others. So now, thanks to the beautiful maiden, every Dai village has its own Zanha, and you can still hear their beautiful voices ringing out all over the countryside.


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0%Of students proficient at
math by the end of 7th grade
0%Of students graduating on time
Empowering every student to become a lifelong learner who is a responsible, productive, and engaged citizen within the global community.
Inspiring and preparing today's learners for tomorrow's opportunities.
- That if given time, quality instruction, and access to the appropriate resources to meet individual needs, all students can learn.
- Students learn in different ways and at varying rates.
- Student learning requires appropriate resources, a safe learning environment that encourages learning from mistakes, frequent feedback, and real-life experiences.
- Education is a shared responsibility, dependent upon strong alliances, open communication, and collaboration among students, school personnel, parents/guardians, and the greater Exeter Community.
- Educators are models of lifelong learning and that our teaching reflects current research in learning theory and pedagogy.
- We are all accountable for student learning and for fostering the development of personal responsibility in students.
- Our schools are inclusive learning communities where students are provided a safe environment, and all members demonstrate respect, tolerance, empathy, and resilience.
- Our schools are a vital part of the community. Our citizens should feel proud of our school system and valued for their contributions to the education of our youth.
- Our curriculum should reflect the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to prepare our students for success in life after graduation.


How Long Can a Baby Bird Go Without Food?
It is known that baby birds rely heavily on their parents or caregivers to provide nutritious, regular meals. But how long can a baby bird go without food until its life is put in danger?
Maximum Time Without Food
At a maximum, a baby bird can only survive up to three days without food. This time can vary depending on the baby bird’s age, species, and the current conditions. Young nestlings are most vulnerable and should be fed soon after hatching.
Signs of Hunger
If you find an abandoned baby bird, you should feed it as soon as possible. Here are some key signs that may indicate its need for nutrition:
- Opened beak pointing upwards
- Chirping and begging for food
- Weakened posture, fluffed feathers, and sleepiness
- Extended crop, a pouch where food is stored
It is best to contact a local wildlife rehabilitation center for help. If a feeding attempt must be undertaken, only perform it if you know what to feed the baby bird and the proper feeding technique. An incorrect feeding procedure can cause more harm than good.
In conclusion, a baby bird can barely survive three days without food. If you come across a baby bird that needs to be fed, do not hesitate to contact a wildlife rehabilitation center for professional help.


Bariatric Surgery: Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Bariatric surgery changes the size of your stomach and the length of your small intestine that comes in contact with the food you eat. The goal is to limit how much food can be eaten and/or absorbed at one time. Bariatric surgery can be done in several ways. You are having a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB). This is the most common type of bariatric surgery. During this type of procedure, part of the stomach is separated from the rest of the stomach and closed off with staples to create a smaller pouch. The smaller stomach helps restrict the amount of food you can eat at one time. The small intestine is then divided, and part of it is reattached to the stomach pouch. Because some of the small intestine is bypassed, less food is absorbed as well.
A large portion of the stomach is closed off. This leaves a small pouch to hold food, restricting the amount that can be eaten at one time. The small intestine is cut below the duodenum and reattached to the new stomach pouch. This leaves a shortened path for food to travel through. As a result, some of the food that is eaten is expelled as waste and not absorbed as energy. The remaining pouch of the stomach and duodenum are also reattached to the small intestine farther down to drain stomach, biliary and pancreatic enzymes, and fluids.
Special note: the gallbladder
Bariatric surgery is designed to cause a large amount of weight loss. Weight loss can cause deposits in the gallbladder called gallstones. The gallbladder may need to be removed at a later date. If you already have gallstones, the gallbladder may be removed at the time of your RYGB operation.
All types of bariatric surgery have different advantages and disadvantages. Be sure to discuss the risks and complications of this surgery with your healthcare provider.


The Benedictine School strives to help students, from throughout the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland, reach their greatest potential and navigate life as independently as possible. A $5,000 grant from the Maryland Department of Disabilities Technology Assistance Program, or MDTAP, is helping to give those students access to adaptive reading materials and educational technology.
The grant funds new technology for the School’s library allowing students to independently access literature via read-aloud books. This includes Kindles, iPads and Virtual Reality (VR) Goggles, as well as other educational applications specifically designed to meet the needs of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Students with ASD face many challenges, specifically the ability to engage in meaningful and appropriate leisure activities.
“The majority of our students do not read at grade level, but thoroughly enjoy having a book read aloud by a staff member or read-aloud software.” said Education Director, Julie Hickey. “The Kindle is a great device for this, and iPads are used as the primary device to give non-verbal students a voice through speech-to-text software.”
Funds awarded by MDTAP will allow close to 100 students to independently access literature and other age-appropriate activities and give individuals dignity in being able to continue communicating. Additionally, VR tech allows students to virtually explore their greater community with many apps available/ being used supporting education or travel. Nearly every major museum and city in the world can be visited virtually, and students can even take a ride on a roller coaster.
MDTAP is a program of the Maryland Department of Disabilities with the mission to enhance the lives of all Marylanders with disabilities, older Marylanders, and their families by helping support access to assistive technology (AT) devices and services.


I have been reading some books on colonial photography in South Australia to look for some 19th century photographs of the northern Flinders Ranges and northern South Australia. Even though photography in the field would have been very difficult with the wet plate process at the time, I was expecting to find some examples of colonial expedition photography as the dry-plate process was available in the colony by the early 1880s. My initial understanding was that photographers had accompanied some of the inland expeditions to northern South Australia and across to western Australia in the 1880s-1890s. Cameras, for instance, were used on David Lindsay’s 1885-6 exploring expedition from Adelaide to Port Darwin by Lieutenant Hermann Dittrich, the German naturalist/botanist was on the expedition on the recommendation of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Unfortunately, the dry plate glass negatives were severely overexposed and useless.
I started with A Century in Focus: South Australian Photographs 1940s-1940 by the Art Gallery of South of South Australia (AGSA) — the most obvious place. It was a disappointment. For instance, The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891–92 under David Lindsay, which left from the northern railway terminus (near Andamooka) in South Australia and traveled across the Great Victoria Desert to Western Australia, made substantial use of photography. Yet Dr Frederick John Elliot, the expedition’s medical officer and photographer, is not mentioned in A Century in Focus.
This is a strange omission since there are a selection of photos that Elliot made in the State Library of South Australia’s (SLSA) Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition collection.
It is a puzzle that the AGSA missed this body of expedition photography. Was it a lack of research? Were the researchers content to work only from their own collection?
European exploration of South Australia was effectively complete by the time of the Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition of 1891–92. So what about photography made on earlier expedition in the northern Flinders Ranges and beyond?
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From the Annals of the Indian Wars – In 1840, the Battle of Plum Creek was fought between a Texas army comprised of militia, Rangers and Tonkawa Indians and several allied bands of Comanches. The battle occurred in the aftermath of the Council House Fight. The CHF had resulted in the deaths of several Comanche chiefs who had met with Texans under a flag of truce to exchange white prisoners. The Comanches felt betrayed and Chief Buffalo Hump organized a retaliatory raid through the Guadalupe River valley east and south of Gonzales. Hump had several hundred warriors and a band of almost one thousand including families who followed the fighting to tend to the fighters and seize plunder. In a series of raids, the Comanches moved through the Gonzales area killing settlers, stealing horses, and making off with whatever they could carry. One raid sacked the town of Linnville. The Texans were led by Gen. Felix Huston, Col. Edward Burleson and Ben McCulloch. Much of the fight was a running battle with the Comanches. However, when the Texans finally caught up with the Comanches on Plum Creek a showdown finally occurred. The Comanches likely would never have been caught except for the tremendous success of the raid. They were bogged down by attempting to herd several hundred horses and plunder laden mules back to the Llano Estacado. The actual battle took place near present-day Lockhart and reportedly resulted in the deaths of 80 Comanches – an unusually large number for such fights.
Image from texasbeyondhistory.net.


Being a parent, you by natural means want your child to maximise his or her potential in class. One area where lots of children have a problem is by using the creation of multiplication. This individual section of examine will be the basis for many other parts of mathematics and, without having a sound comprehension of this foundation in the early college yrs, a kid may possibly have trouble with math right during her or his education.
One area which a mother or father must recognize properly is rep and screening. Right after a little one has a standard knowledge of the concepts involved with multiplication, the Times Tables Rockstars Chart are often finest learned by means of memorisation. As outlined by Doctor. Phillip R Rosenkrantz of the California State Polytechnic College, spread out repetition and timed tests assistance to internalise the rules the child is learning.
Educating the Times Tables Rockstars Chart with repetition
There are numerous tools to help you a youngster discover through rep. Simple flash charge cards, retail store-ordered charts or a variety of house-made materials may be suitable. Software can even be a very effective option as it can certainly also put other essential learning aspects for example graphic cues, colour computer programming and the entertaining factor.
No matter what learning resources you decide on, below are great tips to help you get you going:
- Establish an occasion each day for practice, and stay with it. This ensures that your child becomes research time each day, and in addition enables them understand how significant you imagine these routines are. Make sure that interruptions, for example Television and online video games, are out of your photo throughout examine time.
- As well as making use of a range of aesthetic discovering assists, confer with your kid about math. When they is not going to comprehend standard concepts, for example some aspect of the Times Tables Rockstars Chart, assist them to gain a better being familiar with.
- Begin with one variety groups (e.g. 1 by 1, 1 by 2, 1 by 3, and so forth). Since they master one particular quantity team, start the next.
Repeated tests as being a understanding resource


Rilke's Hands : an Essay on Gentleness
This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke’s poetry as a musician might play Debussy’s Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke’s gentle disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people, animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer.
The cut flowers gently laid out on the garden table "recovering from their death already begun" in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread now visible now faint through most of this book. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness, hands—agents of gentleness throughout Rilke’s poetry—enfold these pages. The German word leise (gentle, tender, quiet) weaves the first thread; the second is woven by flowers, then by girls’ hands, then by angels, the beloved, the poor, the dying and the dead, animals, birds, dogs, fountains, things, vanishings. The purpose of this essay is to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades Rilke’s work, how his poetry might gently inspire us to become more gentle people. -- https://www.routledge.com
Rainer Maria Rilke, History, Criticism, Poet, Novelist, Aphorism
New York, NY
Schweizer, Harold, "Rilke's Hands : an Essay on Gentleness" (2022). Faculty Books. 114.


Why use Specific Gravity (SG) measures? To any potter who invests time in making his or her own glazes or clays, the use of SG is a cheap, reliable tool that saves not only time, but a lot of money too. When we get a good glaze or a clay body, we want to be able to depend on it all of the time…all of the time. Ruining your work with glazes that are not properly hydrated is common and need not happen.
So, what is it and how does it work.
You will need a 100 ml (or cc) graduated cylinder, and an accurate gram scale…that is it. I use an older set of scales that holds up to shop abuse, but electronic scales are commonly available and undoubtedly work well too.
First, check the method as follows. Weigh the empty graduated cylinder and write it down. To arrive at a SG of 1.00, you must fill the cylinder with 100 ml of water, and it should weigh 100 g, plus the weight of the cylinder. An easier way is to adjust the counter weight on your gram scale or tare your electronic scale with the empty cylinder on it, then simply read the final result on the scale when it has the 100 ml of liquid in it.
If you weigh a glaze that is working for you now, put exactly 100 ml of it in your cylinder. You might get a weight of about 140 g, giving you the SG of 1.40. Now each time you re-make that glaze and are wondering if it is too thick or too thin, all you have to do is re-measure and you will have your answer in no uncertain terms. Some glazes want to be thicker, and some thinner for many reasons, and this is a way of getting the same reliable mix each time. If a glaze is too thick, it is easy to add some water, and it if is too thin, wait a couple of days for the solids to settle, and take some of the water off by siphon or sponge. How much to add or take off is told by the use of specific gravity testing. The same applies to slip casting bodies where it is even more critical to measure each batch and make scientific adjustments rather than a guess. Easy, cheap and accurate.
Harlan House RCA


The Grade 7 students celebrated the culmination of a year-long, cross-curricular project this week at the 2019 Cultural Fair.
The students created project boards highlighting research and learning from across multiple classes about a specific culture they were assigned early in the school year.
Much of the research that went in to the project reinforced the concepts the students learned in G7 Geography this year such as physical geography, climate, government, economics, and recognizing other unique cultural traits.
The board also included research the students collected from a number of other classes as well.
In Science the students researched energy use, in Art they focused on a specific artifact as a symbol of their assigned culture and applied their learning about painting to the project, in History they learned how to build original timelines, in Drama it was the mythology, and English supported with some of the writing.
Many of the students wore traditional costumes and prepared traditional foods. All in all, the students pulled their learning and research together to present their culture projects to the SSIS community.
As talented SSIS student musicians played a variety of music, the teachers, students, and parents toured through the projects our Grade 7 students had built while they eagerly shared information and highlighted the unique aspects of their research.
We are proud of our students’ hard work and the wonderful collaboration among the teaching staff to work together to enhance student learning in engaging ways.


Information on Church History Course Units
The History of the Early Church course unit is designed to provide students with an overview and general understanding of the early centuries of Christian history. In this course we study the early history of the Church established by Christ, focusing on the challenges that the Christians of this period faced as they attempted to understand and live out their faith.
H3040 Reformations: Churches in the 16th Century
The contemporary religious landscape is still marked by the creative, yet destructive, upheavals experienced within the cultural, theological and devotional life of the sixteenth-century Church in Europe. This course examines that abiding inheritance and pays particular attention to the Eucharistic disputes of the Reformation period.
H3050 Modern Church History
H3060 The Catholic Church in New Zealand
Pre-requisite: H1010 Early Church History
This course examines the history of the Catholic Church in New Zealand from its origins to the present day. Paying attention to the contexts relevant to New Zealand history and the Church internationally, students will be able to trace and explain the rise of Catholicism in New Zealand, thus providing a context for other theological studies relating to the Church in New Zealand.
Information on Philosophy Course Units
W1010 Ancient and Early Medieval Philosophy
This course examines the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece, its development during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and its encounter with Christian thought during the early Middle Ages. The course covers major thinkers from the Pre-Socratics, Plato and Aristotle through to figures such as Augustine, Boethius and Anselm of Canterbury, especially in terms of their impact on the formation of Western thought and society. Key areas of philosophy explored include epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ethics, and social and political philosophy.
W1000 Logic and Critical Thinking
W2000 Late Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
W2020 Moral Philosophy
Stage 2 of a level 7 award (BDiv or Grad Dip Th)
Moral Philosophy is the study of how humans approach, understand, justify, and engage moral principles and theories. The course firstly explores metaethical issues of subjectivism, relativism, and divine command. Secondly, it explores normative theories of utilitarianism, deontology, natural law, and virtue ethics.
W7309 From Descartes to Kant


Asthma is a respiratory disease that occurs as a result of the narrowing of the respiratory tract, swelling of the bronchial tract, and blockage of the airways.
The cause of asthma is not precisely known. Asthma can be genetic and can occur from many diseases and causes. Asthma is a disease that results in a crisis that is seen as a symptom of the inability to breathe due to environmental causes.
As with all other diseases in asthma, attention should be paid to the diet in asthma. Asthma attacks can be reduced by paying attention to nutrition. In asthma, nutrition should be in the form of consuming foods containing fish, Vitamin E, and magnesium. Besides, care should be taken to maintain weight.
Who Gets Asthma?
Asthma is more likely to occur in people with asthma in their family. Children and infants are more likely to be seen than adults. The appearance of asthma in children and infants is a condition that depends on the habits of the mother. People's smoking during pregnancy exposure of the baby or child to smoking increases the likelihood of asthma. Asthma is a disease that occurs in all age groups.
What Causes Asthma?
Asthma can block the respiratory tract when sticky substances such as sputum and slime are secreted too much. Asthma allergy to certain substances causes asthma disease. People with bronchitis are also likely to have asthma. Although the cause of asthma is not precisely known, it can occur from hereditary, genetic, and environmental factors and some causes.
- Respiratory-related diseases experienced in childhood
- People with asthma in the family
- Use of respiratory irritants
- Exposure to infections
- Allergic factors (pollen, mold, dust)
- Ambient humidity
- Cold weather
- Season transitions
- Inhalation of substances such as perfumes and detergents
- Flu and cold
- Emotional changes (fear, anger, excitement)
- Use of drugs that trigger asthma
In addition to such causes, working in professions that can cause the formation of asthma is among the factors that cause asthma. Asthma is a hazardous condition of very advanced dimensions. Asthma can occur in very advanced stages of sudden attacks and crises. Asthma can even lead to death if these sudden attacks and crises do not go away.


Conventional wisdom would have you believe that polar ice caps are shrinking, and this is destroying polar bear populations around the world. As is usually the case, however, conventional wisdom misses a few important facts.
When the ice level data is sufficiently analyzed, a trend appears. This trend shows that since record low ice levels in 2007, ice levels are beginning to bounce back. On August 8, 2007, there was almost 1 million km2 less sea ice than there is today. But wait, there’s more!
In 2007, polar bear population levels were supposed to be impacted by decreasing ice, but they weren’t. Actually, in the Chukchi Sea for example, polar bear populations were aided by receding ice levels because it exposed more surface water for seals to hunt, which in turn made seals fatter and more populous. This, in turn helps polar bears, who feed on seals.
The point of all this information is to show how natural variations in climate and ecosystems can have a real impact on the environment. Why have ice levels been increasing over the last few years when global warming alarmists are screaming the threats are worse than ever? Why don’t we hear about the fact that when ice levels recede, it has the consequence of actually aiding polar bear populations? The answer is that it doesn’t fit into the global warming narrative.
This is not to advocate for the reduction of sea ice because it will help bears, rather it is to highlight how little humans can predict nature or change its outcome. Things are not always as black and white as the media, environmentalists, and global warming alarmists would have you believe.


As the son of a master locksmith, Weber was originally intended to follow in his father’s footsteps. But at the recommendation of his drawing teacher, he studied with Max Bernuth at the Wuppertal School of Industrial Art. Together with Gert Wollheim, Weber went on hiking and painting tours in Westphalia. Weber continued his art studies under Carl Bantzer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, then in Munich. Weber was able to travel to Paris in circa 1910. He exhibited there at the Salon d’Automne in 1911 and 1913, where, as the only German artist. He travelled to Spain in 1914, where he joined the artists’ colony in Barcelona alongside Robert and Sonia Delaunay. He married Maria Elisabeth Prestel and took on work as a political caricaturist.
He joined the Rhine Secession and two artists’ associations, the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft and the Malkasten in Dusseldorf. During the period of National Socialism, Weber was forbidden from travelling, which made his work considerably more difficult. He nevertheless still participated in exhibitions until 1942: at the Kunstpalast am Rhein in Dusseldorf and at the Great Art Exhibition in Dusseldorf in 1937. That same year, however, numerous works by Weber were removed from public museums as part of the Nazis’ “degenerate art” campaign. A majority of his works were destroyed in a bombing raid on Wuppertal in 1943.


The Land of Saxon Settlements
Nine centuries ago, groups of Germanic peoples from Flandres, Luxembourg and the Moselle valley were arriving to the south of Transylvania. They were the so-called Saxons, colonised here by the Hungarian kings to defend the Transylvanian lands. In time, the region was also colonised with Székelys, Teutonic knights, gypsies (nomads from India) and Armenians.
The Saxons set up strong, well-organized settlements, cultivated the land, raised animals and developed crafts. But because their settlements were always in the conquerors’ way, the Saxons had to fortify their churches and build large gates, defence towers and walls, bastions and weapons storehouses.
These settlements of the Saxon colonists are located in the region bordered by the medieval towns of Sibiu, Sighişoara and Braşov. Wooded hills, narrow valleys, biodiversity, fortified church towers - a quaint landscape that seems to have come off a painting.
The lack of modern roads and the location of the villages among the hills create the impression of a 19th century world, a long-gone rural landscape. Nevertheless, these villages roam with life; even if after 1989 most of the Saxons emigrated west, the villages still keep their old days charm. And it is precisely this rural, idyllic image together with the delightful scenery that draw tourists to this region, year after year. One of the famous tourists enchanted by this region is Prince Charles of the United Kingdom, himself.
Let us not forget the culinary tradition of the area; locals still spend their time gardening and raising livestock. Housewives have inherited Saxon recipes made with a genuine feast of flavoured herbs.
If you are looking for a very special holiday and you wish to discover a rare landscape in our modernised European world, then you should try a visit to the villages from the Saxon region. You are guaranteed a unique experience!
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Masoff, Joy. Chronicle Of America: Colonial Times, 1600-1700. Scholastic, 2000. ISBN 978-0439051071 48 pp. $
Rich in little known facts, Colonial Times offers a taste of each part of life in the New World from the journey there to the fight to keep it. Details on the necessities of food, shelter and clothing are provided, along with the basics of medicine, worship, education, work, war, and play. A lot of information is jam-packed into the book, and the layout feels spacious in spite of all the columns, boxes and graphics. The writing is often overenthusiastic, and the use of exclamation points excessive. Occasionally the tone dips to condescending, and the whole “imagine you were there” premise is a bit forced. The author is sometimes redundant, i.e., maggoty food is mentioned on at least three separate pages.
The book redeems itself with primary sources that lend authenticity, it’s stress on America as a melting pot, and its sections on slavery, religion, and the Native Americans that reveal the truth behind many misconceptions and offer a view that is not just Eurocentric.
The red, white, and lettering sprinkled with stars is all American. The book is illustrated solely with bright clear photographs, and the living history museums where photos were obviously taken are highlighted at the end as places one can experience simulations of life in the colonial period. Only four sources are cited. Granted it is, as the author points out, “impossible to fit one hundred years into the pages of one book,” but a few more sources would have been appropriate, especially given that there are an equal number of websites recommended. Index included.


19 May 2021.
A new study indicates that Antarctica ices sheets are headed towards Climate Tipping Points by 2060.
What do we understand by Climate Tipping in Antarctica?
- There are several ice shelves in Antarctica.
- As these ice shelves break up, the towering ice cliffs may not be able to stand on their own.
- These ice shelves are breaking at a faster rate.
- The ice sheets and shelves of Antarctica are grounded on the bed rocks that slope inwards towards the centre of the continent.
- The warming of ocean waters is melting their lower edges.
- This might destabilize them creating open fractures.
- Open fractures speed up the melting process as more ice areas are exposed to warmer temperatures.
- Thus, it is concluded that Antarctica is moving towards irreversible climate changes, that is, it is moving toward its Climate Tipping Points.
Climate Tipping Point
- Climate Tipping Point is the threshold that leads to large changes in the state of the system.
- The fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defined Climate Tipping Point as the irreversible change in the climate system.
- It is often referred to as runaway Climate Change.
- However, it is not same as that of the Runaway Greenhouse Effect.
What is Runaway Greenhouse Effect?
- It occurs when the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of the planet prevents the planet from cooling.
- It is an extreme Green House Effect.
- It creates irreversible climate state.
- The Runway Greenhouse effect is so extreme that the oceans boil away and renders the planet uninhabitable.
- It is an irreversible climate state.


via the American Chemical Society.
SAN DIEGO, March 22, 2022 — In many cuisines, okra serves as a master thickener of stews and soups. The goo from that fruit and other plants, such as aloe, cactus and psyllium, can also clean water and wastewater of some types of solid pollutants, as well as some that are dissolved. Now, researchers have demonstrated that combinations of these food-grade plant extracts can remove microplastics from wastewater.
The health effects of ingesting microplastics — tiny pieces of plastic 5 mm or smaller — are currently unclear, but studies suggest that people unintentionally consume tens of thousands of these particles every year. “We think that microplastics by themselves may not be much of a health hazard, but anything that they get into or any type of toxic substance that gets attached to these plastics could go inside our bodies and cause problems,” says Rajani Srinivasan, Ph.D., the principal investigator for the project.
Read the full story here: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2022/march/cooking-up-a-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-wastewater.html
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It goes almost without saying that many of the visitors who use BlackPast.org are concerned about social justice issues and often involve themselves locally with mentoring efforts for young people and particularly young African Americans. Let BlackPast.org assist your effort by introducing your mentees, from the elementary school to college level, to the depth and breadth of African American history, heritage, and achievement. We want to help your mentoring process build self-esteem among these young men and women, challenge stereotypes, and remind them of the accomplishments of thousands of people of African ancestry around the world and throughout human history. Listed below are pages that we think would be particularly valuable to share with the young people you are assisting. Do contact us at [email protected] to see if we can be of additional help in your efforts.
African American Ambassadors—Few people know that over 140 black men and women have represented the United States in countries throughout the world since 1869. These pages include the profiles of each of them.
African American Firsts—A complete list of African American first achievers from 1641 to today.
African American Historical Landmarks—There are hundreds of landmarks across the United States depicting important people and events in black history. The major ones are listed here.
Black History Month—Every month is black history month at BlackPast.org. Nonetheless we celebrate every February by highlighting a particular black endeavor.
BlackPast.org in the Classroom—This page is designed for teachers but there is much useful information here for mentors.
Interactive Map: BlackPast.org and the United States—Entries on African American history associated with each state in the U.S.
Interactive Map: BlackPast.org and the World—The entries here are of people of African ancestry in more than 160 nations.
Genealogy—The information on this page helps individuals find their family history
Historically Black Colleges and Universities—Brief histories of over 110 HBCUs are located here along with website links to each campus
Youth Literature—Books written for people under the age of 18
The STEM Page—Hidden No More: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
BlackPast Timelines—Filterable by year range, year, event keyword, and location


Christine A. Elmore
Ralph Fletcher encourages young writers to use their five senses "to capture the world around you" (p. 22). By carefully observing a subject and its surroundings or closing your eyes and 'seeing' an image in your head, you can gather details and specific ideas to include in your descriptions. Taking a snapshot of a scene, a character or an object and then describing it for the reader is a technique also used in writing narratives. Students are instructed to use their five senses when describing the setting of the story. In third grade there is a great emphasis put on the writing of multi-paragraphed narratives in preparation for the Connecticut Mastery Test, where students will have to respond to a timed prompt with a well-organized, descriptive narrative.
Many of the same skills practiced in writing poetry can be used in writing narratives. One example is the practiced use of metaphors and similes. Such use within a description adds flavor and imagery to the story and helps the reader really envision what it is you are trying to describe. The use of strong verbs in poetry is also a valuable skill to employ when writing a narrative. The whole idea of being more selective with word choice to convey your meaning is an invaluable skill that can add clarity to a narrative. In poetry we often try to express our feelings about the subject. That is also true of narrative writing, especially in the suspense and main event sections, where you describe your reactions to what it happening around you. Another similarity between writing poetry and writing narratives is that we view both as writing processes that go through many drafts before they are finished. It is not enough to simply write a poem quickly and judge its value, deciding whether to keep it or not. Poems require reworking just as narratives require upgrading.
It strikes me that teaching poetry to children will provide them with invaluable skills that they can use when writing narratives. Therefore, I have come to believe that the teaching of poetry should be an integral part of the third grade writing curriculum, pointing toward the prescribed mastery of narrative.


The lens of the eye is behind the iris. It also helps in focusing the light onto the film of the eye, the retina. The lens is held in a suspended position behind the iris by thin fibers known as zonules. It makes it possible for the lens to change its shape because of these zonules, this in turn makes it possible for the eye to work as an autofocus camera and focus at different distances. This autofocus mechanism is known as accommodation. Accommodation starts becoming weak after the age of 40 and that’s when one requires glasses to look at near objects. This is a natural process and is known as presbyopia. In young individuals the lens of the eye is completely transparent, however as one grows older, this transparency progressively reduces and it becomes opaque. This is known as Cataract. As the cataract becomes more and more opaque patients vision progressively reduces. When it reaches a point where she is unable to do daily activities, cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation is done. In olden days when techniques and technology for cataract surgery were primitive, doctors used to wait for Cataract to mature. However with improvements in technology and surgical techniques, surgery can be done when a patient feels the need and need not be postponed until complete blindness has developed. A patient who is homebound and has limited visual needs may choose to wait a lot longer than someone who leads an active lifestyle and even minimal visual disturbance hampers daily life.


The quick answer: it depends.
Mostly, it depends on which type of diabetes a person has because that determines the types of treatments that are necessary, as well as the outcomes one can expect.
For patients with Type 1 Diabetes, which is usually diagnosed during childhood, reversing the disease is not possible because the body has stopped producing insulin. While the body may kick into gear and produce insulin again from time to time, the patient will need to rely on traditional medicine to regulate insulin levels through medication.
One thing to keep in mind, however, is that Type 1 Diabetes is usually the result of an immune-mediated attack on the Beta cells of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas, which produce insulin. This autoimmune tendency may have been triggered by a viral condition that preceded the diagnosis. Naturopathic medicine can be extremely helpful in balancing the patient’s immune system to prevent further autoimmune conditions from developing later in life.
Type 2 Diabetes, on the other hand, is both treatable and reversible. People with this type are still making insulin, but the insulin is ineffective due to poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, environmental exposures and stress. The body perceives that the insulin is ineffective so it pumps out more and more insulin quickly. It also produces more insulin receptors in an attempt to compensate for elevated glucose. The unfortunate side effect of this is craving sugar, weight gain around the middle and fatigue, which perpetuates the condition.
However, regaining healthy glucose metabolism is a very achievable goal. Eating a whole foods diet and following a regular exercise routine can work wonders for the body’s ability to produce insulin that does the job correctly. It is the cornerstone of Naturopathic treatment along with detailed patient education and a multitude of herbal medicines that balance glucose. For more information on treating and reversing type 2 Diabetes, read our post on diabetes treatments.
Photo Credit: Jill A. Brown
Are you living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes? Schedule an appointment with Dr. Tighe at Trillium Natural Medicine to learn more about how you can support your body to reach optimal health at trilliumnatural.com/contact or 412.571.9355.


2022 National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support
figureposted on 2022-01-20, 00:10 authored by Jody Davis, Amy Hess Fischl, Joni Beck, Lillian Browning, Amy Carter, Jo Ellen Condon, Michelle Dennison, Terri Francis, Peter J. Hughes, Stephen Jaime, Ka Hei Karen Lau, Teresa McArthur, Karen McAvoy, Michelle Magee, Olivia Newby, Stephen W. Ponder, Uzma Quraishi, Kelly Rawlings, Julia Socke, Michelle Stancil, Sacha Uelmen, Suzanne Villalobos
By the most recent estimates, 34.2 million people in the U.S. have diabetes.1 At the same time, 88 million people are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes. The U.S. also sees an increasing prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents.2 Thus, more than 122 million Americans are at risk of developing devastating complications associated with chronic hyperglycemia.1 Diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) is a critical element of care for all people with diabetes (PWD). “The purpose of DSMES is to give PWD the knowledge, skills, and confidence to accept responsibility for their self-management. This includes collaborating with their healthcare team, making informed decisions, solving problems, developing personal goals and action plans, and coping with emotions and life stresses.”3 DSMES interventions include activities that support PWD to implement and sustain the self-management behaviors and strategies to improve diabetes and related cardiometabolic conditions and quality of life on an ongoing basis. Despite progress in diabetes treatment modalities, glycemic and cardiometabolic outcomes continue to decline in the U.S.4 Now, more than ever, the provision of DSMES is a vital component of the full treatment for diabetes.


Thomas Sully was Philadelphia’s leading portraitist in the early nineteenth century. This work displays his characteristically fluid use of paint, a skill he learned in London in emulation of his mentor, the British Romantic portraitist Sir Thomas Lawrence. Even in an era devoted to showing children as truly childlike, Sully’s portrait of his nine-year old son, Thomas Wilcocks Sully, is unusually informal. The young Thomas is situated off-center, creating a feeling of movement and immediacy. He wears an open shirt, rumpled jacket, and straw hat. Such less restrictive costume was becoming more usual for children as it was acknowledged that play was beneficial and healthful for young people. The detail of the torn hat suggests some real, human mischief on the part of the subject that is not apparent in the rosy sweetness of his face. The viewer wonders how the hat got torn, suggesting an element of narrative rare in a portrait and tying the picture to genre painting. The tear in the hat brim also afforded Sully the opportunity to show off his ability to paint a face under a complex pattern of light and shadow. Like Copley in A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham), Sully felt free to experiment in a portrait that was not a commissioned work.


Human industrial activity has impacted the world as severely as the asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs. 70% of the mammals, fish, birds, plants, amphibians, reptiles, and around half of the insects annihilated. Greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures soaring faster than at perhaps any point in Earth’s history. Climate tipping points being crossed – like the melting of the Arctic – accelerating heating and stripping humanity of meaningful control over our future.
We are heading toward a world at least 4°C hotter this century. The effects will be catastrophic. Even 2°C – which we are set to burn through by 2050 – means billions without enough food and water, hundreds of millions of refugees, historic natural disasters virtually every year, war, disease. Without political and economic revolution we face a nightmare from which we cannot wake. Scientists know this, and we are starting to resist.
“There is a very big risk that we will just end our civilisation. The human species will survive somehow but we will destroy almost everything we have built up over the last 2000 years” – Prof. Hans Schellnhuber, director emeritus of the Potsdam Institute.
Why We Rebel
Scientists have spent decades writing papers, advising government, briefing the press: all have failed. What is the point in documenting in ever greater detail the catastrophe we face, if we are not willing to do anything about it?
Academics are perfectly placed to wage a rebellion: we exist in rich hubs of knowledge and expertise; we are well connected across the world, and to decision-makers; we have large platforms from which to inform, educate and rally others all over the world; and we have implicit authority and legitimacy, which is the basis of political power. We can make a difference. We must do what we can to halt the greatest destruction in human history.
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WASHINGTON - A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends updating the methodology used by the Census Bureau to calculate the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) - a more comprehensive measure than the Official Poverty Measure - to reflect households' basic needs and resources available to meet those needs more accurately.
“As our society and economy change, the way we measure the financial reality that families face must adapt as well,” said committee chair James P. Ziliak, who holds the Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics and is director of the Center for Poverty Research in the Department of Economics.
An Updated Measure of Poverty, (Re)Drawing the Line
An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population, and to assess the effects of government policies on communities and families. Thus, poverty measures produced by the federal statistical system are critical to meeting the nation’s research, policy, and public information needs.
The report recommends updating the methodology used by the Census Bureau to calculate the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) — a more comprehensive measure than the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) — to more accurately reflect households’ basic needs and resources available to meet those needs.
To calculate the current SPM, the Census Bureau adds up private cash incomes plus cash and noncash benefits (such as those received from social safety net programs) and subtract some nondiscretionary expenses to estimate households’ resources. Independently, poverty “thresholds” are calculated based on costs of food, shelter (regionally adjusted), clothing, utilities, telephone, and internet, with 20% added for additional needs. If a family’s resources fall below the basic needs threshold, it is considered poor under the SPM.
The report calls for expanding the threshold categories to explicitly recognize that minimum basic needs for American families include health care and child care. It also recommends that the shelter need be based on the regional cost of renting basic housing.
The report recommends renaming the SPM which, as currently conceived, fails to convey that it often serves as the primary measure of poverty because, among other things, it allows researchers and policy makers to evaluate the effectiveness of programs designed to reduce poverty. The report proposes Principal Poverty Measure (PPM) as a more apt name. The report also recommends that the PPM replace the OPM as the primary statistical measure of poverty.


Global shutter complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensors, while relatively new compared to their charge-coupled device (CCD) rolling sensor counterparts, have been widely adopted in industrial and scientific applications across the world because of the many advantages they provide.
Essentially, global shutter sensors expose all pixels to an image at the same time. At the end of an exposure time, readout occurs simultaneously. By contrast, rolling sensors do not expose all pixels at the same time, reading out from top to bottom. This difference in how pixels are exposed and readout accounts for major differences in imaging performance.
The Benefits of Global Shutter CMOS Image Sensors
While each type of sensor will be ideal for a particular environment, global shutter CMOS sensors have numerous advantages. Primarily, the simultaneous pixel exposure and readout allows for much higher quality imaging at high speeds. The slower readout of rolling shutter sensors leaves images looking distorted at high speeds.
Global shutter CMOS image sensors facilitate higher frame rates, which can be a game changer in high-speed applications. Global shutter sensors also allow for clearer freeze frame images at high resolutions because of their advantages in pixel readout.
In What Ways are Global Shutter CMOS Sensors Used?
Recently, global shutter CMOS sensors have found use in scientific applications, particularly in microscopy. As biological research focuses on deeper cellular functions, high speeds and high resolutions are required to accurately capture this level of detail, especially in live-cell fluorescence applications.
Global shutter CMOS sensors are also widely used in the industrial sector for a number of different applications. These uses may include:
- Aerospace and defense
- Electronics and semiconductor manufacturing
- Food and beverage
- Intelligent transportation systems
- High end security and surveillance
While the above industries use global shutter CMOS sensors in a variety of ways, there are certainly other industries that benefit from the high speeds and resolutions of these image sensors.
While rolling shutter CCD image sensors have their place in industrial and scientific applications, global shutter CMOS image sensors bring many advantages, particularly for high-speed applications.
To learn more about image sensors, check out global shutter CMOS image sensors from the world’s top suppliers at Phase 1 Technology.


By Man-chiu Lin
This summer, I explored the possibilities of incorporating social issues into a language classroom in Ubon Rajathanee University in Thailand. Students practiced writing argumentative essays while engaged themselves in active discussion on social & environmental issues like “Thai elephants in tourism” and “globalization & sex trade.” Through role-play activities in class, students are encouraged to broaden their perspective and think critically.
In the final project of the course, “Change the World with Your Pen,” students identified one social issue of their interest and constructed a position paper on it. Topics chosen were like the Effects of Global Warming on Thailand, Alternative Energy in Thailand, Goodbye Plastic, the Problem of Girls in KhonKaen Province: Why they Work in a Pub, etc.
To complete the essay, one student, Du, actually went to KhonKaen Province and interviewed her friends working in the pub. Another student, Pravit, reviewed in-depth articles in the discipline of social science in order to better understand the effects of global warming on Thailand.
Informed of my study in international cultural studies in EWC, I tried to bring in critical perspectives into my language classroom and encourage students to think and write critically. Although there is still a lot of room for improvement in regards to curriculum design and implementation, this pilot study is not only potentially meaningful to my Thai students but also inspiring in my own professional growth as a transformative intellectual.
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Parenting Positive Parenting is just as it sounds! It is parenting your child by using positive communication methods. Here are some tips to get you on the right track:
- Remember that all behavior (positive and negative) is a form of communication. It is our job as parents to investigate what need our child is attempting to communicate.
- Never punish your child for their feelings. As stated before, behavior is communication. Young children are still learning to regulate their emotions, so minor things that adults can roll off their backs seem like the end of the world to a toddler. Instead of saying something like, “Stop crying, you’re alright,” investigate and say, “I’m sorry that happened, do you need a hug?”
- Validate your child’s efforts. In other words, catch them doing good. The more we praise our children for their good behavior, the more we will see that behavior. Ultimately, children just want our attention and will do anything to get it, good or bad. Try ignoring the minor, irritating behaviors as long as the child is safe.
- Structure their environment. Ever feel like a broken record saying, “Stop. Don’t touch that. Don’t go in there…?” Trying structuring their environment by keeping things out of reach that they aren’t allowed to touch. If you don’t want them near it/touching it, don’t make it accessible to them.
- To piggyback off of that last tip, tell them exactly what they are allowed to do. Again, we as parents may sound like a broken record saying, “Don’t,” and “Stop.” Try changing your language and tell your child what they ARE allowed to do instead of what they AREN’T allowed to do. If a child is constantly told what not to do, they may stop that behavior, but they still don’t know what they can do, and therefore may still unintentionally misbehave. Clear and concise instruction works best.


What is Mythology?
What we refer to as ‘mythology’ today was actually a framework of ideas and beliefs used by our ancestors to understand the world around them.
In the absence of modern-day science and technology, these people used an approach based predominantly on observation and deduction over an extended period to make sense of the things they saw in their lives and in their environment but could not explain. Instead of developing theories or hypotheses to articulate those explanations as we would do today, they developed narratives or stories that used those observations and deductions and presented it in a way that people could understand. This is why so much mythology is connected to the larger questions of creation such as ‘Where did we come from?’ ‘Where did the moon and stars come from?’ or explanations for uncommon natural phenomena such as giant waves, earthquakes, rainbows, mists and so on. These stories, and others that helped to guide how people should treat each other, formed the basis of the Celts’ cultural belief system.
Since the colonization and erosion of what are generally referred to as the Celtic Nations, the cultural beliefs of those societies have often been seen as something to be looked down on and many of the important cultural narratives have been classified as fantasies or relegated to the status of children’s tales. As a result, despite the affection that people of Celtic heritage feel for such stories, very few actually understand them today. That lack of knowledge – the result of a great disconnect from one’s cultural heritage – means that, in contemporary times, we’ve come to believe in skin-deep, almost cartoon-like caricatures of our own cultural origins.
The Irish Imbas: Celtic Mythology Collections Project is our attempt to haul Celtic stories and beliefs back out of the shadows and to counter the centuries of misinformation around the different Celtic cultures today. At present this consists of:
Irish Imbas Celtic Mythology Collection 2016


The brown huntsman spider, Heteropoda venatoria, has a striking white stripe on its face reminiscent of a moustache. And now, researchers who’ve shaved those spider moustaches off have discovered that the vibrant bristles help lure flying insects to their death in the dark. The findings were published in the April issue of Animal Behaviour.
Coloration plays an important role in animal visual communication, and predators are known to attract prey using visual signals like bright body hues -- though this strategy is typically used by animals who hunt in the daytime. Studies on using bright body coloration to lure prey often ignore nocturnal predators: You just don’t expect this foraging tactic to occur in low lighting.
Now, to investigate color-mediated prey attraction in a nocturnal predator, a team led by I-Min Tso of Tunghai University conducted field experiments with both dummies and real brown huntsman spiders. Using infrared video cameras, the team monitored the responses of nocturnal prey to normal spiders and spiders with the white stripe removed. (These were gently shaved off of anaesthetized spiders.)
With both dummy and real spiders, they found, an intact white ‘stache significantly increases the attraction rate of nocturnal prey. Even at night, the conspicuous moustache coloration acts as a visual lure for flying insects like moths. The white hair reflect light differently from the rest of the body, and the bright coloring seems to confuse flying insects. “It is highly possible that the moths have mistakenly regarded the white coloration as a nocturnal blooming flower during their foraging at night," Tso tells New Scientst.
As with many other instances of bright body coloration in the animal kingdom, the moustache might play a role in sexual selection. The team's now looking at the stripe from the perspective of mate choice.


There are many home remedies that people use to try to get rid of cockroaches, and cinnamon is one of them. Cinnamon is a spice that comes from the bark of trees and is often used in cooking and baking. Some people believe that cinnamon has insecticidal properties that can help repel or kill cockroaches.
However, there is limited scientific evidence to support the idea that cinnamon can effectively get rid of cockroaches. While some studies have found that cinnamon oil and other essential oils can have insecticidal properties, the effectiveness of cinnamon in particular has not been well studied.
Cockroaches are resilient insects that can survive in a wide range of conditions. They are attracted to warm, moist environments with plenty of food and water sources. Cockroaches can also develop resistance to insecticides over time, making it difficult to control infestations.
If you have a cockroach infestation, it is important to take a comprehensive approach to control and eliminate the pests. This typically involves a combination of sanitation, physical exclusion, and insecticide treatments.
Sanitation involves keeping your home clean and free of clutter, as cockroaches can hide and breed in piles of debris. It is also important to eliminate sources of food and water that may attract cockroaches, such as dirty dishes, pet food, and standing water.
Physical exclusion involves sealing cracks and gaps in walls, floors, and foundations to prevent cockroaches from entering your home. This can include caulking around windows and doors, installing door sweeps, and repairing any damaged screens or vents.
Insecticide treatments can be effective in controlling cockroach infestations, but it is important to use them safely and according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Many over-the-counter insecticides are available for use against cockroaches, but they may not be effective against all species or strains of cockroaches.
Professional pest control services can provide more comprehensive and targeted treatments for cockroach infestations. They can also offer advice on preventing future infestations by addressing the underlying conditions that attract cockroaches to your home.
In summary, while some people believe that cinnamon can repel or kill cockroaches, there is limited scientific evidence to support this claim. If you have a cockroach infestation, it is important to take a comprehensive approach to control and eliminate the pests. This typically involves a combination of sanitation, physical exclusion, and insecticide treatments, and may require the help of professional pest control services.


Data for Good is a report produced by Nesta, targeting to explore the ways in which big and open data can be used for the common good. Although this study does not offer specific answers to the ways in which big data could be used as a tool to promote common good, it offers an opportunity for collecting and presenting a variety of experiences. These would be very useful for others interested in exploring the opportunities of big data, providing an insight on what could be done in the future.
One of the key findings of this report is the fact that in a social media analysis of tweets related to the Somerset Floods, Demos found that 39,000 tweets were related to social action. Moreover, One of the main tools investigated in this project is Civic Dashboard. This tools offers the opportunity to mine data from Citizens Advice (CAB) consultations to understand emerging social issues in the UK.
New ways of capturing, sharing and analyzing data have the potential to transform how community and voluntary sector organizations work and how social action happens. However, while analyzing and using data is core to how some of the world’ s fastest growing businesses understand their customers and develop new products and services, civil society organizations are still some way off from making the most of this potential.
It is important for the report to notice that:
Over the last 12 months Nesta has grant funded a number of research projects that explore two dimensions of how big and open data can be used for the common good. Firstly, how it can be used by charities to develop better products and services and secondly, how it can help those interested in civil society better understand social action and civil society activity.


Lotteries are a method of raising money to fund public projects. They are generally run by a state or city government. These lottery systems typically require a bettor to purchase a ticket. This ticket usually costs less than a dollar, but can add up over time.
Lotteries are usually organized in such a way that a percentage of the profits goes to a good cause. Some of the largest lotteries have jackpots of several million dollars.
A number of states in the United States have lotteries. The first modern government-run US lottery was established in New Hampshire in 1964. It’s also possible to win prizes in Australia, Finland, and Ireland. However, most forms of gambling were illegal in most of Europe by 1900.
While the concept of the lottery may sound simple, there is a great deal of complexity behind it. Each ticket is drawn from a pool of tickets. If one or more numbers on the ticket are among the winners, the bettor wins the prize.
There is a strong debate about whether lotteries are the best way to raise money. There are authorities who support them and others who oppose them.
Many governments endorse lotteries. For example, in the United Kingdom, the government gives out prizes in lump sums, tax-free.
Lotteries have been around for centuries. They were popular in ancient Rome. Emperors would give away property through lotteries. Often, the proceeds were used to fund fortifications and town walls.


System errors codes are error messages that security strategy for business a plan in Windows may display in response to a particular issue it’s having. The os uses these types of error unique codes to help software developers figure out what’s occurring in their programs.
What is a program error code?
A system mistake code is certainly an error amount, sometimes as well as a short problem message, that the program in Home windows may display in reply to a particular problem it’s having. Just like a doctor might use a set of symptoms to explain a patient’s condition, the Windows operating system problems these mistake codes to make it easier for program developers to understand what’s taking place with their programs.
What are the most common system errors?
The most typical system errors include missing operating systems and BSODs (blue screen of death). A BSOD is a carry out system inability on the Windows kernel level caused by driver software error or perhaps hardware concerns.
A lacking operating-system indicates which the operating system has not been set up or can be corrupted. You are able to fix this kind of error simply by downloading and installing the best version of the operating system from the Microsoft webpage.
BSODs also can occur because of user actions that cause the main system to crash. You can stop BSODs right from occurring by causing sure that all of the computer’s individuals are up to date and that you do not have any applications or application running in the backdrop.


Mulungu, L.S., Mrosso, F.P., Katakweba A.A.S., Mdangi, M.E., Tesha, P.P.H., Ngowo, V., Mchomvu, M., Kilonzo, B.S.
Rodents are one of the major factors limiting crop production in Central-eastern Tanzania. A quantitative study was conducted at Hembeti village to obtain information on knowledge, attitude and practice of villagers with respect to rodent management. Structured questionnaires were administered to 30 randomly selected farmers and the results obtained were analysed by the SPSS Ver. 12 Computer programme. It was revealed that 80-90% of the farmers cultivate maize and paddy in small fields ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 acres. Rodents were reported to be the leading pests causing 20-60% crop losses both in fields and stores yearly. Methods used to assess presence of rodents in the area included presence of burrows and unearthed seedlings in fields and damaged grains and rodent noises in stores. It was further found out that farmers were responsible for control of rodents and that 53% and 47 % were using rodenticides and physical killing methods respectively. Financial constraints were reported to be the major factors limiting farmers to acquire and apply rodenticides. Need for training farmers on other management methods basing on ecological approaches was recommended.
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1805: to the Pacific - down the Columbia River, always seeking food
On Oct. 29, 1805, the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition stopped at the site of Doug's Beach State Park.
"Came too on the starboard side at a village of seven houses built in the same form and materials of those above. Here we found the chief we had seen at the long narrows," wrote Clark. "We entered his lodge and he gave us to eat, pounded fish, bread made of roots, Filberts nuts, and the berries of Sackecomme. We gave to each woman of the lodge a brace of ribbon of which they were much pleased… we call this the friendly village."
1806: the return home - up the Columbia River
On their return trip, as the members of the corps approached the site of Friendly Village, they began the long process of trading for horses from the local American Indians. Lewis and Clark knew they could not portage their canoes upstream through the narrows and falls. They needed horses to continue their trip, and the local inhabitants had horses - but trading for them was not easy. When they arrived at the Friendly Village, they had not yet been successful in obtaining any horses. At the village they tried again, "with no better success," lamented Lewis.
Today, there is still much activity at this site. On windy days, hundreds of sailboarders gather to catch some wind and test their skills against world-famous Columbia River waves. Lewis and Clark noticed wind, too. A few miles downstream of this site Clark noted, "the wind rose and raised the waves to such a height that I could not proceed any further."


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The most popular of the Advent holidays was—and still is—St. Nicholas Day. It is the only one of the old Czech Advent holidays still celebrated today. It is a special time when children receive sweets and small gifts. They used to be apples, nuts and sweets, while now they are chocolate, toy cars and other small presents. St. Nicholas Day also reminds people that Baby Jesus will soon be here.
Angels lower St. Nicholas, or Svaty Mikuláš,, with a basket of apples, nuts, and candies, down from heaven on a heavy golden cord. On December 5th, the eve of St. Nicholas Day, three figures—kindly St. Nicholas who gives gifts to children, a Devil who comes to take bad children away, and an Angel who pleads on their behalf—form a procession marking the beginning of the Christmas season. The streets are filled with devils rattling chains, St. Nicholases with white cotton beards, long robes and bishops' staffs, and angels with paper wings on their way to visit small children in their homes.
Traditionally, St. Nicholas quizzed children on the prayer-book and the Bible. Today, however, the questions are mostly about the previous year's behavior. The angel writes a record for each child in a large book and the children sing or say a poem to the saint. The devil rattles his chains, threatening to carry bad children off, but the angel, with a gold star on her forehead and dressed in a white gown, protects the children.
Good children receive stockings filled with tangerines, nuts, chocolates, and small gifts. It is said that bad children get old potatoes or coal in theirs. Parents and other relatives also give a St. Nicholas gift, which may be hidden so children must hunt to find it. After the children's treats, St. Nicholas shares a toast with the parents.
In Prague there is a carnival with prizes for the best masks.
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A Czech Tradition—brought to the US
St. Nicholas Monuments in the Czech Republic
Rescuing St. Nicholas in the Czech Republic


Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters
Dr. Ann Gordon
Why do many Americans believe in conspiracy theories? One answer could be the lack of trust and transparency between many American citizens and the United States government. Conspiracy theories have been used throughout history as an explanation for events and situations that were carried out by the government without any credible evidence. That said, what factors influence one to believe in them? Using Chapman University Survey of American Fears, this paper assesses the two most believed conspiracy theories in America, John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the 9/11 attacks and whether the factors of partisanship, fear of financial uncertainty, education, age and the media are impact one’s belief in conspiracy theories. Linear regression results found partisanship has no influence on either of the two conspiracy theories tested whereas the other factors do impact one’s belief for conspiracy theories. The most salient result emerges when comparing the influential factors of the two conspiracy theories used. Belief in both conspiracy theories was influenced by fear of uncertainty, education, age, and social media. Although, education and age are both influential for the belief in conspiracy theories, the magnitude of the factors were significantly different. This implies the factors’ magnitude of influence varies among theories.
Lam, Emily, "Predictors of Conspiracy Believers" (2019). Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters. 341.
Presented at the Spring 2019 Student Scholar Symposium at Chapman University.


It was quarter to twelve.
Street lights dimmed by the cold mist,
Worn out sock on one foot and a ripped leather shoe on the other,
Compassion folded the two dollar notes in his hands,
And with a frail smile, hid them away in his pockets.
Compassion had begun closing down the food stall,
Before Greed, a well-dressed man,
Asked Compassion for a cup of tea.
Compassion readily opened his stall again
In expectance of making more for the day.
Greed shoved a dollar in Compassion’s hand,
But Compassion asked for a change.
Greed smirked and remarked:
“I don’t keep cents, let it be a note,
Or else, you’ll lose the coins like the other pair of your shoe.”
Without uttering a word,
Compassion quietly prepared his tea.
A while later, little Hunger and Thirst wandering the streets
Approached Greed and held out their blistered hands.
Annoyed, he gave them a cold-shoulder.
Greed, embarrassed to be seen with mendicants,
Silently stepped away sipping his tea.
Hunger and Thirst then came to Compassion.
Compassion, in despondence,
Counted the notes.
But without any hesitance,
He gave away a note to each.
Greed observed the three from a distance.
Compassion took off his only shoe and gave it to Hunger.
Hunger and Thirst, both, now wore a matching pair,
Bid farewell to Compassion and joyfully hopped away.
Compassion stood there smiling
As he tucked away the only dollar note left in his hand.
Greed, astounded by the humbleness of Compassion,
Quietly walked away in shame.
Money was found in the pockets of both
Compassion and Greed.
Greed lost it to ungratefulness,
But Compassion lost it
Only to earn the title ‘Mutasaddiq’.
Truly, they are those whom Allah loves most.
Written by: Areeba Khan
Edited by: The Editorial Team
© The Islamic Reflections Blog


Aphids are small, soft insects with sucking mouthparts. They come in a variety of colors and can attack a wide variety of plants as well. They are generally found under leaves and on tender new stems, often in colonies. The new growth of plants may be discolored or damaged from the feeding. Aphids suck the sap from plants and excrete a sticky substance called honeydew that ants love, so ants are often seen feeding on it and protecting aphids from predators. Honeydew from aphids can also lead to sooty mold, a fungus which grows on the sticky leaves and gives the plant a dirty appearance. Aphids reproduce very rapidly throughout the summer since females don’t have to mate to have young and give birth to live young.
Luckily, there are several methods to control aphids. Releasing beneficial insects such as ladybugs and praying mantis can help keep aphid populations in check. Lady beetles can eat up to 50 aphids a day and are a natural solution. Sprays such as Fertilome’s Horticultural Oil are also safe and natural. Products containing Permethrin such as Hi-Yield’s Indoor/Outdoor and Bonide’s Eight also control aphids and the ants that feed on them.
*Please read and follow all label instructions when applying chemicals.