Thus, we can directly say that many have tried how effective billboard is when it comes to advertising a certain product. If you are an advertiser, you would certainly ask on what is the exact difference of these things when it comes to billboard advertising. Certainly, billboard can give the pubic of the clear picture of a certain product, and as well as seeing its style and benefit to the customer. If you are going to advertise through the use of billboards the choice of the styles, colors and design of your billboard is the most important thing that you can consider. You can make modern styles of these billboards, even electronic billboards of high quality.
You must be familiar with the different types of advertising, most especially the billboard and try to figure out the positive and negative side of such toll in order to improve certain things when it is necessary. You also need to become knowledgeable with the different sets of billboard so that you will know what particular type you are going to use for your advertising. When you are able to choose the best billboard type then you can already select the best design that you can choose for your advertising. You can make advertisements that would surely suit to the kind of business that you have in order to make sure that you can catch the attention majority of the customers in a certain place.
Simple design, yet attention grabbing slogans are the best advertising technique if you are going to use billboard. Shorter message are the preferable once than those longer ones. If you are going to advertise, keep in mind that your target is your audience or your customers that is why you must keep with those strategies that will catch the attention of the public. You can also target the vehicle owners who constantly pass by along the highway.
Through your billboards, they can be able to know the product that you are advertising with them. You can also try to search for place with high traffic areas and you can decide to put up your billboard along the way so that during traffic hours they can have the chance to glance at it.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Everything About PPC Advertising
The growth of Internet marketing has resulted in the growth of pay per click as well. Big corporates too are making use of Internet marketing to promote their brands, and PPC advertising is the most popular choice for the simple reason that it is fast and effective. Where marketers invest 60% of their advertising spend in other marketing techniques, 40% of their ad spent is reserved for pay per click marketing.
Pay per click advertising is a type of search engine marketing campaign which helps in attracting traffic to a website and at the same time, helps in the branding process of the company. PPC advertising is a bid advertising format, which works on keywords. Web marketers bid on keywords which are most suitable to their website content and are in demand too. The search engines in return, provide their website a position in the search engines and charge for every click that is generated from that page.
Pay per click advertising is popular because it provides worth for the money that is spent on it. The benefit of having pay per click advertising is that you only pay for the qualified leads. This makes the system cost effective and profitable to users.
The biggest threat to PPC advertising is from ‘click fraud’. It is a spamming technique which generates irrelevant clicks that are accounted to the user’s account but are irrelevant and untracked. Every year millions of dollars are lost due to this fraudulent techniques which apart from hampering individual business, affect th global economy too.
Pay per click advertising is a type of search engine marketing campaign which helps in attracting traffic to a website and at the same time, helps in the branding process of the company. PPC advertising is a bid advertising format, which works on keywords. Web marketers bid on keywords which are most suitable to their website content and are in demand too. The search engines in return, provide their website a position in the search engines and charge for every click that is generated from that page.
Pay per click advertising is popular because it provides worth for the money that is spent on it. The benefit of having pay per click advertising is that you only pay for the qualified leads. This makes the system cost effective and profitable to users.
The biggest threat to PPC advertising is from ‘click fraud’. It is a spamming technique which generates irrelevant clicks that are accounted to the user’s account but are irrelevant and untracked. Every year millions of dollars are lost due to this fraudulent techniques which apart from hampering individual business, affect th global economy too.
How a White Card Replaces a Blue Card
While a Blue Card has previously been recognized as completion of training with regards to Induction training for the construction industry, this card has now been replaced by a new White one. However, the older cards are still acceptable as proof of required training. Therefore, at this point and time only new trainees will receive the new White cards.
As for the older cards, while still honored, these have now been replaced by the White cards in order to comply with new National guidelines. So, although the older cards still act as proof of Induction training, workers who complete such training will now receive a Construction White Card in place of the old one. In addition, there is no additional training required for existing card holders in order to obtain these new cards.
For, while a number of companies offer general Induction training coursework, this coursework has only been available through in-house programs to school officials within the Queensland educational system since 2007. So, while there has yet to be a new educational program developed to align with the requirements of the new White Card, no such system exist to date. However, there are hopes of a one day training session with no refresher training requirements which will allow employees the benefit of training with only one day away from the job.
Also, while such cards are not required for maintenance jobs such as replacing a drainpipe which has been lost, a card is required if replacing such a pipe due to a break in the line, system or drain. So, it can be a rather fine line at times with regards as to who needs one and who does not. Basically, if building or rebuilding an item, then such a card is required. Whereas, if doing basic maintenance and repair, generally such a card is not necessary.
As such, one may want to determine which type of jobs one is most interested in completing once licensed. For, if only providing light maintenance and minor repairs, one may not be required to obtain such a card. However, if working to rebuild damaged materials, build new construction or other work which requires a great deal more knowledge and skill related to National guidelines and laws pertaining to same, then most likely a White card will be required to complete such work. Therefore, in order to avoid training which may be unnecessary, one may want to look at the jobs one may be doing both now and in the future to determine if Induction training is the right way to go.
As for the older cards, while still honored, these have now been replaced by the White cards in order to comply with new National guidelines. So, although the older cards still act as proof of Induction training, workers who complete such training will now receive a Construction White Card in place of the old one. In addition, there is no additional training required for existing card holders in order to obtain these new cards.
For, while a number of companies offer general Induction training coursework, this coursework has only been available through in-house programs to school officials within the Queensland educational system since 2007. So, while there has yet to be a new educational program developed to align with the requirements of the new White Card, no such system exist to date. However, there are hopes of a one day training session with no refresher training requirements which will allow employees the benefit of training with only one day away from the job.
Also, while such cards are not required for maintenance jobs such as replacing a drainpipe which has been lost, a card is required if replacing such a pipe due to a break in the line, system or drain. So, it can be a rather fine line at times with regards as to who needs one and who does not. Basically, if building or rebuilding an item, then such a card is required. Whereas, if doing basic maintenance and repair, generally such a card is not necessary.
As such, one may want to determine which type of jobs one is most interested in completing once licensed. For, if only providing light maintenance and minor repairs, one may not be required to obtain such a card. However, if working to rebuild damaged materials, build new construction or other work which requires a great deal more knowledge and skill related to National guidelines and laws pertaining to same, then most likely a White card will be required to complete such work. Therefore, in order to avoid training which may be unnecessary, one may want to look at the jobs one may be doing both now and in the future to determine if Induction training is the right way to go.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
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Always be yourself regardless of circumstances 9) Teach with your body when you are young, with words when you are old and by moral precept after you are dead. (From The Korean Art of Self Defence)
Before you can call yourself a teacher and hope to help create a unified and peaceful world, you have to find yourself, spiritually and morally and gain the respect of your fellows. You can do this the constant practice of mental discipline. Confucius said “To promote the sense of morality one must treat others with faithfulness and sincerity based on righteousness, and to eliminate completely vicious thinking.” Taekwondo places a great deal of emphasis on moral culture as it promotes a healthy body and a keen mind as well as good sportsmanship and the perfection of moral behaviour.
Virtue is endorsed at all times. Virtue is deemed to consist of these 5 qualities, which must be constantly practiced: 1) humanity – as defined by Confucius: to love people, especially one’s parents, don’t ask others to do something that you wouldn’t do, behave with propriety and self-control, to do what is right regardless of how small it may be in relation to how much effort it may cost, to value the honour of others’ before your own, to value the freedom of others’ before your own. 2) Righteousness – to be able to feel ashamed of unjust acts and to do your duty to others. 3) Propriety – describes a proper code of conduct i.e. in a situation where two men are starving a courteous man would offer the other a piece of bread out of respect and good manners. Confucius said that propriety was necessary for the proper development of personality and that to lack sincerity was to lose respect as a gentleman. 4) Wisdom – To able to judge right from wrong most especially in matters regarding yourself. To do what is right no matter how small it may seem. To never do what is wrong, no matter how small it may seem. 5) Trust – to be able to keep your promises to everyone and not only to the one’s you love. Trust forms the basis on which your principles are built and without it you become merely a liar and a cheater.
Man is given several tenets that will help him to discover his nature and then, ideally, improve upon it. We shall only look at a few. Be humble, one of Lao-Tzu’s teachings is that lofty virtue is like a deep valley that collects all streams of water; likewise a virtuous man will attract the respect of others while one who is selfish and egotistic will lose respect and become isolated. Respect of elders is vital in order to build a nation’s cultural and social order, without respect it could risk plunging into chaos. Respect the rights of others is a basic tenet that rings true for societies all around the world, without it we also risk chaos and anarchy. Be frugal, leaders must learn to be frugal and live moderately, which is a lesson all world leaders should learn. An adage I just learnt goes, “if the water is muddy upstream so it will be downstream.” Be discreet, do not be impulsive or reckless, and rather be patient and thoughtful in the things that you do and the decisions that you make. An old proverb says, “He who acts without thinking at least three times, will later regret his action.” Develop peace of mind, in Taekwondo that means that we do so in an active way by reflecting on past mistakes in the silence and privacy of our minds and try to continuously improve ourselves. This active, silent thought process is called “Jung-Joong-Dong”. Be firm of mind. To have strong convictions is to be unsuspicious and unafraid, it is to have the moral strength to admit when you are wrong and to have the courage to stand up to great opposition if you believe that you are right. Strong conviction comes from the broad and deep “Ki” spirit, which is an active form of energy that fills every cell and organ. If “Ki” is nurtured and allowed to grow based on humanity and justice it can enable man to reach new heights of achievement. It also allows us to keep our minds clear and alert when we are strained or confused or are battling to sleep during troubled times.
Taekwondo is in essence about developing moral character and preparing you mentally and spiritually to be the best possible example of human nature for your fellow humans in the hopes that they will learn from your actions. It is about seeking perfection in yourself and accepting flaws in others, which is a very hard thing to ask of anyone. It demands constant discipline
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Virtue is endorsed at all times. Virtue is deemed to consist of these 5 qualities, which must be constantly practiced: 1) humanity – as defined by Confucius: to love people, especially one’s parents, don’t ask others to do something that you wouldn’t do, behave with propriety and self-control, to do what is right regardless of how small it may be in relation to how much effort it may cost, to value the honour of others’ before your own, to value the freedom of others’ before your own. 2) Righteousness – to be able to feel ashamed of unjust acts and to do your duty to others. 3) Propriety – describes a proper code of conduct i.e. in a situation where two men are starving a courteous man would offer the other a piece of bread out of respect and good manners. Confucius said that propriety was necessary for the proper development of personality and that to lack sincerity was to lose respect as a gentleman. 4) Wisdom – To able to judge right from wrong most especially in matters regarding yourself. To do what is right no matter how small it may seem. To never do what is wrong, no matter how small it may seem. 5) Trust – to be able to keep your promises to everyone and not only to the one’s you love. Trust forms the basis on which your principles are built and without it you become merely a liar and a cheater.
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Taekwondo is in essence about developing moral character and preparing you mentally and spiritually to be the best possible example of human nature for your fellow humans in the hopes that they will learn from your actions. It is about seeking perfection in yourself and accepting flaws in others, which is a very hard thing to ask of anyone. It demands constant discipline
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Depending on your goals, choose a martial art that suits you. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts call for high levels of fitness. If injuries or age are significant factors for you, avoid these. For instance, people with recurring neck injuries should avoid Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. This sport calls for opponents to throttle you continuously from different positions.
Kickboxing involves less contact than Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. In kickboxing you will need to stand and spar. Karate also does not involve much full contact sparring. Tae Kwon Do and Muay Thai are suitable if you want to enhance your punching skills.
Judo involves learning how to throw people to the ground. Some martial arts have underlying belief systems like Buddhism. Learning an art like this can benefit you spiritually, mentally, as well as physically.
Look for a suitable martial arts organization online. You should read customer testimonials, so that you know how satisfied previous clients were with the facility and instructors. Alternatively, you can ask friends, family, and colleagues for recommendations.
Check the experience level of the instructors. Visit the facility to determine whether it is well maintained. Confirm whether the schedule matches your requirements. The facility should be located close to you; otherwise you may feel lazy when it is time to attend class.
Check the size of the facility, the number of students in a class, and the number of sessions per week. In case you want one to one coaching, confirm whether the facility has that provision. Ask if there is a trial class available, so that you can see how comfortable you are with the techniques being taught.
You can consult the instructor in case you are unsure about which art is suitable for your needs. Sport and self defense being the two different motivations, choose a style which fits your lifestyle and needs. If you train hard, you may even be eligible to participate in tournaments.
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Ever see what the Dalai Lama does when he replies “I see.” or, “I understand!”? Why, he looks you right in the eyes and places his hands over his heart. Does he know something we don’t? How could he? Everybody and their Aunties have been telling us as long as we’ve had ears that the heart has a greater place in our consciousness than we allow ourselves to embrace.
It hasn’t always been like this. Somewhere along the line, though not exactly discredited, the thought of living within and using the consciousness of the heart took a major back seat to, well, the thought that the brain is the center of our ability to receive, process and assimilate information.
Lyrically, all the information is there. In fact, the concept is a part of our shared human experience, regardless the language, custom or orientation. What’s exciting is that today, science is beginning to cut loose and reveal to us empirically what we have always known — in our hearts, of course!
Dr. Joseph Chilton Pearce, a pioneer in the distillation of scientific research as it is applied to human development (and especially childhood education) is the author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power and Evolution’s End. He has been gathering information from scientific studies around the globe that provide strong evidence that heart-consciousness is much more than just a metaphor.
There is more than enough data available to begin using what has been learned and to begin to apply it to real-life experience. Much of my own distillation process I owe to the work of Dr. Pearce, who has given me permission to share information based on his lecture materials.
We hear of test-tube babies. In reality, that’s only where they get their very first start. Unless the fertilized egg is implanted into the womb of a mother-host very soon, it will die. Why? Because this new organism cannot become viable until, literally, the spark of life is passed on to it from another living organism of its kind. Life itself, the spark of life of which we all share, has been received by the offspring as passed on through the mother back to humankind’s first ancestor. The electromagnetic field, which lives inside the mother activates the pulse of the newborn.
That pulse is taken on by a clump of cells in just about the center of the new organism. But do you know what these cells are? Science has named them atrial-neural cells: cells that have the capability of functioning as either heart (beating – atrial) cells, OR Brain (information processing – neural) cells.
This is no tiny concept, but there’s a cute little visual that hammers it all home. After a period defined by phenomenally rapid cell-division within the developing organism, a number of beating atrial-neural cells “migrate” in two tiny streams (like horns growing out of a head) from that central clump to a position closer to the outer edge of the organism. There, they come together to grow to become the organ that we know as the brain.
Think about this a moment: The brain actually comes
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Depending on your goals, choose a martial art that suits you. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts call for high levels of fitness. If injuries or age are significant factors for you, avoid these. For instance, people with recurring neck injuries should avoid Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. This sport calls for opponents to throttle you continuously from different positions.
Kickboxing involves less contact than Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. In kickboxing you will need to stand and spar. Karate also does not involve much full contact sparring. Tae Kwon Do and Muay Thai are suitable if you want to enhance your punching skills.
Judo involves learning how to throw people to the ground. Some martial arts have underlying belief systems like Buddhism. Learning an art like this can benefit you spiritually, mentally, as well as physically.
Look for a suitable martial arts organization online. You should read customer testimonials, so that you know how satisfied previous clients were with the facility and instructors. Alternatively, you can ask friends, family, and colleagues for recommendations.
Check the experience level of the instructors. Visit the facility to determine whether it is well maintained. Confirm whether the schedule matches your requirements. The facility should be located close to you; otherwise you may feel lazy when it is time to attend class.
Check the size of the facility, the number of students in a class, and the number of sessions per week. In case you want one to one coaching, confirm whether the facility has that provision. Ask if there is a trial class available, so that you can see how comfortable you are with the techniques being taught.
You can consult the instructor in case you are unsure about which art is suitable for your needs. Sport and self defense being the two different motivations, choose a style which fits your lifestyle and needs. If you train hard, you may even be eligible to participate in tournaments.
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Ever see what the Dalai Lama does when he replies “I see.” or, “I understand!”? Why, he looks you right in the eyes and places his hands over his heart. Does he know something we don’t? How could he? Everybody and their Aunties have been telling us as long as we’ve had ears that the heart has a greater place in our consciousness than we allow ourselves to embrace.
It hasn’t always been like this. Somewhere along the line, though not exactly discredited, the thought of living within and using the consciousness of the heart took a major back seat to, well, the thought that the brain is the center of our ability to receive, process and assimilate information.
Lyrically, all the information is there. In fact, the concept is a part of our shared human experience, regardless the language, custom or orientation. What’s exciting is that today, science is beginning to cut loose and reveal to us empirically what we have always known — in our hearts, of course!
Dr. Joseph Chilton Pearce, a pioneer in the distillation of scientific research as it is applied to human development (and especially childhood education) is the author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power and Evolution’s End. He has been gathering information from scientific studies around the globe that provide strong evidence that heart-consciousness is much more than just a metaphor.
There is more than enough data available to begin using what has been learned and to begin to apply it to real-life experience. Much of my own distillation process I owe to the work of Dr. Pearce, who has given me permission to share information based on his lecture materials.
We hear of test-tube babies. In reality, that’s only where they get their very first start. Unless the fertilized egg is implanted into the womb of a mother-host very soon, it will die. Why? Because this new organism cannot become viable until, literally, the spark of life is passed on to it from another living organism of its kind. Life itself, the spark of life of which we all share, has been received by the offspring as passed on through the mother back to humankind’s first ancestor. The electromagnetic field, which lives inside the mother activates the pulse of the newborn.
That pulse is taken on by a clump of cells in just about the center of the new organism. But do you know what these cells are? Science has named them atrial-neural cells: cells that have the capability of functioning as either heart (beating – atrial) cells, OR Brain (information processing – neural) cells.
This is no tiny concept, but there’s a cute little visual that hammers it all home. After a period defined by phenomenally rapid cell-division within the developing organism, a number of beating atrial-neural cells “migrate” in two tiny streams (like horns growing out of a head) from that central clump to a position closer to the outer edge of the organism. There, they come together to grow to become the organ that we know as the brain.
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speech is categorized under verbal communication. On the other hand, non-verbal communication is defined as conveying of messages other than speech or writing which includes sign language and body movement.
Now, let’s focus more on speech because this the medium we always used to express our thoughts, opinions and emotions through spoken words. However, in some cases speech is not achieve because of speech pathology or also known as speech disorder.
What is speech pathology? It is the study of speech abnormalities and/or the organs of speech. It is also involve in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders which relates to speech, language, swallowing, fluency, voice and communication. What are the causes of speech pathology? This includes hearing disorders or deafness, voice problems, stuttering, developmental disabilities, autism, and stroke. We will dissect each cause of speech pathology to understand more why they cause speech disorder.
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In the same era, boxing and fencing developed as sports in Europe, while Judo, and Karate emerged into modern forms in Japan. In the 1930s, the modern forms of Chinese Martial Arts information set foothold and towards the end of the 19th century, increase in trade between the United States, China and Japan paved way for introducing the various fighting tactics into Europe. From then onwards, various cultural norms have aspired and established the practice of Martial Arts throughout the world, and currently the Western styles of Martial Arts are gaining popularity all across Europe and America.
The various forms of fighting involve dynamic movement of the body, associated with the belief of flow of energy which influences individuals. This not only imparts physical, but also mental and spiritual benefits to the Marshal Artist. Active movement of the entire muscular system and exercising of the whole body not only accentuates stamina and strength, but also activates the nervous system so as to aid development of better co-ordination and self-control.
Silat involves movements ranging from light contact type to deadly moves used for self-defense. Hence, traditional forms such as point-shooting, dagger defenses and the rifle-mounted bayonet have been incorporated into training of the European and American Army and the Special Forces, since 1942 and as late today as the Iraq war.
The Artist is subjected to periodic grading by a skilled teacher to assure achievement to a higher level. This is manifested in the form of a different color, belt or title worn by the artist. Furthermore, competitions between students or artists of various forms of fighting skills help promote the art further. For the weapons will be east to find at martial arts store, like double-sticks, swords, blade, Samurai and knife.
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Now, let’s focus more on speech because this the medium we always used to express our thoughts, opinions and emotions through spoken words. However, in some cases speech is not achieve because of speech pathology or also known as speech disorder.
What is speech pathology? It is the study of speech abnormalities and/or the organs of speech. It is also involve in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders which relates to speech, language, swallowing, fluency, voice and communication. What are the causes of speech pathology? This includes hearing disorders or deafness, voice problems, stuttering, developmental disabilities, autism, and stroke. We will dissect each cause of speech pathology to understand more why they cause speech disorder.
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In the same era, boxing and fencing developed as sports in Europe, while Judo, and Karate emerged into modern forms in Japan. In the 1930s, the modern forms of Chinese Martial Arts information set foothold and towards the end of the 19th century, increase in trade between the United States, China and Japan paved way for introducing the various fighting tactics into Europe. From then onwards, various cultural norms have aspired and established the practice of Martial Arts throughout the world, and currently the Western styles of Martial Arts are gaining popularity all across Europe and America.
The various forms of fighting involve dynamic movement of the body, associated with the belief of flow of energy which influences individuals. This not only imparts physical, but also mental and spiritual benefits to the Marshal Artist. Active movement of the entire muscular system and exercising of the whole body not only accentuates stamina and strength, but also activates the nervous system so as to aid development of better co-ordination and self-control.
Silat involves movements ranging from light contact type to deadly moves used for self-defense. Hence, traditional forms such as point-shooting, dagger defenses and the rifle-mounted bayonet have been incorporated into training of the European and American Army and the Special Forces, since 1942 and as late today as the Iraq war.
The Artist is subjected to periodic grading by a skilled teacher to assure achievement to a higher level. This is manifested in the form of a different color, belt or title worn by the artist. Furthermore, competitions between students or artists of various forms of fighting skills help promote the art further. For the weapons will be east to find at martial arts store, like double-sticks, swords, blade, Samurai and knife.
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Samples of liver and yeast are dropped into hydrogen peroxide. Oxygen is evolved and the student is asked to extend the experiment to try and decide if an enzyme in the tissues is responsible. The experiments and the questions take about one hour.
Prior knowledge. The existence of inorganic catalysts; enzymes denatured on boiling; oxygen relights a glowing splint.
Advance preparation and materials – per group
20 volume hydrogen peroxide 50 cm3
splint
liver, about 1 cm cube
distilled water 20 cm3
dried yeast about 1 g
clean sand about 1 g
activated charcoal granules, about 1 g
Apparatus – per group
test-tube rack and 4 test-tubes
forceps or seeker for pushing liver into test-tube
4 labels or spirit marker
filter funnel
Bunsen burner
filter paper
test-tube holder
mortar and pestle
Experiment
The investigation below is a fairly critical examination of plant and animal tissues to see if
they contain catalase.
(a) Label three test-tubes 1-3.
(b) Pour about 20 mm (depth) hydrogen peroxide into each tube.
(c) Cut the liver into 3 pieces.
(d) To tube 1 add a small piece of liver, and to tube 2 add a pinch of dried yeast.
(e) Insert a glowing splint into tubes 1 and 2, bringing it close to the liquid surface or into the upper part of the froth.
1 Describe what you saw happening and the effect on the glowing splint.
2 How do you interpret these observations?
3 Is there any evidence from this experiment so far, to indicate whether the gas is coming from the hydrogen peroxide or from the solid?
4 Is there any evidence at this stage that an enzyme is involved in the production of gas in this reaction?
(f) In tube 3 place a few granules of charcoal and observe the reaction.
5 Could charcoal be an enzyme? Explain your answer.
6 Assuming (i) that the gas in (f) is the same as before and (ii) that the charcoal is almost pure carbon, does the result with charcoal help you to decide on the source of the gas in this and the previous experiments?
(g) Suppose the hypothesis is advanced that there is an enzyme in the liver and yeast, which decomposes hydrogen peroxide to oxygen and water; design and carry out a control experiment to test this hypothesis.
7 Record (i) the experiment, (ii) the reasons which led you to conduct it, (iii) the observed
results and (iv) your conclusions.
(h) Wash out the test-tubes. Design and carry out an experiment to see if the supposed enzyme in the plant and animal material can be extracted and still retain its properties. The experiment should include a control.
8 Describe briefly your procedure, your results and your conclusions.
9 Assuming that liver and yeast each contain an enzyme which splits hydrogen peroxide, is there any evidence to show that it is the same enzyme? What would have to be done to find this out for certain?
Discussion – answers
1 Effervescence should be observed in each case but it is more vigorous with yeast than with liver. The glowing splint should relight.
2 Oxygen is being produced.
3 There is no evidence to indicate whether the liquid or solid is giving the gas. If the students think that a solid is unlikely to give off a gas they could be reminded of marble and hydrochloric acid in which it is the solid producing the carbon dioxide. It seems less likely, however, that
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Samples of liver and yeast are dropped into hydrogen peroxide. Oxygen is evolved and the student is asked to extend the experiment to try and decide if an enzyme in the tissues is responsible. The experiments and the questions take about one hour.
Prior knowledge. The existence of inorganic catalysts; enzymes denatured on boiling; oxygen relights a glowing splint.
Advance preparation and materials – per group
20 volume hydrogen peroxide 50 cm3
splint
liver, about 1 cm cube
distilled water 20 cm3
dried yeast about 1 g
clean sand about 1 g
activated charcoal granules, about 1 g
Apparatus – per group
test-tube rack and 4 test-tubes
forceps or seeker for pushing liver into test-tube
4 labels or spirit marker
filter funnel
Bunsen burner
filter paper
test-tube holder
mortar and pestle
Experiment
The investigation below is a fairly critical examination of plant and animal tissues to see if
they contain catalase.
(a) Label three test-tubes 1-3.
(b) Pour about 20 mm (depth) hydrogen peroxide into each tube.
(c) Cut the liver into 3 pieces.
(d) To tube 1 add a small piece of liver, and to tube 2 add a pinch of dried yeast.
(e) Insert a glowing splint into tubes 1 and 2, bringing it close to the liquid surface or into the upper part of the froth.
1 Describe what you saw happening and the effect on the glowing splint.
2 How do you interpret these observations?
3 Is there any evidence from this experiment so far, to indicate whether the gas is coming from the hydrogen peroxide or from the solid?
4 Is there any evidence at this stage that an enzyme is involved in the production of gas in this reaction?
(f) In tube 3 place a few granules of charcoal and observe the reaction.
5 Could charcoal be an enzyme? Explain your answer.
6 Assuming (i) that the gas in (f) is the same as before and (ii) that the charcoal is almost pure carbon, does the result with charcoal help you to decide on the source of the gas in this and the previous experiments?
(g) Suppose the hypothesis is advanced that there is an enzyme in the liver and yeast, which decomposes hydrogen peroxide to oxygen and water; design and carry out a control experiment to test this hypothesis.
7 Record (i) the experiment, (ii) the reasons which led you to conduct it, (iii) the observed
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(h) Wash out the test-tubes. Design and carry out an experiment to see if the supposed enzyme in the plant and animal material can be extracted and still retain its properties. The experiment should include a control.
8 Describe briefly your procedure, your results and your conclusions.
9 Assuming that liver and yeast each contain an enzyme which splits hydrogen peroxide, is there any evidence to show that it is the same enzyme? What would have to be done to find this out for certain?
Discussion – answers
1 Effervescence should be observed in each case but it is more vigorous with yeast than with liver. The glowing splint should relight.
2 Oxygen is being produced.
3 There is no evidence to indicate whether the liquid or solid is giving the gas. If the students think that a solid is unlikely to give off a gas they could be reminded of marble and hydrochloric acid in which it is the solid producing the carbon dioxide. It seems less likely, however, that
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Bruce Lee used to amaze people around the world by performing the one inch punch that could collapse even the largest of men. This was the process of “Kimi” in action, as he was able to focus a lot of energy and power and use it in such a graceful way. This same method can work in your daily life an give you explosive power at the exact moment that you need it to accomplish not only your physical goals but spiritual and emotional goals as well.
Many of the martial artists and business people have honed this skill and are able to stay focused for very long amounts of time and are always ready to strike at an opportunity as it comes to them. There is no major difference between them and the rest of the population other than that they have been practicing “Kimi” whether aware of it or not. It is a skill that comes natural to all of us, but as with many things people tend to ignore it as it doesn’t produce instant benefits.
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Before Brazilian Jiu Jitsu many art forms were based on a myth, legend or story that told of a great master mind who had developed or used that style to perform some type of incredible feat. B.J.J. is very new in terms of martial arts. It was developed primarily over the last one-hundred years by a family that lived in a city known for violent confrontations. The result was a martial art that what not based around what could work but what did work.
2) The perfect punch versus the submission
Until Brazilian Jiu Jitsu came into popularity the most prevalent martial arts were striking arts. That is they focused on punching and kicking. B.J.J. focuses on controlling your opponents using wrestling or grappling movements and then isolating a limb or neck of your opponent in order to force a submission. Time after time the submission attack has proven itself a much more reliable way to effectively dominate a one versus one confrontation. This is because striking happens in a free motion state where both combatants are moving and there is a lot of room for error. Grappling however allows a person to control another person’s motion using superior position and leverage.
3) A new type of practice
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is also practiced in a way that is different from old style martial arts. Many of the older traditions remain such as traditional kimonos and bowing but there are some significant changes. One of the biggest differences is that almost all technique is practiced with a partner instead of facing the front of the room in front of a mirror. This so that each student can see exactly how their own body will interact with the body of another person, another notable difference is that at the end of most practices there is a portion of practice that is performed at close to 100%. At the end of class during sparring or rolling sessions there is no striking. This allows the two practitioners to attempt submissions on a fully resisting opponent with minimal risk of injury to either participant.
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But before you plunge right into just any cleansing technique, here are some general tips that you must first consider:
1. Start with a cleansing technique that is not too drastic or extreme for your present condition.
2. On the other hand, do not choose a technique that is too mild and would therefore be ineffective. You can always start with a gentle cleansing program but build it up gradually.
3. If you are a female, do not detoxify when you are pregnant or having your period.
4. Always budget enough time for the cleansing process to take place. For instance, in a bowel cleanse, you may have to allow about 4 hours for purging to take place.
5. Do not rush into a cleansing technique. As in the above example, during the 4 hours, plan to take things slowly. No heavy tasks! Be near a toilet if necessary.
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1) The end of the myth
Before Brazilian Jiu Jitsu many art forms were based on a myth, legend or story that told of a great master mind who had developed or used that style to perform some type of incredible feat. B.J.J. is very new in terms of martial arts. It was developed primarily over the last one-hundred years by a family that lived in a city known for violent confrontations. The result was a martial art that what not based around what could work but what did work.
2) The perfect punch versus the submission
Until Brazilian Jiu Jitsu came into popularity the most prevalent martial arts were striking arts. That is they focused on punching and kicking. B.J.J. focuses on controlling your opponents using wrestling or grappling movements and then isolating a limb or neck of your opponent in order to force a submission. Time after time the submission attack has proven itself a much more reliable way to effectively dominate a one versus one confrontation. This is because striking happens in a free motion state where both combatants are moving and there is a lot of room for error. Grappling however allows a person to control another person’s motion using superior position and leverage.
3) A new type of practice
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is also practiced in a way that is different from old style martial arts. Many of the older traditions remain such as traditional kimonos and bowing but there are some significant changes. One of the biggest differences is that almost all technique is practiced with a partner instead of facing the front of the room in front of a mirror. This so that each student can see exactly how their own body will interact with the body of another person, another notable difference is that at the end of most practices there is a portion of practice that is performed at close to 100%. At the end of class during sparring or rolling sessions there is no striking. This allows the two practitioners to attempt submissions on a fully resisting opponent with minimal risk of injury to either participant.
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The ovulation period is the most opportune time in your menstrual cycle to become pregnant because during this phase your body releases an egg. If the egg is met with a sperm then fertilization takes place and you are pregnant! So how do you know when you are ovulating? Well, if you have regular cycles each month this will be easy to pinpoint. If you do not have regular periods this might take some time to figure out.
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Get Rid of Stress
Stress is harmful to your body. If there is a lot of stress in your life it could be a strong factor in not getting pregnant. The best way to relieve stress from your body is to exercise each day. Even if you walk a mile or two this is better than nothing at all.
Eat Healthy
The health of your body is so important. In order for your body to nourish a growing fetus it must be healthy. You can help your body be healthy by eating healthy. Minimize the intake of sugar and maximize the amount of protein and vegetables you intake. Of course, as mentioned above, exercise is also very important. Be sure to get enough exercise and eat enough healthy foods.
These are just basic tips on how to increase your chances of getting pregnant naturally. If you find over time you are not succeeding then you should speak to a doctor. But in the meantime, do not become overly anxious as this will only add stress to your body. You will get pregnant when the time is right for you!
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Know When You Are Ovulating
The ovulation period is the most opportune time in your menstrual cycle to become pregnant because during this phase your body releases an egg. If the egg is met with a sperm then fertilization takes place and you are pregnant! So how do you know when you are ovulating? Well, if you have regular cycles each month this will be easy to pinpoint. If you do not have regular periods this might take some time to figure out.
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Eat Healthy
The health of your body is so important. In order for your body to nourish a growing fetus it must be healthy. You can help your body be healthy by eating healthy. Minimize the intake of sugar and maximize the amount of protein and vegetables you intake. Of course, as mentioned above, exercise is also very important. Be sure to get enough exercise and eat enough healthy foods.
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Know When You Are Ovulating
The ovulation period is the most opportune time in your menstrual cycle to become pregnant because during this phase your body releases an egg. If the egg is met with a sperm then fertilization takes place and you are pregnant! So how do you know when you are ovulating? Well, if you have regular cycles each month this will be easy to pinpoint. If you do not have regular periods this might take some time to figure out.
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Get Rid of Stress
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Eat Healthy
The health of your body is so important. In order for your body to nourish a growing fetus it must be healthy. You can help your body be healthy by eating healthy. Minimize the intake of sugar and maximize the amount of protein and vegetables you intake. Of course, as mentioned above, exercise is also very important. Be sure to get enough exercise and eat enough healthy foods.
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The ovulation period is the most opportune time in your menstrual cycle to become pregnant because during this phase your body releases an egg. If the egg is met with a sperm then fertilization takes place and you are pregnant! So how do you know when you are ovulating? Well, if you have regular cycles each month this will be easy to pinpoint. If you do not have regular periods this might take some time to figure out.
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Get Rid of Stress
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Eat Healthy
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Pruning Perennials
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Pruning Shrubs and Bushes
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Is This An Inspirational Thought?
Anthony Hopkin’s character, in the movie “The Edge,” says “What one man can do, another can do.” He goes on to kill the bear that is stalking him. What if you aren’t as strong, as rich, or as smart as others? Not all those who have done great things were always stronger, smarter and richer than you. Just like them, you can learn the right things, take the right actions and put in the effort. This is why this is an inspirational thought. See where some people started from, and you’ll find yourself saying, “Hey! If he can do it, I can too.”
I told a guy he could save money to buy a home, and he claimed he just didn’t have any extra to save. He forget that he already knew several people who were making less money than him and surviving just fine. If he lived like those people for a while, couldn’t he bank the difference? (Just say yes – finding reasons why you can’t do something is a terrible habit to encourage.)
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Other than with trees, which are a separate category, the purpose of pruning is to induce more and superior flowering, denser and more compact growth, or both together. Cutting back herbaceous perennials for instance, prevents the plants from becoming bald and leggy, while pruning shrubs maintains bushy, green growth from the top to the ground.
What not to Prune
Remember that deciduous trees and shrubs should never be pruned in the spring, because of the sap rising in the branches at this time. Deciduous plants, i.e. broadleaved plants that originate from cold winter climates, should be pruned during their dormancy in the winter, although light pruning is possible in the summer.
It is also important to know that flowering shrubs whose blooms develop from buds that originated in the previous spring will not flower if pruned now. Lilacs and some species roses are typical examples, and the complaint- “my rose bush never seems to flower” – is a common refrain.
Similarly, fruit trees that belong to this category will never produce fruit if the flower buds are accidentally removed by early pruning. As a rule therefore, delay pruning trees and shrubs that flower on the previous year’s growth, until the end of the flowering, while being careful not to remove the spent flowers of fruit trees.
Pruning Perennials
A common mistake with perennial bedding plants is to wait until the last of the flowers have withered before deadheading and pruning back the plants. Many species in use in hot, dry climate gardens fall into a semi dormant state in the summer, while flowering is their final burst of activity towards the end of spring.
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Pruning Shrubs and Bushes
Without pruning, most shrubs ape their larger cousins, and develop a tree-like habit in growth and form. Sometimes, a bush grown as a small tree can be a valuable and creative addition to the garden. But in general, the role of shrubs is to create a screen or background of dense, compact foliage. To wait until the middle of the summer, is to cause the plant to waist the valuable energy it has expended by its spring growth.
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Want a loving partner? Somebody less attractive, charming and intelligent than you is getting happily married somewhere today. Want to create a new food and successfully market it? You probably already have more resources than Harlan Sanders had when he started trying to sell his Kentucky Fried Chicken. Want a big beautiful home? Three or more people in your town have such a home after being poorer than you at some point in their lives.
Is This An Inspirational Thought?
Anthony Hopkin’s character, in the movie “The Edge,” says “What one man can do, another can do.” He goes on to kill the bear that is stalking him. What if you aren’t as strong, as rich, or as smart as others? Not all those who have done great things were always stronger, smarter and richer than you. Just like them, you can learn the right things, take the right actions and put in the effort. This is why this is an inspirational thought. See where some people started from, and you’ll find yourself saying, “Hey! If he can do it, I can too.”
I told a guy he could save money to buy a home, and he claimed he just didn’t have any extra to save. He forget that he already knew several people who were making less money than him and surviving just fine. If he lived like those people for a while, couldn’t he bank the difference? (Just say yes – finding reasons why you can’t do something is a terrible habit to encourage.)
Would you like a date for this Friday? How? Here’s a clue: An awkward young man asked a woman friend why he couldn’t get a date. She asked if he had asked anyone out. After he thought about it for a moment he said, “No.” “That’s why,” she told him. Better example: I know a jerk who always had a date – after asking twenty women a week out. These are lessons, aren’t they? If a geek and a jerk can get a date, you can too, right?
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Helpful Information About Electrical Panel Wiring
Having the knowledge and the experience to do competent electrical panel wiring is rare. There are only a few people who still perform electric installation, as it can be a dangerous task, especially if one is inexperienced. Trial and error processes are not encouraged at all, as a single error can be fatal. Thus, if you need somebody to repair something in your electrical panel, to knock out or install an electric panel, or to perform safety measures once a fuse blows, you need to hire a licensed electrician to do the job for you. After mending the problem, the electrician can also work out the source of the problem and evaluate your electrical panel wiring to determine what needs to be done to prevent similar circumstances in the future.
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There are cases where after a little fight with a father or one of the parent, an adolescent may go ahead and do some crazy act that will be so destructive you will even wonder why it had to come to that. It is just the way it is. This is a very sensitive matter that require optimum attention when dealing with it.
To begin with, everything must be done to make it sure that no attempt is made to deliberately deflate or reduce the self esteem of an adolescent. It usually lead to depression which can be another major issue to deal with.
Finding a means to improve the self esteem of an adolescent is enough a goal in itself than to add their depression on top of it.
Because they are still figuring out how everything within their body system works, it is a risky place to be if any action leads to them feeling isolated, unloved or rejected. We all love to be loved, accepted and integrated into a community and simply because we are all wired to operate and function that way.
That brings us to one of the most useful ways to improve an adolescent’s self esteem. The social relationships of an adolescent is a very important part of their self esteem. Their personal emotions and reactions can sometimes be as a result of their level of involvement in social relationships around or about them.
When an adolescent is withdrawn or isolated from a community to which they are expected to have belonged to, it may be one of the greatest blow they will be dealing with when it comes to their self esteem rating. They may be feeling so low and rejected that it can lead to other causes like depression as earlier mentioned and that will be a damaging experience in general.
How to improve adolescent self esteem surely involve the need to get the person affected integrated into a community where they are accepted and socially responsible and active. Their social relationships have to be healthy and a happy one too so that they can feel accepted, part of a cause that is bigger than them and important. Once this is happening and the adolescent understand it too, their self esteem will be improved.
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All fish are aquatic and breath by absorbing dissolved oxygen in the water using their gills. The bodies of both teleosts and elasmobranchs are covered with scales but those of elasmobranchs are spiky and project through the skin. This makes the skin feel very rough, like coarse sandpaper. The scales of the teleosts have a flattened, discoid shape and are covered by a thin layer of skin and mucus which probably reduces friction between the body and the surrounding water and makes them very slippery.
The swimming mechanism in both groups is very similar. A series of muscular contractions pass down each side of the fish alternately bending it from side to side and pushing backwards and sideways against the water. The water resistance exerts an opposite sideways and forward force on the fish. The sideways forces cancel each other but the forward force propels the fish forward. In both groups there are variations in this method of propulsion. Skates and rays make undulatory movements in the vertical plane as do flatfish like plaice. Some teleosts, such as the sea horse, propel themselves by undulatory movements of their dorsal fin.
In general, the fins contribute to stability and steering rather than propulsion. The median fins, dorsal and ventral, reduce the sideways thrust of the swimming movements and also reduce the tendency to roll from side to side. The paired fins help to steer the fish upwards or downwards through the water and contribute to turning and braking. The paired fins of elasmobranches are held in rather rigid positions while those of teleosts, with their flexible jointing to the body, are more versatile in their movements and can often be seen moving gently to keep the fish in a steady position.
In the teleosts, there is a swim bladder. An elongated, air-filled sac just below the vertebral column. This air bladder keeps the fish buoyant and prevents it from sinking when it stops swimming. The volume of the air bladder can be adjusted to compensate for changes in pressure at different depths. The elasmobranchs do not have swim bladders and so they start to sink if they stop swimming.
Although water is H2O, aquatic creatures cannot use the oxygen from this. The oxygen they breathe comes from the air which has dissolved in the water. There are four or five pairs of gills situated inside the mouth cavity. In teleosts, they are covered on the outside by a bony plate called the operculum. By movements of the floor of the mouth and operculum, the fish creates, a current of water which passes over its gills. Water is taken in through the mouth and expelled through the operculum in the case of teleosts, and out through separate gill slits in elasmobranchs. The gills are, in effect, finely branched, thin-walled blood vessels which, because of their multiple branches, expose an enormous surface to the water and so facilitate absorption of oxygen and loss of carbon dioxide.
Deciding on a college major can be a major undertaking. There are many interesting subjects to choose from. One career that is becoming more and more popular is biology. So, if you are considering earning a biology degree, it is good to start with what career options are available upon graduation.
Research – Research biologists are responsible for using the latest scientific tools to study nature and determine how living things work. Many biologists enter the medical field and work on developing medicines to cure many diseases.
Environmental Management – These positions involve solving environmental problems and working on conservation. Many biologists find employment in forestry, zoos, and with special interest groups.
Forensic Biology – This career is really starting to grow. Forensic biologists work with law enforcement agencies to discover and process evidence in relation to solving crimes. They may also be called upon to testify during criminal trials.
Politics – This career path may seem strange on the surface. However, many biologists work with lawmakers as advisors. Using science, they help to create new legislation on things like environmental protection and conservation.
Math – Bioinformatics is a new career field for biologists. It combines biology and math to solve biological problems and issues. They create different models and projections, which require a good understanding of math and statistics.
Pursuing a career in biology can be a challenging and rewarding experience. Be certain to examine your career goals and aspirations prior to entering a program. This will ensure you enroll in the program that will best suit your needs.
One of the hardest, and most emotional periods in parenting are the adolescent care years, from the time your child reaches their pre-teen years and throughout their teen years. This is the time when their bodies begin to change, their tastes change, they discover what attracts them to others and they discover just how cruel the world can sometimes be. This will be a roller coaster time for everyone involved, and this is the time that they will need you the most, even if they will not willingly admit it.
From Pediatrician to the “Alone” Doctor
The first sign that your child is reaching the adolescent care stage is the realization that they do not need you with them at their doctor visits any more. Once they reach the age of 12, they will need a new level of medical care, far beyond just tracking their development and ensuring that they are healthy. Now is the time that they will have questions for the doctor that they may not want you to hear.
The doctor, too, may want to be able to examine your child and ask his own questions without mom hovering over it all. At this point in their lives, they need to be comfortable asking any questions they may have about puberty, depression, sex, drugs, tobacco, alcohol and birth control. Your doctor will want to evaluate their physical and mental health, whether they are having any trouble in school, and whether they feel pressured to do things that they do not want to by their friends. The only way to get honest answers is to make your child feel comfortable talking alone with them, and if there are issues, the doctor will discuss them with you later.
Keeping Diet And Obesity in Check
Starting now, it is all going to be about appearances between your child and their peers. Children can be some of the cruelest creatures on the face of this planet, and it only gets worse into the preteen and teenage years. Obesity, diet, skin care, acne, hygiene, dress and self-esteem suddenly become the high voltage issues of the day. Your job, as a parent, is to keep a level head, attitude and anger in check, and teach them as best as you can on how to do things properly.
Explain to them how good skin care habits and hygiene will help them to look their best. Explain how what they eat can affect the way they look, especially when it comes to their weight and how it can affect whether they develop acne or not. This will probably lead in, at some point, into discussions of attraction between the sexes, peer pressure, drugs, alcohol and sex. Best advice we can give is to speak from the heart, and relate to them as best you can from experience.
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It is important that children be socialized, participate in sports and other activities that build their self-esteem but there is a limit to everything. A growing problem, especially among teens, is over-scheduling. This can lead to your teen being stressed out, anxious and feeling pressured to succeed. Monitor their activities and be ready to act if it looks like they have taken on too much for them to handle. Praise them for their drive, but remind them that they need to think of themselves first, and their health.
Avoiding Depression
Another growing issue that parents should be aware of is teen depression. Every parent should educate themselves on the symptoms of depression: mood swings, no longer taking pleasure in things they have always enjoyed, weight loss or gain, chronic insomnia or long periods of sleeping, feelings of hopelessness or guilt, lack of concentration and a fascination with morbid subjects like death and suicide.
When it comes to this issue of adolescent care, keeping communication lines open is very important. Encourage your child to talk openly about what is troubling them, try to keep them involved in daily activities, and it may be time to consider trying counseling. Do your best to comfort, reach out, and offer your own counsel at such times. Seek advice from your family doctor, and encourage your child to talk with them as well.
If you are an inspirational online article writer, or if you work in the self-help venue then chances are you are someone who likes to help people get through their problems. Well then, I have some information that I believe will help you, help them, and help more of your potential clients faster. You see, our society and population is overstressed, and therefore, they could use a little pick me up.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday-Sunday April 23-24, 2011 titled “The Really Smart Phone – Researchers are Harvesting a Wealth of Intimate Detail from Our Cellphone Data, Uncovering the Hidden Patterns of Our Social Lives, Travels, Risk of Disease – Even Our Political Views” by Robert Lee Hotz; apparently, after analyzing cellphone data it turns out that social scientists have learned that the most unhappiest time of the Week is Tuesday in the Western World.
Therefore, an online article writer should be writing their self-help and motivational type articles over the weekend and posting them on Monday so they are approved, and posted by Tuesday, as the search engine spiders find them and puts them in their data bases. Over the last two years I have been writing various articles in the motivational and self-help categories trying to figure out which articles are most pleasing to the human psyche, which articles get read most, and which articles help boost an individual’s self-esteem.
It turns out, that I can verify that more articles get read on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the self-help category than at any other time during the week. This is because people are stressed out and still looking at a long week ahead, and often negative thoughts will permeate their self talk. Okay so, it makes sense the information in that Wall Street Journal article. Not only that, but it appears to be true in the United States, Europe, and Canada.
On non-holiday weeks the same goes for the Australian population, and I say non-holiday weeks because Australia have quite a few more holidays and three-day weekends than they do in the United States for instance. Another thing that I have noticed is that there are so many people who are self-proclaimed self-help gurus, and personal coaches these days that the online venue for motivational articles is completely saturated.
Therefore, it might make sense to post self-help articles early in the morning on Monday, so they are ready to be viewed by folks that could use a little positive influence in their life on their most stressful day; Tuesday. Indeed, hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
They Know How To Focus On Blessings
It was a hot, muggy night years ago, and we were rehearsing a professional “workshop” musical in a long-vacant warehouse building in Denver. It was that phase of the rehearsal period in which we had to go over the crowd scenes – nobody’s favorite part. You stand around in clusters for hours, waiting for instructions, waiting for each scene’s principal performers to “get it” to the director’s satisfaction. That night, as even pro actors often do, we started acting like children.
The kids you went to school with who grew up to be musical theatre performers, well, those kids were the funniest, most clever, most creative kids in your school. They did voices. They did awesome impressions. They made up great jokes on-the-spot, with lightning-fast wit, wonderful timing, and impeccable delivery. In short, they were very entertaining. And by the time they’d become adults, they’d honed their ability to entertain to a fine art, learning in great measure by practicing on each other.
So you can imagine what it’s like when you get, say, 20 or 30 of these folks together in a sweaty warehouse, standing around in clusters, bored. You’re supposed to be quiet, but that just adds another layer of challenge. How quietly can I crack up the other people in my group? How hard can I laugh without making any noise?
I was part of the problem that evening, more than I was part of the solution. During the scenes in which I was one of the principals, I took care of business, got my movements and instructions down, and tried as best I could to facilitate the group’s opportunity to move on to the next scene. But in scenes during which I was just a “villager,” another face in the onstage crowd, I joined right in with the misbehavior. What began as whispering soon became quiet speaking, accompanied by some laughing, then more loud laughing, and finally the din in that hall was deafening.
You see, it didn’t matter to any of us that the producers had invested their life savings in us, and in the workshop of this world-premier show. It didn’t matter how much it had cost them to rent this lousy rehearsal space, hire the musicians to accompany us, dress us in elaborate costumes, or even how much they’d agreed to pay us. We wanted to get the boring stuff over with and get out of there (possibly moving our shenanigans to a nearby watering hole for after-rehearsal food and drink). We were, to varying degrees but to some extent all of us, in it for our own personal amusement.
The producers had even hired and flown out from New York, at no small expense, a “real” Broadway director to lead us. Funny, but none of us were all that impressed with David when we first met him. He was our age, pretty much, with long hair and a very casual sense of dress. This guy was the world-class directing talent we’d heard so much about? He looked like what he was: another actor, another overgrown child, just like the rest of us. But by the end of our first week in his production, every one of us had come to respect David as a consummate pro, and certainly by the evening of crowd scenes we admired him greatly.
David was a true inspirational leader, and the way he handled our tomfoolery on crowd scene night was a perfect example of how he used his appreciation (and his ability to bring a sense of appreciation out of each of us) as a central tool in his leadership arsenal.
As I recall, we were working one of my principal scenes, so for the moment I was feeling kinda self-righteous in the knowledge that other people were acting up more than I was. David was giving instructions, never raising his volume louder than a moderate speaking voice. At one point, when it finally became too loud to hear him, and he tired of repeating himself, he just smiled and stopped talking. He looked around the room, like an elementary teacher does, waiting for the chatter to cease.
“Oh boy,” I remember thinking, “Now we’re gonna get it. He’s gonna lose his cool and yell at us.” This was probably what all of us expected, since every other director with whom we’d ever worked has a little breakdown – usually right around that crowd-scene point in the rehearsal schedule – and yells at the cast. We started to hang our heads in anticipatory shame.
But David’s voice was soft, clear, and even upbeat.
“I know,” he said, “I know. This is boring. I mean, who doesn’t hate crowd-scene rehearsals? I think I hate it more than anyone. In fact, if a director dies and goes to Hell, I’m sure he is told he’s to direct ‘An Evening Of Crowd Scenes’ for all eternity.”
We laughed. Like us, David was very entertaining when he wanted to be.
“So look, I’m not gonna yell at you. I just want to remind you of one thing. We had auditions for this workshop about three weeks ago, and we got about three thousand resumes, and then we heard about 300 people read and sing for the parts you all have.”
We all got very still… he had our undivided attention. Every one of us, I’m sure, was remembering the stress of the audition process for this prestigious production, and the exhilaration of being cast.
“Also, you may not know this, but they interviewed a lot of directors before I was lucky enough to get this gig, and come out here, and enjoy this wonderful city and these beautiful mountains, and all that.”
You could see us shifting our weight from foot to foot, listening intently.
“So there are, I don’t know, a couple dozen REALLY good directors out there who would love to be running this rehearsal right now, crowd scenes and all, but they don’t get to do it, because I’m the one who got the job.
“And it also means that for every crowd scene, for every costume change, for every time you have to move a set piece or keep track of a prop, there are at least a hundred good actors out there who’d love to have the privilege of doing that costume change or moving that set piece… or even standing through this boring rehearsal… but they don’t get to do it. Those hundred people don’t get to do it, because we chose you to do it. And you practically begged us to choose you.”
David let about ten seconds of silence go by.
“So, are we a lucky bunch, or what? We’re very blessed, very privileged, and let’s none of us ever forget it.”
After about ten more silent seconds, David repeated his last instruction to the principals, and the rehearsal moved on. And from that point forward, it was the most efficient, most brief, most “professional” crowd scene rehearsal I remember ever taking part in.
It’s funny; as I write this, I can hear my more cynical side claiming we’d been manipulated by a skilled communicator that evening. But I sure don’t remember feeling manipulated at the time, nor did I ever hear one of my colleagues say anything about David’s brief speech but that it blew them away. It was a good reminder, and everyone in the room – including David himself – needed it at just that moment.
I remember that story often when I’m coaching talented business leaders. It’s easy to forget how fortunate you are to have the position you have, and sometimes you need to stop for ten silent seconds and just remember how you felt when you landed this job. How many other good leaders would love to have the chance to put up with the parts of your job you don’t like… but don’t have that opportunity because you have it instead?
Whatever you might find yourself griping about, even if it’s just simple boredom, you live in an age in which you can change it. If you live in the United States, you are even more fortunate to live in a free country where you have even greater opportunities. Think about it… if you hate your job, you can change it. You can even start your own business, and replace your income working at home (I did). If you hate your body, you can change it by going on a “health kick” and developing a few simple habits to give yourself more energy and vitality. If you don’t like your government, you can change it at the ballot box.
Don’t get sucked into the cynical, mean-spirited misbehavior of your own personal crowd scene. Remember that you have a lot of good stuff of which you should be appreciative, and that whatever bad stuff you have to endure, if you really want to, you can change it. Take personal responsibility, and stand out from the crowd.
by Michael D. Hume, M.S.
Before you can start down the path of self improvement, you need to know your current state of mind. The best way to assess your thought process and mental state of being is through introspection. Choose a quiet time when you are by yourself and will not be interrupted for at least 30 minutes. The location should be comfortable, safe and secure. Be certain that you feel at ease. Set a pleasing ambiance, soft music, scented candles or what ever you prefer. Relax and ask yourself the questions.
The key is to be completely honest and objective with yourself. You want to examine your thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Become aware of your strong and weak points. Search out and identify the sources of negativity. Discover your inner feelings and their causes. As you go through these questions, you may want to write your answers down so that you can read over them when you are finished. Look to see if you have given similar answer to different questions. If so, you will want to examine those answers to see if these are areas which need improvement.
Write your answers down, so that you will have the ability to look back at them over time. You need to do your self reflection several times a year. Each time write your answers down and then compare them to previous sessions. This way you can track the progression of your improvement.
Through continual effort, self introspection and the use of positive words in your thoughts you can reach an awakened state of mind. When you achieve this awakened state, you have the ability to transcend your current state and obtain a higher plateau of awakened consciousness.
The tools needed to reach this awakened state of mind are available. You just have to know where to look. The best investment that you will ever make is an investment in yourself. Investing in yourself is worth the time and cost. The reward is priceless.
We live in a world where virtually anything we need to know or want to have is available at our fingertips, thanks to the Internet. Just as you are discovering now, there are tons of advice columns and advertisements of cloth diapers, both for adults and children who have problems wetting the bed. Thankfully you can now get the most for your money and invest in cloth options that are quality and more affordable than ever thanks to online resources.
Adult cloth diapers are important to many people who are looking to save a little money, or put that money towards something they actually enjoy doing. This is completely understandable, but many people are under the impression that a cloth option is messy and less reliable. While the past might qualify that, there are now options where you can insert liners, or custom order your adult cloth diapers to fit just the way your body is shaped to ensure there is no leakage throughout your day. These save money because they can be reused, and they are also less bulky and noisy if you find that you are self conscious of your incontinence. You might be surprised at how well you mesh with the cloth option, and until you try it you just never know. While you are experimenting with different products and brands, do not fail to give child and adult cloth diapers a shot. The money that you will be saving yourself could be spend on things that you love doing or saved for places that you want to see and experience. Thanks to modern developments there was never a better time than now to explore the cloth options for incontinence of all ages.
There are about a million species of insect and many more yet to be discovered. They include, for example, ants, bees, wasps, beetles, butterflies, dragonflies and fleas. They range in size from microscopic soil-dwelling insects to large beetles and butterflies but they all share certain common features.
Their bodies are divided into about 20 segments which are grouped into the head (6 fused segments), the thorax (3 segments) and the abdomen (11 segments). All insects have an exoskeleton consisting of a firm cuticle.
The head bears sensory organs and mouthparts. There is a pair of antennae which are sensitive to touch and to smell. There is also a pair of compound eyes made up of hundreds of separate lenses and sensory cells. These can detect light, movement and colour and can form crude images of shapes. In bees and butterflies these senses allow the insect to find sources of nectar in flowers by their colour, shape and smell.
There are three sets of mouthparts carried externally on the head. A pair of mandibles (jaws) bites off portions of food and passes them into the mouth. A pair of maxillae help taste and manipulate the food and the labium (lower ‘lip’) has a variety of functions depending on the species of insect.
All insects have three pairs of legs, one pair on each thoracic segment. There are five sections to each leg with joints between each section which give the leg the ability to move in different directions. The exoskeleton at the joints consists of a flexible cuticle which allow freedom of movement.
Also on each of the second and third segments of the thorax there is, typically, a pair of wings though in some insects (e.g. flies and mosquitoes) these may be reduced to one pair and a number of species have no wings at all.
In the mature insect the abdomen carries no appendages other than some apparatus on the final segment to assist with egg-laying.
The firm exoskeleton supports the insect, maintains its shape and protects it from damage and from evaporation. The rigid exoskeleton prevents insects from growing in a continuous manner and growth takes place in spurts. The outer layer of cuticle is shed and the insect expands its body until the new layer of cuticle forms and hardens. This moulting process (or ecdysis) takes place 5 times or more until the mature insect appears, after which there is no further growth or ecdysis.
The intermittent growth takes place in the larval or nymphal stages of an insect’s life cycle. Insects such as butterflies or bees, which exhibit complete metamorphosis, have larval stages quite unlike the adult e.g. fly maggots or butterfly caterpillars. The penultimate moult results in a quiescent stage, the pupa, in which the adult features are formed. The final moult reveals the mature insect.
In insects such as the cockroach or grasshopper, which have incomplete metamorphosis, the early stages are called nymphs and they closely resemble the adult except that their wings have not formed. Small changes of form take place at each ecdysis until the mature winged insect emerges.
At wits end about any number of my personal life dysfunctions, one Friday night I decided to go see a video at Maui Booksellers, a tiny little bookstore in Wailuku, on Maui. That night, they were showing a movie called Fierce Grace, a documentary about Ram Dass, an icon of American spirituality for my generation, the Baby-Boomers.
With about 10 people in the store and about a half-hour before show time, the door opens and a wheelchair comes through. In the wheelchair sits Ram Dass himself, followed by just three people who weren’t so much attending to him as being with him.
The owners of the bookstore, obviously honored by his unplanned presence, graciously welcomed him and introduced themselves and then left their guest to their patrons. I wasn’t surprised to see only a couple of people approach him; I barely knew what to do or what I wanted to do.
But what did startle me was the degree of veneration that they bestowed on him. It was as if an other-than-human had entered the room.
Now Ram Dass, to me, has always been one of the most wondrous of human beings. Some people, like The Beatles, for example, are the embodiment of what those of their generation are experiencing. The Beatles put the experience to music, while Ram Dass placed the experience into a spiritual context. And yet, by his words and actions, he stayed completely human in the doing.
In the 1960s, as Richard Alpert, a professor at Harvard, he and his colleague, Timothy Leary, were fired from their positions for experiments with psychedelics that involved students. Whereas Leary went on to greater depths of psychedelia, Alpert went to India where he met his Guru. He came back as Baba Ram Dass (Servant of God).
Since then, as the author of such seminal books as Be Here Now, Grist for the Mill,The Only Dance There Is, Miracle of Love, a collection of reminiscences of his guru, and most recently, “Still Here” – which speaks of his spiritual struggles surrounding his 1996 stroke – and as a peripatetic lecturer, he has embodied perhaps one of the West’s best conceptual bridges to understanding Eastern thought and ways of being.
In the process, continually and more explicitly as time went on, he reported the truth of his experience with an honesty that left him with nowhere to hide. That is exactly the way he wanted it.
So as I noticed others around me exhibiting what I interpreted as deferential behavior, I wondered – since, after all, most know him only at a distance through mass gatherings – what is it like to be the center of such reverential focus? And how does he, who spent a good chunk of his life being the one with nothing to hide, handle it?
Naturally, I didn’t ask at that time. But I did want to connect. I was lucky; I happened to have finished assembling a portfolio of my photo images that very morning. So, in a small void between visitors, I sat down next to him and invited him to leaf through the portfolio and pick a picture for himself, if he liked one.
Just so there’s no illusion, clearly, it was a bribe so I’d get to spend time with him.
For about 10 minutes we sat there, small comments passing back and forth; just little curiosities, nothing about nothing, really. He chose an image, I gave it to him, thanked him for his life, and went on to watch the video, glancing over my shoulder now and again to see how he responded to himself.
Actually, that’s not quite accurate. I began by asking permission to show him my work and then babbled on for what had to be a full minute on why I could accept him as Teacher. It was because of a time, pretty much at the peak of his guruship (for want of a better word), that he gathered his key followers together and instructed them to get on with their lives and quit following him because he didn’t know anything.
I was being double the kiss-ass of anyone I observed. I just had a prop, an excuse, and a slightly more open window of time to interpose words. And then, in my illusion, I convinced myself that I was meeting him as an equal.
Once a month there is a gathering of people that centers around Ram Dass at a private location here on Maui. I began going. It includes Kirtan (yoga chants), music, sometimes poetry, a short talk by Ram Dass, and a potluck feast.
Each time I’d go, I’d manage to spend a little time with him. I noticed a few key people who attended to him. They all maintained an attentive distance. I asked if he had anyone to talk to about some of the deeper conflicts surrounding his stroke. Since I had been a paramedic for 12 years, of course I would be just the person to talk with if it ever came up. I made sure he knew that.
He declined.
Another time, I just hovered nearby while he, balancing a plate of food on one leg, braced by his stroked arm within the confines of the wheelchair arms, spoke with one after another of people on line to be with him. This after a good 2½ hours of singing and chanting. In my view, he was clearly pretty tired and needed respite and some food, and when the plate was brought to him, I expected the people in the room to give him a bit of a pause while he refreshed. They didn’t.
Since I “knew” what he needed, I wanted to intervene. But I didn’t. I just watched. What I kept noticing was, there would be a break between people, he’d pick up a fork and begin to eat, and then, someone else would come up. He’d graciously put his fork down, stop eating and converse. This repeated itself time and again.
At one point, noticing that he hadn’t drunk anything, I found his glass of water on the floor out of his reach. In a pause, I picked it up, handed it to him and went back to my position as a sort of silent guardian. He took a few sips, and put the glass down on the empty chair next to him. Sure enough, someone came up, took the glass off the chair, put it down out of reach, sat down on the chair and began talking.
Somehow, I got the idea people didn’t see him for who he is – a man who had a stroke and by no means had the stamina they assumed. I felt protective. My curiosity and arrogance grew. I was feeling astonished that I seemed to be the only one in the room who was truly looking out for him.
Later on that week, I decided – using this magazine (Voice of Choices) as a cloak of legitimacy – I could ask him for an interview. So I put together a couple of samples of the magazine and included the questions I was really curious about:
Are you still pissing people off and are those around you bold enough to challenge you when you do it?
Have you been actively setting new limits and boundaries on how you wish to be treated by others since you’ve been stroked, or is it more in the realm of an acceptance thing for you?
Do you ever feel the loneliness of not being seen for who you really are?
May as well ask, then… who are you, really?
What is it that people are asking of you today that they weren’t asking of you pre-stroke?
I hand-delivered the package to his home. The next Kirtan, I could not just relax and be myself around him. I had an agenda driving me. Very off balance, I found myself waiting on line to see him, dropping out of it to get centered, getting back on again, and then stepping away when I saw his food come.
A couple of times, after someone moved his glass out of range again, I moved it back to within his reach and then stepped away while he ate. At one point, he motioned me to come over.
I reintroduced myself to him, assuming he might not remember who I was – falsely – and without any subtlety or restraint, just blurted out, “Did you get the package I left you?”
He nodded yes, and went back to his food as the room of about 50 people chanted and sang. Being in his presence, finally, I relaxed and just sat with him, silent. Content. After all, I was getting to hang out with a legend of my time.
At first becalmed, it didn’t take me long to get fidgety because I had that agenda going. Right at the point of the music and voices coming to a very enthralling crescendo, when it looked like he was entering another phase of ecstasy, I clumsily leaned over.
I saw I had broken his flow, but, still, he leaned over to meet me. Putting my mouth close to his ear and speaking out loudly, as if he were deaf, I asked, “Could I have the interview?”
At first, he looked up at me with a glint of, not anger, but more like annoyance like at that pesky mosquito. Then, he took in a breath, sat back in his chair and, motioning me to sit back in mine next to him, swept his hand lovingly over the scene of people, hearts and souls a-singing.
Smiling at me, Ram Dass said these words: “This is it!”
I sat back and settled into the space that I was part of. For what had to have been a full minute, I swear, I just sat there with him, empty. I may have even been breathing.
Then, remembering the business at hand, I leaned over close to his ear, and with much more subtlety in my voice this time, and maybe even a little softer, I asked him: “Can I quote you on that?”
He wrapped his arm around me and, embracing me close and pulsating, he laughed.
It was then that I realized I hadn’t really met Ram Dass,
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How to Improve Adolescent Self Esteem
How to improve adolescent self esteem is a matter that require serious care and caution. The reason behind this is because you cannot really over predict how an adolescent will react or respond to a matter. Therefore, anything whatsoever it may be that can do the slightest dent or damage to the self esteem of an adolescent has to be handled with great care and caution.
There are cases where after a little fight with a father or one of the parent, an adolescent may go ahead and do some crazy act that will be so destructive you will even wonder why it had to come to that. It is just the way it is. This is a very sensitive matter that require optimum attention when dealing with it.
To begin with, everything must be done to make it sure that no attempt is made to deliberately deflate or reduce the self esteem of an adolescent. It usually lead to depression which can be another major issue to deal with.
Finding a means to improve the self esteem of an adolescent is enough a goal in itself than to add their depression on top of it.
Because they are still figuring out how everything within their body system works, it is a risky place to be if any action leads to them feeling isolated, unloved or rejected. We all love to be loved, accepted and integrated into a community and simply because we are all wired to operate and function that way.
That brings us to one of the most useful ways to improve an adolescent’s self esteem. The social relationships of an adolescent is a very important part of their self esteem. Their personal emotions and reactions can sometimes be as a result of their level of involvement in social relationships around or about them.
When an adolescent is withdrawn or isolated from a community to which they are expected to have belonged to, it may be one of the greatest blow they will be dealing with when it comes to their self esteem rating. They may be feeling so low and rejected that it can lead to other causes like depression as earlier mentioned and that will be a damaging experience in general.
How to improve adolescent self esteem surely involve the need to get the person affected integrated into a community where they are accepted and socially responsible and active. Their social relationships have to be healthy and a happy one too so that they can feel accepted, part of a cause that is bigger than them and important. Once this is happening and the adolescent understand it too, their self esteem will be improved.
It is hoped that this information have been helpful and in order to enjoy more of the methods that can be used to improve adolescent self esteem, make every effort to get in touch with us today. Thank you for your most precious time reading this.
Categories: Self Improvement Tags: Adolescent, Ahead, Attempt, Lead, Leads, Love, Risky Place, Sensitive Matter, Social Relationships, Unloved
Biology – Characteristics of Fish – An Introduction
Fish are vertebrate animals, that is, they all have a vertebral column or ‘spine’. There are two main groups of fish, bony fish (Teleosts) and cartilaginous fish (Elasmobranchs). As the common names imply, the skeletons of teleosts are made of bone while the elasmobranchs have cartilaginous skeletons. The elasmobranchs comprise sharks, rays and dogfish which differ from teleosts in many respects. The teleosts are far more numerous, with a greater diversity of species than the elasmobranchs.
All fish are aquatic and breath by absorbing dissolved oxygen in the water using their gills. The bodies of both teleosts and elasmobranchs are covered with scales but those of elasmobranchs are spiky and project through the skin. This makes the skin feel very rough, like coarse sandpaper. The scales of the teleosts have a flattened, discoid shape and are covered by a thin layer of skin and mucus which probably reduces friction between the body and the surrounding water and makes them very slippery.
The swimming mechanism in both groups is very similar. A series of muscular contractions pass down each side of the fish alternately bending it from side to side and pushing backwards and sideways against the water. The water resistance exerts an opposite sideways and forward force on the fish. The sideways forces cancel each other but the forward force propels the fish forward. In both groups there are variations in this method of propulsion. Skates and rays make undulatory movements in the vertical plane as do flatfish like plaice. Some teleosts, such as the sea horse, propel themselves by undulatory movements of their dorsal fin.
In general, the fins contribute to stability and steering rather than propulsion. The median fins, dorsal and ventral, reduce the sideways thrust of the swimming movements and also reduce the tendency to roll from side to side. The paired fins help to steer the fish upwards or downwards through the water and contribute to turning and braking. The paired fins of elasmobranches are held in rather rigid positions while those of teleosts, with their flexible jointing to the body, are more versatile in their movements and can often be seen moving gently to keep the fish in a steady position.
In the teleosts, there is a swim bladder. An elongated, air-filled sac just below the vertebral column. This air bladder keeps the fish buoyant and prevents it from sinking when it stops swimming. The volume of the air bladder can be adjusted to compensate for changes in pressure at different depths. The elasmobranchs do not have swim bladders and so they start to sink if they stop swimming.
Although water is H2O, aquatic creatures cannot use the oxygen from this. The oxygen they breathe comes from the air which has dissolved in the water. There are four or five pairs of gills situated inside the mouth cavity. In teleosts, they are covered on the outside by a bony plate called the operculum. By movements of the floor of the mouth and operculum, the fish creates, a current of water which passes over its gills. Water is taken in through the mouth and expelled through the operculum in the case of teleosts, and out through separate gill slits in elasmobranchs. The gills are, in effect, finely branched, thin-walled blood vessels which, because of their multiple branches, expose an enormous surface to the water and so facilitate absorption of oxygen and loss of carbon dioxide.
Categories: Reference And Education Tags: Bony Fish, Discoid Shape, Elasmobranchs, Mucus, Muscular Contractions, Sea Horse, Skeletons, Teleosts, Thin Layer, Vertical Plane
Biology Degrees – What Careers Options Are Available?
Deciding on a college major can be a major undertaking. There are many interesting subjects to choose from. One career that is becoming more and more popular is biology. So, if you are considering earning a biology degree, it is good to start with what career options are available upon graduation.
Research – Research biologists are responsible for using the latest scientific tools to study nature and determine how living things work. Many biologists enter the medical field and work on developing medicines to cure many diseases.
Environmental Management – These positions involve solving environmental problems and working on conservation. Many biologists find employment in forestry, zoos, and with special interest groups.
Forensic Biology – This career is really starting to grow. Forensic biologists work with law enforcement agencies to discover and process evidence in relation to solving crimes. They may also be called upon to testify during criminal trials.
Politics – This career path may seem strange on the surface. However, many biologists work with lawmakers as advisors. Using science, they help to create new legislation on things like environmental protection and conservation.
Math – Bioinformatics is a new career field for biologists. It combines biology and math to solve biological problems and issues. They create different models and projections, which require a good understanding of math and statistics.
Pursuing a career in biology can be a challenging and rewarding experience. Be certain to examine your career goals and aspirations prior to entering a program. This will ensure you enroll in the program that will best suit your needs.
Categories: Reference And Education Tags: Biology Degree, Career Options, Career Path, Criminal Trials, Forensic Biology, Good Understanding, Interesting Subjects, Law Enforcement Agencies, Medical Field, New Legislation
Tips On Handling Adolescent Care Issues
One of the hardest, and most emotional periods in parenting are the adolescent care years, from the time your child reaches their pre-teen years and throughout their teen years. This is the time when their bodies begin to change, their tastes change, they discover what attracts them to others and they discover just how cruel the world can sometimes be. This will be a roller coaster time for everyone involved, and this is the time that they will need you the most, even if they will not willingly admit it.
From Pediatrician to the “Alone” Doctor
The first sign that your child is reaching the adolescent care stage is the realization that they do not need you with them at their doctor visits any more. Once they reach the age of 12, they will need a new level of medical care, far beyond just tracking their development and ensuring that they are healthy. Now is the time that they will have questions for the doctor that they may not want you to hear.
The doctor, too, may want to be able to examine your child and ask his own questions without mom hovering over it all. At this point in their lives, they need to be comfortable asking any questions they may have about puberty, depression, sex, drugs, tobacco, alcohol and birth control. Your doctor will want to evaluate their physical and mental health, whether they are having any trouble in school, and whether they feel pressured to do things that they do not want to by their friends. The only way to get honest answers is to make your child feel comfortable talking alone with them, and if there are issues, the doctor will discuss them with you later.
Keeping Diet And Obesity in Check
Starting now, it is all going to be about appearances between your child and their peers. Children can be some of the cruelest creatures on the face of this planet, and it only gets worse into the preteen and teenage years. Obesity, diet, skin care, acne, hygiene, dress and self-esteem suddenly become the high voltage issues of the day. Your job, as a parent, is to keep a level head, attitude and anger in check, and teach them as best as you can on how to do things properly.
Explain to them how good skin care habits and hygiene will help them to look their best. Explain how what they eat can affect the way they look, especially when it comes to their weight and how it can affect whether they develop acne or not. This will probably lead in, at some point, into discussions of attraction between the sexes, peer pressure, drugs, alcohol and sex. Best advice we can give is to speak from the heart, and relate to them as best you can from experience.
Keeping Stress at Bay
It is important that children be socialized, participate in sports and other activities that build their self-esteem but there is a limit to everything. A growing problem, especially among teens, is over-scheduling. This can lead to your teen being stressed out, anxious and feeling pressured to succeed. Monitor their activities and be ready to act if it looks like they have taken on too much for them to handle. Praise them for their drive, but remind them that they need to think of themselves first, and their health.
Avoiding Depression
Another growing issue that parents should be aware of is teen depression. Every parent should educate themselves on the symptoms of depression: mood swings, no longer taking pleasure in things they have always enjoyed, weight loss or gain, chronic insomnia or long periods of sleeping, feelings of hopelessness or guilt, lack of concentration and a fascination with morbid subjects like death and suicide.
When it comes to this issue of adolescent care, keeping communication lines open is very important. Encourage your child to talk openly about what is troubling them, try to keep them involved in daily activities, and it may be time to consider trying counseling. Do your best to comfort, reach out, and offer your own counsel at such times. Seek advice from your family doctor, and encourage your child to talk with them as well.
Categories: Home And Family Tags: High Voltage, Medical Care, Mental Health, Pediatrician, Puberty, Realization, Roller Coaster, Self Esteem, Skin Care, Teen Years
Best Day to Submit Your Self Help and Motivational Category Articles is Monday
If you are an inspirational online article writer, or if you work in the self-help venue then chances are you are someone who likes to help people get through their problems. Well then, I have some information that I believe will help you, help them, and help more of your potential clients faster. You see, our society and population is overstressed, and therefore, they could use a little pick me up.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday-Sunday April 23-24, 2011 titled “The Really Smart Phone – Researchers are Harvesting a Wealth of Intimate Detail from Our Cellphone Data, Uncovering the Hidden Patterns of Our Social Lives, Travels, Risk of Disease – Even Our Political Views” by Robert Lee Hotz; apparently, after analyzing cellphone data it turns out that social scientists have learned that the most unhappiest time of the Week is Tuesday in the Western World.
Therefore, an online article writer should be writing their self-help and motivational type articles over the weekend and posting them on Monday so they are approved, and posted by Tuesday, as the search engine spiders find them and puts them in their data bases. Over the last two years I have been writing various articles in the motivational and self-help categories trying to figure out which articles are most pleasing to the human psyche, which articles get read most, and which articles help boost an individual’s self-esteem.
It turns out, that I can verify that more articles get read on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the self-help category than at any other time during the week. This is because people are stressed out and still looking at a long week ahead, and often negative thoughts will permeate their self talk. Okay so, it makes sense the information in that Wall Street Journal article. Not only that, but it appears to be true in the United States, Europe, and Canada.
On non-holiday weeks the same goes for the Australian population, and I say non-holiday weeks because Australia have quite a few more holidays and three-day weekends than they do in the United States for instance. Another thing that I have noticed is that there are so many people who are self-proclaimed self-help gurus, and personal coaches these days that the online venue for motivational articles is completely saturated.
Therefore, it might make sense to post self-help articles early in the morning on Monday, so they are ready to be viewed by folks that could use a little positive influence in their life on their most stressful day; Tuesday. Indeed, hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Categories: Self Improvement Tags: Article Writer, Australian Population, Data Bases, Hidden Patterns, Holiday Weeks, Intimate Detail, Political Views, Saturday Sunday, Street Journal Article, Type Articles
Inspirational Leaders Are Masters of Appreciation
They Know How To Focus On Blessings
It was a hot, muggy night years ago, and we were rehearsing a professional “workshop” musical in a long-vacant warehouse building in Denver. It was that phase of the rehearsal period in which we had to go over the crowd scenes – nobody’s favorite part. You stand around in clusters for hours, waiting for instructions, waiting for each scene’s principal performers to “get it” to the director’s satisfaction. That night, as even pro actors often do, we started acting like children.
The kids you went to school with who grew up to be musical theatre performers, well, those kids were the funniest, most clever, most creative kids in your school. They did voices. They did awesome impressions. They made up great jokes on-the-spot, with lightning-fast wit, wonderful timing, and impeccable delivery. In short, they were very entertaining. And by the time they’d become adults, they’d honed their ability to entertain to a fine art, learning in great measure by practicing on each other.
So you can imagine what it’s like when you get, say, 20 or 30 of these folks together in a sweaty warehouse, standing around in clusters, bored. You’re supposed to be quiet, but that just adds another layer of challenge. How quietly can I crack up the other people in my group? How hard can I laugh without making any noise?
I was part of the problem that evening, more than I was part of the solution. During the scenes in which I was one of the principals, I took care of business, got my movements and instructions down, and tried as best I could to facilitate the group’s opportunity to move on to the next scene. But in scenes during which I was just a “villager,” another face in the onstage crowd, I joined right in with the misbehavior. What began as whispering soon became quiet speaking, accompanied by some laughing, then more loud laughing, and finally the din in that hall was deafening.
You see, it didn’t matter to any of us that the producers had invested their life savings in us, and in the workshop of this world-premier show. It didn’t matter how much it had cost them to rent this lousy rehearsal space, hire the musicians to accompany us, dress us in elaborate costumes, or even how much they’d agreed to pay us. We wanted to get the boring stuff over with and get out of there (possibly moving our shenanigans to a nearby watering hole for after-rehearsal food and drink). We were, to varying degrees but to some extent all of us, in it for our own personal amusement.
The producers had even hired and flown out from New York, at no small expense, a “real” Broadway director to lead us. Funny, but none of us were all that impressed with David when we first met him. He was our age, pretty much, with long hair and a very casual sense of dress. This guy was the world-class directing talent we’d heard so much about? He looked like what he was: another actor, another overgrown child, just like the rest of us. But by the end of our first week in his production, every one of us had come to respect David as a consummate pro, and certainly by the evening of crowd scenes we admired him greatly.
David was a true inspirational leader, and the way he handled our tomfoolery on crowd scene night was a perfect example of how he used his appreciation (and his ability to bring a sense of appreciation out of each of us) as a central tool in his leadership arsenal.
As I recall, we were working one of my principal scenes, so for the moment I was feeling kinda self-righteous in the knowledge that other people were acting up more than I was. David was giving instructions, never raising his volume louder than a moderate speaking voice. At one point, when it finally became too loud to hear him, and he tired of repeating himself, he just smiled and stopped talking. He looked around the room, like an elementary teacher does, waiting for the chatter to cease.
“Oh boy,” I remember thinking, “Now we’re gonna get it. He’s gonna lose his cool and yell at us.” This was probably what all of us expected, since every other director with whom we’d ever worked has a little breakdown – usually right around that crowd-scene point in the rehearsal schedule – and yells at the cast. We started to hang our heads in anticipatory shame.
But David’s voice was soft, clear, and even upbeat.
“I know,” he said, “I know. This is boring. I mean, who doesn’t hate crowd-scene rehearsals? I think I hate it more than anyone. In fact, if a director dies and goes to Hell, I’m sure he is told he’s to direct ‘An Evening Of Crowd Scenes’ for all eternity.”
We laughed. Like us, David was very entertaining when he wanted to be.
“So look, I’m not gonna yell at you. I just want to remind you of one thing. We had auditions for this workshop about three weeks ago, and we got about three thousand resumes, and then we heard about 300 people read and sing for the parts you all have.”
We all got very still… he had our undivided attention. Every one of us, I’m sure, was remembering the stress of the audition process for this prestigious production, and the exhilaration of being cast.
“Also, you may not know this, but they interviewed a lot of directors before I was lucky enough to get this gig, and come out here, and enjoy this wonderful city and these beautiful mountains, and all that.”
You could see us shifting our weight from foot to foot, listening intently.
“So there are, I don’t know, a couple dozen REALLY good directors out there who would love to be running this rehearsal right now, crowd scenes and all, but they don’t get to do it, because I’m the one who got the job.
“And it also means that for every crowd scene, for every costume change, for every time you have to move a set piece or keep track of a prop, there are at least a hundred good actors out there who’d love to have the privilege of doing that costume change or moving that set piece… or even standing through this boring rehearsal… but they don’t get to do it. Those hundred people don’t get to do it, because we chose you to do it. And you practically begged us to choose you.”
David let about ten seconds of silence go by.
“So, are we a lucky bunch, or what? We’re very blessed, very privileged, and let’s none of us ever forget it.”
After about ten more silent seconds, David repeated his last instruction to the principals, and the rehearsal moved on. And from that point forward, it was the most efficient, most brief, most “professional” crowd scene rehearsal I remember ever taking part in.
It’s funny; as I write this, I can hear my more cynical side claiming we’d been manipulated by a skilled communicator that evening. But I sure don’t remember feeling manipulated at the time, nor did I ever hear one of my colleagues say anything about David’s brief speech but that it blew them away. It was a good reminder, and everyone in the room – including David himself – needed it at just that moment.
I remember that story often when I’m coaching talented business leaders. It’s easy to forget how fortunate you are to have the position you have, and sometimes you need to stop for ten silent seconds and just remember how you felt when you landed this job. How many other good leaders would love to have the chance to put up with the parts of your job you don’t like… but don’t have that opportunity because you have it instead?
Whatever you might find yourself griping about, even if it’s just simple boredom, you live in an age in which you can change it. If you live in the United States, you are even more fortunate to live in a free country where you have even greater opportunities. Think about it… if you hate your job, you can change it. You can even start your own business, and replace your income working at home (I did). If you hate your body, you can change it by going on a “health kick” and developing a few simple habits to give yourself more energy and vitality. If you don’t like your government, you can change it at the ballot box.
Don’t get sucked into the cynical, mean-spirited misbehavior of your own personal crowd scene. Remember that you have a lot of good stuff of which you should be appreciative, and that whatever bad stuff you have to endure, if you really want to, you can change it. Take personal responsibility, and stand out from the crowd.
by Michael D. Hume, M.S.
Categories: Self Improvement Tags: Creative Kids, Fine Art, Impressions, Principal Performers, Pro Actors, Prod, Rehearsal Period, Those Kids, Villager, Wit
Self Help, Self Reflection Through Awareness and Meditative Introspection
Before you can start down the path of self improvement, you need to know your current state of mind. The best way to assess your thought process and mental state of being is through introspection. Choose a quiet time when you are by yourself and will not be interrupted for at least 30 minutes. The location should be comfortable, safe and secure. Be certain that you feel at ease. Set a pleasing ambiance, soft music, scented candles or what ever you prefer. Relax and ask yourself the questions.
The key is to be completely honest and objective with yourself. You want to examine your thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Become aware of your strong and weak points. Search out and identify the sources of negativity. Discover your inner feelings and their causes. As you go through these questions, you may want to write your answers down so that you can read over them when you are finished. Look to see if you have given similar answer to different questions. If so, you will want to examine those answers to see if these are areas which need improvement.
Write your answers down, so that you will have the ability to look back at them over time. You need to do your self reflection several times a year. Each time write your answers down and then compare them to previous sessions. This way you can track the progression of your improvement.
Through continual effort, self introspection and the use of positive words in your thoughts you can reach an awakened state of mind. When you achieve this awakened state, you have the ability to transcend your current state and obtain a higher plateau of awakened consciousness.
The tools needed to reach this awakened state of mind are available. You just have to know where to look. The best investment that you will ever make is an investment in yourself. Investing in yourself is worth the time and cost. The reward is priceless.
Categories: Self Improvement Tags: 30 Minutes, Continual Effort, Inner Feelings, Plateau, Quiet Time, Scented Candles, Self Awareness, Self Improvement, Several Times, Thought Process
Adolescent and Adult Cloth Diapers
We live in a world where virtually anything we need to know or want to have is available at our fingertips, thanks to the Internet. Just as you are discovering now, there are tons of advice columns and advertisements of cloth diapers, both for adults and children who have problems wetting the bed. Thankfully you can now get the most for your money and invest in cloth options that are quality and more affordable than ever thanks to online resources.
Adult cloth diapers are important to many people who are looking to save a little money, or put that money towards something they actually enjoy doing. This is completely understandable, but many people are under the impression that a cloth option is messy and less reliable. While the past might qualify that, there are now options where you can insert liners, or custom order your adult cloth diapers to fit just the way your body is shaped to ensure there is no leakage throughout your day. These save money because they can be reused, and they are also less bulky and noisy if you find that you are self conscious of your incontinence. You might be surprised at how well you mesh with the cloth option, and until you try it you just never know. While you are experimenting with different products and brands, do not fail to give child and adult cloth diapers a shot. The money that you will be saving yourself could be spend on things that you love doing or saved for places that you want to see and experience. Thanks to modern developments there was never a better time than now to explore the cloth options for incontinence of all ages.
Categories: Home And Family Tags: Adult Cloth Diapers, Adult Diapers, Advice Columns, Different Products, Fingertips, Incontinence, Invest, Messy, Money, Options
Biology – Characteristics of Insects – An Introduction
There are about a million species of insect and many more yet to be discovered. They include, for example, ants, bees, wasps, beetles, butterflies, dragonflies and fleas. They range in size from microscopic soil-dwelling insects to large beetles and butterflies but they all share certain common features.
Their bodies are divided into about 20 segments which are grouped into the head (6 fused segments), the thorax (3 segments) and the abdomen (11 segments). All insects have an exoskeleton consisting of a firm cuticle.
The head bears sensory organs and mouthparts. There is a pair of antennae which are sensitive to touch and to smell. There is also a pair of compound eyes made up of hundreds of separate lenses and sensory cells. These can detect light, movement and colour and can form crude images of shapes. In bees and butterflies these senses allow the insect to find sources of nectar in flowers by their colour, shape and smell.
There are three sets of mouthparts carried externally on the head. A pair of mandibles (jaws) bites off portions of food and passes them into the mouth. A pair of maxillae help taste and manipulate the food and the labium (lower ‘lip’) has a variety of functions depending on the species of insect.
All insects have three pairs of legs, one pair on each thoracic segment. There are five sections to each leg with joints between each section which give the leg the ability to move in different directions. The exoskeleton at the joints consists of a flexible cuticle which allow freedom of movement.
Also on each of the second and third segments of the thorax there is, typically, a pair of wings though in some insects (e.g. flies and mosquitoes) these may be reduced to one pair and a number of species have no wings at all.
In the mature insect the abdomen carries no appendages other than some apparatus on the final segment to assist with egg-laying.
The firm exoskeleton supports the insect, maintains its shape and protects it from damage and from evaporation. The rigid exoskeleton prevents insects from growing in a continuous manner and growth takes place in spurts. The outer layer of cuticle is shed and the insect expands its body until the new layer of cuticle forms and hardens. This moulting process (or ecdysis) takes place 5 times or more until the mature insect appears, after which there is no further growth or ecdysis.
The intermittent growth takes place in the larval or nymphal stages of an insect’s life cycle. Insects such as butterflies or bees, which exhibit complete metamorphosis, have larval stages quite unlike the adult e.g. fly maggots or butterfly caterpillars. The penultimate moult results in a quiescent stage, the pupa, in which the adult features are formed. The final moult reveals the mature insect.
In insects such as the cockroach or grasshopper, which have incomplete metamorphosis, the early stages are called nymphs and they closely resemble the adult except that their wings have not formed. Small changes of form take place at each ecdysis until the mature winged insect emerges.
Categories: Reference And Education Tags: Bees And Butterflies, Compound Eyes, Final Segment, Freedom Of Movement, Insects Beetles, Mature Insect, Pair Of Wings, Sensory Cells, Sensory Organs, Wasps
Healing Arts – the Most Revealing Interview of Ram Dass You’ll Ever Read
At wits end about any number of my personal life dysfunctions, one Friday night I decided to go see a video at Maui Booksellers, a tiny little bookstore in Wailuku, on Maui. That night, they were showing a movie called Fierce Grace, a documentary about Ram Dass, an icon of American spirituality for my generation, the Baby-Boomers.
With about 10 people in the store and about a half-hour before show time, the door opens and a wheelchair comes through. In the wheelchair sits Ram Dass himself, followed by just three people who weren’t so much attending to him as being with him.
The owners of the bookstore, obviously honored by his unplanned presence, graciously welcomed him and introduced themselves and then left their guest to their patrons. I wasn’t surprised to see only a couple of people approach him; I barely knew what to do or what I wanted to do.
But what did startle me was the degree of veneration that they bestowed on him. It was as if an other-than-human had entered the room.
Now Ram Dass, to me, has always been one of the most wondrous of human beings. Some people, like The Beatles, for example, are the embodiment of what those of their generation are experiencing. The Beatles put the experience to music, while Ram Dass placed the experience into a spiritual context. And yet, by his words and actions, he stayed completely human in the doing.
In the 1960s, as Richard Alpert, a professor at Harvard, he and his colleague, Timothy Leary, were fired from their positions for experiments with psychedelics that involved students. Whereas Leary went on to greater depths of psychedelia, Alpert went to India where he met his Guru. He came back as Baba Ram Dass (Servant of God).
Since then, as the author of such seminal books as Be Here Now, Grist for the Mill,The Only Dance There Is, Miracle of Love, a collection of reminiscences of his guru, and most recently, “Still Here” – which speaks of his spiritual struggles surrounding his 1996 stroke – and as a peripatetic lecturer, he has embodied perhaps one of the West’s best conceptual bridges to understanding Eastern thought and ways of being.
In the process, continually and more explicitly as time went on, he reported the truth of his experience with an honesty that left him with nowhere to hide. That is exactly the way he wanted it.
So as I noticed others around me exhibiting what I interpreted as deferential behavior, I wondered – since, after all, most know him only at a distance through mass gatherings – what is it like to be the center of such reverential focus? And how does he, who spent a good chunk of his life being the one with nothing to hide, handle it?
Naturally, I didn’t ask at that time. But I did want to connect. I was lucky; I happened to have finished assembling a portfolio of my photo images that very morning. So, in a small void between visitors, I sat down next to him and invited him to leaf through the portfolio and pick a picture for himself, if he liked one.
Just so there’s no illusion, clearly, it was a bribe so I’d get to spend time with him.
For about 10 minutes we sat there, small comments passing back and forth; just little curiosities, nothing about nothing, really. He chose an image, I gave it to him, thanked him for his life, and went on to watch the video, glancing over my shoulder now and again to see how he responded to himself.
Actually, that’s not quite accurate. I began by asking permission to show him my work and then babbled on for what had to be a full minute on why I could accept him as Teacher. It was because of a time, pretty much at the peak of his guruship (for want of a better word), that he gathered his key followers together and instructed them to get on with their lives and quit following him because he didn’t know anything.
I was being double the kiss-ass of anyone I observed. I just had a prop, an excuse, and a slightly more open window of time to interpose words. And then, in my illusion, I convinced myself that I was meeting him as an equal.
Once a month there is a gathering of people that centers around Ram Dass at a private location here on Maui. I began going. It includes Kirtan (yoga chants), music, sometimes poetry, a short talk by Ram Dass, and a potluck feast.
Each time I’d go, I’d manage to spend a little time with him. I noticed a few key people who attended to him. They all maintained an attentive distance. I asked if he had anyone to talk to about some of the deeper conflicts surrounding his stroke. Since I had been a paramedic for 12 years, of course I would be just the person to talk with if it ever came up. I made sure he knew that.
He declined.
Another time, I just hovered nearby while he, balancing a plate of food on one leg, braced by his stroked arm within the confines of the wheelchair arms, spoke with one after another of people on line to be with him. This after a good 2½ hours of singing and chanting. In my view, he was clearly pretty tired and needed respite and some food, and when the plate was brought to him, I expected the people in the room to give him a bit of a pause while he refreshed. They didn’t.
Since I “knew” what he needed, I wanted to intervene. But I didn’t. I just watched. What I kept noticing was, there would be a break between people, he’d pick up a fork and begin to eat, and then, someone else would come up. He’d graciously put his fork down, stop eating and converse. This repeated itself time and again.
At one point, noticing that he hadn’t drunk anything, I found his glass of water on the floor out of his reach. In a pause, I picked it up, handed it to him and went back to my position as a sort of silent guardian. He took a few sips, and put the glass down on the empty chair next to him. Sure enough, someone came up, took the glass off the chair, put it down out of reach, sat down on the chair and began talking.
Somehow, I got the idea people didn’t see him for who he is – a man who had a stroke and by no means had the stamina they assumed. I felt protective. My curiosity and arrogance grew. I was feeling astonished that I seemed to be the only one in the room who was truly looking out for him.
Later on that week, I decided – using this magazine (Voice of Choices) as a cloak of legitimacy – I could ask him for an interview. So I put together a couple of samples of the magazine and included the questions I was really curious about:
Are you still pissing people off and are those around you bold enough to challenge you when you do it?
Have you been actively setting new limits and boundaries on how you wish to be treated by others since you’ve been stroked, or is it more in the realm of an acceptance thing for you?
Do you ever feel the loneliness of not being seen for who you really are?
May as well ask, then… who are you, really?
What is it that people are asking of you today that they weren’t asking of you pre-stroke?
I hand-delivered the package to his home. The next Kirtan, I could not just relax and be myself around him. I had an agenda driving me. Very off balance, I found myself waiting on line to see him, dropping out of it to get centered, getting back on again, and then stepping away when I saw his food come.
A couple of times, after someone moved his glass out of range again, I moved it back to within his reach and then stepped away while he ate. At one point, he motioned me to come over.
I reintroduced myself to him, assuming he might not remember who I was – falsely – and without any subtlety or restraint, just blurted out, “Did you get the package I left you?”
He nodded yes, and went back to his food as the room of about 50 people chanted and sang. Being in his presence, finally, I relaxed and just sat with him, silent. Content. After all, I was getting to hang out with a legend of my time.
At first becalmed, it didn’t take me long to get fidgety because I had that agenda going. Right at the point of the music and voices coming to a very enthralling crescendo, when it looked like he was entering another phase of ecstasy, I clumsily leaned over.
I saw I had broken his flow, but, still, he leaned over to meet me. Putting my mouth close to his ear and speaking out loudly, as if he were deaf, I asked, “Could I have the interview?”
At first, he looked up at me with a glint of, not anger, but more like annoyance like at that pesky mosquito. Then, he took in a breath, sat back in his chair and, motioning me to sit back in mine next to him, swept his hand lovingly over the scene of people, hearts and souls a-singing.
Smiling at me, Ram Dass said these words: “This is it!”
I sat back and settled into the space that I was part of. For what had to have been a full minute, I swear, I just sat there with him, empty. I may have even been breathing.
Then, remembering the business at hand, I leaned over close to his ear, and with much more subtlety in my voice this time, and maybe even a little softer, I asked him: “Can I quote you on that?”
He wrapped his arm around me and, embracing me close and pulsating, he laughed.
It was then that I realized I hadn’t really met Ram Dass,
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