When you curtail a word, you remove the last letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Heavenly body
Answer: The words are Start and Star.
1. Greeting word -> Hades; place of torment
2. Company symbol -> Tree trunk piece; written record
3. Large stringed instrument -> Small room; prison
4. Vote against; forbid -> Pet doctor
5. Jewellery or stone carved in relief -> Arrived; moved toward something
6. Champion; type of sandwich -> That woman
7. Rope with a sliding loop at one end -> An unmarried young woman
8. Exhibition of cowboy skills -> Was carried on the back of an animal
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After analyzing responses to the survey she sent to Andover students this past summer, Sadie Holmes ’16 noticed a disparity between girls and boys in the fields of science, technology, math and science (STEM). As one of the four Brace Center for Gender Studies fellows, Holmes addressed the role of gender in STEM fields in her presentation, “Women in STEM: Why So Few?” last Monday.
As a student passionate about STEM, Holmes explored the origins of gender gaps in STEM from early childhood, throughout women’s educational journeys and into their experiences in the workforce.
“The experience of girls in STEM here at Andover is truly a fortunate one. For the most part, we have a very accepting community that encourages girls to pursue what they want. However, there are very subtle undertones of discrimination and unfairness in math and science classes,” said Holmes during her presentation.
She continued, “I’m hopeful that as our community learns about subtle bias and discrimination against girls who are not only pursuing STEM but are doing any number of things, girls will feel more confident in their abilities and more empowered to pursue STEM in college and beyond.”
In her presentation, Holmes discussed how Andover can support the academic careers of women in STEM, arguing that the school must provide the resources and mentorship in its educational settings to ensure that women can achieve growth and satisfaction in their professional lives.
“Getting girls interested in STEM is hard. It takes both a cultural shift to appreciate and celebrating girls who pursue STEM at any level and a systemic shift that ensures girls are getting the support they need,” said Holmes.
Holmes was first inspired to pursue her interest in the lack of women in STEM after she took Biology 580 as an Upper.
“I’ve always loved math and science and the challenges they provided with me. After talking with my incredible [biology] teacher [Catherine] Kemp, who told me about how she left research to become a teacher because she feared she wouldn’t be able to have a child and keep up with her work, I began to wonder what the experience of a woman in higher levels of STEM would be like,” wrote Holmes in an email to The Phillipian.
Holmes found that one solution to the gender gap in STEM might be creating more engaging beginner level science and math classes at Andover through group projects and student collaboration. In addition, she found the need for more female role models and a stronger mentorship system in STEM.
“We should have a stronger mentorship system, whether that be a formal one that pairs younger girls seeking tutors with older girls who will not only tutor them but also mentor them and be friends with them, or an informal one where teachers build stronger relationships with their students and seek to provide constructive feedback that would allow them to improve their skills,” said Holmes.
Holmes found the most important factor in the gender gaps in STEM fields is the lack of awareness about this problem.
“Something that shocked me as I was writing this paper was how few people even realized this might be a problem at Andover and beyond… I hope with this project I’ve spread some awareness of the expanse of the problem and have incited some people to think different about STEM at Andover and what we can do to encourage girls to pursue STEM,” said Holmes.
Holmes’s faculty advisor, Dr. Christine Marshall-Walker, Instructor in Biology, pitched ideas for her research and provided her with constructive criticism. “[Holmes] was very well prepared, very well researched and I love that she had her own study and her own research through the survey. [Holmes] brought back… her project to Andover by having ideas and potential solutions for increasing the confidence and support of girls taking STEM classes,” said Marshall-Walker in an interview with The Phillipian.
The Brace Center is an academic resource center where students and faculty work together on gender based research projects.


This is a modified concept. The data protection principles have been modified but largely address the same issues considered in the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), albeit with some expansion.
Accountability has been introduced as a new concept. This principle requires that controllers are responsible for, and are able to demonstrate compliance with, the data protection principles.
Comparison of DPA and GDPR principles
Data processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner ('lawfulness, fairness and transparency')
- DPA: Under the DPA the data controller is required to process the data fairly and lawfully. The DPA also requires that the data controller make available to the data subject certain specific information but there is no express obligation to process the data transparently.
- GDPR: The inclusion of the principle of transparency is a new provision in the GDPR. The DPA does make some provision for the data controller to process data transparently but this concept has now been enshrined as a core principle.
Data obtained for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes ('purpose limitation')
- DPA: The principle in the DPA places similar limitations on processing as those contained in the GDPR principle. The DPA permits further processing for statistical or historical purposes.
- GDPR: Largely remains the same as under the DPA. However, the GDPR also permits further processing for public interest and/or scientific purposes, widening the scope for further processing by controllers.
Data processed is adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary ('data minimisation')
- DPA: The DPA requires that processing shall not be excessive in relation to the purpose for which the personal data is processed.
- GDPR: The GDPR strengthens this requirement. The GDPR raises the threshold from the controller being limited to processing that is not excessive to only enabling the controller to process data that is necessary.
Data is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date ('accuracy')
- DPA: Under the DPA the data held shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. This is not an absolute and unqualified right and the data controller is only required to take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of the data.
- GDPR: The GDPR requires the same standard as under the DPA. The qualification of 'reasonableness' is now expressly contained within the principle.
Data not to be kept longer than is necessary for the purpose ('storage limitation')
- DPA: The DPA also requires that data is not held for longer than is necessary but that data held for statistical or historical purposes can be kept indefinitely.
- GDPR: The GDPR follows the DPA but expands on the list of exemptions to this principle. The GDPR permits the storage of data for longer periods than necessary where the data is being processed for archiving purposes in the public interest and/or scientific purposes, this is in addition to the statistical or historical purposes covered in the DPA.
Appropriate technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing, loss, damage or destruction ('integrity and confidentiality')
- DPA: The DPA covers the same requirement for technical and organisational measures to be put in place to protect against the risks identified in the GDPR principle.
- GDPR: The GDPR principle mirrors the core values contained in the DPA.
What is the impact for organisations?
- The modifications made to the principles will require procedural changes such as revisions to internal policies and audit procedures within organisations to ensure compliance. Ensuring compliance with the principles of the GDPR has become more important in light of the increase in available financial sanctions for breach.
- The requirement for organisations in the UK to notify the Information Commissioner of processing activities has been abolished but the accountability principle ensures that businesses will still need to keep a record of how they comply with their obligations. These record-keeping requirements will, for some businesses, be fairly extensive. This is explored in more detail in our briefing on the accountability principle.
- The criteria for obtaining the data subject’s consent have been strengthened, meaning that controllers may be required to rely on other grounds to satisfy the principle of lawful processing.
What action is required?
- Review personal data held to ensure that it is accurate. Any inaccurate data will need to be erased or corrected.
- Review internal policies and audit procedures, updating these where necessary to ensure that the procedures comply with the GDPR.
- Maintain documentation relating to how data is processed to ensure that the organisation has evidence that it is fulfilling its duties under the GDPR.
- Ensure that appropriate training is provided to ensure that the business is thinking about data protection issues at all levels.
- Consider approved codes of conduct and certification mechanisms which are to be designed by industry or sector specific bodies.
The actions described above will assist in illustrating that a business is compliant with the principles.


|Reign||41 years, ca. 3000 BC|
|Consort||Nakhtneith, Herneith, Seshemetka, Penebui|
|Children||Merneith, Djet ?|
|Burial||Tomb O, Umm el-Qa'ab|
Djer is considered the third pharaoh of the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt in current Egyptology. He lived around the mid-thirty-first century BC and reigned for c. 40 years. A mummified forearm of Djer or his wife was discovered by Flinders Petrie, but was discarded by Emile Brugsch.
Length of reign
While the Egyptian priest Manetho, writing in the third century BC, stated that Djer ruled for 57 years, modern research by Toby Wilkinson in Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt stresses that the near-contemporary and therefore, more accurate Palermo Stone ascribes Djer a reign of "41 complete and partial years." Wilkinson notes that Years 1-10 of Djer's reign are preserved in register II of the Palermo Stone, while the middle years of this pharaoh's reign are recorded in register II of Cairo Fragment One.
The evidence for Djer's life and reign is:
- Tomb in Umm el-Qa'ab, Abydos
- Seal prints from graves 2185 and 3471 in Saqqara
- Inscriptions in graves 3503, 3506 and 3035 in Saqqara
- Seal impression and inscriptions from Helwan
- Jar from Turah with the name of Djer
- UC 16182 ivory tablet from Abydos, subsidiary tomb 612 of the enclosure of Djer
- UC 16172 copper adze with the name of Djer
- Inscription of his name (of questioned authenticity, however) at Wadi Halfa, Sudan
The inscriptions, on ivory and wood, are in a very early form of hieroglyphs, hindering complete translation, but a label at Saqqarah may depict the First Dynasty practice of human sacrifice. An ivory tablet from Abydos mentions that Djer visited Buto and Sais in the Nile Delta. One of his regnal years on the Cairo Stone was named "Year of smiting the land of Setjet", which often is speculated to be Sinai or beyond.
Djer was a son of the pharaoh Hor-Aha and his wife Khenthap. His grandfather was probably Narmer, and his grandmother was Neithhotep. Djer fathered Merneith, wife of Djet and mother of Den. Women carrying titles later associated with queens such as Great One of the Hetes-Sceptre and She who Sees/Carries Horus were buried in subsidiary tombs near the tomb of Djer in Abydos or attested in Saqqara. These women are thought to be the wives of Djer and include:
- Nakhtneith (or Nekhetneith), buried in Abydos and known from a stela.
- Herneith, possibly a wife of Djer. Buried in Saqqara.
- Seshemetka, buried in Abydos next to the king. She was said to be a wife of Den in Dodson and Hilton.
- Penebui, her name and title were found on an ivory label from Saqqara.
- bsu, known from a label in Saqqara and several stone vessels (reading of name uncertain; name consists of three fish hieroglyphs).
Similarly to his father Hor-Aha, Djer was buried in Umm el-Qa'ab at Abydos. Djer's tomb is tomb O of Petrie. His tomb contains the remains of 318 retainers who were buried with him. During later times, the tomb of Djer was revered as the tomb of Osiris, and the entire First Dynasty burial complex, which includes the tomb of Djer, was very important in the Egyptian religious tradition.
Several objects were found in and around the tomb of Djer:
- A stela of Djer, now in the Cairo Museum probably comes from Abydos.
- Labels mentioning the name of a palace and the name of Meritneith.
- Fragments of two vases inscribed with the name of Queen Neithhotep.
- Bracelets of a Queen were found in the wall of the tomb.
In the subsidiary tombs excavators found:
- Stelae of several individuals
- Ivory objects with the name of Neithhotep.
- Ivory tablets.
- Grimal, Nicolas (1994). A History of Ancient Egypt. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 528. ISBN 0-631-19396-0.
- W. M. Flinders Petrie: The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties, 1901, Part II, London 1901, p.16-17
- Salima Ikram and Aidan Dodson, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity, Thames & Hudson, 1998, p. 109
- Toby Wilkinson, Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt: The Palermo Stone and Its Associated Fragments, (Kegan Paul International), 2000. p.79
- Wilkinson, Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt, p.258
- King Djer page from digitalegypt.
- Saad 1947: 165; Saad 1969: 82, pl. 94
- Kaiser 1964: 103, fig.3
- Petrie 1925: pl. II.8; XII.1
- tomb 461 in Abydos, Petrie 1925: pl. III.1, IV.8
- Rice, Michael The Power of the Bull Routledge; 1 edition (4 Dec 1997) ISBN 978-0-415-09032-2 p123
- W. Grajetzki: Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary
- Dodson and Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004
- W. M. Flinders Petrie: The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties, 1901, Part II, London 1901, pl. XXVII, 96
- Thomas Kühn: Die Königsgräber der 1. & 2. Dynastie in Abydos. In: Kemet. Issue 1, 2008.
- B. Porter and R.L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, V. Upper Egypt: Sites. Oxford, 1937
- Toby A. H. Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, Routledge, London/New York 1999, ISBN 0-415-18633-1, 71-73
- Toby Wilkinson, Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt: The Palermo Stone and Its Associated Fragments, (Kegan Paul International), 2000.
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'An apple a day help keeps the doctor away' - an age old saying that holds true today because apples contain so many beneficial chemicals.
Apple trees can typically be planted from late autumn to early spring. If the roots are dry, firs soak them in a bucket of water or seaweed fertiliser for 24 hours or overnight. Many apple varieties need a second variety for pollination however self-pollinating varieties are available. Dwarf varieties are available, which produce full sized fruit but on a smaller tree. This can be particularly useful in small gardens or for those who would like to fit a lot of trees into their garden.
Apples are ready to be harvested in autumn. The colour of a ripe apple varies greatly depending on the species so check with the nursery when you purchase your plant, otherwise taste one to see if it's ready.
In areas where fruit fly is a problem, you must pick up fallen fruit. This is a legal requirement in some ares but apart from that, fallen, rotting fruit attracts the pest.
Apple pies and crumbles are a very popular use for apples.
Apples contain large amounts of a wide range of phytonutrients (plant chemicals) in their flesh as well as their skin. They also contain both malic and tartaric acids, which have been shown to aid in the digestion of fatty foods. Apples are also a good source of vitamins C and K as well as fibre. Research has also shown that cholesterol levels can be lowered by up to 10% just by eating two apples a day. The also help to maintain blood sugar levels, something that is beneficial to those with diabetes.
- In an airy place, ensuring the fruit isn't touching
- Freeze stewed and puréed apples


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Comparing Texas levy systems to Midwest
By Scott Harvey
As Midwesterners begin to assess the damage following recent flooding, area residents may be wondering how safe our existed flood systems are.
Fred Jensen is a Hydraulics Engineer with the Forth Worth District Army Corps of Engineers. Jensen says Texas uses more lake systems, as opposed to river-based, and has an abundance of flood control reservoirs to aid in prevention.
Just in the Forth Worth District alone there are 25 reservoirs that are federally funded, which includes Cooper Lake in Northeast Texas. Not near as many federally funded reservoirs exist in the Midwest.
The difference between a federally funded and non-federally funded levy system, according to Jensen, are the strict guidelines government based systems have to adhere by in order to receive funding.
For example, they are not allowed to grow trees on levies. Jensen says that was a major reason for several levy breaches in the Great Flood of 1993 that, in some cases, destroyed even more property in the Midwest than last month.
Because these types of levies are not funded properly, they can be more susceptible to breaking due an inability to maintain, weakness or and/or poor construction.
One reason some federal levy systems do break, as evident along the Mississippi River both in 1993 and this year, was because there was so much water in the system it had no where to go.
''Pretend your bathtub walls are made of dirt, after awhile walls get so saturated with water they can't hold any longer,'' says Jensen.
The good news for North Central and Northeast Texans comes in a couple forms. First, local federally funded levy systems are constantly under the microscope, having to be built a certain way and inspected before more funds are made available.
Second, Texas doesn't tend to receive near as much rain as the Midwest; therefore those levies are not tested nor weakened to the same degree, which keeps the system strong and not as susceptible to break.
An issue the Forth Worth District doesn't have to deal with is a flood control system that spans several states. Not all states, according to Jensen, abide by the same flood control tactics.
For example, Rock Island, Illinois escaped flooding in 1993 because they had built strong levies and reinforced them with a concrete flood wall on top. However, on the other side of the river, in Davenport, Iowa, there was little done to prevent flood waters from submerging portions of town.
The same is evident down river, when high levies and walls in one town may prevent flooding, but in turn raise the water level because it can't spill over, possibly hurting communities to the south that don't have as strong a flood prevention system.
Jensen says the last major line of flooding to hit Dallas was in the early 1990's. During that time, Dallas floodways had major flooding, but no levies were breached.
All in all, it depends on where you live and the amount of rainfall your area receives each year. It also depends on if you have the resources to build and maintain strong flood control systems that will protect you when needed.


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Forests are not just a source of timber; mushrooms, berries, nuts and other gifts of nature play an important role in the bio-economy of forest regions and science is making a significant contribution to the exploitation of these rich resources.
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A large number of engineering applications involve granular material or a particulate phase in combination with a gaseous or liquid phase. Applications for this kind of materials mix can be found in diverse domains such as the pharmaceutical industry, the food and processing industry, energy production or systems biology. Everyday products such as coffee, corn flakes, nuts or fertilizer all depend on this field of knowledge known as multi-physics.
Published: 24 July 2014
Changes in climate patterns, ocean circulation, as well as temperature and light-all related to climate change-are having a growing impact on marine ecosystems. Understanding how these factors, together with anthropogenic drivers (such as fishing and pollution), affect the environmental status of marine ecosystems is vital if we are to ensure that they are effectively managed.
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Something is growing at the heart of Europe's forests: a community of innovators has gathered to boost and improve the use of wood and its derivatives. The forest-based industries are ideally positioned to help build a sustainable future and a knowledge-based economy. A large-scale programme partly funded by the EU is backing this effort.
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Published: 13 June 2014
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Published: 10 June 2014
Improving science teaching and encouraging more young people into the sciences have been key government objectives in Europe for years. The European Union (EU) funded S-TEAM project tackled the issue by looking at the teaching side of the equation. Completed in 2012, it was one of the first EU research projects to focus on Inquiry-Based Science Teaching (IBST) as a method of improving take-up in the sciences.
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Reflection on Our Foyer Painting
Whether or not people like the painting that is a feature of the foyer, they certainly notice it. It is modern but not abstract, and combines conventional portraiture with a certain amount of symbolism. It gives an impression of strength with its definite lines, rugged masculine features and bold reds, browns and blues. The work of a well known Sydney artist, Mr Mohr, it is painted on copper and has as theme the life and work of St John Baptist de La Salle.
Christ serene in majesty forms the central figure. On the right is St. de La Salle im an attitude of loving adoration and supplication, an attitude familiar to him for it is certain that he often spent whole nights in prayer, and had recourse to prayer when persons and events turned against him, endangering the very existence of his institute. To the left of Christ is the work the work of St de La Salle at two different levels, the material and the human level. Symbols and names recall places important in his life or the development of his work.
When he was only thirty seven he left his birthplace, the provincial town of Rheims, for the more cosmopolitan atmosphere of Paris where he continued his experiments in simultaneous teaching and teacher training, and also started teaching “vocational” subjects to young men already at work. This teaching was carried out on Sundays.
St Yon in Rouen was the scene of a remarkable ensemble of institutions which showed him to be a man of genius at least two centuries ahead of his time. Here he established a boarding school catering for the needs of the rising merchant and professional classes who had no use for the traditional classical education of the day. On the same property was a foundation for the correction as opposed to the mere punishment of juvenile delinquents. His methods were as modern as the distinction he made between correction and punishment. He insisted on the need of treating each lad as a person and valuing him as such. He was sure that this consideration would draw what was best out of the boys and gain their respect and love. After that they would reform themselves. And he was remarkably successful.
Nearer to Christ are reminders of Avignon, in de La Salle’s day a papal possession, and of Rome. Not only did he found schools in both places but they are symbols of his unswerving loyalty to the Pope, which is more remarkable because of the atmosphere of Gallicanism and Jansenism then rife in France.
The human level is seen in the group of Brothers at the side of the picture. They represent another aspect of his life-work: the founding of an Institute of men who carry on his educational work in many different countries till the present day. The different ethnic groups represented remind the viewer that the Institute is composed of men of different races and cultures.
The Saint and the Brothers are all looking towards Christ and behind him they catch a glimpse of the heavenly Jerusalem which they hope to attain and to which they direct their pupils.
Various rainbows, beside tying the parts together like the steel girders of a modern building, also draw the eye to Christ and then to St de La Salle. The rainbow, too, is the symbol of hope, an outstanding virtue of de La Salle in the almost continuous opposition from well-meaning but short-sighted men as well as from self-centred and incompetent ones. Hope and trust, expressed in complete abandonment to Providence, characterised him.
An open book is a symbol of the Rule of the Brothers or perhaps the Gospel which de La Salle said specifically is the “first Rule of the Brothers”. Behind it is a suggestion of the cross, a reminder that every way of life has its less pleasant moments.
Finally there is a touch of local colour in the Southern Cross of which Christ is in the centre. The purpose of the de La Salle Brothers in New Zealand is to make Christ the centre of people’s lives, and that is why the motto of Francis Douglas Memorial College is CHRISTO DUCE - Christ is my leader.
Written by an unnamed member of the Brothers for the FDMC Magazine 1966.


A, Honey-gland from attractive C, Transverse section of the surface of lid.
If the coenosteum of Millepora be broken across, each pore-canal (perhaps better termed a polypcanal) is seen to be interrupted by a series of transverse partitions, representing successive periods of growth with separation from the underlying dead portions.
E, Transverse sec- r.c. Radial canal.
An important property is: the difference of the focal distances of any point on the curve equals the transverse axis.
Across the arc is a transverse or radial magnetic field, and the electrodes are connected by an oscillatory circuit consisting of a condenser and inductance.
Its prevailing colour is chestnut-red, but the hinder part of the back is marked with broad, white, transverse bands on a dark ground.
The armature consists of a bony case, partly composed of solid buckler-like plates, and partly of movable transverse bands, the latter differing in number with the species, and giving to the body a considerable degree of flexibility.
Chelyabinsk was linked by a transverse line with the middle Urals railway, which connects Perm, the head of navigation in the Volga basin, with Tyumen, the head of navigation on the Ob and Irtysh, passing through Ekaterinburg and other mining centres of the middle Urals.
In the most approved type at the present time a passage runs along one side of the car, and off it open a number of transverse compartments or berths resembling ships' cabins, mostly for one person only, and each having a lavatory of its own with cold, and sometimes hot, water laid on.
On the continent of Europe the typical sleeping car has transverse compartments with two berths, one placed above the other.
Further, the skin is stated to be much less rough, with fewer cracks, while a more important difference occurs in the trunk, which lacks the transverse ridges so distinctive of the ordinary African elephant, and thereby approximates to the Asiatic species.
The rood was carried either on a transverse beam, the " rood beam," or by a gallery, the " rood loft."
Summits of the lower incisors, before they are worn, with a deep transverse groove, dividing it into an anterior and a posterior cusp. Canines long, strong and conical.
The banded duiker (C. doriae) from West Africa is golden brown with black transverse bands on the back and loins.
Irregular in form; pores scattered irregularly or in cyclosystems, without styles, with transverse tabulae; free medusae.
RiLenticel in the transverse section of a twig of Elder.
C, Oscillaria limosa: transverse microtome section.
The cells not only fuse together in longitudinal and transverse rows, but put out transverse projections, which fuse with others of a similar nature, and thus form an anastomosing network of tubes which extends to all parts of the plant.
3) have besides others, a maxillo-palatine process directed inwards in a transverse horizontal direction.
Similarly during the growth of the bird the posterior end of the ilium connects itself with the transverse processes of vertebrae which were originally free, thus transforming them from caudals into secondary post-sacrals.
The latter is, in comparison with mammals, represented by its middle portion only, the vermis; in a sagittal section it shows an extremely well developed arbor vitae, produced by the transverse, repeated folding of the whole organ.
The metasternum is without the transverse linear impression that is found in most families of Adephaga.
Close to a transverse fold near the base of the wing, the median nervure divides into branches which extend to the wing-margin; there is a second transverse fold near the tip of the wing, and cross nervures are altogether wanting.
The factors Af (u-v cos i) and Bf (v sin i) give the frictional resistance to sinking, per unit length of the cable, in the direction of the length and transverse to the length respectively.
6), from the bases of which arise contractile muscular processes lying in the plane of the transverse section of the body.
(2) Autotomy, sometimes termed transverse fission, is the name given to a process of unequal fission in which a portion of the body separates off with subsequent regeneration.
Protohydra is a marine genus characterized by the absence of tentacles, by a great similarity to Hydra in histological structure, and by reproduction by transverse fission.
Endodermal cell of Phanerogam, with suberized central band on radial and transverse walls.
Each branch grows simply by the transverse division of its apical cell.
A meristematic (cell-dividing) region occupying the whole of a certain transverse zone of the thallus, and cutting off new cells to add to the permanent tissue on both sides.
The young tissue of the stelar cylinder, in the case of the modified siphonostele characteristic of the dicotyledonous stem, differs from the adjoining pith and cortex in its narrow elongated cells, a difference produced by the stopping of transverse and the increased frequency of longitudinal divisions.
In the cervical region the ribs are much reduced, fused with their verte brae and enclosing the transverse canal or foramen.
This, when fully developed, consists of two parts, but inserted by a single ribbon-like tendon upon the hinder surface of the femur, near the end of its first third; the caudal part, femoro-caudalis, expressed by Garrod by the symbol A, arises from transverse processes of the tail; the iliac part (accessorofemoro-caudal of Garrod, with the symbol B), arises mostly from the outer surface of the postacetabular ilium.
The transverse commissure of the right and left pallium) is in birds reduced to a narrow flat bundle of a few white fibres; it is situated immediately above and behind the much stronger anterior commissure, i.e.
In the region of the neck lateral strands pass through the transverse canal of the cervical vertebrae; but from the thoracic region onwards, where the cardiac branch to the heart is given off, each strand is double and the basal ganglia are successively connected with the next by a branch which runs ventrally over the capitulum of the rib, and by another which passes directly through the foramen or space formed between capitulum and tuberculum.
In the pelvic region, from about the level of the posterior end of the ischiadic plexus, the strand of each side becomes single again, passing ventrally over the transverse processes.
The cloaca is divided by transverse circular folds, which project from its inner walls, into three successive chambers.
The arrangement of the conducting tissue in the stem is characteristic; a transverse section of the very young stem shows a nunber of distinct conducting strands - vascular bundles - arranged in a ring round the pith; these soon become united to form a closed ring of bast and wood, separated by a layer of formative tissue (cambium).
1, Bd) are very intimately fused together to form what is called the "lower lip" or labium, a firm transverse plate representing the fused basal portions of the maxillae, which may carry a small median "ligula," representing apparently the fused inner maxillary lobes, a pair of paraglossae (outer maxillary lobes), and a pair of palps.
Both lengthwise and transversely, and doubled up beneath the elytron; to permit the transverse folding, the longitudinal nervures are interrupted.
The transverse fold of the hind-wing is towards the tip, about two-thirds of the wing-length from the base.
The hyperbola which has for its transverse and conjugate axes the transverse and conjugate axes of another hyperbola is said to be the conjugate hyperbola.
But the Apennines of Central Italy, instead of presenting, like the Alps and the northern Apennines, a definite central ridge, with transverse valleys leading down from it on both sides, in reality constitute a mountain mass of very considerable breadth, composed of a number of minor ranges and groups of mountains, which preserve a generally parallel direction, and are separated by upland valleys, some of them of considerable extent as well as considerable elevation above the sea.
If a piece of bark and cortex are torn off, the occlusion takes longer, because the tissues have to creep over the exposed area of wood; and the same is true of a transverse cut severing the branch, as may be seen in any properly pruned tree.
Sieve Tubes.The sieve tubes consist of partially fused rows of cells, the transverse cr lateral walls being perforated by minute openings, through which the contents of the cells are connected with each other, and which after a certain time become closed by,the formation of callus on the sieve plates.
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03/2018 - Nº Trees: 13382
Planting 382 trees of different varieties, mainly almond and olive trees, and 13,000 Nendo Dango balls made by the JAMBORINADA.CAT. The Nendo Dango balls were invented by the Japanese farmer, biologist and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 to 2008). Formed by several types of seeds wrapped in clay, they are a system designed to favor reforestation and desertification of areas where, for various reasons, the soil is being degraded and are made with an optimal creation process so that they can germinate successfully. The 13,000 balls Nendo Dango collected during the Central Act of the Jamborinada served to collaborate with the project "Boosts a yellow shoot", created by the ADF of Bruc and the neighbors of Bruc. The objective is to help the reforestation of three types of herbaceous plants to avoid the erosion of the affected land in the incendiodena fire in the summer of 2015.


In previous blogs, I have discussed some of the challenges inherent in growing a successful garden in Austin. If you are looking for a flower garden or simply a border for walkways or around the house or front porch, there may be a simple way to accomplish this.
Texas Wildflowers are perfectly adapted to the soil and climate and do not receive any fertilizer. They are hardy, colorful and the various species grow well together.
Plan your garden to contain the wildflowers in the size, shape, color and texture you feel is best for your purpose. Choose the wildflowers from native species available at the local nursery. Growing plants from seeds is one option, of course, but landscaping needs are more quickly realized when using nursery plants.
Unless the planting area is thick with weeds, you may be better served to not disturb the soil by tilling it. This may actually result in activating weed seeds, rhizomes and roots. Surface weeds can be killed off by watering the weeded area, covering it tightly with plastic sheeting and allowing it to bake in full sunlight for several months before planting.
When selecting plants, pick the ones that look to be healthy, and have good branching structure. Don’t choose ones that are undersized, drooping or have dry roots or soil. Also, transport the flowers straight home from the nursery and put them in the shade until you plant them. The best course of action is to be prepared to plant the flowers immediately after getting them.
Simply dig holes larger than the root balls of the plants. For a natural look, scatter the holes about without placing them in regimented patterns.
Gently loosen the soil from the pots without pulling on the stem and spread the roots very carefully before placing them in the ground. Fill the hole with loose dirt and place down a one inch deep layer of organic mulch around the wildflowers.
Water the plants according to label information but be advised that if the right species is picked for the garden it may not need soil amendment or fertilizer.


With raised flags and soaring spirits, soldiers, sailors, workers, and peasants rally together in this Soviet poster by Nikolai Kogout. United, they celebrate May first, International Workers’ Day. Conceived as a labor strike for an eight-hour workday, the holiday was adopted by Soviet leaders to commemorate the struggle of proletarian workers around the world. In 1904, Lenin described it as “the day when the workers of all lands celebrate…their solidarity in the struggle against all coercion and oppression of man by man, the struggle to free the toiling millions from hunger, poverty, and humiliation.”1 In Kogout’s poster, this empowerment is palpable. Demonstrators shout and gesture with zeal, looking up, as if toward a bright future. New factories thrust skyward in sharp, vertical lines. Such modern architecture illustrates recent advances in industrial technology, which also promised to improve safety and sanitation in the workplace.
These buildings jut out at odd angles, without realistic perspective or scaling. To capture the holiday’s heady optimism, Kogout abandons the mundane realism of the everyday, veering instead into abstraction. Drawing on the geometric vocabulary of the Russian avant-garde, he presents a crisp new world, nearly within reach. Though this approach feels innovative, it actually revives a centuries-old tradition. Compare Kogout’s urban architecture to the depiction of Jerusalem in a Russian Orthodox icon (Fig. 1). Here, too, the perspective is askew. Like Kogout, this painter negotiates between real and ideal worlds. Working in flat colors and simple, geometric shapes, these different artists seek to convey universal messages. Eliding gritty details—the smoke of factories, the swelter of Jerusalem—they prompt the viewer to imagine a kind of heaven on Earth, be it spiritual or social.
Although Soviet leaders denounced Orthodoxy, their similar visual rhetoric is no accident. Communism became a secular religion, with its own creeds and rituals. By repurposing the strategies of religious painters, Soviet artists hastened the transfer of public faith from God to State. Just as an older generation of Russians interacted with icons daily in their homes and churches, new Soviet citizens saw political posters like Kogout’s fully integrated into modern life, in the streets, the workplace, and the recreation center. Parades and demonstrations, like those for International Workers’ Day, closely resembled traditional Orthodox processions (Figs. 2-3). But where priests lead the faithful through the streets with icons aloft, Party leaders replaced these religious objects with posters and banners, raised for all to see.
1. Vladimir I. Lenin, “May Day,” Marxists Internet Archive, April 1904, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/apr/30a.htm. ↩
Virginia McBride was the 2014 Peter Krueger curatorial intern in the Department of Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She studies art history at Kenyon College.


“Because we have flown, we envy no man on earth.”
Julian Nott was a founder of the modern ballooning movement and one of its most creative and innovative exponents. As of 2017 he had broken 79 World Ballooning Records, and 96 British Records, including exceeding 55,000 feet in a hot air balloon. His records span many classes – hot air, helium, super pressure and combination balloons – and encompass altitude, distance and time aloft. Some of the world records have stood for more than 30 years “The quality of a records can be judged by how long it stands.” Nott was the only person in the world to hold a pressure balloon rating.
Nott stressed that record-breaking is never the central objective. “Most of all I hope to use science to advance and innovate. But setting a world record is indisputable proof of the success of a new design.” Indeed Nott changed the course of balloon history: for details click here “INNOVATIVE DESIGN“
A pilot’s pilot, Nott was an Associate Fellow of the elite Society of Experimental Test Pilots, the only person ever elected to The Society for piloting balloons. Additionally, he had the distinction of being a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics, recognizing engineering experience. The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum has described Nott as “a central figure in the expansion of ballooning, as an organizer, pilot and most of all as arguably the leading figure in applying modern science to manned balloon design.”
During his long and extraordinary career Nott undertook a number of unique projects. He designed and constructed the first ever hot air balloon with a pressurized cabin, which Nott piloted to a world record altitude and which today is much copied. Other ballooning achievements include the first crossing of the Sahara Desert ; the first crossing of Australia; crossing the Alps; and piloting the world’s first solar balloon across the English Channel. Nott also designed, built and piloted the Nazca Prehistoric Balloon, using only methods and materials available to the Pre-Inca Peruvians a thousand years ago. Nott was the first person to fly a “pumpkin” super pressure balloon. His concept is currently being developed by NASA as the “ULDB” for scientific applications; see “First Crossing of Australia”. Nott holds US Patent 6,182,924 for an entirely new kind of balloon using cryogenic helium see “Design” page.
Nott was a member of the team who designed and built some of the world’s largest blimps and airships, including the US Navy Sentinel 1000 and the Shell Natural Gas Airship. He was a consultant on the design of the Fuji Blimp which flew over the opening ceremonies of the Los Angeles Summer Olympic games.
The importance of Nott’s work has been recognized by inclusion in some of the world’s most prestigious museums, including the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, where one of his balloon cabins is on permanent exhibition, New York’s Museum of Natural History, NASA’s Johnson Space Center Houston and in the permanent collection of the Royal Air Force Museum, London. See the “Museums” page.
Nott was a senior scientific consultant to both commercial and academic/government agencies including, NASA JPL, The European Space Agency, Google X, and the Loon Project. He contributed to JPL’s efforts to launch balloons for space exploration to Titian and Venus for over 10 years and conceived, designed and built the first Titian flight simulator. In it he flew a model balloon at the lowest temperature a balloon has ever flown, 320 degrees below zero, a temperature assumed to be present on the surface of Titian. Nott was the Senior Balloon Consultant for Alan Eustace’s successful world record altitude sky dive in 2014. He was a consultant on blimps for six Olympic Games, used for security and surveillance. In 2016 he worked on unique, long duration balloons which, being more cost effective, were used at all 4 venues in the Brazil games.
Nott was a scientific observer on two airborne missions led by Peter Jenniskens, senior research scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and at NASA Ames Research Center. The entry observing campaigns studied meteor storms and in one case, observed the reentry of the Jules Verne spacecraft after its successful mission to the space station. Nott is a strategic advisor to The Sentinel Mission, a historic space mission Co-founded by Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut and Ed Lu, NASA Astronaut on the International Space Station. Nott is an advisor to World View Enterprises Inc. the near space high attitude balloons, having himself designed the precursor pressurized cabin.
A sought after speaker and writer, Nott, a scientist and a design engineer was the subject of four full-length TV documentaries. He contributed to a wide variety of newspapers and magazines including “The New York Times”, “The Economist” and London’s “Sunday Express” as well as scientific journals including COSPAR’s highly prestigious “Advance in Space Science”, “The Proceedings of The Royal Institution” and US Air Force technical conference papers. His lecturers on Intellectual Courage received rave reviews and provided inspirational examples for those attempting to make a difference in the world, in all walks of life. Nott has advised on all aspects of lighter than air flight for a wide range of non-scientific projects, including commercial advertising, TV and Motion Picture Films.
Educated at Epsom College, Nott held a Master’s Degree in Physical Chemistry from Oxford University. Following graduation, Nott worked in Bangladesh with The British Voluntary Service Overseas, the British equivalent of the Peace Corps. He was an honorary Life Member of the Governing Body of St. John’s College, Oxford, a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Honorary Secretary of the Institute’s Scientific Balloon Systems and Technology Committee, a Fellow of the Explorers Club and founder of the Club’s Technology Committee, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society and a Freeman of the City of London. For twelve years, he was a member of the Council of the Royal Aero Club (Patron H.M. The Queen; President, H.R.H. The Prince Andrew) and has been Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary of The British Balloon and Airship Club. Nott serves on several prestigious corporate boards and advisory committees such as Caltech’s Keck Institute for Space Studies and has a specialist appointment to the University of California at Santa Barbara, whose faculty includes five Nobel Prize winners.
Nott was born in Bristol, England, and is a United Kingdom citizen: he also held United States Citizenship. He held a license for all types of balloons with a commercial rating, an instructor’s rating, a super-pressure rating, a night rating; an unrestricted RT license; a parachuting “A” license; and an International (FAI) Sporting License.
Among his many long term commercial project sponsors were Rolex Watches and Moet & Chandon Champagne. Nott appeared in several Rolex advertisements and was the recipient of the Rolex Award for Enterprise, honoring extraordinary individuals who possess the courage and conviction to take on major challenges.
Nott resided in Santa Barbara, California with his long-time love, artist Anne Luther.
Photograph by Vita-BellaPhotography.com
With Burt Rutan in front of SpaceShipOne which captured
the X-Prize for the first private flight into space.
Nott explains the details of one of his unique
pressurized balloon cabins to H.R.H. Prince Andrew.
Nott (upper left) with H.M. Queen Elizabeth, H.R.H. Prince Philip and members of the Council of the Royal Aero Club.
H.R.H. Prince Charles presents Julian Nott with one of the most prestigious international aviation awards, The Gold Medal of Britain’s Royal Aero Club.


JACK ON VOCAL INTERPRETATION
Having grown up as an actor and worked in a lot of professional companies, I learned at an early age how important it is to “listen” and “respond.” I wanted, more than anything, to be a music director. I knew that I could help actors find a way to use their own natural voice and that you could put meaning to words on pitches instead of making pitches colorless and bland.
I give my students duets and trios that have confrontations in them and quartettes and sixtettes that contain plot so they can continue the music as dialogue. They are not used to thinking as actors when the words are on pitches. They want to listen to themselves. You can’t really know yourself, but you can respond to someone else who is saying something (on notes) to you. I dwell heavily on subtext and putting your mind there stops you from “terror” and “fright” and gets your mind on something that is “out there” that you want.
Making music can be as much fun as talking to someone and in the long run is more emotional. You can then say something that words are not enough to communicate with. But music and time with words is, or can be, an ultimate!
JACK ON COACHING SINGERS
Singing is sustained speech. In order to sustain, the vowels have to have space in the mouth, and the jaw, tongue, chin have to be relaxed position. Any tension in those last three areas is crippling to the sound. When one holds a note for a long period of time, one must think on the word that is being held into the next word. The sound will then live. If one stops and listens to oneself, that same note will become dead.
One has to be in what one sings in order to make that music one’s own. To believe what you are saying makes us (audience) accept your communication.
You cannot be Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Alan J. Lerner. Music is not attached to you; it must come out of you as if it’s your own.
If the music is attached, then there is a wall between you and us. If it comes through you then we can make contact with you and feel that the song is an expression of a personal joy or feeling that you are experiencing. Everything has to be honest or it doesn’t travel to us. We are past the days of making word pictures and explaining ourselves. To BE is the thing.


Mobile devices and tech tools help bridge the gap between financial roadblocks and family obligations that plague at-risk youth. Among the widest ranging resources available, technology often gets overlooked as an educational benefit for low-wage and disenfranchised populations. Studies prove tech tools withstand socio-economic barriers, and rather, create opportunities among communities otherwise left behind.
According to the Pew Research Center, members of low-income households access the Internet via mobile devices instead of home connections and are therefore more likely to take advantage of mobile data functions. Additional research reveals that three quarters of U.S. adults living in poverty have cell phones, and also that smartphone penetration is higher in minority communities where the poverty rates are higher.1
Though technology continues to improve in accessibility and offers an approachable knowledge-base across varying scopes of life, little is done to drive educational awareness through technology among troubled teens. Driving change for non-traditional students, educators and tech developers across the globe place focus on designing applications that target the factors that put today's youth at-risk for an adverse future. With your guidance, students can learn how to use tech-tools to learn healthy coping mechanisms, organizational habits and engage in positive peer interaction.
School, work, friends, and extra-curricular activities are healthy types of stress that force teens to learn coping skills in preparation for adult life. For at-risk students, the added stress of insufficient financial resources, family or neighborhood violence, and lower quality education create dangerous levels of stress, leading to potentially debilitating mental well-being.
Helping students take charge of their emotional, mental, and physical health begins with identifying stressors. Youth who are empowered to make better decisions, instead of being rescued from adversity, develop more confidence in their own decision-making abilities which, in turn, increases the likelihood that they will utilize healthy coping processes and be willing to try new things on their own.2 Help your student identify stress coping mechanisms using the Stress Tracker app.3 The program measures stress levels throughout the day, adds information such as the source of stress, symptoms of stress, and overall mood. The app then uses the recorded data to identify the strongest triggers. You can use these results to guide youth with actionable steps to reduce anxiety and irritability derived from difficult situations.
When it comes to difficult or painful situations, the natural sense of “fight, flight, or freeze” response is heightened for youth who have already experienced hardships. Often times, adverse scenarios cause youth to feel impatient, which translates into lost interest and reduced concentration and willingness to react. When students express being too overwhelmed with school obligations, instinct tells them to shut down and choose avoidance over action. If keeping track of classes, homework, and studying becomes overwhelming, helping students prioritize schedules gives them a sense of control, accomplishment, and security that encourages motivation.
Apps like My Class Schedule help students keep track of exams, records homework progress, and offers a calendar timetable for daily events. Students can use the app to self-motivate with the grade overview feature to keep tabs on progress reports. They can also use the program to automatically mute their phone during class for undivided learning. Students involved in a high school completion program can use the specialized Study Planner Mobile App to sync their Penn Foster curriculum and customize their individual study plan.
A college degree is the equivalent credential in today’s job market of a high school diploma a generation ago. For students entering their final year of high school, it’s imperative to keep the momentum going. And, since more than 35 percent of dropouts give up during the senior year,4 negating obstacles that can thrust them back into destructive behaviors takes a strong support system.
To attain this significant milestone, students benefit from a sense of belonging to the community. But, for this group, the struggle lies in finding a community of supportive peers and family members.
This can be especially frustrating for first-generation high school graduates and college students. Directing your students to use apps like I’m First, first-generation college students and high school graduates can join an online community of peers who share their same journey. It provides virtual space they can turn to for inspiration and motivation from youth just like them. They’ll have opportunities to hear and share success stories, discover colleges that care about first-gen students, find answers to questions about college, and receive guidance on the road to and through college.
What do you think of these Apps and how they can help students? Let us know in the comments section below or on Twitter.
Resources: Photo (1) http://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-success/Apps-to-Help-the-Poor-to-Help-Themselves-00297.html (2) http://center.serve.org/nche/downloads/resilience.pdf (3) http://abovestress.com/improve-your-life-with-the-stress-tracker-today-1.html (4) ttp://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_126.asp


Editor’s note: the following is the seventh lesson in Younus AlGohar’s course on Self-Awareness, Level 2: Emotional Intelligence.
Having studied different cases relating to our intellectual well-being and welfare, the findings have astoundingly surprised me. I conclude that the human brain is so vulnerable to becoming prey to different situations where emotions play their part, and our emotional sanity is badly affected.
What happens to our mental welfare when we strive and long for certain things but don’t get them? A sense of deprivation prevails on the surface of our emotional river. What transpires in a human brain when a person has access to all luxuries and comforts in the world?
The Sense of Achievement and Sense of Deprivation
Let’s suppose a child asks his or her parents to buy an expensive toy. Some parents are financially well-off and have so much love for their child that they buy that expensive toy for their child.
Having acquired that toy, what transpires in the faculty of the child’s emotions? What possible emotional aftermath could occur when the child’s desire is fulfilled? He must have gotten a sense of achievement.
In comparison to the child who acquired the toy of his or her desire, let’s talk about a child who had a similar desire but his or her parents were not able to afford that toy. As a result, there was a sense of deprivation felt by the child.
We have to closely monitor these two senses. What would be the impact of these two different senses on these two different children?
If this is just a single incident, whereby the child did not receive the toy from his or her parents, and when another toy is desired, it is given to the child, that initial sense of deprivation would become null and void. For the child who did acquire the expensive toy, the sense of achievement would have created this notion in his or her brain that anything is reachable. He or she begins to think, ‘I just need to say it for it to be done.’ This is where the imbalance in your emotional state occurs.
The Duty of a Parent
Once the child acquired what he or she desired, now is the time for that sense of achievement to become null and void. Next time when the child asks for even a small toy, don’t give it to him or her. By doing this, you are actually securing his or her emotional well-being. The sense of achievement the child had developed when he or she acquired the expensive toy will go down the drain when another desired toy is not given to him or her. Their emotional sanity is restored.
If you had refused to buy a toy for your child, the sense of deprivation would strike on his or her mind; what you should do is to buy your child the toy they ask for next time, even if it is inexpensive. If you don’t do that, the sense of deprivation will have taken root in the child’s brain which is not good for his or her emotional sanity.
The sense of achievement and deprivation both go hand in hand. They are parallel to each other.
When a child is sick, the doctors tell you to give the child paracetamol – and, in intervals, give them ibuprofen. Similarly, fulfil one desire of the child and say no to the other.
Say no to one toy and say yes to the other. If you keep saying yes every time the child wishes to get something, you are actually destroying your child. If you keep saying no every time, because you think, ‘I do not have means, how can I buy anything for my child?’ this is detrimental to your child’s mental health. Even if you have to borrow some money, get your child the toy because you will be doing it for the sake of the welfare and wellbeing their emotional state.
The same goes for the adults. If you try and every time you try, you fail, this is going to have a very bad impact on your emotional sanity.
When I was in Pakistan, a friend of mine asked me to go to China with him. So we went to the Chinese embassy. He got the visa but I was refused. Then we made a plan to visit Bangladesh. We applied for a visa. He got the visa but I was refused. I was beginning to wonder, ‘Why? What’s wrong with me?’ I didn’t really realise what was going on. Then a few months later, I applied for the British visa. When I was entering the UK embassy in Islamabad, I was so nervous and paranoid; my heart was galloping like a horse. I was denied the visa once again. At this point, my emotional sanity was disturbed.
Then, I applied for the Indian visa and I got it. You can’t imagine how happy I was! I had broken the shackles – I was on the no-go list and suddenly I got a visa. My emotional rationality and sanity was being restored. Getting the visa was one thing, but the aftermath implications of having or not having the visa was another. If I have the visa, I will have a sense of achievement, if I don’t have it, I will have a sense of deprivation. Both are aftermath impacts. I was relieved and it restored my emotional condition.
For example, every day in your business, you are losing £1000. Suddenly, one day, you make £500. You will be amazingly happy because the losing streak has stopped. That change will make you happy – not because of the monetary benefit, but because of your emotional well-being. The sense of deprivation will be gone. The sense of achievement, when you needed it, will restore your emotional sanity.
What Affects The Emotional State?
We are living in a jungle of different types of emotions. Every action and deed is directly linked with an emotion.
Every action and deed, whether it is your deed or somebody else’s, is going to have some effect on your emotional state. For example, if you see somebody is helping the needy ones, you will have positive emotions for that person. If someone is beating up somebody for no reason and is being abusive, you will have negative emotions for them.
Everything we do will have an impact on the emotional sanity of people around us. You are the one who will make positive or negative emotions in the hearts of other people.
What you do will shape up emotions of people for you. This is the reason why some people fake what they do in order to earn positive emotions from others. In the eyes of people, they do certain things and everybody praises them but behind the scenes, something else is going on.
If the schools, colleges and universities are full, you should not expect anybody to be ignorant but even then the world is full of ignorance. Similarly, when the mosques, churches, temples and synagogues are full of worshippers, why is the world bad?
When these people are in the worship places, they are good; when they come out, they change. If they were genuinely worshipping God, they would have changed. This world would have changed.
Are You Emotionally Intelligent?
It’s not just your actions. What you say is also directly linked with emotions. When you say something nice, it will please many hearts. One nasty word from you will trouble so many hearts. People will develop a sense of hatred because they cannot deny what they see and hear.
No matter what you do behind the scenes, what you do in front of people is the only thing that will create negative or positive emotions in their hearts.
People have negative emotions for you because of your bad deeds and words. People love you and praise you because of your good deeds and morality. The way you give people respect and the way you conduct yourself [will generate positive emotions in their hearts for you]. You are not emotionally intelligent if you do not realise this.
Some wounds that are caused by weapons heal quickly, but the wounds done to your heart verbally stay on the soul forever and are never healed. Make sure you are very careful with your mouth. With this one piece of meat between your jaws, you create problems for yourself.
Everything is live. People change their mind every second. You could do good things all your life and just do one bad thing will make people change their mind about you. Be careful. Nobody is your enemy. You yourself are either your friend or enemy. When you become carefree and think, ‘I will do what I want to do,’ you are actually making people hate you. You think you are powerful and you got away with what you said, but people will hate you because you are exposing yourself. If you are incapable of doing any goodness, stay the way you are, but do not fake it.
We are all closely linked to each other. Our lives are very much dependent on each other. You cannot live a solitary life. Our happiness is very much dependent on others. Emotions are the backbone of your social life. What you say and do will definitely create some kind of emotions in your heart as well as in the heart of others.
Conflict of Emotions
Do you realise that in the moment in time when you feel a sense of achievement ,somebody in front of you is touching upon the sense of deprivation?
There is a conflict of emotions between you and that person, which will create jealousy.
Day in and day out, we only care about ourselves and we hurt others. When we do this, even our family members are emotionally millions of miles away from our hearts. Sometimes we do it and we are responsible for creating this rift and sometimes they are responsible. How can you have a good relationship when emotionally you are falling apart?
Now is the time for us to be emotionally and spiritually intelligent. We should know what it is that is good for us and what is bad for us.
In order to have a good relationship, you want to make sure that your emotions are aligned and you do what you can to create an emotional bond [with those around you]. When you do not have an emotional bond, how can you have a love bond? It is not just our own emotions – we should also be concerned about the emotions of those who live around us.
A good spiritual man is one who only begets positive emotions, who does not beget negative emotions and who does not cause any other person to beget negative emotions.
Food For Thought
Do we care about the effect of what we do and say on the people who live with us? Or the people that we are dealing with in our day-to-day lives? We also must monitor ourselves and ensure that anything we say does not affect anybody’s emotional sanity or cause them to create negative emotions in their hearts.
On the other hand, if you are doing or saying the right thing – for the benefit of humanity – and it hurts somebody, then it is not your problem. This is because they do not care about humanity; the truth is hurting them because they care about their ego. If they did not care about their ego and actually cared about the humanity, then the truth would make them happy. Always say the right thing [no matter what].