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Silvermans Ally Glass-Katz (bio) Preseason, and Nick takes a brutal hit. When he clambers to his knees he sees black specks, a beige blur where his tackler's face should be. "Dude," Nick says, lurching to the sidelines for a concussion check. "Brain rest," his trainer says. Four years later, Nick feels like his brain is still at rest. Headaches, insomnia, blurred vision, the essay he turned in calling Holden Caulfield Golden Caulfield, the night he made out with the sorority girl and pushed her too hard against the wall. And sadness — not art-kid sadness, but blue, you know? Plus Minnesota winters, meetings with the dean, the shower's leaking, he feels fat, he flies home too much. When he calls for a ride from baggage claim, his dad says, "Take an Uber." He calls Rosario and she picks him up. She's happy to do so. She says children should be collected at the airport by people who love them. Plus she wants to see how Nick looks, to know if she [End Page 114] should take him to her place to shower or to the Supercuts at the mall before bringing him home. "Is my dad mad?" Nick asks once they're in the car. Rosario, who hasn't spoken to his father, says, "He's happy you're safe." "Can I tell you something?" Nick asks, as they exit the freeway and turn onto Oakland's tree-lined avenues, the overhanging branches heavy with purple blossoms. "Always," Rosario says. She's the Silvermans' babysitter — has been since Nick and Peyton were babies. The children are young adults now and she teaches full-time at a preschool in Oakland, but she retains the title and sees the Silvermans for occasional dinners, or when they pay her to walk their golden retriever, Buster, while they're out of town. "I'm not going back," Nick says. "I packed up my room and everything." ________ The first time Nick came home he didn't call ahead. He took a cab from his dorm room to the airport, swiped the family's emergency Visa, and took another cab home. He was sitting on the wooden steps when Steph emerged from her office out back. She stood, one hand on the wooden gate, and drank him in, this giant person she'd made. In his track pants and stained shirt he seemed like a stranger, dangerous almost, with his huge football-catching hands. That night she called a family meeting in the living room. Peyton, Nick's younger sister, sat perched on a lambskin rocking chair, a computer on her lap. Art stood beside the fireplace, one pair of reading glasses on his nose and a second on his head. Steph was still in her gym clothes, though she'd exercised midday. Nick sat at the [End Page 115] foot of the pink leather couch, Buster's golden head splayed across his lap. Steph thought Nick looked young, as if he were aging in reverse. Behind him, the windows were rimmed with scaffolding, the walls painted with squares of red and plum. Nick said he couldn't do school anymore. His classes were hard. His concussion meant he wasn't cleared for practice. His dorm was the furthest from the dining hall. And his roommate: a gamer who drank Red Bull and shouted at his monitors until three in the morning. "Who could live with that?" Steph said. Her voice sounded strange to her, waterlogged. "Screen time is ruining kids. You should see some of the spine damage my patients have." "We're not talking about your patients," Art said. "God forbid we talk about my work," Steph said. "It's been like this since you left," Peyton said, touching the top of Nick's foot. Steph and Art let Nick take the rest of the year off: bum around the house, play video games, make breakfasts of waffles and bacon at two p.m. When family friends came by they said, "Freshman year is hard," and, "Plenty of people take gap years." They talked about Nick as if he weren't there. "Why doesn't he transfer?" they asked...

The Niagen controversy

Take your vitamins. That advice isn’t just old fashioned these days; it’s downright controversial. Study after study shows that most people with a decent diet do not benefit from taking vitamins. But plenty of people still take vitamins and other nutritional supplements. Serving those consumers is big business: Supplement sales reached $41 billion in 2016 worldwide, up 6% from 2015, according to Nutrition Business Journal. With little regulation of the field in the U.S., it’s common for supplement makers’ fortunes to grow and shrink depending on headlines about new research, even though many such findings are based on weak evidence. Amid the hum of controversy around supplements, the battle over nicotinamide riboside, called NR for short, stands out. A humble molecule found in milk, NR is the subject of a grueling patent dispute plus accusations of theft, stolen trade secrets, and employee poaching. It’s also the promising subject of several

The Slaveholding Crisis: Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War, by Carl Lawrence Paulus

Contrary to the claims of the 45th President of the United States, plenty of people have asked why the American Civil War took place. Generations of historians have debated, at length, the causes of the Civil War and why sectional tensions culminated in a bloody internecine conflict. Most modern scholars would agree that ‘slavery’ is the short answer to the above question, but it is also a beguilingly simple one; slavery, as an institution, had diverse political, social, economic and cultural influences on nineteenth-century America and so what, in particular, made it such a divisive element? Carl Lawrence Paulus’s book locates the persistent fear of black insurrection in the slaveholding South as central to this sectional division because it helped foster a regionally distinct vision of American exceptionalism. The South’s vision of America was ‘one that placed the perpetuation of slavery at the forefront of the nation’s purpose. As the planter elite lost power in the 1840s, they came to think that the Constitution and the Union they participated in no longer formed an exceptional government’ (p. 6). When they perceived, by the end of 1860, that they could no longer dominate the federal government nor rely on the Constitution or the free states to protect them sufficiently in the event of insurrection, the southern political class looked toward secession and potential civil war as a safer bet than remaining within the Union.

New Survey Process Features Retooled Regulations, F-Tags

New Survey Process Features Retooled Regulations, F-Tags

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

QUOTE OF THE WEEK. (By Dmitry Kamyshev. Vedomosti, April 7, 2015, p. 7. Complete text:) Europe's anymore. There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already. - Aleksandr Lukashenko, president of Belarus. ... * * * ... These remarks, made in an interview with Bloomberg, are tinged with thinly veiled gloating: I told you so, didn't I? Indeed, during his more than 20-year presidency, Lukashenko has been accused of everything under the sun. His elections are not fair or free, he jails opposition figures, he harshly suppresses civic activism, and he resurrects Soviet-style leadership reminiscent of the old conferences between Communist Party leaders and enterprise directors. ... And they punished him accordingly all these terrible atrocities: Batka1 was declared persona non grata, and the same fate befell his ministers. ... And now? Is anybody in Brussels, Berlin or Paris even the slightest bit worried about the fairness of the upcoming presidential election in Belarus? Does anyone in Europe care about yet another locked-up Belarussian oppositionist or the absolutely Soviet-style crackdown on parasites? And do Western leaders include Lukashenko among the world's three main evils, alongside Ebola and the Islamic State? ... Nope. Turns out everything is relative. Europe is now concerned by the full-scale fighting in the heart of the continent - thousands of civilians killed in southeastern Ukraine and hundreds of thousands of refugees. Against the Ukrainian backdrop, the Belarussian president also looks quite different from how he used to: He is the last dictator anymore, but one of the principal peacemakers, the architect of the Minsk format settlement, and a credible link between the West and Russia. Not surprisingly, in that same interview, he boldly gives advice on how to set up an effective negotiating process and admits that he has personally tried to persuade US representatives to become involved in the Ukrainian conflict resolution process: If the Americans want peace and stability here, they should become involved in this process right away. ... It might seem that while reveling in his new role, Lukashenko sometimes goes a bit too far. At any rate, the hint at Vladimir Putin as the greater evil, which was made in his comment on dictators, sounds a bit too transparent. Nevertheless, the president did name his Russian counterpart. On the other hand, on quite a few other issues he sided with Moscow: He described the [Western] sanctions as an anachronism, categorically denied that Putin has imperial ambitions (he is a man and he understands that in a modern world, this is very dangerous), advised the West not to go over the top and not to shake the stick at Russia, and told [Ukrainian President] Pyotr Poroshenko to establish direct contact with the leaders of the self-proclaimed republics. Asked about the Russian military's involvement in the conflict, he also responded quite diplomatically: Russians are so stupid as to send troops there and expose themselves, even though there are plenty of people in Russia who wish to fight for money or out of ideological considerations. ... As a matter of fact, it's really that important whether Lukashenko is the last or the second-to-last dictator. The most important thing is that he understands better than anyone else the [dictator] who is now playing his old role. ... 1[Lukashenko's nickname, which is Belarussian papa. - Trans.]

Response to “Thinking About Our Work: What Do We Mean by ‘Mental Health’?”

Response to “Thinking About Our Work: What Do We Mean by ‘Mental Health’?” Robert Pepper1 issn 0362-4021 © 2017 Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society group, Vol. 41, No. 2, Summer 2017 159 1 Director of Training, Long Island Institute of Mental Health, Rego Park, New York. Correspondence should be addressed to Robert Pepper, PhD, CGP, 110-50 71st Road, #1E, Forest Hills, NY 11375. E-mail: DrRobertSPepper@aol.com. In the immortal words of William Jefferson Clinton, “I feel your pain.” As a sociologist and psychotherapist, I tend to see the problem from a larger culture perspective. The perception of human unhappiness as an illness is a reflection of society’s dehumanized value system. We view each other as objects and treat each other accordingly. I, too, have cringe-worthy moments when I see in print (or hear spoken) terms like evidence-based or mindfulness-based group psychotherapy. These seemingly polar opposites are actually opposite sides of the same coin—the tendency to reduce complicated human emotions to simplistic formulations. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. And remember—don’t forget to breathe. It seems to me that no major change in a person’s life can occur without the person going through a period of despair, a mourning period for the illusion that a person can maximize all the good things in life—so much for the “change your brain” brand of therapy. The medicalization of psychotherapy has also led to the bastardization of medication. In our society of finding quick-fix solutions to complicated life problems, we tend to treat ourselves as objects, too. I’m reminded of the New Yorker cartoon in which a fellow, lying on his analyst’s couch, says, “Doc, I think it’s time to up the meds. I still have feelings.” We’ve become a nation of pill takers. Have you ever scratched your head in befuddlement watching a TV ad for some psychotropic medication whose side effects are worse than the condition it is supposedly treating? Some medications require the patient to take another medication to counter the ill effects of the first. Question: 160 pepper Who would take this stuff knowing the adverse effects? Answer: Plenty of people. The only legitimate use of psychotropic drugs is to facilitate functioning. Some group members actually have complained that they can’t understand why, even after taking medication, they are still unhappy. Instead of taking a pill, sometimes the best way to resolve anxiety and depression is to make a significant change in life. Here’s an analogy: Upon hearing the smoke alarm go off in the middle of the night, would you get up, turn it off, and go back to bed without determining why it went off in the first place? In some primitive societies, the witch doctors are only paid when their patients are well. In the West, we subsidize illness. Can you manage the radical shift in the priority of preventive treatment if we were to adopt the alternative model? But short of that, all is not lost. Here’s where group therapy comes in. To paraphrase Harry Stack Sullivan, relationships can drive us mad, and relationships can heal us. And R. D. Laing said that schizophrenia is a sane response to a crazy environment. He said that attempting to evaluate the emotional well-being of an identified patient in isolation from his or her social network is like trying to understand a football game by watching only the quarterback. We live in an ecological world in which others induce feelings in us and, in turn, we induce feelings in them. As group therapists, we facilitate the exchange of the most authentic currency of human experience—interpersonal feelings. We are in the unique position of being able to disregard the prevailing fragmented and fragmenting value system of the larger society and provide our group members with the opportunity to reconnect with their own emotional selves, in the context of progressive emotional communication with others. ...

Response to “Thinking About Our Work: What Do We Mean by ‘Mental Health’?”

Response to “Thinking About Our Work: What Do We Mean by ‘Mental Health’?” Robert Pepper1 issn 0362-4021 © 2017 Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society group, Vol. 41, No. 2, Summer 2017 159 1 Director of Training, Long Island Institute of Mental Health, Rego Park, New York. Correspondence should be addressed to Robert Pepper, PhD, CGP, 110-50 71st Road, #1E, Forest Hills, NY 11375. E-mail: DrRobertSPepper@aol.com. In the immortal words of William Jefferson Clinton, “I feel your pain.” As a sociologist and psychotherapist, I tend to see the problem from a larger culture perspective. The perception of human unhappiness as an illness is a reflection of society’s dehumanized value system. We view each other as objects and treat each other accordingly. I, too, have cringe-worthy moments when I see in print (or hear spoken) terms like evidence-based or mindfulness-based group psychotherapy. These seemingly polar opposites are actually opposite sides of the same coin—the tendency to reduce complicated human emotions to simplistic formulations. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. And remember—don’t forget to breathe. It seems to me that no major change in a person’s life can occur without the person going through a period of despair, a mourning period for the illusion that a person can maximize all the good things in life—so much for the “change your brain” brand of therapy. The medicalization of psychotherapy has also led to the bastardization of medication. In our society of finding quick-fix solutions to complicated life problems, we tend to treat ourselves as objects, too. I’m reminded of the New Yorker cartoon in which a fellow, lying on his analyst’s couch, says, “Doc, I think it’s time to up the meds. I still have feelings.” We’ve become a nation of pill takers. Have you ever scratched your head in befuddlement watching a TV ad for some psychotropic medication whose side effects are worse than the condition it is supposedly treating? Some medications require the patient to take another medication to counter the ill effects of the first. Question: 160 pepper Who would take this stuff knowing the adverse effects? Answer: Plenty of people. The only legitimate use of psychotropic drugs is to facilitate functioning. Some group members actually have complained that they can’t understand why, even after taking medication, they are still unhappy. Instead of taking a pill, sometimes the best way to resolve anxiety and depression is to make a significant change in life. Here’s an analogy: Upon hearing the smoke alarm go off in the middle of the night, would you get up, turn it off, and go back to bed without determining why it went off in the first place? In some primitive societies, the witch doctors are only paid when their patients are well. In the West, we subsidize illness. Can you manage the radical shift in the priority of preventive treatment if we were to adopt the alternative model? But short of that, all is not lost. Here’s where group therapy comes in. To paraphrase Harry Stack Sullivan, relationships can drive us mad, and relationships can heal us. And R. D. Laing said that schizophrenia is a sane response to a crazy environment. He said that attempting to evaluate the emotional well-being of an identified patient in isolation from his or her social network is like trying to understand a football game by watching only the quarterback. We live in an ecological world in which others induce feelings in us and, in turn, we induce feelings in them. As group therapists, we facilitate the exchange of the most authentic currency of human experience—interpersonal feelings. We are in the unique position of being able to disregard the prevailing fragmented and fragmenting value system of the larger society and provide our group members with the opportunity to reconnect with their own emotional selves, in the context of progressive emotional communication with others. ...

Flying selfie bots

In last year's January tech issue, I focused on the disturbing threat to privacy that unmanned aircraft seemed to pose. Who, after all, would want to be stalked by a small, camera-toting drone that was recording their every move? Seems I got that one wrong. Plenty of people- sports enthusiasts in particular-are ravenous for selfies taken by aerial robots. And start-ups everywhere are now scrambling to develop this technology for them.

Sabbatical Year and Jubilee in Twenty-First-Century America

Sabbatical Year and Jubilee in Twenty-First-Century America

Developing a culture of compassion: Can’t or won’t

We are sitting with our old mother in the nursing home.‘Of course I’m lonesome for your kids. But it’s not like being in a strange place where you don’t know anymore.’She smiles, trying to reassure us. ‘There are plenty of people here from good old Willy.’She adds. ‘Of course, a lot of them can’t talk’. She pauses, and goes on: ‘A lot of them can’t see’.She looks at us through her thick-lensed glasses. We know she can’t see anything but light and shadow.‘I’m the last of the Mohicans, as they say’.The Last of the Mohicans, Lydia Davis (2013)

Entrepreneurship and Oil and Gas

What's Ahead - Column from David Vaucher, 2014 TWA editor-in-chief. The “corporate ladder” still exists, but does anyone want to climb it anymore? It seems every day there is news about the latest startup to go public, and these tales of huge success have led to a new aspiration: No longer is it enough to climb the corporate ladder, you have to build your own! That’s quite a dream: building something tangible, working on your own terms, and maybe even reaping much greater financial rewards than if you were to work for someone else. It certainly sounds appealing, doesn’t it? Many of the most famous startup success stories come from Silicon Valley in the United States, in the technology sector, which makes sense: There is an established culture of collaboration, plenty of people looking to invest their capital, and the cost of developing an “app” can be relatively low. Contrast that with oil and gas, and differences emerge: Projects take years to complete, tend to be capital-intensive, and have costs that can run into the billions of dollars, so companies are wary of committing to a new project unless they are as close to 100% certain as they can possibly be that their investment will create a return. In fact, the uncertain returns and enormous costs do seem to imply that the culture in oil and gas is inherently skewed away from risk. When you think about it, any entrepreneurial endeavor inherently involves risk, so does this mean that “entrepreneurship” and “oil and gas” are mutually exclusive? Absolutely not!

Anywhere but Here by Tanya Lloyd Kyi (review)

Reviewed by: Anywhere but Here by Tanya Lloyd Kyi Deborah Stevenson Kyi, Tanya Lloyd Anywhere but Here. Simon, 2013 [320p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-4424-8070-4 $16.99 Paper ed. ISBN 978-1-4424-8069-8 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 8-12 To Cole, the small Canadian town of Webster is essentially a prison, and he can’t wait until he can graduate and escape. He’s already detached from his father, who’s a mostly sedentary and self-pitying drunk since the death of Cole’s mother, and Cole further cuts ties by breaking up with his longtime girlfriend, Lauren. Hoping to go to film school in Vancouver, he begins work on a short sample documentary for admission, all about the ways that Webster traps and limits its residents. As major changes happen with Lauren (who’s pregnant), his father (who’s suddenly getting married), and even Cole’s new no-strings girlfriend Hannah (who turns out to be much smarter than she pretends), he begins to realize that Webster may be more of a part of his life than he realized. The conviction that all their obstacles are situational drives many a teen to distant college, and Kyi perceptively explores the ways that this conviction is and isn’t true. Cole’s gradual understanding that he’s projected onto the town his frustrations and his isolation following his mother’s death credibly accrues (“I thought there were plenty of people in Webster wishing they could escape. It turns out I might be the only one”), and the book is unusually clear-eyed in its depiction of both the negatives and the positives of a close-knit small town. While Cole’s relationships are dramatic, there’s an underlying nuance to the dynamics and a pleasing lack of villainy to the characters, so events are emotional rather than melodramatic. Readers on the verge of flying the coop will empathize with both Cole’s restlessness and his ambivalence. [End Page 164] Copyright © 2013 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Correlation Analysis between Color Parameters and Sensory Characteristics of Rice with Different Milling Degrees

The effects of degrees of milling on color parameters and sensory characteristics of rice were evaluated, and their relationships were established by the method of Pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis. Results showed that with the increase of milling degree, color value a* and b* gradually decreased while L* value and eating quality correspondingly increased. The correlation analysis revealed that sensory characteristics were significantly negatively correlated with a* and b* value, and significantly positively correlated with L* value. In terms of color parameters, L* value had a significant negative correlation with a* and b* value, while a* and b* values were significantly positively correlated. Eating quality showed a linear relationship with a*, b* and L* value, and the R2 values for the relationship were in the range of 0.90–0.99. Regression equations had high R2 values and could be used to predict the eating quality of cooked rice. Practical Applications The traditional method of judging sensory characteristics of rice, which mainly conducted by experienced inspector, needs plenty of people and time for measurement. New measurement system, based on the establishment of relationship between color parameters and sensory characteristics, assists in quick locating the optimum degrees of milling to prevent poor judgment and increasing the accuracy and efficiency of working, meanwhile helps to predict the eating quality of cooked rice.

Beyond Truth and Reconciliation in La Mémoire aux abois and Un alligator nommé Rosa

Un peuple sans memoire ou dememoire est condamne a repeter les memes erreurs, a subir les memes dictatures du passe. --Franck Laraque The familiar adage that truth is stranger than fiction came to life in January of 2011 when former dictator Jean-Claude Doc Duvalier landed in Port-au-Prince after nearly twenty-five years in exile. The teledjol kicked into intense overdrive as people speculated about the nature of this controversial return to the native land. Why did Duvalier return? Would he face justice for human rights abuses committed during the regime, which spanned two generations? A press statement announced that the purpose of this audacious homecoming was an innocuous act of solidarity: his desire to celebrate the anniversary of the earthquake in the company of his countrymen and women. That this was the same homeland in which the Duvaliers were responsible for 50,000 killings of those same countrymen and women during the period known as la terreur (1957-1986) was not a point lost on survivors of the regime, family members of victims, writers, journalists, and scholars. More than two decades after the end of la terreur Baby Doc's reversal and refusal of his exile sought to revise the heritage of this painful past. (1) It also exacerbated an environment fraught with tensions that ranged from political to epidemiological--an unfolding contested election, the imminent one-year anniversary of the quake, and the raging cholera epidemic. In an op-ed for the Haitian newspaper, Le nouvelliste, Lilliane Pierre-Paul implored people not to forget, Ils ont dechire ma vie. Les consequences de cette situation ont coute la vie a l'un de mes freres. Je ne cherche pas la revanche, mais il faut que justice soit faite [...]. C'est la verite qui nous soulagera. (2) Because there had been no truth and reconciliation initiatives, no prosecution for Duvalier's crimes against humanity, la terreur was cloaked in silence by the official historic record though painfully omnipresent in the memory of traumatized individuals. As Duvalier continues to enjoy life in Haiti though former victims and international human rights groups call for him to be held accountable, the vexed relationships between history and memory, remembering and forgetting, are colliding. (3) His shocking return to the native land exposed a possible crisis of collective memory. As Edwidge Danticat observed: There are plenty of people who remember, however, there have been so many other disasters since--political, natural environmental--that the Duvalier disaster has somehow faded into the past. This might also [relate to] the fact that half [the] population is under twenty-five, and Haitian history books have not been updated since Duvalier's father took power in the 1950s. There have also been no acts of preservation, no preserved testimonies, no museums, no memorials to those killed by the Duvaliers, both father and son.... (4) The disturbing jubilant reception by some--from chanting in the streets to graffiti in public places--turned Haiti into un lieu dememoire, a charged and divided atmosphere of forgetting. It is a crisis of history and memory: the youth celebrating have no memories of the regime because of their age, and because there have been no official acts of memorialization or lieux de memoire to provide historic awareness. The former dictator's presence crystallized a generational gap of memory between Haitians born after the regime's end who had no recollection of that period, and those for whom the wounds of memory hauntingly remain. Prior to Duvalier's return, several literary texts explored these wounds of memory through imagined encounters between perpetrators and victims: Danticat's The Dew Breaker (2004), Marie-Celie Agnant's Un alligator nomme Rosa (2007), and Evelyne Trouillot's La Memoire aux abois (2011). By juxtaposing contemporary dictator novels with Baby Doc's return and the responses to it, I want to suggest that cultural production can step into the breach of memory described above. …

Shaw in “Sallust's House”

Shaw in “Sallust's House”

Measuring Well-Being: W3 Indicators to Complement GDP

Plenty of people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of society's prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established study commission (Enquete Kommission) tasked with developing an alternative to GDP for measuring growth, wealth, and quality of life. This commission has now submitted proposal: to complement GDP with nine additional indicators, covering wide range of areas such as the distribution of income, biodiversity, and life expectancy. Replacing gross domestic product with single alternative index was rejected by the commission, however, since it is not possible to reduce citizens' very different wishes and expectations to a common denominator. The ten indicators cover three dimensions of wellbeing - economy, ecology, and social wealth - and hence are called W3 indicators.2 This name, which emphasizes the equal importance of the three dimensions, is concise and memorable enough to position itself alongside GDP. A representative survey of registered voters conducted by DIW Berlin and TNS Infratest shows that citizens generally consider all the new indicators proposed by the commission to be important. Respondents ranked preserving democracy and freedom as the most relevant indicator and further increasing life expectancy as the least relevant. Average per capita income - as an indicator of gross domestic product - is rated as the second least relevant factor. Moreover, the study also shows that opinions on the importance of different indicators vary considerably across socio-economic groups.

Perception by Laypersons and Healthcare Professionals Towards Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Background: Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) is a surgical branch of dentistry that deals with the wide spectrum of diseases, injuries and defects in the maxillofacial region. There are plenty of people who have lack of awareness towards the wide surgical scope provided by OMFS as reported by previous study done in Boston in 1996. The purpose of this study was to assess the level of awareness among the general public and healthcare professionals towards Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery specialty in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM). Materials and Methods: A total of 186 standardized questionnaire was distributed to 6 groups of respondents which include laypersons attending HUSM, 4th year dental and medical students, dental officers, medical officers and paramedical workers from various departments such as Emergency department, Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department, medical family clinic and dental clinic of HUSM. Results: The data showed that 100% of students and practitioners had heard of OMFS, whereas only 68.9% of the laypersons have heard of the specialty. Furthermore, only 11.6% of the lay responders had been treated by an OMFS. The full results also suggested that about 50% of laypersons, 35% of medical professionals and 30% of dental professionals had lack of understanding about the range of care provided by OMFS specialty. Conclusion: A thorough education need to be implemented among dental and medical undergraduate students as well as professionals so that they can make a proper referral later on and automatically provide correct information to the laypersons. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol. 12 No. 02 April’13 Page 199-208 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v12i2.14950

Empirical Research on College Student’s Role Identity Status in China

“College Student” is such a role that plenty of people once played, now are playing or will play in China. College students’ positive identity of the role will help them develop well at this special stage. The definition of college students’ role identity in the research is the cognitive orientation, emotive experience and behavioral reaction of college students to the student role they are playing. Based on the open-questionnaire investigation, the paper analyzed three status of college student’s role identity by factor analysis technique: role adaptation, and role burnout and role contradiction. The paper also analyzed the difference on the three role identification status based on gender, birthplace, major, grade and other variables and the reason for the variance.

Developing New Tourism routes in Coastal Areas

For Norwegians the name of our country is based on a route - "the way to the North" - and this was not a built route but using of the coast-line itself. As long as the boats and ships were the main means of travel this coastal way - "Nor-way" - was the main communication basis for most people, and for transport of goods. But even in the interior of the country, water, namely rivers and lakes were the main structures for communication. The lakes were most efficient for transport during the cold winters, by sledges on the frozen surfaces.When new means of transport took over most of the traffic, however, sea, lakes and rivers in many ways became obstacles instead of means of communication (?). This gave the government and others new challenges. In the sailing period up to the end of the eighteen hundreds, boats and harbors were the investment focus and sailors were recruited in every community from the age of 15. This meant that in a remote area at the Arctic Circle there were plenty of people who have been sailing around most of the work and could easily be hosts of visitors.This paper is mostly focusing on "how to market and develop these beautiful coastal areas to travelers using either their own cars, bikes, boats or collective transport". What types of geographical units are suited for marketing and developing such areas and how might local producers of accommodation, food & beverages, crafts, activities and arts be included in such organizations. The main focus will be on the work of organization "Kystriksvegen Reiseliv AS" that have been working with these challenges for closed to two decades. What have their successes and obstacles been and how have they been able to operate a sustainable business on a long coastal route with many car ferries, small islands, fjords and mountains and more than twenty municipalities.

Response: The Gravity of Consensus, the Case for Contest

Against the merits of discomfort, however, participants worried about lasting damage—their second preoccupation. Not all contests are benign, and not all disagreements take place in radio interviews or public meetings. After November, Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman collided fatally in Florida, their conflicting beliefs still intact. In the United States today, plenty of people wear hoodies and plenty of people carry guns. As a political mode, contest encourages wider constituencies, less-familiar voices, alternate narratives—and true fear.