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The Three Rs

Summer is the time of year we often do home projects, visit family, or go on vacation. How are you spending your summer? This summer, I hope you join me in engaging in the three Rs: reflect, refocus, and rejuvenate.

Do You Need the Machine? Tipping in Canada Is Unconscious (Part II).

While recovering from a major personal tipping point (see Part I), I was still able to keep on the lookout for Canadian mathematics education matters. After all, if Canadian mathematics education matters, Canadian mathematics education matters. In doing so, I ran into a number of other financial problems. Everywhere I turned was a financial problem: from tipping in the sharing (or platform) economy; to spending your way to savings with credit cards; the proliferation of sportsbooks and online casinos; trying to reconcile the Canadian cost of living with the seemingly high accepted standard level of consumption; and the outrageous fee to take $20 out of my very own bank account. Each taken on their own, I clearly have some financial problems. Taken together, I contend that ‘Egan’s Financial Problems’, albeit unconventional, could, one day, be the impetus for financial education and literacy leaving math class and becoming a class of its own in Canadian schools. Until then, I guess we go with the School of Hard Knocks for our financial education.

ANALISIS MANAJEMEN KEUANGAN RUMAH TANGGA DAN KEUANGAN NEGARA DAMPAK PANDEMI COVID-19 MENURUT PERSPEKTIF EKONOMI SYARIAH

The research’s title is An Analysis of Household Financial Management and State Finances During the Covid-19 Pandemic According to the Sharia Economic Perspective. The background of this research is the condition of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in all countries in 2020. The move to close the economic sector has an impact on household finances and state finances.
 The purpose of this study is to analyze household financial management and state finances during the COVID-19 pandemic from a sharia economic perspective. The method used in this study is a descriptive qualitative method approach using content analysis techniques.
 From a study conducted on various literatures, the following points are shown. First, should follow the example of the Prophet in managing family financial spending by using the principles of a simple lifestyle. When managing shopping, prioritize needs, not wants. Second, the expenditure should be regulated based on the amount of income. When an epidemic occurs which results in reduced income, some spending must be cut. Third, keep spending your wealth on infaq, shodaqoh etc when you are free or when you are short of sustenance. Fourth, set the largest allocation for mass basic needs. As for the regulation of state finances according to the sharia economy in an epidemic condition, all income owned by the state is allocated to meet the basic needs of the people. Especially the basic needs of each household and the fulfillment of health needs. In the Islamic economic system, there is a solution to rearrange regulations on macro and micro economic aspects to become sharia-based.

“Spend your spoons wisely”: Conceptualizations of time, energy and aging invisibly with Crohn’s Disease

An increasing number of people with chronic medical disabilities are living longer and into old age due to the growing medical and technological advancements over the past half century. We used grounded theory to examine the lived experience of aging “with” a disability in a non-elderly population. On average, participants were 37 years of age at the time of interview. The average time since diagnosis was 17 years and ranged from 3 to 34 years. Many worked full-time outside of the home and some held advanced or graduate degrees. Of the 35 participants interviewed, three-quarters expressed worries about the future and aging, specifically related to physical limitations of having CD. The other 25% talked about learning to accept the diagnosis and ‘moving forward’ with their life as they age. All participants described the difficulties of fatigue and energy limitations. Planning of life was limited to 24 hours — a direct consequence of functional limitations of a relapsing-remitting disease. The most prominent theme that emerged from participants’ narratives to explain aging invisibly with a chronic illness was quantifying energy into ‘spoons’, a way of measuring the stock of their energy on any given day. These findings translate into important insights into the process of aging for those who live and age “with” Crohn’s as their everyday lives are immersed in managing the varying whims of this illness.

"Shouldn't You Spend Your Time Curing Cancer or Something?" Why an African American Female Physician Chose a Career in Palliative Care.

"Shouldn't You Spend Your Time Curing Cancer or Something?" Why an African American Female Physician Chose a Career in Palliative Care.

PREPARING FOR A FUTURE WHERE YOUR BARRIERS TO ENTRY ARE NO LONGER SUSTAINABLE

Leaders are shifting away from the mind‐set of setting up barriers of entry that will protect them against change, and instead, focusing on attracting talent that will allow their organizations to drive the change in their fields. Even traditionally well‐fortified barriers to market entry, such as monopolistic power, have been challenged in recent years. The author writes about the importance of talent. The real cost of hiring mistakes comes from missing out on more productive workers, which is highly counterintuitive to most hiring managers. These hiring managers often point to the fact that most of the work in their team has been performed by their average performers, not their stars. That might be true. A star performer is unlikely to perform a disproportionate volume of work, for example, write 10 times more code than an average computer engineer. However, the quality of the code they write can lead to a disproportionate amount of value, for example, billions of people every day using Google instead of Alta Vista and other search engines. The article concludes with such questions as: Is your hiring strategy reflected in your actions? Are you spending your time and energy in line with your stated strategy?

Admissions at the US Naval Academy: how the Military Brass Spend your Tax Dollars

The admissions process at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis is both like and unlike the admissions process at US civilian schools. It is similar in that the institution reports a low admission rate as evidence of its high quality, and dissimilar in that it inflates the number of real applicants by about a factor of four to achieve the appearance of this selectivity. It is like civilian schools in awarding slots to non-white racial minorities and recruited athletes, and unlike them in that these are categories that determine the level of academic standards applicants must meet rather than parts of a holistic decision process. It is like civilian schools in that applicants know they will take classes that are for the most part identical to classes at civilian universities and receive a bachelor's degree upon graduation, yet unlike them in that graduates are guaranteed employment for at least five years in the Navy or Marine Corps. It is unlike civilian schools in its strong "pull factor" of zero cost to students; the whole cost of about a half a million dollars per student over four years is borne by taxpayers, despite the fact that much cheaper commissioning pipelines produce 80% of new officers. Finally. admission is not by the Admissions Board, which only labels applicants "qualified" or not; it is the military brass which decide who receives this free-to-students education.

James McNamara.

James McNamara.

Erin Reineke.

Erin Reineke.

Hiroaki Shimokawa.

Hiroaki Shimokawa.

Joshua Mayourian: Rising to the Challenge.

Joshua Mayourian: Rising to the Challenge.

Valentín Fuster: From Platelets to Preschoolers, Always With Scientific Rigor.

Why did Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster cut his consumption of the sweet treat from daily to once a week? The credit (or blame, depending on your perspective) goes to Valentin Fuster, who was asked to consult on the Spanish version of the show and eventually became Dr Ruster, a muppet sharing health advice with its young and avid audience. “Our behavior as adults depends greatly on the environment we are in between ages 3 and 6, and Sesame Street wasn’t taking advantage of this to focus on prevention and heart health,” says Fuster. Fuster, a renowned physician scientist with a daunting schedule and a decades-long record of bench and translational science and clinical trials, sees no discontinuity between the work that made him famous and his recent focus on preschoolers. “I became convinced that the same scientific tools I used to understand disease could be used to understand and promote health and prevent disease,” Fuster says. Fuster received his undergraduate and medical degrees in his hometown, Barcelona, and did clinical training and completed his doctorate in pathology at the University of Edinburgh. While at the Mayo Clinic between 1971 and 1982, starting as a medical resident and ending as professor of medicine and cardiovascular diseases, he showed in a dog model that platelets were important in the occlusion of bypass grafts and that aspirin could prevent it. Then, in the first clinical trial of aspirin in cardiac disease,1 the team demonstrated that aspirin prevented the occlusion of bypass grafts, leading to clinical guidelines calling for its use. In 1982, Fuster was recruited to become head of cardiology at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. After 10 years there, he spent 3 years in Boston at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he began work on using magnetic …

Rotimi Mesubi: Time Well Spent.

Olurotimi (Rotimi) Mesubi is currently a Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he also completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease. Originally from Nigeria, where he earned both a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Ilorin, Rotimi continued gaining an impressive amount of experience in the United States. He earned his Master of Public Health at Harvard University and residency and internships at MetroHealth Medical Center (Case Western Reserve University). It is his research as a Cardiovascular Disease Fellow at the University of Iowa—initiated under his mentor, Dr. Mark Anderson, before they moved to Johns Hopkins University—that earned Rotimi the American Heart Association BCVS (Basic Cardiovascular Sciences) Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award. Rotimi Mesubi As the first of 4 children, I was fortunate to grow up in a nurturing environment. My dad, a college chemistry professor, and mom, a high school chemistry teacher, encouraged my siblings and me to be curious about the world and pursue our dreams. The seeds of my interest in science were sown in elementary school, when I would spend after school hours in my dad’s chemistry lab and interact with his graduate students. Later, I was attracted to medical school, which I attended in Nigeria. One of the reasons I moved to the United States was to pursue postgraduate training; I always dreamed of being at the cutting edge of scientific discovery at the best institutions in the world. I felt then, and still do today, that the US is a unique place that offers such opportunities to someone like me from a foreign country. I began my internship and residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center (Case Western Reserve University) with a plan to become an infectious disease—HIV—specialist. …

David Polhemus: Every Strike Brings Him Closer to the Next Home Run.

Baseball aficionado, David Polhemus, is not one to let a strike avert a home run, nor does he allow a temporary setback in science prevent him from accomplishing the task at hand. David double majored in Chemistry and Economics at Emory University. He recently graduated with a PhD in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. David currently works in the Lefer lab at Louisiana State University’s Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. David Polhemus I’m from San Francisco, California, born and raised. When I was young, what I cared about most was playing baseball on the street with my friends. I enjoyed sports and being outdoors. Neither of my parents had a scientific background; dad is in finance and mom works in human resources. My parents were incredibly supportive of my education and encouraged me to pursue my interests, not theirs. When I attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, I studied economics for its practical applications, but also studied chemistry. My passion for science further developed during summer vacations when I worked in anesthesia and neuroscience labs as a student intern. I applied for a lab tech position in a cardiovascular research lab at Emory and I immediately fell in love with the field, so much so that a couple of years later I entered a PhD program within the same lab. I have an outstanding mentor, Dr David Lefer, whom I credit for my success. His love for science is inspirational. During my young career, I have had the unique opportunity to play a role in translating a discovery that we made in mice into clinical trials in humans. We found that in mice, hydrogen sulfide improves cardiac remodeling and function during heart failure. Currently, the same hydrogen sulfide drug that we tested in …

“Spending Your Life Wisely”: How to Create an Asset Management Plan

“Spending Your Life Wisely”: How to Create an Asset Management Plan

Chen Gao: Dream Catcher.

It is by following her heart that Chen Gao always finds value on the road to pursuing her dreams. Chen completed her BS in Biology at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. She earned her PhD in Molecular Biology at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) under the supervision of Dr Yibin Wang. Chen has also won the 2011 AHA BCVS (American Heart Association Basic Cardiovascular Scientific Sessions) Young Investigator Travel Award1 and the 2013 ISHR Richard J. Bing Award. As college professors, my parents greatly influenced me by encouraging me to read. They cared not only about my education but the pursuit of my dreams. I was very much inspired by my mother when visiting her lab and watching her students perform experiments in very detailed and rigorous ways. I became interested in learning about biology and animals in high school. A lot changed when I attended Nankai University—I lost my grandmother, to whom I was very close, to lung cancer. This ignited a passion in me to save people from losing their loved ones or losing their own lives. I worked really hard as an undergraduate researcher in a cancer research lab while seeing others having fun. I interviewed at different graduate schools in the United States, but the summer research program at UCLA impressed me and …

Nikolaos Frangogiannis: Preventing Dangerous Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction.

Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis, MD, is the Edmond J. Safra/Republic National Bank of New York Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. Frangogiannis graduated from the University of Athens School of Medicine in 1990 and two years later left his native Greece to pursue a residency in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Accepted into the Clinical Investigator Pathway, he got his first research experience in the laboratory of Mark L. Entman, MD, working with a strong group of investigators exploring myocardial inflammation in response to injury. Frangogiannis remained in Houston for 18 years, joining the faculty and establishing an independent laboratory in 1999 to expand on previous concepts on the role of inflammation in cardiac injury and repair, by probing numerous signaling pathways. The laboratory investigated whether the chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1/CCL2 was a critical regulator of myocardial infarct healing, using MCP-1 knockout mice to show that the absence of MCP-1 results in attenuated postinfarction left ventricular remodeling, but at the high cost of a prolonged inflammatory phase and delayed replacement of injured cardiomyocytes with granulation tissue.1 Using a closed-chest model of coronary infarction/reperfusion in mice, Frangogiannis’ laboratory discovered that transforming growth factor (TGF)-β/Smad3 signaling, while having antiproliferative effects, actually promotes fibrogenic actions, particularly in the infarct border zone and in the adjacent remodeling myocardium following infarction, expanding the fibrotic process into noninfarcted areas and contributing to diastolic dysfunction.2 In 2010, Frangogiannis moved to New York, where he has deployed new tools to study the cell biology of cardiac remodeling in vivo, whether following infarction or in response to other injurious stimuli, such as metabolic disease. For example, in 2013 his laboratory demonstrated that the matricellular protein thrombospondin-1 has both direct and indirect effects on the cardiac …

Be a Change Agent: The Founder of Home Depot Turns to Integrative Health: An Interview with Bernie Marcus

Be a Change Agent: The Founder of Home Depot Turns to Integrative Health: An Interview with Bernie Marcus

¿A qué dedica su tiempo? Estudie a fondo cómo gestiona el tiempo y su empresa se lo agradecerá

¿A qué dedica su tiempo? Estudie a fondo cómo gestiona el tiempo y su empresa se lo agradecerá

The Procedural Pause

The Procedural Pause