White Privilege and its Influence on the College Campus

The article explores the topic of White privilege from the author’s perspective as a White, Catholic, middle-class, rural Southern Vermont woman. White privilege affects every aspect of the college campus, from academics to residence life. Within the context of this understanding, White student affairs professionals can better understand the reality of White privilege, including the loss to Whites that results from its prevalence in society and on our campuses, and work to combat racism more successfully

WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT: THE NEED FOR A GRASSROOTS GENDER PLANNING APPROACH

While the recognition of the roles of women in Third World society is increasing, the adequate operational frameworks for including the concerns of women involved in development planning has not kept pace. Models generally used in planning ignore the importance of gender in social structures. Development in the Third World has historically provided little benefit to women, generally leaving them in a more vulnerable social and economic position. Gender planning holds the key to the implementation of successful development programs in Third World communities by recognizing different social relationships between women and men occur from society to society and are conclusive in development planning. As case studies illustrate, understanding the roles of women in a given community breaks down stereotypical understandings of Third World societies, give planners the sense of what is important at a grassroots level, and promotes successful development for communities as a whole

Discovering Life through Loss and Grief

In times of loss, communities of faith come alongside bereaved individuals to offer support. That support is often short lived. When the casseroles stop, grieving people feel isolated and underserved in communities of faith when pastors and community members are ill-equipped and unprepared to care for them.(2) The reason pastors and community members are ill-prepared to care for those grieving is historically, culturally, and theologically complex. Tackling such complexity is beyond the scope of this project. Implementing Occam’s Razor, where the simplest solution, with the least moving parts, suffices, enables me to address my NPO in a creative way.(3) For Christians, Jesus’ life serves as a model of how to live and love in this world. Philippians 2:5-11 provides a concise and foundational text of Jesus moving proximate to humanity by becoming fully human. Proximity to humanity necessitated navigating loss and grief, and being present with others as they do the same. What does it look like for people who follow Jesus to personally and communally move proximate to their humanity, so they can be present with the humanity of others? To address this question, I developed an 8-week, one-credit, graduate level spiritual formation course for Portland Seminary entitled “Discovering Life Through Loss and Grief.” Through the metaphor of pilgrimage and developing the spiritual practice of memento mori, “remember you will die,” students acknowledge their humanity by engaging with and integrating personal stories of loss and grief. (4) Course resources and format invite them to practice companioning one another in grief as they listen to each other’s stories of loss. Giving language to loss awakens us to the realities of what it means to be human. Speaking our stories reminds us we are not alone. In sharing, we discover new life emerges from death in profoundly unexpected ways. (2) This is my working NPO. It was shaped after assimilating responses from the required discovery session and one-on-one interviews, hosted in November 2019, for my project portfolio. (3) Farnam Street, The Great Mental Models, Vol. 1: General Thinking Concepts (Ottawa, ON: Latticework Publishing, Inc. 2019), 160. (4) Wikipedia, “Memento mori,” accessed January19,2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori

The Disruption of State-Dependency By An Emotionally Important Conditioned Stimulus Paired With Food Reward And Food Seeking Responses

The Purpose was to determine if a 1KHZ tone, could disrupt state dependency in a T-meme when the tone was Paired with feeding and good seeking response on training trials and later presented on testing trials while subjects were in the drug(T) state opposite of the training state. The 64, 80 day old, male hooded rats were trained to an 18/20 criterion while either in D state, produced by 45 mg/kg interparitonal injections of chlordiazepoxide hydro chloride (Librium) or, the non drug(WD) state, produced by sterile water. Beginning with the opposite of the training D state, D and WD states were alternated daily across 2 consecutive days of testing in the four experimental groups. The testing and training D states were always same for the four control groups. Two no-tore experimental groups (one D trained; one WD trained) demonstrated state-dependent effects, The ability of the tone to disrupt state-dependency in the two transfer (tone) experimental groups(one B trained one WD trained) could not be determined because of the possible influence of confounding variables. Results are discussed with regard to other disruption experiments

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Translated from the Japanese by Darcy L. Gauthier

Mobile Device Use Among Rural, Low-Income Families and the Feasibility of an App to Encourage Preschoolers' Physical Activity: Qualitative Study.

BackgroundAs mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous, technology-based interventions provide a promising strategy to positively influence health behaviors of families with young children. However, questions remain about the feasibility and acceptability of intervention delivery via mobile apps in low-income, rural settings and among families with preschoolers.ObjectiveThe aims of this study were to understand the content and context of mobile device use for preschoolers; explore parent beliefs on this topic, including the acceptability of intervention delivery via mobile devices; and test a prototype of an app to encourage preschoolers' physical activity with both parents and children.MethodsParents (n=29) were recruited from 5 preschool centers in eastern, rural Colorado to complete a semistructured telephone interview regarding preschoolers' mobile device use. A second sample of parents (n=31) was recruited from the same preschool centers to view the app prototype independently and provide feedback. A third sample of preschool children (n=24) was videotaped using the app in small groups to measure engagement and record their responses to the app.ResultsFive key content areas emerged from the telephone interviews: (1) mobile devices are an important part of families' everyday routines, and parents have parameters governing their use; (2) parents often use mobile devices as a tool for behavior management; (3) parents clearly distinguish between mobile device use for learning versus entertainment; (4) parents have an overarching desire for balance in regard to their child's mobile device use; and (5) parents were generally supportive of the idea of using mobile apps for intervention delivery. From the app prototype testing with parents, participants reacted positively to the app and felt that it would be useful in a variety of situations. Testing with preschoolers showed the children were highly engaged with the app and a majority remained standing and/or actively moving through the entire length of the app.ConclusionsMobile devices are already integrated into most families' daily routines and appear to be an acceptable method of intervention delivery in low-income families in rural Colorado. The physical activity app represents an innovative way to reach these families and, with further improvements based on participant feedback, will provide children with a unique opportunity to practice key movement skills

Reliability, Quality, and NDT—Keys to Soldier Satisfaction

I have been asked to speak about reliability, quality engineering, quality assurance, and nondestructive testing. The nondestructive testing part has really gotten to me, and I\u27ll address that at the end of the little talk. I get myself quite upset when I visit contractors, upset with myself when I was a contractor. You come in and you get a wiring diagram of the corporation. Here\u27s a reliability organization and here\u27s the quality assurance or.ganization. Here\u27s an Rand D group, and here\u27s the production engineering group, and it sort of sounds like everybody is running their own corporation. Being an old-fashioned engineer, I was brought up to believe and understand that you design reliability into the equipment in the first place. Of course, my experience was limited to vacuum tubes and discrete components qnd none of this sexy stuff of solid state physics and MOS and LSI devices. When you designed a circuit and you looked at the worst case power requirement and current flow and somebody said you\u27re going to have to deal with this kind of a range of ambient temperature, you derated a resistor. This meant that if it had to dissipate an eighth of a watt, you might decide to put a half watt resistor in th~re and you provide enough space so that it would fit in and some cooling air around it and maybe a little heat sink and the equipment worked very, very well