Compassionate Love: Bearing Transcendence

The view that charity consists in an expansion of existing interpersonal relations is rather misleading.  We need to see it as a radical transformation, of existing relations, even if this suspension is only temporary. In charity we see a person as someone who is no longer capable of reacting appropriately. Someone who is no longer capable of behaving as a „person‟ nevertheless continues to be a person.  She does not lose her personal sanctity or dignity even if she has lost a practical grasp on controlling and guiding the course of her life.   Today we often tend to reduce charity to a compassionate form of helping, or aid-giving, such as when materials, doctors and psychologists are sent to regions that are torn apart by war or famine.  It is much easier to understand charity when it can be measured against the reduction of physical and emotional distress.  It is much more difficult to understand charity in cases where aid proves to be powerless, when there is no measurable return or change that is brought about. While ethics cannot teach us what to do once compassion, benevolence and forgiveness fail to make any difference, prayer can help us to move forward. Praying for others, more specifically, the long-suffering involved in prayer, is a particularly important form of charity.  It has the power to lift us above our inability to do anything helpful. We pray at the very moment when we experience our powerlessness to help

Aquachlorido(2-{[6-(dimethylamino)pyrimidin-4- yl]sulfanyl}pyrimidine-4,6-diamine)copper(II) chloride hydrate

A copper(II) complex of the non-symmetric bidentate ligand 2-{[6-(di­methyl­amino)­pyrimidin-4-yl]sulfan­yl}pyrimidine-4,6-di­amine (L1) is reported. The single-crystal X-ray structure of aqua­[aqua/chlorido­(0.49/0.51)](2-{[6-(di­methyl­amino)­pyrimidin-4-yl]sulfan­yl}pyrimidine-4,6-di­amine)­copper(II) 0.49-chloride 1.51-hydrate, [CuCl1.51(C10H13N7S)(H2O)1.49]Cl0.49·1.51H2O or [(L1)Cl1.51(H2O)1.49Cu]0.49Cl·1.51H2O, exhibits distorted square-pyramidal geometry around the metal centre, with disorder in the axial position, occupied by chloride or water. The six-membered metal–chelate ring is in a boat conformation, and short inter­molecular S- - -S inter­actions are observed. In addition to its capacity for bidentate metal coordination, the ligand has the ability to engage in further supra­molecular inter­actions as both a hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor, and multiple inter­actions with lattice solvent water mol­ecules are present in the reported structure

Hemotrofe mycoplasmen bij katten, deel 1: literatuuroverzicht

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La estrategia de comunicación de RSC de Iberdrola en Facebook y Twitter: Un análisis lingüístico y de contenido basado en corpus

In our increasingly digitalized civilization where sharing information and interacting about it is ever more made available to the general public, research into corporate communication practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) content on social media is desperately needed. This study makes a contribution to fill this research gap by performing a corpus-based content and multimodal linguistic analysis of the way in which an IBEX 35 energy company, Iberdrola, communicates about its CSR policy on social media. The corpus consists of 438 posts on Twitter and 126 posts on Facebook. The results allow to draw the following conclusions: 1) Iberdrola’s information strategy varies from social media channel, where on Twitter the focus is through the environment, sustainability, social investment, stakeholders and arts, and on Facebook the focus is directed at stakeholders, thus motivating them to engage with CSR-related information; 2) there is certainly an interactive strategy, with many elements that characterize digital discourse, such as structures that elicit (positive) emotions, informal language use (like emojis and use of 1st and 2nd person) and other multimodal elements like hashtags and tags, which are all efforts at increasing brand trust, engagement, and admiration; 3) there are some underlying patterns within the informative and the interactive strategy, being that the overall way in which Iberdrola wants to communicate its CSR information is through informal and (positive) emotional language, with an exception of negative emotional language when discussing environmental themes, most probably to avoid accusations of greenwashing.En nuestra civilización digitalizada, en la que el compartir información e interactuar sobre ella está cada vez más a disposición de todos, se necesitan estudios sobre las prácticas de comunicación empresarial de la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) en los medios sociales. El presente estudio de corpus contribuye a llenar este vacío mediante un análisis de contenido y lingüístico multimodal de la forma en que una empresa energética del IBEX 35, Iberdrola, comunica sobre su política de RSC en los medios sociales. El corpus consta de 438 posts en Twitter y 126 posts en Facebook. Los resultados permiten sacar las siguientes conclusiones: 1) la estrategia informativa de Iberdrola varía según el canal: en Twitter el enfoque está en medio ambiente, sostenibilidad, inversión social, grupos de interés y artes, mientras que en Facebook se dirige principalmente a los grupos de interés, motivándolos a comprometerse con la RSC; 2) existe indudablemente una estrategia interactiva que caracteriza el discurso digital, como las estructuras que suscitan emociones (positivas), el uso de lenguaje informal (los emoticones y el uso de la primera y segunda persona) y otros elementos multimodales como los hashtagsy tags, que todos sirven para aumentar la confianza y el compromiso por la marca; 3) hay patrones subyacentes en la estrategia informativa e interactiva, en el sentido de que Iberdrola quiere comunicar su política de RSC a través de un lenguaje informal y emocional (positivo), con la excepción del lenguaje emocional negativo cuando se discuten temas ambientales, muy probablemente para evitar acusaciones de ecoblanqueo

Hemotropic mycoplasmas in cats, part 2: case report

An eight-month-old apathic cat was referred to the Department of Medicine and Clinical Biology of Small Animals of the Ghent University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Merelbeke, Belgium. The cat had a severe case of non-regenerative anemia with a hematocrit of only 2.9%. Cytological examination of a bone marrow aspirate led to the diagnosis of pure red cell aplasia (PRCA). Additionally, a PCR assay for "Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum" ("Candidatus M. haemominutum") DNA was positive. Although unproven, an infection with "Candidatus M. haemominutum" could have contributed to the immune-mediated destruction of red blood cell precursors. The cat recovered completely after treatment, which consisted of multiple blood transfusions, antimicrobial agents, and long-term prednisolone therapy (10 months). There were no signs of clinical relapse at 20 months after cessation of therapy

Sacroiliac tuberculosis masquerading as mechanical lower back pain in a collegiate basketball athlete: a case presentation

Background: Sacroiliac tuberculosis is a rare condition for which early diagnosis and effective management frequently proves challenging. This report describes a case that was initially overlooked due to its presentation and unreported constitutional symptoms.Aim: To alert clinicians about skeletal tuberculosis, an often neglected diagnostic differential, which requires a high index of clinical suspicion, especially for patients from endemic areas.Findings: This patient’s presentation (sports injury) and unreported constitutional symptoms resulted in a delay in the diagnosis and initial institution of treatment.Implications: This report illustrates the importance of specifically asking about constitutional symptoms, even in sports injury settings and being mindful of infectious diseases or other chronic medical conditions, which may masquerade as common sports injuries.Keywords: skeletal tuberculosis, sacroiliitis, hip pai