Environmental Spirituality

It is difficult to address the crises of ecology and relevance in religion where the culture is increasingly secular, disbelieving, and unable to ground itself in local experience. This paper proposes that church leaders have the opportunity to change perspective from one that is “other-worldly” to one which focuses on the environment as earth-based, sacred, and which ultimately requires our respect. Indigenous Australians led the way in this regard. Only by making the world sacred, by turning the earth into creation, can we approach the problem of the environmental crisis and work toward repair

Tropes of Fear: the Impact of Globalization on Batek Religious Landscapes

PublishedThis is the final version of the article. Available from MDPI via the DOI in this record.The Batek are a forest and forest-fringe dwelling population numbering around 1,500 located in Peninsular Malaysia. Most Batek groups were mobile forest-dwelling foragers and collectors until the recent past. The Batek imbue the forest with religious significance that they inscribe onto the landscape through movement, everyday activities, storytelling, trancing and shamanic journeying. However, as processes of globalization transform Malaysian landscapes, many Batek groups have been deterritorialized and relocated to the forest fringes where they are often pressured into converting to world religions, particularly Islam. Batek religious beliefs and practices have been re-shaped by their increasing encounters with global flows of ideologies, technologies, objects, capital and people, as landscapes are opened up to development. This article analyzes the ways these encounters are incorporated into the fabric of the Batek’s religious world and how new objects and ideas have been figuratively and literally assimilated into their taboo systems and cosmology. Particular attention is paid to the impacts of globalization as expressed through tropes of fear.Research from 2012–2013 have been supported by a generous dissertation fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren foundation in New York

Press Section White Water Reuse

In today\u27s economy, more and more papermills are becoming increasingly concerned with white water reuse. White water is most frequently used for fan pump dilution, and consistency regulation. This white water usually comes strictly from the tray boxes of the paper machine. It was suggested that the white water from the press section could be reused. It was suggested to me by Dan Kaiser, of Ronningen-Petter, that this could be accomplished by using their Cyclospray filter. The testing run showed that the unit is very effective in removing the fibrous contaminants from the press section water. I found the unit to be very easy to run and relatively maintenance free. This means that it would not put an extra burden on the mill personnel. I then did further work at Ronningen-Petter to verify my original results. The results of this testing can be found in the addendum at the end of this report

Prevalence and Differences of Sport Concussion Symptoms and Severity among Male and Female University Student Athletes

The prevalence of sport concussions continues to increase among university student athletes in the United States. Earlier methods of prevention, such as the Halo and modified football and hockey helmets, have not resulted in significantly fewer sport concussions. Further, even less is known about the differences between male and female university student athletes’ concussion symptoms and severity. PURPOSE: To measure sport concussion prevalence among university student athletes and compare the severity of self-reported symptoms among university male and female student athletes. METHODS: In the Fall of 2021, a modified version of the SCAT5 (Sport Concussion Assessment Tool, 5th Edition) was emailed to 335 male and female NCAA Division III and varsity club student athletes at a rural, liberal arts university. Descriptive analyses were conducted to examine the prevalence of sport concussions and symptom severity. RESULTS: Fifty-one participants (M age=19.74 years) representing 10 university sports, some being dual sport athletes (N=5), including 16 males (baseball N=5, basketball N=4, cross country N= 2, golf N=1, soccer N=4, track and field N=2) and 35 females (basketball N=4, cross country N=2, golf N=2, soccer N=6, softball N=11, track and field N=2, volleyball N=4, wrestling N=3) responded. Fifty-one percent of participants reported being concussed and suffered from headaches, “pressure in head”, nausea or vomiting, dizziness, blurred vision, balance problems, light sensitivity, noise sensitivity, feeling “in a fog”, difficulty concentrating, difficulty remembering, fatigue, confusion, drowsiness, trouble falling asleep, irritability, sadness, and nervous or anxious. Female student athletes reported considerably higher severity scores for headaches, “pressure in head” and feeling “in a fog”. Male student athletes reported higher severity scores for blurred vision, light sensitivity and difficulty remembering, though statistically significant differences were not obtained. CONCLUSION: Participants represented a variety of sports (impact and non-impact), and most reported suffering from a past concussion. Future studies should analyze the differences among different sports, various levels, and positions. Trainers, coaches, and players should be educated on symptoms and the progressions that may arise

Patrick Mulvey, Oral History Interview, May 11, 2015

Major Topics Covered: Coming to MD Anderson The Office of Development under presidents Charles A. LeMaistre, John Mendelsohn, and Ronald DePinho Working with MD Anderson presidents The evolution of fundraising as a practice Changes in MD Anderson’s donor base MD Anderson’s capital campaigns Mechanisms for making appeals for donations The Moon Shots Program and fundraising The MD Anderson mission and culturehttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/1177/thumbnail.jp

Patrick Mulvey, Oral History Interview, May 19, 2015

Major Topics Covered: Coming to MD Anderson The Office of Development under presidents Charles A. LeMaistre, John Mendelsohn, and Ronald DePinho Working with MD Anderson presidents The evolution of fundraising as a practice Changes in MD Anderson’s donor base MD Anderson’s capital campaigns Mechanisms for making appeals for donations The Moon Shots Program and fundraising The MD Anderson mission and culturehttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/1178/thumbnail.jp

John Stroehlein, MD, Oral History Interview, December 5, 2012

Major Topics Covered: Personal and educational background; military experience; retirement Working at Methodist Hospital; MD Anderson in comparison to other institutions Gastroenterology and oncology: history and evolution; development of team approaches Research overview Department of Gastroenterology: history of Department of Patient Affairs: functions, organization Data management initiatives Quality assurance initiatives MD Anderson growth; cultural change; changing relationship to Texas/Houstonhttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/1183/thumbnail.jp