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Dana Raphael
On the 7:02 a.m. commuter train from Fairfield, Conn., to Manhattan, a woman with scarlet lipstick and chestnut hair slid beside a businessman reading his newspaper. "May I ask you a question?" she said. "What do you think about breast-feeding?" This was the mid-1950s. The woman was Dana Raphael, an anthropologist, a protégée of Margaret Mead and an outspoken feminist who, a decade before Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," refused to take her husband's name and shunned the conventional wedding her mother planned. She initially also had no intention of following the de rigueur practice of bottle feeding. But after she tried but mostly failed to nurse her firstborn son, she began an anthropological quest that would end up spanning decades: Why was breast-feeding more successful in some cultures than in others?
She posed the question in one way or another everywhere she went. She asked obstetricians and pediatricians, taxi drivers, ministers and factory workers, men and women sitting on park benches and walking down the street, recording it all in a 5-by-7 notebook she kept in her purse. Many people said breast-feeding was "disgusting," "animalistic" or "not for humans." Some women told Raphael they were open to trying it but lacked confidence. One-third of the mothers who tried to breast-feed, one doctor told Raphael, failed.
Breast-feeding had been on the wane since World War II as breasts became increasingly sexualized (pinup girls, Marilyn Monroe, Playboy magazine) and less functional: Doctors and formula manufacturers promoted formula as the scientific, modern, convenient method. If you were a young mother in 1950s suburban America, after leaving the maternity ward you were largely left alone to figure out life with a newborn. There was a good chance your own mother hadn't breast-fed. Or your sisters. Or your friends. Your pediatrician may have discouraged it. In the meantime, you were setting up the diaper service, doing laundry, cooking and cleaning, entertaining visitors bearing gifts and sending out birth announcements. How much easier to mix some evaporated milk, sugar and water than to puzzle out the mysteries of nursing.
It was far different in much of the world. In parts of East Asia, new moms returned to their parents' home for weeks to be cared for. In the Latin American tradition of la cuarentena, postpartum women were encouraged to refrain from household work and sex for 40 days while relatives helped tend to mother and baby. In some cultures, the family brought a new mother special food to help her gain strength, while in others, elders shared their knowledge about how to care for the baby. All of it served to "mother the mother," as Raphael put it, and insulate her from daily pressures so she could relax and — by extension — breast-feed.
"That's a doula," an elderly Greek woman told Raphael in the late 1950s when Raphael explained the concept. The Greek word meant "female servant," and Raphael used it in her 1966 dissertation on cross-cultural practices of breast-feeding and later popularized it in her book "The Tender Gift: Breastfeeding."
By then, Raphael was a breast expert (or as some professors at Columbia, where she got her Ph.D., disparagingly called her: the Tit Lady). When her second son was born, as if to make up for lost time, she nursed him for five years. She did it again when she and her husband adopted their daughter, Jessa. To get her breasts to relactate, Raphael, who had interviewed more than 40 adoptive mothers about the process, massaged her breasts, drank lots of water (and wine with seltzer to relax) and borrowed a friend's baby to nurse.
She was an early critic of Nestlé and other companies in the 1970s for pushing formula in developing countries where women often diluted it or mixed it with tainted water. But she wasn't a zealot. Working with the Human Lactation Center, which she founded with Margaret Mead, Raphael led a team of anthropologists who interviewed women around the world and discovered that many undernourished women were unable to breast-feed or too preoccupied with the basics of survival to find the time to do so. Formula, in other words, saves lives, too.
For Raphael, it was primarily about giving women options, including to breast-feed where and when they wanted. Raphael certainly did so: at the dinner table of her disapproving mother, during academic meetings, at the ballet and the opera, at parties, on the commuter train. She unbuttoned her blouse and opened it up. No embarrassment, no shame. No barriers between that baby and those very functional breasts.
Maggie Jones is a contributing writer for the magazine and a visiting assistant professor in the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh.
Central Florida is the in-between you make go away by pressing a little harder on the gas. Orange groves at dusk, sky full of pastel color, and Janet Reno is driving the car, a rental. It's 2002, Reno is running for governor of Florida, and I've spent days riding shotgun with her, reporting for this magazine, accompanying her to various campaign events — most of them populated by older women, bright and warm women with structures of freshly coifed hair, who fawn over Janet Reno, who knew her mother, an investigative reporter for The Miami News. To them, Janet Reno is the daughter who left Florida to fix America, serving eight controversial years as attorney general under Bill Clinton, and has now returned to fix the Sunshine State.
There is a photograph of the astronaut Edgar Mitchell emerging from the Apollo 14 capsule, a ragged cone of scorched metal and shredded foil bobbing in the South Pacific 880 miles off the coast of American Samoa. A wetsuit-clad Navy swimmer is helping him out of the access hatch and into an inflatable raft. Mitchell, dressed in an olive-drab flight suit and a biological mask, steadies himself with his left hand on the door frame. He is 40, with the receding hairline and blandly gentle affect of a family dentist. It is Feb. 9, 1971, and he has just had an epiphany.
You had to have a little bit of patience and a lot of luck to catch Miss Cleo. She appeared on TV only late at night, after the second round of reruns and right before the white fuzz took over the screen. Miss Cleo was usually sitting at a table, draped in a glorious amount of fabrics, a stack of tarot cards in front of her, candles and incense burning behind her. "You have questions, I have the answers," she would intone knowingly in her Jamaican patois, before singing out the words that would become her signature catchphrase: "Call me now!"
... and it is a collaboration that makes me additionally thankful for this splendid enigma: What did you and Eno chat about in between takes? Your favorite Hammer films? Is a hot dog a sandwich, yes or no?
He drew inspiration from a painting he kept on display in his studio, a depiction of souls plummeting into hell — a constant reminder of the multitudes that even his pen, wielded by a cartoonist for Christ, could not save from eternal fire. Still, Jack T. Chick did what he could, illustrating and mass-marketing his palm-size booklets that told different stories with the same message: If you do not accept Jesus Christ as your savior, you are hellbound.
In 2003, the State of New Jersey allowed a black-bear hunt for the first time in 33 years. The resulting controversy, still smoldering today, seemed irresolvable: Depending on whom you asked, the hunt was either sadistic blood sport or noble tradition. Two sociologists, Dave Harker and Diane C. Bates, scrutinized 10 years of clashing regional newspaper editorials and letters to the editor and concluded that the two sides did not even seem to be arguing about the same animal. Actual bears had been replaced by "competing social constructions" of bears. Those in favor of the hunt imagined the animals as "menacing threats" that needed to be controlled; those against saw them as docile and benevolent creatures that just wanted to "live in peace."
When the shaking stopped on April 18, 1906, William A. Del Monte's mother bundled him in a tablecloth and carried him out of the house and into the street, where her husband waited in a buckboard wagon. Amid San Francisco's chaos — broken water and gas mains, shattered windows, twisted telegraph wires, six-foot chasms in the fissured earth — a horse began hauling the family from their North Beach neighborhood to the ferry terminal by the Embarcadero. Dawn was breaking. Small fires were beginning to burn. Houses, tipped diagonally, seemed on the verge of collapse. The city's power was down, and its supplies of fresh water were mostly gone.
In 1963, the 19-year-old Frank Sinatra Jr. sang with the Tommy Dorsey band, just as his father had two decades before, though now Dorsey was seven years dead and The New York Times referred to the musicians performing under his name as a "ghost band that has become the nucleus of a ghost show." The younger Sinatra was praised for how close his mannerisms and phrasing were to his father's, but he was damned for lacking his father's "creative presence."
The song came gushing out like an open hydrant on a hot summer day, but for Natalie Cole, it was a complicated kind of high. Minutes before she heard her breakthrough hit, "This Will Be," on the radio for the first time in 1975, she had scored a heroin fix and was tripping down 113th Street in Harlem. Drugs were a recent mainstay; she started using heavily in college, during the substance-fueled psychedelic era (she still managed to get her degree, in psychology). Music, meanwhile, was her birthright — after all, she was the daughter of Nat King Cole, one of the most beloved singers of the 20th century. Growing up in the exclusive Hancock Park section of Los Angeles, she could wander into the living room and find the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sinatra gathered round the family piano. Now that she had a big hit of her own, fame was proving to be a stronger stimulant. She kicked heroin, married one of her producers, had a son, had more hits, appeared on "The Tonight Show."
In the online video that started Kimbo Slice on his way to bare-knuckle fame in 2003, two heavily muscled black men, each smooth-headed and stripped to the waist, square off in a backyard in Florida. Behind them you can see a grill, a satellite dish, palm trees. The web address of a porn site appears on the screen. Kimbo lowers his guard and taunts his opponent, Big D, who strikes Kimbo's heedlessly exposed chin with no visible effect. Kimbo lands a blow that drops Big D to all fours in the sere grass. Staggering to his feet, Big D holds out open hands in a pacific gesture and says, "Chill, dawg, just chill."
When Zerka Moreno gave birth to her son, Jonathan, in 1952, she saw his arrival as a "golden opportunity." How much more fun and creative might his life be, she wondered, if he were raised using therapeutic techniques like role-playing or talking to an empty chair? Each was pioneered by J.L. Moreno, Zerka's husband and the founder of psychodrama, a form of therapy in which people act out their experiences and feelings in an effort to gain insight or achieve catharsis.
In 1981, the Louisiana Legislature passed a law that forbade public schools to teach evolution without also instructing students on "creation science." The Creationism Act was challenged in court for breaching the constitutional wall between church and state, in a case that reached the Supreme Court in 1986. For seven justices, the decision involved a simple constitutional question. They saw the law as an effort to force religious belief into the science curriculum, and they struck it down.
Across the length of 2016, the photographer Mitch Epstein — known for making careful large-format images that draw rich meaning out of places and objects — arranged to visit the living and working spaces of some of the monumental figures we lost this year. The goal was to arrive not long after each person's death, in those days when a person's spirit can still seem palpable somewhere among their rooms and their things — as in his photograph of the writer Jim Harrison's studio, where the items on a bedside table seem as if they were set down only moments ago.
One day in the summer of 1953, Josephine Couch went with her boyfriend, Salvatore Del Deo, on an overnight trip to the dunes outside Provincetown. They'd been invited by a friend, a former chorus girl who went by Frenchie Chanel, to stay with her at her tar-paper shack by the water. That day, amid the compass grass and rose hips, Josephine, 27, felt the rest of the world vanish: Birds cried, but the white noise of surf and wind enforced a hush. At night, the moonlight caused the dunes to glow. Josephine fell asleep in the arms of Salvatore, whom she married that fall, to the cooing of a dove.
She was lucky, she believed, to be taught by "Harvard's great men." At 17, Ruth Hoffman was freshly enrolled at Radcliffe, the women's college affiliated with Harvard, and keen on studying biochemistry. It was 1941. The two institutions had separate campuses but shared a faculty. Harvard professors lectured their male students and were then obliged to repeat it all to the smaller, all-female classes at Radcliffe. That teaching women was a chore, even an insult, was something Hoffman read on their faces. Her professors did little, she felt, to hide their disdain.
At 11, a boy is a dangerously ideal target for bullying: His horizons are limited, his sensitivity is ripe, his reactions are hot.
Famous and influential musicians die every year, but 2016 was bewildering. David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Leon Russell, Phife Dawg ... it's as if we walked out to look at the stars and found major constellations gone. Who had even gotten over Lou Reed yet?
On the second day of the first Circle of Mothers retreat, in 2014, Afeni Shakur approached the stage to speak to the assembled crowd. Some days, it felt as if America was brimming with grieving mothers, so the event's founder, Sybrina Fulton, wanted to gather many of them together in the hope that they could help one another move forward. Her son, Trayvon Martin, was shot and killed two years earlier. Shakur's son, the rapper Tupac Shakur, had been dead for almost 20 years.
Carnival proprietors taking drugs and poisons to intentionally breed baby freaks: That's the unvarnished core of Katherine Dunn's third novel, 1989's "Geek Love." The Binewski Carnival Fabulon needs a boost, and Aloysius and Crystal Lil Binewski hatch this twisted plan to turn things around. Lil births a boy with flippers, beautiful Siamese-twin sisters joined at the waist, an albino dwarf hunchback and a boy with telekinetic powers. It hardly sounds like a universal cipher, the kind of humanist tale that attracts readers over time. Yet somehow this strange, singular book has spent the 27 years since its publication doing just that, speaking clear and true to a certain kind of reader.
The year 1989 was a good time to be 13 and have your MTV. The channel gave you the recipes for being chicer, more alternative, more you; for being gayer, blacker, more confrontational; for being cooler, basically. Perhaps it was your meal plan: "Yo! MTV Raps" for breakfast, "120 Minutes" for a midnight snack. And for dessert, "House of Style."
There's a story about Muhammad Ali that might have been lost to history, disappearing among all the other Ali esoterica, but for The Los Angeles Times photographer Boris Yaro. On Monday, Jan. 19, 1981, Yaro heard reports of a suicidal jumper on the radio. His editor wasn't interested, but Yaro drove over to Los Angeles's Miracle Mile regardless, where he found a young black man in flared jeans and a hoodie, perched on an office-building fire escape nine floors above.
Role models often appear with a thunderclap, a bright flash on a dark horizon, but can feel remote and evaporate just as quickly. Gwen Ifill was different. I didn't know her, but I did get to know her influence, how it entered the lives of my students, especially girls and young women of color, whom I taught in Newark, N.J. For those like Jephtane Sophie Sabin and Isabel Evans, who watched Ifill on PBS over many years and eventually had the opportunity to meet her, Ifill created a warm and welcoming climate in which their aspirations had the chance to take root. Her impact wasn't instant but played out slowly over time, like the rain of a wet season.
Jacques Rivette's "Out 1" — a 12-hour film, completed in 1971 and all but impossible to see in its entirety until very recently — begins with an extended sequence that combines artlessness and high artifice. The members of an experimental theater troupe (one of two such entities in the film) participate in an exercise that consists of writhing and squirming on the floor while wordlessly moaning and keening. It's the primordial soup from which the film's elaborate and elusive narrative will evolve, a reminder that every story begins in chaos and noise. Cinema, like other art forms, imposes a capricious kind of order on the mess of human experience, and "Out 1" illustrates this principle with a characteristically Rivetteian blend of intellectual rigor and anarchic whimsy.
When you hear that a writer you first came to know in your youth is still writing in his advanced old age, you are at first surprised, as though he has risen from the tomb to write the poem you are reading. Then, once you absorb this fact, you go on to believe, quite illogically, that he will not die after all — certainly not soon.
For nearly 20 years, Coca Crystal's weekly public-access show began with her smoking a joint. The show's title was a scrap of messy poetry, as unwieldy as the program itself: "If I Can't Dance, You Can Keep Your Revolution." It was a no-fi interview show featuring scribbled title cards and minor downtown celebrities; regular guests included a singing dog and a disheveled poet who recited his work in a tapioca-thick mumble. She dedicated one episode to "the second anniversary of the first nonstop balloon crossing of North America." The show isn't easy to characterize, but Crystal probably described it best: "an hour of talk, telephone and technical failure." Every episode ended with her dancing to groovy music — a little shoulder sway, some finger snaps.
During a Final Four basketball game against the University of North Carolina, on April 1, 2007, Pat Summitt, the coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team, found her team down by 12 points with 8:18 to go. She was fuming — her gold rings were dented from being banged on the parquet floor. Summitt was a screamer. She loved to win. Over 38 years at Tennessee, she won 1,098 games — more than any other coach in N.C.A.A. Division 1 history. She also understood winning as a far more potent and radical act than even the most rabid male football fans would understand while pounding their painted chests.
"Ran into Bill Cunningham on his bike, I just wish I could do what he does, just go everywhere and take pictures all day." From "The Andy Warhol Diaries," entry dated Thursday, May 17, 1984


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ICN has entered into a partnership agreement with the WCEA to create a global network of continuing education courses.
The network of courses will be offered to organisations around the world who can select the courses that they would like for their nurses / members.
ICN member organisations receive special terms for accessing the platform and associations can also share education with each other through the network.
An important focus of the initiative is to distribute education in developing regions.
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In this blog post and Tech Bites video we consider a case study on running successful new film trials by optimizing parts designs, machine set-up, and operating procedures according to new film specifications.
Product Presentation and Package Formation on Horizontal Flow Wrappers
The ultimate quality of the packages produced on horizontal flow wrappers requires a complex series of events to form and fill each package and move it through the packaging process. In the following post and "Tech Bites" video we explore the many steps that occur before and after packages are cut and sealed—from the product feed and film unwind through to the discharge belt—that must be fine-tuned to optimize seal integrity, package appearance, and productivity.
Sealing Over Extra Layers of Film at the End Seal (part 4 of 4): Optimizing Crimper & Sealing Jaw Design
There is no one-size-fits-all solution for the design of crimpers and sealing jaws on horizontal flow wrappers and vertical baggers; they should be specified according to the packaging film, products, and conditions of your packaging operation.
This post, the last in our four-part series, reviews design options for crimpers and jaws. The optimal combination of serration patterns, materials, and special features can dramatically improve seal quality and productivity when sealing across extra film layers at the end seal.
Transitions on the end seal between varying thicknesses of film created by the fin seal, lap seal, gussets, and wrinkles make it more difficult to maintain the operating window necessary for quality seals:
- Too little pressure leaves gaps, or leakers, at these transition zones.
- Excess pressure can easily crush or split the end seal.
- Overheating distorts the seal and can cause poor hot tack, where the film springs back open at transition zones or "moons," before the seal can set.
The end results can be packages that fail to protect the product or have little appeal to consumers, as well as lost production time spent attempting to meet package quality standards.
Crimper and Sealing Jaw Design Options
Troubleshooting Extra Layers of Film at the End Seal (part 3 of 4): Optimizing Set-Up & Adjustment of Crimpers, Sealing Jaws, & Knives
The first two parts of this series explored the potential problems created by end seal wrinkles and creases and ways to eliminate or reduce them on horizontal flow wrappers (Part 1) and vertical baggers (Part 2). In some situations wrinkles or creases are unavoidable, and, even without those issues, most packages have the inevitable transition between multiple film layers created by either a fin or a lap seal. This can make it more difficult to achieve quality seals, and attempts to do so can lead to additional issues:
• Excess pressure can easily crush or split the end seal.
• Overheating distorts the seal and can cause poor hot tack, where the film springs back open, or "moons," before the seal can set.
The operating window for creating quality seals can be elusive, resulting in packages that leak or are distorted and either fail to protect the product or have little appeal to consumers.
This post reviews some of the detailed solutions in Greener Corporation's Knowledge Center that will help you seal over extra layers of film at the end seal by refining the set-up and adjustment of crimpers, sealing jaws, and knives.
Troubleshooting Extra Layers of Film at the End Seal (Part 1 of 4): Refining and Eliminating Wrinkles and Creases on Horizontal Flow Wrappers
Varying thicknesses of film at the end seal can cause sealing problems, especially at the transition point between two and four layers created by the fin seal, gussets, wrinkles and creases, as well at the corners. Applications of pressure and heat (if applicable) must be great enough to cause the sealant layer to flow into and seal off these voids. Excess pressure can easily crush or split the end seal, while overheating distorts the seal and can cause poor hot tack, where the film springs back open, or "moons," before the seal can set.
The operating window for creating quality seals can be elusive, resulting in packages that leak, are distorted, and have little appeal to consumers.
An important step in troubleshooting these issues is to eliminate unintended wrinkles and creases. This post, the first in a four-part series, will examine this process on horizontal flow wrappers; Part 2 considers these issues on vertical baggers.
Troubleshooting Intermittent Seal Quality Issues
When end seal issues such as leakers or splitting occur, an important initial step is to determine where, and how often, the trouble shows up. For problems that occur inconsistently—perhaps leakers on every other package, or splits only on the top or trailing end seals of the package—you need to determine if the bad seals show up randomly or according to a pattern. Do the problems occur on every package? On both ends of the package?
Start out by collecting a series of packages produced by the machine during production conditions. Number the packages sequentially and mark the machine flow direction. If you are working on a horizontal wrapper with multiple crimpers, label each pair (ex: A, B) and mark each seal according to the set of crimpers it came from. Now you can trace the problem seals back to the place they occur.
Following is a list of procedures that will help you troubleshoot intermittent seal problems. You can find additional details by clicking on the links or images in each section: Read more
HEAT: Improving Seal Quality and Consistency
For heat seal applications, each packaging film structure has a Seal Initiation Temperature (SIT), at which the sealant layer is heated enough to flow into and seal off gaps in the end seal and provide a minimally acceptable seal, and a Maximum Temperature, beyond which the film distorts, fractures, or has inadequate hot tack (seal strength and integrity while the seal is still warm). The temperature range between the minimum and maximum is the film's Operating Window.
For a number of reasons, regulating heat is not as straightforward as simply adjusting the temperature setting within the operating window for the film you are running.
♦ The sealing face of crimpers and sealing jaws is often hotter in the middle than at the ends, where heat dissipates more quickly. These inconsistencies are readily apparent in the thermal profile shown below:
Assessing Crimper and Sealing Jaw Set-Up
How Do You Know Your Adjustments are Correct?
This "Tech Bites" video and blog post from Greener Corporation explains how carbon paper can help you optimize seal quality on horizontal wrappers and vertical baggers. Read more
Case Study: Packaging Material Cost Reduction
Project Goals
The corporate engineering department at a large, international company commenced a project to reduce material costs for a variety of products that are individually packaged on horizontal flow wrappers. Greener Corporation was invited to participate in a series of meetings that defined the project's initial goals:
- To reduce the cut-off length for each package by reducing the overall seal width, thus allowing the product envelope to remain unchanged.
- To achieve material savings without degrading seal integrity or productivity levels.
- To achieve a project payback period of twelve months or less.
Clearance and Pressure on Horizontal Wrappers: What's the Difference?
Greener's latest "Tech Bites" video explains how proper clearance and pressure adjustments optimize horizontal flow wrapper performance.
Clearance and pressure settings on horizontal flow wrappers are critical for achieving quality packages, minimizing downtime, and controlling costs. We've noticed that the differences between clearance and pressure, and the proper occasions to adjust each of them, are not always clear to those making these adjustments. Greener's latest "Tech Bites" video and blog post differentiate the function and adjustment of clearance and pressure. Read more
Cleaning to Improve Package Quality & Productivity
The newest video in Greener Corporation's "Tech Bites" series demonstrates the benefits of proper cleaning procedures for crimpers and sealing jaws on horizontal flow wrappers and vertical baggers.
White Papers: From Problem Solving to Proactive Improvement
Greener Corporation has published a series of white papers devised to help optimize package quality and productivity on horizontal and vertical form fill seal packaging lines. In addition to helping you solve problems, these technical articles provide foundational information you can use to implement proactive improvements—an approach that helps deter problems from occurring in the first place.


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ISMedica provides a range of medical writing services throughout the healthcare and scientific industries. The world's leading pharma companies are amongst their top clients and they are in demand both nationally and internationally. Their work is pervasive and global reaching. In just about every other industry or profession the brief would be pretty straightforward. Wed draw up a list of clients, offer a selection of successful case-studies or portfolios and generally do our damdest to inform the end-user just how in-demand our client was.
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Learn how to bring mindfulness into therapy! Join Dr. Jeff Tarrant as he connects the dots between the actual practices of mindfulness and their impact on the brain and daily functioning. Through active exposure to targeted mindfulness-based tools, as well as live demonstrations, you will leave with practical methods that can be integrated into your treatment plans for anxiety, depression, ADHD, chronic pain, OCD, and personality disorders.
This seminar will include strategies that intersect with other therapeutic approaches, as well as a discussion of the clinical implications of research on biofeedback, mindfulness-in-motion, and nature-based strategies. Learn how and why certain mindfulness techniques are more effective than others for addressing symptoms of mood, anxiety, and attention. You will leave with an expanded mindfulness-based toolbox to share with your clients, and the knowledge needed to prioritize and incorporate these tools into your existing practice.
Establish how meditation training can be incorporated into clinical practice as an adjunctive approach.
Construct treatment plans for depression that integrate focus and open heart meditation interventions that clients can use to manage negative thoughts.
Formulate treatment plans for anxiety that include mindfulness and breathing techniques that can be used to regulate the client's arousal state.
Instruct clients with obsessive-compulsive disorder on the utilization of mindfulness and quiet mind interventions that can help reduce OCD symptoms.
Communicate how focus-based meditation interventions can be used as a complementary approach to improve attention in clients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Characterize how different forms of meditation impact key regions of the brain important in helping clients manage their thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
ADHD: Strategies to Increase Focus and Self-Monitoring
Focused attention meditation
Automatic pilot: conscious vs. unconscious behavior
"The mindfulness wedge" for impulse control
Overcome boredom: use technology to make therapy more interesting!
Anxiety: Strategies to Manage & Address Judgment and Over-Thinking
Attitudinal qualities: become aware
Thoughts are not facts!
Mindfulness and CBT
Incorporate the breath to reduce fear
Depression: Strategies to Shift Perspective
Mindfulness and cognitive distortions
Deepening the pleasant
Loving kindness practices
Don't forget the body: posture matters!
OCD and Personality Disorders
The brain and self-talk
Open awareness meditation
What the research says about neurofeedback
Movement-Based Mindfulness
Benefits of combining mindfulness with movement
The research, benefits and limitations:
Pain, balance, cognitive functioning, attention
Walking meditation
Nature-Based Mindfulness
Impact of technology overload on the brain and health
Nature deficit
Benefits of combining mindfulness with nature-based interventions
Jeff Tarrant, Ph.D., BCN, Licensed Psychologist,
is a licensed psychologist, educator and speaker. He has devoted his career to exploring and teaching about the mind/body connection. His work utilizes several forms of technology-based therapies including neurofeedback, audio visual entrainment, interactive metronome and heart rate variability biofeedback (HRV). In addition, Dr. Tarrant has studied and taught Qigong, mindfulness and energy psychology for the past 15 years and incorporates these practices into his model of treatment.
Dr. Tarrant is the founder and CEO of the NeuroMeditation Institute (NMI), LLC and provides certification training for NMI therapist and instructors. In addition, Dr. Tarrant is a Global Neurofeedback Initiative (GNI) Instructor and conducts national continuing education trainings on topics including: "Mindfulness Interventions to Rewire the Brain" and "Brain Changing Strategies for ADHD." He is the author of the book,
Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain: Integrating Neuroscience Strategies for ADHD, Anxiety, Depression & PTSD (PESI, 2017).
Other works include a series of virtual reality meditations published by StoryUp VR and the book chapter, "Neurodmeditation: An Introduction and Overview" in
Handbook of Clinical QEEG and Neurotherapy (Routledge, 2016).
Dr. Tarrant's research focuses on exploring brainwave changes that occur as a result of contemplative practices, energy healing and energy psychology. He is a regular presenter at national and international conferences and has a private practice in Corvallis, OR where he lives and plays.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jeff Tarrant is in private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Jeff Tarrant has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.
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This session aims for a better understanding and better representation of the mechanisms that control high latitude climate variability and predictability in both hemispheres at sub-seasonal to multi-decadal time-scales in past, recent and future climates. Further, the session aims to discuss ongoing efforts to improve climate predictions at high latitudes at various time scales (as e.g. usage of additional observations for initialization, improved initialization methods, impact of higher resolution, improved parameterizations) and potential teleconnections of high latitude climate with lower latitude climate. We also aim to link polar climate variability and predictions to potential ecologocal and socio-economic impacts and encourage submissions on this topic.
This session offers the possibility to present results from the ongoing projects and research efforts on the topic of high-latitude climate variability and prediction, including, but not limited to Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP), and the ARCPATH-project (Arctic Climate Predictions - Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies).


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I've been using Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ recently in the mornings just to get my heart and head in a better place before I do anything else. Here's a section I read today which spoke to me personally, but also seemed a word as relevant today as when it was penned 600 years ago.
"This must be our chief concern – to conquer self, and by daily growing stronger than self, to advance in holiness . . . true learning is good in itself and ordained by God; but a good conscience and a holy life are always to be preferred. But because many are more eager to acquire much learning than to live well, they often go astray, and bear little or no fruit. If only such people were as diligent in the uprooting of vices and the planting of virtues as they are in the debating of problems, there would not be so many evils and scandals among the people, nor such laxity in communities. At the Day of Judgement, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done; not how eloquently we have spoken, but how holily we have lived."


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At my first ever wedding fair in early 2018, I ran a competition for one lucky couple to get a massive 50% off their wedding photography. Mandy & Mark were the lucky winners on this occasion, and their wedding was happening in my own town, so I knew it was going to be a great day! It also happened to be the day before my birthday, so a double celebration was about to go down.
I headed down to The Leas and the Clifton Hotel for Mandy and the bridesmaids getting ready. They had a lovely room with nice big windows that let in all that late summer light. There was lots of giggles and smiles as I went about photographing in a natural way. I don't like to be too intrusive in the morning, and I much prefer letting everyone get used to me. Just before I left for the venue I got some lovely photos of Mandy all ready in her dress and her dad seeing her for the first time.
Across the road (literally!) is The Leas Cliff Hall, and part of that is The Channel Suite, where the wedding was to take place. I arrived not long before the ceremony to find Mark a little nervous, but that soon went away when Mandy and the bridal party arrived! It was a short ceremony and after a few drinks I gathered everyone upstairs into the sunshine for the group photos, before snapping a few more of the couple of their own before returning back down for the wedding breakfast.
The speeches are always great fun, and the guests were happily cheering and clapping as the guys took their turns with the mic, reeling off some cracking stories and anecdotes! It wasn't long before the sun had set and the evening guests arrived, ready to watch Mandy & Mark take to the dance floor for their first dance and begin the party properly - what a great night!
Kent has some cracking wedding venues that are full of atmosphere, and The Leas Cliff Hall is no exception. If you're planning a wedding in Kent, be it by the sea or in the countryside, I'd love to chat about your photography with you. Check out my collections and pricing, and get in touch for more information.
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