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Mabel Loján presented on integrative medicine from a far broader perspective than I usually tackle the subject. This proved very informative for me, and a chance to expand my own thinking on a more holistic approach to healing. As an opening definition Dr. Loján noted that we are divine in ourselves and we have the innate ability to heal. Dr. Loján then led the class in a standing awareness meditation with a focus on breathing and each of the five senses separately. Dr. Loján explained that we do not have pharmaceutical medicine that is intended to treat emotions per se. At the heart of integrative medicine is seeing each patient as a whole individual. Doctors tend to focus only the disease and treat a disease the same way in every patient. Doctors are almost infamous for not making small talk, assessing a patient's emotional state and emotional relationship with their disease. Integrative specialists see the person both a whole and as an interconnected part of ...

The experiment in running MS 101 Algebra and Trigonometry outside of the A204 computer laboratory using personal technology continues. The class was a late addition to the schedule. One theory at the college is that these late added courses tend to wind up with less "organized" students, students who were not sufficiently organized to register early or during regular registration. The class launched with 26 students and has lost six of the 26 due to excessive absences. These are absences well in excess of two weeks worth of absences. This loss may reflect the nature of the student who winds up in a class added late to the schedule. Of the remaining twenty students, fourteen are passing the class as of midterm, with four of those passes in the 60% to 70% band. Thus only half the class, ten of the remaining twenty, are passing with a score above 70%. Absenteeism may also underlay the poor performances seen in the course. The remaining students have an average of 5.15 a...

Measuring the speed of sound proved difficult in the 8:00 morning section. The sun was out and the sun angle was horrific. Between glare off of the asphalt and glare off of cars, visibility was problematic at best. Heavy traffic associated in some way with the tuna commission and general college traffic plagued the best efforts of the eight o'clock class. I too recalled the importance of a baseball cap and brim to eliminate sky glare. I was generally unable to see the clapper in the conditions at 8:00. Adding insult to injury, a number of distances were knocked out by a weed whacking crew cutting grass around the gym, again, in activity related to upcoming tuna commission meetings. VanDamme takes up clapping, Ardy on communications Anticipating traffic problems, I moved the clapping crew west away from the main junction. This would also inadvertently push the most optimal measuring distances out at 300 and 350 meters into the center of the weed whacking zone. Too, the c...

Unit eight is now firmly centered on weather, climate, and El Niño. Day one begins in MITC with a cloud video focused playlist . Day two is spent setting up the El Niño presentation groups for Friday. Day three begins in the computer laboratory with an updated climate change video playlist.  The sequence well sets the stage for drawing a scientifically accurate image of a cloud - the Luke Howard video is especially useful, as is a slide show of clouds of Pohnpei shared after the climate change videos. Cloud drawings, sequenced Myreen working on a cloud drawing Yostrick Mike and Elymore VanDamme, Ardy, Elisa Justice Amy-Lang, Melsina Mayleen Araisang, Dee-L Amy-Lang, Melsina Johsper Phillip Sunet, Mayleen The reaction of the judges was that overall the quality of the drawings has slipped. Speculation included the possibility that smartphone usage from a younger age has negatively impacted coloring capabilities. The ...

This term rather than a walk and talk about the role of food in memory and a sense of well-being, weather conditions during the week suggested an alternate start in the computer laboratory and the use of a playlist of videos to convey the same information. My own head cold on Tuesday permitted me to use myself as an example of not being able to taste food, and to make the point that taste is really the brain lying to you about the source of taste. Taste is really smell, which the brain then imputes to the tongue. Thursday the students brought a local food to share. Rohtamahn mwahng Emerika brought rohtaman mwahng, rohtama made from hard swamp taro. Vincent and Shane presenting banana chips: uht prain Jamie and Kimsky with tapioca Also known as moanioak, which derives from the name manioc. Tapioca is also known as mendioka on Guam, which is very similar to the Brazilian name mandioca. In Ecuador the plant is known as yuca, and in west Africa as cassava. ...