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Friday, August 25, 2023 6:53 AM

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Articles from the Week of August 25, 2023

Interesting Quotes

Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Brian Tracy

“We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can’t be solved, worrying will do no good.”

HEINRICH HARRER

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and common sense.

Theodore Roosevelt

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Jefferson

We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share.

Rania Al-Abdullah (wife of the king of Jordan and a champion of women’s rights for many years)

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

- Albert Einstein

Fascinating Facts (all from InterestingFacts.com unless otherwise noted)

The earliest vacuums, invented by Hubert Booth around 1901, were quite large and transported by horse-drawn carriages. Operators would drive to a home, 80-foot tubes would be put in the homes through open windows and doors, and the home would be cleaned. Obviously only the wealthy could afford this process. Booth’s first name for his invention was “Puffing Billy.”

James Dyson had 5,126 failed attempts before he created the first bagless vacuum.

Loud Animal Sounds

“It’s generally a good idea to keep your distance from lions, which is why it’s reassuring to know that hearing one doesn’t necessarily mean it’s nearby. A lion’s roar is so loud, in fact, that it can be heard from more than 5 miles away. Reaching 114 decibels (about 25 times louder than a gas-powered lawn mower), the sound is louder than that of any other big cat — just one reason why the lion is known as the king of the jungle. They’re able to make such an imposing call thanks to their larynx: While most animals’ vocal cords are triangular, a lion’s are square and flat. This allows air to pass through more easily and results in a loud roar that requires relatively little effort on the lion’s part.

“Lions aren’t the only animals that can be heard from long distances. Blue whales make the loudest sound of all, with males emitting a rumbling call that can reach 188 decibels and be heard by potential mates hundreds of miles away. The famous hyena “laugh,” meanwhile — actually a sound the animals make under stress — can reach a distance of 8 miles. Lions, blue whales, and hyenas would all be impressed by the mighty, tiny pistol shrimp, which shoots out bubbles to incapacitate its prey and in doing so creates a sound that can reach 218 decibels, louder than a gunshot. Fortunately for any humans that might be nearby, it lasts only a fraction of a second.”

Interesting Facts about Cleopatra

Cleopatra is best known for her affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, but there are many interesting facts about her that are not as well-known. She was of Greek lineage, rather than Egyptian. She was a popular leader of Egypt. Much of what we know about her is due to negative Roman propaganda because the Romans had a dim view of strong female leaders. She was in Rome when Julius Caesar was assassinated. She married two of her brothers, a not-uncommon practice of the time, but had no children through those relationships. Arabic writers present a much more positive view of her and paint her as a scientist who made major advances in mathematics, alchemy, and medicine, and even hosted academic seminars.

Counseling Articles

Written Exposure Therapy Finds Solid Footing Alongside First-Line Psychotherapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

The empirically-validated treatments for PTSD have up to this point included exposure therapy, cognitive-processing therapy and EMDR. Now a fourth kind of therapy, written exposure therapy, is showing good results as well. Written exposure therapy has the clients write out details of the trauma in the presence of the therapist, in five to seven sessions. It does not require clients to expose themselves to the traumatic event, does not require homework that must be completed, and does not require extensive counselor training (the first two of these requirements sometimes interfere with these previous therapies from being completed successfully).