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Boyfriend

Binh Nguyen — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:48:09 +0000

I love my boyfriend! He is amazing.

Brian and I at Aqua Nightclub for New Years.

Leaving Nebraska

Binh Nguyen — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:05:13 +0000

I went to Nebraska with my boyfriend, Brian, my brother and my cousin to visit my baby cousins that are not really babies anymore. I missed them so much so I am happy to visit them. We left Minnesota on the 23rd and headed back in the morning on the 27th.

It was a good stay. We got there at night and it was good. We all had food and just slept. The next day it was Christmas Eve so we went to church and opened presents. The day after we chilled, ate and played with my baby cousins. I loved it. Then the day after my cousin and brother baked cookies and boyfriend and I watched movies.

It was really awesome just to get away from Minnesota for a little bit.

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Waiting

Binh Nguyen — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:25:52 +0000

I am waiting in line to check my grades for my communications class this semester. I think I may have failed it. It was a horrible semester anyway. Sme messed up things happened. And many more sad stories to be told.

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My Life’s Priorties

Binh Nguyen — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:18:20 +0000

Focusing on Myself vs. Others
Priorities	Levels	1	2	3
1st	Self	Goals for Self	Education	Work
2nd	Others	Family	Kyno	Friends
3rd	Community	Schools	Volunteer	Help out small businesses.
4rd	Society	Vote	Get Involved in Politics
5rd	World	Travel

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Public Health–Cardiovascular Disease

Binh Nguyen — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:08:15 +0000

nutrition assignment due the 26th!

Have we been making progress reducing the date rates?

we’ve made a 60% decrease

Blood

plasma
red blood cells

transport 0x and CO2

white blood cells

immunity
engulf failure

Communication Theory Chapter 1 Notes

Binh Nguyen — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:01:17 +0000

Communication theory as a field

Metamodel – model of models
Metadiscourse – discourse of discourse

7 Traditions
1. Rhetorical tradition
2. Semiotic tradition
3. Phenomenological
4. Cybernetic tradition
5. Sociopsychological tradition
6. Sociocultural tradition
7. Critical tradition

Rhetorical tradition
- view communication as carefully designed messages
- develops a strategy to move an audience
- logical and emotional appealing
- govern by art and method
- words are powerful
- information is useful in making judgements
- communication can be evaluated and improve

Semiotic tradition
- focuses on signs and symbols as a bridge between words and elicit messages
- fills in the gaps of misunderstanding
- includes signs, symbols, meaning, referent, code, and understanding
- idea of the need for a common language
- lies in opposition to theories that suggest that words have correct meanings, signs stand for object, and language is neutral

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Intimate Relationship–Discussion Dating Scripts

Binh Nguyen — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:17:42 +0000

Dating Scripts

Pre-convied notions of how a dating encounter should proceed
culturally
expectations for behavior which are comprised of notions about what is

proper, normal or ideal for men and women
barriers to authentic communication

expressive – full of expression, serving to express

congruence
depth
and clarity

receptive

reflective

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History of Technology and Civilization–Mid Term Study Guide

Binh Nguyen — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:13:23 +0000

IDs:
1. Thomas Savery “Captain Savery” – Wrote the book “The Miner’s Friend” printed in London in 1702, attempted to fix the miner’s problem of how to get the water out of the mines, created the device “an Engine to raise Water by Fire” simply another proposed experiment, took careful steps to publicize his ideas and got it patented by demonstrating it to the royal court in 1698, the royal society then published it’s first Philosophical Transactions in June, 1699, “fire engine” limited significance for future steam engine design – hardly an engine there were no moving parts, 1702 – a number of devices were added to the operator to know the water levels in the boilers, to recycle water in portions, simplify operation by linking the carious valves to hand levers, Savery was a man from a modest background that was practical.
2. Coalbrookdale – a city has a lot of technological advances, there were a lot of canal systems and bridges of cast iron, Abraham Barby gotten his beginning making mills for malt (form of barley that went into ale & beer) – was able to thin castings in sand molds, and operate his own furnaces – 1708 he moved up the Severn River from Bristol to Coalbrookdale and took over an old blast furnace –Coalbrookdale has easy accessible coal and adapting it for iron making was very appealing. – uses “coke” (needs higher heat to produce more liquid & it’s cheaper)
3. Encyclopedie – Diderot “should encompass not only the fields already covered by the academies, but each and every branch of human knowledge” (1750 – 1751)
4. “The Rocket” – 1829, designed and built by Robert Stephenson (George Stephenson’s son) train locomotive on the Rainhill trials, basic form of the steam locomotive, using multiple tubes through it’s boiler to bring up it’s steam quickly and twin pistons that were directly linked to the drive wheel. Still needs a driver and a coal person, to put the coal inside to create the steam.
5. James Brindley – created the Bridgewater Canal sponsored by the Duke of Bridgewater, something special about this was that James Brindley put sealing in the canal so it would not crack.
6. The Great Eastern – June 1865, gigantic ship set out from Atlantic with the entire cable in it’s hold laying it out towards Newfoundland but 2/3 of the cable slipped out of reach and sank to the bottom of the ocean. – next year another attempt was made and it succeeded.
7. Chinese Porcelain – (16th & 17th century) high end of the market, remarkable and provocative to promoters of local industries, made from fine white clay, Wedgewood (master potter in Burslem)
8. Robert Fulton – born & raised in rural SE PA in the years before the American Revolution, in 1786 @ 21 years old set out to be an artist to the most successful artist Benjamin West – he went from artist to inventor, from canals & marble cutters to submarines, his patron was Robert Livingston (prominent member of NY state’s landowning aristocracy) was interested in steam boat began in late 1780s. – built the Clermont (North River Steam Boat to East River off lower Manhattan)
9. Lowell, MA – a city that has water power, become that largest textile center in America, has a canal system that has a whole bunch of factories in front of that system, brought in girls from farms and immigrant families in to work, there were child labor and bad working environment – a city that prosper but died when the depression came.
10. calico – simple, light cotton cloth, printed with floral or other colorful patterns – John Humphreys had led a mob in Spitalfield about 7 weeks earlier, several 100 weavers roamed the east London streets, they were looking for anything that has to deal with calico, and destroyed it (calico riots of 1719) – calico was discovered in Indian and transported to America – Calico act banned all products of calico, but working conditions did not improve – calico started to monopolized and took over other fabrics.
11. SS Savannah – American’s hybrid of sailing ship and side wheel steamer built in 1818, known as the first steam ship to cross the Atlantic ocean (May to June 1819) – had to switch back to sailing after using the steam most of the way.
12. Harpers Ferry Armory – started to work with Roswell Lee (1815 became superintendent of the U.S. Armory) wanted to create “the great object of uniformity” – got a contract with Harpers Ferry Amory (wanted interchangeable parts) to make guns

Themes: Technology and….
Labor
Marketing
Materials
Laws/Government/Politics
Alcohol
Globalization
Transportation
Science
Education
Business
Technological Choice
Natural Resources
Industrialization

Reading Assignment: Chap. 22, The Culture of Improvement

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Rhetorical Theory–Love Speeches

Binh Nguyen — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:13:40 +0000

Plato, Phaedrus – Love speeches

Loving like the Greeks – Adult man “adolescent” boy

why?

it’s a homo erotic culture back then in the Greek – 21st century “gay” terms don’t matter

it’s just for body and pleasure

This “pleasure” point is a controversial thing – erotic “pleasures” – good or bad?

Pleasure for man; mentor for boy

older man – they question about whether or not he could keep his pleasure in
the mentorship – could last for years and years
the younger boy

2 key problems emerge:

“whose” pleasure?
problem of manhood – citizenship vs. sexual

from being a beloved to becoming a male prostitute

got to question about whether or not it is a good or bad relationship

Plato, Phaedrus – 1st love speech

scandalous idea – that the boy should go with the non-love instead of the lover

the non-lover is mostly pleasure
the young boy is most likely to go down the prostitution
Key assumption: Lover’s madness

as your are madly in love – that the man will follow the young boy around
this explains the crazy behaviors – saying that the strange behaviors is when the lovers gone mad
once the pleasure/sex is fulfilled then the lover’s madness goes away

the lover becomes rational again
and realizing that they are unable to give gifts forever or taking care of you forever

gifts exchange – sexually (the boy gives up his beauty to the man & the man needs to give gifts to the younger boy)

assuming the relationship is based on respect and trust
thinking that it’s a long term friendship
the gifts keep on getting bigger, ultimately giving the politically power

Plato, Phaedrus – 2nd love speech

the speech itself isn’t that special (show off)

it repeats itself over and over

Socrates says that I can make a better speech (p16)

the speech is the same as the 1st speech
organizational differences

defines “love” first – that love is madness (dialectical element)

a good speech vs. bad speeches is how well it is a organized
it has a connection with the good/bad soul
question of organized

if you see an organized speech, others view them as a good soul/people = well organized

main points from more importance to less importance – hierarchy

mind – non-lover will care for your mind/soul (1st)
body – non-lover will protect your body (2nd)
possession – non-lover will protect your things, no stealing (3rd)

Socrates gave a better speech than Phaedrus

Socrates great speech

Socrates freaks out after 2nd speech, why?

because he thinks that he has spoken ill of love which is from the gods

love – lovers will take your mind, body, possession in 2nd speech
speaking ill of love, is speaking ill of gods – because it came from the gods

because love is one of those great gifts that gods has given us

So Socrates gives a second speech – this is the platonic love comes from

New thesis – give favors to lover
New definition of madness (p25)

not all madness bad, god given
god given madness is good
love is a god sent madness

So now a well organized speech is not enough for a good speech.

a good speech has to be organized AND telling the truth

meaning first speech is bad and so is the second speech

Platonic Love

if you are a true philosopher, if a young boy offers his love then he shouldn’t take it

because the philosopher should be taking give of the boy’s soul instead of the body

taking care of the soul allows to reincarnate base on the Greek culture
the right thing to do is not to give into your bad pleasures

question: what makes it moral/immoral?

Plato – it’s pleasure orientated, doing what’s best for your soul or other’s soul

promoted pleasure as an “end” – bad
promoted pleasure to have good benefits in the long run for the soul – good

to care about the soul of another is to help them take control over their pleasure

basics – friendship, politics, knowing yourself, etc.

having self control

the point of this story is about a long relationship

The Soul in the Story

The soul according to the great speech immortality of the soul – “heaven, fall, return” 10,000 versus 3000 years to return. – if struck by love the soul can return in 3000 years.
Soul before the fall

metaphor – chariot – driver and winged
2 horses – 1 good horse (good) & 1 bad horse (pleasure)
Before the fall see pure knowledge – recollection theory of knowledge

Soul in Human body

soul falls into human body – lose wings

why fall? – because of the bad horse & forgetting weighs down the chariot – pleasure pulls you away from true knowledge

the time spent in a human body – is to remember what they saw

Hierarchy of souls – soul types basedon what they saw of truth

9 different types of souls (1 to 9 – the farther away from the truth)

God given madness

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Public Health Notes–Chronic Disease

Binh Nguyen — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:08:06 +0000

Chronic Disease … the public health challenge of the 21st century

“health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being – not merely the absence of disease, or infirmity”

Headlines

obesity
high blood pressure
etc.
what is your definition of chronic disease

Disease comparison

	Acute Disease	Chronic Disease
onset	how do you know if you have this?	these are not noticeable, it’s slow
duration	short self contain, you either get over it or you die	very long, life long
cause	fairly limited – usually a single agent/cause	there could be multiple or unknown
diagnosis	more accurate	have to experiment and ruling out things

Statistics of Chronic Disease

70% of deaths
75% of $2 Trillion
1/3 YPLL

Leading Causes of Deaths are mostly chronic diseases

Chronic disease price tag – estimated annual direct medic al expenditures

cardio disease and stroke $313.8 bill in 2009
etc. – on slide show

Chronic disease determinants

behavior and lifestyle – 50%
lack of health access – 20% (unsure from lecture)
socioeconomic – 20% (unsure from lecture)
genetics – 20% (unsure from lecture)

Diabetes Mellitus – a metabolic disease involving insufficient production of insulin or a failure of cells to utilize the insulin produce (sweet smelling urine)

Number of people in U.S. with Diabetes – 1997, 10.3 million people in the U.S. had diagnosed diabetes (more on slide show), this is a six fold increase during the past …
Prevalence of Diabetes – mostly in the southern states are heavy with diabetes, while the central/west are in the middle
Age – adjusted Prevalence diagnosed with diabetes by race/ethnicity and sex, U.S. (1980-2005) – more on slide show

Glucose – a form of sugar produced during digestion by breaking down food; transported by blood of cells (must have)

Pancreas – a gland located near the stomach that secretes a digestive ….

Insulin – a pancreatic hormone that allows cells to take up glucose from the blood

Hyperglycemia – “diabetic coma” – too much blood sugar, can have too much glucose – sugar not getting from the blood to the cell

Hypoglycemia – “insulin shock” – too little blood sugar

convulsions coma
irritability/aggression
double vision/blurry vision
fatigue
nervousness
rapid heart rate

If you encounter an individual you suspect is experiencing a diabetic reaction (hypoglycemia/hyperglycemia)

feed a something little that is sugary
call 911
etc. (more on slid show)

Type I Diabetes

Type II Diabetes – previously called noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus/adult onset

other types of diabetes

gestational diabetes

2% to 5% of all pregnancies

other specific types – more on slide show

long term effects

requires lifelong management
treatment emphasizes control of blood glucose levels

monitoring
etc.

consequences

kidney disease
foot sores and gangrene

risk factors you can control

body mass index
blood pressure
overweight
etc.

Arthritis – comprises over 100 different diseases and conditions

most common are osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and gout
common symptoms include pain, aching, stiffness, and swelling in or around the joints
forms

lupus
etc.

arthritis – attributable work limitations affect 1 in 7 working age

associated with weight

most common causes of disability among young Americans

Osteoarthritis

classic wear and tear on the joints

causes inflammation/pain/swelling
leads to stiffness

progresses with age

common in knees, hips, shoulders

Rheumatoid Arthritis

chronic inflammation of membranes that line the joints
inflammation lead to joint damage

COPD – general term applying to chronic lung disease

Emphysema – lung disease involving destruction of the walls of the air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs

leading cause is smoking

Chronic Bronchitis – inflammation of the lining of the bronchial tubes, producing chronic coughing

leading cause is smoking

A public health response to asthma

Please look at slide show … there are more information there

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