The Vegas Voice 4-21

If you’re being endangered by verbal abuse
you may not even recognize it. It starts slowly
and becomes increasingly commonplace until it
wears away your sense of worth, makes you doubt your own abilities
and crushes your confidence.
One day you suddenly realize you have lost the right to make your
own decisions. You lose control of your
own life!
It can be delivered by a caregiver or
regrettably, someone you love more
than anyone else in the world – one of
your own grown children.
Here are a few examples of behavior
that can strike at the very core of your
being.
1. Blatantly ignoring your wishes
and/or making a commitment you absolutely do not want.
2. Saying “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
3. Making fun of your disabilities or declaring you do not have them.
4. Making so-called jokes that degrade you. If you protest, claiming
“You can’t take a joke.”
5. When you forget something, laughing and saying, “You’re getting
Alzheimer’s.”
6. Accusing and blaming you for a mislaid item.
7. Whilst you’re talking, viewing a hand-held device and saying, “Go
ahead. I’m listening.”
8. Calling you by a nickname that devalues you.
You may make excuses “S/he doesn’t mean it.” Oh yes! S/he does!
Those are destructive tactics that result in the abuser gaining the
upper-hand in the relationship.
Learn how to cope with the situation, by reading “The Verbally
Abusive Relationship. How to Recognize it. How to Respond.” (ISBN
978-1-4405-0463) by Patricia Evans.
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Verbal & Emotional Abuse
By: Heather Latimer / Heather’s Self-Help Tips
Heather Latimer is a nationally recognized specialist in making
difficult subjects easy and author of 17 books. See amazon.com/
heather latimer/how to overcome.
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April 2021
Eye of Heaven
By: Ali Guggenheim / Psychic Phenomenon
Until FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture
Spherical radio Telescope 2016), the
Arecibo radio telescope which unexpectedly
collapsed in 2020 in Puerto Rico, was the largest of its kind. FAST,
nicknamed Tianyan (meaning Eye of Heaven), was only accessible to
Chinese scientists that lead projects studying the telescope’s preliminary
data.
However, recently the Chinese announced that in 2021 they would
allow access to International Scientists.
Inspired by Arecibo, and twice its size, this three times more sensitive
radio telescope consists of approximately 4,400 individual aluminum
panels and more than 2,000 mechanical tilting winches that maneuver
to focus on different areas of the cosmos. It is five miles in diameter and
surrounded by a 3-mile “radio silence” zone that disallows computers
and cellphones.
Located in southwest China and five years in the making, this worlds’
largest radio telescope cost $171 million to build.
Using radio receivers and antennas, radio telescopes like FAST can
detect very faint radio wave whispers from various radio sources in the
cosmos, like stars, pulsars, hydrogen, galaxies, black holes, and expoplanets.
These instruments can reflect radio lights and signals from
objects in the solar system (like planets) in hopes that information
might bounce back.
Researchers intend to use FAST not only to explore the Universe but
also to discover and study alien worlds.
“The complex project has not been without challenges. It has a
radical design and initially struggled to attract staff, in part because
of its remote location,” says Zhiqiang Shen, director of the Shanghai
Astronomical Observatory and co-chair of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences. In 2017 Chinese scientists discovered two new pulsars, which
are “celestial objects, generally believed to be rapidly rotating, neutron
stars, that emit pulses of radiation, especially radio waves, with a high
degree of regularity.”
“I’m super excited,” said radioastronomer Maura McLaughlin at
West Virginia University, who wants to use FAST to study and hunt
pulsars in galaxies outside the Milky Way that are too faint to see with
current telescopes.
“Although we still need more funding and are figuring out how to
construct storage for all the current and future data amassed,” Shen
adds, “in the end, it will be worth all the challenges we’ve incurred.”
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and readings, email: alivegasvoice@yahoo.com.