The term volvulus actually comes from the Latin word volvere, which means "to roll".
So a volvulus is an obstruction caused by a loop of the intestine that rolls or twists
around itself and its surrounding mesentery, which is the tissue that attaches the intestine
to the back wall of the abdomen.
The three most common types of volvulus are a sigmoid volvulus, which happens in the the
last part of the large intestine, leading to the rectum; a cecal volvulus, which happens
in the beginning of the large intestine, and a midgut volvulus, which happens in the small
intestine.
Now, a sigmoid volvulus is the most common type of volvulus, and it can happen in a variety
of settings.
One classic one being pregnancy, because the growing fetus can cause displacement and twisting
of the colon.
It can also develop, though, in middle-aged and elderly individuals.
This can sometimes happen as a result of chronic constipation, where a big load of stool can
act like a pivot point around which the rest of the colon can twist.
Hirschsprung disease, a disease of the large intestine that causes severe constipation
or intestinal obstruction, therefore raises the risk for developing sigmoid volvulus.
In addition, there are also abdominal adhesions, where internal scar tissue creates a physical
attachment between two parts of the abdomen, which again serves as a pivot point around
which the colon can twist.
A cecal volvulus is usually found in young adults, and usually happens in individuals
who didn't develop their abdominal mesentery normally during fetal development.
Since some mesentery contacts may be missing in these individuals, the colon can flop around
freely and any large object—like a baby in pregnancy or a load of stool in someone
constipated—can act as a pivot point in the cecum and cause the colon to twist.
Midgut volvulus is most commonly found in babies and small children and is the result
of abnormal intestinal development in fetuses.
In normal fetal development, the digestive tract starts as a straight tube from the stomach
to the rectum.
For a little while, a part of the intestine protrudes from the abdomen into the umbilical
cord.
Once the fetus reaches around 10 weeks, though, the intestine pulls back out of the umbilical
cord, and returns to the abdominal cavity and makes two turns, so that it is no longer
a straight tube.
Malrotation happens when the cecum and appendix, which are normally found in the lower right
side of the abdomen, stay in the upper right side.
Babies with malrotation can later develop twisting of the small intestine, which is
a midgut volvulus.
In any type of volvulus, a portion of the intestines becomes twisted and it pinches
the lumen shut and results in bowel obstruction, which prevents the normal passage of digested
food and water.
Sometimes, the mesentery can become so tightly twisted that blood flow to that part of the
intestine is cut off, which leads to infarction, or death of the intestinal wall.
This can cause a variety of symptoms ranging from mild bloating and constipation to severe
pain and bloody stools.
In fact, bowel infarction can also cause the intestinal wall to break down and allow the
bacteria in the gut to move into the body, which causes sepsis and the potential for
cardiovascular collapse.
Abdominal x-rays are usually used to diagnose volvulus.
These x-rays show the shape of the volvulus, which can look like a bent inner tube or a
coffee bean.
A barium enema can also be used to show a bird's beak shape, enlarged at one end and
tapered at the other end, which is the point where the bowel is twisted.
A sigmoid volvulus is usually treated with sigmoidoscopy, an examination of the sigmoid
colon using a set of flexible tubes inserted through the anus.
If the tissues look normal and pink, the tubes untwist and decompress the colon to relieve
pressure.
A similar procedure that goes a bit further in, called a colonoscopy, examines the entire
colon and can occasionally be used to resolve a cecal volvulus.
But a midgut volvulus can't be treated with colonoscopy, since it's even further back
in the small intestine.
Normally surgery is recommended within two days of receiving treatment, or, in some cases,
surgery should be performed immediately, like if the bowel is severely twisted or if the
blood supply is cut off.
The normal surgical procedure involves untwisting the intestine, if it hasn't been corrected
yet, and attaching the intestine up against the abdominal wall to prevent it from twisting
in the future.
In severe cases, such as infarction, pieces of the intestine have to be removed, a process
called bowel resection, before the intestine is reattached.
Aright, as a quick recap: a volvulus is a twist in the intestine and surrounding mesentery,
and it's most commonly found in the sigmoid of middle-aged and older adults, the cecum
of young adults, and the midgut, or small intestine, of babies.
Volvulus results in bowel obstruction and can sometimes cause infarction, or death,
of the bowel tissues.
Volvulus is diagnosed using x-rays and is usually treated with surgery to remove part
of the bowel and attach the bowel up against the intestinal wall.
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Toxic Friendships: My Experience and Why you Deserve Better - Duration: 9:05.
Hi everyone, I'm really sorry about the
low light, but it's like 4pm and it's
getting dark here already so I'm sorry about that.
I did film this video already
but it was out of focus because I'm a #amateuryoutuber
even though I've been doing this for
for over a year I still don't really know
what I'm doing- I'm sorry about that.
So I really want to have a chat today
about toxic friendships and cutting
people out of your life. So I /Hears a noise and panics/ What was that noise?
I just filmed a video today where I went through
some old facebook messages from my old
facebook accounts which was really fun
until I got to some facebook messages from
from someone who used to be a part of my
life who is no longer part of my life.
It made me really really sad
reflecting back on when this person was a
part of my life and how they treated me,
myself and this person have kind of come to a closure
now; we don't talk anymore we
haven't talked for a really long time, I
don't think we'll ever talk again we're
both on our different paths in life and
I genuinely wish them all the best for
the future, I really hope everything goes
well for them. So, you know, there's no bad
blood between us now but um yeah there was a lot of
bad blood between us a couple of years
ago so I want to talk about it. So me and
this person were best friends,
They were my best friend ever, I
had never been as close to anyone as I
had been to them, you know I was
convinced I would never be this close to
anybody else again- this was my best
friend ever,
I would never have a friend better than
them. We we became friends when we were about 11
and they did get very very violent towards me
and did use a lot of physical
violence against me, I still have marks
all over my body from where they would
hit me and punch me and dig their nails
into me and I thought that was just normal
for friends, you know, I thought that was
just what friends did but only kind of
looking back on it when I was a couple
of years older I realized that is not
normal at all that is not normal
behavior for a friend so this person would
constantly remind me of every single
flaw i had and along with that remind
me that i was lucky to have them
annoying with the main one the main
thing was that I was very very annoying
and it was a burden for them to
be around me and though a lot of times
they would tell me they were only hanging
out with me because they felt sorry for
me you know it was this constant like I
remember there was this girl in our
school who was really really horrible to
me and she threatened to punch me once
and my friend was like "Oh I'll stick up for you"
and then when I reading back at my facebook messages
for this filmed, I saw this message for them
that said "you're really really annoying
blah blah blah i don't even like you
that much you better be nice to me and
keep me happy so I'll defend you from
this girl if she tries anything with you"
like they literally said keep me happy
that's an actual quote also they were
very controlling of everybody else I
hung out with if there was a sign that I was
making a new friend or starting to hang out
with different people they would get
very very possessive and they would tell
me that they didn't like them and it
felt like I was replacing them that
would make me feel very guilty you know
it was very like "it feels like you're
trying to replace me? are you trying to
replace me? I feel like you're trying to
replace me, why are you trying to do that?
why are you trying to make me feel this way?"
and I wasn't but every single time they
just jumped on me like that
meanwhile they have a million and one
other friends and every single time I
started to make another friend they
would tell me not hang out with them
anymore because they didn't like them it
felt like I was replacing them and then
just go off and hang out with other
friends so i have no other friends
almost completely isolated I didn't
really have any other friends, and bearing in mind this was in school
so I had still a couple of friends outside of
school but I didn't really have any
other friends in school and then they
would just go off and hang out with
other friends who didn't like me either
all of their other friends would always
make fun of me
say really horrible things about me
Once one of their friends threatened to punch me as well
I don't know what it is about me
and making people threaten to punch me
yeah one of their friends threaten to punch me
and they just laughed and I mean I remember this
really clearly that really really
upset me and it really scared me so I
was like 12 when it happened
and my friend called me up, not to see how I was,
not to see... you know not, to apologise
literally just called me up to ask me if I
told my mum
because they wanted to know if they
were going to get in trouble they didn't care
about me they only cared about themselves
They had issues of their own going on
They had a lot of issues that
I can't even begin to imagine how hard
that must have been for them I so kind of
understand and we were also very young
but that doesn't discount the impact it
had on my mental health and wellbeing
for a really long time after that I was
very uncomfortable around people they
made me feel like I was a burden and that I was
annoying to everyone I spoke to
I really shut down i didn't really speak
to anyone for a really long time when
you're in that position where you've got
someone like that especially if you
experience this young age like I did
when it's kinda like your first proper
serious friendship, you can't really imagine
what a proper supportive friendship is
like. As much as I'd love to say that I just
marched off the them one day like "I'm not gonna
let you treat me badly anymore we're not
friends anymore
delete my number" I didn't do that we
literally just drifted apart, they started
hanging out with this new group of
friends the ones I mentioned earlier who
would be horrible to me and I started
hanging out on my own I would eat my
lunch in the toilet at school or I just
get lunch altogether and go to the
library. I can promise you right now I
as horrible and isolating and lonely as
having no friends feels, it feels
infinitely better than hanging around
with people who bring you down and just
use you to make themselves feel better
I can promise you that one hundred
percent since then I have made new
friends who i know i'm going to be best
friends with him for the rest of my life
and I can say that about all of my
friends now, I know all of my friends who
i am close with i know for a fact we
will still be in contact when we're like
proper adults and we are there for each
other and we support each other and
that's what friendship should be a
friendship should be based on you know
mutual platonic love and trust and
support for each other
I know that I can rely on all of my
friends and they know that they can rely
on me too, and that's what friendship
should be built on- not trying to bring
yourself up
by putting someone else down no
matter how old you are
whether you're in school and you're
quite young or you're an adult and
you're in the last place or the social
scene or whatever you are always going
to encounter toxic people who are going
to be detrimental to your life are going
to use you to try and control you and
make themselves feel better that way and
you don't deserve that
When that person stopped being a part of my life
i'm going to be honest it really hard
because they were someone I considered to be
my best friend, I didn't know how I was ever
going to make any more friends, but at the
same time it's been about three/four
years- it's been four years actually since I
last properly spoke to that person
One of the biggest reasons i didn't end the
friendship even though I was not happy
with it was because I thought that I
wouldn't be able to find other friends I
thought that nobody else is gonna want
to be friends with me but now I have the
most amazing, incredible, supportive,
lovely, kind group of friends ever like
my best friends I feel like they are an
extension of me I feel like we have the
same personalities we have the same
sense of humor you know if I can find
people who are compatible with my personality
I promise you anyone can find
people who are compatible with their
personality, you just gotta look
although we may not want to sometimes it is completely
necessary to cut people out of our lives
maybe not only for our benefit but for
their benefit too. I'm going to leave some
links down below to the some websites all
about toxic friendships cutting people
out of your life etc because I
think this is something we need to talk
about more and something that needs to be
discussed more, I know definitely when I
was thirteen/fourteen/twelve, I would
have needed a video like this, I
would have needed someone to tell me
that I deserved better and that what was
going on in my friendship wasn't normal
and I think that's one of the main things,
i didn't realise that that wasn't normal
honestly looking back on it now I can
see my best friend but also my bully and
that's not right and I deserved better
that and if you're dealing with this too
you also deserve better. I don't
really know how to end this video I
don't really know what this was,
whether this was advice or me telling you a story
or a bit of both I don't know
thank you guys so much for watching and
I really hope this video was helpful so
i will see you next time I upload, bye.
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Why Are UFO's & Alien Life Suddenly Being Discussed In The Mainstream - Duration: 3:58.
Why Are UFO's & Alien Life Suddenly Being Discussed In The Mainstream
By: Steve Thresher.
There was a time when the mainstream press would only cover aliens and UFO�s if it
were a satirical piece, after all aliens were relegated to the realm of tin foil hats and
science fiction.
Recently however more and more publications are talking about the possibility of alien
life like it is becoming science fact.This open discussion of these topics in publications
such as The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Metro, The Huffington Post and even Sky News to name
a few.
The headlines openly discuss the possibilities of alien life and the vastness of space and
the likelihood we will find life.NASA have been have made countless discoveries in recent
years that indicate that planets in our own solar system were once alive and had water
flowing on the surface.
The Telegraph in 2011 would run headlines such as �Alien Life Deemed Impossible�.
Professor Brian Cox who holds great sway over mainstream audiences when it comes to space
ad the unknown also stated that alien life was impossible.
Last December former MoD Nick Pope discusses the possibility that the government was prepping
us for alien disclosure through our news and media outlets, by openly discussing these
subjects and slowly introducing the concept that it may be true over time you can condition
the public to accept the news without fear.
Nick Pope said, �it wasn�t long ago that UFO shows were consigned to networks like
Syfy, but there are now only a tiny handful of channels that won�t touch the subject.
It�s gone from fringe to mainstream in a matter of a couple of years.
Is this part of a campaign to acclimatise people to an extra-terrestrial reality, ahead
of an official announcement?
Is Disclosure just around the corner?�The UK government is also set to declassify more
of its �X Files� and make them publicly available on the National Archives in late
2015.
Nick Pope said, �This is a hugely embarrassing situation for the government."Last summer
they told the media and the public that yes, this was absolutely all the UFO files and
there was a big fanfare about this being the end of a five year programme to declassify
and release the entire archive.
Now they say, 'Oh, wait a minute, we've found a whole bunch of further UFO files'�.
This combination of declassifying government documents and widespread media coverage of
aliens and UFO�s seem to be gearing us up to accept they exist on mass.
Even today (Jan 16) the mainstream press are publishing article about the search of life
sustaining planets and how thousands more have been dicovered.It was just the other
week that NASA were saying they have thousands of life sustaining planet candidats.
The concept of alien life is without doubt slowly being introduced to the public consciousness.
What do you think, are we being prepped for a big disclousure
in 2015?
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How Is a Truck Accident Case Different? | The Brad Hendricks Law Firm - Duration: 0:30.
The biggest difference in trucking cases is the insurance company and the trucking company
within 24 hours have experts working on their case.
They're at the scene, they're taking measurements, they're talking to witnesses.
They're getting data from downloads from black boxes from both vehicles and they're way ahead
of the game.
We understand that.
We know what needs to be done to catch up with the trucking company and represent you
the way you should be represented in these cases.
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Simon Sinek: Actually, the Customer Is Not Always Right - Duration: 4:02.
I think it's funny when we are given advice to always put the customer first.
That means employees come second inherently if you're going to put customer first.
Customers come and go.
Obviously we want to work to keep them loyal but its employees who spend more time at work
than they do with their families.
It's employees who are asking to give their blood and sweat and tears to advance our vision.
And so it's a leader's responsibility to take care of the people first and the people
will take care of each other and the customer.
Any leader who prioritizes a customer literally saying I care more about an external constituency
than I do about the people who are actually working here.
The funny thing is a company like Southwest Airlines, a company like Costco that are renowned
for their customer service as matters of policy do not believe the customer is always right.
They do not believe that the customer comes first.
The irony is is these great customer service companies actually care first about their
own people, their employees and they expect their employees to care about their customers.
Let me tell you a story, a true story.
Some months ago I stayed at the Four Seasons in Las Vegas.
It is a wonderful hotel and the reason it's a wonderful hotel is not because of the fancy
beds.
Any hotel can buy a fancy bed.
It's because of the people who work there.
Now when you walk the halls of the Four Seasons and someone says hello to you, you really
get the sense that they wanted to say hello, not that they were told to say hello.
So in the lobby of the Four Seasons they have a coffee bar and one afternoon I went to buy
a cup of coffee and I happened to be served by a barista named Noah.
Noah was wonderful.
He was fantastic.
He was friendly.
He was funny.
He was engaging.
I think I ended up giving a 100 percent tip.
And so as is my way I asked Noah do you like your job here?
And Noah said I love my job here.
So I followed up and said what is it that the Four Seasons is doing that would make
you say to me I love my job?
And without skipping a beat he said throughout the day managers will walk past me and ask
me how I'm doing.
They'll ask me if I need anything to do my job any better.
He said not just my manager, any manager.
And then he said something magical.
He said I also work at Caesar's Palace and there the managers walk past and make sure
we're doing everything right.
They catch is if we're doing anything wrong.
There I just try to get through the day.
I keep my head below the radar and I just want to cash my paycheck.
Same person.
And the customer will have a different experience not because of Noah.
Noah is a good guy.
The customer will have a different experience because of how the management regards Noah.
Does management believe Noah is the number one priority or does management believe that
the customer is the number one priority?
And again the irony is is it's the organization that believes that Noah is more important
that then Noah is better capable of taking care of the customer.
It is a linear process and I think so many people in business forget that.
Yes, of course ultimately you want the customer to be happy.
Of course.
But the methodology is actually to prioritize the wellbeing of our people.
I think the wrong thinking about customers comes from the fact that we look at results
more than we look at process.
Results are much easier to measure and so we talk about profit first.
That's because it's easy to measure.
We talk about, we prioritize literally money over trust because how do you measure trust?
It's more difficult.
The same with customer service.
The result would be great customer service but the process is the long, hard work of
building a strong culture in which the people take care of each other so that they can take
care of the customer.
That, it's more ethereal and harder to measure.
I can measure customer loyalty, customer service and sales and return business and things like
that.
So I think it's human nature to go to the thing that we can easily see and easily count.
And in the case of customer service that would be the end product, not the process that got
us there.
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IS NSM SPRING 2016 - Duration: 1:10:55.
[Pomp and Circumstance]
Please be seated.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Andrew Blanchard.
I'm a professor of electrical engineering and the Dean of Undergraduate Education here at UT Dallas.
Before we begin this joyous ceremony, let me remind you to silence your cell phones,
and be courteous to those around you by quietly attending to the speakers throughout the ceremony.
During the presentation of graduates, we encourage you to express your pride by applauding and cheering.
This is a wonderful day for everyone.
Graduates, parents, family, friends, thank you for being here.
Please enjoy the ceremony.
Ladies and gentlemen, as University Marshal, it is my distinct privilege to introduce to you
the president of the University of Texas at Dallas, Dr. Hobson Wildenthal.
[applause]
Thank you, Dean Blanchard. My pleasure.
Welcome to the 2016 spring commencement at the University of Texas at Dallas.
This week, we're celebrating the 124th commencement sequence in our 47 year history.
I am delighted to be here for this important occasion and glad that each of you,
family, friends, faculty university, staff, and especially our newest graduates, are here to join us.
On stage today with me are Dr. Inga Musselman, Acting Provost.
[applause]
Dr. George Fair, Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement.
[applause]
Dr. Gene Fitch, Vice President for Student Affairs.
[applause]
And Dr. Bruce Gnade, Vice President for Research.
[applause]
And it's also a pleasure to introduce Vice Speaker of the Faculty, Dr. Richard Scotch.
[applause]
And our Registrar, who will be handing out the diplomas today, Jennifer McDowell.
[applause]
It's a pleasure to invite Provost Musselman to the podium.
[applause]
Thank you, President Wildenthal.
Graduates, families, and friends and UT Dallas students, staff, and faculty,
I would like to welcome you to the 2016 spring commencement ceremonies.
These ceremonies occurring over three days are joyous celebrations of the many accomplishments of our students,
resulting in the awarding of bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees
in the fields of arts and humanities, arts, technology and emerging communications;
behavioral and brain sciences; economic, political and policy sciences;
engineering and computer sciences; interdisciplinary studies;
management; and natural sciences and mathematics.
Graduates, my colleagues on the faculty and on the staff at UT Dallas and I
offer you our heart felt congratulations on earning your degrees.
This is truly a great day for you.
Please know it is also a meaningful day for those that work at UT Dallas
because here, we have the opportunity to see the culmination of what you and we together
have been working towards for many years.
Enjoy today and, again, congratulations!
Now I have the privilege of introducing some colleagues in the stage party.
First, George Fair, Dean, School of Interdisciplinary Studies.
[applause]
Bruce Novak, Dean, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
[applause]
Tanja Wissinger, Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary Studies, Council for Undergraduate Education.
[applause]
Dennis Miller, Associate Dean, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Council for Undergraduate Education.
[applause]
Juan Gonzalez, Associate Dean, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Graduate Council.
[applause]
To introduce today's student speaker, it is my pleasure to welcome Dr. Bruce Novak,
Dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
[applause]
Our student speaker today came to us from just a mile down the road.
He was at Canyon Creek Christian Academy and is graduating today Summa Cum Laude,
which is the highest of the latin honors.
As well, he garnered major honors as well.
He will have a degree in bio chemistry.
He has accumulated a gpa of 4.0000.
[cheering and applause]
And he's been inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, the honor society, one of the largest in the world.
He is also a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society.
But not only that, he's the president of that society.
I like to think of him as just an average student at UT Dallas.
He has participated in undergraduate research on our campus, working with Dr. Stefan.
He has designed and prepared smart polymers for targeted drug delivery.
So this would be, for example, chemo therapies directed at a tumor rather than a hair follicle.
For this, he received an undergraduate research scholarship award from UT Dallas.
On another note, for the past four years,
he has performed in the UT Dallas premier music organization, Musica Nova.
As well as performing in the UT Dallas chamber music program.
Thru the Texas Winds outreach program, he has performed for the community and in particular,
a subset of our community that is confined to assisted living or nursing care homes.
He has also given back to the university and the students.
He's worked for three years in the student success center.
First as a pltl leader, a peer led learning and teaching leader.
Also, as a peer tutor and most recently was promoted in the student success center
to what is called super leader.
Through these positions, he has helped our students in the very, very difficult areas of calculus,
genetics, bio chemistry, and organic chemistry.
When we finish this ceremony today and after some hugs and kisses
and probably a meal or two,
he will travel two or three more miles down to UT Southwestern,
where he will complete his medical training.
So family, ladies and gentlemen, graduates, faculty, cameraman,
please join me in welcoming Matthew Gillings.
[cheering and applause]
Thank you, Dr. Wildenthal, Dean Novak, and the faculty and staff present with us today.
Thank you, Dr. Wildenthal for continuing to lead UT Dallas during this time of transition
closer toward our goal of tier one status.
Thank you to all of our professors who have invested countless hours in educating us
by opening up your offices, your labs, and your homes to us.
You have encouraged us at each step of our journey at UT Dallas.
You patiently taught and equipped us, enabling us to celebrate this moment today.
I also want to thank all of our friends and family for your emotional and financial support and encouragement
without which my fellow graduates and I would not be here today.
Let's give a round of applause to all of these important individuals in our lives.
[applause]
We are comets today, tomorrow, and for the rest of our lives
As comets, we are proud of our mascot temoc, and yes, that is "comet" spelled backwards.
We actually like the colors green and orange together.
[laughter]
We love our D3 athletics and commitment and prioritization of academics it represents.
We take pride in our undefeated football team, which as you know, is a big deal here in Texas.
[laughter and applause]
and, of course, we have our awesome chess team.
We are proud of our incredible faculty, staff and peers.
Our experiences over the past four years have bonded us together as a family and a community.
From navigating the ever changing construction to overcoming the challenges of ochem and genetics,
to writing the pages and pages and pages of lab reports necessary to graduate,
to serving our local community through events such as Viva Volunteer, we did it, and we did it together.
Let's remember that while today we are leaving our home as alumni, we are not leaving the comet family.
There's another quality that comets possess that I want to highlight today.
Comets are disruptive.
Consider a comet impacting the Earth.
It would certainly disrupt our daily routines and get our attention.
As UT Dallas Comets, we have the ability and the opportunity
to make an impact of the same magnitude on our world.
By "disruptive," I mean that we can change the way our world thinks,
to change the way we evaluate and respond to the different issues
that we face today in health care, in the classroom, in the environment,
and wherever else we may encounter problems.
Let's choose not to be satisfied with the status quo.
Let's step up and push past boundaries and break down barriers.
Let's innovate new technologies, new research, new procedures,
new methods, and new organizations.
Think about the impact of hundreds of UT Dallas comets arriving across the United States and around the world.
Our time at UT Dallas has prepared us to enter the next season in our lives
and to be leaders.
We've been able to perform original research, participate in fellowships, lead organizations,
participate in student government, shape our university and impact our community.
These have all shaped who we are today.
Today, we take the first steps towards applying what we have learned at UT Dallas to our future.
Congratulations on your success at UT Dallas and best wishes for a bright future.
We made it! Now, let's go and make a difference.
Let's be disruptive. But let's be comets.
Thank you.
[cheering and applause]
Thank you, Matthew.
I'm going to talk a little bit about things that change and things that remain the same.
Things that remain the same at UT Dallas over our entire history
are dedicated faculty and great students.
And yes, Dean Novak, our students are all above average, both figureatively and literally.
We've got above average human beings at UT Dallas.
This is my 23rd spring commencement at UT Dallas
and we also used to have summer commencement and always have winter commencement.
So all in all, I must have experienced 50 weeks of commencement,
given that we also have many ceremonies each week,
I calculated it must have been more than 200 that I have sat through
and, generally, that's what I've been doing is sitting through them.
What has changed at UT Dallas over these 23 years?
And by the way, I'm still a relative newcomer compared to some colleagues on the stage.
But for one thing, we didn't have this activity center.
There was a time when we had graduation outside
And it was threatening rain like today, people were very anxious,
but even worse was the times it was 100 degrees.
The last time we tried it outside, it was 100 degrees and people fainted,
and we decided never again.
Those early days, we then went to the Richardson Civic Center, and we got bigger,
and that was too small, and we moved to the Plano Civic Center.
And one year, we forgot to make a reservation
and they scheduled the national cat show at the time of graduation.
So we had to move back to Richardson. But then we built the activity center.
During those 200 odd ceremonies, I've listened to a lot of speeches.
It's one thing about hearing the same speech many times,
it rarely, rarely gets better. In fact, I've never experienced it.
If it's not a good speech, it gets worse.
So that's a real challenge for me.
Some of my colleagues on stage have now listened to me for the eighth time,
but this will be the last.
It's one reason I love our student speakers.
I get to hear each of them one time, and it's always great,
and then we have somebody different.
These are kind of trivial jokes.
What's important about graduation and what never gets old and never fails to inspire
all of us who work at and work for UT Dallas,
is the thrill of sharing with you, our students, your joy and pride of accomplishment
as you graduate.
Believe me, you inspire us and, particularly, we enjoy being with you on this day
where you've got nothing else to do but have fun and enjoy.
No homework, no tests. Just pure enjoyment.
So after 23 years, I'm going to give the speech.
And what do I have to say to you graduates and your family and friends?
I want to convey just a little bit of what I think and feel about UT Dallas
and hopefully it will resonate with your own thinkings and feelings about our university.
I could write a book about all I think and feel about UT Dallas,
but brevity is the soul of wit and it's also the essence of compassion for the audience,
so I'm not going to read you my book.
Simply speaking, I feel proud of our university, UT Dallas.
Proud of our students, particularly today of you graduates,
proud of our faculty and of my administrative and staff colleagues.
I am proud of our buildings, old and new, and of our campus landscape.
And most of all, I am proud of the reputation that we have earned among knowledgeable members
of the educated community.
That reputation is that UT Dallas is the home of bright, hard working, hard studying students,
and dedicated accomplished faculty.
It is that we do education the right way,
and that we are steadily and rapidly ascending to the highest ranks of American universities.
You and your families should feel that same pride in UT Dallas and feel particularly proud to be its graduates.
This pride is well justified by the objection facts.
Our students' intellectual distinction ranks them with America's best.
Our faculty members' achievements in research, creativity, and teaching
are increasingly recognized by competitive awards.
And now, our landscape and our buildings excite the admiration of all visitors.
Our achievements are striking envy and maybe even fear among our fellow universities,
as more and more outstanding students such as yourselves choosing UT Dallas as the runway
to take off into the future.
You graduates have been at UT Dallas during a time of amazing growth and progress.
There's good reason to believe that progress will continue.
Your fellow alumns who entered UT Dallas, left UT Dallas about the time you entered,
come back and say we can't find our way around campus.
We don't recognize anything.
Don't stay away too long after you leave today, or you'll have the same problem when you come back,
and we want you to come back.
We think you graduates made wise choices when you enrolled at UT Dallas.
We know you worked hard at a really demanding school,
and you succeeded and are graduating.
We are grateful that you chose us, and we thank you for your confidence in us.
You are now wed to us, your alma mater, through unbreakable bonds.
And we are wed to you. Let us have a long and happy relationship.
Congratulations.
[applause]
Now I invite to the podium Dean of Undergraduate Education, Dr. Andy Blanchard.
[applause]
Thank you, President Wildenthal.
I would like to offer a special recognition for those students graduating with honors today.
All candidates graduating with latin honors,
including cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude, please stand.
[applause]
Candidates, please be seated.
Collegium V is UTD's four year honors program.
I would like to invite all CV graduates here to stand and be recognized.
[cheering and applause]
Please be seated.
Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest, and most selective all discipline honor society.
All Phi Kappa Phi members, please stand and be recognized.
[cheering and applause]
Please be seated.
It is now my honor to certify the candidates for undergraduate degrees.
Will all candidates who are to receive the bachelor degree please rise and remain standing.
That's you guys.
[cheering and applause]
Dr. Wildenthal, on behalf of the faculty, I certify to you that those candidates who have completed all
of their academic requirements are entitled to respect their respective degrees.
Candidates, please be seated.
now it's my pleasure to invite to the podium Dr. Marion Underwood, Dean of Graduate Studies.
[applause]
Thank you, President Wildenthal.
Today's commencement ceremony is the highlight of the academic calendar.
We gather to recognize and celebrate your dedication, hard work,
and the glorious achievement of earning your degrees.
We know without a doubt you have gained a great deal of knowledge.
However, as Albert Einstein reminds us, Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we know now and understand
while imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there will ever be to know and understand.
We hope you will use your imaginations to pursue new directions, to acquire new knowledge,
and then to apply it wisely.
I would also like to recognize the tremendous contributions, commitment, and sacrifices
of the parents, families and friends that make this day a reality.
Students succeed not only because of their own efforts,
but because of the support they receive from families and friends.
So to our graduates and their families, congratulations, good luck, good success,
and best wishes for your very bright futures.
Will all candidates who are to receive master's degrees, please rise and remain standing.
[cheering and applause]
Dr. Wildenthal, on behalf of the faculty, I certify that the candidates who have completed
all of their academic requirements are entitled to receive their master's degrees.
Candidates, please be seated.
Earlier this week, a special recognition ceremony was conducted for graduating doctoral students.
Each student who participated in this ceremony invited his or her advisor
or another UT Dallas faculty member to assist me in placing the doctoral hood
of their commencement regalia over their heads.
The conferral signified the success of the candidate in completing his or her program of studies,
leading to the highest academic degree offered by UT Dallas.
Since the doctoral recipients are already hooded, it now only remains for them to receive their diplomas.
I ask that all doctoral candidates now stand to be recognized.
[cheering and applause]
Candidates, please be seated.
Another formality, an important one.
Now, by virtue of the authority vested by law in the board of regents of the University of Texas system,
I confer upon each of you the respective academic degree for which you have been recommended,
with all the rights, privileges, responsibilities, and obligations appertaining thereunto,
and I offer you my sincere congratulations.
Graduates will now take the stage to receive your diplomas.
This concludes the presentation of degrees.
It is now my pleasure to hand the podium over to Dr. Wildenthal.
[cheering and applause]
I'd like to thank the university staff who planned and carried out the commencement ceremonies today
and express my appreciation to the faculty and administrators who also participated.
I'd like to particularly thank my staff and colleagues who have the most challenging job,
pronouncing all of our names, that is Daniel Calhoun, Chris McAlpine, and Paul Teel.
Thank you, colleagues.
[applause]
And now would you graduates please rise.
Not at this instant, but in just a moment,
it will be time to turn your tassels from the right side to the left.
Again, if you ever forget which side it goes on, from now on, it goes on the left
over your heart to remind you of your alma mater, UT Dallas.
Graduates, now turn your tassels over to the left.
[cheering and applause]
You may be seated, graduates.
Let me be the first to offer you my congratulations and my best wishes for a great future.
In addition to earning your degrees, of course you become members of the UT Dallas Alumni Association.
It's a wonderful milestone in your life and also in ours.
We wish you the best as you go into your new lives as graduates.
Enjoy today's celebration with your friends and families and come back to see us in the future.
Now, as your first official act as alumns of UT Dallas, I would like to ask you, again to rise,
I'd like to ask our guests to rise, as we all sing the alma mater, led by our student, Victor Vinh.
[cheering and applause]
Please be seated.
Almost there. Hang tight.
Congratulations, graduates. Well done.
In a moment, the stage party will recess through the rear doors of the auditorium,
after which our new graduates will also recess.
Graduates, please pay attention to the staff from the office of the registrar
as they ask you to stand one row at a time to recess.
Once the graduates have left, friends and family may leave the doors from which you entered,
exit out of the north entrance and turn right,
and you can join your graduates on the campus mall.
Please enjoy the music of the encore brass as the ceremony closes.
[music]
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To LoVe HeR iS tO kNoW hER%2C ThE BeAtLeS CoVeR - Duration: 2:52.
To know, know, know her Is to love, love, love her
Just to see her smile Makes my life worthwhile
Yes, just to know, know, know her Is to love, love, love her And I do and I do And I do
I'll be good to her I'll make love to her
Everyone says there'll come a day When I walk alongside of her
Yes, just to know, know, know her Is to love, love, love her And I do and I and I do And I do And I and I do and I and I do and I
Why can't she see?
How blind can she be?
Some day, she'll see That she was meant just for me
To know, know, know her Is to love, love, love her
Just to see her smile Makes my life worthwhile
Yes, just to know, know, know her Is to love, love, love her
And I do and I and I do And I do And I and I do and I and I do and I
Why can't she see?
How blind can she be?
Some day, she'll see
That she was meant just for me
To know, know, know her Is to love, love, love her
Just to see her smile Makes my life worthwhile
Yes, just to know, know, know her Is to love, love, love her And I do and I do And I do
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