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June 16, 2018 By Anusha Subramanian 3 Comments
From Crawling to completing a Half Marathon, all within 12 months
Since October 2014, Kamal from leading a very unhealthy lifestyle to turning an ace marathoner in a years time has now made fitness & running a way of life. Let's hear it from him how he achieved his goals.
Kamal Karnatak is a busy CIO of an Indian MNC. He lives in New Delhi and works in Gurgaon. His office is a neat 43 km away and he travels by car for almost 2 hrs (One Side) -5 days a week. Just as he is passionate about his work, he is also passionate about leading a healthy lifestyle and has become a great inspiration and motivation to many of his friends to follow the same. His day starts at 5.30 am and he is out for a 6 km run at 6 am on alternate days and on weekends he runs 10 km. The days he is not running he resorts to strength training. Here is how he did it?
"I was aware of my shortcomings and kept trying to get fit. I tried several other wearables available on the market until I tried GOQii. I knew about it and decided to give it a try. I found that GOQii is entirely different from other so-called fitness bands, while other tracks various body parameters, GOQii band connects you to complete health ecosystem with real people. I got on to GOQii ecosystem in Oct 2014 and since then the one big change I have brought to my life is getting a proper routine. I exercise every day and eat five meals a day (mindful eating)."
When Kamal started using GOQii, he did not have any fixed routine for exercise. His daily routine was to travel 43 km to work in a car for 2 hrs from New Delhi to Gurgaon to and fro. Lack of any exercise, incorrect nutrition had caused indigestion and bloating. To add to these, his total cholesterol was as high as 270 and BP were 90/130 much above the normal. With the right intention to want to get healthier and fitter, he would exercise only when he had the time. He found that his normal steps per day were 3000-4000 and during weekends it used to be only 2000-3000. "I was always under the impression that I do not have enough time to exercise."
After he got on to GOQii he was given a target of at least 10K steps per day and that for him was a difficult task to achieve. So he added walking to his routine. Soon after 8 months of being on the GOQii platform; on a daily basis he was achieving nearly 12K steps per day and that count went up to 25-30k during weekends. "My coaches helped me to achieve that over a period of time and it was such a gradual process for me that now it has become a lifestyle," asserts Kamal.
He Crawled to Walk-Run 42 min to a Half Marathon
After two months of using GOQii and achieving his targets (Steps, Water, and Sleep) on a daily basis he was still not losing weight. So his coach asked him to start 1 min run and 2 min walk routine for 21 min. She also asked him to plan to participate in a 6K run within a year's time, which Kamal says he laughingly ignored. "I still remember that on the cold morning of December'14 when I ran, I could barely run only for 42 seconds at a stretch on the first day and after that routine of nearly 20 min, I was quite exhausted. My foot muscles were soaring with pain and I thought that I may not be able to walk the next day. I shared the same with my coach and she said that do this for next 3 days and everything would be fine," he says.
And surely it was all ok and after 8 months he could run for 42 min continuously. In November 2015, he completed his first half marathon (21.1 KM) in 2hrs 34 min. Now he is sure that if he continued to follow his regime he would surely be able to run 42 KM marathon by this year. While his goal was to lose weight, he achieved that as well and lost some 12 kg by now. The best part is that his other issues of high cholesterol and high BP also normalized. Running he says was never part of his goal but it happened and he is glad it did.
The plan was to go from fit to fitter
Today, Kamal's overall fitness has improved. "With the help of my coaches, I made many permanent lifestyle changes. I also realized that health is not a project as it does not have any end date, it's a continuous process and with the right kind of motivation anything can be achieved. I, who always used to complain that I do not have enough time for exercise, now always look for exercises/walking/running excuses," says Kamal. "My journey continues with GOQii and I feel that it would help me to become a fitter person," he adds.
What does Coach Kruti Jain have to say?
Kamal is a focused & a determined player. His journey has always been progressive. He wasn't very consistent with his activities (due to other priorities) earlier. But, when he joined GOQii, it looked as if he has promised himself to not fail this time.
In spite of many hurdles, he would manage to get back to the regime. He started off with the goal of losing some weight because of which he was directed towards running.
From a simple goal of weight loss, his goal changed to running a half marathon by the end of the year and he did it. Clearly emerged a winner. He is one such player who keeps his coach on her toes. His interest & obedience makes you feel responsible & you want to help him in every possible way.
December 26, 2016 By Anusha Subramanian Leave a Comment
"This is not a trail walk… it's a life's journey"
Walking a 100 Km is no mean task and we at GOQii have been doing this for the last three years.
Every year the excitement for the 100 KM Oxfam trail walk begins 2 months in advance. This year was no different with several teams from GOQii participating with close to 50% being first timers. First timers to the event included both our players as well as GOQii employees.
This adventure trail walk is no run of the mill trail walk, it comes with a purpose. 140 teams in total came together for a good cause-'Walk for Equality' and to physically challenge themselves to walk 100 kms within 48 hours on a route that included tar road, mud path, open fields, stones strewn roads and forest routes. Each team had to raise a minimum of Rs 80K for Oxfam.
Considered as the World's 3 most difficult trail walks, the Mumbai trail walk is held every year amidst the lap of nature in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra. It starts from a place called Garudmachi in Tamhinighat and ends in Lonavala.
By now many would have realized that walking isn't that taxing as much as it is to raise funds. Many come up with interesting and innovative ways to raise funds. Few teams in GOQii also came with innovative ways to raise funds such a selling lunch and snacks to their fellow colleagues at office. While some I know did some odd jobs for their friends in lieu for donation to Walk for Equality.
GOQii collectively with all its teams raised approximately Rs 16 lakh for Oxfam. That's a great achievement for all of us at GOQii. It is not only about fund raising funds but, also all GOQii teams finished well within 48 hours the required time to complete the 100 km trailwalk.
If I have to describe what the trail walk is like, I would say it is a test of your endurance, physical fitness, mental strength, team spirit, leadership skills, crisis management and the power to make the right decisions. It is also a test of one's own ability and confidence.
Manjot Singh from the business development team at GOQii and who was participating in the 100 km trail walk for the first time this year says, "I feel like a million bucks having completed the 100 km trail walk. I did this purely for myself and to test my own abilities. And, today I feel victorious and above all confident as an individual."
Similarly, for Maaline D'Souza who is part of GOQii's customer support team the 100 KM trail walk was a challenge that she took upon herself. She says, "I never thought, I could do it. But, yes with regular practice and the right kind of will power I completed it without much issues".
She adds, "The 100 km journey cannot be stated as easy. It is a mind game where I truly needed my mind to be constantly pushing me than my body. In short, this was the best achievement of my life. It has made me more confident as a person".
Clearly, most who I spoke to on the trail on why did they were doing the 100 km trail walk? 2 or 3 motives came out clear. For some veterans on the trail it was to overcome their fear and also a chance to get fit. For people who were on the heavier side, it was to prove to themselves that they can do it. And, for some others who had already attempted this before once or twice, it was all about improving their timing. Another observation I made on the trail was that older people pulled the feat much better than the younger individuals. Secondly, Women on the trail were more resilient than men.
For first timers it was a mental battle that they were trying to fight with themselves. For most their bodies are given away but, it was their mental strength that held them through the 100 km pushing them every inch to complete the race. Some like Parth from the tech team of GOQii it was accountability. Accountability to his friends who had donated for the good cause that he was walking for.
At Check point 7 to 8 when Parth was almost on the verge of giving up due to pain, it's his friends' words that rang in his mind and pulled him through and of course the motivation that he got from Vishal Gondal, CEO, GOQii who walked with him a neat 10 km of the total 11.6 km trail. "A lot of my friends donated to the cause because I was walking. How could I let them down? I have to complete," Parth said while on the trail and continued his journey. Like Vishal always says, "this is not a 100 km trail walk… it's a life's journey."
Check point to 7-8 trail was also a grueling trail in the sun. The trail followed the old bullock cart path that village communities used earlier, up a gradual slope and down across a vast open pasture and scrub land. Some parts of the trail open up to spectacular valley views. And then ultimately getting on to tar road which was hot during the day.
For few other GOQii employees it was a great first time experience where most understood how to work in a team, take collective decisions and above all learn to heave patience.
None of this would have been possible without GOQii's efficient support team led by Krishna Kumar aka KK who made sure that every participant was comfortable from the time we landed at Garudmachi on Dec 8, 2016.
Dr Ashwin Nanda, from GOQii's team of doctors says, "It was quite gratifying for me to be of help to all GOQii participants". It was Dr Nanda's first trail walk experience. He says his biggest learning was do not ever give up on anyone. Help everyone get through." For old timers Sunny Rajani and RutaSatam, being support is always a pleasurable.
But, what had changed this year from last year, Rajani says, "This year we were more organized and prepared for all eventualities if any had to occur." And honestly, the support crew plays the most important role in this entire 100 km journey.
Altitude Quest, on the trail support crew were a boon in disguise. The AQ team was there to provide massages and taping of the feet when required after a tired trail walk. .
Last but not the least kudos to three of our GOQii teams led by players performed wonderfully. 'Go Spirited'- the team that comprised of all four women players- Bela Gupta, Anitha Rao, SuranjanaKumaresh and ReenaKansal was not only the fastest woman's team completing 100 km in 34 hours but also the fastest veteran's team. The two other GOQii teams that made it to top 10 was AnuragBiesn'sGOQii-Veer tum Badhechalo who completed in 24 hours and GOQii Alpha led by Kamal Karnatak with a completion time of 28 hours.
That's GOQii #betheforce…..
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Over all 100 km within 48 hours that included tar road, mud path, open fields, stones strewn roads and forest routes.
May 10, 2016 By Anusha Subramanian Leave a Comment
"Making a lifestyle change is easy but, requires determination to make it happen"
Many people prefer to work out alone in the gym or find other ways to exercise in isolation. But, best of the fitness success stories are inspired by friends, loved ones and dedicated personal trainers pushing the individual along every step of the way to fitness. Basant Chaturvedi also got inspired by his fellow CIO friend Kamal Karnatak and got on the path to fitness. Thanks to him, Basant has improved his fitness a great deal. Let's hear Basant's story in his own words.
I work as an Associate Director-IT" with a confectionary MNC based in Delhi. My job is quite strenuous and my stamina levels were low. Due to this, I would get tired very soon and easily. I used to do yoga but, I realized Yoga only improves flexibility. Increasing my stamina levels was a challenge and the other aspect was that my sugar levels started rising.
I was totally clueless about what to do. I surely needed some advice from experts who could tell me what I am exactly supposed to do. Something clicked in my brain, I wanted to overall improve my health for my own good. I started looking for options to better my health. This is when my friend Kamal Karnatak suggested GOQii to me.
He came as a god sent angel at a time when I most needed advice on what to do regarding improving my health. Kamal told me about the step count feature, about water intake, sleep and everything that came with GOQii and above all, the fact that the band comes with a Coach who will guide and help you achieve your health goals.
He then narrated his story of change to me and how a lifestyle change helped him lose weight and also take to running. I found it fascinating and coach aspect interested me a great deal. I decided to go for a GOQii band. I not only bought one for myself also got one for my wife.
I made a commitment to myself that I wanted to get fit and healthy. GOQii states that you have to be active all the time, increase step count, taking the right portion of food and not over eat. Following these rules helped me achieve the daily target.
Prior to GOQii on my hand, there was no expert guidance about what to eat and what not to eat and also when to eat what. And I learned about water too that it is a very good natural supplement. I never was aware of that. And, about the step count too, I was unaware that every day one should clock at least 10,000 steps to be healthy. I used to travel small distance also by car but, now I walk as much as possible , thanks to GOQii. I have stopped using the elevator. I stay on the 7th floor and walk up the flight of stairs. Initially, it was tough as I am also 42 years old but, now I have got used to it.
My eating habits have also changed. I was eating more fried food than healthy foods. Even during fasts I would eat fried foods like Poori (fried bread). Now all that has stopped and I follow a proper healthy diet even during fasts. I have also cut down on my sweets intake. My intake of fresh fruits has also increased. Initially salads and fruits never part of the diet. It was once in a way kind of foods to be eaten.
My activity levels have also regularized. The lethargic feeling has vanished. My day starts early in the morning with a run or a game of badminton and then I remain active through the day. I easily clock about 10K to 12K steps daily. Considering I am doing regular running and playing a sport my water intake has also improved.
I never used to track water how much water I was drinking daily, but now I try to hit my water goal of 2.5 to 3 liters every single day.
Deciding to make that big lifestyle change is often the easy part. If you're not happy about something in your life, it's easy to acknowledge it and say you're going to change. However, to actually follow through and make that change happen you'll need a ton of determination. It's no secret that your body can often be inclined to take it easy—that's why you need to bring a strong, determined attitude to every workout in order to get the most out of it, and don't get discouraged by the long road ahead. It's a simple concept, but it's proven effective time and again.
GOQii concept and my coach have been extremely motivating. It is because of my coach that I have been able to do so much and not get exhausted. Motivation is the key factor for people like me and GOQii coaches are the best very good as a motivator.
What does Coach Aditi Save have to say about Basant Chaturvedi?
From the day I have got an opportunity to be Basant's Coach, I am super proud of him and his disciplined lifestyle.
He is inclined towards fitness and wants to have an active life in a healthy way, he is a "no short-cut" kind of person and always achieves his targets with hard work and dedication. He is a fast learner and willing to take up my suggestions wholeheartedly and ready to experiment with different challenges and natural food options.
We have worked successfully so far and will continue working towards normalizing his blood sugar levels and to get relief from chronic back pain. It is his intrinsic motivation that in-spite of having these health issues he is one who will not give up easily and this super commitment towards health is what inspires him to consistently deliver an awesome performance.
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21-year-old Dies From Injuries Sustained During Music Festival Held at Atlanta Motor Speedway
Kurt Stelzig, 21 of Rock Hill, South Carolina, died in the hospital last week from injuries sustained in a twenty to thirty foot fall during a music festival held at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Henry County Coroner Donald Cleveland says his office was notified of the death by Grady Memorial Hospital. No autopsy was needed, according to Cleveland.
Stelzig's family confirmed his death in a 2 September 2016 Facebook posting.
Brenda Janousek, Kurt Stelzig's aunt, shared an update on the young man's condition (pictured right) shortly before he died.
"Kurt fell off a balcony at the Atlanta Motor Speedway while attending a music festival in the wee hours of Monday morning," Janousek's update read. "He fell 20-30 feet/ 6-9 metres and landed on his head on concrete. He was air lifted to one of Emory University's Trauma Centers. His life has been hanging by a thread ever since."
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Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story
Directed by Garrett Scott
In May 1995, Shawn Nelson, a 35 year-old plumber from Clairemont, California, emerged from an eighteen foot mine shaft he had dug beneath his backyard in search for gold. An ex-soldier and methamphetamine abuser, he stole a tank from a nearby National Guard armory and went on a rampage through the residential streets of his neighborhood, crushing cars and lampposts until the cops took him down.
CUL DE SAC goes far beyond this apparently minor news story and provides extensive political, economic and social context that ties Nelson's life to the larger story of a working class community in decline.
Newsreels of a fat, happy San Diego in the 50s and 60s, the perfect representation of middle class aspirations for economic prosperity, are juxtaposed with contemporary images of shuttered defense plants, jobless blue-collar suburbanites, drug abusers, and police on patrol. Statements from police, historians and real estate agents sketch out the rise and fall of this military-fueled boomtown, and trace the area's social ills back to World War II, the Vietnam War and recent layoffs.
Bonus! The DVD will also include a booklet with two essays written especially for this release-Christian Parenti writing on the film's historical context, and Ian Olds, the editor of Cul de Sac, writing about his work with director Garrett Scott.
"A sweeping analysis of the last half century of American society. [The film] sketches the arc of causality from the false economic promise of a Cold War military-industrial boomtown of hard working veterans with well-paying high-tech defense industry jobs, to the anomie and alienation of downwardly mobile children living vacuous lives in a shabby neighborhood. Informative, revealing, and thought-provoking to students... [The film] deserve[s] a wide audience."—Professor Bruce Caswell, Rowan University, for New Political Science
"Highly Recommended. Both a biography and film study of Shawn Nelson, as well as an urban study of San Diego and Clairemont in particular. The film has relevance to many other communities across the country who are affected by the end of the Cold War and the shutting down of defense bases and plants. An interesting and provocative portrayal of the life of one individual, as well as the effect on an entire community."—Educational Media Reviews Online
"Brilliant… Each time CUL DE SAC revisits Nelson's low-speed tank chase, he seems less like a standard-issue nut-job loner and more like a military/industrial Frankenstein's monster, haunted by (and hunted for) other people's sins."—New York Press
"[A] terse, scrupulous film, the footage punctuates a bleak tale of a defense-industry town's boom and bust-once a Cold War capital of airplane and missile production, the San Diego suburb has decayed into a strip-mall wasteland..."—The Village Voice
"The film's Chamber of Commerce footage and implicit indictment of American industry's insensitivity to its labor force is reminiscent of Michael Moore's ROGER AND ME... [CUL DE SAC] provides an often surprising portrait of Nelson and his community, and its most compelling element is the physical presence, testimony, and reactions of Nelson's blue-collar neighbors and acquaintances...who attribute his death to the government's oppressive attitude towards working-class people and believe that his taking that tank was the act of 'someone finally standing up to the callousness and discompassion of the city.'"—Journal of American Culture
"Truly extraordinary… a chilling X-ray of the despair in poor white suburbia. The film ambitiously frames its psychological autopsy and class analysis within the historical context of Southern California's aerospace industry-fueled development and decline."—The Independent Film & Video Monthly
"Thoughtful, unpredictable, and gripping... an engrossing true-life story. More important, it's a brilliant cultural and political essay, packed with insights into grass-roots attitudes about violence and war."—Christian Science Monitor
"This is a truly poignant film, showing how, to paraphrase Mike Davis, under a thin veneer of Californian sunshine, there lurks the murky suburban reality of the American military-industrial complex."—Anthropology Review Database (December, 2010)
2003 Society for Cinema Studies Conference Film Festival
2002 Toronto International Film Festival
Best Director, 2002 CinemaTexas International Film Festival
2002 Chicago Underground Film Festival
2002 New York Undergound Film Festival
2002 CineVegas Film Festival
2002 Flaherty Film Seminar
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D-briefBy Nathaniel ScharpingMay 16, 2017 7:00 PM
The scaffold for the 3-D printed mouse ovary. (Credit: Northwestern University) Mice with artificial, 3-D printed ovaries have successfully given birth to healthy offspring. It's another success for members of the same Northwestern University team that in March reproduced an entire menstrual cycle using organs-on-a-chip. This time, they've created ovaries from a type of gelatin hydrogel and infused them with immature egg cells before implanting them in female mice. The ovaries behaved like the natural ones, picking out an egg cell to mature and pass along, allowing the mice to bear healthy offspring. The procedure marks another step toward printing replacements for missing or damaged organs.
From Skeleton to Organ
To create their ovaries, the researchers, led by Theresa Woodruff, the director of the Women's Health Research Institute at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, first learned to print the gelatin at exactly the right consistency. It had to be strong enough to handle surgical implantation while porous enough to hold on to egg cells and allow veins to grow. Through a series of trial and error experiments, the researchers discovered the best way to print the scaffolding from gelatin fibers that contained a series of tiny pockets to hold ovarian follicles.
"Every organ has a skeleton," Woodruff said in a statement. "We learned what that ovary skeleton looked like and used it as model for the bioprosthetic ovary implant."
A microscopic view of the gelatin structure used to 3-D print the bioprosthetic mouse ovary implant. (Credit: Northwestern University) In mammal ovaries, follicles release egg cells and secrete hormones that regulate the fertility cycle. The researchers seeded their gelatin ovaries with mouse follicles before implanting them into live mice, where they would hopefully go on to regularly mature and release eggs, along with the hormones necessary to sustain a pregnancy. They then let them sit for four days so the follicles could establish a connection to each other before surgically implanting them in mice with their ovaries removed. A week later, veins had grown throughout the artificial ovaries and they began seeing signs of native mouse cells moving in. They also found signs of several hormones emitted by the follicles as they begin to ready eggs for release, indicating that the menstrual cycle was proceeding as they had hoped.
No Difference
The true test of the ovaries was to give new life. By this measure, they appear to have been up to the task. Of the seven mice that received 3-D printed ovaries, three birthed litters, and those mice went on to have children of their own. The mothers were also able to lactate, a process controlled by progesterone emitted by glands in the ovaries. They published their findings
Tuesday in Nature Communications. Although this technique could conceivably be applied in humans, trials are still distant. Human 3-D printed ovaries bring additional challenges as well, because human ovarian follicles are bigger and grow more rapidly, meaning that they could become too large for the restrictive gelatin pores they reside in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5whpjlPO6Q&feature=youtu.be The results are nevertheless encouraging, both because they hint at the development of other 3-D printed organs and because they represent another encouraging development for women whose ovaries have been damaged or removed. Some cancer treatments can render women infertile, and Woodruff's lab has been searching for a way to give these women another shot at pregnancy. They've previously experimented with removing and freezing ovaries
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How Are You Coping With That?
Finding The Connection Between Trauma And Chronic Homelessness
11:23 AM EST on February 25, 2022
Photo: Lori Teresa Yearwood
By Lori Teresa Yearwood
Welcome to How Are You Coping With That? a recurring column in which Lori Teresa Yearwood talks to people about how they are coping with hardship.
In one sense, Greg Turner's homelessness started in the eighth grade, when his father went to prison for drug use, leaving Turner searching for shelter on the closet floors of friends' homes.
Now in a transitional house for homeless men in Salt Lake City, Turner, 37, instinctively answers my question about when his homeless started, with the earliest memory that he can claim about his life.
"In the first two years of my life, my mother used to punish me by slamming a meat cleaver against the back of my legs," Turner says. His father took Turner and moved them both from Germany to Utah, leaving the mother behind, Turner says.
What does that memory have to do with his homelessness, you might be wondering?
Not long ago, the widely assumed reasons for chronic homelessness seemed to fit neatly under the auspices of three general categories: persistent and severe mental illness; trauma; and drug addiction, says James Bray, who as the former president of the American Psychological Association, launched the APA's presidential task force, Psychology's Contributions to Ending Homelessness.
"But what we really know now is trauma is driving a lot of these conditions," said Bray, a professor at the University of Texas San Antonio. "We didn't know that then as strongly as we do now."
"Chronic homelessness," as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, includes people who have been living in a shelter or somewhere deemed uninhabitable for a human for at least 12 months. The number of people who meet this criteria – approximately 110,528 of the 580,466 counted as homeless in 2021 –has risen by a startling 13 percent since 2019.
To understand how trauma can propel people into homelessness, it is important to note that trauma often starts with what researchers call adverse childhood experiences, often called "ACE's." The link between ACE's and everything from behavioral issues to health problems and even to premature death, is clear, research has found.
And the reality is that when people become homeless, they are often further traumatized, physically as well as psychologically, experts say. This is why there is increasing clarity amongst mental health professionals about how substance abuse is often used as a mechanism to cope with the trauma, Bray says. Referred to as "self medicating trauma," the coping mechanism almost always creates a kind of snowball effect that results in increased trauma, which is one of the reasons why those working with at-risk groups are drawing more attention to the interplay between trauma and substance abuse.
In the dining room of the Rescue Mission, a faith-based nonprofit that provides everything from hot meals to Bible sermons and hygiene kits to hundreds of unhoused individuals every week, I speak with Turner about life after his father went to prison. He moved into a relative's home, where, he says: "there was a lot of fighting and my uncle ended up kicking my dog – a dog that was theirs, but I slept with him – down the stairs. And that ended up killing it."
In addition to the refuge of his friends' closets, Turner says he tucked himself into the hollows of the boats he found docked in suburban Utah. This went on for about a year, with Turner slipping through back doors and into school classrooms. After about a year though, Turner's teachers linked his rumpled clothes and inability to stay awake during his academic lessons to his homelessness, and asked Turner about his living situation.
After that, Turner was put in foster care, where he lived in an seemingly endless number of homes. He remembers living with a hoarder, with bossy people, with kind people. Meanwhile, some of the adults at his school tried to encourage and mentor him. They took him to lunches, showed him they cared. But in the chaos of his life, Turner was unable to focus on his studies, dropped out of high school in the 10th grade, and began living on the streets and in homeless shelters across Utah.
Sitting on a folding chair beneath a sign quoting a Bible verse from the book of Matthew, "The man built his house upon the rock," Turner says his life has often felt like a series of nonsensical meanderings. Kind of like the movie Forest Gump, he says. Except the situations he's been in almost always revolve around homelessness or being on the precipice of homelessness.
Last year Turner caught a Greyhound bus to New York City and got a job in a dog food factory cleaning the dust and debris that fell from the machines onto the floors. He stayed in a shelter and then moved into a small efficiency with one of his co-workers. New York was great, he says. He loved the New York Public Library. He even loved the traffic.
But then, for reasons unknown to him, he says a familiar pattern made itself known once again: He began to feel uncomfortable with the structure and anxiety-provoking responsibilities of mainstream life.
"I know there is something in there that isn't quite right," he says, pointing to his head. "I do think it has to do with the trauma I've been through. But I've never been to trauma therapy or really talked about trauma."
If he thinks about his past instead of his future, he starts to ask himself questions: "Why am I alone? Why don't I have my own family?" What feels especially frustrating is his confusion about what he wants out of life, he says. He can't nail anything down. "I've experienced so much and I still don't know what makes me happy or what I want for my future."
After a couple of months, Turner left New York, drifted around for a while, pawned a watch for $60 and got a bus ticket back to the Rescue Mission in Salt Lake City.
Here at the mission he oversees the front desk. He answers questions, explains the rules, checks people in and out of their rooms. He feels safe at the mission, he says. Not too stressed by responsibilities like rent and getting along with a roommate.
But he concedes, as he peers through an open door onto a hardscrabble view of 400 West, a street where clusters of men spend their time waiting for the mission to serve its next meal, he's not entirely sure he has what it takes to stick through the mission's year-long program that gives unsheltered men a room and a bed, meals, job referrals and Christian-based counseling.
Last October, Turner says he got caught drinking at another sober-living home and, as a result, got kicked out. I ask him why he broke his sobriety.
"Because I had just finished work and there was a place to buy a drink across the street," he says, shrugging his shoulders.
Upset at himself for breaking the rules and upset that he had just lost his home, he got in his car and drove his car into a freeway embankment. He was then arrested for driving while under the influence. He totaled his car and won't hold a driver's license for another year. He had stopped using heroin in 2020, he says, an addiction he got tangled up in his early 20's. "It numbed everything and made everything easier," he concedes.
But he stopped, he says, because he could see the cycle: He would get a fast food job; buy some drugs and get addicted; And soon his life would fall apart. Heroin is readily available within the unsheltered population, Turner says. So easy to get, Turner says, that he turned himself into an Oregon jail in 2020 for stealing a car—a punishment he had previously evaded—so he could spend four months in a jail cell without drugs.
He hasn't done heroin since, he says. And his last drink was in 2021, when he crashed his truck.
Sometimes, as he's manning the front desk at the mission, or when he's sitting on his bed, preparing to face another day, he thinks: "Wow, if I had a drink I would feel so much better." He prays a lot – while he's eating, while he's in Bible study. Keeping busy helps, he says. Plus, he picks up work through a temporary staffing agency once a week to pay for his drug tests and buy some snacks at the convenience store across the street.
He knows he could buy some alcohol. But Turner says his biggest motivation at the moment is sticking with the mission's program and attempting to navigate life on his own, as opposed to breaking free from its daily structure and falling into old habits.
"I always think: I could go get a job and get my own place and do this myself," Turner says. "But then I think: Yeah, but that's never worked before. I need to build myself up a savings before I go out there on my own."
Then there is always the fact that: "I don't know what normal is." In other words, he says, the drugs help him feel comfortable with being uncomfortable.
"When I tend to do good for myself or when I start to change my life, it's scary for me," he says. "When I even get a job and have a roommate and someone who is willing to let me move in, it gives me anxiety because I'm not used to that. It's about being out of my element."
He's going to weekly Alcohol Anonymous meetings, as well as daily Bible study classes. He's also immersed in the mission's counseling program. I ask him if all that self-care makes him feel more grounded. He says he doesn't know what grounded means. Centered in your body, I answer. Calm. Confident. "I don't know what that's like," Turner answers back.
While the mission provides some stability, his desk job at times entails watching desperate men cuss and steal from each other. Just recently he encountered a man lying on the floor in the grip of an overdose. While Turner waited for the ambulance to arrive, he locked eyes with the man, willing the other man, Turner says, not to succumb to a void through which he might never return.
His counselor at the mission, George Sproul, says this is Turner's third stay at the organization. Sproul says he continually talks to Turner about how "going back out there on his own is the definition of insanity."
The two are working to nudge Turner in the direction of accepting that he has a substance abuse problem. The men who don't make that acknowledgment wind up dead, Sproul says. In the 15 years that Sproul has worked at the mission, he has known upwards of 20 men who have died on the streets because of the lethal combination of homelessness and substance abuse, he says.
He and Turner are looking forward to the time when Turner's growing stability will translate into a renewed driver's license, and then a commercial driver's license that could allow Turner to make a living wage as a truck driver.
On our second meeting, I take Turner out for a cup of coffee at Starbucks for our interview. When we return, ambulance trucks and police cars block the entryway of the mission. It's a pretty constant occurrence, Turner says.
His hazel eyes stare straight ahead, and the enormity of what Turner's "normal" encompasses is starkly clear.
This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project
To contact Lori Teresa Yearwood, please visit her website: www.loriyearwood.com.
Lori Teresa Yearwood
Lori Teresa Yearwood is a trauma-aware and trauma-sensitive journalist currently covering the U.S. housing crisis for The Economic Hardship Reporting Project. A former reporter for the Miami Herald, the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Syracuse Newspapers, she has always written stories about people from populations that have been marginalized.
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Los Angeles and New Orleans
New crime novel: CROAKED!. Previous books: SLEEPING DOG (winner, Nero Wolf Award, one of 100 Best Mysteries of the Millennium), LAUGHING DOG, LUCKY DOG (short stories), BLUE BAYOU, THE NEON SMILE. Columnist, LATimes for a long, long time (won Ellen Nehr Award for mystery criticism in 2003). Prior to all that, worked as skip-tracer, tour conductor, editor at TV Guide, copywriter for Playboy.
Writer, Critic
All by Raymond Chandler, even Playback, All by Dashiell Hammett except The Thin Man, Craig Rice' John J. Malone novels, Leslie Charteris, the great Ross Thomas, Graham Greene, John le Carre, James Lee Burke, Jan Burke, Mike Connelly, George Pelecanos, Gerald Petievich (particularly Earth Angel), Ed Gorman (particularly the Sam McCains), Larry Block, Don Westlake (prefer the Parkers over the Dortmunders) -- too many more.
The usual movies: The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Chinatown, All-time favorite is The Third Man. Never can see it enough. Also, Twilight, The Usual Suspects, Witness for the Prosecution, North by Northwest, The Narrow Margin. TV: The Rockford Files, best PI series ever. Ten-Speed and Brown Shoe, Peter Gunn. Currently: Veronica Mars, Sopranos and both The Riches and Raines look like they may work out.
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At 9:11am on December 12, 2008, Jerry Turner said…
Dick, It's quiet enough for a drum solo....Happy Holidays from Jerry Turner and Bob Jacobson.....next book title: The Ghosts of Catfish Row! E Mail address...jjtmcgee@aol.com Merry Christmas! JT
At 11:37am on May 29, 2008, Patricia Abbott said…
Thanks, Dick. So kind of you to participate. I'll be looking forward to your pick.
At 7:34am on May 28, 2008, Patricia Abbott said…
Hi. Wondering if you're going to take Dick Adler up on his baton pass and write about a forgotten book this Friday.
At 2:39am on March 30, 2008, Tom Piccirilli said…
Thanks for the kind words on my own offering in PRISONER OF MEMORY, Dick. I really enjoyed your "Devil Dog" as well. Also really enjoyed BLUE BAYOU. Need to catch up with your latest.
At 8:52am on February 3, 2008, Beth Groundwater said…
Hey, fellow Five Star author! I just sent you a friend request.
At 6:07pm on January 5, 2008, Jochem van der Steen said…
Dick if you like Ed Gorman's stuff, feel free to visit www.sonsofspade.tk , we've got a Q & A with the man.
At 2:56am on September 30, 2007, Alan Cook said…
Dick, I enjoyed your review of DEAD HEAT, by Dick Francis and Felix Francis in this morning's Los Angeles Times. I have read and enjoyed Dick Francis books in the past, but judging from what you said about the latest one, I suspect your review is more fun to read than the book.
At 8:14pm on August 3, 2007, Michael Haskins said…
Dick, we met a few times, years ago, while I lived in LA and attended MWA meetings. Was in LA in late June trying to set up some signings and picked uip Croaked in Thousand Oaks. Have Sleeping Dogs and Laughing Dogs in my library. I see we are both Five Star authors; I am honored to be in the company of of writers like you and Jerry Healy.
At 11:13pm on July 28, 2007, Harry Shannon said…
Howdy, Dick!
At 3:46am on March 31, 2007, Robert Goldsborough said…
Hi, Dick,
Yes, I do remember when our books were Mystery Guild selections at the same time. Also, a poker-playing friend of mine, Jerry Turner, has always spoken highly of you. I believe you and he lived in the same neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago years back when he worked for Marshall Field's and you were writing mysteries and also, if memory serves, freelancing for Playboy, among others. Jerry is in semi-retirement now at Seabrook Island, S.C., playing a lot of golf.
I just talked to him, and he sends his best. Good to hear from you, Dick!
Bob Goldsborough


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Estimating the covariance matrix of the coefficient estimator in multivariate partial least squares regression with chemical applications
José L. Martínez, VICTOR ELISEO LEIVA SANCHEZ, Helton Saulo, Shuangzhe Liu
The partial least squares (PLS) regression is a statistical learning technique that solves collinearity and/or high-dimensionality in the space of covariates. In this paper, we propose a new estimator for the covariance matrix of the estimator of the regression coefficients in the multivariate PLS model. This new estimator is simple to be calculated and with a low computational cost. We conduct a Monte Carlo simulation study to assess the performance of the proposed estimator. Then, we apply our proposal to analyze a multivariate real chemical data set. These numerical results show the excellent performance of our proposal.
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems
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