Distinction: Adjusting vs. Adapting
DefinitionsAdjusting - A few tweaks and you're on your way. Minor changes to accommodate to minor changes, while most of your life and circumstances remain the same.Adapting - Something major has happened, and you won't be able to survive unless you make major changes within yourself, and across most areas of your life. ComparisonsWhen your teenager goes off to college v. when your teenager diesWhen your department changes v. when your company endures a hostile takeoverWhen your husband takes up fitness and moves a treadmill into the living room v.
when your husband takes a mistress and moves her into your place at the lakeExampleADJUSTING:A chameleon adjusts. When it finds itself on a green leaf, it turns green. When it moves to a brown twig, it turns brown. It's a minor adjustment, changing the color of its skin. ADAPTING:A tadpole adapts.
In order to be able to live on dry land, it must lose its tail and gills, grow legs and start using lungs. It must learn to breathe air, not water. ADJUSTING:Mary had an adjustment to make. She had moved across town. She had to learn a new route to work, meet some new neighbors, familiarize herself with the location of hospitals, grocery stores and gas stations, and get used to an electric stove instead of a gas stove.
ADAPTING:Letitia moved from the US to Russia. She had to learn a new culture and a new language. ADJUSTMENT REQUIRED:Ben got a divorce. Though he had not been dating her, he had fallen back in love with his high school sweetheart. When he divorced, he started dating his sweetheart, remained in the same home, had custody of his two children, kept the same job, the place at the lake, and maintained his strong network of friendships.
ADAPTATION REQUIRED:Tina's husband divorced her. He took most of the couple's assets and left her with all the debts, so she was forced to file bankruptcy. Because of the social set they moved in, she lost many friends. At the same time her last child left for college, she got downsized, her mother died, and she developed breast cancer. ADJUSTING:You know you can do it.
You just may not want to. ADAPTING:You have a sense you don't have what it takes to cope with it.Key PointUnderstanding the changes that adaptation will require helps you through the transition, which is often more like a metamorphosis. It can feel like having to grow wings! When you face a situation requiring ADJUSTING, you think, "Things have changed." When you face a situation requiring ADAPTING, you think, "I will never be the same again."BenefitsMuch more of you is required in an adaptation. Major life changes will require you to leave major things behind, and learn new ways, sometimes new ways of "being". It can be as challenging as learning to breathe air instead of water.
An adaptation requires strong emotional intelligence skills, which can be learned. Related distinctionsYour new in-laws speak with a heavy Southern drawl vs. Your new in-laws speak only Russian You have a new baby boy vs. your wife gives birth to quintuplets
You break your ankle in a car accident vs. You lose both your legs in a car accident.
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Las Vegas, NV (ContentDesk) June 30, 2006 -- Healing the body from years of illness, getting rid of chronic aches and pains, may be easier than once thought. David Black, aka DrDA, the Health Detoxor, America's Dr of Detoxology and owner of DB Research, LC, is living proof that the three-step detoxification system that he markets works. Ill the majority of his life, he tried everything to feel better and heal his body."My focus is to help people detox, heal, relieve pain and own their body," he explained.By using the detoxification system on a regular basis, Black said, "I have personally received help from arthritis, diabetes, obesity, chronic pain, and cracked and bleeding skin. My hair color has gone from an unnatural brown back to the strawberry blonde it was when I was a boy." He added that others have credited the system for increasing sensation in the feet, enabling circulation, aiding sleep, increasing energy, and more. The three-step system is incorporates the use of the Electro-Wave...
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Atlanta, GA (ContentDesk) March 7, 2006 -- Finally, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but fun. Teen band sensation B5 releases the highly anticipated DVD story, The B5 Story, which chronicles the bands start from the beginning of their career up to now. Produced by Jamm Entertainment and Robert Townsend Enterprises, the DVD will be released on March 6, 2006, distributed by Green Lighthouse, Inc. and exclusively available online at www.RobertTownsend.com.
Due to the high demand of fans wanting to know just who B5 really is and the enormous success of their first B5 Christmas Special aired on the Black Family Channel, the DVD was created to provide an entertaining and colorful backdrop on the bands road to success.
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Munch Music Announces New Featured Artist: UK Based Rock Band HJ21
Delta, BC (ContentDesk) July 10, 2005 -- Munch Music, Inc. (www.MyMunchMusic.com) is pleased to announce that the band HJ21 has been added to the roster of "Featured Artists". The London based rockers are now featured on the Munch Music website and their three CDs of original material will be available for sale both in-store and online. The CDs will be re-released on the Munch Music label: Munch Music Records. The Munch Music location will open its doors to the public on Saturday July 16th, in Delta, British Columbia.
The Munch Music concept is simple, "You have a Rock & Roll Dream, We Make It A Reality". Munch Music features a state of the art digital recording studio, available to musicians of all ages and all levels of experience. Our staff of lifelong musicians is ready and waiting to guide you through your musical journey, right from the initial purchase of an instrument, providing lessons with professional...
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Are you craving some air flow in your house? Is the air conditioner running as hard as it can go but it still feels stuffy and hot in your house? Try installing a ceiling fan and see if it will give you some relief. Ceiling fans create air flow in a highly decorative way. They are many different varieties of ceiling fans these days. The choices can be overwhelming. How do you decide what kind of fan and what size you need?You first need to measure the room where the ceiling fans home will be.
Your room size dictates the fan blade size. The small the room, the smaller the blade you will need on the fan. The larger the room, the larger the fan blade you need. For optimum airflow, ceiling fans should be hung no higher than seven to eight feet from the floor. This measurement will dictate the kind of mount you will need to purchase for your fan.
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Trounson Automation Settles Lawsuit with Yaskawa Electric General Patent Corporation Represented Trounson Automation in this Transaction
Suffern, NY (ContentDesk) June 13, 2006 -- General Patent Corporation International (GPCI), a leading IP licensing and enforcement firm headquartered in Suffern, New York, announced today that it has settled on behalf of its client, Trounson Automation LLC (Trounson), a patent infringement lawsuit against Yaskawa Electric Corporation of Japan and Yaskawa Electric America of Illinois (Yaskawa).
GPCI represents Trounson in the licensing and enforcement of its patent.GPCI brought suit against Yaskawa on behalf of Trounson in August of 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Civil Action No. 2:05cv355). The parties ultimately agreed to amicably settle the dispute.US Patent No.
5,926,389, Computer Control System for Generating Geometric Designs , the patent-in-suit, covers a machine tool servo control system requiring only a single active processor. We are happy to have reached an amicable settlement for our client, said Paul Lerner, GPCIs Sr....
Trounson Automation Settles Lawsuit with Yaskawa Electric General Patent Corporation Represented Trounson Automation in this Transaction
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Automakers know that rising oil prices and tougher environmental rules will increase the public's interest in vehicles that use less fuel with reduced tail pipe emissions.Hybrids increase fuel efficiency by capturing the energy normally lost to friction braking and storing it in a battery for later use when driving power is again required. Unlike internal combustion engine hybrids, Volkswagen's hydrogen fuel cell hybrid emits only water.The VW Touran Hymotion has high-torque electric motor that draws its power from a fuel cell and is absolutely emission free. The standard version, driven by petrol and diesel engines, which are as agile as they are economical, is by far the most successful van available in Germany. In the Touran HyMotion, an 80 kW electric motor provides vehement propulsion.The core element of this fuel cell is an extremely thin plastic film (membrane). This spatially separates the reagents, hydrogen and oxygen.
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Galileo GIOVE-A Successful Launch with Marotta Propulsion Systems On-Board
Cheltenham, England (ContentDesk) January 7, 2006 - Marotta UK, Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has designed, developed and qualified equipment for the cold gas propulsion systems on board the Galileo GIOVE-A, part of Europes Galileo navigation program, successfully launched by Surrey Satellite Technology, Ltd.
(SSTL).The launch of the Galileo GIOVE, the first in a constellation of 30 satellites, marks Europes maiden entry into civilian-owned global positioning systems.
The complete Galileo constellation (27 operational and 3 active spares) will deliver real-time positioning accuracy down to one meter.
By placing the satellites in orbit at a greater inclination to the equatorial plane than current global positioning systems, Galileo will achieve better coverage at high altitudes, which makes it suitable for use over northern Europe, an area presently not well covered by GPS.
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Spatial Network Solutions Announces the Release of NuMap, the Automated Mapping Product Built on the Strength of AutoCAD Specifically for the Small and Mid-Sized Utility
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