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- The role of the parent is to support the student with a hands-off approach throughout the study abroad journey.
- Let the student take the initiative to complete the study abroad application process.
- Be a sounding board for the student, but have the student make the final decision.
Staying In Touch
When your student is abroad, the most effective way to put your mind at ease is deciding on a reliable form of communication.
- Zoom / Skype/Instant messaging: This allows chatting and/ or video calls, it is free to download, and typically free to use. However, web cameras will be needed for video calls.
- Phone cards or International cell phones: These can be more expensive, but allow for communication in places lacking internet connection.
- Set a date: Choose a day and time during the week where you and your student can talk without being rushed.
- Visiting your student while abroad: This is not highly recommended during the beginning of their journey, but once they have adapted to their new environment, visiting is welcomed.
Culture Shock and Homesickness
- Almost anyone who travels, works, or studies abroad will experience culture shock to some degree. This is not only a normal part of the experience, but may actually present your student with some of the best opportunities for intercultural learning and personal growth. Culture shock is rarely identified as such by the person experiencing it. Rather, your student may feel that there is a problem with the host country, the program, or the local population. This may be true even if they have been versed in the "symptoms."
- Remember, you are much more likely to hear the negatives than the positives, as students are more likely to contact in times of frustration. When this happens, it is important to remind your student that while differences can be uncomfortable, they can also contribute to a great experience. Avoid getting overly involved. Encourage them to stay positive and to work things out on their own, while still letting them know that you are there to listen to and support them.
- If your student calls home, telling you that he or she wishes to come home and that they made a mistake by going abroad, the best way to handle this is to be patient. Often, the student is just experiencing the discomfort that comes with living in a new place that has different values, expectations, standards, and practices than those at home. Dealing with this adjustment without his or her usual support network makes this more difficult, but certainly not impossible. Encourage them to hang in there and make the most of everyday until they come home. In serious cases, your student should contact the on-site staff or their study abroad adviser.

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Elizabeth Taylor's romances with Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy exposed in tell-all
Movie icon ELIZABETH TAYLOR allegedly slept with RONALD REAGAN when she was a teenager and enjoyed three-way sex with PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY and actor ROBERT STACK, according to an explosive new biography.
Authors Danforth Prince and Darwin Potter have spent years tracking down the scandalous details of the actress' romances and affairs and they have laid her love life bare in new tome Elizabeth Taylor: There is Nothing Like a Dame.
In the unauthorised biography, which promises "all the gossip unfit to print from the glory days of Hollywood", Prince and Porter claim Reagan was 36 when he invited a teenage Taylor to dine with him at his home in the Hollywood Hills - and she seduced him.
According to the book, she told a close pal, "Reagan was treating me like a grown woman, and that thrilled me. We sat on his sofa and I could tell he wanted to get it on but he seemed reluctant to make the first move. I became the aggressor.
"After a heavy make-out session on the sofa, we went into the bedroom."
The book's revelations about Taylor's fling with Kennedy will shock many readers - Prince and Porter claim a nude dip in the politician's pool turned into a threeway with Taylor and Stack.
The authors claim the actress went on to have sexual encounters with stars including Peter Lawford, Errol Flynn, Tony Curtis, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra.
Her romance with Ol' Blue Eyes fell flat after she became too serious and allegedly told Sinatra she was expecting his child in a bid to blackmail him into marrying her.


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Being Obese May Make Job Search Tougher
'Employers' in study unknowingly rated same women higher after weight-loss surgery
Thursday, May 17, 2012
The end result: The "employers" in the study rated these six women more poorly when their photos were taken when they were obese.
For the research, published recently in the International Journal of Obesity, the 95 raters actually were New Zealand undergraduate students who weren't aware that weight bias was the real focus of the study.
"Clearly, these were not actual employers," said study co-author Janet Latner, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii. "But they are people who will enter the workforce, and the underlying prejudice that they're displaying could ultimately affect their decisions regarding future colleagues."
The study participants -- mostly female -- received information packages on "candidates" to evaluate for a potential managerial position. The bogus resumes were equivalent as far as skills, experience and education.
The women shown in the photos had been located on websites. To rule out other appearance-based biases, the six women were of similar ages, from 29 to 32, and of European descent.
Before surgery, the women's body-mass index (BMI) -- a measure of body fat based on weight and height -- ranged from 38 to 41. A BMI of 30 or more is considered obese. After surgery, the women's BMI ranged from 22 to 24, considered normal weight.
The student "employers" rated candidates for starting salary, leadership potential and likelihood of being hired.
Based on the ratings, larger women had less chance of being hired. And if they managed to pass that hurdle, they still would have faced lower salaries and limited career progression.
The more attractive the raters considered themselves, the stronger the weight bias they displayed, researchers found. Having personality traits such as authoritarianism also was associated with being more biased.
Males weren't evaluated in the study, which leaves open the question of whether obese men face a similar bias.
"Men certainly face discrimination as well, but the research shows that they have to get to a higher weight in order for their weight to be consequential," said Michaela Null, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., whose research focus is fat studies.
Such hiring bias isn't just a hypothetical. In 2011, a Texas hospital instituted a policy that job candidates had to have a BMI of less than 35, but the hospital withdrew the policy in April.
"We sent a letter to [the hospital] that this was not acceptable," said James Zervios, director of communications for the Obesity Action Coalition. "The CEO spoke with our president and said the policy wouldn't be used. It was short and sweet. They realized they had done wrong, and they reversed it and did the right thing."
Only Michigan has a state law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of weight, along with several municipalities, said Justine Lisser, a senior attorney and adviser at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The Americans With Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against the morbidly obese, Lisser said. Defined as a BMI of 40 or higher, morbid obesity contributes to a variety of medical conditions.
"There are, however, people who might be 'fat' or who may have a BMI that is higher than what is considered healthy, but not so high as to constitute morbid obesity," she added. "Unfortunately, these people would not be covered by our laws prohibiting discrimination because they would not have a covered disability."
"The entire thrust of [the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's] mission is to have people considered for employment based on their qualifications and experience -- not on irrelevant factors," Lisser said.
Null described weight bias as a cultural problem, intertwined with issues of race, gender, poverty and class.
"You also have to look at before-hiring practices -- at the kinds of social networks people have, especially in today's economy, where you're more likely to get a job based on if someone recommended you," she said. "If you think about the stigma associated with [obesity] -- if you know that's not going to reflect positively on you, you may not recommend that person."
"Obesity prejudice is really the last acceptable form of prejudice," said Latner. "There needs to be legislation in place to protect obese workers from discrimination. We really need to protect that part of our workforce."
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Visitors are welcome and encouraged at Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center. Family and friends play a key role in helping our loved ones recover during and after their stay in the hospital.
Visitors include any person of the patient's choosing (if the patient has decision-making capacity) regardless of sex, economic status, educational background, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, sexual identity, gender identity, or marital status.
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The Metropolitan police have said that using the word 'Yid' at White Hart Lane is no longer an arrestable offence.
The police were asked for their position on the controversial term by Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust (THST) in a police and safety forum meeting last Monday.
However, Constable Steve Payne, Football Intelligence Officer for the Met, said fans could still be arrested for using the word if a complaint was made against them.
He added that there was a difference between anti-semitic holocaust songs directed at Spurs fans, which he said was an offence, and Spurs fans singing the Y-word, which was not.
Spurs fans have said they never use the word 'Yid' in a malicious way, despite its offensive connotations to Jewish people.
The FA warned that Spurs supports, who refer to themselves the 'Yid Army', could face criminal charges if they use the term.
The board of the supporters trust said in a statement fans mean no offence to members of the Jewish community when they use the term.
On March 7 the Crown Prosecution Service discontinued cases made against three Spurs fans arrested for using the word.
THST said that the arrest and charge of those fans was "unnecessary and unwarranted", adding that it raised issues surrounding "the right to free speech" and "did not take account of the context in which the wording was used".
The trust added that the police's approach was "misguided and over-zealous".
It said: "We do not in any way condone racist language being used by football fans and we are aware of the recent media reporting of racist abuse being used towards opposition fans during matches.
"However this was never one of those cases. The word 'Yid' simply means 'Jew'. It was and is still used as a term of endearment by many Jewish people.
"Its use in a derogatory way was started by racists in Nazi Germany. This deplorable action should not have the power to forever change its meaning into an abusive term.
"The word 'Yid' was adopted over 30 years ago by Spurs fans to combat racist abuse aimed towards them at football by opposing fans.
"It developed into a strong identity status that brought Jewish and non-Jewish Spurs fans together in an incredible show of unity that is admired worldwide. That is what fighting racism within football should be about."
Last season eight arrests were made for racially aggravated offences at White Hart Lane.


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Daikin Industries, Ltd. announced the completion of the Technology and Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as "TIC") at its Yodogawa Plant located in Settsu City, Japan. With operations starting on November, 2015, the new facility will function as the core base for technology development of the globally expanding Daikin Group.
Daikin is building the world's No. 1 technology in core technologies that include inverters, heat pumps, and fluorochemicals through the collaborative creation of innovation inside and outside the company and will leverage new and advanced technologies to expand business with differentiated products and create new value and business opportunities.
The TIC facility is located in a six -floor building covering 49,000 m2 floor space for an investment of approximately 38 Billion Yen employing 700 people. TIC will help Daikin accelerate implementation of "collaborative creation" on a global level through alliances and collaborations with various companies, universities, and research organizations. Daikin already actively promotes comprehensive alliances with Kyoto University, Osaka University, and Nara Institute of Science and Technology and joint research and development with home builders, manufacturers of electrical appliances and materials, and architectural firms.
To achieve this. a variety of design innovations were incorporated in the TIC office and laboratory areas to promote collaborative creation for engineers to overcome barriers. The building uses Daikin Technologies to achieve zero energy building aiming at 70% energy reduction with laboratories supporting core technologies.
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UC Berkeley Press Release
(Credit: Univ. of Wisconsin and UC Berkeley; courtesy of Science magazine) |
Girls' and boys' math performance now equal
BERKELEY — Girls now equal the performance of boys on standard mathematics assessment tests, probably because girls now match boys in the number and level of math courses they take in elementary and high school, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
That wasn't the case 20 years ago, when studies showed nearly identical performance at the elementary school level but girls lagging boys at the high school level. Since then, girls' participation in higher level mathematics classes has risen to the same level as boys', with predictable results, according to study co-author Marcia Linn, UC Berkeley professor of education.
"In the past, there were differences in test scores, and women took fewer advanced courses in mathematics than men," she said. "Now that enrollment in advanced math courses is equalized in high school, we don't see gender differences in performance on state tests."
The Wisconsin and UC Berkeley researchers report their findings in the July 25 issue of Science.
Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the researchers reached their conclusions after sifting through mountains of data, including math scores from 7 million students who were tested in accordance with the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The team compared not only the average performance of all students on these tests, but also the scores of just the most gifted children, as well as the ability of children to solve complex math problems. In all cases, girls measured up to boys.
Persistent math stereotypes
Study leader Janet Hyde, a psychology professor at UW-Madison, noted that, despite the fact that girls now take just as many advanced high school math courses as boys, and women earn 48 percent of all mathematics bachelor's degrees, the stereotype persists that girls struggle with math. Not only do many parents and teachers believe this, but scholars also use it to explain the dearth of female mathematicians, engineers and physicists at the highest levels, Hyde said.
Such cultural beliefs are "incredibly influential," she said, making it critical to question them. "If your mom or your teacher thinks you can't do math, that can have a big impact on your math self-concept."
Linn and Hyde have long collaborated on studies of gender differences in math and science learning, including an analysis that appeared in Science in 2006 that showed that differences in math performance were far greater between different cultures than between men and women. For example, Japanese and Taiwanese children perform far better on math tests than do American children, irrespective of gender.
For their current study, the team acquired math scores from state exams now mandated annually under No Child Left Behind, along with detailed statistics on test takers, including gender, grade level and ethnicity, in 10 states. Using data from more than 7 million students, they then calculated the "effect size," a statistic that measures the degree of difference between girls' and boys' average math scores in standardized units.
The effect sizes they found — ranging from 0.01 and 0.06 — were basically zero, indicating that the average scores of girls and boys were the same.
"Boys did a teeny bit better in some states, and girls did a teeny bit better in others," said Hyde. "But when you average them all, you essentially get no difference."
Some critics argue, however, that even when average performance is equal, gender discrepancies may still exist at the highest levels of mathematical ability. To account for this possibility, researchers compared the variability in boys' and girls' math scores, the idea being that if more boys fell into the top scoring percentiles than girls, the variance in their scores would be greater.
Again, the team found little difference, as did a comparison of how well boys and girls did on questions requiring complex problem solving. What the researchers did find, though, was a disturbing lack of questions that tested this ability. In fact, they found none whatsoever on the 10 state assessments for NCLB, requiring them to turn to another data source for this part of the study.
What this suggests, said Hyde, is that if teachers are gearing instruction toward states' NCLB assessments, abilities in complex problem solving may drop in the future in both boys and girls, leaving them ill-prepared for careers in math, science and engineering.
"The tests we are currently using are really not asking students
to perform the types of tasks they are likely to
encounter in the workforce," Linn said. The lack of complex
problems on assessment tests "doesn't motivate teachers or
textbook developers to create material that challenges
students, and it sends the wrong message to schools
with regard to what should be emphasized in math courses."
Review of SAT scores
The study's
final piece was a review of the granddaddy of all
high school math tests, the SAT. The fact that boys
score better on it than girls has been widely publicized,
contributing to the public's notion that boys truly
are better at math. But Hyde and her co-authors think
there's another explanation: sampling artifact.
For one thing, since it is administered only to college-bound seniors, the SAT is hardly a random sample of all students, the researchers noted. What's more, greater numbers of girls take the test now than boys because more girls are going to college.
"So, you're dipping farther down into the distribution of female talent, which brings down the average score," said Hyde. "That may be the explanation for (the results), rather than girls aren't as good as boys in math."
While girls have reached parity with boys in enrollment in math classes, Linn said, girls still are underrepresented in advanced science courses such as physics and in careers in physical science and engineering that require knowledge of physics and mathematics.
In a July 16 talk before the Congressional Science Technology Engineering & Math Education caucus, Linn discussed the trends in mathematics performance and called for increased emphasis on science courses where women are underrepresented. She called for attention to improving the quality and enrollment of women in science courses and emphasized the opportunity to use new technologies, such as simulations of complex processes, to strengthen course content.
The study's other authors, all from UW-Madison, are graduate students Sara Lindberg and Carolyn Williams, and assistant professor Amy Ellis of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.


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Just in time for election season, exCIA officials out themselves to call Obama a blabbermouth and tell him and his administration the STFU. Brings back echoes of the Ulsterman Conspiracy and the headaches of Leon Panetta. Here follows the cheesy video.
What's interesting is the extent to which we must speculate that the US divulging responsibility in the STUXNET attacks on Iran were or were not violating OPSEC. I happen to be in political favor of that attack, but there may be some way (even for the exceptions of cyberwar) that the reveal compromises.
It seems to me that upon a moment's reflection that there must be laws in place to keep what is actually secret secret. Leaks are either prosecutable or not, and who will investigate but Congress? So ultimately this is a politcal vote of no confidence for many in the intel business. It's not the first time I've heard complaints about naming SEAL Team Six, for example. And yes we did have a whole lot of Hollywood SEAL fiction last year. I suspect that the number and designations of the teams must have changed in order to let that amount of info out, but if you don't know and you don't trust Obama.. These are the military professionals, not professional hacks and flacks.


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Singapore Airlines Confirms Order for 5 Airbus A380s, 20 A350s
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has firmed up an order for 25 more widebody aircraft from Airbus, comprising five of the world's most efficient, high capacity aircraft, the A380, and 20 A350-900s. The deal was completed in 2012 and follows an agreement in October 2012.
Singapore Airlines has placed three consecutive orders for the A380, making it the second largest customer of the A380, and now has 19 aircraft in service. In the mid-size category, the new A350 XWB order sees the airline double its backlog for the all-new aircraft to 40. The A350-900s will be used by the airline on both medium and long haul routes.
"This second repeat order from one of the largest A380 operators today is a great endorsement" said John Leahy, Chief Operating Officer, Customers, Airbus. "We're also delighted that Singapore Airlines are demonstrating equal confidence in the A350. With both these aircraft, Singapore Airlines will have the most modern, most comfortable and most efficient fleet the market can offer."
Since 2006 the A380 is registering repeat orders by satisfied customers every year, bringing the total orderbook today to 262 from 20 customers. The A350 XWB gathered 582 orders from 34 customers.
Since first entering service with Singapore Airlines in 2007, the A380 has joined the fleets of nine world class carriers. Typically seating 525 passengers in three classes, the aircraft is capable of flying 8,500 nautical miles or 15,700 kilometres non-stop, carrying more people at lower cost and with less impact on the environment. The spacious, quiet cabin and smooth ride have made the A380 a firm favourite with passengers, resulting in higher load factors wherever it flies.
The A350 XWB (Xtra Wide-Body) is an all-new mid-size long range product line comprising three versions and seating between 270 and 350 passengers in typical three-class layouts. The new Family will bring a step change in efficiency compared with existing aircraft in this size category, using 25 per cent less fuel and providing an equivalent reduction in CO2 emissions. Entry into service is scheduled for 2014.


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Just when everyone was getting their hygge on—a new staging style has taken hold. Instead of it being all about cozying up your home décor, now it's all about stripping it down and being minimal.
The Scandinavian concept of lagom began taking hold last year and is catching on more in 2018. Case in point, Pinners on Pinterest are searching for "lagom" decorating ideas 905 percent more this year than they were in 2017, according to the 2018 Pinterest Home Report.
Lagom is usually described as "not too much, not too little, just right." For home staging, lagom fits right in. It's all about decluttering a space. You decorate with only the essentials.
The Danish concept of hygge—all the rage in recent years—was all about taking your décor to the cozy side. Think lush blankets and fireside interiors.
With lagom, focus on functional furnishing pieces—like those that double up as storage--and that have a minimalistic look. Only a few colors are typically used in the home, such as complementary neutrals (e.g. white, grey, and beige). Pair down accessories from bookshelves and tabletops. Create just one focal point per room, such as a wall art piece or a statement sofa or modern rug. And, add in some indoor plants as a nod to nature and sustainability, which also goes along with the lagom mindset.
Such principles like these from lagom are certainly starting to sound a lot like some of the guidebooks on good home staging!


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William M. Hearne, Jr.
BERLIN – William M. Hearne, Jr., of Berlin, passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 at his home.
Born in Berlin, he was the son of the late William M. Hearne and Margaret M. Hearne. Hearne was a graduate of the Buckingham School in 1941. Working as a self-taught carpenter for 40 years, he was one of the Eastern Shore's last true craftsman. After retiring from carpentry, he went to work for Napa Auto Parts in Berlin because he loved to be around people.
Hearn was an avid outdoorsman, past member of the Boumi Temple Shriners and a member of Evergreen Lodge #153 of the Masonic Order.
He was a devoted father and grandfather. He was preceded in death by his wife, Frances Banks Hearne, and a daughter Joan Adkins. He is survived by a son, William M. Hearne, III and his wife Cathy of Pittsville; a daughter, Lynn H. Ziesing of Berlin; and a son-in-law, Laurence Adkins of Powellville.
There are six grandchildren; six great grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
A memorial service for his friends and family will be held at a later date.
Arrangements are by the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.
Mary P. Doran
BERLIN – Mary P. Doran, age 78, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 at her home in Berlin.
Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of the late Paul C. and Mary Hagins Bernhardt. She is survived by her beloved husband, John C. Doran; a son, Chuck Doran and his wife Paula; a daughter, Mary Helen Myers and her husband Scott; two brothers, Paul Bernhardt and his wife Connie and William Bernhardt and his wife Georgia; one sister, Linda Adams and her husband Richard; three grandchildren, Christopher, Jason and Heather; and three great grandchildren, David, Alexa and Nicholas.
Services were held at the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Coastal Hospice, PO Box 1733, 2604 Old Ocean City Rd., Salisbury, Md. 21802.
John W. Bradford
NEWARK – John W. "Billy" Bradford, age 78, died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008 at his home in Newark.
Born in Maryland he was the son of the late Norman and Maude Kelly Bradford. He is survived by his beloved wife, Carrie Bradford; a son, Everett LeCates and his wife Donna of Pittsville; a daughter, Christine Sifford and her husband Stuart of Salisbury; two sisters, Betty Jean Jerman of Newark and Gail Bishop of Ocean Pines; five grandchildren, Chase Sifford, Wyatt LeCates, Christopher LeCates, Dustin LeCates and Michelle Sifford; and two great grandchildren, Damien LeCates and Savannah LeCates. He was preceded in death by a sister Pauline Siedel.
Bradford had worked as a truck driver. He was a lifetime member of the Newark Volunteer Fire Company and a member of the American Legion Post 123 in Berlin. He loved the Shorebirds, NASCAR and the Delmar races.
Services were held at the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Newark Volunteer Fire Company, 8334 Newark Rd., PO Box 82, Newark, Md. 21841 or Atlantic General Hospital, 9733 Healthway Dr., Berlin, Md. 21811.
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OCEAN PINES – Clyde Eugene Homan, Jr., 57, died Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury.
Born in Kodiak, Alaska, he was the son of the late Clyde Eugene Homan, Sr.
He is survived by his mother, Beula Jane Weber Homan of Norfolk, Va. and maternal grandmother Evangeline Fritz of Appleton, Wis. He is survived by his wife, Lucinda H. Homan, and two sisters, Lane Michael Homan of Berlin and Chase Edward Homan of Virginia Beach, Va. There is one sister, Celes Evangeline Homan Price of Virginia Beach.
Homan had been a shoe store manager for the Rack Room in Ocean City.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, Jan. 18 at 2 p.m. at the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin. Friends may call one hour prior. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lane and Chase Homan Scholarship Fund, c/o Calvin B. Taylor Bank, PO Box 5, Berlin, Md. 21811.


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text: On April, 4th 2018, Normal Police Department and McLean County State's Attorney's office launched the "Make Your Move", a public awareness campaign that urges the public to get involved and interrupt behaviors that may lead to sexual violence."Make Your Move" is aimed at bar patrons, both men and women, and the main messages are simple but head-turning: look out for each other, get your friends home safely and never feel like you owe anyone anything.Our goal is to encourage citizens to move beyond the 'it's not my problem' mindset and develop the mentality 'what if that was my family or friend?', when they see another person who may need their help. Intervening can help reduce the risk of potentially harmful situations. If you do not feel comfortable stepping in, or believe you may be putting yourself in harms way, never hesitate to call Normal Police Department and a police officer can intervene on your behalf.The "Make Your Move" campaign originated in Montana as an effort from Missoula's Intervention in Action Project, a group of community organizations dedicated to ending sexual violence.


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A Centers for Disease Control report shows Kentucky's ranking in percentage of high school cigarette smokers has dropped.
Gov. Steve Beshear's office said Kentucky was sixth among surveyed states in 2013, compared with a first-place ranking in 2011.
Beshear's office says the report showed 17.9 percent of Kentucky high school students reported smoking, down from 24.1 percent in 2011.
The rate nationwide is 15.7 percent.
Beshear says he's glad to see the downward trend but wants to further reduce cigarette use by teens. Beshear's office says the drop means Kentucky met its Healthy Kentuckians 2020 goal of reducing youth smoking to 19 percent and is moving toward another goal of reducing Kentucky's smoking rate by 10 percent in the next five years.
The report is available at http://www.cdc.gov/yrbs .


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The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) is a government agency which has been leading national and international standards in the Republic of Korea since it was founded in 1883 as Analysis and Testing Laboratory of the Mint Office. After several changes and developments over the last several decades, KATS was reformed under Ministry of Knowledge Economy. KATS is an active member of ISO, IEC and PASC.
KATS contributes to international standardization with the following objectives:
- to provide technological infrastructure to support Korean enterprises to be recognized internationally by evaluation and certification of technology and quality
- to enforce product safety
- to improve quality of life through standardization.
To achieve the above objectives, KATS undertakes:
- to harmonize Korean Industrial Standards (KS) with international standards
- to manage the national legal metrology system
- to accredit testing
- to conduct research for standardization, and
- to endorse international mutual recognition agreements in the fields of standardization and conformity assessment and legal metrology.


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Primary and Secondary Sources
Who's on First?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines primary as "Occurring or existing first in a sequence of events; belonging to the beginning or earliest stage of something; first in time."
If you can remember that primary comes from prime, meaning first, you're halfway to understanding how primary sources may fit into your research.
The definition of primary source changes from discipline to discipline, and sometimes from instructor to instructor. Some instructors take a very broad view, some a very narrow definition.
You can learn more about primary sources in the following case studies.
After completing the module on Primary and Secondary Sources, students will be able to:
- Distinguish primary sources from secondary sources.
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An umbelliferous plant with white blossoms, which is peculiar to the Mediterranean district (Coriandrum sativum). It is widely cultivated in the East, and grows wild in Egypt and Palestine. It is especially abundant in the valley of the Jordan. Its fruits or seeds, which have a distinctly aromatic flavor, are used in the preparation of confectionery and also in ordinary cooking. They are employed medicinally to produce a stimulative effect and to relieve flatulence.
The only allusions to the plant in the Bible are in Ex. xvi. 31; Num. xi. 7, where the seeds are compared to Manna.
The Hebrew name "gad" was thought by Lagarde to be of Indo-European origin ("Gesammelte Abhandlungen," p. 57). It is probably not connected with any Semitic root (compare Löw, "Aramäische Pflanzennamen," No. 155). By some scholars it is identified with "goid," which the Scholiast in Dioscorides, iii. 64 states is the Punic equivalent of κόριον ("coriandrum"). This Greek name is probably derived from κόρις ("bug"), owing to the unpleasant odor emitted by the plant when handled, which is highly suggestive of the effluvium of the bedbug. The Aramaic name "kusbara" appears in modern Greek in the form "kusbaras," which has supplanted the older name.
- H. B. Tristram, Natural History of the Bible, p. 439.


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The following duel problem is due to Ben Polak (maybe there's earlier origin, which I'll be glad to be informed about). The rule is as follows:
Two players 1 and 2 start a duel $N$ steps away from each other. They take turns to act. When it's somebody's turn, he must make one of the two choices:
Choice A: Shoot at his opponent with probability ${p}_{i}(d)$ of hitting the target, where $i=1,2$, and $d$ is distance (measured in steps) between them.
Choice B: Forsake the opportunity to shoot, and make one step forward toward his opponent.
Now the distribution of ${p}_{i}(d)$ is such that ${p}_{i}(0)=1$, and ${p}_{i}(d)>{p}_{i}(d+1)$, $d=0,1,2,...,N-1$, $i=1,2$. There're no other restrictions. Both players are assume to be rational and intelligent. A player's goal is to maximize his probability of killing the opponent. Player 1 act first.
My question is: For all possible distributions of ${p}_{i}(d)$, $i=1,2$ described above, is there a simple and uniform decision rule according to which both players can make their choices at each distance?
(For example, the decision rule could be something like: "if ${p}_{1}(d)+{p}_{2}(d-1)>1$, then player 1 should shoot at distance d when it's his turn to move; otherwise step forward")
Edit: the original statement "a player's goal is to maximizing his surviving probability" is changed to "A player's goal is to maximize his probability of killing the opponent", due to Emil.


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Sony VAIO Z Series (VPCZ114GX/S) review
If you had any doubt that Sony marches to the beat of its own drum, the 13-inch VAIO Z Series is all the evidence you need. While other laptop manufacturers are unleashing dozens of CULV ultraportables in the $800 to $1,000 range, the $2,009 Z Series is a three-pound, inch-thick machine with the specs of a workstation: a speedy Intel Core i5 processor, dual SSDs, 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M discrete graphics and an optional Blu-ray drive. It sounds and looks glorious, but can the Z manage more than three hours of battery life or handle some gaming without turning into a space heater? Or does it totally blow the caps off the budget ULV laptops on the market and make it worth the $1K premium? We've been using the oh-so-pricey and attractive laptop for the last few days, so hit the break for our full review.
Look and feel
Sony has stuck with the minimalistic and metal design of the previous VAIO Z, and we're more than okay with that -- we'd probably break down in tears if they removed the glowing neon green power button in the circular hinge. Overall, the silver carbon fiber case and aluminum keyboard panel feel surprisingly tough given how thin and light the three-pound chassis is. Actually, in hand it feels lighter than some netbooks with six-cell batteries, and we had no problem sliding this puppy into a small shoulder bag. And the fact that the laptop still manages to find home for a fair share of ports -- three USBs, a VGA, HDMI, Ethernet, ExpressCard/34 slot, MemoryStick and SD card -- and an optical drive is quite a feat. Our unit came with a standard DVD drive, but you can configure it with Blu-ray if you've got an extra $500.
Keyboard, touchpad and screen
Sony was one of the first companies to employ the chiclet keyboard style, and we're still head over heels for the Z's smooth and well spaced keys. The keyboard is now backlit, and though it relies on a neat ambient light sensor we wish there was a manual control. When we turned out lights the backlight immediately turned on, but when we were in a dimly lit room it didn't initiate. We have no issues with the touchpad; it's large enough and the right / left mouse buttons don't require too much of a press. A fingerprint reader is nestled in between the buttons, but out of the box it was disabled so it was no bother.
While cheap laptop screens are riddled with poor viewing angles and a glossiness that make them more useful as a mirror than a display, the plus $1,800 VAIO Z's matte 13.1-inch, 1600x900 resolution LED screen is something to rave about. Horizontal and vertical angles were not an issue, and colors were incredibly bright and vivid when we watched an episode of Lost. Little to no adjustments were required to the angle of the scratch-proof screen when lying in bed to watch -- not something we can say for most laptop LCDs. The Z's speakers are decent for such a small system, and Sony has been kind enough to include a set of nice sounding earbuds in the box.
Performance, graphics and battery life
Sony managed to cram a 2.53GHz Intel Core i5-540M processor and 4GB of RAM into the slim Z Series, and the performance speaks for itself. Beyond notching an extremely high PCMark Vantage score, the laptop was incredibly snappy and didn't show any performance lag when running TweetDeck, Google Chrome, GIMP, iTunes and a DVD in Windows Media Player concurrently. But the Core i5 processor isn't the only spec to thank for the speedy performance; the Z is also equipped with a whopping 192 GB of solid state storage (a 64GB and a 128GB drive). To say that this duo is fast is an understatement: it opened a 10MB PDF in under 2 seconds and a slower-to-open program like GIMP in 5 seconds.
While the integrated Intel GMA HD graphics were fine for basic everyday tasks, the 1GB NVIDIA GT330M was better suited for handling high-def video and 3D games. Batman: Arkham Asylum rocked 21fps at the native resolution, and a 1080p Transformers trailer on YouTube played smoothly, not to mention looked stunning on the screen -- have we mentioned we love this screen? Sony's Dynamic Hybrid Graphics System isn't as automatic as the ASUS UL80Vf's with NVIDIA Optimus, but is a decent hardware based solution. The Auto mode option defaults to using the discrete graphics, but pull the AC adapter and it will automatically switch to the IGP to save battery life. If you prefer to do it all manually, there's a three way toggle above the keyboard.
With all that Sony has managed to fit into the Z we were expecting extremely warm temperatures from the bottom of the chassis and the palmrest, but the system actually ran quite cool. There was some fan noise when we fired up graphics intensive applications, but it wasn't too bothersome. Similarly, the optical drive was no louder than usual when watching a DVD.
PCMarkVantage | 3DMark06 | Battery Life | |
Sony VAIO Z (2.53GHz Core i5, NVIDIA GT 330M) | 9949 | 6193 | 4:25 |
Toshiba Satellite E205 (2.2GHz Core i5, GMA HD) | 5187 | 1920 | 3:30 |
Acer Aspire 5738PG (2.55GHz Core 2 Duo, ATI Radeon 4570) | 4049 | 3098 | N/A |
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge (1.3GHz Core 2 Duo, GMA) | 2955 | 905 | 5:12 |
So for the million dollar question: how do these high-performance parts affect battery life? With the discrete graphics turned off, the 57Wh battery lasted for 4 hours and 25 minutes on our video rundown battery test with brightness to 65 percent. That translated to about six hours of usage when we used the laptop to surf the web and write this review in Microsoft Word 2007. That isn't as long as ULV laptops like the ASUS UL80Vt, but in truth we were actually expecting the Z to do much worse considering the Core i5 Toshiba Satellite E205 only lasts 3.5 hours. The battery life isn't stellar, but if you are headed from New York to Cali the Z should get you through the flight.
In typical Sony form the Z Series is loaded up with a number of applications including its own proprietary Media Gallery and Evernote for VAIO, and an assortment of not-very-useful free trials -- though if you configure the Z online you can opt to get a "fresh start" that removes all of these applications. We do have to say that the preinstalled Google Chrome browser is a nice touch, and saved us Internet Explorer haters the step of having to download it when we first powered on the box.
The Sony VAIO Z is a wonder of a laptop to carry around and use -- as it should be for its $2,000 price tag. But is there still a market for a burn-a-hole-in-your-wallet ultraportable when ULV laptops, like the ASUS UL80Vt and Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13, cost half as much and run for longer on a charge? The answer lies in your needs -- if you're looking for a system to do basic computing with a long battery life an $800 ULV will do the trick. However, if you need a single machine that packs triple the performance and can accomplish every task you throw at it while still fitting into a carry-on, the Z series is a winner. Sure, you can buy five netbooks for its price, or spend far less on a bulkier laptop with similar specs, but our guess is that those willing to pony up for Sony's mastery of style and substance will find the Z to be well worth it.


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Update: Kelley replied to my e-mail on June 9th. The giveaway is officially closed. Thanks to everyone for participating!
Edit: The winner of my Nubar giveaway is…….KELLEY! Congratulations! 😀 Please check your e-mail and reply within 48 hours to claim your prize! (I e-mailed you on June 7th at 9 pm Eastern.)
It has been a little while since my last giveaway, and I wanted to do something special for you because your support and encouragement means the world to me.
If you've been following Swatch And Learn for months, you'll know that I've had great experiences working with NailPolishCanada in the past. So, naturally, I decided to reach out to them and see if we could team up again for an upcoming giveaway.
They were extremely generous! Take a deep breath! Get ready to scream at the top of your lungs!
NailPolishCanada offered an entire set of nail polishes for one lucky winner! *SCREAMS* 😉 And it gets cooler. They allowed me to choose from an awesome list of polish sets. I decided to give away a Nubar 8-piece set because I know how tricky Nubar is to get hold of. Plus they're a brand that I absolutely adore!
And to put the icing on the cake, I asked NailPolishCanada if the winner could choose exactly which Nubar set they'd receive – YES! 🙂
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Get Listed – SEO for Better Conversion
I've been on an SEO / SEM (search engine marketing) kick lately. As a new business owner, I'm starting to see the value of proper placement, key search term optimization, and Google (or Bing) ranking. In a previous post I wrote about how properly tagged blog posts can generate long term recurring traffic and how Google loves linkbacks (being referenced in other people's blog posts). With Nectar Tasting Room opening, I'm more in tune with how people can find me online and being a part of the search terms people are using for wine tasting and wine events in Spokane.
If you have a business, you NEED to be thinking about where you rank in Google search. If you sell shoes in Sheboygan or parakeets in Poughkeepsie, Google search will improve your customer conversion. I will go as far as to say that focusing on search engine listing is the single best investment a business can make in their bottom line.
I recently had a conversation with a local search engine guru / god…okay, his name is Ed from Sixth Man Marketing about an upcoming search engine optimization seminar in Spokane. If you live here, I strongly encourage you to go (details below). If you don't live here, well, your loss because Spokane is a really cool place. Regardless, Ed (a.k.a. SEO guru/god) was kind enough to provide FIVE SEO/SEM tips just for my readers. Shhhh…don't share this post. It's just for those that read this blog. P.S. Stay tuned at the end of the post for the amazing details on the upcoming Get Listed University seminar.
- Make sure your business information is consistent across the web. Do an audit of your brand and make sure the references you find are the same. Update any inaccuracies and make sure your business name and particular is consistent.
- Test categories in Google Places. Look to see if the categories you think will be a good choice for you produces a local search result (map). Test the categories that make sense for your business and track them to see which ones work best for you.
- Make sure your address and phone number are prominently listed on your site. This can be a sub-page but make sure they aren't just in the footer. A page that calls our your address and phone number helps a lot. Also 800 numbers can really throw the search engines off. Use your local number if at all possible.
- Understand what citations mean to local search. The Get Listed Resources page has great information about them.
- Once you understand what they are, I recommend using the Whitespark Citation Finder to track them down.
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As we have noted many times over the years, the editorial board of the Minneapolis Star Tribune has been one of the few institutions in America more consistently left-wing than the New York Times and perhaps, even, MoveOn.org. This cutting-edge leftism has been carried out for the last 15 years under the leadership of Susan Albright, who was let go by the paper yesterday:
The editor who oversees the Star Tribune's institutional voice will leave the newspaper because of philosophical differences with the publisher, who favors a deeper focus on editorials about local rather than international issues, the paper said Wednesday.
Publisher Chris Harte said the change was necessary to steer the paper's editorial and opinion pages toward more local topics at a time when opinions about things outside Minnesota are easy to come by.
The Star Tribune changed hands, again, some months ago, and the new owners are trying to make some money. I don't know whether they are any less liberal than Albright and her cohorts on the Strib's editorial board; likely they are not. But the economics of the newspaper business do not reward me-tooism in regional newspapers. Leftism is freely available on the internet; readers who want goofy commentary from the New York Times editorial board, Frank Rich, et al., can get the real thing on the web. Regional papers like the Strib need to add value, and their best opportunity to do so is in local news, sports and weather coverage:
"I believe the role of a metro newspaper is changing radically and rapidly in a world of instant global access to information," Harte wrote in a memo to staff. "I see the need for our editorial pages, like the rest of the newspaper, to concentrate more heavily than ever on local, state and regional issues."
"The push is on all of us right now: local, local, local," Labbe said, adding that it's easy for an editor to find opinion pieces about international topics, but, because editorials are always done in-house, they can't be replaced by a wire service.
Would things have turned out differently if the Strib had had a conservative editorial board? In that event, the paper might have presented a real alternative to the mind-numbing liberalism that prevails on TV network news, network entertainment shows like "The View," the prime time lineup of all the TV networks, the major national newspapers (with the partial exception of the Wall Street Journal), essentially all Hollywood movies that deal with political topics, and most other mass media outlets.
In the end, though, it may not have made any difference. Newspapers are like many other markets that have gone national. Local and regional competitors must either become one of the national players, or find a local niche that the national outlets aren't filling, or go out of business. Economics, not ideology, dictated that the Star Tribune stop pontificating about Iraq and the federal budget. The paper will still take a left-wing line, but for the foreseeable future, it will focus on local and regional issues.
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A Mayo Clinic researcher, along with his collaborators, has shown that an individual's genomic makeup and diet interact to determine which microbes exist and how they act in the host intestine. The study was modeled in germ-free knockout mice to mimic a genetic condition that affects 1 in 5 humans and increases the risk for digestive diseases. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Our data show that factors in the differences in a host's genetic makeup -- in this case genes that affect carbohydrates in the gut -- interact with the type of food eaten. That combination determines the composition and function of resident microbes," says Purna Kashyap, M.B.B.S., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist and first author of the study. He is also a collaborator in the Microbiome Program of the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine.
Significance of the Findings
Roughly 20 percent of humans lack the gene that encodes proteins for processing a specific carbohydrate, a sugar in the intestinal mucus called fucose. The interaction shown by the research team is valuable because many bacteria are adept at utilizing carbohydrates such as fucose, which are abundant in the gut. Confronted with diets that have little or no complex plant sugars, these bacteria are forced to change their function, especially in hosts that lack fucose. This was seen with the altered metabolic gene expression of one of the key microbes in the gut -- Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. Changes in microbial membership or function as demonstrated in this study may, in turn, foster a "digestive landscape" that can promote inflammatory conditions such as Crohn's disease.
The microbiome represents millions of microbes in the gut and elsewhere in the body. They perform specialized functions to help keep metabolism in balance. Whether in humans or other animals, the microbial combination is unique and must function well with the individual's genome and diet for a healthy existence.
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Medications may be disposed at the following locations:
The hazardous waste disposal facility at the Mesa County Landfill will accept prescriptions medications. They do not take controlled substances, however, you can buy an envelope for $5.00 from them that is prepaid and you can send off your controlled substances that way. They are open Thursday – Saturday 0800-1630.
You can also go to http://takemedsseriously.org/safe-disposal/disposal-options/ to find a drop off location and see when drug take back events are going on.
You can also check the DEA website at https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal for any updated information.
Firearms can be disposed of at the Mesa County Landfill (3071 US Hwy 50, (970)256-9543) for a minimum fee of $5.00. Citizens can also contact Van Gundy's (645 4th Ave, (970)242-9500) if they would like to turn the firearm over to them to be scrapped.
To dispose of unwanted ammunition, contact the Mesa County Landfill Hazardous Waste Facility. They are located at 3071 US Hwy 50, and their phone number is (970)256-9543. They will accept ammunition up to 50 calibers, as well at Class C fireworks. Drop off is free to the public. Residents may drop off Thursday through Saturday, from 8:00 to 4:30, excluding County holidays. Businesses are required to make an appointment in advance.
Colorado Fingerprinting at 833-224-2227 or IdentiGO (located in Battlement Mesa) at 844-539-5539 to make an appointment.
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Today, in downtown San Francisco, Apple's CEO Tim Cook unveiled the iPad 3. "We are redefining the category that Apple created with the original iPad," he said. The device looks very similar to the iPad 2 but the new model is equipped with internal hardware including a high-resolution screen with a 264 ppi, and as Apple's Phil Schiller notes, is good enough to call a retina screen.
But Apple doesn't talk about just hardware. It's all about the experience and a screen nearly twice as sharp is something Apple hopes will push the iPad into new markets and use cases.
Inside the new iPad is an A5X processor complete with quad-core graphics. Apple states that the A5 SoC is "twice as fast" as the Tegra 3 and the A5X offers "four times the performance."
Apple has optimized all the stock apps for the new screen like the company did for the iPhone 4. Several developers were given access to the new screen specs and have updated their apps to take advantage of the new pixels.
The new A5X chip gives developers new found freedom. Apple demonstrated on stage today several apps that take full advantage of the new processing power and high-resolution screen. Gaming and art apps have never looked better.
iWork is also all new and equipped with 3D animations and new transitions. Garageband now has smart strings, a note editor and, of course, syncs with iCloud. It also has a new feature called Jam Session in which 4 iOS devices running the app can play together over WiFi or Bluetooth.
Predictably, iMovie received a major update thanks to the new camera, high-res screen and processor. It features storyboards (!!!) and new editing tools.
New with the new iPad is iPhoto. This marks the first time that Apple has ported its desktop photo program to the iPad. It features gestures, effects, multi-touch editing and, yep, you guessed it, iCloud syncing and what Apple calls, Photo Beaming. The cloud tools will allow the iPad to be a remote photo editing station of sorts. Photos can live on a desktop (or MacBook) but still be edited on the tablet. This could be big.
Holding up the iPad to take a picture is never the most pleasurable experience, which is likely why Apple kept the camera specs on the lower-end in the previous generation models. But with all the killer camera apps available on iOS and our general enthusiasm toward imagery, Apple knows it's time to slap something better onto the iPad. That said, the next-gen iPad has been fitted with a 5MP shooter capable of recording video in 1080p.
The camera has the larger f/2.4 aperture to let in more light, and all the same software goodness that came with the iPhone 4S camera app — like swipe to preview, photo editing, and facial recognition — is along for the ride too.
The new iPad also comes equipped with a voice dictation tool that supports U.S. English, British, Australian, French, German, and Japanese. This positions the iPad for increased productivity tools — it's a straight shot at other mobile workstation solutions.
Apple has also equipped the new iPad with high speed networking. This model sports 21 Mbps HSPA+, 42Mbps DC-HSDPA and 73Mbps LTE. This is blazing fast data connectivity.
The new iPad can rock its LTE goods on Teslus, Rogers, Bell, Verizon, and AT&T (Verizon & AT&T in the states). It retains its 3G radio from before and is 3G world-ready.
The new model is 9.4mm thin and weighs in at 1.4lbs. That's slightly heavier than the iPad 2 but the additional weight allows for larger batteries that give the new iPad, complete with its new screen and LTE radio, the same 10 hour battery life found in the iPad 2 (9 hours on LTE.)
Price and availability
Price points remain from previous models: the 16GB is $499, 32GB $599 and 64GB $699. Likewise, the LTE versions are $629, $729 and $829. The iPad 2 is also staying on the market and is now available for $399 and $529.
The new iPad ships on March 16th. Pre-orders are available today.


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Jamal Crawford Wins NBA's Sixth Man Award
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jamal Crawford of the Los Angeles Clippers has won the NBA Sixth Man Award as the league's best player off the bench.
The 34-year-old guard is the oldest recipient and the first to win it for two different teams. Crawford won it while with Atlanta in 2009-10. The award was announced Thursday.
Crawford led the league's reserve players in scoring this season, averaging 18.6 points. He came off the bench in 45 of 69 games he played in, helping the Clippers to a 57-25 record, their best regular-season mark in franchise history.
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Chapter III.—The Dedications in Every Place.
1. After this was seen the sight which had been desired and prayed for by us all; feasts of dedication in the cities and consecrations of the newly built houses of prayer took place, bishops assembled, foreigners came together from abroad, mutual love was exhibited between people and people, the members of Christ's body were united in complete harmony.
2. Then was fulfilled the prophetic utterance which mystically foretold what was to take place: "Bone to bone and joint to joint,"28122812 Ezek. xxxvii. 7. and whatever was truly announced in enigmatic expressions in the inspired passage.
3. And there was one energy of the Divine Spirit pervading all the members, and one soul in all, and the same eagerness of faith, and one hymn from all in praise of the Deity. Yea, and perfect services were conducted by the prelates, the sacred rites being solemnized, and the majestic institutions of the Church observed,28132813 These sentences are excellent examples of Eusebius' rhetorical style, which marks the greater part of this tenth book. My endeavor has been to adhere as closely as possible to the original; and yet there are cases in which it is quite out of the question to give a literal translation without violating all grammatical laws, and in which the sense can be reproduced only by paraphrasing. The present sentence runs ναὶ μὴν καὶ τῶν προηγουμένων ἐντελεῖς θρησκεῖαι, ἱερουργίαι τε τῶν ἱερωμένων, καὶ θεοπρεπεῖς ἐκκλησίας θεσμοί. here with the singing of psalms and with the reading of the words committed to us by God, and there with the performance of divine and mystic services; and the mysterious symbols of the Saviour's passion were dispensed.
4. At the same time people of every age, both male and female, with all the power of the mind gave honor unto God, the author of their benefits, in prayers and thanksgiving, with a joyful mind and soul. And every one of the bishops present, each to the best of his ability, delivered panegyric orations, adding luster to the assembly.
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1. keep - noun
· the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
Synonym(s): support, livelihood, living, bread_and_butter, sustenance
Hypernym(s): resource
2. keep - noun
· the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
Hypernym(s): stronghold, fastness
3. keep - noun
· a cell in a jail or prison
Synonym(s): hold
Hypernym(s): cell, jail_cell, prison_cell
4. keep - verb
· cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., `keep clean'; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"
5. keep - verb
· continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
Synonym(s): continue, go_on, proceed, go_along
6. keep - verb
· retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married"
Synonym(s): hold_on
Hypernym(s): have, have_got, hold
Antonym(s): lose
7. keep - verb
· stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"
Synonym(s): prevent
8. keep - verb
· conform one's action or practice to; "keep appointments"; "she never keeps her promises"; "We kept to the original conditions of the contract"
Synonym(s): observe
Antonym(s): break
9. keep - verb
· stick to correctly or closely; "The pianist kept time with the metronome"; "keep count"; "I cannot keep track of all my employees"
10. keep - verb
· look after; be the keeper of; have charge of; "He keeps the shop when I am gone"
Hypernym(s): have, have_got, hold
11. keep - verb
· maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes"
Synonym(s): maintain
Hypernym(s): record, enter, put_down
12. keep - verb
· supply with room and board; "He is keeping three women in the guest cottage"; "keep boarders"
Hypernym(s): lodge, accommodate
13. keep - verb
· allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings"
Synonym(s): retain, continue, keep_on
Hypernym(s): prolong, sustain, keep_up
14. keep - verb
· supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep"
Hypernym(s): have, have_got, hold
15. keep - verb
· fail to spoil or rot; "These potatoes keep for a long time"
Synonym(s): stay_fresh
Hypernym(s): stay, remain, rest
16. keep - verb
· behave as expected during of holidays or rites; "Keep the commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur"
Synonym(s): observe, celebrate
17. keep - verb
· maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you"
Synonym(s): preserve
Hypernym(s): protect
18. keep - verb
· raise; "She keeps a few chickens in the yard"; "he keeps bees"
Hypernym(s): grow, raise, farm, produce
19. keep - verb
· retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger"
Synonym(s): keep_open, hold_open, save
Hypernym(s): reserve, hold, book
20. keep - verb
· store or keep customarily; "Where do you keep your gardening tools?"
Hypernym(s): store
21. keep - verb
· have as a supply; "I always keep batteries in the freezer"; "keep food for a week in the pantry"; "She keeps a sixpack and a week's worth of supplies in the refrigerator"
Hypernym(s): have, have_got, hold
22. keep - verb
· maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"
Synonym(s): maintain
Hypernym(s): have, have_got, hold
23. keep - verb
· hold and prevent from leaving; "The student was kept after school"
24. keep - verb
· prevent the action or expression of; "hold back your anger"; "keep your cool"; "she struggled to restrain her impatience at the delays"
Synonym(s): restrain, keep_back, hold_back
25. keep - verb
· prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"
Synonym(s): preserve
Hypernym(s): cook, fix, ready, make, prepare
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WCU weighs merits of majors in light of funding challenges
Western Carolina University will erase 10 degree programs, including women's studies and the graduate music courses, from its books during the next few years.
WCU Chancellor David O. Belcher last week announced the fate of 13 degree programs up for elimination based on the recommendation of a task force. Belcher who had the final say, decided to cut 10 of the degree programs and saved the remaining three.
The chancellor's decision concludes a comprehensive review of WCU's 130 majors, minors and masters degrees. The review assessed what degrees weren't pulling their weight enrollment wise — primarily those that simply didn't appear to have high student demand.
"It is not fair to judge a program by a single year, so we looked at trends over time," Belcher said.
The review took into account the number of students in a degree, how many graduated with said degree and how the degree fit into WCU's strategic plan, among other factors.
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In a time when funding is limited, some colleges such as WCU are moving away from the traditional liberal arts model of scatter-gun education with a wide range of interests to pursue. Instead, they focus their resources on a narrower group of strong degree programs.
"Western Carolina University cannot be all things to all people," Belcher said.
Rather than having many OK programs, the university can cultivate and improve its more popular degrees.
"We are looking very pragmatically at making sure we invest our resource in those areas in demand," Belcher said. "How well are we utilizing the resources from taxpayers?"
Therein lies part of the rub. WCU has lost $32 million in state funding since 2008, with more cuts anticipated to come.
Belcher predicted that enrollment will increasingly dominate state funding formulas, and so degrees must pull their weight.
"State funding for all of our institutional priorities will be tied to enrollment, retention rates, and graduation rates," Belcher wrote in an internal memo to faculty.
Keeping degrees that lack student numbers on the books is simply a luxury universities can't afford anymore in today's budget realities.
"A decision to discontinue a program does not imply a lack of value for the discipline," Belcher said.
A 17-member task force began the evaluation process last fall. In late May, the task force released its recommendations — eight degrees were listed as historically strong and worthy of more funding; 96 were marked as adequate and in no need of adjustment; five needed to create an action plan for improvement; and the 13 were nominated for elimination altogether. Lastly, eight were voluntarily cut because they had low demand or, in many cases, were not actively offered to students.
Along with funding, Belcher assessed whether the university could get stretched too thin by too many degrees, diffusing its focus in "so many directions that the institution jeopardizes the quality of all of its programs," Belcher wrote in a memo to WCU faculty.
Keep on, keeping on
Faculty who run the 13 majors, minors and masters degrees slated for elimination had the opportunity to meet with Belcher and plead their case for why they should be saved. Of those, three were successful — the bachelor's degree programs in Spanish, Spanish Education, and Film and Television Production.
Although both Spanish degrees had less than stellar enrollment rates, Belcher said that with some effort, the programs could persuade some students who might only minor in Spanish or Spanish Education to sign-up for the bachelor's major.
"The numbers are not really bad, but they are not really good either, so I understand where the task force was coming from," Belcher said. However, "Because of the burgeoning Latino population in our area, I think it's critical that we keep (those program)."
As for the Film and Television Production major, the task force argued that it served only a limited number of students and had below average graduation rates, while costing WCU more than other programs.
However, Jack Sholder, director of Film and Television Production program, said enrollment has increased 40 percent, while graduation rates have gone up 60 percent during the last five years. It had 75 freshmen taking courses in the program last year.
"We should have been in category one, not in category three," Sholder said. "For a little school in Western North Carolina, we have a really powerhouse program."
Belcher agreed that the degree has gradually built itself up. He also noted new information that came available after the task force had reached its conclusions among the reasons he chose to retain the degree.
Sony Corporation gave the program a nearly $100,000 state-of-the-art camera in May. WCU was one of less than a dozen film programs to receive one of these new industry-standard cameras from Sony.
"It was an external validation for that program," Belcher said. "It is a strong program."
The Film and Television Production program will be under the spotlight to improve.
"Can we make the program better? Sure. We do that ourselves. Every year, we make changes," Sholder said. "We are very open to whatever suggestions the provost has."
Mostly dead
Ten other programs were not as lucky (see box). Among them were the minor in women's studies, the German language major, and the master's degrees in music education and music performance.
Marilyn Chamberlin, head of women's studies minor, said she was "obviously disappointed," but understood the rationale involved in the decision. "We didn't have the numbers," she said.
After the task force's recommendations came out earlier this year, Chamberlain admitted that enrollment numbers for the minor were low but said that it just needed to be publicized more so students knew it existed. Although she had crafted a plan to boost the minor's performance, her efforts were all for not.
However, Chamberlain said she believes her program was given a fair shake.
"I left the meeting feeling as if, for the first time in the process, we had actually been listened to without, to some extent, some prejudgment," Chamberlin said. "This decision is coming at a time when budgets are being cut, and something has to be cut."
Even though WCU will no longer offer the minor to incoming students, only one course — Introduction to Women's Studies — will actually be cut once the program is completely eliminated. The university will continue to offer other classes dealing with women and gender issues; there just won't be a degree in it.
The case is similar for other eliminated programs as well. In the School of Music, classes will still be there — there just won't be a masters. In fact, there weren't exactly separate courses for masters students anyway. Masters students were in the same classrooms as their undergrad counterparts, but they had additional work and were held to a higher standard.
Belcher, who actually received a master's degree in piano performance, said he looked at each program as objectively as possible, and although some degrees aligned with goals set out in WCU's 2020 vision strategic plan, they were in too low of demand to consider keeping.
The 10 cut programs will not go away immediately. Some students are currently in those degree programs, and WCU leaders want to give them a chance to finish their degree before eliminating it. In the meantime, however, the provost's office will formulate a plan for how to erase the degrees once there are no longer students seeking them.
What stays, what goes?
The task force charged with reviewing WCU's 130 degrees recommended which degrees the university should grow, leave as is, cut or study further. Thirteen degrees were recommended for elimination.
Bachelor's degree programs in Spanish, Spanish Education, and Film and Television Production were up for elimination, but Chancellor David Belcher decided not to cut them after further review.
The following degrees, however, will slowly be phased out, eight of them voluntarily and the others at the behest of administration.
Bachelor's degrees being eliminated:
• German
• Business Administration (BSBA)
Master's degrees being eliminated:
• English/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MA)
• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MAEd/MAT)
• Applied Math
• Mathematics
• Music
• Music Education
• Health and Physical Education
• Master of Arts in Education and Master of Arts in Teaching/Chemistry
• Master of Arts in Teaching/Music
Minors being eliminated:
• Women's Studies
• Broadcast Sales
• American Studies
• Multimedia
• Earth Sciences
• Appalachian Studies
• Digital Communications Engineering Technology
• Broadcast Telecommunications Engineering Technology