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At practically all levels of government, dysfunction is an all too familiar reality. Nowhere is this more obvious to the American people than in what they see happening in Washington day after day. Yet, despite the often contentious and divisive debates that take place in Congress, every morning in the U.S. Senate we are reminded of the truly important things that unite us as "one nation, under God."
Every day before debate commences, the Senate pauses for prayer and reflection. It is an opportunity for senators to affirm what unites us and those we represent, and to reflect on the profound duty we owe our fellow Americans. As a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values, legislative bodies throughout the country, from the Senate down to local city governments, have made prayer a routine part of their day before getting down to the people's business. Unfortunately, a recent ruling by a federal court in New York threatens to put an end to this.
The latest skirmish in this battle comes from the town of Greece, New York. There, the town council invites guest chaplains to lead a prayer before each session. The opportunity to deliver the prayer (or reflection) is open to individuals of all faiths, and none at all. Prayers have been offered by members of various Christian denominations, the Jewish faith, and a Wiccan. Nevertheless, because the town is overwhelmingly Christian, so are a large number of prayers. This was too much for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled the town had violated the First Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the establishment of religion.
This ruling is astounding and runs counter to what America has always been. The decision would put courts between Americans and their conscience, evaluating and second-guessing the content of prayers. The Second Circuit was frank about this, admitting that its ruling "may well prompt municipalities to pause and think carefully before adoption legislative prayer." If allowed to stand this decision would jeopardize not just legislative prayer, but it would also push the country one step further towards the "naked public square" where religion is stigmatized, feared, and something best kept private.
Legislative prayer has roots as deep as the country. In 1789, the first Senate elected the Episcopal Bishop of New York as its first Chaplain to lead the body in prayer. As our country has grown more diverse, so has the practice of prayer in the Senate. Chaplains have been drawn from a variety of Christian faiths, and the Senate has regularly been led in prayer by guest chaplains from other major religions, including Judaism, Islam and Hinduism.
Prayer has been a hallmark of not just the Senate, but the House of Representatives, and state and local legislatures around the country. Legislative prayer is as familiar as the Pledge of Allegiance, and has a longer pedigree. Yet, it is a practice that is under assault by those who badly misunderstand Americans' unique appreciation for the complementary roles of faith and freedom in our constitutional republic.
As a constitutional matter, the error of the Second Circuit's decision is underscored by the fact that the very same Congress that wrote the First Amendment, also made the decision to hire salaried chaplains to serve its religious needs. In fact, these two things were done literally within days of each other.
Our Founders, and generations of Americans since, sought freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. They sought a place where they had freedom of conscience, not a place devoid of religion. This is part of the genius of America, a place where we do not feel threatened by each other's faiths. While the First Amendment rightly prohibits the government from establishing and imposing an official church, religion has been welcomed in public discourse and legislative chambers from the beginning, and we are a stronger nation because of it.
Two years before the Declaration of Independence, the First Continental Congress debated how delegates of diverse religions could possibly pray together. Samuel Adams rose to say that "he was no Bigot, and could hear a Prayer from a Gentleman of Piety and Virtue, who was at the same time a Friend of his country." Adams, a Congregationalist, then moved to appoint an Anglican to lead a prayer. His colleagues agreed.
Unlike so many other countries around the world, America always has been a place where religion brings people together. In times of war and peace, tragedy and triumph, prayer has brought us together. Prayer has and inspired many of the great reforms that have strengthened and delivered on the promises of liberty made in 1776. There are many things wrong with Washington today, but the American tradition of legislative prayer is not one of them.
The U.S. Supreme Court is now considering an appeal from the Town of Greece. Along with 33 of my Senate colleagues, I have filed an amicus brief in support of protecting legislative prayer from assaults by liberal activist judges. In doing so, we are not just taking a stand for one town under assault by those who wish to eliminate religion from our public life. We are also taking a stand for a tradition of legislative prayer that was adopted at our founding, has helped unite our nation us for over two centuries, and serves as a daily reminder of all the blessings that God has bestowed on our exceptional nation.


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Home sales in Lonoke County and across the state increased in August, according to a report by the Arkansas Realtors Association.
The ARA reported that statewide home sales rose from 2,273 in August 2012 to 2,819 in August 2013. Year-to-date figures for the state were also up 12.74 percent.
Sales increased in Lonoke County from 77 in August 2012 to 103 in August 2013, according to the ARA report.
For the year to date, sales were also up. The report indicated 618 homes have been sold in Lonoke County, compared to 570 sales by the same month in 2012.
The total value of the homes sold in Lonoke County was up 18.9 percent for August, compared year over year, increasing from $12 million to $14.7 million. Year-to-date home sale values were up 8 percent, according to the report, increasing from $83 million in 2012 to $90 million in 2013. The statewide year-to-date total was $2.9 billion.
The average price of the homes sold in Lonoke County was $142,911 in August 2013, down compared to $160,810 in August 2012. Year-to-date average prices were down from $146,093 in 2012 to $145,579 in 2013. The statewide year-to-date average was $159,615.
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Friendship Sunflower Panel - 6" x 12"
Bright and thoughtful panel to add some charm.
This lovely fabric panel is absolutely perfect for stitching into a gift for a dear friend or loved one. It features happy sunflowers and the quote, "Friendship is the golden thread that ties our hearts and souls together." Because it is smaller than normal fabric panels, you can accent a bag, wall hanging or even a pillow with these loving and heartfelt words. Full panel measures 6" x 12" and is made of 100% cotton fabric from The Sisterhood of Quilters.
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Decision Analysis and Expert Systems
Decision analysis and expert systems are technologies intended to support human reasoning and decision making by formalizing expert knowledge so that it is amenable to mechanized reasoning methods. Despite some common goals, these two paradigms have evolved divergently, with fundamental differences in principle and practice. Recent recognition of the deficiencies of traditional AI techniques for treating uncertainty, coupled with the development of belief nets and influence diagrams, is stimulating renewed enthusiasm among AI researchers in probabilistic reasoning and decision analysis. We present the key ideas of decision analysis and review recent research and applications that aim toward a marriage of these two paradigms. This work combines decision-analytic methods for structuring and encoding uncertain knowledge and preferences with computational techniques from AI for knowledge representation, inference, and explanation. We end by outlining remaining research issues to fully develop the potential of this enterprise.
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Rudolph Carpenter
Rudolph Carpenter, 81, of Wister died Sunday, April 1, 2012, in Wister. Rudy was born July 12, 1930, in Red Oak to Walter C. and Lydia (Dodd) Carpenter. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. Rudy owned a barber shop in Wister for over 50 years. He had cut as many as five generations of the same family's hair.Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Luree of the home; sons, Gary and Emmie Carpenter, Ricky Carpenter, James Carpenter, all of Wister, and Rodney Carpenter of Enid; six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and three step great-grandchildren; brother, Landy and Tillie Carpenter of Poteau; other relatives and loved ones.Services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, April 5, at Evans Chapel of Memories in Poteau with Rev. Jack Covey officiating. Burial will follow in Oakland Cemetery, Poteau. Pallbearers will be Glen Midgley, Mike Young, Bro. John Brown, Bro. Joe Trammel, Donald Lotchleas and Bobby Lotchleas.You may leave an online message at evansandmillerfuneralhomes.com.Arrangements are under the direction of Evans and Miller Funeral Home, Poteau.


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BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — A demonstration in support of Central African Republic's new leader Michel Djotodia was held in the capital, Bangui, on Saturday.
Several hundred residents marched through the city of 700,000, carrying banners endorsing Djotodia, who came to power earlier in March when the Seleka rebel coalition advanced from the north to seize the capital city.
Djotodia met the press Friday and said that he will lead the country through a transitional period to elections in 2016, and he pledged he would not be a candidate in those polls. He vowed to strengthen the rule of law and freedom of expression in the country.
In Johannesburg, South African President Jacob Zuma announced he will on April 3 attend a regional summit on the situation in Central African Republic held by the 10-nation Economic Community of Central African States, according to a statement from the South African president's office. The meeting in N'Djamena, Chad, has been convened by the chairman of the organization, the Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno.


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Success Stories
"Community service can be such an eye-opening experience and an almost life-altering
event. At Sacred Heart, I have learned many new things from many different people
from all walks of life. I have been exposed to lifestyles that I never thought imaginable.
Being a volunteer has allowed me to step out of my shoes and see the world through
the eyes of others. It has forced me to confront and deal with many of the issues
that our society faces everyday. When we decide to help others, we are not only doing
them a favor; we are also doing ourselves a favor. We are opening ourselves up to
new understandings and experiences, as well as the chance to possibly change the way
we look at those around us."
- Stephanie Byrnes, Community Action and Service 157
"I am able to connect the actual practice of providing a service to an organization, and some of the theories or issues studied in class. With this information, I can also take it a step further by designing my own action plan."
- Jessica Rodriguez
"My [community] learning experience has enlightened me on how there are many good people out there. It also gives me a new perspective when looking at troubled neighborhoods. I see that people who volunteer dare make a difference and they are part of the solution and not the problem."
- Helen Duong
"Not everyone has a home, or comfortable place to live, but it is hard to believe it and/or understand it unless you see it…and the thing that changed me the most was the reward in the end. It was not like work at all. I thoroughly enjoyed interacting with the girls. I felt useful in the way that the girls had someone to look up to. I remember when I was a young girl, and how much I looked up to women my age now."
- Kristen Nielsen
"This glimpse into an organization's communication process has given me a life long tool of not only how to evaluate the structure of organizational communication, but also of how each of us is a participant in that structure. And finally, it gave me the satisfaction of knowing I could play a small part in helping out the community."
- Laura Wrede
A practical education for aspiring engineers - by Ryder Diaz, 03/17/2013
SAN JOSE -- The storage closet was packed with boxes, giant barrels for toy drives and an overflow of nonperishable food. The constant influx of donations and supplies at Sacred Heart Community Service, an organization serving San Jose's low-income families, had outgrown the shelves.
"I'll just say, space is at a premium," said Carol Stephenson, Sacred Heart's community involvement coordinator.
They needed a smarter way to store their stuff. And who better to help than engineering students from San Jose State University. The students fashioned a sturdy, adjustable storage unit, with large, deep shelves and handles for heaving and pulling -- all on wheels...


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Male Politicians We Photoshopped Into Respectability
Remember how the Canadian Government photoshopped out Member of Parliment Rathika Sitsabaiesan's cleavage? We saw this and we thought "Jesus, people do not do that nearly enough." Look at male politicians, just running around, trying to bring sexy back, tossing sexy directly in your line of sight. So we took some and photoshopped them until they were decent.
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Col. City boys track opens season
HUNTINGTON — Columbia City's boys track team opened its season with a loss at Huntington North Thursday night. Though the team didn't open the season with a win, Head Coach Krystal Zoltek said she was happy to be on the track."It was nice to participate after the early cancellations and cold weather," Zoltek said. "We are a young team and looking for great improvement as the season progresses."The Eagles missed their first two meets to weather — the county meet March 20 at Churubusco, and a dual with Wawasee March 24.Columbia City's girls have yet to make it on the track competitively, and their first meet won't be until Tuesday at Homestead with the boys.Against Huntington North Thursday, several Eagles picked up wins. To read the rest of this story, see the April 11 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.


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I can hear myself now: "I, Lisa, take you, the Smiths..." It's often said that you don't just marry a person, you marry their whole family. And that's somewhat true. But how do you balance that with the biblical mandate to leave and cleave? This week we discuss the principles of healthy boundaries in the realm of in-laws and extended family: what's right, what's wrong, and what needs grace and a generous dose of compromise. Fortunately we have the perspectives of a newlywed, a married-life veteran and a "I haven't had to think about this before" college student to guide us through the ins and outs of marrying a person and the family that comes with him or her.
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Who's Napping? Images Change in the House!
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Objective: SWBAT describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story; SWBAT use words and phrases to visualize key ideas and details from a text.
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: imaging, plot, rhythm, literature, characters
- Set up the whiteboard
- 'Images Change' worksheet
- 'Imaging & Visualizing Strategies' poster ** (I have used this throughout my imaging unit)
I like this story because it's a classic in elementary literature. A lot of my kids have read or heard the story, and the prose and repetitive text are fun! It gives kids a chance to use their imaging/visualizing strategy easily because the changes over the course of the text are obvious and clear.
** "Imaging" is the term that my district uses for "visualizing". In order to stay true to the district expectations, I'll continue to use this verbage. Visualizing is a critical skill for 2nd graders because they need to 'go deeper' in the text. By visualizing as they read, they are creating and tweaking images in their minds as they actively read. This kind of 'close reading', forming images using text, verifying and changing those images, and ultimately comparing their images to the author, creates critical readers and deepens comprehension.
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Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words)
Common starting point
- "We have talked SO much about how imaging helps us."
- We should be active readers with the literature - using imaging to enjoy what the author has written for us."
- "Authors like to entertain us with a great plot. Sometimes, the story is sad, sometimes scary or happy. Sometimes the story is silly and funny. Today's story is a funny tale about a house where things nap."
- Take a look at how I introduced the lesson.
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Lesson discussion
- "Let's review some of the ways that imaging/visualizing helps us." Look over the poster and review with the class.
- "The story is so funny - lots of cute things happen in this story and it makes me smile. Some stories are funny and others are sad. Authors can write stories that make us laugh or cry."
- "I'll add that to my 'Imaging/Visualizing Strategy' poster."
Imaging helps me laugh or cry with a story.
- Here's how the discussion about the poster sounded.
- "There's a great rhythm to this story that makes it fun to read."
- "We can use imaging to create a picture in our head about what is happening and understand the story better. There are lots of characters and it's fun to see how they react to different events in the story."
- Read through the page, 'And on that granny...' "I'm going to draw a picture of the grandma and the kid. I noticed there were animals in the last picture, so I'll infer that the cat will wake up and add that to my image."
- "Let's check the text (show the picture)- I was right, but it was the dog, not the cat that woke up so I'll change my image." Look here for an example of my demonstration and this is the first image that I made.
- Pass out the papers and have the kids copy the picture.
As you discuss the characters and what happens to them in the story, this isa a great opportunity to describe chow the character respond to major events and challenges (RL.2.3) My students really understood, more from the illustrations than from the text, what happened as each character fell asleep and then woke up. They wanted to share how a flea could wake up a mouse, who woke up the cat..... It was a prime example of how characters change and respond to each other.
Guided practice (read the text but hide the picture until the kids finish drawing)
- "Help me use imaging to see how the plot is changing."
- Read through the page, 'And on that cat...'
- "What should we put in the image?" Take ideas and draw.
- "Let's check the text - were we right?" Make changes as necessary. Listen to our discussion.
- Here is the completed whiteboard completed.
Model, model, model and guide students to go back and verify their images with the text and illustrations. It's critical that they have support for their images and comprehension, based on the author's words and pictures. There are inferences to be made and background knowledge can add more information, but ultimately the Common Core Standards ask students to support their answers with information in the text.
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Students Take a Turn
- "I'm going to read the rest of the story and pause so you can draw the images. They continue to change as we read the story."
- "Then we can compare your image to the book and see if your imaging is correct."
Read and prompt as necessary
- Read each set of pages, pausing to let the students use imaging to sketch a picture and write some figurative language.
- Stop at 2 more pages so kids can complete the worksheet - I'll let you choose the pages when you preview the story.
- Make sure to compare the kids' images with the text. They should continue to verify their imaging (the characters sleeping in the right order, all the details).
- Prompt as necessary and help with spelling some words on the board.
- Walk around and have students explain their images. This is a kind of a formative assessment. Here is one of student explaining his images.
- This is one of my student's worksheet.
Asking students to go back to the text to verify their images aligns this lesson with the Common Core standards. There is an emphasis for kids to use the information that they gain from illustrations and words to demonstrate understanding of the plot. (RL.2.7) The goal of this lesson is that students actively read by visualizing/imaging as they read and then verifying those images once they see the illustrations and examine the text further. This lesson is asking kids to evaluate and integrate ideas in the text through visualizing (not just identify what the text is saying).
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Share What You've Learned
Explain the task
- "Did you notice the pattern in the text?" Take ideas. "We're going to recreate that pattern in another setting."
- "Your job is to create another 'house' with different characters. Let's brainstorm some kinds of houses that you could draw." Take ideas (Napping Zoo, Napping school, Napping Jungle...)
- These are the places and animals that we listed for kids to choose from.
Give time for the project
- "Now take a few moments to create your picture. Remember the pattern- the animals or characters should pile up one-by-one from largest to smallest. The characters should fit the setting."
- Here are 2 of students' pictures: student project 1 and student project 2.
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
Students with academic challenges may do alright with the drawing, since there's no writing involved. Encourage them to participate in the discussion and use clear enriching vocabulary for them to be exposed to.
Students with higher language should be able to describe their images more completely. These are the students who could come up and explain why they created the images and how the text supported the ideas.


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Chloe Grace Moretz celebrated her 16th birthday with a big party in New York on Thursday (07Feb13) with stars including Julianne Moore and Sarah Hyland.
The Kick Ass star rang in the milestone at a branch of fashion store Aeropostale during the Sweet 16 Teen Vogue Birthday Party thrown by the magazine in joint honour of its 10th anniversary and Moretz's special day.
The actress, who turns 16 on Sunday (10Feb13), was presented with a towering three-tier pink and silver birthday cake and was seen partying with her Carrie co-stars Moore and Ansel Elgort, actress Victoria Justice and British singer Kate Nash.
Moretz took to her Twitter.com page to share a snap of the event, alongside the message, "So happy (Julianne Moore) came to my birthday! Meant so much to me thank you Julie!... Thank you SO much (Teen Vogue) and (Aeropostale) for this amazing birthday and everyone who came and supported."


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Celebrating at Easter the glorious resurrection of Jesus inevitably causes us to think about our own resurrection. What will our risen existence be like?
One obvious danger is to fill the void with science fiction fantasies or worse. In The History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Julian Barnes warns his readers against this excess through an amusing parody of a heavenly existence that consists in indulging in unlimited sex, meeting celebrities and enjoying unprecedented success in sport.
None of us has directly experienced resurrection for ourselves, and that conditions the way we might imagine and conceptualize risen life. Still, we can look beyond the limitations and evils of our present existence and cautiously suggest something about the new, bodily existence we hope for.
Matter and Spirit
As human beings we are bodies. Our bodies insert us into the material world. Each of us becomes a tiny part of the cosmos and the cosmos part of us. People once naïvely assumed that the human body enjoyed far-reaching autonomy and stability; scientists had not yet discovered that our physical life forms a dynamic process of continual circulation between our bodies and the material environment. To adapt a line from the poet John Donne, no body is an island. Through our bodies we constantly share in and relate to the universe.
Modern thinkers stress the spiritual and bodily unity of the human person, our psychosomatic unity. At the same time, a dualism remains between matter and spirit. Such dualistic thinking about our present existence should not steer us, however, toward a Platonic conclusion in which we (as soul or spirit) are "in" a body or "have" a body. Speaking of matter and spirit, we need not suppose that these are disparate realities that, like oil and water, will not mix. All matter has something spiritual about it. A pure materiality that would be totally unspiritual seems impossible. On the other hand, all the material in our universe is at least potentially human matter. The spiritualizing of matter takes place continually through breathing, eating and drinking. By being taken into a human body, matter becomes vitally associated with the functions of a spiritual being.
The world of art exhibits a similar phenomenon. Paintings, pieces of sculpture and stained glass windows are material objects. Through being organized and spiritualized in the hands of their makers, works of art can embody a rich cargo of meaning. Christian believers acknowledge a similar process in the life of the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist. A piece of bread and a cup of wine are spiritualized and personalized through the power of the Holy Spirit to become the most intensely real presence of the risen Christ. The use of material substances, like water and oil, in the sacraments visibly connects the bodies of the worshipers with the material universe. But the rites aim higher: to link worshipers with highly personal realities, the body of the church and the body of Christ himself.
Matter can be understood and interpreted in many ways. Physicists know it as mainly empty space, the field of several basic forces. Subatomic particles appear as either mass or energy. Nevertheless, breathing, eating, drinking, painting, celebrating the sacraments and other human activities disclose another face of matter: its potentiality to be spiritualized and personalized.
Resurrection from the dead will mean the full and final personalizing and spiritualizing of our matter, not its abolition. Through the action of the Holy Spirit, the human spirit will "dominate" matter, in the sense that the body will clearly express and serve the glorified spirit of human beings. Accepting this requires a leap of imagination. We can be helped to make this leap by reflecting on one aspect of risen life: our transformed capacity to communicate.
Here and now our material bodiliness creates the possibility for us to be communicators. With and through our bodies we act, express ourselves, relate to and communicate with others. Without our bodies there would be no language, no art, no literature, no religion, no industry, no political life, no social and economic relations and none of the married love in which verbal and nonverbal communication reaches a supreme intensity. In short, without our bodies we could not make and enjoy any human history. Through our bodies we build up a vast web of relationships with other human beings, with the material universe and with God. Our bodies enable us to communicate, play the human game and compose our individual, personal stories.
At the same time, our bodies place limits on our communication. Being subject to the constraints of space and time, our bodies set us apart and restrict our chances of relating and communicating. People talk, hug, kiss, make phone calls, send e-mail and text messages, write letters and in other ways try to make up quantitatively for what they lack qualitatively. Through sickness, old age, imprisonment or exile our bodies can bring us radical solitude and terrifying loneliness. Bodily loneliness and breakdown in communication find their final expression when the tomb contains a newly buried corpse or the crematorium someone's fresh ashes.
Few modern writers have described that irreversible break more poignantly than John McGahern in All Will Be Well. He wrote of his mother, who died at the age of 42: "She was gone. She would never answer to her name again. She was gone for ever…gone where I could not follow."
Our bodies do not merely separate and alienate us from one another, from the world and from God. Through weariness, physical weakness, sickness, sleep and death, they also alienate us from ourselves. Our embodied condition can make us feel not fully free to be ourselves and be with others.
We may usefully imagine the resurrection as maximizing our capacity to relate and communicate. The supreme example here is Jesus himself. As raised from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit, he now relates to the Father, human beings and the whole cosmos in a manner that has shed the constraints of his earthly existence. Wherever two or three gather in his name, they experience the risen Lord in their midst (Mt 18:20). Nothing reveals more powerfully the new communicative power of Jesus than the Eucharist. It brings his worldwide presence and his offer to share a life that will never end.
To expect resurrection involves hoping that we will be set free to go far beyond the limitations and triviality of so much that passes for communication in this world. We will be liberated to be truly ourselves and to be with others in an enhanced and loving way.
Bodily Continuity and Our History
Jesus' empty tomb pointed to a transformation of his dead body into a new, risen mode of existence, but it was a transformation that brought no loss of personal identity. The Easter narratives of the Gospels make it credible that when Jesus appeared to individuals or to groups of disciples they could—at times with initial difficulty—recognize him as the same Jesus they had known. Some (transformed) material continuity enabled them to identify the risen one as the Jesus they had known and followed. But the preservation of our individual, personal identity in a risen existence seems more problematic. This requires explanation.
Here and now our bodies ensure our individual continuity and our recognizability as the same person. To be and to be recognized as the same person, we must remain "the same body." Despite continual and massive bodily changes, our personal continuity and identity are somehow bound up with our bodily identity and continuity. We are and have the same body and therefore remain the same person. Bodily continuity points to the persistence of personal identity.
Some question the link between bodily continuity and the continuity of personal identity, interpreting the latter in terms of a continuity in mental states—in particular, the continuity of our consciousness and memories. Chains of conscious memories surely have a role in maintaining our sense of personal identity. The memory of what I have personally experienced constitutes the evidence within me of my persisting identity. Yet one's enduring personhood cannot depend simply upon one's memory; otherwise loss of memory would entail loss of personal identity. The case of amnesia rebuts attempts to promote memory as the means for constituting and preserving personal continuity in the one, unique life story that is "me."
Although we may agree that personal identity and continuity remain somehow bound up with bodily continuity, we have to ask: in what sense will we rise with the same body? What counts here as bodily sameness?
Even in this earthly life the enormous and continuous interchange of matter with our environment can make us wonder how correct it is to speak of someone being or having the same body six months before birth and then again at 6, 16 and 60 years of age. As old matter is discarded and new matter is absorbed into a living body, there is a steady replacement of the matter constituting that body. How do we keep the same, numerically identical body all through our lifetime?
We might suggest that our unique genetic structure, which our DNA molecules carry, maintains our body through this life. But at death, with our physical remains dispersed into the environment through the decay or burning of our corpse, how can we speak of any bodily continuity between earthly existence and our risen life?
One answer could be found by noting the connection between saying "I am my body" and "I am my history." Through our bodiliness we grow in relation to other persons, to God and to the world. Our individual history is unimaginable without our body constantly being "in relationship." Our personal history expands by all that we do and suffer with our bodies. It is through our bodies that our particular histories are shaped—from conception through to death.
Thinking this way creates some credibility for understanding resurrection as the raising from the dead of our particular, embodied history. In resurrection, the particular, bodily history that has made up the unique story of each person will be brought to new life. In a mysterious, transformed fashion, their risen existence will express what/who they as embodied persons were and became in their earthly life. Given the intimate link between our bodiliness and our history, we can say: the same resurrected body means the same resurrected history, and vice versa.
This proposal needs defense. First, if I ask what has made me what I am as a unique individual, it has surely been my embodied history, not the millions of molecules that in a passing parade have at different moments constituted my particular physical existence. Second, my whole bodily history is much more "me" than the physical body that breathes its last, say at 80 years of age. It makes sense to imagine the resurrection as God bringing into a transformed, personal life the total embodied history of dead individuals and so ensuring their genuine personal identity.
This approach also makes very good sense of what happened to Jesus, the prototype of our resurrection. When he rose from the dead, his whole life rose with him. In his risen state Jesus possesses fully his whole human story. His resurrection and glorification have made his entire life and history irrevocably present. Even if they never thought explicitly in terms of the irrevocable presence of Jesus' earthly history, the four Evangelists wrote their Gospels out of a sense that the earthly life of Jesus had risen with him and remains indispensably significant for his followers through the ages.
This proposal about our continuity being preserved through the resurrection of our embodied history leads to the question: How can the temporal history of individuals, fashioned over a stretch of time, be raised up by God to an existence that is not temporal but eternal?
We might develop here a comparison between the incarnation and the resurrection. Where the incarnation involved the timeless Son of God taking on a temporal existence, resurrection from the dead involves temporal beings (that have been embodied in their unique history) becoming eternal, to the extent that created beings can participate in the divine attribute of eternity. On the one hand, the timeless Son of God, by becoming embodied, could develop his own unique human history. In a similar but not identical way, on the other hand, the embodied historical existence of human beings can, through the power of God to raise them up, become eternalized.
Something of this sharing in eternity shows up in the earthly history of human beings. Time involves not only a succession of earlier and later events, but also has something cumulative about it. More than a mere stream of fleeting moments that disappear, time entails many things coming together and being preserved: memories in the mind, marks on our bodies, webs of persisting relationships with relatives, friends and colleagues at work, etc. Likewise, and much more so, resurrected life will be a gathering up and coming together of a whole, accumulated past. In resurrection, by the power of God our time and history will be summed up and completed.
My proposal about our embodied history being raised up finds support in what Caroline Walker Bynum documented in her classic study, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336. She illustrated extensively the persistent conviction of many Christians that resurrection would preserve for all eternity their gender, family experiences and the other characteristics and events that identified them as unique human persons and constituted their individual history. In thinking about the resurrection of Jesus and their own resurrection, these rank-and-file Christians were, in effect, insisting that the whole of our history rises with us.
Here then are two, complementary but not mutually exclusive ways of thinking imaginatively about our future resurrection. We must remain cautious when reflecting on something we have not yet experienced. Nevertheless, not knowing everything is not the same as knowing nothing at all. What we do know through faith and reason can make sense of the resurrection for which we hope: God spiritualizing (but not destroying) our material existence and bringing the whole of our earthly history into a new, transfigured life.
Thinking about bodily resurrection, when does it/will it occur: shortly following our personal death or at the end of time? Is it correct to say that only one person has been bodily resurrected from the dead, Jesus of Nazareth, and that he is the basis for an eschatological hope in our eventual bodily resurrection? Assuming that our bodily resurrection occurs at the end of time, what happens to us/me between my death and the end of time? Is it the case that Christians believe that St. Paul, for example, will be bodily raised by the Father, as the Father raised Jesus, but whereas Jesus' bodily resurrection occurred 3 days after his death, St Paul's will occur 2,000 + years (and counting) later?
I understand that the idea of bodily resurrection occurred fairly late in Jewish history (2nd century before Christ??). Is this an idea that has been sustained as viable since then outside of Christian belief? It seems that without the New Testament testimony about Jesus' bodily resurrection, Christians would have moved on to other ideas about life after death.
What do you think about the idea of "life after life after death" developed by NT Wright, that is, that the "problem" regarding the interim period between my personal death and my bodily resurrection at the end of time is solved by introducing the Greek notion of the personal immorality of the soul? The idea of an immaterial soul that is later reunitied with its body helps make sense of the idea of a resurrection at the end of time following centuries of non existence following a person's death. At least with the idea of the soul, we don't fall out of existence until our body and its history are resurrected.
I'd appreciate your thoughts.
Getting older, becoming sick and now living with symptoms that will last until I pass away. I wasn't sure, I wanted to take "this body" with me anywhere. However, after reading your article on "Our Risen Selves" my heart was gladdened with the thought of having a full history of communication with me and "seeing" others in full comunication with God and others.
The joy I have knowing my everyday actions are in dialogue with the world and with God,and that I am living an imprint of historical sense, truely lifts my spirit and my soul. Living in the now, and becoming who I am is a wonderful spiritual gift. Yes, this is a simple concept, but hard to grasp it's width and content that surrounds it. My students need to hear this, and my family needs to hear this.
I plan on sending your article to our local Diocesan priests and hopefully they will be as touched as I was.


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In school districts where the budget failed to pass, a second vote may be held on June 18. School boards may forgo a second vote and adopt a contingency budget. Under state law, a contingency budget requires zero percent growth in the district's tax levy.
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WILSON, N.C. – Playing for the final spot in the Conference Carolinas tournament, the King University men's volleyball team found themselves in a fight at Barton College on Saturday evening. The Tornado fell behind and forced a fifth set, but could not complete the comeback as Barton held off a late Tornado surge to take the contest 3-2 (21-25, 25-19, 27-25, 15-25, 17-15).
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11:22 a.m. PT—I'll wrap up the review of Tuesday's speeches with Laura Bush. First of all, I like Laura. But any spouse who talks this much about enjoying the campaign trail must have a screw loose. I constantly hear and read about political spouses who want nothing to do with campaigning because it's so repetitive, exhausting, and privacy-invading. It eats your family life. The media expose your every quirk and hound your children. Some political spouses talk or even threaten their partners out of running for president.
Not Laura. "I'm enjoying this campaign," she volunteered. Speaking of her daughters, she effused, "We are so happy they are campaigning with us this fall." I hope for her sake she was faking it. But it didn't look that way.
Discussing stem-cell research, Laura engaged in a bit of artful timing that the transcript doesn't capture. "I could talk about the fact that my husband is the first president to provide federal funding for stem cell research–" she began. This was a gesture to the secular middle, the folks Kerry has been trying to pry away from Bush on the grounds that Bush has limited money for such research. But the delegates in the hall last night represented the religious right more than the secular middle. So before they could absorb the slap, Laura rushed into the second half of the sentence: "and he did so in a principled way, allowing science to explore its potential while respecting the dignity of human life." At this point, Laura paused, and the delegates applauded. They got their bouquet, while the press got its "Bush supports stem-cell research" line.
Laura tried to convey what her husband is like in person. She started off by confirming the impression we all get: He always "knew where he wanted to go." Later, she boasted, "His friends don't change—and neither do his values." But when it came to Iraq, her spin changed. Before the war, "I knew he was wrestling with these agonizing decisions," she said. Agonizing? More than any other president, Bush has denied agonizing about almost anything. It must be Laura who did the agonizing. She'd like us to think her husband is as reflective as she is. She'd like to think so herself, and I'm sure she does. But we're not married to the guy. We've just hired him for four years. So it's easier for us to face up to his thoughtlessness.
You can't expect objectivity about a candidate from his wife—actually, in the case of Teresa Heinz Kerry, you can—and Laura certainly seems smitten. "I've seen him return the salute of soldiers wounded in battle," she said last night. I'm not sure what this signifies, coming from a man who never served in battle and has sent these soldiers into harm's way on false pretenses. But evidently, in Laura's eyes, it amounts to valor. She went on to applaud the troops' "infectious spirit of uniquely American confidence that we are doing the right thing and that our future will be better because of our actions today."
The person most clearly infected is Laura herself. After all, she shares a household, a dinner table, and a bed with the Typhoid Mary of American overconfidence, her husband. "He brings that optimism, that sense of promise, that certainty that a better day is before us to his job every day," she told the audience. That's Bushism: Ignore the evidence, believe, and reality will follow. "With your help, he'll do it for four more years," Laura concluded. I'm sure she believes that. But reality is something else.
9:45 a.m. PT—I want to go back to a couple of speakers I didn't have time to discuss last night. One is Michael Steele, the lieutenant governor of Maryland, my state. I met Steele a few months ago at a television studio. Nice guy, very friendly. Maybe that's what happens when you're a minority within a minority—in Steele's case, a Republican who has to deal mostly with Democrats (Maryland's majority party), and a black guy who has to deal (especially in his party) mostly with whites. I've always suspected that being gay and Catholic, or being Jewish and Republican, has the same healthy effect.
Steele was given plenty of time last night to tell minorities why they should consider the GOP. He did a good job, foreshadowing many of the points Arnold Schwarzenegger would make later in the evening. "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift," Steele said, quoting Abraham Lincoln. "You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. ... You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and incentive. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they should do for themselves." The delegates responded with a furious ovation.
Steele hammered two of my favorite black Republican themes. One is self-help: "We must look to ourselves and not to government to raise our kids, start our business, or provide care to our aging parent." The other is a shift from civil rights to better economic exploitation of those rights. "What truly defines the civil rights challenge today isn't whether you can get a seat at the lunch counter," he said. "It's whether you can own that lunch counter."
The wisest line of the Democratic convention came from Bill Clinton: "Strength and wisdom are not opposing values." The wisest line of the Republican convention so far has come from Steele: "Hope is not a strategy." Pressing this theme, Steele shredded the piety so many liberals mistake for good policy: "Hope doesn't protect you from terrorists. Hope doesn't lower your taxes. Hope doesn't help you buy a home. And hope doesn't ensure quality education for your children. ... It's results that matter."
Great point. Unfortunately, it left Steele in the awkward position of trying to explain why, if results matter more than hope does, we should vote for a president who's running on hope and lousy results. So Steele touted Bush's tax cuts as a benefit in their own right, glossing over their failure as economic policy and their tiny benefit to the folks he was appealing to. I nodded when Steele said government's job was to "give us the tools we need and then get out of the way and let us put our hopes into action." But that was Bill Clinton's philosophy, too, and he gave us much better results than Bush has.
If economics and self-help are the best messages of black Republicanism, the worst is surely the manipulation of religion and character issues to con many blacks into voting against their interests. Steele took a step in this direction when he used John Kerry's foreign policy to argue that Kerry lacked the "strong leadership" to run a good domestic policy. And he totally crossed the line when he hammered Kerry for opposing a federal ban on gay marriage. Republicans use the gay issue with blacks because polls show they're morally conservative. But banning gay marriage won't buy you a lunch counter.
I almost laughed out loud when Steele said he'd been inspired by "Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, and Maebell Turner (Steele's mother)." In the back of my head, that old Sesame Street tune began playing: One of these things is not like the others … And when Steele boasted that "a majority of Republicans in the United States Senate fought off the segregationist Democrats to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964," all I could do was smile. Many of those Republicans are no longer Republicans. And those segregationists are no longer Democrats. And the Civil Rights Act is the reason why.
8:48 p.m. PT—Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, takes the stage around 9 p.m. ET. He's here to play doctor. Years ago, when Frist was first elected to the Senate, Bob Dole delivered one of his trademark giveaway lines, announcing at a press conference that Frist was on hand to give the GOP "credibility" on medical issues. That's Frist's job again tonight. He's going to try to sell America on the virtues of the prescription-drug program Bush signed this year, which was supposed to be a big political winner but hasn't turned out that way.
Frist opens with a Dole-esque gaffe of his own. His prepared text accuses some Democrats of not wanting "seniors" to participate in the drug program. Frist accidentally calls them "senators." This slip takes place just as Frist is about to accuse Democrats of caring more about politics than patients. Evidently it's Frist who has politics on his mind.
The speech is laden with dumb lines. "Tell 'em Dr. Frist prescribed it," the senator quips.
He calls Kerry "the Dr. No of tort reform." He says Kerry's prescription will be "Take a handful of tax increases and don't call me in the morning."
Here's a prescription for you, Sen. Frist: Take two new speechwriters.
Frist rehashes the usual Republican rhetoric against Democratic health care ideas. He accuses Kerry of a "trillion-dollar government-run plan" that will "empower those who tax you," not "those who cure you." He touts health savings accounts as a way to "own" the money you save for medical care. But he also touches on two of this year's most interesting emerging issues.
One is tort reform, featuring John Edwards in the role of Satan. Frist practically shouts, "The culprits are the personal-injury trial lawyers, and we oppose those predators!" A faint hiss emanates from the floor. Frist rips the "litigation lottery" in which lawyers get the "jackpot" and everyone else pays. "You can no longer be pro-patient and pro-trial lawyer!" he fumes. He speaks of a good doctor who, despite never having been sued, has been priced out of the liability insurance market by doubling rates. The upshot, according to Frist, is that the doctor has dropped the insurance.
I guess I'm missing something. The doctor has dropped insurance for physicians who might get sued for malpractice and lose. But the doctor hasn't been sued, because he doesn't commit malpractice. What exactly is the problem here? Isn't this a libertarian success story?
Frist is more persuasive on another issue, stem-cell research. Answering Ron Reagan's speech at the Democratic Convention, he explains to the delegates the difference between adult and embryonic stem cells. He doesn't deny the virtues of the latter: "Both fields hold promise." From this reasonable position, he attacks John Kerry's dishonest characterization of the Bush policy. Kerry has repeatedly accused Bush of banning stem-cell research. "What ban?" Frist rightly asks. "Shame on you, Mr. Kerry."
Frist exaggerates Bush's support for the research, ignoring the budget's low dollar amount and describing it only as "record levels." But he does a good job of clarifying the basis for Bush's funding restrictions. "An embryo is biologically human. It deserves moral respect," he says. To my surprise, this earns him the biggest applause of the night. He concludes by promising "an ethical framework for scientific discovery." This is the way conservatives must learn to think and talk about stem-cell research. If they want science to be friendly to religion, they'll have to make religion friendly to science, too.
6:45 p.m. PT—I guess this is Appease-the-Right Night. Not long after Elizabeth Dole leaves the podium, Sen. Sam Brownback shows up to reaffirm the GOP's commitment to "the sanctity of every human life." Brownback's speech turns out to be a masterpiece of framing. He isn't here to talk about abortion. He's here to talk about AIDS—and fold the GOP's pro-life position into it.
"Our nation is again called to the defense of human life and dignity," Brownback says. "HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest moral and humanitarian crises of our time. Over 20 million people have died of the disease." He touts the money Bush is spending to fight the disease. Along the way, he works in conservative-friendly policies such as abstinence education.
Brownback runs through a litany of issues that have recently become important to Christian conservatives. He speaks of "the 14-year-old girl trafficked and sold into prostitution," "the prisoner working to turn away from a life of crime" (who might be helped by a faith-based rehabilitation program), and "the man held in a foreign prison for practicing his faith." I've always thought the development of these issues was one of the most brilliant feats of the Bush administration. Essentially, the Bushies found new issues to occupy the energies of religious conservatives and keep them from demanding sharp changes on abortion, birth control, and other issues that tend to get Republican politicians in trouble. Changes have been made on those issues, but within politically safe boundaries.
Still, Brownback gets his biggest reaction when he restates Bush's pledge to "protect every human life." And he closes with a pledge to safeguard both "the child in the womb" and "the mother carrying her." I assume this is a reference to the recently enacted Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which neatly positioned the GOP as a protector of women as well as fetuses. The religious right is learning and rethinking. The secular left will have to do the same.
6:10 p.m. PT—Elizabeth Dole delivers the first significant speech of the night. I've always thought of her as a plastic doll. Her words are infallibly syrupy and meaningless. Her trademark pasted-on smile increasingly resembles a death mask. When she ran for president four years ago—five, really, since she dropped out early for lack of support—she stuck to her script more assiduously than any other politician I've seen. That's saying something. Tonight is no different: She hardly adds a word to her prepared text.
But the content turns out to be very important. Dole's speech is the first socially conservative speech of the convention, and she doesn't hold back. Every touchy issue that was dodged by last night's pro-choice or anti-anti-gay speakers—Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Ron Silver—figures in Dole's speech.
"We believe in the dignity of every life," says Dole. I'm waiting for her to elaborate on this code word for abortion, but she suddenly transforms it into a different issue: "We believe in life—the new life of a man and woman joined together under God. Marriage is important not because it is a convenient invention or the latest reality show. Marriage is important because it is the cornerstone of civilization, and the foundation of the family. Marriage between a man and a woman isn't something Republicans invented, but it is something Republicans will defend."
Wow. I had no idea Dole felt so strongly about the sanctity of marriage. It certainly didn't stop her from marrying a divorced man and singing his praises in countless campaigns.
Then Dole gets back to abortion. "We believe in a culture that respects all life—including the most vulnerable in our society, the frail elderly, the infirm, and those not yet born." She robotically enunciates every word—"not … yet … born"—to make sure every pro-lifer in the arena is satisfied that these issues are being given sufficient time. It's a big job, compensating these people for Monday's Shut-Up-About-Social-Issues Night. If I were a pro-life delegate, I'd be more impressed if these words were being delivered at 10 p.m., when the networks tune in, instead of 8 p.m.
Here's where, as a maven of abortion politics, I get to pull out some embarrassing quotes from Dole's presidential campaign. This is from the Washington Post on Aug. 17, 1999:
Asked in an interview whether she supports spending federal money to pay for abortions, Dole initially said she opposed using Medicaid dollars on the medical procedure. "I'm not for, ah, you know, federal funding for abortions," she said, seated in a conference room of a local business. "I'm for continuing the current situation, which prohibits federal funding for abortions."
Told that current law allows using Medicaid money for abortion in instances of rape, incest or when the woman's life is in danger, a Dole aide interrupted to dispute that. Then Dole said: "I have been in favor of continuing what we are doing now. I just want to be sure exactly what the current situation is. Let's don't pursue that further now because I need to check that." …
Dole has long supported legal abortions for women who are the victims of rape, incest or if the woman's health is jeopardized. But when asked whether she viewed the question of spending Medicaid funds for poor women's abortions as a fairness issue, Dole replied: "I think I am against federal funding for abortions."
You get the picture. Dole isn't exactly the right person to be telling pro-lifers that the GOP has a spine about this issue or even knows the federal policies about it very well.
Dole concludes with a declaration of faith—"In America I have the freedom to call that man Lord … and … I … do"—and a slap at "activist judges trying to strip the name of God from the Pledge of Allegiance, from the money in our pockets, and from the walls of our courthouses." But in expressing sorrow for the people harmed by recent hurricanes and tropical storms—and paying tribute to those who have helped them—she inadvertently slights her own state. "If a storm named Charley or Francis strikes, we help them," she says.
Excuse me? How about Gaston, the storm that just blew from South Carolina to Virginia? The robot has screwed up. Somebody check her batteries.


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Welcome to First Year
Welcome to the Sydney School of Education and Social Work's online home for the First Year Experience. This website has been designed to support you in key areas that have been identified by previous students as important to the success and enjoyment of first year. The site includes the voices of fellow students based on interviews and reflective narratives that have emerged from a large student survey on the first year experience conducted in 2010.
Sticking it out is a huge thing for first year. You have to make it through the tough times to actually get anywhere.
Year 3, BEd (Primary) Student
Hopefully, by hearing from other students you will understand your experience better and that the successful negotiation of first year is important to all of us in the school. Please take the time to explore the available resources.
What to expect
Following are a series of interviews where students share their perspectives of what was challenging about first year and rewarding about coming to university.
Gideon's first year experience
"You can get more engaged with other students and there are a lot of social events on campus. You don't have to drink…"
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Chely's first year experience
"My first year was difficult because it was hard to adjust to the academic style of studying…"
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Karina's first year experience
"It was challenging to have to meet new people and form new relationships but that is now one of the most rewarding things about being part of the school…"
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Lizzie's first year experience
"I found it easier when social work students came together in the same class…"
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Khadine's first year experience
"I didn't pass my first essay, it was a bit confronting for me…"
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The journey
Expectations of university are different from school. I think students need to be prepared for the differences between school and uni and the academic staff are the ones who are the most able to communicate this.Year 5, BA/BEd Student
Studying at university can require a big adjustment. Whether you have completed the HSC, are returning to study as a mature age student, or have come in through other pathways such as TAFE - everyone will find they have to adjust to various elements of university study.
Studying at university gives you a lot more flexibility and freedom therefore one of the major adjustments you will have to make is managing your time. Scheduled time in lectures and tutorials is only one element of what is required. The majority of time that you will use will be spent in independent study: reading, preparing for tutorials, researching and completing assignments. While all this is happening you may also find you have other time pressures that need to be factored in such as work and family responsibilities.
Understanding the expectations of academic work and mastering the new skills required is another major adjustment. This can be a struggle for some students. The key to this is to ask questions about what is expected from lecturers and tutors, plan and allow enough time to do the work that is being assessed as it often takes a lot longer than anticipated.
If the mark for the first assignment is not as good as it could be then this is the opportunity to take note of the feedback given, seek further advice and reflect on what to do differently in the future. This is all part of a process for students to understand their own learning better, build their ability to self-regulate and become self-directed, independent learners.
While students in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work have a clear goal to become qualified educators and social workers, there are also broader aims in studying at university. These are summarised by the university as graduate attributes and are consistent with fostering student development and growth more generally. You can see from the attribute of "lifelong learning" that this is a natural progression from the self-regulation and self-direction required to successfully study at university, in addition to the intellectual curiosity, inquiry skills, critical thinking and ethical understandings that have been developed.
All students bring with them their experience of previous study and all are at different points of the journey. Building networks with other students is a way to enhance the student experience and to provide support for each other. Remember while the goal is to attain a degree, the process and the people that you meet are also important and often the most rewarding.
This website has been designed to cover a number of key topics that students in the school identified as important in a survey on the first year experience. We hope that by watching our student and staff vodcasts and accessing the various resources given this will be of benefit to all students in their negotiation of first year and beyond.
Good luck and enjoy the journey.
Resources at Sydney
- University of Sydney – Orientation information – Contacts and Links (Retrieved Jan 13)
Other resources
- Monash University - Learning Support - Enjoying your university experience (Retrieved Feb 2011)
- Monash University - Learning Support - Tertiary study patterns (Retrieved Feb 2011)
- Monash University - Learning Support - Your learning goals (Retrieved Mar 11)
Thanks and acknowledgement are given to colleagues from the Learning Centre, The University of Sydney and from other institutions who have contributed to the open access resources cited.


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Hollis police arrest N.Y. man for drugs
November 04. 2013 12:08PM
HOLLIS — A New York man is facing felony drug charges after patrol officers became suspicious of a car parked outside the Nartoff Road cemetery Sunday night when the graveyard was closed.
Police said Brian W. Bianca, 20, of Bay Shore, was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and possession of LSD, both class B felonies.
He also was charged with possession of marijuana and transportation of a controlled drug, both class A misdemeanors.
Police said they recovered more than an ounce of marijuana from Bianca's car.
Bail was initially set at $10,000 cash only, but at his arraignment Monday in 9th Circuit Court, Nashua District Division, it was lowered to $5,000 cash/surety. He is due back in court Nov. 14 for a probable cause hearing.


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Blackfoot native becomes first female two star general in Texas National Guard
CAMP MABRY, Texas — Brigadier General Joyce Stevens was promoted to the rank of Major General at the Texas Military Forces Museum in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Stevens became the first female two star general in the Texas National Guard. The announcement was made by Adjutant General of Texas, Maj. Gen. John Nichols.
Assuming the dual roles of Commander for the Texas Army National Guard and Assistant Adjutant General in March 2009, Stevens serves as the principal advisor to The Adjutant General for all Army operations.
Raised in Blackfoot, Stevens graduated from Blackfoot High School. She began her military career in April 1979, entering the Idaho National Guard as a Private (E1) in Boise. She attended Officer Candidate School at the Idaho Military Academy, earning her commission. She moved to Texas soon after that and joined the Texas Army National Guard.
Stevens has held various command and staff positions within the 49th Armored Division, the 71st Troop Command, 536 Forward Support Battalion and the 111th Area Support Group. Most recently, she served as the Deputy Commanding General of the 36th Infantry Division (Light).
She deployed to combat as a Brigade level Task Force Commander in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2005, where her unit was responsible for Base Operations, which entailed the management and security of Bagram Air Field (the largest US Base in Afghanistan). Additionally, Stevens was responsible for security and reconstruction projects in the adjacent Kapisa, Parwan, and Panjshir Provinces of Afghanistan.
Stevens and her husband, Col. (Ret.) James Stryker, have been married for 20 years. Stevens is the daughter of Beatrice (Bea) Christiansen of Blackfoot and the late Kenneth Stevens. Her sister, Patricia Derbridge, lives in Boise.
"I'm proud of her, of course," said her mom, Bea Christiansen.
"She has gained a lot of knowledge through her schooling and service," she said. "It has helped make her who she is."
Stevens credits her mom for her success. "My mom set a great example and told me to 'always do more than you are asked to do, and
always, always, always do your best,'" she said.
Stevens' most recent award includes being a recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Women in Texas Government by the Texas State Agency Council for her outstanding management.
The mission of the Texas Military Forces (TXMF) is to provide the Governor and the President with ready and trained forces in support of the citizens of Texas and State and Federal civil/military authorities at home and abroad.