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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
New Year's Food and Tradditions Around the World
Every culture has traditional foods believed to bring good fortune in the New Year. No matter when New Year's Day occurs (at Rosh Hashanah in September, Chinese New Year in January, Persian New Year at the spring equinox), special food items are served that represent health, prosperity, sweetness and luck for the year ahead.
These are some lucky food and food traditions:
In many Asian countries, long noodles are eaten on New Year's Day in order to bring a long life.
Black eyed peas
A common good luck food in the southern United States, black-eyed peas are thought to bring prosperity, especially when served with collard greens.
In Germany, Ireland, and parts of the United States, cabbage is associated with luck and fortune since it is green and resembles money.
Thought to resemble coins, lentils are eaten throughout Italy for good fortune in the New Year.
Long associated with abundance and fertility, pomegranates are eaten in Turkey and other Mediterranean countries for luck in the New Year.
In North America, Asia, and Europe, people eat fish to celebrate the new year. In some countries, people associate fish with moving forward into the new year since fish swim forward. Other people think fish symbolize abundance since they swim in schools.
Pork is served at New Year's celebrations all over the world. Some cultures believe pigs symbolize prosperity and abundance because of their plump bodies and high fat content, while others say pigs symbolize progress because they push themselves forward as they root around in the dirt for food.
In Japan, the traditional food for New Year's Day includes mochi (round balls of rice) and mirror cakes (the balls flattened to the shape of a mirror) which are placed on altars as offerings to the gods (along with an orange for longevity) and given to relatives and friends as tokens of divine blessings for the year.
Dates and figs
The Romans used to give friends a glass jar full of dates and dried figs in honey, along with a bay leaf branch so the coming year would be sweet and full of good fortune. Neapolitans still wrap dried figs in laurel leaves and exchange them as a kind of insurance of abundance for the coming year. They also make confections of caramelized dough and tiny almond pieces which are eaten over a period of days.
In Mexico and many South American countries, instead of doing a champagne toast, New Year's Eve revelers eat 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight, one for each month in the coming year. In Venezuela we combine both a champagne toast and grape eating.
Citrus is a positive symbol for the Chinese New Year, observed on the first day of the first lunar month (in 2009, it falls on January 26). Tangerines represent good luck, and oranges represent wealth.
In Greece, a special round cake called vasilopita is baked with a coin hidden inside. At midnight or after the New Year's Day meal, the cake is cut, with the first piece going to St. Basil and the rest being distributed to guests in order of age.
Sweden and Norway have similar rituals in which they hide a whole almond in rice pudding—whoever gets the nut is guaranteed great fortune in the new year.
In Scotland, where New Year's is called Hogmanay, there is a tradition called "first footing," in which the first person to enter a home after the new year determines what kind of year the residents will have. The "first footer" often brings symbolic gifts like coal to keep the house warm or baked goods such as shortbread, oat cakes, and a fruit caked called black bun, to make sure the household always has food.
What Not to Eat or unlucky food
According to many cultures, eating anything with wings is not a good. It could fly away, taking all your luck. Chicken is especially bad because the bird scratches backwards (unlike the forward-thinking pig), possibly leading to setbacks.
Backwards-swimming lobsters are also a bad omen for the same reason.
Eggs, tofu, or white cheese
The color white is a symbol of death in the Chinese culture, so avoid eggs, tofu, or white cheese.
And above all, don't clean your plate too thoroughly — many cultures believe that leaving a little leftover food on your plate will usher in a year of plenty.
Well, that's it. Hope you have and excellet New Year's Dinner and a very Lucky Happy New Year 2009.
These are some of the articles I read to write this post
Living in Season: New Year's Feasts
"Good Luck" New Year's Feast Ideas from Around the World
Lucky Foods for the New Year
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
EFL University wish for Christmas
Hope you like it... Merry Christmas World....
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
URBE Xmas Party 2008
|Make a Smilebox scrapbook
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Apture: Add Multimedia to Your blog with One Click.
This new tool deserves a WooooWWWW! It allows you to link videos, documents, photos, maps, etc to your page.
It's veryEasy to use. Just watch the video and follow the instrustions... of course, you will need a blog, a webpage and you know what it's great about it..... It works with Ning! So we can use this great tools with our EFL university ning CoP...
Watch the video and start experimenting and adventuring.. you won't regret it...
After you played with it...... Let me know what you thought about it.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Youth for Human Rights
Carlos Linares shared this wonderful video with us to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Human Rights Declaration. He asked:
What's your favorite Human Rights?
if you don't know much about Human Rights, read the previous post. There you will find them... have fun and let us know your answer to Carlos' question.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 60th Anniversary
The following reproduces the articles of the Declaration which set out the specific human rights that are recognized in the Declaration.
Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Take the Feedback Survey!
Now, rhe feedback survey... Only for students from this September-December2008 trimester:
Feed back ( students Sep-Dec 08 only) Feed back Class Sep-Dec 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Final project Sep-Dec 2008
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Daft Bodies - Harder Better Faster Stronger
Practicing your comparatives....
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger lyrics
Work It
Make It
Do It
Makes Us
More Than
Work is
Work It
Make It
Do It
Makes Us
Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster Makes Us stronger
More Than Ever Hour After
Our Work Is Never Over
English Grammar Lesson - Verb Forms and Verb Tenses
Check this EFL video about Tenses! Mario has been teaching English in Mexico for 12 years in some of the most prestigious language institutes in the country, such as Harmon Hall and Berlitz. His dream is to make English a reality in all those who have an internet connection regardless of their current economical situation.
ESL teachers and students are allowed to make free use of the resources included on his You Tube channel.
He hopes you find his video useful and He hopes to hear from you. Any feedback is welcome.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Chinita's Day! 2008
November 18th is a very important day in our state. Today there will be many activities all around the state and specially here in Maracaibo. People will remember and rejoice in Chinita's honor.
Reading on wikipedia, we can find her story:
An old lady made a living by washing other people's clothes, a job she did every morning at the shores of the lake. On November 18th 1709 she took a bulk of clothes, and as usual, went to the lake to start washing them. This old lady was at her chores when she saw a wooden board floating towards her. She picked it up thinking that it might be of some use. When she finished her work, she went home carrying the clothes, the board and a small vase with fresh water. She then placed the board on top of the vase. Then, she noticed a small figure in the board but couldn't tell what it was.She fell asleep, and when she áwoke up it was already late and dark. She decided to go to a local grocery store to buy some candles.
Since that day the street where she lived was renamed "El Milagro" which means Miracle in Spanish, and to this day it is one of the most important streets in the neighborhood of "El Saladillo" in the city of Maracaibo.
The people of Maracaibo celebrate the Festival of La Chinita in November with an all night party. One of the main city streets, Bella Vista, is closed for several blocks and the city puts lights along the whole street. The lights stay up for months, until after Christmas. There are stages set up, sponsored by the government and businesses around the city. There are firework shows and street vendors, and hundreds of thousands of people line the streets and celebrate all night.
"Our Lady of Rosario of Chiquinquirá." Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 2007. Answers.com 18 Nov. 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/our-lady-of-rosario-of-chiquinquir
Also, one important part of the celebration is selecting a beauty queen for the fair. This year's winner was Leidys Orellano. accompany by her parents and sister. She was the representant of the B.O.D, an important Bank in our region.
Another big thing in the Feria is the bull fight (La Corrida de Toros)... I personally don't like it but a lot of people like going to the bullfight ring and yell "Ole". This is a tradition that comes from Spain and in my opinion it is horrible... I'm against torture and violence. But that's just me.
Now, what's your opinion about our fair? Did you enjoy our fair this year? Tell us what you did to enferiarte? Where did you go? how was it? What did you like the most? What you didn't like... if there's something you didn't like...
Looking forward to reading all the stories from this year celebration.
And Chinita....... Gloria a ti casta Señora! Happy Day!
I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed working on this posting in honor to my chinita!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
StoryTelling Mini Conference
Date: 2 - 9 November 2008
Duration: 60 minutes
Facilitators: Cristina Costa, Tom Wambeke, Nellie Deutsch, and Richard Green (Guest)
Venue: WiZi and Connecting Online
Do you think of stories when you look at a photo, a video, or listen to music? Does the topic interest you as a tool for instruction and learning or are you just curious? In any case, for whatever reason you may have, you are invited to join this storytelling mini conference.
We will have a live storytelling event on WiZiQ or Elluminate. Please refer to the main page of Connecting Online for further discussions on the topic.
Please add your name if you are interested in joining and , ask questions and/or add comments here.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Bronze Medal for Venezuela.. Thanks Dalia!
In Rome 1960, Enrico Forcela also won bronze medal in Men's 50 meter rifle prone.
We are very happy and proud of Dalia and we want to congratulate and thank her for the happiness that her dreams of computing in an Olympic game have given the Venezuelan people.
Now after reading about our athletes and their performance at the different Olympic Games. What do you think? Is it easy to get a medal? What do you know about our athletes? Do you you have a favorite one? What about the sports? What's your favorite?
Source: Wikipedia
Posters: Olympic Games
Monday, August 18, 2008
A beautiful song....about us... people from Zulia!
Quinto Criollo is a local musical group whose members have dedicated 34 years of their lives to make our people happy and proud of their culture and heritage. This musical group was born on May 21 1971. Amada Campbell, Eduardo Morales, Francisco Arrieta and Lisbella González started their presentations at universities and schools.
In 1973,Hernán Gamboa, a cuatro player from Serenata Guayanesa, invited them to create their own music. In 1976, they recorded their first album (listen to it here), produced by maestro Hugo Blanco composer of "Moliendo Cafe", its cover was designed by Francisco "Paco" Hung, one of the most important painters of our coutry. That year they were on National television. They were invited to participate in the Venezuela Siempre Venezuela show in Venezolana de Television.
In 1978, they recorded Canción del Barco Velero dedicated to the children and in 1979, Navidad Criolla with the maestro Simón Díaz.
In 1981, different reasons made them decided to stop recording or going on tours. For twelve years they remained silent but in 1993, decided to come back. Rafael Soto and Nectario Sánchez, joined the group substituting Iván Burgos and Francisco Arrieta. That year, they won the Premio Nacional de la Canción Popular.
In 1999 they recorded "Como el río" with two new members Mildred González y Edilio Lugo
In 1996, on their 25th aniversary, Quinto Criollo was named Patrimonio Cultural de Maracaibo, and received the orden "Ciudad de Maracaibo".
In 2001, On their 30th Aniversary, they celebrated with a concert where Serenata Guayanesa, Gualberto Ibarreto, Cecilia Todd, Huáscar Barradas and Ricardo Cepeda accompanied them.
They have been singing to us for 37 years now. Congratulations to Amada Campbell, Mildred González, Rafael Soto, Eduardo Morales and Nectario Sánchez. We are very proud of you because your life's work has been dedicated to represent us all over the world and the time.
We are specially proud at URBE because one of its founding members, Amada Campbell is one of our EFL professors and dear friend. Also, Eduardo Morales' son.... Eduardo Morales Jr., an engineer and EFL teacher, was part of our Staff at the URBE's ESL Language Center.
Source: El cuatro Venezolano, sabor gaitero, salvavinilo
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Feedback for our May- July 2008 class!
- We got a bunch of new friends at the International Collaboration Ning Social Network.
- We got a Facebook Group
- We had lots of fun... Soon, I will be posting all we did... lots of pictures, videos and excellent work.
Click Here to take survey
Please, take the survey and keep in touch...
I will see you next trimester...
Saturday, August 9, 2008
A movie Quiz... Mamma Mia!!!
Friday, July 25, 2008
Randy Pausch... an unbelieveble teacher, parent and human being!
In the lecture Mr. Pausch urged his students and colleagues to live life to the fullest. Among his words of wisdom:
- "Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it."
- "We can't change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand. If I'm not as depressed as you think I should be, I'm sorry to disappoint you."
- "Good teaching is always a performance, but what Randy did was in a class all by itself," says Andy van Dam, co-founder of the computer science department at Brown University, which Pausch attended as an undergraduate. "His students responded to him as athletes do to a great coach who cares not only about winning but about the team players as individuals."
Most felt condolences to his family, friends and students.
Source: USA Today
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Today, we are remembering our Bolivar. What do you think about this great Venezuelan? How important is his legacy to you? Should we be proud of him? Was he a superheroe or just an ordinary human being?
Reading The Free Dictionary, I found this: "Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios y Blanco called El Libertador (born July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Captaincy General of Venezuela – died December 17, 1830, in Santa Marta, Colombia) was a leader of several independence movements throughout South America, collectively known as Bolívar's War.
In 1802, he married María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa, daughter of Bernardo Nicolás Rodríguez del Toro y Ascanio and wife Benita de Alaiza y Medrano. She died of yellow fever less than a year later and decided he would never remarry.
Together with José de San Martín, Bolívar is regarded as one of the Liberators of Spanish South America."
Wikipedia tell us..... "After the triumph over the Spanish monarchy, Bolívar participated in the foundation of Gran Colombia, a nation formed from the liberated Spanish colonies. Bolívar became President of Gran Colombia from 1821 to 1830, President of Peru from 1824 to 1826 and President of Bolivia from 1825 to 1826. His legacy contributed decisively to the independence of present-day Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá, Perú and Venezuela."
Now... What do I think about our "Libertador"... he was a great man ...an initiator and a true believer.. he had dreams and he pursued them... he was a man of honor and kept promises. I also think he was a human being of his time and he did as his conscience told him to do. He also could see that moral and education are our first necessities....
Some of his thoughts:
Usted formó mi corazón para la libertad, para la justicia, para lo grande, para lo hermoso. Yo he seguido el sendero que usted me señaló... No puede figurarse usted cuán hondamente se han grabado en mi corazón las lecciones que usted me ha dado " (Palabras de El Libertador a su maestro Don Simón Rodríguez 1797)
El que manda debe oír aunque sean las más duras verdades y, después de oídas, debe aprovecharse de ellas para corregir los males que produzcan los errores.
Moral y luces son los polos de una República, moral y luces son nuestras primeras necesidades" (Palabras de El Libertador ante el Congreso de Angostura - 15 de febrero 1819)
What do you think about our Libertador? What are you doing to contribute to the development and growing of our country? If you had the chance to talk to Bolivar what would you tell him?
Source: The Free Dictionary, Wikipedia,
Monday, July 21, 2008
Find more
videos like this on International Collaboration
About the singer..
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, February 221974) is a British singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases — especially the number one hit "You're Beautiful" — brought him to fame in 2005. His style is a mix of pop, folk and acoustic rock. Along with vocals, James Blunt plays a wide variety of instruments including the piano, guitar, organ, marimba and mellotron. His song "You're Beautiful" reached number one on the Billboard Hot
100 in 2006.
Here we go again..... The first single from All The Lost Souls is called "1973" and was inspired by Blunt's nights out in a club called Pacha, in Ibiza. The song became another hit for Blunt reaching number-one in seven countries and reach the top
in the European overall chart. It reached top 10 in twenty-nine countries.
Thanks so much James for so beautiful music....
Source: Answers.com
video: International Collaboration
Final Project May-July 08
If you have any doubts ... you know what to do do.... email me or ask a partner...Looking forward to listening to your final reports...
Sunday, July 20, 2008
May-July 2008 Final Week Class
Let's get started with our first Conversation... All you have to do is ... click on the replies... Look at the tittle tutorial I put together for you (click on the image to see a larger picture of it).... if you have any questions... you know you can ask your partners or me.
And now, the conversation.... click to listen to the question and participate with your opinion... leave a message to your classmates and teacher.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Who wants a Banana Split?
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by antonioarrieta
Easy right?... Who wants some.... mmmhhhmm
Monday, July 7, 2008
Nature ... Slideshow Contest at Slideshare!
Ok... did you like it? what did you like about it? Contents, message, photos, words. What about you? Would you like to participate in this contest or at least contribute to the spreading of the going green and thinking green idea to save the world? Come on ... Let us know what you have to say... Leave a comment...
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Yaimir Muñoz ..... a level 1 student
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Monday, June 30, 2008
June 26th.. URBE says NO to drugs!
There are many drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, and much more. If your friends ask you take drugs or get high, don't do it. If you say yes, you will get high and do something causing dangerous consequences. Many kids that take drugs think they can hide it from their parents, but they are wrong. Parents always have a way to find out about things that their children are hiding from them. Taking drugs can cause family members to fight and destroy families.
Be smart and think before you act. Don't waste your life in something that is not worth it. Drugs are trouble, so do yourself a favor and stay out of trouble. People who encourage you to use drugs are not your friends. Remember drugs makes you sick and damage your brain. People do crazy things when they are high. For example they may shoot themselves, throw themselves off a roof, or drown themselves in the bathtub! So be cool and stay away from drugs!
source: Fitness our body our temple
Image: Ten reasons to say no to drugs
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Simple present. Daily activities... Daily routine
And here we have a cool song, too!
Have you met Matt?
Matt Harding said ...."14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me".... You can visit Matt's site here
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Announcing our weekly meeting in WizIQ!
This week: we will getting familiar with WIZIQ and we will be meeting people from the world. All you have to do is to introduce yourself and tell us about your blogs and school life.
Friday, 20 June, 2008
6:30 PM To 8:30 PM SA Western Standard Time
The link to the session is this: Click here
You can view a recording of a WIZIQ session here. Click on view recording to check what WIZIQ is like.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Make a Wish!
- I wish to make a complaint.
- I wish to see the manager.
You can also use 'wish' with a noun to 'offer good wishes'.
- I wish you all the best in your new job.
- We wish you a merry Christmas.
Notice that when you want to offer good wishes using a verb, you must use 'hope ' and not 'wish'.
- We wish you the best of luck.
- We hope you have the best of luck.
- I wish you a safe and pleasant journey.
- I hope you have a safe and pleasant journey.
However, the main use of 'wish' is to say that we would like things to be different from what they are, that we have regrets about the present situation.
- I wish I was rich.
- He wishes he lived in Paris.
- They wish they'd chosen a different leader.
- I wish I hadn't told him.
Notice that the verb tense which follows 'I wish' is 'more in the past' than the tense corresponding to its meaning.
- I'm overweight. I wish I was slimmer.
- I never win at tennis. I wish I won a game occasionally.
- It's raining hard. I wish it wasn't raining so hard.
- I went to the pub last night. I wish I hadn't had so many beers.
- I didn't go to the cinema. I wish I had gone.
- I've eaten too much. I wish I hadn't eaten so much.
- I'm going to see her later. I wish I wasn't.
- I was wearing jeans. I wish I hadn't been wearing jeans.
- I can't go to the party. I wish I could go.
- I couldn't do all the questions in the exam. I wish I could have done them all.
- He won't help me. I wish he would help me.
- You're making too much noise. I wish you would be quiet.
- You keep interrupting me. I wish you wouldn't do that.
Where 'will' means a future event, we cannot use 'wish' and must use 'hope'.
- There's a strike tomorrow. I hope some buses will still be running.
- I hope everything will be fine in your new job.
In more formal English, we use the subjunctive form 'were' and not 'was' after 'wish'.
- I wish I were taller.
- I wish it were Saturday today.
- I wish the options were a little clearer.
Practice 1, Practice 2, Practice 3, Practice 4
Taken from: English Grammar Secrets
Friday, June 6, 2008
Good bye to a good Friend!
Jhonny Ziskiend (My favorite Martian) Jhonny was a volunteer tutor. An Angel. Always willing to help his classmates. A special Thank you to you Jhonny. You will always be in our hearts.


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Narrative Identity 101
So if our identities are just stories... what does that mean for our lives, our memories, our mental health? Jonathan Adler is a psychologist who studies narrative identity. He tells Jim Fleming that his research found that our sense of well-being is based on the tone of our internal narratives rather than the stories themselves.
Conversation Interesting but Very Incomplete
The dialog was interesting but superficial... showing the limits of what neuroscience and psychology and the scientific method can tell us about HOW our bodies work but cannot answer deeper questions like WHY we exist. It was a very bogus, "unscientific" argument to say that we have no free will because of a science experiment about brain activation after skeletal muscle activity in grabbing a cup. Multiple hypotheses should have been generated: our sensitivity of how we detect neuronal activity may not be accurate enough, the "distribution" of our self within our corporate bodies and brains is more complex and mysterious than we thought, the mind and brain and body and self relationship needs to be understood better. There was no evidence to suggest free will was absent. Scientists who make claims like "there is no free will" are straying into creating a religion of science as the only way of understanding truth and reality.... essentially "scientific fundamentalism" that is not really science at all. For deeper understandings in this dialog on the mystery self, other people should have been interviewed besides the scientist and Buddhist convert - Catholic theologians and monks, perhaps someone like Fr. Thomas Keating. Consider the reality of "original sin" as the explanation for distorting the stories of ourselves and the possibility of the redemption of self by God - the origin of truth and reality - in whose image we are made. The inner capacity for self contemplation (self, reflection of self by self, and the dialog of self and self reflection) was perceived by St. Augustine as one piece of evidence suggesting we are made in the image of God who is love and is an interplay of unity and diversity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Don't create a new religion out of science.... it is unscientific to do so! Felix Chau, MD
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Clarification: Previous comment was for other interview
My apologies - the previous comment was for another interview. This dialog was very good regarding "narrative identity" and "agency." Could it be that compassion / love/ redemption in the process of therapy is what increased people's positive evolution in self development and mental health? Very nice dialog on how a "redemption sequence" is good for mental health while a "contamination sequence" is bad for mental health. Sorry again for the previous incorrect comment posting. Felix Chau, MD
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Bicycling and mental health
I'm loving this program and all the others using the latest brain/mind science to confirm the positive and healthy direction and practices.
I'm a bicyclist. First, one that had problems with cars, then the opposite, one that loved getting along with other people - as drivers - regardless of their vehicle. And all this change started decades ago with just a change in my view (my internal story) of the driving environment.
Today, I would sum it up with this question: Does your bicycling reflect the kind of person you want to be? Helpless vulnerable victim, dependent upon engineering your separation from challenges while indulging in ex post rationalizations of those bicyclists not having problems? Or, curious resilient persistent with the character to look for and learn from examples of success?
Has popular bicycling advocacy become the story of mental ill health? While those bicyclists with success and great mental health are disregarded and even ridiculed.
It's time to retell the bicycling story, and many others, in light of this amazing intelligence.
I recommend following up with these two books: Mindset The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
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3 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 He said:
3 "May the day of my birth perish,
and the night that said, 'A boy is conceived!'
4 That day—may it turn to darkness;
may God above not care about it;
may no light shine on it.
5 May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more;
may a cloud settle over it;
may blackness overwhelm it.
6 That night—may thick darkness seize it;
may it not be included among the days of the year
nor be entered in any of the months.
7 May that night be barren;
may no shout of joy be heard in it.
8 May those who curse days[a] curse that day,
those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 May its morning stars become dark;
may it wait for daylight in vain
and not see the first rays of dawn,
10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me
to hide trouble from my eyes.
11 "Why did I not perish at birth,
and die as I came from the womb?
12 Why were there knees to receive me
and breasts that I might be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down in peace;
I would be asleep and at rest
14 with kings and rulers of the earth,
who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,
15 with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,
like an infant who never saw the light of day?
17 There the wicked cease from turmoil,
and there the weary are at rest.
18 Captives also enjoy their ease;
they no longer hear the slave driver's shout.
19 The small and the great are there,
and the slaves are freed from their owners.
20 "Why is light given to those in misery,
and life to the bitter of soul,
21 to those who long for death that does not come,
who search for it more than for hidden treasure,
22 who are filled with gladness
and rejoice when they reach the grave?
23 Why is life given to a man
whose way is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?
24 For sighing has become my daily food;
my groans pour out like water.
25 What I feared has come upon me;
what I dreaded has happened to me.
26 I have no peace, no quietness;
I have no rest, but only turmoil."
4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 "If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
But who can keep from speaking?
3 Think how you have instructed many,
how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled;
you have strengthened faltering knees.
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;
it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Should not your piety be your confidence
and your blameless ways your hope?
7 "Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?
Where were the upright ever destroyed?
8 As I have observed, those who plow evil
and those who sow trouble reap it.
9 At the breath of God they perish;
at the blast of his anger they are no more.
10 The lions may roar and growl,
yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
11 The lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 "A word was secretly brought to me,
my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people,
14 fear and trembling seized me
and made all my bones shake.
15 A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.
16 It stopped,
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice:
17 'Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
18 If God places no trust in his servants,
if he charges his angels with error,
19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundations are in the dust,
who are crushed more readily than a moth!
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,
so that they die without wisdom?'
44 "Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen. 45 After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David, 46 who enjoyed God's favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.[a] 47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
48 "However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
49 "'Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me?
says the Lord.
Or where will my resting place be?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?'[b]
51 "You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! 52 Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him— 53 you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it."
54 When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. 55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 "Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
57 At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58 dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59 While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." 60 Then he fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


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The man deemed a "person of interest" in the weeklong disappearance of a little Calgary boy and his grandparents has had sporadic but persistent trouble with authority for much of his life.
Documents from June of 2000 were released Tuesday by the Parole Board of Canada (formerly the National Parole Board) about Douglas Robert Garland, who was then serving time for narcotics offences stemming from a drug lab bust on his parents' acreage in rural Airdrie, near Calgary, eight years earlier.
Under an "accelerated parole review" program, which no longer exists, Garland was eligible for parole after serving just a sixth of his 39-month sentence.
It appears he was released some time after the June 19, 2000 decision and a follow-up one in October that year.
But the documents also refer to several criminal charges for violence Garland once faced, a two-decades long record for property offences and ongoing "mental health concerns."
The decisions note that one charge for possession of a prohibited weapon was dismissed in 1988, another withdrawn in 1999, while an assault charge was stayed in 1989.
Now 54, Garland was taken in for questioning Saturday after Calgary police received information that there was a green truck — similar to one seen driving near the residence where five-year-old Nathan O'Brien was staying with grandparents Alvin and Kathryn Liknes when they all vanished — spotted on the Airdrie acreage about an hour north of Calgary.
Garland remains in custody on charges unrelated to the disappearance of the trio — allegedly possessing identification in the name of 14-year-old Matthew Kemper Hartley. He is due back in court Wednesday.
It's the same name of the real but tragically long-dead teenager whose identity Garland had assumed while he was on the lam on the drug charges.
The teen, and his 12-year-old sister Jill Lorene Hartley, were killed in a car crash in 1980 outside Cardston, Alta.
Garland had been using and working under the name during his almost seven years on the run from police.
Busted on Oct. 23, 1992 on his parents' acreage, where police found a sophisticated drug lab with a vast supply of chemicals used in the manufacture of methamphetamines — albeit no actual finished drugs — Garland made one court appearance on drug-trafficking charges, then vanished.
He was belatedly tracked down — in Richmond, B.C., where he had also been arrested in connection with a stolen tractor-trailer — in 1999 only after Calgary RCMP put him on its most wanted list on the web.
He pleaded guilty to two drug-trafficking charges in January of 2000 and was sentenced to 39 months in jail, though in fact, because of the accelerated release program, he appears to have served only between six and 10 months.
Despite what the board described as "weapons and assault charges" that might indicate Garland, then 40, could commit a violent offence, it concluded his age, the fact he'd never been convicted for violence and a psychological assessment that found he had little potential for violence offset that.
Board members were concerned by his "20-plus years" of property offences and contributing "mental issues," but concluded, "Your mental health is assessed as having stabilized and with close monitoring" by a psychiatrist and psychologist until what's called his "warrant expiry date" in October of 2003, he was deemed a manageable risk.
A Postmedia News story from the drugs trial noted that the meth cook, as drug makers are called, had studied science at the University of Alberta but was expelled after being caught cheating.
A university spokesman Tuesday said she couldn't confirm that sort of detail because of confidentiality concerns.
In the only other public decision readily available about Garland — a 2005 Tax Court of Canada decision that saw him win the right to unemployment benefits despite having worked under the dead teen's name — he is also described as troubled.
The judge in that case, which saw the government try to deny him benefits because he used a false identity and social insurance number, described him as intelligent but suffering from attention-deficit disorder and prone to breakdowns.
According to what Judge Campbell Miller heard, Garland suffered a breakdown while at the University of Alberta, and "also seems to have been traumatized by causing what he described as a horrific accident due to falling asleep at the wheel."
Yet some who knew Garland in those days say they never heard of him being involved in such an accident.
While on the run in British Columbia, the judge wrote, Garland applied and got a job at a company called Can Test, where he supervised 30 other employees.
But, Judge Miller wrote in his March 3, 2005 decision, Garland found "he was unable to cope, and he suffered another breakdown in late 1997."
He was dismissed in October that year, "considered a wrongful dismissal suit," but found part-time work with the B.C. Institute of Technology.
Judge Miller was aware of his trafficking convictions and his time in jail.
"I am mindful of Mr. Garland's state of health," he wrote. "His attention deficit disorder contributed to some muddled thinking. His reliance on the false SIN was to escape the reach of the RCMP. As he acknowledged, it was not a bright idea."
In ruling in Garland's favour, Judge Miller said, "This troubled man should not be precluded from receiving benefits from a program into which he and his employers paid…"
Still, it's an interesting mix of personality characteristics. Garland appears to have a well-honed sense of entitlement: He's a man, after all, who used a dead teen's identity to get a job but nonetheless considered filing a wrongful dismissal suit when he was fired, and who, having served time, still had the chutzpah to fight for EI benefits and successfully represented himself in court.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In a NEWMAC women's volleyball match on Tuesday night, host MIT defeated Babson College, 25-18, 25-19, 25-13. With the win, the Engineers improved to 17-5 on the year and 3-2 in the league while the Beavers dipped to 11-7 overall and 2-3 in the NEWMAC.
Sophomore Kristine Bunker (Falmouth, Mass.) racked up nine blocks to go along with five kills for MIT. Senior Kelly Schulte (Riverside, Calif.) posted seven kills and five blocks while fellow classmate Cecily Joujon-Roche (Laguna Hills, Calif.) added seven kills and three blocks. Sophomore Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) bolstered the attack with five kills as freshman Nicole Gagnier (Atlanta, Ga.) tallied 26 assists and three blocks. Junior Katie Spielbauer (Lakeview, Mich.) paced the defense with 13 digs while sophomore Tatiana Berger (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) contributed five digs. Senior Natasha Jensen (Columbia, Md.) earned three aces as sophomore Sharon Hao (San Jose, Calif.) registered four digs and two aces.
Meg Flaherty led Babson with seven kills followed by six from Ashley Strangio. Karla Flores amassed 30 digs while Kathleen Lynch dished out 20 assists.
The Beavers went up, 3-2, in the opening set but a pair of kills from Schulte in addition to a block with Bunker put the Engineers ahead for good. Babson stayed within striking distance for most of the frame as two Flaherty kills and a block by Strangio narrowed the gap to one (14-13). MIT responded with a block by Bunker, a kill from Hunt, and collaboration from both on a block which resulted in a timeout by the Beavers. After the break, both sides exchanged points until the Cardinal and Gray generated a 6-1 run for set point. A serving error and block by Lynch and Sara Wojda kept the visitors alive at 24-18; however, a strike from Gagnier ended the game.
In the second stanza, MIT quickly created a 5-1 lead which Babson gradually trimmed to 9-7 on a tip from Christina Cervini. The Engineers countered with an 8-1 run that was followed by a 7-3 spurt from the Beavers. The hosts rattled off four consecutive points for a 24-15 advantage. Babson replied with four of its own, capitalizing on a pair of miscues, a Cervini ace, and a block by Lynch and Cathy Tinker. MIT ended the Beavers' late rally on the ensuing serve when Berger's kill off the Beavers' block sailed out of bounds.
A serving error and three kills by Flaherty put Babson in front, 4-2, in the final frame. The Engineers responded by scoring nine of the next 10 points to secure the lead. Following a timeout by the visitors, an exchange of serves helped bring the Beavers within five (13-8). This was as close as it would get as MIT finished out the match with an 11-4 run, clinching the win on freshman Morgan Stewart's (Powell, Ohio) first swing of the night.
MIT returns to action on Tuesday, Oct. 11 when it travels to NEWMAC foe Smith College while Babson continues its road trip on Saturday, Oct. 8 with a tri-match featuring host Western New England University and UMass Dartmouth.


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Brand Name Accupril Common Name quinapril
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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
Quinapril belongs to the class of medications called angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. It is used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure. It works by relaxing blood vessels and by making the heart pump more efficiently.
Quinapril may be used in addition to diuretics (water pills) known as thiazide diuretics (e.g., hydrochlorothiazide) when one medication has not been found to control blood pressure satisfactorily.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are taking this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to take this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
How should I use this medication?
The recommended dose of quinapril ranges from 5 mg to 40 mg daily in one dose or 2 divided doses, taken with or without meals. The starting dose to treat congestive heart failure is 5 mg taken once a day. The starting dose to treat high blood pressure is 5 mg taken once a day if you are also taking a water pill (diuretic). If you are not taking a diuretic, the starting dose is generally 10 mg taken once a day.
Many things can affect the dose of medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are taking the medication without consulting your doctor.
Quinapril should be taken at approximately the same time every day.
It is important that this medication be taken exactly as prescribed by your doctor. If you miss a dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store this medication at room temperature, protect it from light and moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
5 mg
Each brown, film-coated, elliptical tablet, marked "PD 527" on one side and "5" on the other, contains 5 mg of quinapril. Nonmedicinal ingredients: candelilla wax, crospovidone, gelatin, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, lactose, magnesium carbonate, magnesium stearate, polyethylene glycol, synthetic red iron oxide, and titanium dioxide.
10 mg
Each brown, film-coated, triangular tablet, marked "PD 530" on one side and "10" on the other, contains 10 mg of quinapril. Nonmedicinal ingredients: candelilla wax, crospovidone, gelatin, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, lactose, magnesium carbonate, magnesium stearate, polyethylene glycol, synthetic red iron oxide, and titanium dioxide.
20 mg
Each brown, film-coated, round tablet, marked "PD 532" on one side and "20" on the other, contains 20 mg of quinapril. Nonmedicinal ingredients: candelilla wax, crospovidone, gelatin, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, lactose, magnesium carbonate, magnesium stearate, polyethylene glycol, synthetic red iron oxide, and titanium dioxide.
40 mg
Each brown, film-coated, elliptical tablet, marked "PD 535" on one side and "40" on the other, contains 40 mg of quinapril. Nonmedicinal ingredients: candelilla wax, crospovidone, gelatin, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, lactose, magnesium carbonate, magnesium stearate, polyethylene glycol, synthetic red iron oxide, and titanium dioxide.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not take quinapril if you:
- are allergic to quinapril or any ingredients of this medication
- are pregnant or intend to become pregnant
- have had angioedema (a serious allergic reaction which causes the area around the throat and tongue to swell) after taking any ACE inhibitors (e.g., captopril, ramipril)
- have been diagnosed with hereditary angioedema
- are breastfeeding
- have high blood pressure in the blood vessels leading to the kidneys
- are taking aliskiren, and
- have diabetes
- kidney disease
- high levels of potassium
- congestive heart failure with low blood pressure
- are taking a medication in the class angiotensin receptor blockers (e.g., irbesartan, losartan, valsartan) or are taking another angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (e.g., captopril, lisinopril, ramipril) and
- have diabetes
- kidney disease
- high levels of potassium
- congestive heart failure with low blood pressure
- have galactose intolerance (a rare hereditary condition)
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.
The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- abdominal pain
- back pain
- cough (dry, persistent)
- diarrhea
- difficulty sleeping
- dizziness
- headache
- increased sensitivity to sunlight
- indigestion
- nausea
- runny nose
- stuffy nose
- tiredness
- vomiting
- weakness
Although most of the side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- fast or irregular heartbeat
- low blood pressure (e.g., fainting, dizziness or lightheadedness, especially when rising from a lying or sitting position)
- rash or itchy skin
- signs of bleeding (e.g., unusual nosebleeds, bruising, blood in urine, coughing blood, bleeding gums, cuts that don't stop bleeding)
- signs of electrolyte imbalance (e.g., muscle pain or cramps, weakness, irregular heart beat)
- signs of infection (symptoms may include fever or chills, severe diarrhea, shortness of breath, prolonged dizziness, headache, stiff neck, weight loss, or listlessness)
- signs of kidney failure (e.g., decreased urine production, swelling, fatigue, abdominal pain)
- signs of liver damage (e.g., abdominal pain, abdominal distention, fever, nausea or vomiting, yellowing of the skin or eyes)
- swelling of the hands, ankles or feet
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- signs of an allergic reaction, including angioedema (shortness of breath or difficulty breathing; hives; swelling of the eyes, mouth, lips, or throat)
- signs of a heart attack (e.g., chest pain or pressure, pain extending through shoulder and arm, nausea and vomiting, sweating)
- signs of too much nitrogen in the blood (e.g., rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, fatigue, confusion, dizziness, decreased urine production)
- swelling of face, mouth, hands, or feet
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Angioedema: As with other medications in this family, quinapril has been reported to cause angioedema (swelling of the mouth, lips, tongue, eye, or throat causing difficulty swallowing or breathing) in a small number of people.
If any of these symptoms occur, stop taking quinapril immediately and seek immediate medical attention. Also, consult your doctor immediately about any unexplained rash, fever, or itching. If you experience angioedema with quinapril, do not take any other ACE inhibitors (e.g., enalapril, lisinopril, or ramipril).
Blood disorders: In rare cases, a low white blood cell count has been reported with people taking this medication. Your doctor may occasionally monitor your level of white blood cells by performing blood tests. Low white blood cell levels may increase your risk for infection.
If you notice any signs of infection (e.g., fever, sore throat), contact your doctor as soon as possible.
Cough: People taking quinapril may develop a dry, persistent cough that usually disappears only after stopping or lowering the dose of quinapril.
Diabetes: ACE inhibitors such as quinapril may lead to hypoglycemia (low blood sugar levels) in people with diabetes. If you have diabetes, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Kidney function: Changes in kidney function have occurred in certain people who take this medication. The use of diuretics (water pills) or aliskiren may further increase the risk of kidney problems for those already at risk for this problem. If you have reduced kidney function or kidney disease, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed. If you have kidney function impairment you may require lower doses of this medication.
Lactose intolerance: This medication contains lactose. If you have galactose intolerance (galactosemia, glucose-galactose malabsorption, or Lapp lactase deficiency), you should not take this medication.
Liver function: This medication may cause liver problems. If you experience any signs of liver problems such as yellowing of the skin or eyes, fever, generally feeling unwell, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, itching, muscle pain, rash, or swollen glands, contact your doctor immediately. If you have liver problems you will need to be closely monitored by your doctor while taking this medication.
Low blood pressure: Occasionally, blood pressure drops too low after taking quinapril. This usually happens after the first or second dose or when the dose is increased. It is more likely to occur for those who take the medication aliskiren, diuretics, have a salt-restricted diet, are on dialysis, have diarrhea, or are vomiting.
To reduce the risk of dizziness, get up slowly from a lying or sitting position. If low blood pressure causes you to faint or feel lightheaded, contact your doctor.
Potassium levels: Increases in blood levels of potassium occur for approximately 2% of people who take quinapril. This rarely causes problems, but your doctor will likely want to monitor your potassium levels through blood tests.
Reduced alertness: This medication may reduce alertness, especially at the beginning of treatment. Do not drive or perform tasks that require alertness until you know how this medication affects you.
Pregnancy: ACE inhibitors such as quinapril may cause severe harm or death to the developing baby if taken by the mother during pregnancy. This medication should not be used during pregnancy. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, stop taking quinapril immediately and contact your doctor.
Breast-feeding: This medication passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking this medication, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
Children: The safety and effectiveness of quinapril have not been established for use by children. Quinapril is not recommended for this age group.
Seniors: Because of reduced kidney function, seniors have an increased risk of experiencing side effects when taking quinapril. Lower doses may be necessary.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between quinapril and any of the following:
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
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More than Hummus: Middle Eastern Salads and Spreads
This time of year, we could make a meal every night out of little bites of this and that. Any of these salads, dips, or spreads would be welcome on our table. The middle east does it right. By the way, if you want an exhaustive list of meze from different countries, go read this. And don't worry, we're gonna give you hummus, too.
• 1. Muhammara, a Syrian dish of roasted red peppers, walnuts, and pomegranate molasses.
• 2. Baba Ghanoush, the roasted eggplant dish (this recipe is from David Lebovitz).
• 3. More baba ghanoush, this one a super easy recipe from Faith.
• 4. Labneh, a fresh, mild, thick cheese made from yogurt. This recipe is from Chico's Kitchen and is topped with healthy shake of za'atar seasoning.
• 5. What is labneh, exactly? This post will explain.
• 6. Tabbouleh, a nice, green touch to the spread... Bulgur, parsley, and tomatoes.
• 7. Fattoush—more green! We love this simple, beautiful salad that Kathryn made.
• 8. And finally, some hummus. Here's a step-by-step guide to making it.
• 9. Restaurant-style hummus, from Disgustingly Good. Apparently there's a secret to making it pale and creamy.
Related: Small Bites from Around the World
(Images: Joanna Miller; David Lebovitz; Faith Durand; Cherine/Chico's Kitchen; Flickr member Mevrouw Cupcake, licensed for use under Creative Commons; Kathryn Hill; Ryan/Disgustingly Good)


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The team had high hopes after strong performances from several of Grand's top players during the region competition on Sept. 21. However, last weekend, all the Lady Devil players except senior Torrie Lopez were defeated in the first round of the state tournament.
Ranked first in the southern Utah region, with a 10-0 undefeated season record, senior Brianna Ballard competed in the No. 1 singles division. She played Melanie Mitsvotai, from Manti, who was ranked fourth in the more populous northern region with a record of 4-2. Ballard lost to Mitsvotai, 6-2, in each set.
Lopez filled the No. 2 singles slot for the Lady Devils. She was ranked third in the southern region with a record of 8-2. During her first match at state, Lopez defeated Grace Peterson, a junior from WateRford who was ranked second in the northern region. Lopez swept Peterson in two sets, 7-3, 6-0, to advance to the second round.
In round two play, Lopez was pitted against Janell Starr, a Richfield senior who was ranked first in southern Utah with a season record of 9-1. Lopez lost the match in two sets, 6-3, 6-4, and was eliminated from competition.
Freshman Kayla Weston, who was ranked third in the southern region, played No. 3 singles for Grand. Weston's first and only state match was played against the second-ranked northern player, Erika Park, from Waterford, who had a season record of 5-1. The more senior Park swept Weston in two sets, 6-1, 6-3.
Grand's doubles players also struggled during the tournament. Ranked second in the region, junior Jacey Johnson and freshman Brityn Ballard competed in the No. 1 doubles division. They played a two-senior team from St. Joseph Catholic High School that was ranked third in the northern region. The more experienced St. Joseph team defeated Grand in two sets 6-2, 6-2.
At No. 2 doubles, junior Madison Stocks and sophomore Robin Wilscheidt went into the state competition ranked third in the southern region with a season record of 6-3. Their opponents from St. Joseph were ranked second in the northern region and handily shut down the Lady Devils in two sets, 6-0, 6-0.
Grand's losses early in the tournament prevented the Lady Devils from placing at state as a team, and none of the players placed individually.
"We did not do so well," said head coach Brian Ballard, "We didn't get any of our players except for Torrie through the first round."
Ballard said that the girls played "exceptionally well," despite the losses.
"Torrie didn't make it through the second round, but she had a great match, just a great match. Our other players too, they did so well. They played so tough – some of them even got into tiebreakers – but they just didn't quite break through...," he said. "Really, it was quite an emotional experience for most of them, putting out all that effort and being there and losing. It was really tough, and they were playing against some really good schools, and so it's really tough to take those losses."
Ballard says that, regardless of the state placing, he is proud of the team's accomplishments this season, and has high hopes for next year.
"We've had a great year: the girls have just played so, so well. They've really put their hearts into it. They've put out a lot of effort, and played against some really good schools," he said. "We'll be losing some seniors to graduation, but I'm looking forward to next year. Like I've always said, we've got a lot of talent on this team, on the JV and the underclassmen players, and so they've put their hearts into it this year and I'm really excited for next year."


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Messier will run NYC marathon
Hockey Hall of Famer Mark Messier plans to run next month's New York City Marathon.
The six-time Stanley Cup champion will take on the 26.2 miles Nov. 6 in the city where he captained the Rangers to their first title in 54 years.
Two of his teammates from that 1994 squad, Adam Graves and Mike Richter, have run the marathon in recent years.
Messier was looking for a challenge after turning 50 in January and to raise awareness and money for two charities: the New York Police & Fire Widow's and Children's Benefit Fund and Tomorrows Children's Fund, which helps kids with cancer and serious blood disorders.
He doesn't have a trainer, doing extensive research on the science of running and building his own training plan, with a lot of trial and error thrown in. Messier runs by himself on the roads of Greenwich, Conn., with no headphones.
"It's been an incredible form of meditation, actually, for me, a great way to contemplate and jump inside your own head and think," he said Thursday at a ceremony at the Empire State Building. "That's been very gratifying for me. In a way it's been a 10-month prayer for these charities."
Messier has been training intensely for the last seven months, recently completing his longest planned training run of 19 miles.
"I felt like I could never take another step the rest of my life," he said, adding that he was pleased with how quickly he recovered. "My feet were sore, killing me. Every bone in my body ached."


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More than a mile below Canyons of the Ancients National Monument lies the Leadville geologic formation, home of the nation's largest reserve of carbon dioxide.
But on the surface is the nation's highest concentration of ancient sites, an estimated 20,000 sites within a unique desert environment.
Poorly mixing the two makes a bad cocktail, either damaging our cultural human heritage and landscape from industry, or restricting access to a unique natural resource used to pressurize oil fields relied on for energy independence.
Neither has to happen, thanks to a team effort between monument archaeologists and Kinder Morgan, the nation's third-largest energy company responsible for extracting the CO2.
"Kinder Morgan has been forthcoming about struggles in the past getting approval," said monument manager Marietta Eaton. "When I first got here, I was forced to pull a permit for drilling on Goodman Point because the action had not been listed in the Federal Register."
That problem was solved, but because of a lack of BLM staff to safely manage protected ruins and complex energy development simultaneously, "it was taking years to approve permits. There was a lot of frustration and delays."
A new pilot program has found a solution. By identifying "cold zones" within the monument without ruins, officials have been able to streamline the permitting process for Kinder Morgan, and save taxpayers money.
The Geographic-wide Development Plan is long-term strategy for drilling CO2 on the 164,000-acre monument, and is designed to move away from ad-hoc development of past years.
"Knowing where the gaps are without cultural resources means fewer conflicts," Eaton said. Avoiding steep slopes, riparian areas and paleontological sites will also be benefit of the plan.
More use of directional drilling, which allows the well to move laterally up to 2,000 feet in any direction to access CO2, reduces the amount of well pads. Better use of existing infrastructure, and more efficient loop lines, also lesson cumulative impacts.
"It is thrown all together into a model to determine where the high value sites are," said Tracy Perfors, a BLM resource specialist. "We're creating a big picture that gives development more predictability rather than one well at time. It gives us and the public more of an understanding what the monument will look like in the future."
Business cost
Kinder Morgan decided mitigating for archaeology is a larger fixed cost for business on the monument. Rather than rely solely on monument archaeologists, Kinder Morgan decided to step up and fund block archeological surveys, folding it into their operating costs for drilling in such a sensitive area.
The company contracted with Woods Canyon consulting to conduct the archaeological surveys.
"We see it as a more efficient plan. Asking us to do it does not meet their time frame because of our limited budget, so it also saves the taxpayer," Eaton said.
Knowing where to drill with minimal impacts is the goal.
"They could go outside the cold spots, but they know upfront if will take more study and (cultural site) mitigation that they pay for," Eaton said. "We now know better where to avoid."
The first block survey of 3,000 acres contains 12,000 pages and is under review by COA staff specialists. Eventually Kinder Morgan plans to pay for three more block surveys, with the next one scheduled for the 8,000-acre Cow Canyon area of the monument.
They plan to submit plans for an additional 69 wells monument-wide.
NEPA process
But the reviews of ideal well-pad areas in the first established cold zone in Yellow Jacket are far from over. Development Action says plans for drilling seven to 10 more wells at that location are set to be submitted by the company.
The action triggers the public scoping process and detailed environmental reviews required under the National Environmental Policy Act, said Tracy Perfors, a BLM natural resource specialist.
"When that happens, public notices are sent out on the plan and comments are submitted," she said. "The application to drill is reviewed and if we find there is no significant impact, then the plan goes forward. If not then a more comprehensive Environmental Impact Study is required."
Added Shannon Borders, a BLM public information officer, "There will be multiple chances for the public to review drilling projects on the monument."


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When racial clichés drive murder stories
By Eric Deggans, Special to CNN
August 25, 2013 — Updated 1454 GMT (2254 HKT)
These three teenagers are accused in the killing of Christopher Lane, an Australian baseball player studying in Oklahoma.
Editor's note: Eric Deggans is joining National Public Radio as TV critic after many years as TV and media critic at the Tampa Bay Times. He is the author of "Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation." Deggans is guest-hosting "Reliable Sources" on Sunday at 11 a.m. ET. Follow him on Twitter @Deggans
(CNN) — As scores of people head to the National Mall this week commemorating 50 years since the March on Washington, some corners of the media are still featuring passionate debate over whether African-Americans have ignored "a culture of violence" in their midst.
The finger pointing this time comes after the senseless killing of Australian baseball player and college student Christopher Lane, shot dead August 16 while jogging on a street in Duncan, Oklahoma.
From the moment three teenagers were arrested in the crime — first misidentified as three black youths, later found to be two African-Americans and one white guy — some media outlets tried to draw comparisons to the killing last year of black teenager Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman.
But if Lane's death has anything in common with Martin's — besides the sad fact that both killings seemed avoidable and were possibly committed by people of a different race from the victim's — it's the sometimes sloppy reporting used to make points about race that deserve subtler, more precise treatment.
Random killings spark laments, but reality shows long slide in crime
In the early days of reporting on Martin's death, Zimmerman was identified as white because police in Sanford, Florida, listed him that way on the incident report. Those early reports about a white man killing an unarmed black teen fit an easy black-and-white narrative about racial profiling in America, while the truth was that Zimmerman identified as Hispanic, but still could have profiled Martin.
Similarly, CNN aired a report suggesting that Zimmerman might have used a racial slur to describe Martin during his 911 call to police just before the shooting. But later, CNN aired another story with a different audio analyst who disputed that conclusion, and no allegations of a racial slur on the call surfaced at his trial.
This past week, Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" and The Daily Caller website both reported the three teens who killed Lane were black. The Daily Caller also published a photo featuring a different, dark-skinned black youth identified as Michael Jones, the white teenager police believe drove the car during the shooting.
Both outlets also criticized President Obama and activists such as the Rev. Al Sharpton for not making an issue of Lane's death in the way they spoke on Martin's killing.
The mistake with Jones' photo recalls a similar error made as some media outlets began publishing material reportedly discovered on Trayvon Martin's closed social media accounts, in an attempt to show he wasn't the innocent teen his family and supporters described.
Both Twitchy.com and Business Insider published photos of a shirtless, young black man facing the camera and providing a middle finger salute with both hands, identifying him as Trayvon.
That person was not the dead teen Trayvon Martin, but a different young black man. About a year later, Zimmerman's defense team released images taken from Martin's cellphone which did show him shirtless, making a similar gesture to the camera, but it's tough to know what that revealed other than a teen with a typical rebellious streak.
Still, an unspoken argument seems to be wrapped up in these stories. It's the conflict over institutional prejudice and racism.
In the Trayvon Martin case, police knew who killed the teen and resisted arresting him for 44 days. That fueled concerns that laws such as Florida's stand your ground legislation were making it easier to profile and kill African-Americans. That seems a long way from a presumed thrill killing in which suspects were arrested within days, saying they shot Lane because they were "bored."
Teen arrested in beating death of WWII vet
Even news that one of the teens involved in Lane's murder posted anti-white statements on Twitter months ago seems a different point. But some media outlets, committed to the idea that American institutions such as the criminal justice system are mostly fair, have focused on more personal explanations for such tragedies, emphasizing the criminality of some black people in ways that evoke old stereotypes about people of color and crime.
It seems obvious that real-life incidents rarely fit neat categories and the need to explain senseless deaths can lead to a lot of jumped-to conclusions.
But if the Chris Lane and Trayvon Martin cases teach anything, it's that cherry-picking facts to fit a preconceived narrative can be a road to inaccuracy and unfairness.
Here's hoping somebody is taking time to soak up the lesson.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Eric Deggans.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Two Tusculum goals in a 32-second span proved too difficult to overcome as the King men's soccer team dropped its home opener by a final score of 3-0.
The key sequence for the Pioneers (1-0) spanned both halves. On what proved to be the final play of the first half, Tusculum's Mark Patterson headed a shot into the net off a corner kick. Twenty-three seconds into the second half, Cody Kammerzell played a perfect through ball into the box for Robert Pimentel, who finished from ten yards out to extend the Pioneers' lead.
King's best chance for a goal came in the 59th minute of play. The Tornado lined up for a free kick ten yards outside the penalty area on the right side of the field. Eli Carrasco played the ball into the box, and Pete Griffith's header hit the right post and bounced away. After a scrum, Kendale Liburd fired a shot that was saved by the Tusculum goalkeeper. King was unable to produce any solid chances for the rest of the match, and the Pioneers' lead was extended to 3-0 on an 86th minute penalty kick.
"Today's performance was not up to the standards of what King soccer has been about for the last 50 years," said head coach John Miglarese. "The lack of fight and spirit we showed in the second half is unacceptable. The alumni and fans deserve better. The coaching staff will continue to push this group to improve as we are capable of so much more than we showed today."
The Tornado will travel to face Brevard on Saturday afternoon. The Conference Carolinas schedule opens with a match against Pfeiffer on Saturday, September 21 in Bristol.


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Four Davidson physics majors had a lot to live up to at the recent 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress. The congress was co-sponsored by the physics honor society Sigma Pi Sigma, which was founded at Davidson in 1922. In addition, the organization's first-ever Congress was held on the Davidson campus in 1928.
As representatives of the organization's historic Alpha chapter, the Davidson contingent wanted to shine-and did!
The Davidson students got involved even before the congress began, and played important roles throughout the event. Jessie Barrick '14, Ashley Finger '14, Jacob Simmonds '15 and Chris Trennepohl '14 helped plan and organize the congress, and prepared and presented an introduction for a world-renowned astrophysicist. They also served as Society of Physics Students reporters for a story about a leading exoplanet research pioneer, presented a service-outreach poster about their work with local middle school students, and brought home a research poster grand prize!
The 2012 Congress, known as "PhysCon," was billed as "the largest gathering of undergraduate physicists the world has ever known," and featured a theme of astronomy and astrophysics. The roster of physics luminaries included Nobel and Templeton prize winners, an astronaut, a distinguished quantum field theorist, NASA astrophysicists, a senior accelerator/collider scientist, a pulsar pioneer, and UCLA Professor of Physics David Saltzberg - physics consultant for CBS's popular science-centric sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Davidson's Chris Trennepohl '14 of Monticello, Ind., presented a poster titled "Time-dependent upconversion in Er-Yb doped sol-gel silicate glass," detailing his physics research with Professor of Physics Dan Boye and others. From among more than 200 posters submitted, Trennepohl's work took one of five Outstanding Student Poster Grand Prize awards sponsored by the Optical Society of America Foundation. Trennepohl said his jaw dropped when his name was called, and again when he opened the envelope and saw the award amount-$1,000!
Trennepohl credits his high school physics teacher with instilling his love of physics, and Davidson's Boye with solid mentorship from Trennepohl's earliest days in his labs at the Baker-Watts Science Complex.
"He'd stay there with me to make sure I didn't burn down the building with the laser!" said Trennepohl.
Jessie Barrick '14 of Hillsborough, N.C. was elected last summer to the post of associate zone councilor for the National Society of Physics Students, a co-sponsor of PhysCon. She helped plan and organize the congress and introduced guest speaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars. Bell Burnell is a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Barrick said she fell in love with physics in her first-year physics class with Boye.
"Everything you learn in intro is applicable to something in real life, even things you would never think to wonder why," she said. "You learn why inclined planes make it easier to get a heavy box into a truck. When you understand torques, you understand why it's easier to open a door by pushing on the edge farthest from the hinge."
(l-r) Jacob Simmonds '15, Ashley Finger'14, Chris Trennepohl '14 and Jessie Barrick '14 flank astronomist John Johnson of Caltech (center), who was their subject for special reporting at PhysCon.
Such seemingly simple principles of physics are staples for many Davidson physics students who are involved with educational outreach through the Society of Physics Students chapter and the student organization Davidson Students Volunteer for Science. At PhysCon, Ashley Finger '14 of Long Island, N.Y. and Jacob Simmonds '15, a New Zealander who grew up in the United Arab Emirates and Chile, co-presented a poster about sharing physics through astronomy outreach events and Davidson's middle-school math and science outreach program MOSAIC (originality, science, achievement, imagination and creativity).
Simmonds, a physics major whose father is a hydro-engineer in Santiago, is on a "3-2" track for dual bachelor's degrees in physics from Davidson and engineering from a university to be decided. Simmonds said the hands-on, collaborative focus of Davidson's physics program is good preparation for his trajectory toward a career in aerospace engineering. PhysCon bolstered that collaborative spirit, too, by adding strong professional and business sessions, he said.
"When you actually see physically what you could be doing (in a physics-based career), instead of just reading about it, that's cool," he said. "And the conference gave me more insight into how to get there and what to expect."
Finger said the conference gave her a renewed appreciation for access to professors like Boye and Professor of Physics Mario Belloni, who is advisor to the Society of Physics Students' Davidson chapter and accompanied the Davidson team to PhysCon.
"I'm in professors' offices constantly, whether it's to get help or just to talk," she said.
As a group, the Davidson students applied for the honor of being PhysCon reporters for the Society of Physics Students. They received the assignment of reporting on John Johnson, an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech whose research is in the detection and characterization of exoplanets. His work, specifically with gas giants, has been featured in popular science magazines like New Scientist and Sky & Telescope.
The trip to PhysCon was just one recent notable element of a vibrant and growing astronomy and astrophysics presence at Davidson. For instance, the astronomy course is currently offered as a laboratory science, which provides broader and deeper resources for student experimentation to study light, gravity and even astrophotography. Belloni has written two papers on the topic of astronomy as a laboratory course for The Physics Teacher magazine, and one of his photos of last summer's transit of Venus across the face of the sun was chosen to grace a recent cover of that publication.
This month, students will be following the progress of Tom Marshburn '82, an astronaut who has visited campus several times and who is scheduled to depart Russia on Dec. 19 for six months on the International Space Station.
Sam Castle '14 has spent the fall semester studying those familiar flashes of light that streak across the night sky-meteors! Read "Sam Castle '14 Goes Shooting Star-gazing with NASA."
Finally, soon after PhysCon, the Physics Department reported that John Mather will be Davidson's spring 2014 Smith Lecturer. Mather, a 2006 Nobel Prize winner for his work on cosmic microwave background radiation, spoke at PhysCon and posed for a picture with the Davidson students there. He is senior project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope and senior astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.


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The state's multicounty grand jury is scheduled to reconvene today in Oklahoma City.
The grand jury will meet through Thursday in the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office.
The state's 14th multicounty grand jury is led by Assistant Attorney General Megan Tilly, chief of the AG's Multicounty Grand Jury Unit.
The multicounty grand jury was requested by Attorney General Scott Pruitt and approved by the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Sept. 12.
The multicounty grand jury has jurisdiction to investigate criminal matters in all 77 counties, assisting local law enforcement as well as handling matters of state interest. Each month, grand jurors meet to hear testimony for two to three days. All of the proceedings are closed to the public.
The state's 13th multicounty grand jury concluded in August with 25 indictments, charging a total of 31 individuals and was assisted by 113 state and local law enforcement agencies.