"Mining delayed association rules between marginal rate of frequency changes".
had experience with micro array dataset relating molecular structure, proteins, etc. and bioinformatics.
example and a real dataset to evaluate my algorithm.
What I require is some data that can be transformed to this form.
trying to find association among these changes.
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Elon Musk has made his first appearance on the Forbes list of the world's billionaires. The 40-year-old entrepreneur has landed at 634 on the list with an estimated net worth of $2 billion.
Musk has developed the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon vehicle to send cargo and crew to the International Space Station. His company, SpaceX, has received money under NASA's COTS (for cargo) and CCDev (crew) programs. He is also reported to have invested up to $100 million of his own funds into SpaceX.
In addition to his involvement with SpaceX, Musk is a trustee of the X PRIZE Foundation, whose space competitions include the Ansari X Prize, the Google Lunar X Prize and the Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.
The South African-born entrepreneur also runs two other companies, the electric car producer Tesla Motors and SolarCity, which provides solar energy systems.
Developments in these other two businesses are what fueled Musk's leap onto the Forbes list of billionaires, according to the magazine. Last October, Forbes estimated that he was worth $680 million.
His electric car company, Tesla Motors, saw a 30% increase in its stock price year over year through Feb. 14, 2012. Tesla stock noticeably jumped after the early February 2012 unveiling of the Model X, which will go into production in 2013. Musk's 29% stake in Tesla is worth just over $1 billion.
Then there's SolarCity, a company that designs, finances and installs solar panels and systems. Musk owns a fourth of the company, founded and run by his cousin Lyndon Rive. SolarCity is expected to file an S-1 soon with the intent of going public. The IPO, to be underwritten by Goldman Sachs, aims to value the company at $1.5 billion. At the end of February, SolarCity announced an institutional funding round led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk, including fellow billionaire Nicholas Pritzker. The round raised $81 million.
The biggest wildcard component in Musk's fortune is his two-thirds stake in SpaceX. The company has already racked up billions of dollars in government and commercial contracts for nearly 40 rocket launches through the year 2017. SpaceX has focused on building reusable rockets (government-built rockets are one-use disposable models), with the end goal of drastically decreasing the cost of space travel. Musk has hinted at a public offering for the company in 2013. He hired former Broadcom finance executive Bret Johnsen as SpaceX Chief Financial Officer in May 2011. Johnsen is expected to prepare the company for an IPO.
Together, Musk's stakes in SolarCity and SpaceX are worth $1 billion.
A look at other billionaires who are involved in the space industry is below.


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The hirer: You, who avails the services of takeaway ordering.
Any payment which would otherwise fall due on a weekend, bank or public holiday, shall become due on the next business day. Upon termination of this agreement, Hirer shall pay Owner a termination fee determined in accordance with Clause 16 of the General terms and Conditions of Hire, at the date of termination. Owner shall be entitled at its discretion to increase the amount of any monthly payment in the event of any change in law relating to taxation, VAT , accounting requirements or any other regulatory requirements or increase in Owner's general business cost.
Details of other payments are outlined in Clause 9, 10 and 16 of the General Terms And Conditions of Hire and the notice headed "How Owner Will Use Information" .
Default payments: �7.50 for each month a Hire payment remains unpaid in full. �15.00 administrative charges for the collection of unpaid debts. If the contract is terminated as a result of Hirer's default, Hirer shall pay the cost of replacing or utting the Equipment into good order, repair and working condition ( fair wear and tear only accepted). In addition, Hirer shall/might be required to pay an amount equal to all monthly Payments due for the remainder of the Hire Term less the allowable discount as specified in clause 16 of general terms And Conditions of Hire. Hirer must also pay Pwner's enforcement costs and indemnify Owner for all losses, liabilities, damages and expenses as detailed in Clause 14 of the General Terms And Conditions of Hire.
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Is Plastic Surgery Right For You? - Centennial Bluff Is Plastic Surgery Right For You?
Many of us – both men and women – feel that society places a lot of pressure on us to look a certain way. And while most people eventually come to accept that they can only do the best they can with the body and face they've been given, for others the feeling of dissatisfaction with the way they look lingers on. 'Going under the knife' to correct an issue that has been bothering a person for a long time can make a massive difference to their self-esteem – or result in yet further disappointment if their expectations weren't realistic to begin with. If you're wondering whether plastic surgery is right for you, then begin by answering these questions honestly.
The very first thing you need to get clear in your mind is why you're even considering plastic surgery in the first place. If it's simply to please your partner or as a response to comments you've heard from so-called friends, chances are you're not doing it for you. If you're looking for a quick fix to deeper emotional issues or as an easy way out of living a healthy lifestyle, then plastic surgery is not going to solve your problems.
If, on the other hand, you're emotionally and physically healthy and just have one or two problem areas that have been niggling at you for a long time, plastic surgery can have an immensely positive and even life-changing outcome. If your appearance has been affected by an accident, disease or other situation outside of your control, then rectifying the physical damage can help you on the path to healing emotional wounds. Each case is unique and scheduling an appointment with a reputable surgeon to discuss your options and to explore the motivation behind your desire for surgery is a good starting point.
How long have you been considering plastic surgery?
We're all human, we all experience strong emotions, and that means we don't always act rationally. Cosmetic surgery is still surgery – which by its very nature implies that there is real risk involved, and that it's not a decision to be taken lightly. If you've been happy with your appearance for many years, but suddenly find yourself dissatisfied with your looks after a break-up, divorce, or other traumatic experience, it's always a good idea to give yourself some time to recover emotionally before making any big decisions. Plastic surgery is no different. If you've honestly given yourself sufficient time to consider your options, understand the risks, and find you still want the surgery, then you're probably ready!
Over recent years, we've seen some pretty miraculous plastic surgery outcomes, such as the world's most extensive face transplant on firefighter Pat Hardison. And while these kinds of procedures are undoubtedly amazing, they can give people unrealistic expectations when it comes to what's possible for them. Done correctly, plastic or aesthetic surgery should complement and enhance your natural beauty, not turn you into an entirely different person. For every plastic surgery miracle, there's someone who's taken the procedure too far. It's unrealistic for a woman in her forties to think she can turn the clock back and retain the features she had in her early twenties. What she can realistically accomplish, however, is an appearance that's more in keeping with how young she feels!
Are you ready to tolerate some discomfort?
Like any surgical procedure, it's important to understand that recovery from plastic surgery is painful, can take a good deal of time, and generally won't be pleasant. You also mustn't expect to go under one day and wake up with a new face or body the next! Swelling and the potential for scars are a reality, so you need to be certain you're up for it, can take the time off work you need to, and have a good support system in place.
Have you looked at your lifestyle first?
The best plastic surgeons encourage their patients to address lifestyle issues first and pursue natural alternatives before committing to surgery. It's not just a lot safer to operate on someone who's eating well and has a healthy body mass index, and is exercising and avoiding alcohol and tobacco, these things can also work minor miracles on their own – both on physical appearance and general happiness. Sometimes they work so well that a patient who was considering major surgery might instead be content with pursuing non-surgical rejuvenation like anti-wrinkle injectables or dermal filler treatments. The best results are always achieved when the patient and plastic surgeon meet each other halfway!


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Drawing Inspiration From an American Hero: Jeremy Glick
Remember when others hijack your family, their misdeeds do not define you. What defines you is what you do when it counts. Jeremy Glick, a former national judo champion, was on United Flight 93 to fulfill his divine purpose. His life was in preparation for that moment. His selfless actions saved countless others. So instead of sinking into self-pity over the hand you've been dealt, be grateful for the opportunity to bring your family's hijackers down before they can hurt countless others. Every second counts. What are you going to do with your time? What are you going to do to help other children and families whose lives have been hijacked by pharmaceutical company greed, mental health industry chicanery, and institutionalized chemical restraint in public schools, child welfare services, and family/dependency courts? What special skills do you bring to the struggle that can benefit others? Dig deep, and do your part. This is your time.
Jeremy Glick: American Hero
On September 11, 2001, Jeremy Logan Glick, 31, reluctantly left his Hewitt, New Jersey home on business as a sales manager with Vividence, Inc., a Web management company. He relished every moment he had with his three-month old daughter, Emerson, and wife, Lyz. One of six siblings raised in Oradell, New Jersey, Jeremy graduated from the University of Rochester and married his high school sweetheart. When confronted with the hijack situation on Flight 93, Glick phoned his wife. She recalls him calmly describing the terrorists and their threats. Glick, a former national collegiate judo champion and black belt, spoke to Lyz of plans being made by the passengers and crew to rush the terrorists. As their call ended, Glick told his wife he loved her and needed her to be happy.
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On the drawing board: Kylemore Abbey as 'a new icon'
By BIR Newsroom (not verified)
By Judy Enright
Special to the BIR
Since before 2010, when the Benedictine nuns closed their highly regarded school for girls at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara, the most frequent question in the area has been: "What next?"
Would the picturesque castle, perched on a rise above Pollacappul Lake, become a tourist hotel? Would the property be transformed into a Celtic Magic Kingdom? Could developers build a casino or conference center in peaceful Connemara?
The answer has come with the unveiling of an ambitious proposal that maintains the focus of the Benedictine order but also enhances and upgrades the property. An eight-member board – The Kylemore Abbey Trust, a registered charity – has been established to develop and guide the proposal to completion. Assisting them will be professional advisors, including accounting and architectural firms, project engineers, and a development company, Venture Advancement Ltd.
"A new icon"
During an interview at Kylemore last fall, Sister Maire Hickey, OSB, Abbess for the past five years, talked about the plans and said, "Iconic Kylemore will develop into a new icon. Until now it has been a tourist attraction and a school with a community of nuns in the background. We want it to be a Benedictine monastery that is the center of activities of various kinds, and open to visitors of many kinds. We want it all to have a certain kind of ethos and focus," she said. "We see this as the continuation of our educational mission."
She described extensive renovation and upgrading of the castle building to open more rooms to the public. Eventually, Sister Maire said, the hope is to refurbish and open the entire castle to showcase life in the late 1800s and to have it declared a heritage house.
Work has already begun to convert the former gym into a community chapel, which Sister Maire expects will be ready by next summer. When finished, there will be enough space for about 100 visitors to join the nuns in prayer and reflection. Nuns and former students used the castle's ballroom as a chapel but it was not open to visitors. That former chapel will become an auditorium for a new education center.
An education center
The boarding school behind the castle will be extensively refurbished to create an education center with ensuite bedrooms, classrooms and community rooms for 25 students and teachers. Since the school closed, the nuns at Kylemore have been working on a new educational mission, "relevant for the needs of today while maintaining the Benedictine tradition and ethos." The education center, Sister Maire said, "will be a place where good living is appreciated and where visitors can learn what makes life good."
Also included in the plans is construction of a new purpose-built monastery, separate from the castle, that will include a monastic church and guesthouse for visitors. "We have always shared our building with the school and guests," Sister Maire said. "For years, we have been thinking about and hoping to build a proper monastery on the grounds. Then we could open more rooms for guests."
Funding will also enable continued maintenance of the magnificent Victorian walled garden – a highlight for the more than 250,000 tourists who visit annually.
In a glossy brochure, printed for fundraising, the Abbess writes, "The Kylemore Abbey Trust has taken on the responsibility of harnessing the very substantial financial resources and technical skills required to deliver on our plans and initiatives…"
Price tag: $9.2 million
Funds are currently being raised on both sides of the Atlantic for the $9.2-million project and the Trust is seeking major contributions here to lay the foundation and get the project moving.
For more information or to inquire about making a pledge or major donation, contact Mary Reed at 914-420-3517 or e-mail her at reedmary44@yahoo.com. Mary and her campaign committee hope they can raise at least $1.1 million in New York City and environs. They will welcome Sister Maire as the featured speaker at a kickoff event in the American Irish Historical Society in New York City on Jan. 15. For more information about that event, call Mary Reed.
The Abbess will also be the featured speaker on Jan. 9 at a Washington, DC, breakfast meeting to honor women of Ireland. The event will be held in the Hay-Adams Hotel. See the Irish American Partnership website (irishap.org) for details. Proceeds will benefit Kylemore.
Locally, tax-deductible donations may be addressed to Mary McAleer at the Irish American Partnership, 33 Broad St., Boston, 02109. Please note that the donation is for the Kylemore Abbey Capital Campaign. You may call the Irish American Partnership at 617-723-2707 or 800-722-3893 for more details or visit their website.
Most visitors to the West of Ireland have stopped to experience the many attributes of Kylemore Abbey, which is truly the jewel of the west. The property has a fascinating history as well as many modern additions – such as the creation of a Children's Play Trail, in collaboration with the furniture college (GMIT) in nearby Letterfrack, and the restoration of Victorian gardens, greenhouses and the teahouse.
I have visited, taken guests, and written about Kylemore Abbey many times over the years because it is a perfect tourist and travel destination. You can see something different every time you go. Stop by the neo-Gothic chapel, the Mausoleum, the garden and teahouse, the castle itself with the history of the property and Mitchell Henry, a Manchester doctor who was modern beyond his time, and built the castle for his wife. You can visit one or more attractions on the property, enjoy a hot, tasty meal in the teahouse - adjacent to the gardens - or in the cafeteria or stop by the gift shop, one of the best in Ireland.
There are also opportunities to spend time living with the community at Kylemore in contemplation or volunteering. Several dozen women have come in the past three or four years because they heard about the opportunity by word of mouth. There is no advertising, Sister Maire said. "They come to experience life here or work for us on a volunteer basis."
She added that a number of groups also come for retreats, conferences or workshops. Plans are already in place for a group from Maryland (students and staff) to visit Kylemore next summer for a 12-day educational experience in Ireland for which they will receive course credits. Classes will include Irish history and culture and there will be workshops with local people in music, poetry and more.
"Our vision is that the Kylemore of the future will be a monastery and spiritual place of prayer, study and education and a wonderful tourist facility as well," Sister Maire said.
We are always happy to hear that US and Irish airlines have increased flights to and from Ireland and specifically from Shannon, which so handily services the wonderful, wild West. The expanded service announced for Dublin and Shannon means almost 270,000 more seats between Ireland and the USA next summer, a 20 percent increase over 2012.
Recently, we heard that:
• US Airways will return to Shannon (flights last landed there in 2009) for the 2013 summer season, operating a daily service from Philadelphia.
• During the summer,United will operate a new service from Chicago to Shannon five days a week and will also restore direct service from the US Midwest to Shannon.
• Delta will fly New York JFK-Shannon daily throughout the peak summer season.
• American will introduce a daily service from New York JFK to Dublin, starting in June. And because Aer Lingus has increased its fleet from six to seven planes, there will be an increase in those flights during the summer season too.
• Two daily flights will operate between Boston-Dublin between late March and mid-June.
• Orlando-Dublin service will operate twice daily from the end of March to mid-June and increase to three flights a week for the summer.
• Dublin-Chicago is increasing from a daily service to 11 flights per week.
• The Dublin-JFK route will operate twice daily and there will also be daily departures from Shannon to JFK and Logan.
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This is an 8x10 photo from the 2015 World Cup that has been personally signed by Carli Lloyd. Lloyd is a midfielder for the USA womens national soccer team, while a member of this team she has won a Olympic Gold medal, Word Cup runner-up, and 2015 World Cup Winner. In the 2015 World Cup Carli put on one of the greatest performances, in the the Championship game Carli put together a hat-trick in the first half of the game. For the tournament she won Golden Ball, best player. This item includes a certificate of authenticity from James Spence Authentication (JSA) and Powers Sports Memorabilia.


Thanks to the tremendous growth of social media, we have a lot of options to generate sales leads and find new customers. And many people believe that social media is now the best tool to generate sales leads. However, recent research found that the most popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are in fact not effective at generating quality sales leads.
When it comes to the best ways to generate sales leads, there is no absolute method that can work well for all types of businesses. Here are our 5 recommended sales generating methods for B2B business, which you can test and measure the results.
There is nothing better than getting a referral from a happy customer. This the best way to get quality sale leads, because your existing customer may know what the referred prospect needs. Besides, this is your shortcut to build trust with the referred customer as you're recommended from a person that he or she knows very well and trust.
In B2B sales, it will be much easier to approach prospects when they already know your business, or your name or your face. However, in these events, you have to compete with hundreds of other vendors or service providers who also desperately want to get noticed. Susan Carol, CEO of Susan Carol Associates Public Relations suggested that you should give an event presentation and follow the event with customized letters, calls or emails to individuals that you meet in events. This is the most effective way to help you stand out and on top of prospects' minds when you approach them.
Nowadays, customers tend to do a lot of research before choosing to listen to your talk. They want to be well-informed about their problems and solutions. You need to be a trusted source of information that provides useful information and education to customers. Using blogs, whitepapers, ebooks, webinars, and case studies to provide helpful information will help you win prospects' trust and business. For Internet marketing, this is one of the best methods to raise your brand awareness, increase traffic, and get sales leads.
Google can be your best friend or your worst enemy when it comes to generate sales leads. Nowadays, many things (actually almost everything) start from a click on Google. For IT companies and service-based B2B companies, SEO is considered the most effective tools to generate leads. Don't forget to focus more of your time and effort on SEO and how to make your website stand out in the Google list.
LinkedIn will be very effective for you to generate sales leads if you know how to use it right. Among all the social media platforms, LinkedIn has a high percentage of professionals, so there will be higher chance for you to find your target audience (compared to other channels). Besides, LinkedIn Groups are created for people with same interests and concerns. The groups are for you to search for your prospects, who are facing the challenges and concerns that your business can solve.


Battery Emulator is a regenerative AC to DC converter designed to behave like real batteries. It is a software option of the B2C+ with a DC output, for a single unit, from 20 to 750V (800V with the HV option). It is possible to serialize units to reach up to 1500V or to parallelize units to increase the power and current. Thanks to the Separated Channel Operation (included up to 54kW) each unit can be used as 3 completely different DC Regenerative Power Supplies in a single cabinet.
The converter is based on a hardware topology allowing a bidirectional power flow from the DC input to the grid output providing important energy savings when cycling batteries.
At the same time, higher power tests are possible due to this feature.
For testing purposes, a power/time profile can be configured.


Despite which diet program you end up deciding on, remaining mindful of the food stuff you are consuming is actually a need to. Although this does not audio much too tough, it might really be extremely easy to lose monitor of how many energy you have eaten within a working day, which includes treats and beverages. Because of this, it truly is smart to start-up a foodstuff diary while you can enter almost everything you've eaten into it, even when it had been seriously tiny. For those who do this for even a number of weeks, you may likely be amazed in the least the extras that slip in. While you believe that you will be staying on the right track with the eating plan, you may not be counting each and every final factor you consume. You are able to stick to any diet regime, or no less than find out if you are dishonest, which has a foods journal.
There's a diet regime known as the Mediterranean Diet regime which happens to be mostly based on the point that people in nations around the world like Greece, Spain, Italy and France have much less conditions and obesity concerns compared to United states, as well as another countries. There's a lot to choose from on this diet, however the main concentration is on healthier fats, like olive oil, fresh new vegatables and fruits plus a confined amount of money of fish and meat. As wine is believed that will help protect against coronary heart condition, a little total of it truly is often welcomed. Thinking of the level of purely natural and delicious foods you could opt for from together with the Mediterranean Diet plan, it really is certainly worthy of wanting into Diabetes Diets.
Vegetarian and vegan diets are encouraged by several professionals in bodyweight loss and health. Goods derived from animals can't be eaten on a vegan diet regime, but on the vegetarian eating plan you can consume things like dairy and eggs, just no meat. Both equally sides of your argument relating to that is much healthier involving vegan diets and vegetarian diets may be discovered in a variety of publications, internet websites and posts. Whilst there are people today who do perfectly on these types of diet programs, other people do not. You continue to should watch out along with your calorie and carbohydrate use on this type of diet plan. It is possible to stop eating meat as an example but still eat a load of sweets, pasta and bread is not going to be of use to you when trying to get rid of some body weight. Receiving in the excellent sum of vegetables and fruit is required for both equally meat eaters and vegetarians alike, but other sources of protein must be identified for vegetarians.


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The story of the church can be summed up in 4 words: "God's Work, Our Witness". This is true for every Christian church throughout all of history, including my very own FBC Baton Rouge. There are a number of ways that we can look at the longevity of FBC and attribute the effectiveness and endurance of this body of believers for nearly 140 years to the hard work and commitment of so many men and women of God; but that would not be the reason for why we are here today. The only explanation, and the foundational reason for our existence as a church family is that God has done a great work in us and through us for the glory of his name, and we are witnesses to his work in us.
The truth is that the church is a picture of each individual's Christian testimony. The story of the church is the story of her people. We've heard it said so many times "The church isn't a place or building, the church is people." That statement is true and we need to be reminded of it daily. But what makes the story of our church unique is that there are so many individual stories that make up the fabric of our collective witness. At the very heart of our witness is not what we have done, but what God has done to make us his people (1 Peter 2:10), sanctify our hearts (1 Thess. 5:23-24), and move to obedience for his glory (Romans 16:25-27). Christian, this is YOUR STORY! God has done a magnificent and glorious work in your life by saving you and making you his own child. This is a miracle that only a God of abundant grace and mercy could accomplish. You were once an alien to God, but now you are his very own child, marked by his Holy Spirit and called to a life of holiness and obedience.
Paul's testimony is just like yours and mine: "This is who I was before Jesus saved me, and this is who I am now because Jesus saved me." That is our story. What is so amazing to me is that as differently and diversely as our individual stories can be told, essentially we are all telling the same story. And that common story is all for the glory of God.
I am writing this to you because I want you to consider your own story. We are currently working on a project for our church family at FBC Baton Rouge that concerns every believer in our congregation. I'm not revealing to you just yet what it is (hope you like surprises!), but I believe it will be a tremendous encouragement to each and every one of you. In the meantime, I need you to do something very important for me and for your brothers and sisters in Christ: Think about your testimony and write it down. Take some time to think deeply and concisely about what you have witnessed what God has done your life and then write it down on 1 sheet of paper. For some of you this will be a difficult task because you like to include every detail. The details are important, but the challenge for each of you is to condense your testimony to 1 sheet of paper while making the entire testimony about what God has done to transform your life. I think the result for this effort will have a tremendous effect on our congregation as we seek to honor God by proclaiming his gospel. Please consider this challenge and accept it with joy.
So we left off our last blog post with us being tired. Especially being tired of painting. But would you like to guess what we've been doing the past two days? If your answer is painting, then you're right. Yesterday we spent almost all day at Aina Haina Baptist church, were some of us went for Easter Sunday. It's a small church of about 25 (mostly older) people who are just as sweet as sweet can be. We helped them do three major things: one group trimmed up a bunch of plumeria clippings to get them small enough to fit into the dumpster, one group started painting a shed that was built up on stilts on a hillside, and one group went adventuring up on a vegetated, overgrown, rocky mountainside, following Pastor Gary and his chainsaw, to cut up some dead Hawaiian mesquite trees and hand the lumber back down the mountainside. It was quite a sight to see. Like every group here, they fed us a fantastic lunch, and after lunch we spent the afternoon with our favorite task–painting.
Today the group got to go take a tour of Pearl Harbor and learn a little bit about American History and pay our respects to fallen servicemen and women. Around lunch time, we came back and helped serve at the BCM's International Student lunch, which was a good opportunity to reach out to the students here. Then, this afternoon, you guessed it…more painting! Tomorrow night is CRASH, the BCM's biggest outreach event. They expect over 100 students to show up, a huge portion of whom don't attend most BCM things. And let me say, from all the time we've spent painting the fellowship hall here this week, this is going to be the best looking CRASH this place has seen. It really has made a significant difference, and it's good to know how much everyone here appreciates it.
Finally, tonight, we got to experience the most wonderful of Hawaiian traditions: surfing! A few students took our group out to Waikiki and taught everyone who wanted to learn how to surf, which was definitely a fun and exciting experience. If any of you are taking a beach vacation and want some pointers on surfing, ask Larkin. He picked it up pretty quick and I'm sure he'd be happy to tell you all about it.
Like I said earlier, tomorrow night is a big night for the BCM here. It's when they have the most students come into a non-threatening, relaxed atmosphere, and it makes for a great place to be intentional in conversations about sharing the gospel. So be praying for that as you read this, that God can use this event to make His name known on the campus here and that people will be blessed by it.
Apologies for being so late with this post. We've been extremely busy the past two days, staying out late, so I haven't had the energy to write at the end of the day. But here's a quick recap of what we've been up to.
Monday morning we had two tasks: half the time we spent prayer walking around the University of Hawaii campus and reaching out to students to invite them to this week's BCM events and the other half we spent wiping down all the dirt on the walls in the BCM in preparation for today's painting. In the afternoon we went to Central Baptist Church here in Honolulu to help them with a youth outreach event. Central Baptist is located right across the corner from Roosevelt High School and just two blocks down from Stevenson Middle School, and the people of the (small) church have a heart for reaching out to the teenagers that are literally across the street. Unfortunately, the students just haven't been very receptive, which is discouraging to Pastor Shane and his crew. We helped set up for the event and then once school let out most of our group went out on the sidewalks around the school and invited the students to come over to the church, where we were handing out free hot dogs and chips and drinks. Most of the students were skeptical and kept asking why we were just giving them free food, which led to a few good conversations about the church wanting to bless the students. I know it was an encouragement to the staff to have all of us there helping, so be in prayer for them that they can keep focused and persistent in their ministry and that God will use them to reach out to those two schools that are so desperately in need of Him.
After our afternoon at Central Baptist, we spent the better part of our late afternoon/evening with some great team building, hiking the Koko Head trail. Koko Head is a peak on the southeastern part of Oahu that's about 1200 ft high, and the trail up to it is just an old military outpost railway tram track that runs to the top. Which you get to climb like a staircase. A 1200 foot tall staircase. So it's a pretty tough hike, but it was a great time for us all to bond through perseverance together. It makes for a great illustration of our faith journeys as well, but I'll save that for another day.
Today we painted. And painted. And painted some more. Then, after we finished painting, we kept painting. Or at least it felt like it. We painted the BCM's kitchen, a good portion of their pantry/storeroom (which is about 3x the size of the kitchen), and their rec room/chapel/fellowship hall (which is about 6 times the size of their pantry). So, needless to say, we painted a lot. All the while, we found time to take all the screens off the windows in those rooms and wash the window slats and window screens, which get filthy from the volcanic ash that floats in from the big island. It may have been very menial work, but everyone has been so appreciative of it, because today we accomplished a bunch of small tasks that, all together, make the place look amazingly better. Also, Laura was able to take some hideous old faded baseball, basketball, and football shaped tables and paint some Hawaiian scenes on them to make them look completely new and so much better looking. The picture above is of them; I took it from the instagram of one of the students that lives in the BCM here. It's the only pic I've gotten in the last two days because I haven't had a chance to download from anyone's camera.
Anyway, to bring it all to a close tonight we had The Vine, which the BCM's weekly worship service. There were about 60 people in all, and afterwards we all came back to the BCM and had dinner together. In his sermon tonight, Arjay talked about Luke 9:18-29 and being radically obedient to Christ's call and how that looks in our lives. One of the things he talked about was how we're called to live rightly even when we don't feel like it, and I think that perfectly applied to our group yesterday and today. We've pretty much been going non stop and everyone has got to be exhausted (I know am) from all the work we've done, but even today when you could see everyone just being so tired of painting, we all fought through and kept working to get the job done. You should be proud of your students, FBC, they've done a great job so far. Tomorrow we go to Aina Haina Baptist to do some work clearing out dead trees and fixing up an unfinished shed. Plus whatever else they cook up for us to do between now and then. So pray for energy for us all that we don't get too exhausted and that we can keep going.


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AH 101 Section 3, Introduction to Western Art
This course is designed to introduce students with no prior experience in the study of art to various styles of Western art. Two-dimensional media, such as painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography will be explored. Three-dimensional media, such as sculpture and architecture, will also be studied. Finally, the history of art will be surveyed from prehistoric art through contemporary art. Students successfully completing this course will be able to: Analyze the basic vocabulary of visual elements (line, shape, light, value, color, texture, mass, space) and principles of design (proportion and scale, unity and variety, balance and rhythm, and emphasis and focal point); recognize and discuss materials (media) used to make art; place works of art in their historical context based on a general timeline and identify different styles and movements in art. Students will explore the University museum's collection and compare and contrast artworks using the skills of formal analysis. The Honors section of Art History 101 will aim to develop oral presentation skills throughout the semester, as well as writing essays related to artworks belonging to different time periods.
Arab 412 Section 1, Upper-level Arabic Conversation
Students engage in conversations on a wide-range of topics touching upon: the Arab family, Arab women, Arab food, education in the Arab World, illiteracy in the Arab World, religion and society, the Hijab in Islam, the Arabic language and its dialects, customs and traditions, Bedouins, Arab cultural identity, the question of Palestine, Arab media, Globalization, and others. Students are asked to write on each topic, engage in disucssions in the classroom and choose a topic covered in class to expand on for presentations and mid-term and final papers.
Bisc 104 Section 8, Inquiry into Life: The Environment
Bisc 104 is a course designed for non-biology majors in which we explore the diversity of life and the natural world that supports life. Topics include the evolution and taxonomy of life on Earth, the ecology of microbial, plant and animal life, and contemporary environmental issues as well. As a Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College section, the class size is small and allows for extensive student participation and engagement compared to the more typical large lecture format. In this class, we will take multiple class periods to discuss news or current events that are relevant to or complement course topics, and also, students will be required to present research about an environmental issue to the class at the end of the semester. The intent is to bring attention to and better understand the natural world and our relationship to it.
This is a biology survey course, intended for non-biology majors. BISC 102 is the prerequisite. Associated with BISC 104 is the lab BISC 105, although a student does not have to take the lab in order to take the course. The goal is for students to better understand the basic principles of evolution and ecology and to have a growing familiarity with the diversity of life on earth. Students will demonstrate mastery of content, conceptual understanding and application of content during class participation and on tests. As an honors course, there is more student-instructor interaction, more class discussion, and more opportunity to explore current issues in science. After completing this class, students should be able to explain the evidence for evolution, some of the mechanisms of evolution and some of the history of evolutionary thought. In addition, students should demonstrate knowledge of the basis for classification, and an understanding of the major categories of life on earth.
CHIN 418 Section 1, Introduction to Classical Chinese
This course is designed to provide students an introduction to basic classical Chinese syntax and vocabulary that are still commonly used in Modern Chinese. The students will be exposed to authentic classical Chinese texts, such as Confucius's Analects, Mencius, and Tang poetry. The culture contained in the classical texts will also be discussed throughout the course in order to provide students historical backgrounds of traditional Chinese values.
CHIN 450 Section 1, Domain Mentorship
Chinese 450 is a content-based and domain-specific course. It is designed for students who have achieved advanced levels based on the ACTFL scale. The purpose of this course is to prepare Flagship students for their Capstone year abroad, and the content of this course is tailored to meet student's need. All course materials are authentic materials. Students are expected to attend each meeting with thorough preparation before the class, to participate in discussion with a domain mentor actively, and to complete all required assignments fully.
CHIN 512 Section 1, 21st Century China
Chinese 512 is designed for students who have achieved advanced mid/high levels based on the ACTFL scale. This is a content-based course, designed to increase students' Chinese proficiency levels and most importantly, their Chinese cultural awareness. Course materials are all authentic materials from news clips, lectures, and talk shows. The topics include economics, societal issues, technology, and sciences of the twenty-first century China. The tasks to be covered include supporting opinions, discussing abstract topics, hypothesizing, and producing appropriate formal and informal texts based on the settings.
Danc 200 Section 1, Dance Appreciation
Dance Appreciation is a one-semester course, which investigates dance in relationship to culture, as it correlates to ritual, religion, courtship and the performing arts. The main content areas include: Dance as Ritual; Dance and Courtship/Sexuality; The function of Art and Theatrical Dance in contemporary society; Dance as an Art Form, The Creative Process; and The History & Aesthetics of the major dance genres (ballet, modern, jazz/tap).
Edci 353 Section 1, Planning & Teaching Strategies for Effective Classroom Practice
This course introduces candidates to teaching strategies and models including direct instruction, discovery/inquiry, and cooperative/collaborative learning. Focus will be on teaching in a developmental-constructivist context. Participants in the Honors section of this course will be required to teach multiple days from an original unit plan developed during the course. They will use the information gathered from developing and teaching the unit to create a Teacher Work Sample which examines the impact their teaching had on K-12 students' achievement of stated learning goals.
Edsp 327 Section 4, Classroom Management & Behavioral Interventions
This course focuses on effective classroom management and behavioral principals including evidence-based models of classroom discipline, proactive strategies to prevent misbehavior, effective responses to problem behaviors, and ethically appropriate discipline procedures for students with disabilities. Participants in the Honors section of this course will develop in depth schoolwide, class wide, and individual behavior management plans practicing data driven decision making.
Eng 223 Section 13, Survey of American Literature to the Civil War
The history of English-speaking people in the New World has been a history of storytellers. Living in a newly colonized hemisphere produced new literary forms, templates which still define American culture to this day. English adventurers, Puritan settlers on the Massachusetts frontier, New England preachers, French expatriates, and eighteenth-century printer's apprentices all created new kinds of texts examining new notions of American identity and society. We will read, examine, discuss, and write about the colonial accounts, Native American captivity narratives, Jeremiads, devotional poetry, sermons, autobiographies, and short stories that they produced, re-evaluating the expressive texts of our shared American pasts and presents. This course aims to be a more discussion-based, writing-intensive, creative, and rigorous alternative to the super-sized American literature lectures.
This section of English 223H concentrates on the rise of imaginative literature in the antebellum United States, paying particular attention to historical and cultural influences in the first half of the nineteenth century and to the role of place in shaping individual experience. The course has at least two goals. First, it engages questions of national identity as they came to be expressed in literature and charts the gradual evolution of an "American" self, at the same time complicating any singular idea of "American" by considering both canonical and noncanonical texts by writers from a variety of backgrounds. Second, it introduces students to the basic emphases of literary study, exposing them to different methodologies and building a vocabulary for the critical discussion of literature. Among the authors we will read are Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John P. Parker, and Walt Whitman. Unlike a regular section of this course, in which students are typically in a large lecture hall, class will be a mixture of short background lectures and student-generated discussion. Assignments will include regular in-class essays, two papers, a group presentation, and a final examination.
Eng 324 Section 2, Shakespeare
This course will give students a thorough grounding in Shakespeare's plays and major poems, with particular attention to the various critical frameworks that have become dominant in recent scholarship. Thus our readings will include critical essays that deal with the place of the humoral body in understanding the plays; how ecology and the environment are implicated in Shakespeare's works; the role of material objects in determining the "world" of the plays; insights into the varied cognitive models we find shaping characters and their behaviors; how representations of animality inform Shakespeare's understanding of "the human"; and the ways that disability appears on stage to trouble assumptions about identity and "ablebodiedness." Students will write responses to the readings, complete a set of writing assignments to culminate in a longer research paper, and give a brief presentation on their research during the semester.
Eng 352 Section 3, Studies in Contemporary Literature
This reading-intensive and writing-intensive class will focus on contemporary stories and novels written in the last forty years, with a special focus on the literary community of Oxford. We will read works by local writers and non-local writers with ties to Oxford, as well as visitors such as Jonathan Lethem (Grisham Visiting Writer 2018), Catherine Lacey (Grisham Writer in Residence 2017-2018), and Garth Greenwell (Grisham Writer in Residence 2018-2019,) as well as Oxford Conference for the Book authors.
Fr 211 Section 4, Intensive Intermediate French
French 211 is an intensive sequence for beginning students. French 211 aims to develop students' four skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) up to the B2 proficiency level on the CEFR scale. French 211 is taught through a task-based approach. This methodology entails exclusive use of French in class and focuses on communicative skills, fostering a highly interactive class in which the language is contextualized and emphasis is placed on meaning as well as forms.
Hon 399 Section 1, Special Topics in Honors (Film and Social Problems. Register for 3 credit hours)
This is a course that probes that role feature films have played in exploring as well as bringing light to social problems and issues, whether in the stories of individuals or groups caught in the mesh of those issues or through dramatic events those issues helped create. Film will be discussed against the backdrop of how other art forms—painting, music, literature—have addressed these issues. The so-called "Hollywood Social Problem" film has been defined as one that "combines social analysis and dramatic conflict within a coherent narrative structure (distinguished by) its didacticism" (Roffman and Purdy). This course will include such films but also reach beyond to examples from German Expressionist film and Film Noir where no edifying solution may be offered but rather the depiction of an underlying truth or hard-boiled reality.
Hon 399 Section 2, Special Topics in Honors (Human Trafficking–Law and Society. Register for 3 credit hours)
In this course, students will study closely the global factors that cause Modern Slavery (otherwise known as Human Trafficking) to be among the top markets in the world. Despite efforts to curtail this atrocity, demands for human bodies (for labor, sex, etc.) remain incessant. The United States is far from immune from this plague. In fact, domestic human trafficking is growing rapidly in unlikely parts of the United States. For this reason, the problem requires global as well as national solutions. In this course, students will spend the first few weeks learning about the make-up and structure of the human trafficking market, as well as the relevant international and domestic laws that try to destroy it. Students will then work closely to research local regimes in the United States and their effectiveness at preventing/stemming the flow of human trafficking. Among others, the course covers the following topics: labor trafficking; sex trafficking of minors; sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion; state, federal, and international responses; remedies and services for human trafficking victims and survivors; and corporate accountability. Specific laws and prevention regimes include the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act ("TVPA"); federal, state, and local criminal prosecutions of traffickers; assistance for victims and victims' rights issues; and issues of international cooperation and conflict. The course also reviews the role that law enforcement, the United States government, and non-governmental organizations play in combating human trafficking, and the collaboration that takes place between state/national and international law enforcement. The goal of this study is for students to gain a solid foundation of relevant international, federal and state laws and their limitations. In the process, students will explore practical ways for more effective legislations/other measures for preventing rise of trafficking. As a result, the course will culminate in a collective class report– informed by the students' individual research papers on trafficking in the South of the U.S.
Hon 399 Section 3, Special Topics in Honors (Is American Democracy beyond Debate? Register for 3 credit hours)
The course will be enriched by a special two-week visit to our campus to teach this class by Janet Brown, executive director for the past 30 years of the Commission on Presidential Debates. Though her work is largely behind the scenes, she has been described as "one of the most powerful people in politics." She has been in charge of negotiating with candidates and establishing the sites and ground rules for every presidential debate since 1988, including the 2008 debate at Ole Miss. Curtis Wilkie, an associate professor of journalism and a former newspaper reporter who covered each debate between 1976 and 2000, will serve as instructor for the entire semester. Honors 399 is designed to explore the importance of political debate in a democracy. It will touch on the early concepts of debate in the period of Greek/Roman intellectual dominance, but the class will move quickly to the role of American debate – from the Constitutional Convention to Lincoln-Douglas to Congressional arguments leading up to the Civil War. The class will learn that political vitriol is nothing new, and that the nation has prevailed despite bitter disagreement. For most of the semester, the course will focus on modern presidential debate in America. Debates lay dormant for nearly a century after the Civil War and were not resumed until the first-televised Kennedy-Nixon confrontations in 1960. After another interval of 16 years, debates were revived by Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in 1976 and have become a regular feature of every campaign since then. Each of the modern debates will be studied. In lieu of a textbook, students will be assigned relevant articles and books to read throughout the semester. Instead of tests, students will be required to turn in several papers of at least 1,500 words — and a final one that is at least 3,000 words. The course will also call for lively classroom discussion – and perhaps a debate.
Hon 420 Section 1, Honors Experiential Learning (Fake News and How to Fight It. Second Spring Term; register for 2 credit hours)
This course, taught by Greg Brock, the senior editor of the New York Times, will examine the clash between journalism and misinformation in an era of social media and entrenched political partisanship. Students will survey the origins of fake news and the spread and life span of such articles online. They will interact with career journalists and fact-checkers, including David Mikkelson, the founder of Snopes.com, the largest fact-checking site on the Internet, and regarded as an online touchstone of rumor research. Students will also undertake real-time fact-checking projects with Snopes.com (named after Faulkner's characters, incidentally) and learn about other tools being developed to separate reality from fiction. Through readings and exercises the course will survey such topics as overseas media mills, the psychology of belief and bias, information networks and how news reaches consumers — all with an eye toward exploring how the news industry will evolve and what challenges await this next generation of journalists.
Hon 420 Section 2, Honors Experiential Learning (Affordable Housing in Oxford, MS. Register for 3 credit hours)
For the majority of low-income American families, housing is their biggest expense, and often their biggest stressor. Research is clear that the dynamics of housing exert an enormous influence on one's health, job stability, educational success, and other matters we deem important to well being. Debates about how to provide affordable and secure housing for all are widespread, and heated. This course examines these issues, first-hand, through the collection and analysis of original data in the Oxford-Lafayette County community. Over the course of the semester, students will help design, implement, and then assess a housing survey for residents of our county. The survey centers on the following questions: To what degree do different groups in our county face housing insecurity? To what degree is housing insecurity occurring alongside other stressors? How do different groups view local housing concerns and challenges? Results from this survey will be shared with county supervisors, real estate developers, residents, and other members of Lafayette-Oxford-University (LOU) communities.
Hon 551 Section 6, Honors Advanced Study in Law II (Honors College version of Law 709, Entertainment Law)
This course seeks to examine the contracts, intellectual property, employment, free speech, and antitrust issues associated with entertainment industries like music, movies, television, theater, books, videogames, and visual art. The course will include discussions not just of the current state of the law but also of the underlying policies at issue to provide opportunity for debate on how new and emerging digital technologies affect the creative industries. If you've ever wanted to debate Beyoncé songs and comic books, this is the class for you.
HST 130 Section 13, Introduction to US History to 1877
This course will present an overview of American history from initial European exploration through the Civil War. By examining the interactions between diverse groups of peoples, including Native Americans, Europeans, European Americans, and African Americans, we will explore the changing meanings of freedom, equality, citizenship, democracy and American identity. Along the way we will cover such topics as the rise of slavery, the American Revolution, the development of a political party system, the emergence of market capitalism and the reasons behind the Civil War; approaching these topics through such categories of analysis as race, gender, and class. Special emphasis will be given to the multi-layered complexities and myriad perspectives of the many pasts and historical actors that give American history its richness. In addition, students will learn how to read primary sources as historical documents and, in turn, discover how historians interpret history. The intensive discussion of primary sources, the debating of key events and themes in American history through Reconstruction, and the assigning of essays asking students to craft their own interpretations of the American past, will allow students in this honors course to become historians for a semester. Along the way, students will burnish their critical reading, analytical writing, and oratorical abilities—pushing them to become more persuasive and eloquent, and allowing them to master a basic but essential set of skills demanded of several different potential professional tracks that they may in the future pursue.
HST 490 Section 2, Problems in History (Disease and Medicine in American History)
This course will introduce honors students to the field of medical history and will use disease as a lens to reinterpret the American past. Through thematic weekly readings, class lectures, and discussions, we will explore how epidemic diseases affected colonial projects in the Americas, how disease environments influenced the growth and practice of slavery, how disease shaped American political development and the progress of the Revolutionary War, how Americans conceptualized ideas about medicine and health in the nineteenth century, how disease affected western expansion, how struggles against disease during the Civil War influenced the development of the medical profession, how segregation created disparities in healthcare during the Jim Crow years, how disease became racialized in United States immigration policy, how the expansion of the federal government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries changed public health campaigns, how the United States responded to the global influenza pandemic in 1918, how Americans have gendered and stigmatized certain diseases, how campaigns to eradicate disease following the Second World War reflected Cold War politics and society, how the United States responded to the AIDS epidemic, and, finally, what recent outbreaks of SARS, H1N1, Ebola, and Zika reveal about the future of disease in a globalized world. Throughout the course, we will pay particular attention not only to the physical and environmental effects of disease, but also to how disease has been socially- and culturally-constructed and used for a variety of political purposes. The major objectives of this course are for students to (1) learn about the impact of disease on American history, (2) develop an understanding of the field of medical history, (3) hone critical thinking and analytical skills, (4) learn how to read and analyze primary and secondary sources, and (5) improve writing skills.
HST 415 Section 2, African American History since 1865 (cross-listed as AAS 326)
In a lecture on Black Reconstruction, historian David Blight ponders the question "What is the engine of history?" He offers two probable sources: economics and politics. Economics might be imagined as the eternal competition for resources, driven by the desire to possess the fruits of this life. Politics is the equally eternal desire to bend the wills of others to one's own or to create possibilities for others. It seems that desire—that most ancient drive—provides the fuel for both. In our survey of African American History since 1865, we will break down these drivers of change to their most fundamental elements: sex, money, and power. In discussions, readings, and activities, we will explore how these forces shaped—and were shaped by—the African American experience in the making of America and "Americanness" from the end of the Civil War to the present. In particular, we will examine the various strategies African Americans used to resist racial, sexist, and economic oppression and their efforts to gain full rights as U.S. citizens. We will also look at intraracial dynamics to explore how African Americans grappled with—and sometimes failed to meet—the challenges presented by race and identity, gender and sexuality, and class and privilege within their own communities.
Phil 103 Section 2, Logic: Critical Thinking (cross-listed as Ling 103 Section 2)
This course is intended to introduce students to principles and methods of good reasoning, with an emphasis on the analysis of everyday arguments. The course covers four main areas of logic. The first section concerns basic logical concepts, the informal analysis of statements, the nature and analysis of arguments, and common logical fallacies. The second section concerns formal logic and its uses for determining logical features such as consistency, entailment, and validity. The third section concerns categorical logic, including categorical statements, categorical syllogisms, and Venn diagrams. The final section concerns scientific reasoning, including hypothetical reasoning, evidentiary support, the discovery of causes, and standards for scientific objectivity and integrity. In addition, this honors section will develop students' skills in using logic to advance clear and cogent arguments of their own and in producing editorial-style critical essays.
Psy 201 Section 9, General Psychology
This course is an overview of the broad field of Psychology and is designed to introduce the student to the scientific study of behavior and the cognitive and physiological processes that underlie behavior. Topics include the historical development of psychology, research methodology, brain/behavior relationships, perception, variations in consciousness, learning and memory, cognition and intelligence, emotion, personality, and social behavior. Psychological disorders and their treatment will also be discussed. This course differs from the regular sections of PSY 201 in the written and oral assignments that are built into the course. Students are required to keep a "journal" that contains reflections/observations about each chapter that is discussed. This is a way to keep a dialog going between the instructor and students about what is being learned and questions about how the topics apply to their own lives. Students are also required to give a 10-15 minute presentation in class on a topic assigned by the instructor. The topic for the upcoming semester will be a commonly held "myth" related to psychology that has little or no scientific support. Due to the small class size, examinations involve identification and short essay questions in addition to multiple-choice questions.
Rel 101 Section 5, Introduction to Religion
This course is founded on the assumption that a critical, yet sympathetic, knowledge of the major religions of the world will better equip you to understand the world in which you live–whether you pursue a career in the military, business, the arts, politics, or healthcare. Thus, this course will provide an introduction to the rudiments of some of the world's major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, & Buddhism. Our purpose is to gain basic familiarity with the rituals, beliefs, figures, sacred texts, and holy days that most generally characterize each of these distinctive traditions. In addition to the textbook, we will examine sources such as sacred texts, theological writings, and documentary films/news reports. In addition, this course will provide you with insight into the immense diversity that characterizes religion in contemporary societies, both between religious traditions and within particular traditions. To gain deeper understanding of various religions in the contemporary world, students will conduct group fieldwork observation at local religious sites (such as the Oxford mosque). Students will share their research and field experience through in-class presentations.
Soc 433 Section 1, Theories of Gender and Sexuality (cross-listed as G St 433)
This course attempts to answer fundamental questions about the power relations that structure gender and sexuality. It also addresses how gender and sexuality intersect with other social and cultural categories, including but not limited to race, religion, class, and nation. Specific topics for discussion can change from year-to-year and may include feminism, heterosexism, LGBTQ identity politics and movements, dating and relationships, sexual violence, reproductive rights, sex education, and sex work. The first part of the course introduces students to a social constructionist account of sex, gender, and sexuality. The second part of the course surveys contemporary sociological studies that consider how other social institutions such as the global economy, popular culture, communication technologies, religion, and science shape how we think about and experience sex, gender, and sexuality. This class is cross-listed with Gender Studies (GST 498), and can count as part of the Gender Studies minor. The Honors section of SOC 425/GST 425 requires students to collect original qualitative data on gender and sexuality and analyze these data in light of the theoretical frameworks covered in the course.
Span 111 Section 3, Intensive Elementary Spanish
Spanish 111 is an introduction to the language and culture of the Spanish-speaking world. Spanish 111 is designed for students to learn the skills to communicate effectively in Spanish and to develop a knowledge and appreciation for Hispanic cultures. By the end of this class, students should be able to complete basic communicative tasks in Spanish using newly-acquired communication strategies, grammar and vocabulary, and to be able to understand and speak about the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world. Students in this Spanish 111 Honors section will be exposed to authentic material (news articles, literature, movie clips, etc.) and will engage the reading and writing strategies they have learned in regular college classes when producing speech and writing in Spanish. Because the Honors College and Croft also offer a Spanish 211 section, we will prepare all students to excel in that class. In sum, Spanish 111 contributes to the Honors College curriculum not only in fulfilling language requirements but also in emphasizing critical thinking and writing by engaging original source materials, and by contributing to an interdisciplinary approach to learning.
Span 211 Section 4, Intensive Intermediate Spanish
Spanish 211, Intermediate Spanish, is a continuation of Spanish 111, Elementary Spanish, and is therefore, designed to continue the study of the language and culture in the Spanish-speaking world. By the end of this class, students should be able to complete intermediate-level communicative tasks in Spanish using the communication strategies, grammar structures and vocabulary acquired during the semester, and to understand and be able to talk about the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world. The goals of this course are based on the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. Students in the Honors section will have the opportunity to work with authentic material (news articles, literature, etc.) and will engage reading and writing strategies they have learned in regular classes in the production of class work and homework in Spanish. Because this Honors section will also include Croft students, who will necessarily continue to Spanish 303 and 305, we will spend more time in preparing all the students for excellence in those courses. In sum, Spanish 211 contributes to the Honors College curriculum not only by fulfilling the language requirement but also by emphasizing critical thinking and writing by using original source material, and by contributing to an interdisciplinary approach to learning.
S St 102 Section 2, Intro to Southern Studies II
This course will examine the history and culture of the American South, from the 1930s to the present, through the prism of memoirs by writers as varied as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Dennis Covington, and Jesmyn Ward. Through the study of memoirs written by historical and literary figures, students will examine southerners' use of the genre of the memoir to both illuminate and obscure aspects of the southern past, including place, civil rights, gender and sexuality, religion, and family. In the course of the semester, in class discussions, critical papers, and response journals, students will read, summarize, and analyze texts with discernment and comprehension and with an understanding of their literary features and conventions—both formal and stylistic. Most important, they will identify how the memoir, as a literary and cultural text, complements or challenges the idea of Southern identity.
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Monkey Shoulder's pop-up bar
Words by: Jane Ryan
"I've got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell."
There'll be tie-dye aprons, references to bunga bunga parties, world-renowned Glaswegian DJs and Scotch cocktails – this is one London Cocktail Week pop-up not to miss.
September 18th saw The Cowbell, a team comprising of Stuart Bale, Abigail Clephane and Ervin Trykowski, take the grand prize in Monkey Shoulder's Ultimate Bartender Competition. After impressing a mixture of trade, media and cocktail enthusiasts, the trio will be running their own bar during London Cocktail Week, 6th - 12th October.
Through the gruelling stages of the competition, from taking on the twittersphere to presenting their concept and finally winning the tightly fought final, The Cowbell will be bringing a Glaswegian party vibe straight into the heart of Seven Dials. Monkey Shoulder's challenge wasn't about one drink and a 10 minute presentation, instead the brand turned competitions on their head and asked bartender's to create a concept that was more inclusive and more reflective of how real bars work where everyone has to pitch in. The request? To imagine and create their vision for the ultimate bar.
The Cowbell's bar will be based on the Saturday Night Live sketch, 'More Cowbell', which sees Will Ferrell play a rather eccentric '70s band member whose instrument is the cowbell. It's Christopher Walken, playing a famous producer, who defends Ferrell to his band mates, saying "I've got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell." The sketch is a long running joke between Stuart and Ervin, who laughingly say everything can be improved with more cowbell.
Promising fun in the form of cowbells, pallet tables, festoon lighting, the focus will be on the phenomenal line up of DJs as much as the cocktails. All Glaswegian natives, the musicians are helping out their fellow Scots, and names who usually sell out arenas will be playing to the 40 capacity bar to create a great atmosphere. As Stuart says, "it's not often in London you can find a bar with good drinks that isn't too serious and has killer tunes".
"It will be light hearted, Glaswegians aren't known for taking ourselves too seriously but it will draw attention to Monkey Shoulder and ourselves for the right reasons. Once we have people in the door, we are confident we can keep them," the team say.
As for the drinks, the bar will serve Scotch cocktails including the team's signature serve Berlusconi's Love Child, equal parts Monkey Shoulder, Amaro, Crème de Pèche. Why the name? Quoting from the menu: "3 times prime minister, father of 5, 2500 court appearances and lead instigator of many bunga bunga parties. This drink has a complex character."
Commenting on the competition, Monkey Shoulder UK brand ambassador Grant Neave said "The Ultimate Bartender Challenge is a competition about getting bartenders to work as a team... We wanted to support the next generation of bartenders and this is a fantastic way to give these up and comers their first major foray into bar ownership. The pop-up will showcase a team and idea that we, alongside industry mentors have deemed to representative of the best the UK has to offer. It's going to be exciting!"
The Cowbell on Monkey's Shoulder pop-up bar at London Cocktail Week can be found at 9 Shorts Gardens, London, WC2H 9AT.
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Reményi Gyenes István (eredeti neve: Gyenes István) (Kaposvár, 1909. február 24. – Budapest, 2001. május 28.) magyar újságíró, költő, író, műfordító, zenész.

Életpályája
Szülei Gyenes Izsó zenetanár (1874–1961) és Reményi Irén voltak. 1927–1945 között banktisztviselőként dolgozott, közben hivatásos zenész (hegedű, szaxofon) volt. 1945–1949 között a Fényszóró, a Képes Figyelő, az Esti Szabad Szó újságírója volt. 1949–1976 között az Autó-Motor olvasószerkesztője és rovatvezetője volt. 1952-től az Opera Canada című folyóirat tudósítója volt. 1976-ban nyugdíjba vonult.

Munkássága
Verseiből, sanzonjaiból irodalmi estek voltak az Irodalmi Színpadon, a rádióban, tv-ben, stb. Nagy francia költők – Louis Aragon, Jacques Prévert, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Gaucheron – megzenésített költeményeit, George Gershwin és egyéb világhírű dalok szövegeit fordította magyarra.

Színházi munkái
A Színházi Adattárban regisztrált bemutatóinak száma: szerzőként: 2, műfordítóként: 40, dalszövegíróként: 2.

Szerzőként
 Amikor Pest mesélni kezd (1961)
 'Hotel Varieté' (1964)

Műfordítóként
 Laurents: West Side Story (1969-1970, 1972, 1974, 1985, 1991)
 Sólem-Perl: Hegedűs a háztetőn (1973, 1985-1986, 1989-1990, 1992-1994, 1996-1997, 1999-2001, 2003-2006, 2008, 2010)
 Scserbakov: Nem bánok semmit sem! (Edith Piaf) (1974, 1977, 1983, 2002)
 Pataki Éva: Edith és Marlene (1986)
 Hamupipőke és még 11 híres mese; ford. Reményi Gyenes István; Tipegő, Bp., 1989
 Schubert-Horváth: Piaf Piaf (1998)
 Duró Győző: Párizs ege alatt (1999)

Dalszövegíróként
 Vidor Miklós: Gershwin-rapszódia (1987)
 Gems: Piaf (1995)

Művei

Musicalek
 West Side Story
 Nem bánok semmit sem
 Hegedűs a háztetőn
 Edith és Marlene
 Piaf

Könyvek
 Edith Piaf: Nem bánok semmit sem! (versillusztrációk, 1970, 1973)
 Granadától Segoviáig (irodalmi útinapló, 1972, 1974)
 Joséphine (Josephine Baker életrajza, 1980)
 Sanzonok hangján (versek, műfordítások, 1987)
 Ismerjük őket? Zsidó származású nevezetes magyarok arcképcsarnoka; Ex Libris, Bp., 1995
 Ismerjük őket? Zsidó származású nevezetes magyarok arcképcsarnoka; 2. jav., bőv. kiad.; Ex Libris, Bp., 1997
 Ismerjük őket? Zsidó származású nevezetes magyarok arcképcsarnoka; 3. átdolg., bőv. kiad.; Ex Libris, Bp., 2000

Közlekedési szakkönyvek
 A gépjárművezetők kötelességei és jogai (1952, 1955, 1959)
 Vezess baleset nélkül! (1952)
 Autósoknak, motorosoknak (1965)
 A közúti szabálysértések (1982)

Díjai, elismerései
 Aranytoll (1985)

Jegyzetek

Források
 Hermann Péter: Magyar és Nemzetközi Ki Kicsoda 1998 CD-ROM, Biográf Kiadó, Budapest, 1997

További információk
 [ Kortárs magyar írók]

Magyar írók
Magyar költők
Magyar újságírók
Magyar műfordítók
Magyar hegedűsök
Magyar szaxofonisták
Aranytoll díjasok
Kaposváriak
1909-ben született személyek
2001-ben elhunyt személyek

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It seems like yesterday when I left my parents home to the world of the unknown. I was so excited yet nervous at the same time because I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Fast forward, I find myself in the United States ..."The land of Milk and Honey", "The land of opportunity" so I thought and it is true depending on how you see it. What I missed was the fact that you have to work hard to be able to live or experience the life style.
I remember March 18, 1995 like it was yesterday. I said "I do" to the love of my life as we exchanged the vows with big smiles on our faces. None of us knew what we were getting ourselves into. At least I didn't because no body told me. I was just excited to be married and to tell you the truth, I am not sure what anybody said could have made any sense to me at that time anyways. What I didn't know was that I was entering into an outstanding and unending course that keeps changing its syllables every semester.
March 18, 2015 marks 20 years in this institution and I have not yet graduated. The journey has not been an easy one to say the least but I am grateful. Let me tell you Why.
My journey was long, sweet and painful at the same time. I failed the course several times, changed strategies, failed again but there was one thing I mastered very well and that is "The art of learning, growing and just not giving up despite all my failures". My journey bore me four wonderful and adorable kids and built me into the strong, vibrant and adorable woman that I am today. I belief women are a gift so are the men in their lives, if only we can recognize that. I appreciate my journey as well as appreciate every woman who has taken that big step to get into this wonderful institution called marriage. For some people, it is bitter sweet; for others it is a bliss. What ever the case might be, we all have a unique journey and must cherish it.
2015 did not only mark 20 years in marriage for me but the month of March 2015 was a turning point in my personal growth and development. Thanks to the input of a special friend and little sister, Emeldine King Pinyin, I attended a Tony Robbins event in New Jersey which just blew my mind. Taking a decision to walk on Fire gave me a different perspective of life. I thought the institution of marriage was hard and complicated but realized that everything in life is hard and complicated but the catch is you decide your "hard and complication". Never allow someone else to decide for you and this applies to everything else in life. I know my challenges are just beginning and I celebrate each and everyone of them.
It was nice having a quiet dinner with my husband at an exotic resort to celebrate our anniversary but I realized what was more important to me was my view of life today.
I am very grateful celebrating twenty years of marriage in my forties. Let me tell you why. If I messed up in the first twenty years, then I am going to top it off in the next twenty years. It is all about growth and how you embrace it because I have the belief that marriage is an institution of consistent and persistent growth. Thank you heavenly Father for giving me the strength and resistance to keep on keeping on. If you can take away anything from this write up, let it be this; Way forward, I strive never to think about what I don't have but to focus on what I do have and more importantly, what I am willing to do that others are not.


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