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Regent University
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Regent University is a large private university in Virginia that has an affiliation with the Christian Church. Pat Robertson founded the university in 1977 as the Christian Broadcasting Network University, which he named after the television network he ran. The university changed its name in 1990 to reflect the idea that its students are regents and committed to spreading the word of their faith and religious beliefs. Though Regent University only offered courses in communications during its early years, it later turned those programs into its School of Communication and the Arts after added more programs to its curriculum. Robertson continues working for the university and is now its chancellor.
The university created its own Center for Professional Studies to meet the needs of nontraditional students. Adult learners and students who work full-time can attend classes on weekends and weeknights. The university also has its own online campus and offers a number of programs that let students complete all their degree requirements online. The campus is also home to a luxury hotel and spa that lets students gain practical business experience while in school. Nearly 10,000 students attend Regent University, and nearly 1,000 of those students are nontraditional students.
Regent University Accreditation Details
Regent University has all the different types of accreditation that you should look for in a college. Not only does it have regional accreditation, but it also has program accreditation for certain programs that award degrees to students. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges granted Regent University regional accreditation, which means that the university can offer degrees at both the undergrad and graduate levels. It also has approval from the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The specialty accreditation it has applies to its programs in business, law, clinical psychology, counseling, theology and education. The groups that granted it specialty accreditation include:
Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs
Teacher Education Accreditation Council
Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs
Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools
Regent University Application Requirements
As Regent University has both a traditional campus and an online campus, you need to decide which one you want to attend before you apply. The university has different applications available for adult learners, transfer students, students who need a few credits and those who want to take college classes while in high school. You should select the application that best describes your current situation.
The university looks at factors like whether you have leadership experience, if you have a commitment to your education and whether you have any extracurricular interests. It also looks for those who completed a specialized type of curriculum in high school. This curriculum should include four years of literature or English classes and three years of math, science, social science and foreign language classes. The university recommends that students take algebra I and II as well as geometry before applying for admission.
You can request more information about a specific program before you apply, and you also have the option of speaking with an admissions counselor online, over the phone or in person too. University counselors can tell you what the school looks for and schedule a campus tour for you. The online application used by Regent University asks about your education background, the names, address and occupations of your parents and about your hobbies and interests. Once you finish the application, the university will ask for a test score from the ACT or SAT and a transcript from your high school before it will process your application.
You can take between 12 and 18 credit hours in a semester, which makes you a full-time student, for less than $8,000. Those taking a smaller number of credits pay $530 per credit hour. Regent University charges different rates based on the school you attend though. These rates are valid for those taking classes from the College of Arts and Sciences. Many of the other departments and colleges charge $650 per credit. You must also pay fees of around $300 to $350 each semester. Textbooks and other supplies cost extra.
Regent University awards more than $18 million in grants and scholarships every year to qualifying students. If you need financial aid, you must use the right school code on the FAFSA and file that form during the winter or spring before classes start. Grants and loans are both available for qualifying students from the state and federal government. The university has endowed scholarships that go to students who have more need than others. There are also a number of scholarships for students enrolling in specific departments. You can ask for a scholarship application and view the requirements of each scholarship program online.
Bachelor of Arts in History and Social Sciences Secondary Education
Some of the top programs offered by Regent University are available through its College of Arts and Sciences. Several of these programs are teacher education programs that prepare students for working as educators and help them meet the requirements for getting a teaching license in Virginia. These students complete a minimum of 123 credits. One of the more popular programs is a Bachelor of Arts in History and Social Sciences Secondary Education, which prepares students for working as teachers in middle and high schools.
Students must take 21 credits of history classes like western civilization, US history and the history of Virginia. You'll also take a class on research methods and how to think critically about the research done by others. Up to 18 of the credits you take will come from government classes, and the university requires that you take 16 credits of social sciences classes too. To ensure that you're ready for working with your future students, the university requires that you take at least 36 credits of professional studies classes too.
These classes include practicum courses as well as fieldwork courses. You can spend a semester or more working in a local school as a teacher. The university gives you one credit for the portfolio you create based on your work. Regent University also offers a course on education technology that shows you how to use new forms of technology in the future classes that you teach.


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Ayurveda is at an exciting stage in its development as a healthcare system in the U.S. We have a growing number of schools producing an exponential number of new graduates. Awareness of our profession is growing among the general public. With this growing awareness, we must all be cognizant of the importance of appropriate professional behavior. This can be a bit tricky as there is currently no licensure for the practice of Ayurveda. Our profession is at that awkward teenage-stage of development when it's sometimes unclear about what to say and how to behave.
All states have medical practice laws that prohibit the practice of medicine without a medical license. Fortunately, complementary alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners have worked diligently with their state legislators to pass health freedom acts in 10 states. These Acts exempt non-licensed practitioners from the violation of any licensing law related to health care services provided the practitioners comply with a list of things they can and cannot do. These requirements are relatively straightforward and compliance is not onerous. The specifics vary somewhat state-to-state, but they are all similar.
For example, an unlicensed practitioner cannot perform surgery, administer x-rays, prescribe pharmaceuticals or represent himself or herself as a doctor or physician. Regarding the must-dos, the unlicensed practitioner must advise their clients prior to providing services that they are not a licensed doctor, that their services are alternative or complementary to healing arts services, that their services are not licensed by the state, they also need to explain the theory upon which their services are based, and describe their education and training. Compliance is really quite simple.
Ayurvedic practitioners have a reasonable amount of latitude practicing in these states provided they structure their language in Ayurvedic terms. They can diagnose and treat Ayurvedically. There are some cautionary aspects, so practitioners must be familiar with the specifics of their state's health freedom act. Organizations formed to help pass these health freedom acts have helpful information interpreting the acts along with practitioner's compliance information and client document templates. Make use of these resources.
We must all be knowledgeable of the medical practice law in our respective states to practice Ayurveda legally. Simply do an online search for "[your state] medical practice act". Most of these laws are written in simple, common sense language.
Now… about those other 40 states. Ayurvedic practitioners in these remaining states have a more complicated task providing services. Some of these states' statutes provide a little leeway, but some are completely restrictive. The following excerpt is a good example of how restrictive statues can be, "any person who practices or attempts to practice… any system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted … or who diagnoses, treats, operates for, or prescribes for any ailment, blemish, deformity, disease, disfigurement, disorder, injury, or other physical or mental condition … without having a valid certificate… is guilty of a public offense". This statute clearly prohibits all forms of treatment by any system for any ailment. Operating outside the statute leaves the practitioner open to both civil and criminal charges up to and including felony charges. This reflects poorly on both the individual practitioner and our entire profession. Again, it is very important that you have read and understood your state's statutes.
All is not lost! You can practice Ayurveda in a non-health freedom state, but everything you do must be in terms of providing education. Your verbal and written communication and your actions must consistently demonstrate that you are acting as an educator, and as such, you are not practicing medicine without a license.
A service agreement is a good first step in establishing the educational nature of your services. All of the health freedom acts require a similar document. The service agreement demonstrates your intent to act as an educator. This is a document that defines the terms and conditions of your relationship with your client. It lists the parties involved – you and your client. It should specifically state that you are not a doctor, that you cannot legally diagnose or treat, and that you are only providing educational services. The payment terms and duration of the services you provide should be specified. Both you and the client sign this document.
Once you have stated your intent and signed the service agreement, you have to operate within the terms of the agreement. Do not diagnose or treat, not even using Ayurvedic terminology. Remember, as the above example illustrates, some state's statutes are globally prohibitive.
The next step is ensuring that your language does not slip into the realm of practicing medicine. To avoid this do not make any personally prescriptive recommendations or instructions to your client. Also, do not make any recommendations to treat a specific condition or issue, even if you are using Ayurvedic terminology. All communication and actions must be educational in nature and in no way be personally applicable to the client.
Clients seek healthcare services when they have a health issue. They come to the health practitioner with the expectation that they will be told what to do to resolve their issue. You cannot move into this personally prescriptive role, you must maintain the educational boundary between you and the client. It is appropriate to explain the legal issues and limitations and why you must communicate in this particular manner. Clients are obviously open to alternative healthcare, they have sought your services and they will be understanding and appreciative.
Special care should be given to any documents you provide to your clients. All documents should contain an educational disclaimer that states that the information is for educational purposes only and the information is not to be used as, used as a substitute for, or considered as a medical diagnosis, treatment or prescription. The disclaimer should also encourage your clients to consult a licensed health care professional before using any herbs or herbal products, before beginning any new exercise or health regime, and for any persistent problem or complaint.
What does this mean in day-to-day practice? How do you conduct a consultation? You can certainly assess a client. (Another nuance, do not use the word patient. You must not use any language or perform any actions that could imply the practice of medicine – so, client, not patient.) You can ask questions, prashna. You can ask your client to complete a health questionnaire that you provide and review it with the client. You can discuss the client's specific health concerns and goals. You can perform an exam. You can review all the information you have collected and then provide a factual report of findings of their prakruti and vikruti.
Now for the important part: You cannot make any recommendations that are personally applicable to the client. You would not want to say, for example, " Take Triphala to reduce Vata in your colon". This is a prescriptive recommendation personally applicable to the client. Your state's statues likely prohibit even this type of diagnosis and treatment.
What you can say in your report of findings is: "According to Ayurvedic theory, the symptoms you describe are typical of a person with elevated vata in the colon area. I also detect elevated vata in your colon pulse. The Ayurvedic formula, Triphala, has been classically used to support normal colon function".
What's the difference in these two statements? In the second statement, you have educated your client as to the Ayurvedic perspective of their symptoms. You have advised them that their vata is elevated. This is not diagnostic, only a descriptive fact. This is similar to reviewing a patient's laboratory test results and confirming to them that their cholesterol is 265, but you are not interpreting and evaluating this information by saying they have hyperlipidemia. The difference is factual statement vs. diagnosis. You have provided education about Ayurvedic herbology in a very specific manner. What you did not do is make a medical claim. A medical claim is stating "take this to fix that". Continuing with our cholesterol example above, saying "take guggulu to lower cholesterol" is a medical claim. Saying "classically Ayurveda has used guggulu to support normal liver function" is not a medical claim. Additionally, you did not make a personally prescriptive recommendation, only a correct factual statement.
You could even make the additional cautionary disclaimer, "I am not a doctor or a physician. I am not saying that you should personally take Triphala or guggulu, but should you decide they are appropriate for you, you may want to discuss this with your doctor before starting".
You do not instruct the client to do or change anything. You provide education that is relevant to their health concerns and goals. You make it clear that you are not making personal recommendations. Communicate to the client that it is their responsibility to decide if the education you have provided is applicable to them and that it is also their responsibility to decide if they take action based on that information. The essential aspect of practicing in this way is that you always act as an educator. You must be consistent in your verbal and written communications and your actions, and they must be educational in nature. Our first amendment right provides for the freedom of speech, which includes education. That said, you are providing services for payment, you are still liable for providing correct and accurate information.
While adapting one's language to be legally correct can be a bit tedious until it becomes a habit, it is straightforward. There are a number of phrases that you can incorporate to keep you in the educational realm. Phrases such as, "according to the classical teachings of Ayurveda" or "Ayurveda believes or recognizes" keeps the conversation educational and not personally instructive. You can also say, "what I would do for myself in similar circumstances is….". This is your personal opinion about yourself, you are not telling the client to take specific action.
Even if you do everything correctly, this does not mean that you are 100% insulated from investigation and potential legal action. This will only occur if someone files a complaint. If a complaint is filed, the appropriate agency is required to investigate. That does not mean the action has merit. If you have taken the proper precautions, you will be able to demonstrate consistent good intent of your role as an educator. Common sense goes a long way in avoiding conflict. If you have an unhappy client, immediately give them a complete refund and ask that they return the herbs, supplements and documents you supplied them. It is rare, but other practitioners sometimes file complaints. This is often due to jealously or the fear of losing revenue. There is nothing that can be done to avoid this besides maintaining good relationships with fellow practitioners.
One last issue that often arises is the question of providing hands-on therapies such as abhyanga. Ayurveda certainly recognizes abhyanga as distinct and unique from massage. But to the non-Ayurvedic observer, abhyanga and massage appear to be the same thing. While one could attempt to argue that the client is being educated about abhyanga by the demonstration of receiving abhyanga, the counter argument is that the practitioner should be affiliated with a licensed massage school. To practice Ayuvedic bodywork safely, one should either have a license that allows for touch, or work legally under the supervision of a licensed healthcare practitioner. It is certainly acceptable for the practitioner to demonstrate self-abhyanga to their client.
Our profession is growing. This is the result of the actions of practitioners who came before us. We all have the responsibility to continue this tradition by practicing both legally and ethically. The intent of this article is to raise awareness of the importance of practicing legally. This article is much too brief to cover all legal aspects as each practice is unique with its different types of services offered and areas of specialty. Take the time to become knowledgeable about your state's statues and how they apply to you. If you have any questions or concerns, retain a knowledgeable attorney for an hour's consult. This will allow you to confidently operate your practice within your area of expertise compliant with all legal requirements.
Jeff Turner operates Living Ayurveda, an integrated health clinic in Monterey, CA specializing in advanced chronic diseases and panchakarma. He is an author and an Ayurvedic educator teaching at various Ayurvedic schools in the U.S. and the California State University system. He has been actively involved with Ayurvedic legal and licensing issues since NAMA's inception.
Legal Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered to be legal advice. This article may contain links to other resources on the Internet. These links are provided as citations and aids to help you identify and locate other Internet resources that may be of interest, and are not intended to state or imply that the National Ayurvedic Medical Association or the principal author recommends, supports, sponsors, or is in any way affiliated or associated with any person or entity associated with those links, or is legally authorized to use any trade name, registered trademark, logo, legal or official seal, or copyrighted symbol that may be reflected in the links.


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To make a long story short – I was laid off from the corporate job I had when I used to run this blog. Although I worked at that job full time it still allowed me to post consistently. When I was let go, so many things in life at the time just got kind of crazy and my little blog here was forgotten. Things haven't slowed down in the least, but I've been thinking more and more about this blog and decided to give it another go!
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About Classmate SpellBee Competition
Classmate SpellBee Competition- Season 10 is a spelling competition for students from Class 5 to 9. The spellBee competition is an 'Initiative by Radio Mirchi' across 30 cities in India.In 2016, more than 800 schools and more than 2,75,000 students participated in the contest. The Classmate SpellBee 2018 Competition will test the spelling quotient of the students and helps in transforming the students into being competitive, challenging and inculcates a spirit of good sportsmanship towards spellings.
Classmate SpellBee contest will engage in a variety of methods to test the students on spellings, offering the perfect pronunciations and supplying the etymological meaning of each word. In this competition, the student has to self-learn, which invariably improves retention power of students and it assists the students in being confident and reaches their maximum potential.
Classmate SpellBee 2018 Competition Dates
Levels Dates
Level 1 Participation Second week of February 2018
Level 2: City Finals 22 to 25 February 2018
Level 3: Semi Finals 9 & 10 March 2018
Level 4: National Finals (Mumbai) 16 to 19 March 2018
Telecast of National Finals on TV Last week of April 2018
Subscribe for Regular Updates of Classmate SpellBee Competition
Classmate SpellBee Competition Eligibility Criteria
Gender Boys & Girls Both
Region All India
Class/ Age
Class 5 to 9,
Classmate SpellBee Competition Reward
Grand Prize Winner: National Champion of Classmate SpellBee winner will be awarded a grand prize of Rs. 2,00,000. The grand prize winner will also avail an all-expense paid trip along with a parent to witness the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. in 2018.
Semifinalists: Four semi-finalists will win a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 each
Top 16 participants: Get to showcase their skills on National Television i.e. on The Discovery Channel, Discover Kids & Discovery Tamil.
Grand Prize Rs. 2,00,000
Semifinalists Rs. 50,000
Classmate SpellBee Competition Application form and Process
The student will have to immediately take the online test for Classmate SpellBee Competition without leaving the website after registration. The candidates must follow the given steps while registration:
Fill in the complete registration form.
Register: The registration should be done by parents/guardians of the participant.
Username and password will be generated by the website.
The username will be the email id entered on the registration form.
Password will be an alpha-numeric code generated automatically
After registration, a code would be generated
Now the candidates have to log in on the Website using their username and password.
Now the candidates have to Take the Online test to participate in the online version of the Classmate SpellBee 2018.
Test results of the online Contest will be communicated to the shortlisted participants
What Type of Test would be conducted for Spell Bee?
An MCQ format (Multiple Choice Question) written test will be conducted for students in standards 5– 9 in the schools that classmate physically conducts their tests.
Practice for Classmate SpellBee 2018 >> Take the mock test
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Classmate SpellBee Competition Selection Process
Classmate SpellBee Competition Selection Process will be based on the following Criteria:
The competition will be held at 4 levels.
The competition starts with tests conducted in schools, followed by an online City Final round, subsequently followed by two rigorous Semi-Final rounds and finally culminates into an exciting televised national level championship.
If a participant belongs to a city that is not part of SpellBee's Level 1, he/she can participate by taking the Level 1 online test by choosing his/ her preferred city for participation in Level 3 (if he/she qualifies for the same after Level 1 and Level 2).
School Level
The School Contact Program
An MCQ format (Multiple Choice Question) written test will be conducted for students of class 5-9 in selected schools.
Students will be asked to fill in some mandatory information about them for all future correspondence. They will be asked to select the correct spellings of 75 words given to each one of them.
Top scorers from every school will make it to Level 2 (City Finals) of the competition.
Level 1 is completed in the second week of February 2018.
Level 1: Online Test
Classmate SpellBee makes it possible for every eligible student in India to take the test in Level 1 by taking an online test to 30 cities.
Top scorers from the online test will also be invited to Level 2 of the competition.
Level 1 online test will be an MCQ based test of 75 words of 10 minutes.
Level 2: City Finals
Level 2 participants will be determined by shortlisting students from Level 1 only.
Students can qualify for Level 2 either by participating in the online Level 1 test or by participating in the school level test.
If a student has applied via both Online & through school then the score obtained through school would be considered for shortlisting the student for Level 2.
The shortlisted students will be intimated by Radio Mirchi via the school coordinator or via telephonic communication.In each city, all the winners from all schools will compete together in an online test to be held on pre-decided dates.
The date and time for the same will be communicated to the students in advance.
There will be MCQ test of 75 words for 7.5 minutes.
Level 2 will be held on 22 to 25 February 2018.
Level 3: Semi Finals
Shortlisted students from the City Finals will be invited to participate at pre-decided locations on pre-decided dates to take part in the Semi-Finals. The Semi-Finals have 2 rounds mentioned below:
Round 1 is an online MCQ format time bound test of 10 minutes with 60 words. The top 10 scorers from this round progress to Round 2 of the Semi-Finals.
Round 2 is an online MCQ format time bound test of 10 minutes with 45 words. The students with the top 16 scores across the country from this round qualify for Level 4, the National Finals.
Level 3 will be held on 9 & 10 March 2018.
Level 4: National Finals to be telecasted on Television
Round 1: The 16 students are divided into groups of 4 each.
Round 2: The winners from each of the four groups compete in The Grand Finale. The winner of this round will be declared as Classmate SpellBee National Champion Season 10
Level four will be held on 16 to 19 March 2018.
Level four will be telecasted on Television tentatively in the last week of April 2018.
Classmate Spell Bee Result - Check Here
The result for the Classmate Spell Bee competition will be announced in the second week of March 2018. Last year the result has been announced on 14 March 2017 and the student of Class 9 of Shri Shikshayatan School, Kolkata named "Pratyasha Nath" has won the national championship whereas, the Aaman Ahmed of class 9 of St. Michael's School, Siliguri was the first runner-up.
The actress Soha Ali Khan announced the name of the winner and Paige Kimbley, the executive director, Scripps National Spelling Bee, said that "It was quite interesting to see the enthusiasm in the young spellers and the quality of participation."
The schools received massive participation in the initial phase and on ground exercise. The top 15 spellers from each school then competed in the finals of the online city. The top performers from the city finals then competed in the semi-finals. From there the top 16 students from across India went on to battle it out in the televised national finals.
Classmate SpellBee Competition Contact Details
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A – Wing, Senapati Bapat Marg,
Lower Parel (West), Mumbai – 400013
Phone: +91 93776 11611 , +91 955 455 9944
E-Mail: info@classmatespellbee.in
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Childhood obesity warrants special attention because the damage caused by being overweight is far greater to a child's body than it is to a person who gained weight as an adult. The stress to internal organs is extensive and sometimes irreversible.
Being overweight or obese also increases the risk for several chronic diseases, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, strokes and some cancers.
In the last decade obesity levels in the population doubled.
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La revue Quasimodo pluridisciplinaire, paraît en France depuis 1996 à raison d'un numéro par an, et publie des volumes thématiques autour de l'analyse socio-politique du corps.

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La revue Quasimodo propose une analyse des politiques du corps à travers des contributions de chercheurs de différentes disciplines (philosophes, historiens, journalistes, psychologues ou sociologues). Il s'agit d'étudier comment s'effectue l'incorporation des normes, valeurs et idéologies dominantes ; les inégalités corporelles (face à la santé, à la mort, au sexe, etc.) ; l'étude des institutions et des rites de modelage du corps. Des numéros ont été consacrés au corps dans le sport, aux marquages corporels, au corps de l'étranger, aux corps « en guerre », aux corps incarcérés, etc.

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Korea, Corea, and Linguistic/Nationalist Pride
Earlier today, I was looking at some websites (not just one) and noticed some people using (and in some cases insisting on others using) a spelling of Korea that begins with a "C".
The common reasoning, which I've encountered a few times since arriving, is that the country was, until the arrival of the Japanese, known as "Corea." The anti-Japanese urban legend is that during the colonial era, the Japanese shifted the spelling to "Corea" in order to ensure that all of their subjugated colonies appeared after them in alphabetical order.
One wonders, mind you, what they would have done to the English spelling of China if their colonial ambitions had gone farther than they did. But I've never thought to ask a Korean conspiracy theorist that, mind you. There may be a stock response to that question too.
Yes, there are Koreans who actually believe this.
After all, I'm told that in school there is a significant amount of anti-Japanese rhetoric, even now. It hasn't been uncommon for me to hear people saying things of their parents of siblings like, "She hates Americans as much as she hates the Japanese," or, in one case, even something as insane as, "The Japanese brought hot peppers to Korea to try make us all sick. They didn't know we would like spicy food, or that it would make us stronger."
(As an aside: it sometimes takes the wind out of some of my students' sails when I tell them that the hottest Indian food I've eaten is much spicier than the hottest Korean food, and that at this point I barely find Korean food spicy at all. Then again, some people are very reasonable about this… when I mentioned it to a group of older men in a restaurant who were marveling at my ability to eat kimchi, they seemed quite intrigued and asked me many questions about it. Sure, they seemed a little incredulous that some foreign food could be hotter than theirs, and that some white guy was claiming he could eat that hotter stuff, but I think in the end they believed me. After all, I was eating a kimchi stew right before their very eyes.)
In any case, this morning I decided that I'd seen this enough and needed to find out the truth of the matter. I mean, sometimes the crazy stories you hear are true. But it seemed to me like just more Japan-bashing and so I decided to see for myself whether the claim was unfounded.
And it seems that it was.
A lot of the story can be found here [link dead, see cached version]. Mind you, the link to the Korean postal service isn't working, so the main bit of evidence, the Korean-issued pre-colonial stamps, cannot be viewed right now. But that's a problem with the site itself: none of the archives seem to be viewable at the moment.
Still, if it is documentable, I'd say that the date argument pretty much proves it. If, by chance, the nation does by majority decide to change the country's name, cool, but to make a silly claim about the Japanese is just ridiculous. And a K spelling seems more conventional in English, and is the world standard now. And since it's not the Japanese, but simply world convention, why change it? It's just cheap, fake politics. And an effective distraction from the real politics that matter in Korea, which are domestic and mainly economic/environmental, in my opinion.
The discussion here is illuminating in that it shows just how emotional (read: unreasonable) people can become over the issue, by the way. Either this is historical fact or not, and if someone really wants to know, the truth can be known. It's also a fact that the Japanese colonization of Korea was absolutely devastating and a terrible period in their history. But this doesn't make false claims true, and doesn't make every bad thing you hear about the Japanese into a fact.
Another example I found interesting, and backed off from very quickly, was the question of translated sayings. In one of my classes when we were talking about pet peeves and bad roommates, a student asked me, "How do you say a fenced-area where a pig lives?" I laughed and told her, "pig pen" and, then, before she asked me, confirmed that yes, this was a way to describe a dirty room in English as well. She was shocked, and I suggested the saying in Korean may have come from English, or from an earlier shared source. (it's possible that the saying dates back as far as the domestication of pigs, but you can be sure whoever did that was speaking neither English nor Korean).
She looked at me with dismay written large on her face, and asked, "Why couldn't it have become an English saying from the original Korean?"
Think about this question for a moment. Since many years before English and Korean languages entered the same contiugous linguistic space — in other words, before there was a time when someone spoke both English and Korean — English had become a widely spoken, diverse language that was completely out of touch with Asian languages in general. Even today, the relative speaking populations of English and Korean languages are respectively massive and miniscule.
Does it look likely that a widely used word in English came originally from an idiom in Korean? Does that seem reasonably possible?
Well, of course it's reasonably possible. The racial slur "gook" to mean "Asian" comes from Korean, doesn't it? I've heard that Koreans approached American soldiers during the Korean War, saying, "Miguk! Miguk!" (America! America!) and the American soldiers thought they were saying, in broken English, "Me gook! Me gook!"
"Yeah, yeah, buddy, okay. You're a gook. Fine," one of my friends imagined a soldier saying. Strange. (UPDATE: Yeah, not so much. The word seems to have come from soldiers back in the late 1800s, who were on contact with the Philippines, and it's apparently tied to native prostitutes.)
There's the word "amok", a Malaysian word that's in wide usage in English (though in a different way than Malasyians use it, I learned when I discovered the word's origins at a film called The Big Durian, which I saw at the Jeonju International Film Festival this year). Words do pass from peripheral languages into lingua franca.
But, as I told my students, I am hearkened back to the day one of my students asked me if I knew the Korean story of the turtle and the rabbit who had a race.
me: That's not a Korean story.
student: Yes it is!
me: You're joking.
student: No. There's a really fast rabbit and a…
me: … really slow turtle and they have a race one day and the rabbit runs very fast until he's sure he will win. Then he takes a nap under a tree.
student: Yes, and… (incredulous look)
me: … and the turtle keeps going, slowly, and passes the rabbit, and wins the race. That's where we get the saying in English, 'Slow and steady wins the race.'
student: Wow! I didn't know this Korean story is so well known.
me: It's not Korean. It's a fable by Aesop. It was written in Greek. Something like two thousand five hundred years ago.
student: Wow! That's amazing! How did he come to Korea that long ago?
me: Well, you see, he didn't. It's not a Korean story!
student: Hmmm. Are you sure?
Sometimes, it seems to me, natonalism and pride in one's country is a good thing. But sometimes it seems to me it can be so absolutely blinding. The people who've said these things to me are not, regardless of what you may imagine, stupid. Some of them are quite intelligent people… when it comes to all kinds of other subjects. But bring up Japan, or the significance of the Korean language in the world context, and some people suddenly can't seem to think straight.
Makes me think of the student who once said she fondly awaited the day when Korea is reunited and the Korean army conquers enough of the world that, instead of Koreans studying English, foreigners would study Korean.
Two things occurred to me then:
It's not impossible, but don't hold your breath. England was a backwater about 2000 years ago too, but it was a long and chancey climb to being a world power, and
Maybe then they'll develop some decent textbooks, hey?
But this same person figured that Korea was going to be economically stronger immediately after reunification. I guess she'd never thought about it, or compared the situation with somewhere like Germany. (Which, I think, at the time when Germany reunited, wasn't anywhere near as badly off as North Korea seems to be now.)
I was glad I didn't have to try talk sense into her; her classmates decided to attempt that. It was an amusing scene, to say the least.
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Pope: 'I don't know how to use the internet'
Pope Francis arrives at the Basilica of Sant'Anselmo on Wednesday. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP
The 81-year-old Pope Francis admitted on Saturday that he struggles with modern technology.
"I don't know how to use online networks and that kind of thing, not even mobile phones, I don't have one," he told his audience.
"I don't know how to use the internet. When I have to send an email I write it by hand and a secretary sends it for me," he added.
Pope Francis also joked on Saturday that he is on the "waiting list" for sainthood, along with his retired predecessor Benedict XVI.
Pope Paul VI, a great reformer of the Roman Catholic church who died in 1978, will be made a saint this year, Francis said during a meeting with clergy in Rome.
"As for Benedict XVI and myself, we're on the waiting list," the Argentinian pontiff said.
Those who have already left that waiting room include Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, already both saints.
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If the measures are approved, local lawmakers would join other counties and continue to try and generate momentum for secession. Already, four counties – Glenn, Modoc, Siskiyou, and Yuba – have voted to join the effort, while others are waiting for the results in Del Norte and Tehama before taking action.
As noted by the Associated Press, as many as 16 counties in northern California could potentially join the movement, though official secession would require approval by the state legislature as well as the US Congress. If they all decide to seek separation, the counties would make up about a quarter of California's territory.
Despite their size, however, the disgruntled counties only contain a small percentage of California's inhabitants – Del Norte, for example, is home to just 28,000 of the state's 38 million-strong population. Fed up with the way California allocates representatives – lawmakers are delegated based on population – secession supporter and organizer Aaron Funk sees the ballot as a way forward.
"We have 11 counties up here that share one state senator," he told the AP, noting that the greater Los Angeles area and San Francisco Bay have far more. "Essentially, we have no representation whatsoever."
The measure faces opposition, however, from groups who worry about how Jefferson would be able to support itself financially, especially since many of its residents are poor and unemployed. California already supplies most of the funding for infrastructure and education, and most of the large swathes of land are owned by the federal government – something that would remain the same even if Jefferson were to become a state.
Meanwhile, Ethan Rarick of the University of California, Berkeley, noted that problems with representation wouldn't stop with the establishment of Jefferson, either.
Although supporters of secession haven't presented detailed plans regarding Jefferson's ability to sustain itself, provide health care, education, and other social services, Funk and others state they would eliminate regulations and other state agencies in an attempt to attract businesses.
"We have the water, forests, timber, we have the minerals. We have unspoiled agricultural land," added Funk to the AP. "We would be the wealthy state if we were allowed to go back and use our natural resources ourselves."
Still, the explanations don't add up for opposing groups in Del Norte, who fear that approving a measure that calls for secession would simply result in lawmakers using their time debating the creation of Jefferson instead of fixing real problems.
"It's a lot of broad promises about things being better and representation being better," Kevin Hendrick, who is leading the opposition in Del Norte, said to the AP. "But the more they talk, the less clear it becomes about how that's actually going to happen."


This coming Saturday's Really Really Free Market will follow hot on the heels of Halloween. That's why it will feature the Haunted Gazebo and Ballot Box Piñata—representative democracy is getting scarier by the day! But Saturday is also the Day of the Dead—so RRFM participants will also be setting up a small memorial to Loukanikos, the world-famous "riot dog" of Athens, Greece who recently passed away.
From 2008 to 2012, Greece experienced massive protests against capitalist austerity programs. Loukanikos, a street dog living in downtown Athens, was always at the forefront of these clashes, taking the side of demonstrators against the riot police. Undaunted by tear gas, loyal to friends and comrades even in the face of rubber bullets and concussion grenades, he set an example of cross-species solidarity—showing that the struggle against authoritarian governments and economic frameworks is of pressing concern not only to humans but to all life on earth. It's not strange, after all, that man's best friend would be capitalism's worst enemy!
The memorial will present photographs of Loukanikos in action, including a slideshow of important events from his life. In the spirit of the Really Really Free Market, we will also freely distribute pins bearing his likeness. From Athens, Greece to Carrboro, NC, may our resistance be as transnational as capital!
In other news, don't miss the encore appearance this Saturday of Fed Up!—a new group determined to provide free gourmet meals at all the Triangle Area's Really Really Free Markets!


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#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

class AccessLevel {
    public:
        string canAccess(vector<int> rights, int minPermission) {
            if (rights.size() > 50 || rights.empty())
                return "";

            string hasPermission(rights.size(), 'D');

            for (int i = 0; i < rights.size(); i++)
                if (rights.at(i) >= minPermission)
                    hasPermission[i] = 'A';

            return hasPermission;
        }
};

/*
 * Test Case
 * rights : {0,1,2,3,4,5}
 * minPermisstion : 2
 */
int main(void)
{
    int rightsArray[] = {0,1,2,3,4,5};
    unsigned int sizeofArray = (sizeof(rightsArray)/sizeof(rightsArray[0]));
    vector<int> rights;

    for (int i = 0; i < sizeofArray; i++)
        rights.push_back(rightsArray[i]);

    int minPerm = 2;
    AccessLevel al;

    cout << al.canAccess(rights, minPerm) << endl;

    return 0;
}

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ATLANTA - When Evander Holyfield first began boxing professionally, someone asked how long he planned to trade punches. He thought 28 sounded like a reasonable age to hang up the gloves, so he went with that.
Of course, here he is now, more than a decade and a half beyond his retirement goal - still stepping into the ring, still striving to be the undisputed heavyweight champion before they count him out for good.
"I realized that 28 is not as old as I thought it was," Holyfield said with a chuckle during a phone interview from his Texas training base. "I fought George (Foreman) when I was 29 and George was 42. I kind of thought, 'Shoot, man, I'll definitely be gone by that time. That would be real old.' Well, now I'm 44, and I don't think it's old at all."
Indeed, Holyfield is getting ready to step in the ring again Saturday night in El Paso, Texas, to face another geriatric heavyweight, 41-year-old former contender Lou Savarese.
If the "Real Deal" passes the fourth test in his carefully scripted swan song, he hopes to land another title shot against one of the myriad champs in the muddled division. Within two years, he says, he'll have all the belts around his waist and surpass Foreman as the oldest heavyweight champ ever.
Then, and only then, will Holyfield walk away from the sport, content that he accomplished everything he set out to do in a career that will go down as one of the greatest in boxing history, no matter how the final chapter plays out.
"My momma always said, 'Son, some people may know more than you. Some people may be stronger than you at certain things. But when it comes down to working, it's up to you to let someone outwork you,'" Holyfield recalled. "That's something that always stuck with me. It's up to me to work hard."
Plenty of people worry that Holyfield might be paying too high a price for what seems an improbable goal: reuniting all the heavyweight belts around his still-narrow waist, at an age when most boxers have long since retired.
Still, he can't escape his past. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the infamous rematch with Mike Tyson, who was disqualified for biting off a chunk of Holyfield's right ear.
"I made $35 million that night," Holyfield recalled. "People ask me if I was mad. Why be mad. I wish he had bitten the other one for another $35 million."
Joking aside, he harbors no animosity toward Tyson for his reprehensible conduct in that fight, even though Holyfield is reminded of it every time he looks in the mirror and sees the jagged edge of his ear.
"I was still the champion. It's not like he took the belt away from me," Holyfield said. "And I left people with something to think about when I forgave him."


First Bonsai - Need guidance !
Having admired Bonsai for many years now, I finally decided to take it myself and finally purchased a Ficus Panda from a local nursery along with the necessary supplies. I have been reading up a lot of material and still am a rookie and have many questions. All the beginner videos show partly or fully developed plants being potted in a Bonsai pot. In my case, the plant which I plan to create a Bonsai is a 12 Cm's/30 Inches tall including the pot.
1. Is the plant developed enough to be potted or should I wait for it to develop some more?
2. If the plant needs to still develop some more before it can be potted, should I transfer the plant to a bigger pot or in the ground and then transfer it to the Bonsai pot?
Any inputs are much appreciated and will help me kick off my first Bonsai project.


Department of Orthodontia and Propedeutics of Prosthetic Dentistrywas founded in 1982.
Head of the Department – Honorary Scientist and Technician of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Petro Semenovych Flis.
Clinical base – Stomatological medical center of NMU named after O.O.Bogomolets (Zoologichna str., 1).
The Department has 5 equipped propaedeutical rooms, 6 clinical rooms with 35 modern dental units.
Staff of the Department: 6 Associate Professors, 11 Assistants, 4 Senior Laboratory Assistants.
The Department includes the Section of Orthodontia and Propedeutics of Prosthetic Dentistry – 10 doctors and 20 dental technicians.


Two bees in this flower!
Not sure we have ever seen so many bees in the Garden at one time! They were on and in everything! As Pat said "They are drunk on the nectar!". They looked really drowsy and were falling asleep in the huge flowers of the butternut squash. Three or four in each flower!
Also today we plaited the onions together to dry out in the polytunnel before use.


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spring-social-tencent-weibo
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## Description
This project is an Spring Social extension for tencent-weibo. Currently, only basic operations are supported:

 - User: get profile by id or username
 - Tweet: add, add_pic, reply and comment
 - Friend: get friend list

If you are using this project, you should probably consider to read the term of use of Weibo

## Installation
Getting started In order to get started with spring-social-tencent-weibo, you have to follow only 3 simple steps.

Step 1: Get the code from GitHub

git clone --recursive git://github.com/avidoggy/spring-social-tencent-weibo.git

Step 2: Use Maven to build project

cd spring-social-tencent-weibo mvn clean install

Step 3: Add spring-social-tencent-weibo as a Maven dependency
### Maven
```xml
<dependency>
    <groupId>studio.bitcat</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-social-tencent-weibo</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1-SNAPSHOT </version>
</dependency>
```

## License
This project is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.


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The Gut Worm You Want to Get
By Fenella SaundersSeptember 1, 2003 5:00 AM
Roboticists from the Sant'Anna School of University Studies in Italy and the Intelligent Microsystem Center in South Korea have invented a way to make colonoscopies a lot less gut-wrenching. Doctors normally use tiny cameras attached to stiff cables to view the bowels while removing polyps, fixing ulcers, or performing other surgeries. All the poking and prodding needed to guide the camera can lead to considerable pain for the patient, however. So Arianna Menciassi of Sant'Anna and her colleagues have come up with a self-propelled robotic device (above), up to 71/2 inches long and three-quarters of an inch wide, that crawls along the colon like an inchworm. The head can swivel to follow the body's contours and to provide 180-degree views from a front-mounted video camera. Unlike cable-mounted cameras, which require delicate manipulation, the robot is controlled by a simple joystick. "Physicians don't need to know special procedures or special positions of their hands; they just need to drive the system like a video game," Menciassi says. Tests on cadavers show that the device works as well as a standard colonoscope for peering inside the lower intestine. Menciassi aims to have her device in clinical trials within two years.
Photograph courtesy of Arianna Menciassi.
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My background is in textiles, and I worked as a production weaver for many years. The metaphors in weaving - of rhythms and interconnectedness and the strength that comes from many united as one - continue to manifest in my work. I completed my MFA in 3D Fine Arts at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2018, and my BA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in 2015.
I work with materials that appear to contradict or resist one another: fabric and paper combined with wire, iron, plaster, for example.
I reject the term "found object" as it relates to my work. This term implies haphazardness and chance, but the pre-existing objects I use - lipsticks, pins, clothing, etc - are carefully and intentionally sourced. So I use the term "sourced objects" when referring to such.
I work in both 2 and 3 dimensional formats. I find I work best when I can shift back and forth from one work-in-progress to another. It helps with my thought process. Paintings are often inspired by the research and investigations that happen while conceptualizing 3 dimensional work, and vise versa.
I am interested in storytelling traditions; in the feminine experience in society and nature; the history of objects and buildings; in ancestry; and the juxtaposition of materiality and spirituality.


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The men's individual compound competition in archery at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games will held from 15 to 18 August at the Saraçoğlu Sport Complex  in Konya.

Qualification round
Results after 72 arrows.

Final round

Elimination round
Source:

Top half

Bottom half

References

Men's individual compound


Kerala is seeing lot of political dramas in past several weeks with campaigns related to By-elections at Chengannur assembly constituency. Chengannur election result 2018 Live coverage will be made by Kerala news television channels. LDF candidate Saji Cheriyan has 67303 votes. UDF candidate D Vijayakumar has 46347 votes and BJP candidate PS Sreedharan Pillai has 35270 votes.
Which are best channels in Malayalam that can be depended for getting unbiased news about Kerala politics and elections. On 31st May 2018 counting of votes at polling booths in Chengannur will be done by Election Commission of Kerala. Winner of Chengannur by-elections 2018 will be announced on 31-5-18.
Will it be a victory for UDF, LDF or surprise win by BJP at Chengannur is most awaited by everyone. Lot of Malayalam news channels will be giving live coverage of election results at Chengannur on 31/5/2018 from morning 7.30 am. In 2018 by-elections there was 6479 votes more than past elections in Chengannur which gives confidence to all political parties.
Counting of votes will begin from 8 am on Thursday, 31 May 2018 and results will be completely know by 9.30 am. There are many types of exit polls, predictions coming out regarding outcome of results at Chengannur. One among them is CES Post poll survey which claims that LDF candidate Saji Cherian will be making a victory with 7000 to 10000 votes lead.
There will be Live streaming telecast by news channels through Television sets and through their official Youtube channels.
Asianet news is always in top positions when it comes to Kerala elections news updates.
Malayalam TV channels that will be giving live news updates from polling booths will be as follows.
UDF candidate D Vijayakumar will have more chances to win in By elections 2018 conducted at Chengannur due to present political situations.


Our music video for Reaganometry's amazing 8-minute Endangered Love Suite is now finished. When Butch Webster of Insect Records approached us about creating this video, the only cues he gave were the colors red and blue, water, and a woman's face. Listening to the song over and over and thinking about endangered love, we kept thinking of beautiful Marilyn, so gorgeous, so misunderstood, so smart, and wrapped up in all kinds of endangered love, while being so endangered herself.
If you've never read her letter to her psychiatrist about her stay in a psychiatric hospital, you should, as its a beautiful and intense look into an incredible woman who was so, so fragile. The first time I read it, I cried, her pain and confusion so apparent and real with every sentence. Read it here.
I don't know quite why.
We tried to show everything from that vulnerability and pain in this video, to her beauty and charm, and even the moments where it all falls apart and you can see that she is lightyears away, be it from the drugs, or depression, or sleep exhaustion, or what have you. Endangered, indeed. Because of her own beauty, and the world loving her and cursing her all at the same time.
This video was created as a lead up to the release of the new Reaganometry and Butcher Bear record, coming out on Insect Records in April.
Thanks for watching and we hope you've enjoyed our latest video projects as much as we enjoyed making them. We're trying to work on more videos in 2013 and it seems that so far we're off to a good start. Expect more. Much, much more.


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class RenderReducer {

    static _initialState = {
        isServerSide: true,
    };

    static reducer(state = RenderReducer._initialState, action) {
        return state;
    }

}

export default RenderReducer;


This is another quick and easy dish, one that combines very well with meat, tofu, or other vegetables like long beans (长豆角, zhǎng dòujiǎo) or mushrooms. Sometimes chefs will add some sugar to bitter melon to offset it's native bitterness. This recipe gets some sweetness from yellow peppers so no additional sugar is needed.
Bitter melon (苦瓜, kǔguā) is a wonderful vegetable. In my last bitter melon recipe, which you can find here, I mentioned that I'd never seen it in a Western grocery before. Well, the world is shrinking, and I think that's a good thing. I found bitter melon today at a local Western grocery chain in Chicago. Unfortunately, the cashier didn't recognize the vegetable and so she couldn't give me a price. We searched her catalog under bitter melon, Chinese bitter melon, Chinese melon, and a few other permutations. It turns out it was listed in her book as "Indian bitter gourd," also known as karela, which like bitter melon is also Mormordica charantia, but is a different cultivar than what one finds in China. Karela ("Indian bitter gourd") is shorter and has a darker green color and a wrinklier texture, while Chinese bitter melon (苦瓜, kǔguā) is lighter in color, smoother, and can be up to a foot long. Both are presumably tasty. This recipe calls for the Chinese variety.
Bitter melon, of course, is bitter, so be ready for that if this is your first time trying it. The bitterness is actually very pleasant and goes really well with contrasting tastes. The taste can be cut by parboiling the slices for a minute or two, or by adding sugar or something sweet to the dish – in this case, the yellow peppers.
Stir fry for a few minutes, long enough for the vegetables to get hot but not long enough for them to get soft.
And that's about it. This is another TastyAsia signature "simple" recipe, meaning it will be finished in the time it takes to cook rice. I had it tonight with red-braised pork belly and a soy sauce egg, and everything went really well together.
Heat your wok on medium heat until hot but not smoking. Then add 2 Tbsp peanut oil and swirl it around. Add the vegetables (#1, #2) and stir-fry for about 4 minutes, until heated through and gently cooked, but not softened.
Serve with rice and contrasting dishes.
VARIATIONS: The pepper is in this recipe to add sweetness. If you like, you can omit the pepper and instead add 1 tsp sugar to the wok as the bitter melon is cooking. You can also add other vegetables for fun and variety, such as 1/2 cup parboiled carrot slices, a cup of parboiled cauliflower, or just about anything else. Salting the bitter melon is optional; if you want to skip that step, add 1/2 tsp salt or 1 Tbsp soy sauce to the wok.
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There is a new collection of compassionate and patient interviews by Deborah Shepard entitled Her Life's Work: Conversations with Five New Zealand Women, published by Auckland University Press (NZ$45). Her Life's Work explores how five prominent female artists have successfully maintained the centrality of their passion for their art with the duties of motherhood and marriage. Filmmaker Gaylene Preston, teacher and translator Merimeri Penfold, writer Margaret Mahy, painter Jaqueline Fahey, and anthropologist and writer Anne Salmond are the subjects of Shepard's project, answering her questions with charm and candour. While the interviews create a chronological portrait of each woman's life, delving painstakingly into memories of childhood and family history, eventually arriving at contemporary concerns and projects, the strength of this collection lies in Shepard's focused and cogent introduction.
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