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The 2010-2011 academic year has been one of impressive achievements.
Our core sponsored research continued at a very high level. In fiscal year 2010, total sponsored research support grew 18 percent, excluding additional ARRA funding, and for the first time in our history exceeded $400 million. Through March, 31, 2011, the first nine months of this academic year, $283 million in research funding was generated.
Normalized for faculty size, this meant that in FY09, the most recent year for which we have data, the University of Rochester ranked eighth nationally in federal research funding.
A significant measure of University progress involves undergraduate applications to the College, which last year reached a record of 12,804 applications. This year the College received 13,850 applicants for the Class of 2015, and anticipates enrolling a class with a 10-point or more increase in average combined SAT-Math and SAT-Critical Reading scores. The entering class will be the most selective in the University's history as well as the most diverse in its ethnic, racial, linguistic, and geographic composition. More than 60 percent of the students are from outside New York, with more than half from beyond the Northeastern U.S., including approximately 15 percent from abroad.
We continue to solidify our position as the region's leading employer, with total full time equivalent jobs growing to 20,128 as of March 31, 2011, a year-to-year gain of 465 new jobs, making us the sixth largest private sector employer in New York State. This was the first period in which we crossed the 20,000 FTE job threshold.
The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities estimated in January 2011 that the University of Rochester was responsible for direct and indirect employment of 35,805 individuals and a total economic impact of $4.11 billion in New York State.
To put this in different terms, the first decade of the 21st century saw a fundamental transformation in the Rochester economy. During that decade the greater Rochester area lost 43,000 manufacturing jobs. The University of Rochester, in contrast, increased employment by approximately 50 percent, having begun the 2000 decade with 13,140 jobs.
We started this academic year with the dedication of the new Wilson Commons food court, which, despite the vastly improve culinary quality, students, undaunted as always, continue to call The Pit.
In December 2010, the University of Rochester and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, considered to be among the world's preeminent museums of imaging, entered into an alliance to pursue new initiatives in research and education focusing on the Museum's photography and motion-picture collections.
Between December 6 and 12, 2010, we celebrated the completion of the $47 million Eastman Theatre Renovation and Expansion project with a six-day Festival Week.
On February 20, 2011, Renée Fleming returned to her alma mater for a gala dedicatory concert to celebrate the new Eastman Theatre. The occasion also marked the creation of the Renée Fleming Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will provide support for students majoring in voice.
A few days later New York State accredited the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering's new undergraduate business major.
On March 5, 2011, Strong Memorial Hospital launched its new $78 million Electronic Health Records (EHR) system, the single largest IT project in University history, with the initial rollout to inpatient units, emergency departments, pharmacies, and outpatient oncology. eRecord replaces several disparate information systems and creates a single, integrated EHR shared by the University's entire medical enterprise, which gives all caregivers a comprehensive view of a patient's medical information. This ultimately will improve patient care by streamlining workflows and eliminating duplicate testing and transcribing. The ultimate goal is one patient, one record, one system. Highland Hospital will launch eRecord on June 11, 2011, and ambulatory practices are scheduled to integrate the system by summer 2012.
On March 15, 2011, Ed Hajim and I presided at the announcement that the University Board had approved the construction of a $24 million new home for the Warner School of Education. The new building will be named the Raymond F. LeChase Hall in recognition of the lead gift made by Raymond's son, University Trustee Wayne LeChase, and Wayne's wife, Beverly.
In March 2011, the Simon School initiated a new master's program in New York City, concentrating on Finance.
On May 19, 2011, the climax of this year's program will be a major conference also in New York City on Emerging Risks to America's Financial Stability, at which Peter G. Peterson, former United States Secretary of Commerce, will be honored as the Simon School's inaugural Executive of the Year.
In March 2011, former School of Nursing Dean Loretta Ford was selected for the National Women's Hall of Fame in part for her work developing the unification model of practice, education and research.
Later in March 2011, Trustee Tom Richards was elected Mayor of Rochester.
On April 8, 2011, the $60 million Clinical and Translational Science Building was dedicated in a ceremony which included as speakers Lieutenant Governor Bob Duffy and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Brad Berk, Medical Center Chief Executive Officer, publically announced that the new 200,000 square foot building would be known as the Saunders Research Building in honor of Philip Saunders whom Brad earlier that week announced had made a $10 million gift to the Medical Center.
The Memorial Art Gallery, thanks to underwriting from the EDMAC Foundation and long-time Gallery patron Joan Feinbloom, has commissioned site-specific works by noted American sculptors Jackie Ferrara and Wendell Castle for its Centennial Sculpture Park, scheduled to open in 2013.
This year our Laboratory for Laser Energetics celebrates its 40th anniversary. The Laser Lab currently is participating with Lawrence Livermore and other national labs in one of the 21st century's most critical energy experiments, the attempt to achieve nuclear fusion ignition in the laboratory, popularly known as NIF. If NIF succeeds, this has the potential to be as one scientist recently put it, "a holy cow game changer." Laser fusion, unlike nuclear power plants, is safe, cannot melt down, is carbon free, nonradioactive, and potentially will provide an inexhaustible source of energy.
This was a year of outstanding faculty achievement. In October 2010, Esther Conwell, a Professor of Chemistry with a joint appointment in Physics, became the first member of the University to be named by the President of the United States as a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
In February 2011, Ching Tang, the Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was named as the recipient of Israel's Wolf Prize in Chemistry. One in three Wolf Prize recipients in physics, chemistry, and medicine has gone on to win the Nobel Prize.
Hajim School Dean Robert Clark was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Michael K. Tanenhaus, the Beverly Petterson Bishop '46 (MA) and Charles W. Bishop, Ph.D. '46 Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, was elected a 2011 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; SLIDE 26
Lynne Maquat, the J. Lowell Orbison Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, was elected a 2011 Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences; and Duncan Moore, Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship, was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Thomas L. Campbell, M.D., the William Rocktaschel Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical Center, was chosen to be president-elect of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine. Just yesterday, Arthur Moss, Professor of Cardiology at the Medical Center received the Heart Rhythm Society's Distinguished Scientist Award for achievements over a five decade career that have led to discoveries in the treatment and prevention of cardiac arrthymias.
Judy Marquez Kiyama, Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership at the Warner School, was selected as a 2011 Emerging Scholar by the American College Personnel Association. She is one of five new rising scholars recognized from across the nation for contributions in student affairs and higher education.
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Associate Professor of Composition at the Eastman School was one of three finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his work Comala.
In addition, Doug Phillips, Senior Vice President for Institutional Resources, was awarded the Rodney Adams Award for Excellence in Endowment Management by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
Our students continue to shine. Two Rochester seniors, Nathaniel Lindsey and Hannah Watkins, and one alumnus, David Liebers, were named 2011-12 United Kingdom Fulbright Scholars. Lindsey, Watkins, and Liebers are the first candidates endorsed by Rochester to succeed in the UK Fulbright competition and were among only 35 scholars selected from a national pool of more than 700 applicants. Watkins also received the Whittaker International Fellowship, and Liebers was also awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
In all, six University of Rochester students won Fulbrights; eight graduate students won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships; 11 students received Gilman International Scholarships; junior Scott Barenfeld won a Goldwater Scholarship; and senior Francis Ferraro won a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
On April 14, 2011 we held our second University-wide endowed scholarship celebration to express our gratitude to the alumni and friends who have helped support our students who receive scholarships. Among the speakers was Yaneve Fonge '11, a Susan B. Anthony Scholarship recipient, the daughter of parents who emigrated from Cameroon, a nationally ranked track and field weight thrower, and a finalist this past year for the Rhodes Scholarship.
On January 26, 2011, Eastman School of Music trumpet student David Aguila appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, who showcased Aguila's amazing talent when he simultaneously solved the Rubik's Cube in his left hand while playing Haydn's Trumpet Concerto with his right hand.
Senior guard Melissa Alwardt was named to the State Farm Division III All-America Women's Basketball Team and was an honorable mention All-American for the second consecutive year. Since the end of the 2010-2011 season, Alwardt has been named First Team All-University Athletic Association, First Team All-East Region as selected by d3hoops.com, and First Team All-East Region by the WBCA.
In addition to continuing to work on earlier established University priorities (advancement, communications, senior leadership, community, and diversity), during the 2010-2011 academic year, I have worked with University senior leadership on four core projects: (1) Our Capital Campaign; (2) the Mt. Hope College Town; (3) I-390; and (4) the UR-IBM-New York State Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation.
This was a pivotal year for Advancement, led by Jim Thompson, in our efforts to launch the largest capital campaign in University history. There were significant leadership gifts, including new capital commitments by 16 members of our Board, a $20 million additional commitment by Rich and Martha Handler (bringing their total for scholarship support to $25 million); a $10 million anonymous commitment; and a $10 million commitment by Phil Saunders.
University reunions have emerged as a major area of success. College classes celebrating reunions in 2010 demonstrated unprecedented generosity to the University with gifts made by reunion alumni totaling more than $12.7 million, a 72 percent increase over the 2009 cohort. This level of success was led by three challenges sponsored by Robert B. Goergen '60; Gwen M. Greene '65 and Tom Sloan '65, '67 (MS); and Larry Bloch '75 and Nathan Moser '75.
Endowed professorships are pivotal in attracting and retaining the faculty that make the University of Rochester one of the nation's great research universities. Before July 1, 2005, the University had created 97 endowed professorships in the first 155 years of its history. Since July 2005 we have created 36 endowed professorships, including six new endowed professorship or deanships this academic year:
The Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music established by Life Trustee Marty Messinger and his late wife, Joan.
The Lori and Alan S. Zekelman Professorship of Business Administration established by Lori and Alan S. Zekelman to create an endowed professorship in finance at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration.
The Richard T. Bell Endowed Professorship established by Richard T. Bell to support a professorship in the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Radiation Oncology in honor of Yuhchyau Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
The Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim Professorship established by Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim to support a professorship in the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center for a faculty member whose work focuses on translational cancer research.
The Denham S. Ward, M.D., Ph.D. Endowed Professorship established by primary donors Debra and Kenneth Butler in honor of Dr. Denham Ward. The professorship is to be held by the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology.
- The Fyfe Professorship in Economics in memory of Gordon and Hazel Fyfe, brother and sister in the Class of '46, and their parents.
Since 2005, we also have received $123.4 million in commitments to scholarships, fellowships, and other aid for students at the University of Rochester. Some $88.7 million or 72 percent of the support was for endowment.
As of April 29, 2011, we have enrolled 1,724 George Eastman Circle members, a 30 percent growth since last April's total of 1,326. We are on pace to reach our goal of 2,000 memberships by December 2011. This year, a new level of the George Eastman Circle, the Associate Level, was added for recent graduates to help identify the next generation of leaders.
In March we enlarged our Board of Trustees meeting to bring together more than 200 Trustees, other volunteer leaders, and senior academic leaders to focus on campaign planning. The meeting included more than 20 roundtables in which the Board and Campaign leaders engaged in a process that will help sharpen our Campaign themes.
We are on our way to the public announcement of the University's largest capital campaign in our history at our October 2011 Meliora Weekend. Our success in the next months will depend upon broadening those involved in key roles in the campaign. We have had considerable success to date in terms of Board support. We are beginning to build very effective National Councils in each school as well as Regional Cabinets. Over the next few months, we will particularly work to involve the faculty in active roles in the campaign and to develop new means of communication with all involved in our campaign, particularly including our faculty and staff.
On January 25, 2011, the University announced the selection of Fairmount Properties of Cleveland as the development partner for our potential 16-acre College Town on Mt. Hope Avenue between Elmwood Avenue and Crittenden Boulevard.
College Town potentially will include 450,000 to 500,000 square feet with a hotel and conference center, a YMCA facility that would offer health and fitness programs in collaboration with the Medical Center along with child care, a 25,000 square foot book store, a gourmet grocery store, and other retail establishments. A transit center operated by the Regional Transit Authority would facilitate public transportation to the University and provide a parking facility.
Ron Paprocki is leading University efforts in this very important project, including detailed due diligence. We anticipate presenting the Board with a recommendation on whether to go forward by October 2011.
In a separate development, in April 2011, the Rochester's Cultural Center Commission accepted the University's offer to purchase Block F, a 1.5-acre parcel of land on East Main Street across the street from the Eastman School of Music. This parcel is of strategic importance to the Eastman School since it provides an opportunity for the expansion of the School's facilities in the future. The sale will be complete upon approval by the City Council and the County Legislature as well as the University's environmental review. The intent is for the University to engage a private developer to undertake a mixed use development that likely will include residential and retail space.
The I-390 Interchange is an approximately $100 million project to overhaul the main transportation corridor surrounding the University and improve entry to and exit from the University. The University has been working in consultation with the New York State Department of Transportation to ensure specific phases addressed the University's future growth as projected through our strategic and master campus plans. I-390 is one of the University's highest federal and state priorities and appears to enjoy the broad support of the Rochester community because of its potential to provide traffic relief and stimulate economic growth for our region.
However, the project, like New York generally, faces significant fiscal pressures that have threatened funding for future phases, including the pivotal work at Kendrick Road, which is the key to the University's long-term ability to expand the Medical Center and River campuses beyond currently planned projects such as College Town.
We believe that we have achieved a compromise, subject to approval by the State Department of Transportation, that will fund the Kendrick Road portion of this project. The compromise is contingent on specified undertakings by the University and support from both the City and the County through the deferment of other projects. Peter Robinson and Josh Farrelman have done yeoman service in orchestrating conversations with state, county, city, labor, management, and other key figures involved.
The University of Rochester and IBM have partnered to combine IBM's high performance computing resources and the University of Rochester's robust biomedical research to develop plans for a $100 million center, dedicated to making upstate New York the world leader in high performance computing in health care. Efforts to advance the Center continue through our direct advocacy, the Armonk Group (organized by IBM and including many leading New York State research universities and corporations), and other avenues to pursue $33 million in state support.
Ralph Kuncl has been the quarterback for this project. The Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation (HSCCI) initially will focus on pandemic influenza, next generation medical imaging, cancer, heart disease, and personalized medicine. This partnership is expected to serve as a significant source of innovation and new technologies that will improve the quality and delivery of health care, reduce costs, and spur significant regional economic growth. The HSCCI will position upstate New York as a hub of innovation and technology development in health care and strengthen and expand the existing research partnerships that the University already has with industry.
This also was a year of tragedy and of continuing budgetary challenges.
Most painfully, on January 15th Jeffrey Bordeaux, Jr., one of our students, was stabbed to death in an altercation with Daren Venable, also one of our students. In April, Daren Venable was found not guilty of second degree murder. Earlier he was suspended from the College.
I have asked Sue Stewart to prepare an internal report, specifically addressing: (1) whether the University had appropriate policies when the events of January 15 occurred and whether they were followed on January 15; (2) how well the University responded to these events; and (3) whether steps should be taken to improve the University's preventive and response capabilities in the future. Trustees Ed Hajim, Cathy Minehan, Hugo Sonnenschein, and I will review this report with the assistance of outside counsel. After the report is completed, there will be further discussion with our Board and University community.
The fiscal environment at both the federal and state levels continues to pose challenges to the University.
New York State recently completed a $132.5 billion budget, which includes no new taxes or debt, but does make significant health and education cuts. This budget closes a $10 billion budget deficit in significant part through a $1.2 billion reduction in state aid to local school districts and a $2.8 billion reduction in Medicaid spending.
The estimated impact to the Medical Center (including Strong Memorial and Highland hospitals and our affiliates) from the health care cuts is approximately $9.6 million, significantly less than the $22 million in proposed cuts initially proposed in the Executive Budget. Over the past three years, the Medical Center has been subject to more than $35 million in state cuts.
At the federal level, Congress recently completed its fiscal year 2011 spending legislation after protracted negotiations that resulted in $40 billion in spending reductions. The FY11 measure preserves the maximum Pell Grant award at $5,550 and makes modest cuts to basic research programs at most of the major federal agencies. The Laboratory for Laser Energetics appears to be well positioned to be funded close to the President's request of $62.5 million.
With the completion of the FY11 budget, Congress has turned its attention to the FY12 budget. Republicans in the House recently passed a budget that reduces federal expenditures by $6 trillion over the next 10 years through a combination of discretionary spending cuts and fundamental changes to Medicare and Medicaid. For non-security discretionary spending, which includes support for higher education, research, and student aid, the budget would cut FY12 spending below FY08 levels, where it would be held for five years.
These changes, if enacted into law, would have a substantial impact on the University. For example, the proposal to change Medicaid to a block grant program would result in $90 billion in reductions to New York State over 10 years. The plan to shift Medicare to a defined-contribution voucher plan would lead to $389 billion in reductions. The House budget would repeal the expansion of health care coverage included in the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, while retaining the legislation's cuts to health providers, including $155 billion in reductions to hospital payments that would result in $220 million in health care cuts to the Medical Center over the next 10 years.
The Senate is expected to introduce its budget resolution during the next few weeks. Separately, President Obama recently announced his general outline for addressing the nation's budget deficits, with the goal of reducing deficits by $4 trillion over 12 years, while continuing to invest in medical research, clean energy technology, education, and infrastructure. His proposal includes reductions in domestic discretionary spending and $480 billion in savings from Medicare and Medicaid.
While the outcome of the federal FY12 budget process is uncertain, it is reasonable for planning purposes to assume:
(1) Federal sponsored research such as NIH, NSF and Department of Energy expenditures are not likely to grow at a rate equal to inflation over the next few years and will be subject to pressures that may lead to flat levels of expenditures or potential reductions.
(2) Federal and state health care finance similarly will be under pressure for the foreseeable future which at the least will slow or "bend the cost curve" in areas such as Medicare and Medicaid finance. The great challenge with respect to federal and state health care finance involves the uncertainty of how much, in what form, and when these cost pressures will affect our Medical Center.
(3) Federal and state student scholarship and loan support so far have not been materially reduced, but may come under pressure as early as the FY12 budget.
Within this budget framework, we have tightened our belts. In the past three years we have:
- Reduced our endowment draw by $22 million from where it was projected to be in our 2008 strategic plan to approximately $84 million in the past two years.
- Pivotal to this achievement was a $10 million reduction in endowment draw in the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering and approximately $35 million in annual cost savings in the Medical Center.
- Our capital budgets were constrained as we deferred specific projects such as the Medical Center's new hospital wing or focused on cost efficiencies in projects that did proceed.
- This has meant that for the last two years our endowment spending rate has been below 6 percent on a five-year rolling average for the first time in more than two decades.
The School of Medicine and Dentistry currently is developing plans to address a long-term structural deficit related to the research enterprise and to reorganize the clinical faculty group so that it will be well positioned to handle expected changes in health care delivery. As a first step, the Medical Center has curtailed what originally was planned as continued aggressive faculty recruitment, but will continue to recruit clinical faculty and strategic research faculty as needed.
Similarly in the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering's revised strategic plan, the objective of faculty hiring was reduced last year. Initially the plan had envisioned growth from a baseline of 320 tenured and tenured track faculty in 2007 to 400 tenured and tenured track faculty by 2016. Last year this was revised to a target of 350 by 2013. Nonetheless, this year has been one of impressive faculty growth in the College, which will add a minimum of six new net faculty members.
We continue to make slow, but steady, progress in our diversity initiatives. Between 2006, when our diversity program began, and 2010, the number of women on our faculty has grown from 411 to 520 (28.6 to 31.7 percent); the number of underrepresented minorities similarly has grown from 37 to 56 (2.6 to 3.4 percent).
The faculty Special Opportunities Fund appears to have been instrumental in this progress. In the past five years, the fund has helped provide resources to complete at least 28 new commitments (data for FY12 are as yet incomplete). In FY12 the fund will equal $750,000, compared to $600,000 in FY11.
We also have seen progress with those in Staff Pay Grade 50 and above. Between 2006 and 2010, the percentage of underrepresented minority employees in these grades grew from 181 to 308 (5.1 to 6.9 percent).
Each school is responsible for its own admissions programs. In aggregate, underrepresented minority enrollment has grown at the University from 7.6 to 8.6 percent between 2006 and 2011, simultaneous with improvements in relevant quality metrics.
Vivian Lewis, Deputy to the President and Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, for the second year helped orchestrate a University-wide diversity conference on April 29, 2011, to continue discussions of diversity within our community.
In March 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded the David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity in Arts, Sciences and Engineering a $598,000 grant to fund scholarships for students in mathematics and science. The well-deserved award was particularly appreciated in the year that our former Board chair, David Kearns, died at the age of 80 after a long and distinguished career of service at Xerox, the Department of Education, and in many volunteer roles, including as chair of the National Urban League.
Salutary as this progress has been, the University still has far to go to achieve as diverse and inclusive a community as is consistent with being a world-class research university.
This year, it was notable that the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering named Professor Cilas Kemedjio to be the new Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute. In making the appointment, the College announced that, with support from the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, it will seek to make a "cluster hire" of three scholars in African and African-American Studies similar to the approach taken recently in hiring East Asian scholars.
This past year an unusually large number of strategic initiatives were in play. As always, I will continue to address advancement, communications, senior leadership, community, and diversity. My top projects next year, working in conjunction with our senior leadership, will continue to be: (1) the Capital Campaign; (2) the Mt. Hope College Town; (3) I-390; and (4) the UR-IBM-New York State Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation. Our challenge is to continue to make progress with our strategic plans while maintaining a realistic approach to budgetary realities.
I am confident that next academic year we can successfully publicly launch our Capital Campaign despite the ongoing challenges of New York State and federal budget cuts. The key both to making progress in our strategic plans and in addressing our economy will be to have the discipline to make crisp judgments about what is most important to our University and the resilience to adjust to state and federal budgetary decisions on an ongoing basis. We have demonstrated in the past few years that we can do both.
As ever, I deeply appreciate the Faculty Senate's willingness to focus on the crucial issues facing our University. Together we are building an ever better University.


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Worked at DTS since: Spring of 1999
Welcome to DTS! I am an "older sister" who enjoys serving students through the Advising Center. Why do I say "older sister?" I began my journey at DTS fall 1998 with the hopes of completing the Th.M. by spring 2002. However, the Lord had other plans! I completed the Th.M. in 2003 and then began a Ph.D. in Theological Studies. I still hope to graduate soon. Resultantly, I've been given wisdom that comes from just hanging around for over a decade and mostly through trial and error. My single greatest piece of advice: follow God, trust His faithfulness, and hang on for the journey of a life time! Please let us in the Advising Center walk beside you on your journey.
Two things stand out in my DTS experience: (1) faculty, and (2) good friends. And, well, I interact with both of them here at the Advising Center. I continue to experience the encouragement of faculty members who have the Kingdom in their focus. What a privilege to watch them as they continue to encourage other students to keep their eyes looking north. I also work with friends who daily challenge me to seek God's clear guidance for my life and the lives of the students God places on my path. I regularly see the Spirit's work not only through me, but also through those with whom I work. Have you ever experienced a ministry where people trip over one another in an effort to serve each other? I see this through the staff here in the Advising Center and hope you too can see this through us.
We exist for the greater Kingdom of God and to move you toward lifelong service. So, come on in share your ministry vision and let us encourage you along the way!
What are your hobbies or outside interests?
I enjoy the outdoors and especially fishing.
What do you do on your day off?
On my days off, I enjoy sleeping in, watching good movies, spending time with friends, serving in the church and enjoying the great outdoors.
What are your favorite foods?
I love most things peanut butter, enjoy cups of good coffee on the porch with friends on a nice morning, and like meat and potato type meals.
What is your favorite television show of all time?
Frasier, Friends, and Criminal Minds top my list of favorite television shows.
What is your favorite piece of literature?
I can't point to a single book that tops my reading list. However, Charlotte's Web, Where the Red Fern Grows, and Tell Tale Heart all grabbed my interest at an early age. My current reading interests range from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to Bavinck's Essays on Religions, Science, and Society, to the psychological-detective mystery books of Jonathan Kellerman.
What is your favorite musical artist/group/genre of music?
Grab my MP3 player and you will quickly become confused. What is Carisa's favorite music? My music preferences range from 70s-80s rock, of which Bob Seger is my all time fave, to contemporary country, and folk (like the Civil Wars). When it comes to Christian music, I enjoy the solid theology found in the traditional hymns and in more contemporary groups like the David Crowder Band, Derek Webb, Ambassador, and Andrew Peterson.
Who is the person you admire most and why?
While I admire a few people, Robert Raikes is near the top of the list. He truly understood what "no kid left behind" meant in Christian Education. His story challenges me to reach the "least of these" with solid theology.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
I think Ireland would be a cool place to live, at least based on the pictures I've seen. However, I dream of living in a log house in the middle of the woods and near a lake. The autumn colors are vibrant, there's always snow at Christmas, the spring colors are vivid, and the summer days are pleasant. If you know of this place, please let me know!
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Worked at DTS since: June 2005
It is awesome that you took the leap of faith and came to DTS. My husband and I took the same leap in 2004, and we are so glad we came to DTS. You may be wondering how do you make payment on your student account? My semester costs how much? Take a deep breath. I am here to help! I handle student account questions and can assist you with making your payments to your student account. My office is located in the Advising Center on the first floor of Walvoord Student Center, and the Cashier is located on the third floor of Davidson Hall. With my help, the help of the DTS Financial Aid office, and the Cashier in the DTS Business office, we will help you achieve paying your student bill.
As a professor's wife once stated, "Your seminary friends will always be in your life, but your other friends may come and go." My husband and I developed a unique bond with the friends, staff, and faculty that supported us through the Th.M. degree program. These relationships will be cherished forever. If you find yourself in a certain circumstance, find a fellow student, DTS staff person, or a DTS faculty member to talk through your circumstance. It is most likely that the person has gone through the same situation. The relationships you develop at DTS will be there for you to lean on when you need the support and confidence to get through your studies and later on in your ministry after you have graduated DTS.
Your ministry training at DTS is a precious time of your life. Take full advantage of the opportunities God opens for you while at DTS!
What are your hobbies or outside interests?
Movies, baking, cooking, walking, spending time with my husband or friends, traveling, and watching college football especially, Notre Dame and Ohio State.
What do you do on your day off?
If I am not taking a day trip with my husband, then usually it is a "me time" kind of a day or a day filled with a tasks/errands list to scratch off.
What are your favorite foods?
A meal consisting of a steak grilled medium-well, baked potato, salad with ranch dressing, dinner rolls with butter, and a slice of pie.
What is your favorite television show of all time?
Little House on the Prairie
What is your favorite piece of literature?
Any literature made into a movie. Otherwise, literature and I seldom connect.
What is your favorite musical artist/group/genre of music?
Christian artists and groups like Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Third Day, Petra, but I also like the old traditional hymns and any kind Christmas music which can be listened to all year long.
Who is the person you admire most and why?
My husband for his unconditional love, his leadership, his faith, and his ways of enjoying life to the fullest. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matthew 6:34). And my parents for training me up in the way I should go in many areas of life.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
I enjoy the four seasons. So, if I could live where I have Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, I am good.
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Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens/Sabal serrulata) is a palm like plant with berries that were a staple food and medicine for the Native Americans of the southeastern United States. In the early 1900s, men used the berries to treat urinary tract problems, and even to increase sperm production and boost libido. Today, the primary use of saw palmetto is to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a noncancerous enlargement of the prostate gland. Researchers aren't sure exactly how saw palmetto works, but it contains plant-based chemicals that may be effective for BPH. Researchers think that saw palmetto may affect the level of testosterone in the body, and perhaps reduce the amount of an enzyme that promotes the growth of prostate cells. Saw palmetto is often combined with nettle extract to treat BPH.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
Evidence is mixed about whether saw palmetto works to treat BPH. Several studies suggest that the herb is effective for treating symptoms, including too frequent urination, having trouble starting or maintaining urination, and needing to urinate during the night. The urethra, the tube that empties urine from the body, runs through the prostate gland in men; when the prostate gland is enlarged, men may have trouble urinating.
Some studies show that saw palmetto is as effective in treating symptoms as finasteride (Proscar) without side effects, such as loss of libido. Other studies suggest that saw palmetto may actually shrink the size of the prostate gland. Due to the short duration (usually less than 3 months) of these studies, it is not possible to say for sure whether saw palmetto is truly effective for preventing complications of BPH. In fact, a well-conducted study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that saw palmetto was no better than placebo in relieving the signs and symptoms of BPH.
It is important to receive a proper diagnosis of BPH from your health care provider to rule out prostate cancer.
Other Uses
Animal studies show that saw palmetto inhibits the growth of tumor cells, indicating that it may be helpful in the treatment of prostate cancer. Other studies show that saw palmetto improves urinary tract symptoms related to BPH. While these studies are promising, more research is needed to determine whether saw palmetto is effective for these conditions.
Saw palmetto is a fan palm that grows as a tree or shrub that can reach heights of 10 feet in warm climates, with leaf clusters that can reach 2 feet or more. It has a creeping, horizontal growth pattern. In the United States, it grows in the warm climates of the southeast coast, from South Carolina to throughout Florida. Lush, green, "saw toothed" leaves fan out from thorny stems. The plant has white flowers, which produce yellow berries. The berries turn brownish black when ripe and are dried for medicinal use.
Saw palmetto's active ingredients include fatty acids, plant sterols, and flavonoids. The berries also contain high molecular weight polysaccharides (sugars), which may reduce inflammation or strengthen the immune system.
Saw palmetto can be purchased as dried berries, powdered capsules, tablets, liquid tinctures, and liposterolic extracts. The product label should indicate that contents are standardized and contain 85 - 95% fatty acids and sterols. Read labels carefully, and buy only from reputable companies.
Saw palmetto is not recommended for children.
The use of herbs is a time honored approach to strengthening the body and treating disease. Herbs, however, can trigger side effects and interact with other herbs, supplements, or medications. For these reasons, you should take herbs with care, under the supervision of a health care provider.
Saw palmetto is generally thought to be safe when used as directed. Side effects are very rare, although mild stomach complaints and minor headaches may occur. In at least one case, significant bleeding during surgery was attributed to saw palmetto. There have been two reports of liver damage and one report of pancreas damage in people who took saw palmetto, but there is not enough information to know if saw palmetto was the actual cause of these effects.
Do not self treat for BPH with saw palmetto; see your health care provider for a proper diagnosis to rule out prostate cancer.
Saw palmetto may have effects similar to some hormones, and should not be used in pregnant or nursing women, or women who have had or are at risk for hormone related cancers.
Saw palmetto may interfere with the absorption of iron.
Finasteride(Proscar) -- Because saw palmetto may work similarly to finasteride (Proscar), you should not use this herb in combination with finasteride or other medications used to treat BPH unless directed to by your physician.
Antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs (blood-thinners) -- Saw palmetto may affect the blood's ability to clot, and could interfere with blood-thinning drugs, including:
Oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy -- Saw palmetto may reduce the number of estrogen and androgen receptors, and thus have hormone like effects. It may make oral contraceptives less effective, raising the risk of unplanned pregnancy.
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My mom is 74 years old very healthy and strong woman without any health problems during her life before this. She has had a very aggressive surgery on October 13th to remove a klatskin tumor type IIIb for 8 hours. To achieve this the surgeon had to remove liver left side and rebuild some artery/vain. As doctor said portal vain and artery were involved. He could remove all "macroscopic" tumor. The bad thing is that he had to remove two positive lymph nodes too and for this reason the prognosis was not good in long term.
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We told him for second option and god bless him and at 17 o´clock he told us that what he wants to do he did it.
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(A selection of Colorado Rapids U-13s is in Costa Rica participating in the Saprissa Cup. The kids, ranging from 10-13 years-old, provide updates from their trip).
By Win, Juan and Paul
In the morning we had interesting oatmeal and eggs. We also killed a huge spider with a remote. Then we met at the elevator so we could get on the bus to go to our game. We saw a crazy dog that marked and spun in circles. Finally we got back after an exhausting game. Then we had our best meal, it was a mushroom marinated steak and some potatoes.
Then we went to German´s presentation of biodiversity and soccer in Costa Rica. Then we found out that he was a goalkeeper. He takes all kinds of pictures in Costa Rica´s tropical rain forest. We had so much fun learning about the wide variety of wildlife and soccer.
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TORONTO — An announcement by the province of Saskatchewan that it will extend public funding to private religious schools has reinvigorated calls by the Jewish community in Ontario to have this province follow suit.
The Dec. 21 announcement by Education Minister Donna Harpauer applied to "qualified independent schools" that adhere to "a strict set of criteria to be eligible for funding of 50 per cent of the provincial per-student average."
Ira Walfish, chair of Ontario's Multifaith Coalition for Equal Funding of Faith Based Schools, has been pushing for a similar arrangement for Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and other religious schools in Ontario for almost a decade.
He said he and his supporters in the Jewish community are not done pressuring Premier Dalton McGuinty on the issue and are feeling emboldened by Saskatchewan's stance.
"Obviously we still believe strongly that this is the direction Ontario should be taking. Providing parents with choice, be it a public school or a Catholic school or a Jewish, Muslim, Greek Orthodox school etcetera… will ultimately both improve Ontario's school system and remedy a longstanding discriminatory practice, providing funding to one religious group, Catholics, and to exclude all other religions," Walfish said.
In order for religious schools in Saskatchewan to qualify, they must, among other things, participate in the province's student assessment program; employ only certified teachers; teach the provincial curriculum; operate as an incorporated non-profit organization; submit financial statements; have been in operation for at least two consecutive years; facilitate inspection and supervision by ministry officials, and comply with ministry policy and directives.
Saskatchewan's Education Act allows for the registration of "independent schools" by private groups or organizations in order to give parents the ability to "educate their children in accordance with their conscientious beliefs and provide them with a legitimate exemption from attendance at a public or separate school," according to the province.
An estimated 2,000 Jews live in Saskatchewan, but there are currently no Jewish day schools in the province.
In 2001, the Tory government under then-premier Mike Harris introduced a tax credit for private school tuition, which the McGuinty government repealed in 2003.
The funding issue was central to the 2007 Ontario election, when then-Conservative leader John Tory made the promise to fund faith-based schools a major part of his campaign. It was seen as a key reason he lost to McGuinty, who was vocal in his opposition to the idea.
The Constitution Act of 1867 enshrined public funding for Catholic schools in Ontario in order to protect its Catholic minority. The Ontario government has said it has no plans to change its position or open up a constitutional debate on the matter.
Gary Wheeler, a spokesperson for Ontario's Ministry of Education, told The CJN the subject is closed.
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Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), said his organization will continue to advocate for faith-based school funding.
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"Unfortunately, it always takes a senseless tragedy like this-and too many others like it-for Americans to stand up and take notice of our nation's ongoing love affair with guns, and the critical need for national gun control. Yet it seems as if no tragedy is horrific enough to get federal lawmakers to put aside their philosophical differences, say enough is enough, and do what's right to safeguard the safety and welfare of the American people. The time for idle talk is over. If not now-after the deaths of children as young as five in a suburban elementary school-then when? We neEd Strong leaders in Congress to stand up to the gun lobby. We need lawmakers with the courage of conviction and the strength to follow through. We need determined voices in this fight to take back our streets and our schools. We cannot be held hostage-literally or figuratively-by gun-wielding madmen or the lobbyists that keep them armed.
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A Open-Label Study Of CP-690,550 As Long-Term Therapy (48 Weeks) In Subjects With Crohn's Disease
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- Incidence and severity of adverse events [ Time Frame: 52 WEEKS ]
- Incidence and severity of clinical laboratory abnormalities, and change from baseline in clinical laboratory values. [ Time Frame: 52 WEEKS ]
- Incidence of clinically significant changes in physical examination from baseline. [ Time Frame: 52 WEEKS ]
- Incidence of vital sign abnormalities and changes from baseline in vital sign measures. [ Time Frame: 52 WEEKS ]
- Incidence of electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities and change from baseline in ECG measurements during treatment. [ Time Frame: 52 WEEKS ]
- Summary of adjudicated cardiovascular endpoints (which will include number of subjects with confirmed diagnosis of angina, chronic heart failure, ischaemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, mortality, PAVD, stroke and transient Ischaemic attacks. [ Time Frame: 52 WEEKS ]
- Summary of malignancies confirmed by central laboratory pathologist over-read of biopsies. [ Time Frame: 52 WEEKS ]
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- Sustained clinical remission is defined as being in clinical remission at both Week 24 and Week 48. [ Time Frame: WEEKS 24 AND 48 ]
- The proportion of all enrolled subjects in clinical remission and sustained clinical remission at Week 48. [ Time Frame: WEEK 48 ]
- The proportions of subjects in clinical remission and sustained clinical remission among subjects in clinical remission at A3921086 baseline. [ Time Frame: WEEK 48 ]
- The proportion of subjects in clinical remission and sustained clinical remission among subjects in clinical response (CDAI-100 response from Study A3921083 baseline) or clinical remission at A3921086 baseline. [ Time Frame: WEEK 48 ]
- The median time to relapse among subjects in clinical remission at baseline. Relapse is defined as increase in CDAI of >100 points from the baseline and an absolute CDAI score of >220 points. [ Time Frame: WEEK 48 ]
- CDAI scores over time and change from baseline in CDAI scores. [ Time Frame: WEEK 48 ]
- The proportion of subjects achieving a steroid-free clinical remission at Week 48 among subjects on steroids at baseline. [ Time Frame: WEEK 48 ]
- Corticosteroid use over time. [ Time Frame: WEEK 48 ]
- Serum CRP and fecal calprotectin over time and change from baseline in CRP and fecal calprotectin. [ Time Frame: WEEK 48 ]
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- Women of childbearing potential must test negative for pregnancy prior to study enrolment.
- Sexually active females of childbearing potential are required to use adequate contraceptive methods during the study period and until completion of the follow-up procedures. No specific contraceptive measures are required in male subjects during study participation.
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- Subjects who have been discontinued due to protocol violation(s) (as determined by the Sponsor) in the A3921084 study.
- Subjects who were discontinued from the A3921084 study due to an adverse event.
- Subjects likely to require any non-elective surgery or surgery requiring overnight stay (with the exception of minor same day outpatient procedures that will not interfere with study drug dosing).
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|Allegiance Research Specialists
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Creating a great music player is a tricky business. You'll need to provide plenty of features, but also make sure the interface is simple, unobtrusive, lightweight, and never gets in the user's way. Very few players get this balance right, in our view, but Winyl is one of the exceptions.
The program arrives as a compact download (under 3MB), and installs quickly, with no browser addons or other extras to worry about (you won't even see as much as a "Donate" button, unless you view the Winyl "About" box).
Setup is equally straightforward (point the program at your Music folder, allow it to import your albums, and that's it), and in a second or two you're looking at Winyl's main interface: a simple tree which offers various views on your music collection (Artists, Albums, Years, Genres, Folders and more).
Getting started is then just a matter of, say, expanding the Albums view, double-clicking a track and it'll start playing right away. Neatly, a pop-up window with the track's album art and title appears in the bottom-right corner of your screen as every song begins, before fading away again (you can customise this window's position, if you like, or turn it off entirely).
This all appears so simple that at first you might wonder what else you can do, but look more closely. Those tiny bars at the bottom of the window represent your current position in the track, and the song volume, for instance – you can click to change either. Click the musical note icon reveals a 10-band equalizer with a stack of presets, while the arrow icon switches views to display the cover art, and a mini visualizer.
That's just the start, though. Right-clicking the title bar displays a menu with more options. You can create or import playlists, for instance (M3U/ M3U8, PLS, ASX, XSPF). A mini player reduces Winyl's size even further. Or, if you prefer to do everything by mouse, then there's an option to assign custom hotkeys for every player action: Play, Pause, Stop, Next/ Previous track, ratings, volume control and more.
And if, despite all this, you're still not happy with Winyl's interface, that's not a problem. The program comes with some alternative skins, and you can make it look like iTunes or Windows Media Player in a few seconds.
Winyl's core feature set is fairly typical, then (don't expect to be surprised). But it looks great, is well designed and feels immediately comfortable to use. If the big-name music players are just a little bloated for your tastes, give the program a try – it might surprise you.


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I am drinking a Sun King. You people in Indiana don't know how good you have it!
Just finished some cabbage & 'taters.
'scuse the flatulance.
Made some nachos with ground turkey and guac tonight. Didn't make the guac myself though. Thinking of whether to kill of this final Flying Dog Blood Orange Ale tonight - it is pretty inoffensive beer but I was hoping it would be better. I am done with IPAs for awhile I think, found a grocery store that carried Spaten which will go good with whatever I BBQ next weekend.
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Right now I am drinking on this new cherry lime Kool-Aid. Pretty good stuff IMO. Also finishing off last nights dinner, a tenderloin from the Lapel American Legion made by my aunt C.J. Young. They make the best tenderloins I have had around here. Made by hand by Veterans, good stuff.
Kool-aid and tenderloin at 6 in the morning. You sir are a true American.
Coffee for me right now
WOW! Breakfast of Champions right there my friend. This morning for me it was a Kind Bar (Blueberry Antioxidant) Greek Yoghurt, and some coffee. After reading what you ate I am almost ashamed to type that.
Yeah you will definitely feel better, the only bad thing (in a way) is not enjoying the food you once did! I have not eaten from any of the fast food chains in like 2 or 3 years. That isn't so hard to do in DC because places like McDonald's and Burger King aren't everywhere like they are in Indiana. My metabolism hit a wall when I was 25 or so. I have always been thin but I gained like 25 pounds. I was able to work it off through hours on the exercise bike (I have bad knees from running a lot when I was younger and never stretching) and eating healthy in 6 months. But ever since my body has developed a hatred for fast food. My wife and I tried to split a Five Guys Cheeseburger on the 4th of July and it made me sick.
I am happy that I eat healthy now but wish I could enjoy something greasy and bad every once in awhile.
Man I am back to the cherry lime koolaid this morning but with some fiber one protein cereal that is like a granola cereal with some 2% milk. I am glad the koolaid is sugar free I have been tearing it up. Also had a glass of tropical mix fruit juice mixed with apple juice. We go through a lot of apple juice for my daughter's medicine so I grab a glass every now and then. Gonna try to hit the walking later this morning and see if I can avoid putting bruises on the old feet again. Changed shoes and added padded insoles. I have my lunch planned out with some homemade tuna salad on good wheat bread with some spinach salad mix and a small desert of a piece of corn bread with my wife's homemade sugar free blueberry jelly. For dinner I am gonna cook the kids favorite. Grilled chicken with a veggie stir fry. Fresh fruit and watermelon smoothies for desert.
Just had a bit of Kroger's seafood salad and some good old milk. My kind of summer comfort foods. Going to try the Kroger deli egg rolls for lunch tomorrow. I was told that they are the best.
Do you know how bad I want a tenderloin sandwich? They don't have them in the south. I didn't realize it was an Indiana thing. Probably the food I miss the most from Indiana. That and Penn Station for my baked sub fix. There's a Firehouse Subs and Quiznos and neither are as good.
And I miss Marsh's fresh made donuts. They are one of the few places that make tiger tail donuts...my fav!
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
I got the laziness after work too tonight and grabbed a pizza king large Stromboli with extra cheese and a large beef boat extra sauce for dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow. In heaven right now get to eat a little of both. Still drinking down the cherry-lime kool-aid too. My wife asked where the veggies were for my dinner and I told her I think the Stromboli had some onions. She was not amused.
I have a rack of St. Louis ribs on the grill.
I have recently found that fountain Coke Zero mixed with vanilla flavoring is absolutely delicious. You soda lovers should give it a try.
I made a traditional poor folk comfort food meal today with cube steak cooked in a crock pot with cans of golden mushroom soup, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese (I know 2 starches), and green beans. For dessert we had something called Robert Redford. It starts with a graham cracker crust, a cream cheese mixture layer, chocolate pudding layer, whipped creamy layer with shaved chocolate on top. Straight up Anderson Indiana dinner there.
After the week I've had, I'm having a nice tall glass of 1792 with a dash of 7-Up.
Went cheap tonight with a little ceaser's pizza deep dish with three meat and drinking some good old home made sweet tea. Had to make up for the other night went to the new Mexican restraunt downtown Anderson for the wife's birthday. I was impressed with their special in house fajita mix that had chicken steak shrimp and sausage mixed. I was impressed with the shrimp in it I got a dozen shrimp with no fishy taste whatsoever. After dinner tonight gonna finish it off with a few spiced rum and cokes
Tonight I am eating on some Domino's Pizza chicken BBQ with bacon set-up, leftover Texas Roadhouse Chili with Jalapeno, Texas Roadhouse jalapeno poppers and drinking and ice cold Guinness or a few. I will be paying for it tomorrow but it is so good.


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The 10-year-old son of David and Victoria Beckham, Romeo, is taking after his parents and is making his modeling debut in the ads for the Burberry Spring/Summer 2013 campaign.
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What's your toddler's personality type?
Knowing this could impact your parenting style more than you realise. more
Tiffani Wood is a keen music lover and a mother. She's an entertainer and a teacher. But not necessarily in that order. A born performer, Wood began singing and dancing from an early age and in 2000, rose to fame when she joined all-girl band Bardot - which formed out of the Australian reality TV series, Popstars.
After spending more than eight years carving out a successful music career, Wood now prefers to use her musical talents to help other aspiring performers. In 2011 she opened her own vocal coaching school on the Gold Coast, where she lives with five year old daughter Lillian. Wood is a firm believer in the power of music and supports the notion that learning about music from a young age can teach kids much more than just how to clap to the beat.
After the birth of her daughter Lillian, in 2007, Wood felt her life begin to shift in a different direction. When Lillian was very small, Wood became aware that the soothing sounds from her friend's acoustic guitar helped to settle Lillian into a restful sleep like nothing else could. "So I did a bit of research on acoustic guitars, and apparently the strumming and vibrations of the guitar are similar to the noises and feelings a baby experiences when they are in the belly", says Wood. It was after this discovery that Wood decided to release her own album of lullabies, aptly named 'Acoustic Dreams'.
Playing or singing lullabies to a baby is a practice that is centuries old. And while lullabies will always be an effective way of comforting and relaxing infants, the long-term benefits of playing music to young children are much more powerful. Exposing your kids to music from an early age gives them, what experts call, 'a rich sensory experience'. In fact, studies show that exposure to music early in life has positive effects on the developing brain and can assist in improving communication skills.
"My daughter has learnt to sing through watching me teach others," Wood says, who, in her capacity as a vocal coach, has found that parents who sing in tune, often (but not always) have children who sing in tune. "It's just like sport," enthuses Wood, "If you are throwing the ball around with your parents when you are young, then you will be a great catcher. It's the same with singing and dancing." And the same thing can be said about musical instruments confirms Wood. "I think my daughter was three when I gave her a little toy piano with a stool and a little microphone – a few years later, we've now upgraded to a proper keyboard with a proper microphone. She knows how to use them because of the toy ones."
Children are great mimics, so if you participate in musical activities with your child they will learn to respond to music much faster. Once your child begins to walk and talk, you can explore the world of music with her in a much more interactive way, than just playing her a CD. Singing simple songs with her or simply putting some music on and encouraging her to dance, is a great opportunity for your child to test her body and her voice.
Joining the school choir or the school band is a fantastic way for kids to further explore an interest in music. Musical instruments are generally introduced at school in Year two or three, along with the opportunity to join the school band. "Once kids pick up an instrument they either want to learn more or they go off it," says Wood. When it comes to one-on-one vocal training, Wood has always been reluctant to take on a student under the age of nine years old. She believes that starting this kind of training too young can sometimes do more harm than good. "If you criticise kids too much when they are young it can stay with them for the rest of their lives," she says. And intensive singing training at an early age can also strain kids' vocal chords.
The best thing you can do for kids of all ages is to encourage an appreciation of music. "Expose your children to different types of music, not just popular stuff," says Wood. Introduce them to the sounds of country, jazz and classical and then sit back, relax and watch how they respond.
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Field Reporting has transitioned from a RMS add-on application to an invaluable technology that speeds data capture with increased accuracy, highly accelerates data availability, and most importantly provides bi-directional mobile information sharing.
No longer just static electronic forms, field reporting is an interactive process with wide ranging process management tools. No matter what stage of the buying process you are in—whether you currently have a solution or are just doing research for a project that's years away—there are 7 features most agencies consider mandatory for their mobile field reporting.
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It's rare to have 100% connectivity when officers are in the field. To maximize productivity, look for "Storeand-Forward" technology that enables field reporting to effectively work in a connected and disconnected mode—without losing data and without wasting officer time.
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Make sure your solution is built upon industry standards such as the Global Justice XML Data Model and the National Information Exchange Management so you can easily share information among agencies.
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Agencies today want to be able to create and manage reports in-house. Find solutions that allow you to create and edit your forms. Inquire about the training and support the vendor provides.
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Solutions today can import data from the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and other third-party sources to reduce the amount of typing an officer has to do. Solutions can also check Record Management Systems Master Indices tables and populate forms with pre-existing known records. All of which avoids time-consuming typing by the officer. In addition, data can be sent, upon submission to :n" number of systems, like jails or district attorneys' offices in formats specific to each system.
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