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When Trump accused her of being an embarrassment and “weak” on immigration, Haley fired back with “Bless your heart,” a serious Southern insult. |
At her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, she was introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), one of Trump’s most outspoken critics in the Republican Party. |
A $4.5 million building program under way at St. James School south of Hagerstown will expand the 180-student boarding school without changing its essential character, school officials say. |
A $2 million building housing a new library, two science labs, a classroom and an archives room is under construction. |
"It's going to be a small Georgian jewel of a building," said Father Stuart Dunnan, headmaster. |
The new library will be roughly double the size of the old library, and will be able to accommodate about 60 students at a time. The library will hold 25,000 volumes and six computers. |
Workers also are enlarging and renovating Kemp Hall, the oldest academic building on the campus, to serve as a student center to include a book store, recreation room, snack bar, mailboxes and administrative offices. That work will cost $750,000. |
Next year, construction of a $1.1 million Georgian-style girls' dormitory will provide housing for 28 students and two faculty members. The school now has the capacity to board 22 girls. |
The school last fall completed a $250,000 renovation to the infirmary, and Powell Hall, which houses the current library, will get a $200,000 face lift. |
The library area will be converted to a study hall and computer lab. Two new classrooms will be added to the area formerly occupied by the study hall. |
The school has raised $2.5 million toward the cost of the projects, Dunnan said. |
Work on the library has "been pretty much overdue," he said. |
Dunnan said computer technology has helped reduce the amount of space needed for the library. Information previously requiring books and shelf space can be delivered via CD-ROM and the Internet. |
The need for new facilities also is related to a jump in enrollment from about 130 students five years ago to 180 now, Dunnan said. |
Dunnan expects that figure to grow to 200 as the improvements are made, with 120 boys and 80 girls, and 120 boarders and 80 nonboarders. |
"We don't want to become a large school," Dunnan said. "That's why people choose us." |
Dunnan said the school will continue to provide a structured environment for students while introducing them to new experiences. |
The private school, founded in 1842, is affiliated with the Episcopal Church and is open to students of all religions and nationalities. Day tuition is $9,800 a year and boarding tuition is $16,800 a year. The school offers instruction for students in seventh through 12th grades. |
Tuition pays for two-thirds of operating costs, Dunnan said. Endowment income and annual contributions to the school cover the rest. |
Dr. Ruben earned her PhD in psychology at Northeastern University where she developed a strong background in doctor-patient communication, measuring and quantifying nonverbal behavior, creating standardized tests to evaluate physicians’ interpersonal skill, and meta-analysis. Dr. Ruben is a certified and reliable Facia... |
Murphy NA, Hall JA, Ruben MA, Frauendorfer D, Schmid Mast M, Johnson KE, Nguyen L. Predictive Validity of Thin-Slice Nonverbal Behavior from Social Interactions. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2018 Nov 07; 146167218802834. PMID: 30400748. |
Blanch-Hartigan D, Ruben MA, Hall JA, Schmid Mast M. Measuring nonverbal behavior in clinical interactions: A pragmatic guide. Patient Educ Couns. 2018 12; 101(12):2209-2218. PMID: 30146408. |
Ruben MA, Blanch-Hartigan D, Shipherd JC. To Know Another's Pain: A Meta-analysis of Caregivers' and Healthcare Providers' Pain Assessment Accuracy. Ann Behav Med. 2018 Jul 13; 52(8):662-685. PMID: 30010705. |
Shipherd JC, Ruben MA, Livingston NA, Curreri A, Skolnik AA. Treatment experiences among LGBT veterans with discrimination-based trauma exposure: A pilot study. J Trauma Dissociation. 2018 Jul-Sep; 19(4):461-475. PMID: 29601292. |
Ruben MA, Fullerton M. Proportion of patients who disclose their sexual orientation to healthcare providers and its relationship to patient outcomes: A meta-analysis and review. Patient Educ Couns. 2018 09; 101(9):1549-1560. PMID: 29778500. |
Ruben MA, Blosnich JR, Dichter ME, Luscri L, Shipherd JC. Will Veterans Answer Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questions? Med Care. 2017 Sep; 55 Suppl 9 Suppl 2:S85-S89. PMID: 28806370. |
Ruben MA, Meterko M, Bokhour BG. Do patient perceptions of provider communication relate to experiences of physical pain? Patient Educ Couns. 2018 02; 101(2):209-213.View Related Profiles. |
Hall JA, Back MD, Nestler S, Frauendorfer D, Schmid Mast M, Ruben MA. How Do Different Ways of Measuring Individual Differences in Zero-Acquaintance Personality Judgment Accuracy Correlate With Each Other? J Pers. 2018 Apr; 86(2):220-232. PMID: 28192851; DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12307;. |
Ruben MA, Shipherd JC, Topor D, AhnAllen CG, Sloan CA, Walton HM, Matza AR, Trezza GR. Advancing LGBT Health Care Policies and Clinical Care Within a Large Academic Health Care System: A Case Study. J Homosex. 2017; 64(10):1411-1431.View Related Profiles. |
Ruben MA, Blanch-Hartigan D, Hall JA. Nonverbal Communication as a Pain Reliever: The Impact of Physician Supportive Nonverbal Behavior on Experimentally Induced Pain. Health Commun. 2017 Aug; 32(8):970-976. PMID: 27463408; DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1196418;. |
Ruben MA, Hall JA. A Lens Model Approach to the Communication of Pain. Health Commun. 2016 Aug; 31(8):934-45. PMID: 26752199; DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2015.1020261;. |
Ruben MA, van Osch M, Blanch-Hartigan D. Healthcare providers' accuracy in assessing patients' pain: A systematic review. Patient Educ Couns. 2015 Oct; 98(10):1197-206. PMID: 26223850; DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2015.07.009;. |
Przedworski JM, Dovidio JF, Hardeman RR, Phelan SM, Burke SE, Ruben MA, Perry SP, Burgess DJ, Nelson DB, Yeazel MW, Knudsen JM, van Ryn M. A Comparison of the Mental Health and Well-Being of Sexual Minority and Heterosexual First-Year Medical Students: A Report From the Medical Student CHANGE Study. Acad Med. 2015 May;... |
Gunnery SD, Ruben MA. Perceptions of Duchenne and non-Duchenne smiles: A meta-analysis. Cogn Emot. 2016; 30(3):501-15. PMID: 25787714; DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1018817;. |
Ruben MA, Hall JA, Schmid Mast M. Smiling in a job interview: when less is more. J Soc Psychol. 2015 Mar-Apr; 155(2):107-26. PMID: 25309976; DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2014.972312;. |
Murphy NA, Hall JA, Schmid Mast M, Ruben MA, Frauendorfer D, Blanch-Hartigan D, Roter DL, Nguyen L. Reliability and validity of nonverbal thin slices in social interactions. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2015 Feb; 41(2):199-213. PMID: 25488925; DOI: 10.1177/0146167214559902;. |
Hall JA, Ship AN, Ruben MA, Curtin EM, Roter DL, Clever SL, Smith CC, Pounds K. Clinically relevant correlates of accurate perception of patients' thoughts and feelings. Health Commun. 2015; 30(5):423-9. PMID: 24949868; DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2013.865507;. |
Ruben MA, Hill KM, Hall JA. How women's sexual orientation guides accuracy of interpersonal judgements of other women. Cogn Emot. 2014; 28(8):1512-21. PMID: 24564873; DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.890093;. |
Hall JA, Ship AN, Ruben MA, Curtin EM, Roter DL, Clever SL, Smith CC, Pounds K. The Test of Accurate Perception of Patients' Affect (TAPPA): an ecologically valid tool for assessing interpersonal perception accuracy in clinicians. Patient Educ Couns. 2014 Feb; 94(2):218-23. PMID: 24184040; DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.10.00... |
Ruben MA, Hall JA. "I know your pain": proximal and distal predictors of pain detection accuracy. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2013 Oct; 39(10):1346-58. PMID: 23852457; DOI: 10.1177/0146167213493188;. |
Blanch-Hartigan D, Ruben MA. Training clinicians to accurately perceive their patients: current state and future directions. Patient Educ Couns. 2013 Sep; 92(3):328-36. PMID: 23490175; DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.02.010;. |
The medieval Gothic architecture of Nuremberg (Nürnberg to Germans) is known all over the world, and the main railway station (Hauptbahnhof) is itself a Neo-Baroque wonder dating to 1900. Though many European cities make you choose between staying in the city center and staying in the usually seedy area surrounding the... |
Five-star service is available two blocks away from the Hauptbahnhof entrance in the 161 guest rooms of the modern Sheraton Carlton Hotel Nuremberg. Oversized rooms range from 290 to 490 square feet, and this Nuremberg luxury hotel offers panoramic views from its eighth-floor spa, which features a whirlpool, steam room... |
Though the closest hotel to the train station is part of a chain, the four-star Le Méridien Grand Hotel Nuremberg is set in a traditional building. Offering 192 guest rooms right across the street from the station, this Nuremberg hotel has updated interiors that are quite modern. The Restaurant Brasserie serves both re... |
Just because you're staying in a budget accommodation doesn't mean you have to give up style, and the two-star Motel One Nuremberg City offers a hip retro vibe in its 199 rooms, just one block from the station. Modern amenities at this Nuremberg motel include DVD players, wireless Internet access and satellite service ... |
If you want to extend your experience of the city's history to your accommodation choice, the Hotel Victoria Nuremberg has been welcoming visitors since its 1896 opening. Set opposite the station, the neo-Gothic Victoria provides views of the older King's Gate Tower and the newer New Museum of Modern Art and Design fro... |
With nearly 15,000 Web pages under his belt, Jay Kaplan knows more than he ever thought he would about travel, art, architecture and entertainment. His online work for Marriott Hotels is complimented by travel show scripts for subjects ranging from Disneyland to the Queen Mary to the city of Chicago. |
Kaplan, Jay. "Hotels Near the Train in Nuremberg, Germany." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/hotels-near-train-nuremberg-germany-41208.html. Accessed 19 April 2019. |
This is a subway station in Nuremberg. |
Rocks coach Darin Killpartrick insists he’ll be making no excuses - despite a growing list of injuries within his playing squad at present. |
Bognor were without five first-team members as former manager Jamie Howell bagged a 1-0 National League South win on his return to Nyewood Lane with Eastbourne Borough on Bank Holiday Monday. |
That defeat capped a difficult weekend as several players were missing for Rocks’ 2-0 loss at East Thurrock United two days previous. |
Corey Heath and Jimmy Muitt (both ankle), Doug Tuck (calf) and Alex Parsons all missed both matches over the weekend, with the four of them facing potential longer stints on the sidelines. |
Despite finding themselves with a squad decimated by injury at this moment, coach Killpartrick will not use it as an excuse. |
He said: “We’ve got a small squad and any injuries will hit us hard. We had a tough couple of games over the weekend, missing some key players, but we won’t be making any excuses as a team. |
With so many players out through injury at present, Killpartrick revealed work is ongoing to try and strengthen the squad. |
Defeats to East Thurrock and Eastbourne Borough, Rocks’ first since promotion last season, has not seen them drop too far down the table. |
Following the first month of the new season, Bognor sit tenth with nine points from seven matches. |
Rocks face a potential of seven matches in September, with Killpartrick targeting plenty more points. |
Rocks, looking to avoid a third defeat National League South defeat in succession, travel to early season pacesetters Chelmsford City on Saturday. It looks a big ask but it’s a test Killpartrick is relishing. |
Legendary competitive eater, Takeru Kobayashi crushes Seattle Seawolf player Kellen Gordon in a taco eating contest! |
SEATTLE — Takeru Kobayashi holds six Guinness Records for chowing down on items ranging from hot dogs to Twinkies. Famous for his trademark move known as the Kobayashi Shake, Kobayashi can take down food like no one else. Today, he takes on tacos against Seattle Seawolf rugby player Kellen Gordon. |
You can see Kobayashi take down some Chronic Tacos May 12th at the Sabroso Festival at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn. |
Aretha Franklin performs at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. |
At 72, the Queen of Soul has been a royal mostly in repose, laying low over the past decade; canceled shows and reports of ill health haven’t been encouraging. But with news of a major LP nearing completion, Aretha Franklin’s two-night run at Radio City Music Hall in New York City — a make-up for dates postponed in Jan... |
Low key for a queen, that is. On the first night, after a fanfare by her big band (led by longtime collaborator H.B. Barnum and featuring an 11-piece brass section), Franklin strode out in a lipstick-red off-the-shoulder gown and a fur stole, which she tossed onto the Hammond organ console. What followed was an uneven ... |
Franklin introduced “Say a Little Prayer” as “a tune by Mr. Burt Bacharach — thanks for the million-seller!” With lead vocal parts delivered by her backing singers (a five-member chorus led by emeritus soul accompanist Fonzi Thornton), its unusual structure gave Franklin a chance to ramp up. Her voice has thinned a bit... |
She got many — the crowd, whooping and clapping, was old enough to be familiar with such scenarios. Sure, the show was too brief; it had sound problems, skipped a huge number of classics and petered out with a perfunctory reading of “Respect.” Franklin didn’t preview her forthcoming set, a reported collaboration with B... |
Basseterre, St. Kitts – The minister of agriculture, the Honourable Eugene Hamilton, disclosed in Parliament Aug. 10 that the chief veterinary officer has recommended a risk assessment be done on pork from specific farms in Santa Catarina, Brazil. |
He said that the meeting resulted in his ministry agreeing to follow through urgently on obtaining a risk assessment from several competent authorities, including those in the United States of America, as well as the Inter-American Institute of Cooperation on Agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, and the ... |
Once the assessment is completed and is satisfactory, local importers will be able to resume their trade with the suppliers in Brazil, according to the minister. |
Security First Federal Savings and Loan Association has adopted a new design for the signs outside its offices. The Daytona Beach-based thrift plans to have new signs installed by early December at offices in Volusia, Flagler, Leon, Putnam, St. John's, Marion, Gadsden and Wakulla counties. . . . Richard Groff has been ... |
Oracle set its sights on a bigger piece of the cloud pie Tuesday with new IaaS services that put it in more direct competition with Amazon Web Services. |
The new IaaS services were introduced by Thomas Kurian, Oracle's president of product development, at its OpenWorld show in San Francisco. |
First, Oracle Elastic Compute Cloud allows customers to chose between elastic and dedicated compute options. Elastic Compute offers the ability to run any workload in the cloud in a shared compute zone, while the dedicated option adds capabilities such as CPU pinning and complete network isolation. |
Compute Cloud supports a variety of operating systems, including Linux and Windows, and features robust monitoring capabilities, Oracle said. |
Two new Storage Cloud services, meanwhile, focus on different types of storage. An archive option provides storage for applications and workloads that are accessed infrequently and require long-term retention, with predictable SLAs for data retrieval. A File Storage service, on the other hand, offers file-based NFS v4 ... |
Oracle Network Cloud is designed to provide secure and high-performance connectivity from customer data centers to the cloud following a software-defined network configuration approach. Connectivity options include VPN, Oracle Cloud Connect and network bonding. |
A Container Cloud offering allows customers to run applications within Docker containers, which can be easily deployed within the Oracle Compute Cloud. |
Finally, Oracle and its partners have certified a number of technology stacks on the Oracle Cloud; they're available in a standard service catalog to simplify deployment. |
The new offerings "really help round out Oracle's IaaS solutions portfolio," said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT. They include the kinds of "more or less generic" compute, storage and networking capabilities available on major public clouds, King noted. |
At the same time, though, "Oracle is also making good on delivering key parts of its application portfolio via the cloud, including the eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards solutions," he pointed out. "That should stir the particular interest of existing Oracle customers, and could also tempt businesses already c... |
The extent to which Oracle's new IaaS offerings will compete with AWS, meanwhile, "largely depends on two issues: pricing and perceived security," King noted. |
Oracle customers can already run many or most of their applications on AWS without any additional license fees, so "unless Oracle decides to add a sweetener of some kind to its new services, it may be difficult to tempt customers already using AWS into its own IaaS fold," he said. |
Similarly, "though it's common for IT vendors to pitch their own cloud platforms as being somehow inherently more secure than public cloud platforms like AWS, that could be a double-edged sword for Oracle," King suggested. "If the company were to pursue that line, customers might ask why the company was collaborating w... |
Compass Pointe, an addiction counseling and prevention organization that has served Northwest Iowa for 50 years, closes its doors in all locations today. Since our story about the closing that ran in Thursday's edition, the Estherville News has learned of other area resources for help with addiction and mental health. |
YourLifeIowa.org: for live online chat, phone call or text help with alcohol, drugs or suicidal thoughts, YourLifeIowa.org, a project of the Iowa Department of Public Health, is available 24/7. Live chat is available on the website. The voice call number is toll-free: 1-855-581-8111 and the texting number is 1-855-895-... |
Joey Gude of H.E.A.R.T. Kinnections (heartkinnections.com) is located Estherville at 2014 E. Central Ave., with locations in Okoboji and Arnolds Park. Three therapists work out of the Estherville office: Gude can be reached at 712-320-0202, Melissa Skrepak at 712-298-1997, and Michelle Banks at 712-320-0379. |
Gude said, "It was sad for us to hear that Compass Pointe was closing. I, however, am thrilled to see the concern and support across the region to help clients. That shows the strength in our communities." |
Gude said the therapists at H.E.A.R.T Kinnections care deeply about helping those in transition and can provide experienced, compassionate care to support individuals with substance misues concerns with individual, group, and integrated co-occurring services. |
"We know that people need a place for treatment services to support recovery. I am also very impressed with the concern and support from various community organizations asking form information to help those involved," Gude said. |
All Those Yesterdays is located in Spencer in the Grand Ave. Community Outreach Building, Suite 29. Ryan Jensen is the counselor and said he will begin seeing clients May 1. The website is allthoseyesterdays.org and phone number 712-363-5886. All Those Yesterdays offers mental health counseling on a self-pay basis and ... |
Shade of the Tree is located in Spirit Lake. The number is 712-330-9140. |
Hope Haven has locations in Emmetsburg, Spirit Lake and Spencer as well as a few locations a longer drive from Estherville. The Spirit Lake office number is 712-336-6977. |
Seasons Center will temporarily extend its substance use disorder service hours to accommodate the increase in clients in need of services. Extended evening and weekend hours will be offered for substance use disorder services in Spencer as well as Storm Lake, Sioux Center and Sheldon for both evaluations and group ses... |
"We see the large need for substance use services in our area and even more especially with one of the other main providers closing in northwest Iowa. We welcome new clients in working toward their recovery," Seasons Center CEO/President Kim Scorza said. |
For a longer drive, Creative Living Center has locations in Sheldon, Hawarden, Sioux Center and Orange City (712)476-5245; Plains Area Mental Health has locations in Algona, Mason City, Charles City, Forest City, and Hampton (515)546-4624; and Transitional Services of Iowa serves Western Iowa at (515)255-0204. |
No word yet on any organization to take over Compass Pointe's extensive tobacco, drug and alcohol prevention services. As recently as late March, area counties were considering tobacco prevention proposals from Compass Pointe. Jody Monroe of Compass Pointe, who was also director of the MOCSY (Making Optimal Choices for... |
Dear Heloise: Audiobooks are not new to most people, especially when on the road. But I have discovered a fantastic way for me to "read" books while I am home washing dishes, folding clothes or even resting. |
My eyes get very tired, and it's always been hard for me to read books with many pages. |
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