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  1. Feb 2019
    1. jurisprudence

      the theory or philosophy of law. a legal system. "American jurisprudence"

    2. expatriation

      Expatriation is the process of leaving your country and living in a new one, or the act of forcing a person to do this.

  2. Jan 2019
    1. upon which it is not necessary for us to enter.

      It is not necessary to enter?!?!

  3. Nov 2016
    1. Postmenopausal women are particularly at risk for UTIs because of hormone depletion

      main point

    2. the amount needed would be so great as to be impractical for a wholesale recommendation.

      main point

    3. Cranberry juice in its earliest, purest form was far more astringent than the version now sold commercially.

      main point

    4. hydrating

      MAIN POINT

    5. Dr. Gupta, who said she is not ready yet to walk away from cranberries, suggested that some women with recurrent UTIs may still want to discuss cranberry treatment with their doctors.

      MAIN POINT.

    6. several theories about why cranberries have come to be seen as having some effect on UTIs

      Main point, discussed in study.... Promotes old idea.

    7. Many doctors recommend that women prone to recurrences urinate after sex

      Main point - prevention.

    8. The risk factors in younger women include sexual activity and the use of spermicide

      Main point.

    9. “convincing that cranberry products should not be recommended as a medical intervention for the prevention of UTI.” She added that “clinicians should not be promoting cranberry use by suggesting that there is proven, or even possible, benefit.”

      Main point

    10. showed no reduction in urinary tract infections for female nursing home patients who took standardized, high-dose cranberry capsules — the equivalent of 20 ounces of juice daily — for a year.

      main point

    11. it is certainly not a treatment for an active case.

      Main point

    12. but it won’t cure and, probably, won’t prevent recurrence.

      Main Point

    13. who acknowledges the mixed research results, remains concerned about the use of antibiotics as a preventive treatment. “People want something that doesn’t lead to antibiotic resistance and empowers women to care for their UTIs,” she said. “We do need something better.”

      Editorial: low compliance rate....

  4. Oct 2016
    1. So far, our regressions suggest that the electorate is slightly less polarized than in 2008 or 2012. Red states aren’t quite as red, and blue states aren’t quite as blue.

      interesting, I would think the opposite.

    1. market competition and cost efficiency.

      In education?

    2. meaning it was available to any student in state with no limitations on student eligibility.

      Why? What were the reasons behind it? How much is a voucher? Is it more or less than typical per student spending of public school?

    3. are state-funded scholarships that pay for students to attend private school rather than public school.

      My high school had a technical school program as well. Sometimes students from out of district attended for the programs.

    1. school choice programs

      ??

    2. Eric Hanushek has studied the effect of per-pupil expenditures on academic outcomes, finding either no relationship or a relationship that is either weak or inconsistent.[17] However, researchers Larry V. Hedges and Rob Greenwald analyzed the same data used by Hanushek and concluded that increasing per-pupil expenditures has a significant positive impact on student achievement.

      How?!?

  5. Sep 2016
    1. gainsay

      to deny, dispute, or contradict.

    2. Will the views of the people of the thirty-six states that retain a traditional definition of marriage be treated with dignity and respect? 

      The views of people who think marriage is only between a man and a woman should be treated with dignity and respect while they infringe on civil liberties of others?

    1. stand up for the Constitution of the United States

      What exactly are they defending the constitution for?/ What are they fighting for/ defending?

    1. He said they had not convinced him “that the parties’ relationship has disintegrated beyond salvaging and that their affection for each other is extinguished.”

      ok, question answered i guess.

    2. denied divorce to Mr. and Mrs. Bumgardner anyway.

      How do you deny a divorce???!?

    3. preempted.

      to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.

    1. Trump has been on a bit of a roll this week, if certain polls are correct.

      This is not direct evidence, but does link to a poll where Trumps numbers are up. Wether or not its because of Kaepernick is unclear.

    2. dumpster fire that is The Donald’s campaign.

      Good metaphor.

    1. most popular and unifying institutions: the National Football League.

      While I don't think this article has a large bias in whether Kaepernick is right for wrong, saying that the NFL is one of America's "most popular," "unifying institutions" is a big claim to make.

    2. full-price: $99.99

      The team is obviously financially benefitting from it.

    3. “Players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the national anthem,”

      Legally no one is required to stand up. Supreme Court 1940, on behalf of Jehovah's Witnesses.

    4. peaceful

      As opposed to violent? His sitting/kneeling may (or may not) have been disrespectful, but was in a peaceful manner.

    5. Two others also refused to stand for last week’s games, the final round of the preseason.

      I'm not sure that taking a knee is the MOST disrespectful thing to do during the national anthem....

    6. poor or counterproductive way to draw attention to social issues.

      It worked, didn't it?

    1. Their argument was that they fought for the freedoms in the Constitution, not a piece of cloth, and to curtail those freedoms was an insult to their sacrifice.

      See #veteransforkaepernick

    2. inspiring others was more important than the personal cost.

      Using their platform versus being ungrateful for what they already have.

    3. ironies

      Ironic, yes. Freedom of Speech as long as most people like it.....

  6. Apr 2016
    1. In an ironic twist that perfectly demonstrates just why a site like urbandictionary.com is of sociolinguistic importance, the term "teabagging" made headlines again recently when U.S. conservatives used it as part of a populist tax protest. Citizens were urged to send teabags to the White House in an apparent reference to the Boston Tea Party tax protest of 1773. "Teabagging" events were enthusiastically promoted by Republicans, conservative pundits, and the FOX network. What the tax teabaggers didn't know was that the term has some very unique -- and overtly sexual -- connotations in contemporary pop culture.
    1. blood pressure

      Even has medical consequences

    2. But in all our research the most achievement-oriented students, who were also the most skilled, motivated, and confident, were the most impaired by stereotype threat

      Obama.

    1. The tests also found that stereotype bias most impacted high-achieving minorities.

      Like Obama, possibly the highest performing minority.

    2. "stereotype threat" -- the threat of being viewed through the lens of a negative stereotype, or the fear of doing something that would inadvertently confirm that stereotype.

      Definition.

    3. Obama was reacting to something social scientists call "stereotype threat."

      Afraid of becoming the "angry black man"

    1. the jargon of a particular class, profession, etc.
    2. very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
    1. ife changes—you might adopt new words when you start attending a new school, or take a new job, or have a baby, for example.

      We all use slang, all the time in every area of life. Code-switching.

    1. The end result is a lively, playful body of language that is at times used for no other reasons than that it is fun to use and identifies the speaker as clever and witty.
    2. tribe

      "Tribe" "Secret Kingdom" part of an exclusive group.

    3. oppression

      Oppression is probably why much of our slang comes from African American culture.

    1. In one sense, code-switching is about dialogue that spans cultures. It evokes the conversation we want to have here.

      I feel like I code switch between my life here at school, and my life at home. My theory of having two lives.

    2. in that professional, polite, kind of buttoned-up voice that people use when they're doing professional work stuff.

      Working in retail, I feel like a I have a tone or certain voice I use with customers.

    1. Slang vocabulary is like an irregular blinking signal that discloses someone’s location to those privy to the code. 

      Kingdom, club etc.

    2. hierarchy.

      this all goes against the hierarchy, to fight power above them, or even to have a way to talk about the hierarchy.

    3. bro

      I say bro all the time, typically in a sarcastic way, however to the point where I do not even think about it.

    4. For example, only about a dozen terms refer to drinking alcohol and a comparable total to Jews, Italians, and African American.

      Interesting that there were not many derogatory terms or terms used for drugs/ alcohol. That is a large part of slang in the 21st century.

    1. student assignments, befuddling some high school teachers who are unsure how to fix this growing problem.

      As I mentioned on the interview from "Teen Slang" some do not know where to draw the line.

  7. Mar 2016
    1. Platforms like Vine and Twitter

      I wonder if social media has changed slang. Besides making slang less regional and more well known, how has social media impacted slang?

    2. bleached

      Dominated by white people, again creating/ reinforcing the inequality.

    3. subgroup to the mouths of moms or television actors

      Slang is used to be different and stand out, When it no longer serves that purpose, it becomes irrelevant.

    4. prestige dialect or are in positions of power.”That’s likely because people in positions of privilege don’t face the same social pressure to adapt their language

      Reinforcing inequality.

    5. prestige dialect or are in positions of power.”

      Power in language, as Anne Curzan argues.

    6. social standing

      The inequality that Curzan talks about.

    7. meme-ified

      Is "meme" considered a slang word?

    8. Blatantly

      The new "literally"?