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By Dr. Honora Norton
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It is time for Rotary Club of Sun Lakes Dictionary Project.
Despite the internet, dictionary use is still a needed skill. Dictionaries are important in the digital age because they help children understand the meanings of words, learn the English language and spell words correctly, follow instructions and carry on conversations.
The more words a child knows, the better the child will be able to understand and connect with other people.
Since 2003, each school year, RCSL promotes literacy and forges connections with young people through the Club’s Dictionary Project.
The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995, has the goal to assist all students to become good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing students a gift of their own personal dictionary.
The dictionary is filled with more than just terms and definitions. It often represents the first personal book these children are given and contains mini encyclopedia filled with maps; sections on world geography, civics, math conversion tables, science, the water cycle, planets, the constitution, bill of rights, presidents, largest word and even has illustrations for sign language and braille.
Annually, RCSL provides the purchasing, preparation and delivery of “A Student’s Dictionary” with book mark to 3,000+ all the third-grade students in Chandler Unified School District, approved private schools, Native American communities and Title 9 Schools.
To date the RCSL has distributed over 54,000 dictionaries. As part of the preparation, over twenty RCSL, members of the Chandler Horizon’s Club, friends and families recently held a sticker party and readied 3,078 dictionaries for delivery to CUSD schools.
Teachers were grateful.
“Please know that you have touched the lives of our students in a very meaningful way,” said one while another noted, “The gift of knowledge is the most precious gift of all.”
The happiness and wonder on the kids’ faces is the gift we Rotarians receive.
To quote some students from their thank you notes: “The longest word is really cool.” “That was nice of you to spend your money on the dictionaries for us!” “I will always think of the Rotary Club giving all third graders such a useful gift.” “You’re the best people ever. Keep doing what you do best.”
For more information: sunlakesrotary.com
For the longest time the SteelSeries Arctis 7P headset was sold out at most retailers, which was no surprise given that it's easily one of the best PS5 headsets on the market. Ahead of Black Friday, SteelSeries has it back in-stock on its own storefront, and you can currently purchase it for just $100.
This will likely be the cheapest you'll find this headset this holiday. Though a newer model, the Arctis 7P+, recently released, you shouldn't expect the 7P to drop in price any further. The Arctis 7P usually sells for $150, and in the past some companies have taken to price gauging because it was so difficult to come by in-stock.
In addition to an outstanding design, the Arctis 7P is also compatible with SteelSeries' free customization software. This allows you to adjust its speakers' equalizer, dynamic range compression, and microphone. There are also settings if you want to save its battery and have it turn off after being inactive for a certain amount of time. All in all, there's very little to dislike about the Arctis 7P.
I've personally tested it out and as I can attest in my review, it's simply outstanding. There's steep competition from the likes of Razer and Turtle Beach, both incredibly popular brands, but the Arctis 7P can top a lot of their offerings.
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Fluffernutter is now in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
But what exactly is a fluffernutter? It’s a sandwich made with peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, of course.
While the word — and the sandwich — have been around for a while, it was added to the dictionary recently because the word has reentered the zeitgeist.
“We watch to see is this word’s use growing or is it falling. If the word is growing, even incrementally, even slowly, like fluffernutter, it belongs in the dictionary,” said the editor-at-large at Merriam-Webster in Massachusetts.
KIRO Radio’s Rachel Belle wonders if it was the COVID-19 pandemic that had fluffernutter pop up more, perhaps as people turned to comfort food? But the world may never know the real reason.
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Other words added to the dictionary this year include: vaccine passport, super-spreader, dad bod, air fryer, ghost kitchen, and fourth trimester. The word “because” also made it in, but with a different definition.
“You would say something like, ‘Yeah, we couldn’t go on vacation this year because COVID,'” Rachel explained.
“I’ve turned into a jerk because internet,” Seattle’s Morning News host Dave Ross gave as an example.
For any word nerds out there who want to be annoyed, “amirite” also made it in.
“I am so angry, Dave, I am so angry,” Rachel said.
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A few days after the Nov. 2 election, the New York Times published a vehement editorial calling for the Democratic Party to adopt "moderate" positions and avoid seeking "progressive policies at the expense of bipartisan ideas." It was a statement by the Times editorial board, which the newspaper describes as "a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values."
The editorial certainly reflected "longstanding values" — since the Times has recycled them for decades in its relentless attacks on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Here's our attempt to translate the Times' sometimes baffling or misleading language and decode what it's really saying.
Translation: Stick to corporate-friendly policies of the sort that we applauded during 16 years of the Clinton and Obama presidencies.
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Translation: The Biden administration should reach across the aisle even more solicitously to the leadership of an obstructionist, largely racist, largely climate-change-denying, Trump-cultish Republican Party.
Translation: Although poll after poll shows that nearly all elements the Build Back Better agenda are popular with the broad public — especially increased taxation on wealthy and corporate elites to pay for it — we need to characterize the plan as part of "a sharp leftward push."
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Translation: While we don't object to the ongoing "rush to spend taxpayer money" on the military, and we did not editorialize against the bloated Pentagon budget, we oppose efforts to "grow the government" too much for such purposes as health care, child care, education, housing and mitigating the climate crisis.
Translation: No need to fret about the anti-democratic power of great wealth and corporate monopolies. We liked the status quo before the Trump presidency, and that's more or less what we want now.
Translation: Spanberger, a former CIA case officer and current member of the corporate-friendly Blue Dog Coalition in Congress, is our kind of Democrat.
Translation: Democrats should work to implement policies to help the American people — but not go overboard by helping them too much. We sometimes write editorials bemoaning the vast income inequality in this country, but we don't actually want the government to do much of anything to reduce it.
Translation: We editorialize about social justice, but we don't want structural changes and substantial new government policies that could bring it much closer. We editorialize about the climate crisis, but not in favor of government actions anywhere near commensurate with the crisis. Our type of tepid liberalism is an approach that won't be a bottom-line threat to the Times owners and big advertisers — and won't diminish the leverage and holdings of wealthy elites, including New York Times Company chairman A.G. Sulzberger and the company's board of directors. We want change, but not too much!
Translation: Although progressives are fighting for programs that actually do have broad public support, we'll keep on steadfastly declaring that the truth is otherwise. Progressives should simply give up and surrender to the corporate forces we like to call "moderate."
More on the post-Trump plight of the Democratic Party:
First, people claimed that Merriam-Webster sneakily changed the definition of the word “anti-vaxxer” to include people who oppose laws that mandate vaccination. (It didn’t. It has always had the same definition.)
Now, social media posts are making another gripe with the online dictionary with assertions that it changed the definition of the word “vaccine.”
“Vaccine used to be defined as a substance that provides ‘immunity’ to a specific disease,” a post shared on Facebook said. “Now, Merriam Webster has literally changed the definition of ‘vaccine’ and removed the ‘immunity’ portion to possibly cover for the fact that Covid ‘vaccines’ don’t actually provide immunity from Covid.”
This is misleading. Merriam-Webster has revised its entry for the word “vaccine” as part of its continual revision of entries, but it did not remove references to immunity. Rather, it changed the phrase “increase immunity” to say, “stimulate the body’s immune response.” The current entry better captures how mRNA-based vaccines work compared with traditional vaccines.
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat potential false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
For years, the dictionary definition for the word “vaccine” had had the following wording:
“A preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease.”
On May 24, 2021, dictionary editors revised it to read, in part:
“A preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body’s immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease.”
It then goes on to include 10 examples of the word in use; with some being typical uses and some being quotations that show how vaccine is used in context. (These examples appear in light blue text in the online dictionary.)
“This definition has been revised to reflect both more scientifically accurate language and the fact that we have more space in the online dictionary,” said Peter Sokolowski, editor at large of Merriam-Webster.com. “We are now able to provide much more context and detail than previously possible in print dictionaries. The wording had originally been drafted in order to accommodate the space restrictions of our print editions, where definitions necessarily had to be as brief as possible.”
The dictionary further explains and links to related terms such as “attenuated” and “adjuvant,” as well as “messenger RNA” and “immune response.” These explanations and links, Sokolowski said, serve to give broader coverage to the term being defined.
“In particular, the definition for immune response provides a detailed description of how a vaccine actually works, and is therefore more specific, scientific, and complete than the more general term immunity,” he added.
Here is the definition of “immune response,” which readers can find linked in the vaccine entry:
“A bodily response to an antigen that occurs when lymphocytes identify the antigenic molecule as foreign and induce the formation of antibodies and lymphocytes capable of reacting with it and rendering it harmless — called also immune reaction.”
A Facebook post claims that Merriam-Webster changed the definition of vaccine and removed the portion about immunity.
This is misleading. The dictionary did recently revise its definition of vaccine to be more detailed. But it didn’t eliminate the portion about immunity. Rather, it changed the wording to say that vaccines stimulate the body’s immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease. The entry also references the definition of “immune response,” which is more detailed than before.
This claim presents an element of truth but leaves out critical facts that would give a different impression. That’s our definition for Mostly False.
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The COVID-19 vaccine for ages 5 and up and booster shots for eligible recipients are being administered at doctors’ offices, clinics, pharmacies, grocery stores and public vaccination sites. Many allow appointments to be booked online. Here’s how to find a site near you:
Find a site: Visit vaccines.gov to find vaccination sites in your zip code.
More help: Call the National COVID-19 Vaccination Assistance Hotline.
Phone: 800-232-0233. Help is available in English, Spanish and other languages.
TTY: 888-720-7489
Disability Information and Access Line: Call 888-677-1199 or email DIAL@n4a.org.
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Lynn Palermo, associate professor of French studies, was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in prose for her translation of the novel Humus (University of Virginia Press, 2020).
Humus is a fictionalized account of the true story of 14 African women who in 1774 escaped the hold of a slave ship by leaping into shark-infested waters rather than face a lifetime of enslavement. Half of them drowned or were eaten by sharks. From this tragic incident, French author Fabienne Kanor composed a powerful novel in which each woman tells her own story. Their intertwined narratives reveal the brutalizing effects of slavery, not only on the victim but also on the oppressor.
“When I first read Humus, I was seized by the novel. I was fascinated by the complex portrayals of the main characters at the center of the novel – 18th century African women who come from various locations, cultural groups, belief systems and positions in their societies,” Palermo said. “Their lives intersect only because they have been torn from their own lives and subjected to the violent and traumatic abuse of capture so that they can be sold into slavery. Yet, they somehow maintain their sense of self throughout.”
The National Translation Award, which is administered by the American Literary Translators Association, is the only national award for translated fiction, poetry and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.
“I think the value of reading literature in translation is that you connect on a deeply human level with people around the world whose lives and experiences are very different from your own. I think we need to hear more stories from around the world to understand the world and feel a part of it,” Palermo said. “The United States is such a massive, diverse country that we tend not to realize to what extent we cut ourselves off from the rest of the world because it seems like we have a world full of perspectives right here and conveniently in English. To translate is to see a bit of the world through others’ eyes.”
