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Get Into Community Service!

If you're looking for a way to get involved in community service in Lexington with an amazing group of people, consider joining Alpha Phi Omega. APO is a co-ed service fraternity that emphasizes friendship, leadership, and service. Through APO, you get to be part of an unbelievable brotherhood, while being able to volunteer with various organizations in the community!

Students, Mid-semester Courses Can Give You A Few Extra Hours

Looking for some extra credit hours this semester? Don’t forget to check out our mid-semester, 2 credit-hour courses. This spring A&S is offering Passport to China, which is part of the larger Year of China programming, Community 101, Composing with Visuals, and the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

These classes are a great way to explore new topics and gain extra credit hours – for more information, contact your advisor.

 

Eat, Eat, Eat

After settling into our new digs, we walked over to Shlomi’s for a simple but satisfying meal of vegetable bean soup, borekas (delicious filled pastries, pictured below, photo credit: Jim Ridolfo), and pita on, oddly enough, Abraham Lincoln Street.  

Plate of borekas and Arabic language cellphone ad for Orange.

[Photo: Bulgarian-cheese filled borekas above, Arabic language ad for Orange cell phone company below, photo taken by Jim Ridolfo]

And eat, eat, eat is what we’ve continued to do. The weekend begins here on Thurs. evening and lasts through Friday until Saturday night at sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath comes to a close. Like the people living here, the city also pauses to rest a bit, as public transportation and most shops and restaurants shut down from Friday night sundown until three stars appear in the sky on Saturday night. Consequently, Friday morning is the time when people catch up with friends, and the city hums with life, as everyone bustles about to buy groceries and make preparations for the Sabbath.

 

How to edit your adobe connect recordings

Adobe connect can be a very useful tool for collaborations. For example, it allows users to discuss the projects they are working through the use of microphone and screen share. A user can also record the meeting and post the video for others to view later. Editing the video on adobe connect may be easier for users because it does not have many complicataed tools. Furthermore, a user can always revert the edited video back to the original state if he decides that he does not like the editing and wants to start from the beginning.  In the video, I will talk about ways to edit recordings on adobe connect.

 

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