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Tracer Photo and Time Allocation Survey—Faculty Info Dear Carleton Faculty, We need your help! Would you assist us in recruiting students for a fun and educational research project? If so, please hand the attached flyer (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 13kB Sep22 09) to your students. The Carleton Writing Program and Science Education Resource Center are conducting a three-year research project on the Writing Across the Curriculum and Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge faculty development programs, faculty teaching, and student learning (Spencer Foundation grant). As part of this larger project, we are recruiting students to collaborate with us on a holistic study of their learning and life outside of the classroom. Students will take pictures or write updates, hourly, of a day in their Fall term. Then, they are invited to participate in a 45 minute interview about their time and activities with a researcher. This study will provide us with essential contextual information about student life at Carleton for evaluating the impact of WAC and QuIRK initiatives on campus. Student participants will obtain a view of how they are spending their time during the day and will actively contribute to an understanding of how learning occurs at Carleton. In addition, interested students will have the opportunity to learn social science research techniques if they choose to participate in the project planning, interviewing, and analysis portion of this project. 1.What, how, and where does learning take place at Carleton outside of the classroom? 2.How does learning fit into students' life in general? Two possible methodologies Option One: Take a photo every hour when possible with a list of potential subjects for loose guidance. Option Two: A Twitter or Facebook-like update (on a Word Document or email) of hourly activities during the day. Consent and Confidentiality We are firm believers in repeated and informed consent. Students' identities and identifying information will remain completely confidential. Photos and quotes from written updates will not be used without students' consent. All participation is completely voluntary and students may exit from the study at any time. Gudrun Willett, Ph.D. Writing Program and SERC Download or print this file (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 73kB Sep22 09)

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See Also: Action Members As well as the callback that is called when the action gets activated, the following also gets associated with the action: The action will also have some state information: Apart from regular actions, there are toggle actions, which can be toggled between two states and radio actions, of which only one in a group can be in the "active" state. Other actions can be implemented as Gtk.Action subclasses. Each action can have one or more proxy menu item, toolbar button or other proxy widgets. Proxies mirror the state of the action (text label, tooltip, icon, visible, sensitive, etc), and should change when the action's state changes. When the proxy is activated, it should activate its action.

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The old ironworks The old ironworks in Lesjaverk was adrift from 1660 to 1812. Important resources for the ironwork was Gruvlia, Håmårfossen and Stellsteinberget. You can get more information about these resources in the submenu to «The old ironworks» in the left sidebar. The old ironworks lays on the downside of the railroad in Lesjaverk with enterance south for the railroad station (signed to Lesjaverk sag and Lesjaverk Gard). Here you can find the iron furnace from the 1700-times (the only in this country from this epoch) and the main building by the ironworks. There is also an cultural-path by the ironworks you can go with 11 posts.

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Blueberries and Their Amazing Health Benefits and Anti-Aging Effects The Many Health Benefits of Blueberries This sweet, flare-crowned, indigo superfruit is more than just a mouth-watering delight to your craving senses. Would you believe that this favorite has a wide range of micronutrients that do not only protect the body from diseases, but also aging? High Antioxidant Value Blueberries, along with blackberries, strawberries, and plums, have the highest total antioxidant capacity of any food. It is being regarded as one of the “superfuits” having the promising combination of nutrient value, emerging research evidence for health benefits, versatility for manufacturing popular consumer products, and antioxidant strength. Antioxidants are thought to aid in guarding the body against the detrimental effects of free radicals to cells and the chronic diseases associated with the course of aging. The antioxidants present in this fruit can protect the cell, so there is less chance for aging. These berries contain 14 mg of Vitamin C and 0.8 mg Vitamin E per 1 cup. They also contain anthocyanins and phenolics that can also act as antioxidants. With this, the effects to the skin are copious. The compound anthocyanin, found in this fruit, is thought to slow down age-related loss in the mental capacity of humans. Those who eat more of them are thought to have better functioning in motor behavioral learning and memory. Anthocyanin also gives them their color and might be the key factor of this fruit's antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. While it is thought that aging can decrease cognitive and motor functions, these berries can be of huge value in helping to improve mental functioning. Improve Your Balance and Coordination This fruit also has positive effects to balance and coordination. In a study by Dr. James Joseph of Tufts University, it was found that a diet loaded with these sweet berries counteracted poor balance and coordination associated with aging. In this study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Joseph fed four groups of rats a normal diet. However, among these groups were given blueberries, spinach, or strawberries. For 18 weeks, the rats were tested for mental functioning, muscle strength, coordination, and balance. The two groups which were fed with strawberry and blueberry extracts performed well on these tests, but the group fed with blueberries executed the most improvement. Not only that, findings also showed that this particular fruit improved the neuronal functioning of the rats. Dr. Joseph suspects the findings are a result of their rich store of flavonoids -- phytochemicals that have an effect on cell membranes. These findings suggest that nutritional intervention can offer hope to those suffering poor balance and coordination related to aging. Prevention of Diseases A serving of this delightful fruit provides a relatively low glycemic load while providing a diverse range of nutrients, which also means there are fewer calories (good news for calorie-watchers) in a serving full of phytochemicals and nutrients such as iron, vitamins C and E. Because of the phytochemicals present, the risk of acquiring some deadly diseases may also be prevented. Anthocyanins, proanthocyanidins, flavonols, and tannins found in this wonderful fruit may help prevent cancer by inhibiting some cancer mechanisms. These components protect the DNA from damage and disintegration caused by free radicals. At a symposium on berry health benefits, there have been reports that eating these and other similar fruits like cranberries may improve the cognitive deterioration occurring in Alzheimer's disease and other conditions of aging. Blueberries may help lower the damages of stroke. Researches have also shown that this tasty and delicious fruit may help prevent urinary tract infections (UTI), hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia that can also lead to potentially fatal heart disease. With blueberries, your tongue, and more importantly your health would get the best out of it. Well, even without all these benefits in mind, who wouldn’t die for a serving? Hmmmm… Anyone? For more articles of similar interest click these links:

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“America is addicted to oil” as President George W. Bush acknowledged in his 2006 State of the Union Speech. And, it is not just a US problem, nor is the addiction only to oil. Oil, coal and natural gas are the fossil reserves which power our planet, but now the spotlight is on crop biomass to provide a significant alternative source of energy and materials. No-till farming and paraquat have a vital role to play in producing enough biomass while sustaining food production and protecting the environment. At present, biofuels are manufactured from the parts of crops otherwise harvested for food, eg grain. This leads to two problems: Not enough fuel Potentially not enough food The yield of fuel – biodiesel or bioethanol – from the oils or starch found in seeds is relatively low. With the economic and environmental motivation to grow more crops for biofuels, in future, they may take up valuable land that should be used for growing food, especially in poor Third World countries. Already, in Mexico the rising price of corn tortillas, a staple food for many poorer people, has been a problem. This has been due to the higher price of US corn, driven-up by the demand for ethanol. To address both fuel and food issues, it would be much more attractive to use unharvested parts such as corn stover or wheat straw for biofuel production.

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When the Rajasthan State came in existence in March 1949, there was no department as such in the state to deal with the animal husbandry sector. Initially Animal Husbandry activities were taken care by the Department of Agriculture. In 1958 the department was separated from the Department of Agriculture. The Animal Husbandry Department thus came in to existence in 1958, along with Sheep and Wool and Fisheries In 1984 the Fisheries Department was separated from the Department of Animal Husbandry making it an independent Department. Rajasthan has a geographical area of 3,42,239 Sq.Km, which is 10.4%of the country’s geographical area. The total human population of Rajasthan in 2001 is 56.47 million. The rural population is 76.6% and urban population is 23.4% and the population density is 165 per Sq.Km. The tribal population is 12.4% of the total population of the state. The state has a forest cover of 16,367 Sq,Km. The livestock population of the state as per 2003 livestock census is 491.36 lacs. The estimate of milk ,egg and wool production was 9375 thousand tones, 663.10 million nos. and 15685 thousand Kgs respectively in 2006-07, The state produces highest wool in the country Animal husbandry and livestock is highly potential sector contributing a lot in state economy, especially of rural economy. The potential of crop production depends upon huge investment and weather and meteorological conditions. Comparatively Animal husbandry and livestock is more stable and requires lesser investments. Livestock and poultry have proved to be life savior in many distress conditions, especially in case of drought. Animal Husbandry is not only a subsidiary occupation to agriculture but it is a major economic activity, especially in the arid and semi-arid regions of the Rajasthan. Livestock sector development has a significant beneficial impact in generating employment and reducing poverty in rural areas. Livestock provides other benefits to the rural sector. Livestock supplies a large portion of draft power for agriculture. Animal Husbandry contributes about 13% in the G.D.P. of the State . This sector has a great potential for rural self-employment at lowest possible investment per unit. Therefore, livestock development is a critical pathway to rural As per the livestock census of 2003, there are 491.36 lacs animals and over 61.8 lacs Poultry in the State. Rajasthan has about only 7% of the country’s cattle population and contributes over 11% of the total milk production, 30% of the mutton and 40% wool produced in the country. Rajasthan is first in Wool production while third in milk production .

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Blessing of the Sun Birkat ha-hammah (Blessing of the Sun) On the morning of April 8 (Nisan 14) Jews will gather around the world to observe something which happens only once every twenty eight years. Just as it is customary to mark the new moon with blessings, so it has been customary to mark the return of the sun to the place in its cycle Jewish tradition says it occupied during the week of creation. According to the rabbis of the Talmud (Berakhot 59b), every twenty eight years this happens “on the evening of Tuesday, going into Wednesday”. Tractate Berakhot instructs that the blessing appropriate to be recited on the anniversary of this event is: Barukh oseh Vereshit, or in English: Blessed is the One who (continually) creates. Since Talmudical times this simple blessing has grown into a more complex liturgical order. The earliest printed order of blessing for Birkat ha-hammah of which I am aware comes to us from the Sephardic world. It was published in Leghorn (Livorno), Italy, in a prayerbook entitled, “Tefilah zakah”, compiled by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Castello (Castilho), in 1789. That order was reprinted in 1841 as a separate booklet entitled, “Boker Yizrakh” by R. David Meldola of the Sephardic community in London. All of this is of special interest to the Library of the Hebrew Union College because among the manuscripts (ms.) held in our rare book collections, we are privileged to possess an attractive hand colored illustrated pamphlet that offers an order of blessing for “Birkat ha-hammah” as it was, according to the ms., observed in the time of R. Hayyim Yosef David Azulai (1724-1806) in the city of Leghorn, Italy (Ms. 795). As Azulai’s name is followed by the acronym z.ts.ve-k.l. (May the memory of the righteous and the holy be for a blessing), we may infer that the unnamed scribe wrote his manuscript only after Azulai’s death in 1806. The text of the ms. is written in two different Hebrew hands. The first part which begins with the information just noted not surprisingly offers essentially the same ritual as that published in the Castello prayer book of 1789. The second adds the text of the Birkat ha-levanah (Blessing of the (new) moon). The manuscript also includes material related to the Akedah (attempted sacrifice of Isaac), and to Hanukkah. The staff of the Hebrew Union College Library is proud to present photos of the manuscript. Daniel J. Rettberg, Ph.D. Rare Book and Manuscript Bibliographer For more information on the customs of Birkat ha-hammah and on the history of its liturgy and its publication, please note: - Bleich, J. David; overviews by Rabbi Nosson Scherman. Bircas hachammah: Blessing of the Sun – Renewal of Creation … Brooklyn, New York: Mesorah Publications, 1980. - Sefer Tefilah zakah … lishboah be-hodshe ha-shanah ve-shalosh regalim … ule-minhage k.k. Livorno … Poh Livorno … shenat 549 [1788 or 1789], Leaves 217b-218a. Labels: blessing sun manuscript

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School and District Assessments: The foundation for many school and district improvement activities is the establishment of a baseline of current strengths and areas in need of improvement. The Department offers a variety of evaluation processes designed for schools and districts in need of improvement. The Department is currently working on the development of an online tool that will be available to all schools and districts, regardless of need, for the fall 2009. Statewide School and District Improvement Foundation and Resources: CALI was initiated in 2004 in collaboration with an international expert on school and district improvement, Dr. Doug Reeves. The CALI theory of action focuses on the use of data-driven decision making and standards-based instruction to address the learning needs of each and every student in the classroom. This initiative has grown since 2004 in response to needs identified by schools and districts. The newest additions include a focus on school leadership, culture and climate, and specific supports for English language learners and students with disabilities (Scientific Research-based Intervention). No Child Left Behind and the Connecticut Accountability for Learning Legislation: The No Child Left Behind Act was enacted by the federal government to address the national problem of low academic achievement for specific groups of students in our public schools. In an effort to address this achievement gap in the State of Connecticut, state legislation was passed in 2007 to support the State Department of Educationís efforts to identify and work with schools and districts that were identified as underperforming. These two pieces of legislation work hand in hand to guide the Departmentís accountability and school improvement work. Resources for Partner and Supported Schools and School Districts: To support the partner and supported schools and school districts, the Department has developed a variety of resources and strategies. Districts are assigned staff from the Bureaus of Accountability, Compliance & Monitoring and School & District Improvement to work with the district leadership team on the development of a District Improvement Plan. The State Board of Education reviews and approves the plans for all partner districts. The Department has also developed a State Improvement Plan that mirrors the district improvement process. This plan will guide the Department in the ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of our improvement initiatives. In addition, the Department receives guidance and feedback on our improvement initiatives from the Accountability and School Improvement Advisory Committee. CALI Strategic Partnerships: In order to expand the capacity of the Department to provide support and technical assistance to districts, the Department has developed many strategic partnerships with professional associations. These partnerships are all designed to support CALI and the Department works closely with the organizations to ensure alignment and consistency of message and service.

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Close to 100 attorneys, progressive advocates and Triangle-area residents gathered today to discuss the continuing judicial vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, growing numbers of federal judicial vacancies elsewhere, delayed U.S. Senate confirmations of presidential nominees and the ongoing need for increased diversity on the bench. Speakers at the event, “Why Courts Matter,” included 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James A. Wynn, Jr., and Andrew Blotky, director of Legal Progress at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. As Blotky pointed out, there are 82 current vacancies on the federal bench, with an additional 20 vacancies that will occur this year—meaning that nearly 65 percent of the population lives in a community with a courtroom vacancy. And while it took roughly 35 days for the Senate to get George W. Bush’s nominees to a vote, it’s taken 150 days for Barack Obama’s to get to that point. Both Wynn and Blotky called for the quick confirmation of fair, impartial, clear-thinking and diverse judges to fill those vacancies—which even when filled, Wynn added, would only solve the backlog. The U.S. Judicial Conference has called for the creation of additional judgeships to meet caseload demand. The judges who sit on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina handle one of the heaviest caseloads in the country, approaching nearly 800 cases per judge in 2012. And they’ve been waiting for help for close to eight years now. The court, based in Raleigh but with courtrooms elsewhere along the eastern part of the state, now has the dubious distinction of having the oldest federal judicial vacancy in the country. The seat&mdashh;opened up on Dec. 31, 2005, when Judge Malcolm J. Howard took senior status—has been unfilled for more than 2,500 days. Read More…

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Becoming one with your cell phoneMay 7, 2012 at 12:43 pm | Posted in modern trends, science, social comment, technology | Leave a comment Tags: cell phone implants, Mobile device, Mobile phone, Science and Technology, Tattoo, vibrating tattoo ink, Wireless I’ve thought for a long time now, that eventually technology will find a way for people to have cell phones permanently implanted into their bodies. It would be so much more convenient to have your phone as part of your anatomy, and possibly less annoying for the observer, than to have the phone constantly in your hand/s and/or in front of your face. I think cell phone use can, for some, be classified as an addiction. The other day I was driving on a very narrow, winding road when I came up behind a bicyclist who instead of moving close to the shoulder, to allow me to pass, swerved aimlessly in front of my car and toward the middle of the road forcing me to slow down until I could safely pass. When this finally happened I saw that the guy on the bike was riding no hands and no eyes as he was completely engrossed in texting. A mac truck could have been heading right toward him; he was oblivious. I thought he would deserve it if I circled back and ran him over. So I guess there is good news on the horizon for cell phone junkies. There are designs in the works for implanting phones into teeth and under the skin. In addition Nokia has a patent for tattoo ink that vibrates in various patterns when you receive a call, text, or other notification from your phone. Thank goodness for this last one, it allows you to be more than three feet from your precious mobile device. These options raise all kinds of questions and scenarios in my mind, aside from the obvious unknown negative health implications. For starters let’s look at the dental and skin phone implants. Will there be small clinics located in phone stores or will you need to take the device to a medical facility? Will the doctors and dentists need special training and certifications? Or, and this one is scary, will they simply train some of the top phone sales people as phone-med techs (an entirely new job category)? Teeth can be rather sensitive. When you receive a call will it be an unpleasant sensation similar to having a tooth drilled without Novocaine? I think this gives new meaning to talking with your mouth full and if you have one implanted into your forearm you can truly say, “Talk to the hand.” What happens with the arm and dental implant when your contract is up; does it require a new medical procedure? If you don’t pay your bill, will some guy with a scalpel show up at your door? I’m thinking they should just put the phones in breast implants…we could have all kinds of fun with that topic on another day. Moving on to the vibrating tattoo ink, which could be a great source of irritation or pleasure…I’m guessing. If you chose to put the tattoo in a spot where you have a lot of tension the tattoo could have a relaxing massage-like effect. On the other hand if you receive a lot of calls and texts it could start to get kind of annoying. And I just know that there will be the guy (or guys) who thinks it’s a good idea to have the vibrating tattoo placed on his penis and spends the day calling himself. Or maybe it vibrates for her pleasure, in which case getting a phone call during an intimate encounter, rather than being a bad thing, may enhance the experience. I am really glad that so much thought and money is being used to develop these products that will greatly enhance our lives. Do you love your cell phone enough to have an invasive procedure that makes you one with your phone? Leave a Comment » Throw in your two cents Cancel reply - Show your papers - what does an American look like? - BO, The Portuguese Water Dog - Time For a Grand Jury Investigation of Bush Regime - Letter from Jesus - Whale vs. Jackass (Whale 1, Jackass 0 ) - Got a Lie-Phone - They Have Apps for That - Where's a cop when you need one? - India Should Change Name to Customer Service - Palin Porn - God's Open Door You’re welcome to follow, but I’m not really going anywhere. Board Certified Blogger One Lovely Blog Award Poulet-Sir Prize AwardThis much coveted award is for bloggers who have a sense of humor, are smarter than a and not too chicken to say what they think. Feel free to award this to any blogger you feel is deserving of such a prestigious award. Rules: 1. Proudly display the award on your blog with a link back to Honjii and a link back to the blogger, along with his/her name, who chose to award your blog. 2. Bestow this award, along with the rules, on a minimum of three blogs. 3. Contact the bloggers you've chosen and let them know of their incredibly life-altering good news. 4. Swear on your first born, or whatever you hold dear, never to mention these blogging awards are created by other self-serving bloggers trying to get more traffic altruistic bloggers who wish nothing more than acknowledging a blog well done. Mad as Hell Doctors Americans for Separation of Church & State Feul My Blog Copyright Notice© Honjii Li and Honjii's Harangues, 2012. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Honjii Li and Honjii's Harangues with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

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George Orwell would be most amused to hear about the latest development in the EU. Ten countries of the European Union have agreed to help develop computer programs that monitor the internet and CCTV images, according to Telegraph.co.uk. Just like in the novel,1984, the EU's project aim is to detect any abnormal behavior on forums, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers. The ultimate goal is to try to presage possible conflicts or acts of terror. Philip K. Dick, the author of Minority Report, would also be very amused. Project Indect is not only an attempt to scour the internet for strange behavior, the European Union is calling for a more unified law-enforcement system, across the European states. Police officers in the UK will be trained in European affairs over the course of the remaining 50 months the project. The five-year initiative already began on January 1st, 2009. Now the EU has decided to increase the budget by 13.5 % to nearly 1 billion Euros ($1.4 billion). Especially in the UK it has caused an outcry. Since the British citizens are already feeling oppressed by an abundance of CCTV cameras, many have sounded off their protest. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of human rights group Liberty, describes this whole project as positively chilling. "Profiling whole populations instead of monitoring individual suspects is a sinister move for any society", she said. Stephen Booth, Analyst at Open Europe, who has thoroughly assessed this program, has definitely recognized the Orwellian nature of it. To him it would mean less personal freedom for the citizens of the European Union. They will meddle with their privacy and the citizens should ask themselves, whether the EU shouldn't spend tax money on something else. No matter where this leads, the only hope is that it doesn't spiral out of control. An abundance of control becomes only an obstruction when everyone forgets what it's for. That's why, within this Project Indect, there is a special board for ethical issues. This could be the beginning of an effective EU "secret service".

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ATOFINA has started an investment programme over 5 years for the reinforcement of the unit control room and the reduction of risks related to the storage of hazardous products and to loading and unloading operations. A concrete example of it is the reduction of the inventories of liquid chlorine at the ATOFINA plant in Lavera (13). As soon as 1994, a first operation made it possible to do away with two tanks out of the seven being used; the maximum capacity thus decreasing from 750 to 500 tons with an average quantity stored of 300 tons. In 2002, after the removal of another storage facility and taking into account the fact that another tank was always kept empty for security purposes, the maximum capacity was reduced to 300 tons with an average quantity being used of 60 tons. At the same time, the tanks that were kept and all the linking pipes were checked and made safe, particularly so with a strengthening of their resistance in case of earthquakes, the suppression of pitting at lower levels, the introduction of extra security valves, an automated security programme triggered by the detection of chlorine in the atmosphere and the creation of a double-layer pipe system between the liquifaction unit and the storage facilities.

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Study says Central Corridor will increase housing costs along routeby Dan Olson, Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, Minn. — A growing number of people living along the Central Corridor light rail line between St. Paul and Minneapolis are already dealing with high housing costs, according to a new study released by a coalition of community groups. The study concludes that light rail-related development will make those housing costs go up even higher. Kate Hess Pace, a spokeswoman for ISAIAH, one of the groups sponsoring the study, said housing costs for some poorer residents along University Avenue take half or more of their income. "What we found is that 45 percent of corridor residents today are paying more than 30 percent of their income on housing," she said. Hess added that for some, the cost of their housing consumes up to 60 percent of their incomes. The study also looked at how businesses along the route will fare once the trains begin running. It concluded that more than 80 percent of the affected businesses are small, and the loss of parking to make room for light rail will cause them economic hardship. On the other hand, the study finds light rail will increase transportation options for residents. "Nearly a quarter of corridor residents do not have access to a vehicle," she said. "The light rail can be a huge opportunity for people to connect to jobs, services, education -- and to connect to extending arms of transportation to reach other parts of the Twin Cities as well." The Central Corridor health impact study recommends elected officials work to preserve and create affordable housing along University Avenue. The study's findings will be discussed at a community meeting at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in St. Paul on Saturday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

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This is the independent and official site for comparing performance information about all further education colleges and other organisations that receive Government funds to offer education and training to people over the age of 16. We help you to search for, and compare, performance information about different colleges and training organisations. This site does not include higher education offered by universities or information about school sixth forms. We aim to give you information about things you'll find important, such as: what people studying or training with an organisation thought about their experience, how employers rated the training they received and how many people completed courses or training and as a result found benefits in their job, or moved into further learning or work. We also publish Success Rates which show how many people achieved the qualifications they started. Further Education Public Information framework FE Choices is only part of the information available to help you make an informed choice. The framework also includes the course directory and information provided by each learning provider. About the information we publish Information is provided about organisations that offer academic and vocational subjects, apprenticeships, and training on and off the job. Information about the performance of universities can be found on the Unistats website . Information is published annually about a number of different areas including: - Success Rates - how many people pass the qualification they start; - Learner Destinations - information about the percentage of learners and trainees who moved into further learning, found a job or experienced employment benefits as a result of completing their course; - Learner Satisfaction - the views of learners who studied or trained with an organisation; and - Employer Satisfaction - the views of employers about the service they have received and the quality of training delivered to their staff Where we have enough reliable and robust data, we publish scores which show how well an organisation is performing. Even if we cannot calculate an overall score we publish as much information as we can to help you. For example we provide information on how individual questions have been answered to help you make more informed choices. Care should be taken when interpreting some of this information as it may be based on low numbers of responses. Alongside scores for each organisation, we publish information showing how they compare to similar types of organisations and to all other organisations. In 2011, this information is limited to the organisation that scored the lowest, the highest, and the middle score, if all scores were lined up from lowest to highest. Some other information is also available to help you. This includes the latest Ofsted Inspection grade, the date the organisation was inspected and a link to the Ofsted website so you can search for the report. As our site develops, we want to make improvements so it’s useful for anyone wishing to access learning or training after 16. We’re consulting with all kinds of people to make sure we get it right. Please leave your comments on your experience by rating our site.

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How Can I Prevent Oral Cancer? The best way you can protect yourself from oral cancer is to be aware of what makes you more likely to get it. These are called risk factors. You can’t affect some risk factors, but others you can do something about. Knowing more about the risk factors for oral cancer can help you make healthy choices to help you avoid it. The primary risk factors for oral cancer are using tobacco and drinking alcohol in large amounts over a long period of time. The risk is increased even more in people who use both tobacco and alcohol. Other risk factors that can be modified by lifestyle choices include the following: Ultraviolet light exposure. People who spend a lot of time in the sun have a greater risk of developing lip cancer. Poor nutrition. People whose intake of fruits and vegetables is low have a greater risk for oral and throat cancers. Poorly fitted dentures. Dentures that rub the inside of the cheeks or the tongue can trap cancer-causing substances, such as tobacco particles. All denture wearers should remove and clean their dentures every night and have them regularly checked by a dentist. If you find that you are at risk for oral cancer, there’s a lot you can do. Making healthy changes in your life can control some risks. You can also take steps to try to catch oral cancer in its early stages, when it is easiest to treat. Find out how you can be screened for oral cancer and how to recognize its symptoms.

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Santa Ana is the poor relation of nearby Irvine, a city of 210,000 that ranks among the top 10 in the United States in terms of average income. It is a different story in Santa Ana and its two primary schools -- George Washington Carver and Lydia Romero-Cruz. Most of the nearby houses are old buildings from the 1940s and 50s. Many families are Latino or Mexican immigrants; half sub-let living rooms or garages as their bedrooms. The recession has made their fathers and mothers lose their job. The free breakfasts and lunches provided by the government are very important for the children; but, during weekends, there is not enough food. It was in 2011 that Tzu Chi volunteer Jian Wan-ping discovered the plight of students from these low-income families. In September that year, volunteers began the ‘happy campus backpack’ food program in the school. The students took the backpacks home after school on Friday and brought them back, empty, to school on Monday. Volunteers then purchased more food, refilled the backpacks and prepared to give them out again on the upcoming Friday. This has since become a regular event for all those involved. With her previous experience of a backpack food program in Las Vegas, Jian knew that it was not enough only to distribute food, but also necessary to bring the seeds of love to the children. In the first month of the food program, students learnt how to say “Tzu Chi”, “grateful”, “I love you” and other words in sign language. The volunteers bring not only warmth to the students but also Tzu Chi culture into the school. They teach the students to have a grateful heart. At the distribution, they explain to the children where every item comes from, to show them that every donation is love from others which they should receive with a grateful heart. When they grew up, they can learn to turn their palm down to help others. Ms. Edna Velado, principle of both elementary schools, explained the positive influence which book donations, the backpack food program and a tutoring program by members of Tzu Chi Collegiate Associate have had on the children over the past decade. “Tzu Chi has brought so much hope to the school. When there is no hope, the families will be discouraged and the dreams will vanish. The children may even lose the motivation to search for a bright future. The donations from Tzu Chi have made many dreams possible in the two schools. With this hope, our children dare to dream that they can do it.” Two years ago, both Caver and Lydia Romero-Cruz were designated as “failing schools” by the Federal Education Department. In 2011, the schools received an award as “the most improved”. With emotion in her voice, Ms. Velado said that, in education, there is an adage: “‘It takes a village to raise a child’. For us, Tzu Chi is the village.” - Tzu Chi Helps 13,000 Earthquake Survivors in Guatemala - Tzu Chi Celebrates 10 Years in Las Vegas - Young Volunteers in Hawaii Clean Beach to Celebrate 20th Anniversary - Another Beautiful Day at Lake Mead - Uniforms, Stationery to Needy Students in Guatemala - Volunteer Care For the Families Outside Prison Fire in Honduras - Tzu Chi Carries Out Winter Distribution for Vancouver Natives - Volunteers Deliver Relief to 1,200 Flood Survivors in Honduras

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Most Active Stories Shots - Health Blog Tue October 18, 2011 Making Sense of Your Medical Math In their new book, Your Medical Mind: How To Decide What Is Right For You, oncologist Jerome Groopman and his wife, endocrinologist Pamela Hartzband, offer a roadmap to help people make the best medical decisions they can. Knowing your medical mind depends in large part on understanding your own personality and how that affects your decisions. The authors describe how someone who's a "believer" in medical intervention, for example, will be more likely to embrace treatment than a "doubter" who worries the treatment may be worse that the illness. There are other distinctions they describe, such as people who favor the use of technology versus those who prefer natural remedies. But no matter your personality type, sooner or later most people who are trying to make a medical decision have to decipher statistics that describe how successful a particular treatment is likely to be, among other things. And that's when it gets dicey for many people, because although numbers don't necessarily lie, they can be deceptive. Groopman and Hartzband suggest some concepts to discuss with your physician to help make sense of medical statistics. First, Groopman says, patients should always ask their doctors what the likelihood is of something happening — having a heart attack, for example — if they do nothing. That's their baseline risk. If your baseline risk is very low to start with, then numbers showing that you can reduce it even further with a particular medical treatment may not be as impressive as they appear. The authors cite the example of a patient, Susan Powell, whose doctor told her she could reduce her risk of a heart attack by 30 percent if she took a statin medication to lower her cholesterol level. That figure was correct. But Powell learned that based on her age, current cholesterol levels, non-smoking status and other factors, her baseline risk of a heart attack over the next 10 years was only 1 in 100, or 1 percent. She decided not to take the statin. Once you understand your baseline risk, the authors encourage you to consider another figure: "the number needed to treat." That number tells you how many people would need to receive the treatment you're considering in order for one person to benefit. In the case of an antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection, maybe that number is very low. If the number needed to treat is one, then nearly every person who takes the antibiotic will benefit, says Hartzband. But frequently, the benefit isn't as clear. In Susan Powell's case, if 300 women like Susan didn't take a statin, three of them would have a heart attack over the course of 10 years (1 percent). Taking a statin, however, would reduce the risk of heart attack by 30 percent. In practical terms, that means that one woman out of the three who could expect to have a heart attack would avoid it. The number needed to treat, therefore, in this case is thus 300, a large enough number that some patients might not wish to go forward, Groopman suggests. "It's a very powerful concept," says Groopman. "If I were in Las Vegas and the odds were 1 in 300 and I was betting, would I do that?"

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By Balqis Al-Jabri JEDDAH – The conditions at the Kingdom’s mental health hospitals are worse than many prisons around the world, said Dr. Muhammad Al-Shawoosh, the former director of Al-Amal Hospital in Jeddah and a consultant psychiatrist. He said there was an urgent need for intervention from the Ministry of Health. There was also a need for universities to revise their syllabi to produce better trained mental health professionals. He said recommendations on improving such hospitals have been gathering dust. He urged officials to take the necessary action. Al-Shawoosh said the drastic shortage of trained medical staff in the Kingdom and the world was a result of common misconceptions about becoming a mental health practitioner, and poor education. He said the situation at mental health hospitals has remained unchanged for more than 20 years. There are 16 psychiatric hospitals in the Kingdom and three Amal hospitals which treat drug addiction but these are too few to treat the rising number of patients. Al-Shawoosh urged officials to abide by international agreements on the treatment of persons with mental illnesses. He said such patients have not been able to voice their concerns, resulting in a steady deterioration of their treatment and care.

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During a search for a page on facebook, I found two hate pages.They only had a few members , but all I could think was what if one of my family found this page and read the hate speech. I decided to "report" both pages, as hate speech is against I sent links to the pages to some friends so they too could report them, they replied with links to others I thought that rather than 30 of us sending each other messages, I would collate the links on one Facebook page. An hour later there were hundreds of members and by the end of the day a thousand had joined. STOP Homophobia has become a huge gathering of LGBT support from all over the world. We educate each other. We have a lot of "straight" supporters who learn a lot about us too. This is community engagement, resource sharing, discussion, encouragement, on a global scale. The most important part of STOP Homophobia is the membership, those people who click to report, share stories and help to build community spirit, they are what

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On the fifth anniversary for the iPhone and as we draw closer to the release of iOS 6 this fall (read our First Take from WWDC here), I can't help but think of how far Apple's iOS has come since the day the first iPhone was unveiled. If you remember, that first iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs and Apple on January 9, 2007, and was more about the touch-screen interface than any extras, but it wasn't until June of that year the iPhone was released to the public. That first iOS wasn't even called iOS (Apple said the phone was running a version of OS X), and was simply the iPhone OS. This early operating system just had what we know today as the core apps -- basics such as Safari, E-mail, Maps, Notes, and a few others. It's hard to believe with how important the App Store is today, but it wasn't until iPhone OS 2.0 that the iTunes App Store was even introduced and still took a while to really get off the ground as app developers experimented with the new device. Regardless of what smartphone you use now, what Apple did with the first iPhone and its operating system was to put the smartphone into the hands of the casual user. It also pioneered the idea that the smartphone operating system was an evolution that would continue to improve incrementally over time and made iPhone users always want to know, "What will be in the next release?" The first iPhone had almost nothing beyond the fancy touch-screen interface, but over time, Apple listened to users and slowly crossed off the items on our iOS wish lists (while adding new features we hadn't thought of along the way). It certainly wasn't perfect in the early days, however. Most probably remember the absence of important features in the earlier iterations of the iPhone OS like copy and paste and later multitasking. These were not just glaring omissions, but fodder for advertisers of competing devices in ads trying to win people over to Android devices and other smartphones. On this five-year anniversary, check out how it all began for the iPhone OS and the steps it took to bring us where we are today. I'm not covering every release here, but instead showing the features added by the time the next major version was released. With that in mind, check out the major updates to Apple's iOS over the past five years. |OS version||Release | |iPhone OS 1.0 (initial release) ||June 2007| |iPhone OS 1.0.1 - 1.1.4||Beginning in September 2007| |iPhone OS 2.0 ||July 2008| |iPhone OS 2.0.1 - 2.2.1 ||Beginning in September 2008| |iPhone OS 3.0 ||June 2009| |iPhone OS 3.1 - 3.2 ||Beginning in September 2009| |iOS 4.0 ||June 2010 | |iOS 4.1 - 4.3.5 ||Beginning in September 2010 | |iOS 5.0||October 2011 | |iOS 5.1||March 2012 | iOS 6 (coming this fall) iOS 6 was announced at this year's WWDC (read our First Take) and will probably be released this fall to coincide with the unveiling of the new iPhone. Scott Forstall, Apple's SVP of iOS, promised that iOS 6 would bring 200 new features, including tighter Facebook integration, an empowered Siri voice assistant, and the capability to conduct FaceTime calls over a cellular network. But the biggest new feature is Apple's decision to replace the current Google Maps app with an in-house version with a whole new look, 3D city views, and turn-by-turn navigation with voice.

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(Health.com) -- Affluent countries, including the U.S., tend to have higher rates of depression than lower-income nations such as Mexico, a new study from World Health Organization researchers suggests. In face-to-face interviews, teams of researchers surveyed nationally representative samples of people in 18 countries on five continents -- nearly 90,000 people in all -- and assessed their history of depression using a standardized list of nine criteria. In addition to looking at personal characteristics such as age and relationship status, the researchers divided the countries into high- and middle-to-low income groups according to average household earnings. The proportion of people who have ever had an episode of clinical depression in their lifetime is 15% in the high-income nations and 11% in lower-income countries, the study estimates. France (21%) and the United States (19%) had the highest rates, while China (6.5%) and Mexico (8%) had the lowest. It's not clear what accounts for this pattern, says Evelyn Bromet, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stony Brook University, in Stony Brook, New York. But she stresses that wealth -- and happiness -- are relative concepts. "Wherever you are, there's always people doing better than you," Bromet says. "You'd think that countries that are better off should have lower rates [of depression], but just because they have a high income doesn't mean there isn't a lot of stress in the environment." Moreover, she adds, the richest countries in the world also tend to have the greatest levels of income inequality, which has been linked to higher rates of depression as well as many other chronic diseases. The income-related trends did not hold for all measures of depression, however. When Bromet and her colleagues looked only at episodes of depression that occurred in the previous year, the rate was nearly identical in higher- and lower-income countries, about 6%. (Here again, though, the U.S. came out close to the top: Its 8% rate was second only to Brazil's 10%.) This may reflect actual differences in depression rates, but it could also be that people in poorer countries are for some reason less likely to recall or relate episodes of depression from their past, the authors say. Comparing depression rates across different countries is inherently challenging, because survey participants may be influenced by cultural norms or their interactions with the interviewer, says Timothy Classen, Ph.D., an assistant professor of economics at Loyola University Chicago who has studied the link between economics and suicide. "There are significant disparities across countries in terms of the availability and social acceptance of mental health care for depression," says Classen, noting that there tends to be more stigma surrounding depression in a country like Japan than in the U.S. (Classen says this may explain why Japan has a higher suicide rate, even though its depression rates in the study were three to four times lower than those in the U.S.) Different age groups appeared to fare better than others depending on a country's level of affluence. For instance, older adults in high-income countries generally had lower rates of depression than their younger counterparts, while the trend was reversed in several poorer countries. In a country like the Ukraine, Bromet says, older people "have enormous pressure on them and they don't have enough money to live and take care of grandchildren and health problems. Their lives are extremely difficult relative to older people in this country." Bromet says the study findings can help countries identify their own high-risk populations, whether it's older adults in Ukraine or young divorced women in Japan. "I hope people in these countries will start thinking about social and medical support for these groups in particular, and what they can do to prevent depression in the future," she says. The study, which was published today in the journal BMC Medicine, is part of the WHO's Mental Health Survey Initiative. Government organizations (including the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health), charitable foundations, and pharmaceutical companies across the world have all helped finance the initiative, but the funders played no role in the data collection, analysis, or publication. Copyright Health Magazine 2011

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From time to time, this column tries to deliver a bit of insight into a problem or issue. At other times, this column tries to heap either praise or criticism on an assortment of topics. But from time to time, I come across what seems like the bizarre nature of humanity that often leaves you scratching your head in bewilderment. Today's column is the latter. It seems the D'Souza family of Sacramento, Calif., (where else?) has a small problem. The couple is convinced that their neighbors are plotting their demise by bombarding their home with mysterious "radio waves" that have caused all sorts of ailments. So the D'Souza family hatched a secret weapon to counter the radio wave assault. The couple attached aluminum pieces on the outside of their home and lined the interior walls with foil. That way, according to the D'Souzas, the aluminum would repel the radio waves and shield them from the neighborhood assault. Well fortunately, the city of Sacramento has policies against aluminum shields or any such devices and has ordered the family to remove the eyesores. The D'Souzas said they would reluctantly comply and remove the hodgepodge of metal strips that lined the house's exterior. They made no mention of removing the protective foil from the home's interior. Nor did they mention anything about removing the highly-secret foil mattress on their bed that serves as nocturnal protection. In a twist, the D'Souzas say the bombardment of invisible rays began exactly one year to the day following the Sept. 11 attack, thus they see some connection though they are hush-hush on their explanation. So today the streets of Sacramento are quiet. The D'Souza home no longer is encircled with aluminum shields and order has been restored. But the family vows to provide officials with evidence to support their unusual claim. So when your world is spinning out of control, your kids are restless at the beginning of summer, the bills are piling high and life seems too hectic, just think of the poor D'Souza family. There they sit, bombarded by highly-secret radio waves with no protection. See, you ain't got it so bad after all!

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It was Sandro 5, Cynthia 1 in our first wild mushroom foray of the season. Not quite enough for risotto, but enough to sauté with steak for dinner. The rubbery, cone-shaped morels proved as elusive as ever, poking up through last year’s grey-brown leaves, dried to parchment. The smart ones pop up under a curled leaf, which protects them from the elements but makes them even harder to spot. Each year I have to re-learn how to stop and slowly scan the forest floor for shrooms as if holding a video camera. I was beginning to think I’d never find one when one took pity on me and showed its brown head along the side of the path. Out came the Italian mushroom knife and into the mesh-bottom bag it went – the one we brought home from the annual mushroom competition in Boyne City, Michigan, where golden morels can grow 8 inches high. Wild leeks, with their floppy green leaves and straight white bulbs, were more plentiful. We’ve been sautéing them with eggs, chicken, everything! It’s the earliest Ontario season anyone can remember. Now if we could just get some rain!

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A future free of HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB Welcome to the National Observances Web Community. This online community is designed to help in planning, collaborating, and evaluating all National Observances relating to HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and Tuberculosis. You can see that there are specific groups dedicated to each observance, and you all have the ability to add content and resources, develop your professional profile, network with your peers, and collaborate to create more effective awareness and observance events. 2012 WORLD AIDS DAY RED RIBBON CHARITY FUNDRAISER!As we commemorate the 2012 World AIDS Day, we kindly invite you to buy our Red Ribbon lapel Pins in support of our Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Delivery e.g. Care and Support of People Living with AIDS…Continue Started by Albert KUNIHIRA in Promotion Nov 12, 2012. Started by Albert KUNIHIRA in Promotion Feb 17, 2012. Did you watch the webcast of the release of the Viral Hepatitis Plan today (May 12) ? Did you participate in the Partner Briefing with HHS and CDC? What do you think about the plan? How will it impact/influence your local efforts?

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NEC and a researcher from Japan’s Tohoku University, Professor Hideo Ohno, are working on a power chip that solves a pretty big problem: completely eliminating electricity consumption of electronic devices that are in standby mode. The key piece of technology here is CAM, the world’s first content addressable memory. This non-volatile memory will be built into the control circuits of TVs, computers and other devices and stores data even when the power is turned off. In other words, constant standby power to maintain data will not be needed anymore (the English press release goes into more technical detail). The picture above shows a prototype power chip. NEC plans to showcase the tech at a symposium in Kyoto this Friday. The company said it expects it will take up to five years until we can see the technology put to practical use.

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LONGMONT -- Kids gathered around laser levels on a classroom floor, frenetically trying to navigate a laser beam through a maze of mirrors to hit a target five feet off the floor. "Don't lose it!" said 11-year-old Jeremiah Medina as he and his classmates tried to find and aim the laser's endpoint. Summer STEM Academy Westview Middle School will offer a summer STEM Academy for students to explore interests in science, technology, engineering, math and the arts. When: Morning and afternoon sessions, June 3 to 7; June 10 to 14 Where: Westview Middle School, 1651 Airport Road, Longmont Cost: Between $75 and $100 per session For more information: Visit Westview'sSummer STEM Academy website.. A link to registration is available there. As part of Westview's new STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) focus program, the school is hosting monthly programs on the first Wednesdays of the month, the St. Vrain Valley School District's late-start days. The program is also open to fifth-graders who will attend Westview next year. "We want to build excitement around science and engineering," said Jeremy Lacrosse, Westview's assistant principal and STEM coordinator. So far, the school has held programs on space physics and marine biology. Next month, the school will have a presentation on chemistry for the kids, and on the late start day in May, there will be a presentation on wind. After each STEM event, LaCrosse has received positive feedback from both parents and students, he said. Fred Gluck, a University of Colorado Discovery Science instructor, visited on Wednesday to teach students about lasers. The students who got out of bed early to attend the program were rewarded with the chance to use the lasers themselves in the target exercise. After hitting the target once, Gluck encouraged them to add mirrors and complicate their maze. "We got nine mirrors," said David New, a Westview Middle School sixth-grader, like Jeremiah. Aiming the Another team used 16 mirrors, the most in the class, to hit the target. When Gluck questioned students about the exercise, Hygiene student Conrad Casciato, 10, pointed out one lesson. "(The laser is) going to bounce off the mirror at the same angle it hits the mirror," Conrad said. Gluck set up a laser show to teach students more. With spinning mirrors, he projected different designs on the wall as the kids actually took in as they oohed and aahed at the changing green shapes on the wall. "It was so cool when he did the light show," David said. "I really liked that a lot." The instructor also discussed how lasers are used, such as in construction, in surgery and for reading bar codes. One example he gave was scientists' bouncing a laser off a mirror on the moon to determine its distance from the earth. "Every day, they're coming up with new uses for lasers," Gluck said. Gluck emphasized the need for safety, explaining that lasers' intensity can damage the eye before the brain knows to blink. To illustrate his message, he focused a tiny green dot on a balloon. Shocked students jumped at its ear-splitting explosion. Payton and Nita, the Longmont Estates students, were fascinated by the presentation. "I thought it would be interesting to learn about lasers and see how they work," said Nita, who had not attended any previous Westview late-start events. The girls learned during the program that light actually isn't white, but a combination of red, green and blue light, they said. The program also increased their interest in Westview's STEM focus, which they'd heard about. "I am excited about what's ahead," Nita said. Victoria Camron can be reached at 303-684-5226 or email@example.com.

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The Flint River Farms Resettlement Project was part of a New Deal program that offered the opportunity for black farmers to become independent landowners. Flint River Farms was initiated in 1937 when the federal government purchased several large plantations and subdivided them into 107 farm units, averaging 93 acres per unit. Each unit consisted of a house, a barn, two mules, an outhouse, a chicken coop, and a smoke house. All featured electricity, bored wells, sanitary privies and fencing. Today, many of the descendants of the original participants still own the original farmland. The granddaughter of participant Fred Mathis is filmmaker Charlene Gilbert, who immortalized the experience of these families in the PBS documentary, "Homecoming." Flint River Farms Preservation Society has established a park on the site, located at Highway 26 East and Flint River School Road in Montezuma. Bus / Motorcoach Parking on Site, Free Parking, Party Facilities, Public Restrooms Family-friendly, Free Admission Near Interstate Highway Suitable for Ages

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Restore the Woodland: Many Hands, One Goal Get involved in restoring the beauty and wonder of this magnificent, rare woodland ecosystem—so we may enjoy it now and ensure its survival for future generations. Ecological restoration provides many benefits to the environment, such as biodiversity and wildlife habitat, as well as benefits to our communities, such as clean air and reduced flooding. Help The Morton Arboretum do this important work! Volunteer —We rely on generous, dedicated people to help us maintain our natural areas. Volunteering is a fun and fascinating way to learn about how woodland, prairie, and wetland ecosystems work. Enroll in the Woodland Stewardship Training Program— Want even more hands-on volunteer work, plus training? We need volunteers who want to learn about woodland ecosystems so they can work independently in the field. This program covers practical techniques such as plant identification and invasive species management, as well as broad principles of ecology, conservation, and restoration Take a class —Learn more about woodlands, other ecosystems, and the exciting, growing field of restoration ecology. The Arboretum offers hundreds of classes taught by experienced professionals, renowned experts, and authors. Become an Arboretum Member— Join our community to support the Arboretum's mission to plant and conserve trees for a greener, healthier, more beautiful world. Donate now to the Arboretum— More than ever, the Arboretum relies on gifts of all sizes from supporters who believe in our mission. Your gift responds to a vital need for planting and conserving trees.

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It was more than 45 years ago that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. enunciated his “Dream” to a huge throng on the Capitol Mall. There is no doubt that substantial progress toward ethnic equality has been achieved since that time, even to the point of having elected a Black US President. The Minority Home Ownership Gap: But there is some way to go. Home ownership represents the core of the “American Dream” that was certainly a part of Dr. King’s vision. Yet, there remain significant gap in homeownership by ethnicity. Rather than a matter of discrimination, this largely reflects differing income levels between White-Non-Hispanics, African-Americans and Hispanics or Latinos. Today, approximately 75% of white households own their own homes. Whites have a home ownership rate fully one-half higher than that of African-Americans and Hispanics or Latinos at 47% and 49% (See Figure). Setting the Gap in Stone: A key to redressing this difficulty will be convergence of minority household incomes with those of whites, and that is surely likely to happen. However, there is another important dynamic in operation: house prices in some areas have risen well in advance of incomes, so that convergence alone can not narrow the home ownership gap in a corresponding manner. It is an outrage for public policy to force housing prices materially higher so long as home ownership remains beyond the incomes of so many, especially minorities. The Problem: Land Use Regulation: The problem is land use regulation. The economic evidence is clear: more restrictive land use regulation raises house prices relative to household incomes. This can be seen with a vengeance in the house price increases that occurred during the housing bubble. As we have previously described, metropolitan markets with more restrictive land use regulation (principally the more radical “smart growth” policies) experienced house price escalation out of all proportion to other areas in the nation. In some cases, they topped out at nearly four times historical norms. On the other hand, in the one-half of major metropolitan area markets where land use regulations were less severe, house prices tended to increase to little more than historic norms, at the most. How Smart Growth Destroys Housing Affordability: This difference is principally due to the price of land, which is forced upward when the amount of land available for building is artificially limited, as is the case in smart growth markets. At the peak of the bubble, there was comparatively little difference in house construction costs per square foot in either smart growth or less restrictive markets. However, the far higher land prices drove house prices in smart growth markets far above those in less restrictively regulated markets. Where house prices rise faster than incomes, housing affordability drops as prices rise at escalated rates. Wishing Away Reality: It is not surprising that the proponents of smart growth undertake Herculean efforts to deflect attention away from this issue. Usually they pretend there is no problem. Sometimes they produce studies to indicate that limiting the supply of land and housing does not impact housing affordability, which is akin to arguing that the sun rises in the West. Even the proponents, however, cannot “walk a straight line" on this issue, noting in their most important advocacy piece (Costs of Sprawl – 2000) that their more important strategies have the potential to increase the cost of housing. The Assault on Home Ownership: Worse, well connected Washington interest groups (such as the Moving Cooler coalition) and some members of Congress seek to universalize smart growth land rationing throughout the nation, which would cause massive supply problems and housing price inflation that occurred in some markets between 2000 and 2007. Even after the crash, these markets experienced generally higher house prices relative to incomes in smart growth markets than in traditionally regulated markets. House Price Increases and Minorities: House price increases relative to incomes weigh most heavily on ethnic minority households, because their incomes tend to be lower. This is illustrated by an examination of the 2007 data from the American Community Survey, in our special report entitled US Metropolitan Area Housing Affordability Indicators by Ethnicity: 2007. The year 2007 was the peak of the housing bubble, but represents a useful point of reference for when future “smart growth” policies were imposed nationwide. Median Priced Housing: The data (Table) indicates that median house prices were 75% or more higher for African-Americans than Whites, however that African-Americans in smart growth markets require 84% more to buy the median priced house. The situation was slightly better for Hispanics or Latinos with median house prices at least 50% more relative to incomes than for Whites. House prices relative to Hispanic or Latino median household incomes were 86% higher in smart growth markets than in less restrictively regulated markets. |SUMMARY OF HOUSING INDICATORS BY| |LAND USE REGULATION CATEGORY| |Metropolitan Areas over 1,000,000 Population: 2007| |HOUSING INDICATOR||Less Restrictive Land Use Regulation Markets||More Restrictive Land Use Regulation Markets||All Markets||More Restrictive Markets Compared to Less Restrictive Markets| |MEDIAN VALUE MULTIPLE| |White Non-Hispanic or Latino||2.7||5.1||3.9||1.90| |Hispanic or Latino||4.2||7.9||6.1||1.86| |LOWEST QUARTILE VALUE MULTIPLE| |White Non-Hispanic or Latino||1.8||3.7||2.8||2.01| |Hispanic or Latino||2.9||5.7||4.4||1.98| |MEDIAN RENT/MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME| |White Non-Hispanic or Latino||12.1%||15.1%||13.6%||1.25| |Hispanic or Latino||19.1%||23.0%||21.1%||1.20| |LOWER QUARTILE RENT/MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME| |White Non-Hispanic or Latino||9.4%||11.6%||10.5%||1.23| |Hispanic or Latino||14.9%||17.5%||16.2%||1.18| |Median Value Multiple: Median House Value divided by Median Household Income| |Low Quartile Value Multiple: Low Quartile House Value divided by Median Household Income| |Calculated from American Community Survey (US Bureau of the Census) Data| |“More restrictive” land use regulation markets (generally "smart growth") include those classified as "growth management," "growth control," "containment" and "contain-lite" and "exclusions: in "From Traditional to Reformed A Review of the Land Use Regulations in the Nation's 50 largest Metropolitan Areas" (Brookings Institution, 2006) and markets with significant large lot zoning and land preservation restrictions (New York, Chicago, Hartford, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Virginia Beach). Less restrictive" land use regulation markets (generally "traditional") include all others, except for Memphis, where urban growth boundaries have been drawn far enough from the urban area to have no perceivable impact on land prices and Nashville, where the core county is exempt from the urban growth boundary requirement in state law.| Lower Priced Housing (Lowest Quartile): I recall being told by a participant at a University of California–Santa Barbara economic forum organized by newgeography.com contributor Bill Watkins that, yes, smart growth increases house prices, but not for lower income residents. My challenger went so far as to say that lower income households were aided economically by smart growth. The facts are precisely the opposite. Comparing the lowest quintile (lowest 25%) house price to median household incomes indicates that minorities pay even a higher portion of their incomes for lowest quintile priced houses than the median priced house. African-Americans in smart growth markets needed 95% more relative to incomes to afford the lowest quartile house. Hispanics or Latinos needed 98% more. Rental Housing: The problem carries through to rental housing. There is a general relationship between rental prices and house prices, though rental prices tend to “lag” house price increases. In the smart growth markets, minorities must pay approximately 20% more of their income for the median contract rental in smart growth metropolitan areas than in less restrictively regulated markets. Similar results are obtained when comparing minority household median incomes with lowest quintile contract rents, with African-Americans paying 17% more of their incomes in smart growth markets and Hispanics or Latinos paying 18% more. Moreover, it is important to recognize that all of the above data is relative, based on shares or percentages of incomes. Varying income levels are thus factored out. Minority and other households in smart growth markets face costs of living that are approximately 30% higher than in less restrictively regulated markets, according to analysis by US Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis economists. Some, but not all of the difference is in higher housing costs. Social Costs of Smart Growth: In 2004, the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, which focuses on Latino issues, noted concern about the homeownership gap in California, which has been ground zero for land use regulation driven house price increases for decades: Whether the Latino homeownership gap can be closed, or projected demand for homeownership in 2020 be met, will depend not only on the growth of incomes and availability of mortgage money, but also on how decisively California moves to dismantle regulatory barriers that hinder the production of affordable housing. Far from helping, they are making it particularly difficult for Latino and African American households to own a home. Examples of the restrictions cited by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute are restrictions on the supply of land, high development impact fees and growth controls. California has acted decisively, but against the interests of African-Americans and Hispanics or Latinos. The state enacted Senate Bill 375 in 2008, which will impose far stronger state regulations on residential development, increasing the likelihood that minorities in California will always be disadvantaged relative to White-Non-Hispanics. At the same time, State Attorney General Jerry Brown has forced some counties to adopt more restrictive land use regulations through legal actions. California, which had for decades been considered a state of opportunity, is making home ownership and the pursuit of the “American Dream” far more difficult, particularly for its ever more diverse population. Stopping the Plague: In California, the hope to increase African-American and Latino home ownership rates to match those of white-non-Hispanics may already be beyond reach due to the that state’s every intensifying radical smart growth policies. However, the “Dream” continues to “hang on” in many metropolitan markets. Hopefully Washington will not put a barrier in the way of African-Americans and Hispanics or Latinos that live elsewhere in the nation. US Metropolitan Area Housing Affordability Indicators by Ethnicity: 2007 includes tables with data for each major metropolitan area in the United States Photo: Starter house in Atlanta suburbs (by the author) Wendell Cox is a Visiting Professor, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris. He was born in Los Angeles and was appointed to three terms on the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission by Mayor Tom Bradley. He is the author of “War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life.”

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By D.E. Smoot Phoenix Staff Writer This is one in a series of articles in advance of the Nov. 6 election. A survey released earlier this year by Gov. Mary Fallin found Oklahoma business owners value a public education system that turns out skilled workers. Funding cuts to the state’s education system during the past few years, some say, threaten the ability of schools to produce that outcome. Figures provided by the Oklahoma Policy Institute show funding through the state aid formula has been reduced by $222 million while enrollment has grown by 22,000 students. Both candidates competing for the Senate District 9 post in the Oklahoma Legislature said something must be done to turn that trend around. They differed somewhat about how that might be done. Sen. Earl Garrison, who is seeking a third term, said he “would continue to advocate for adequate funding of public schools.” Republican challenger Barney S. Taylor agreed, but said restoring funding to pre-recession levels may take a few years given all “the other challenges our state is facing.” “Education has always been important to me — public education has made this country what it is,” Garrison said, citing his years as an educator before he was elected to office. “We have lost about $200 million in funding ... and I would like to see us try to put that funding back.” Garrison said funding cuts to public education have gutted the reforms put in place by House Bill 1017, a landmark piece of legislation passed in 1990. The reforms included increased funding for education, smaller class sizes and higher teacher pay among other reforms “that were good for kids” and “good for learning.” Taylor, who competed unsuccessfully as a mayoral candidate in the city of Muskogee’s 2008 election, said he would support the development of more charter schools, virtual education and home-schooling. He also would focus more on accountability. “Schools are closing because of corruption within the system — even when the school is not closed the effects are damaging,” Taylor said. “While ... the vast majority of educational professionals are certainly upstanding and honest pillars of our communities, there are those that are not — they must be found and dealt with much sooner.” The senatorial candidates also advocated a greater emphasis on Career Tech, the state’s vocational education system. “We need to take a serious look at how to better fund our education system,” Garrison said. “We need to work to create more opportunities through Career Tech for jobs that pay a livable wage.” Taylor concurred, saying many career paths don’t require college degrees. But almost all require some sort of specialized training. “This, coupled with the need for continuing education and updates for those who have more advanced degrees means that we need to ensure that our junior colleges and vo-techs are well funded and relevant,” Taylor said. “More attention needs paid to them.” Garrison and Taylor will square off Nov. 6 during the general election. Reach D.E. Smoot at (918) 684-2901 or firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Editor’s Notebook: The Ones Who Really Count LATELY, WE’VE BEEN WATCHING "The Devil Wears Prada" on cable in the McKenna house. My son is keen on Anne Hathaway, the centerpiece of the fashion show that is that movie. I’m not going to lie to you. I enjoy Ms. Hathaway’s scenes, too. But it’s that scene-stealing chameleon of an actress, Meryl Streep, that has me bordering on a movie review here. She plays the long-reigning editor of a famed fashion magazine who is more important than the magazine itself, those it covers, and especially its readers (who she sustains rather than serves). That particularly struck me as we pulled together this issue’s retrospective on Rotor & Wing’s 40 years of covering the world’s vertical-lift industry. In reviewing those years, it seemed clear to me that what has made this magazine what it is — what is most important in our world — is not the editors or those we’ve covered, but our readers. You’ll see that in any issue by reviewing the exchange of information among readers on the Feedback page of letters to the editor, and that’s certainly true this month. But this issue offers three other examples of how important our readers are. The first I will point out is on the opening page of Rotorcraft Report. When we heard that a pre-monsoon season cyclone had killed hundreds and left millions homeless in Pakistan, we knew helicopters would play a crucial role in rescuing and bringing relief to the storm’s victims. Getting the kinds of details on those operations that you want posed a challenge, though. CNN or Agence France-Presse can say, "Helicopters flew to the victims’ aid." They don’t feel the need to specify whose helicopters, what types, and how many — just the kinds of details we figure you want. The people who had those details were busy with rescue and relief operations and answering nonstop questions from CNN, AFP, and a hundred other news organizations. They also were halfway around the world. We didn’t have a reporter on the ground in Pakistan. But R&W does cover the worldwide helicopter industry, and we have readers in more than 150 countries around the globe, including Pakistan. So we called on one for help. Sohail Ekram Siddiqui, a retired Pakistan army colonel and aviator, had recently submitted a letter to the editor. (It ran in July.) He didn’t hesitate when we asked for local information on the relief operations. His contributions are included in our Rotorcraft Report item. It’s safe to say that Lee Benson is a long-time R&W reader. Many of you know Lee, from his active involvement in safety and operations forums as senior pilot for the Los Angeles County Fire Dept., his role as a speaker at numerous search-and-rescue conferences, and as an occasional writer for us. Lee has now retired from the fire department and graciously honored our request to inform his fellow readers about developments in public-safety helicopter operations. He debuts this month as the author of our Public Safety Notebook column, addressing the issue of how the very fine management training in the industry would be that much better if it included courses tailored to operators, like those in public safety, who aren’t confronted with concerns about profit and financial loss. I said last month when we introduced the column, launched so well by our law-enforcement correspondent Ernie Stephens, that Ernie would be succeeded as the Public Safety Notebook’s author by "a veteran of operations" in public-sector firefighting, rescue, and emergency medical services. Anyone who knows Lee Benson would agree, I think, that this was an understated description of him. As exceptional as Lee is, he is typical of many of you, who are time- and battle-proven experts in your fields (even though you may not realize it). Our privilege for 40 years has been to provide a forum for you to share your wisdom and expertise, which brings us to Brian Swinney, who pens this month’s Safety Watch column. That column was launched by Tim McAdams, who authored it for three years or so, until he recently joined American Eurocopter’s training operation. We intended for that column to promote the safety of helicopter operations by focusing on particular challenges in flight safety. Tim ably filled that bill, and we thank him again for his work. One of Tim’s early columns reviewed an EMS accident involving an unexpected run-in with instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). Unbeknownst to Tim, Brian was the pilot. Some of Tim’s comments stung Brian, and still do. But Brian took a constructive approach to his circumstances. Knocked from the saddle by that accident, he eventually decided that he needed instrument and IMC training to be a safe pilot and got it on his own by adding fixed-wing ratings. He worked his way back to the controls of a helicopter, and to a job flying one. Today, he is a base safety pilot in Oklahoma for Ballard Aviation’s EagleMed EMS operation. Having achieved all that, he then penned a long e-mail to R&W recounting his experience. It rang of a sincere interest in improving helicopter safety, and in doing so by sharing the unique, "There I Was," perspective of an accident survivor — in every respect of the word "survivor." It was a story we felt we must share with you, in large part because it reflects the unique value of the people who make this magazine what it is.

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Monday, 8 June 2009 The Willow Man: M5 Mascot Motorway designers are pragmatic people. They want us to get from A to B quickly and safely, and other considerations - such as whether travelling is fun - tend to be put to one side. It’s unlikely that the engineers who steamrolled the M5 across the Somerset Levels ever imagined that one day a giant Willow Man would thrill millions of travellers and become an unofficial symbol of the West Country. But he does. In fact those civil engineers of the 1960s and 1970s saw the motorway itself as an art form, a dream of speed brought to life in concrete and tarmacadam, but most art-lovers are more likely to lament the destruction of the landscape than to extol the aesthetic virtues of junctions. This being said, it’s difficult to approach either of the Severn bridges from the Bristol side without a feeling of awe. Whether you’re looking at the simple lines of the first suspension bridge or the swooping, snaking curves of the Second Severn Crossing, it’s hard not to admire the mixture of lightness and strength embodied in these splendid structures. During the summer of 2000, travellers crossing the Somerset Levels had something new to look at: surrounded by scaffolding a giant figure was taking shape as artist Serena de la Hey wove bundle after bundle of black willow around a steel frame. Willow Man was commissioned by South West Arts (now part of the Arts Council) to celebrate Year of the Artist, no doubt with an eye on Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North. “One aim of Year of the Artist,” Serena de la Hey remembers, “Was to introduce the arts to a wider public. So various people suggested I look for a site close to the motorway. Now thousands of people see the piece every day, whether they like it or not!” A local resident with a decade’s experience in working with willow, de la Hey battled with the elements to get the sculpture finished. "Usually on a Friday it was raining very hard and the wind was blowing from a north-westerly direction,” she said at the time. “It was pretty grim. But because we had set the deadline, it makes you work through those extremities." Planned as a temporary work that would be in place for three years the 40’ figure survived less than one. As the funeral pyres of the Foot and Mouth epidemic burned across the region the following summer, arsonists destroyed the Willow Man. And because of the restrictions in place the artist was unable to get back on site until September of that year. When she did, she immediately rebuilt the wicker giant, assisted by donations from local businesses and ordinary people who had been horrified by the mindless act of vandalism. The new version was protected by a moat, and has so far escaped human interference. A pair of buzzards made their home on its head, however, necessitating an expensive refurbishment two years ago. As things stand, the Willow Man is due to be decommissioned in 2011, but it has become such an iconic Somerset figure that it seems unlikely that this will happen. “I do hear from quite a lot of people who say they enjoy driving past,” says de la Hey. “You don’t get feedback normally when you do a piece of public art – you just let it go and it becomes a different thing to different people – but I regularly get emails about the Willow Man. “People drive past it so often that it becomes woven into their lives. There was a woman who used to go by when she visited her daughter at university in Exeter, and someone else who passed it on the way to visit her mother when she was in hospital. I suppose it’s become a little piece of different people’s stories.” Other artworks now adorn this stretch of motorway, including Peter Freeman’s sculpture Travelling Light, a 50’ column covered in LED lights that change colour with the seasons and to mark particular events. Welcoming drivers to Weston-super-Mare, Travelling Light offers a more hi-tech vision of the South West, one that is more like the Severn bridges – amazing but not personal. To the people who trundle daily up and down the M5, the Willow Man has become a familiar presence and not one that they necessarily revere as art. “The truck drivers love him,” Serena de la Hey says. “They call him Alan, after Alan Whicker.”

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Mar 2, 2009 | 5 The urge to buy the latest gadget and to reform environmental misbehavior may be the twin pillars of 21st century American youth culture, but can the two ever be reconciled? Apple, Dell, Intel, Nokia and others—companies with an array of "green" initiatives and (more) environmentally friendly products—sure hope so. But wind power kite scientist and serial inventor Saul Griffith is skeptical, according to his keynote address at the Greener Gadgets conference in New York City this past Friday. Griffith, the intellectual force behind wattzon.com ( where you can calculate the energy use of your lifestyle), has another term for the gadget-obsessed, himself included: "planet f&*kers." A detailed analysis of the energy required to produce everything from his daily glass of wine to his iPhone revealed that Griffiths requires some 25,000 watts of energy every day, or nearly twice that of the average American (who is already consuming at least six times as much as the average person in China and more than 20 times as much as the average Indian citizen). Jan 20, 2009 | 5 Scientists this week urged further research on tungsten— the metal used to make lightbulb filaments, shotgun shells, electrical wires and even wedding bands—to rule out possible health risks to humans and the environment in the wake of studies showing that it may cause reproductive problems in earthworms and stunted growth in sunflowers. In an article published this week in Chemical & Engineering News, researchers suggest that not enough is known to determine whether tungsten is safe, and that studies need to be conducted to assess how much is in drinking water and the soil – and whether it poses dangers for humans, animals and plants. Deadline: Jun 29 2013 Reward: $7,000 USD The Seeker for this Challenge desires proposals for chemical methods that could rapidly degrade a dilute aqueous solution Deadline: Jun 30 2013 Reward: $1,000,000 USD This is a Reduction-to-Practice Challenge that requires written documentation and& Save 66% off the cover price and get a free gift! Learn More >>X

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Researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles have discovered brain damage in living ex-professional football players, a big-time revelation they hope could lend itself, eventually, to the first diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a living football player: Brain scans performed on five former NFL players revealed images of the protein that causes football-related brain damage — the first time researchers have identified signs of the crippling disease in living players. Researchers who conducted the pilot study at UCLA described the findings as a significant step toward being able to diagnose the disease known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, in living patients. “I’ve been saying that identifying CTE in a living person is the Holy Grail for this disease and for us to be able make advances in treatment,” said Dr. Julian Bailes, a Chicago neurosurgeon and one of the study’s co-authors. “It’s not definitive and there’s a lot we still need to discover to help these people, but it’s very compelling. It’s a new discovery.” Right now, doctors can only diagnose CTE post-mortem — and they have in 34 former football players, including Junior Seau, who committed suicide last May. But this study of five former players, all of whom suffered at least one concussion, found “a pattern consistent with the distribution of tau,” an abnormal protein linked to CTE, “in CTE brains that have been studied following autopsy.” The study is a small one, and its findings are preliminary. But if the preliminary findings “hold up in future studies, this may be an opportunity to identify CTE before players have symptoms so we can develop preventative treatment,” the study’s lead author said. What future findings could also do, though, is further the discussion about whether the problem is concussions or football itself. Other studies have suggested the latter could be the case, and this seems to hint in that direction. Though all five players suffered at least one concussion, one was a little-used back-up quarterback who had suffered just one — and he still ended up with brain trauma. Building on this research and developing “preventative treatment” to address CTE would be a major breakthrough, one that will likely take years more of research. What we could find out, though, is that the only way to prevent CTE is to not play football. And if the discussion moves past how to protect players to if we can, there are going to be a lot of attitudes to change.

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When good teaching falls victim to bureaucracy Illustration: Rocco Fazzari ADRIAN PICCOLI knows the problem: NSW needs better teachers. But he cannot do the one thing that would attract better qualified and more able personnel to the profession - raise their pay. Instead he has published a discussion paper and called for public comments on other, cheaper ways to raise standards. They are well intended - as far as they go.The idea that the state government might restrict - in so far as it can - the number of university places available for teacher training ought to ensure that the cut-off mark for entry to teacher training will rise and, presumably, that the quality of teachers graduating will improve. The federal government's decision to remove quotas on the number of student places to be funded in tertiary courses has turned teacher training courses into something of a milch cow for universities. The result, according to the Teachers Federation and the state government, is a lowering of standards. Other professions - medicine, for example - restrict the supply of trainees to ensure high standards. Why not teaching? But solutions such as these - fewer entrants to the profession, along with more training, and better measurement of teachers' skills - do not get at the root of the problem, which is salaries. Teachers now train for four or five years at university and enter the a government school on a salary of about $57,000. (Private school teachers with similar qualifications will start on a little more, about $62,000). For someone just out of university with no work experience, that is not bad money. But that is as good as it gets. Teachers who want to stay in the classroom cannot expect ever to earn much more by doing so. For those who keep teaching without taking on other responsibilities, salaries stop rising at about $85,000. Those who are good at their job but want better pay must take on other non-teaching work within a school, enter lower levels of management as a subject head, or leave the classroom altogether to become a principal or bureaucrat. This downgrading of classroom teaching should anger parents. Those who love teaching and are good at it - whose actions will benefit generations of students - cannot be rewarded properly under the present system if they want to keep to their chosen field. Last month NSW announced that the basis for funding government schools would change to encompass the principles endorsed by the Gonski review of education funding. Schools will receive a base amount for each pupil, with an extra margin where necessary to compensate for social disadvantage. But in endorsing Gonski's principles the government did not promise the big boost in funding for all schools, which Gonski recommended and which might help raise teacher quality. Without help from Canberra, the NSW budget cannot afford a general lift in teacher salaries. In any case, it is quite possible teacher quality cannot be raised by action at state or federal level. The nature of the profession, which appears to value collegial solidarity over the recognition of talent, militates against a system-wide approach. The federal government has instituted a program of reward payments for outstanding teachers, due to start in 2014 but it has run into problems already. A pilot scheme in Victoria has been boycotted by some schools because it might upset teacher solidarity. Cocooned for years in a vast system, the profession has come to resemble prisoners who fear life outside jail. The program was also criticised by the Productivity Commission, which fears that without modification it will become bureaucratised - just another salary increment for teachers who gain higher degrees. The best hope for a solution, given tight state and federal budgets, is Piccoli's other innovation, announced in March: the devolution of decisions to individual schools. Huge education bureaucracies may be unable to say which teachers are worth rewarding but individual principals, helped by parents, certainly can.

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Alliance Medical provides high quality CT scans across the UK. They have over 20 years' experience of delivering a broad range of mobile and static diagnostic imaging solutions. They operate the largest fleet of mobile MRI, PET/CT, X-ray, CT and Portable Ultrasound scanners in the UK. CT scans and innovative diagnostic imaging across the UK Alliance Medical continually develops innovative diagnostic imaging solutions both independently and in partnership with health providers. They employ over 400 Radiographers, with the ability to offer unrivalled contingency support to their customers. They are part of the Alliance Medical Group, which means that they enjoy the benefits of a larger European organisation, whilst retaining a solid understanding of UK customers. What is a CT scan? CT stands for computed tomography. It uses X-rays to produce a cross-sectional, or ‘slice’ image of the inside of your body. Having a CT scan - it safe? The amount of radiation used varies. It's more than an ordinary X-ray and is the same as the natural radiation we all get over a period of about three years, which adds slightly to the risk of getting cancer. However, please bear in mind that the risk is very small and the risk of missing a serious problem if you don’t have a CT scan is much higher. What happens during a CT scan? - A small team of radiography staff will look after you during your visit and one of the radiographers will carry out the scan - For some types of CT scans you'll be asked to drink a special contrast drink around one hour before your examination - You may need to have an injection, depending on the area that needs to be scanned - During the scan you may need to hold your breath or not swallow - The radiographer operating the scanner will be able to see and hear you throughout the procedure Read more about what happens when you go for a CT scan. Other scanning services offered by Alliance Medical in the UK How can I arrange for a CT scan with Alliance Medical? Read more about how to organise your CT scan with Alliance Medical. Alliance Medical locations in the UK Find your nearest Alliance Medical location. Contact Alliance Medical for CT scans in the UK Alliance Medical Limited Warwick Technology Park Tel: 0845 045 0600 Intuition Communication Ltd bears no responsibility for information published on this website, which concerns or relates to advertisers and their products and services. Read Disclaimer in full.

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1: Back Up Documents, Photos and Videos. Save your important data to an external drive. Be sure to scan this drive and its contents after you remove the virus; you don’t want to re-infect your computer after the clean-up. 2: Reboot in Safe Mode. Prevent the virus from running when you try to remove it. To do this, reboot in safe mode. Choose “Safe Mode with Networking” so that you can still get on the Internet. 3: Download Virus Scanner/Removal Tools. One may do the job, but three will almost certainly do the job. These three have worked for me and come highly recommended by PC Magazine and CNET: 4: Run Virus Scanners. Download, double-click to install, accept all the defaults they recommend, and then run each. When the programs locate a virus or any suspicious items, allow the programs to delete the files. 5: Reboot Normally. Reboot your computer normally; no need for safe mode. If the virus is gone, go to step 6. **IF YOU STILL HAVE THE VIRUS** Many people will recommend you reinstall Windows or try system restore or download a registry cleaner. I say that at this point, most people should take the computer to a local PC repair shop. 6: Add Security . PC Tools is a real-time virus scanner that you can use as your ongoing protection, or install something like Avast or AVG. Also Microsoft’s Security Essentials comes well recommended. You should also go to the Control Panel of your computer, and in the security section click Windows Update. Make sure that it’s set up to regularly update. 7: Damage Control. Viruses are a gateway to identity theft and spam. So after you disinfect your computer it’s a good idea to check your credit. You should also change all your passwords, especially your email password and any passwords for your financial institutions. Source: Yahoo News Image: Tech Usage

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So many pilots don’t realize it, but slow flight is something that they should give some time practicing together with their power-on stalls, simulating an engine failure in flight, and other procedures they are required to memorize. Sadly, pilots in general do not give much time to perfecting their slow flight. What they don’t realize is that slow flight is important to mastering other procedures including landing, which most student pilots find difficult prior and even after solo. . . Naturally, they are not practicing their slow flight enough. If you are one of those people that are having problems with landing, then, you should realize that it’s time that to start working on these slow flight techniques. All right, so how do you master slow flight? What can you do to improve on it and, by extension, improve on your landings? Take It Easy One reason that most pilots don’t master or ace their slow flights is that... they pressure themselves too much. They find that it’s difficult to master and thus, they give it up and instead turn their attention to other procedures that they can easily master. Slow flight is called slow flights for a reason.. Not only are you flying slow (at the airplanes minimum controllable airspeed) but it's also a "slow" process to learn and master. You have to really get a feel for rudder movement because that’s what slow flight is all about. Get Into the Habit Last but not the least, in order to really master slow flight, you must get into the habit.Memorize your slow flight procedure and rehearse it through chair flying throughout your week. Chair flying these procedures is going to help you really commit them to memory. If you want to learn more about improving your slow flight and your landings check out this video Mastering Slow Flight.

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Paco Underhill Interview: Why We Shop Bill Steigerwald is a columnist at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. His column is distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons. WHY WE SHOP by Bill Steigerwald Someone once called Paco Underhill the Margaret Mead of shopping. That’s because the founder, CEO and president of Envirosell has spent more than 25 years studying the behavior of consumers and helping companies understand them and how they shop. Underhill, a regular contributor to PBS and the BBC, is the author of the worldwide best-sellers “Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping” and “Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping.” As the average consumer gears up to buy 23 Christmas gifts this shopping season, I talked to Underhill on Wednesday, Dec. 5, by telephone from his offices in New York: Q: When someone asks you what you do for a living, what do you tell them? A: I am the chief executive officer of a research and consulting firm that looks at the interaction between people and spaces, people and products and people and places. My second job is writing international best-selling books. And my third job is doing motivational speaking. Q: You have made your name by studying consumers and their behavior. It’s almost like you’ve studied them as though they are a unique tribe in their own environment? How did you approach that? A: I am an observational researcher. Our work is based on the act of physically watching people as they move and interact. Over a typical year, we follow through a store, a bank, a museum, a train station, an airport, a hospital somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000 people. We follow them anonymously, meaning that we aren’t interested in what their names are or where they come from. We categorize them based on the (demographic) group and their approximate age and dress. We are not particularly interested in the actions of an individual but we are interested in establishing patterns. Q: Is their any single most important thing that you’ve discovered about consumer behavior over the last 25 years? A: I think we can divide stuff into what are the biological constants and the things that are changing. The biological constants govern the things that are driven by us being right-handed, or that our eyes age in a very predictable manner, or that there are some basic ergometrics, or human measurements, that factor into how we interact with stuff. Those are the biological constants — and then there are things that change. Q: How has the consumer changed most dramatically in the last 25 years? A: I think one of the most seminal issues of our time is the changing status of women, that we as a culture — and not making any moral judgments — have stepped away from biology. I thought it was very interesting that in a recent study … that if you took a working 25-year-old woman and a working 25-year-old man living and working in New York City, the woman makes more money than the man does. Women are the majority of graduates from almost all institutions of learning, whether it’s undergraduate or graduate school, from medicine to law — women are there. And while there are glass ceilings in terms of what they make later in their career, women are being better educated and getting better jobs than their male counterparts are. Q: If women weren’t such an important part of the consumer economy, would everything be different about the way we shop and consume? A: We live in a world that is owned by men, designed by men, managed by men, and yet we expect women to shop in it. Now while that’s certainly changing, and isn’t as bad as it used to be, that’s still the fundamental underlying truth. Q: Should Americans feel guilty about the crazy consumer culture we’ve created? A: I think one of the things that we at some point are going to have to face is that the party is over — that many Americans have consumed beyond their means and need to go back to work within the context of their budgets. We can divide us consumers into three groups: One is roughly a third of us that feel the immediate anxiety of downward mobility, meaning that we are scared of living at a lesser standard than we do now. That’s both an emotional and economic reality for that first group. The second group to which downward mobility is an emotional reaction — meaning that whether they are middle-class families or whether they are lower-class families — still feel a basic level of economic anxiety. (I might point out that in each one of the three groups I am laying out, I’m not just talking about lower class, middle class and upper class, I’m talking about a portion of each one of those classes.) The third class are people who are doing just fine and have no anxieties. The bottom line for all of us, though, particularly for those of us who are over age 50, is that most of us could live the rest of our lives on fruit, vegetables, pasta, wine, olive oil and yearly doses of socks and underwear. We have all the ties and shirts and sweaters and lawn mowers and television sets that we’ll need for the foreseeable future. Q: They say in a free-market economy like ours that “the consumer is king.” But who has the upper hand, the retailer or the shopper? A: The shopper does — absolutely. The merchant has the power to be able to make their offering as attractive and integrated as they possibly can. But certainly we as consumers have to take responsibility for our own behavior. We can’t turn around and blame the Domino sugar company for obesity or Anheuser-Busch for alcoholism. I don’t think we can blame the merchant for us as a culture overspending. Q: Has online shopping changed anything about our consumer culture? A: I think online is having a definite impact, both in the sense that people are buying online — and I think that is going to increase just if we think about the fact that so many of our purchases are routine. If I open your refrigerator, 80 percent of what’s there are routine purchases. I think we are looking at something in our not-too-distant future when in effect our refrigerator does the online purchasing for us. The second thing is that we are using online as a way of pre-shopping — meaning that we are using it as a way of better educating ourselves before we actually make the move. Q: Is online shopping a good thing or a bad thing? A: Oh, I think it’s basically changed the rules. One of the things I’m looking forward to here is the use of convergent technologies as a way of making us a more-ecologically responsible culture, meaning if I go into a store now and I want to pick up an over-the-counter medicine, it comes with an enormous amount of paper. Whereas if I could point my phone to the UPS code and download on my phone all the instructions about what Tylenol-Plus PM was, that would save an awful lot of trees. So I am looking for in the not-too-distant future a better convergence of technology — the online world and the physical world — in a way that helps us take packaging and extraneous product out of our consuming culture. Q: Are shopping malls losing their appeal and power? A: At least here in the U.S., we have a category of malls that are doing extremely well, and we have a category of malls that are holding their own, and we have a category of malls that are deeply troubled. Let’s recognize that the American enclosed mall, which was built 25 years ago, was butt-ugly the day it opened and hasn’t gotten any prettier. There are very few American shopping malls that are going to be nominated for landmark status. Q: Malls went through a period where it looked like they were trying to become entertainment centers as much as shopping centers. Did that work? A: Almost every developer across the world, not just here in the U.S., is trying to go from being a landlord to being “a place maker” — meaning they are trying to take whatever structure they have and make it a place where we can shop, we can dine, we can recreate, we can live and we can work. If we look at the most successful shopping malls in 2007 all across the world, many of them have a customer base that if they wanted to shop the mall in their bedroom slippers they could. Q: Wasn’t the original design of the mall supposed to have living space above it and be almost like a self-contained community? A: The mall as it was first conceived of here in the United States was first as a way of making shopping in inclement weather more pleasant. It grew from there. If we think about the covered wagon circling and focusing in, rather than out. They were a product of suburbanization. As malls went to other places, and as they became part of an urban planning program, yes. Almost all developers now are looking at building “alls” as opposed to “m-a-l-l-s.” Q: You were in town recently talking to Giant Eagle supermarkets. Do you remember what you were telling them? A: Part of what I was talking with them about are trends in grocery shopping and the design of grocery stores. In general, the quality of American grocery shopping across most of the country has gotten significantly better in the past 10 years. We have more organic product, it’s fresher. Yes, there have been some glitches in terms of the quality of goods, but if you are willing to pay for it, Americans have been eating — or have the potential for eating — better than they have at any other point in the past 50 years. The other piece here is that the supermarket community is reacting to a new competitor that is no longer underneath the radar screen, which is the farmer’s market. The farmer’s market movement all across the country is booming and my hat’s off to ‘em. Q: So the reason we’re seeing Giant Eagle turn its produce section into a fancy French fruit and vegetable stand is the competitive pressure from farmer’s markets? A: Yep. It’s all contributed, first of all, to making local produce much more attractive, and part of what you will see both at the farmer’s market in particular but also at Giant Eagle is featuring the stuff that’s grown within a certain proximity of where it’s going to be consumed. Q: What is the best advice you can give to a Christmas shopper headed for a mall right now? A: Think first. Which is that during the holiday season we are giving people the icons of our feelings toward them. And constructing a good icon that tells somebody “I love you” or “I care about you” or “I’m proud of you” isn’t about the amount of money you spend. It’s about the thought that you put into it. ©Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, All Rights Reserved.

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We live in a changing society with evolving cultural norms. Some things that were once acceptable in polite company are now considered racist — my own grandparents, proud integrationists in 1950s Georgia, also argued at one Thanksgiving dinner that black people were just genetically predetermined to be worse at sports compared to white people. (Racist stereotypes have evolved, too.) Today, some conservatives complain that you can't attack President Obama without being called racist. That might have something to do with confusion over what is racist. The Atlantic Wire would like to help with one touchy subject area: empty chair lawn decorations. These references to Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention have gotten a lot of attention on the local news. While some say the empty chair itself is racist — erasing the black American experience — we'll start with the most charitable view, that they are meant as a display of the nonracial insult "the empty suit." (Doonesbury portrayed George W. Bush as an asterisk.) But there is no charitable way to interpret empty chair displays when they involve a noose. And yet there is a constant theme among chair lynchers — they say they had no idea they were being racist, they just needed a good, secure rope. If you need help not being racist, print this out on your way to the hardware store when picking up supplies for your own empty chair display. Example: This chair is lynched with a bayonet, rifle, and golf club in Rochester, Minnesota, as reported by the Rochester Post-Bulletin on October 31 and flagged by Think Progress. "I'm not sure why everyone is up in arms about it," Laura Mulholland, co-owner of the chair with her husband Kevin, told the local paper. Tip: Guys, it's racist because you're saying the black president should be lynched. Example: "Oh dear," Kathryn Maxwell of Camas, Washington said when asked about her husband's yard display by The Columbian on October 3."The reason we hung it up was because people kept stealing it. … We just have to take extra precautions." The chair was originally on the ground, she said. Tip: Secure your empty chair in a way that does not reference mobs of white people mutilating the bodies of black men for crimes they in most cases did not commit. Example: "No it has no other meaning," Bud Johnson of Austin, Texas, told KEYE-TV when asked if his hung chair had a racial connotation. "I’m not a racist, I don’t dislike any race," Johnson told a reporter as he cut down his chair. "It’s not a lynch." He only hung it up "because I like to cut my grass." Tip: Just keep the chair on the ground and move it when it's time to mow. Example: "They’re making more out of it than it is," Dennis Jacobsen of Loveland, Colorado said. Is the display meant to remind people of hate crimes? "It’s not intended. There’s no reason to do that," he told CBS4 in Denver on September 23. Tip: Again, just try to avoid visual representations of black people that might look to most other Americans like references to an era when racially-motivated murder was acceptable. Example: Timothy J. Hammons posted this photo on his blog, though I'm not sure where it came from. It's a reference to the conservative idea that Obama is a fraud, unable to give those soaring speeches without a telepromter. Tip: Make jokes about Obama's brains, not his skin color. Example: The blog Legal Insurrection posted this empty chair display. The sign quotes Clint Eastwood saying, "We own this country... Politicians are employees of ours... And when somebody does not do the job, we’ve got to let them go." Tip: This is a reference to Obama's job performance. Example: The blog Can You Be a Part Of My Life posted this photo on "Empty Chair Day." Tip: Again, this one's just a joke about Obama being an empty suit. Really, really racist: Example: In Morgan Hill, California, Blake la Beck confirmed to KTVU that he put an empty chair on top of a fence post by a road. That was perhaps too subtle, so la Beck added a noose and two watermelons to the chair, and if that was too subtle, he added a sign made to look like a teleprompter that said "Go back to Kenya." Tip: If your empty chair display is just a collection of racist jokes, you guessed it, it's racist. But you probably didn't need us to tell you that.

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It was inevitable that the bullyboys of the newspaper industry would campaign under a spurious banner of press freedom against any attempt by Lord Justice Leveson or politicians to clip their wings. It is a pity that the Press Gazette chose to give succour to their ‘case’ with an equally spurious poll - no more accurate or scientific than those run by The Sun, Daily Express and Daily Mail to feed prejudice and discrimination. Once it became clear the poll was a nonsense, voting was stopped – at 137 (including duplicates). Yet this minuscule ‘finger in the wind’ exercise (the NUJ claim a membership of over 30,000) has generated a storm. It set the likes of Neil ‘Wolf Man’ Wallis howling that the NUJ should ballot its members on a policy confirmed at its recent Delegate Meeting. But what is that policy and is the NUJ, or anyone else, really calling for statutory regulation? The NUJ, like most of the other critics of the failed Press Complaints Commission (PCC), want an independent complaints and redress system which will not set standards but seek to uphold those declared by the industry itself. The guarantee of both the independence and the effectiveness of the new system would be that it has been set up – like Ofcom – under statute. It would be at long arm’s length from both elected politicians and unelected newspaper editors and proprietors. The latter have had it all their own way for generations, neatly sidestepping every attempt to introduce some form of accountability since the 1947 Royal Commission. In a recent scientific survey of UK journalists the vast majority saw their conscience as a better guarantee of ethical behaviour than the PCC, but no employer has yet been willing to add a ‘conscience clause’ to contracts of employment. The NUJ believes that would be better security than relying on self regulation run by editors and proprietors. (Working journalists are specifically excluded from serving on the PCC.) Editors like Wallis, (formerly of the Sun, News of the World and the People) and others who served with him on the PCC, have consistently rejected calls from NUJ members for recognition of the union’s Code of Conduct. Yet it was first devised back in 1936 as an antidote to illiberal calls for journalists to be registered and struck off for misbehaviour. So where are these calls for state control coming from? Having spent 20 years assisting thousands of members of the public with their complaints about the print and broadcast media, I know that very, very few would seek to constrain the freedom of the press. Despite their own experiences the vast majority merely want journalists to do their job properly – which is all the media reformers want. The MediaWise view is that press freedom is a responsibility exercised by journalists on behalf of the public, not a licence for proprietors to do what they will in pursuit of profit. Their aim is to intimidate anyone who dares to challenge them. As usual the agenda setters set up paper windmills to tilt at, in a sustained attempt to draw the public gaze from the real battleground. Writing in the Press Gazette (26 Oct 2012) Tim Luckhurst accused ‘supporters of state regulation’ of castigating their opponents as ‘first amendment fundamentalists. They mean that we support the US Constitution’s categorical guarantee that government may make no law abridging the freedom of the press.’ I am not sure I have heard that particular criticism, but then none of the people he has in his firing line are proposing ‘state regulation’. We agree with him that ‘Statutory regulation of British newspapers would create a constitutional absurdity: parliamentary scrutiny of a body the electorate depends upon to scrutinise parliament.’ Next came the Daily Telegraph. ‘The threat to our free press is grave and foolish’, it thundered on 28 Sept 2012. ‘Once a regulatory measure … is on the Statute Book, MPs will seek to define the public interest in law, and governments will be tempted to use the legislation to choke off dissent. …it is no coincidence that countries with the highest levels of corruption have the most tightly regulated media. Britain can boast one of the least venal political systems in the world.’ That was rich coming from the paper that exposed the MPs’ expenses scandal (allegedly by buying a stolen CD, and illegal act for which they would undoubtedly be acquitted in the UK courts by using the ‘public interest’ defence). The next day the Daily Mail treated us to the fantasy world of Richard Littlejohn. ‘A head of steam is building up behind demands for statutory regulation of free speech,’ he ranted. ‘That would be the start of a descent into oppression and censorship.’ Like so much of what he writes, it’ was rubbish, but his line was taken up by Trevor Kavanagh in a scaremongering column for The Sun (31 Oct 2012) ‘ The first casualty will be the right of voters to know what their masters are up to.’ Then came Dominic Sandbrook’s apocalyptic vision in the Mail (2 Nov 2012). The Leveson Inquiry, he claimed, was among the ‘disturbing signs of a backlash against democracy, free speech and the will of the people — a counter-revolution that could sweep away many of the liberties we take for granted.’ He appeared to have forgotten that the inquiry was launched after public revulsion at distasteful and illegal behaviour by the country’s biggest selling newspaper. As MediaWise pointed out in evidence to the inquiry, such unethical and illegal behaviour has been endemic for at least as long as the PCC has existed. And finally Murdoch’s Sun went right over the top, taking its cue from the Press Gazette. In an editorial headed ‘No Censors’ (6 Nov 2012) it claimed that NUJ General Secretary ‘Michelle Stanistreet wants to surrender centuries of hard-won Press freedom for Government control of the Press. We would end up like Russia, Zimbabwe and Iran, with State stooges and politicians deciding what can or can’t be printed in your Sun.’ This is arrant nonsense of course, but it is difficult to extract the poison poured into three million ears. It’s a good example of why we cannot trust the industry to police itself. On behalf of those who have fallen foul of bad journalism, MediaWise has long argued for a more open and accountable system of self regulation, less closely tied to publishers and editors. In November 1996 a Guardian leader column challenged self-regulation thus: ‘At the moment the people see only a body which claims unique privileges to itself without any of the concomitant responsibilities…prepared to change…but only when it suits them. They see a body scornful of whether or not its proceedings command public confidence. It cannot go on like this.’ It was talking about Parliament, and went on to quote Lord Nolan: ‘the public needs to see that breaches of rules are investigated as fairly, and dealt with as firmly by Parliament, as would be the case with others through the legal process’. Change ‘Parliament’ to ‘the Press’ and you have, in a nutshell, the case for a more independent and effective system of press regulation. That is all we all want. Mike Jempson is Director of the MediaWise Trust and Vice Chair of the NUJ Ethics Council. This post was previously published on the Hacked Off website and is reproduced with permission and thanks

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When I wrote my first post about this back in February I mentioned that I would get back to this and here I am. - A broader user base with greater discrepancy between user and designer in terms of skills & expectations - System components related to usability are developed independently by specialized teams - Product development emphasis on machine or system, not on the person who is the ultimate end user - Design of usable systems is a difficult endeavor, yet many organizations treat it as if it were just common sense. Although these conclusions were applied to the ‘offline’ business they also can be extrapolated to the online one. When developing a product or a system that it is intended to be used by a Human we should focus on:

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Monteverde National Park Welcome to ground zero for Costa Rica’s ecotourism—and biodiversity. Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde, the country’s famous cloud forest, is home to 2,500 species of plants and animals (including 400 types of orchids and about the same number of birds). What makes the place so rich? A varied climate over a small area, fostered by warm trade winds that rise from the Caribbean and form cool clouds—and a heritage of conservation that was kicked off by Quaker settlers who wanted to protect their watershed in the 1950s. Even today, only 160 people are allowed into the park at a time. The upside? You’ll have a better chance of spotting resplendent quetzals (one of Central America’s most beautiful birds), shimmering blue morpho butterflies, and toucans, all living among thick mosses, strangler figs, and ferns some 30 feet high. There are 13 kilometers of trails in Monteverde, and your best bet for a longer loop is to start with El Triangulo—the triangle—along the eastern edge of the park, made up by the Sendero Bosque Nuboso (with lots of strangler figs), the open El Camino (good for spotting butterflies), and the Sendero Pantanoso (the “swamp trail”), which crosses the continental divide. Take the 1.8-kilometer (a little over one mile) Chomogo to the park’s highest accessible point—and for a quick taste of what it feels like to be in the canopy, head for the big suspension bridge on Wilford Guindon. You’ll miss a lot without a guide, so book a natural history, night, or birding tour (from $15, not including the $15 park entrance fee)—which often fill up days in advance. The roads around here are so rough that it may well be easier to get around by horse. Though you can’t ride within the park itself, there are plenty of outfitters that offer everything from sunset tours to five-day treks. You can even ride (with help from a boat and a jeep) to Monteverde from Arenal. Desafio Adventure Company has a six-hour trip to 100-foot-high San Luis Waterfall ($60)—but can put together an eight-day epic, too. Sabine’s Smiling Horses does full-moon rides ($50). Meg’s Riding Stables (phone number: 2645-5560) has been around the longest and has mellow horses for kids. Some people love ’em, some people hate ’em, but zip lines are ubiquitous in the area around Monteverde’s protected reserve—and they do give you an up-close-and-speedy look at the canopy. How do you pick one? Decide whether you want an eco twist—or just a rush of adrenaline. Extremo Canopy has small groups and a one-kilometer-long cable, the longest around. Original Canopy Tour has a rappel down the middle of a fig tree. And Selvatura is one of the biggest operations in Monteverde—expect long lines, but in exchange, 18 platforms and a huge Tarzan swing. Details mentioned in this article were accurate at the time of publication

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Putting a boat–any boat–into Lake Whatcom is likely to involve a significant brush with bureaucracy in the not-too-distant future, as the city of Bellingham and Whatcom County develop a system to protect the lake from infestation by two Eurasian mussel species. It remains to be seen how much push-back the governments will get from boaters. Their resentment of inspections and fees may be tempered a bit by the fact that boaters themselves will be among the biggest losers if the mussels get established here. Here’s a report from the Department of Natural Resources in Wisconsin, where the mussels are already a fact of life. The report advises boaters to undertake regular (and costly) maintenance procedures on their vessels to avoid even more costly damage to hulls and even engines. Idaho–not a state I usually associate with nanny government–has a robust statewide boat inspection system in place to keep the mussels from getting established there. Idaho inspection stations have been intercepting contaminated boats bound for Washingon. Here’s a recent report from the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Officers from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife conduct boat inspections too, but this state has so far not funded anything as comprehensive as Idaho’s, WDFW’s Sgt. Carl Klein said in a telephone interview. WDFW does set up frequent checkpoints at rest areas and truck scales, with electronic readerboards that direct boat haulers to stop for inspection. Boats with mussel contamination are intercepted on a regular basis. Klein says he has personally handled five such cases already this year. The nightmare scenario for Washington state would be a mussel infestation in the Columbia. Klein says mussels could doom the river system’s struggling salmon runs, clogging the gravel beds where the fish spawn and sucking up all the microorganisms that support the natural food chain. They would also be a costly headache in the plumbing of the hydroelectric system. In North America, the mussels first made their presence felt in the Great Lakes, where it is believed they arrived in ballast water aboard Russian freighters that carried them from the Caspian and Black Sea region. They have turned the ecosystem inside out in some areas. The Great Lakes were already a sort of invasive species science project before the mussels arrived. First came the introduced lampreys, which decimated the native lake trout among other valuable species. Then came the little herring-like alewives. They thrived in the lake to the point that their dead carcasses littered beaches for several decades: This is how I remember Lake Michigan during my year at Northwestern University, 1972-73. Then, natural resources agencies introduced Pacific salmon to the lakes. They fattened up on alewives and even began to spawn naturally in lake tributaries. They supported some tribal fisheries as well as a thriving sports fishery. And they got the alewife population down to bearable levels. But then came the mussels., in the 1980s. Their population exploded, and they fed by siphoning up the alewives’ food supply. Not all Great Lakes have been affected similarly, but in Lake Huron the mussels have been blamed for decimating the alewives and then the salmon. Here’s a lengthy look at the situation from an online sports publication.

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The BARDS proper occupied a high position in Ireland. The Ollamhs had colleges at Clogher, Armagh, Lismore, and Tamar. On this, Walker's Historical Memoirs, 1786, observes that "all the eminent schools, delectably situated, which were established by the Christian clergy in the fifth century, were erected on the ruins of those colleges." They studied for twelve years to gain the barred cap and title of Ollamh or teacher. They were Ollamhain Re-dan, or Filidhe, poets. They acted as heralds, knowing the genealogy of their chiefs. With white robe, harp in hand, they encouraged warriors in battle Their power of satire was dreaded; and their praise, desired. There is a story of the Ard Ollamh, or Archdruid, sending to Italy after a book Of skins, containing various chosen compositions, as the Cuilmeun, &c. As heralds they were called Seanachies. As Bards they sang in a hundred different kinds of verse. One Ollamh Fodhla was the Solon of Ireland; Amergin, the singer, lived 500 B.C.; Torna Egeas, was last of the paean bards. Long after, they were patriots of the tribes-- "With uncouth harps, in many-colour'd vest, Their matted hair With boughs fantastic crown'd" The Statutes of Kilkenny (Edward III.) made it penal to entertain any Irish Bard; but Munster Bards continued to hold their annual Sessions to the early part of last century. Carolan, the old blind harper, called last of the Bards, died in 1738. Bards sang in the Hall of Shells: shells being then the cups. There were hereditary bards, as the O'Shiels, the O'Canvans, &c., paid to sing the deeds of family heroes. A lament for Dallan ran-- "A fine host and brave was he, master of and Governor, We, thrice fifty Bards, we confessed him chief in song and war-- In the far-famed Trinity College Library is The Dialogue of the Two Sages, in the Irish Fenian dialect, giving the qualifications of a true Ollamh. Among the famous bards were, Lughar, "acute poet, Druid of Meidhbh"; Olioll, King of Munster; Oisin, son of Cormac, King of Tara, now nearly unintelligible to Irish readers; Fergus finbel of the Dinn Senchus; Oisin, the Fenian singer; Larghaire, whose poem to the sun was famous; Lughaidh, whose poem of the death of his wife Fail is of great antiquity; Adhna, once chief poet of Ireland; Corothruadh, Fingin, &c. Fergus Finbheoil, fair lips, was a Fenian Bard. Ireland's Mirror, 1804, speaks of Henessey, a living seer, as the Orpheus of his country. Amergin, brother of Heber, was the earliest of Milesian poets. Sir Philip Sydney praised the Irish Bards three centuries ago. One, in Munster, stopped by his power the corn's growth; and the satire of another caused a shortness of life. Such rhymes were not to be patronized by the Anglo-Normans, in the Statute of 1367. One Bard directed his harp, a shell of wine, and his ancestor's shield to be buried with him. In rhapsody, some would see the images of coming events pass before them, and so declare them in song. He was surely useful who rhymed susceptible rats to death. The Irish war odes were called Rosg-catha, the Eye of Battle. Was it for such songs that Irish-Danes were cruel to Bards? O'Reilly had a chronological account of 400 Irish writers. As Froude truly remarks, "Each celebrated minstrel sang his stories in his own way, adding to them, shaping them, colouring them, as suited his peculiar genius." It was Heeren who said of the early Greek bards, "The gift of song came to them from the gods." Villemarque held that Irish Bards were "really the historians of the race." Walker's Irish Bards affirms that the "Order of the Bards continued for many succeeding ages invariably the same." Even Buchanan found "many of their ancient customs yet remain; yea, there is almost nothing changed of them in Ireland, but only ceremonies and rites of religion." Borlase wrote, "The last place we read of them in the British dominions is Ireland." Blair added, "Long after the Order of the Druids was extinct, and the national religion changed, the Bards continued to flourish, exercising the same functions as of old in Ireland." But Walker claimed the Fingalians as originally Irish. Sir I. Ferguson, in his Lays of the Western Gael, says, "The exactions of the Bards were so intolerable that the early Irish more than once endeavoured to rid themselves of the Order." Their arrogance had procured their occasional banishment. Higgins, in Celtic Druids, had no exalted opinion of them, saying, "The Irish histories have been most of them filled with lies and nonsense by their bards." Assuredly a great proportion of their works were destroyed by the priests, as they had been in England, Germany, France, &c. The harp, according to Bede, was common in the seventh century. St. Columba played upon the harp. Meagor says of the first James of Scotland, "On the harp he excelled the Irish or the Highland Scots, who are esteemed the best performers on that instrument." Ireland was the school of music for Welsh and Scotch. Irish harpers were the most celebrated up to the last century. Ledwich thought the harp came in from Saxons and Danes. The Britons, some say, had it from the Romans. The old German harp had eighteen strings; the old Irish, twenty-eight; the modern Irish, thirty-three. Henry VIII. gave Ireland the harp for an armorial bearing, being a great admirer of Irish music; but James I. quartered it with the arms of France and England. St. Bernard gives Archbishop Malachy, 1134, the credit of introducing music into the Church service of Ireland. The Irish cruit was the Welsh crwdd or crwth. Hugh Rose relates, that "a certain string was selected as the most suitable for each song." Diodorus Siculus recorded that "the bards of Gaul sang to instruments like lyres." The cymbals were not Bardic, but bell cymbals of the Church. They were hollow spheres, holding loose bits of metal for rattling, and connected by a flexible shank. The corn was a metallic horn; the drum, or tiompan, was a tabor; the piob-mela, or bagpipes, were borrowed from the far East; the bellows to the bag thereof were not seen till the sixteenth century. The Irish used foghair, or whole tones, and foghair-beg, or semi-tones. The cor, or harmony, was chruisich, treble, and cronan, base. The names of clefs were from the Latin. In most ancient languages the same word is used for Bard and Sage. Lönnrot found not a parish among the Karelians without several Bards. Quatrefages speaks of Bardic contests thus: "The two bards start strophe after strophe, each repeating at first that which the other had said. The song only stops with the learning of one of the two." Walker ungallantly wrote, "We cannot find that the Irish had female Bards," while admitting that females cried the Caoine over the dead. Yet in Cathluina we read, "The daughter of Moran seized the harp, and her voice of music praised the strangers. Their souls melted at the song, like the wreath of snow before the eye of the sun." The Court Bards were required, says Dr. O'Donovan, to have ready seven times fifty chief stories, and twice fifty sub-stories, to repeat before the Irish King and his chiefs. Conor Mac Neasa, King of Ulster, had three thousand Bards, gathered from persecuting neighbouring chiefs. "Musician, herald, bard, thrice may'st thou be renowned, And with three several wreaths immortally be crowned." Brehons.--Breitheamhain - were legislative Bards; and, said Walker, in 1786, they "promulgated the laws in a kind of recitative, or monotonous chant, seated on an eminence in the open air." According to McCurtin, the Irish Bards of the sixth century wore long, flowing garments, fringed and Ornamented with needlework. in a Life of Columba, 1827, it is written, "The Bards and Sennachees retained their office, and some degree of their former estimation among the nobility of Caledonia and Ireland, till the accession of the House of Hanover." "Nothing can prove," says O'Beirne Crowe, "the late introduction of Druidism into our country more satisfactorily than the utter contempt in which the name bard is held in all our records.--After the introduction of our irregular system of Druidism, which must have been about the second century of the Christian era, the Filis (bard) had to fall into something like the position of the British Bards-- hence we see them, down to a late period--practising incantations like the Magi of the continent, and in religious matters holding extensive sway." Ossianic literature had a higher opinion of the Bards; as, "Such were the words of the Bards in the days of the Song; when the King heard the music of harps and the tales of other times. The chiefs gathered from all their hills, and heard the lovely sound.. They praised the voice of Cona, the first among a thousand bards." Again, "Sit thou on the heath, O Bard! and let us hear thy voice. It is pleasant as the gale of the spring, that sighs on the hunter's ear, when he wakens from dreams of joy, and has heard the music of the spirits of the hill.--The music of Cardil was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant, and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed Bards heard it." "My life," exclaimed Fingal, "shall be one stream of light to Bards of other times." Cathmor cried, "Loose the Bards. Their voice shall be heard in other ages, when the Kings of Temora have failed." Keating, amusingly credulous as an Irish historian records with gravity the story of an ancient militia numbering nine thousand in time of peace, who had both sergeants and colonels. Into the ranks of these Fine Eirion no one was admitted unless proved to be a poetical genius, well acquainted with the twelve books of poetry. The Dinn Seanchas has poems by the Irish Bard of the second century, Finin Mac Luchna; and it asserts that "the people deemed each other's voices sweeter than the warblings of the melodious harp." On Toland's authority we learn that, for a long time after the English Conquest, the judges, Bards, physicians, and harpers held land tenures in Ireland. The O'Duvegans were hereditary Bards of the O'Kellies; the O'Shiels were hereditary doctors; the O'Brodins, hereditary antiquaries; the Maglanchys, hereditary judges. The Bards were Strabo's hymn-makers. Mrs. Bryant felt that "The Isle of Song was soon to become the Isle of Saints;" and considered "Ireland of the Bards knew its Druids simply as men skilled in all magical arts, having no marked relation either to a system of theology, or to a scheme of ceremonial practice." The Brehon Law gives little information respecting Druids, though the Brehons were assumed to have been Originally Druid judges. St. Patrick has the credit of compiling this record. These Brehons had a high reputation for justice; and yet it is confessed that when one was tempted to pass a false sentence, his chain of office would immediately tighten round his neck most uncomfortably as a warning. Of the Brehons, it is said by the editors--O'Mahony and Richey --"The learning of the Brehons became as useless to the public as the most fantastic discussions of the Schoolmen, and the whole system crystallized into a form which rendered social progress impossible." Though those old Irish laws were so oppressive to the common people, and so favourable to the hereditary chiefs, it was hard indeed to get the people to relinquish them for English laws. In 1522, English law existed in only four of the Irish counties; and Brehons and Ollamhs (teachers) were known to the end of the seventeenth century. The founding of the book of Brehon Law is thus explained:--"And when the men of Erin heard--all the power of Patrick since his arrival in Erin--they bowed themselves down in obedience to the will of God and Patrick. It was then that all the professors of the sciences (Druids) in Erin were assembled, and each of them exhibited his art before Patrick, in the presence of every chief in Erin.--What did not clash with the Word of God in the written law, and in the New Testament, and with the consciences of the believers, was confirmed in the laws of the Brehons by Patrick, and by the ecclesiastics and the chieftains of Erin."

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¡Soy feliz como pequeño pájaro! "A brief history" 3000 hours of sun per year, many kilometers of golden sand beaches and those beautiful natural ports made it a safe refuge already for Phoenician navigators, thousands of years before Christ. The coast of Huelva and Cadiz corresponds to the Atlantic Ocean and is characterized by fine sand. The Mediterranean coast, from the Strait of Gibraltar to Almeria, on the other hand offers smoother climate with less wind and higher water temperatures. Andalusia is crossed by Guadalquivir river, the "father" of old civilisations who have left along its borders an impressive monumental track, as well as the high mountain ranges of Sierra Morena and Sistemas Beticos. The offer for visitors is extremely varied, from golden beaches to those beautiful mountain ranges with their highly interesting fauna, and the famous "white villages" with their richdom in folklore and artisany. There are great possibilities for most different sports as well, from skiing in the Sierra Nevada to surfing at the coast of Cadiz, where you will find ideal conditions as nowhere else in Europe. Andalusia is the "mother" of the Spanish folklore which is probably best known abroad: here you will live the magic of Flamenco and bullfighting in their most authentic style, and myths like Don Juan and Carmen were born here. A land of great traditions, which has understood as well to assimilate the progress. The Andalusian capital, the third largest city of Spain, is among the most beloved places by tourists, thanks to its unique ambience and its great monuments: the Arabian belltower Giralda, the city's landmark, the enormous cathedral, Torre del Oro, and the old district Barrio Santa Cruz are among the highlights. The Moorish Jewel, located at the foots of snowy Sierra Nevada mountain range, is a must-see. Most outstanding is certainly the great Arabian palace Alhambra. The long-time center of Moorish Spain preserves monuments of outstanding importance. The Mezquita, the great Mosque, is perhaps most impressive. Among its major attractions are the Moorish Alcazaba and, of course, the splendid Mediterranean coast. Costa del Sol The coast of Malaga is of great touristical importance, thanks to its splendid beaches, outstanding installations and smooth climate. Among the most famous centers are Marbella, Torremolinos, Benalmadena, Fuengirola, and San Pedro de Alcantara. A beautiful town, surrounded by an impressive mountain range. Almeria is among those Andalusian cities which have best preserved their Moorish heritage. Of great touristical attraction is also its splendid coast, Costa de Almeria. Cadiz is one of the oldest cities in Spain, founded by Phoenicians. It is fascinating for its typical Andalusian ambience with whitewashed houses and tropical vegetation. Of great importance as a fishing port as well as for its industry. The city itself and its surroundings are marked by Christopher Columbus, who started his travel to America from the nearby Palos de la Frontera. There you may still visit the monastery where he prepared his travel, alongside with a reconstruction of the port and the three famous ships. Doñana National Park This extense preserve including beach areas with moving dunes as well as marshy regions of great value concerning their fauna is located next to the outlet of Guadalquivir river, Matalascañas, Acebuche and El Rocio. Numerous species of migrant birds, on their way from Eurasia to Africa, stay here during the breeding phase. Costa de la Luz The "Coast of the Light", in the provinces of Huelva and Cadiz at the Atlantic Ocean, offers splendid beaches of fine sand. Major centers of attraction are Punta Umbria, Islantilla, Isla Cristina, Mazagon, Matalascañas, Barbate, Algeciras, Tarifa, Conil de la Frontera, Chiclana de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Rota, Chipiona, and Sanlucar de Barrameda. Jerez de la Frontera In the hometown of the world-famous Sherry wine several "Bodegas" may be visited. Jerez too is the site of a renowned equestrian school. Wine and horses mark the ambience of this manorial town. Jaen, located inland, is dominated by its medieval fortress. Additional attractions are the 11th century Moorish baths and the Renaissance cathedral. The nearby Sierra de Cazorla is an outstanding natural preserve. "WHAT I WANT TO SEE NEXT _ CADIZ" THE MYTHICAL CITY History and mythology are more closely linked in Cadiz than in any other city in Spain. One of the 'Twelve Labours of Hercules', that is, the separation of Europe from Africa, was thought to have brought about the setting up of the first settlement here, at the southernmost point of the Iberian Peninsula, on the shores of the Straits of Gibraltar and bathed by the waters of both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. It was here, the erstwhile domain of Tartessus, that Phoenician sailors came and established their ancient city, over the ruins of the one that the people of Tyre had built. The latter had followed the advice of their oracle and had constructed their city overlooking the Atlantic between the Pillars of Hercules. They have it the name of Gadir after Neptune's son. It was founded in the year 1100 B.C. which means that Cadiz is today the oldest city in the Western World. In the ancient city of Cadiz the god Melgart was worshipped, and Hannibal and Hamilcar Barca left behind their mark. The Visigoths built their temples at Vejer and Alcala de los Gazules, and Julius Caesar planned his empire. During the 8th c, Moorish troops entered the city after defeating Don Rodrigo's army near the lagoon of La Janda, close to what today is Barbate. Following its reconquest by Alfonso X 'the Wise', Cadiz, along with Sanlucar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa Maria, played an important part in the discovery and subsequent colonisation of America. Later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, it became a fortified town in order to resist the repeated naval attacks perpetrated by the English. It was during this period that Cadiz enjoyed its most fruitful economic growth, monopolizing trade with the Americas and forming bridgehead both culturally and politically with the New World. Cadiz bravely resisted the Napoleonic invasion from behind its ancient walls, and it was here that, in the Church of San Felipe Neri, the very first Spanish Constitution was signed. 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In the movie Braveheart, Mel Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th century Scottish warrior who led his countrymen to freedom from years of treachery under King Edward I of England. In one of the most riveting scenes of the movie, as some of the Scottish clans come close to surrender before they even fight in the Battle of Stirling, we hear the famous “Freedom” speech: Today, we in America face oppression from a progressive movement bent on destroying the liberty and freedom endowed to us by our Creator and enshrined in the words of our Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Just like those Scots, we were at the point of surrender to those forces, but fortunately a William Wallace would rise from the confusion to lead us to battle. It was Andrew Breitbart. Examples of his leadership could be seen when he took on the powerful A.C.O.R.N. organization and exposed their fraud and corruption, leading to the end of government funding of those activities. It would be evident again when he exposed – pardon the pun – Congressman Anthony Weiner when he was caught sexting. He created his own news website, Breitbart.com where he boldly declared; “I’m committed to the destruction of the old media guard.” He attacked deceit in Hollywood with his BigHollywood.com website, shenanigans and political corruption in Washington with his BigGovernment.com website, and foreign policy posturing and gaffes with his BigPeace.com website. While I never had the chance to meet him, I always felt that we were kindred spirits and that I served in the on-line army that he led. It was people like Andrew that inspired me to take the plunge and start my own conservative website. He even inspired the motto for this website - irreverent, uncompromising and politically incorrect. While it was the “freedom” speech that became one of the greatest moments in Braveheart, it’s the conversation Wallace has with his captains immediately afterwards that is my favorite part: Stephen: Fine speech. Now what do we do? William Wallace: Just be yourselves. Hamish: Where are you going? William Wallace: I’m going to pick a fight. While the Scottish nobles were willing to protect their little “kingdoms” by negotiating with the King of England, Wallace was a man who refused to compromise. Nothing less than complete freedom would be acceptable. That’s a perfect description of Andrew. As he states in his book, Righteous Indignation: I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it…. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and — famously — I enjoy making enemies…. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I’ve lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I’ve gained hundreds, thousands — who knows? — of allies. Andrew Breitbart – The William Wallace of Conservatives What others had to say:

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The number of eggs may be low, or the quality may be poor. The number and quality of eggs (ovarian reserve) may begin to decrease at age 30 or even earlier. They decrease rapidly after age 40. But age is not the only cause. Abnormalities in the ovaries can also cause such a decrease. The number of eggs in the ovaries decreases early in premature ovarian failure (primary ovarian insufficiency). In a few women, this disorder is the reason they have irregular menstrual periods or no periods. Diagnosis and Treatment Doctors may evaluate the following women for problems with eggs: Doctors can usually confirm the diagnosis by measuring levels of follicle-stimulating hormone (which triggers ovulation) and estrogen in the blood at a certain time during the menstrual cycle. Sometimes doctors give women clomiphene, a fertility drug, before measuring these levels. Doctors may do blood tests to measure levels of antimüllerian hormone, which is produced by the structures that contain the egg (follicles). A low level of this hormone indicates that the number of follicles is small. Or doctors may use an ultrasound device that is placed in the vagina (transvaginal ultrasonography) to view and count the number of follicles. A small number of follicles means that pregnancy after in vitro fertilization is less likely. Because pregnancy may be possible, doctors suggest different treatments for each woman based on her circumstances and age. Such treatments include those used to treat problems with ovulation, such as clomiphene, aromatase inhibitors, and human gonadotropins (see Infertility: Treatment). If women are older than 42 or if the number or quality of eggs is decreased, using eggs from another woman (donor) may be the only way to achieve pregnancy. Last full review/revision February 2013 by Robert W. Rebar, MD

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Between classes these DP students at the Lauf Language Training Institute near Nurnberg, brush up on English by reading magazines and listening to radio programs. Both young men plan to return to their camps at the end of three months and conduct English classes for other DP's hoping to be resettled. Left to right, Jurij Hranovsky, 24-year old Ukrainian, who was taken to Germany in 1942 as a prisoner of war and is now in Mittenwald DP camp where his father is an Othordox priest, and Dmytro Szafran, 22, who was a forced laborer. Hranosky, who learned English while working for the U.S. Army, hopes to go to the United States. Szafran would like to go either to America or Australia.

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Get Rid Of The Flies You can get rid of the flies in your life Around 1975, Bill Marriott walked my operation with me at the Philadelphia Marriott. I was the Director of Food and Beverage. As we walked, Bill gave me constant feedback from his perspective on my operation. He checked for cleanliness everywhere we went in the hotel. He checked the inventory records; and for all of you old timers at Marriott, he checked the breading charts very carefully. We eventually ended up at the back loading and receiving dock where the trash compactor was located. It was summer and there were a lot of flies around the dumpster. Some of those flies were making their way into the back corridors of the hotel, and of course, eventually finding their way to the restaurants upstairs. Mr. Marriott turned to me and said, “Lee, if you have flies in your operation, it is because you like flies. I will never forget that moment and that lesson. What he meant, of course, is that you can get rid of those flies if you want to. You can order an enclosed dumpster. You can wash down the dumpster as many times a day as it takes so no flies will be there. You can install different insect control devices in that area. You can put fly fans on the loading dock doors, and on and on. Even if you have to buy 100 fly swatters and issue them to the employees with a quota each day, you can have an operation without flies. So if you have rude employees, you must like that. If you have poorly trained employees, you must like that. If you have poorly groomed employees, you must like that. If you have children with bad manners, you must like that. If you are not saving for your retirement, you must like that. If you don’t exercise, you must like the way you feel and look. If you have underperforming managers in your business, then you are an underperforming leader. From this one lesson given so long ago by a leader who cared and was able to communicate in a common sense way, I have always made sure that I did not have flies in my operation. It was a lesson about personal responsibility and attention to detail. It was about not underestimating what you as an individual can accomplish. Make a list of the fly problems in your life that you are not dealing with. The problem with flies and other things we don’t deal with is that they multiply. One fly today, ten flies tomorrow. One poorly groomed employee today, ten tomorrow. One poor habit today, ten more next week. You get rid of flies that same way you got them in the first place–one at a time….Lee 4 Responses to “Get Rid Of The Flies” Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment.

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There is no way around it: collecting a behavioral history is time-consuming. But never boring. Given a chance, pet owners will share every detail of every episode that they can recall. Most people are also eager to offer their theories regarding the development of the problem. A systematic means of politely limiting the information flow can be developed with experience. One way to shorten the length of the visit is to ask clients to complete and return a history form prior to the actual consultation. Points for discussion and elaboration can be highlighted. Standardized forms, available in many veterinary behavior textbooks, facilitate systematic and thorough collection of baseline husbandry information. Owners can record the diet as well as the feeding and exercise routine. Household people and pets can be listed. These facts may appear unrelated to the primary behavioral concern. Yet information that might initially seem irrelevant, or that clients did not consider important enough to mention, can sometimes offer the key to the diagnosis. You did what?! Clients usually feel responsible for their pet's behavioral disorders. It is important to formulate questions so that they do not suggest blame. Defensive clients withhold valuable information lest they or their pet be unfavorably judged. How much is too much? Part of the art of history-taking is learning which information is likely to be relevant to the situation at hand. It can be helpful to begin by asking for a brief description of the behavioral concern, to be followed by a more detailed description of the first and last episode. Then, ask the client to share details regarding 3 additional episodes of their choice. This information should provide an understanding about the progression of the behavior. The age of the pet at the time of onset will be a consideration in forming a list of differentials. The rate of progress is also significant, particularly when diagnosing behaviors that owners describe as sudden in onset. If there were no changes in the household routine or environment when the problem behavior surfaced, then an underlying medical condition may be present. Of course, it is necessary to listen to the client's perception of the main behavioral complaint. At the same time, discourage clients from interpreting the information—just ask for the facts. Analysis is the job of the clinician. Try to listen to the descriptions as though you were watching a videorecording of the behavior. • What does the behavior look like? • Which pet engages in the behavior? • Where and when does it occur? • Which people or pets are present at the time? Better than creating mental images is obtaining real photos or videos. Encourage owners to share pictures of the environment and of all household members, people and pets, that could not attend the consultation. Videorecordings of pets and people interacting, or when safe, pets engaging in the problem behavior, are invaluable. Specify emphatically that no person or pet, including the patient, should be placed in harm's way for the purpose of a creating a recording. Before concluding the history taking session, it will be important to ask about any other behavioral concerns the owner has experienced with the pet. When writing the treatment plan, it may be necessary to prioritize, initially focusing on the problem that is considered most serious or most dangerous. Some behavioral conditions will need to be addressed simultaneously for a successful outcome. Similarly, learn the details of all prior interventions. This includes any environmental or behavior modification steps. Learn the dosage and duration of therapy for all psychoactive medications. In many cases, the pieces of the puzzle fit together and the diagnosis is neatly formed. Sometimes, something is missing. There may still be one more question left to ask. Offer the client some safe interventions to get them started, and schedule a recheck visit in the next day or two. Take the paperwork home, sleep on it; reread, research and if necessary, refer.

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Invite a friend Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Has the pink-ribbon movement done more for marketing than medicine? WELLESLEY, Mass., The Wellesley Cancer Prevention Project invites the public to a showing of the film Pink Ribbons, Inc. at the Wellesley Free Library’s Wakelin Room, Thursday October 25th, from 7 to 9 p.m.. This free event, cosponsored by the Wellesley Free Library, is open to the public and includes informational resources. Refreshments will be served. This 2011 documentary film provides insights into the current breast cancer culture and is truly thought provoking. Learn how “cause marketing” works well, but can also create unintended consequences. After seeing this film you will look at every “pink ribbon” offer or product with a more critical eye. After the film, Margo Golden, who is President of the Board of Mass. Breast Cancer Coalition and serves on the board of the Women’s Community Cancer Project and the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, will offer comments about the evolution of the breast cancer culture. She along with Anastasia Karakasidou, head of the Wellesley College Department of Anthropology, will entertain questions and comments from the audience. The Mass. Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC) believes that PREVENTION is the cure, and aims to create change so that not one more person must endure this disease. MBCC advocates for increased resources to investigate environmental links to breast cancer that are present as a result of mammary carcinogens found in our air, water, soil, food, homes, cleaning supplies, personal care products and other consumer products used in our households every day. The Wellesley Cancer Prevention Project (WCPP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that studies the relationship between illnesses and the environment with the goal of reducing health risk factors for residents of Wellesley and surrounding communities. More information can be found about WCPP on http://www.wcpponline.org |Where||530 Washington St, Wellesley, MA 02482 (Wellesley Free Library, Wakelin Room)| |Next on||This event is over.| |Time||7:00 pm–9:00 pm| |Who to bring||Moms, Seniors|

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Creating a Productive, Distraction-Free Workplace The following blog post is the final post in a four-part blog series about Peter Bregman's book “18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction and Get the Rights Things Done.” In this final blog based on Peter Bregman’s book, “18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction and Get the Rights Things Done,” I’ll examine the last section of his book on how to deal with—wait, what did you say? Hold on, I have to take this call – distractions. We all have those co-workers who want to tell you every detail about their evening, or the boss who continually assigns you projects that needed to be done yesterday, or the urge to play Angry Birds instead of writing a report. Bregman states there are ways to master these distractions and remain productive. Make your workplace a productive one. Do you need quiet or some level of background noise? What type of office environment works for you? What if you work in a large, open office without cubes, where the phone rings and people stop by to talk or ask “a favor?” The solution could be to listen to music through headphones or just wear them to stifle noises (and make people think you are tuned out). It could be as simple as announcing it to the room or relocating yourself to a secluded corner to complete your project. Also, if a coworker asks you to proof a document, assist with a project or take on a new task, don’t feel like you must say yes. Saying no to something that falls outside of your goals isn’t bad. You need to be selective in how you respond, otherwise your time will be spent on other items, while your structured to-do list languishes. Personally, my distracted time comes in the afternoon. I start to lose energy and enthusiasm for my to-do list. To combat this, I try to step away from it all by walking outside, whether it is for five or 20 minutes. Just a turn around the block clears my head and re-energizes me. So, what distracts you and threatens your productivity?

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