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A.C.T. Opens Their Own "Little Shop Of Horrors"
By: Alex Hayes
Updated: August 27, 2012
On KTAB 4u Monday Cassie Fifield, who plays "Audrey," described why she jumped on board the cast.
"One of the great things about Audrey is that she is a real woman," Fifield explains. "Most of the musical theatre world... you have to be a Cinderella to get the lead, but Audrey, she is a little more raw a little more realistic and I liked that."
"I defy anyone in our audience not to fall in love with this lady!" adds Dennis Gleason, Executive Director for the Abilene Community Theatre. "She is incredibly talented."
So what will be in store for audiences opening night? According to Gleason a little horror, a few laughs and a whole lot of excitement.
But for audiences expecting a similar ending to the 1986 movie rendition (watch trailer), they might go home a little disappointed.
"It's pretty different," says Fifield, "I think audience members will be a little surprised by the ending actually."
Fifield adds, "they should come see it, cause they don't know what their missing."
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Researchers claim resveratrol taken in pill form could soon be available to cure and prevent diseases linked to aging, including diabetes type 1, cancer and Alzheimer's disease, in findings released March 8. Now scientists understand how it works and are proceeding with developing anti-aging, disease fighting resveratrol in a potent pill form that you cannot get from a glass of wine.
The red wine ingredient in pill form is being developed by David Sinclair, PhD an Australian biologist and his colleagues that contains the resveratrol equivalent of 100 glasses of wine.
Resveratrol has been the subject of many studies claiming anti-aging, disease fighting benefits, but findings have been inconclusive.
How resveratrol activates natural defenses previously unknown
Dr. Sinclair, who is on the faculties of Harvard medical School and the University of New South Wales, published findings in the journal Nature explaining how resveratrol turns on enzymes that activate "… our body's genetic defenses against aging and diseases."
The red wine ingredient is an antioxidant and could fight disease because it turns on sirtuin proteins that are known to defend the body against age-related diseases, doing much more than scavenging free radicals.
Past studies showed the sirtuin protein could only be turned on in the presence of a fluorescent chemical known as fluorophore. Sinclair has since proven resveratrol can work without the chemical, explaining fluorophore mimicked "greasy" amino acids that naturally occur in the body.
The proteins have been studied and shown to extend the lifespan of mammals. They also play a role in aging, cancer and metabolic diseases.
The researchers tested 117 drugs, all of which work on a single enzyme through different processes.
Resveratrol drugs could prevent 20 diseases
Eventually, the drugs will be developed to treat one disease, "…but unlike drugs of today, they would prevent 20 others", Sinclair said in a press release.
Other diseases that the drugs could target include:
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular disease and cardiac failure
• Type 2 diabetes
• Parkinson's diseases
• Fatty liver disease
• Cataracts
• Osteoporosis
• Muscle wasting
• Sleep disorders
• Inflammatory conditions like psoriasis, arthritis and IBS or colitis
The sirtuin protein being targeted is SIRT1. There are 7 Sirt-s that have various unknown molecular functions related to cell metabolism that researchers are currently studying.
SIRT1 can be switched on naturally with exercise and calorie restriction, the author explains, but the effect can be boosted with activators. The most common natural compound that stimulates SIRT1 is resveratrol.
Sinclair, who is a geneticist with the Department of Pharmacology at UNSW, says there has never been a pharmaceutical drug that can accelerate the action of an enzyme.
The technology to develop the pill was sold to the drug company GlaxoSmithKline in 2008 for $720 million. The company has developed 4000 synthetic SIRT1 activators, three of which are in human clinical trials.
The pharmaceutical company Sirtris halted trials on their formulation of resveratrol in 2011, saying the compound was difficult to maintain at a given level in the bloodstream. George Vlasuk, Sirtris's chief executive, said in an interview, resveratrol has different effects at different doses and can even switch SIRT1 off.
Sinclair, a co-found of Sirtris, takes resveratrol himself and has maintained confidence in the beneficial effects for halting diseases related to aging.
Healthy people might live to be 150 with resveratrol breakthrough
Professor Sinclair anticipates the first drug to be marketed will be for diabetes.
"We're finding that ageing isn't the irreversible affliction that we thought it was," Sinclair says. "Some of us could live to 150, but we won't get there without more research."
The researcher says there is also promise that resveratrol can help people who are already healthy.
In their studies, resveratrol extended the lifespan of mice by 15 percent. The rodents were able to run twice as far as slim mice, even though they were overweight.
Sinclair maintains belief that the red wine ingredient can provide a holistic approach to extend life and treat diseases including cancer, Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes within 5 years.

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Water cooling system help! Lots of things! Calculations and everything! |
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Aug22-12, 05:02 AM | #1 |
Water cooling system help! Lots of things! Calculations and everything!
I live in Dubai, and the water for my whole house is stored in a water tank on my roof. This is a problem as during the summer months the temperatures reach up to and a bit beyond 50 degrees in the day, this heats up the water in the tank alot so we don't have any cold water during the later part of the day. I wanting to implicate a passive water cooling system on my house where a pipe comes out of the tank and into the ground (I live in a bungalow so it's not too much of a problem) and down into the ground where it's cooler. I'd then run this pipe around underground which will cool down the water, then bring it back up into the house. I am desperately looking for help though. I want to investigate all of the variables and try to come up with best system for my house. I'll need to investigate things such as thermal conductivity of the soil, the equations for the pump that I want and what the best pressure/water flow would be as I'm not too familiar with water systems like this. I'd love detail and how I'd carry out the experiments, its a really open project and I'd like to measure/calculate everything. All the help would be useful.Thanks alot!
Aug26-12, 11:01 PM | #2 |
I think what you are looking for that's exactly a CHILLER system, (like used in central airconditioning). It's not a big deal. Go and search for a water chiller system you will automatically foigure out it. But as the water gets heat up, you can also use vapor absorption cycle. It will be well suited for your system.
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Aug27-12, 03:34 AM | #4 |
Water cooling system help! Lots of things! Calculations and everything!
Why not just insulate the tank?
Or if you are installing a pump, relocate the whole tank underground. |
Aug27-12, 04:29 AM | #5 |
For the same reason that people using passive heating (in the opposite way to me e.g. in England) don't just insulate the pipes etc that their water come from, the water coming in is already hot, and insulation would still let the water heat up anyways since it is left in the open for the whole day. And because it was to my belief that installing a tank underground would require frequent checks to ensure nothing was seeping in or out.
Aug27-12, 06:25 AM | #6 |
Insulation would mean it heats up, but even a small thickness of insulating foam can dramatically reduce the heat transfer whilst it's sat in the tank. Reducing your heat transfer requirements for cooling, if you subsequently use any active system. Plus insulation is a very, very cheap way of improving the situation a little bit. I believe it's where you'll gain the most °C/cost benefit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_transmittance Obviously is the water is pumped in at a similar temperature to the surroundings insulation is pointless. But even if it's pumped in at a lower temperature, you'll gain a large benefit from reducing heat transfer into the tank. As you are using the ground as a heat exchanger, a certain length of pipe will be needed to get to a target water temperature, depending on starting temp. It may be worth costing up, the difference between installing an extra length of pipe vs a bit of insulation. |
Aug27-12, 11:27 AM | #7 |
I don't think water flow is a variable here. What you need is a «cooling tank» in the ground. I say «tank», but really it would be a pipe to dissipate the heat faster.
I would first ask myself what is my daily need for cold water. Once you know that, it is easy to calculate the size of your «tank» (piping) that is in the ground. This way, you know the water you use has at least spent 24 hours in your underground «cooling tank». For example, using numbers from this site, I roughly calculate that an average household needs 60 L of cold water. (Of course, in your case, you don't need to cool the water that is used for the outdoor, the clothes washer, dishwasher or toilet). Using a 3/4" (19mm) pipe diameter, you need around 175' (53m) of pipe into the ground to store 60 L of water. Just put your numbers to adjust to your needs if they are different. |
Aug27-12, 10:47 PM | #8 |
As chiller system will be lot's of complication and costly also, so go for simple cooling tower which will transfer the extra heat to atmosphere by using latent heat of evaporation of water. Anyway I don't know what is the ambient temperature and humidity of your surroundings and how much cooling do you need. Water tower simple in construction, good aesthetic if made properly, and cheap also.
But anyway I am getting how you transfer the heat to ground form piping. With what do you exchange the heat. Don,t you think it will trap the heat and after sometime it will stop working. LOL...Thanks... |
Aug30-12, 04:22 PM | #9 |
One site http://www.plastic-mart.com/category...-storage-tanks You could add a pump to withdraw the water from the cistern. An underground cistern may be something that you might find interesting to suit your needs. Of course, the cost of this method and the others addressed you would have to consider. |
Sep1-12, 05:51 PM | #10 |
you should make your tank cubic with padding so that there can be an even volume and it will be harder to heat up and then paint the tank white so it can reflect any photons that hit without absorbing them it or if you have a roof over it paint the roof white. Then you won't need that expensive of a cooling system because your water won't be getting as hot as it is now.
Sep4-12, 11:41 AM | #11 |
Just an FYI Anaximenes, the sphere has the smallest surface area by volume for any given shape. If you want to maximally reduce heating spheres are the way to go.
With that said, if you want to maximize cooling, then a sphere isn't the way to go. Though, considering we are talking about the flow of water, neither are polygons. I agree with 256 bits, a concrete "sump" buried will help out a lot. How you get the water out depends on where/how the water enters the sump, how deep it is, and where the water has to go. The size of your pump (which shouldn't be very large at all for most domestic needs) will depend on these previous conditions, as well as what devices are being fed, and whether or not you need to send the water through some sort of softener/filtration system for treatment and/or potability. |
Oct25-12, 10:35 PM | #12 |
Any possibility of using a cooling tower like the ones they use at power plants to cool the process water? A cooling tower makes use of water evaporation to bring about the cooling. All this could be done outside, without pumping under the ground. You pump water to the top of the tower, and run it down a very large surface. You blow air over the surface with a fan. The water that doesn't evaporate gets cooled. Do they make small scale cooling towers for home use?
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Buck Creek State Park
Springfield, Ohio 1 course · 18 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
+1 votes Matt Smith › May 1, 2012
First few holes were wooded and fun, then it started to get bad. Lots of holes with high grass, easy to loose discs. This course is also pretty deep into the park, not worth a special trip.
+0 votes Doug Lowe › May 31, 2011
I love this course. I wish it was closer to where I live, becasue I'd play it much more often.
+0 votes Xelto G › December 10, 2011
Much nicer since the course redesign. Nice variety of shots, good use of woods and elevation.
+0 votes Israel J › July 6, 2012
Nice Course, The first ten holes have some pretty wooded technical shots, after that the course opens up a bit and has a some good scenic shots along the side of Clarence J Brown reservoir. Plenty of elevation changes all throughout the course. Could have used some tee signs, as i had to walk halfway up almost every fairway to find out where the baskets where. Other than the tee signs, the park did flow really nice and was fun to play. The only major drawback is finding the course once you are a ...
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+0 votes Brandon F › October 22, 2012
Love the course! Mix of open holes with long distances, and short holes but all tight in the woods. Love the variety and would definitely drive an hour or so to play this course.
+0 votes greg ping › December 1, 2012
First, more signs have been added to help direct you to the course. Second, this pass summer (2012) a private volunteer group has worked with park officals and made many very nice improvenents to the course. For instance all 18 holes now have concrete tee pads. Alot of the brush along the fairways of the first 11 wooded holes has been cleared away making them fair but still challenging. As I'm writing this review new identification signs are being added to each hole, but are not all completed ye ...
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Why Waiting on Wes Welker Will Pay Off; He's a Must Start in Week 11
The Patriots wide receiver has battled injuries, but he is a must start against the Chiefs
By: Corby Yarbrough | 11/20/11, 7:12 AM EST
Reports of Wes Welker's injury are sounding like moves in 'Operation' week after week after week, but he says he feels "all right" and should be a go for the New England Patriots against the Kansas City Chiefs Monday night.
And with the consistency he provides your fantasy team points, if he feels all right, then I feel all right starting him in Week 11.
Welker has battled neck, rib and knee injuries each of the past three weeks, and has gone out there and batted 33 percent for you as a fantasy receiver. He has been a dud in two of the three, scoring 6.93 fantasy points against Pittsburgh, 19.4 against the Giants and 7.6 last week against the Jets.
But how the Patriots use Welker and how he manages to find the empty spot on the field and get to it means you can never sit Welker unless an injury report says he is out. The games he's had in two of the last three weeks are outliers of a season in which he had NEVER previously dipped below double digits in Athlon's half-PPR scoring format, and only gone below 12 once before the latest stretch.
So is the latest stretch a sign of things to come for Welker or just a bump in the road? The production you consistently get from Welker means you must treat this as a bump in the road.
There are a few things you need to take into account for his Week 11 matchup in particular.
• The game is not until Monday night, which gives Welker an extra day to get healthy.
• The game is at home, so there's no travel in preparation to get ready.
• And most importantly, the game is against a Chiefs team that allows the fourth-fewest pass attempts per game (29.8) in the NFL but is ranked 16th in passing yards allowed per game (230.3), 27th in yard per completion (8.0), and 24th in TDs allowed (16).
It stinks that you have probably your top receiver in an injury situation, having not performed well in two of the last three weeks and playing on a Monday night. But the matchup, Welker saying he feels all right and him being a must-start every week means you have to grin and bear it.
But this should be a week where your anxiety will pay off in a WR1 kind of way when Week 11 comes to a close.
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It seems that lately there's been a rash of blog posts coming out of Richmond, Indiana about the not-so-new but still amazing Motorola Droid (or Droid by Motorola, if you want to follow their nomenclature.) As a new Droid owner myself I figured I'd throw my hat in the ring too.
Last Friday my wife and I received our new Droids, and after using it pretty intensely over the weekend, these are some of my overall impressions. I won't even attempt at making this post exhaustive – instead I'll try and post some follow-ups on things like what apps I've found useful (or not) and so on.
I must say that I wasn't initially sold on getting a Droid – the Google Nexus One is supposed to be coming to Verizon sometime this Spring, and knowing that it has more memory, faster processor, a newer version of Android, etc. I was very tempted to just wait. However, just as decision-time was looming reports started to emerge that the Droid would soon be upgraded to the same, newer version of Android (2.1). Also, the Nexus One has definitely had its share of issues for early-adopters, so ultimately I decided to go with the slightly older but seemingly more reliable Droid.
Initial Setup
Setup was relatively painless for me, already having had a Google account. I had sync'd all of my contacts from my old Blackberry to my Google account using Google Sync, and I had already "cleaned up" my address books in anticipation of importing them to the new phone. You may notice I referred to address books. That's because I'm taking advantage of one of the key features of Android 2.0 or newer, the ability to connect with multiple Google accounts.
I use Gmail for both my personal and work email, calendar, etc. but with separate accounts. Initially, I was worried about how this would go – would I end up with many duplicate contacts because some people appear in both contacts lists? Would I be able to specify where new contacts are saved when I create them on the phone? How would calendars work?
All my fears were laid to rest as I set up the phone, first with my personal account, then adding my work one. Android does a great job of combining duplicate contacts while still allowing you to un-join them if it makes a mistake or if you want them to remain distinct. When you start to add a new contact, it immediately asks which account to create it under.
One slight disappointment is that the calendar only syncs with the primary account on the phone, my personal account in my case. However, since I had already set up calendar sharing between my work and personal accounts I am still able to view, edit, and add to my work calendars. Disaster averted.
I'm incredibly impressed with the inherent flexibility of the Android OS. The commercials for the MyTouch 3G (which also uses Android) that tout the system's myriad personalization options are really spot-on. Within a couple days, I already have a setup that is very usable and customized to my taste. I'll write more about this when I blog about apps.
The touch screen is great. This is the first touch device I've owned and I've always been a bit leery, especially of onscreen keyboards. However, the screen is so responsive and the virtual keyboard so good that I find myself rarely using the physical keyboard.
Google Maps and Google Voice integration are awesome. The navigation app is simply game-changing (no wonder Garmin's stock dropped significantly once Google introduced it!)
Some other highlights:
- Threaded SMS messaging
- Push support for Gmail
- Great call quality
- Very good voice recognition
Of course, nothing is perfect, not even shiny new tech-toys. There is always room for improvement, and these are just a few of the things I've run into already that leave me wanting more:
Groups support – Gmail itself does a great job of supporting contact groups, allowing you to send messages to groups, arrange contacts, etc. Android's support of groups is incredibly rudimentary. All you seem to be able to do is filter your contacts by choosing which groups sync from your Gmail accounts and which groups are hidden. Even then, it is a multi-step process that's more work that it's worth. I can't set ringtones based on group membership, I can't send emails or SMS texts to groups, and I can't even modify what groups that contacts are members of. This is the biggest FAIL I've come across thus far …
Notifications – I'm surprised to say this, but my old Blackberry Curve did a much better job of managing notifications than the Droid. On the Blackberry there was a single menu section for specifying all the many notifications – phone calls, text messages, email accounts, etc. You could set up multiple notification profiles and easily enable them from the home screen. In comparison, the notifications subsystem in Android is much more rudimentary. Within each app, I can control its notifications, and there are some system-wide settings for ringtones and such but no support for multiple profiles. Once notifications are set, all you can do is adjust notification volume, turn off audible alerts (leaving only apps that would normally vibrate), and turn off both audible and vibrating alerts. I'm really disappointed that I can't set up a more specialized vibration profile, but it seems I may have to find "an app for that" …
Physical Keyboard – One of the bragging rights of this phone is that it has a physical keyboard. However, it sucks. Seriously. I loved the keyboard on my Blackberry. Despite its tiny keys, I could quickly and accurately type what I needed. At first I thought it might just be a learning curve issue, but then I tried the onscreen keyboards (both in portrait and landscape mode) and found them much more usable and accurate. Including a physical keyboard on this device was a significant design decision by Motorola – you would think they would have made it worthwhile! It leaves me wishing they had left it out and saved a couple millimeters in thickness and reduced the mechanical complexity.
Bluetooth Voice Dialing – The last gripe I've got (for now) is that Android doesn't support bluetooth voice dialing. Period. It's just not there. I've done some research and this is simply a feature that isn't implemented in Android (yet?). This is a huge disappointment for me, because I (did) usemy bluetooth headset for voice dialing all the time. The Droid does have a "Voice Dialing" app, which works very well. You just can't use it with bluetooth. This seems like such an obvious oversight to me. Even my wife's old LG enV2 had this feature. My old Motorola e815 that I had 3 years ago had it too. Bluetooth voice dialing pre-dates Android's existence! Why is it not supported?!?!?! Argh.
Final Thoughts
Don't take all my gripes to mean I don't like the Droid – I still love it. It's just that when a device has so much potential it's hard not to notice the areas it falls flat on its face. I'm still finding it incredibly useful and overall a much more powerful device than my Blackberry. I still have some things I need to tweak (getting favorite mobile sites bookmarked, etc.) and more apps to play with, but I'm sure that will come with time.
Stay tuned for upcoming posts where I'll talk more in depth about apps, Google Voice integration, and more!


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Mother's Juice Cafe will open its second restaurant next month in the former TuckMo Subs & Sandwiches space on Dean Swift Road off U.S. Highway 20 in east Bend, said Michael Sackin, the general manager of Mother's.
TuckMo, which opened in 2010, closed its doors in late June, following a decrease in sales in recent months, according to a post on the restaurant's Facebook page.
With around 10 employees, the second Mother's location will serve breakfast, lunch, homemade baked goods and smoothies, Sackin said.
"You've got some bigger employers out there and not that much choice as far as restaurants go, so we thought it was a good fit for us," Sackin said of the new location.
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From looking through the forums about the whole building defense issue, I'm seeing a lot of different emotions coming out. I totally understand everyone's frustrations, especially those who have spent a lot of RM on defense buildings.
Here's what I would like to know, and also to clear up for Funzio's future knowledge (cause let's all face it, CC really is a great game, and although I know a few have already left, I don't think the majority of us want this to ruin the entire game us). Are you guys really frustrated because the true value of the defense buildings are so low, or is it because you were deceived???
You see, my philosophy is that if Funzio had listed the true values of these buildings, then we would have just accepted it as part of the game, and there never would have been an issue. It's when we realized that we had been deceived that the frustration was created. Please let me know... and thus Funzio will see it as well so they will know how to better proceed with any future, possible frustrations!


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Not since Oprah gave away a fleet of free cars has a giveaway been quite so epic as what Miami Beach will experience next Tuesday. Parked outside of NoWhere Lounge (653 Washington Ave.) will be a fleet of Pleasure Carts that will be dispensing free Trojan Vibrations products (while supplies last).
"What?" you say. "Free vibrators? How can that be?"
It turns out that a pleasure revolution has been sweeping major cities from New York to Chicago to Las Vegas where locals have all gotten their hands on the latest models of battery operated boyfriends like the Trojan Tri-Phoria Vibrator (retails for $39.99) and the Trojan Pulse Vibrator (retails $29.99). Now it's Miami's turn to get in on the freaky free action.
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January 8, 2013 | Erika BurtonParent involvement is the number one predictor of early literacy success and future academic achievement. However, according to a 2007 report by National Endowment for the Arts, there are more literate people in the United States who don't read than those who are actually illiterate. How do we change that pattern for the future of our children?
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Educators and parents alike know that preschool-age children need a lot of modeling to navigate through social/emotional, cognitive and gross/fine motor skills. Many experts in the field of education in the last decade have emphasized the importance of play-based curriculum and its vital role in developing a child's imagination and social skills. Learning to get along with others is modeled and developed throughout the preK years and a child's formative years through programs under the umbrella of SEI (Social/Emotional Skills): anger management, problem-solving and empathy skills. Kindergarten teachers are thankful for the beginning role that preK teachers play in this initial modeling and development. Fine and gross motor skills are honed through everyday preK learning activities such as cutting, drawing, sorting, painting, catching, throwing, kicking, hopping, jumping and writing one's name.
Cognition Domain: Early Literacy Needs Today
However, recent preK research has focused specifically on cognition within early childhood development and on how parent involvement fits into preK literacy development. Past early literacy research emphasized the importance of daily adult/child reading time, as well as having 100 or more books in one's home, and its link to a child being academically ready and successful in kindergarten. Recent research has proved that reading as a stand-alone activity will not help children with pre-literacy skills (Phillips et al., 2008). Unfortunately, the latest research on parent involvement in early literacy has stressed that children need to be given more specific skills while being read to in order to be successful with early literacy skills (Roberts, Jurgens, & Burchinal, M., 2005).
Parent Involvement: What Skills Need to be Part of a Daily Routine?
Parent involvement in early literacy is directly connected to academic achievement. Children need parents to be their reading role models with daily practice in order to navigate successfully through beginning literacy skills. According to research, parents should focus on the words on the page while reading with their preK reader (Evans, Shaw, Bell, 2000).
Here are some strategies for beginning and seasoned readers' literacy success:
- Point to each word on the page as you read. This beginning literacy strategy will assist children with making print/story/illustration connections. This skill also helps build a child's tracking skills from one line of text to the next one.
- Read the title and ask your child to make a prediction. Beginning and seasoned readers alike need to make predictions before reading a story. This will go a long way to ensure that a child incorporates previewing and prediction in his or her own reading practices both now and in the future.
- Take "picture walks." Help your child use the picture clues in most early readers and picture books to tell the story before reading.
- Model fluency while reading, and bring your own energy and excitement for reading to your child. Both new and seasoned readers struggle with varying pitch, intonation and proper fluctuations when they read aloud. Older readers will benefit from shared reading (taking turns).
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- Connect reading and writing if possible. The connection between reading, writing and discussion should be incorporated with daily literacy practice. Have a young child dictate to a parent who writes in a journal or on a sheet of paper. Modeling the formation of sentences aligned with the words of a story is crucial for a child to begin making a neural interconnectedness between reading and writing. A child's process of drawing pictures brings his or her personal creativity toward the story. Sharing these illustrations of experiences and individual interpretations related to the sentence he or she has created on the page is yet another step toward this early balanced literacy approach.
Beginning and lifelong literacy is transformative and constantly growing. However, the process must begin when initially learning to read, and must be as intuitive to a child as when he or she learned to speak. This can happen through incorporating repetition, proper skills and modeling.
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Hi PD!Parent involvement are
Hi PD!
Parent involvement are a strong predictor of academic success. We need to hook them into the learning process and partnering with their child's school early in schools. There are many studies out there that share when parents are given skill based solutions to help their child with early literacy skills the results are successful.
Saracho, O. (2002). Family literacy: Exploring family practices. Early Child Development and Care, 172(2), 113-122.
Literacy development is dependent on specific family interactions. When parents and child interact with literacy the experience is enriched and meaningful using a variety of interactions and contexts. This happens inside and outside the home. Studies on family involvement in early literacy focus on positive family involvement with both books in the home and knowledge of literacy.
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Hi Nikkie! My program,
Hi Nikkie!
My program, Stepping Stones Together, would be effective for parents to learn beginning English skills along with their child learning pre-emergent literacy skills. Grandparents, caregivers, and loved ones are all amazing loving substitutes for helping a child learn to read. When a family (extended too) puts an emphasis on taking ownership for beginning learning the whole family dedicates themselves to academic achievement and goal setting for the future.
Sara, Your school seems very
Your school seems very prepared and proactive to assist children/parent teams in academic success! You should feel proud :).
Parents need a bag of tricks to help their children. As every great educator knows, there is not a one program fits all solution but many will provide you with more opportunities to get your child the help they need.
Kindergarten teacher, Thanks
Kindergarten teacher,
Thanks for your response! I'd love for you to share Stepping Stones Together with your parent community as we can only help parents with tactile resources they can immediately use and feel comfortable using with their children.
I completely agree with
I completely agree with parental involvement in early literacy. It is especially important for students to be "ready" with the necessary skills required for kindergarten. Most of our students have not been in preschool and are not yet equipped to tackle kindergarten. However, the students are registered and are attending kindergarten. In any case, it is vital to extend learning beyond school walls.
Great topic! Parent
Great topic! Parent involvement is lacking at my Title I school. I really like the strategies you listed for early literacy. I also think reviewing parts of a book with the child (title, author, illustrator, contents, etc.) would be beneficial as well! There are many parents who do not feel confident in using various strategies to help their child academically. My school has a family reading and math night every month to model certain strategies for parents. I believe there needs to be more opportunities for parents to receive training on how to help their child academically at home.
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Hey PD Carson,
I was actually just speaking with a TX district leader about something similar last week. We discussed the fact that parents of ELL students often have busy schedules. They want to help their children succeed but 1) sometimes don't have much time to come to the school, 2) don't know exactly what their child needs help with and 3) don't have the English language skills to help their child with some subjects... 2 ideas/recommendations based on our discussion:
The district leader I spoke with had parents come up with a series of 12-15 goal statements for their child. All statement started with "My dream for you is...". Her plan was to use this to help parents consciously think of aspirational goals for their child and review them throughout the year to see whether they were helping their child get there. I think this can be a great exercise to do as part of the ELL tutoring program. You can teach language skills while having them answer this important question! Then you can have them reflect on it at the end of the program and work in groups/pairs to discuss ways to help their children move toward the goals they have set.
Since the parents might be working/unavailable, consider making it a "family" tutoring program (the grandparents might often be more available and in some cases they are the ones watching the child most often).
Implementing a Parent Literacy Program for ELLs
I am going to be extending my ELL after-school tutoring program to include parents. I would like to know if anyone has any suggestions that will help make the program a success. I do believe that parents are a crucial element of success - whether or not any one study has listed parents in the first place position or in the last position.
I am interested in knowing
I am interested in knowing your source for your opening statement, "Parent involvement is the number one predictor of early literacy success and future academic achievement." Earlier this year we were told at a meeting that parent involvement was 6th in a list of 6 predictors. As an early childhood teacher I was surprised by the comment. I would like to provide evidence that there is research that states that parent involvement is a key to a child's academic success.
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Can you release the download link for the shipped version? I am unable to find this on Novell website.
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There have been only two multidisciplinary, citation-based or citation-enhanced mega-databases on the market: the classic Web of Science (WoS) from ISI and Scopus from Elsevier, which was launched officially in early Fall 2004. Both of them are expensive but they provide unique options for finding information about 35 million (WoS) and 25 million (Scopus) source documents along with hundreds of millions of cited documents (many of which are themselves source documents in WoS and Scopus).
Such mega-projects require mega-million dollar investments in order to subscribe to and process the thousands of expensive journals for traditional abstracting and indexing database purposes. Add to this the cost of processing close to 30 million citations every year and we're talking about big money for even a single year. The largest version of WoS (the Century Database) goes back more than 100 years with cited references. Scopus has cited references for articles published in the past decade.
There are some remarkable, although much smaller discipline-oriented citation-based/citation-enhanced databases and services. PsycINFO has nearly 350,000 records enhanced with about 14 million cited references. Two of its many hosts stand out for their powerful and comprehensive handling of cited references: ISI through its Web of Knowledge platform and Illumina of CSA, which in April enhanced some of its own social science databases with 1.6 million cited references.
Then there are the free and awesome CiteSeer and eBizSearch databases, and the various impressive information services based on the RePEC metadata collection and the OpenCite project. All these use autonomous citation indexing, proving that it can be done far better than in Google Scholar. There is the masterfully implemented super-archive of HighWire Press (HWP) with more than 800,000 open access scholarly articles. (See the HWP companion review this month.)
As I was re-testing HighWire Press and Google, I kept thinking about where we would be if publishers had provided HWP with the same unfettered access to their digital archives as they did for Google. Publishers should recognize that Google is not the only game in town and that there are others who are willing to be as smart and more commitment-oriented.
Google Scholar has to be looked at with this background: Even in its disappointing incarnation it is an asset for those scholars whose university or research institute cannot afford WoS or Scopus. Those who just need a few good papers and Web sites might as well be satisfied with the regular Google or Yahoo search engines. Those who need a comprehensive set of papers that includes the most respected (and hence most-cited) articles, books and conference papers are advised to treat the hits — and citedness scores — in Google Scholar with much reservation.
The "Googlemania" fueled by the enormous media publicity and laymen's ecstasy rubs off on Google Scholar and makes otherwise learned people disregard reality. It is a telling example that Jan Velterop, who deserves much credit for directing Biomed Central's impressive open access journal project, was quoted by Information World Review as calling Google Scholar "... a threat to Scopus, it is better and it is free." Is it really better? I don't think so. And luckily, there are other sober voices.
Gary Price gave a summary of the new developments, as well as the relentless and unappealing secrecy about the sources covered by Google Scholar. It enhanced his initial review where he and Shirl Kennedy brought up several concerns about the scholarly nature of some of the source genres discovered and the flimsy implementation of some software options, like date searching. Roy Tenant is among the few who does not jump for joy at a new announcement from Google. His critique about Google Print (Google Out Of Print) also suggests what I feel: Google is going to become a jack of all trades and a master of none by keeping too many irons in the fire. In the meantime, I was laboring to find improvements in the areas that I criticized when Google Scholar debuted half a year ago. Most of these were not addressed with the software update which add some badly needed advanced search options. Improvements were few and far between.
I have decided to discuss the software issues before the content in order to explain how difficult it is to make even elementary searches efficiently (let alone special searches for database evaluation) for lack of adequate software tools for browsing, searching and saving results in a structured output formats.
There are no browsing options at all in Google Scholar. These are essential to look up variants of author and journal names. Even in high-quality databases there are many instances of inaccurate and correct but inconsistent spellings of author and journal names. The best systems offer users a chance to look up at least simple variations by browsing field-specific indexes or a special database, such as Dialog's Journal Name Finder.
With hundreds of millions of cited references, WoS makes not only the author and journal name index browsable, but also the indexes of the cited author and cited work (book title, journal name, etc.). Google Scholar has not created any browsable indexes from the publishers' archives in spite of their metadata-rich records that identify the data elements. Beyond a reminder that journal names may be variably spelled, the searcher is left completely in the dark as to how to enter a journal name, such as the many variants of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The advanced search page was added earlier this year, but in many regards it is like a movie prop — for show only. Beyond the standard Google advanced search options in Google Scholar, seemingly, you may also restrict the search to publication name, author name and publication year or year range. But don't applaud before you read the caveats about these options.
Searching for journal name
You may search one variant name at a time in Google Scholar's journal name cell, but which one do you choose: PNAS, Proc Nat Acad Sci, Proc Natl Acad Sci? To put things into perspective, in the PASCAL database of the French National Scientific Research Center, there are 64 differently abbreviated variants for PNAS. True, PASCAL has had the sloppiest entries among the active databases, but it is unnerving to think about all of the possible name variations in Google Scholar.
At least your worrying is over as soon as you realize there is nothing for the software to offer. You can't even truncate the words in the query, let alone use proximity and positional operators which would ease the pain of guessing.
At the opposite extreme, the simplest journal names are even more of a headache in Google Scholar with its lack of browsable indexes. It is hopeless to make a pure search for articles published in, say, Science magazine on a given topic. The result list is full of journals whose title includes the word science along with other terms such as Information Science & Research or Cognitive Science.
This is the same problem you will find when querying for a topical term and a single-word journal name like Blood, Brain, Gut, Cancer or Cell. You will be flooded with articles from journals whose name includes your word along with other words. You may exclude some, but this option is very limited. Even a more specific two-word journal name, Current Science for example, is hopeless to search as information about articles hog the first few pages of the result list published in journals irrelevant for the query, such as Current Protein and Peptide Science, Current Trends in Psychological Science and many other journals. It adds insult to injury that Google Scholar mistakes Current Science, Inc., the publisher of Current Reports series, for the journal Current Science a few thousand times.
Wouldn't it help to use "Current Science" as an exact phrase for a journal name? It certainly would, but Google Scholar does not allow it for journal names. It removes the quotation marks around the journal name and searches for any journal whose name includes the words.
Searching for author name
In the author name field, exact searching is theoretically possible by enclosing the initial(s) and the last name of the author. Searching for MJ Bates, especially when combined with a distinguishing subject word such as online, is pretty efficient in telling apart the information scientist Marcia J. Bates (although not perfectly) from the physicist MJ Bates. The problem arises when searching for authors who have only one initial, such as "E Garfield". The search will retrieve many articles from RE Garfield, and even EF Garfield in spite of the exact phrase search syntax. Adding a subject word would make the result list better, but there are times when you want to search by the author's name alone and then to pick items from the result list, or to limit the search to a given range of publication years.
The result of searches limited to a publication year or year range will make you so discombobulated that before dealing with it you may wish to take a look at a sample of the most productive authors in Google Scholar such as I. Introduction (13,500), A. Professor (3,780), I. Part (2,360) or P. Emeritus (582). As a symbol of the still existing glass ceiling in academia, P.Emerita checks in with 262 hits. The most colorful author name belonged to a certain Mr. A Agoraphobia. Although he had only one hit, he seems to be part of a dynasty, at least based on his qualifier: A. Agoraphobia IV. These examples suggest that Google needs to work on the algorithm for author name extraction a bit more.
Searching by publication year
Quite often the quickest way to reduce the number of hits is to restrict a topical search to a year or a current time span. It can be a bit dangerous because records that omitted the publication year will be automatically excluded from the result, drastically reducing the number of hits. Can limiting a search to a year (or year range) increase the result? Nothing is impossible for Google Scholar — it offers such an option, but you may not want to use it.
The search for protein limited to documents published between 1970-2005 yields 942,000 hits. Limiting the search to 1971-2005 should return fewer hits, shouldn't it? In old-fashioned systems it would, but in Google Scholar the result increases to 993,000. And what happens if the same search is limited to 1972-2005? It surpasses the 1 million mark, returning 1,080,000 records. Yes, the searches were done in one fell swoop. I took snapshots.
Next, Google Scholar interprets another traditional search option in an unorthodox fashion — and not usually the one taken for granted, such as Boolean OR. If "protein" retrieves 7,390,000 hits and the plural format "proteins" retrieves 3,790,000 hits, what will be the minimum number of hits when using "protein OR proteins" (directly or indirectly through the search template) ? Forget what you learned in kindergarten, the answer from Google Scholar is 1,280,000. All nice round numbers, but librarians will have to explain why they mislead LIS 100 students with their atavistic concepts about Boolean logic. I saw this liberal handling of the Boolean OR in early April in the regular Google.
Output options
There is a single output format; the searcher has no options for its content or layout. The results cannot be sorted by any user criteria. The only sort criteria used to be by citedness score, displaying the result in decreasing citedness order. This may be good most of the time, but not all of the time. The searcher may need to sort by author. Forget about it, as author names, as many other words acting as author initials and last names, are in the format of first initial then last name (such as ME Koenig). Perfect for sorting a bibliography by first initial. And don't even think about sorting by date as Google Scholar does not know how to determine the correct publication year. There are also no options to save (download) or e-mail the short results list records of scholarly papers in a structured format, such as XML, RIS or CSV — all common in professional systems. The precious metadata tags which identify the data elements that make up the records and are characteristic of most of the scholarly archives are lost.
The problem may be that Google developers have been working smart and hard to make heavy duty software excavators that dig up useful data from unstructured masses of data from zillions of Web pages. They were great for discovering the Web landfill, but not for digging scholarly archives — just as heavy duty excavators are inappropriate for archeological digging of Mayan tombs instead of tiny pick axes, chisels, shovels, trowels and brushes to extract, clean, bag and label the finds. The result of using inappropriate technology is clearly visible on the result list. The first one correctly indicates that it is a record for a paper published in PNAS in 2001. It is followed by a snippet that is rather confusing for a non-librarian with information that the user doesn't need to know at this stage (pagination, volume, issue) or does not need to see (the DOI — which is ugly, but very useful for linking to the source document).
Unfortunately, the second item is the far more typical entry type. Where was this article published? In PNAS? Then why is the abbreviated name of the Journal of Biochemistry, its place of publication and date of publication displayed as opposed to item #1 before it? How can an article published in 2004 already be cited 13,791 times? Why is the title repeated instead of the abstract? What are those links following the citedness score? Well, this is the Voice of Esau, Hand of Jacob situation. J Biochem is the name of the journal that has one of the hundreds of articles in the stable of PNAS that cites the DNA sequencing article published 28 years ago. Why is that one picked for the snippet? I have no idea. It is about the 40th in a very long list of citing articles. It is the PNAS article that has been cited so often and the link takes you to that article. The other links take you to PubMed Central, PubMed and the Astrophysics Data System at Harvard. I am afraid this is not immediately clear to every user. It may be a good quiz for the online (asynchronous distance education) Ph. D. program which is a fiercely discussed issue on the JESSE listserv these days.
I wonder which of the above software options prompted Mr. Velterop to say that Google Scholar is better than Scopus, which displays this hit in a perfect format. Well, it may have been the content.
Google Scholar's content was finally updated in mid-April after a six-month dormancy. I wish I could link you to a site where Google lists at least its publisher partners and their journals, as HighWire Press, WoS, Scopus and most professional services do, whether their service is free or subscription-based. There is no quantitative information about the sources in Google Scholar. The simple paragraph in the About file is pretty non-committal, and so is the statement from one of the developers of Google Scholar in the above quoted IRW article: "We do cover most major publishers from broad areas of research."
It reminds me of the informativeness of the communiqués dispensed by the Korean Central News Agency about the nutritional condition in the country. The test searches done for my earlier review, as well as this one suggest that Google has a reason to be so tight-lipped.
Whether my tests used author names, journal names, subject terms or title word combinations, the Google search results compared poorly with results received from the native search engines of the publishers' archives, from WoS, Scopus and some traditional indexing/abstracting services, such as PsycINFO as implemented by CSA and Web of Knowledge.
It will be no surprise that I can't provide my usual overview about the content, composition and dimensions of the database. No one can with a software like this, and with the secrecy of Google. Suffice it to say that in Google Scholar, information about scholarly and not-so scholarly journals, books, PowerPoint presentations, course materials and many other source "documents" are mixed. The professionally designed systems, like Scirus, Scopus, WoS and CSA handle the two sets separately for several reasons.
Google Scholar is muddying the water and makes its hit numbers and citedness scores even less reliable by this mixing. It is as if the bartender put not only tonic in your gin, but also the peanuts. You may ask your bartender to do it again without mixing, but in Google Scholar this is the mandatory way.
I have to admit that after hundreds of hours using Google Scholar I have no idea of the size of the database; how far it goes back; how many journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, conference proceedings, dissertations, manuscripts, preprints, postprints, reprints, e-prints, appendixes and you-name-its are horded in the database. I do know, however, that even after the update, millions of scholarly articles were left behind by the crawlers that were sent in to the precious archives of many scholarly publishers. You can do your own sampling by using my special polysearch engine for some publishers' archives.
My usual techniques to get some details about databases don't work here because of the serious limitations of the software and of its disregard for common practices and conventions. It is quite easy to tell the number of items in a database just by doing a sweeping search by the widest feasible publication year range. Of course, if not all the records have publication years then the number is not accurate. But in professional systems this can be quickly corroborated by complementary searches.
In Google Scholar the search for the year range 1455-2005 (in case Google already scanned the original Gutenberg Bible) yields 1,388,000 hits. Considering that the term "protein" returned 7,390,000 this, this number is as unreliable as any other, even if in this search only the source items were counted. By now you will not be surprised, but still feel confused, to see that the number of hits keeps increasing as you narrow the year range: there are 1,430,000 records for 1905-2005. The searches were done consecutively in the same minute, so having just added new records is not a good explanation.
The only test that can give some insight is to do title-only known-item searches and then compare the number of records and their citedness with those returned from Web of Science and Scopus. Be forewarned, Google Scholar inflates its hit counts by counting every misspelled variants as a hit as shown in the screenshot for its top-cited entry with a citedness score of 31,955 about the landmark article by Laemmli, et al. There are additional entries with the name spelled as Laemli, Leamli and the title spelled also erroneously and/or incompletely. It is quite telling about the sloppiness of us authors that 250-300 citations use the same misspelled name and title variants. You may be impressed by the high citedness score in Google Scholar (even without adding up the citedness scores of all the variants). Again, don't applaud yet.
Scopus brings up one record, but before you dismiss it look at its citedness score: 61,833. Even if you would scrape together all of the erroneous and inconsistent variants in Google Scholar, the difference is still 50-60%. I checked the top 100 records in Google Scholar with the highest citedness scores and compared them with the citedness scores in Scopus. The pattern was very similar throughout.
Web of Science had the highest citedness scores as it goes back the furthest in including cited references. Scopus makes it clear that it includes references from 1996 onward (and delivers better with significant number of records enhanced with cited references from 1995). Google also takes the 5th Amendment in this regard. The pattern seen in the PNAS test is true also for social science articles, and for those interdisciplinary articles, such as the most cited psychiatry paper in Google Scholar with a score of 5,829. Scopus reports 12,197 citations received by this article. I have always found its number trustworthy on sampling. Such tests provide a feel for the breadth of coverage and the time span of citation databases, and hopefully make you think hard.
I don't have the delusion that most users will care about any of the above. But librarians, other information professionals and scholars should be aware of the limitations of Google Scholar and not join the Google-for-president crowd by dispensing careless endorsements and hollow sound-bites for the press, faculty, students and staff.
There are certainly many journals of many publishers covered to keep casual users, high-school and undergrad students, TV talking heads and shallow journalists happy, but for scholarly research the breadth of coverage is not sufficient, the implementation is sloppy and the software options are inferior.
I dread the moment when ill-informed administrators at mediocre universities pushing asynchronous distance education and other ideas to cut costs will quote Mr. Velterop and others when canceling Scopus, WoS and other citation-enhanced databases because they believe that Google Scholar is better. Then they will cut library jobs and eliminate those costly libraries. And then ... you figure out the rest.


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A recent pilot study linked the JASPER intervention (Joint Attention Symbolic Play Engagement and Regulation) to core deficit improvement in minimally verbal 3 to 5 year olds with autism.
Researchers at Kennedy Krieger examined prevalence and predictors of language attainment in severely language-delayed children with ASD. 70% of the sample attained phrase speech and 47% attained fluent speech at or after age 4, indicating that later gains in language are likely in toddlers with severely delayed language. Children with high nonverbal intelligence and high levels of social interest and engagement were most likely to attain language. ASD-related features such as repetitive and sensory behaviors were not associated with language attainment.
This study is the first large-scale examination of ASD behavioral characteristics and developmental functioning in high-risk (HR), non-autistic 3-year-olds with siblings on the spectrum. 79% of HR children were either no different from low-risk children (LR; no known ASD family history) with respect to ASD behavioral severity and developmental functioning, or were developmentally on target with high levels of ASD-related behaviors. 21% of HR children with no ASD diagnosis had an "early manifestation" of a broad autism phenotype: high levels of ASD-related behaviors and/or low levels of verbal and nonverbal functioning. The authors highlight the importance of developmental surveillance and intervention for this HR subset.
Researchers examine parent-child dyads during structured and free play and find that that joint engagement lasts longer when parents engage their child at or slightly above the child's current level of play. Parents of children with autism often find it difficult to estimate their child's level, which can result in parents engaging at too high of a level and shortening the interaction.
Researchers at Virginia Tech examine M-CHAT performance in a very low socio-economic status setting and find it lacks internal consistency across ethnic and educational groups. Caregivers who reported a low maternal educational level or with minority status were more likely to mark items suggestive of autism compared to those with higher maternal education or non-minority status
This study examines the effects of sleep problems on daytime cognitive and adaptive functioning in children with ASD.
The Institute of Medicine issues a report in response to questions about the safety of the vaccination schedule for children under age six. Thorough examination of the immunization schedule reveals no major concerns associated with adherence to recommended practices.
"The First Year Inventory is a parent-report measure designed to identify 12-month-old infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder. First Year Inventory taps behaviors that indicate risk in the developmental domains of sensory-regulatory and social-communication functioning. This longitudinal study is a follow-up of 699 children at 3 years of age from a community sample whose parents completed the First Year Inventory when their children were 12 months old. Parents of all 699 children completed the Social Responsiveness Scale-Preschool version and the Developmental Concerns Questionnaire to determine age 3 developmental outcomes. In addition, children deemed at risk for autism spectrum disorder based on liberal cut points on the First Year Inventory, Social Responsiveness Scale-Preschool, and/or Developmental Concerns Questionnaire were invited for in-person diagnostic evaluations. We found 9 children who had a confirmed diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder from the sample of 699. Receiver operating characteristic analyses determined that a two-domain cutoff score yielded optimal classification of children: 31% of those meeting algorithm cutoffs had autism spectrum disorder and 85% had a developmental disability or concern by age 3. These results suggest that the First Year Inventory is a promising tool for identifying 12-month-old infants who are at risk for an eventual diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder."
"OBJECTIVE: Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorders that onset clinically during the first years of life. ASD risk biomarkers expressed early in life could significantly impact diagnosis and treatment, but no transcriptome-wide biomarker classifiers derived from fresh blood samples from children with autism have yet emerged.
RESULTS: Potential ASD biomarkers were discovered in one-half of the sample and used to build a classifier, with high diagnostic accuracy in the remaining half of the sample."


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