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As shown previously on this website, unequal living conditions are one of the defining social problems of contemporary crisis-battered Europe. This weekend I attended the RondaForum 2014, Southern Europe's forum on entrepreneurship and education, where this issue was discussed amongst young people from around the world who were seeking for new ideas to bridge the gap between the often bleak realities of Europe's youth and the aspirations that are needed to create a sustainable basis for future competitiveness and growth. How big that problem really is amongst Europe's youth can be seen from a look at the change in youth unemployment over the course of the financial crisis. Much of Europe's youth is now being referred to as the lost generation, and in almost every European country youth unemployment has increased considerably between 2007 and 2012, as the following two maps show. They show the countries of Europe resized according to their absolute increase/decline in youth unemployment in these five years, with only Germany having a significant decline in youth employment in that period. Amongst those countries having a considerable increase, especially Southern Europe is standing out showing the growing North-South divide of the continent that highlight the challenges that initiatives such as the European Union's Europe 2020 growth strategy face:
Sochi 2014 medal maps
The politically controversial 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi (Russia) are history. What's left as a legacy beyond the politics is the usual roundup of where the medals went and which nations managed to surprise or disappoint. The final medal count saw Russia being top of the table with not only the most medals (33), but also most gold (11) and silver (11). 26 nations managed to win at least one medal. Here is the Worldmapper-style view of all medals, showing the countries of the world resized according to their total medals won at the 2014 Winter Olympics (as well as the individual success in each medal category):
Unequal wealth: Income distribution gaps in Europe
Income inequality has become a wider acknowledged issue in the wealthy parts of the world which is no longer restricted to academic debate. A study commissioned by the IMF (Berg et al, 2011) acknowledges that "the trade-off between efficiency and equality may not exist" (IMF), referring to inequality one possible result of unsustainable growth. Europe has seen a steep rise in economic inequalities which have a huge impact of the people in the European nations. An OECD working paper (Bonesmo Fredriksen, 2012) states that "poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion". It also concludes, that "towards the end of the 2000s the income distribution in Europe was more unequal than in the average OECD country, albeit notably less so than in the United States", stressing that within-country inequalities are just as important if not more important than the between-country dimension. Both, however, are relevant in the current economic crisis and the again-growing divisions on the continent. As one of the reasons for these changes, the OECD paper states that "large income gains among the 10% top earners appear to be a main driver behind this evolution".
The following two maps compare the share of income of the richest and poorest 10% of the population in Europe based on national-level data published by Eurostat (2013) (map legend ranked by quartiles). To show the data from a people's perspective, the map uses a population cartogram as a base which shows the countries resized according to their absolute population. The maps give a look at how disparities exist not only between the countries, but also within each of them by showing, how (un)equal the distribution of income is in every country:
The real size of Offshore Financial Centres
In an article for the "In Focus" section of Political Insight (December 2013, Volume 4, Issue 3) Jan Fichtner of the University of Frankfurt a.M. and I analysed the size of the foreign assets in the world's largest offshore financial centres. All 'offshore financial centres' (OFCs) have one characteristic feature in common; they offer very low tax rates and lax regulations to non-residents with the aim to attract foreign financial assets. OFCs essentially undercut 'onshore' jurisdictions at their expense. The main beneficiaries are high-net-worth individuals and large multinational corporations that have the capital and expertise required to utilise OFCs. Beyond its geographical connotation the phenomenon of 'offshore' represents a withdrawal of public regulation and control, primarily over finance. Some important OFCs are in fact located 'onshore', e.g. Delaware in the USA and the City of London in the UK. However, historically many OFCs have literally developed 'off-shore', mostly on small islands.
OFCs as defined by Zoromé (2007) are jurisdictions that provide financial services to non-residents on a scale that is excessive compared to the size and the financing of their domestic economies. The graphic shows combined data on securities (Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey by the IMF) and on deposits/loans (Locational Banking Statistics by the BIS) at the end of 2011. Capturing the two by far most important components of financial centres allows a reasonable approximation of the real size of OFCs while avoiding double counting. The larger the size of the circles on the map, the more foreign financial assets have been attracted to the particular jurisdiction. The vast majority of the almost US$70 trillion foreign financial assets are concentrated in North America, Europe and Japan. Areas with assets below $US50bn are not shown for their relative insignificance in the global context.
Unequal Elite: The THE World University Rankings
This feature was compiled in collaboration with Phil Baty of Times Higher Education and first appeared in the World University Rankings 2013-2014. In the following blog post we put the rankings results into a human and economic perspective (modified version from the original article). The two maps show the top 200 Universities from the Ranking displayed on two different kinds of gridded cartograms:
Where the Wild Spaces Are: Un planeta salvaje
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Wilderness and remote areas are a diverse element in the patchwork of spaces that form the land surface of our planet. Only very small amounts of people are living in sparsely populated areas, which is an expression of the strong organisation of human societies to maximise those living in close relative proximity. More than half of the world's population now lives in areas categorised as cities, and although more than 95% of the world's population live in approximately only 10% of the land area, the remaining 90% of space on land are far from being uniform remote or even wild areas.
There are very different ways of how the un-built area that still makes the largest share of land can be understood in terms of being under influence and in reach of human civilization. Only 15% of people in rich countries live more than an hour of travel time from a city (of at least 50,000 people), while the same applies to 65% of people living in the poor countries of the world. This paper demonstrates a different approach to visualising and understanding these loneliest places on the planet by using a technique called a gridded cartogram transformation. The following map shows a gridded cartogram visualising the relative distance of areas to the majority of people. The maps derived from the distorted grid show the physical space transformed according to the absolute travel time that is needed to reach the nearest major city by land transport averaged over the area of a grid cell, resulting in a map that gives the remotest places most space and provides a unique new perspective on the spatial dimension of remoteness:
Bundestagswahl 2013: Party time (and hangover)
The following map series is a comprehensive overview of the individual second vote shares of each of the parties represented in the new parliament after the 2013 general election (in order of their absolute vote share) and a look at the change in votes compared to the Bundestagswahl 2009 for the party who were in parliament during the last term. I also mapped a few of the smaller parties that are most relevant in the public debate. Please note that the following page may take a while loading due to the large number of maps and their respective filesize. Continue reading
World Lightning: Thunderstorms and human population
Time again to talk about the weather: Britain is suffering under heatwave conditions (also known as summer in other parts of the world), with the ongoing high temperatures and developing clouds going along with an increased humidity slowly increasing the risk for thunderstorms. Thunderstorms are not an uncommon phenomenon on the British Isles, but they are much less common and much less severe compared to other regions experiencing similar conditions much more frequently and more intensively. The Met Office explains that "Owing to the fact thunderstorms are created by intense heating of the earth's surface, they are most common in areas of the globe where the weather is hot and humid. Land masses therefore experience more storms than the oceans and they are also more frequent in tropical areas than the higher latitudes. In the UK thunderstorms are most common over the East Midlands and the south-east."
As it happens to be, the part most prone to thunderstorms in Britain is also the most densely populated region. Comparing this to other parts of the world, it can be seen that some of the most risky regions are also some of the very densely populated places. In Europe, which is overall densely populated in many parts, the most affected areas are the people living in the Mediterranean countries, although the European population in general is amongst the least affected by thunderstorms when comparing this to areas such as the southern edge of the Himalayas in India – densely populated and experiencing very intensive thunderstorms. These details only emerge when changing the projection of data collected on lightning flashes from a conventional land area map (where this part of India for instance remains comparably small) to a gridded population cartogram. The following map shows the intensity of lightning flashes displayed as the number of flashes per square kilometre per year in each of the grid cells, while the distortion of the grid cells reflects the global population distribution, so that the most and least exposed populations are highlighted in this visualisation:
The Human Planet: A modern Mappa Mundi
"A mappa mundi [...] is any medieval European map of the world. [...] To modern eyes, mappae mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, mappae mundi were never meant to be used as navigational charts and they make no pretence of showing the relative areas of land and water. Rather, mappae mundi were schematic and were meant to illustrate different principles. The simplest mappae mundi were diagrams meant to preserve and illustrate classical learning easily. The zonal maps should be viewed as a kind of teaching aid—easily reproduced and designed to reinforce the idea of the Earth's sphericity and climate zones" (cited from Wikipedia).
What would a mappa mundi of our times look like? A modern equivalent of such a map would have to focus on those spaces of our planet that we have a less vivid imagination of than the physical shape of the world that in medieval times was a much less familiar view than it is today. The following gridded population cartogram generated over the whole surface of Earth could be such a contemporary depiction of the world. It divides the world into equal spaces of population realigning the map view to show the human planet in a similar way as mappae mundi showed the world centuries ago:
The Space of Climate Change
In the face of unprecendented occurences of extreme weather, loss of species, and pollution, it is clear that climate change is affecting our planet. We cannot afford to wait any longer to act. This quote from the Earth Day 2013 website outlines the theme for this year's Earth Day campaign which runs under the motto Climate change has many faces.
As the Earth Day campaign points out, the stories of the impact of climate change are extremely diverse: "A man in the Maldives worried about relocating his family as sea levels rise, a farmer in Kansas struggling to make ends meet as prolonged drought ravages the crops, a fisherman on the Niger River whose nets often come up empty, a child in New Jersey who lost her home to a super-storm, a woman in Bangladesh who can't get fresh water due to more frequent flooding and cyclones."
All these tales have one thing in common: They are a story of our impact on planet Earth, but equally of the impact of a changing planet on human's lives. Our species has become one that is not just living in the natural environment, but is one factor that changes the environment to a level that no other species did before. This is happening to an extent that geologists discuss whether this can be seen as a new geologic era. Nobel Prize laureate Paul Crutzen started promoting the idea of the so-called Anthropocene, a concept that has now left the scientific world and is increasingly entering the public debate regarding issues of global sustainability and humanity's impact. Anthropocene.info is a project initiated by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) that aims to "to help visualize and better understand humanity's geographic imprint in recent time." Not only is it important to find better ways of understanding the complex interrelations of humans and their natural environment, to which visualisation can contribute, but also is it important to create a public understanding of issues relating to the challenges connected to global change.
Here is one example of a more challenging view existing knowledge that demonstrates how changing the view can make us rethink the way our natural environment is shaped. According to research by the US National Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, "[t]he strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the earth's climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Most hurricanes do not reach their maximum potential intensity before weakening over land or cooler ocean regions. However, those storms that do approach their upper-limit intensity are expected to be slightly stronger in the warmer climate due to the higher sea surface temperatures."
This is relevant due to the impact of more frequent flooding and cyclones on humans mentioned earlier. So where are these spaces where this is relevant. We know from historic records where there are tropical storm tracks, and the emerging pattern on a normal world map may be familiar to some of us (see here). But what if we change the perspective and focus on the actual areas that have the highest density of tropical storm occurrences. Using the records from 1945 to 2008, this intensity can be turned into quantities which are suitable for visualisation using the gridded cartogram technique. The following map shows a gridded cartogram of tropical storm intensity visualised over land based on a 0.25 degree grid. The larger a grid cell, the more tropical storm activity has there been over the past >60 years, indicating where the most affected areas of tropical cyclones (with a sustained wind speed of ver 40 mp/h) has been and how the climate patterns shape the world in a highly relevant issue of the Anthropocene:
In Focus: Mapping Britain's Super-rich
George Osborne's autumn statement on the government's budget rekindled the ongoing debate about the fairness of the coalition's spending cuts. How does it look like if you take a look at the richest and the poorest parts of society? In an article for the "In Focus" section of Political Insight (December 2012, Volume 3, Issue 3) Danny Dorling and I plotted the geography of the wealthiest of the wealthy in the United Kingdom in comparison to poverty.
The map that I created for this feature displays the distribution of the top 1% of the wealthiest 1% according to information published by the agency WealthInsight, one of the companies trying to gather information on this part of the publication that is a prime target for exclusive marketing. Displayed in the map are data on people with assets in excess of US$30 million and where they have their prime address registered in the UK. The extent of the data is very limited because WealthInsight releases data for only 20 UK cities and regions based on postcode areas (Northern Ireland is a single postcode area which is why we did not correlate that data with Belfast's overall population). Here we have superimposed that data on a population cartogram of the country, drawing circles with an area in proportion to the numbers of super-rich (in red) over people living in each city (in blue). Where they overlap, the circles turn into a purple colour. Where there are more super-rich people than population alone would predict, there is an orange ring around a purple core, as shown around London. Where there are fewer super-rich than the population of a city might predict, there is a blue outer-ring, as around Birmingham. The underlying map shows the distribution of poverty in the UK in five shades of grey.
Cities such as Leeds, Birmingham and Nottingham have fewer super-rich than might be expected – partly because they are not especially affluent urban centres but also, most probably, because their postcode does not include nearby areas such as the North Yorkshire stockbroker belt or the Cotswolds. Aberdeen, in contrast, has some multimillionaires: beneficiaries of the oil boom with an Aberdeen postcode who live some distance from that city. With Manchester it is hard not to speculate that a few extra footballers may have tipped it over the limit.
Changing demographies of Germany
22 years after re-unification Germany has become an 'accidental empire' (Guardian) in Europe through its economic might. It is the largest economy in Europe and also happens to be the largest country by population. Germany has gotten into a political role that it seemed to be reluctant to take over ever since – in many regards the country is still seen as a reluctant power as Meier described it in a paper published in 1995 (today going much further than the role of the nation's army). Post-unification Germany has been marked with many changes and the emergence of a reborn nation which stands in the centre of the future challenges of Europe. While the country struggles with a redefined role in Europe, its domestic challenges are appear equally tough: They are those of building a sustainable future for a rapidly changing demographic structure of society that is able to sustain a strong economic base. With a declining population, Germany may be smaller than France or the United Kingdom by 2060 if current trends were to continue (predicting future populations must always be seen with great caution – as some predictions from almost 50 years ago demonstrate quite well). Putting uncertainties about future trends aside, the question may also be whether a decline in population is a negative thing (and on the opposite, whether growing populations are bad either)? The pure numbers are less the problem, rather than the spatial and social implications that come with them.
Panic is never helpful for finding solutions, but look at what demographic changes are actually happening to find ways of dealing with it. The decrease of the fertility rate down to 1.36 children per woman in 2011 (according to the Federal Statistical Office) is already tackled with political measures (which may even already have first influences on the predicted trends as suggested by the MPG) and could lead to a changing trend – though probably not a reversal in the general trend of an ageing population (as reflected in the changing population pyramid of Germany). But most of the negative impact of demographic change in a spatial context have started with reunification in 1990 and lead to specific geographic problems that are the much more imminent for the country, as they led to a considerably changed population landscape:
Global Spaces of Food Production
In the year 2000 there were approximately 15 million square km of cropland and 28 million square km of pasture which are represented in the two main maps. These are equal to 12% respectively 22% of the ice-free land surface. This is according to estimates of a study on the geographic distribution of global agricultural lands by Ramankutty et al (published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2008) who used a methodology of combining agricultural inventory data and satellite-derived land cover data to come to these figures (data can be accessed via Columbia University's SEDAC). Continue reading
A Lonely Planet
'How to Land a Jumbo Jet' is the catchy title of a little book published by Lonely Planet a couple of month ago. The book is a "visual exploration of travel facts, figures and ephemera" and a "visual guide to the way we live, travel and inhabit the globe". Edited by the British graphic designer Nigel Holmes, the book follows the increased interest in information graphics that started to flourish yet again with the increasing availability of ever growing amounts of data. Continue reading
Rediscovering the World
One world, many faces: A brief look at map projections
Map projections are a crucial issue for the worldmapper project because the maps (respectively cartograms) are basically some sort of reprojection of the world, although in a different way than the usual projections used in cartography. Rather than trying to solve the conflicts of distortion when drawing a three dimensional surface on to a two dimensional area (be it a screen or a paper map), the worldmapper cartograms distort our image of the world on purpose and show each country in proportion to a specific topic.
Into the big wide open: Think (twice) before you map!
A little bit from my archives which I never got around putting online before…here it comes: Last September I was invited to do a keynote at FOSS4G, OSGeo's Global Conference for Open Source Geospatial Software. The event is the annual gathering of Open Source Geospatial Developers, Users and Leaders and was held at Nottingham's new East Midlands Conference Centre, 17th to 21st September. The conference motto was 'Geo for all' because, as the organisers explain, "many people who work with geo software and maps find themselves becoming passionate advocates for the power of geography to make a difference: in government, business, travel, environment, crime reduction, social justice and communications to name just a few domains. Open Source Geo software makes this possible."
So how does a geographer, working with geospatial software but being less so a developer, address a huge crowd of people who are little reluctant to see themselves as geeks and nerds? Instead of pretending to be as clever as most of the audience I took a slightly different stance, trying to bridge the gap between those on the programming side and those on the applied side – two groups which sadly rarely speak to each other. Traditional cartographers often see their field of work undermined (and threatened) by computerised methods to generate mapping products, while coders very often find the obsession with minute detail and 'artisan' cartography annoying. If the two worlds would come a bit closer together, and both sides speak a bit more with each other, the world of cartography and geospatial visualisations could benefit so much more. Addressing a more technical audience, I concluded that we should all think a little bit more before we start mapping, and that we should give a good mapping project a little bit more time than we often do these days – but more importantly of course: We should never stop mapping. These are the slides of my talk, of course including many maps:
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Being a New Yorker myself, I follow all the city's Twitter handles and Facebook pages, and tweet using the #NYC hashtag, but I couldn't remember the last time I really partook in anything substantial from the cities offerings, so I decided to do a little digging and see what it's all about.
Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge
- Mayor Bloomberg has launched this competition to rally urban designers to create prototypes that will imagine what the future of the city's public pay telephones will be. The challenge is to optimize the public space once their contacts expire next year. Will they be charging stations? Wi-Fi hotspots? Touch screens? We will know soon – demo day, when the top 15 prototypes are shown, will be on March 5, so expect to hear the news soon after!
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New York is really leading the way for social media on a city wide basis in its initiatives and planned endeavors. It will be interesting to see when cities really begin using social media to promote tourism and how they will begin to play off each other. Now you all might be thinking, of course she is rooting for NYC, she is a New Yorker, but I spent some time of Trendsmap to check out how people were talking about other major cities and I compared the use of their hashtags. This is what I found.


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I havne't had a pap since my son was 1 or 2--he's now 7. So I haven't had a breast exam since then either. I had been more concerned with keeping my husband sane and healthy for quite some time. (It was at this point the my hubby was booted out of the military for a heart condition--not retired so I didn't get to keep health insurance) I did do monthly breast exams for quite a while and at one point I felt a tiny bump to the left of my left breast about the size of a pin head. It didn't always show up during it, so I just thought fibroid or fiber or something. Then I felt it two months in a row but slightly larger than I remembered--I started feeling every day--I was going in sane. SO I QUIT! I couldn't worry hubby, my glabladder started acting up and I couldn't have that checked because hubby was out of work, It was a comedy of errors. Either way my sanity dictated I quit freaking out.
About 2 months ago I realized my left breast was feeling fuller--not full of milk or anything, just it was rubbing against my arm when my arms were by my side. Sort of swollen. And it hurt. I had just recently bought a bra--so I attributed it to that. Then it hurt no matter what bra I wore. Not really hurt, just "man that's annoying" hurt. So I did a breast exam. That pin head--is now about the size of a navy bean. it is always in the same place, though it does "rock" if I'm feeling around.
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I know 99.99995% of you are going to say go get seen--And I WILL!! i'm just wondering if this sounds familiar or if it's a "huh, that's an odd location for it" and maybe let me breath a sigh of possibly "lymph node' relief. (Even if it's a lymph node, I know it needs checking because it's been swollen for so long). I just need to know if this should be my priority--or the 2-1" gall stones I was diagnosed with last year and that I'm terrified will try to leave my gall bladder.
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Super Sharpie
Imagine asking a spectator to think of any number. You write a prediction on the back of your business card. When they say their number, you turn over your card and it matches. Every time!
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I don't understand why someone would complain about the price of this item. If you wanted to buy a
decent boon writer, it would cost at least this much. You can't compare this to cheaply-made
gimmicks in this category.
Anyway, if you do mentalism work, you really need to have this sort of a gimmick. You could opt for a nail writer or a boon writer, but the reason I prefer this is because nowadays, a sharpie seems much more natural. Who still uses pencils? Plus, the writing from a sharpie is far easier to see. Refilling it isn't a problem, since you can just use the insides of a regular sharpie. No need to repurchase a new one. Definitely one of my favorite gimmicks. Did this review help you?
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I got a Super Sharpie a couple years back, and to be completely honest, it's for the most part sat on the shelf. First of all, it's a little pricey for what you get. The idea behind it is genius, but the practicality and functionality of the thing is just not so good. It's harder to use than a swami gimmick, it's MUCH noisier (which is not good for this effect), and it needs refilling. It just isn't as practical to carry around. Again, the idea is genius and I love the "hidden in plain sight" feature with this (much like Quantum Bender). However, practically, it just wasn't the thing for me. A swami is better. B_Magic Did this review help you?
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This is a great little gimmick, as most magicians carry around a Sharpie anyway. However, it is way
too expensive for what you get. This should be less than half the price that it is. It will
require some practice, and you will really blow people away. The concept is great. I knocked off 2
stars solely because of how expensive it is.
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The super sharpie is a great gimmick that you should carry around all the time. Magicians usually
carry multiple sharpies anyways so it's easy to get away with. The only downside to this product is
that you are limited to certain canvases. A nice plastic coated business card will work great, but a
paper one won't. The reactions you get will depend on how you use it though.
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This is a well made gimmick and it works very well. It will require practise until you've got the
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It's a bit pricey but if you're looking for this sort of gimmick then it'll be worthit. Did this review help you?
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I bought this a while back and I LOVE the idea! The problem is that the actual writing implement is
too fine and because of the design it causes a lot of noise! This is a big problem for this type of
effect. All in all, a great idea, but could use some refinement.
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The Super Sharpie is ingenious but will require some work. transferring the gi****k will take some
practice to not get ink all over your fingers, position it well and actually use.
The above being said there is nothing more amazing to a spectator than being able to read their mind without having them write anything down or other subterfuge. If you truly could read someone's mind you would be able to make a prediction using only their thoughts. The Super Sharpie allows you to do this but..... Practice practice practice. Did this review help you?
Great gimmick, but WILL take practice!
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YES, this WILL take practice to be able to use it confidently and convincingly. But the time you
put into it WILL BE worth it. For what you can do with it, this is CHEAP! Someone said it makes
noise when you use it. That tells me that this person has not put in the time with it to develop
his technique and to experiment with the best writing surfaces. This is not a toy for kids. This
is not a "self working magic trick" to impress your friends. For anyone who is serious about this
art though, this is an amazing tool to add to your arsenal! I consider myself a mentalist, not a
magician. This is one of the tools I ALWAYS have on me. I am able to do a complete mind reading
act, seemingly impromptu using nothing more than a couple markers, a small notepad in my shirt
pocket, and a business card wallet in my back pocket(with some business cards and billet slips
inside obviously). You can too. Just get yourself a Super Sharpie, a Telethought Wallet, Psypher
(with Psypher Sharpie), and Allan Zingg's complete course on billet work. Forget the deck of cards.
This is all you need to create mindblowing mentalism demonstrations anytime anywhere with a few
normal looking items that are totally normal to carry around with you.
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Of all the magic and tricks i have, this is my far one of my favorites, second only to the three
shell game. whenever i go out i always carry my thumb tip, business cards and my super sharpie. no
reset, you can write anything (with practice, start with numbers), and powerful. this is the perfect
ice breaker and deal maker. i asked a girl if i could guess her phone number would she let me buy
her lunch. lunch date next day. also i use it to pass out my business card.
all in all this is one of my best investments. can't recommend this enough, add to cart today. Did this review help you?
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Ok, it's still just a trick. But this sharpie makes great use of the old swami gimmick. Everything
is built into the sharpie. You start clean and you end clean.
This is one of my most requested tricks. Girls love it when I guess their birthday, and you can with this very cleverly made sharpie. Write down their birthday, hand them the sharpie after your prediction is made, ask them when it was, they look at your prediction and you're right. Can you ask for anything stronger? Add to cart. Did this review help you?
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Join BCI founder Merlin Tuttle, and BCI member and Venezuelan naturalist Jose Ochoa, for a unique natural history tour of Venezuela.
Venezuela offers the best wildlife viewing in South America. It is home to some 330 species of mammals, almost half of which are bats. We anticipate seeing the widest variety of bats yet seen on a BCI tour, including fish- and frog-eating bats, tent-makers, vampires, strikingly colored fruit bats, and many more. We are also likely to see giant anteaters, herds of capybara, three-toed sloths, monkeys, anacondas, and perhaps even an ocelot or jaguar. The bird life is equally impressive.
We will visit Morrocoy National Park on the Caribbean coast, where we will see numerous sea birds, including great flocks of scarlet ibis and flamingo, and enjoy snorkeling in the clear reef waters. We will also visit the cloud forests of Henri Pittier National Park, which has some of the world's most fascinating bats and an incredible variety of plants and birds (nearly half the bird species recorded in Venezuela are found here). From there we will visit the llanos, a vast grassland with abundant and often spectacular wildlife, interspersed with rivers and unique forests. There we will be guests at a very special and remote ranch, where we will enjoy extraordinary bird watching in addition to making excursions to spot the larger and seldom-seen nocturnal animals and to net bats in the area's varied habitats.
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Physician Assistant (BPA)
(Effective Fall 2011)
- School of Health Sciences
- Bachelor of Science Degree (B.S.)
- More Information about Physician Assistant
Physician assistants (PAs) are health professionals authorized by the state to practice medicine with the supervision of a licensed physician. Physician assistants exercise autonomy in medical decision making and provide a broad range of services. The role demands sound judgment, intellectual honesty, and the capacity to react to emergencies in a calm and reasonable manner. Courses in the didactic year of the Physician Assistant major build a strong foundation upon which the students develop and strengthen their knowledge base about normal physiologic and disease processes. This is reinforced by hands-on skill training in the laboratory environment. The clinical year solidifies the didactic year preparation by providing the students with a variety of clinical settings ranging from primary care to surgical and medical specialties in rural and urban areas. The program prepares graduates to become competent practitioners who can perform the following diagnostic and therapeutic services: EVALUATION - elicit a detailed and accurate history; perform an appropriate physical examination; order, perform, and interpret appropriate diagnostic studies; delineate problems; develop management plans; and record and present data. MONITORING - implement patient management plans, record progress notes, and participate in the provision of the community of care. THERAPEUTICS - perform therapeutic procedures and manage or assist in the management of medical and surgical conditions, which may include assisting surgeons during operations and performing evaluation and therapeutic procedures in response to life-threatening situations. PATIENT EDUCATION - counsel patients regarding issues of health care management, to include compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens, normal growth and development, family planning, and emotional problems of daily living. REFERRAL - facilitate the referral of patients to other health care providers or agencies as appropriate. In order to practice, physician assistants must graduate from an accredited physician assistant program, pass the National Certifying Examination (PANCE), and obtain state authorization to practice through state licensure, registration, or certification. Upon successful completion of the PA Program, graduates will be eligible to sit for the Physician Assistant National Certification Exam (PANCE). For further information, contact National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), 12000 Findley Road, Suite 100, Johns Creek, GA, 30097, http//www.nccpa.net, email@example.com, phone: 678-417-8100, fax: 678-417-8135
A master's degree is offered to interested students via distance learning from NOVA Southeastern University.
Career Opportunities
The majority of practicing physician assistants work in areas of primary care medicine, including family practice, internal medicine, OB/GYN, emergency medicine, and pediatrics. However, an increasing number of PAs practice in surgical settings such as general, orthopedics, and cardiovascular surgery. PAs can practice in any sub-specialty. Salaries vary by geographic areas, practice setting, and job responsibilities.
Recommended High School Subjects
High school students should focus their academic course work on written and oral communication, upper level mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics courses with labs, and should excel in these areas.
Special Admissions Requirements
Students desiring entrance into the Physician Assistant major must first gain admission to Penn College. Applicants who are accepted into the College will initially be placed in the pre-PA major. While in the pre-PA status, students complete a total of 62 prerequisite credits that will prepare them for courses specific to the PA major.
Eligibility for selection consideration into the PA major requires completion of program prerequisite courses (or equivalent transfer course work). All students (to include conditional and transfer students) pursuing admission into the PA major must submit documentation of at least 300 hours of health care exposure, including a minimum of 16 hours with a practicing PA by January 15 of the year a student enters the major.
Transfer students must submit their applications and official transcripts (including spring courses, if applicable) to the Penn College Admissions Office by January 15 prior to the fall semester in which they seek admission into the major.
Seats in the major are conditionally reserved for Penn College freshmen who have an ACT score of 23, or SAT scores at/or above 550 in math, 500 in critical reading, and a writing sub-score of at least 8. Students who receive these reserved seats as freshmen must maintain graduation and math/science GPAs of 3.0, without any withdraw ("W"), "D," or "F" grades, in each of the four semesters of the pre-PA curriculum.
To view detailed information on acceptance criteria, testing requirements, performance expectations, and the admissions ranking system, consult the Physician Assistant Selective Admissions sheet.
Special Equipment Needs
Students accepted into the Physician Assistant major will incur expenses for medical instruments, uniforms, malpractice insurance, clearances and certifications, etc. See the complete list on the Health Sciences website.
Remediation Strategies
All course remediation must be completed in the pre-PA curriculum.
Transfer Procedures
This major is subject to the transfer standards established by the College. Exceptions must be approved by the school dean. NOTE: Equivalent pre-PA major course work (courses listed in the first through fourth semesters below) from another institution may be transferred to Penn College; however, all courses in the major must be taken at Penn College in the sequence that begins with the fifth semester of the curriculum.
International health credentials/licensure, sciences courses, and most math courses will not be accepted to satisfy requirements of this major. Please see additional information for international students applying to Health Sciences majors.
Program Goals
A graduate of this major should be able to:
- integrate ethical and moral behavior into the practice of medicine.
- serve as a role model for the physician assistant profession.
- demonstrate intelligence, sound judgment, and intellectual honesty.
- demonstrate effective communication with both written and verbal skills.
- develop and maintain clinical competence sufficient to address the needs of ambulatory and hospitalized patients.
- develop, demonstrate, and appreciate techniques and skills for problem solving and decision making.
- recognize and adapt to the changing health care environment.
- develop skills for and commit to the process of lifelong learning.
- evaluate professional/medical literature to maintain an operational knowledge of new medical evidence.
- appreciate and adapt to diverse/alternative cultures, processes, and ideas.
- approach patients, students, faculty, and colleagues with empathy.
- contribute service and knowledge to the community and the profession.
- demonstrate effective organizational, operational, and management skills in physician assistant practice.
- identify and appreciate the nature of the physician assistant relationship with physicians and other health care providers.
- demonstrate an understanding and devotion to primary care medicine.
- identify and deliver health promotion and disease prevention to patients.
First Semester | Credits | ||
FYE101 | First Year Experience | 1 | |
BIO115 | Human Anatomy and Physiology I | 4 | |
CHM111 | General Chemistry I | 4 | |
ENL111 | English Composition I | 3 | |
SPC | Speech Elective | 3 | |
CSC124 | Information, Technology, and Society | 3 | |
Second Semester | Credits | ||
BIO125 | Human Anatomy and Physiology II | 4 | |
CHM210 | Organic Chemistry I | 3 | |
MTS | Math Elective (MTH160 or Higher) | 3 | |
ENL121 | English Composition II | 3 | |
or | |||
ENL201 | Technical and Professional Communication | 3 | |
PSY111 | General Psychology | 3 | |
Third Semester | Credits | ||
BIO220 | General Biology I | 4 | |
MTS | Math Elective (MTH160 or Higher) | 3 | |
HUM | Humanities Elective | 3 | |
SSE | Social Science Elective | 3 | |
Fourth Semester | Credits | ||
BIO201 | Microbiology | 4 | |
BPA | Directed Physician Assistant Elective | 3 | |
ART | Art Elective | 3 | |
HUM | Humanities Elective | 3 | |
or | |||
SSE | Social Science Elective | 3 | |
or | |||
ART | Art Elective | 3 | |
or | |||
FOR | Foreign Language Elective | 3 | |
or | |||
AAE | Applied Arts Elective | 3 | |
or | |||
IFE | International Field Experience Elective | 3 | |
FIT | Fitness and Lifetime Sports Elective | 2 | |
Fifth Semester | Credits | ||
PHA301 | Professionalism and Ethics in Physician Assistant Practice I | 1 | |
PHA311 | History Taking/Interviewing Techniques | 2 | |
PHA316 | Medical Physiology/Pathophysiology | 5 | |
PHA322 | Pharmacology I | 2 | |
PHA326 | Clinical Procedures I | 1 | |
PHA347 | Principles of Clinical Medicine I | 5 | |
HTH333 | Human Cadaver Anatomy | 4 | |
Sixth Semester | Credits | ||
PHA302 | Professionalism and Ethics in Physician Assistant Practice II | 1 | |
PHA305 | Clinical Laboratory Medicine | 3 | |
PHA336 | Clinical Procedures II | 3 | |
PHA339 | Physical Assessment I | 3 | |
PHA342 | Pharmacology II | 2 | |
PHA348 | Psychopathology | 1 | |
PHA358 | Pediatrics | 1 | |
PHA369 | Principles of Clinical Medicine II | 6 | |
Summer Session | Credits | ||
PHA303 | Professionalism and Ethics in Physician Assistant Practice III | 1 | |
PHA352 | Community and Public Health | 2 | Writing Enriched Requirement & Cultural Diversity Requirement |
PHA353 | Issues in Physician Assistant Practice | 1 | |
PHA359 | Clinical Procedures III | 3 | Science, Technology and Society Requirement |
PHA362 | Clinical Pharmacology III | 1 | |
PHA372 | Principles of Clinical Medicine III | 5 | |
PHA371 | Physical Assessment II | 2 | |
PHA380 | Principles of Emergency Medicine and Surgery | 1 | |
Seventh Semester | Credits | ||
PHA411 | Family Practice Internship | 4 | |
PHA412 | Internal Medicine Internship | 4 | |
PHA421 | Pediatrics Internship | 3 | |
PHA409 | Physician Assistant Internship Seminar I | 1 | |
Eighth Semester | Credits | ||
PHA415 | Emergency Medicine Internship | 4 | |
PHA416 | Psychiatry Internship | 3 | |
PHA419 | Obstetrics and Gynecology Internship | 4 | |
PHA422 | Physician Assistant Internship Seminar II | 1 | |
Summer Session | Credits | ||
PHA417 | Surgery Internship | 4 | |
PHA418 | Elective Internship | 3 | |
PHA490 | Clinical Preceptorship | 4 | |
PHA496 | Senior Capstone | 1 | Writing Enriched Requirement & Cultural Diversity Requirement |
See the full listing of Directed Physician Assistant Electives.
Additional Information
Employment While Enrolled in the PA Major: Students generally find that maintaining employment while enrolled in the Physician Assistant major is extremely difficult and can have detrimental effects on their academic performance. Because of the rigorous program of study, students are strongly advised not to maintain outside employment while enrolled as a PA student. Students who choose employment in addition to their academic responsibilities should be aware that work requirements or responsibilities will never be an acceptable excuse for absenteeism or submission of incomplete or late assignments. The academic, clinical, and travel requirements during the junior and senior year of the program will demand the student's undivided attention. Rigorous and intense didactic course work will take place on campus during the first 12 months of the PA major (shown above as the fifth, sixth, and first summer semesters). In the second 12 months of the PA major, clinical internships, involving at least 40-hours per week, are designed to provide a variety of experiences for the PA student. It is highly likely that the student will have to temporarily relocate during some clinical internships. Students are expected to secure housing while on clinical internships. All expenses associated with each clinical rotation are the sole responsibility of the student.
Notice of Conviction
Child-abuse clearance, criminal background checks, and drug screens are required. Students desiring entrance into the Physician Assistant major should be aware that clinical institutions could bar them from their sites if a criminal record exists or if a positive drug test is noted. (By virtue of contract for Penn College students to be at clinical sites, agencies have the right to ask for drug testing and background checks.)
Inability to gain clinical education experience results in inability to meet program objectives and outcomes. The presence of a criminal record can result in agencies refusing to issue credentials necessary for employment.
The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation - Continued to the Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Pennsylvania College of Technology. Continued accreditation is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards.
Continued Accreditation remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards. The approximate date for the next validation review of the program by the ARC-PA will be September 2017.


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The Rampage posted their first win of 2014 against Abbotsford before dropping an overtime decision to the visiting Heat.
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I have answered many calls at the extension office in the past few weeks dealing with weed control in home lawns.
"I don't like change," Cole said solemnly one day. "I'm like a cat that way."
"Mama, do you like cats?" Cole asked one day. This was shortly after I had brought the latest puppy home a few weeks ago.
I have had several cases within the past year of people coming into my office, handing me a plastic baggy or jar filled with small, winged insects and saying: "Tell me those are flying ants!" Unfortunately, more often than not, they turn out to be termite flyers.
Everyone has disappointments. It's a part of life and sometimes those disappointments can offer us many learning experiences.
One of my biggest pet peeves is someone being late. So why I am constantly late getting my child to school, I have no idea.
Azaleas are a staple of traditional southern landscapes.
Spring is a beautiful time of year. Longer days, green grass and leaves reappearing on the trees really brighten up my mood.
Have you started noticing mysterious raised tunnels forming seemingly overnight in your lawn or garden? If so, you probably have a mole infestation.
Don't worry, you are not alone. We have received many calls in the past week regarding tunneling activity.
Children learn a lot more by what they see us doing than what we tell them. I can tell Cole all day long the things he shouldn't do, but it's my example he's watching. I don't want him to follow my example, but to be better than I am at this game of life.
We have all heard the saying "April showers bring May Flowers."
Rainfall in April helps replenish our plants as they gear up for another growing season. However, this precipitation also brings unwanted consequences to our landscapes - disease.
It had been a long time since I had a puppy and I forgot how much work they are. Middle of the night feedings and potty outings, crying incessantly. I think comparing them to a newborn would be reasonable.
I was on night five of no sleep - Angel the parking lot pup would wake me up at 1 a.m., wanting to play after sleeping all day. I was exhausted.
Dawson County 4-H Club, All Animals Veterinary Hospital and Dawsonville Veterinary Hospital will be hosting an annual rabies clinic on April 13. It will be held at several locations throughout Dawson County.
Because of strict vaccination laws, rabies outbreaks have become much less prevalent since vaccination programs began in the 1940s.
There was an unspoken law at my house growing up for every stray critter that managed to find its way in our yard. Once my uncle Bobby named it, it was ours. If the animal made it to day two without Bobby sticking some name on it, we were safe according to Granny.
Of course, no animal made it beyond a few hours, let alone two days.
I think when I turned 40, something happened.
Not to my posterior either - that happened a long time before I hit the big 4-0.
My scales broke.
I am starting to think Julia Sugarbaker was right. This is the South, and we don't ask if you've got crazy folks in your family, we ask which side are they on.
A few weeks ago I wrote about preparing for crabgrass control by using pre-emergent herbicides. Many of these herbicides, as well as many fertilizers and fescue seed, can be applied to your lawn using spreaders. These devices are fairly simple and are powered by the forward push of the operator.
Last week was not a great time to be a tree.
If you had asked me six months ago if I was going to get another dog anytime soon, I would have said no.
One thing Mama always told me was to never make fun of the way a person looked. She said that was just terrible for someone to make fun of someone based on something they had no control or say so in whatsoever.
With all of the recent winter weather, a summer lawn may be the last thing on your mind. However, now is the time to start thinking about controlling summer annual weeds, such as crabgrass.
"Mama, did you have time outs when you were a child?" Cole asked one day.
Broccoli is a vegetable that many home gardeners can produce successfully in Georgia.
Wild garlic and wild onion are two of the most frustrating cool-season weeds homeowners have to deal with here in Georgia. Both of these weeds are closely related and difficult to tell apart.
Mama's theory of the pedigree of my parking lot puppy had changed a few months ago. Her latest theory, which she expressed daily, was that Angel Doodle was a pit mix.
Are you planning to renovate an existing lawn or plant a new lawn using sod this spring? If so, now is the time to start your preparations. It may be hard to find motivation to think about your landscape during cold weather, but January is the ideal time to plan for laying new turfgrass.
Cole was mad at his father.
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