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Learning communities, which group new community college students in two or more related courses, are a popular strategy to improve success rates, especially for poorly prepared students. Often learning communities include faculty collaboration, shared assignments and curricula and connections to student support services. However, the benefits fade quickly, concludes research by the National Center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR) at Teachers College, Columbia.
Merced College in California and the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) each developed learning communities for developmental English students. Both created a "substantially different" experience for participants, researchers found.
At Merced, students in learning communities earned significantly more developmental English credits than students in the control group during the program semester; by the end of the next semester, they'd passed more classes. However, CCBC students in learning communities did no better than students in the control group. On average, neither college's learning communities program had a long-term impact.
That matches results at four other colleges studied.
. . . when one-semester learning communities have impacts, they tend to be concentrated in the semester in which students are enrolled in the program. The evidence to date suggests that one-semester learning communities programs by themselves are typically not sufficient to boost reenrollment or increase credit accumulation.
An upcoming report will include an additional semester of student follow-up at each college.
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Canon Pixma MP560
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The Canon Pixma MP560 is a wireless all-in-one printer that offers both printing and scanning, but no fax capability. It offers cheaper ink costs and better paper handling than other similar products. Having wireless built-in is a huge advantage and there's even an optional Bluetooth adapter too.
At a modest price of around $150, the silver and blank body of the Canon Pixma MP560 makes a great addition to the home office or dorm room. It has a pretty sleek design too, such as having all of the printer's controls hidden in the printer's closed state. Everything is hidden under a flap on the top right, which opens up to reveal all of the controls and a 2-inch LCD screen. The controls for the MP560 are pretty easy to use; they consist of a scroll wheel that doubles as a directional pad and a few other buttons. Under the same flap is also a PictBridge port and three media card slots.
Paper can be fed into the MP560 one of two ways: first through the conventional tray underneath the output and the second from behind, which is nice for photo paper and paper of higher thickness. The back tray holds up to 150 sheets of paper from 4x6 to legal stock and the front tray holds 150 sheets of regular letter size paper. There's also automatic duplexing on the MP560 too, which means it will automatically flip over a sheet of paper and print on the back if desired.
The printing resolution for the Canon Pixma MP560 is 9600 x 2400 dpi, which means it is definitely geared toward photo-use, but it does work good as a document-only printer too. What we didn't like, however, was the occasionally slow print speeds for both text and photos. Plain text prints at around 6 pages per minute and graphics were only around 2 pages per minute. These speeds aren't horrible, but they aren't the fastest either. Scanning speeds using the top flatbed scanner, however, were very fast for both text and graphics.
The Canon Pixma MP560 uses five different ink tanks for optimum printing quality. Plain text prints were quite good on the normal setting, but in draft mode, they looks slightly fuzzy and of somewhat poor quality. Graphics and photos printed very nicely, with good color representation, clean lines, and smooth color gradients. Scanning while fast as mentioned earlier, sometimes let us down with slightly unclear scans of text and skewed colors in photos. Overall, however, the Pixma MP560 prints and scans pretty well for a home office setting and considering the modest price.
As mentioned earlier, this printer does offer wireless network connectivity to allow printing from a wireless computer anywhere on your network. Setup can be tedious, as most users will want to connect it to a computer first via USB and setup the network settings, which can be quite daunting for novices. You can, however, input your network settings right into the device via the onboard controls, but that can be a cumbersome experience due to the scroll wheel and small screen. No issues were encountered while getting the wireless setup as we just followed through the directions and the on-screen setup wizard on the installation disc. An optional $50 Bluetooth adapter is available separately for Bluetooth printing.
Replacement black ink cartridges cost around $15 and the color cartridges cost about $12 each, which is relatively cheaper than other similar models.

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Emergency Or Not: When To Bring Your Dog To Emergency Vet
When it comes to the health care of your dog, there are vets and there are emergency vets. Regular vets typically have steady office hours and prefer to treat their patients by appointment. Emergency vets are typically open all day every day and are there to treat patients for emergency reasons that cannot wait until normal vet hours are available.
As a dog owner, it's important that you know the difference about when to bring your dog to the emergency vet and what illnesses or issues can wait until your vet is open. The following are some events where you will want to see the emergency vet.
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If your dog seems to be having trouble breathing, you will want to bring them to the emergency vet. This vet will be able to diagnose your dog and determine if they're suffering from dyspnea, tachypnea or another respiratory illness. If not treated right away, your dog's respiratory troubles could cause them to have seizures or lose consciousness.
If your dog seems to be disoriented, it could be a sign of a neurological issue, so it's important to have your dog see the emergency vet right away. If your dog seems to have trouble seeing, walking straight or even getting up, you want to have them checked right away to find the culprit.
Toxic exposure.
If you know that your dog was recently exposed to something toxic, you need to bring them to the emergency vet right away, especially if a toxic substance was consumed. For example, if your dog ingested or was sprayed by bleach, alcohol or another toxic cleaning solution, you will want to bring them to the vet. All of these items can be life threatening to your dog if they're not treated right away. Even if your dog seems to be acting normal, damage can still be done internally, so don't take the risk.
Dr. Andrew Webber is a retired veterinarian and writer who is passionate about promoting pet health and safety and educating pet owners on great ways to increase your pet's longevity.


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**Cadillac User Experience (CUE)** Discussion, CUE integration with Google Play in Item Specific Cadillac Discussion; [Posted in the XTS forum, but this appears to be a more appropriate forum for this question.]
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CUE integration with Google Play
[Posted in the XTS forum, but this appears to be a more appropriate forum for this question.]
I just took delivery of my new XTS this morning. I was able to pair my Samsung Galaxy S3 rather easily and my contacts are all appearing through CUE. However, my music and playlists are not showing up. I use Google Play to stream my music.
If I start playing music from my phone, it plays through the car's sound system and the current song artists and title displays. I can use the "next" button to go to the next song. But, I cannot browse my music to select what I want to listen to. Is there something else I need to do for my music and playlists to show up, or is this something it cannot do?
Also, the nice phone slot in the center console is too narrow for my Galaxy S3! Wish they had made that a little wider.
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