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Nephrology (from Greek: nephros, "kidney"; and λόγος, logos, "speech" lit. "to talk about kidney") is a branch of internal medicine and pediatrics dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney.
Knowledge of internal medicine is required to obtain certification. To become a nephrologist requires many years of school and training. Nephrologists also must be approved by the board. To be approved, the physician must fulfill the requirements for education and training in nephrology in order to qualify to take the board's examination. If a physician passes the examination, then he or she can become a nephrology specialist. Typically, nephrologists also need two to three years of training in an ACGME accredited program in nephrology.
Information that a nephrologist learns in training are fluid and acid base and electrolyte physiology, medical management of acute and chronic renal failure, glomerular and casuclar disorders, tubular/interstitial disorders, mineral metabolism, clinical pharmacology, hypertension, epidemiology, and nutrition. Procedures a nephrologist may learn in a training program include native and transplant kidney biopsies, ultrasound guidance, placement of temporary dialysis catheters, placement of tunneled hemodialysis catheters and placement of peritoneal dialysis catheters. Nearly all programs train nephrologists in continuous renal replacement therapy; fewer than half train in the provision of plasmapheresis. Once training is satisfactorily completed, the physician is eligible to take the ABIM nephrology examination. Subspecialties within nephrology include interventional nephrology, dialytician, and transplant nephrology.
Only pediatric trained physicians are able to train in pediatric nephrology, and internal medicine (adult) trained physicians may enter general (adult) nephrology fellowships. Physicians that achieved training in both medicine and pediatrics may subspecialize in both adult and pediatric nephrology.
Urologists are surgical specialists of the urinary tract (see urology). They are involved in renal diseases that might be amenable to surgery:
Laboratory tests are almost always aimed at: urea, creatinine, electrolytes, and urinalysis, which is frequently the key test in suggesting a diagnosis.
More specialized tests can be ordered to discover or link certain systemic diseases to kidney failure such as hepatitis b or hepatitis c, lupus serologies, paraproteinemias such as amyloidosis or multiple myeloma or various other systemic diseases that lead to kidney failure. Collection of a 24-hour sample of urine can give valuable information on the filtering capacity of the kidney and the amount of protein loss in some forms of kidney disease. However, 24-hour urine samples have recently, in the setting of chronic renal disease, been replaced by spot urine ratio of protein and creatinine.
Other tests often performed by nephrologists are:
When chronic kidney disease progresses to stage five, dialysis or transplant is required. Please refer to the main articles dialysis and renal transplant for a comprehensive account of these treatments.
Sub-specialties within nephrology include interventional nephrologists who focus on access placement and maintenance, a dialytician who focus upon ordering dialysis for patients, and transplant nephrologists who focus on the acute or sub-acute monitoring of immunosuppression in the transplant patient.
If patients proceed to transplant, nephrologists will continue to follow patients to monitor the immunosuppressive regimen and watch for the infection that can occur post transplant.


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A Presidential debate is a job interview and it can make or break you. When the leading contenders for president take the podium during the first debate for the 2013 elections on Monday, they will not only be affirming their quest for Kenya's top job but exposing their ideas and unknowingly their weaknesses.
Kenya is at crossroads and for the first time, our politics is inching closer to issues as opposed to ethnic or community-based voting pattern. Voters are actually interested in learning about the candidate's position on various contentious national issues.
Pastor Simon Mbevi at the Nairobi Chapel church put it so well during a recent sermon focusing on our homeland and specifically analysing the qualities voters need to be concerned about while reviewing a candidate's ability to be president. In basic terms, he called it the five C's that define good leadership qualities.
Is the leader Conciliatory, Caring, has Character, Competent and have a compelling vision for Kenya? Those may well be the parameters that guide millions of voters who will make up the biggest interview panel ever assembled and who will be glued to the television and radio sets.
Debates can build an aspirant and they can expose their foibles. They can unmask your preparedness and grasp of the basic issues that confront the voters and your ability to deal with them.
The evolution of the presidential debates has come a long way, but no nation has quite perfected the importance and value that debates bring to the electoral process than the United States where a candidate's performance can move the needle to his advantage or their poor performance can be fodder for their opponents.
The first televised presidential debate in US was held in 1960 pitting Republican Richard Nixon versus a young and ambitious Democract, John F Kennedy.
Kennedy came out as fresh-faced, polished and confident. Nixon had so much make up that he looked like he was sweating profusely during the debate.
Kennedy had been smart enough to turn down an offer for make up. The viewers noted such a mundane issue and embraced Kennedy's self-confidence at the polls - narrowly.
President Obama went into his first presidential debate last October beaming with confidence and riding high on opinion polls against Republican millionaire Mitt Romney.
He soon learnt he had been unprepared, came out as condescending and basically let Romney run circles all over him. His dreadful performance in that one single debate cost him the lead in several battleground states and effectively brought Romney, then struggling at the polls and staring at an electoral defeat back into the race. The election had suddenly morphed from a one sided contest in favour of Obama to a statistical dead heat.
A great debater and orator can move the numbers towards his campaign and attract undecided voters hungry to hang on to some straws.
Remember that debates are great for candidates to showcase their oratorical skills and grasp of issues, but they benefit undecided voters more than any other voting group in an election cycle.
This is largely because many voters have already made up their minds who they are backing. Those voting for Uhuru Kenyatta or Musalia Mudavadi are unlikely to swing to Raila Odinga because of the debates.
In other words, those who are fanatical about their candidate are not moving an inch. That is the reality of elections no matter how you look at it.
But then there is a second constituency that is largely undecided that is looking for something, anything to be persuaded to vote for a candidate or stay away from the polls altogether.
This group probably has specific issues that are driving them to the polls like marginalised communities or special interest needs and are waiting to hear which candidate will address their issue.
Then there is a third constituency of voters who are flip floppers. They have a candidate in mind but can be easily persuaded to switch to another candidate if they follow the debate and think he or she has impressed them more.
The beauty of debates is that they allow for public participation, enabling voters to hear and watch the candidates outside their hyped up and choreographed road campaigns.
And debates can produce special and memorable moments. In the 1988 US election debate, then Vice President Republican nominee Dan Quale famously compared himself with Jack Kennedy in his preparedness to serve in the government.
His opponent, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen retorted: "I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
Quayle shot back, "That was really uncalled for, Senator," but had to wait until the laughter in the hall had died down to respond.
The most important thing candidates must learn about debates is, like a scout, to be prepared. Get your facts straight and know how to defend your stand on various contentious issues.
If a candidate shows lack of basic knowledge about the history of the country, basic statistics about population spread, economic indicators, set up of government or even how the central government operates that's probably a red flag.
Candidates spent hours working with a debate preparer on such basics like diction, body language and how to control their emotions. If a candidate gets easily upset while answering an annoying question then that's probably an indication he lacks the fortitude and maturity to confront the most challenging and polarising issue without keeping his cool. It demonstrates lack of temperament.
The debate forum will be baptism of fire where body and facial expression say a lot more about a candidate than the words coming out of their mouths.
Then there is content of the mind. I will be glued to the television screen watching the candidates take tough questions in the ultimate job interview in the country and hopefully waiting to be impressed.

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The echo lab at Upstate is staffed by 6 Echocardiographers that are Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographers with over 100 years combine experience in adult echocardiography, 2 RN's and a receptionist.
Our hours of operation are Monday-Friday 7:30am-4:30pm, Saturday and Sundays 8am-noon for inpatients only, all other off hours are covered by cardiology fellows for urgent cases only.
We service the adult population (18 yrs and up) and perform the following test types: Stress Echocardiography, Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography, Transthoracic Echocardiography, Transesophageal Echocardiography and with the cooperation of the Nuclear Medicine Department, the stress portion of nuclear stress testing. We are currenlty located on the 7th floor in University Hospital but by 2011 we will be located in the newly renovated Heart and Vascular Institute on 6 west which will include our Stress Echo Lab, the EKG department, one Cath Lab, one EP lab and a hybrid cath/vascular lab. Our echo techs cover University Hospital, UHCC Cardiology and Manlius. We average about 7000 procedures per year and our volumes continue to increase.


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Alu is a system of volcanic fissures, located in Ethiopia. The fissures have produced silicic lava flows, and other fissures south of the volcano have formed huge youthful basaltic lava flows, which enlarge to the north as far as Lake Bakili. There is major fumarolic motion, which are located on frequent corresponding faults, some of which gave a lift up to 100 m.
Alu, Erta Ale, Tat Ali and other Ethiopian highlands are together known as the Danakil Alps.


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Summary: 17 April 2008, Brussels - Commissioner Michel stated, "I am delighted that this important day has finally come for Kenya and its people. This is the political solution that Kenya needs."
Commissioner Michel also reminded all parties of the crucial need to make this coalition work for the sake of all Kenyans. "The creation of this coalition government is only the first step on the path towards sustainable and peaceful development. The hard work begins today since many fundamental reforms are needed to address the root cause of the recent crisis. And so I call upon Kenya's leaders and this new government to work together for all Kenyans so that they can look forward to a better and more peaceful and prosperous future." he said.
The European Union welcomed the signing of the agreement on the 28th of February 2008 on the formation of a coalition government. This agreement was made possible due to the statesmanship of President Mwai Kibaki and Opposition leader Raila Odinga as well as the facilitation role of the African Union and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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ASF is a 'not-for-profit' company registered with Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) under section 42 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984. It was established in 2005 by Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (MINFAL) with the support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). ASF is governed by a private sector-led an independent board of directors.
ASF have extensive experience in managing cost-sharing grants and provision of technical assistance support to farmers and agribusiness enterprises, including start-ups, enabling them employ modern techniques & practices and build expertise and market understanding required by a fast-changing economic environment and to improve their productivity, profitability, competitiveness and creditworthiness.


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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Around 11:30 Thursday night Kern County Sheriff Deputies say a father son pair got an unexpected knock on their Motel 6 room door.
After listening to knocks for several minutes the two men finally answered and a Hispanic woman entered.
Deputies say two Hispanic men quickly entered behind the woman brandishing a small handgun.
The father fought with one of the suspects but gave into the thieves immediately when a gun was put to his son's head.
The suspects reportedly took cash, credit cards and even the car the Arkansas natives were traveling in.
Deputies need your help to find four suspects involved including a white woman seen driving the stolen car, a Hispanic woman and two Hispanic men, one believed to still be carrying a silver-plated handgun.
The stolen car is a maroon Honda Pilot SUV with a partial Arkansas plate of "ZR51".


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A SUBURB of Jerusalem is the unlikely location of the last resting place of Jesus of Nazareth. Not only that, his wife Mary Magdalene and his son "Judah" were entombed with him.
That's the sensational claim made in a Discovery Channel documentary and reported all over the world. But what's the scientific evidence behind it?
Mitochondrial DNA has been recovered from two ossuaries, which are inscribed with names but do not contain any bones. The documentary director, Simcha Jacobovici, says the analysis shows that the occupants of the boxes inscribed "Jesus" and "Mariamne" (said to be a name for Mary Magdalene) are not related on the mother's side. From this he concludes that the two were probably husband and wife. DNA analysis has not been conducted on the purported son, but since mitochondria are inherited maternally, it would not be possible to determine if "Judah" was the son of "Jesus". ...
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Blizzard announced the fifth and final character class for Diablo III at BlizzCon 2010, and not surprisingly, it's a ranged class called the demon hunter. When we jumped into the demo, we took a few seconds to check out some of the demon hunter's basic equipment. Her (only the female version of the class is available at the moment) equipment included dual crossbows, some fairly light armor, and a section to equip prayer beads. These beads function much like smaller trinkets, giving small bonuses to various attributes such as accuracy, and several can be equipped at once. Later in the demo, we found some really nice slotted armor and some other nice items to beef up our demon hunter. As far as attacks and skills go, there were quite a few available early on, giving us a pretty good taste of how a demon hunter can hold her ground when the enemies start piling up.
Naturally, the class has a standard ranged attack, and while seeing the female demon hunter dual-wield crossbows and pump arrows into enemies is cool, it wasn't the most effective attack in the demo level. We quickly looked for an alternative and discovered her entangling shot. Diablo III describes this as "a sticky adhesive that deals 120 percent weapon damage," but as the name suggests, it also entangles enemies--up to three of them. This makes this particular skill useful early on when facing moderate numbers of enemies at once. But when we discovered her bola attack skill, we found that it was even more useful against larger and stronger groups of enemies. When you fire the bola, you'll see a red circle that quickly constricts around the target, indicating the amount of time before it explodes. If any enemies are standing nearby the target, they will take a little bit of the splash damage as well. Granted, the countdown period before the explosion means you have to be careful to not get trapped by faster-moving enemies, but even if you do, the demon hunter has an acrobatic solution to that problem in the form of a vault skill.
The vault enables the demon hunter to perform cartwheels and other such speedy gymnastics maneuvers to evade enemies as well as any traps that might be present in a level. It's not a free skill, however--it takes quite a bit of mana, so you have to make a choice in some tough situations: Do you use your mana for some of your attack skills and try to fight your way out, or do you try to vault away, regroup, and potentially risk grabbing the attention of more foes? Thankfully, we discovered some new skills after gaining a level, so we didn't have to answer that question too often. Upon entering the skill menu, we saw options for grenades, a fan of knives, a spike trap, and a couple of others, but what caught our eye was the purchase-new-skill option, which opened up the multishot skill. Given how useful it was in Diablo II, we went with the multishot--an attack that showers a barrage of arrows in the general direction of a target. We initially started using it in combination with the entangling shot, but later found that the bola's ability to also slow down enemies made it a better partner.
We were using all of these skills and attacks in the context of a mission to confront King Leoric--a name that should sound immediately familiar to those who played the original Diablo, in which he was also known as the Skeleton King. But first, we had to travel through the Halls of Agony, a dungeon filled with numerous torture devices, fire pits, massive guillotines, and all kinds of enemies ready to do horrible things to you. In fact, there was quite a diverse range of creatures in this rather imposing dungeon, including hulking demon-like foes. But the ones that gave us the most trouble, at least initially, were the more powerful zealots that were capable of teleporting, making it difficult to completely evade them. We also encountered some zombie-like enemies, which--when we used our bola attack against them--caused them to burst into two, but the torso was still alive and attacking.
Eventually, we made our way out of the dungeon and found ourselves in a new outdoor area called the Highlands Passage--mostly a long crumbling bridge being pelted by foul weather. Meeting us at the bridge was a non-player character named Kyr, who asked us to cross the bridge with him to kill a specific character named Dargon. We battled across the bridge and weaved our way through some cliffs before encountering Dargon and his group of enemies, but they didn't pose much of a problem. Kyr thanked us for our help by offering to sell us some of his finely crafted items, and we then made our way into some tombs where we found a ghostly queen who asked us to go on yet another quest where we encountered shielded skeletons capable of blocking our attacks as well as a creature named horror that explodes and releases what appears to be eels. Yeah, it's disgusting.
Unfortunately, that's where our brief time with the demo ended. We didn't reach the final encounter with Leoric (yet), but we did get a pretty good feel for the demon hunter class. It feels a little more defensively oriented in the early going, but a quick peek at some of its later skills revealed that a much more offensively minded strategy is also certainly possible. Either way, we're eager to jump into the demo a little more and see what else we can discover.


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I went to a press screening of the movie Bully, which opens April 6, and all I can say is 1. you should see it 2. bring tissue 3. be prepared to think about it for a long time afterwards.
What animal sleeps the most in a 24 hour period? What animal sleeps the least? Mary Bigler explains how these questions can make reading fun.
Kids aged 0-4 need to spend more time moving and less time reclining in those cushy little chairs. Participaction has released new guidelines and easy ways to get kids active.
Have you ever crossed the line on how competitive you are as a parent? Have you ever thought about why? Where does this stuff come from?
A 12-year-old writes on why the Hunger Games books are so popular with young readers, like himself.
A pediatric clinic inside a middle school? Now we're talking - talking community school.
March 22 is World Water Day. There's so much to talk about with the kids - wasteful bottled water here at home and the need for clean, safe water around the world.
In a time when "21st century" education mandates teaching kids arts and creativity, but declining enrolment and budgets mean school closures - an arts-intensive school in Peterborough faces closure. So, the students are taking on the fight. Student Council President Matthew Finlan rants about why the school is more needed than ever (in a tribute to Rick Mercer - who was filming at the school).
March 21 is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Hmmm...how're we doing with that? We explore the subtler forms of racism, particularly as experienced by kids.
How primal is our love of rhythm and music? Babies know rhythm. And a new study shows some distinctive rhythm signatures by famous composers. What is going on in our musical brains? And does it all come down to math?
When you think of kids' storybooks, you probably think of fairy tales or fiction. Non-fiction books are a big part of the market though, and our experts tell us why.
Is there a family that doesn't suffer from sibling rivalry? Our expert says he's never met one.
Are you willing to let your kids wander around a bit in the park, the forest, the field this March Break? It's cheap and more valuable than you may think.
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FOR YEARS it was Shakespeare versus the second law of thermodynamics. But as the new millennium approaches, devotees of C.P. Snow's two cultures should surely be pondering a more contemporary clash of totemsDamien Hirst, say, versus Ian Wilmut.
Or so, at least, suggests Oxford physiologist Colin Blakemore. In his presidential address at the British Association for the Advancement of Science this week, Blakemore contrasted the comparatively easy-won fame and fortune of the sheep-pickling artist Hirst with the harder-won but often undervalued achievements of British lab coats this centuryculminating in the cloning of Dolly by Wilmut's team.
And the reason British science lacks the kind of status researchers in the US take for granted? In Blakemore's view, a lack of political clout is key. He argues that the British government should set up a special department for science with a full voice in Cabinet and broad powers in such areas as ...
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'True Blood' stars get bloody naked for Rolling Stone cover
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When we saw the Rolling Stone cover featuring "True Blood's" Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and her real life fiancé, Stephen Moyer, all we could say was wow.
On the issue, which hits stands on Friday (August 20), we find the stars naked, splattered in blood with the three locked into each other while Anna gives up something for each hunk. Skarsgard looks like a leg man and Moyer? He likes the breast. Hot.
But, then we found out what was inside: An article on "The Joy of Vampire Sex," which talks about the inherently sexual nature of vampires.


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Editorial: "In praise of stem-cell simplicity"
A CURE for diabetes could be sitting in our brains. Neural stem cells have been turned into pancreatic cells that can produce insulin to treat diabetes in rats.
Beta cells in the pancreas produce insulin, which regulates glucose levels. The beta cells of people with diabetes have either been destroyed or they cannot produce enough insulin.
To replace lost or defective beta cells, Tomoko Kuwabara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba Science City, Japan, and colleagues turned to neural stem cells in the brain.
First, they extracted tissue from diabetic rats' olfactory bulb, the part of the brain which deals with smell, or from the hippocampus, involved in memory. Each area is relatively safely accessible through the nose, both in rats and humans.
Next, ...
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I am a middle school geography teacher learning web programming.
For my school, I am creating a single-page multi-tab portal with four jquery tabs. I'd like the fourth tab to contain a form and also search & display MySQL query results.
My problem is, on the fourth tab, once I enter the search term and hit the "Search" button, the results are not loading in the fourth tab. They are loading on a separate page: http://localhost/notes_search.php
How could I get the results to appear in the fourth tab, below the search form?
Another way to look at this problem: I am successfully able to get the (1) tabs functioning separately (2) search results load in a single (no tab) page separately. I am missing something as I try to combine these two features.
Please help. Thank you very much.
This is what I have on the php file for the fourth tab (page_4.php):
This is what I have for search and display: notes_search.php
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Testing is under way to demonstrate the heat exchanger technology crucial to a hybrid air- and liquid oxygen-breathing rocket motor that Oxford-based Reaction Engines believes will enable single-stage-to-orbit flight.
The Sabre engine is intended to power a reusable, runway take-off and landing unpiloted spaceplane called Skylon, which promises to put payloads of up to 12t into orbit - and as much as 6t to a high geostationary orbit - for 10% of the cost of a traditional rocket launch.
Reaction's Sabre engine relies on a heat exchanger capable of cooling incoming air to -140C, to provide liquid oxygen (LOX) for mixing with hydrogen to provide jet thrust during atmospheric flight before switching to tanked LOX when in space.
Reaction insists the heat exchanger works, but trials set to run to year-end are needed to demonstrate to waiting investors that the technology is viable. Then, the company says, its investors are ready to release £200 million ($325 million) for a 2012-14 project phase to build an engine demonstrator. If successful, a further £7.5 billion ($10 billion) should be forthcoming to develop the airframe for service from 2020, says the company.
The Skylon design - to be developed and built in partnership with an established aerospace manufacturer - features a fuselage and wing load bearing structure made of carbonfibre-reinforced plastic. An external shell of fibre-reinforced ceramic carries only aerodynamic pressure loads, which are transmitted to the fuselage structure through flexible suspension points.
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Classroom combination pilot working at St. James
Grade 5 teachers and students at St. James Elementary are tearing down walls in the classroom, and they're doing it in more ways than one.
In fact, they've rolled back the wall between their two classrooms, and are working together as a single class with two teachers.
Grade 5 teachers and students at St. James Elementary are tearing down walls in the classroom, and they're doing it in more ways than one.
In fact, they've rolled back the wall between their two classrooms, and are working together as a single class with two teachers.
The removal of the wall and pairing up of teachers Lloyd Whitehorne and Shonna Ingram has removed other barriers to learning for students in Grade 5. The doubling up of the two classes is a pilot project by the Western District School Board, and by any measure, the project is turning out to be a success.
Mr. Whitehorne came up with the idea last spring. Certain curriculums require the two Grade 5 classes to work together as a single unit, and that meant trooping the children to the cafeteria in order to have a large enough space to accommodate both classes.
"I thought wouldn't it be great if I didn't have to worry about going to the cafeteria - if I just had them all in the same room."
Mr. Whitehorne pitched his idea to school administration in a written proposal, and Principal Denise Francis thought it was a great idea. She took it to the school board and the plan was approved.
"The old saying is many hands make light work," said Mrs. Francis. "Knowing we would have two teachers with creative minds would be good for the students."
Mrs. Ingram was recruited to be the other teacher in the pilot project. She said parents were informed about the pilot in June and some hesitated at first.
"They were not sure what to expect. They were unsure of the class size," said Mrs. Ingram.
While there are 42 students in the same room instead of two classes of 21, having two teachers in the room at most times means students can still get assistance when needed.
"It isn't like she's teaching 42 kids while I go down and have a coffee," said Mr. Whitehorne.
The two classrooms were already divided by a folding wall. Mr. Whitehorne thought that they would roll the wall out when needed, but he and Mrs. Ingram have not had the need to put it back since September.
Teaching duties are split up, with Mr. Whitehorne teaching language arts and Mrs. Ingram teaching math.
They are sharing duties on other courses such as health and science. But the split between the two is not rigid. Both teachers are in the classroom most of the time, and either can be called on to help when a student needs extra help with a subject.
"There might be a student who is having difficulty. Where there's two of us, one of us can pull that student aside and teach concepts," said Mrs. Ingram.
Both teachers say they find the situation easier because they can call on each other when unsure of a certain fact, or if they need a concept explained in a different way.
The arrangement allows the two teachers to practice a certain style of teaching known as differentiating instruction. It is a theory of teaching that allows students to express what they have learned in a way they feel comfortable with.
Mrs. Ingram gave the example of a recent religious class. After the usual classroom instruction, students did their own research on the subject and presented a wide variety of reports.
"They were asked to present it in a way they were comfortable. Some did posters. Some did models. Other did slideshows. Whatever they felt they were comfortable with," she said.
The two classes do occasionally split up for classes such as music or gym. The students, however, seem to prefer being together. All say its great because their friends are in the same room, but they also understand the advantages of having two teachers.
"Last year we just did work on paper but this year we went on a lot of field trips," said Andrew Pike.
Destinee Samms said the other teacher is always available to call on.
"If we're having trouble with something, and the teacher is working with someone else, then the other teacher can come and help us."
Mr. Whitehorne and Mrs. Ingram are hoping to use the two-classroom format next year for the next year's Grade 5 class. But for the students who are currently in the program, going back to the standard one-classroom-one-teacher approach may take some getting used to.
"My daughter is in here, so I get direct feedback," said Mr. Whitehorne. "In July she said, 'School is school, dad.' Now she says, 'Dad, I don't know what's going to happen in Grade 6.' I think the kids are learning a lot, they're having a lot of fun doing it, and we're having a lot of fun too."


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En Vivo Marzo 16 is a 1992 album by Franco De Vita released on the Sony label. The album is a concert recording made in Caracas, Venezuela, De Vita's birthplace. The title refers to the date of the recording on March 16, 1991. Two studio cuts were included on the disc: One of them, "No Lo Había Pensado," became a chart hit.
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- 1. Introducción/Latino
- 2. Te Equivocaste Conmigo
- 3. Aqui Estás Otra Vez
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- 5. Somos Tres
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Indiana U.S. Rep. Donnelly will vote for balanced-budget amendment
INDIANAPOLIS - Another U.S. Senate hopeful is working to add heft to the fiscally conservative image he hopes to cast in next year's election.
U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, the only Democratic candidate in the race, said he will be among the "yes" votes when the House on Friday takes up a constitutional amendment that would require Congress to balance the federal budget.
It's a position out of step with much of his party, but supported by the two Republican candidates — six-term incumbent U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar and Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock.
"The fact is, for too long, Washington has not made the necessary — and tough — decisions that need to be made to get our budget under control," Donnelly said on the House floor Thursday.
The three-term congressman from Indiana's 2nd District has been a member of Democrats' fiscally conservative Blue Dog caucus, and has supported that group's balanced budget amendment.
This, though, is his first vote on this version. It's seen as more lax than what some conservative Republicans preferred, because it does not mandate a supermajority vote for tax increases and does not set an unmovable cap on government spending.
House Joint Resolution 2 allows for deficits in times of military conflicts, and gives Congress a mechanism to raise the debt ceiling and approve a deficit.
The vote will come as a congressional committee nears its deadline to determine just how to cut $1.2 trillion in spending over the next decade.
President Barack Obama's White House and congressional Democratic leadership have lobbied members to vote against the balanced budget amendment.
The left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that such an amendment could force Congress to slash spending for every program by 17.3 percent by 2018.
Donnelly said it's worth it.
"Having a balanced-budget amendment in place is crucial to this country going beyond speaking about tough decisions and actually making them," he said.
"I'm aware that this will not be convenient and tough decisions that affect many people will have to be made to match revenues with our spending priorities — to live within our means. But, we are facing significant fiscal challenges and the American people are desperate for us to come together on a bipartisan basis and do something that will more effectively deal with them."
Donnelly's vote puts his record in line with Lugar, who has voted 17 times for a constitutional balanced budget amendment. However, while the amendment could clear the House, it faces a tougher road in the Democratic-controlled Senate this year.
"It is a common sense and prudent proposal to rein in spending," Lugar said in August.
Mourdock, meanwhile, released his own plan this week that would slash federal spending by $7.6 trillion over the next decade by capping spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and defense, and by eliminating four federal agencies.
Donnelly voted for the federal stimulus package and the health care reform law supported by Obama's administration. Those measures are often cited by Republicans as drivers of the nation's debt.
"Now when it's time to run for higher office he's acting like a fiscal hawk," said Pete Seat, an Indiana Republican Party spokesman. "Political silly season has arrived early this year."
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The hybrid procedure, designed to treat patients with persistent and long-standing atrial fibrillation, combines the benefits of both minimally invasive surgical ablation and catheter ablation and mapping techniques. The feasibility trial will enroll 30 patients and is being conducted at six U.S. medical centers.
"We believe that this investigational hybrid procedure has the potential to represent an important advancement in the treatment of patients with persistent AF," Onufer said. "These patients represent the largest segment of the AF population and currently have limited effective treatment alternatives. Our initial experience with this hybrid procedure suggests that it represents a highly promising AF treatment."
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Your organization's social media effort needs you to be a mad scientist..on wheels!
Forget the long production cycles, forget the boring committee meetings, forget the five-year plan. Your Enterprise 2.0 project needs creativity and momentum. The way to get it is to be an agent provocateur, an iconoclast. Someone willing to think outside the box. Someone who will listen to your more creative customers — no matter how cranky, kooky or off-the-wall. Someone who has the ability to find the golden nugget buried in a customer suggestion. Above all, you need to connect the dots quickly and act with dispatch. (Hence the wheels.) Now is not the time to analyze an opportunity to death. Now is the time to seize good ideas and run with them.
Why do speed and creativity matter? Because they give competitive advantage to disruptive businesses and, at the end of the day, Enterprise 2.0 initiatives are great examples of disruptive business ventures. Consider the core challenges of these businesses:
How do you build a business in an unproven market? How do you figure out what customers need when you're delivering an experience they've never seen before? You begin where service and software companies have begun, by conducting fast, cheap experiments that help you understand your customers. You build on what you learn. In short, you prototype.
With ever-increasing competition, innovative businesses are finding that in order to stay competitive their offerings need to constantly evolve. …To understand the next big thing, companies have to engage with customers and react to their needs.
And if you want to succeed at this game, you would do well to pay attention to Ideo's Axioms for Starting Disruptive New Businesses:
- Go early, go often — build experimentation into your process
- Learning by doing — be sure to salvage something from each experiment
- Inspiration through constraints — don't waste time wishing for more — after all, necessity is the mother of invention
- Open to opportunity — don't assume your way is the only way — see how your customers use your tools in unexpected ways
Thankfully, good Enterprise 2.0 tools are so easy to shape and use that you should be able to pull together a prototype quickly, test it, and then move on without missing a beat. This may not be how veterans in your IT department like to work, but it's how disruptive businesses thrive.
So tell me what are you going to do? Write a 20-page requirements analysis document that may well fail to address the problem, or quickly build a prototype that engages your customer in a creative collaborative problem-solving exercise?
Time's a wasting. Get moving.
If you don't believe me, listen to someone who has made a great deal more money than I have in business — Rupert Murdoch:
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
[Hat tip to Marcia Conner for the Murdoch quote.]
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The bride was beautiful, the groom handsome, the beach setting romantic. In fact, we enjoyed every minute of the wonderful destination wedding they hosted. However, even romance does not eradicate some of the realities of life in the 21st century. Accordingly, the happy couple felt compelled to ask their guests to refrain from posting wedding photos and videos on any social media sites.
Welcome to life in the 21st century.
Clearly notions of private life and privacy have undergone some fairly substantial changes in the last few years. Now that everyone can publish their life via Facebook and Twitter, we are swamped by too much information. Occasionally, people get carried away and publish the details of lives other than their own. That's when we face the dilemma our media-savvy bride and groom clearly were trying to avoid.
Until society adopts an established code of conduct for how we approach the narration of our lives via social media, people are going to have to determine for themselves where they must draw the line in the sand. Hopefully, that line will take into consideration the privacy needs of those affected by any disclosure. To their credit, the bride and groom were clear about their expectations and their forthright approach gave the rest of us an opportunity to consider our own limits.
Where do you draw the line?
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May 19 was a great day for social media enthusiasts as they watched the price of LinkedIn stock rocket. The commentators were almost breathless as they reported each extraordinary increase in price over the course of the day:
CNNMoney.com (@CNNMoney)
LinkedIn shares open at $83, an 84% premium over the IPO price of $45. http://CNNMoney.com
Thu May 19 14:03:04 2011
Breaking News (@BreakingNews)
Shares of LinkedIn Corp open more than 80 percent above their IPO price in public trading debut, continue rising http://bloom.bg/kS53YC
Thu May 19 14:15:57 2011
For CRM vendors, this may have been a slightly more challenging day. What do you say to businesses that have spent millions on your software to create internal electronic databases of customer contact information that require huge ongoing effort to keep current? What do you say when the alternative is having millions of customers and colleagues contributing their contact details and educational and work histories to a giant global database, especially when they do this voluntarily and without charge?
That's the beauty of social media. People participating without compulsion and for their own reasons. Yet collectively creating something much bigger than the sum of its parts. Best of all, we're only just beginning to see the potential in this type of collaboration. Perhaps it was the intuition of such potential that drove the stock price. Granted, once the initial euphoria dies down, the stock price will undoubtedly settle at what some consider to be a more realistic level. And LinkedIn will have to work hard to justify high stock prices over the long term. Regardless, the events of today were a nice validation for the folks at LinkedIn.
Can you imagine a comparable validation for the CRM system your firm uses?
I'm just sayin'…
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A new Canadian study reveals that companies are suffering from a "knowledge hiding" epidemic. Or, as Kimberly Weisul puts it, the $73 billion that companies spent on knowledge management software in 2008 (according to AMR research) might possibly be a complete waste.
That's a thought that should strike terror in the heart of every knowledge management professional.
So what's going on? Apparently, companies have invested in marvelous (and expensive) knowledge management systems without first properly identifying and addressing the barriers to knowledge sharing that exist within their organizations. As a result, their systems lack the key content that make them mission critical. Instead, the people with the goods are keeping them hidden.
The study by Catherine Connelly, Jane Webster and David Zweig cites the following popular methods of knowledge hiding:
- ignoring requests for assistance
- claiming that the requested information is confidential and cannot be shared
- pretending ignorance
The study also provides some reasons why colleagues indulge in knowledge hiding:
- they are distrustful of co-workers or management
- they feel an injustice has been done to them
- they are retaliating for someone else's bad behavior
- their organizational culture encourages secrecy rather than sharing
- they believe that they can get away with it
In a similar vein, Ian Thorpe has noted in his KM on a dollar a day blog the following reasons why people won't share information:
- the requested material is "rough and ready" — fine in the hands of the originator, but not safe in the hands of others
- it is a preliminary draft and has not been perfected
- the material was not intended for external consumption
- it may not conform to the public position of management or the organization
- it may be based on evidence or arguments that have not yet been properly vetted
So what are the best antidotes for knowledge hiding? The key is to build an organizational culture of knowledge sharing. However, that is easier said than done. In light of that, what do the study's authors recommend?
The paper suggested that companies can overcome knowledge hiding by having more direct contact and less email communication with employees, highlighting examples of trustworthiness, and avoiding "betrayal" incentives, such as rewards for salespeople who poach another's clients. (Jordan Press, Ottawa Citizen, May 16, 2011) [emphasis added]
In addition,
- Build trust — emphasize positive relationships among employees
- Demonstrate the mutual benefits that result when colleagues share information
- Treat all workers fairly and respectfully, thereby reducing feelings of injustice and the need for retaliation
At the end of the day, if you want to get value out of your expensive knowledge management systems, you have to spend the time and effort to ensure that all the people involved are willing to cooperate and share. Don't let a technology vendor tell you otherwise.
For further reading, see: Jack Vinson, Knowledge hiding among co-workers.
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"I can resist everything but temptation," Oscar Wilde once said. Nowadays, if you look around most offices, you'll discover lots of folks who appear to agree with Oscar Wilde. They spend time during regular business hours on Facebook, checking personal email, indulging in online shopping, or just surfing the web. In fact, it can seem as if the only temptation they are able to resist is the temptation to get some work done.
How bad is it? According to a recent report on current research at Harvard Business School, the situation is quite serious: "A number of studies have suggested that US workers waste between one and two hours a day web surfing, costing their companies billions in lost productivity."
In the face of these significant threats to productivity, some employers have taken the step of banning private internet use at the office. While this may seem like an entirely logical response, Marco Piovesan, a Harvard Business School research fellow, thinks it may have serious drawbacks:
By banning web surfing, employers are essentially asking their workers to resist temptation until they can go home and surf on their own time. The rub: studies show that people asked to resist temptation in anticipation of reward become less productive and make more mistakes in their current tasks.
In the tests Piovesan and his colleagues conducted, they asked test subjects to complete specific simple tasks while fighting the temptation to watch a funny video. The tests found that the people facing temptation "were more apt to make mistakes and were less productive overall" when compared to a control group. In a workplace that demands high accuracy, this tendency could cause real trouble. In any business that depends on high productivity, this could mean disappointing financial results.
Piovesan suggests that the better approach is to let employees know that they can have regular breaks in which to take care of personal business online. He views this as a means to relieve the pressure and reduce the distracting and exhausting effects of having to exert self-control over long periods of time. This is consistent with the theory that "when we resist temptation we use energy to control ourselves-and then this energy is not available for subsequent tasks."
Alternatively, we could let Oscar Wilde have the last word: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
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Eligibility and participation in Intramurals at Utah Valley University is open to full-fee-paying students, faculty, and staff of UVU. Those who are not students, faculty, or staff can purchase a Guest Pass from the Intramurals Office for $20. Varsity players must only play in sports not related to their varsity sport. All participants must bring their UVU student ID to every game. Non-students must bring a form of ID to every game. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Each sport varies in price. We have team sports and individual sports. The entry fee for team sports varies based on the event which is usually around $5-$10/per person. The individual sports such as Mini-golf, Bowling, Golf, etc. will cost whatever the business charges and the more students we get to sign up the better deals we can get from the business. When we have individual events on campus they usually will only cost $10-15 at the most if not free watch posters for fees if applicable.
If you don't have a team and would like to be on one, register on IM Leagues and request to be on a team and the captain of the team will accept you. Registration is all done on IM Leagues (including payment, creating and joining teams, schedules, etc) so once you have paid the fee you will be able to ask to join a team.
When there is bad weather, call the Intramural office to check for changes (801-863-6163) or check on IM Leagues. We will most likely email captains through IM Leagues. Most play will continue in rain, snow, etc. but in severe cases tournaments may be moved to another date. There may be some cases in which we will have to change the location of play because of scheduling conflicts. If this happens, we will let you know where to play.
Intramural Sports uses Student Officials for all of its team officiated sports. Prior experience is helpful but not needed to become a member of the Intramural Sports Officiating Team. We also look for Event Supervisors and Office Staff and welcome work study. If you are interested working with us come to the Intramural office for more information or check online for job postings.
GAME TIME IS FORFEIT TIME! You should arrive at your court or field 15 minutes prior to game time. Depending on the sport, a team can begin play less players but must have a full team by half time, otherwise the game will be recorded as a forfeit. TWO FORFEITS WILL RESULT IN THE TERMINATION OF THE SEASON FOR THE TEAM. See also the FORFEIT/SPORTSMANSHIP DEPOSIT.
Protests on rule interpretation, discrepancy, and eligibility must be filed by the Team Captain before the next legal live play. Protests on judgment calls are not allowed.
Intramural Champion t-shirts will be awarded for all sports (except those sports that do not meet the minimum requirement for the number of entries to conduct the event). There are also gift certificates given out at 5k runs and other individual events.
Anyone who plays for two teams shall be ineligible for all future games in that sport for the remainder of the semester, and the second team for which the player played shall receive a forfeit loss for each game in which the ineligible player participated.
Orientation is Free!
Go to our website: uvu.edu/intramurals/
Email us at email@example.com
Or stop by our Office @ SC-108h or call 863-6163


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Opened 2010
Renovated 2010
Guest Rooms 19
Kings/Suites/Doubles 14 / 3 / 5
Seasonal Rates: High Low Shoulder
Ideal Group Size 20
Max Group Size 20
Resort Fee N/A
Room Tax 8.00%
Sales Tax N/A
Airport Proximity
45 min 16 miles (26 km)
Those planning an Ankara meeting or event will find access to one space at Divan Çukurhan. Enjoy accommodations for up 120 people in a reception capacity, as well as
delicious catered meals and a dedicated staff.
The Çukurhan is located opposite to the main entrance of the Ankara Citadel, close to the site which was formerly known as the Horse Market, and on the west side of the present Çengelhan Rahmi M. Koç Museum. Under the Ottomans, the Han was affiliated to Sheikh ul-islam (the chief religious official in the Ottoman Empire) Ankaravî Mehmed Emin Efendi Foundation.
The brick and stone building with wooden planks and bays has a tile roof and is supposed to have been built in the late 16th or early 17th century. The Çukurhan functioned as a typical Ottoman city caravanserai: in other words it was an Inn with a marketplace in the courtyard. It retained its commercial importance through the years with many shops and workplaces that sold a vast range of goods including mohair, wool, grains, dried fruits, vegetables, etc.
In 1950 the Çukurhan caught fire and was seriously damaged. Soon after that, the building was repaired but mostly lost its original form and abandoned at the end of the 20th century.
The Han, also placed in the "Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites of the World" announced by World Monuments Fund (WMF), was leased on a "Renovate-Operate- Transfer" basis in October 2006 by Çengelhan Inc., which is a company of the Rahmi M. Koç Foundation for Museology and Culture, from the Turkish Prime Ministry General Directorate of Foundations, Ankara Regional Directorate. The restoration period of the Çukurhan began in October 2007 and lasted to May 2010. Throughout the two-and-a-half-year restoration process enormous care and attention was paid to the preservation of the original state of the building. This extended to glassing the entire courtyard area.
view in meters
Largest Meeting Room 915 ft²
Indoor Meeting Space 431 ft²
Indoor/Outdoor Meeting Space 431 ft²


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