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"Tell Your Second-Grade Teacher I'm Sorry"
The failure of science education in the United States.
Hawbridge students and teachers take a lot of field trips, usually about two a month. Two years ago, during a study of contemporary innovations, we were preparing for a trip to the planetarium. "You know I don't believe in any of that stuff, Ms. Boggs," said one of my students, a junior I'll call Amy.
"What stuff?" I asked.
"You know," she said, looking at the ceiling. "Outer space."
"What do you think is up there then, Amy?"
"God," she said. "And clouds. And Jesus."
Rebecca Skloot might have helpfully drawn Amy a map of the solar system, or taken her stargazing one night, or asked why God, Jesus, stars, and meteorites could not all coexist. I did none of those things but continued with my English lesson—something about class consciousness and symbolism in The Great Gatsby. On breaks, at lunch, or before school, I'd been trying to persuade Amy to quit smoking, and I was afraid a religious dispute might turn her against me. I didn't want Amy to feel isolated or alienated.
What occurred to me only later is that Amy was already alienated—from science, from ecology—in a way that was similar to Lawrence Lacks' disengagement. Amy had several things in common with Lacks. Her family suffered from a history of health problems. She was fearful and suspicious of new ideas. She worked full time, at a fast-food restaurant, to help support her family. And she was underprepared by the education she received before she came to our school, arriving in ninth grade but reading at a level several grades below.
Luckily, I wasn't Amy's only teacher, and in her senior year she had the guidance of Norma Johnson, who once taught biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Johnson's biology class, Amy participated in a range of inquiry-based activities that made scientific principles real to her—reading nutrition labels and tracing her daily food consumption through the metabolic process, examining mosses growing in nearby woods, dissecting a fetal pig, and interacting with guest lecturers from universities and science-based outreach programs. In September and October, Amy used her lunch period and study period to get extra help with the challenging coursework, but she became more confident and independent as the year progressed. She finished the year with a B in biology and graduated from high school with plans to go to the local community college. She hopes to become a nurse.
Amy was one of the lucky ones, entering the school by lottery and finding teachers who not only helped her catch up on skills, but also made the things she was learning relevant to her life. Back at her old school, there are bound to be many Amys who won't be so lucky—who won't get in or aren't even aware they can apply to a school with smaller class sizes or hands-on learning. Amy's opportunity ought to be everyone's.
Scientific illiteracy is a luxury—one our poorest and most vulnerable citizens cannot afford. In an ideal K–12 classroom, every student (and every teacher) would consider himself a scientist, and everyone would be engaged in personally relevant, inquiry-driven science learning. This kind of education, which invites students to observe, hypothesize, debate, experiment, and problem-solve, is not easy to facilitate. It requires content knowledge and experience not only with instructional methodology but also with classroom management. Science teachers in particular need strong management skills and specific and in-depth understanding of their subject matter.
But it's also true that nonscientists can be trained to provide rigorous, exciting, inquiry-driven instruction in elementary school classrooms. "Kids are natural scientists," said Laursen. "They like bugs and dirt, they can observe something for a long time, they're curious. When we fail to capitalize on young children's curiosity and inclination toward social learning, we turn science into a boring, rote exercise by middle school, at which point it is often too late to reclaim students' interest and curiosity." Whatever is outside the classroom door—a recovering post-industrial river, a patch of grass, a cracked cement courtyard—is an opportunity for engagement with science learning: growing vegetables, designing experiments, observing a colony of ants with a field notebook. And a community's environmental issues—logging, littering, smog, development—are also immediately relevant to students' lives.
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"I'm not a scientist, man," Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told GQ magazine in an interview published in December 2012, following the first presidential debate season in 28 years to fail to mention climate change. Rubio had been asked how old he thinks the Earth is; it is unclear whether he was signaling a fashionable disdain for scientific facts or whether he truly did not know. His full answer suggested that, in his mind, science was far removed from the important work of growing our economy, and that only people in lab coats have any business thinking about things like the age of the planet. In his response to the 2013 State of the Union address, in which President Obama declared himself willing to take executive action against climate change, Rubio dismissed such actions as "job-killing" and suggested that "the government can't control the weather."
Meanwhile, the year 2012 had been the hottest on record in the contiguous United States, with above-normal temperatures registering every month everywhere except the Pacific Northwest. That year's drought was the worst in 50 years, registering as "severe" in more than half the country, and the record-setting wildfire season, the second worst since the 1960s, claimed an area of land roughly the size of Maryland. In late October of that year, the East Coast experienced the second-costliest hurricane on record, an immense storm that devastated areas rarely hit by Category 3 hurricanes.
After a devastatingly hot summer, and particularly after Hurricane Sandy, Americans began to appear more receptive to scientists' warnings about climate change. Some polls had as many as 7 in 10 respondents agreeing that climate change is real, and post-election, 60 percent of voters agreed with the statement that "climate change made Hurricane Sandy worse."
On the surface, this looks encouraging. In some respects, Americans may be finally waking up to the reality of a rapidly changing climate. But a response to a dramatic weather event, however convincing, is fragile and perhaps unsustainable. What if next summer is unusually cool, the hurricane season relatively calm? Will we continue to listen to climate reports from NOAA? Perhaps more importantly, there is little indication that respondents to recent polls understand what it would take to turn things around, or how their own actions and choices might play a role. They are not scientists either—not most of them, not yet.
Much recent discussion about the importance of STEM subject education has focused on job training, on preparing our kids and our country to compete in high-stakes and high-income professions. Like Marco Rubio, the majority of students in an average fifth-grade classroom will not become professional scientists or engineers. Every one of them, however, will need to understand skills and ideas connected to the principles of science—what a plant needs to grow, how to read nutrition and medication labels, what it means when their state considers hydraulic fracturing or offshore drilling. Their understanding of these principles will determine how long they live, and how well.
This essay originally appeared in the November/December 2013 issue of Orion and also appears in the anthology Leave No Child Inside. Request a free trial issue of Orion here.


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Happy National Pancake Day!Pancakes! Get yer pancakes! In honor of National Pancake Day, IHOP is giving away free short stacks from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. All the breakfast chain asks is that you consider making a donation to the Children's Miracle Network. (But you should probably um, really make one. Just sayin'.)
If pancakes aren't your thing, the Coastal Kitchen on Capitol Hill is offering its entire dinner menu for half off - $9 paella! - from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m today. All you have to say to your server is "early bird." Gold's Gym members can get the same deal tomorrow evening, too. Just bring in your membership tag.
Lastly, the Seattle Times reports that Seattle Restaurant Week will take place April 18-29. More than 100 King County restaurants, including Canlis, Emmer & Rye, and Madison Park Cafe, will attempt to woo new customers with three-course dinners for $25. Some will also offer three-course lunches for $15. Consider us wooed.
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Most Linux users know they can rely on the kernel without ever giving it much thought. But if you do look a little deeper, you'll find some evolving technologies that extend the kernel in interesting ways. This month we cover some innovations at the edges of the Linux kernel.
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Отличная работа и персонаж красивый!
Amazingly Beautiful and my one of my fav. characters in Final Fantasy Still have to finish the last game in hard mode
Nice I've never play ff13 cause I don't own a ps3 but its a really good drawing not that I'm surprised.
I never played FF13.... I only have played X2 and below... but you did a fantastic job on this piece. Wonderful detail!
Thank you)It's a good game! If you have free time, desire and opportunity-to play!
PS3? Your welcome!
Neither of those do I have
I also do not have, but I played, when I was taking it for a short time at my friend.
Ah.. you are very pretty by the way
Just wondering have you ever heard of FF7 Core Crisis? It is for the PSP so I download a Emulator for my Android phone and downloaded the .cso file of the game and it works.. I will let you know if its any good just seeing if you ever played it or heard of it?
Incredibly stunning!
Someone stole your artwork,
Everything in his/her gallery is stolen so I'm trying to find the original artist of everything his claiming is his. (or hers)
Everything in his/her gallery is stolen so I'm trying to find the original artist of everything his claiming is his. (or hers)
Fuck!Thank you very much for the link! This person is just awful! >_<
Your most welcome, he stole one of mine as well and I didn't like that feeling one bit. So I decided to try and find everyone to let them know.
You do not know how I can report this person to the administration? Can I complain?
There is a report button that is under all images on DA is a small icon. But now I'm noticing he took down the drawing. but he still has a lot of stolen artwork posted. =/ DA needs to boot him off.
Thank you! Together we will win this thief!
Indeed! I have friends helping out to, he wrote a journal saying he deleted the work yet he still has other peoples work up. I believe he thinks DA is photobucket or something. =_= but then he does say BY wadelightning which angers me even more.
yes! He did not say who the author or a link to the original! He pretended that he drawing it! This is terrible.
I think there are a lot of such people. But maybe, the cubs still do not know what the copyright. In any case, I'm glad that he removed my job.
I think there are a lot of such people. But maybe, the cubs still do not know what the copyright. In any case, I'm glad that he removed my job.
Marvelous... how much time did you spent on drawing this ?
Лайтнинг! Даааааа
Very good! I mean more than good. It looks just like Lightning!
Amazing!!! ♥♥♥♥♥
I realy2x love anime like that, and Im injoying to draw them....
Wow you are so talented!!! I love it
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The Civilian Education System (CES) is a progressive and sequential leader development program that provides enhanced educational opportunities for Army civilians throughout their careers comparable to that provided to officers, warrant officers, and noncommissioned officers. CES is comprised of four courses delivered via distributed learning and resident instruction, and is based on leadership competencies from the Office of Personnel Management and FM 6-22, Army Leadership.
What has the Army done?
The Army Management Staff College recently completed the pilot year of four CES courses —Foundation Course (FC), Basic Course (BC), Intermediate Course (IC), and Advanced Course (AC). The CES continues to be marketed Army-wide and policy has been published to provide guidance for implementation. The Continuing Education for Senior Leaders (CESL) Course was piloted in FY08 and is pending Army approval. CESL addresses contemporary issues, Army transformation, and leadership at the strategic and senior organizational level.
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? The Advanced Course, the first CES course fielded, is already being modified to leverage the Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) methodology which places students in real-world contexts to apply new knowledge and skills to address actual issues. IBL promotes development of creative and critical thinking, high performance teaming and conflict management, and problem-solving. As the CES continues to evolve, required changes will be made to the curriculum and policies will be refined and published in the next revision of Army Regulation 350-1, Army Training and Leader Development. Additionally, CES Learning Communities (LC) will be developed and implemented. LCs will be designed and structured to build the skills for continuous knowledge building and support life-long learning for the Army Civilian Corps (ACC). LCs will support on-going leader development for all levels of organizational leadership and can include collaborative forums for all civilians and CES course graduates, and will provide access to updated course materials.
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This was a game pitch for my buddy Stephen Jarrett. We're both really big fans of the ABC Warriors and wanted to do something with a hot chick and her pet robot. Hopefully,we'll do something cool with it soon...
The robot looks a bit like the robot from the Judge Dredd movie (classic), very cool!
Their is some serious hotness taking place here. Who in gods name would shoot at something that hot? Answer: No-one! you totally screwed up on this picture ECHO, oh wait,... their all shooting at the robot! Ooohh, thats ok then. Cause Hell, I'd shoot her boyfriend too, (for availability purposes.)
The robot kindaof looks like the robot from the Judge Dread movie
Good eyes, the ABC Warrior robot was a big inspiration. We wanted a face on him like Gen 1 Transformers, ABC's, Voltron etc
I actually heard a rumor that there will be another Judge Dread Movie in the near future and I found one screenshot of the movie and the uniforms will be more like the ones from the comics
I actually heard a rumor that there will be another Judge Dread Movie in the near future and I found one screenshot of the movie and the uniforms will be more like the ones from the comics
nice work i love the abc warriors.
you make me want to do art again
They look so good! Amazing concept! How did the pitch go?!
man I love how you always have ahrd black and whites in your work maximizing contrast to the fullest. IMO your one of the best illustratiors ive ever seen. How does your prossess go.
Very Cool!
Whoa! Look at that sweat glistening on her body!
Dude and the was an accident! I was rendering the highlights on her and they got too white and I had my eraser set on the chalk brush and it looked like skin after a bit-I'll post a closer up torso it was crazy
this is amazingly done, but i have to wonder. why do the heavily armored with a massive weapon and a skimpily dressed woman with two pistols equally kicking ass always seem to go together? i mean, i really cant complain, but still..
That is really really fuckin awesome. Looks like 2000AD meets contra
It's amazing and mind blowing!!!!!!!!! 8O
Outstanding...great job with the skin...but I think you already know that
This looks awesome! I like the "Girl and her pet Robot" prospect.
The whole half-naked girl in a gunfight thing kinda seems over used to me, but I like this pic.
The whole half-naked girl in a gunfight thing kinda seems over used to me, but I like this pic.
nice! excellent female amazon hottie!
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This is amazing! Great detail.
Holy crap this is awesome!
Damn dude!
Damn skippy, thats awesome plus 1!! Great action, lighting and a seriously cool looking robot. Fave and a koala stamp!!!
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The day after Thanksgiving is the traditional start to the holiday shopping season and a day many spend at the mall or big-box stores. In an effort to persuade shoppers to spend their money closer to home, merchants in downtown Montpelier have developed a local alternative to Black Friday and dubbed it Flannel Friday. Shoppers wearing the classic Vermont attire were treated to sale prices and specials at many stores. Above, Brandi Klassen, of Marshfield, holds her son Blake, 1, as he greets Doc between free wagon rides. Left, employees and customers, many clad in flannel, watch as Myra O'Neill, of Somerville, Mass., spins the Wheel of Deals at Onion River Sports. Below, Skip, the Vermont Mountaineers' mascot, sports his flannel shirt while crossing the street Friday in Montpelier. Barre merchants get into the act today with a downtown open house and a full day of festivities and shopping.MORE IN Central VermontBELLOWS FALLS TransCanada would be the biggest beneficiary if a proposed merger between the... Full StoryMONTPELIER From marijuana legalization and independent contractor rules to privacy and ethics,... Full StoryBARRE Main Street was closed off for four hours Saturday morning so that once again race fans... Full Story
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DESCRIPTION: The authorized project provides for hurricane protection and beach erosion control along five reaches of the south shore of Long Island between Fire Island Inlet and Montauk Point, a distance of approximately 83 miles. The project also authorizes Federal participation in periodic nourishment. The sponsor is the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. In 1978, the Department of the Interior (DOI) supported by other agencies referred the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the authorized project to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) as unacceptable. In June 1978, CEQ recommended project reformulation to the Chief of Engineers, who in turn directed the District to reformulate the project. Reformulation was originally initiated in 1980; however, because of difficulties between the Federal, State and County in proceeding with the Westhampton reach, which at the time was the most vulnerable reach of the authorized project, the Reformulation was suspended. Based on letters of intent to support an interim plans, the Reformulation study was resumed in 1994. Work on the Reformulation study is currently ongoing, with several interim projects already constructed for critical vulnerable areas.
AUTHORIZATION: The project was authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of 14 July 1960 in accordance with House Document 425 and subsequently modified by the River & Harbor Act of 1962, and the Water Resources Development Acts of 1974, 1986 and 1992. In response to the 2012 Sandy event, P.L. 113-2, The Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013, will provide the required Federal funds to complete the reformulation study and to complete initial construction, including stabilization efforts, at 100% Federal cost.
Previously completed work:
MORICHES INLET TO SHINNECOCK INLET: 11 groins constructed in the Westhampton Beach area in 1965. Additional 4 groins with beach and dune fill placed west of the 11-groin field in 1969-1970. The Westhampton Interim Project, which included groin modification and beach fill within and west of the 15-groin field, was completed in December 1997. The West of Shinnecock Interim Project, which includes beach fill west of the Shinnecock navigation channel, was completed in March 2005. SOUTHAMPTON to BEACH HAMPTON: 2 groins constructed at Georgica Pond in 1965.
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REFORMULATION STUDY: The goal of the Reformulation Study is to identify storm damage risk reduction within the study area and to evaluate alternative methods of providing authorized beach erosion control and hurricane protection. A Design Agreement was executed with the State of New York in October 2002 in order to cost-share study costs at 75% Federal and 25% Non-Federal. Coordination is currently underway with all project sponsors, including the State of New York and the U.S. Department of Interior, on finalization of the Reformulation Study. This effort will be completed at 100% Federal expense.
Interim and Stabilization Efforts:
State, local and congressional interests requested that the Corps provide immediate remedial actions for critical vulnerable areas. These interim and stabilization actions will be modified, as necessary, based on the ultimate recommendations of the Reformulation Study.
BREACH CONTINGENCY PLAN: Provides a mechanism for rapid breach closure of the barrier islands through the 83-mile project area. A Breach Contingency Plan was approved in February 1996. Under the approved Project Cooperation Agreement, the Corps is authorized to execute specific PPA's with the State of New York in order to close breaches immediately after coastal storms. The Sandy storm event of October 2012 resulted in damages to Long Island's barrier beaches. This event breached the barrier island in several locations on Long Island, specifically at Cupsogue County Park and Smith Point County Park, leaving the area vulnerable to significant damages. On November 2, 2012, the State of New York formally requested emergency assistance from the Corps to activate the Breach Contingency Plan. Emergency contract actions were issued for both areas. The Cupsogue breach was closed on November 27, 2012, and the Smith Point breach was closed on December 7, 2012. Sandy also caused a third breach within the Fire Island Wilderness Area (Old Inlet area). This breach is currently open, with ongoing monitoring by NPS and NYS underway to determine if the breach will close naturally or if it will be necessary to close the breach via a contract action.
WESTHAMPTON INTERIM PROJECT: Provides interim protection to the Westhampton Beach area west of Groin 15 and affected mainland communities north of Moriches Bay. The project provides for a protective beach berm and dune, tapering of existing groins 14 & 15, and construction of an intermediate groin (14a). The project also includes periodic nourishment as necessary to ensure the integrity of the project design, for up to 30 years (thru 2027). Beachfill for this interim project also includes placement within the existing groin field to fill the groin compartments and encourage sand transport to the areas west of groin 15. Initial construction was completed in December 1997 at an approximate cost of $20 million. The project has performed better than anticipated in terms of anticipated cost, project performance and beneficial environmental impacts. The first renourishment effort was completed in February 2001 at an approximate cost of $5 million. The second renourishment effort was completed in December 2004 at an approximate cost of $4.5 million. A portion of the third renourishment effort was completed in February 2009 at an approximate cost of $9.5 million. In response to 2012 Sandy damages, P.L. 113-2, the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 funded the restoration of this project to its original design template at 100% Federal cost. This construction contract was completed October 2015. Required coastal and environmental monitoring efforts continue every year within the Westhampton project area.
WEST OF SHINNECOCK INTERIM PROJECT: Provided interim protection to the area immediately west of Shinnecock Inlet up to 4,000 feet westerly, which is a potential breach area. The project was intended to provide protection until implementation of Reformulation Study recommendations. This interim project consisted of initial beachfill placement, with 2 anticipated renourishments, for a period not to exceed 6 years (thru 2011). The placement of sand in this area enabled future maintenance dredging of Shinnecock Inlet to bypass sand past the influence of the inlet. Initial beach fill placement was completed in March 2005 at an approximate cost of $4.3 million. No renourishment efforts were ever completed due to lack of funds. This Interim project is considered complete, until a new recommendation is made by the Reformulation Study, or a new decision document is prepared which would approve the extension of interim nourishment efforts. An emergency contract for P.L. 84-99 rehabilitation of this project, which was damaged by both the Irene and Sandy events, was completed by the Corps in January 2013, placing approximately 300k cy of sand west of the inlet to repair the project to pre-storm conditions. In conjunction with this contract, a Memorandum of Agreement was executed between the Corps and NYS for placement of an additional 124k cy of material at Tiana beach. In response to 2012 Sandy damages, P.L. 113-2, the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 funded the restoration of this project to its original design template at 100% Federal cost. This work was completed March 2014, placing an additional 450k cy of sand in the project area.
POST-SANDY ONE-TIME STABILIZATION EFFORTS: The Corps, State of New York and U.S. Department of Interior have developed a mutually acceptable one-time stabilization plan along the Fire Island barrier island to provide protection until implementation of the recommendations of the overall Reformulation Study. These stabilization efforts are one-time placement projects and include no nourishment cycles. The efforts are meant to provide protection until the implementation and construction of final recommendations of the overall Reformulation Study.
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"Pulau Ketam - A Quaint Fishing Village on Stilts" Pulau Ketam by aussirose
Pulau Ketam Travel Guide: 6 reviews and 44 photos
Pulau Ketam is on the west coast of Malaysia about a little over an hour from Kuala Lumpur and another half hour by ferry from Klang Port. As the name suggests, the place is overrun by crabs when the tide goes out.
The interesting thing about Pulau Ketam is that the whole village is built on stilts as the island is mainly mud flats.
We arranged for our private driver Patrick to pick us up at our accommodation in Kuala Lumpur and bring us here for the day. Patrick was also looking forward to it because he hadn't been to Crab Island in a while. Please check out my transport tip if you want Patrick to take you here too.
It's interesting to see how the other half live. Here, there was a mixture of nice houses right on the water front as you can expect, quaint little homes in the streets just behind the water front and larger homes in what you would call the rural areas outside the main village. More about that in my travelogues.
Also, as you can see, there were plenty of opportunities for photography enthusiasts like hubby and me :o)
Pictured here is one of the larger homes in the rural area behind the main village. As you can see, most people own a boat.
There are no cars on the island. Everyone uses a bicycle. The island has markets in the main street, a Police station, a big school, a couple of Temples, awesome seafood restaurants as you can imagine :o) and accommodation for those that miss the last ferry.
I invite you to grab a drink of your choice, sit back, relax and check out my story in the travelogues below.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today reported results from its first pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating OMS103HP in patients undergoing arthroscopic partial meniscectomy surgery. In this multicenter, double-blind, Phase 3 clinical trial comparing OMS103HP to vehicle control in 344 subjects, the pre-specified primary endpoint was the Symptoms Subscale of the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) – a patient-reported measure that is comprised of questions about knee swelling, clicking, catching and stiffness. In addition, pain measured in the early postoperative period was a pre-specified secondary endpoint. Although the Symptoms Subscale of the KOOS did not reach statistical significance, OMS103HP achieved statistically significant (p=0.0003) reduction of postoperative pain. The pain reduction data were similar in magnitude to those in the Phase 2 clinical trial. OMS103HP also demonstrated improvement across a series of pain-related assessments including postoperative narcotic usage (with more than twice as many OMS103HP-treated subjects taking no postoperative narcotics), incidence of inflammatory adverse events, tourniquet use, and crutch use as well as time to discontinuation of crutches and return to work, a number of which also achieved statistical significance. In this study, as in the earlier clinical trials, OMS103HP was well tolerated. Given the strength and consistency of the data in this Phase 3 clinical trial, Omeros' second OMS103HP Phase 3 trial remains on track and will begin in the first half of 2013. "The data from this Phase 3 trial are compelling and demonstrate the benefits of preemptive and multimodal treatment during surgery," stated William E. Garrett, Jr., M.D., Ph.D, professor of orthopaedic surgery and team physician at Duke University. "Early postoperative pain is predominantly inflammatory pain, and control of postoperative pain and inflammation is critical to functional recovery in arthroscopy patients. While OMS103HP demonstrated positive KOOS data in the Phase 2 trial, the absence of similar data in this trial does not detract from the drug's therapeutic value in light of its reduction of inflammatory pain. Arthroscopy patients with significant early postoperative pain and inflammation generally face a slower and more difficult recovery."OMS103HP, added to standard irrigation solution used during arthroscopy, is Omeros' proprietary PharmacoSurgery™ product designed to provide a multimodal approach to reduce pain and inflammation following arthroscopic surgery. Inhibiting inflammation and resultant postoperative pain is critical to the management of arthroscopy patients. Comprised of only anti-inflammatory active ingredients without any anesthetic agents, such as lidocaine or bupivacaine, and delivered directly to the joint in the arthroscopic irrigation solution, use of OMS103HP avoids the frequently reported damage to cartilage cells due to intraarticular delivery of local anesthetics as well as the detrimental effects of systemically delivered analgesics.
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With the recent advent of CBOE mini options things might revert back to ratio spreading once again being efficacious relative to capital risk, because the risk of 10% of 100 shares (10 shares) using mini options is enticing relative to the dollar risk for the ratio spreader. Thus ratio spreading minis should create a sort of back-to-the-future opportunity.
Ratio spreading is the spreading of options where the total of long and short options is not an equal amount. One very basic ratio spread is colloquially labeled as the one-by-two spread. 1X2 refers to a ratio spread which has the one being the long side of the ratio spread, while the two is the shorted side of the ratio spread. However, I prefer the 1X2X1 tactic as that type of combination controls risk 100%.
An example could be Apple (AAPL) trading at say $460:
Buy 1 October 450 mini call for $42, sell 2 October 500 mini calls at $22.50 and buy 1 October 625 mini call for $3.00.
This 1X2X1 would make a profit on October expiration if AAPL was $550 to $450. The long 625 call is the upside stop-out should AAPL return to its mega-bullish days of a year or so ago. If AAPL expires below $450 the spread would break even. Should AAPL expire on or near $500 that would be the maximum profit level of this three-way ratio spread as the shorted 500 strike would expire at zero, generating the vast majority of the profit. This AAPL ratio spread's 1x2x1 gain with that 500 level expiry would return 50 points of profit while have used a net 0 points of capital (plus the required margin). The math is as follows:
With Apple at 500 on October expiration, the one long 450 call would gain $8. The two short 500 calls would gain $45 (22.50 times 2 = 45). The one long 625 call would lose $3. Thus: +8 + 45 - 3 = +50 points.
Without the long 625 call the spread would be one of negative gamma with unlimited risk. That type of ratio spread, the 1X2, is one of negative gamma. The phrase negative gamma should always send the alert signal to the options trader as being a tactic that entails unlimited risk if ratio spreading calls and very serious capital risk if ratio spreading puts. I have a very sensitive aversion to negative gamma. Thus, I never allow for a position that could possibly have unlimited risk as those best laid options plans can and will go awry.
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Redoing my 100g Community tank...
So I'm moving soon this weekend... to a house close by.
Looking to give my 100g tank a new decor setup. Here is what I'm thinking.
A) Remove all gravel and replace with sand.
B) Remove the remaining fake plants/decor to replace with living plants.
C) Down the line put some drift wood in (would be a few months)
Fish that are in the tank...
- Black Molly (1)
- Golden Wonder Killifish (2)
- Swordtails (9+/-)
- Giant Danios (7 +/-)
- Zebra Danios (2 +/-)
- White Clouds (2 +/-)
- Black Skirt tetras (7 +/-)
- White Skirt tetras (7 +/-)
- Snails
I thinks thats all of them lol...
Anyways give me ideas, I'm also open to removing some species to other tanks, and putting in other kinds of fish life. So input on that is helpful too.
The only thing that jumps out at me are the killies. I had a pair of them in a community tank (they actually did spawn a few times and had some fry but ate their own fry) but they're relentlessly predatory. Mine ate neon-sized fish quite easily and even stalked around some tankmates for weeks before figuring out they couldn't eat them. I would worry that once yours got some size on them, they might eat your smaller fish (i.e. the white clouds). If you've got a male/female, it would be really cool to move them to a smaller tank of their own and try to breed them.
well I am setting up a 55+ gallon container to house water for WC's... I'll be putting a couple fish in it. which they could be the killi... it'll have plants, light on a timer, heater the works. But it'll be for WC's only not for show.
Oh it'll also be my container that grows plants.
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What Can Be the Role of Public-Private Partnerships and the Role of the Collective Action in Ensuring Sustainable Smallholder Participation in High Value Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains in Albania?
Suli, Dudi, Bombaj, Florjan, Suli, Hergys, Xhabija, Gjergj, European Journal of Sustainable Development
Albania is a Mediterranean country where fruits and vegetables occupy an important place in the cropping systems practiced by the Albanian farms but also in the food consumption of the population. Today, the fruits and vegetables growers in Albania have low production capacity and difficulties in selling their products on national and regional market. These poor producers face problems of how to produce safe food (World Bank 2007), be recognized as producing safe food, identify cost-effective technologies for reducing risk, and be competitive with larger producers with advantage of economies of scale in compliance with food safety requirements. In enabling the smallholders to remain competitive in such a system, new institutional arrangements are required. The new and emerging food system (dominated by domestic urban market and export markets, regional competitiveness, globalization, etc.) with high demands for compliance with food safety and traceability disfavor the smallholders due to high coordination costs. The problem is exacerbated by geographic dispersion, low education, and poor access to capital and information (Poulton 2005; Humphrey 2005; Rich and Narrod 2005). The main idea of this paper is that the public-private partnerships can play a key role in creating farm to fork linkages that can satisfy the market demands for food safety while retaining smallholders in the supply chain. Our big question is "how this can be possible in Albania and which are the right policies to forward this idea?"
Keywords: Sustainable Development; Added Value; Collective Action.
1. The Neo-Institutional Economics Framework
The new and emerging food system (dominated by domestic urban market and export markets) with high demands for compliance with food safety and traceability disfavor the smallholders due to high coordination costs. The problem is exacerbated by geographic dispersion, low education, and poor access to capital and information (Poulton 2005; Humphrey 2005; Rich and Narrod 2005). The smallholders face problem in the two dynamic markets in meeting the standards as well as in ensuring the delivery of a regular supply to their buyers. The list of constraints that smallholders face in the HVA markets given below draws from Rich and Narrod (2005):
?? High fixed costs in production and marketing, especially due to the need to comply with the standards given high perishability (Sykuta M and Cook M, 2001; Codron JM, 2008).).
?? Difficulties in guaranteeing safe products. This can arise either in terms of the quality or the misuse of inputs or the lack of knowledge about the introduction, growth, and transport of pathogens, which can be magnified as products move along the supply chain. For credence goods, reputation matters significantly for demand creation. Smallholders usually have a small history of
presence in the markets and lack branding (Tallec, 2004). ?? Asymmetric and incomplete information and high transaction costs may exist between actors in the supply chain. Lack of information regarding production and marketing can especially deter smallholders as procurement and processing of information involves large fixed costs (Barzel, 1982).
?? Lack of incentives and resources to invest in quality improvement, low access to credit, and the low returns from investing in quality (as they lack reputation) disadvantage the small farmers (Markelova & al, 2009). In HVA chains, smallholders are thus likely to face problems in quality control, handling, and storage (Bienabe and Sautier 2005). Moreover, once involved in HVA chains, smallholders individually enjoy only limited bargaining power.
2. Role of Institutions in enabling smallholder's market access in HVA chains
Conceptually, the role of Collective Action arises wherever there are economies of scale in production or in marketing. This includes the role of farmer groups in being better able to ensure traceability. …


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THIS SEASON CP3 is Averaging PPG 17 and 10 APG 2.4 STL per 36 minutes while rondo is averaging PPG 13 and 11 APG 1.9 per 36 minutes that's the problem with cp3
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