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In the construction industry, falls are the leading cause of work-related injuries and fatalities. BLS statistics show that from 2004 to 2009, 2,051 workers died from falls with a total of 332 fall deaths in 2008.
Similar results were shown in a five-year claims history analysis conducted by Travelers. The claims analysis examined the claims history of 500 contractors and showed that 35-40 percent of all workers' compensation injuries and fatalities were attributed to falls and accounted for 40 percent of all claim dollars paid.
The necessity for good fall prevention programs in the construction industry is well documented by numerous studies. A small number of contractors have either recognized the problem and/or have been forced by state agencies or clients to implement strict fall management programs. Yet, few contractors really take an aggressive, proactive approach toward reducing fall exposures. The goal of any aggressive fall management program is to achieve 100 percent fall protection.
The following information defines and addresses the need for 100 percent fall protection in the construction industry.
One hundred percent fall protection means that all workers who are exposed to fall hazards are properly protected by either preventing falls or protecting workers who do fall. This does not mean workers will never fall again, but rather that should a fall occur, serious injury to workers will be eliminated. Fall exposures can be prevented by:
When the prevention of fall hazards is not possible because of the work methods being used, personnel nets or personal fall protection systems can be used to mitigate the effects of elevated falls.
Achieving 100 percent fall protection begins by planning the specific work methods through a collaborative effort among managers, estimators, supervisors, foremen and workers. At a minimum, planning should include an in-depth analysis of work tasks, including travel to and from the work site and proper selection of equipment.
Fall protection planning should be supplemented by initial and ongoing training, knowledgeable supervision and regular maintenance. In other words, 100 percent fall protection can be achieved through a complete systems approach to each potential exposure before work begins.
Fall Protection is the last line of defense. It should be considered only after determining that the fall hazard cannot be eliminated or prevented. This is the domain of personal fall protection and calls for equipment such as safety nets, harnesses, shock absorbing lanyards, retractable lifelines, anchorage connectors and solid anchor points. Fall protection reduces the risk of injuries resulting from falls. It is essential that workers and supervisors receive training on the proper use and hazards of using personal protection. In addition, a rescue plan must be developed prior to workers being exposed to the fall hazard.
It takes commitment and a team effort to complete a project from start to finish. Fall prevention and fall hazard control require the same commitment and effort.
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We had our first experience with a baby-sitter last night. No date nights in almost 16 months since we have no local family who can watch LO for us, and no friends who can be trusted with a child (ha!)
A short bio: she is a F/T teacher of grade 4 students, 31 years old, and tutors and sits in her part time for a wage well above average in the area. She has 10+ years of paid baby-sitter experience for children of all ages, and some families for 6+ years.
So, we had her over for a visit last weekend and we all clicked really well. She played on the floor with LO and he took to her right away. He let her carry him (a big deal), and she didn't hesitate in make goofy faces and being silly with him.
Last night she came at 5, we all had dinner together, and DH and I left at 6pm. LO's bedtime is 8:00. He didn't fuss when we left, they had a good evening from her reports, he was asleep within 5 minutes of being put down (as usual), so I'm thinking "woohoo!!!"
When we got home, DH was driving her home and I found the following:
- dishes (LO's and hers) all over the kitchen and dining room
- messy high chair tray just thrown in the sink
- 100 toys strewn all over my living room and kitchen, and even on the stairs
- yogurt hand prints on the walls (LO's 7:30 snack that he asked for, and ate in his high chair, but apparently wasn't washed up afterwards)
- All of the lights on in the house and a light on in his room (he sleeps in the PITCH black, or else wakes in the wee hours of the morning, 4/5am and won't go back to sleep. If he can see, it's morning/playtime). I had to turn every light in the house off, and sneak into his room to turn off a light. And the curtains were open in his room. I had to close those
- She gave him my almond milk instead of his whole milk. I gave her clear instructions and even left a note on the counter
This morning he woke about an hour earlier than normal (10 hours of sleep instead of 11). I went to get him and found the following:
- Yogurt on his face and hands
- He was soaking wet from pee, up to his neck. His "fire hose" was pointed north and the diaper was a total disaster, taped together very loosely
My DH keeps reminding me that the BIG things are that LO is comfortable with her, he likes her, and he went to bed with no issues. That is true. But I am SO ANNOYED by everything else. Some things I explicitly told her or left notes about, and others are just common frigging sense.
Should I be this annoyed?
We really want a regular baby-sitter and regular date nights.
I guess most of the issues from the night are correctable, in that I coudl hopefully find a way to gently give her some feedback. I am not normally very gently in my feedback... I don't want to rub her the wrong way and offend her if we want to have a good relationship and use her again.
Any advice? How would you react? Would you use her again? How would you provide some feedback?

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Not being able to meet and thank the person who saved your life can be a difficult reality to accept — for Keith Childerhose, he says meeting the children of the man who donated his lungs so that another could survive was one of the most amazing and emotional experiences of his life.
A year ago today, the Oakville resident was given a new lease on life all thanks to one man's decision to become a donor. Now, every day has become what Childerhose calls his "bonus round."
The Oakville Beaver dropped in on Childerhose and his wife, Sarah Taylor, at their Lakeshore Road East home Friday, to find out how their lives have changed a year after his double-lung transplant.
"It's been a year now and it's still the same thing; every day, I'm amazed that I can breathe in through my nose and mouth and breathe out. It's a miracle," said Childerhose, while sitting on his couch in his living room, sipping coffee — a simple task, but something that was unheard of for him this time last year.
"Then you think about your donor, who gave you this gift of life, this ability to breathe and you think about that every day."
The 42-year-old father of two underwent a seven-and-a-half-hour surgery at Toronto General Hospital on Jan. 29, 2013 to rid himself of the severe and rare disease diffuse panbronchiolitis (DP).
DP causes fluid to continually build up in the lungs, similar to cystic fibrosis, and is traditionally specific to men of Asian descent living in China — Childerhose is white and lives in Canada.
He was diagnosed with DP at the age of 25 and had been fighting the disease for 15 years.
Friday (Jan. 24) was the one-year anniversary of when Taylor, 48, received the call from the rehab facility Childerhose was staying at, telling her that he was having trouble breathing and being taken to hospital to be put on life support.
Childerhose was brought into the hospital by ambulance, barely able to walk, move or breathe.
"Getting out of there was a scenario where I walked out on my own two feet without any support structure and that was... just a feeling of freedom and independence from all the problems that prevented you from doing things before," he said.
For three months after his surgery, Childerhose was doing physical rehabilitation three times a week at hospital until he was able to continue his own regimen to build muscle tone and gain weight. Within a span of three months, he went from 120 pounds to 155 lbs. Childerhose and Taylor now head to the gym regularly.
"As much as all the big muscle groups are back, it's all the little muscles that need to return. The ones that let you lift your head, stand up, learn how to walk again, jump and turn while walking," he said.
Childerhose is still on a lot of medication, taking approximately 30 pills that range from anti-rejection to antibiotics — some of which he'll have to take for the rest of his life.
His blood is tested every two weeks, and his hospital monitors his breathing on a bi-weekly basis, while he monitors it daily.
"Most people, when they wake up, are thinking about what they have to do today; 'I need to get a coffee; I need to get to work'," said Childerhose. "But for a person who undergoes a lung transplant, you're thinking, 'Oh my gosh, I'm breathing.' It's such a little thing, but it's a big thing for me. When I think about that and the donor, it's just something special every day."
The day of Childerhose's transplant, Taylor says she received countless messages on the Facebook page she created to keep family and friends up to date on her husband's condition.
She says the messages she was receiving from one individual, in addition to what she had already been told about the donor, had led her to believe they may be a relative.
"We corresponded for a bit, with the person's siblings as well," Taylor said. "About two months after the transplant, Keith sent a thank you letter to the family and we got a letter back, and at that point, we determined that's who it (the Facebook messenger) was."
During last summer, a nearby restaurant was closed down for a few hours while Childerhose and Taylor met with the donor's children, hearing stories and learning about the man that belonged to the lungs.
"It was absolutely incredible. It was very emotional, but very positive," said Taylor. "And certainly for the most part, the children in this family, and the (donor's) spouse we were told, are happy and positive that from the death of their loved one, people have lived."
In addition to the lungs transplanted to Childerhose, another recipient received a liver.
Childerhose and Taylor say they believe the meeting gave a sense of comfort and some closure to everyone involved.
"We learned who the donor was, what they were like and how we got to this point. While from their (donor's family's) perspective, they learned who got the lungs and if it really made a difference," he said. "Organ donation does make a difference and they got to see it firsthand."
Childerhose and Taylor say they are both still actively involved with the Oakville Be A Donor Campaign and the Trillium Gift of Life Network, which work to create more awareness about organ donation and dispel misconceptions surrounding it.
In Ontario, 2.79 million out of an eligible 11.74 million are registered donors — that's 24 per cent. In Oakville, as of yesterday (Wednesday), there are 47,919 registered donors.
According to BeADonor.ca, a single donor can save up to eight lives with organs and enhance up to 75 lives with tissue.
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A lot has changed for Childerhose a year after his transplant; most notably he and Taylor married on Oct. 27, 2013 at the Royal Woodbine Golf Course in Toronto.
The couple won an $80,000-wedding package in a contest put on by Wedding Saviours, a website where professionals advertise their services, after being encouraged by their friends to enter the online competition.
It included everything from the dress and rings to a honeymoon in Grand Cayman.
In addition to having to tell their story through blogging, the couple also had to pay it forward in their community as part of the contest — they raised money for Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and held a food drive in July for food banks in the Greater Toronto Area, including Fareshare and Kerr Street Ministries (KSM). They plan to hold a food drive every year in July for KSM.
Childerhose said seeing his bride on their wedding day and taking his vows was very emotional — especially given how close he'd come to dying. It was the same for Taylor.
"When we said the words 'in sickness and health', I realized that I could have lost him and I said those vows knowing very clearly that I could be in that place again... but I wouldn't do anything differently," she said.
Taylor notes statistics on lung transplants that state 75 per cent of people make it to the one-year mark and that's considered a successful transplant. After five years, there's a 50 per cent mortality rate.
Taylor continues to run the day-to-day business of her and her husband's construction company, while Childerhose says it is his goal to eventually get back to work.
Post-transplant, Childerhose says he's going to get cracking on making a new bucket list after completing his last one before he was hospitalized.
One of the new items was to return to Algonquin Provincial Park and portage for a week — a favourite pastime.
"I had a goal that after three years, I would be able to recover enough to be able to return to Algonquin," he said. "But I was able to work up all my muscles and have all the energy and strength to get there within six months after my surgery, going for two days.
"It was a sense of accomplishment... I thought if I wait until next year, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it. Who knows where I'm going to be, but I can do it now. It was nice to be able to get back to nature — my happy place."
Childerhose has also joined the Canadian Transplant Games, held by the Canadian Transplant Association, in an effort to create awareness and show organ donation and transplantation works and what can happen afterwards, he says.
To follow the Oakville Be A Donor campaign, visit www.beadonor.ca or go to Twitter @OakBeADonor.
More information on donor registration is available at www.giftoflife.on.ca or by calling 1-800-263-2833.
Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part series revisiting local organ transplant recipients in the years following their surgery.
Last week, the Oakville Beaver checked in with Jennifer Malabar, who had a kidney transplant two years ago. Click here for the story.
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- Known variously as solmisation, solfeggio or solfège, numerous systems have appeared over the centuries, all fashioned to meet specific needs or based on divergent theories.
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Prenatal Non-invasive Aneuploidy Test Utilizing SNPs Trial (PreNATUS)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Natera, Inc.
Columbia University
George Washington University
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Last updated: October 28, 2014
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|Last Updated Date
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|January 2012
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|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Sensitivity and Specificity of the test to diagnose aneuploidy in a fetus at chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X and Y. [ Time Frame: Between first trimester screening (10-14 weeks GA) and invasive testing (amniocentesis or CVS). ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
The primary objective is to determine the diagnostic capability of the test to detect autosomal aneuploidy (chromosomes 13, 18, 21) and sex aneuploidy (X and Y).
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|Same as current
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|Prenatal Non-invasive Aneuploidy Test Utilizing SNPs Trial
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|Prenatal Non-invasive Aneuploidy Test Utilizing SNPs Trial (PreNATUS)
|Brief Summary
|This prospective blinded study will assess the diagnostic capability of an informatics enhanced SNP based technology (Parental Support) to identify pregnant women who are carrying a fetus with an aneuploidy from fee floating DNA in the maternal blood.
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red = offence. green = defence. black lines = movement. blue lines = ball movement
Overview: This drill practices feeding the ball from X to a cutting middie.The Drill: To start put two of your best passing attack on either side of the crease. Then form two lines of middies on left and right sides of the field. Have the middies cut across the field to the crease in the direction of the opposite attack. When the attack judges the middie is within range to get a good shot off, he gives a quick pass to the middie who then makes a quick shot. Repeat with the other side. To ad a realistic game scenario add a defender on the crease to create an obstacle that the x man has to pass through and the middie has to shoot around.Notes:1) For middies, try to make the cut quick but not so fast that you cannot use your stick.2) Focus on making the process of catching then shooting one quick movement.3) For the x man, use your judgment on if the middie is in a good position and try to give him a pass he can do something with.4) Watch out for the crease defender and the goalie. They will be trying to pick your pass off. If your passing is good enough, try to give a little head or stick fake to the opposite side of where you are passing.5) Middies, as you may or may not know, it is essential that you are able to pass, shoot, and cradle lefty and righty. Be sure to change lines after you shoot so you can be familiar with both. If you are a beginner this will feel awkward you wont be very good but stick with it.Extra Tip: If your lefty or righty skills are really lacking and it is hurting your performance in games, I recommend this method of becoming more comfortable with your bad hand. In your daily life off the field, try using your bad hand for everyday things. Obviously not writing but try drinking, eating, picking things up, and turning things on with your bad hand.
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Definition of pregnable in English:
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Late Middle English: from Old French prenable, literally 'takable', from Latin prehendere 'seize'. The g was sometimes written in French, perhaps indicating palatal n, but has come to be pronounced as a separate sound in English.
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The Pet-Crazy Jet Set
Why do the wealthy seem so crazy about their pets?
I doubt the rich love their dogs and cats any more than the rest of us. It's just that they have more money to indulge their pet fetishes. We all remember Leona and her dog Trouble. (I wonder how Trouble is faring these days?) And then there's Paris Hilton's Chihuahua, Tinkerbell.
But it's not just spoiled heiresses who lavish all manner of luxuries on their pets. At Butler Boot Camp, I learned there are two things that rich people care most about in their homes: their collections and their pets. These are both considered BYJ (Bet Your Job) categories, since a butler could lose his or her job by risking either one.
Now, according to a survey I just got from private-jet charter company OneSky Jets, pets fly on about a quarter of the company's charters.
Even more startling: 15% of clients say flying pets privately is their No. 1 reason to charter.
The release says "regulars" who might be taking a ski trip to Aspen or heading for a winter vacation in Palm Beach would frequently fly their dogs in the next seat on the Gulfstream. One example, from the release, is a couple who flies their dogs between their homes in New York and North Dakota. One spouse flies with the two dogs about four times per year, at $14,000 to $15,000 per flight. And OneSky says it isn't unusual for a client to want their pet flown privately, unaccompanied by human passengers.
Why the interest in flying pets privately? The release cites all kinds of safety issues and restrictions by the airlines on pet transportation. Which may be the case. But would a passenger really decide to spend an extra $10,000 to $15,000 to fly to Florida just because of safety issues for their dog?
I doubt it. But then again, we should never underestimate what a rich person is willing to spend on their pet.


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Roane County commissioners Bobby Collier and Nick Forrester represent the same district.
Forrester said constituents flooded him with calls urging him to oppose a rate increase for ambulance service.
Collier, on the other hand, said he didn't receive any such calls.
The contrast may have explained their votes.
Saying he thought the rate increase made good business sense, Collier voted in favor of the rate increase, which passed by a 10-5 vote at Monday's commission meeting.
With several gloomy days behind us and the calendar's darkest month looming ahead, it's easy to feel a little bummed about winter.
I work to avoid the winter blues, usually with activity and sometimes with mind games.
For instance, I remind myself that by the time Christmas gets here, the days will already be growing longer again.
This December has a slightly gloomier edge to it.
Merry TubaChristmas is celebrating its 38th anniversary. Created by Harvey Phillips, Merry Tuba Christmas 2011 concerts will be presented in more than 250 cities throughout the United States and in several foreign countries.
Phillips was inspired to create Tuba Christmas as an annual event honoring his teacher, the late tubist William J. Bell, who was born on Christmas Day in 1902.
Every Christmas season, tuba and euphonium players of all ages gather to pay respects to Bell and all the great artists and teachers who represent their heritage.
Christmas should be a little brighter on Kingston's main streets this season — thanks to a set of new holiday decor lights.
The city council bit the bullet earlier this year and purchased energy-saving LED lights in the form of twinkly snowflakes and sparkly, candy-cane-stuffed stockings.
The cost of Christmas lighting had the city thinking of turning off the old lights for a big part of the Christmas season. That seemed to make everyone involved sad.
We were pleased to see Damon Lawrence's front page article in Monday's issue of the News entitled "Enforcing ID law to be a matter of trust at the polls."
This article arose from that abominable act of the legislature requiring government issued photo identification documents in order to exercise that most fundamental of Americans' birthrights, the right to vote.
In case you missed it, Damon's first paragraph read thusly:
The effort to reclaim the majesty of Harriman's Princess Theater continues to draw praise from those passionate about preservation.
This time the East Tennessee Preservation Alliance announced that Harriman's effort was a winner of the 2011 East Tennessee Preservation Award.
The alliance named the award winners on Nov. 11 at Jonesborough's International Storytelling Center, a part of the 2011 East Tennessee Preservation Conference held in Tennessee's oldest town.
Michael D. Buttram expressed his displeasure with a $25,000 bond on a charge of aggravated robbery, and asked Roane County General Sessions Court Judge Dennis Humphrey to lower it on Monday.
"What I would like to know is something about your background and why you should get a reduced bond," Humphrey told Buttram.
After Buttram finished telling the judge some things about himself, the prosecutor asked court clerk Jennifer Melton to read off Buttram's criminal history.
"He's got a theft of property," Melton said.
C.G. Sexton of Harriman waits to have his coins examined by THR & Associates at the Holiday Inn Express last month. The price of gold, silver and other metals have many people cashing in.
Harriman may join a growing list of communities putting a moratorium on pain clinics until the state enacts a crackdown.
A moratorium "would stop us from issuing any business permits for pain clinics," Mayor Chris Mason said at a workshop on Tuesday. "It is just a temporary ban, and I think it's a big issue."
Mason wants to schedule a meeting in order to discuss a moratorium resolution.
There wasn't a lot of drama in Harriman Monday evening as the Rockwood Middle School boys and Harriman Middle School girls picked up relatively easy wins in the first match-up of the season between the two teams.
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recently, what with a rash of customers wanting to know how to
connect to MaxDB via Java.
I'm also working a bit with Peter Harvey and learning something about ODBC. It seems somewhat more complicated. Perhaps that's because it doesn't have a virtual machine to target. I don't know. They all seem similar to DBI.
I also installed the beta version of Thunderbird. The Debian package was a bit out of date and didn't have index-by-recipient. It was a major hassle for me, so I fixed it.
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This is a sampling from Bay Area News Group's Political Blotter blog. Read more and post comments at www.ibabuzz.com/politics.
July 24
Rep. George Miller helped introduce a resolution Thursday calling for better protection for the migrant workers in Qatar who are building that tiny Middle Eastern emirate's facilities for the 2022 World Cup.
Miller, D-Martinez, who co-chairs the Congressional Soccer Caucus ...
Wait, what?
Yes, there is a Congressional Soccer Caucus. It has three other co-chairs plus 23 members.
"The mission of the Congressional Soccer Caucus is to encourage legislation, activities and events that promote soccer and issues affecting the greater soccer community, toward encouraging healthy and active lifestyles among America's youth," according to the U.S. Soccer Foundation's website. The foundation "serves as the public advocacy arm for the game and provides information and support for the Caucus."
Who knew? I did not. Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming ...
Lawmakers contend Qatar's migrant workforce faces horrible conditions, including 12-to-16-hour working days in triple-digit heat, indentured servitude by unscrupulous labor contractors, and squalid, overcrowded labor camps. More than 500,000 additional immigrant workers, primarily from Nepal, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka, are expected to arrive in the run-up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Recent reports warn that as many as 4,000 migrant construction workers could die from the unsafe living and working conditions by the time the tournament kicks off.
"After America's exciting showing in the 2014 World Cup and as soccer fans around the world look forward to future world cups, we must ensure that the workers who make these events possible have safe working conditions," Miller said in a news release. "The current conditions Qatar's migrant workforce face are simply unacceptable. The Qatari government, FIFA, the United Nations, and the International Labour Organization have all recognized that conditions need to improve but have taken no meaningful action. We've introduced this resolution in hopes of ending the abuse of migrant labor in Qatar."
Among the resolution's 17 co-sponsors (all Democrats) is fellow Soccer Caucus member Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Dublin, who attended the University of Maryland initially on -- you guessed it -- a soccer scholarship.
July 25
California's anti-drought slogan is "Brown is the new green," even as Gov. Jerry Brown's environmental bona fides are at issue during his re-election campaign.
Coincidence? Absolutely ... but let's exploit it anyway!
The slogan aims to make property owners feel better about letting their lawns shrivel. A state water agency last week approved unprecedented penalties for those who waste water, and Brown signed a bill into law Monday prohibiting homeowners associations from fining residents who don't water their lawns.
Already the signs are proliferating. An Antioch golf course adopted the slogan a few weeks ago, and the Santa Clara Valley Water District on Friday announced a $500,000 summer ad campaign using the slogan. District spokesman Marty Grimes said the district is merely following in the state's footsteps and it's strictly nonpolitical: "I think the message is pretty clear that it has nothing to do with the governor."
But could it hurt the governor for his name to be deemed "the new green" as he seeks re-election against Republican challenger Neel Kashkari? Actually, there are more than a few environmentalists -- especially opponents of fracking -- who would say Jerry Brown is certainly not "the new green."
Dan Newman, a consultant to Brown's re-election campaign, said Friday this slogan is a zero-sum equation with an earlier, unofficial drought slogan. "Isn't that canceled out by the classic 'If it's brown, flush it down -- if it's yellow, let it mellow'"?
Likewise, Kashkari spokeswoman Mary-Sarah Kinner's response to the slogan Friday was, "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down."
Great minds think alike, no matter what side of the aisle.


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Saturday, August 30, 2008
Interview with the Tie Dye Diva
Thursday of solomode.com was kind enough to interview me for a feature on that site. Check out my interview here..
While you are there, check out the whimsical t-shirts and sweatshirts! I love the Defective Typewriter Monkeys one!
As an English major, I always thought I'd write for a living. Somehow I wound up as a lawyer, and then of course, in natural progression, a tie-dyeing mom. I always wonder about the road not taken and if it is too late to turn around and wander on back.
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It is never too late to wander on back...The road not taken can become the road to take.
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PORTSMOUTH — U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter said Thursday during a tour of the Pease Air National Guard base that preventing the devastating effects of sequestration and ensuring the local guard base is first in line to receive the new KC-46A refueling tanker are among her top priorities when she heads back to Washington, D.C.
"These are both important issues on our plate," Shea-Porter said while visiting the 157th Air Refueling Wing.
Joining Shea-Porter on Thursday were Brig. Gen. Carolyn Protzmann, assistant adjutant general for the N.H. Air National Guard, and Col. Paul Hutchinson, commander of the 157th Air Refueling Wing.
The trio listed the many reasons why they think the local guard base should be selected from among the finalists to receive the next generation of refueling tankers.
In January, the U.S. Air Force announced that Pease was one of five Air National Guard finalists to receive the KC-46A, which will replace the Eisenhower-era KC-135 tankers. Air Force officials visited Pease in February to begin assessing its competitiveness as a base to receive the new tanker.
Shea-Porter said she has spent time in Washington meeting with top military officials at the Pentagon trying to highlight the local guard base. She said it will be important to make sure the base continues to "shine" so that it becomes the obvious choice for the new tanker.
Hutchinson said he too believes Pease should stand out amongst the other finalists, namely because of its strategic location on the Eastern seaboard.
"We really believe it will be good for the country," he said.
When it comes to sequestration, Shea-Porter said she and others in Washington have worked hard to try and prevent it from happening.
Shea-Porter, who is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, called it a "real challenge" trying to find common ground with other elected officials.
Protzmann said sequestration will likely mean furloughs for one-third of the full-time military technicians at the guard base, an impact she said will definitely impede mission capability at the guard base.
In addition to having an effect on the local economy, sequestration is and will continue to have an impact on morale, Protzmann said.
"We do worry about the morale," she said.
Shea-Porter said the devastating toll sequestration will take on the many military men and women goes beyond just their jobs as well.
"These are people's lives," she said. "These are people who have to pay rent and a mortgage."
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Jaipur: As Rajasthan prepares for Assembly election on December 4, child marriages continues to be a harsh reality in the state.
Recently footage of a five-year-old girl and a ten-year-old boy getting married in an Ajmer Village emerged, indicating that with eyes on votes, checking child marriages is low on priority for all the political parties. In fact, many child marriages were only recently 'solemnised' around the auspicious Dev Uthni Ekadashi.
The district administration, which is supposed to check such marriages Under the Prevention of Child Marriages Act, says it is helpless.
"Koi bhi kanoon bana lijiye, agar who hamare customs ke khilaaf hoga toh sweekar nahi hoga (No matter what the law is, if it is not in accordance with their customs then they will certainly not accept it)," District Magistrate, Ajmer, Naveen Mahajan says.
Barely a few kilometers away, another victim of child marriage is now living a nightmare. Two days ago, two strangers from Gujarat came to take 19-year-old Sangeeta away. One introduced himself as her husband and the other, her mother-in-law.
"I don't know what marriage means. I was just five-six years old when I got married. I'm now nineteen. When we told our caste elders that I didn't want to go, they insisted on sending me with them," Sangeeta says.
Child marriages are common in many parts of Rajasthan, especially on days of religious significance like Akha Teej and Dev Uthni Ekadashi.
In fact, child marriage continues to be a reality for about 50 per cent of the girls in the villages of Kota, Dungarpur, Jhalawar and Barmer, but the situation is particularly bad just two and a half hours from Jaipur in Ajmer, where a similar percentage of girls get married even before they turn ten.
Social activists believe child marriages go on uninterrupted because of a lack of political will.
"Politicians lack the will to check child marriages to guard their votes from various communities in which the practice is still followed," social activist Lalita Dave says.
ughhhh. Any child marriage is wrong. What's wrong with people!
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What these people need is an education, instead of living old traditions from centuries ago.
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this fucking sick
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Who cares. better a child marriage than a child abortion. american school counselors can take girls in for abortion without even telling the parents. American children are worse off.
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quantitative analysis
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- Economists will be disappointed by the absence of quantitative analysis.
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- We often hear about the importance of picking a company by means of quantitative analysis, which evaluates balance sheets and numbers.
2 Chemistry Measurement of the quantities of particular constituents present in a substance.
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- Molecular weight measurements are now routinely utilized in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of macromolecules.
- Most chemists were not concerned with this detail because during the first half of the eighteenth century chemistry was not concerned with quantitative analysis.
- The key to quantitative analysis of the composition of salt solutions is the solubility product of the salt, K sp.
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The Correction of Wrongful Convictions: A Comparative Perspective
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March 9, 2009
American University International Law Review, Vol. 16, 2001
This Article analyzes the different modes in which two facially similar adversarial systems remedy wrongful convictions. Part I briefly examines the origins of wrongful convictions in both England and the United States. Part II describes the appellate processes in the two countries for correcting wrongful convictions. Part III addresses the processes for correcting wrongful convictions after the appellate processes have been completed. Part IV critiques the English process and examines whether aspects of that process may be carried over to the United States.
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Yesterday we covered what went on at Gimmie's pre-GDC game developer mixer, and today we're following it up with the second half of the story: the games. Lots of excited developers were on hand at the event, and we talked to a few of them about their newest games.
Tim Rogers, veteran game designer and Kotaku writer, was at the Gimmie event to talk about his newest iOS game, ZiGGURAT, as well as some of his other upcoming projects. ZiGGURAT is the first title out of Tim's new studio, Action Button Entertainment, but before starting out on his own he worked at Grasshopper Manufacture in Japan on triple A titles like No More Heroes.
Tim's goal with ZiGGURAT, and most of the other upcoming games from Action Button Entertainment, was to first build a mechanic that worked really well on its own, and then build a game around it. In ZiGGURAT, that mechanic is swiping your finger along the bottom of your iPhone or iPad's screen to aim at robotic alien skeletons jumping at you from either side. The game's mechanic is simple and fun: just swipe left and right to aim, and let go to shoot. As cliched as it is to say, the game definitely has a really good balance between being easy to play, but difficult to master. And anyone with a soft spot for retro, pixel art graphics will appreciate the impressive art style and animations.
Action Button has already been working on building Gimmie into the next update of ZiGGURAT, so pretty soon you'll be able to earn real rewards for blasting the most aliens. In posts on Kotaku, Tim has written about "Hamburger Moments" in games, and Gimmie fit the bill for creating these moments, where players feel like they are accomplishing something real, and being rewarded for it. When Tim first heard about Gimmie, he already had plans to include a similar method of rewarding players, and he liked that Gimmie's approach was mindful of the consumer.
You can download ZiGGURAT on the app store here, and when you do, be sure to check out its unique leaderboards on Game Center where you can compete for seemingly arbitrary, yet fun things like most shots fired or most play time. And keep your eyes open for the next game from Action Button, Copter Wilde, a Diablo-esque social game about flying helicopters and collecting gems coming to the App Store at the end of 2012.
Peter Pog
We also got to talk to Shu Chiun Cheah of Geolopigs, about his recently released iOS game, Peter Pog. In the game you take control of a flying pig, and navigate your way through Miyazaki anime inspired levels. The game is a classic 2D shooter, but in addition to dodging bullets and shooting down enemy ships, you must also try to collect crates along the way.
Geolopigs is a two person team that is always looking for ways to increase engagement through social platforms, and are currently integrating Gimmie into their Goals system in order to give their players real world reasons to keep playing and unlocking new things.
Peter Pog is available on the App Store right now as a free, universal download for both iPhone and iPad.
Inkky Games
Stephen M. Levinson was also at the event, showing off his unannounced, first game for iOS. For his new gaming startup, Stephen is focusing on the characters first. He wants players of his games to form a real connection with the characters, and build fun game mechanics around aligning the player's goals with the motivations of the character.
With regards to engagement and metrics, Stephen felt that both would play an important role in his upcoming games. The player's experience with the characters and worlds he is creating is paramount, so he wants to take advantage of engagement metrics to continuously improve his games. Stephen is also adamantly against putting banner ads in a game that people have paid for, and has been looking for the best ways to make his games profitable without harming the user experience.
You can follow the development of Inkky's first game on their Tumblr.
If you missed the first part of this post, you can read it here, and if you want to meet up with Tandem or any of the Tandem companies at GDC, send a tweet to @dougrenert.
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By LIZ BUTTON
Families flocked to the Jay Heritage Center on Sept. 22 for its annual fall family festival, Jay Day, to celebrate American culture and traditions.
The center's nonprofit organization was established at the national historic landmark to maintain the integrity of the boyhood home of New York State's only founding father, John Jay, who lived in Rye during colonial times.
Jay was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court and the chief negotiator of the Jay Treaty, which cooled tensions between the U.S. and Britain in the years following the Revolutionary War.
The Americana-themed event was organized by an auxiliary group of the Jay Heritage Center that calls themselves the JHC Preservationists. The "robust committee of volunteers," led by co-presidents Emma Hanratty and Caroline Wallach, focuses on the adaptive re-use of the Jays' landmark home, which is located on Boston Post Road in Rye.
Hanratty and Wallach have been involved with the festival for at least four years, leading a group of 20 to 25 women and men. According to Wallach, 800 people attended the festival this year; the event usually gets anywhere from 800 to 1000 attendees.
"It was started as a way to start to get families, young children and younger people moving into Rye interested in everything we are trying to accomplish here," Wallach said.
The group continues to put on programs that expand the use of the grounds as well as the site's buildings and coordinate with local schools to launch new programs, all the while drumming up interest and awareness in the center among young families.
The family-oriented festival featured face painting, pony rides, folk music by the Hudson Valley Ramblers, a falconer, a petting zoo, and pumpkin painting.
The Jay home itself is a Greek Revival mansion built by Peter Augustus Jay, which was constructed in 1838 in the footprint of the original Jay building. The center is currently in the midst of a grand restoration project at the house, with hopes to eventually host educational programs within the home that would cover American history, social justice, landscape conservation and environmental stewardship.
And, since the Jay estate was once a working farm, families also visited a farmer's market on the grounds and picked up freshly harvested ingredients and homemade goodies. The sprawling property is located near 23 acres of trails, which is all that remains of the original 400-acre Jay family estate.
Sunday's festival is an official event of the Hudson River Valley Ramble, a series of four weekends in September celebrating the history, culture and natural resources of the Hudson River Valley Heritage Area. At 170 years old, the house was recently designated as an important site on the Hudson River Valley Heritage Area list.
On Sunday, families also took part in a number of historically-themed activities, including geocaching, a type of treasure hunting that uses a Global Positioning System device.
Storyteller Jonathan Kruk performed as founding father John Jay himself in a re-enactment of his role as spymaster for George Washington during the Revolutionary War, while families participated in tours of the Jay Mansion led by Heritage Center staff dressed in era-appropriate costumes.
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- We have a wide range of lanyards, aiguillettes and swordknots that add flair to your personality.
- Perfect example of the dress aiguillette which has been well kept and protected in the box.
Mid 16th century: from French, literally 'small needle', diminutive of aiguille.
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I am grateful to have had the opportunity to review this book, because I would otherwise have overlooked it, despite being very interested in its topic. This is because the title is not descriptive of the contents: The book uses case stories and reactions to those stories to explore various dimensions of the relationships among mathematics, schools, and culture.
For each case, the author presents a description of the case (about four pages), a set of reader reactions to the case (about six pages), and suggested questions for leading a discussion about the case. The four cases are as follows.
The cases are followed by a section titled "Public Arguments", chunked into three categories:
The author acknowledges that the descriptions in this section are oversimplified. Nevertheless, the statements appearing in this section exemplify claims that people really do make and I can imagine that this section would lead also to good discussions.
I can imagine using the cases and political arguments presented in Mathematics and Teaching with a number of audiences:
The book series title says, "A Series for Prospective and Practicing Teachers". I have had a bit of experience with K–12 teacher preparation programs; however, I have had much more experience with the professional development of graduate teaching assistants (TAs). I have used a number of resources in that context. In general, I found that new TAs tended to be skeptical of cases, refusing to believe that such situations occur in real life. I had greater success using cases with experienced instructors.
That said, I can imagine using the cases with pre-service teachers. I would personally find that the most difficult group with whom to use this effectively, because they have such very limited experience with classrooms and politics. Furthermore, I know that many teacher education programs struggle to balance time the spend learning mathematics at a deep level, developing pedagogy and classroom management skills, and discussing social/political issues — I get distressed when I hear about programs that spend no time with books such as this one, but I also get distressed when I hear about programs that spend so much time with books such as this one that they disregard the learning of mathematics or pedagogy.
I can imagine the book being more effective with student teachers, who are immersed in teaching and beginning to confront very difficult situations. This group is also in the process of constructing themselves as professionals, making this group a particularly important focus point. I can also imagine using the cases with experienced teachers. I would expect that this group would provide powerful but perhaps conflicting issues: they would have experiences on which to draw and to which to make connections but they may also be more entrenched in their beliefs about mathematics, teaching, learning, students, and politics.
The book itself includes reactions from parents, grandparents, school board members, administrators, and other professionals associated with K–12 schooling. These audiences are not listed explicitly as intended audiences in the series title, but it seems to me that the author did a very powerful thing by having discussions with such people about the cases and including their comments in the reactions sections. These groups can be influential in decision-making processes and are critical in the support structure for teachers who are trying to be maximally effective for all students.
Teri J. Murphy is an Associate Professor at Northern Kentucky University. Her research area is undergraduate science, engineering, and mathematics education.
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Series Preface iii
Preface iv
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Introduction to Case 1 12
Case 1: "Race and Teacher Expectations" 13
Reader Reactions to "Race and Teacher Expectations" 19
Reactions to "Race and Teacher Expectation 20
Summary and Additional Questions 34
Introduction to Case 2 35
Case 2: "Mathematics for All?" 36
Reader Reactions to "Mathematics for All?" 42
Reactions to "Mathematics for All?" 43
Summary and Additional Questions 55
Introduction to Case 3 57
Case 3: "Culture and School Mathematics" 59
Reader Reactions to "Culture and School Mathematics" 64
Reactions to "Culture and School Mathematics" 65
Summary and Additional Questions 76
Introduction to Case 4 79
Case 4: "Politics and School Mathematics" 81
Reader Reactions to "Politics and School Mathematics" 87
Reactions to "Politics and School Mathematics" 88
Summary and Additional Questions 104
Reader Reactions to the Four Cases 107
Reactions to the Four Cases 108
Part II. Public Arguments 119
A "Conservative View": Mathematics for Global Economic Leadership 122
Comments and Questions 135
A "Liberal View": Equality of Opportunity and School Mathematics in a Democracy 138
Comments and Questions 147
A "Radical Multiculturalist View": Mathematics for Developing Critical Dispositions for Social Reconstruction 150
Comments and Questions 164
Part III. Concluding Remarks, Some Reflections, and Resources for Further Reflections