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Written by Jordan Dalziel, Junior Account Executive at Changeworks Communications. The 19-year-old recently completed a Level 4 Diploma in Public Relations, with the support of the PRCA and her Changeworks colleagues.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
33% of email recipients decide whether or not to open an email based on subject line alone. It is vital to craft subject lines that are compelling enough to get users to click through.
We have just started working with a new client which is solely based on email marketing campaigns, so we thought it was only right to share our insight of the tips we use to draft open worthy subject lines.
Changeworks' shares its Top 10 Milestones from 2007!
2017 is the year Changeworks Communications celebrates its 10th anniversary of operation. To continue the celebrations we are looking back at the past 10 years to when the company first set up.
The queues at gym doors around the country may be dwindling a little bit as we get towards the end of January but the numbers will remain up for a couple more months at least. Similarly, the weight-loss group meetings will be squeezing into village halls across the UK for a little while longer, trailing off after the obligatory six months or so…
Listening is an effective part of communicating, and a key component to strengthening relationships. Taking the time to actively listen to a client, colleague or supplier shows them that their thoughts are valued.
Sharing Team Success for 2016!
From your Changeworks team Sue, Claire, Jordan, Sarah-Jayne, Rory and Martine.
As the year comes to an end we would like to thank the clients and strategic partners we have worked with in 2016. Changeworks has had a very successful year and is looking forward to what 2017 may bring. Read More
Making your first impressions count is one of the most important qualities in the business world, especially in Public Relations. As well as looking smart and impressing your clients with terrific work, it is vital you present your personality well.
What you should and shouldn't do on social media.
Every marketing agency in the country advises their clients that they must have a digital presence. It is essential, companies are told, to have your name appearing regularly on the main social media platforms, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook.
It's that time of the year again when Halloween is celebrated by holding parties, dressing up and going 'trick-or-treating'.
On October 31st, countries from all over the world celebrate the famous tradition; thought to be the one night of the year when ghosts, witches and goolies are especially active.
There is always room for improvement – but let's celebrate success as well
Do you think you are doing a good job or even a great job? If the answer is yes then you can sit back and relax, rest on your laurels and give yourself a proverbial pat on the back.
Or not.
One thing you should acknowledge – no matter how accomplished you are at whatever you are doing – is that there is always room for improvement.
Team away days have helped us to improve our PR knowledge.
Getting your businesses' employees out of their working environment is a powerful and proven way to help communication and make connections in the workplace.
Wednesday nights sure have become more exciting with the Great British Bake Off returning to our screens. The 'Bake Off' showcases groups of extremely talented men and women who dedicate hours of their time to push themselves to be the ultimate star; watching the show has inspired us and we have definitely learnt a few lessons from watching the show.
With the 2016 Olympics well underway, we are recognising the similarities they have with marketing. Rio was chosen to be the summer Olympic host in 2009 which has been talked about ever since and we sure are being inspired by the sporting events.
Blogging is one of the greatest tools for learning how to become a better writer, connect with like-minded people, showcase your skills and build your brand. Whether you're a beginner blogger or you've been doing it for years, we are sure you are still looking for advice to improve.
Helping our clients plan for exhibitions is a significant part of the services we provide. When it comes to exhibition planning, successful PR isn't just about sending out a press release, we invest time in advance to research the media, create a message and develop a strategy.
There is a trend in this age of zero hours and minimum wage to take on graduates who are desperate for a first job and give them work that is well beyond their capabilities. The inevitable result is that the quality of work produced will not be to the standard that the employer is wanting and disagreements, disappointment and disillusionment will follow.
Twitter is one of the biggest online marketing phenomena in the business world; it has been growing faster than any other social network and is expected to grow at an even faster rate in the future. As a social platform, Twitter offers many benefits to businesses.
Do you want to make your SEO less complicated? You don't want to be suffocating yourself with statistics, KPIs, conversations, rankings and audits. We are all about data and tools that can make your business easier.
Creating meaningful and relevant content – wherever it may be used – is valuable for any business wanting to succeed. Incorporating repurposed content into your overall strategy is often overlooked, but a valuable approach in the business world.
Do you worry about the behaviours among your most important audiences because those behaviours are crucial to achieving your organisations objectives?
Here at Changeworks Communications we were delighted to see a small news item relating to a major event in the life of an extremely influential person who has literally changed – and even saved – over 100,000 lives.
One of the most rewarding experiences we can have in our lives is the connection we have with other people. Positive and supportive relationships can help us to feel motivated and more satisfied with our lives – we can improve our work, home and social lives.
This isn't going to be the first time when someone has talked about the importance of goals and it definitely won't be the last.
Putting the clichés aside, understanding the relevance of goal setting is essential to accomplishing great things in the PR world.
The most successful PR campaign of recent times or an embarrassing misfire that's left scientists with egg on their 'boatraces'? That's the question that many in PR circles are debating following the decision to name a research vessel after the UK's best known naturalist rather than Boaty McBoatface – the suggestion in a popular public vote.
Do you want to raise the profile of your company in a short space of time? If so, you should consider email marketing. It is one of the most impressive tools offering many advantages, especially when compared to other marketing channels.
Measuring how successful your PR efforts are has always been a challenge. There are thousands upon thousands of books and courses that look at the issue but their conclusions are often contradictory and confusing.
When creative business owners draw up a marketing plan, they usually include a social media and blogging strategy – but they often forget about Public Relations.
They say if you have a good story to tell in your press release that it will be published. That's a quaint thought but in the highly busy 21st century, where some editors are responsible for three publications at a time, the reality can be quite different.
The marketing industry has a language all of its own, so any new starters in the industry might be confused with all the technical jargon.
PR and marketing companies will expect you to know them and will often throw them around as casually as they would the word "food".
Manipulation is all too common in relationships. At the heart of such behaviour is the Drama Triangle. If manipulation is about filling an empty hole inside of you with power and control of others. The opposite of this is about taking responsibility for how it affects you and others.
Studies have suggested when people spot images; their eyes naturally drift down the page.
A picture is worth a thousand words, when it comes to grabbing your reader's attention. Short attention spans make lengthy explanations less effective, so what is the alternative?
Event planning isn't rocket science, but it requires an acute organization and constant attention to detail. If everything goes off without a hitch, it often goes without notice, but if something goes awry, it's a public display of failure.
1. Start Early: There is no such thing as having too much time to plan an event. For large-scale events, start planning four to five months in advance. For smaller events, one to two months is reasonable. Try to finalize all major contracts (venue and vendors) a full month before the event date.
Social media is the future of communication. It provides a range of internet tools which increase and enhance the sharing of information. Social media makes the transfer of text posts, photos, video, audio and general information sharing easier. Social media is used all over the world for personal and business users.
You know how it goes – you think that your website has become stale and hasn't had a face-lift in a while. It may be a couple of years since the overall look was altered or it may be even longer.
Communication is a two-way process of reaching mutual understandings within an organisation; employees exchange information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share meaning. Communication is connecting and interacting with many people, within the business or with clients. Within a PR agency, communication is key: we can't operate without it.
I was asked once by a marketing man "How have you adapted to the digital age?" He obviously thought this potentially offensive, so not wanting to appear discriminatory or to be making crass judgements he immediately changed the question to "How have you embraced the digital age?"
In the brave new world of digital communications it is important to know whether you are abiding by accepted netiquette or if you are inadvertently upsetting the viewer or recipient of your information.
Our favourite time of the year is coming up. Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year; it is seen as a special day, for those who focus on doing good for one another. This doesn't mean buying presents for people; it's acts of kindness.
Blue Monday crops up on the 3rd Monday of January every year, so this year it will take place on Monday 18 January.
This day is a time for people to give and not receive, some need cheering up from the dim, dark days, post-Christmas, back-to-work and school month of January. Oh and obviously it has to be a Monday!
It's always difficult to forecast the future, especially in a world of fast-moving and ever-evolving technology, but it is worth thinking ahead if you want to be prepared for any changes and developments that might affect you.
At Changeworks we reported some time ago that the then Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg had told listeners to his LBC radio phone-in that he takes his shoes off in the office and that got us thinking about office etiquette.
Yes, Christmas is nearly here and there are still three weeks of December left but at Changeworks our sights are set firmly on 2016.
Just as you buy a magazine from the newsagent in November and it's already dated January 2016 – some on sale at the end of December even have February on the cover! – in the world of PR and communications you really do have to think well ahead.
When you work in communications it is easy to believe that emotions have no place alongside efficiency, professionalism and productivity.
Okay, PR companies are not dogs, obviously, but the image illustrates the point. Let's assume that you have decided that your business or organisation needs to have a greater presence in the marketplace.
In a recent episode of Have I Got News For You, Private Eye editor Ian Hislop pointed out a split infinitive. Some people laughed, many didn't – perhaps they didn't know what one was – and his opposite number Paul Merton made a comment (deliberately sarcastic, of course) along the lines of how good it was to see Hislop focusing on something that was so incredibly important.
Okay, you've gone through the difficult process of selecting a PR agency and you are confident that you can work well together.
Hiring a public relations (PR) agency is a great way to help your business gain media coverage, increase its brand awareness and achieve its PR goals.
Anyone who has been in business will know that things go wrong, people make mistakes and crisis do happen.
"Crisis" is a much over-used word these days and is usually on the front page of at least one daily newspaper – the NHS is in crisis, the England football team is in crisis, the government is in crisis, and so on – so let us agree here that when we say crisis we mean something that has gone badly wrong and needs to be fixed.
Social media is not as new a phenomenon as many businesses might think but there is still a great deal of confusion about what it can offer in terms of reputation building, branding and supporting sales and marketing strategies.
It used to be that a company newsletter was one of the best ways of communicating with existing clients, future prospects, the media and staff.
A hard-copy printed newsletter was ideal for taking to exhibitions and handing out to visitors. It could be slotted into press packs to give journalists vital background information and it was a useful tool for announcing the very latest developments within the business – including new contracts and employee achievements and awards.
Then came the advent of the electronic newsletter, which made perfect economic sense given the cost of printing all those newsletters and the logistics of transporting them around in cardboard boxes. However, it's true to say that there still remains a serious question mark over how well read an e-newsletter is when attached to someone's e-mail. The technology may be very clever these days in that you can 'turn' virtual pages, even with the sound of the paper simulated, but unless the reader has a significantly large screen, reading the type can prove difficult and zooming in and out can be awkward.
With all of this in mind, if a company believes that a newsletter is definitely the right way to go, there are six issues that we believe are crucial:
1. What is it for? You say you want a newsletter, but why? Do you just want a form of internal communication within your business or do you want to speak to the wider world? Before embarking on the time-consuming exercise of a newsletter, consider whether it will achieve your goals and – if not – if there is an alternative method you could use.
2. What will be in it? It sounds obvious but any newsletter has to be worth reading. This means its content must be directly relevant to the audience and easy to digest. If you are thinking of an internal newsletter why not ask your staff what they would want in it. And if you want prospects and customers to receive the newsletter, ask yourself what you would like in a newsletter that informed every time it came through the mail or e-mail. There is no point producing something that people either skip through or ignore altogether. A well-written newsletter with content that is beneficial to the reader can be a very powerful sales and customer support tool.
3. Be consistent. If you say your newsletter will be produced monthly, you must stick to this timeline. If you say it will always include an interesting case study, you must make sure that it does. Which means you must have the material to meet your promises. Consider whether you will have enough good stories to maintain a monthly output or will you be struggling? If you struggle, the project will suffer and inevitably fail. Consider a bi-monthly or quarterly newsletter if this would be easier.
4. Encourage feedback. If you want to communicate with your staff or your customers, make sure they can get back to you – and easily. Allowing two-way communication means people feel involved, it shows that you care about what they think, and it highlights what sections of the newsletter people find most interesting. Once you know that, you know if you are on the right track or if you need to make any changes to your newsletter content or format.
5. As mentioned earlier, you need to decide whether to go down the road of a newsletter in print or digital format. If you want the newsletter to be interactive – ie your readers can watch video or use targeted apps or respond to your Twitter feed – then digital is the only option. Likewise, if you want to send your newsletter to thousands of people, this is easier done electronically (indeed, automatically). However, you might consider how much you personally like to hold what you are reading in your hand. Do you like reading a digital version of your favourite newspaper on your tablet or 'phone or do you prefer to have a printed copy? What do you believe is best? You will often find that what you prefer is also what your clients would prefer.
you need to decide what 'voice' you are going to adopt in the newsletter. Will it be chatty or will it be formal? Do you want to use headlines that are informative or funny (these often don't work, though, because everyone's humour is different)? Decide on your typeface – and choose one that is fairly common and easy to read, not a fancy one that gives people headaches after a couple of paragraphs. You must also decide on the length of pieces in the newsletter. Short is best but you may need to include something a little longer sometimes. And finally, decide if you want to 'signpost' the newsletter's content, for example by including a simple contents page that allows the reader to see what is on offer and to navigate the newsletter easily.
To do the job properly, you would need someone whose role it is to create and collate the newsletter's content, you would need a decent design creating and you would need someone familiar with inserting content into a newsletter template. Then, of course, you need someone to co-ordinate distribution and deal with 'returns', for example if the intended recipient has moved or they no longer want to receive the newsletter.
Essentially, the decision is yours – compare the effort and expense that you will need to put into a good quality newsletter with the rewards that you expect to gain. If the latter outweighs the former, you have your answer.
A person is a person through other persons - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Between 70 and 80 per cent of the companies I talk to are struggling. They are not struggling financially, cash flow and sales turnover are buoyant. They are not struggling for leads: their markets are strong and their brand reputation is good, they have a healthy lead pipeline. What is putting their business success at risk is the difficulty in recruiting good people. A company's identity, its reputation and its success, is determined by its people. And whether it is engineering, public relations, mobile technology, or retail, from what I can see we are all struggling to recruit the people that will make the difference to our business. There are many people applying for jobs but few of them have the skills to do the job to the level that is required.


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New Legislation Promises More Choices for Low-income Families
The Ultimate Goal
Spellings Speaks at Teacher Workshop
Around the Country
News Show Explores American Competitiveness
ToolKit for Hispanic Families
New Legislation Promises More Choices for Low-income Families
Proposed Act Would Afford Private School Transfer, Intensive Tutoring
On July 18, a bill was introduced in Congress that would help economically disadvantaged students in under-performing schools transfer to the private school of their choice or sign up for intensive afterschool or summer tutoring.
If enacted into law, the America's Opportunity Scholarships for Kids Act would authorize the U.S. Department of Education to award $100 million in fiscal year 2007 for competitive grants to states, school districts and nonprofit organizations to provide scholarships of up to $4,000 to children from low-income families in persistently low-performing schools to attend the private school of their choice.
Grant recipients would also be authorized to provide up to $3,000 for tutoring services to lowincome students if they choose not to attend a different school. This would include tutoring through after-school or summer school programs designed to help improve students' academic achievement.
Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, schools failing to meet their Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals for five years are identified as needing restructuring. According to the Department's records, 1,065 schools were identified as needing restructuring in the 2004–05 school year. Preliminary estimates suggest that an additional 1,000 schools from the 2005–06 school year will be identified as needing restructuring.
"We are one step closer to ensuring that parents can make choices that strengthen their children's futures and give them a great start in life, regardless of their resources or the communities in which they live," said U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.
The Ultimate Goal
A Look at Three Schools Reaching for No Child Left Behind's Full Proficiency Target
When President George W. Bush took office in January 2001, first among his domestic priorities was improving education. Lagging student performance on both national and state assessments had been revealing for some time that America's public schools needed sweeping reform. By the start of the following year, the president's education bill had passed both houses of Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was signed into law on Jan. 8, 2002.
NCLB dramatically restructured the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—the main federal law affecting education from kindergarten through high school—by raising the achievement bar for America's children. It represented a formidable front against what President Bush termed the "soft bigotry of low expectations" that had been hindering a staggering number of students, particularly minorities and those from low-income families, with disabilities or with limited English proficiency. The law was based on four principles: 1) stronger accountability for results, by requiring annual testing in grades 3-8 and at least once in high school to track student progress, and by holding schools and districts accountable for making that progress; 2) greater flexibility for states and communities, by allowing school districts to redirect certain federal funds toward financing much needed programs; 3) proven education methods, by focusing on teaching strategies that research has shown to be effective; and 4) more choices for parents, by affording options such as school transfers or free tutoring for children in low-performing schools. Ultimately, NCLB set a historic goal for the country: every child reading and doing math at grade level by 2014.
In just a few short years since its enactment, the landmark legislation has proven that raising academic standards leads to a rise in achievement. According to the 2004 Nation's Report Card, America's nine-year-olds posted the best scores in reading (since 1971) and math (since 1973) in the report card's history, while the country's 13-year-olds earned the highest math scores the test ever recorded. With such success at the primary levels, the president is looking to expand NCLB's provisions at the high school level, beginning with his American Competitiveness Initiative to better prepare the nation's youths for the global marketplace.
Following are a few schools that are well on their way to meeting NCLB's 2014 target, proving that, despite the challenges communities may face, achieving full proficiency in reading and math is possible.
Smith Street Elementary School
A 2005 No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools Award winner, Smith Street Elementary School in Uniondale, N.Y., is a dramatic example of high expectations driving success at a high-needs school. Last year, every fourth-grader achieved proficiency on the state's math exam and almost all (98 percent) did as well in reading. The multicultural, suburban school—with significant black, Hispanic and low-income populations, as well as a relatively large number of English language learners and special education students—ranks high on New York's inaugural list of high-performing schools that closed achievement gaps among multiple groups of students and met Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals for two consecutive years.
Smith Street has made great gains since the state assessment was first given in 1999, when just 31 percent and 65 percent scored proficient in reading and math, respectively. At the time, Principal Lynnda Nadien was the district's reading specialist and part of a team of administrators and teachers collaborating across school lines to improve achievement. In response to the students' low scores, the staff began to make changes by analyzing test score data, scheduling students for extra academic help, and integrating the curriculum. "Our goal was ... to have a strong balance between reading, writing, listening and speaking in order for the students to be proficient enough to pass any exam put in front of them," said Nadien, who joined Smith Street last year. She said that this "balanced approach" to learning helps students make connections between concepts, so that the skills used in language arts also apply to math. As practice, students are challenged to write their own math word problems and explain their solutions. "It's a real-life, problem-solving approach," she added.
Focusing on potential student achievement rather than on failing to meet academic expectations, said Nadien, led to a leap in scores, not just overall, but exponentially: from proficient to advanced levels. For instance, to prepare students for the state exam this past school year (the first year New York began testing all grades 3-8), the teachers assembled practice questions that were considerably challenging. "Being successful leads to higher levels of success," Nadien explained. "[Our] mentality ... is that everyone would aspire to get a 'four' [the advanced category on the state exam]. And we believe strongly that through hard work and perseverance we will be able to get to that point."
Peabody eMints Academy
Another struggle-to-success story, Peabody eMints Academy, a predominantly black school in St. Louis where 100 percent of the children qualify for federally subsidized meals, is part of a major revitalization spreading throughout the urban neighborhood. Just five years ago, not one fourth-grader passed the math exam, and only 7 percent of third-graders could read at grade level. Today, however, approximately 87 percent exceed the state standards in both subjects and nearly 96 percent in science, according to 2005 data. Peabody's progress over the years has earned it a "Top 10 Schools" recognition from Missouri and a Title I Distinguished Schools honor.
For Principal Chereyl Spann, the 2001 scores were a wake-up call. Spann, who was Peabody's instructional coordinator that year, thought that the school's strong leadership and remarkable student attendance and behavior would have promised better outcomes. "But I saw a need in the testing," she realized. "In order for students to do well, they at least need to know what is expected of them." She said that the expectations needed to be relayed to the teachers as well, which translated into greater professional development, collaboration and opportunities for expert educators. "You might think you're doing a wonderful job teaching, but if none of your students mastered the test, you haven't taught," Spann said.
For the students, Spann and former principal Myrtle Reed set up an after-school program to provide additional instruction in reading, math and science, which required the attendance of every child in grades 2-7, Monday through Thursday. (This fall, Peabody is adding the eighth grade as part of a district effort to address middle school issues.) The program is led by half of the teaching staff, whose commitment Spann also credits for the school's academic breakthrough.
Another critical factor in the school's success was a partnership Reed initiated with the business community that culminated to the Peabody Education Task Force. This consortium of businesses, which is helping to direct the community's economic revival, provided the funds for jumpstarting the school's eMints (enhancing Missouri's Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies) program, a state initiative that allows students to take regular online assessments of their progress and teachers to customize instruction accordingly. In addition, the task force has sent volunteers for building improvement projects and tutoring opportunities. "We are all working for the students," said Spann. "We are in the service business. We are to serve the students and serve them well."
New Plymouth Elementary School
At New Plymouth Elementary School, the key to student achievement is reading—the gateway skill to lifelong learning. Having strong literacy skills is critical to the high-poverty, rural district of New Plymouth, Idaho, where nearly 1 in 5 students (primarily of Latino descent) are English language learners and 11 percent require special education. So to help put its children on the right path, New Plymouth was awarded, in spring 2003, a grant from Reading First, a program established by NCLB to ensure children read at or above grade level by the end of the third grade. By the second year of the program's implementation, the school found that reading performance had increased by one-third in kindergarten (from 58 percent to 90 percent) and nearly doubled in first grade (from 47 percent to 82 percent) on Idaho's early reading test. On the state's 2005 accountability exam, New Plymouth's third-graders proved just as strong as the younger students, with nearly every child (98 percent) testing proficient, while 100 percent of Hispanic students scored at grade level.
Principal Carrie Aguas believes the Reading First program provided the catalyst for change. Before the grant, New Plymouth could not meet its AYP goals. Teachers were using three different reading series and were not always able to fully cover the assigned texts. But "with Reading First, we learned fidelity to the core program," said Aguas. Recognizing that the NCLB initiative requires comprehensive reading instruction based on scientific research, vast improvements were made to the schedule to extend blocks of time for academics and teacher preparation, and to the curriculum, which involved pacing calendars that guaranteed everyone taught the same lesson at the same time.
The roles of supporting staff members also were affected. Instructional assistants were now in the classrooms learning how to apply the supplemental materials. Cafeteria workers had to learn to serve students within a shorter lunch period. Even the custodian helped in the library during busy checkout times. Said Aguas, "Without everyone on board and rowing in the same direction, we could not have made improvements in student learning."
Furthermore, according to Aguas, the gains made through Reading First transferred to other subjects, such as science, social studies and especially math, where the average score is 96 percent for grades 3-5. "We used to look at test scores and go, 'Oh, great, this is where we are,'" said Aguas. "But now we look at them and say, 'Uh-oh, what can we do next?' So it's just brought [the analysis of test] scores down to individual student learning."
Note: The 2006 test results for these schools were not all publicly available at the time of publication.
By Nicole Ashby
Spellings Speaks at Teacher Workshop
In July, Secretary Spellings spoke at the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative Workshop in Boston, as part of a summer series of training opportunities sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Following is an excerpt of her remarks.
... Last month, I had a meeting with Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist and author of the bestseller The World Is Flat. He told me the number one skill our children will need to survive in this new flat world is learning to learn. And to learn how to learn, you've got to love to learn and that's triggered by a great teacher. He said to ask your friends what classes they love, and regardless of the subject—physics, astronomy, art history—take that class, because chances are it's being taught by a great teacher....
It's no secret that teaching is one of the hardest jobs out there.... Everywhere I go, I'm inspired by hard-working teachers who believe every child deserves a quality education. Earlier this year, I met a local Teacher of the Year in Spokane, Wash. She earned that honor after 17 years of teaching elementary school. And she told me she was a better teacher today than she was five years ago because of No Child Left Behind.
That's probably the best compliment this law could get. Because at its heart, it's all about giving teachers the tools to help students achieve their potential....
And we must start rewarding teachers who get great results, especially in low-income schools, which often have the hardest time getting and keeping experienced and knowledgeable teachers. The president and Congress recently created a new $100 million Teacher Incentive Fund to encourage more experienced teachers to take jobs in high-poverty schools, where a high-quality teacher makes all the difference. So far, 16 states ... and about 60 districts have already expressed interest in applying, and we plan to make those awards by October.
We know nothing helps a child learn as much as a great teacher. Great teachers are helping us reach our goal under No Child Left Behind of having every child doing grade-level work by 2014, and great teachers are the key to equipping every child to compete and thrive in the 21st century....
Visit http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2006/07/07122006.html for the complete July 12, 2006, remarks.
Around the Country
Iowa — Thousands of Iowa students will benefit this school year from a new school tuition tax credit bill signed by Gov. Tom Vilsack in June. The Educational Opportunities Act establishes a 65-percent tax credit for individuals who make contributions to approved school tuition organizations, which distribute scholarships to families for the school of their choice. To qualify, a family's annual income must not exceed 300 percent of the federal poverty level. School tuition organizations must spend 90 percent of funds raised on scholarships, and the scholarships may not exceed the tuition at the private school.
Maryland — This fall, Anne Arundel County will introduce 623 newly hired teachers to its public school system through its teacher support program for newcomers. Designed to ease their transition into the school system, The Right Start New Teacher Support program offers mentoring services for educators new to the profession as well as a series of seminars on topics ranging from student discipline to data-driven instruction. Approximately 250 of the program's participants are new to teaching, while the others are new to the county. According to district officials, 90 percent of those mentored by veteran teachers continue to teach in Anne Arundel five years later.
- September 17
Constitution and Citizenship Day, an annual observance designated by Congress in 2005 that requires any educational institution receiving federal funds to hold an education program to commemorate the day the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1787. This year, because the 17th falls on a Sunday, schools will participate in the observance during the preceding or following week. Among resources, the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) Web site—www.ed.gov/free—offers teaching and learning materials about the historical document that shaped America's democratic government.
- September 30
National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by Laura Bush on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It will feature more than 70 award-winning authors, illustrators and poets in such genres as fiction and fantasy, mysteries and thrillers, and history and biography. For details, visit www.loc.gov and click on "National Book Festival," or call 1-888-714-4696.
- October 12
Lights On Afterschool, a nationwide event saluting after-school programs. For information on hosting a local event or obtaining supporting materials, visit www.afterschoolalliance.org or call 202-347-1002.
With the school year beginning, what can I do to ensure my child is successful?
Every stakeholder, from policymakers to parents, is responsible for student achievement. As their children's first teachers, parents in particular play a critical role in children's learning. According to a U.S. Department of Education study, when teachers reported high levels of outreach to parents of low-achieving third-graders, two-year growth rates for student test scores were much higher (reading: 50 percent; math: 40 percent) than when teachers reported low levels of outreach. Here are some tips to help you support your child.
- Speak with your child about school. Talk to your child about the importance of school. Ask him or her about teachers, assignments, friends and activities.
- Establish a line of communication with school staff. Keep in touch with teachers and guidance counselors by scheduling periodic meetings or corresponding regularly to discuss academic expectations and your child's progress in meeting those expectations.
- Examine the school's report card. The No Child Left Behind Act requires that schools and districts provide "report cards" or ongoing information on student progress. These report cards also show how your child's school is doing compared to others in the district.
- Help with homework. Review assignments so that you will know in which subjects your child is excelling, needs help or lacks enthusiasm for what is being taught. Ask your child's teachers if classroom and homework assignments are posted on the school's Web site.
- Attend school functions. Participate in events such as open houses and parent-teacher conferences. Find out about volunteer opportunities and how you can become involved in school improvement efforts. Join or start a parent support network.
For more information and resources to help your child succeed in school, visit www.ed.gov/parents/.
News Show Explores American Competitiveness
American competitiveness—and the ways in which schools and families can equip children with the skills to compete in a changing world—will be the focus of the September edition of Education News Parents Can Use, the U.S. Department of Education's monthly television program.
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I don't understand the no respect thing. Does any football fan with a brain actually believe the 49ers aren't one of the best teams in the league? They clearly are.
That said, no fan wants to be told that another fan's team is far superior to their own and whether you see it or not, that's exactly what many of the 49er fans who have arrived recently are saying. That does not lend itself to constructive dialogue.
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Yes, the 49ers are very good. Maybe more importantly, they are on a roll. 79-3 over the last 2 games and a record breaking offensive performance (300 yards rushing and 300 yards passing in 1 game), mostly due to the o-line. Both teams should bring their A-game.
not afraid of the niners. We have ELI ...
we are about to find out ... i do like that neither Buffalo or the Jets put up much of a fight ...while they are pretty focused, it can be tough to have to shift gears and play a much tougher opponent
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INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: A Global Perspective. Toby E. Huff. xiv + 354 pp. Cambridge University Press, 2011. $90 cloth, $27.99 paper.
CROSS-CULTURAL SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, 1560–1660. Avner Ben-Zaken. x + 246 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. $60.
Between 1500 and 1700, the European understanding of nature changed dramatically. In astronomy, the ancient geocentric theory of the heavens was succeeded first by Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric reform, then by Johannes Kepler's elliptical orbits and Isaac Newton's celestial mechanics. In physics, Aristotle's qualitative explanation of motion and change was consigned to the dustbin of intellectual history by Galileo Galilei, René Descartes and Newton. In anatomy and physiology, the Roman physician Galen's mistaken understanding of the body gave way to Andreas Vesalius's anatomy and William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. New instruments—the telescope, the microscope, and the barometer and the air pump (which together showed that air has weight)—opened new worlds. And new forms of organization and communication—the scientific society, the learned journal—developed to encourage and sustain this bustling activity. The changes were so dramatic that, for nearly a century, these developments have been referred to collectively as the Scientific Revolution.
Historians have long puzzled over why the Scientific Revolution happened, and why it happened in Europe. In Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution, sociologist Toby Huff addresses both questions. Huff provides an overview of the Scientific Revolution, drawn from reliable secondary literature, along with an idiosyncratic and occasionally puzzling attempt to show why the revolution did not happen in China or the Islamic empires, both of which had rich scientific traditions in the central Middle Ages.
Huff devotes the first part of the book to an account of the invention of the telescope at the beginning of the 17th century. The "discovery machine," as he terms the instrument, was pointed at the sky in England by Thomas Harriot, who did not publish his observations, and in Italy by Galileo, who announced his early discoveries in spectacular fashion in his Starry Messenger (1610). Galileo and others continued to explore the skies, making new discoveries and quickly reaching consensus about their reality. For Huff, the telescope epitomizes the "infectious curiosity" of the Scientific Revolution: As more and more telescopes became available, discoveries begat further discoveries.
But in China and the Islamic world, the discovery machine failed to catch on. Jesuit missionaries brought the telescope to China and trained Chinese astronomers in its use, but they made no discoveries and did not incorporate the instrument into astronomical practice. The telescope was known in the Mughal and Ottoman Empires, but there too it failed to make a mark in astronomy. Compared with Europe, the world's other advanced civilizations, confronted with the telescope, evinced what Huff calls a "curiosity deficit."
In the short second part of the book, Huff examines the institutional context for a European "ethos of scientific curiosity." In a chapter condensed from his 1993 book, The Rise of Early Modern Science, Huff argues that the legally autonomous corporation, a social institution that had no equivalent in the Chinese or Islamic worlds, played a key role in fostering science. Finally, the third part of the book is devoted to other aspects of the Scientific Revolution: the "infectious curiosity" that produced new discoveries in anatomy, microscopy and pneumatics; and the "grand synthesis" of celestial and terrestrial physics in Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687). These developments represented a huge accumulation of "intellectual capital," which Europeans savvily invested, reaping dividends in the form of industrial development and world domination from the 18th century through the 20th. Meanwhile, says Huff, the rest of the world stagnated due to "a deficit in scientific curiosity that seems to have prevailed outside Europe from before the seventeenth century all the way to the end of the twentieth century."
Curiosity plays a key explanatory role in this book, but, curiously, Huff makes no attempt to explore what early modern Europeans thought about the subject. Historians Hans Blumenberg and Lorraine Daston have traced how, in the late Middle Ages, Europeans took a new view of curiosity: By transforming it from the vice of inquisitiveness into a cognitive virtue, they legitimated scientific inquiry. Unfortunately, Huff does not draw on the work of Blumenberg and Daston. Instead of tracing changes in what curiosity has meant, he assumes it has always been the same thing, and that Europeans just happened to have a surfeit of it, whereas others had a deficit. His attempt to establish this point, though, is flawed: Huff identifies things about which Europeans were curious, and then shows that Chinese and Muslim scholars were not equally curious about the same things. Because India had astronomers, Huff writes, "we can assume" that they would find the telescope "of intrinsic interest"—but he does not explain why that would be the case. Because of this methodological asymmetry, he misses areas in which non-Europeans demonstrated that they were quite capable of curious investigation—natural history, for example.
But Huff is not interested in what non-Europeans were curious about, because it was not modern science. In his account, the "breakthrough" or "march to the modern scientific revolution" appears inevitable. Despite occasional wrong turns onto "garden paths," European scientists by and large made "progress" toward goals that they could not "resist." Because Huff sees modern science as the inevitable result of curiosity, he assumes that other sophisticated cultures must have lacked it. The "discovery machine" was like a lighted match tossed into a powder keg; if it fizzled out for Chinese and Islamic scholars, that must have been because their intellectual powder was damp.
For decades, historians of science have explored the particular aspects of European politics, society and culture that gave rise to early modern scientific endeavors, often in very limited contexts. Huff's earlier work was salutary in that it provided a synthetic, comparative perspective on the large-scale institutional framework in which modern science took shape. Yet this new book gives too little attention to historical context. Even if it is true that there was something inevitable about Newton's laws of motion, the fact remains that they emerged once, in a specific historical setting; they were the result of a whole series of European developments in mathematics, metaphysics, experimental method and religion. To explain them as the inevitable outcome of Europeans' superior curiosity is like saying that Europeans discovered the chromatic scale because they had more musical curiosity than the Chinese.
In Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660, Avner Ben-Zaken calls into question the idea that Europe and the Islamic world formed hermetically separated cultural blocs during the Scientific Revolution. In an eclectic series of case studies focused on astronomy, Ben-Zaken explores how and why scientific ideas did cross the cultural boundaries between Europe and the Islamic world. This book's greatest strength is its examination of individual stories and connections across cultures.
We learn that the Ottoman astronomer Taqi al-Din probably learned clock making and Western mathematics when he spent time in captivity as scholar-servant to an Italian mathematician. After al-Din returned to the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Murad III engaged him to build an observatory in Istanbul to rival that of Tycho Brahe on the island of Hven in Denmark. Al-Din was aided in his work by David Ben-Shushan, a Jewish mathematician originally from Salonika. We meet Pietro della Valle, an Italian traveler who wrote a letter to the astronomer Zayyn al-Din al-Lari, in bad Persian, describing Tycho Brahe's cosmology and hinting that Copernicus was right. Della Valle, the Cretan Jewish physician Joseph Solomon Delmedigo and the English astronomer John Greaves shared the conviction that ancient texts from the Near East contained a prisca theologia, an ancient wisdom that included heliocentric astronomy, if only those texts could be found. And we encounter the curious case of the Ottoman scholar Ibrahim Efendi al-Zigetvari Tezkireci, who in 1660 translated a little-known work by the French court astronomer Noël Duret, thereby producing the first text in Arabic to discuss heliocentrism.
Ben-Zaken has dug deep in several archives to find the manuscripts he examines. Because many of his subjects left little in the historical record, some of his reconstructions are speculative. Occasionally he places great weight on evidence too slim to bear it. For instance, in discussing Tycho Brahe's astrological interpretations of the 1572 supernova, the 1577 comet and the planetary conjunction of 1592—events that Tycho said augured "radical changes in world politics and religion"—Ben-Zaken acknowledges that Tycho did not mention the Ottomans explicitly. And in fact Tycho claimed that the comet of 1577 would produce its worst effects in western Europe, not in the East. But Ben-Zaken, drawing on an anonymous English pamphlet written a century later, after the Ottoman siege of Vienna failed in 1683, nevertheless insists that Tycho's predictions foretold the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Oddly, given his focus on cross-cultural exchange and the mixed identities of many of his subjects, Ben-Zaken occasionally writes about cultures as if they were monoliths: For instance, he says that in 1564 a series of planetary conjunctions "appeared in the sky above European and Ottoman cultures." The book discusses not only western Europeans and Muslims but also the Mediterranean Jewish community, the Karaite sect of Jews, and Greek Orthodox Christians.
Ben-Zaken's exploration of specific cross-cultural exchanges points to further research that can be done on cultural influences in what he calls "mutually embraced zones." The contrast between his book and Huff's could not be greater. Huff begins with an answer—the West produced the Scientific Revolution—leaving only the task of identifying its cause. Ben-Zaken, on the other hand, begins with a question: What knowledge did circulate between European and Muslim realms, why did it do so, and how was it received? Although he provides only a series of tentative answers, his approach is a fruitful way to explore how it was that the new scientific theories and methods produced in early modern Europe became the globally practiced science of the 21st century.
Brian Ogilvie is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and is working on a book that examines insects in European art, science and religion from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
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quote:so if i see this movie i'll turn into a dirty hippie
It's that Hollywood agenda at work.
BY FAR the best movie I've seen in a very long time
The film is perfectly paced. There are literally no moments in this film where I felt it dragged, and that is saying something given its 2 1/2 hour run time. The best part of the film is without a doubt the raid on the Bin Laden compound which stays surprisingly faithful to the official story of the raid. Usually Hollywood would try to add a few more gun fights and explosions to make the truth more dramatic then what it really was, but Kathryn Bigelow does a fantastic job with historical accuracy here.
and if so how does she know so much about the military
According to my uncle in the military, she doesn't know shite
He said if you're in the military, Hurt Locker is a comedy pretty much. Says it takes hours to defuse the bombs, there's no way a non-sniper could snipe like the black guy, etc etc
I found her work on The Hurt Locker to be vastly overrated
there's no way a non-sniper could snipe like the black guy
Says it takes hours to defuse the bombs
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Apr 12, 2013 at 8:39 am #1301620
$50 shipped.
This is a Montbell Alpine Light jacket that has been MODIFIED into an anorak. It used to be an XL and was reduced in the belly area to a size Large. Measurements from pit to pit are the same XL measurements, 25". But the waist tapers down to 24 inches.
Basically, I wanted to tailor a boxy XL jacket to my size. So I cut out the bottom half of the zipper and sewed the bottom half together for a trimmer fit. It was done by hand, not machine.
The zipper is 10.5 inches long.
No alteration to the sleeves or hood, only the belly.
However, THERE ARE NO POCKETS AT ALL. I had intended to make one long down filled hand warmer and sew it to the zipper openings on the inside but never got around to it.
AND, in the zealous spirit of gram counting I (stupidly) removed some tags and the fleece strip along the collar. I don't notice that it is gone but it does mean the seams are visible.
Reasons why you should buy this jacket:
1) It is still an 800 fill Montbell jacket. Cosmetically, it is no longer perfect but it will keep you warm as hell.
2) It is cheap. At $50 you can afford to have a second (or perhaps third) down jacket. And you won't have to baby it because you paid only a fraction of the price.
3) With the jacket on, you won't be able to tell it has been tampered with. Only evidence is on the inside. (See photo)
4) You're a big guy and usually wear an XL but don't have a beer belly.
Reasons why you shouldn't:
1) It has no pockets anywhere.
2) The sewing was done by hand and not a professional seamstress
3) You don't have $50
If you buy the jacket and it doesn't fit, and you are willing to pay for return shipping, I'll give full refund.
Please write me any questions you have.
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With your gram shaving what's the new weight (may be another item to add to your reasons to buy).
If I wasn't too small for the jacket I think not having to baby an Alpine Light alone would be worth snagging it. This would make a great dirt bagger's puffy.
Good luck!Apr 12, 2013 at 9:15 am #1975774
Dirt Bagger's Puffy! I love it.
I don't know what the xl parka weighed before but here's the weight now with montbell stuff sack.Apr 12, 2013 at 9:30 am #1975790
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i applaud your ingenuity here…nice execution.
i am curious, since you dont know the before n after weights, what was your intent, if not gram shaving? was it function? and if so, why remove the pockets?
i am also curious to know what you have learned from the project?
it seems that it would take some serious dirtbagger huevos to perform ZBS – zipper bypass surgery on a MB A-L Parka!
;)Apr 12, 2013 at 10:01 am #1975812
Damn good questions Brian. Thx.
My intial intent was to custom fit the jacket. I'm a big but fit guy and so I'm in between L and XL sizes. Either sleeves too short or belly too roomy. So I figured the best way was to trim an XL. Make it into an anorak. So I left 10.5 inches of zipper and sewed the tracks to block it. On the bottom half I took in I believe 1 or 1.5 inches on each side (this was done last year so don't recall exact details). Nice and trim but enough room to pullover a midweight merino. Stitched two sides together on inside.
But anyone who has attempted a DIY project or alteration knows that there is always something you didn't think through. For me, it was the pockets. So I did away with them altogether thinking I would return and sew in my own down tube. But never got around to it.
When the alteration was complete, I started wondering what else I could shave off to save weight. And Man, once you start cutting, it's hard to stop. So tags and collar fleece came off! It was unnecessary but ultimately harmless.
This project happened when I was making that transition from Lightweight to Ultralight weight backpacking. I wasn't warm enough with a Montbell UL inner jacket sometimes so I started eyeing my Alpine Light, which i absolutely love for its warmth. But I have since reverted back to lightweight (10.5 lb base weight is my sweet spot).
To be honest, I'm selling this jacket because I miss pockets and I found that the Montbell large fits me fine. So this anorak project sits in my closet. I'm hoping to find it a new home because fundamentally its still a great jacket.
Final Thought: the project gave me mad respect for those who are talented with needle and thread.
Thx for your questions.Apr 12, 2013 at 10:05 am #1975815
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what happened to the pockets ? can they be restored ?Apr 12, 2013 at 10:12 am #1975817
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nm……………..Apr 12, 2013 at 10:15 am #1975818
Pockets have sadly gone to pocket heaven. The pocket zippers are still intact and fine. I kept them zipped up to block wind. You can unzip them and stick your hands through but there is nothing there. I originally was going to make a down hand muff, where both ends are open, and then stitch it inside which would have been warmer than pockets but I never did. It would be a good DIY project and completely feasible. But for now, no pockets
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More than 3600 storm sewers and manholes in the 11,500-resident town of Pontiac, Ill., drain directly into the nearby Vermillion River. Residents dump liquids down the drains, and storm-water runoff also adds to the flow. Because the city has a combined sewer system, heavy rainfalls often force stormwater directly into the river.
To simultaneously solve the problem of illicit dumping and educate teenagers about the importance of proper sewer stewardship, Pontiac wastewater treatment plant superintendent Dave Sullivan joined forces with Paul Ritter, ecology instructor at Pontiac Township High School, to create a youth outreach program. They then reached out to Karen Sterzick at Pontiac Junior High to get even more youngsters involved.
For the past 10 years, a team of about 300 students and 20 adult chaperones has descended upon Pontiac once each year, armed with paint, stencils, garbage bags, paper towels, and brooms. They spend the entire day making sure each storm drain and manhole is marked: "Do not dump—drains to Vermillion River." They also pick up any litter they find on the roadsides or in parks.
This year's event, which took place in May, added e-waste collection to the effort. Seventy computer-management students from the nearby Livingston Area Vocational Center were enlisted to help the collection. Students were divided into six crews, partnered with a truck and driver from the town's street and sewer department, and collected computers, printers, stereos, and other discarded equipment.
If the 320 students and chaperones were paid $8/hour for a full day's work, it would cost Pontiac $20,000. That doesn't include the thousands more the paint, trash bags, and other materials would pull out of the town's budget.
However, the labor is 100% volunteer, and all the materials are donated by local businesses: $500 worth of paint from Illinois American Water; $500 in stencils given by the city; and $2000 worth of cheeseburgers, fries, and Dilly Bars from the local Dairy Queen. In addition, BTK Recycling Solutions, a local service provider, carted away the e-waste at no charge.
The end result: Volunteers placed 3600 storm sewers and manhole covers, hauled away 60 full 55-gallon trash bags, and removed 3 tons of e-waste from the town in just five hours. The full benefits, says Ritter, are much harder to gauge.
"Our drinking water is upstream of our wastewater treatment plant, so nothing can be measured there," he says. "It's obvious, however, that the awareness, education, enabling, and the children working with the public works departments are making a difference in our environment."


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Here is a baby quilt top I played around with last week..It was fun..
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Here is a baby quilt top I played around with last week..It was fun..
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Ohhhh you play well. That is very cute. I love the colors.
I noticed the younger mothers like brighter colors..I had this fabric for awhile so I decided to go for it..I think it turned out ok...
Great quilt. I really like the pink fabric. Did you get it online?
No, I got it from a shop in ackerman, ms...about 40 minutes from where I live..
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Beautiful. When I finish my son's quilt I am going to make a baby quilt for oldest Granddaughter's friend, baby due in April shouln't take me long to make a baby quilt. I think it will be pink and purple w/ purple floral. I have been wanting to make another baby quilt, last one was for a Great Granddaughter, she is two now.


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We have gone on a few snorkeling excursions, one was to a reef just outside the bay that the resort is located on. The water was very clear and there was a lot of fish to see. I have never seen so many starfish while snorkeling, they are just everywhere. The most interesting type is the purple ones with most being an orangeish color
Headed out for the scuba dive on Saturday morning at 10am
When we got back to the resort Suzanne wanted to get two of the kayaks and go out paddling in the bay, so we did that for an hour or so.
As it was New Year's eve last night the hotel put on a great feast with all the decorations at the main restaurant. A lot of people got dressed up and wore the party hats and used all the noise makers etc. There was a bit of dancing to the music of the house band "The Bula Boys"
Today I went off to do the first of my two dives. Suzanne wasn't feeling well this morning, maybe a wee to much celebrating on New Years Eve perhaps? so she did not go diving.
The dive was great as it was only the dive master and myself so he was able to show me a lot more things under water as he did not have to look after a whole group of divers. Again we were down for about 40 minutes at a depth of 40ft. Saw a blowfish but it did not puff up as I had hoped. The second dive was farther away on the outer reef next to a small island called Tavarua that has a small resort popular with surfers. The waves out here were pretty big and this reef is a popular surfing area. The fish out here were a lot bigger as this was a passage out to the open ocean. About halfway through the dive Astunia (the dive master) grabbed my arm and pointed in front of us and there it was, a 5-6 ft reef shark. It was about 30 ft away and swimming across our path, then it turned and headed out to the deep. It was pretty cool to see a shark while diving. I can't wait to tell Suzie what she missed as she is fascinated by sharks. As the boat docked back at the resort, Suzanne came out to met me and when I told her about the shark, she thought I was lying, until Astunia said that we did in fact see the shark. She was very upset that she did'nt go on the dive but maybe next time she will get to see that elusive shark.


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Juan Carlos Sanchez, Miguel Sanchez, Luis Matos and Juan Contreras are officers in the area chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), a national organization that promotes the development of Hispanics in engineering, science and other technical professions to achieve educational excellence, economic opportunity and social equity.
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Chicken breast is a staple in the diets of many healthy eaters and exercisers. It's a great source of lean protein. Dieters who eat enough protein are more likely to maintain muscle mass and preserve a healthy metabolism. But trying to calculate chicken breast calories can be complicated.

Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breast Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 Serving (3 ounces)

Per Serving	% Daily Value*

Calories 102

Calories from Fat 18

Total Fat 2g	10%

Saturated Fat 2g	9%

Polyunsaturated Fat 0g

Monounsaturated Fat 1g

Cholesterol 53mg	18%

Sodium 46mg	2%

Potassium 159mg	3%

Carbohydrate 0g

Protein 19

Vitamin A 0% · Vitamin C 0%

Calcium 1% · Iron 4%

*Based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Chicken breasts are a good source of protein, they are low in fat and low in sodium. Chicken breasts provide zero grams of carbohydrate, so they are a low-carb food. Since chicken breasts are so versatile they are easy to incorporate into a healthy diet.

But chicken calories can be tricky. The size of the chicken breast will affect the calorie count. A single serving of chicken breast is about three ounces or the size of the palm of your hand. Many commercially packaged chicken breasts are much larger than that. So if you eat a single breast, you're probably eating more than a single serving.

And, of course, if you keep the skin on your chicken breast, the fat and calorie count will be much higher. A whole chicken breast with skin provides 366 calories, 55 grams of protein, 0 grams of carbohydrate, 14 grams of fat, 4 grams of saturated fat and 132 milligrams of sodium.

The preparation method and any sauces or flavorings that you add can make a big difference as well. Three ounces of rotisserie chicken provides 170 calories, 1 gram of carbohydrate, 11 grams of fat, and 15 grams of protein.

One medium fried chicken breast provides 364 calories, 34 grams of protein, 13 grams of carbohydrate, 18 grams of fat, and 697 milligrams of sodium

Health Benefits of Chicken Breast

Chicken breast is an excellent source of low-fat protein. It is a very good source of selenium, phosphorus, vitamin B6, and niacin. Depending on the cooking method you choose, chicken breasts are also naturally low in sodium.

Choosing and Cooking Chicken Breast

You can purchase chicken breasts that are pre-trimmed and ready to use. In many grocery stores and bulk warehouses you might also find chicken breasts that are frozen and individually wrapped. If you buy one of these convenient options, be sure to check the nutrition facts label. These varieties of chicken breast may provide more sodium.

When you cook chicken, be sure that you cook the poultry to the proper internal temperature for food safety purposes. Boneless chicken should reach an internal temperature of 170 degrees Fahrenheit, bone-in chicken should reach 180 degrees Fahrenheit. Be sure to thoroughly clean any surfaces where you prepared raw chicken.

Chicken should be kept in the refrigerator. Chicken can also be frozen for up to nine months.

Healthy Ways to Prepare Chicken Breast

The way you prepare chicken breast can add hundreds of calories to the final fat and calorie count of your meat. Roasting, broiling or boiling the breast are generally the healthiest preparation methods. Frying or sautéing the meat in butter or oil will add fat and calories. In addition, adding condiments like barbecue sauce, olive oil or dipping sauces will boost your calorie and fat intake.

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Need a quick and easy chicken breast meal? This quick and easy Chicken Breast with Potatoes and Veggies recipe can be prepared on a Sunday night to provide a week's worth of diet-friendly dinners. Pre-package the meals and keep them in the refrigerator so they are ready to go when you come home after a long day's work.

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The act of going to someone's house then proceding to take the garbage bag out of the can then taking a massive dump in the can. After this you can top it off with some throw up and urine to make a thick mess. Lastley you close the lid leaving to mix to soak for preferabley 2-3 hours in a hot climate. Hopefully this mix will cause who ever opens the can to also throw up in it incressing the stench. Similar to a mexican hot pocket
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After reading countless forum posts on a variety of forums, reading many articles and watching many videos, I am struck by two characters that I'll call "The Bee Whisperer" and "The Benevolent Bee". Here are a few of their characteristics:
The Bee Whisperer is someone who moves with the bees as if in a gentle dance or mutual understanding.
The Bee Whisperer does not wear any protective gear, as he or she feels that there is no need to fear these gentle creatures, and protective gear only gets in the way of an honest and pure relationship with the bees.
The Bee Whisperer uses no smoke, as it only upsets them with noxious gas - and who would want to do that to a friend?
The Bee Whisperer, when stung, welcomes the sting as a reminder to be more gentle in his or her ways with the bees. Plus, it helps with his or her arthritis. It's good to get stung.
The Benevolent Bee is friendly.
The Benevolent Bee has human-like emotions.
The Benevolent Bee "knows" and "likes" The Bee Whisperer that tends to its hive and appreciates his or her efforts.
The Benevolent Bee will only sting you if you don't know what you're doing as a beekeeper, or if you mean the bee harm.
The Benevolent Bee's venom is good for you - which is why we have apitherapy. It's good to get stung.
Now, of course, these characters that I'm describing are somewhat unreal, but I believe that they are very real and present in our collective thinking, discussions and actions.
For The Bee Whisperer, there are few people who actually fit all of these descriptions together. But oddly, I think that there is a strange pressure - especially among newbees today - to be more like this Bee Whisperer. Many people share at least one or two of the traits, and maybe they're good traits to have... I know I find myself wishing sometimes that I had more of The Bee Whisperer's qualities...
I also think there is a pressure to see the bee as something "beyond" insect; something "good" and "pure". And to be honest, I share a lot of those feelings which I think are - to a certain extent - constructive and beneficial to have.
But I have mixed emotions sometimes and wonder about the presence of these characters and the negative effects they have or can have.
On the one hand, I'm all for "Natural" beekeeping in general, regardless of the misnomer. The idea that we should work as much with the bee as against her is solid by me. I'm happy to avoid chemicals and too much man-made interference if possible. And I also feel that it is important to educate the broader public about the truest nature of the bee - that she in not a Yellowjacket. She is not a bumble bee. She is not generally aggressive, and not to be feared irrationally.
On the other hand, I worry that The Bee Whisperer and The Benevolent Bee inadvertently encourage a lack of respect for the bee. And I think that can be dangerous.
I remember a thread here last year where a relatively new urban beekeeper was up in arms because his neighbors complained about his bees, and the community voted to ban them. But he had like, 10 hives in an urban yard. In the end, his over indulgence in his passion and his belief in the Benevolent Bee ended up scaring people to the point of increased restriction. Now no one there can enjoy the bees in their yard there.
Here in Halifax, a local bee group has gotten in the news promoting urban beekeeping. And the pictures show this young woman handling the bees while wearing a little cotton sun dress -- no veil, bare legs and bare arms; the curious onlookers unprotected as well. The Bee Whisperer showing that there is nothing to fear from these gentle, Benevolent Bees.
But the fear that people have is rooted in something real. Bees can kill a human being. They can put your kids in the hospital. They can kill a dog tied up too close to them. These are facts.
Allergies seem to be on the rise, and no one really knows why. People who have never had a reaction can suddenly have one. News stories tell of another beekeeper who is shockingly killed by his own bees. I know that these events are not statistically common, but they do happen.
So my questions are these:
Is The Bee Whisperer pressuring us to be less respectful of the bee? Is the effort to portray her as gentle and benevolent at times causing us to become too carefree? Can the effort to make the broader public more accepting, and the movement toward urban beekeeping and more bees in highly populated areas backfire, and cause more harm if someone is hurt and as more swarms come to rest in busy public spaces? And lastly, do The Bee Whisperer and Benevolent Bee characters pressure new, inexperienced beekeepers to act irresponsibly with bees - not taking proper precautions before they are knowledgeable enough to deal when things go wrong?
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I am having an hard time authenticating sqlmap to a Tomcat 6 server (in my lab).
This command works well:
wget "http://192.168.1.57:8080/WebGoat/attack?Screen=137&menu=1200&stage=1" --http-user=guest --http-password=guest
But when I run this command:
./sqlmap.py -u "http://192.168.1.57:8080/WebGoat/attack?Screen=137&menu=1200&stage=1" --auth-cred="guest:guest" --auth-type="Basic"
I get the following error:
[19:02:11] [INFO] using '/pentest/database/sqlmap/output/192.168.1.57/session' as session file
[19:02:11] [INFO] testing connection to the target url
[19:02:11] [ERROR] not authorized, try to provide right HTTP authentication type and valid credentials
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Hi all,
I am heartbroken. I went out for a swarm call today and all started well. It landed about 10 foot up and was a HUGE number of bees. After about 30 minutes, I collected about 3/4 of the bees in a Home Depot 5 gallon pail; it was close to half the pail in volume. covered it tightly and headed home.
About 35 minutes later, I was home, suit on, hive ready and when I opened up the pail, 90% of them were dead, the other 10% not doing well. I will see what tomorrow brings but I am not too hopeful.
What went wrong? Why dead? Could it be lack of oxygen or just too many bees crushing one another from the of them? What should I do differently next time??
Thanks for your support
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The Indiana Swine Health Advisory Committee's scientific subcommittee on PRRS has worked collaboratively with the Indiana State Board of Animal Health (BOAH) to assess the value and practicality of sharing information among neighboring swine producers regarding their herds' PRRS exposure status. Based on increasing risk from new, more virulent PRRS strains and availability of improved and more affordable diagnostics and prevention methods, BOAH and the scientific subcommittee recommend the following guidelines for good neighbor action in the event of a change to PRRS exposed status.
The Indiana Swine Health Advisory Committee suggests pork producers notify neighbors of their current PRRS exposure status according to the following recommendations:
- Emphasis should be placed on sites where swine are maintained 12 months a year
- Notification should be made to the pig owner and/or site owner on an annual basis
- BOAH can assist with identifying neighboring sites
Exposure Categories
- "Exposed" includes: Natural exposure, and use of live virus inoculation (LVI) and/or modified live virus inoculation (MLV)
By opening lines of communication among producers in an area, the sharing of health status information will benefit all Hoosier pork producers and the industry, as well as give neighbors the opportunity to make protective management decisions (such as use of modified live virus to build herd immunity).
These guidelines apply only to disease issues that have no human health consequences, such as PRRS, and serve as a means to improve disease management at a community level.
Future notification should be done in the following circumstances:
Change to PRRS Exposed Status
- Notification should include status change due to both intentional and unintentional exposure
- Neighbors should be informed of circumstances of exposure (natural or introduced)
Use of PRRS Management Practice
- Field strain (live virus inoculation or natural exposure) or modified live PRRS vaccination product
Movement of Known Exposed Swine
- Notification should occur as soon as practical upon learning of change in status
The Indiana Swine Health Committee's scientific subcommittee on Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) has collaborated with the Indiana State Board of Animal Health to identify options for consideration in managing the PRRS status of replacement gilts. Advantages and disadvantage of various methods are described below. Terminology used for classifying PRRS exposure status is consistent with the definitions jointly developed by the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) PRRS Coordinated Agricultural Project and approved by the AASV Board of Directors on March 9, 2010.
For purposes of this document, PRRS exposure status is the only status recognized and is defined as below:
Exposure Status: naïve (negative) or exposed (positive) based on serological testing:
- Until a differential diagnostic test or differentiable vaccines become available, no clear distinction is possible between results that are serologically positive due to live or killed vaccine usage versus those positive due to wild-type virus; thus no distinction is made (AASV).
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