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Safety In Mexico - A Rational Discussion
Mexico Is Safer Than You Think
Is Mexico safe? Short answer - for the most part, yes, Mexico is safe. A news story on Yahoo news in late June, 2015 said that, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace, violence and crime fell in 26 states since 2012. More on that below.
Is anywhere safe today? Just listen to the news and tell me the USA is "safe." Crime is down in New York City, but things happen, even in Manhattan. I read about gangs going on a rampage, assaulting people, shooting and breaking windows. Is New York City safe? A New Yorker (I am married to one) would answer, "Yes, for the most part."
Are churches, schools, shopping centers safe in the USA? "Yes, for the most part."
The news report mentioned above sums it up thusly. From 2013-2015 murder and organized crime fell about 20%. Also down was violent crime (12%). Crimes with the criminals using weapons was up 11%. Sure, some will say that crimes are woefully underreported in Mexico and they are right. But comparing apples to apples is the only way to get a handle on things. So these statistics are based on the same reporting population as always.
Don't even get me started on the murder rate in the USA.
I spend way too much time answering e-mails about, Is Mexico safe? Save the stamp and read the rest of this page. I won't answer such emails anymore. READ and then decide for yourself.
I am not going to keep repeating myself so that those of you who don't read the whole site ask if things are safe NOW. Yes, they are. There are more Mexicans on the road now than there were in 2010. The worst times for violence were 2009-2014. Even in the midst of that, the following quotes belie the notion that Mexico is not safe for tourists. That is a big point - for tourists.
In an interview with msnbc.com, Pablo Weisz, a security manager for the Americas for International SOS, said in 2012, "If we're to talk about Mexico in general," Weisz said, "the risks to travelers have not changed that much." Of the 107 American deaths [in 2011], Weisz said he believes many of them were Mexican-Americans involved in the drug trade.
There are some areas of Mexico that I suggest you avoid, but not many. Just because there is trouble in Veracruz city, that does not mean Catemaco is dangerous. And so on. My road logs and maps are specific. I drive between 4,000 and 7,000 miles each year over the entire country and wouldn't do that if I honestly believe driving in Mexico is not safe.
Here is an actual comment from a woman who drove alone from Michigan to Barra de Navidad:
"I hope that other people will realize that it is safe to drive in this country. Your maps and directions were very clear and accurate and were a HUGE help, especially in Guad.
All the people I encountered were very friendly and helpful. The only "scary"/drug-related thing I saw was in Texas, where several State Troopers were dismantling two cars by the side of the road." - "Barra" Mary.
And yes, this was written and revised at the end of 2011. The quotes were taken at the height of the "Mexico is dangerous" rhetoric and is as true today as they were then. I just got tired of reading the hyperbole. Read what has been said by people who really know what is going on and decide to believe them (and me) or not. But please, don't waste my time arguing. If you want to believe the worst and not go to Mexico - then don't go. But if you have an open mind and can listen to reason, read on.
The U.S. State Department issued the following advisory. Note that it is a travel advisory, not a travel warning. Big difference. And for those of you too young to remember, the State Department had advisories out during most of my travel-writing career in the 1980's and early 1990's. I don't seem to be any the worse for wear.
Yes, stuff happens. Yes, bad stuff happens. I live on the border and probably hear more news than you do. And I know I do not hear it all. What the statistics do not tell is that the average American or Canadian tourist is very, very unlikely to be in danger. As one consular official said, "I cannot guarantee my own safety if i visit New York City if I am not aware of my surroundings."
So, yes, read the news stories, but take them in context. Travel smart. Avoid convoys of black Suburbans. If you own a newer black Suburban, take another vehicle to Mexico.
The last line of this travel advisory below states that 2 resident American citizens were abducted. True. But you are unlikely to fit the profile of an abductee. One of those "American citizens" who was abducted was a security expert who was in town to teach businessmen in Saltillo how to avoid being kidnapped. The other I do not know about. And a resident is not a tourist. Big difference.
This came out March 14, 2010.
While millions of U.S. citizens safely visit Mexico each year (including tens of thousands who cross the land border daily for study, tourism or business and nearly one million U.S. citizens who live in Mexico), violence in the country has increased. It is imperative that U.S. citizens understand the risks in Mexico, how best to avoid dangerous situations, and who to contact if victimized. Common-sense precautions such as visiting only legitimate business and tourist areas during daylight hours, and avoiding areas where prostitution and drug dealing might occur, can help ensure that travel to Mexico is safe and enjoyable.
Recent violent attacks have prompted the U.S. Embassy to urge U.S. citizens to delay unnecessary travel to parts of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua states(see details below) and advise U.S. citizens residing or traveling in those areas to exercise extreme caution. Drug cartels and associated criminal elements have retaliated violently against individuals who speak out against them or whom they otherwise view as a threat to their organizations. (Bolding mine). These attacks include the abduction and murder of two resident U.S. citizens in Chihuahua.
Remember too, that when reports of "American citizens" being killed, that does not necessarily mean somebody like you or me. Many times these Americans are visiting family in Mexico. They are involved in the local community. They are not travelers on the highway to Puerto Vallarta or Tamazunchale.
If you are not involved in drugs (using them counts too) or arms trafficking (many, but not all weapons used by drug gangs are bought by 'good' American citizens with clean police records who take them across the border or sell them to smugglers who drive them to Mexico) and don't plan on vacationing in beautiful downtown Cd. Juarez, Tijuana or other border towns, then you are more likely to be shot at a Walt-Mart, a church or your place of work than to have trouble in Mexico.
Before those of you who are convinced that is not the truth and hit send on the vituperative e-mails you are composing, listen to the US Homeland Security attaché to Mexico:
Further, the Homeland Security Department's attaché to Mexico said the violence in Mexico is not as dangerous to U.S. tourists as has been portrayed.
Alonzo Pena said the violence is in isolated areas of the country and only affects the people involved in criminal activity. He said the violence is not affecting U.S. citizens visiting Mexico and Americans should not cancel their vacations in the country. - The Associated Press, Thurs., March. 12, 2009.


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BAKERSFIELD, Calif.-Andrew Letourneau's (Jr., Bakersfield, Calif., Bakersfield College) RBI single in the bottom of the 10th capped off a CSUB comeback as the Roadrunners (24-13) defeated No. 17 UC Irvine (26-12) 5-4 in 10 innings Friday night at Hardt Field.
Drew Hillman's RBI single in the top of the first gave the Anteaters the early lead. The run was unearned as the Roadrunners committed three errors in the inning. UCI starting pitcher Matt Summers retired the first 10 CSUB batters he faced before Letourneau singled to center with one out in the bottom of the fourth. The 'Runners put runners on first and third with two outs in the fourth, but Oscar Sanay (Fr., Chula Vista, Calif., Bonita Vista HS) lined out to Summers to end the frame.
UC Irvine used timely hitting with two outs to score two runs in the top of the seventh. The Anteaters posted five of their 10 hits in the game during the stanza. Tyler Shryock (Fr., Tehachapi, Calif., Desert Christian HS) opened the top of the ninth with a single to center. Ryan McIntyre (Jr. Henderson, Nev., Coronado HS) walked to chase Summers. The Anteaters' closer Brian Hernandez came in from his starting third base position in relief.
Letourneau singled up the middle to plate Shryock bring up Jeremy Rodriguez (Jr., Thousand Oaks, Calif., Crespi HS) who singled to left center to score McIntyre and chase Hernandez in favor Jimmy Litchfield. CSUB cleanup hitter Martin Medina (Jr., Ventura, Calif., St. Bonaventure HS) became the first batter Litchfield faced. Medina grounded into a fielder's choice to shortstop, but Letourneau scored to make it 4-3.
Sanay came up with one out and singled to right center to bring up DC Legg (Jr., Murrietta, Calif., Cypress College) who lined out to right for the second out. Mick Gaston (Jr., Quartz Hill, Calif. (Quartz Hill HS) who singled down the right field line to score Medina and tie the game 4-4. Kevin Younger (So., Bakersfield, Calif., Liberty HS) fouled to first out to end the inning and send it to extras.
Shryock opened the bottom of the 10th with a single up the middle off of the Anteaters' fourth pitcher of the night, Nick Hoover. McIntyre's sacrifice bunt moved Shryock to second setting up Letourneau's game winning hit.
Letourneau ended the night 3-for-5 with two RBI's. Shryock was 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Hillman went 3-for-4 to pace UCI. Nick Shannon (R-Sr., Mesa, Ariz. (Chandler-Gilbert CC) earned the victory with two innings of scoreless relief of starter Mike McCarthy (R-Sr., Brentwood, Calif., Univ. of Redlands). McCarthy struck out five and did not walk a batter in eight innings of work.
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Worcester's contingent is further strengthened by centre Joanne Watmore who is one of eight replacements.
England: Waterman (Worcester); Merchant (Worcester), Scarratt (Lichfield), Richardson (Richmond), Staniford (Wasps); McLean (Darlington), Hunt (Lichfield); Clark (Worcester), Fleetwood (Lichfield), Keates (Worcester), Taylor (Lichfield), Burnfield (Richmond), Fisher (Worcester), Packer (Bristol), Hunter (Lichfield). Replacements: Croker (Richmond), Crowley (Lichfield), Hemming (Bristol), Braund (Lichfield), Matthews (Richmond), Gulliver (Lichfield), Matthew (Richmond), Watmore (Worcester).


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- Prüfungsordnung für die Bachelor- und Master-Studiengänge Physik der Informationstechnologie der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main mit dem Abschluss Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) bzw. Master of Science (M.Sc.) vom 14.01.2004 in der Fassung vom 16. Juli 2007 : genehmigt mit Erlass vom 28.September 2007, Az.: III 1.3 - 422/13/10.010 – (0002) (2007)
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- Strong coupling expansion for Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature (2007)
- Euclidean strong coupling expansion of the partition function is applied to lattice Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature, i.e. for lattices with a compactified temporal direction. The expansions have a finite radius of convergence and thus are valid only for b <bc, where bc denotes the nearest singularity of the free energy on the real axis. The accessible temperature range is thus the confined regime up to the deconfinement transition. We have calculated the first few orders of these expansions of the free energy density as well as the screening masses for the gauge groups SU(2) and SU(3). The resulting free energy series can be summed up and corresponds to a glueball gas of the lowest mass glueballs up to the calculated order. Our result can be used to fix the lower integration constant for Monte Carlo calculations of the thermodynamic pressure via the integral method, and shows from first principles that in the confined phase this constant is indeed exponentially small. Similarly, our results also explain the weak temperature dependence of glueball screening masses below Tc, as observed in Monte Carlo simulations. Possibilities and difficulties in extracting bc from the series are discussed.
- Exploring the QCD phase diagram (2007)
- Lattice simulations employing reweighting and Taylor expansion techniques have predicted a (m;T)-phase diagram according to general expectations, with an analytic quark-hadron crossover at m =0 turning into a first order transition at some critical chemical potential mE. By contrast, recent simulations using imgainary m followed by analytic continuation obtained a critical structure in the fmu;d;ms;T;mg parameter space favouring the absence of a critical point and first order line. I review the evidence for the latter scenario, arguing that the various raw data are not inconsistent with each other. Rather, the discrepancy appears when attempting to extract continuum results from the coarse (Nt =4) lattices simulated so far, and can be explained by cut-off effects. New (as yet unpublished) data are presented, which for Nf = 3 and on Nt = 4 confirm the scenario without a critical point. Moreover, simulations on finer Nt = 6 lattices show that even if there is a critical point, continuum extrapolation moves it to significantly larger values of mE than anticipated on coarse lattices.
- Twisted mass QCD at finite temperature (2007)
- We discuss the use of Wilson fermions with twisted mass for simulations of QCD thermodynamics. As a prerequisite for a future analysis of the finite-temperature transition making use of automatic O(a) improvement, we investigate the phase structure in the space spanned by the hopping parameter k , the coupling b , and the twisted mass parameter m. We present results for Nf = 2 degenerate quarks on a 163×8 lattice, for which we investigate the possibility of an Aoki phase existing at strong coupling and vanishing m, as well as of a thermal phase transition at moderate gauge couplings and non-vanishing m.
- Fermionic fields in the pseudoparticle approach (2007)
- The pseudoparticle approach is a numericalmethod to compute path integralswithout discretizing spacetime. The basic idea is to consider only those field configurations, which can be represented as a linear superposition of a small number of localized building blocks (pseudoparticles), and to replace the functional integration by an integration over the pseudoparticle degrees of freedom. In previous papers we have successfully applied the pseudoparticle approach to SU(2) Yang-Mills theory. In this work we discuss the inclusion of fermionic fields in the pseudoparticle approach. To test our method, we compute the phase diagram of the 1+1-dimensional Gross-Neveu model in the large-N limit as well as the chiral condensate in the crystal phase.
- Signals of the QCD Phase Transition in the Heavens (2007)
- The modern phase diagram of strongly interacting matter reveals a rich structure at high-densities due to phase transitions related to the chiral symmetry of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the phenomenon of color superconductivity. These exotic phases have a significant impact on high-density astrophysics, such as the properties of neutron stars, and the evolution of astrophysical systems as proto-neutron stars, core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. Most recent pulsar mass measurements and constraints on neutron star radii are critically discussed. Astrophysical signals for exotic matter and phase transitions in high-density matter proposed recently in the literature are outlined. A strong first order phase transition leads to the emergence of a third family of compact stars besides white dwarfs and neutron stars. The different microphysics of quark matter results in an enhanced r-mode stability window for rotating compact stars compared to normal neutron stars. Future telescope and satellite data will be used to extract signals from phase transitions in dense matter in the heavens and will reveal properties of the phases of dense QCD. Spectral line profiles out of x-ray bursts will determine the mass-radius ratio of compact stars. Gravitational wave patterns from collapsing neutron stars or neutron star mergers will even be able to constrain the stiffness of the quark matter equation of state. Future astrophysical data can therefore provide a crucial cross-check to the exploration of the QCD phase diagram with the heavy-ion program of the CBM detector at the FAIR facility.
- Measuring shear viscosity using correlations (2007)
- Measurements of transverse momentum fluctuations can be used to determine the shear viscosity [1]. We use current data to estimate the viscosity-to-entropy ratio in the range from 0.08 to 0.3, and discuss how future measurements can reduce this uncertainty.
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- Proceedings of 4th International Workshop "Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement", July 9-13, 2007, Darmstadt, Germany: The multiplicity fluctuations of hadrons are studied within the statistical hadron-resonance gas model in the large volume limit. The role of quantum statistics and resonance decay effects are discussed. The microscopic correlator method is used to enforce conservation of three charges - baryon number, electric charge, and strangeness - in the canonical ensemble. In addition, in the micro-canonical ensemble energy conservation is included. An analytical method is used to account for resonance decays. The multiplicity distributions and the scaled variances for negatively and positively charged hadrons are calculated for the sets of thermodynamical parameters along the chemical freeze-out line of central Pb+Pb (Au+Au) collisions from SIS to LHC energies. Predictions obtained within different statistical ensembles are compared with the preliminary NA49 experimental results on central Pb+Pb collisions in the SPS energy range. The measured fluctuations are significantly narrower than the Poisson ones and clearly favor expectations for the micro-canonical ensemble. Thus, this is a first observation of the recently predicted suppression of the multiplicity fluctuations in relativistic gases in the thermodynamical limit due to conservation laws.
- Effects of nucleus initialization on event-by-event observables (2007)
- In this work we present a study of the influence of nucleus initializations on the event-by-event elliptic flow coefficient, v2. In most Monte-Carlo models, the initial positions of the nucleons in a nucleus are completely uncorrelated, which can lead to very high density regions. In a simple, yet more realistic model where overlapping of the nucleons is avoided, fluctuations in the initial conditions are reduced. However, v2 distributions are not very sensitive to the initialization choice.


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As he made his closing appeal to voters on the final day before the election,
"Tomorrow's a moment to look into the future and imagine what we can do," he said. "Tomorrow, we get to work rebuilding our country, restoring our confidence and renewing our conviction. Tomorrow, on November 6, we come together for a better future. Tomorrow is a new beginning. Tomorrow we begin a new tomorrow."
There was something new and unusual about this Mitt Romney – and not only that he had appropriated Stephen Colbert's campaign theme, "Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow." In the closing days of the campaign Mr Romney was uplifting, optimistic and inspirational – in other words very different from the man we saw these past few months.
"The best achievements are shared achievements," he told supporters at George Mason University in Fairfax. "I've learned that respect and goodwill go a long way and are usually returned in kind. That's how I'll conduct myself as president. I'll bring people together. I won't just represent one party, I'll represent one nation."
In the last four days of the campaign Mr Romney has made the harshest attacks and the most mendacious of his accusations against President
Instead of those lines, Mr Romney used tough but reasonable criticism of Mr Obama, coupled with an appeal for Americans to come together. "I'd like you to reach across the street to that neighbour with the other yard sign," he said, "and we'll reach across the aisle here in Washington to people of good faith in the other party."
Stuart Stevens, Mr Romney's top strategist, is justifiably pleased that his candidate, left for dead by the pundit class several weeks ago, appears to be heading for a close finish. The Obama campaign, Mr Stevens said, "didn't disqualify him".
That's true, but hearing Mr Romney's new tone for the last days of the campaign I couldn't help but wonder whether he would be in a better position if he had taken the high road months ago. Mr Stevens' answer: "It would be old by now."
Maybe so. And maybe Mr Romney would have been destroyed by the Obama campaign's attacks if he had tried to stay above the fray. But maybe he would have appeared more presidential – which is the image Mr Stevens was going for in the revamped speech.
The uplifting Mitt has been introduced to crowds in the final days with a soft-focus video set to gentle piano music. Volunteers hand out "Moms for Mitt" signs to audience members, adding to the soft-and-fuzzy feel. The speech begins with a few brief words from Ann Romney, who asked those gathered in Fairfax, "Are we going to be neighbours soon?"
Of course, Mr Romney's lofty closing isn't likely to erase his divisive campaign, in which he wrote off 47 per cent of Americans as moochers and went after Mr Obama in ways that were flagrantly false and sometimes racially tinged. And few are likely to believe his late call for bonhomie – that's a staple of presidential campaigns' closing arguments – or to accept that he no longer holds the "severely conservative" views that won him the GOP nomination.
The crowd was big (the campaign decided to use only half of the 10,000-capacity arena, which created an overflow of a couple of thousand outside), but Romney gave them few of the anti-Obama applause lines, delivering his criticism more in sadness than anger: "Four years ago, then-candidate Obama promised to do so very much, but he's done so very little."
Had he offered these views earlier, he might have been viewed as a bigger man, and a better candidate. "I won't spend my effort trying to pass partisan legislation that's unrelated to job growth," he vowed, promising to "speak for the aspirations of all Americans."
"Walk with me. Let's walk together," he offered. A nice sentiment — but it would have been more plausible if he hadn't spent the past year kneecapping his opponents.
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Rebecca Austin remembers the 1994 bushfires, when flames surrounded her Elanora Heights property on Sydney's northern beaches. A group of family and friends spent day and night hosing down the house and pumping water from the pool.
That is why she is pleased to see hazard reduction burning this weekend in bushland areas despite the fact that her nephew Jacob, 8, an asthmatic, is sensitive to smoke pollution.
"We decided to put a mask on Jacob because he's a pretty severe asthmatic and the last thing we wanted to do was rush him to hospital," she said.
Even Jacob's sister Ella, 5, was forced to cover her face with her T-shirt as smoke billowed across from burning tracts of bushland surrounding her aunt's property.
NSW Fire Brigades and Rural Fire Service, with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, spent yesterday burning off near Sydney suburbs bordering bushland areas in a major fuel reduction exercise.
NSW Fire Brigades superintendent Garry McBain said there were large tracts of dry undergrowth along Mona Vale Road that were a threat to houses.
"We have been concentrating on these areas, known as strategic asset zones, all winter," he said.
"The window for burning off is very small. We've had a dry winter, and we want to get as much done as possible before the summer begins."
Unexpected gusts of wind had caused the flames to jump containment lines on Friday afternoon, but were extinguished by water-carrying helicopters.
NSW Health's director of environmental health, Vicky Sheppeard, said although pollution from the burning off was not as bad as initially feared, asthmatics still had to take precautions.
Heart conditions could also be aggravated by particles which are absorbed into the bloodstream.
"Symptoms from exposure to smoke pollution can occur up to five days after smoke is inhaled and sufferers need to be vigilant with their treatment programs," Dr Sheppeard said.
She said those vulnerable to smoke pollution should not engage in vigorous exercise and if possible stay in air-conditioned premises. Other problems associated with bushfire smoke include eye and throat irritation.
The Environmental Protection Authority measured a medium pollution level in Sydney's north-west yesterday.
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In the Republican address, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama says he's worried that Senate Democrats will unveil a budget next week that won't curb the nation's debt. He's insisting that lawmakers balance the federal budget.
He proposed setting 3.4% as the rate of spending growth but was concerned Democrats would not abide by the limit and is worried the Democrat budget will echo the President's solutions to cutting the deficit.
"I fear it will crush American workers and our economy with trillions in new taxes, spending and debt," he added. "I fear Chairman (Patty) Murray will follow the president's lead: raising taxes to enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people."
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BEIJING – China has been hit by the "largest ever" attack on its Internet infrastructure, crashing the country's .cn servers, according to a government-linked agency.
The national domain name resolution service came under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for around two hours early on Sunday, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) said in a statement.
Domain name resolution is a key part of how the Internet works, converting a website name into a set of digits — the IP address — that computers can recognise. The service in China focuses on websites with the .cn extension.
DDoS attacks are attempts to overload a server with a huge number of requests, so that it interrupts or suspends its functions.
A second wave of the assault in China two hours later grew into "the biggest of its kind ever," CNNIC said, without giving any indication of who might have been responsible. "The resolution of some websites was affected, leading visits to become slow or interrupted."


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Here's an interesting use of technology. Kimberly Nixon and her husband rigged up a very special cat door for their two cats Gus and Penny. Apparently the neighborhood cats were helping themselves to Gus and Penny's food, so Kimberly's husband, a programmer who likes to build stuff, created a cat door with an RFID reader. Each cat has an RFID tag on its collar. When the cat gets close to the door, the reader reads the tag and opens the door. This keeps the neighborhood cats out of the food. Then, to keep track of Gus and Penny's whereabouts, the whole contraption is connected to an old laptop which has software installed that snaps a photo of the cat entering or exiting the door (see images above) and then posts a message along with the picture to Twitter. Brilliant!
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Find more about «Undocumented Children»
Immigrants sans papiers
Les migrants sans-papiers sont ceux qui ne possèdent pas de permit de résidence qui les autorise à demeurer en toute légalité dans leurs pays d'accueil. Il ce peut que leur demande d'asile ait été rejeté, qu'ils aient dépassé le délai de validité de leurs visas ou qu'ils soient arrivés irrégulièrement.
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Undocumented migrants are those without a residence permit authorising them to regularly stay in their country of destination. They may have been unsuccessful in the asylum procedure, have overstayed their visa or have entered irregularly.
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CRAG response to the European Commission's Communication on an "EU Agenda for the Rights of the Child".
New PICUM project: "Building Strategies to Improve the Protection of Undocumented Children in Europe"
A child is a child: Defining the EU's role in protecting the rights of undocumented migrant children
On the occasion of a public hearing considering the role of the European Union institutions in ensuring the rights of undocumented migrant children and their families, held at the European Parliament, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) together with French MEP Nathalie Griesbeck, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), called on EU institutions to fulfill their legal obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to ensure protection and access to basic rights and services for undocumented migrant children and cease their immigration detention.


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League Champ Chapel Hill Claims Four Top Honors on 16-3A All-District Boys Basketball Squad
District champion Chapel Hill took home four of the top five awards on the 16-3A all-district boys basketball team, as voted by the district's coaches.
Chapel Hill 6-foot-6 senior post Michael Harris was named Most Valuable Player. Classmate Julius Hill, a guard, received Offensive Player of the Year honors, while junior guard D.D. Mumphrey was named Defensive Player of the Year.
Chapel Hill's Robert Sampson, who led the Bulldogs to a 22-10 record, 16-3A championship, and Class 3A Region II second-round playoff appearance, garnered Coach of the Year accolades.
Kilgore sophomore guard Xaviar Gaona was named Newcomer of the Year after helping Kilgore to a 16-15 record and 3A Region II quarterfinal appearance.
Spring Hill had three first-team all-district selections, followed by Bullard, Kilgore, and Gladewater with two apiece.
- MVP — Michael Harris, Sr., Chapel Hill
- Offensive Player of the Year — Julius Hill, Sr., Chapel Hill
- Defensive Player of the Year — D.D. Mumphrey, Jr., Chapel Hill
- Newcomer of the Year — Xaviar Gaona, Soph., Kilgore
- Coach of the Year — Robert Sampson, Chapel Hill
First Team
- Clay Lattier, Spring Hill
- Ben Brundrett, Spring Hill
- Matt Williams, Spring Hill
- Corbin Howard, Bullard
- Scott Lowrie, Bullard
- D.J. Sammons, Chapel Hill
- Trey Conrod, Kilgore
- Hector Peralez, Kilgore
- Pat Finch, Gilmer
- Jalen Wells, Gladewater
- Treyvon Gordon, Gladewater
- Tre' Hollins, Henderson
Second Team
- Kendon Womack, Spring Hill
- Jordan Phelan, Spring Hill
- Adam Lattier, Spring Hill
- Chandler Clark, Bullard
- Hunter Landrum, Bullard
- Keith Minor, Chapel Hill
- Keilon Moore, Chapel Hill
- Kavondre Wallace, Chapel Hill
- Kevrin Justice, Kilgore
- Alvin Davis, Kilgore
- Clery Delmas, Kilgore
- Nick Smith, Gilmer
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When Walt Disney opened Disneyland in 1955, he always said "there will
never be another Disneyland." Walt was a stickler for not repeating
himself. He always thought that the next one (whatever it be) wouldn't be as
good as the original.
Numerous problems faced WED once everything arrived in New York. Construction
crews worked slower because of the outside Californian managers. One of the most
severe problems happened with "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln." Ten
days before the Fairs opening the model passed all the tests at the studio. Once
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Sorry if the post title is confusing. Could not think of a way to word it.
I just got back from taking my kids to an indoor play place. They have been really high strung today and needed to blow off some steam but it is raining and really cold so an outdoor playground was a no go.
Kids are playing, having a wonderful time playing with other kids who are there as well (no one we personally know but you know how that does not matter to little kids)
So one of the other little boys starts climbing on the outside of the play structure and running and jumping on a couch they also have in there for parents to sit on. My oldest is playing with him and starts to follow suite. I reprimanded and redirected him, remind him that he is not allowed to climb on the outside of the slide nor jump on the couch because it is not safe. I only correct my child, not the other boy. My son obeys and goes on to do something else. This happens several times (my son is still fairly young so needs to be reminded what is and is not against the rules especially when he sees others doing it).
When we went to leave the mother of the boy who was jumping on the couch and climbing on the outside of the play equipment gives me a nasty looks and says its not my job to "parent" her child on what is safe.
I never said anything to her little boy. Nothing. But at the same time I will not allow my child to do something I consider unsafe just because little Johnny's mom lets him do it kwim? I did not even make a production out of correcting my son. When he started doing stuff he was not allowed to do I went over and talked to him really softly so its not like I shouted out across the room trying to be P/A.
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Just a quick post to share a layout I did the other day. I used My Little Shoebox papers, the front and back of happy thoughts and slow motion that I got in my Ally Scraps order. I cut the slow motion sheet to mimic the curve of the "Steel Phantom" roller coaster. I love when an idea just comes to you, and then it turns out exactly like what you saw in your head. Doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's awesome!!
Here's a close up of the flowers, I used some American Crafts felt flowers, a BoBunny brad (smaller one) and some old-old Autumn leaves brads.
I can't believe next week at this time I'll be at CHA... how cool. I hope I can meet "IRL" some of the people that I've met thru message boards. That would be fun.
Have a great week!!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
What A Ride!
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7 comments:
- joscelyne cutchens said...
sooooo cute! I love it when it actually comes out like the picture in your head. Have fun at CHA!!!
- July 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM
- Vanessa (aka V, Nessa, oldschool) said...
very cool girl...love the curve!
- July 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM
- Pattie said...
Love the idea for the roller coaster! I really like those papers, too. Might have to go looking for them... :)
- July 21, 2009 at 7:53 PM
- Kristin said...
Love this!
Have a GREAT time at CHA!
- July 21, 2009 at 11:59 PM
- Christie said...
Great layout! Have fun next week! I can't wait to hear all about it when you get back. :-)
- July 22, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- Elizabeth said...
cute LO!! I adore it!! Have fun at CHA..I can't wait to hear all about it. :)
- July 22, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- Jocelyn said...
Oh this one is PERFECT!!!! Love the curve!!!!! Have fun at CHA...I wish I were with you!!!!! :)
- July 25, 2009 at 10:56 AM
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CSUF News Service
Advancement VP Aims for 'Next Level'
Oct. 22, 2013
When Greg Saks, vice president for university advancement, first arrived on campus in January, he was impressed with the diversity, size and community impact of the University. Today, he says that not only has his first impression been validated but enhanced.
"I'm more convinced than ever that we are in a unique position to take this university to the next level," he said. "We have the ability to go from really good to extraordinary. I met with dozens of people during my first few months and they are quite bullish about the opportunities available to us."
Saks oversees fundraising on behalf of the university, as well as government relations and strategic communications.
"As I spoke with people on campus and in the community, it helped crystalize my thinking," he said. "We are the 10th largest employer in Orange County and one of the primary economic engines of the region. We prepare the workforce of tomorrow and what we do impacts the future. Our work is to partner with employers, government agencies, community leaders, individual donors, alumni, and our own faculty and staff to demonstrate that Cal State Fullerton is a great investment."
In order to achieve this goal, Saks' division is undertaking the development of a division-specific strategic plan (in alignment with the university's strategic plan). Among the goals are to expand the campus' service area into south Orange County, as well as parts of Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire.
"We need to make sure our programs and communications are planned and thoughtful," Saks said. "Our messages need to resonate with our stakeholders. That helps us leverage our resources."
The stewardship of donors is another prime area of focus. "We need to ensure that donors know how much we appreciate their gifts," he said. "Our goal is to develop relationships with donors from their first gifts to planned gifts so that they can leave a legacy."
Saks also is excited about how the University Advancement Division is positioned to support the campus.
"University Advancement has a unique role in impacting positive change on campus through gifts to fund centers and programs, help build new structures, provide student scholarships and much more," he said.
He hopes CSUF will become even more involved in Fullerton and north Orange County's economic development.
"We have a campus filled with experts," he said. "I'd like to see if we can leverage that expertise and experience and enhance CSUF's role as a good civic partner."
Many of these changes are well underway.
"We are already working closely with chambers and leadership in the city and county," Saks said. "We are working with education partners to help bridge the achievement gap, and we are focused on capacity building.
"Government relations plays a substantial role," he said. "When you think about it, the state is really our largest single donor with 55 percent of our budget coming from these funds. That said, we need to continue to reach out to donors — members of the community, elected officials, our alumni, faculty and staff and our students to educate them about the value of giving back.
"I'm proud of the staff I work with, and there is significant movement on many new projects that will bump us up to the next level. I foresee a bright future for the University, and University Advancement is well-positioned to play a significant role in that growth in the coming years."


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Biota's second, a long-lasting form of Relenza called Inavir, has been earning royalties in Japan since October, marking a new stage of maturity of the local drug development sector.
"What you would normally expect to see is about a 10-year product life from the day you launch a new drug on the market," says Cook, Biota's chief executive. "We have got to market with our second product with a four-year life remaining on Relenza in the US and nine years in Japan. We have done pretty well in terms of overlap."
A handful of Australia's 100-plus listed biotechnology companies are close to selling their first product to the public and are now eyeing their second. Recently Mesoblast announced a $US330 million deal to bring its adult stem cell therapies to market within three years, while Acrux won US marketing approval for its testosterone treatment, Axiron, which will reap as much as $US335 million from sales by US partner Lilly.
But despite such big numbers, single-product companies still lag Biota which, with two products on sale, could lay claims to being Australia's first sustainable new drug development business.
Cook is wary of hubris, noting Australia is not good at developing businesses producing intellectual property on a sustainable basis. Nor is the finance sector good at funding them.
Despite Biota's track record, investor support is likely to be just as hard to come by the second time round as it was the first. Inavir is approaching the market with the company's share price down from $3.47 in 2009 to around $1 today. With $105 million in cash in the bank, this values future Relenza royalties, income from Inavir which has patent coverage until 2027 and two promising anti-viral drugs in development at only $95 million.
"We are very aware of the current market valuation and we are very focused on ways to see the business properly valued," Biota chairman
Australian retail shareholders continue to support biotechnology stocks, but institutions are more wary of the difficulties our 450 companies face developing their first drug, let alone a second. But they may have to start factoring it in –
While the Aridol product already approved for sale in Australia, Europe and South Korea is a test kit rather than a riskier therapeutic drug, the company's second product is cystic fibrosis treatment Bronchitol.
"You have to have the patience of a saint; all of us in the sector do," says Pharmaxis CEO
"It has taken us nine years to get to this point with a product on the market. But few do, so it is a rare event indeed."
Approval to market Bronchitol is also close in Europe and the US and has been recommended by the Australian Advisory Committee on Prescription Medicines. Robertson says companies always have to be improving existing products and extending patent life. But they also have to be developing new drugs as well.
"One product does not build a sustainable business," he says. "We are building a business not just for our generation, but for the next generation."
Yet Australian technology investors and analysts often prefer single-product businesses because they are easier to understand and value. It is no coincidence that the two most successful modern healthcare start-ups, Cochlear and ResMed, which are both in the medical instrument field, are focused on a single product.
But there are dangers in not planning for follow-on opportunities–Biota is closer to the end of major licensing income from Relenza than the beginning. To speed new income flows, the company is looking at alternative ways to fund the development of Inavir in further markets outside Japan.
"Developing pharmaceuticals involves long timelines and you tend to focus all of your efforts onto your lead compound," says Biota's Cook. "Ultimately the danger is that lead becomes a one-horse race."
"There are two schools of thought on this," says Alchemia CEO
Alchemia is also developing an anti-cancer treatment and a new method of delivering drugs to the body, a focus that looks disparate from the outside, Smith admits.
"You can't just have one product and expect to be successful." he says. "The generic drug gives us revenue, the cancer drugs are where we are becoming more focused, and we will spin out the drug development technology."
The company's immediate focus remains a low-risk one of extending the usefulness of its Omapro treatment for chronic myeloid leukaemia to other diseases.
"The last thing you want to see as an investor is to see the profits [from your first drug] being sucked into trying to bring to market other more risky products you have in your pipeline," CEO
ChemGenex was able to finance from its own resources the development of Omapro and the establishment of a marketing team in the US. The company is now renewing its emphasis on its medium- and long-term product pipeline.
"There is some hedging your bets, because if one product fails you need to have other opportunities waiting," Collier says. "However, once you get to the pointy end and you have a marketing approval process in place, you have to focus."
"It is a one, two, three punch," CEO
QRxPharma is working on drugs for neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease and anti-clotting agents derived from snake venom.
Holaday says the large number of products awaiting marketing approval and in late-stage clinical trials suggest the Australian biotechnology drug development sector is maturing. But companies and investors have learned to expect lower stockmarket valuations for Australia's 111 listed biotechnology businesses than would be available in the US.
"This is the second-oldest biotechnology community in the world," says Holaday. "It has been slow to evolve but there is a greater appreciation of the value of Australian science as it is commercialised."
A number of US venture capitalists have been attracted by an upsurge in government investment in biotechnology science and a general retreat from the sector by the local superannuation funds. A number have been scouting locally for investment opportunities, including La Jolla Cove Investors, Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners, Healthcare Ventures, Biotechnology Value Fund and Nextech Invest.
"Companies tend to be undervalued in Australia," La Jolla's Malcolm Thompson told a recent AusBiotech conference. "They tend to go public too early, but we have found very exciting opportunities here."
More than 50 foreign investors attended AusBiotech's life sciences investment summit held as part of the conference.
One attendee, Doug Onsi, managing director of US-based Healthcare Ventures, is opening a Brisbane office to manage its Australian investments. He says his company would prefer to be investing in private companies but understands that many businesses that would not be listed in the US are already on the ASX.
"Everyone is operating in a capital-constrained environment," says Onsi. "You need to be very thoughtful about how you spend your cash in a way that gives you most bang for your buck."
Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners has a venture capital model that seems particularly suited to the Australian environment, in which companies tend to license their technologies early to global companies.
Managing director Todd Davis says his company invests in companies or loans them funds based on the future value of their royalty streams.
"Large pharmaceutical companies are increasingly in-licensing technologies," says Davis. "That is creating a significant increase in the number of royalty streams. We buy the commercial risks on how products perform in the market."
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taught in elementaryand middle schools (Sahiner & Schneps, 1977).
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and engineering students) can not use what they seem
to know and do informal classrooms and laboratories to real-world problems
(Champagne &Klopfer, 1984; Mestre & Lochhead, 1990; Resnick, 1986,
With such a litany of deficiencies it seems logical that all people would be anxious to try any new approach that might yield better results.In actuality the forces are even stronger to return to the tried and true teacher-directed classrooms where successful students have only to take notes, pay attention, and demonstrate use of certain vocabulary and certainskills which teachers and textbooks proclaim as worth remembering.
Project Synthesis was a large NSF-funded effort to review the NSF Status Studies (Helgeson, Blosser & Howe, 1977; Stake & Easley, 1978;Weiss, 1978), current textbooks, and the 1977 NAEP results (1978). Fivefocal areas were used as organizers; one of these was inquiry. In the final report of Project Synthesis the Inquiry Team reported that there waslittle evidence that any school or teacher was teaching by inquiry or that any students were learning by such procedures. Hurd had reported earlier that inquiry was a failed effort of the reforms following Sputnik: "Thedevelopment of enquiry skills as a major goal of instruction in science appears to have had only a minimal effect on secondary school teaching.The rhetoric about enquiry and process teaching greatly exceeds both the research on the subject and the classroom practice. The validity of theenquiry goal itself could profit from more scholarly interchange and confrontation even if it is simply to recognize that science is not totally confined to logical processes and data-gathering" (Hurd, 1978, p. 62).
Inquiry was a major focus for the reform efforts of the 60s. Joe Schwab eloquently described the reforms which followed the launching ofSputnik I by the Soviets in 1957 while calling for an emphasis on a narrative of enquiry rather than a rhetoric of conclusions (1962). (Hepreferred to spell inquiry with an "e" to attract even more attention!) During the two decades following Sputnik, two billion dollars were used inthe United States to reform school science- almost always with an emphasis on "inquiry."
But calls for reform--even reform focusing upon what scientist do aswell as the results of the doing (i.e., the concepts which describe the waynature operates)--did not begin in the 50s. Such calls for a focus on the skills scientist use were first made in the 30s-most notably in the 31stYearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (Whipple, 1932).
Unfortunately, however, past efforts to focus science teaching and student learning on the skills, procedures, and thinking scientists use hadlittle effect on teaching, student learning, or assessment practices. Calls for emphasis on this second dimension of science (inquiry) neverresulted in any less focus on student learning of science concepts. But,reformers have consistently called for a shift to process science for over 70 years.
For nearly three-quarters of a century in the U.S. reformers have called for an equal treatment of what scientists know about the naturalworld (concepts) and the ways scientists go about their work of knowing more about how the universe works. Unfortunately this two-dimensional view of science continues where science courses outline the current concepts heldby scientists and the skills they tap to arrive at such meaning.
The greatest contribution of the new National Science Education Standards (NSES) may be the broadening of the view of the meaning of science beyond these two dimensions. NSES identifies eight facets ofscience content to be considered in K-12 classrooms.
These include:
Unifying Concepts and Processes in Science;
Science as Inquiry;
Physical Science;
Life Science;
Earth and Space Science;
Science and Technology;
Science in Personal and Societal Perspectives;
and History and Nature of Science (NRC, 1996, p. 6).
It is noteworthy that "Science as Inquiry" is the second category of content-before the three discipline-bound categories, physical, life,and earth/space science. But, inquiry is more than just a facet ofcontent. It appears along with scientific literacy, content and curricula, knowledge, and understanding, and science and technology as a special termneeding definition (NRC, 1996, p. 23).
In many ways this definition is gibberish. It says that scientificinquiry refers to the diverse ways scientists study the natural world andhow they propose explanations based on evidence derived from their work. (But, do not the explanations they propose usually precede their manipulation of nature to test the creation of their minds?) The NSES saysthat inquiry also refers to the activities of students in which theydevelop knowledge and understanding of scientific ideas. (But, does this not create the problem of describing all student activities as inquiry while also suggesting that the students are merely learning what scientistsknow without any real investigation of questions?) The definition further indicates that student activities help student understanding of how scientists study the natural world. (But, doesn't this sound like studentsreplicating experiments scientists have already done?) The definition thenproceeds to a long list of activities that sounds like the scientific processes so often central to the reform efforts of the 60s.
We learned (especially from the inquiry-based programs for elementary schools during the 60s) that little is gained by teaching skills'because they are important.' Students rarely see the importance of suchskills in any way other than the context in which they were presented. The definition used in NSES does not approach the first goal of school scienceoffered by the standards: producing students who can experience the richness and excitement of knowing about and understanding the natural world. The definition misses the point of science beginning with questions, curiosity, wonderment. The definition seems "third person"-something that people called scientists do, something alien to the lives of most people.
The elaboration of inquiry as outlined in the content standards does little to help with a vision of its meaning. It says that inquiry is "a step beyond science as process. It is more than learning about observation, inferences, and experimentation" (NRC, 1996, p. 105). The writers pontificate that a new vision of inquiry includes processes of science but requires students to combine process with scientific knowledgeas they use scientific reasoning and critical thinking to develop theirunderstanding of science. (By emphasizing "scientific" the writers further glamorize the skills!) The writers claim that inquiry teaching will provideall the outcomes for which most yearn. And yet our experiences of the 60s should cause us to be skeptical.
Readers of the NSES are then referred to a table which identifies the abilities and understandings which define or describe what is to bedone when inquiry teaching occurs. Interestingly, the same words are usedfor grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12. They list only: 1) abilities necessary todo scientific inquiry, and 2) understanding about scientific inquiry. Later some guide is given for the abilities and concepts that underlie inquiry content (NRC, 1996, pp. 145-146).
The assessment standards provide the richest information about teaching inquiry. The example given for assessing the ability to inquire(NRC, 1996, p. 98-100) is the clearest vision of the desired skills and howthey can be assessed in terms of student learning. Perhaps the value of this description is the specific context and example given. Unfortunatelyit is only for the high school level and the activity is designed to be an ongoing project. Such work would be ideal in college classrooms andlaboratories. One should be able to exemplify aspects of inquiry in a single class period.
There are too few in education who have practiced science-who have experienced first hand the first goal for science education espoused by thestandards: student should experience the richness and excitement of knowing about and understanding the natural world. Many feel they arealready "process" teachers and that they practice inquiry. They accept astheir jobs the transmission of this understanding to their students. For such people a look at the assessment standards is suggested.
Would it not be better to insist that all real science starts with a question-a real question about something in the immediate surroundings?All humans have questions-as soon as they are aware of things around them.And, all human beings try to make some sense of the things around them, i.e., the way nature operates. Unfortunately this "sense" that all peopledevelop does not coincide with the research and the consensus developed by the scientific community. Too often we merely teach what scientists knowand report and expect this teaching to replace constructions/ explanationsthat most people have developed on their own-in their day to day living outside science classrooms. This results in a conflict between what makes sense and those things teachers an schools report as important if students are to succeed.
Would it not be desirable to encourage students to share their own conceptions/explanations about natural phenomena? Would it not be desirable to compare these explanations arising from students and use themas a basis for further investigations? Would it not be desirable if the tests students devise to provide evidence of the validity of their explanations were inconclusive? Would it not be appropriate and realisticto have to develop more tests? Would it not be an obvious question to ask:Has anyone else over centuries ever asked this or similar questions? Whatdid they find? How did they interpret their results?
Most teachers know that inquiry is good-something they should practice, something that real scientists do, something that reformers havechampioned throughout their professional lives. And yet it remains something elusive; something that is poorly defined, something so broad that all can truthfully say they are doing some of it. And yet is ithelping us with reform efforts and the realization of the vision in the NSES?
Basic to the Scope, Sequence, and Coordination Project (the $25 million reform sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association) wasthat meaning should be carefully established before use of a term. Are we guilty of not practicing such a basic feature of reform in our own discipline?? Inquiry is a word in common use-but is there common understanding? Is there any reason to believe that we are any closer to realizing student learning of inquiry, by inquiry, from so-called inquiryactivities that we were doing three or four decades ago? What is therelationship of inquiry to the other seven facets of content included in the broader view of science content envisioned in NSES?
Maybe we still need the scholarly interchange and confrontation about inquiry that Hurd suggested nearly 20 years ago.
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But now that the media are acknowledging that, from Nick Bradley we get this: "Although Paul as at 9% in the latest ARG poll in nevada, a statistical tie for third pace, the AP is raising the bar as high as possibly can [sic] for Paul in Nevada -- they wouldn't want a top 3 finish in NV to be seen as a success. Now, the MSM can dismiss a 2nd or 3rd place finish by Paul in NV as a 'suprising [sic] disappointment,' not a 'surprising showing.'"
You see, if the MSM says Paul will do well, that is also an attempt to undermine his chances! In fact, if the MSM eats breakfast in the morning, that is part of a secret plot to portray Ron Paul as a racist!
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Mr. Alexander's students learned how to use several different software applications: Haiku Deck for presentations, iMovie for video editing, and PhotoStory3 for digital storytelling. The most significant project of the semester grew out of of a unit on time management. First, the students created a pie graph of their time spent on a typical day and used their smartphones to take pictures of their activities. This information was then turned into a digital storytelling project to be presented to the class. These presentations led many students to reassess how they spent time in such activities as sleeping, studying, relaxing, and exercising. Using s supplied rubric, the students graded each other's projects, and Mr. Alexander also used a rubric to score the effectiveness of the project.
Gary Bradley
Assistant Professor, Education
EDSC 333 - Adolescent Development
Dr. Bradley uses Nearpod for quizzes, polls, and presentations. He uploads the course materials so that they are available online, and then during class time students use their smartphone, computer, or tablet to respond in real time to the polls and quizzes. He then can then display the class results or choose any one student response to facilitate class discussion. Additionally, Dr. Bradley is using Attendance 2 to help with help keep monitor student attendance. The app can be configured to email the students that were absent or tardy for the class each day. The app allows him to add student pictures to their names, which helps him to learn his student's names more quickly. Finally, he is using Facebook as a forum for students to document their progress in their field work.
Angie Davis
Associate Professor, Nursing
NURS 410 - Nursing
NURS 308 - Topics in Health Care
Dr. Davis included a variety of digital tools in her redesigned technology intensive version of this course.
Alan Duesterhaus
Instructor, Business
MGMT 371 - Management
It is almost impossible to work in business today without using multiple forms of high tech devices or software. Dr. Duesterhaus has redesigned the Principles of Organizational Management course in two ways. The first incorporates student created videos in the form of student led learning (SLL). The student select one term which they will teach to the class. The creation of the video requires students to use technology to gather and disseminate information in order to be successful. The second redesign involves class sessions conducted virtually. In some cases these sessions are asynchronous, in others synchronous. These virtual meetings are designed to expose the students to different modes of working on a project that they may experience in the workplace. The virtual sessions of class require students to adjust their communication styles to be effective in a different modality of communication.
Elizabeth Freeman
Instructor, Psychology
PSYC 225 - Psychological Statistics
In the classroom, Ms. Freeman's students use devices ranging from cell phones (both Android and iPhone) to tablets (Both Microsoft Surface and iPad) to laptops (both Windows and OS X). Through the campus wireless network and through VMWare, students access SPSS datasets, lecture materials through Blackboard, videos through a text companion website, and other materials. During the course, students complete an individual presentation project called the Savvy Stat Database Project, in which they use a variety of presentation technologies to showcase their own ideas for expanding existing statistical information source websites or for creating a new statistics database. The first students to complete the Savvy Stat Database Presentation Project used presentation technologies including Prezi, enhanced PowerPoint, Nearpod, and Haiku Deck.
Araceli Hernández-Laroche
Assistant Professor, French
FREN 101 & 102 - Introductory French I & II
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FREN 398 - The French Republic & Its Discontents
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In her technology-intensive courses, Dr. Hernández-Laroche has implemented two student learning outcomes (SLO's). First, students learn to communicate information appropriately to others through technology to maximize language acquisition. Second, they come to understand and demonstrate ethical use of technology in gathering, processing, analyzing, and communicating information. These two SLOs are assessed by the successful use of one or two of the following digital tools: Twitter for discussing French articles on current events in the Francophone world; VoiceThread for recording and sharing French chapter essays; curating interactive French journals using wikispaces; and creating French movie trailers with digital storytelling tools.
Tina Herzberg
Associate Professor, Education
EDVI 705 - Literary Braille Code
Dr. Herzberg's students used a free software application called Perky Duck, which emulates the analog Perkins Brailler much the same way a word processor emulates a typewriter. This software was used exclusively for all assignments during the second half of the course. Using a computer freeware program allows students the flexibility to print a copy with simulated braille or to emboss a hard copy braille version if they had access to a braille embosser. There are two additional benefits of Perky Duck. First, it is easier to correct errors using the backspace and delete keys than it would be using a braille eraser. Second, this particular application is free, while commercial software can cost close to $1,000. Students continue to have access to Perky Duck and use it in their Advanced Braille course. Dr. Herzberg's future goals - pending successful funding - include developing a digital tool compatible with Blackboard or other learning management systems that would allow students to receive automatic feedback as they input braille using their computer keyboard.
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Dr. Long's students are using technology to create effective storytelling strategies for mission sharing, improving leadership capacities, and fundraising communications. On the first day of class students participate in a "Story of My Life" ice breaker to introduce themselves to the class. This activity requires students to create a four-page book to share information such as their major, academic year, favorite song, a drawing of their significant others, and their perfect first nonprofit position. The second activity requires students to use an online application, StoryCube Creator, to share the story of someone receiving services from a nonprofit organization. Students design, print, construct and present a StoryCube and its storyboard. The next assignment is a choice between a micro-teach session using Screencast or a podcast interview with a nonprofit professional. The final assignment of the semester is the creation of a digital storytelling project related to a nonprofit organization or social condition.
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Dr. Tanyel's students complete projects and assignments using a variety of digital tools. In one pair of assignments, students find and demonstrate a tool for digital presentation and then prepare a presentation using one of those demonstrated tools. In the Play Project, students map a project topic that is related to play in early childhood and then develop strategies for discovery using inquiry methods. Students use different types of technology to map out, investigate, present, and assess the project. Another assignment asks students to engage in self reflection with regard to family values and cultural influences on their professional aspirations. This assignment requires students to use a digital storytelling tool to create a presentation that integrates graphics, audio, and video clips.
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Forget it. I am so excited to see this movie. The new trailer for "Twilight" is out and dang, it looks pretty awesome and I'm not just saying that because Robert Pattinson makes my loins burn in the pleasurable way (as opposed to the bladder infection way). So tell me, "Twilight" fans, which of the books should I read in anticipation of the film? I want to walk into the theater with an understanding of the "Twilight" universe.