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Evaluating the impact of patients' online access to doctors' visit notes: designing and executing the OpenNotes project
Providers and policymakers are pursuing strategies to increase patient engagement in health care. Increasingly, online sections of medical records are viewable by patients though seldom are clinicians' visit notes included. We designed a one-year multi-site trial of online patient accessible office visit notes, OpenNotes. We hypothesized that patients and primary care physicians (PCPs) would want it to continue and that OpenNotes would not lead to significant disruptions to doctors' practices.
Using a mixed methods approach, we designed a quasi-experimental study in 3 diverse healthcare systems in Boston, Pennsylvania, and Seattle. Two sites had existing patient internet portals; the third used an experimental portal. We targeted 3 key areas where we hypothesized the greatest impacts: beliefs and attitudes about OpenNotes, use of the patient internet portals, and patient-doctor communication. PCPs in the 3 sites were invited to participate in the intervention. Patients who were registered portal users of participating PCPs were given access to their PCPs' visit notes for one year. PCPs who declined participation in the intervention and their patients served as the comparison groups for the study. We applied the RE-AIM framework to our design in order to capture as comprehensive a picture as possible of the impact of OpenNotes. We developed pre- and post-intervention surveys for online administration addressing attitudes and experiences based on interviews and focus groups with patients and doctors. In addition, we tracked use of the internet portals before and during the intervention.
PCP participation varied from 19% to 87% across the 3 sites; a total of 114 PCPs enrolled in the intervention with their 22,000 patients who were registered portal users. Approximately 40% of intervention and non-intervention patients at the 3 sites responded to the online survey, yielding a total of approximately 38,000 patient surveys.
Many primary care physicians were willing to participate in this "real world" experiment testing the impact of OpenNotes on their patients and their practices. Results from this trial will inform providers, policy makers, and patients who contemplate such changes at a time of exploding interest in transparency, patient safety, and improving the quality of care.
Providers and policymakers are pursuing many strategies to increase the engagement of patients in promoting health and managing illness. As the general trend toward transparency accelerates, providers with electronic medical records (EMRs) increasingly allow patients to view online laboratory results, medication lists, and other parts of the medical record. However, while patients nationwide have the right to view their medical records, providers rarely share clinicians' visit notes proactively with their patients.
Offering visit notes to patients stirs concerns among doctors and their staff. Will the many patients inundate their doctors' offices with telephone and e-mail queries, placing excessive demands on already overburdened doctors and their staffs? Will patients be distressed or confused by what they read? Or would such access lead to more involvement in care, more sense of control, greater knowledge, and improved adherence to the plan of care? How would patients view comments about their mental health, likelihood of developing a malignancy, habits with alcohol, or efforts to control their weight?
Whatever the views of doctors or patients, in the presence of rapidly changing societal norms such change toward greater transparency will almost certainly occur in coming years. On the cusp of this change, we sought to begin to answer some important questions and concerns through the OpenNotes study, using a simple, one step intervention. We made all visit notes between consenting primary care physicians (PCPs) and their patients readily available online through secure patient Internet portals. We hypothesized that after a one year trial of OpenNotes, patients and PCPs would want it to continue. And we hypothesized further that OpenNotes would not lead to significant disruptions for doctors and their staffs.
In designing this trial, which would involve both a demonstration and evaluation of OpenNotes, we weighed the strategy of a standard experimental design against an effort that would focus on a large scale intervention involving multiple and highly diverse sites, each of which required a somewhat different intervention. We chose the latter approach in order to mount a "real world" experiment involving a large number of patients and PCPs in a one-year demonstration of OpenNotes. The many PCPs who declined participation in the intervention and their patients would thereby serve as the comparison groups for the trial. Basing our trial in the primary care environment in 3 different settings and geographical locations, our primary purpose was to assess PCPs and patients attitudes and experiences with OpenNotes. Secondly, we sought to gather information from a variety of sources in order to determine in a comprehensive way how the use of OpenNotes affects patient behavior and doctors' practices.
Crafting a careful evaluation of this intervention, which many viewed as potentially disruptive, across very different health care systems required both extensive planning and creative strategies to address the many differences in the populations and technologies across the 3 sites. With the hope that our unusual design might help inform other studies focusing on the evaluation of innovations in the practice of medicine, we describe in this paper the methods we developed and implemented. Also, we present initial results from our recruitment and implementation of OpenNotes.
Although we specifically targeted primary care in our evaluation, the 3 health care systems participating in the study differed in many ways: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston is a Harvard teaching hospital with approximately 113 hospital-based and community PCPs, serving approximately 90,000 patients, including over 50,000 patients registered to use
Study design
In preparation for our OpenNotes demonstration and evaluation, we convened a team of investigators from across the U.S., including three (SR, JR, and TD) who had expertise in patient access to medical records and, specifically, doctors' visit notes. Informed by the literature and our own scientific experience related to patient and doctor attitudes toward open access to medical records
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Conceptual model showing primary planned comparisons among doctors and patients in their attitudes, experiences, and portal use before and after the implementation of OpenNotes
Conceptual model showing primary planned comparisons among doctors and patients in their attitudes, experiences, and portal use before and after the implementation of OpenNotes. Primary planned comparisons are indicated by red arrows.
We employed mixed methods, using qualitative data from semi-structured interviews and focus groups to inform survey instrument development and, at the end of the study, to provide a more in-depth assessment of patients' and doctors' experiences with OpenNotes. Using Creswell's typology, this approach is described as a sequential study involving qualitative data collection for instrument development, followed by quantitative data collection and subsequent qualitative data collection for triangulation purposes
Table 1
Summary of RE-AIM framework
Administrative data re: PCP characteristics and panel information; Portal use data; Surveys of patients/PCPs
PCP and patient demographics PCP workload, sessions, visits PCP portal statistics: number patients on portal, number of OpenNotes Patient portal statistics: registered users, logons
PCP pre- and post- intervention survey, interviews Patient pre- and post- intervention survey PCP/patient portal data
PCP and patient preferences about continuation of OpenNotes PCP reported burden from OpenNotes Patient measures: Perceptions of Benefits/Risks of OpenNotes, ACES Quality of patient-doctor relationship subscale, Perceived Efficacy in Patient-Physician Interactions (PEPPI) short form questionnaire, PCP portal and telephone messages Patient portal: number of notes viewed
System level data PCP practice data
Description of systems, PCP practices, proportions using OpenNotes PCP panel size, registered portal users
Process data, PCP surveys and interviews, non-respondent surveys
PCP expectations, burden, barriers to participation; detailed descriptions of PCP experiences, comments, recommendations
PCP/system responses
Decision to continue or discontinue OpenNotes
We considered several study designs, but given the scope of the study and the involvement of 3 health systems, we identified a quasi-experimental, nonequivalent group, pretest-posttest approach as the one that would be most informative and efficient
Survey instrument development
After developing our own list of expectations about the impact of OpenNotes
We developed survey questions based on the themes of PCP expectations about the impact on their practice and PCP and patient attitudes about benefits and risks of OpenNotes. Other than the set of questions specifically for PCPs about potential practice effects of OpenNotes, the PCP and patient surveys were designed in parallel to address similar questions about the anticipated benefits and risks of OpenNotes. In planning ahead for the one-year follow-up survey, we decided we would also include a set of questions about attitudes toward possible future modifications to OpenNotes that might further engage patients and their families in their care. We performed a series of tests of the pre-intervention surveys, first using paper questionnaires to ascertain the intent and clarity of the questions, then incorporating changes based on feedback from PCPs and patients, and we conducted additional testing in the online format to assess content and potential technical issues.
Concordant with the study's aims regarding the impact on attitudes, we developed 3 items to directly query patient respondents about whether or not they: a) thought OpenNotes was a good idea, b) would like to read their notes, and c) would be likely to share their notes with others. To explore these attitudes further, we developed three item sets, Perceptions of Benefits and Perceptions of Risks of OpenNotes on Patients, comprising 7 and 4 items, respectively, and a set of 4 items about Risks to PCP practices.
The survey questions regarding perceived patient benefits were as follows:
1. I would better understand my health and medical conditions.
2. I would better remember the plan for my care.
3. I would take better care of myself.
4. I would be more likely to take my medications as prescribed.
5. I would feel more in control of my health care.
6. I would be better prepared for visits.
7. Patients will trust me more as their doctor. (PCP survey only)
The questions addressing perceived patient risks were as follows:
1. I would worry more
2. I would be concerned about my privacy.
3. The notes would be more confusing than helpful.
4. It could make my doctor's job more difficult. (Patient survey only)
The PCP survey questions about the impact on their practice were as follows:
1. Patients will disagree with what I write in their visit notes
2. Patients will request changes to the content of visit notes
3. Patients will find significant errors in the notes
4. Patients will contact me or my practice with questions about their notes
The patient benefits and risk items were designed as parallel items on both patient and PCP surveys except where otherwise indicated. Response options were as follows: agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, disagree; we added a "don't know" response option for patients. To compare PCP perceptions about anticipated and experienced impact of OpenNotes on their practices in the pre- and post-intervention surveys, respectively, we designed a set of questions addressing PCP documentation (content and process), communications with patients, potential impact on medical liability, and effects on patient care. In the baseline survey, we also included items about doctor and practice characteristics. For the post-intervention survey, to address our primary hypothesis, doctors and their patients in the intervention were specifically asked whether or not they would like OpenNotes to continue.
To measure patients' perceptions about patient-doctor communication, we used 2 standardized instruments. The Ambulatory Care Experiences Survey (ACES) was developed to survey patients about their experiences with health care providers, as a complement to existing health plan level strategies for assessing health care quality
For both patients and doctors, surveys were conducted online using SurveyGizmo (v2.0 & v3.0. Widgix, LLC dba SurveyGizmo, Boulder, Colorado). We required a response for all items except for demographic items, free text questions and questions within skip patterns. Based on our pilot tests, the PCP surveys were designed to be completed in less than 10 minutes, and the patient surveys in less than 20 minutes. The instruments are available from the authors upon request. Results regarding PCP and patients attitudes from the baseline survey were published elsewhere
Human subjects protections
Before the start of the study, all study protocols, data collection procedures and the intervention methods were approved by the institutional review boards of the 3 participating institutions, the BIDMC, the GHS and the University of Washington.
Recruitment of primary care doctors
We began the study with the recruitment and enrollment of primary care doctors who would be willing to make their visit notes available to their patients through the Internet portal. OpenNotes doctors signed an informed consent prior to completing the baseline study surveys that preceded the OpenNotes intervention.
Invitations to join the intervention went to all primary care doctors (excluding trainees) practicing in BIDMC and affiliated primary care practices who were using both electronic health records (EHR) and the patient portal,
PCPs from the BIDMC and GHS primary care practices who chose not to offer any of their patients access to their visit notes online, referred to here as "non-intervention PCPs," were included in the study as the PCP comparison group. Their patients who were registered portal users comprised the comparison group referred to as "non-intervention patients." As no patient portal was available previously to patients at HMC, we did not have PCP or patient comparison groups at HMC.
Recruitment of patients
After PCPs agreed to join the study, we sent them a list of their eligible patients and allowed them to exclude individual patients from the intervention with no requirement that they explain the exclusions. At BIDMC and GHS, patient eligibility was defined as having been registered on the patient Internet portal for at least 1 year before the start of the study. Following PCPs' exclusions, all patients registered on the patient Internet portals at BIDMC and GHS were included automatically as OpenNotes patients for the study, regardless of their portal use history or participation in study surveys. Prior to the start of the intervention, OpenNotes patients were sent a message through the portal informing them that their doctor was participating in OpenNotes, with an explanation of the study and a link to the OpenNotes website
We included two comparison groups of patients in our evaluation from BIDMC and GHS. The first group comprised patients of non-intervention PCPs who were registered portal users, referred to as "non-intervention patients." The second group included all patients of OpenNotes PCPs who were not registered portal users. This latter group was not approached to participate in surveys; their health care utilization and administrative data will be used in the evaluation. As noted above, there was no comparison group of HMC patients.
Prior to the OpenNotes Study, patients at HMC did not have access to the patient internet portal which was developed and implemented previously for research studies within the University of Washington system
OpenNotes: the intervention
Prior to OpenNotes, patients registered on the multifunctional GHS or BIDMC patient portals already had online access to their problem lists, medication records, and laboratory and radiology reports. In addition, the portals provided appointment scheduling and secure e-mail messaging among patients and their doctors and health care teams. As participants in the OpenNotes project, the PCP's at BIDMC or GHS could selectively exclude their patients, as described above, but they would be allowing all of their other eligible patients access to their visit notes if they were registered portal users at the time the study began in Spring, 2010.
At BIDMC and GHS, the OpenNotes intervention consisted of a simple addition to the existing menu of accessible records. Following a scheduled office visit, PCPs would record and sign their visit notes, at which point their patient would receive an automatically-generated e-mail invitation to read the visit note. Two weeks prior to a next scheduled visit to their PCP, patients also received an e-mail message suggesting that they review prior "OpenNotes" before coming to see their doctor. At HMC, patients did not have prior online access to their health records; therefore the intervention included new access not only to the visit notes, but also to other sections of their EHR including laboratory and radiology reports. Unlike the portals at BIDMC and GHS, the HMC portal was not interactive; patients could only view their records but could not schedule appointments or send messages to the healthcare team.
Surveys of doctors and patients
We are using several data sources in the multi-faceted evaluation of OpenNotes, but the principal sources of information used to assess the study's primary outcomes are PCP and patient surveys conducted prior to, and then immediately following the one-year OpenNotes intervention. All surveys were conducted online using the web-based program, SurveyGizmo. Both intervention and non-intervention PCP's and their patients from the BIDMC and GHS were provided links to the surveys via survey invitation messages sent through the portals. Each respondent was given a unique study ID number assigned by the information technology (IT) staff of each health system. Survey data were downloaded from the password-protected SurveyGizmo databases into password protected files on the computer network at the study coordinating center at the BIDMC. At HMC, patients completed their surveys at the time of enrollment which took place in their HMC clinic.
Electronic databases
In addition to the surveys, IT staff of each site assembled electronic data from multiple existing sources at the 3 sites, including the portal tracking systems, administrative databases and health care utilization databases. Using the unique study ID assigned to both intervention and non-intervention PCP's and patients at each site, we collected demographic and health characteristics, information about portal use, and health care utilization data for the year prior to the start of the intervention and for the one-year during which the visit notes were made available to intervention patients.
Patient characteristics
We used administrative data sources to obtain demographic information (age and sex) about PCPs and patients at each of the 3 sites.
Portal use data
We assessed portal use at each site through their electronic tracking systems. At BIDMC, HMC and GHS, the systems recorded the time and date of each patient portal login, each click into each section of the portal, including the OpenNotes section, and, with the exception of HMC, each message sent or received from within the portal. During the year of the intervention, we determined the total number of times patients entered the new OpenNotes sections of their portal records.
Health care utilization
Patient utilization measures, determined from billing records, included counts of visits to PCP's and their practices, hospitalizations, and emergency room visits.
Rates of PCP participation in the OpenNotes intervention varied widely among the 3 study sites. At GHS, 27 (19%) out of 145 invited PCPs enrolled; at BIDMC, 42 (66%) out of 64 invited PCPs enrolled; at HMC, 45 (87%) out of 52 invited PCPs enrolled in the intervention. Invited PCPs who declined participation at BIDMC and GHS were included in the control group of non-participating PCPs (GHS, n = 118; BIDMC, n = 22). The recruitment and enrollment of PCPs and their patients at the 3 participating sites are shown in Figure
Figure 2
(A) BIDMC PCP and Patient Recruitment and Enrollment, (B) GHS PCP and Patient Recruitment and Enrollment, (C) HMC PCP and Patient Recruitment and Enrollment
(A) BIDMC PCP and Patient Recruitment and Enrollment, (B) GHS PCP and Patient Recruitment and Enrollment, (C) HMC PCP and Patient Recruitment and Enrollment.
From among their patient panels, intervention PCPs at BIDMC and GHS excluded 158 and 139 patients from participating, respectively, or 1.3% and 1.4% of eligible patients. At HMC, the entire panel of adult patients managed by each intervention PCP was initially eligible for the study, and the PCPs excluded 1,006, or 32% of their eligible patients. Though we did not collect reasons for exclusion, the HMC patient population includes many individuals with psychiatric diagnoses, current substance abuse, or other severe medical conditions (eg. bone marrow transplant).
At the BIDMC, 11,740 patients (39%) from the panels of participating PCPs were registered portal users and eligible to participate in the intervention. Only 15 patients (0.1%) requested to not be included in the intervention after receiving their notification letter about OpenNotes and their invitation to complete the survey. 4,545 intervention patients (39% of those invited) submitted the optional online survey prior to the start of the intervention. On the panels of the non-participating PCPs, 6,631 patients were registered on the portal and invited to complete the online survey; 2,701 (41%) submitted the survey.
Within GHS, of the nearly 45,000 patients on the panels of participating doctors, 10,686 patients (24%) were registered on the
At HMC, patient recruitment was individualized because there was no previous web portal available to patients. For the initial recruitment, invitation letters were mailed to 2,163 eligible patients; however, 179 patients (8%) did not have a viable mailing address or their letters were returned undeliverable. The second step in the recruitment process involved telephoning patients from the PCPs' panel lists, or directly approaching patients in the clinic before their clinical appointment. Of 434 patients contacted by phone or approached in the clinics, 155 were ineligible primarily due to language barriers (n = 34) or lack of an email address (n = 113). Eligible and interested patients were asked to complete the survey online as part of the study enrollment. Five patients (2% of enrollees) experienced technical problems submitting their surveys which, as a result, were not recorded. There were 272 HMC patients who completed the online survey.
Characteristics of PCPs
Doctors who participated were somewhat younger than non-participating PCPs at BIDMC and HMC (Table
Table 2
Characteristics of participating and non-participating primary care physicians (PCPs) according to study site*
BIDMC PCPs
GHS PCPs
HMC PCPs
Participating (n = 42)
Non-participating (n = 22)
Participating (n = 27)
Non-participating (n = 118)
Participating (N = 45)
Non-participating (N = 4)
Age (mean ± S.D.)
47.3 ± 9.6
50.8 ± 6.7
49.7 ± 8.2
49.9 ± 9.4
42.5 ± 6.9
49.8 ± 5.4
Sex (female)
20 (47.6%)
11 (50.0%)
6 (22.2%)
38 (32.2%)
26 (57.8%)
3 (75.0%)
Panel size:
< 500
18 (42.9%)
7 (31.8%)
4 (14.8%)
9 (7.6%)
45 (100%)
4 (100%)
14 (33.3%)
7 (31.8%)
5 (18.5%)
12 (10.2%)
8 (19.0%)
6 (27.3%)
7 (25.9%)
42 (35.6%)
≥ 2000
2 (4.8%)
2 (9.1%)
11 (40.7%)
55 (46.6%)
* Differences between participating and non-participating PCPs tested using t-tests for continuous measures and Chi-square tests for categorical measures. No significant differences were observed between participating and non-participating PCPs at any of the 3 sites
Characteristics of patients
On average, both participating and non-participating patients were approximately aged 50 years at each of the 3 sites (Table
Table 3
Characteristics* of participating and non-participating patients according to study site
BIDMC Patients
GHS Patients
HMC Patients
Age (mean ± S.D.)
49.4 ± 13.7
51.3 ± 14.3
49.9 ± 15.6
49.4 ± 15.3
48.9 ± 11.0
Sex (% female)
*Information derived from administrative records of each site
To our knowledge, this is the first extensive evaluation of a large-scale implementation of online patient access to doctors' visit notes through patient Internet portals. Our recruitment process demonstrates that substantial numbers of primary care providers are willing to engage in a year-long trial of this potentially disruptive intervention. Large numbers of primary care patients have had access to sections of their health records online for several years at the BIDMC and GHS. Although the addition of the office visit notes to these readily accessible online records seemed like a relatively minor change, many doctors voiced concerns in advance of the trial and even opposition to this next step in the evolution of transparency in healthcare.
Moving beyond small scale and qualitative studies of the impact of patient access to medical records, we designed the study to involve 3 large institutions with distinctly different patient populations. We intended to enroll as many PCPs and patients as possible and to capture as much quantitative and qualitative information as possible in our evaluation. Thus, in planning the evaluation and in giving careful consideration to our choice of research design and methods, we sought to collect new information and to maximize use of existing data sources. We used an online survey to address our key hypothesis about whether or not PCPs and patients would want to continue OpenNotes at the conclusion of the trial. To explore this further, the survey included questions assessing attitudes and perceptions about the impact of OpenNotes. We made use of both administrative data and data from portal tracking systems to address our secondary hypotheses, to cross-validate survey responses from PCPs and patients with actual portal use before and during the intervention period.
Our selection of study sites was intended to create a diverse pool of PCP practices and their patients. Although the majority of PCPs from the Boston (66%) and Seattle (87%) sites agreed to join the intervention, in Pennsylvania, a much smaller proportion of providers (19%) from these rural practices enrolled. On the other hand, panel sizes in Pennsylvania were generally much larger than the other 2 academic-affiliated institutions, and large numbers of patient from GHS (more than 10,000) were thereby enrolled in the intervention. Unlike the other sites, recruitment of the geographically dispersed GHS providers relied more on written communication than in-person discussions and presentations about the study, a factor that may have contributed to lower PCP participation.
In conclusion, many primary care physicians were willing to participate in this new intervention despite concerns of a potential burden to their practices related to patient inquiries about their notes. This positive response attests to the feasibility of conducting a large scale, multisite study of the impact of an intervention using electronic health records and Internet patient portals. Extensive electronic data resources will make it possible to conduct a thorough multi-faceted evaluation of PCP and patient level factors to determine the impact of giving patients online access to their physician's office visit notes. In addition, the availability of online survey technology enabled us to collect extensive information about attitudes and expectations before notes were made readily available, and about actual experiences after using such notes for at least one year. Results from this evaluation will inform providers, policy makers, and patients who contemplate such changes at a time of exploding interest in transparency, patient safety, and improving the quality of care.
ACES: Ambulatory Care Experiences Survey; BIDMC: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; GHS: Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania; HMC: Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA; PCPs: Primary care physicians; PEPPI: Perceived Efficacy in Patient-Physician Interactions scale; RE-AIM: Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
All authors contributed to the conception, design, data acquisition and analysis, interpretation of data and each has been involved in drafting or revising the manuscript. All authors have provided final approval of the published version of the paper.
The authors wish to thank all the many investigators, staff, patients and doctors who have contributed to the OpenNotes Project. The research was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, the Drane Family Fund, and the Koplow Charitable Foundation.
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We had bought some fresh Yakisoba noodles and my boyfriend sort of threw this recipe together. It turned out really well, especially since we like things rather spicy. I've made this with just the chili-garlic sauce and also with a mix of the chili black bean and black bean garlic sauce. Pick your favorite sauce or a combination that sounds good to you.
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I loved this...and I really loved that it's low in sodium...no soy sauce with this one...I did change just a couple of things...I used red peppers instead of green...thought the added color would look nice and I made mine a non vegetarian dish...I used real beef...Yummy! My choice of sauce was the hot chili-garlic one...this is a keeper thanks for posting it...made for Fall PAC 2012
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 cups water
- 4 ounces vegetarian beef strips, Vegeusa brand, thin beef strips (dehydrated mock beef)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 green pepper, chopped (optional)
- 1 head broccoli, chopped
- 4 tablespoons minced garlic
- 3 1⁄2 ounces sun luck hot chili-garlic sauce, chili black bean sauce, and or 3 1⁄2 ounces black bean garlic sauce
- 2 dashes sriracha hot chili sauce (squirts)
- 2⁄3 cup water
- 2 lbs yakisoba noodles, fresh
- fresh ground black pepper
- sesame oil
Directions See How It's Made
- In a medium pan, boil 2 cups of water. Add Vegeusa beef strips and cook until tender (approximately 5 minutes). Drain and set aside.
- In a skillet, cook onion and green pepper (optional) in olive oil until slightly tender, then add broccoli and cook until tender. Set aside.
- While your veggie are cooking, prepare the sauce by mixing the minced garlic, sauce combination of your choice, sriracha chili sauce, and water.
- In your skillet or hot wok, add rehydrated beef strips and cook for a minute or two just to brown it a bit, then add your veggie mix, Yakisoba noodles, and sauce and mix well. Add black pepper and sesame oil to taste (I usually just try the cover the top with black pepper and maybe make a small circle with sesame oil. Stir until well mixed. Heat for 5-10 minutes and serve.


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Below is the obituary of Jean L. (McNamee) George.
From the Chambersburg, PA newspaper, Public Opinion, 27 Dec 2001.
Jean L. George
CHAMBERSBURG - Jean L.
(McNamee) George, 71, of 123 S.
Fourth St., Chambersburg, died
Sunday, Dec. 23, 2001, in the Chambersburg Hospital.
Born June 23, 1930, in Hagerstown, Md., she was a daughter of the late John Calvin and Wavie Lee (Youngblood)
Mrs. George
was a member of
St. Paul United
Methodist Church
of Chambersburg.
She had served as a housekeeper for Mrs. H.C. Gabler of Cham-bersburg for 28 years.
She is survived by her husband, Clayton Stewart George, whom she married Jan. 7, 1950; a daughter, Deborah Jean (Mrs. Kenneth) Poper of Chambersburg; a son, Larry Wayne (husband of Linda) of New-burg; two grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mary (Mrs. Eugene) Clark of Pur-cellville, Va., and Gloria (Mrs. Robert) Slate of Hagerstown, Md.
Four sisters, Phyllis Martin, Doris Blair, Donna Repp and Emilie McNamee; two brothers, John Calvin McNamee and James William McNamee; and a half brother, Roy McNamee, preceded her in death.
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List of state capitols in the United States
This is a list of U.S. state and territorial capitol buildings in the United States and is not to be confused with a list of state capitals, which are the cities where these buildings are located.
Most U.S. states (39 of the 50) have facilities named "State Capitol". Indiana and Ohio use the term "Statehouse" and eight states use "State House": Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. Delaware has a "Legislative Hall". The State of Alabama has a State Capitol, but the Legislature has, since 1985, met in the State House.
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In nine states, the state's highest court also routinely meets in the capitol: Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma (both civil and criminal courts), Pennsylvania (one of three sites), South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The other 40 states have separate buildings for their supreme courts, though in Minnesota and Utah the high court also has ceremonial meetings at the capitol.[clarification needed]
Eleven of the fifty state capitols do not feature a dome: Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, and Virginia.[2]
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Table of Territorial Capitols[edit]
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|Puerto Rico Commonwealth Capitol
|San Juan, PR
|National Register of Historic Places
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District Building
|Washington, DC
|National Register of Historic Places, originally called the District Building until renamed in 1994 after district councilor John A. Wilson
|American Samoa Fono Building
|Fagatogo, American Samoa
|Guam Legislature Building
|Hagåtña, Guam
|Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature Building
|Capitol Hill, Saipan
|United States Virgin Islands Legislature Building
|Charlotte Amalie, USVI
See also[edit]
- ^ "Virtual Tour of the Virginia State Capitol". Virginia Capitol.gov. Retrieved May 2011. Check date values in:
- ^ "State Capitols and Domes". NCSL.org (National Conference of State Legislatures). Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- ^ "IDOA: The Statehouse Story". IN.gov. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
- ^ History of the State House and Its Dome. msa.maryland.gov (Maryland State Archives), 2007. Retrieved on April 5, 2014.
- ^ Pennsylvania Manual p. xiv


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Resolved: The continuation of current U.S. anti-drug policies in Latin America will do more harm than good
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BackgroundWhile the history of anti-drug policies in the US go back to the early 1900's there is no need to review the timeline of the various US initiatives to limit the import of "illegal" drugs into the US. The issue has long been one of supply and demand. Rather I should say demand and supply because the demand for drugs drives the efforts to supply them and as long as there are people who demand something, there will be those willing to try to supply the demand. However, some may argue it is a not just a problem of supply and demand, because the prevalence, or easy access to drugs constitutes a threat because it makes it easy for those who may be prone to such things, to "discover" drugs. For sure, if drugs are difficult to obtain, they would likely be much more expensive and so there would be less chance of obtaining the drugs. The so-called 'War on Drugs' began in the early 1970's, really after the formation of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a division of the US Justice Department and became a sort of national paramilitary force aimed at enforcing the Controlled Substances Act and working to reduce drug smuggling across the international borders of the US as well as state borders within the US. The DEA began to work with similar agencies in foreign countries to find and eradicate the source of illegal drugs and arrest the individuals in the so-called drug cartels responsible for supply. In the 1980s, the federal government authorized the use of CIA and US military units to assist in the War on Drugs. Millions of dollars were handed over to foreign governments to establish and equip their drug eradication efforts.
Much of the anti-drug operations were being conducted in Mexico, Columbia, Peru, and other Latin American countries as well as Asia and Africa. Of course, as we look at this topic of debate we need only concentrate on the policies relative to Latin America. The development of the drug trade in Latin America began with farmers in certain regions in which the plants which yield drugs thrive, growing and cultivating the plants. The people in these regions have historically been poor and it was said that a farmer can make more money growing marijuana or cocoa than he could growing corn. So there was a financial motive to cultivate these kinds of crops. Groups organized and expanded to buy the crops and set up the various operations required to process the drugs and smuggle them to the US and Europe. Early anti-drug policies attempted to encourage farmers to convert their fields to normal crops, such as corn and were paid subsidies to do so. Also, US agencies in cooperation with agents of the host country would raid these farms, uproot and burn the marijuana or cocoa crops. Such actions would devastate the livelihoods of the farmers which served to foster anti-American sentiments among the citizens of these areas. Meanwhile, enriched by the flourishing drug consumption market, the various organizations which manufactured and supplied the drugs became increasingly well organized, heavily armed, and influential in the regions in which they operated, often using murder, torture, and terrorism to maintain their regional dominance of the trade. They eventually organized themselves into cartels. A cartel is a cooperative group of members which work together to fix prices, establish manufacturing operations and setup distribution networks. The "Drug Cartels" of Mexico and Colombia are well-organized, rich, very large and dangerous, willing to do whatever it takes to maintain their operations.
Cartel - a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
Drug cartel - an illicit cartel formed to control the production and distribution of narcotic drugs; "drug cartels sometimes finance terrorist organizations"
The Colombian-based cartels supplied most of the cocaine to the world. The two largest organizations, the Medellin and Cali cartels were targeted by DEA and CIA which organized efforts to cut off their trade routes through the Caribbean Sea. This forced them work with Mexican organizations to move cocaine through Mexico across the southern border of the US. The Mexican groups grew in power and wealth as a result. The ongoing drug war in Columbia, which at times was conducted with full military strikes, eventually led to the collapse of the major Colombian cartels. The Colombian supply chain broke up into smaller, less organized groups while the Mexican groups took over the distribution operations. Today the major drug cartels are all based in Mexico including the Sinaloa, Tijuana, Juarez, and Los Zetas among the largest and most active.
In early 2000s, the Mexican government objected to the heavy-handed and often unilateral tactics being taken the US in Mexico. The US and Mexican authorities negotiated and developed a cooperation plan known as the Mérida Initiative. The main components of the plan supplied funds to train and equip Mexican police and troops to control trafficking. The initial funding, set to expire in 2010 has been extended with $1.9 billion earmarked for 2012. Mérida has its critics and is seen as the US sponsorship of extremist police tactics including torture.
The ONDCP
The federal government created the Office of National Drug Control Policy in 1982, as the central executive organization for establishing and overseeing the US policies aimed at eliminating illegal drug use in the US as well as the associated trafficking, crimes and negative economic impacts.ONDCP Pamphlet (2009):
A key role of ONDCP is to evaluate and coordinate the international and domestic anti-drug efforts of other Federal agencies and to ensure such efforts sustain and complement State and local anti-drug activities.The Director advises the President regarding changes in the organization, management, budgeting, and personnel of Federal agencies that affect the Nation's anti-drug efforts...The primary purpose of ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug-control program. Using an approach that is flexible and responsive to current trends, the agency works to curb the use, manufacture, and trafficking of illicit drugs, reduce drug related crime and violence, and minimize the health consequences of drug use. To achieve these goals, the ONDCP Director is charged with producing, on behalf of the President, the National Drug Control Strategy. The document directs the Nation's anti-drug efforts and establishes a program, a budget, and guidance for cooperation among Federal, State, and local partners.
The head of the office is known in the press as the nation's Drug Czar. The first was William Bennett and the current director is Gil Kerlikowske, appointed by President Obama in 2009.
US drug policy is complex and multi-faceted. The ONDCP is responsible for establishing those policies and coordinating some 34 other agencies in carrying out the US anti-drug policies.
The Status Quo
Illegal drug use in the US is a problem which has economic impacts on the US.Kilmer et al (2012):
More than 40 million Americans use cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, hallucinogens, or prescription drugs for nonmedical purposes each year, with roughly half consuming only marijuana. In the last five years, marijuana use—particularly daily use—has increased, and cocaine use has declined. As homicides associated with flagrant street markets for crack have declined, there has been a sharp rise in deaths associated with prescription drugs. A more recent policy challenge involves new substances, often referred to as designer drugs or "legal highs," because they are—at least initially—not covered by existing prohibitions...The most recent estimate puts the economic cost of illegal drug use under current policies in the United States at $193 billion in 2007 (National Drug Intelligence Center, 2011).3 Costs were classified into three categories: crime ($61 billion), health ($11 billion), and productivity ($120 billion). The latter includes missed work and "presenteeism" (being less productive while on the job), as well as wages lost due to incarceration and homicide. These costs do include the nonmedical use of prescription drugs and are not broken down by specific drug.
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the federal government has a goal to reduce illicit drug use by 15% in 2013. The policies, as we shall soon see, are comprised of domestic and foreign components. In order to achieve this goal, the US administration has asked for $25.6 billion dollars.
For 2 years this principle has guided the Administration's efforts – and we will continue to pursue a balanced approach that brings all sectors of society together in a national effort to improve public health and public safety. The requested Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 National Drug Control Budget demonstrates commitment to these goals, requesting $25.6 billion to reduce drug use and its consequences in the United States. This represents an increase of $415.3 million (1.6%) over the FY 2012 enacted level of $25.2 billion.
Of that money a full $3.7 billion is earmarked for interdiction, whereby, according to the ONDCP: "The Departments of Homeland Security and Defense perform activities designed to interrupt the trafficking of illicit drugs into the United States by targeting the transportation link;"
Approaching the Policies
According to the ONDCP, the major strategies of the US anti-drug policies are the following (ONDCP 2013):
- preventing illicit drug use and addiction before their onset;
- bringing more Americans in need of treatment into contact with the appropriate level of care;
- protecting public safety while also ensuring that drug‐involved offenders have the opportunity to end their drug use and rebuild their lives;
- countering drug production and trafficking within the United States;
- implementing new strategies to secure our borders against illicit drug flows;
- working with our international partners to reduce drug production and trafficking and strengthen rule of law, democratic institutions, transparency in government, alternative livelihoods, and respect for human rights around the world.
The resolution we will debate specifies US anti-drug policies in Latin America. One may infer from this we need not focus on the myriad of policies aimed toward managing the domestic problems of US drug consumption, including the internal trafficking, crimes, health issues, and economic impacts except where those policies have direct and clear links to Latin America. So it is a little vague. For example, let us assume the domestic anti-drug program succeeds and by some incredible circumstance, all US illicit drug demand ceases. Then perhaps the economic impact on Latin American may be significant and so we can cite the domestic policy has a direct impact upon Latin America. When the resolution says "will do more harm than good" we must decide, does it mean "more harm than good" in Latin America or the US or should we just look at relative harms regardless of where they impact? On the other hand, if one makes the claim US anti-drug policy resulted in the economic collapse of a region of South America, if there is no direct impact to the US do we consider it in our evaluation of harms versus good? My interpretation of the resolution is predicated on my prior experience which tends to think we must look at the impact of our policies on the people and governments of Latin America and how those impacts eventually reflect upon and ultimately affect our standing in the world. Therefore, much of the policy analysis I will present will be directed along those lines.
A primary goal of the US is to reduce drug trafficking across the US border. The policies to accomplish this include:
- Cooperation with international partners for intelligence sharing. The US anti-drug forces (DEA, DoD, DHLS, etc) will work with their counterparts in other countries to collect and analyze intelligence data related to the drug trafficking effort.
- Secure the Border and Ports of Entry. The US will upgrade and employ state of the art detection technology to identify trafficking suspects and detect contraband in shipments.
- US Military interdiction. The US will continue to use military air power and troops to support its drug interdiction efforts. This also includes the providing military equipment and training to counterparts in other governments.
- Increase international criminal investigations. The US will directly and indirectly engage in criminal investigations in cooperation with foreign governments to identify, investigate and prosecute drug traffickers. This also includes targeting corrupt government officials.
- Stop the money trail. The US will increase interdiction efforts to stem the flow of cash which drives the underground economy. This includes sanctioning those organizations and businesses suspected of cooperating with money laundering and exchanges.
- Control the flow of illegal weapons. The US will increase intelligence and investigation activities to control the flow of weapons used in smuggling and trafficking operations.
- High-tech surveillance. The US will utilize high-technology monitoring and surveillance equipment, including sensors and satellites to detect trafficking movements, crops, and facilities. This includes state-of-the-art data sharing and communications technologies.
Obviously the US intends to interact directly with key government in the region. While officially we may assume this involves mutual cooperation to achieve common goals, one would be naive not to think it may also involve various kinds of coercive pressure exerted on these governments.
Click here to see the Pro Position
The National Drug Control Budget: FY 2013 Funding Highlights, Office of National Drug Control Policy
(ONDCP) February 2012
Council On Foreign Relations, Mexico's Drug War
Aimee Rawlins, January 11, 2013
The U.S. Drug Policy Landscape,Insights and Opportunities for Improving the View
Published by the Rand Corp, 2012
by Beau Kilmer, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Peter H. Reuter
William Dean, et al, September 2012
Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President
2009 pamphlet
NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY, Performance Reporting System Report
National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy
Office of National Drug Control Policy
June 2009
Latin America and the Caribbean: Illicit Drug Trafficking and U.S. Counterdrug Programs
Congressional Research Service
Clare Ribando Seelke, et al, 2012
U.S.-Mexican Security Cooperation: The Mérida Initiative and Beyond
Congressional Research Service
Clare Ribando Seelke, et al, 2013


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We are test subjects in a science labatory being tested on for a repelant for radioactivity. After the the bombs come down and kill all of the scientists, we escape. Each of us have a pet with a unique power/ weapon. Mine is going to be a turtle named Biscotti, with a turret on his back and YS has a cat named Basil that's power has not been decided. We all have different rivals including a hyooman outcast thats a cyborg (mine) and a acrobatic creep with crazy sword skills (YS's). We all each have a weapon mine being a sword and YS's being a shield with sharp edges. Me and YS all of our pet's should have names refering to food.
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- FTHG (Ava) (chinchilla= sugar) scythe
- Beemo (Dylan) (Bunny= Cinnamon) hand-to-hand combat
- Magma Princess (Lila) (Lizard= Pie) staff
- 27Finnsprincess (Kita) (Snake= Burger) archery
- Shojo-chan cat (Dicey) (Owl= Tea) crossbow
- Happy Smoothie (Carmen) (Racoon= butters) shurikens
- Pyroblaze647 (Pyro) (Bear cub=Gispacho)
- RedChan (Chan) (Ferrets=Salt & Pepper) Dual daggers
- Josh (---) (dog= Hushpuppy) 2h Hammer
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A few days ago I shared a set of drawings of fantastic animals that I had bought at an antiques fair. In the same envelope where these rather fine, I thought, hand-drawn silhouettes of people engaged in all manner of sporting and other physical activities.
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The Bell UH-1Y Venom (or Super Huey) is a twin-engine medium size utility helicopter developed from the UH-1N Twin Huey operated by the United States Marine Corps, as a modernization to the UH-1N Twin Huey that has been in service for 40 years.
Battlefield 3Edit
|UH-1Y Venom
|Vehicle health
|Disable threshold
|Vehicle passengers
2 door gunners
2 passengers
(5 total)
|Special features
|• Mobile spawn point
|IR Flares
|Vehicle speed
|360 km/h
|United States Marine Corps
— Battlelog description
The UH-1Y Venom can be seen in the Battlefield 3 Teaser Trailer. The UH-1Y Venom can also be seen in the Operation Firestorm trailer. In game, It is available in Conquest on Operation Firestorm and also available to the US while playing Rush in Caspian Border as seen in the Caspian Border Rush walkthrough. It is also in the Rush version of Noshahr Canals. The Venom reappears on Gulf of Oman and Wake Island 2014 on the USS Essex, being able to spawn on in Conquest.
The UH-1Y Venom appears in the campaign mission Fear No Evil. It appears to evacuate Team Misfit and the nuke they found in the bank.
The UH-1Y Venom appears at the end of the missions Operation Exodus and Exfiltration extracting Snake 6-6 from the locations the missions take place in.
It also appears in Fire from the Sky where two of them transport Warrior 2-1 in and out of the mission area.
In multiplayer, the Venom is the USMC's air transport, capable of seating five players. Along with the pilot, two players can operate door-mounted miniguns, and two other players can use their personal equipment, such as the Repair Tool when the helicopter is taking damage. Air transports have a higher tolerance for damage, catching fire only after they are down to 33% health. The Venom can fill two roles. It can transport multiple units and can be a potent killer due to its two miniguns.
A tactic that is commonly used is to have two engineers in passenger seats so if the helicopter has been disabled the operators will not need to land the helicopter due to the fact it can be repaired in midair similar to the scout helicopters. And when the helicopter doesn't need repairing, they can fire out the sides of the vehicle with their rockets and primary weapon, adding to the already potent killing potential that the Venom's miniguns have.
Battlefield 4Edit
|UH-1Y Venom
|Vehicle health
|Disable threshold
|Vehicle passengers
2 door gunners
2 passengers
(5 total)
|Vehicle optics
|Passenger weapon
|Passenger weapon reload time
|3 secs
|Passenger weapon rate of fire
|2000 rpm
|Passenger weapon firemode
|Passenger weapon ammunition per reload
|infinite (does overheat)
|Second passenger weapon
|Second passenger weapon reload time
|3 secs
|Second passenger weapon rate of fire
|2000 rpm
|Second passenger weapon firemode
|Second passenger weapon ammunition per reload
|infinite (does overheat)
|IR Flares
|Vehicle speed
|360 km/h
|light grey (default)
|United States Marine Corps
The UH-1Y Venom is a transport helicopter featured in Battlefield 4.
In Baku, a UH-1Y Venom is used by Firebird 2-1 in an attempt to extract Tombstone Squad. It is destroyed by a Mi-28 Havoc, however.
The Huey appears later in the game in Tashgar, where Major Greenland is transported to a rooftop to thank Tombstone for their efforts and ready them for transport to Suez.
In all the endings in Suez, a helicopter by the call-sign of Bloodhound, will pick up Tombstone.
In Battlefield 4 multiplayer, the UH-1Y Venom serves as the US air transport. It is the equivalent to the RU's Ka-60 Kasatka and the CN's Z-9 Haitun.
The Venom's main role is to ferry infantry. In similar fashion to Battlefield 3, anyone can now spawn inside the chopper without having a person from the same squad in the chopper, which can allow for a single chopper to deliver more people without having to return to pick up more.
The UH-1Y, like other air transports, don't have any offensive weapons, and thus must rely either on either the miniguns, passenger weapons, or roadkilling in order to defend itself. Countermeasures are also scarce, consisting only of IR Flares, which serve only as a defense against anti-air weaponry.
The second and third passenger slots are armed with miniguns, as mentioned previously. Unlike in Battlefield 3, the miniguns do no damage to MBTs, and may only damage lighter ground vehicles and air vehicles. These miniguns are relatively inaccurate at distance and if the target is moving, but with cooperation they can be used to good effect against infantry and various light vehicles.
The final two passenger slots allow the players to make use of their kit's weapons and gadgets. Thus an engineer can be used to fortify the chopper with repairing, or can provide heavier anti-vehicle capabilities with anti-tank weapons and anti-air weaponry.
As with all transports in the game, it has no unlocks or upgrades, and only the paint scheme can be customized.
- The Battlelog icon shows it with closed windows and rocket pods not available in game.
- The UH-1Y pilot in Baku has the call sign of Hawkins and is female, just like Jennifer Hawkins, another female pilot in Battlefield 3.


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Section I: Teaching English in China continued
English language learning can be accurately thought of as a national obsession in China with an estimated 325 million people (one-fifth the population) studying English at any given time with an expenditure of over $60 billion per year on English language learning materials (Frank, 2006). English language books for children represent the fastest growing segment of English language learning materials in China comprising between two to three thousand titles and approximately 5 percent of the overall publishing market for children's books in China (Zhang, 2009).
Historically, the English language—to the degree it was associated with Western culture—was generally not well received until 1978 when Deng Xiaoping came into power and operationalized Zhou En Lai's Four Modernizations. In essence, the English language was then viewed as a necessary tool for achieving the country's goals towards becoming a world economic power. It wasn't until the early 1980s that the English language became a compulsory subject in the Gao Kao exam, China's college entrance exam, and the Ministry of Education promulgated its "exposure to a native speaker" requirement at all public schools and universities (Zuo, 2008).
All these forces came together to produce an ever-growing market of English language education in China that has resulted in a massive recruitment drive of approximately 100,000 foreign teachers per year (People's Daily Online, 2006) and, in 2006, it was estimated that more than 150,000 foreign experts were employed in China, recruited primarily from Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand and the United States (China Daily, 2006).
China has one of the world's oldest civilizations with a rich and fascinating cultural history. It is also a country of stark contrasts and contradictions. Life in China is heavily influenced and adversely affected by gross overcrowding, ubiquitous air and water pollution, as well as some unfavorable climatic conditions. It is also one of the world's fastest growing economies, particularly since its admittance into the World Trade Organization in December 2001.
Consider just a few representative statistics: In 2004, China contributed one-third of the world's economic growth. In 2005, the country achieved 14 percent of the world economy on purchasing power parity basis, second only to the United States and, in 2006, the average annual income in China rose to USD $2,025, up from only $293 in 1985 (World Bank, 2008).
As China continues to develop and reach out to the rest of the world, especially in the now historical context of having prepared for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the importance of learning English appears obvious. However, some have raised provocative questions about the practical usefulness of English for most Chinese in their day-to-day lives. In fact, most Chinese have never met a foreigner in person, nor do they have much opportunity to use or practice English outside of their English language classes. In the absence of any real need to use English functionally on a daily basis, it has been estimated that the total percentage of English language users in China (as opposed to learners) is .77 percent (1 out of every 130 people; Yang, 2006).
Nevertheless, English as a foreign language is required curriculum from 3rd grade in primary school through the third year of university. Technically speaking, college students must pass the College English Test, Band 4 (CET-4), or an equivalent, in order to receive a bachelor's degree: Those who do not, only receive a 3-year college diploma instead.Non-English majors must pass the CET Band 4 (CET-4), while English majors must pass the TEM Band 4 (TEM-4): Test for English Majors. This policy has raised a lot of controversy among Chinese educators and is in the process of being reevaluated. In reality, many universities bypass this requirement by offering an "equivalent" examination that is so simple, any student can pass it.
Currently, the majority of employers who hire recent graduates require some evidence of English language proficiency, despite the fact that the vast majority of their employees will only need to use English in a marginal or peripheral way, at best, throughout their entire careers. Despite this reality, it is the widely-held and firmly entrenched perception of future economic advantage that ultimately prevails and Chinese parents, many at great economic sacrifice, will pay tuition for their child's English language lessons from the time the child is as young as four years old.
Depending on location, one hour of English language classes with a foreign teacher can cost anywhere from 15 to 50 yuan (USD $2.15 to $7.15) per child, for classes up to 25 to 30 students in size, and as much as 250 yuan (USD $35.75) per hour for private tutoring. To place this into proper perspective, the typical cost of a six-month course of English language study at most private language schools will run the child's parents around 25 to 30 percent of one month's combined family income, when you consider that the national monthly average per capita income in China is currently about 1,500 yuan (USD $210). Despite this significant financial sacrifice to both parents and adult learners alike, private English language schools remain one of the largest and fastest growing businesses across the country.
The next chapter offers the reader an overview of exactly what oral English teachers are expected to teach in China, followed by a TEFL (teaching English as a Foreign Language) Primer for those who are unfamiliar with the field.


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The soaring price of fuel poses a greater commercial challenge to Qantas than terrorism, SARS or the Asian tsunami, airline boss Margaret Jackson says.
In a lecture in Canberra on Wednesday, the Qantas chairwoman said she did not know how high fuel prices would go, or how long they would stay at record levels.
Ms Jackson said the price of fuel was having a major impact on Qantas' business - more so than the commercial and logistical challenges the airline faced after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the bombings in Bali a year later and the SARS epidemic which disrupted the aviation industry.
"These challenges, while huge, they're no comparison - as a commercial challenge - to fuel increases," Ms Jackson said.
Qantas' fuel bill had jumped from $1.5 billion in 2002-03 to almost $3 billion this year and was forecast to reach almost $4 billion next year, she said.
"No one knows just how long high fuel prices will go," Ms Jackson said.
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Qantas' fuel costs made up about 30 per cent of the airline's costs this year.
"To put that into perspective, two years ago they were only 13 per cent of our operating costs," she said.
Ms Jackson used the Sir Roland Wilson lecture at the Australian National University to criticise the uneven playing field of global aviation, singling out the "economic nationalism" of Middle Eastern countries intent on pouring money into their national carriers.
She said Qantas had to continue to change to survive in the competitive aviation environment.
The airline was introducing measures to reduce its fuel bill, such as buying more fuel-efficient new aircraft, she said.
Speaking to AAP afterwards, Ms Jackson said Qantas had no current plans to increase the fuel surcharge on airline tickets, despite the skyrocketing oil price.
But this could change if the fuel price continued to rise.
"If, in the future, there are further increases, then we would have to consider our position at the time," she said.
"We are not considering any future fuel levy increases (at present). That's not to say we won't in the future because we don't know.
"We never imagined fuel would get this high but it has, and everybody who drives a car can understand the impact of fuel and the costs to the economy as a consequence."
Ms Jackson said she was confident Qantas could weather a challenge from Virgin Blue for a greater slice of the business traveller market.
Virgin Blue on Wednesday announced new incentives to attract business travellers as part of a fare restructure.
"I think we're very comfortable with the product that we have," Ms Jackson said.
"We think we've got an outstanding product for our passengers, from our lounges down to our meals (and) our service."
Ms Jackson said she was pleased with the customer response to the international expansion of Qantas' budget arm, Jetstar.
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