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"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
Born August 5, 1930, Neil Armstrong has been an aviator, test pilot, and university professor. And, on July 21, 1969, he became the first man to walk on the moon. In the days before the Internet or cable television, people around the world gathered around their sets to watch history being made.
You and your out-of-town guests have survived a blistering day of fun in the Virginia sunshine. Now comes the gracious hour to unwind in the shade. Something icy or relaxing to drink is certainly called for. And, as the conversation continues, your guests realize they are just a little bit hungry. Although it's too soon for dinner plans, this late afternoon sojourn is a perfect time for tapas. The light and delightful nibbles from Spain are memorable way to treat your guests—and yourself.
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At 3:15 in the morning on July 20, the parents of teenage American-Canadian swimming sensation Missy Franklin were startled by a phone call. It was Missy, calling from France, where she was training for the Olympics.
Missy had just heard about the mass shooting in the Century cinema in Aurora, Colo., which killed 12 and injured 58. She goes to school in Aurora, trains in the same town and some of her friends live there.
"Missy knew before I did," Dorothy (DA) Franklin, 62, Missy's mother, said at the Olympic site Tuesday, just two hours before her daughter's 200-metre freestyle final (she missed the bronze medal by 1/100th of a second). "She said, 'I'm so scared, I'm scared to be here, scared for my friends, I'm scared for Colorado.' "
DA called Missy's coach and thought about jumping on a plane so she could take her daughter in her arms. None of Missy's friends was killed or wounded and both mother and daughter, while deeply saddened, calmed down. "She said, 'I can't do anything but train hard and maybe it will help Colorado feel a bit better if I do well,' " DA said. "She just kept stressing that."
It worked. Missy won Olympic bronze in the 4X100 metre freestyle rally and gold in the 200-metre backstroke. Hard-luck Colorado – the site of the Columbine high-school massacre in 1999, devastating forest fires this year and, now, the Aurora shootings – exploded in joy.
DA and her husband, Dick Franklin, are overwhelmed by the response from Coloradans. "All the e-mails I am getting from senators, the chamber, business leaders say, 'Dick, from the bottom or our heart, thank Missy. She has just created a spark for Colorado, we finally have something positive,' " Dick said. "And Missy decided to dedicate all her events to Colorado, to the victims of the massacre."
DA and Dick Frankin are the international parents of the moment. After Missy won gold Monday night in London, they became instantly famous. So many requests for interviews arrived so quickly that Missy's PR handlers urged them to hold their own press conference, which they did. No one can remember the last time a winning athlete's parents so captured the media's imagination.
While Missy has been a ray of sunshine for a beleaguered state, the Aurora episode also displayed the carefully nurtured balancing act between Missy and her parents. Missy, at 17, is still a kid, but getting old and sophisticated enough to make her own decisions. And Dad and Mom, especially Mom, are learning that they can't push that daughter too much even if crucial career decisions loom.
Dick, who was born in St. Catharines, Ont., doesn't want Missy's swimming career to overwhelm his own career. Tall, amiable and fit – he played football for St. Mary's University in Halifax– Dick is a technology consultant in the sustainable energy field, loves his job and, at 66, has no plans to retire. DA, who is from Nova Scotia, left a medical career a bit more than a year ago to manage Missy's increasingly global swimming schedule and rising stardom (and help find shoes big enough to fit her size 13 feet). They left Canada for the United States in the early 1980s.
One big topic under discussion is Missy's professional status, or lack thereof; she is an amateur, which means she is turning down small fortunes in prize money – about $150,000 (U.S.) so far – and greater fortunes in potential sponsorship money. As an amateur, the parents are getting stuck with a lot of the training and travel tab.
Given her talent and sudden international fame, Missy's amateur status makes her highly unusual in sponsorship-mad America. But, so far, she has embraced non-professional status. She has said she wants to swim in college, where NCAA rules would demand that she not take cash for wins.
So what do the parents think about the forgone loot? Missy's world cup wins last year would have earned her $70,000 in cash. DA, who was working part time as a physician at the time, told her daughter: "You know, the money you just won swimming in two weekends, that's what I make all year. She got it; that's a lot of money."
Still, Dick and DA know that going pro has its downsides and just want Missy to explore all her options, being careful to be neutral even though the money is tempting.
"A lot of the pros say it becomes a job and that's all they think about because you have a contract with these sponsors and they expect you to perform to get your bonus," DA said. "Is that fair to a 17-year-old? She's not even out of high school."
While Missy's parents and Missy herself appear to have reached a comfortable neutral ground on the career-management front, DA has made it perfectly clear that their daughter is not free to make her own decisions in at least one area: "She is going to college. Mom has spoken."
As for Colorado, all it cares about is that their home-grown star keeps winning. She is competing in more Olympic events and the girl who lifted Colorado from its deep funk seems bound to increase her medal haul.
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THE growth in low-fee private schools indicates parents' frustration with the quality of education at public schools.
And should the quality of public schools increase, low-fee private schooling would decline.
This is according to analyst and former higher education director-general, Mary Metcalfe.
Metcalfe was responding to the latest research by the Centre for Development and Enterprise, a think tank which found that low-fee private schools are becoming a popular alternative to poorly performing public schools.
But Metcalfe said: "These educational contexts are not suitable, and the costs and dangers of the traveling are also a problem – it is an indication of their desire to find a better quality of education."
The study found that low-fee private schools offer pupils better access to their teachers, which results in better pass rates.
In Gauteng, 10 percent of children attend private schools, both low fee and high end.
The centre looked at how private schooling could cater for SA's poor, and concentrated on urban, peri-urban and rural settlements in Gauteng, Limpopo and Eastern Cape provinces.
It found 117 low-fee private schools in the three provinces. Schools are situated in abandoned factories, shopping centres, shacks and high-rise buildings in the CBDs.
The research stated that policy makers had a responsibility to ensure that low-fee private schools provided good education, to put competitive pressure on public schools to raise the quality of schooling.
Based on a performance test of Grade 6 pupils from the private and public schools in the same areas, the research showed that private schools are better than public schools in some respects.
Even though private schools have fewer facilities than public schools, the pupil-teacher ratio at the private schools is lower, which encourages easier one-on-one sessions and results in better pass rates.
Metcalfe did not fully condone low-fee private schools, but said that at the end of the day, parents made choices they felt were best for their children. "What is more critical for me, is for communities, teachers and all social partners to work urgently and with determination to support the government to improve public schooling as that is the key way in which the poor will access quality education," she said.
The report proposed that there needs to be an increase in the number of high-quality private schools, which would be accessible to poor children.
This would widen education choices for parents and pupils in all communities, and provide regulations that would encourage public and private schools to improve.
"International experience has shown that the regulatory environment can either facilitate or inhibit the development of innovative, low-cost private schools and as such it is crucial to the contribution they can make to broadening access to quality education," read the report.
The dean of education at the University of Johannesburg, Sarah Gravett, said parents need to correct the perception that independent means quality.
She said there are a lot of excellent public schools compared to the independent schools.
Parents need to investigate both private and public schools because on many occasions they do not know what happens at the independent schools, she said, adding that some of them are not really better than public schools.
The report suggested that the government should not pay much attention to how schools achieve their results, but rather to whether they generate good results.
But Helenne Ulster, the principal of United Church School in Yeoville, said parents overlook the environment because at private schools their children are not just numbers; they get individual attention.
Her non-profit, Christian-based school is registered with the Independent Schools' Association of SA and the Gauteng Department of Education.
Ulster said the United Church School, which caters for students from Grades R to 12, was started out of a need to provide quality and affordable education to largely black school-going children.
Mostly, Ulster found, children who leave private schools for public schools for the better facilities the latter offered, usually come back after a year. "The facility, at the end of the day, doesn't matter… We care about their education and their emotional wellbeing," she said, adding that at private schools, the staff are also much more dedicated.
The research showed that many low-fee private schools find it difficult to comply with all the legislation and regulations.
The regulations include detailed annual reports, adherence to management check-lists and submission of audited financial statements if they receive a state subsidy.
"There are signs that the policy environment in general is becoming disabling for private schools, especially low-fee ones," read the report.
In order to operate legally, all private schools have to be registered with their provincial education departments.
To help address regulatory challenges, the report suggested that a supportive regulatory framework be introduced.
The framework would provide a "probationary period and provisional registration in which private schools that are not yet able to meet all the compliance requirements are given time to become compliant".
Metcalfe suggested that to avoid fly-by-night schooling operations, the state needed to have a rigorous regulatory framework.
However, the report further suggested that private schools should meet reasonable registration conditions. It pointed out that good results did not depend on state registration and certification.
"Many low-fee, private schools have unqualified teachers, but achieve better results than equivalent, local public schools," read the report.
It found that low-fee private schools produced decent results using limited resources, and were responsive to parents' demands for quality education.
Should companies, private financial institutions and education funders seeking to contribute to an improvement in the quality of education available to SA's poor become more involved in the low-fee, private schooling arena, this could change, read the report.
Financial assistance and expertise could be provided to help low-fee private schools to establish themselves and expand.
However, care needs to be taken that private interventions do not undermine the independence and funding streams available to these low-fee private schools, said the report.


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Remote Management of Diabetic Patients Via Data Transmission by Accu-Chek 360 Software
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- Tabular View
- No Study Results Posted
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- How to Read a Study Record
|Other: Accu-Chek 360 software Other: Normal care
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Remote Management of Diabetic Patients Via Data Transmission by Accu-Chek 360 Software
- Columbus Research Foundation will take the objective data that constitutes the defined end-points of the study and enter it for each patient into an Access data base, using the established data base management system of Columbus Research Foundation. [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|September 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: telemedicine/study group
Other: Accu-Chek 360 software
Study group which will receive 3 routine office visits in the same time, and have two visits conducted by computer interaction, using the Accu-Chek 360 software.
|Active Comparator: control group
Other: Normal care
Control group will receive 5 routine office visits in one year
Detailed Description:
This will be a non-inferiority study between two groups: a control group, which will receive 5 routine office visits in one year; and a study group which will receive 3 routine office visits in the same time, and have two visits conducted by computer interaction, using the Accuchek 360 software. All will be capable of independent care of their diabetes. All patients will be 19-65 years of age. The end-points will include similar changes in hemoglobin A1c, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, body mass index, lipid fractions, and similar levels of patient satisfaction with care.
There will be 50 patients in each group, matched for age and sex distribution, educational level, computer literacy, and type of diabetes.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|19 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male and Female
- 19-65 years of age
- Type 1 and 2 diabetes
- Computer literate
- Independent care of diabetes
- Insulin pump allowed (Spirit pump only)
- Females on birth control
- Can demonstrate competency in the use of the Accuchek Aviva meter, reliability in doing regular home blood sugar determinations
Exclusion Criteria:
- Creatinine clearance < 30 cc/min
- Severe loss of vision (diabetic retinopathy)
- Severe diabetic neuropathy
- Known or suspected diabetic gastroparesis
- Patients with heart disease
- Patients with liver disease
- Drug or substantial alcohol use
- Use of pharmacological doses of glucocorticoids or other medications that affect blood sugar and blood pressure
- Females that are pregnant or are capable of becoming pregnant
- Insulin pump use other than Accucheck Spirit pump
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00956800
|United States, Georgia
|Columbus Research Foundation
|Columbus, Georgia, United States, 31904
|Principal Investigator:
|Steven B Leichter, M.D.
|Endocrine Consultants
|Responsible Party:
|Steven B. Leichter, M.D., Columbus Research Foundation
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00956800 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Roche 360
|Study First Received:
|August 7, 2009
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2011
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CBS has released official photos of the Big Brother house on CBS.com! Take a new peek at the house before the Premiere on Thursday and come discuss that AND MORE in our forum!
Don't forget, we here at Camp YakkityYaks are going to have some MAJOR fun this Summer! We have Live Feed Updates galore, the web-wide famous Live Show play-by-play East Coast time (so those on the West Coast can be caught up with what happened when the feeds come back. and yes, it's with our famous Ahrean, aka KaysarRocks from another known website) – We have loads of BB games to play, including a virtual Big Brother game run by our very own Alex who has a TON of experience running the Big Brother games live and on the web! He is accepting applications to be a Houseguest now, so stop on in and fill one out! There WILL be a prize for the winner as well as prizes for other games as well! We even have an Arcade to fill the downtime when the houseguests are sleeping. Step right in the Forum! We are waiting for you!
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Horton Hears a Who! - Dr. Seuss
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Join Horton the Elephant in this interactive book app from Dr. Seuss as he discovers a tiny planet called Whoville that he agrees to protect from harm, to the ridicule of the other animals. Explore pictures, learn new vocabulary, and personalize the story with your own narration. Will Horton be able to protect Whoville from harm?
Explore the Story:
- ENCOURAGE literacy skills with highlighted narration
- LEARN new words by tapping pictures
- RECORD your own narration & share it with others
- SELECT a scene with easy-to-use navigation
- KEEP kids in the story with parental controls
Designed for children ages 3-6
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- "Will educate and entertain kids of all ages" - PadGadget
- "Oceanhouse Media has set the standard for interactive books on mobile devices" - Geekasms
- "A rich contextual soundscape brings the app to life in a lush way." - KidLit Apps
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- Need tech support? Contact us at email@example.com
- Say hello to us on FB! facebook.com/oceanhousemedia
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- Parental Controls Added!
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LARGO — Bad news is still gushing from the water main that burst just before Christmas: 142nd Avenue N and Belcher Road will be closed well into next week.
That's because Pinellas County officials said it will take longer to repair the break and the roadway than first anticipated.
"They knew it was a pretty bad rupture when they first saw it," said Pinellas County spokesman David Baker. "But the logistics of getting in there and repairing something that big in that deep of a hole are very difficult."
Work crews discovered the broken 4-foot-wide pipe while working on the water system Thursday night, officials said. The line is one of three primary feeders for Pinellas County Utilities customers in the southern half of the county.
Officials believe old age, not the work crews, is the culprit behind the broken main. The pipe was targeted for replacement before it broke Thursday, but the project was pushed back from 2009 because of budget cuts.
County officials hoped to have the pipe repaired by today, then have the intersection repaired and repaved by week's end.
But now the water main isn't expected to be repaired until the end of this week, which means work crews won't be able to tackle the roadway until next week.
It appears that at least a 20-foot section of the pipe needs to be replaced, Baker said, which will leave workers with an even bigger hole to fill before the roadway can be fixed.
"It's just a difficult repair," Baker said. "Getting all the concrete out, cleaning the area and cutting the new piece and making sure it fits just right."
That means Belcher Road will remain shut down between East Bay Drive and Ulmerton Road. But while the intersection will be off-limits to commuters for almost two weeks, the county stressed that many businesses there are still open and accessible.
Pinellas also has tried to supply them with temporary water lines, Baker said.
As a result of the break, more than 100,000 residents were told to boil and conserve water — at least those who still had running water.
The boil water order was lifted Sunday morning. But three dozen businesses and an RV park nearby are still affected.
Residents of Lee's Travel Park at 1610 Belcher Road S were without water from about 5:30 p.m. Thursday until the county set up a temporary water line about 7 p.m. Sunday.
A Christmas without water wasn't pleasant, said Bill Hannan, 73, a seasonal resident from Ontario, Canada.
But it's a travel park, he pointed out, and residents made due. The county and park's owner made sure there was enough bottled water, and residents whose trailers lacked water tanks used water from the pool to keep their toilets flushing.
"They've got a real problem out there," Hannan said. "It's not a simple job. It's going to take time."


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Western Newfoundland's winter wonders26 Dec 2013
My first time on a backcountry snowmobile trek went the way most firsts do: More than a little awkward, a lot of thrills and a lasting sensation that made me wonder "what've I been missing all this time."
The perfect place to stay for this western Newfoundland golf adventure is the Humber Valley Resort, and perhaps the best golf to be played on this side of the island is the River Course at the resort. The resort offers both an inn and chalets with seasonal rates. The chalets offer options to house large or small groups with all the comforts of a world-class golf destination.
East West North Expo 20118 Jul 2011
Now in its third year and continuing to grow this summer's Expo highlights some of the best artists, musicians, street entertainers, craftspeople, chefs and buskers from across the entire province. With three different locations, Placentia, Corner Brook and Labrador City as the centres for this year's travelling festivities, be sure to check out one nearest to you.


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This project is not covered by Drupal's security advisory policy.
This module allows registered, active users on any Drupal site to communicate via instant messaging in real-time. Using jQuery and Ajax, the IM module is small, simple, and stands alone, not requiring any external instant messaging protocols and/or servers. This means that setup is a snap, and since this feature is a "nice-to-have," and uncoupled from any content and other functionality of your site, we encourage you to give it a spin.
Improvements and New Features
A couple of the enhancements made in rev 18.104.22.168 of im.module BREAK YOUR CURRENT CHATROOM SETTINGS !! .. but they are easy to fix. Please visit the chatroom settings admin/settings/im for full-on detailed and exampled help on how to convert your chatrooms and also make use of the cool new stuff.
- Dec 1, 2009 Set up a default Chatroom that users automatically connect to after logging in
- Dec 1, 2009 Any Chatroom can now have a moderator who is allowed to delete individual messages. Note ... there is a new permission "Moderate a Chatroom" that needs to be set for a user who you want to make a moderator on a chatroom
- Dec 1, 2009 Make the "command line" into a sizable textarea, if that's what you want.
- Dec 1, 2009 Various little changes to make the speaker icon and sound alert settings forms display for the appropriate users within specific circumstances
- July 13, 2009 Audio Alerts -Admin must download (2k) file player_mp3_js.swf There are 4 events to which a sound can be assigned. User can override admin's settings by going to My Account | Edit. Admin can add more sounds by putting mp3 files in the modules "sounds" directory. User can turn sound on or off by clicking an icon in the Console.
- July 4, 2009 - Chat Rooms have arrived in IM . Instructions on how to set up chat rooms can be found on the IM configuration settings page.
- June 3, 2009 Support for languages requiring diacritics, such as accent marks.
- May 18, 2009 IM exposes a hook so you can define you own list of friends to show up in the Friend Picker.
- May 16, 2009 Performance boost - well actually a resource reduction - has been achieved by throttling server polling according to how active the user is in the conversation.
- April 10, 2009 Support for using a View to generate the list of friends that show up on the Friend Picker.
Installation & Setup
Prerequisite(s): Drupal 6.x
Download and enable this module, set IM permissions for Authenticated Users to allow "IM talk", and enable the IM Friend Picker and IM Console blocks
Although IM will work out of the box, there are a few things you might like to adjust at Administer | Site Configuration | IM Settings.
- Who is in the Friend Picker. By default IM will show All Users who are on-line. But you may like to take advantage of the these other methods, which will show up in the select list on the IM Settings page. You can use a User Relationship Type established by the User Relationships Module or a user-based View created by the Views Module or you can even make you own customized list friends by implementing hook_im_friends in your own custom module.
- There are also some performance related options that let you fine tune how often IM polls for new messages and refreshes the Friend Picker.
- And for great fun, download the Dialectic Module and pick a Bot Friend to talk to when there's no one else to chat with or you just feel like talking to Elmer Fudd or the Swedish Chef or a Pirate and other various and sundry characters.
Using IM
- Look at the "Friend Picker" to see a list of your "IM Friends" who are online.
- Click their name, type your message in the "command line", and press enter. You will see your message in your console.
- Your friend will see "(1)" next to your name in their Friend Picker. This indicates 1 unread message from you.
- After they click on your name in their Friend Picker, they will see your message.
- From then on, any messages you type to each other will show in each other's console. (You don't have to click their name to see it.)
- You can talk to other friends by clicking on their name. The console will switch to that conversation. You can switch back and forth between conversations by clicking on the name of the person you want to talk to.
Exposed Hooks
Hook: hook_im_friends
Arguments: none
Return: An array of integers representing uid's from table users.
example: this example returns an ordered list of users that have the role "Site Moderator"
function yourmodule_im_friends () {
$uids = array();
$results = db_query("
SELECT ur.uid FROM {users_roles} ur INNER JOIN {users} u ON u.uid = ur.uid
INNER JOIN {role} r ON r.rid = ur.rid WHERE r.name = 'Site Moderator' ORDER BY u.name");
while ($result = db_fetch_array($results)) {
$uids[] = $result['uid'];
return $uids;
Commercial services and support
I will happily provide fee-based special customizations and support. Most of the work to date on this module, and that in the foreseeable future, is a labor of love on my part...any small contribution is greatly appreciated! (Because BEER, unlike speech, isn't FREE.) Contact me!
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- Development status: Unknown
- Module categories: Community, Mail
- Reported installs: 28 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
- Downloads: 9,101
- Last modified: 2 December 2014
- This project is not covered by the security advisory policy.
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Christmas is one of the most, if not the most, exciting time of the year. Who isn't excited with all the Christmas Cheer? It all starts with shopping for gifts, food, ornaments and, of course, picking out the perfect Christmas tree. From the youngest to the oldest family members, there's something special going on…as it should be.
As the saying goes, every good thing comes to an end. Well, with Christmas, it's every Christmas has its crash. Christmas, even the idea, ramps up our excitement level; most of us do more running around in the week before Christmas than in any normal three month period. Once we hit the ultimate high of Christmas Dinner and opening gifts on Christmas morning, there is nowhere for us to go but crashing down. The last thing we want to do is go back to our normal routine. Work, kids, school, piano lessons…are you nuts? Let me lie in bed, drink eggnog, and stare at the fake fire on my TV. After all, we may have only taken one or two days off, but the energy drain is exponentially larger.
I know people who sometimes say they wish they did not have the break in the first place because it's so hard to get back to the normal routine. It's the Monday Blues amplified to the tune of hundred Mondays.
Well, Christmas is not going away and it shouldn't; especially after our many victories over the Grinch. Use these three tips to enjoy Christmas, and beat back the Christmas Blues.
1# Plan = Save Energy
We mentioned that the Christmas Blues are exacerbated because of energy drain. Well, planning will reduce stress, reduce the number of trips you make to your favorite mall, and will dramatically reduce the amount of time and energy you spend.
– Take cue from Santa. Don't leave the house without making a list; check it three times not twice; Santa never had to deal with the lines at the mall.
– We live in the year 2012. Check to see if you can buy online, or at least compare prices online. It's much easier and stress-free to shop on your couch with an iPad and a glass of wine rather than lug around three kids from department store to bathroom to department store to McDonalds.
– Christmas is usually a very stressful time full; family reunions often lead to silly arguments and dramatics. Plan to be the calm at the center of the storm and your positive vibrations will influence all around you.
2# Healthy "Holiday Mode"
Christmas can have a devastating effect on your health. People get in what I call Holiday Mode. It's as if a switch on our back has been flipped. In Holiday Mode, we can eat and drink what we want and how much we want. We'll if this was only for one day, then fine. But Holiday Mode usually starts on Thanksgiving and carries well into the New Year. So plan a Healthy Holiday Mode, it all starts with surrounding yourself with healthy food options. When you plan your shopping list, try to eliminate or reduce the amount of junk food you buy.
3# Don't break habits and avoid Christmas Blues altogether
Never stop a habit for any reason other than emergencies. During the holidays we have a tendency to totally unwind and postpone/neglect certain habits that we used to do on a regular basis because we tell ourselves…"It's a holiday!" (Holiday Mode strikes again!)
If you run three miles a day, continue to do so. If you do Yoga or read a book with a cup of tea to relax, you should continue to do so. It takes a lot to create a habit… to break a habit all you need is to change your routine once or twice. You've worked so hard during the year to develop habits that improve your life. Don't let the Christmas Blues destroy them. On the contrary, use the Holiday Season to strengthen them. After all, it's a holiday…run 4 miles, read more, play more.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!


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Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Downstream Market Power: The Ad Valorem Case
Exports of agricultural commodities to developed countries play a significant role in the economies of many developing countries. The elimination of import tariffs has the potential to benefit producers in the developing countries, but estimates of the extent of the gains from trade liberalization typically assume perfect competition. Significant concentration in the food processing and retailing sectors of the U.S. and the EU undermine the plausibility of this assumption in the case of agricultural trade, however. Sexton, Sheldon, McCorriston, and Wang (2007) develop a model of the effects of trade liberalization that accounts for the vertically-linked and concentrated characteristics of the developed countries' food markets. Their analysis is limited to the case of a constant per unit tariff, however. In this paper, we extend the analysis of the effects of trade liberalization in the presence of downstream market power to the case of an ad valorem tariff and we find important qualitative differences from the results for the unit tariff case.
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Honoring Lexington's distilling tradition that dates back to the late 1700's, this distillery is located in the old barreling house of the old Pepper Distillery in Lexington's Historic Distillery District. Currently distilling Devil John Moonshine, Pure Blue Vodka, OAK Rum plus a newly released Bourbon called "RockCastle". Tasting room and gift shop.
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Portal 2 developer Valve has added a new split-screen option for the PC version's co-op mode.
A new patch enables Big Picture support for the game - Valve's Steam option designed to suit TV and gamepad play.
With the update installed, players will be able to take part in standard two-player co-op on the same screen. It's a feature that was part of the game's initial offering on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The update is live on Steam now and contains a couple of other bug fixes.


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Congratulations to Law & Order alum Alana De La Garza and her husband Michael Roberts who welcomed a baby girl last Sunday (July 7). The new bundle of joy's name is
Liv Elena Roberts. She was born weighing 8 lbs., 8 oz. and measured 19½ inches long.
The couple – married since 2008 – already have a 2 1/2-year-old son named Kieran.
De La Garza told People, "[The second I saw her] I was just overwhelmed with pure joy and love. I know it sounds cliché, but that's exactly how I felt."
She also said Kieran is already a doting big brother.
"He was so excited and in awe! He kept kissing her forehead and saying 'Baby sista's not in Mama's belly anymore! It was one of the sweetest things I've ever seen and most proud I've ever been."
According to US Weekly – De La Garza's most recent starring role was as neurologist Lena Solis on NBC's Do No Harm. She also has appeared on CSI: Miami, Charmed, Smallville, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Two and a Half Men.
The actress had tweeted her pregnancy news in February writing, "Yea!!!! So thrilled to share the news of our new baby girl… Coming in July."


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As for the demographics around 185 Mckay Rd, the median age is 36, 40% of residents are married, and 35% of residents have at least one child. The median individual full-time income is about $45,982 and about 16% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher. Registered voters in this building are 100% Democrat.
Regarding weather, the average summer temperature is 74.1°F, while the average winter temperature is 30.4°F. The average annual rainfall is 48.7 inches and the average annual snowfall is 19.2 inches.
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Castle, Behind-The-Scenes Scoop From Nathan Fillion!03/01/2013
Castle: Behind the scenes scoop from TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich
Here's some scoop on Castle from TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich's weekly column Matt's Inside Line for the week of 2/28/13.
James Brolin was so good as Castle's father. Will Martha and Kate hear the entire story? –Cynthia
We will have to assume they both were utterly regaled by the overseas espionage tale, because as Nathan Fillion told us at the show's 100th episode party, there's "nothing in the episodes that we've filmed" since the two-parter that calls back to the paternal reveal. As for how the long-awaited father/son meeting played out, Fillion said he was "very satisfied," explaining, "To find out that his dad has had a hand in his life ever since he was kid, that his dad has been there in the wings, I think, for Castle, is a good feeling. He can't have any feelings of, 'I was abandoned.' He knows now his dad has been a shadow."
Was Castle's second kidnapping really shot in Paris? Or on a sound stage? –Leslie
Molly Quinn confirmed that she, director Rob Bowman and her TV dad's stuntman got to travel to France for a quickie shoot – yet nonetheless fielded tons of teasing/envy, especially from Jon Huertas and Seamus Dever. Says the actress, "I kept telling them, 'I feel bad. I wish we could all go. But really, I'm going to go there, I'm going to be jet-lagged. I'm going to work three days and then I come back, I'll be jet-legged again and then I have to get back to work!'"
Can you tell me the name of the actor who played Henri on this week's Castle? I have seen him in other shows and cannot place him. –Marty
That was Christopher Heyerdahl being suitably sketchy as Castle's double-crossing cohort. You may know him from such series as Hell on the Wheels!, The Stargate of Atlantis! and Space Sanctuary!
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When the plugin system first went in, we converted aggregator.module as an example, and decided that the FetcherManager class should be in
Drupal\aggregator\Plugin\FetcherManager, not
Views currently has some manager classes in
Drupal\views\Plugin\Type\, but in other issues, tim.plunkett indicated a willingness to move them up a level.
Field currently provides several supporting classes for formatters and widgets, and so provides a subnamespace for each:
Drupal\field\Plugin\Type\Formatter\* and
Do we want to standardize on whether to:
- always use Type,
- never use Type,
- or only use Type when wanting to have subnamespaces within it?
Comment #1sun CreditAttribution: sun commented
|Should any/some/all plugin manager classes live in a Type subnamespace?
|» Move plugin manager classes out of \Type sub-namespace
Yeah, this is terribly confusing.
Let's move them out of the \Type subnamespace.
Comment #3Wim Leers CreditAttribution: Wim Leers commented
Note that some modules put the manager class in the
Drupal\moduleName namespace too. I.e. there are essentially three cases, not two:
Drupal\moduleName(e.g. ban.module)
Drupal\moduleName\Plugin(e.g. edit.module)
Drupal\moduleName\Plugin\Type(e.g. block.module)
I wonder if for plugin managers, interfaces, custom factories, etc., if we want to drop the Plugin part entirely, and just have
Drupal\field\Formatter\FormatterPluginManager, reserving the Plugin subnamespace for the plugins themselves only.
I was going to post exactly that here. Then the purpose is of that directory is always clear, and it's very clear where you look for plugin implementations. Everything else sits at
Drupal\moduleName then.
Comment #4sun CreditAttribution: sun commented
Yeah, sorry, I thought of exactly the same.
That is, however, *cough*, only unless #1847002: Move entity type classes from Drupal\$provider\Plugin\Core\Entity to Drupal\$provider\Entity won't happen full-frontal. If that issue will happen in its entirety, then the actual plugin type implementations will be relocated like this:
- Drupal\foo\Plugin\pluginOwner\pluginType\FooPlugin
+ Drupal\foo\pluginOwner\pluginType\FooPlugin
In turn, that opens up the \Plugin namespace of its own. And alas, plugin managers are integrating with the Plugin service, so they should be located accordingly.
As a result, there are two possible directions here, depending on aforementioned issue:
- Current: Drupal\foo\Plugin\Type\FooPluginManager
+ w/o #1847002: Drupal\foo\FooPluginManager
+ w/ #1847002: Drupal\foo\Plugin\FooPluginManager
For now, I'd recommend to simply move them out of \Type. So much is clear.


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Thermal load in Nd3+ doped vanadate crystals with and without laser action at 1.34 µm is investigated. Excited state absorption contributes significantly to a fractional thermal loading as well as quantum defect.
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Wendy Louise Webb filed the lawsuit against Bradley Collins on Friday morning in Hall County Superior Court. She claims he asked her to marry him on Christmas Day 2006 but never followed through on his promise.On July 18, Collins applied for a criminal trespass warrant against Webb, an indication that he didn't want to marry
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I've been spending the last week trying to figure out how it would be possible for me to drive without being drowsy. I don't have trouble keeping my eyes open and I don't finding myself falling asleep at the wheel, but do find myself feeling "drowsy" quite a bit. Not all the time, mind you, I'm only drowsy around 17 hours a day, you know, the period during which I'm awake. The rest of the time, I'm fine.
This soul-searching was triggered by the release of a new report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington. The AAA (American Automobile Association) studied 2,000 drivers and found that 10 per cent had fallen asleep at the wheel and more than 25 per cent had continued driving even though they were having trouble keeping their eyes open. The report shows that two out of five drivers admitted to having fallen asleep at the wheel.
Such soporific motoring is dangerous. Numbers from the U.S. National highway Traffic Safety Administration collected between 1998 and 2008 shows that one in six deadly crashes involves a drowsy driver.
Here are some of the universal signs from drowsydriving.org that you're sleep deprived:
- Frequent blinking, longer duration blinks and head nodding.
- Having trouble keeping one's eyes open and focused.
- Memory lapses or daydreaming.
- Drifting from one's driving lane or off the road.
I don't know about you, but if you substitute "driving off the road" for "consuming caffeine as if it were sunshine," I'm a yes for all of the above. We're a sleep-deprived, car-obsessed society so it's not surprising that we're all nodding off behind the wheel.
The report had me wondering: What leads a rational human being to drive in a state of semi-slumber? Drunk drivers are impaired. They aren't thinking straight. Alcohol is the kind of drug that makes thoughts such as "Why don't I punch that cop?" and "Everyone in my family is hiding my socks" seem reasonable. Yet being tired doesn't make you lose the ability to be rational. No one ever said, "Wow, I only got three hours of sleep last night, I think I'll hit on my best friend's wife."
No. We drive sleepy for the same reasons we text behind the wheel – because we're wallowing in delusions of self-grandeur. We have somewhere important to be and we have to be there at a certain time. Failure to accomplish these goals would result in us merely doing them a little later and that would be catastrophic.
Drowsy drivers can be divided into five categories:
The Determined Dad
One of the most common, especially in the summer months, is the grim parent determined to beat cottage traffic. He fears delays and wants to beat the rush. So this guy gets the family up at three in the morning and loads them into the minivan he stayed up until one in the morning loading. He gets a coffee in his driving mug and off they go with his eyes bloodshot and everyone else in the car dozing.
The Commercial Trucker
While truckers are some of the most skilled drivers on the road, they are also the most sleep-deprived. According to the website drowsydriving.org: "A congressionally mandated study of 80 long-haul truck drivers in the United States and Canada found that drivers averaged less than five hours of sleep per day." Ten-four, good buddy!
The Hungover
The most dangerous drivers on the road are drowsy drunks. Motorists suffering from severe, life-altering hangovers come in a close second. Thinking goes as follows: "I drank a bottle of gin, but I had four hours sleep so I'm okay to drive."
The Living Dead (a.k.a. The Commuter)
It's five in the afternoon and he (or she) has put in a long day at the office or at the one functioning factory left in Canada. He gets in his car and turns the music up loud, hoping this will keep him from nodding off in stop-and-go traffic. He has a dream in which a giant metronome is ticking and awakes to find that there is a police officer rapping loudly on his window.
Everyone Else
Sleep, remember that? Thanks to computers, cellphones and 24-hour news cycles, we're all sleep-deprived. Teens don't sleep because they're online all the time and their parents lose sleep worrying about it. Oh, for the good old days. Remember back in the 1930s when the only things that kept a man up at night were the Great Depression and the rise of fascism? Never such sweet innocence again.
What can we do? Well, for starters, get some rest. We can also put our plans and destinations in perspective. If you're tired, take a nap before you drive or don't drive at all. We'll get there when we get there. Let's make 2013 the year that we, as a planet, decide it's okay to arrive behind schedule. When it comes to drowsy driving it's, better late – than never.
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This article was published 11/10/2012 (1774 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
There's room to grow at West Wind Stables near Oak Bluff, and that's what owners Shawn Charriere and Chris Dolinski are hoping to do.
The facility, located on Road 4E between Highway 2 and the Perimeter Highway, opened in November 2009.
Charriere said he and Dolinski looked at various locations on the outskirts of Winnipeg and were determined to find one that would be handy for Winnipeggers who board their horses and take riding lessons.
"We really wanted to stay as close to the south side of the city as possible," he said.
After buying the 160 acres of land and negotiating with the RM of Macdonald, construction began on the 41,600-sq. ft. building in April 2009. The building includes a large lobby, upstairs lounge with a kitchen, rooms for classroom instruction, storage areas for tack, feed and equipment, a 240 by 80-foot indoor arena and a stable area with 40 stalls. Charriere is in the process of building another 18 stalls.
"We are the largest equestrian centre in Manitoba," he said.
What's surprising about the facility is that Charriere and Dolinski designed it themselves.
Charriere has experience in constructing pre-engineered steel buildings and Dolinski worked in her family's equestrian centre for years. They knew what they wanted to include in their new building and the kind of atmosphere they wanted to create.
"We got some ideas of how you can make a comfortable, cozy facility," Charriere said. "My goal was to create a big, bright, airy atmosphere for horses and clients."
He drew up the first set of plans, and then worked with an architect and engineer to ensure that the structure was properly designed and built.
One of the building's main features is a floor made from fir lumber in the stable area. Charriere said some of the people who board their horses were initially concerned the floor would be slippery for the horses, but time has proven otherwise. He said it's actually safer because if an animal happens to stumble, the fir is softer to land on.
Another difference between West Wind and many other equestrian centres is the lack of a horse smell upon entering the lobby. Charriere said the relatives of some riding students have allergies and they wanted to keep the public area as free of dust and smell as possible. Outdoor air is drawn through the building, helping to keep the facility smelling fresh.
The couple worked with the Manitoba Riding for the Disabled Association before opening West Wind, and they made a point of including features for the non-profit organization's riders and volunteers in the building plan. A room off the main lobby has storage space for the MRDA's equipment. The area is where riders, aged eight to 12, and volunteers prepare for riding. A special ramp in the arena allows children to more easily mount the horses.
MRDA executive director Peter Manastyrsky said Charriere and Dolinski have been extremely supportive of the organization and in accommodating the needs of participants.
Susan Ploughman boards her daughter's horse at West Wind and said it offers a comfortable area for parents to watch their children riding in the arena.
The couple are already preparing to add another indoor arena and improve the outdoor arena to allow riders to better prepare their horses for competition. They also host equestrian skills clinics and are aiming to become the biggest equestrian centre in the province.


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Raleigh, N.C. – Rand Paul has expanded his lead in the Kentucky Senate race even
further over the last week and is headed for a blowout win. His margin over Jack
Conway is 55-40.
Kentucky is obviously a conservative state. Conway's ability to win was always going to
depend on getting a lot of folks who supported John McCain in 2008 to vote Democratic
for the Senate this time around. The most amazing finding on this final poll is that Rand
Paul is actually picking up more Obama voters (15%) than Conway is McCain voters
(9%). That's the formula for a landslide.
In the end Rand Paul did not have any trouble reunifying his party after the Republican
primary- GOP voters are going for him by an 88-8 margin. Conway meanwhile is
bleeding Democratic support. He's getting only 61% of the vote from his own party
while a full 34% say they plan to vote for Paul. Paul also has a 48-40 advantage with
Barack Obama's approval rating in Kentucky is 31% with 62% of voters disapproving of
him. This race may have been a stretch for Dems even with a perfect campaign and
candidate. And in the end they had neither.
"Very few people would have predicted this five months ago but Rand Paul ended up
being a stronger general election candidate than Jack Conway," said Dean Debnam,
President of Public Policy Polling. "He was always favored in this race but he'll win by a
surprisingly large margin."
PPP surveyed 1,021 likely Kentucky voters from October 28th to 30th. The margin of
error for the survey is +/- 3.1%. Other factors, such as refusal to be interviewed and
weighting, may introduce additional error that is more difficult to quantify.
Topline results are below. Full results, including crosstabs, can be found here.
Q1 The candidates for US Senate are Democrat
Jack Conway and Republican Rand Paul. If
the election was today, who would you vote
Jack Conway .................................................. 40%
Rand Paul ....................................................... 55%
Undecided....................................................... 5%
Q2 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of Jack Conway?
Favorable .............. 34%
Unfavorable........... 52%
Not sure ................ 14%
Q3 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of Rand Paul?
Favorable .............. 48%
Unfavorable........... 43%
Not sure ................ 9%
Q4 Do you approve or disapprove of President
Barack Obama's job performance?
Approve .......................................................... 31%
Disapprove...................................................... 62%
Not sure .......................................................... 6%
Q5 Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Mitch
McConnell's job performance?
Approve .......................................................... 42%
Disapprove...................................................... 44%
Not sure .......................................................... 14%
Q6 Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Jim
Bunning's job performance?
Approve .......................................................... 32%
Disapprove...................................................... 45%
Not sure .......................................................... 23%
Q7 Do you approve or disapprove of Governor
Steve Beshear's job performance?
Approve .......................................................... 48%
Disapprove...................................................... 34%
Not sure .......................................................... 18%
Q8 Who did you vote for President in 2008?
John McCain................................................... 56%
Barack Obama................................................ 40%
Someone else/Don't remember ...................... 4%
Q9 Do you identify yourself as a liberal, moderate,
or conservative?
Liberal ............................................................. 14%
Moderate......................................................... 42%
Conservative................................................... 44%
Q10 If you are a woman, press 1. If a man, press 2.
Woman ........................................................... 53%
Man................................................................. 47%
Q11 If you are a Democrat, press 1. If a
Republican, press 2. If you are an independent
or identify with another party, press 3.
Democrat ........................................................ 53%
Republican...................................................... 37%
Independent/Other.......................................... 10%
Q12 If you are white, press 1. If African-American,
press 2. If other, press 3.
White .............................................................. 89%
African-American ............................................ 6%
Other............................................................... 5%
Q13 If you are 18 to 29 years old, press 1. If 30 to
45, press 2. If 46 to 65, press 3. If you are
older than 65, press 4.
18 to 29........................................................... 8%
30 to 45........................................................... 25%
46 to 65........................................................... 45%
Older than 65.................................................. 22%
Q14 Have you already cast your ballot for this
year's election?
Yes.................................................................. 7%
No ................................................................... 93%


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Meet Girls at the AirportJanuary 15th, 2011
It's easy to meet girls at the airport- they tend to be excited about their traveling, people mix naturally and are more open to talk to strangers compared to every day life. Also there are some places in airports where it is extremely easy to meet girls at the airport.
Meet Girls at the Airport- Your Attitude Counts
As always, your first step needs to be to make sure that you are open to meet girls. This sounds self-evident, but it isn't. When you are traveling you are inclined to be focused on things like "where is the check in counter" or "where is my gate" and this tends to shift away the focus from meeting girls. So make sure that you are always have an attitude of "I will meet girls everywhere"- and this includes airports.
In addition you often find girls traveling alone and there are happy to have some entertainment while waiting- making it easy to meet girls at the airport.
Typical Places to Meet Girls at the Airport
Just when meeting girls at the grocery store, lines are always great- you might think that long lines are a bad thing, but if you manage to be in line with a nice girl next to you, then the longer the wait the better for you- it gives you more opportunity to connect to the girl.
So watch out for lines at the typical places like at the gate, when checking in and so on. And make sure you position yourself in line before or after a nice girl you'd like to meet. Before is always better than after- when you stand behind her you have to wait for her to turn around, or tap her on the shoulder and ask her something. When you stand in line before her, all you have to do is to turn around and initiate the conversation.
Meet Girls at the Airport in Waiting Areas
These are pure gold- you will find many lonely girls sitting on benches with a free spot next to her. All you have to do is to walk up, ask if the seat is taken and start talking. A great subject are always fellow travelers. You'll find all kind of strange people on airports, so that's always a good opportunity to have a few laughs together.
The best waiting area is of course the one for your flight. Because you and the girl have the same destination there is a chance you'll be able to hook up later. If you know the city your are going to and she doesn't it's almost guaranteed- you can offer her to show her around and take her to exciting places the normal tourist does not get to.
Meet Girls at Airport Restaurants
These are great too. Many girls just try to kill time by hanging out in airport restaurants- that's another spot to easily meat girls at the airport. Just make sure you do not get disturbed by the restaurant procedure of food ordering and food delivery. I'll write about that in an upcoming post.
In short, it is not a big deal to meet girls at the airport- so look forward to your next opportunity to travel and arrive one or two hours earlier at the airport.


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Superintendents address No Child Left Behind act
School superintendents Glenn Chiodo and Steve Rassier provided an overview - and opinions - on the No Child Left Behind federal legislation this week, addressing the League of Women Voters.
"It's an education philosophy that ideally would close achievement gaps," Chiodo explained of the 2002 legislation enacting theories of standards-based education reform. It's based on the principle that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals can improve individual outcomes.
The act, he explained, does not define a national achievement goal; individual states adopt standards.
"When you see the test scores, Texas' scores are not necessarily the same as Minnesota," Chiodo said of comparisons. "It's not apples to apples."
Minnesota has historically been a high achiever, he said, with high expectations.
The complaints he's hearing are on the number of tests students are expected to take.
"It's overwhelming, come spring," he said of tests administered for students in third grade through high school.
"It's a massive amount of testing," Rassier agreed. He distributed this year's testing schedule, "day after day of testing" scheduled in April. "It's hard to assess the impact."
And the "rules have changed dramatically" since the onset of the testing, Chiodo said. Schools prepare based on guidelines undergoing modifications. "It's like a moving bulls eye."
"And schools can be closed if students are not making adequate yearly progress (AYP)," Rassier reminded his audience of the "high stakes" testing. Schools face sanctions if they do not show AYP in two consecutive years. Remediation is required.
The first year of testing, Park Rapids didn't make AYP because of absenteeism, Chiodo recalled. He subsequently joked he'd send out a cavalry to pick up kids on testing day.
"It's a snapshot of a given day," Chiodo pointed out, citing Minnetonka, a nationally recognized district that did not make AYP.
If a district does not achieve AYP, funds that would be used for math and reading must be set aside to write a remediative plan, he said.
State test results do not arrive until late summer, Chiodo said, making it difficult to make adjustments for fall.
Both lauded the Northwest Evaluation Assessment tests, administered at the beginning and end of the school year. Results of the tests, which are aligned to Minnesota test standards, arrive within a week, as opposed to months.
Tests change, Chiodo pointed out, citing math concepts as an example. "We shore up an area of weakness and then may not have as many questions in that area... It's frustrating. We're chasing a moving target.
"The concept of NCLB is good, but at some point in time all schools will fall behind," he said of the "complicated" testing process. "Philosophically, I agree with tests; it's the process that's difficult."
By law, districts may exclude 1 percent of special education students. Of Park Rapids' 1,550 students, approximately 350 have special needs (including speech impediments, emotional behavioral disorders and learning disabilities.)
A student may be two grade levels below his current grade but must test at the grade he/she is enrolled.
Rassier noted that by 2014, schools are expected to be at 100 percent proficiency. "I don't think that's possible."
Rassier reviewed Nevis' AYP results with League members, explaining participation and proficiency categories and breakdowns by race, origin, special education and free and reduced lunch (poverty levels).
Schools view test results on an individual student basis, grade by grade, Rassier said. "The feds grade by class."
"And that changes all the time," Chiodo said. "At third grade a class passes and fails at fifth grade. It's difficult for families and can be misleading. The test changed. The school didn't fail; the student did his job.
"It's not an accurate barometer on a regular basis," Chiodo said.
Now with testing in the seventh year, data on individual students can be tracked, Rassier said. If students are not proficient, teachers can look at the material.
"The theory's good," he said. "Based on state standards, every teacher knows what a student should know at each grade level."
Rassier said he anticipated some changes to NCLB after the last election. "The testing component will stay in place; feds want accountability."
Districts, he said, may opt out of the testing, but lose federal dollars, $100,000 in Nevis' case.
Students, they agreed, take the testing more seriously in high school, when it affects graduation.


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Q: I read with interest about deep vein thrombosis in a previous column. I am a 61-year-old female and have been a type 2 diabetic for 10 years.
I suffer from burning, aching feet and lower legs, and the condition is particularly bad when I lie down. In fact the sensation varies between burning, tearing and a shooting electric shock.
I am able to wear different types of shoes and can walk long distances as being up and about eases the discomfort somewhat; but the daily pain doesn't go away.
I have in the past (on two occasions) seen a vascular surgeon who told me the blood circulation/pulses in my legs were normal. A physician once prescribed Lyrica capsules, but this definitely did not ease the pain. In fact, it made me feel like a zombie
A: The description sounds almost characteristic of neuropathic pain (nerve tissue pain).
The truth is that it is not an easy condition to treat. Damage to nerve tissue can be viewed in two main groups: disease affecting the jellylike insulating layer surrounding certain nerve cells or neurons, or a process affecting the nerve axon itself. The most likely process leading to your pain is damage to the long peripheral nerves of the lower leg. Peripheral neuropathy can be extremely painful.
Your best advice at this stage is excellent diabetic control, regular exercise, aspirin, nutritional supplementation of B vitamins – especially B12 – and no alcohol.
Pain control is best achieved by drugs directed at altering the nerve conduction thresholds – working on the cell receptors or ion channels which carry electric impulses.
Anti-epileptic drugs work on the sodium and potassium channels too.
The best known treatments for diabetic sensory neuropathy include Amytriptilline, Carbamazepine, Gabapentin and even Phenytoin.
It is crucially important to note that despite pulses all being present and palpable, the microvascular complications of diabetes are silent killers.
Optimal sugar control and excellent compliance with meds, as well as lifestyle modification, is the only hope of halting further damage. The degree to which existing damage is reversible depends on the extent of damage, duration of the disease and the patient's other illnesses.


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Gan Laikan was a male Centauran from Alpha Centauri who lived in the late 23rd and early 24th centuries.
He was a member of Starfleet in the early part of his life, eventually rising to the rank of captain. He took command of the USS Asimov in 2255 for its first voyage with him as captain. He is remembered for discovering more class M planets then any other starship captain in the 23rd century. (Last Unicorn RPG module: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook)
Following the end of his Starfleet career, he was appointed to the Federation Supreme Court. After several years on the court, he ran for President of the United Federation of Planets, and was successfully elected.
At age eight, Jean-Luc Picard took a school trip to the Palais de la Concorde, and had looked forward to meeting President Laikan. Unfortunately, Laikan was vacationing on Alpha Centauri at the time, and the class was instead received by Laikan's Denobulan chief of staff. (TNG - Slings and Arrows eBook: Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment)
- The story of Picard's school trip is repeated in the Star Trek: Myriad Universes novel A Gutted World.
Laikan died sometime prior to 2380. (ST novel: Articles of the Federation)
He is remembered as a great Centauran scientist, Starfleet officer, and politician, and is held up as a role-model for Centauran Starfleet officers. (Decipher RPG module: Starfleet Operations Manual)
- Slings and Arrows confirms Laikan was in office as of 2313, and was Thelian's immediate predecessor.
|Preceded by:
|President of the United Federation of Planets
circa 2313
|Succeeded by:
Thelianaresth th'Vorothishria


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