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Feeling On Display
Many teen girls and boys experience great pressure to keep up online appearances. Work together as a class to consider the effect of photos on social networking sites, and invite your learners to reflect on such important concepts as double standards and judgment.
9th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Designed
Stand Up. . . Be InCtrl!
What is the difference between a bystander and an upstander? A collaborative project created through digital media will help the class understand that they can participate in an online community respectfully and responsibly. They consider the impact of cyberbullying and how their language or actions can impact others.
4th - 8th 21st Century Skills CCSS: Designed
Responding to Uncertainties and Changes
Fifth graders read articles to make them aware of the world around them. In this social awareness lesson, 5th graders complete a reading on social issues and write a response to the literature. Students include complex sentences in their writing.
5th English Language Arts
New Review 501 Writing Prompts
Never again will you need to worry about coming up with a writing prompt! This packet contains, as it says, 501 prompts that are suitable for fourth graders on up. The prompts are paired into four categories (persuasive, expository, narrative, and literary response), and each category comes with a general rubric and a set of sample essays.
4th - 12th English Language Arts CCSS: Adaptable
New Review Civics and Citizenship
What is a good citizen? Here is a fantastic unit of ten lessons that will thoroughly cover the concept of civics and citizenship in your class. Examples of activities include learning stations, primary and secondary source analysis of documents as the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, designing responsibility posters, a public service announcement project, and examining quotes from influential politicians, philosophers, and authors on the topic of civics.
8th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
New Review Become a Journalist
Explore the newspaper as a unique entity with a detailed and extended unit. The unit requires learners to consider the newspapers' role in democracy, think about ethics, practice writing and interviewing, and examine advertising and news content.
6th - 8th English Language Arts CCSS: Designed
Assessing Behaviors Using Rational Numbers
Combine a study on appropriate behavior with examining rational numbers! Individuals assess behaviors that they see and experience in the school environment. They identify, define, compare, and order behaviors that are both positive and negative, using number lines to help draw conclusions, reason, and visualize concepts.
7th - 8th Math
Digital Citizenship Pledge
What does it mean to be a digital citizen? It means being responsible, respectful, and having the same type of behavior one would expect in a classroom setting. The core of this lesson revolves around discussion and brainstorming activities to help learners generate a list of rules or expectations for maintaining good digital citizenship.
3rd - 5th 21st Century Skills CCSS: Designed
One Plus One Makes You and Me - Respect
Young pupils should benefit from this wonderful series of activities designed to teach them how to get along with, and respect each other. Learners recognize how to demonstrate both respectful and disrespectful behavior, and take part in role plays in order to gain social skills.
K - 2nd Social Studies & History
Living in a Digital World
What does it mean to be a good digital citizen? Is it the same as face-to-face communication? In small groups, learners discuss the differences between digital and non digital life, how they are different and what each environment can offer.
4th - 8th 21st Century Skills CCSS: Designed
Game Related Social Skills
Most of us like to play games, but knowing what to do when a game doesn't go the way one expects is a learned skills. Adolescents with behavioral disorders practice responding to a variety of situations that arise during game play. They take turns, ignore taunting, respond to losing, and discuss disputes.
9th - 12th Special Education & Programs
Animal Behavior
Can you train a worm? Biology buffs will have a blast trying! Using planaria or earthworms, they introduce a certain stimulus repeatedly until the desired response happens more quickly. They also explore the response of their own eyes to light and their eye-hand coordination.
7th - 12th Science
Opening a Special Ed Class
This is not just a instructional activity, it's a life saver! Here are 10 separate documents intended to assist a new Special Ed teacher. There are 4 different games, instructional tips, ways to handle documentation, behavioral modification suggestions, and tips on how to modify school curriculum to meet your student's special needs.
1st - 12th Special Education & Programs
New Review Marine Animal Husbandry and Training
Step into the role of a zoo director with several activities about animal training and running a zoo. Kids calculate the amount of food each animal needs, design a habitat for penguins, decide how to breed bottlenose dolphins, and train their classmates using animal training techniques.
7th - 12th Science
Philanthropic Behavior
Youngsters create class rules by determining the environment they would like to have in their classroom. They come to a consensus about how to have a safe, fair, fun learning environment by discussing the rules in the Karla Kustin poem, and sharing their behavior plan with their parents.
K - 2nd Social Studies & History
New Review High School Writing: Student Guide
Here's an amazing writing guide that deserves a place in your curriculum library. The 136-page packet provides focus lessons on the writing process, expository, persuasive, and timed writing, the Cornell system of note taking, and more. A must-have resource.
9th - 12th English Language Arts CCSS: Adaptable
What Kind of Citizen & Community Member Are You?
What makes an ideal citizen? How can we as individuals do to impact our communities in a positive way? Discuss this important concept with your class with an interactive, creative activity and follow-up role play.
8th - 11th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable


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Jimmys home, the Pearl District, was until recently a low-rent warehouse zone where struggling musicians and artists could afford to set up shop. Recent years have seen the Pearl transformed. Tenants have been chased out to make room for boutiques, $30-entrée restaurants, and million-dollar condos. Deciding it was better to switch than fight, Jimmys kicked off its small-town shoes and bolted across the street for renovated digs in 2006.
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After the 'will it-won't it' debates, all hopes are pinned on the CWG's success to save face after the literally crumbling plans.
It will be a big challenge for the Indian athletes to wipe the bad memories of all the uncertainty in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games, and make it memorable with their achievements. It was the high quality performance of the Indian athletes in the last two editions in Manchester in 2002 and Melbourne in 2006, when they won 52 gold medals in all that had triggered hopes that it would be a double delight when the Games, united by one language in 71 countries, were to be held in Delhi.
However, "will the Games happen?", has been the question doing the rounds, as Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit struggled to make enough number of towers "livable" at the Games Village, for the athletes and officials, when deadlines had to be pushed till the very eve of the Games.
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) that had awarded the event to India seven years ago had been constantly warning the host through its president, Mike Fennell. The Jamaican had first said, "time is not your friend" and then "time is your enemy".
All the warnings went unheeded, and the Organising Committee chaired by Suresh Kalmadi, and the other stake holders including the Union and Delhi Governments, responsible for setting up the infrastructure, made a clumsy job of it, despite spending public money lavishly in thousands of crore rupees.
In attempting to beat the Beijing Olympics that was superbly organised by the Chinese with remarkable efficiency and dominated with clinical accuracy, the Indian authorities fell flat on their face, because they forgot the basics. Even when all the expertise was available, India went about the job as if it was inventing the wheel for the first time.
Pictures of unhygienic conditions at the Games Village splashed across the world media with barely a week left for the Games, and that added to the withdrawal of many athletes who were worried about their health and safety. The Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, the star of Beijing, had started the list of "pull outs" long back as the Games could not be fitted into his plan for dominating the London Olympics, and the list looked endless.
For sportsmanship
Well, the Games may be the launch pad for the future stars, but it would have been great if the participation of all the best athletes had been ensured. But, when we cannot ensure basics, we cannot ensure anything. It is a great tribute to all those athletes from Australia to Zambia that they asserted their commitment for the Games and ventured to the Indian Capital.
Even the Indian athletes, facing a lot of struggle for different reasons despite a large sum being dedicated for their training and preparation, went about their job with quiet resolve. It may be tough even to beat a depleted Australia, that has been consistently topping the medals table, but India would aspire to jump from being No.4, to finish second ahead of England and Canada, possibly with more than 50 gold medals.
The ultimate question would be — will Indian sports prevail over all the politics and corruption?
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Divers bubble up at Blue Grotto Dive Resort, about to exit the water.
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Cave diver Ricardo Neves of Tampa prepares for his descent
Divers bubble up at Blue Grotto Dive Resort, about to exit the water.
Cave diver Ricardo Neves of Tampa prepares for his descent
Chris Okenfelt and his wife came from Iowa to learn diving.
Kurt Huber, owner of Blue Grotto Dive Resort, with oxygen and nitrox tanks
Darrin Spivey, 35, and his son Dillon Sanchez, 15, died while cave diving at Eagle's Nest Sink in Citrus County on Christmas Day. Since then, questions have been raised about whether to close the dive site and cave diving in general.
The dive equipment found on the father and son showed a dive depth of 233 feet, well below the maximum 60 feet permitted by Spivey's open-water certification.
Sanchez was not certified.
Chester Spivey Jr., Darrin's father and Dillon's grandfather, wrote a letter at the end of December to the state asking the park be closed. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said they have no plans to close the site.
Many cave divers believe it's a safe sport and dive to experience an alternate reality.
"I go cave diving, believe it or not, to relax," said Rod O'Connor, who travelled from Tampa to dive at Blue Grotto Dive Resort in Williston. "There's a misconception that it's for adrenaline seekers, and that's not the case."
Jeff Cary has been on more than 1,000 dives, many of them into Florida's unexplored underwater caves, with nothing but a dive light, his equipment and sometimes a friend.
"Everybody has had dreams of flying, and that's what it is," said Cary, after a dive at Blue Grotto Dive Resort in Williston on a recent Saturday morning. "It's a chance to let your mind clear and experience your body in a totally different environment,"
International Training Director for the National Association of Cave Divers, Rob Neto, believes all diver deaths are due to faulty equipment or divers going beyond the limits of their certifications.
"With the proper training, it's an extremely safe sport," he said.
He said the two men experienced the phenomenon Jacques Cousteau called "the martini effect".
"Every 50 feet is equivalent to one martini, and they were almost five martinis deep," he explained. "That's how debilitated they were."
About 50 percent of diver deaths happen at less than 50 feet from the water's surface, according to Diver's Alert Network Annual Diving Report. Since 1970, reported deaths in the U.S. and Canada have ranged between 40-160 annually.
O'Connor does not believe the dive site should be closed.
"That's equivalent of somebody going to Dick's Sporting Goods, buying a pair of skis, taking off down the black diamond of a ski slope and then wanting to shut down the mountain after they smack into a tree," O'Connor said. "You know, you don't blame the mountain."
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The FWC has seen recent success in controlling invasive plants that overrun Florida with the use of air potato beetles, and other beetle species.
Students from Cedar Key School, a public K-12 school, vow to fight hunger in Levy County by cultivating land at the school to provide fresh, healthy food. The school donated 7,000 pounds of fresh food to the Cedar Key United Methodist Church Food Pantry.
Otter Creek's search to buy land acquisition with a source of clean water may lead to an end to the town's ongoing water-contamination issues.
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Moody's strips France of AAA-rating
PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Moody's stripped France of its prized triple-A badge on Monday, cutting the sovereign credit rating on Europe's No. 2 economy by one notch to Aa1 from Aaa, citing an uncertain fiscal outlook and deteriorating economy.
The downgrade, which follows a cut by Standard & Poor's in January, was widely expected but is still a blow to Socialist President Francois Hollande as he strives to convince the world he can fix France's public finances and stalled economy.
Moody's said it was keeping a negative outlook on France due to structural challenges and a "sustained loss of competitiveness" in the country, where business leaders blame high labour charges for flagging exports.
"The first driver underlying Moody's one-notch downgrade of France's sovereign rating is the risk to economic growth, and therefore to the government's finances, posed by the country's persistent structural economic challenges," Moody's said.
"These include the rigidities in labour and services markets, and low levels of innovation, which continue to drive France's gradual but sustained loss of competitiveness and the gradual erosion of its export-oriented industrial base."
Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told Reuters the downgrade was a motivation for the 6-month-old Socialist government to pursue reforms, but he noted that even after the S&P downgrade French debt has enjoyed record low yields.
He also said the government was committed to meeting its target of cutting the public debt to 3 percent of economic output next year from an estimated 4.5 percent this year.
The euro slid against the U.S. dollar after the downgrade, by 0.30 percent from nearly a 2-week high to $1.2770, even though analysts said the downgrade was largely factored into bond markets.
The S&P downgrade had little impact on French yields, which have been trading at record lows of just over 2 percent in recent weeks despite the concern about France's sickly economy.
"There is probably more downside until the knee jerk reaction is out of the way. But on the whole it seems likely that this more reflects an existing reality than new information for the market," said Steven Englander, global head of G10 FX strategy at Citi.
Moody's had been waiting to examine Hollande's 2013 budget and his response to a review of industrial competitiveness before adjusting its view on France as a sovereign lender.
Standard & Poor's has rated France AA-plus, with a negative outlook, since downgrading it by one notch in January. Fitch Ratings still has France at AAA, also with a negative outlook.
The loss of its Aaa rating from two agencies poses a problem for France, as investment funds often require their best assets to have at least two top notch ratings to remain in their portfolios.
Any rise in borrowing costs will be painful as the French government is already battling to rein in its deficit with potentially painful cuts to public spending.
"France is paying the price for not engaging in reform," said Axel Merk, president of Merk Investments in Palo Alto, California, saying he was not surprised by the downgrade.
With France's 2 trillion euro economy teetering on the brink of recession, Hollande surprised many this month by unveiling measures to spur industrial competitiveness, chief among them the granting of 20 billion euros in annual tax relief to companies, equivalent to a 6 percent cut in labour costs.
The government had already announced 30 billion euros in budget savings next year in an effort to meet its deficit goal and is working on reforms to labour laws to enable companies to hire and fire more easily with economic swings.
French bond yields are close to record lows of just over 2 percent, nearly one percentage point lower than at the time of the S&P downgrade, allowing France to roll over its debt for free, in inflation-adjusted terms.
Analysts expect a limit to any automatic selling by investors whose mandate only allows them to hold AAA bonds.
"The amount of index-driven selling would be near zero. France is fair value relative to other euro-area sovereigns," Morgan Stanley, a primary dealer, wrote in a report last week. (Additional reporting by Jean-Baptiste Vey, Daniel Flynn and Leigh Thomas in Paris and David Gaffen in New York; Writing by Catherine Bremer; Editing by Richard Chang)
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By DOUG GRAVES
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WILMINGTON, Ohio — Job placement specialists say degrees in nursing and science are lucrative, while concentrations in philosophy, political science and even journalism should be shelved.
But what about farming? There are those in the know who say careers in agriculture couldn't be better.
"From our perspective the outlook for the agriculture graduate is very good," said Adam Lohrey, agriculture studies recruiter at Wilmington College. "A lot of our students are making their connections and doing the internships prior to graduating. In the past three years we've had 95 percent job placement rate for our graduating seniors."
Recent agriculture and natural resources graduates with bachelors' degrees have the third lowest rate of unemployment in the nation (7 percent), according to a 2012 study by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. The same study found that rate even lower for graduates with advanced agricultural degrees, at 2.4 percent.
"Here at Wilmington, students choose a major, then a concentration area like ag business, agronomy or animal science," Lohrey said. "They can then have minors in equine studies or sustainability. They can even obtain a double major with the education department and become certified to teach ag education."
The most obvious careers are directly related to the farm or ranch. There are approximately 22 million people who work in ag-related fields in the United States. Today's agriculture offers more than 200 rewarding and challenging careers.
Wilmington College and The Ohio State University are the two schools in Ohio to offer a bachelor of science in agriculture. Wilmington has a 267-acre farm with livestock, and there are 215 students at the school in agriculture majors.
"We've done our research and found out that graduating agriculture students can expect to make $40,000 annually, and those in the top 15 percent academically can get as much as $60,000," Lohrey said. "There's growth for management at various companies these days."
According to the Agriculture Council of America, agriculture careers include agribusiness management, agricultural and natural resources communications, building construction management, parks and recreations, tourism resources, packaging, horticulture, forestry, food science and fisheries/wildlife.
The same group says "food scientists and engineers will be in the greatest demand in the agricultural job market over the next four years. Annual job openings for these two groups are projected to be around 58,000, while the number of graduates for those jobs will be slightly more than 57,000."
Kristen Johnson is one of four recruiters employed by Farm Credit Mid-America, a $19 billion agricultural lending cooperative providing farm and home financing to more than 100,000 agribusinesses, farmers and rural residents throughout Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Farm Credit Mid-America recruits on campuses at more than two dozen colleges and universities that offer four-year degrees in agriculture across the four states.
"There's been a substantial increase in the number of businesses participating in campus events, seeking employees from agriculture's talent pool," Johnson said. "A career fair that might have had 20 companies last year may have 60 this year."
In response to the growing demand of the agricultural financing market, Farm Credit Mid-America experienced a 27 percent jump in employee numbers in the last three years and expects to add more than 100 sales and customer support positions this year.
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Can you even imagine a time when Jennifer Lawrence was not in our lives? The days before a badass, inhumanly talented woman who somehow managed to top Hollywood's A-List by the age of 22 — while also emerging as a voice of reason for the people — was around to make the world seem just a little bit brighter? A little more, I don't know, covered in delicious Cheetos dust?
Yeah, we can't either. Those were some dark times, man.
So to celebrate JLaw's 24th (yep, you read it right — she's still much younger than us) nameday on August 15, we volunteer to represent District MTV News to reminiscence on 24 times this Oscar-winning dynamo was the life's greatest Tribute:
1. The time she won the Best Actress Oscar.
Why not start on top?
What were you doing when you were 22 — studying for finals? Spending your first post-grad summer at your parents' house, searching the job boards for your first 9-to-5? That's cool. Jennifer Lawrence was winning an Oscar.
2. The time she pooped her pants.
Now that we've reached the top, let's head straight down to the bottom. JLaw's bottom. It doesn't get more JLaw than the time Letterman asked her why she'd been hospitalized before her big "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" premiere, and she admitted to having a "fulcer." (If you don't know what that is, just be warned that you might not want to.)
3. The time she copped to loving the Kardashians.
Now if she starts playing Kim Kardashian's Hollywood, she's really be one of us. Can I borrow some K-stars, JLaw?
4. The time she flipped dieting the bird.
Actresses and normal women alike feel the pressure to be in perfect shape, so it's beyond refreshing when an icon like Lawrence is honest about the crap she goes through in Hollywood. During an interview with Harper's Bazaar, Lawrence recalled the time she was told to lose weight to lose her career… and straight up just didn't.
"It was just the kind of s—that actresses have to go through," she said. "Somebody told me I was fat, that I was going to get fired if I didn't lose a certain amount of weight. They brought in pictures of me where I was basically naked, and told me to use them as motivation for my diet. They thought that because of the way my career had gone, it wouldn't still hurt me. If anybody even tries to whisper the word 'diet', I'm like, 'You can go f— yourself.'"
(However, it's also important to note that Lawrence is not one of those stars who claims to have a perfect figure despite sitting on the couch eating pizza and watching "Scandal" all day. She admits that she has, and enjoys, a workout routine — which is wonderful, healthy, and oh-so-JLaw.)
5. The time she needed fries with that — on the red carpet.
Speaking of not dieting… JLaw is not one to go hungry during the most important Hollywood event of the year. However, she is wise enough not to supersize it when she goes to Mickey D's. Too much of a good thing is never a good thing, you know?
6. The time she said Kristen Stewart could take her down.
We're not sure if we believe it, but some humility never hurt anyone, you know?
7. The time she chopped off all her hair.
Long, flowing locks has been a culturally mandated beauty requirement for young actresses for decades, so it was great in 2013 when Lawrence was all, "who needs hair?"
8. The time she reminded us that we're all defying gravity when you really think about it.
Walking is hard.
9. The time she managed to do it all over again the following year.
Bonus points for introducing the world to the "best friend as fall-breaker" idea.
10. The time she gave us her best Snooki.
Who doesn't love "Jersey Shore"? Lawrence sure does, and she proved it by giving us a pretty decent Snooki impersonation back in 2011. "Where's the beach?!" We're not sure, JLaw. We're really not sure.
11. The time she lived the dream.
It's great to know that even mega-famous actresses hate wearing pants. Pants are the worst. Seriously, can we talk about pants?
12. The time she called Hollywood's most powerful figure an idiot.
Now that's when you know you've made it — when insulting Harvey Weinstein for all the world to see has literally no consequences.
13. The time she called Bradley Cooper out for his ass-sweat.
"There was always a little wet patch, right on your butt."
14. The time she photobombed Taylor Swift.
The Golden Globes moment that spawned a million memes is definitely not Lawrence's only photobomb, but it's certainly her most impressive. Unless you count…
15. The time she photobombed Sarah Jessica Parker
Most people attend the Met Gala to show off their style, but JLaw's goal for the night seemed to be taking the funniest pictures. So this was definitely her most impressive photobomb then, right? But oh wait, there's also…
16. The time she face-smashed Emma Watson.
Yeah, this one's it. Katniss facially assaulting Hermione Granger was a win for us all. Wingardium Levios YOUR FACE.
17. The time she taught us how to do our jobs.
Lawrence didn't like how MTV News' Josh Horowitz was conducting his interviews, so she decided to take things to the next level and give him a celeb reporting tutorial. How embarrassing!
18. The time she proved that not all actresses are crazy for fashion.
We thought it was a gene they were all born with or something, but nope.
19. The time she showed school spirit on "Monk" — then later had to relive her pain.
Everyone has to start somewhere, right? Hey, you can't deny that your school mascot seems pretty lame right now in comparison.
20. The time she became real life besties with Josh Hutcherson.
(But really, please tell us what "you don't remember MMMBop" means.)
21. The time she got in a car accident because she thought she saw Honey Boo Boo.
Are you also noticing a recurring reality show theme, here?
22. The time she reacted appropriately to Jack Nicholson.
"Yeah, you're being really rude."
23. Four words: "Live and Let Die."
Did this scene alone earn Lawrence her third Academy Award nomination for 2013? It hasn't been confirmed, but we're going to go with definitely yes.
24. The time she won the Hunger Games.
This wasn't necessarily in real life, per se, but it was still a major accomplishment. Just picture us holding up the three middle fingers on our left hands to you, Katniss. Because we are.


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From his tiny, windowless office, George Palamarizis tirelessly chips away at Greece's political establishment.
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From his tiny, windowless office, George Palamarizis tirelessly chips away at Greece's political establishment.
The web designer creates content for the Democratic Left - one of a crop of new parties that have rapidly built an online following that is translating into real electoral clout. As the economic crisis rages, they are harnessing the power of the Internet to get out their message as the biggest parties find they have little money in their coffers for traditional campaigning.
Ahead of Sunday's general elections, Palamarizis works on a shoestring. He has a staff of two, no additional funds for campaigning, and is promoting a political party that until recently most Greeks had never heard of.
They have now.
Democratic Left peaked at second place in opinion polls several weeks ago, an achievement party officials say would have been unthinkable without the Internet.
"It was obvious from the beginning that without money and access to the traditional media, we could only make our opinions and proposals known with new media, the Internet and social media," the 44-year-old Palamarizis said, his desk covered in cables, screens gadgets and not a single piece of paper.
Political newcomers are aggressively mobilizing to attract voters as they desert the major parties that left the country with massive debts and punishing austerity measures.
The two main parties in Greece - the Socialist Pasok and conservative New Democracy - have swapped places in and out of government for four decades, averaging more than 80 percent of the vote between them in the past 13 general elections.
Polls suggest half of that support could be wiped out on Sunday, while the number of parties elected to parliament is set to rise from five to as many as 10 - with everyone from pro-Soviet Communists to free-market evangelists to Neo-Nazis grabbing seats from the main parties, helped by vigorous Internet campaigns.
Palamarizis keeps his formula simple: Constantly upload new material and update your database of party members and "friends."
And never use spam.
"People have understood that we won't bomb them with info they don't need ... We only target friends and members of the party. They can pass our message on if they want."
Democratic Left, a moderate offshoot party that backs Greek membership of the euro, is headquartered in a run-down area in central Athens, located between two vacant stores and across the street from a row of brothels. Its no-frills online campaign is suited to the country's harsh economic conditions.
The financial crisis has seen Greeks lose jobs at a rate of 1,000 per day on average in the past year. As the country slides into poverty, long-standing campaign rules are being rewritten.
Major parties, unable to borrow money, no longer have the funds to stage mass public rallies or blitz the airwaves with election ads. Fearing physical attacks by protest mobs, politicians have also limited campaign appearances to small gatherings and speeches at well-policed indoor sports venues.
TV and radio stations are bound by rigid airtime quotas for each party during election campaigns, roughly based on their support at the last election in 2009 - making TV almost irrelevant for new parties.
But look online, and political debate is raging: Rival candidates slug it out on recorded video-calls, 30-second campaign ads for television are expanded to 5 minutes, and voters get to ask the questions themselves.
"We've seen these elections being dominated by the Internet," said Stefanos Loukakos, country manager in Greece for the Internet giant Google, citing a major shift in online habits since the 2009 election.
"People spend less time reading newspapers and watching TV. In the past couple of years, Greece has been bombarded with news blogs and news sites. The crisis and the elections in particular have a very high interest among users."
Google's Greek operation, Google.gr, set up an election platform with local news site protagon.gr, featuring interviews, debates and party-produced material.
"We've had a very high interest, with more than a million visitors in the first couple of days and more than 300,000 video views, without even advertising," Loukakos said.
"The crisis has actually increased usage of the Internet, and the reason is very simple: People are going out less, staying home more, and are using the Internet to search for deals and get their news."
The spread of Internet usage to older Greeks and swift growth of smartphones - now making up 20 percent of cell phones used in Greece, according to Loukakos - have also helped. It all makes the traditionally dominant parties also keen to exploit the cheap new campaigning methods.
Above his espresso coffee import business, 36-year-old Panagiotis Haskos is launching his political career as a candidate for the conservatives.
Using new technology, he argues, saves money but also sends the right message to voters.
"Even if you have money, it's not good to spend it on campaigning. People don't like it," he said, speaking at his cramped office, which employs one I.T. worker.
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RxCentric Reports Sharp Growth in Its Physician User Base -- Internet Marketing Service Provider Now has Over 25K Registered Physicians.
NEW YORK--(BW HealthWire)--March 6, 2001
RxCentric Inc., a leading Internet Marketing Solutions Provider to the pharmaceutical industry, announced today that the rapid expansion of its user base of prescribing physicians has reached the milestone of 25,000 registered users.
By reaching this milestone, RxCentric has amassed a captive audience that is truly representative of the U.S. population of prescribing physicians. RxCentric has enhanced its ability to immediately execute online pharmaceutical marketing campaigns within its network of physicians and then rollout out the campaign nationally with maximum impact.
RxCentric stated the rapid growth of its user base reflects entrenched communities of satisfied physicians and the attractiveness of its recently enhanced services to targeted physicians. RxCentric has added over 5,000 new users since the New Year bringing the number of users to the service to over 25,000.
"RxCentric is clearly the leader in its ability to offer pharmaceutical companies direct access to a growing relationship platform of specialized physician communities in order to extend, through the use of the Internet, the reach of traditional marketing and sales activities," said Richard Findlay, RxCentric's President and Chief Executive Officer. "This growth provides our pharmaceutical partners unprecedented access to a user base of doctors that are representative of the U.S. population of prescribing physicians."
The firm provides physicians customized information in seven targeted medical specialties through its free, physician-only Internet Service Provider, Doctors Net Access (DNA): Allergy, Cardiology, Neurology, Oncology/Hematology, Primary Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Urology.
Through the medical specialty channels, RxCentric gives physicians an online home that delivers rapid access to leading peer reviewed, objective medical information, as well as resources for their personal interests like news, finance, sports and leisure. Physician users can also access RxCentric's leading drug information databases, with information provided by Facts and Comparisons, as well as medically relevant links that have been tested by physicians.
Partnering with pharmaceutical companies, RxCentric also offers physician users access to a variety of pharmaceutical company-sponsored information and services through RxCentric's unique suite of online products, including online detailing and sampling, continuing medical education (CME), online events and more, all within the DNA home environment.
Findlay credits the latest growth of RxCentric's physician relationship platform to its enhancements of the specialty channels and the successful launching of the Primary Care and Urology channels.
"We are delighted with the response by physicians to our DNA service. It serves to underscore RxCentric as a time efficient resource for busy physicians, helping them to stay abreast of the latest clinical development and drug information," said Findlay. "We've designed the RxCentric channels working directly with physicians to put them in control of their professional and personal information needs, all within one environment. As a result, physicians are staying within the RxCentric network much longer, greatly increasing their exposure to pharmaceutical company-sponsored offerings," he added.
RxCentric is a privately held company with locations in New York, Morristown N.J., Philadelphia, Chicago and San Diego.
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In the hours (not days) after the enormous earthquake hit Japan on March 11, before it was even known that the Fukushima power plant had been badly disabled and well before the scope of the mortality and damage had been assessed, the Japanese yen rapidly appreciated in value. The G7 nations moved to quickly stabilize the yen — not to prevent it from falling, but to prevent it from further appreciating.
In President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech in January, he emphasized the need for more scientists, mathematicians and engineers in the U.S. workforce. But the latest national assessment of science education in the U.S. appears to offer little hope for our next generation of scientists. Still, the results provide some insight on the state of science education in this country — information that we can use to improve our schools.
Before it happened, it was hard to imagine that a combined megaquake and tsunami in Japan could cascade to a nuclear disaster. Yet that's exactly what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi (Number 1) nuclear power plant, 220 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, last month. This incident has put Japan's nuclear policy in the spotlight, but its implications go far beyond a single country.
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"This is our generation's Sputnik moment," declared President Barack Obama in the 2011 State of the Union address, challenging the nation to pursue a future of cleaner energy.
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You ever find yourself wondering why we fight the same battles over and over. Police brutality, discrimination, unemployment; I mean these arguments are as valid today as they were 100 years ago! With all of the attention seemingly paid to these issues over the years, certainly some progress would have been made, right? The evidence clearly answers, no. My theory is this; we don't put our energy in the RIGHT direction. If we put as much energy into solving our issues as we put into all of these completely trivial issues maybe we could really see some change.Read more: #ThoughtfulThursday - We Fight The Same Battles
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In the first of a series of interviews with entertainment personalities OnStage partner and music writer Khari Gzifa sat down with Jenee Bevett to discuss her career, musical influences and new projects. One of the DC area's most interesting and dynamic performers, Jenee is a much respected artist for her musical versatility, dedication to her craft, and wide ranging connections. Her years in the business have helped her forge keen insights, a level headed approach to staying in the game and a terrific definition of what success as an artist really means.
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We are all in search of the holy grail of happiness, but often hit speed bumps, do not enter signs, and detours while on our journey. Many of these road signs and hazards are manifested within us, as we try to navigate a path to wholeness. Below are five things that we do that may get in the way of our happiness.
1. 'Okay' our pain away
How often have we endured personal crisis, faced heartbreak, or experienced deep emotional wounds, to only place a smile on our faces and tell everyone those three eternal words - "I am okay"? When we okay our pain away, we also decide to don a mask that hides our fear of showing the world, and ourselves, that we are vulnerable. When we were children, it was okay to cry, to express when someone hurt our feelings, and to make proclamations of anger or sadness because it allowed for our needs to be met. However, as we grow we are taught that doing those things represents weakness, forget that there is strength in vulnerability, and fail to get our emotional needs fulfilled. When we say "I am okay," when we're really not, we stop speaking our truth and a part of us feels unheard and undervalued. When are times you've Okayed your pain away and how has it made you feel?
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In April of '09 I had a Bella Brazilian Teak Hardwood floor put down on the first floor of my house.
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About 3 months later I noticed to spots in two different rooms where the floor was buckling. I called my installer and he said he would send someone out the next day. Well the next day the guy came out and ripped up the two places that were buckling. While doing the second area he took a moisture reading...the reading came back at 13%-14%. His first question was "did someone spill something here?" Of course it was possible...but unlikely that it had happened in both areas. He then suggested I have a moisture problem that needed to be addressed.
He replaced the wood in those areas...but about two weeks later it happened again, but in different spots...but still in the same two room. I called the installer again and the salesman. The installer couldn't come immediately, but suggested I buy a dehumidifier and contact a home inspector to find the moisture issues. So I went out and purchased a dehumidifier ($160) and hired a home inspector ($180). He determined I had no such moisture problem and that everything with the HVAC and the crawl space were normal. As well as the gutters and fireplace flashing.
The owner of the installation company came himself and inspected the floor and looked around. Without any tools or taking any readings he said the only thing that could be causing the buckling is moisture and that 95% of the time it is with the HVAC....despite what I told him about the home inspector he said I should call an HVAC expert. He said he would fix the floors, but it would just happen again with the moisture problems.
So, I hired a HVAC expert ($140) to check out all aspects of the HVAC. He determined I have no issues at all with my HVAC...it is working properly.
I have since contacted the manufacturer of the wood...no response yet, and I contacted the installation company that contracted this erson to install my floor, no answer yet.
Any Ideas what ELSE could be causing this. I know the installer would never admit fault in installation...but if that's what it is, how can I prove it?
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Romans 1: 21 but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools "Because without it, there can be no society. That is a legitimate reason that applies equally to all. " Its is legitimate reason because God exists and has determined it to be so, not your government, nor your human reason, or any other idol god men have submitted themselves to. At their best these thing can recognize what God has created and predetermined, at their worst you and others will think you can have some godless morality invented out of nothingness.. and your civilization will fall into moral debauchery until God destroys it.. Romans 1:26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is [r]unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing [s]indecent acts and receiving in [t]their own persons the due penalty of their error. Nothing in your world view can account for why good is good or why any such thing as good should exist. Your worldview is just as "religious" as mines I would say more so...I can acknowledge my presuppositions come from God yours come from nowhere..in fact asking where they come from is no allowed ..your presuppositions are too holy to be questioned. It was nice speaking to you. God bless.
My bad, but you got the point I was making we live in a civilization that has a presumption that we have rights because this particular civilization was influenced by Christianity.... despite whatever it is now it is still carrying many of its presupposition about morality and ethics from Christianity. When this civilization makes its full transition to eliminate the Christian worldview from all its laws and thinking... it will be like the other civilizations..not as great as it once was. I am being very honest..if you self admit government can create moral and immoral categories ex nihilo.. then it can do what God does...so its like a god. why wouldn't I call such a thing a god?
I agree by the way... my worldview gives a reason for why the government should restrain harm...God created human government for the purpose of executing justice and punishing the immoral Romans 13:4. Why according to your thinking should harm be restrained? If now civil law can only be based on secularism.. because for some unexplained reason that's moral...on what bases is it moral to restrain immorality? Not to mention why does moral or immoral exist as categories in the first place!
Then be logically consistent...your worldview should not be used to determine civil law nor should anyone else's..so there should be no civil law. "My world view does not prevent you from doing anything except harming another." And who is going to determine when I am harming another ?.. Your god, your god is final authority and I am obligated to obey it. Also according to your worldview you are preventing people who you consider to be "religious" from setting civil law..only your worldview is to be used to determiner civil law. ......How tolerant "Says the US Government." Again your god, it has inherent moral power that all must recognize by faith. ... very tolerant Good for Jefferson, but I do not think he based that statement on your worldview, if he believed the government to be a god like entity he would have led a campaign to return to the rule of the crown. "But again Natural Right can be derived at by pure reason" Thanks to Christianity for producing people like Aquinas so that we could have a civilization based on such presumptions.
And on what base should one thing be determined moral and another immoral in US law?
Actually no I do not believe sex with children or animals should be legal because it is immoral and it is immoral because it violates God's law, God is my finial authority to dictate morals. ..i.e the Christian worldview the same worldview that western civilization got its ideas of sexual morals from. The question is why is it immoral according to secularism?
"natural Rights we are all born with" "The needs of a society to function." How do you know any such thing exists? Your presuppositions are based on other presumptions! What makes your never ending stack of presumptions more authoritative then a religious persons or opposing presumptions of someone you consider non-religious?? What if I do not want to follow the morality of your worldview?
"Civil laws should be based on one person from preventing harm to another or a legitimate interest of Government function." Says whom? Based on what?
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