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People who feel comfortable defending their views—defensively confident—may also eventually change those views and corresponding behaviors. National Election Studies surveys showed that defensive confidence predicted defection in the 2006 U.S. House elections, above and beyond the impact of various demographic and political variables. Moreover, defensive confidence was also associated with political knowledge and attention to politics and government affairs, but not attention to the news. Finally, males, more educated citizens, ethnic minorities, and older respondents had higher reported defensive confidence than did females, less educated citizens, European Americans, and younger respondents. Defensive confidence may be a crucial factor for a deeper understanding of political behavior.
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Now, The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Constitution shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution as ratified by the thirteen original states more than two centuries ago and the "constitutional law" imposed upon us since then. Instead of the system of state-level decision makers and elected officials the Constitution was intended to create, judges have given us a highly centralized system in which bureaucrats and appointed--not elected--officials make most of the important policies.
In The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Constitution, Professor Kevin Gutzman, who holds advanced degrees in both law and American history:
* explains how the Constitution was understood by the founders who wrote it and the people who ratified it * follows the Supreme Court as it uses the fig leaf of the Constitution to cover its naked usurpation of the rights and powers the Constitution explicitly reserves to the states and to the people * shows how we slid from the Constitution's republican federal government, with its very limited powers, to an unrepublican "judgeocracy" with limitless powers * reveals how huge swaths of American law and society were remade in the wake of Supreme Court rulings * reveals how the Fourteenth Amendment has been twisted to use the Bill of Rights as a check on state power instead of on federal power, as originally intended * exposes the radical inconsistency between "constitutional law" and the rule of law * contends that the judges who receive the most attention in history books are celebrated for acting against the Constitution rather than for it
As Professor Gutzman shows, constitutional law is supposed to apply the Constitution's plain meaning to prevent judges, presidents, and congresses from overstepping their authority. If we want to return to the founding fathers' vision of the Republic, if we want the Constitution enforced in the way it was explained to the people at the time of its ratification, then we have to overcome the "received wisdom" about what constitutional law is. The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Constitution is an important step in that direction.
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The frog tadpole on the left was implanted with stem cells to give it a new eye, seen on the right. The discovery could one day restore sight in humans.
(Source: Michael Zuber)
Scientist help disabled frogs live fuller lives -- and hopefully someday humans too
Technology promises to cure many ailments in the near future, from
to blindness. In the case of blindness, the only question is whether an
or an organic
stem-cell driven solution
will be the first to hit the market and gain mainstream acceptance.
Supporters of the stem cell approach got a big boost from new research at the SUNY Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse, NY. Researcher Michael Zuber and his colleagues report that by taking stem cells from frog eggs, they're able to prod the cells to grow into eyes when attached to tadpoles, baby frogs.
In order to get the
cells to become eyes
, the team genetically modified them, inserting transcription factors (proteins that trigger expression of other genes) which are known to regulate eye growth and development.
The scientists then implanted the cells into tadpoles missing an eye. The cells properly developed and differentiated into all seven types of retinal cells and appeared to have the proper structure. Additionally the new eye attached properly to the brain. In swimming tests the eye was shown to be working as implanted tadpoles only swam to the white side of the tank (normal behavior), while blind ones would also swim to the black side of the tank.
Would the technique work on mammals? The answer is maybe -- frogs naturally have a much easier type regrowing tissues than humans, in fact they can be triggered to regrow legs and many amphibians can regrow lost tails. Triggering proper differentiation in mammals is much more complex.
Nonetheless, Professor Zuber hopes that chemicals will be found from the research that can activate transcription factors in humans. Even if a full eye could not be grown, this could help people with retinal disorders regenerate ocular tissue.
In a separate, but perhaps equally intriguing study performed by Sujeong Jang of Chonnam National University, in South Korea, and his colleagues, the researchers were able to restore the hearing of deaf guinea pigs by implanting them with human neural stem cells obtained from human bone marrow.
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The U.S. Helps Reconstruct the Ottoman Empire
Each of these United States military interventions occurred in an area that had been part of the Ottoman Empire, and where a secular regime was replaced by an Islamist one. So far, the German policy of keeping hidden its leadership role in its attempt to reconstitute the Ottoman Empire has succeeded.
Since the mid-1990s the United States has intervened militarily in several internal armed conflicts in Europe and the Middle East: bombing Serbs and Serbia in support of Izetbegovic's Moslem Regime in Bosnia in 1995, bombing Serbs and Serbia in support of KLA Moslems of Kosovo in 1999, bombing Libya's Gaddafi regime in support of rebels in 2010. Each intervention was justified to Americans as motivated by humanitarian concerns: to protect Bosnian Moslems from genocidal Serbs, to protect Kosovo Moslems from genocidal Serbs, and to protect Libyans from their murderous dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Other reasons for these interventions were also offered: to gain for the United States a strategic foothold in the Balkans, to defeat communism in Yugoslavia, to demonstrate to the world's Moslems that the United States is not anti-Moslem, to redefine the role of NATO in the post-Cold War era, among others.
Each of these United States military interventions occurred in an area that had been part of the Ottoman Empire. In each, a secular regime was ultimately replaced by an Islamist one favoring sharia law and the creation of a world-wide Caliphate. The countries that experienced the "Arab Spring" of the 2010s without the help of American military intervention, Tunisia and Egypt, had also been part of the Ottoman Empire, and also ended up with Islamist regimes.
In the United States most discussions of the military conflicts of the 1990s in the Balkans and the "Arab Spring" of the 2010s do not mention that the areas involved had been part of the Ottoman Empire; these included Turkey, the Moslem-populated areas around the Mediterranean, Iraq, the coastal regions of the Arabian Peninsula and parts of the Balkans. In the areas that experienced the Arab Spring Turkey's role in every instance has been to support the rebels and quickly recognize them as the legitimate government of the country in upheaval.
Turkish leaders do make the connection between the conflicts in the Bosnia, the "Arab Spring" and the Ottoman Empire. Harold Rhode, an American expert on Turkey, has reported:
[President of Turkey] Erdogan's recent electoral victory speech puts his true intentions regarding Turkey's foreign policy goals in perspective. He said that this victory is as important in Ankara as it is in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, under Ottoman times, an important Ottoman city; that his party's victory was as important in a large Turkish city Izmir, on the Western Anatolian coast, as it is in Damascus, and as important in Istanbul as it is in Jerusalem….
In saying that this victory is as important in all of these former Ottoman cities, Erdogan apparently sees himself as trying to reclaim Turkey's full Ottoman past.
The occurrence that since 1990 each European and Middle Eastern country that experienced American military intervention in an internal military conflict or an "Arab Spring" has ended up with a government dominated by Islamists of the Moslem Brotherhood or al-Qaeda variety fits nicely with the idea that these events represent a return to Ottoman rule. Besides being a political empire ruling a territory and its population, the Ottoman Empire claimed to be a Caliphate with spiritual suzerainty over all Moslems – those within its borders and those beyond. Though it might seem strange at first, the idea of advancing the renewal of the Ottoman Empire on two tracks – breaking down the post-Ottoman political structure and promoting a Caliphate which Islamists say they long for – is really quite reasonable.
Just as the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s and the "Arab Spring" of the 2010s considered in historical perspective suggests that Turkey might be attempting to recreate its former empire, consideration of the Turkish Empire in historical perspective suggests the possible partnership of Germany with Turkey in the project given that, from its creation in 1870, Germany viewed Turkey with its empire as a most valuable client and ally. In the view of the leaders of Germany, Turkey was controllable through a combination of economic intercourse, gifts of educational opportunities, provision of technical expertise and administrative aid, as well as bribes to Turkish officials. Germany saw influence over Turkey as a means of influencing Moslems worldwide for its own interests. Thus as the German scholar Wolfgang Schwanitz has shown, during World War I Germany employed the Turkish Caliphate to promote jihad – riot and rebellion – in areas where Moslem populations were ruled by its enemies Russia, France, Britain and Serbia.
Yet in the 50-odd articles collected in an exploration of the awareness on the part of Americans of a possible Turkish connection with the "Arab Spring," I found not a single mention of "Germany." Only from a link in one of those articles – to an article on the International Criminal Court (ICC) which, with its indictment of Muammar Gaddafi and issue of a warrant for his arrest, provided the "legal" basis legitimizing NATO's bombing of Libya -- which gave the rebels their victory and ended the Gaddafi regime – did I find mention of Germany. From that article, "A Lawless Global Court" by John Rosenthal (Policy Review Feb. 1. 2004 No.123), one learns that the ICC is a project initiated, promoted and, to a considerable extent, funded by Germany. Given this, the idea that the ICC serves Germany's purposes is common sense. Through the ICC connection, Germany's promotion of the "Arab Spring" is clear. Yet it is never or almost never mentioned. This silence calls for explanation.
Later, I did come across an explicit reference to Germany's role in it -- specifically in the war against the Assad regime in Syria -- in John Rosenthal's article "German Intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria" in the online Asia Times -- which reports that the German government supports the rebels and their political arm, the Syrian National Council (SNC), against Assad; that the German government classified [made secret] "by reason of national interest" the contents of several BND (German foreign intelligence) reports that the May 25, 2012 massacre of civilians in the Syrian town of Houla, for which Assad has been blamed, was in fact perpetrated by rebel forces; and that "the German foreign office is working with representatives of the Syrian opposition to develop 'concrete plans' for a 'political transition' in Syria after the fall of Assad." So far the German policy of keeping hidden its leadership role in the attempt to reconstitute the Ottoman Empire seems to have succeeded.
Each U. S. military action in Europe and the Middle East since 1990, however, with the exception of Iraq, has followed an overt pattern: First there is an armed conflict within the country where the intervention will take place. American news media heavily report this conflict. The "good guys" in the story are the rebels. The "bad guys," to be attacked by American military force, are brutally anti-democratic, and committers of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Prestigious public figures, NGOs, judicial and quasi-judicial bodies and international organizations call for supporting the rebels and attacking the regime. Next, the American president orders American logistical support and arms supplies for the rebels. Finally the American president orders military attack under the auspices of NATO in support of the rebels. The attack usually consists of aerial bombing, today's equivalent of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' gunboat which could attack coastal cities of militarily weak countries without fear of retaliation. The ultimate outcome of each American intervention is the replacement of a secular government with an Islamist regime in an area that had been part of the Ottoman Empire.
Why the government of the United States would actively promote German aims -- the destruction of Yugoslavia (both World Wars I and II saw Germany invade Serbia) and the re-creation of the Ottoman Empire -- is a question that needs to be answered.
Robert E. Kaplan is an historian, doctorate from Cornell University, specializing in modern Europe.
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|A fine article but with a few caveats [309 words]||Geoffrey Britain||Jun 26, 2013 20:23|
|Kosovo War didn't have anything to do with 'Moslem protection' [56 words]||Alba||Jun 11, 2013 10:57|
|↔ @ "Kosovo War didn't have anything to do with 'Moslem protection'" [75 words]||Rod Svarozic||Jun 21, 2013 07:53|
|German-Turkish friendship seems eternal! [18 words]||James||Jun 9, 2013 22:00|
|"Germanization" of Europe and pre-WWI status reestablishment [244 words]||Jacob Marris||Jun 9, 2013 21:07|
|This is a wonderful piece of anti-Germanism [45 words]||Daniel Frick||Jun 6, 2013 14:42|
|Makes sense [20 words]||Diana||Jun 2, 2013 20:26|
|Future Ottoman Empire [329 words]||Vivienne||Jun 2, 2013 08:11|
|What's the reason behind the plot? [129 words]||J. Chen||Jun 1, 2013 20:11|
|Grasping [80 words]||Herbie Quasar||Jun 1, 2013 16:40|
|Turks in Europe [28 words]||Rick||Jun 1, 2013 13:48|
|Sounds like a conspiracy theory [233 words]||Merowig||May 31, 2013 09:32|
|Wishful thinking [47 words]||Bart Benschop||May 31, 2013 06:00|
|Reconstruct Armenia? [39 words]||David Davidian||May 30, 2013 16:31|
|American involvevent in Libya [120 words]||Jan Jires||May 30, 2013 08:37|
|Thought-provoking [49 words]||Vince Scopa||May 30, 2013 07:27|
|The EU, Turks in Germany, and Erdogan [160 words]||Judith Rood||May 30, 2013 02:22|
|Why aren't we taught these things? [57 words]||April Martin||May 30, 2013 00:52|
|Rodney Atkinson had all this pegged back in 2000 with "Fascist Europe Rising" [75 words]||A Nobody||May 30, 2013 00:45|
|Why, indeed. [68 words]||Sadie||May 30, 2013 00:08|
|Not just a revival of the Ottoman Empire, but an empire even older? [273 words]||Bankster Slayer||May 29, 2013 21:32|
|Rework the title and you have your answer [117 words]||Marcel||May 29, 2013 20:40|
|↔ Thank you [25 words]||lmr||May 31, 2013 14:17|
|Digging Deeper [78 words]||Fubara David-West||May 29, 2013 18:34|
|Thoughtful and well done, Dr. Kaplan! [66 words]||Phillip Slepian||May 29, 2013 13:01|
|BND and Syria [7 words]||Jukka Ari Ilari Moisio||May 29, 2013 12:12|
|Reconstruction of the Ottoman Empire [33 words]||Jana||May 29, 2013 05:50|
|↔ Turkey and Erdogan [108 words]||Willy Vannoort||May 30, 2013 07:13|
|↔ This was foretold a long time ago. [11 words]||Hard Case||May 30, 2013 15:55|
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by Burak Bekdil
In Turkey however, the protests were not peaceful. They included smashing a sculpture than was neither Jewish nor Israeli.
It was the usual "We-Muslims-can-kill each other-but-Jews-cannot" hysteria.
If Turkish crowds were protesting against Israel in a political dispute, why Koranic slogans? Why were they protesting in Arabic rather than their native language? Do Turks chant German slogans to protest nuclear energy?
by Burak Bekdil
So in the EU-candidate Turkey, a pianist should be punished for his re-tweets, but a pop-singer should be congratulated for her first-class racist hate-speech. This is contagious.
No reporter present at Mr. Ihsanoglu's campaign launch speech thought about asking him if his commitment to the "Palestinian cause" included any affirmation of the Hamas Charter, in particular a section that says, "…The stones and trees will say, 'O Muslims, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'"
Turkey is also the country where a few years earlier, a group of school teachers (yes, school teachers!) gathered in a demonstration to commemorate Hitler.
by Debalina Ghoshal
Despite Chapter VII of the UN Charter and UNSC Resolutions, it seems that North Korea will continue developing its missiles -- and eventually weaponize them with nuclear warheads.
"North Korea's ballistic and nuclear threat is very much a near-term threat. ... Steady progression in their program is not harmless." — Victor Cha, Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
On March 26, 2014, North Korea reportedly test-fired medium-range ballistic Rodong missiles -- capable of reaching Japan and U.S. military bases in the Asia-Pacific region.
Since February, South Korean officials claim that North Korea has confirmed at least 90 test-firings, among which ten were ballistic missiles.
by Khaled Abu Toameh
It is important to note that these cease-fire demands are not part of Hamas's or Islamic Jihad's overall strategy, namely to have Israel wiped off the face of the earth.
Many foreign journalists who came to cover the war in the Gaza trip were under the false impression that it was all about improving living conditions for the Palestinians by opening border crossings and building an airport and seaport. These journalists really believed that once the demands of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are accepted, this would pave the way for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
To understand the true intention of Hamas and its allies, it is sufficient to follow the statements made by their leaders after the cease-fire announcement this week. To his credit, Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's leader, has never concealed Hamas's desire to destroy Israel.
Hamas and its allies see the war in the Gaza Strip as part of there strategy to destroy Israel. What Hamas and its allies are actually saying is, "Give us open borders and an airport and seaport so we can use them to prepare for the next war against Israel."
by Burak Bekdil
A front-page headline was particularly revealing: They (Israel) bombed a mosque in Gaza! Including the exclamation mark!
A quick internet search, if you typed "mosque bombing Shiite-Sunni," would give you 782,000 results on July 16.
Why did we not hear one single Turkish voice protest the death of 300,000 Muslims in Darfur?
Hamas's Charter is must-read fun.
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Italian belltower, originally built beside or attached to a church. The earliest campaniles (7th–10th century) were plain round towers with a few small arched openings near the top; the Leaning Tower of Pisa is an elaborate version of this type. The Venetian form of campanile consisted of a tall, square, slim shaft, frequently tapered, with a belfry at the top, above which rose the spire, sometimes square as in the famous campanile of St. Mark's Basilica (10th–12th century, belfry story 1510). After falling out of favor during the Renaissance, the Venetian type was revived in the 19th century, often in connection with factories, housing, or collegiate buildings.
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Chicago: New guidelines from the American Cancer Society urge doctors to make sure their patients fully understand the risks as well as the benefits of prostate cancer screening before any blood is drawn.
The updated guidelines issued on Wednesday reflect the ongoing debate over the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, blood test after two large studies last year produced conflicting results about whether it actually saves lives.
"With these newly updated recommendations, the American Cancer Society places even stronger emphasis on shared decision-making between clinicians and patients," Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said in a statement.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide after lung cancer, killing 254,000 men a year.
Doctors have routinely recommended PSA tests to men over 50 in the belief that early diagnosis and aggressive treatment for any cancer is better than standing by and doing nothing.
But a study published last August in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found routine screening for prostate cancer resulted in more than 1 million U.S. men being diagnosed with tumors who might otherwise have suffered no ill effects from them.
Prostate cancer treatments, including surgery or radiation, can cause incontinence and erectile dysfunction in about a third of patients. Many men also experience bowel problems.
"These risks are not inconsequential. We do want to be sure that men know all of this before they make their decision of whether or not to be screened," said Dr. Andrew Wolf of Virginia Health System, who chaired the advisory committee that developed the guidelines published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
The updated guidelines recommend that men of average risk get information about the risks and benefits of screening by age 50 before making a decision about the test.
Men at higher risk -- including blacks and men with a father or brother who was diagnosed with prostate cancer -- should get this information by age 45.
Men with multiple family members who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer before age 65 should have the prostate cancer discussion with their doctors at age 40.
The group also recommends that doctors use patient decision aids, including one developed by the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making here, which can help men weigh the risks and benefits of screening.
"Hopefully, what we`re promoting is that doctors provide as balanced a presentation of the issues as they can," Wolf said in a telephone interview.
And they say no screening should be done without giving men a chance to weigh their options.
"We are increasingly aware of the fact that many men who do choose to be screened are diagnosed with an early prostate cancer that leads to treatment, and if they had not been screened, they never would have known about a cancer that was never destined to harm them," Wolf said.
"That is a very real risk of prostate cancer screening that has become increasingly clear since our last guideline update in 2001," Wolf said.
"The other risks are those of treating prostate cancer that is found through early detection."
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Well is a word many people have problems with. I remember when a friend pointed out I was using too many wells in my early writing days, in a manuscript that is temporarily shelved. I ended up deleting quite a few. Thankfully, I tend to catch myself when I write it now, but I still need to go through and take out the unnecessary ones.
Here are the examples from The Proper Way to Say Goodbye where I deleted the wells.
-Mom wasn’t a pet person, so we never had any— well except for when Brock brought home those hermit crabs in high school.
-Well, thank you for the help, Chloe.
-Well, I have to get going now.
-Well, don’t worry, she’s much nicer than my mom.
The well just doesn’t do anything for the sentence. It’s totally unnecessary. But well is also a word you may use to establish the voice of a character. I chose Murphy to be the one who uses it in his speech. Then for most of the other people, I deleted it, except in the rare occasion.
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1) Similarly, one can trace current development efforts for directed energy (dE) weapons back to XR's Battlefield Laser Implications Project of 1982 and can trace the Universal Armament Interface back to the stores Integration Program of 1983.
Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, Aeronautical Systems Center and Air Armament Center, Universal Armament Interface Team, worked to standardize the data interface between aircraft and weapons to enable the rapid deployment of precision-guided munitions.
Munitions: Increase Precision and Minimize Collateral Damage * Continue development and acquisition of Joint Direct Attack Munitions, Laser-Guided Bombs, and the Small Diameter Bomb * Add weapons data links to ensure day/night/all-weather precision destruction of mobile targets * Incorporate Universal Armament Interface to minimize costs and maximize configuration options * Continue to secure capabilities to enhance interoperability of communication systems to ensure safe operations between Joint and Coalition forces
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill., May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Physicians aren't the only ones on the front lines of the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak. Veterinarians play an important role, too.
Whether they're conducting research or serving as "disease detectives" at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, playing a critical role in state and local health departments or ensuring the health of our domestic swine herds by continuing to give regular vaccinations against influenza and increasing biosurveillance and security measures on farms, veterinarians are in the middle of the action when it comes to identifying and helping control the H1N1 flu.
"Veterinary medicine is so much more than giving vaccinations to pets," says Dr. Faye Sorhage, president of the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians and the New Jersey state public health veterinarian. "When you look at all the new, emerging diseases, there are so many that are zoonotic in origin that require the expertise of both physicians and veterinarians. That's what's happening today. These experts are working side-by-side on this flu virus."
And that's a good thing for all involved, says Dr. Russell Currier, the executive vice president of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, the professional organization responsible for certifying veterinary specialists who work in food animal health and public health.
"This new outbreak shows that we have emerging infectious diseases that can spread very quickly," he said. "It took Magellan three years to circumnavigate the globe, but you can do it now in a day."
Sorhage echoes those concerns.
"Globalization is adding to our concerns, which makes increased surveillance, detection, testing and research, especially when it comes to these new viruses and zoonotic diseases, so important," she said. "The situatio
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A report released Thursday on the Slide Fire in Oak Creek Canyon doesn't hold back in laying out the danger facing the burned-out area.
The U.S. Forest Service issued the report Thursday afternoon stating the biggest concern is the steeper slopes of Oak Creek Canyon is especially subject to debris flows, rockslides, flash flooding and erosion that could become concentrated flow or a landslide.
The report said in smaller streams which flow into larger bodies of water, the time until it peaks can be less than 30 minutes, allowing minimal time to react to a high intensity precipitation event.
At high risk are forest campgrounds, day use areas, the Sterling Spring Fish Hatchery and at least 75 homes.
Swimming and day use areas along nearly 9.5 miles of state route 89A are now subject to the same potential for rockfalls and debris flow.
State Forestry officials are in the midst of emergency treatment to prevent the effects of the Slide Fire.
They're using straw bales to anchor down the burned foundation across burned lands. They're implementing aerial seeding and aerial mulching along the hill slopes of weed-free grass which will reduce soil loss and prevent sediment and ash from getting into the water. Along Highway 231, crews will remove three culverts, clean 10 others and repair 20 miles of rolling dips and ditches in the mid- to high-burn areas.
Forest officials plan to install warning signs at all access travel ways into the burned area to prevent public entry. They're installing barricades at potential access points into closed areas of the fire. They're also pumping, sanitizing and closing three vault toilets in flood plains to prevent food waters from carrying contaminants to Oak Creek. There's also asbestos testing of a burned cabin adjacent to West Fork of Oak Creek.
The human-caused fire started on May 20 and took until June 4 to contain. It burned 21,227 acres and is estimated to have cost $10.1 million.
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rickets rick·ets (rĭk'ĭts)
A deficiency disease resulting from a lack of vitamin D or calcium and from insufficient exposure to sunlight, characterized by defective bone growth and occurring chiefly in children. Also called infantile osteomalacia, juvenile osteomalacia, rachitis.
A bone disease seen mostly in children, caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, usually as a result of inadequate dietary intake or lack of exposure to sunlight. This deficiency causes decreased calcium absorption from the intestine and abnormalities in formation and mineralization of skeletal bone, resulting in defective bone growth and deformity.
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"There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage." [Gascoigne, 1575]Related: Cooker (a type of stove, 1884); cookery (1390s); cooking (1640s).
a person employed to perform culinary service. In early times among the Hebrews cooking was performed by the mistress of the household (Gen. 18:2-6; Judg. 6:19), and the process was very expeditiously performed (Gen. 27:3, 4, 9, 10). Professional cooks were afterwards employed (1 Sam. 8:13; 9:23). Few animals, as a rule, were slaughtered (other than sacrifices), except for purposes of hospitality (Gen. 18:7; Luke 15:23). The paschal lamb was roasted over a fire (Ex. 12:8, 9; 2Chr. 35:13). Cooking by boiling was the usual method adopted (Lev. 8:31; Ex. 16:23). No cooking took place on the Sabbath day (Ex. 35:3).
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Television has been an increasingly predominant player in American election politics over the years, especially with presidential elections in the United States. In 1993, Newton M. Minow, director of the Annenberg Washington Program, and Marvin Kalb, director of the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center at Harvard University, stated "[t]he modern presidential campaign is essentially a television event. The campaign reaches nearly all voters through television, and it reaches some of them exclusively through television; for them, the television campaign is the campaign."(1)
Given the undisputed impact of television on election campaigns, it is little wonder that the television debate(2) between political candidates has emerged as one of the most crucial events for voters and candidates. NBC Executive Producer William O. Wheatley, Jr. said:
I believe the Presidential debates to be of critical importance in the way our nation goes about choosing a leader. Indeed, it seems clear that they have become the most important events of the election-year calendar, the best opportunity for the candidates to make their cases directly to a large audience of potential voters and the best chance for the voters to listen carefully and weigh what the candidates have to say.(3)
On the other hand, various issues relating to television debates have been a topic of heated discussion among politicians and broadcasters over the years.(4) Congress held hearings on presidential debates on television in June 1993. Al Swift, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Elections, noted during the hearings: "If Presidential debates are now a fixture, then they should be presented to the voters in the most unfiltered and fair way possible. Many questions need to be addressed. Who should sponsor these debates? ... Who should be included? ... What is the role of the media ...?(5)
The questions posed by Swift are not separate from each other; they overlap in that the broadcast media's direct participation as a sponsor of candidate debates often involves the media in determining who should be included in or excluded from the debates. Also, what kind of broadcast media are involved as debate sponsors? Are the sponsoring media public stations or private commercial stations? These and related questions can be critical because the fundamental rationale behind public broadcasting differs significantly from that of commercial television.(6) Nevertheless, public television and radio stations operated by state and local governments have the same rights and responsibilities under the First Amendment as any private commercial station.(7) On the other hand, judicial interpretations of the editorial rights of state-owned stations in their programming decisions have yet to offer a sense of consistency and predictability to public broadcasting stations.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, for example, held in 1982 that the First Amendment rights of viewers do not impose limits on the programming discretion of public television stations licensed to state instrumentalities.(8) The court found that the public television stations in question did not provide the general public a right of access and held that they were not "public forums."(9) By contrast, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Forbes v. Arkansas Educational Television Communication Network Foundation (Forbes I)(10) ruled that government-owned television stations could be limited public forums when they sponsor debates for political candidates. The Eighth Circuit in Forbes v. Arkansas Educational Television Commission (Forbes II)(11) affirmed its earlier conclusion that the debate was a limited public forum and a legally qualified candidate could be excluded only if the public station sponsoring the debate had a compelling and narrowly tailored governmental interest.(12)
In an effort to clarify the lower courts' conflicting interpretations of the editorial decisions of public broadcasting stations, the U. …
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In J. R. R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, the wizard Gandalf explains why he has selected a small hobbit like Bilbo to accompany the dwarves to fight the enemy. He says, “Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
That’s what Jesus teaches us as well. Warning us that we would live in dark times, He reminded us that because of Him we are “the light of the world” (Matt. 5:14) and that our good deeds would be the power against the darkness for the glory of God (v.16). And Peter, writing to believers in Christ who were facing severe persecution, told them to live so that those accusing them would “by [their] good works which they observe, glorify God” (1 Peter 2:12).
There is one force that the darkness cannot conquer—the force of loving acts of kindness done in Jesus’ name. It is God’s people who turn the other cheek, go the extra mile, and forgive and even love their enemies who oppose them who have the power to turn the tide against evil. So look for the privileged opportunity to perform acts of kindness today to bring the light of Christ to others.
Lord, teach me the folly of trying to repay evil for evil. May I be so grateful to You for the loving acts of kindness that You have shown me that I gladly look to share good deeds with others as well!
Light up your world with an act of kindness.
Taken from the Sermon on the Mount, today’s passage presents some of the behavioral expectations of the kingdom of God and stresses authenticity. Using the recognizable images of salt and light, Jesus tells His listeners that they cannot follow Him in secret. Salt must be salty and light must illuminate. However, we must be careful not to assume that it is goodness for goodness’ sake that is expected of God’s people. Good deeds are what bring God glory and reflect His character to the world (v.16).
In the African country where my friend Roxanne lives, water is a precious commodity. People often have to travel long distances to collect water from small, contaminated creeks—leading to sickness and death. It’s difficult for organizations like orphanages and churches to serve the people because of a lack of water. But that’s beginning to change.
Through Roxanne’s leadership and the unselfish gifts of some loving people in established churches, clean water wells are being dug. At least six new wells are now operational, allowing churches to be centers of hope and encouragement. A health center and a home for 700 orphans will also be able to be opened because of access to water.
That’s the kind of love that can flow from believers in Christ when we have experienced the love and generosity of God. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13 that if we don’t have love, our voices clang on people’s ears and our faith means nothing. And the apostle John says that if we have material possessions and see others in need and take action, that’s evidence that God’s love is abiding in us (1 John 3:16).
God desires that we deal “graciously” (Ps. 112:5) with those in need, for His heart is gracious toward us.
Be not weary in your serving; Do your best for those in need; Kindnesses will be rewarded By the Lord who prompts the deed. —Anon.
Kindness is Christianity with its working clothes on.
While there is no designation of the author of Psalm 112, the common speculation is for Davidic authorship. It may well have been written as a companion to Psalm 111. In both songs, the verses are written in alphabetical order, and both share the theme of the characteristics and life of the person blessed by God. Psalm 111 focuses on the God who blesses, while Psalm 112 focuses on the person who is blessed.
There is an old adage that says, “Don’t bite off more than you can chew.” It’s wise not to take on more responsibilities than we can handle. At some time, however, we will likely feel overwhelmed by the size and difficulty of a task we have agreed to do.
This can happen even in our walk of faith in Christ when our commitment to God seems too much to bear. But the Lord has an encouraging word for us when our confidence wavers.
The writer of Hebrews urged his readers to recall the courage they demonstrated during the early days of their faith (10:32-33). Despite public insults and persecution, they aided believers in prison, and they joyfully accepted the confiscation of their own property (vv.33-34). With that in mind, he says, “Therefore, do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise” (vv.35-36).
Our confidence is not in ourselves but in Jesus and His promise to return at just the right time (v.37).
It is God’s power that enables us to continue in our journey of faith. Recalling the Lord’s faithfulness in days past stirs our confidence in Him today.
When life becomes a heavy load, An upward climb, a winding road, In daily tasks, Lord, let me see That with me You will always be. —D. DeHaan
Trusting God’s faithfulness stirs up our confidence.
Severely opposed and persecuted, Jewish Christians were pressured to abandon Christianity and to revert to Judaism. The unnamed writer of Hebrews encouraged them to continue in the faith by affirming the preeminence, superiority, and sufficiency of Christ through His person and position (Heb. 1–4) and His work of propitiation (chs. 5–10). He also warned them against rejecting Christ (2:1-3; 3:7-15; 6:4-6). Here, in his final exhortation, he reminded them of their exemplary faithfulness in enduring the mistreatments thus far (10:32-34) and of the great reward that would be theirs if they persevered (vv.35-36). He was confident that they would succeed (v.39).
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About افلام تركيه سكس
افلام تركيه سكس افلام نيك كنقو Six months later, when the Earth is on the opposite side of the Sun, the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun and experiences winter.
In some cultures, individuals born during a new moon or suffering from epilepsy were considered likely to be werewolves. افلام تركيه سكس The solstices mark the two dates during the year on which the Earth`s position in its orbit is not such that its axis is not most directly tilted either toward or away from the Sun. Although the Milankovitch theory is not well-grounded astronomically, it remains controversial. افلام نيك كنقو
افلام نيك اطفال Involuntary werewolves, on the other hand, are werewolves by an accident of birth or health.
The Milky Way is also a spiral galaxy, with the youngest and most massive stars collected in arms that curl around the galactic center. When Revers stepped outside, he was astounded to see a creature, which he described as: ??looking like a black cat ? but with hairy wings on its back.
They hoped for a life free from the tyranny of kings and queens. Earth`s orbit defines a two-dimensional plane which we call the ecliptic.
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SCIENCE WATCH; 'Fingerprinting' Insects
Published: September 14, 1982
In the insect world, different species can resemble each other, even though they are not the same genetically. This may not matter to the insects, but to scientists seeking ways of controlling insect crop pests by biological means, the outward similarity that masks a genotypic difference can cause a pest control program to fail.
A pest-control strategy that relies on sterilizing male insects, and having them mate with female insects in the field to reduce the pest population, requires that the male be of the same species the female belongs to. Otherwise, raising all those sterile males will have gone for naught because different species will not mate with each another.
But United States Department of Agriculture scientists have developed a system of identifying insects by electrically charting the molecular movements of their enzymes, using a procedure known as electrophoresis. Each species of insect was found to have its own characteristic ''signature'' pattern of enzyme movements, enabling the scientists to record more accurate genetic profiles of each insect type than they had previously been able to do.
In initial experiments on pink bollworms, which inflict heavy losses on cotton crops, the electrophoresis charts enabled the scientists to successfully profile seven different types of bollworms in Arizona, California and the Virgin Islands.
Dr. Alan C. Bartlett, insect geneticist for the Agriculture Department's Research Service, said that by identifying the genetic makeup of the similar-appearing but different species, experts were able to select specific insects compatible for mating in pest-control strategies.
Combining the more precise profiles with knowledge of each insect's susceptibilities should make it easier to thwart pest outbreaks and to control infestations that spread to a new area. Light-Transmitting Plants
After four years of research, most of it in total darkness, a Stanford University plant biologist has discovered that some plants have a system of fiber optics that can transmit light up and down their tissues in a way similar to the method the telephone company uses to transmit many of its telephone calls.
Dr. Dina Mandoli, seeking to find the light-transmitting properties of plants, had to rely on her sense of touch as she placed tissues of oat, mung bean and corn grown in total darkness in separate holders in a small cell-like room completely devoid of light. She then focussed a narrow-beam helium-neon laser light on one cut end of a plant tissue segment or on an uncut side. Any transmitted light could then be measured at the opposite cut end by an array of lightsensing equipment.
Her research showed that the tissues acted as multifiber optical bundles that could send images faithful to the original light patterns as far as one inch or more along the plant stem, even around curves. In fact, she found that the plant tissues were about 10 percent as good at transmitting light as a glass fiber - a performance inadequate for human messages but apparently good enough for a plant.
In other experiments she found that more light was transmitted internally on the far, or shaded, side of the plant stem than along the lighted side. And since light speeds plant growth, it is believed that this unique optical ability of plants is the reason why the stems, stalks and trunks of most plants tend to incline toward the sun as they grow.
The results of the study are also thought to help explain why a seedling can respond to light even though most of the plant is underground, a process that has long puzzled plant scientists.
Dr. Mandoli's research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology in Stanford, Cal., and at Stanford University, and was reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Water usage in your family’s home can be quite variable and is affected by many factors including the number of adults and children living in your home, the age of your children, your home’s size as well as the number of bathrooms. It is often difficult to measure water usage since the amount of water used for cooking, bathing, showering and cleaning varies in every home and depends on the water fixtures and appliances installed in your home. For example, we all know that teenagers tend to take longer showers and newborn babies create a lot of laundry! However, information from a number of reliable sources estimates that a family of four typically uses from about 150 gallons per day all the way up to 400 gallons per day! Several studies have shown that the average indoor water use in the U.S. is about 50 gallons per person per day.
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Today's Word of the Day means...
v. smelled or smelt (smělt), smell·ing, smells
To perceive the scent of something by means of the olfactory nerves. n.
The sense by which odors are perceived; the olfactory sense.
the detection and identification by sensory organs of airborne chemicals. The concept of smell, as it applies to humans, becomes less distinct when invertebrates and lower vertebrates (fish and amphibians) are considered, because many lower animals detect chemicals in the environment by means of receptors in various locations on the body, and no invertebrate possesses a chemoreceptive structure resembling the vertebrate nasal cavity. For this reason, many authorities prefer to regard smell as distance chemoreception and taste as contact chemoreception.
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Breaking through cancer's shield
For more than a century, researchers were puzzled by the uncanny ability of cancer cells to evade the immune system. They knew cancer cells were grotesquely abnormal and should be killed by white blood cells. In the laboratory, in Petri dishes, white blood cells could go on the attack against cancer cells. Why, then, could cancers survive in the body? The answer, when it finally came in recent years, arrived with a bonus: a way to thwart a cancer's strategy. Researchers discovered that cancers wrap themselves in an invisible protective shield. And they learned that they could break into that shield with the right drugs.
- Half of All Primary Care, Internal Medicine Jobs Unfilled in 2013
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- CFO Exchange: Smartphones Poised to Disrupt Healthcare, Says Topol
- CNO on Hospital Redesign: 'You Can't Over-Communicate'
- Some Cancer Hospitals' Quality Data Will Soon Be Public
- CA Powers Up $80M HIE to 'Create Value in the Data'
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- 3 Traits Personality Assessments Can't Reveal
- PA Ranks See 'Phenomenal Growth,' Lack of Diversity
- Carondelet to Pay $35M to Settle Fraud Allegations
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Genital Herpes - HSV-2by
of herpes simplex viruses. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2).
HSV-1 causes the most damage primarily on the mouth, throat, face, eye and the central nervous system...
Herpes - a complicated primerby
Here are the very basics about herpes: There are two strains: HSV1 and HSV2. Typically HSV1 is thought of as oral herpes... there is oral HSV1, genital HSV1, oral HSV2, and genital HSV2. I am going to talk about the two strains (HSV1...
also assist with stress reduction.
Also, oral L-Lysine combined with Vitamin C is one of the best for HSV-1 and HSV-2.
It depends on your situation...there are several different patterns in Traditional Chinese...
Herpes and Hepatitis Bby
is herpes simplex and it is caused by one of two viruses : herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) or herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2). (Pretty obvious names, right?) HSV-1 causes oral sores commonly called cold sores...
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The National Weather Service provides weather forecasts and climate data to help protect people, property and the economy.
An effective way they do that is by issuing what are called "watches" and "warnings." These are terms used to inform you about the potential for dangerous weather. However, you may be wondering what exactly is the difference between the two.
Often times a severe weather "watch" will be issued in your area first. This means that the current conditions are favorable for the formation of severe weather. It is an indication for you to be prepared and pay close attention the sky. You should review your severe weather plan and be ready to act at a moments notice. Tune in and follow your local weather conditions closely. If an event were to occur, you will want to know right away.
A weather "warning" is issued when the severe weather treat is imminent. The treat has been visually observed by a spotter or weather instrument such as radar, and is heading towards your area. This means it is time to act. You will want to execute your severe weather plan immediately. Weather you need to evacuate or find your safe place, take action immediately as this is the final notice you will receive before a Tornado or Thunders storm effects your area.
By following these alerts and paying close attention to your local forecasters you can keep you and your loved ones out of danger. Both Watches and Warnings are very serious alerts to pay attention to and can save a life. It is important to always be ready at all times.
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ObitMichigan.com is dedicated to delivering immediate, up-to-date information on obituaries 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to families and friends in Mid-Michigan. Death notices are displayed during theMore >
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A fisherman off the coast of Bonita Springs, Florida thinks he has a pretty nice catch. As he reels in a four-foot shark, his catch is stolen by an even bigger fish. A massive grouper pulls the sharkMore >
A massive grouper steals a four-foot shark from a fisherman's line off the coast of Florida.More >
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Some of our most ecologically-important native plants are trees and shrubs (aka woodies). They provide critical structure and ecological function to our landscapes. Some are early pollen sources for hungry bees, some have fruits, nuts or seeds for birds and mammals, some are host plants for butterflies, some are nesting sites for songbirds, and some, primarily evergreens, provide cover to many creatures during harsh winters.
Woody plants have tremendous importance for humans, as well. Have a storm water problem? Trees, in particular, can draw up and intercept a remarkable amount of storm water. In New York City, street trees are estimated to intercept 1,525 gallons of water per year on average. Improved air quality, slowing of climate change, moderation of summer heat and winter cold, are some of the valuable benefits delivered to us by woody plants.
Fall... [Read More]
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The capital pressures squeezing utilities today need to be offset by stronger alignment among the four critical dimensions of capital planning: strategic, regulatory, financial, and managerial....
Fingerprinting the Invisible Hands
Opaque markets inflate power prices.
delay in disclosure will not cause a loss of public confidence because much of the time prices in the ERCOT-administered markets are not subject to the type of price spikes that could create an impression of market power abuses or other market failures. In some cases, however, prices may spike to higher than usual levels and cause public concern and the need for more public information. To address such events, the proposed amendment includes an event trigger that would require the public release of entity-specific information on a much quicker timeframe. The proposed amendment requires that, when the trigger is exceeded, the portion of every market participant’s offer curve that is equal to or exceeds the trigger level will be disclosed seven days after the day for which the information is submitted. The commission finds that the disclosure of this limited type of entity-specific information is sufficient to retain public confidence in the ERCOT markets while minimizing early disclosure of entity-specific information. 9
Implementation of the order took place with market data for September 22, 2007. 10 For the first time, a situation existed in which there was a statistically testable hypothesis. Using available data concerning bidding behavior on an hourly basis both before and after the change in disclosure delay, regression analysis can test whether additional transparency does reduce bids, and indirectly, prices.
This analysis uses a set of ERCOT bidding rules and market conditions to determine bidding behavior. It doesn’t attempt to model ERCOT’s pricing algorithm since the algorithm is considerably more complex, and less transparent, than the bidding data it uses as part of its calculations (see Figure 2).
First, the analysis calculates two measures of bidding behavior in the ERCOT balancing energy services market. “Maximum bid” represents the highest bid during the hour and “average bid” represents the average bid during the hour. The simplicity of these two measures constitutes their primary value. There are an infinite number of possible measures that could be designed to characterize the bid curves. Opening the analysis to each one of these would eliminate the significance of the statistical results, since each alternative potentially would have a high t statistic. The best course is to choose and test the simplest hypothesis to avoid biasing the statistical estimates.
Following the same argument, the independent variables also are simple. The first two independent variables are natural gas prices and ERCOT load. These two variables are standard choices for independent variables in wholesale electricity markets and have been used in many studies. The analysis adds three other independent variables:
• Shame Cap : For years, ERCOT published bids over a specified price. The price level has changed over time to its current level of 100 times natural gas prices.
• Reporting Delay : The number of days until bid data is revealed.
• Price Cap : The maximum bid accepted by ERCOT’s computer algorithm.
The models tested are:
• Max Bid = A + B x Gas Price + C x Load + D x Shame Cap + E x Reporting Delay +
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Internet Scout Project
This Topic in Depth discusses the variety of instruments used to collect climate and weather data. The first two websites provide simple introductions to the many weather instruments. Bethune Academy's Weather Center (1) discusses the functions of psychrometers, anemometers, weather balloons, thermometers, and barometers. The Illinois State Water Survey (2) furnishes many images of various instruments that collect data daily for legal issues, farmers, educators, students, and researchers. The th
Internet Scout Project
The Department of the Interior (DOI), which oversees nine office/bureaus, including the US Geological Society and National Park Service, has made available online their 2002-2007 Strategic Plan for review by the public. The Adobe Acrobat files include a Departmental Overview and plans for the nine subagencies within the DOI, which describe the outcome goals and performance measures for each. If interested, comments on the plans, which are scheduled to be completed by March of 2002 in time for th
Lewis and Clark: Preparing for the Trip (Elementary School)
This unit focuses on Meriwether Lewis's preparations for the expedition. It uses Lewis's trip to Philadelphia as a foundation for students to consider the idea that life is a journey of discovery. Students will understand some of the challenges inherent in preparing for the unknown and will learn about the preparations necessary for Lewis and Clark's expedition. They will use maps and paintings to gather information about Philadelphia in 1803. By reading primary and secondary documents, students
Distance learning and foreign language teaching
Among numerous modes of technology enhanced learning there are not many that have received as much attention as distance learning. Stimulated by the recent rapid developments in Web technologies, researchers in both ICT and education are constantly working to make the most of technological resources and put them to the best pedagogical use. In the area of foreign language teaching a lot has been done to cover a variety of world languages, but there are constant attempts for new solutions, taking
Climate Diagnostic Center Plots
Through static map interface, the Climate Diagnostic Center provides access to plots of current and historical United States temperature, precipitation and PDSI drought maps. The interface allows users to plot the raw data and view map visualizations of data.
Internet Scout Project
The US Department of Agriculture's Plants Database (last mentioned in the January 16, 1998 Scout Report) is continually adding improvements. Most recently, the Web sitehas added an advanced query to allow users to search for specific plant data based on many different search characteristics. This new feature is also user friendly; by clicking on any of the fields, a definition of the field is displayed. Also new are targeted links that allow you to link directly from a queried plant profile to o
Internet Scout Project
The Evergreen Native Plant Database was developed as an educational project providing school groups, home gardeners, and other residents of Canada with information about native Canadian wildflower, aquatic, grass, vine, shrub, and tree species. In addition to this abundance of native plant species information, the website offers an extensive collection of K-12 lesson plans for educators to use in outdoor settings. The concise lesson plans are available in HTML for viewing online or in pdf for do
Asian, African, or Australian Inventors and Inventions
The lesson integrates both Social Sciences and Language Arts in a research and a creative writing component. The student will further understand inventors or inventions from Asia, Africa, and Australia, the focused continents in the 7th grade Social Sciences curriculum, as well as have the opportunity to develop his/her writing, reading, and oral communication skills. The project also incorporates mathematics with an emphasis on percentages and graphing.
Animal slide shows!
This project is a culmination of a science unit on animals which integrates computer skills, language arts and art. After a study of animals which includes classification, basic needs of animals, animal adaptations, and animal behaviors, the students will use the computer to complete a slide show of one animal they have studied at length.
ABC's by the WEEK
This is an ongoing series of lessons to teach the 26 letters of the alphabet through functional skills that can be used on a daily/weekly basis building on and transferring to other educational task. These lessons incorporate coloring, marking, painting, cutting, pasting, creating, listening and following directions.
A Comprehensive Study of North Carolina Indian Tribes
Students will apply their research skills of gathering and validating information to study the eight state recognized American Indian tribes of North Carolina in order to create an Honors U.S. History Project. Students then will create a comprehensive study of those tribes to be compiled into a notebook to be copied and shared with the eighth grade teachers of North Carolina History in our county.
1869: A report on schools in North Carolina
In this lesson, students use a guided reading to look at a report on the status of education in North Carolina in 1869, and discuss the reasons given then for why the Governor and Legislature should support educating North Carolina's children. They are provided an opportunity to compare and contrast the 1869 document against their own ideas about the civic duty to attend school through age sixteen, and its relative value to the state and the country.
Is there a way to e-Bologna? Cross-National
Collaborative Activities in University Courses
This article describes a study of distance collaborative activities that have been conducted in a cross-national setting between a Greek and a German university. We discuss issues related to organization, technology, and curricula considerations. In addition, we analyze the modes of cooperation that have been chosen in the students' work on creative problem solving tasks and conclude that for complex learning scenarios succesful collaboration and peer tutoring in advanced learning support enviro
A Craft Unionist Rewrites the Ten Commandments
The moral code of craft unionism was part of a larger system of late nineteenth-century working-class values that went well beyond behavior on the job. Moreover, those values drew upon other deeply held moral beliefs, particularly those growing out of religion. In "Labor's Decalogue," G. Edmonston, the first president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, offered a new twist on the biblical Ten Commandments. Edmonston's novel set of "rules" for workers found its way into a variety
Towards a narrative-oriented framework for designing mathematical learning
This paper proposes a narrative-oriented approach to the design of educational activities, as well as a CSCL system to support them, in the context of learning mathematics. Both Mathematics and interface design seem unrelated to narrative. Mathematical language, as we know it, is devoid of time and person. Computer interfaces are static and non-linear. Yet, as Bruner (1986; 1990) and others show, narrative is a powerful cognitive and epistemological tool. The questions we wish to explore are –
From Stargazers to Starships
This is a self-contained book-on-the-web course on basic astronomy, Newtonian mechanics, the sun (and associated physics), and spaceflight and spacecraft. covers elementary astronomy, Newtonian mechanics, the Sun and related physics and spaceflight. Also included are a Spanish translation, 46 lesson plans, a short but complete math course (algebra + trig), teachers' guides, glossary, timelines, 345 questions (current tally) by users and their answers, over 100 problems to solve, and more.
Learning Design Engines as Remote Control to Learning Support Environments.
Context: Chapter 5 of the Learning Design book describes the operational model of a learning design engine based on the concept of finite automata with output alphabet. We rely on this event concept to include pre-existing learning tools in flexibe and rich learning designs. Contribution: We sketch an approach for the integration of complex learning environments in learning designs. Interactive learning support environments, such as argumentation or modelling tools are pre-existent and have a hi
From ER to VR: Analysing interaction in a Collaborative Virtual Environment
Not available,PhD thesis of the University of Bergen, Norway
Adapting to When Students Game an Intelligent Tutoring System
It has been found in recent years that many students who use intelligent tutoring systems game the system, attempting to succeed in the educational environment by exploiting properties of the system rather than by learning the material and trying to use that knowledge to answer correctly. In this paper, we introduce a system which gives a gaming student supplementary exercises focused on exactly the material the student bypassed by gaming, and which also expresses negative emotion to gaming stud
Environmental History Timeline
Students develop critical thinking skills by interviewing a person who has perspective on environmental history. Students explore the concept of a timeline, including historical milestones, and develop a sense of the context of events.
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responses of TWO of the following groups to the Indians of North America before 1750.
2. Analyze the differences between the Spanish settlements in the Southwest and the English Colonies in New England in the 17th century in terms of TWO of the following:
PLACEMENT EXAMS 1979-2009
The following questions are listed chronologically by subjects. It is hoped that clues as to how subjects in United States History can be presented analytically can be identified by studying this list. Many of the questions required students to comparetwo or more periods of history...
Part 1: Colonial Period to Civil War
Colonial Times 1607 -1775
1. From 1600 -1763, several European nations vied for control of the North American continent. Why did England win the struggle? (73)
2. In the seventeenth century, New England Puritans tried to create a model society. What were...
wrote these on the AP exam did NOT get to see the questions in advance and used no notes to study for them. Those essays marked DBQ came with documents which are not included here. In addition the true difficulty of these questions is essay analysis...what is the question really asking? How is this question...
African countries for the purpose of nation building. The article contends that nation building and sustainable development require stable nations in which case multicultural education has a role to play. Multicultural education can be seen as a reform movement that seeks to accommodate society’s cultural...
FRQ: Compare and contrast the different ways in which economic development affected politics in Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750.
Direction: Compare and contrast
Divisions: beginning settlement, religion, means of economic stability
Thesis: The early settlements of the Massachusetts...
course with an understanding of the ideals and philosophies upon which the government of United States was established; to have the students see the evolution of the United States into a powerful and resourceful nation; and to watch the two interact as the government sought to become the "more perfect union"...
1. 1971 “Between 1607 and 1763, Americans gained control of their political and economic institutions.”
To what extent and in what ways do you agree or disagree with this statement?
2. 1972 What role did unfree labor play in colonial American society?
3. 1973 From 1600 to 1763, several...
the exploration of a concept that affects our perceptions of ourselves and our world.
Students explore, analyse, question and articulate the ways in which perceptions of this concept are shaped in and through a variety of texts.
Areas of Study are developed by teachers and require students to explore...
reproduced or distributed to any other person without the authorization of IB Cardiff.
–3– N11/3/HISTX/BP2/ENG/TZ0/XX/M Paper 2 markbands: The following bands provide a précis of the full markbands for paper 2 published in the History guide (2008) on pages 71–74. They are intended to assist marking...
AP Exam Essays 2001-2010
2010 AP Exam Essays
1. In what ways did ideas and values held by Puritans influence the political, economic, and social development of the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660s?
2. Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United States...
1. How did the Indian societies of South and North America differ from European societies at the time the two came into contact? In what ways did Indians retain a “world view” different from that of the Europeans? An obvious distinction between the two civilizations is the Indians lacked weapons, tools...
AP US HISTORY FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS SINCE 1990
I. Colonial Time 1607 - 1775
1. Throughout the colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious concerns. Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to economic...
you to "briefly answer" a question, provide 1-3 paragraphs
(depending on the question)that answer the question directly in the first two
sentences then provide specific factual information (SFI) to support your
answer. Don't Copy!
not to do so. Around the time of his death, the colonists’ efforts at tobacco farming began to take off, which eventually would have disastrous implications for Powhatan’s people. In the following decades, bloody wars broke out between the Indians and settlers, but the Virginia settlement began to stabilize;...
OUTLINE FOR KENNEDY CHAPTERS 1-4
Complete the following questions for each assigned chapter of Kennedy. Handwrite your response sentences for each question.
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C. –A.D. 1769
1. How did the geographic setting of North America – including its relation to...
The piece of work which is being reviewed is authored by an eminent educationist Krishna Kumar. The title of the book is Prejudice and Pride which has been published by Penguin Books India Limited,Viking in the year 2001. The subtitle of the book ‘School Histories of the Freedom Struggle in India and...
Hohoham | Complex political structure | Agricultural | Highland region near present-day Arizona and New Mexico | Used irrigation to grow two crops a year. Had elaborate multi-room stone structures. |
Mississippian | Privileged class of nobles and priests | Based almost entirely on the production...
RESPONSE QUESTIONS SINCE 1971
I. Colonial Time 1607 - 1775
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- For Teachers
Ç; voiceless palatal fricative
Is the below transcription correct?
Context: "Plus ça change..."
More: Plus ça change (plus c'est la même chose). - definition in British English Dictionary & Thesaurus - Cambridge Dictionary Online
Really It's a fricative, not an affricate. Everyone I've ever heard say it - French and English - say /sa/. Francophones use a different vowel (and English speakers rarely manage the [y] of plus), but the fricative part is a simple /s/ (which again is probably different as between English and French speakers, but not in a way that stops the fricative being a fricative)....
I use /s/.
/tʃa:/ is a drink.
And a bit of a dance.
I'm sorry, I don't know anything about phonetics and I misunderstood the symbols.
There is some confusion here.
The letter ‘ç’ in the French word 'ça' is pronounced [s].
The IPA symbol [ç] is very close to the English /tʃ/
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Indiana University - Bloomington
First Summer Session 2013 (13691)
Meeting Thursdays, 9:00a-12:00p in PV 151
Steven W. Cox
The Unix Operating System plays a critical role in the contemporary global information technology infrastructure. With at least half the web sites on the Internet hosted by computers running Unix, a similarly broad deployment in underlying database and network infrastructure, a well established role in scientific computing, and a recent increased presence in desktop computing, it almost certain that contemporary information professionals will encounter Unix based systems in their work.
This workshop is an intermediate level look at the Unix operating system as compared to the Unix introduction that our S401 students receive. We will have a short review but it will be essential to have the S401-UNIX material internalized as much as possible. The original course materials for the L401-UNIX module (as opposed to the newer S401) covered more UNIX topics but the original slides are linked below. Please review this material before coming to class. Feel free to email me with questions regarding these extra topics.
We will first outline the basic purpose and functions of an operating system. I will then provide a base from which to explore many facets of using a Unix operating system: shell environment and customization, a robust text editor supporting regular expressions, more Unix commands (utilities and filters), variable and command substitution, advanced I/O redirection, process management and job control, resource management, TCP/IP networking, file security mechanisms, and an introduction to shell programming. While some Unix system administration topics will naturally arise, this is not intended as a Unix administration course.
Developed over 30 years ago, the Unix operating system has become a central fixture in todays information technology infrastructure. Unix did not arrive at this position through clever marketing or slick user interface design. Unix has survived through sound technical engineering and an ability to adapt to changes in the information technology environment.
You should come away from this workshop with experience using a range of Unix tools to solve problems but more importantly an understanding of the the design philosophy of Unix. The Philosophy of Unix is to provide the user with a very large set of simple tools and a mechanism for combining them to accomplish a task. This building block approach differs substantially from the monolithic application that tries to do everything typically seen in desktop computer software. The simple Unix tools rarely solve a user's needs completely by themselves, but when combined with other tools they can solve problems never conceived of by the developers of monolithic applications.
Understanding the design and traditions of Unix is also essential to self sufficiency when encountering previously unexplored aspects of the operating system. Just as a graphical user interface provides common interface elements to streamline a user's experience learning a new program, there are similar common tool behaviors in Unix which if understood can make new tools relatively easy.
By the end of the course, the student should be familiar enough with Unix to utilize many constructive utilities and filters, customize the shell environment, understand and modify system variables, use regex effectively with various tools, edit text files interactively with vi and non-interactively with sed, understand command line parsing and tokenizing, fully grasp I/O redirection and piping to accomplish various tasks, use variable and command substitution, understand how to control metacharacter expansion with quoting, and effectively manage user system resources (files and processes). The student should also be able to write basic shell programs as well as understand and modify more complex ones.
It is assumed that students have either taken L401-UNIX (or the newer S401-UNIX) or are familiar with Unix topics covered in that module. If it has been awhile since you've reviewed this material, please do so before attending class. The UNIX module to the older L401 consisted of three weeks so any newer SLIS students will need to go through the slides linked below:
L401-UNIX, Week 1 - L401-UNIX, Week 2 - L401-UNIX, Week 3
There will be three assignments worth a total of 100 points. Assignment One is worth 30 points, Assignment Two is worth 40 points, and Assignment Three is worth 30 points. In fairness to students who turn in assignments on time, late assignments will be penalized. I will deduct 10% of the total possible assignment points for each day that they are late, unless prearranged with the instructor 24 hrs prior to the due date. Exceptions will be granted only in extreme circumstances. Please refer to the grading policy for this workshop.
We will start out by discussing what makes an operating system and what is its purpose. From there we will look at the evolution of Unix and the events that shaped it and created the various implementations. We will then discuss the events that took place that led to the need for standards and see how they are often derived from implementations. By the end of this section it should be clear as to why Unix has survived so long when many operating systems have come and gone.
We will then look at the practical application of this OS with a short review of some important Unix concepts and commands. We will also look into some essential Unix tools and some of their useful options which will be relevent to the topic areas I'll be covering in this workshop. We'll continue by looking at our command shell and how it will tokenize, interpret and process your command line. This will do many things for you such as; expand your metacharacters, perform command substitution, variable substitution, etc. It is important to understand how the shell will see your command line and how it will process your commands. Finally, we will look into some timesaving tips of our shell's editing features. When we work with more complex command lines, especially when we are building pipelines, it is important to be able to add or remove filters, command options, or change the syntax without having to duplicate your efforts.
Slides from Day 1 (PDF)
Unix is a very text-centric system. A text editor is one of the Unix professional's most important tools. To be proficient with a local Unix editor is a valuable tool whether you are editing your local initialization files, writing programs or modifying your html content.
The editor we will concentrate on today is vi, a screen oriented visual editor which is built on the ex superset. The vi editor has been around since 1976 and was developed by Bill Joy (co-founder Sun Microsystems). The editing tools vi and ex are widely available on virtually all Unix/Linux platforms and use familiar regular expressions (regex) to make your text processing much more powerful. We will use vi for the remaining part of this workshop to create and edit files.
Finally, we look into sed (stream editor) and see the power that this utility has to offer for batch processing. This utility also supports regular expressions and is often used as a filter in a pipeline. Again, this tool is widely available on Unix/Linux derivatives as well as other operating systems with a command line. Combining sed and regular expressions allows you to non-interactively search and modify bodies of text (in many files at once) based on certain expressions.
The shell is the outer layer of the Unix Operating System. It is an interface between the user and the internal components of the operating system. We will focus on the bash shell for this workshop.
There are two ways that you will utilize this shell. One is your day to day interactive use and the other is non-interactive use via a shell program (script). Today, we will concentrate on the interactive use of this shell and how to configure and customize your work environment with initialization files. We will then discuss some shell options and how to set them as well as some useful built-in shell commands. We will also discuss the command line history mechanism in-depth so working in your environment can be more efficient.
We will then be learning some concepts that will be helpful when we discuss shell programming later in this workshop. We will discuss two types of variables, local and environment (global), and how to set and export these types of parameters. We will also learn about system parameters; we will focus on the PATH and PS1 (prompt) variables. We will then look into the shell hash table and demonstrate how our commands are located. We will revisit the shell history mechanism and discover new ways to utilize this useful feature of the bash shell. We will end the day by looking into some essential Unix filters and their options. Many of them are highly specialized utilities and are often used as part of a pipeline when filtering or extracting data from text files.
Slides from Day 3 (PDF)
We will begin our day with further shell topics such as understanding and creating command aliases, metacharacters in-depth, and advanced I/O redirection.
We will then look at files which are a fundamental concept in Unix and are used to represent not only storage of data, but also physical and virtual devices such as displays, keyboards, and communication links between running programs. Topics covered today include an anatomy of a file, types of files, the hierarchical file and directory structure, how the physical and logical storage structures integrate, and Unix commands relevant to file and disk management.
Being a multi-user system, Unix has a representation of users, and ways of controlling access to files based on user credentials. The representation of users and how file access control is managed will be covered.
Finally, we return to the shell to look more concretely at a number of specific commands and how to use simple commands as building blocks to accomplish more complicated tasks. This will be accomplished with more complex pipelines. As we learn more about column and row filtering tools we begin to understand more about this core Unix philosophy.
Slides from Day 4 (PDF)
Assignment Two (HTML)
Today we will have a demonstration of one of our device files, our terminal. We will demonstrate how this core Unix design is implemented and why. We will then talk about more concepts that will be useful to the shell programmer; positional parameters, command substitution, and the command exit status.
We will then discuss what a bash function is and how to define and export them. Functions are memory resident shell code and will serve as a good introduction to the syntax necessary for creating shell programs.
We will continue by discussing the importance of quoting now that we have used more powerful metacharacters (variable and command subsititution) and need to control their expansion (interpretation). Finally, we will end our day revisiting the Unix find utility and looking at some advanced uses for this indispensable tool.
Slides for Day 5 (PDF)
A program running in Unix exists as a process. We will cover exactly what a process is, and Unix tools for examining and controlling processes.
Unix systems provide a bulk of the infrastructure for the Internet. We will cover the basics of TCP/IP networking and some common network related tools in Unix.
Finally, we return to the shell and explore it not as an interactive user interface, but as a programming language. We will learn the basics of variables, operators, expressions, statements, and control structures. You will leave the class with a menu-based home directory management script that I wrote for you to modify and enhance.
Slides for Day 6 (PDF), Iteration Exercise (HTML), Script Exercise (HTML)
Recommended: Peek, Jerry, Grace Todino-Gonquet and John Strang (2002). Learning the UNIX operating System, 5th ed. O'Reilly & Associates
Recommended: Newham, Cameron and Bill Rosenblatt (1998). Learning the bash shell, 2nd ed. O'Reilly & Associates
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If Sally gave a survey with five colors listed and ask each person who takes the survey to pick one color. She assumes that the results if given to 24 persons the results would be 1/2 blue, 1/12 red, 1/8 blue, 1/4 green, and 1/24 orange. What number of surveys would best prove...
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Mrs. Lisa Lyall « Teacher Connection / Documents / Calendar
Welcome back to school!
Elementary ESE teacher
Strategies for Summer Reading for Children with Dyslexia | LD Topics | LD OnLine
Reading and Social Studies
LD OnLine is the leading website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children will find authoritative guidance on attention deficit disorder, ADD / ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, reading difficulties, speech and related disorders.
http://www.sumter.k12.fl.us/Departments/ESE.html Sumter County Exceptional Student Education webpage-this site contains many helpful links.
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Philanthropic Achievement of the Week
1945 - Sloan-Kettering Institute
General Motors vice president Charles Kettering is most famously known for his automotive inventions, such as the first electrical starter motor and leaded gasoline, and the 185 patents he held. Less known are his contributions to medicine and science. An extraordinarily broad tinkerer, Kettering also developed several medical innovations, such as an incubator for premature infants, treatments for venereal disease, and magnetic diagnostic devices.
In addition, Kettering was a visionary philanthropist who devoted his wealth to funding projects that could be as productive as his contraptions. In 1945, he and Alfred Sloan, another General Motors vice president, established the Sloan-Kettering Institute, the first private biomedical research center of its sort in the world. The center was built next to Memorial Hospital, an institution with its own long and impressive philanthropic history. Founded in 1884 as a specialized cancer hospital by a group that included Mr. and Mrs. John J. Astor, the hospital was moved in 1936 to its current location, on land donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.
From its founding, the Sloan-Kettering Institute aimed to harness the latest technology and research techniques to battle cancer. Matching the spirit of its founders, it held fast to the principle that advances in research always rest on “the creative genius of individual scientists.” In 1980, the institute and the hospital were combined into a single entity and today the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is one of the nation’s leading biomedical research institutions and treatment facilities, treating more than 400 different subtypes of cancer with specialized regimens and advancing the state of the art via more than 120 research labs. In 2012, the first graduates matriculated from the center’s new Ph.D. program in cancer biology.
History of Sloan-Kettering Institute and Memorial Hospital, mskcc.org/about/history-overview
Charles Kettering biography, mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(12)00271-6/fulltext
(VIDEO) Ryan: Civil society is one of the most important components of American life
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is widely expected to take over as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, discussed several charity-related issues in this interview with CNBC last week. In this interview, Chairman Ryan expressed his belief in the critical role of our civil society, support for avoiding a cap of the charitable deduction, and extending the deadline to claim a charitable deduction until April 15.
The discussion was part of a broader conversation of the popular “Ice Bucket Challenge” for ALS. Chairman Ryan’s comments begin at 1:20.
Philanthropic Achievement of the Week
1954 Columbus Discovers Modern Architecture
What brought these architectural giants to little Columbus was private philanthropy. J. Irwin Miller, chairman of the Columbus-based Cummins Engine Company, was an architecture enthusiast. In 1942, he commissioned a new design for his home church from Eliel Saarinen. The church became an instant landmark, and Miller saw a role for philanthropy in beautifying his hometown and raising its worldwide profile. He became a major patron of civic architecture in 1954, when he struck an innovative deal with the city of Columbus: when a new public building was needed, Cummins would pay the commission for any first-rate architect selected from its own list, and the city would pay for construction costs.
Miller later expanded his program to cover private buildings with public purposes, such as churches, banks, and malls. And his own house, designed by Eero Saarinen, is a National Historic Landmark. “By the 1960s,” Radley Balko has written, “Columbus had become a world-renowned magnet for privately financed modernist design.” Miller’s vision continues today: architectural grantmaking in Columbus and its surrounding area remains a central interest of the charitable arm of Cummins Inc.
Radley Balko, “When Columbus Discovered Modern Architecture,” Reason magazine, reason.com/archives/2009/09/30/when-columbus-discovered-moder
Miller House and Garden, Indianapolis Museum of Art, imamuseum.org/millerhouse/columbus-indiana
ACR News 08.22.14—Ryan ‘No’ on Cap, Giving Increases in Puerto Rico
>> Federal: Washington Roundup
>> Federal: Rep. Ryan: No Cap for Charitable Deduction
>> Federal: Charitable Deduction Leads to a Sharp Increase of Donors in Puerto Rico
>> Federal: New Director for K-12 Programs
>> Top Reads: Proving Conventional Wisdom Wrong (Again) on Charitable Giving Tax Incentives
Congress is out of session for its August recess. Members are expected to return on September 8.
Rep. Ryan: No Cap for Charitable Deduction
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is widely expected to take over as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, recently voiced his opposition to capping the charitable deduction, according to a report from Politico. Ryan stated that the charitable deduction is “the one area where I believe we should not have a top cap.”
As you may recall, Chairman Ryan was one of the Members of Congress with whom ACR leaders met on July 8 to discuss charity-related issues. He noted in the meeting the critical role of charitable services and the importance of private giving. At the time, ACR leaders made clear the importance of the charitable deduction.
Ryan’s recent comment came during an interview with Bloomberg TV in reference to his support for limiting the current mortgage interest deduction.
Charitable Deduction Leads to a Sharp Increase of Donors in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico saw a 70 percent increase in the number of individuals who made charitable donations following the implementation of a 100 percent charitable deduction in 2011, according to a report released last week by the Flamboyan Foundation. The charitable deduction was one of several revisions in the Puerto Rican tax code in 2011.
“Nonprofit organizations and financial advisors of potential donors have an opportunity to spread the word about the 100 percent deduction for charitable donations and increase the number of taxpayers who make larger donations in Puerto Rico during the next few years,” Dr. Guiomar García Guerra, executive director of Flamboyan Foundation, said in a news release.
The number of Puerto Rican citizens who claimed charitable deductions on their Individual Tax Return Form increased from 27,644 individuals in 2010 to 47,004 in 2011, according to the report. That led to an increase of $5 million in charitable donations. Despite the large increase in the number of individual donors, the figure still represents only 4.6 percent of all taxpayers. This contrasts significantly with the 26 percent of those in the continental U.S. who claim a charitable deduction on their taxes.
Flamboyan Foundation is a private, family foundation focused on improving educational outcomes for children in public schools in Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, according to its website. The foundation plans to expand its research into private charitable giving by partnering with the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy—which issues the annual Giving USA report—and the Kinesis Foundation on a future study of household giving patterns and priorities in Puerto Rico.
New Director for K-12 Programs
On August 1, Nicole Jarbo joined The Philanthropy Roundtable as the new director for K-12 education programs. Prior to joining the Roundtable, Jarbo taught first-grade at a KIPP school in New Orleans and 9th grade English at Carver Collegiate Academy, where she helped students achieve 2.5 years of reading growth in 10 months. She also launched a company, TeacherGym, to train teachers in effective classroom management practices.
Watch this five minute video for a brief introduction to Nicole and her vision for the K-12 education program.
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(ACR BLOG) Rep. Ryan: No Top Cap for Charitable Deduction
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is widely expected to take over as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, recently expressed his support for not implementing a cap on the charitable deduction, according to a report from Politico. Ryan stated that the charitable deduction is “the one area where I believe we should not have a top cap.”
(ACR BLOG) Salt Lake Tribune Op-ed: Don’t let tax reform undermine charitable giving
Fraser Nelson, executive director of the Community Foundation of Utah, and Jeramy Lund, a Utah private investor, co-wrote an editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune on August 16 urging Utahns to contact their elected officials this month while members of Congress are home. Lund and Nelson explain the importance of constituents letting elected officials know how the decisions they make will affect the nonprofit sector.
Philanthropic Achievement of the Week
1999 Gates Millennium Scholars
Just before the turn of the millennium, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put into operation a major college scholarship program for minority students, with an initial grant of a cool billion dollars that was later increased to $1.6 billion. Every year, the Millennium Scholars program selects 1,000 new African-American, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American college prospects and offers them good-through-graduation scholarships (set at various levels to cover their need). These can be used at any college the student chooses. The program particularly aims to encourage minorities to enter scientific fields like computer science, math, public health, and engineering (where they are underrepresented), and any Millenium Scholar in good standing who finishes an undergraduate degree and wants to continue on to grad school in one of these technical fields will also have their graduate education paid for by Gates.
In addition to financial aid, the program offers leadership development, mentoring, internships, and other resources to help students succeed—which collectively have yielded a rate of college graduation within six years of nearly 90 percent, more than double the average for all African Americans. Since its establishment, the Gates Millennium Scholars program has propelled more than 16,000 young Americans through their educational careers, and 28 percent have gone on to graduate school, half of them in the technical fields that Gates has particularly targeted.
Gates Millennium Scholars Program, gmsp.org/publicweb/aboutus.aspx
Surprising White House Executive Action Critics: The Brother’s Keeper Philanthropy Controversy
By Howard Husock
It’s not often that President Obama faces criticism from the liberal left regarding his Administration’s policy initiatives in matters involving race and disadvantage. Which is what makes so notable an opinion piece in the latest Chronicle of Philanthropy criticizing My Brother’s Keeper, the President’s program, announced this past February, “to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color.” That focus was a cause of concern for NoVo Foundation executive director Pamela Shifman and former Schott Foundation program manager Nakisha Lewis, who wrote that Brother’s Keeper inappropriately overlooks the “dire straits” of many “minority women and girls”, including “epidemic levels of of domestic violence.”. The article goes further in criticizing Brother’s Keeper for “elevating a patriarchal conception of a “good” family—boys of color will grow up to be fathers and heads of households that are made up of nuclear families.”
There is little doubt that both minority males and females are not faring nearly as well as they should in the U.S.—and that both philanthropy and government have their roles to play in improving their educational and economic outcomes. But what makes the criticism proffered by Shifman and Lewis notable is their concern that My Brother’s Keeper is sending a signal from the White House to U.S. foundations and philanthropists—to focus one one group at the potential expense of the other. It’s a criticism that matters because of the nature of My Brother’s Keeper. It’s not a federal program so much as an effort by the White House to focus private giving and match it with non-federal government appropriations. As the White House has put it: ”Through this initiative, the Administration is joining with cities and towns, businesses, and foundations who are taking important steps to connect young people to mentoring, support networks, and the skills they need to find a good job or go to college and work their way into the middle class.”
Put another way, the President has put his thumb on the scale used by donors when they decide what missions they should support. Whether one agrees with the views of Shifman and Lewis about family structure or not, they are quite right to be concerned that the White House is throwing its weight behind a select approach. Historically, as I’ve argued in my book Philanthropy Under Fire, government and philanthropy have operated independently of each other—allowing philanthropy to identify problems government lacks the means or understanding to deal with.
The Obama White has consistently chosen a different approach—choosing, instead, to signal to philanthropy the sorts of causes which should merit support. This has been, for instance, the animating principle of the White House Social Innovation Fund, the Obama Administration initiative mounted through the Corporation for National and Community Service. It invites private donors to match White House-directed funds dedicated to addressing select social ills—ranging from HIV/AIDS to “community-driven initiatives to combat obesity and tobacco use”.
As with those addressed by My Brother’s Keeper, these are, without doubt, problems which merit attention. But by signaling what it views as the nation’s most important social problems—in effect through executive action—the Obama White House has risked undermining the traditional independence and creativity of private philanthropy (which, it must be noted, has not been all that reluctant to throw itself into the arms of government, or to see its ideas brought “to scale” as government programs, often ineffectively).
The objections to My Brother’s Keeper show us even those who may broadly agree with the concerns of the Obama White House can be put off by what can be seen as a nexus of big government and big philanthropy, which favors some causes over others.
It’s worth noting that there was a previous President who undertook a partnership with private philanthropy—one described by historian Oliver Zunz (in Philanthropy in America: A History) as “federally-directed philanthropy.” It was tried in the Administration of a President one suspects is not on President Obama’s short list of favorite predecessors: Herbert Hoover. And, notes historian Zunz, “it collapsed under the sheer scale of what was needed and under the pressure of conflicting visions of social justice.” The White House executive action to direct philanthropy appears to be leading to just those sort of conflicting visions once again.
This article originally appeared in Forbes and is published here with permission of the author.
ACR Blog: Private Charitable Giving: A New Italian Tradition
Private charitable giving has played a significant role in the United States in preserving our country’s historical culture and landmarks. For example, David M. Rubenstein is one of many well-known philanthropists who share a passion for preserving American history. According to a recent Washington Post article, Rubenstein, who agreed to cover $7.5 million of the cost of restoration for the Washington Monument after the 2011 earthquake, has also made a donation of $12.35 million to restore Gen. Robert E. Lee’s home at Arlington National Cemetery.
Philanthropic Achievement of the Week
1882 Great Libraries From Enoch Pratt—and Others
Enoch Pratt arrived in Baltimore from a Massachusetts farm with nothing but $150 in his pocket, but he was frugal and industrious and eventually thrived in a variety of businesses. In 1882 he offered to give the city of Baltimore a major circulating library for free public use, along with 32,000 books, plus four branch libraries in different quarters of the city, and an endowment of $1,058,333 for upkeep and future expansion. Once built, the Pratt almost immediately became one of the most heavily used libraries in the country, and it thrived over the century and a quarter since. Andrew Carnegie described it in The Gospel of Wealth as the best such institution in the country, and he cited Pratt as his exemplar for his own nationwide library program which he launched the year Pratt’s main library opened. In fact, two decades after the initial opening of the Pratt Library, Carnegie donated a half-million dollars to Baltimore to allow the building of 20 additional branches—part of his wider campaign that paid for the erection of more than 2,500 libraries (see the 1881 Carnegie Library entry in our companion list of major achievements in the arts and culture).
These were just two of the many American philanthropists who lifted American literacy and learning by donating important collections of books to the public. The grandfather of them all was Benjamin Franklin, who in league with a group of friends incorporated the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first such entity in British North America, in 1731 (see separate entry below). In 1814, Thomas Jefferson offered his large and impossible-to-replicate library to Congress for official use after the British burned Washington. Judah Touro gave the American West its first public collection of books when he offered to put up the Touro Free Library in the city of New Orleans in 1824, and at his death he helped endow the famous Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island. John Jacob Astor gave $400,000 to New York in 1848 to establish a library, later combined with the $2 million library given by James Lennox, as well as a trust containing most of the wealth of Samuel Tilden, to form the New York Public Library. With a $50,000 gift and 30,000 books “of permanent value,” financier Joshua Bates launched the Boston Public Library, whose main reading room remains named for him.
These gifts transformed libraries, over the course of just a couple generations, from luxuries possessed by the wealthy for self-improvement available to all. Today there are more than 16,000 public libraries in the U.S., and they are visited a billion and a half times every year.
Enoch Pratt Library history, prattlibrary.org/about/index.aspx?id=1604
Original Pratt documents, archive.org/stream/enochprattfreeli00enoc#page/14/mode/2up
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Will adolescent girls save the world?
In the West, they are often a byword for trouble – but they may well be the world’s best hope of tackling hunger and population growth. Yes, strange as it may seem, teenage girls could, as the UN has put it, “hold the key to breaking the cycle of poverty” in which so much of humanity is caught.
Admittedly, these potential saviours are not unruly British adolescents but the 283 million girls aged between 10 and 20 who live in poverty in the countryside of the developing world. Study after study has shown that when they are given a better chance – above all, a decent education – something miraculous happens: the number of births in the area falls, while income and food production increase. Yet these same teenagers have long been neglected by their families and aid agencies alike, with the result that their adolescence usually sees their horizons not widening, but shrinking.
Will the tide ever come in at Britain's depressed seaside resorts?
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1. The flag commonly known as the Confederate Flag was never the national flag of the CSA, however the CSA did have three national flags during its short history, the Stars and Bars
, the Stainless Banner
, and the Blood Stained Banner
2. The flag is not the Confederate battle flag either, that flag shared the same symbols and colors but was square. The flag is actually a conglomeration of the 2nd naval jack and the battle flag, using the dimensions of the naval jack and the dark blue used on the battle flag.
3. While the modern flag and even some of the historical flags are used by white supremacist groups such as the KKK and the Neo-Nazis, both groups adopted the American flag, without any modifications or symbol defacements, as their official flags.
4. The Army Ranger insignia used at the US Army Rangers School of Ft. Benning includes the Confederate battle flag in honor of John S. Mosby and the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry.
5. The modern flag, often known as the Southern Cross, the Dixie Flag, and the Rebel Flag, is often incorrectly referred to as the Stars and Bars.
6. A starless version
of the modern flag has reportedly been used by Novorossiyan insurgents in Eastern Ukraine. Novorossiya is a confederation of two unrecognized breakaway states known as Donetsk and Lugansk that have been formed during the ongoing Ukrainian Crisis.
7. Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina all have laws banning the desecration of any Confederate or American flag, however protection for any flag was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and thus none of the laws can be enforced.
8. The USS Columbia (CL-56) flew the 2nd Confederate naval jack as a battle flag throughout combat in the South Pacific in World War II. This was done in honor of the ship's namesake, the capital city of South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union.
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Plan has worked in Kenya since 1982, helping poor children to access their rights to health, education, sanitation and protection.
Today, more than 800,000 people in community-based organisations and children’s clubs, as well as farmers, youth and women’s groups benefit from our work.
We focus on addressing causes of poverty and on managing different cultural practices that hinder the growth and development of children, especially girls. Plan strives to reduce poverty, raise children’s voices, support orphans and vulnerable children, and attend to those with special needs, such as the disabled.
Education key to ending child marriage
Education is one of the most important interventions in ending child marriage, a Plan ambassador has said.
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With whom do the commoners side? What bad tidings does Richard receive in Wales? Find the answers to these and other important questions from Shakespeare's history play with eNotes' Richard II Overview Quiz. With ten essential questions on plot, characters, dialogue and more, this quiz is designed to test your knowledge of the work as a whole. Each of its questions is also ranked so that you can understand the level of difficulty and see how your score compares with others who have taken this quiz. Give it a go below!
Harry, Ron, and Hermione set out on a new mission in chapter 20 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Who are they looking for and why? What do they find out when they reach their destination? Test your knowledge about these details and others in this eNotes quiz.
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What awaits Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Griphook at Malfoy Manor? Be sure you know who rescues the group, why Bellatrix does not immediately kill Harry, and more in this chapter 23 eNotes quiz on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
In chapter 24 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry speaks to Ollivander after Dobby’s burial. Make sure you know who buried Dobby, what Ollivander tells Harry about his wand, and more by taking this eNotes quiz.
"The Second Nun's Tale" concerns the story of Saint Cecilia's marriage to the heathen Valerian and the angel who chooses to intervene in human affairs. Be sure you understand how the angel alters the relationship by taking the quiz over this tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's classic work The Canterbury Tales from eNotes.
Jonathan Edward's fiery sermon is the most frequently anthologized sermon in American literature. Be sure you recall what makes this Puritan document so compelling and worthy of study by taking this quiz over "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" from eNotes.
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What are Amino Acids? Amino Acids are the building blocks of protein and a key part of every human cell. There are 20 in total, split into essential (must be acquired from food) and non-essential (can be made by the body). Supplementation can help achieve the right balance and Myprotein is here to help with a variety of products to optimise healthy protein maintenance.
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Precise, gentle and efficient cell separation from a device the size of a cell phone may be possible thanks to tilt-angle standing surface acoustic waves, according to engineers at Penn State Univ. These waves can separate cells using very small amounts of energy. Unlike conventional separation methods that centrifuge for 10 minutes at 3,000 revolutions per minute, the surface acoustic waves can separate cells in a much gentler way.
By striking up the right rhythm in the right brain region at the right time, Brown Univ. neuroscientists report in Nature Neuroscience that they managed to endow mice with greater touch sensitivity than other mice, making hard-to-perceive vibrations suddenly more vivid to them. The findings offer the first direct evidence that “gamma” brainwaves in the cortex affect perception and attention.
Researchers in Switzerland have created an Android app which lets users get together to crack a modern cryptographic code. Building on earlier work that used a network of 300 PlayStation consoles, the scientists decided to leverage the power of smartphones. By running the algorithm a very large number of times the code may be broken eventually.
For the 2.2 million Americans battling glaucoma, the main course of action for staving off blindness involves weekly visits to eye specialists who monitor increasing pressure within the eye. Now researchers have developed an eye implant that could help stave off blindness caused by glaucoma. The tiny eye implant developed at Stanford Univ. could enable patients to take more frequent readings from the comfort of home.
Using a calculation originally proposed seven years ago to be performed on a petaflop computer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers computed conditions that simulate the birth of the universe. When the universe was less than one microsecond old and more than one trillion degrees, it transformed from a plasma of quarks and gluons into bound states of quarks.
There’s an old saying in the biofuels industry: “You can make anything from lignin except money.” But now, a new study may pave the way to challenging that adage. The study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory demonstrates a concept that provides opportunities for the successful conversion of lignin into a variety of renewable fuels, chemicals, and materials for a sustainable energy economy.
Protein crystals are extremely fragile, highly sensitive and hard to handle. Scientists in China have worked around these downsides by linking a protein crystal to helper molecules from the sugar family. When fixated, the molecules arrange themselves symmetrically within the helper molecule framework, forming crystals in which the proteins achieve high stability and are intricately interconnected into a protein crystalline framework.
Specialized cells can break through normal tissue boundaries and burrow into other tissues and organs. This crucial step in many normal developmental processes is guided by an extracellular cue called netrin, which orients the anchor cell so that it invades in the right direction. In a new study, researchers have shown how receptors on the invasive cells rove around the cell membrane ”hunting” for a missing netrin signal.
The future of movie, sports and concert broadcasting lies in 4K definition, which will bring cinema quality TV viewing into people’s homes. With its 3840 x 2160 resolution, 4K Ultra HD has four times as many pixels as today’s Full HD. The new HEVC video compression standard now allows broadcasters to transmit live video in the 4K digital cinema standard, and was used recently to broadcast a soccer game in Germany.
Findings from a physics study by a Kansas State Univ. researcher are helping scientists accurately predict the once unpredictable. They looked at theoretically predicting and understanding chemical reactions that involve three atoms at ultracold temperatures. Their findings help explain the likely outcome of a chemical reaction and shed new light on mysterious quantum states.
A team of scientists from Germany, Canada, and the United States has now developed a promising new measurement method that works without destroying anything yet offers nanoscale resolution. The method, an enhancement of resonant x-ray reflectometry identifies the chemical elements involved and is able to determine both the magnetic order and the electron distribution.
David Erickson, a professor at Cornell Univ., will receive a $3 million National Science Foundation grant over five years to adapt smartphones for health monitoring. The program, dubbed PHeNoM for Public Health, Nanotechnology, and Mobility, aims to deploy three systems that can have an immediate impact on personal healthcare.
In the past, immune cells were clearly divided into innate cells, which respond to attacks in a non-specific way, and adaptive cells, which learn to recognize new antigens and gain the ability to rapidly react to later attacks. Researchers at RIKEN in Japan have discovered that is not always the case, having found that killer T cells previously thought to be innate, and thus short-lived, can remain in the lung for up to nine months.
There’s a certain type of biomolecule built like a nano-Christmas tree. Called a glycoconjugate, it’s many branches are bedecked with sugary ornaments. It’s those ornaments that get all the glory. That’s because, according to conventional wisdom, the glycoconjugate’s lowly “tree” basically holds the sugars in place as they do the important work of reacting with other molecules.
Rice Univ. researchers have created a CMOS-compatible, biomimetic color photodetector that directly responds to red, green and blue light in much the same way the human eye does. The new device uses an aluminum grating that can be added to silicon photodetectors with the silicon microchip industry’s mainstay technology, “complementary metal-oxide semiconductor,” or CMOS.
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What Leadership Means To Me
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interest among college faculty in the teaching methods variously grouped under the terms 'active learning' and 'cooperative learning'. However, even with this interest, there remains much misunderstanding of and mistrust of the pedagogical "movement" behind the words. The majority of all college faculty still...
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The Concept of Reflective Practice
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An air monitor has been developed at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant to sample the air in enriched uranium processing areas and to detect elevated particulate concentrations due to an upset condition. The monitor measures the alpha particle activity from material collected on 47-mm filter paper. Three energy windows are used to allow quantification of background activity from radon and thoron daughters and correction of their spillage into the uranium window. There is sufficient monitor memory to hold a history file of six days' activity from three sampling heads at 20-min status intervals. Alarm signals are activated if the absolute level of activity on a filter exceeds a predefined level, or if an excessively fast rate of buildup is occurring, which would cause the absolute level to be exceeded. This monitor is combined with an absolute particle counter, and data are collected at a processing station where uranium dust is known to be present. The occurrence of high particle count activity in the 3.0-10.0- mu m range is followed by increased alpha activity on the filter paper.
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Dr. Jeff Masters
August 20, 2014
A tropical wave (96L) located near 11°N 53°W, several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles Islands, is headed west-northwestwards at about 10 - 15 mph. Satellite loops on Wednesday morning showed the wave had a broad, elongated surface circulation and a modest amount of heavy thunderstorm activity that was steadily increasing in areal coverage and intensity. The storm was poorly organized, though, with a clumpy appearance and just a few low-level spiral bands.
Christopher C. Burt
August 19, 2014
July was the 4th warmest such since 1880 according to NOAA and the 11th warmest according to NASA data (the difference in assessments is due to several factors which I’ll discuss in a future blog). It was unusually cool in the central portion of the U.S. while record warmth was observed in parts of the U.S. Northwest, Scandinavia and the Baltic nations. Several powerful typhoons made landfall in East Asia and Hurricane Arthur took a swipe at North Carolina.
July 3, 2014
This is a live blog set up to provide the latest coverage on Hurricane Arthur as it threatens the North Carolina Coast. Check back often to see what the latest is with Arthur. The most recent updates are at the top.
June 30, 2014
Here is some basic, fundamental terminology related to tropical cyclones. Rather than a comprehensive and/or technical glossary, this represents the essence of the meaning & importance of some key, frequently used terms.
May 15, 2014
It was a very interesting winter across a good part of the nation from the Rockies through the Plains to the Northeast. Let's break down the most significant winter storms on a month by month basis.
September 27, 2013
Melting permafrost has the potential to release an additional 1.5 trillion tons of carbon into the atmosphere, and could increase our global average temperature by 1.5°F in addition to our day-to-day human emissions. However, this effect is not included in the IPCC report issued Friday morning, which means the estimates of how Earth's climate will change are likely on the conservative side.
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5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- Shareholder / Stockholder
- Money has 3 jobs:
3) Money stores value
- Bear Market
- a Coins and paper money. It is also called currency. This is fiat money and is the most commonly used form of money
- b When an individual person or company has control over the producing and selling of a certain product or service.
Has an overall negative impact for consumers (buyers)
-consumers have less choice
-consumers may have to pay high prices
-quality of the good or service may not be good.
- c The DOW is down which signals that the stock market is weak
- d Money lasts for a long time, so you can keep it for a long time. It lets people store, or keep, their wealth.
- e People who buy stock
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- Money is an object people use to buy goods and services. Instead of trading goods and services directly for other goods and services, we trade goods and services for money
- The DOW is up and the stock market is strong. People are confident and are willing to invest
- Money must last a long time
- A certificate that a stockholder gets that shows the number of shares in a company that person owns
- Money made from selling stocks for more money than what you bought them for.
This is one way stockholders earn money from investing in stocks
5 True/False Questions
Liable → Legally responsible for something
Business owners are liable for their business
Money must be PORTABLE → Money must stay valuable for a long time. It is controlled by the government.
Charter → A license to become a corporation
Securities → Another word for stocks and bonds
Command Economy → Also called capitalism
Result of many people's buying and selling decisions. This type of economy is not run by anyone, it runs itself.
People are free to buy and sell what they please
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Consequences of Genetic Testing for Adult-Onset Diseases
In the news
Technology that allows you to be tested to assess your genetic predisposition for an adult-onset disease Would you want to know when and how you were probably going to die? What is there is no current treatment? What if you could pass your genetic risk on to your children? Who else (if anyone) would you want to know about your genetic test results?
Objectives Outline major consumer/family issues related to genetic susceptibility and testing for adult-onset diseases Describe some general findings related to two studies (one done at the UofU)
Human Genome Project Mapping the entire human genome Establishment of the National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR) Publicity of Disease-Related Genes The “Social Conscience of NCHGR” – ELSI Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetic Testing
Selected Diseases for Which Genetic Tests Currently Exist Huntington Disease Familial Hypercholesterolemia Sickle-Cell Trait Familial Melanoma Colon Cancer Breast Cancer (BRCA1 & BRCA2) Alzheimer’s (APOE4)
Who should undergo testing? Predictive gene testing Healthy persons in at-risk families Depends on the disease Depends on the gene mutation Depends on the person
Who would undergo predictive testing? TIME/CNN Poll – 50% would take a predictive test. Utah Poll – If a treatable disease (colon cancer), increases to 80%. High Risk Families – if given information about testing, 50-60% are tested.
Why are people concerned about testing and test results? Screening Behaviors Psychological and emotional worries Effects on relationships and family Effects on privacy and insurance/employer discrimination
Reviewing Genetic testing for adult onset diseases is a relatively new technology Sparked by the Human Genome Project Social science research supported by ELSI Range of serious adult-onset diseases that can now be tested for Raises numerous questions about how people process this information and the consequences for individual and family well-being
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