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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Obama: Senate fiscal cliff bill 'the right thing'
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says the "fiscal cliff" agreement reached by the Senate is "the right thing to do for our country" and is encouraging the House to "pass it without delay."
The Senate voted 89-8 early Tuesday to pass legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to take effect at the beginning of the new year. The legislation would prevent middle-class taxes from rising, and raise rates on incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples.
Obama says the bill takes a balanced approach to shrinking the U.S. deficit by "investing in (the) middle class" while "asking the wealthy to pay a little more."
The House is expected to vote on the bill later Tuesday or perhaps Wednesday.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Pediatricians say kids need recess during school
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A group of American pediatricians is telling school districts that children need recess and free time during the school day, and it should not even be taken away as punishment.
"We consider it essentially the child's personal time and don't feel it should be taken away for academic or punitive reasons," said Dr. Robert Murray, who co-authored the new policy statement for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The statement, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, says recess is a "crucial and necessary component of a child's development."
Recess helps students develop communication skills, such as cooperation and sharing, and helps counteract the time they spend sitting in class, according to the statement.
"The cognitive literature indicates that children are exactly as we are as adults. Whenever they're performing a complicated or complex task, they need time to process the information," said Murray, a professor at Ohio State University in Columbus.
"Kids have to have that time scheduled. They're not given the opportunity to just get up and walk around for a few minutes," he added.
Previous research, according to the statement's authors, found children pay closer attention and perform better mentally after recess.
Last January, a review of 14 studies found kids who get more exercise from - among other things - recess and playing on sports teams tend to do better in school (see Reuters Health story of January 3, 2012 here: http://reut.rs/UcJhV0.)
But a 2011 survey of 1,800 elementary schools found about a third were not offering recess to their third grade classes (see Reuters Health story of December 5, 2011 here: http://reut.rs/UcOqwt.)
Murray told Reuters Health that schools in Japan offer children about 10 minutes of free time after every 50 minutes of class, which he said makes sense.
"I think you can feel it if you go to a lecture that after 40 to 50 minutes of a concentrated activity you need to take a break," he said.
Currently, the American Heart Association calls for at least 20 minutes of recess every day, but Murray said recess needs depend on the child.
"Most schools - on average - are working on the framework of 15 to 30 minute bursts of recess once or twice a day," he said.
There is, however, consensus on when in the day children's recess should take place.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture both recommend schools schedule recess before lunch.
Previous studies have found that children waste less food and behave better for the rest of the day when their recess is before their scheduled lunch, the pediatricians' statement notes.
The statement also says schools should not substitute physical education classes for recess.
"Those are completely different things and they offer completely different outcomes," said Murray. "(Physical education teachers are) trying to teach motor skills and the ability of those children to use those skills in a bunch of different scenarios. Recess is a child's free time."
The pediatricians also warn against a recess that is too structured, such as having games led by adults.
"I think it becomes structured to the point where you lose some of those developmental and social emotion benefits of free play," said Murray.
"This is a very important and overlooked time of day for the child and we should not lose sight of the fact that it has very important benefits," he added.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/HjQ8dI Pediatrics, online December 31, 2012.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pediatricians-kids-recess-during-school-054737400.html
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Saving Mackenzie Rivers
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Choctaw family devastated in Miss. SUV wreck
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ? The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians was dealing Sunday with the devastating loss of five young siblings and an adult killed when their SUV plunged into a rain-swollen creek.
Neshoba County Sheriff Tommy Waddell said the victims appear to have drowned after their Dodge Durango left a county road 20 miles southeast of Philadelphia just after midnight Saturday.
"It's always sad to hear of the death of a tribal member, but today our tribe experienced a great tragedy with the loss of six beautiful Choctaw souls. I cannot begin to imagine what the friends, relatives and loved ones are feeling," Tribal Chief Phyliss J. Anderson said in a statement.
Deputy County Coroner Marshall Prince identified the five children who died as 9-year-old Dasyanna John, 8-year-old Duane John, 7-year-old Bobby John, 4-year-old Quinton John, and 18-month-old Kekaimeas John. Family friend Diane Chickaway, 37, also died. The sheriff said all were members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and lived in the Pearl River community east of Philadelphia, where the tribe operates a large casino complex.
The father of the children, Dewayne John, escaped the vehicle and remains hospitalized for hypothermia and water inhalation. The children's mother, Deanna Jim, and Chickaway's husband, Dale Chickaway, also survived. The group was traveling to Conehatta, another Choctaw community, with Dewayne John driving. Waddell said he has been tested to see if he was under the influence of alcohol, though he said official results aren't in. If officials decide to file charges, Waddell said they probably wouldn't act until Wednesday.
It appears none of the nine occupants of the vehicle were wearing seat belts or were in child restraints, the sheriff said.
The crash happened on County Road 107, in a rural area near the Neshoba-Newton county line. Heavy rains have hit the area in recent days, raising the water level of what Waddell described as a normally small creek. The SUV ran off the left side of the road into the creek near the Kitchner community.
The sheriff said it wasn't raining and there was no ice on the road. "This accident is not weather-related at all," he said.
Divers from the Philadelphia fire department had to be called to find the submerged vehicle. Prince said the vehicle was pulled from the water after 3 a.m. Besides the 30 emergency workers, about 20 Choctaw tribal members gathered at the site, he said.
"It looked like he has just run off the road and went into the water," Prince said. "It was deep and swift. The vehicle was completely submerged."
Waddell said the bodies have been sent to Jackson for autopsies. The Mississippi Highway Patrol will reconstruct the accident starting Sunday to learn more.
Tribal spokeswoman Misty Dreifuss said funeral arrangements would likely be made Sunday and the children were expected to be buried together. Dreifuss said word of the deaths spread quickly through the 10,000-member tribe and that members "definitely have been hit pretty hard."
Waddell said that he can't recall a deadlier accident in the county in his 26 years of law enforcement.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Tricks For Great Business Writing | Successful Speaking Secrets
Most of the Australian employees don?t have great writing skills although great business writing is an extremely important aspect of all sorts of businesses in Australia. The main reason behind this is that the majority of people who work in the field where business writing is critical do not have sufficient writing training. Most of the universities do teach writing skills to their students, but they don?t teach how to use these skills in practical life. And those pursuing a business degree do not often put much focus on strengthening writing skills on their own.
However, not having great business writing skills gives you a substantial handicap in the business world. This handicap will become an even greater problem when you progress further in your career. Ultimately, it may keep you from being promoted to the next level. Here we?ll offer some fast and simple tips to improve your professional writing.
1. Stay Relevant
Writing in business has one golden rule, which is appropriately described by the saying ?less is more?. Avoid any sort of fillers in your writing, plainly saying what you want to convey. Writing specialists agree that this makes for better writing, but in an area like business where time is so critical, it may be even more essential. A busy executive does not want to have to go through paragraphs of pointless information to find out the point of your article. Be clear and eliminate any unnecessary words.
2. Check Your Work
You?ve heard this advice hundreds if not thousands of times by now, but it still holds as true as it did when you were a young child. Proofreading is extremely important as a typographical or spelling error can turn a reader?s viewpoint against you. Some readers are even straight up offended when they are given something with little mistakes in it, as it means you didn?t think they were important enough for you to proofread your writing prior to giving it to them. One more great technique to proofread the your writing is to read the writing loudly so you can hear what you wrote. It also helps to set your writing aside for some time, then return to it later. This gets your mind fresh and ready to notice errors it may have overlooked earlier.
3. Make Sure You?ve Got The Names Right
If you misspell somebody?s name, it is telling them that they weren?t important enough to you to find out the spelling and get it right. This can seem an insult and the reader might ignore the entire proposal. Not only should you have names spelled properly, but you should also be very aware of titles, genders, and everything else that is personally connected with an individual. Mixing these things up may cause your suggestions, however great they are, to be disregarded.
A lot of practice is required to improve business writing. If you stick to the aforementioned tips then it would certainly help you in enhancing your writing and give you a leg-up in the business world.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Repellent slime has material virtues
Threads from hagfishes' defensive goo demonstrate superior strength and flexibility
Threads from hagfishes' defensive goo demonstrate superior strength and flexibility
By Rachel Ehrenberg
Web edition: December 19, 2012
Enlarge Atsuko Negishi (left) holds up a an Atlantic hagfish (Myxine glutinosa) and the slime it produces when provoked or stressed. Douglas Fudge (right) and his team are investigating the properties of fibers in the goo.
Credit: Andra Zommers/Univ. of Guelph
Step aside spiders. Threads made by another creepy-crawly ? the eel-like hagfish ? may lead to superior new fibers for parachutes, packaging and perhaps even clothing. A new study that examines the mechanical properties of threads made from hagfishes? slimy mucus finds the fibers are both strong and stretchy, and may serve as a model for creating superior new materials.
?The tensile properties approach those of spider silk, and that?s very exciting,? says biomaterials specialist Douglas Fudge of the University of Guelph in Canada. Synthetic fabrics such as nylon are derived from petroleum, notes Fudge, so studying hagfish threads may lead to renewable ?green? materials for making all sorts of things.
To study the threads, Atsuko Negishi, a researcher in Fudge?s lab, collected buckets of slime from Atlantic hagfish (Myxine glutinosa). The long, slender jawless creatures have lines of slime pores that run down the sides of their body; some species have more than 100 such pores. When hagfish are provoked or stressed, the pores eject copious amounts of slime, which gets caught in the gills of predators ? including sharks ? making them gag and back off.
?There?s very little that?s been known about hagfish. People don?t like them and think they are gross,? says research scientist Vincent Zintzen of the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington. ?The idea of looking at their slime is very interesting. It?s totally different from anything that we?ve seen in the natural world.?
Negishi and her colleagues anesthetized their hagfish, dried them off and then stimulated them with electricity to prompt slime ejection. Then the researchers concentrated the slime?s proteins. They found they could produce threads up to 20 centimeters long by dripping the concentrated proteins onto the surface of a salty buffer solution. For reasons that aren?t clear, the threads then form a film that can be drawn out and spun into a fiber, Negishi, Fudge and their colleagues report in the Nov.12 Biomacromolecules. ?
When the threads were stretched in water, they contorted into the same molecular shape that?s believed to give spider silk its strength and toughness. The researchers also discovered that hagfish threads are super stretchy, tripling in length before breaking.
The proteins that make up the threads belong to a class known as intermediate filaments that also includes keratin, the stuff of hair and fingernails. These proteins are also found in cells, where they provide structural support and play a role in resisting stress, among other things. Maybe the hagfish version of the proteins will have special properties, Fudge says, or they may end up being like a lot of intermediate filaments, which would also be intriguing. ?We?re using it as a source of inspiration,? he says.
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347187/title/Repellent_slime_has_material_virtues
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