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Emphasizing the synergies between science and engineering, these video clips highlight the research of professional ocean scientists and engineers in various disciplines. The clips are accompanied by additional relevant content including images,... (View More) data visualizations, graphs, animations, and other information. Content has been organized into more than a dozen thematic areas such as Solving Old Problems with New Technology and Small Scale Observations and Large Scale Ideas. All content has been aligned with science and engineering practices from the Next Generation Science Standards, including "asking questions and solving problems" and "planning and carrying out investigations," providing applicable resources for teachers who want to provide role models of effective practice for their students. (View Less)
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In this lesson students investigate the effects of black carbon on arctic warming and are introduced to a mechanism of arctic warming that is not directly dependent on greenhouse gases in the atmosphere: black carbon deposition on Arctic snow and... (View More) ice. It can also be used to introduce the concept of albedo. Prerequisite knowledge: students understand the concepts of absorption and reflection of light energy. This lesson is designed to be used with either an Earth/environmental science or chemistry curriculum. It may also be used as an enrichment activity in physics or physical science during a unit on energy. Includes suggested modifications for students with special needs and low technology option. Requires advance preparation, including freezing ice samples overnight. (View Less)
Materials Cost: $10 - $20 per group of students
This resource is designed to enable presenters (scientists, engineers, etc.) to easily present to an elementary and/or middle school audience and feel confident that the information they are presenting is developmentally appropriate and supports the... (View More) Next Generation Science Standards. A PowerPoint Presentation includes talking points and suggestions, a "Best Practices" document to offer helpful suggestion before, during, and after the presentation, and a list of additional resources that may be accessed by the speaker and/or the educator. This presentation is designed to take 30 to 45 minutes. (View Less)
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In this lesson, students will learn about the water cycle and how energy from the sun and the force of gravity drive this cycle. The emphasis in this lesson will be on having students understand the processes that take place in moving water through... (View More) Earth's system. (View Less)
Materials Cost: $5 - $10 per group of students
This lesson includes a demonstration to show why the sky is blue and why sunsets and sunrises are orange. Learners will use scientific practices to investigate answers to questions involving the color of the sky, sunsets, the Sun, and oceans.... (View More) Requires a clear acrylic or glass container to hold water, a strong flashlight, and powdered creamer or milk. (View Less)
Participants will use scientific practices to investigate answers to questions involving the color of the sky, sunsets, the Sun, and oceans. This activity requires use of a clear acrylic or glass container to hold water, a strong flashlight,... (View More) batteries for the flashlight, and powdered creamer or milk. (View Less)
This is a collection of outreach resources about the Sun that are meant to be used in informal education settings. This toolkit was originally designed for NASA Night Sky Network member clubs and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Astronomy... (View More) from the Ground Up network of museum and science center educators. The toolkit includes background information about the Sun, magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, and space weather, activity suggestions, and detailed activity scripts. The themes of this toolkit address both the constant nature of the Sun as a reliable source of energy and the dynamic nature of the Sun due to its changing magnetic fields. The activities and related materials in this collection include The Sun in a Different Light - Observing the Sun, Explore the Sun cards, Magnetic Connection, the Space Weather PowerPoint, Protection from Ultraviolet, and Where Does the Energy Come From cards. These activities can be done separately or as a group as part of an informal education event. Institutions that are not part of the Night Sky Network will need to acquire the various materials required for each activity. (View Less)
In this demonstration activity, students make structural models of gas molecules using pipe cleaners and polystyrene balls and test their molecules for their resonant frequency. Students shake the models, count vibrations, and compare the resonance... (View More) frequencies of different gases. Students learn that photons of infrared energy vibrate at the right frequency to transfer their energy to carbon dioxide and methane, which in turn causes those molecules to vibrate, which is experienced in the real world as heat. The teacher's guide includes illustrative videos for this resource. This activity is supported by a textbook chapter, What's So Special about CO²?, part of the unit, Climate Change, in Global Systems Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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This model demonstrates convection currents and uses water, food coloring, a cup of very hot water and a votive candle as heat sources. Movie clips of demonstration setup and convection in action are provided. This activity is supported by a... (View More) textbook chapter, What Heats the Earth's Interior?, part of the unit, Energy Flow, in Global Systems Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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This is an activity about magnetism. In this activity, polystyrene spheres and several strong neodymium magnets are used to represent the Sun and Earth and their distinct magnetic fields. Participants construct and use a field detector to predict... (View More) where the magnetic fields are on the Sun and Earth, and use field bits, which is the term used in the lesson plan, made from the closed staples to form loops and trace the invisible magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth. The activity is designed to be used in an informal public outreach setting, for example as a stand-alone station in a family science day event. It can also be modified for use as a simple classroom demonstration. There are background information sheets provided that can be printed to go along with the activity station. This activity requires two polystyrene spheres, 8 neodymium magnets, epoxy adhesive, wire clippers, needle nose pliers, and acrylic paints, along with other easily obtained materials. (View Less)


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February 07. 2013 11:19PM
BAE Systems' seeker succeeds in test
NASHUA - BAE Systems' Terminal High Altitude Area Defense infrared imaging seeker successfully engaged a medium-range ballistic missile target recently in what the company called the "largest, most complex missile defense test in U.S. history."
The THAAD weapon system acquired a medium-range missile that was launched from a C-17 aircraft during the 2012 test conducted by the Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin, the THAAD prime contractor and systems integrator, BAE announced Thursday.
With this test, BAE Systems' THAAD seeker has now successfully engaged short- and medium-range ballistic missile targets, the company said. THAAD is designed to defend U.S. and allied soldiers, military assets, and metropolitan areas from ballistic missile attack threats.

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By John Michael Foster
Title: William C. Latta papers, 1877-2006
Predominant Dates:1882-1901, 1922-1936, 1944
Primary Creator: Latta, W. C. (William Carroll) (1850-1935)
Extent: 2.0 Cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Series 1 materials are arranged as they were found when processed. The scrapbook is divided among three envelopes. Series 2 materials are arranged chronologically. Series 3 materials are arranged chronologically be document type. Series 4 materials are housed in two separate artifact boxes. Series 5 materials are arranged by document type.
Date Acquired: 12/09/2005
Subjects: Agriculture--United States--History
Languages: English
William Carroll Latta was born in Eden Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, on March 9, 1850. He attended common schools in Noble County between 1858 and 1868 and Ligonier High School from 1867 to 1869, before attending National Normal School (later renamed National Normal School) to train to be a school teacher. After eight months, however, Latta moved to Michigan. There, following a year of working and saving money, he enrolled at Michigan Agricultural College (present-day Michigan State University), earning his Bachelor of Science degree in 1877. He earned a Master of Science from Michigan Agricultural College in 1882.
Shortly before the completion of his graduate work, Latta was offered a job as an instructor and farm superintendent at Purdue University. Frederick Whitford and Andrew G. Martin write in their biography of Latta: "…until his death in 1935, Professor Latta helped shape what eventually would become a major educational institution known worldwide for its diverse student body, quality education, and wide assortment of agricultural majors and specializations. He would live to see how his contributions helped to dramatically change the way Indiana's farming community viewed a Purdue education in agriculture."
Before the start of the Fall 1882 term, Latta was promoted to replace Professor Charles Ingersoll as professor of agriculture and horticulture. In his early years at Purdue, Latta brought in new faculty (beginning with the hire of James Troop in 1884), expanded the agriculture course study from three years to four, added practical courses to enhance curriculum, and initiated the Winter Short Course program. Professor Latta also labored to create outreach between the university through special bulletins (published by Purdue University and mailed to famers), press releases highlighting the work of Purdue researchers, and personal appearances and presentations by the university's faculty. He also published several articles about agriculture, mainly for Purdue University, and two books. Latta's greatest legacy came as the result of his work with the Farmers' Institutes, which were the precursor to Purdue's Cooperative Extension Service.
William Latta married Alta E. Wood (1854-1940) in July 1879. They had four children: Bertha (1884-1960), Robert (1886-1970), Pauline (1890-1955), and Mary (1894-1973). All four children attended and graduated from Purdue University. William Latta was a member of the Tippecanoe County Civic Improvement Association and Trinity Methodist Church, and did work for the Y.M.C.A. He died on December 22, 1935, at the age of 85.
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Alternate Extent Statement: 3 mss. boxes, 2 artifact boxes, one flat box
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions:
Purdue University
Photocopied publications in the collection may be under different copyright.
Acquisition Source: Kim Sharp donated artifacts comprising Series 4
Acquisition Method:
Bottle and coverlet donated by Kim Sharp, December 9, 2005.
Acquisition information for other materials in the collection is unknown.
Related Materials: UA 26 College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, Records, Karnes Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Related Publications: Whitford, Frederick, and Andrew G. Martin. The Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture: A Biography of William Carroll Latta. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2005.
Preferred Citation: MSF 218, William C. Latta papers, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Processing Information: All materials are housed in acid-free folders and boxes.
Finding Aid Revision History: Historical sketch of the Agricultural Experiment Station, W.C. Latta, 1939 added to box 2; previously unprocessed as of May 26, 2017.


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Soda may not be all that good for your health when consumed straight out of the can, but everydayhealth.com says researchers are finding that the iconic soft drink, Coca-Cola, might be useful in another unusual way.
Soda may not be all that good for your health when consumed straight out of the can, but everydayhealth.com says researchers are finding that the iconic soft drink, Coca-Cola, might be useful in another unusual way.
Not only can Coca-Cola remove grease stains from clothes and fabric and clean your car engine, but now researchers say the soft drink can get rid of stomach blockages.
Researchers reviewed 10 years' worth of detailed cases on 46 patients with a condition called gastric phytobezoar - a stomach blockage - who were treated with so-called Coca-Cola dissolution therapy.
Phytobezoars, the most common type of stomach blockage, are composed of indigestible food fibers from fruits and vegetables including celery, pumpkin, prunes, raisins, leeks, beets, persimmons, and sunflower seed shells. Unless they are successfully removed or unblocked, they can lead to symptoms like nausea, vomiting, gastric obstruction, perforation, abdominal pain, and bleeding.
These blockages occur most often in people with risk factors that include decreased stomach size or reduced stomach acid production, having had gastric surgery that resulted in delayed stomach emptying, or having diabetes or late-stage kidney disease.
Researchers at the medical school of Athens University found that of the 46 patients who were given Coca-Cola to treat the blockage, the treatment cleared the blockage in half, 19 patients needed additional non-invasive treatment, and four needed full surgery.
Coca-Cola was administered in a few different ways:
Some patients drank the beverage in daily amounts from 500 milliliters to 3,000 milliliters for up to six weeks.
Some had gastric lavage, or therapeutic irrigation of the digestive tract, which was done using 3,000 milliliters of Coca-Cola over a 24-hour time period.
Eight patients had combinations of Coca-Cola treatment - drinking, injection, and irrigation.
The researchers found Coca-Cola was successful as a treatment for phytobezoar resolution in 91.3 percent of the cases, according to a study published in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.


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Josh Brown has just distilled the most important market lessons he's learned about 2012 and beyond, and now he has published them for the entire world to see.
The New York-based Fusion Analytics financial advisor offers the six biggest investing lessons of 2012 in his Reformed Broker blog as only he can – using the kind of salty and brutally honest language that rarely escapes off of the trading floor – and adds that now that he's divested himself of his hard-earned wisdom, he can die happy.
Here's what Brown (left) has to say about the six biggest investing lessons of 2012:
1) "Sometimes there's no one left to buy."
Apple became the "Jesus stock" over the summer because "no one would ever sell it but, unfortunately, anyone who could buy it and wanted to buy it had already done so," and was included in just about every large cap index out there before it started its rapid descent this fall, Brown wrote in his Dec. 28 blog post.
His lesson learned? That when a stock like Apple blows up into something really, really big, there are no natural buyers left, which can be a problem when the time comes to sell.
2) "Sometimes there's no one left to sell."
Research in Motion (RIMM), of Blackberry notoriety, was on the other side of the buy-sell equation in 2012 when the stock hit $6 per share. But then the market did what it does and decided that it was not the stock's time to die.
"RIMM more than doubled to 14 within a few weeks, a monster return from the depths that happened concurrently with the Apple bludgeoning from 705 to 500," Brown concludes.
3) "Things change quickly."
How quickly can things change? Well, look at what Brown calls the "now legendary pairs trade" that DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach proposed last spring.
"Short Apple versus a 10X bet on natural gas – the crowd was incredulous," Brown writes. "Apple was trading vertically higher after all and nat gas was well on its way to zero. Turns out that was the trade of the year. Know this – safe can be risky and risky can be safe in the blink of an eye. And mean reversion is always in the on-deck circle, playa."
4) "Trends can and will persist past the point of sanity."
Case in point: 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds.
"Let's consider that U.S. 10-year Treasury bonds have been yielding around 1.7% for most of the year while the annual run rate of inflation is 2.2%, thus guaranteeing a destruction of purchasing power for the holders," Brown writes.
That about sums it up for Brown, except to say that anyone who has tried to short Japanese government bonds has learned the hard way that trends can go on forever.
5) "Uncertainty is a buy signal, not a sell signal."
Greece, believe it or not, is a prime example of how uncertainty is your friend, according to Brown.
"While all these [euro-zone expletive deleted] were busy blabbing away about the 'Fate of Greece' the Athens Stock Exchange decided to rally 34% this year, doubling the returns of the S&P 500, Switzerland, France, the Emerging Markets index, the Asia Pacific region and just about everything else in sight," writes the Reformed Broker. "Your passing, superficial knowledge of the risk factors of a given thing, gleaned from newspapers and television and repeated ad nauseum by a million wannabe pundits and newsletter writers, are priced in."
6) "Usually, the asteroid misses Earth."
Horrible, horrible things almost happened in 2012. To review the threats: the U.S. fiscal cliff, the euro's breakup and a Chinese hard landing. What actually happened last year added to the "Wall of Worry" list: commodities brokerage collapses, the London Whale, the Libor scandal and on and on.
"But once again, the asteroid missed earth in 2012," says Brown in a thumbing of his nose to market doomsayers. "We are alive and live to fight another year, much to the chagrin of basement-dwelling misanthropes and grumpy old men everywhere. To the fear-mongers: I'm so sorry your apocalypse was staved off another twelve months, better luck in 2013, [derisive expletive deleted]."
Read related story on Josh Brown, Breaking Ranks: Former Broker Turns Bomb Thrower, at AdvisorOne.


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TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education could approve some major changes to the next school year's course offerings when it meets today at 6 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education could approve some major changes to the next school year's course offerings when it meets today at 6 p.m.
School system officials say the changes improve education and meet state and national regulations.
But some parents aren't happy.
They oppose removing advanced classes from curriculum.
Elisabeth Davis, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, said the school system has three levels of difficulty for classes in seventh through 10th grade and four levels of difficulty for 11th- and 12th-grade classes.
The class levels for seventh through 10th grades were regular, advanced and pre-advanced placement/honors classes. In 11th and 12th grades, the levels were regular, advanced, pre-
advanced placement/honor and advanced placement classes.
Davis said she's proposing dropping two class levels for middle schools. That would conform to the Alabama Department of Education requirement that middle schools offer two levels — regular and either an advanced or honors course. The school system has offered more than two levels because the state never enforced the rule, she said. But now it does.
"The state has always done this, but now they're enforcing it to make sure everyone in the state is taking the same classes," Davis said. "I'm proposing that the second level we offer are honors classes over advanced."
School system officials want to remove advance level classes from 11th and 12th grades.
"The main reason we're not recommending the advanced level is the change to Common Core standards," Davis said. "Common Core is much more rigorous. What used to be taught in the advanced classes is now going to be taught in the regular classes being taught under Common Core.
"Other successful school systems like Talladega, Shelby, Homewood and Hoover have cut out the advanced level as well," she said.
Common Core State Standards are a national set of education standards designed to provide students with a consistent and clear understanding of what they're supposed to learn. School systems in the state will be required to switch from the Alabama Course of Study curriculum to Common Core curriculum next school year.
John Fisher, the father of a seventh-grader at Rock Quarry Middle School, said the school system's attempt to change the class levels is an old issue.
He said the parents of Rock Quarry elementary and middle schools fought the school board on the issue two years ago and managed to keep three course levels at middle schools.
School officials trying to resurrect the issue and they're not being honest about it, Fisher said.
"Here we are two years later, (and) they've decided to go from three levels to two levels again," Fisher said. "They tried to say that the state mandates it, but we've spoken to the state and they said there's no mandate that requires this."
State department of education officials couldn't be reached Monday afternoon for comment.
"There's three levels right now for middle school," Fisher said. "The board wants you to believe that level one (regular classes) is on grade level and levels two (advanced) and three (pre-AP/honors) are above. But what you really have is level one is below grade level, level two is on grade and level three is advanced.
"We told them that the state said they can have three levels, but they're saying if they have more than two levels being proposed by the state, they'll have to write a new curriculum for a third level."
Fisher accused the school system of changing the curriculum levels to cover up how poorly many students are doing.
He said parents are against the change from three levels to two because students who are underperforming in regular or level one classes will be put in classes with students who were performing on grade level in advanced or level two classes.
"How is that going to make students start learning?" he said. "They're not teaching them now or reaching them now, but they're going to stick them in with other kids. According to the bureaucrats in the central office, they say the underperforming students will be challenged by the other kids who perform on grade level and miraculously start doing better.
"Really guys?" he said. "You haven't reached these kids in a decade, and this is your solution?"
Officials should make changes at those schools with too many underperforming students, Fisher said.
"We've asked them to show us their internal data proving that this works," he said. "They said it's working at other school systems, but those systems aren't like ours. They've just done a poor job of reaching students. Half that board's been on the board for eight to 10 years and now they expect us to trust them to get us out of this mess?
"They've ushered us into failure and I don't expect them to usher us out of failure," he said. "You just don't broad brush the entire system. We know this is not a mandate so why are you doing this? They haven't used our money wisely."
Other changes
The other major proposals for 2013-14 school year are removal of class fees, adding an engineering curriculum, expanding health science classes and having just one high school diploma.
Davis said health science classes now are only offered to students in 11th- and 12th-grades. Next school year, if the board passes the proposals today, health science classes will be offered in 10th-grade too.
"We're trying to expand it to get more kids in these classes because there's a lot of jobs available in the medical field," Davis said.
For years, many classes in the Tuscaloosa City School System have required that students pay course fees of typically up to $25 for some classes. Board member Kelly Horwitz has pushed to end fees so qualified students can take classes like chemistry without having to pay.
"There will be no course fees for any academic classes in the four core content classes — math, science, English and social studies," Davis said. There will be fees for some elective classes.
The board also will consider adding engineering classes in grades 7 through 12.
"We'll turn out a lot more engineers from our school system if we have this curriculum," Davis said. "This will be offered in every middle school in our system and at the Tuscaloosa Career & Technology Academy on the high school level."
Currently, students who graduate from Tuscaloosa high school can one of more than a dozen different types of high school diplomas.
The state Department of Education requires just one — the Alabama High School Diploma. With it comes an additional required class in financial literacy.
Davis said special needs and gifted students will earn the same diploma. They will have classes geared to their level of learning and that will be reflected in their high school transcripts.
Davis said she's going to propose to the board to add one additional high school diploma called the Alabama High School Diploma with Academic Distinction. She said students who earn that diploma will be required to have a minimum of two AP or international baccalaureate classes, two years of a foreign language and a minimum GPA of 3.0.
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Photography, framing shops make move to Bedford togetherBy SIMON RIOS
Union Leader Correspondent
February 03. 2013 5:15PM
BEDFORD - Jeff Dachowski and his wife, Carolle, figured they'd be in the photography business another 20 years. That being the case, the couple decided to settle the business in Bedford and add a building to their portfolio.
"We either pay rent for 20 years or own something and make it better," said Jeff Dachowski. "We really liked the idea of let's build something better."
Formerly based out of Langer Place - a Manchester mill building dedicated to creative businesses - Dachowski Photography opened in 2003, a year before Sullivan Framing. When they purchased a building in Bedford's historic center, they invited framer and long-time collaborator Sullivan Framing to join them.
As part of a long-term plan, they bought the building at 15 N. Amherst Road, the former home of the Flower Cart, and before that Wagon Wheels.
Low interest rates and property values also made the move appealing, and Bedford is attractive to both businesses because many of their customers live in town.
Though the recession was just around the corner when they got started, Dachowski said things haven't been bad in New Hampshire. The business' strength is partially thanks to the importance of photography in people's lives. "The first thing you grab when there's a fire, it's your family portraits, it's your pictures, because it's the only tie that we have to the past."
Their work focuses mostly on people, in addition to some ad campaigns and commercial photography. Though he said his prices are competitive with photographers of the same caliber, Dachowski noted that portraits can be had at Walmart for a fraction of what he charges.
"At Walmart you get 172 pictures for 10 bucks, and you're not going to like any of them," he said. "For us, you could spend $1,000, but you're going to love their images."
Dachowski is confident that his customers know the difference, which he said is like eating at McDonald's versus fine dining.
For nearly 10 years, Dachowski Photography has worked with Sullivan Framing, which has been based out of Langer Place since 2004. When they told Amy Sullivan of their plans to move to Bedford, she asked to join the Dachowskis in the 5,000-square-foot building.
"Our businesses are separate but we've worked together," Sullivan said. "I've done framing for him and his clients since the beginning."
Sullivan wasn't even looking to move. But when Dachowski got the space, she realized there was an opening for a framing business in Bedford.
Previously there were several framing shops in town, she said, but now there's only one, a home-based business.
She also saw an opportunity for an art gallery in town, and sees herself in a position to make it happen. "There's just so much talent around this area that I don't feel is represented very well here," she said. "I'm excited to be able to have a place for people locally to show their work and for the community to be able to see just how much talent there is."
The frame shop will host quarterly art shows, with a grand opening to be announced. Art will always be on display, including Sullivan's own work. Though she has clients in Bedford, Sullivan knows relocating to a new town carries the risk of losing some of her current base. But she thinks they'll stick around.
"I work with a lot of artists, painters and pastel artists, and I have a feeling that they will follow me," Sullivan said.
The two shops are hoping to open on Wednesday, pending approval by town inspectors. The photographers' website is at dachowskiphotography.com. More information about Sullivan Framing can be found at sullivanframing.com.
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The Bucks of Legendary Whitetails III
Legendary Whitetails III provides snapshots of 40 of the greatest whitetails ever taken, including some of the most secretive bucks ever killed. It tells the back-story, shows the actual score sheet and other critical details. As former editor of North American Whitetail, author Duncan Dobie knows the details behind all these deer and uniquely qualified to tell their story. Antler replicator Klaus LeBrecht has worked with each rack and has produced unique photography to show readers the full scope of these magnificent antlers. Be the first to get Legendary Whitetails III and add it to your collection today!


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Essential Functions: In order to successfully complete the degree requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology, students must complete the academic and clinical practice requirements. Students must also meet the essential requirements in addition to the academic requirements. "Essential requirements are those physical abilities, mental abilities, skills, attitudes, and behaviors the students must evidence or perform at each stage of their education."1 The absence of an essential requirement would fundamentally alter the program goals. The essential requirements include categories of observation, movement, communication, intellect, and behavior.
The student must be able to:
- Observe laboratory demonstrations in which biological (i.e., body fluids, culture samples, tissue sections, and cellular samples) specimens are tested for their biochemical, hematological, immunological, microbiological, and histochemical components.
- Characterize the color, odor, clarity, and viscosity of biologicals, reagents, or chemical reaction products.
- Employ a clinical grade binocular microscope to discriminate among fine structural and color (hue, shading, and intensity) differences of microscopic specimens.
- Read and comprehend text, numbers, illustrations, and graphs displayed in print, on a projection screen, and on a video monitor.
The student must be able to:
- Move freely and safely about a laboratory.
- Reach laboratory bench tops and shelves, patients lying in hospital beds or patients seated in specimen collection furniture.
- Travel to numerous clinical laboratory sites for practical experience.
- Perform moderately taxing continuous physical work, often requiring prolonged sitting, in confined spaces, over several hours.
- Maneuver phlebotomy and culture acquisition equipment to safely collect valid laboratory specimens from patients.
- Control laboratory equipment (i.e. pipettes, inoculating loops, test tubes) and adjust instruments to perform laboratory procedures.
- Use an electronic keyboard (i.e. 101-key IBM computer keyboard) to operate laboratory instruments and to calculate, record, evaluate, and transmit laboratory information.
The student must be able to:
- Read and comprehend technical and professional materials (i.e. textbooks, magazine and journal articles, handbooks, and instruction manuals).
- Follow verbal and written instructions in order to correctly perform laboratory test procedures.
- Clearly instruct patients prior to specimen collection (if applicable).
- Effectively, confidentially, and sensitively converse with patients regarding laboratory tests (if applicable).
- Communicate with faculty members, fellow students, staff, and other health care professionals verbally and in a recorded format (writing, typing, graphics, or telecommunication).
- Prepare papers, prepare laboratory reports, and take examinations within specified times.
The student must:
- Possess these intellectual skills: comprehension, measurement, mathematical calculation, reasoning, integration, analysis, comparison, self-expression, and criticism.
- Be able to exercise sufficient judgment to recognize and correct performance deviations.
The student must:
- Be able to manage the use of time and be able to systematize actions in order to complete professional and technical tasks within faculty-defined time limits.
- Possess the emotional health necessary to effectively employ intellect and exercise appropriate judgment.
- Be able to provide professional and technical services while experiencing the stresses of task-related uncertainty (i.e. ambiguous test ordering, ambivalent test interpretation), emergent demands (i.e. "stat" test orders), and a distracting environment (i.e. high noise levels, crowding, complex visual stimuli).
- Be flexible and creative and adapt to professional and technical change.
- Recognize potentially hazardous materials, equipment, and situations and proceed safely in order to minimize risk of injury to patients, self, and nearby individuals.
- Adapt to working with unpleasant biologicals.
- Support and promote the activities of fellow students and of health care professionals. Promotion of peers helps furnish a team approach to learning, task completion, problem solving, and patient care.
- Be honest, compassionate, ethical, and responsible. The student must be forthright about errors or uncertainty. The student must be able to critically evaluate her or his own performance, accept constructive criticism, and look for ways to improve (i.e. participate in enriched educational activities). The student must be able to evaluate the performance of fellow students and tactfully offer constructive comments.
1 Essex-Sorlie D. The Americans with Disabilities Act: I. History, summary, and key components. Acad Med 69; 1994: 519-524.


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Six run third inning dooms Wildcats
It was not the thing the Taft varsity baseball team was hoping for late Friday afternoon when they fell to the Bakersfield Christian Eagles 8-6 in Bakersfield.
Taft had the momentum early on by scoring two runs in the first on Steven Gee's leadoff single and stolen base before scoring on an error. The Wildcats scored another run in the inning on a hit batter, an error and a passed ball.
After Bakersfield Christian got one of the runs back, in their half of the first inning, Taft erupted for three runs highlighted by Anthony Rodriguez's two run single to right field.
However, the tide turned for good in the third inning when the Eagles put up six runs while sending 11 batters to the plate. Bakersfield Christian went on to score one more run in the fourth on a sun triple and an error.
Taft got one of the runs back in the sixth on Gee's leadoff single, a pair of stolen bases and another single.
To read the full story, pick up Tuesday's Driller.


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BOSTON (AP) — Former Sen. Scott Brown said Friday he would not run in a special Senate election in Massachusetts, dealing a setback to Republican hopes of winning the seat being vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry.
Brown, who electrified his party with an upset win in a 2010 special election but lost his re-election bid in November, ended weeks of intense speculation about his future with a written statement announcing his decision.
"I was not at all certain that a third Senate campaign in less than four years, and the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left, was really the best way for me to continue in public service at this time," he said. "And I know it's not the only way for me to advance the ideals and causes that matter most to me."
GOP officials in Washington and Massachusetts widely considered Brown the strongest possible Republican candidate in a state that traditionally favors Democrats.
With Brown out of the running, potential Republican candidates include former Gov. William Weld, former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, state Rep. Daniel Winslow and former state Sen. Richard Tisei.
Brown won the special election for longtime Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat following his death, but lost a bruising re-election battle last year to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The Republican remained popular among Massachusetts voters, still had a statewide political organization and demonstrated an ability to raise tens of millions in campaign donations.
Democrats already have two congressmen in the race to replace Kerry, who resigned his seat and was sworn in Friday as secretary of state: U.S. Reps. Edward Markey and Stephen Lynch will face off in an April 30 primary.
Brown said his instinct was to run: "Over these past few weeks I have given serious thought about the possibility of running again, as events have created another vacancy requiring another special election," he said. "I have received a lot of encouragement from friends and supporters to become a candidate, and my competitive instincts were leading in the same direction."
Party leaders remained optimistic that they could still win the special election.
Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr of Gloucester said he was disappointed Brown would not be running for Congress, but said he respected Brown's decision.
"Massachusetts Republicans have the opportunity to choose from many viable candidates that can make a real difference in the United States Senate. That process needs to begin immediately," Tarr said in a statement.
Kirsten Hughes, the newly-elected chair of the Massachusetts GOP said in a statement there were "many potential candidates" who were weighing their options now that Brown was out of the picture. She did not mention any names.
Hughes also alluded to Brown's upset win in 2010.
"We shocked the world in 2010, and united, we can do it again," she said.
Rob Collins, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said it was time for the party to move forward after Brown's announcement. He predicted a nasty Democratic primary between Lynch and Markey and said the GOP was intent on defeating "whichever career politician limps through."
Massachusetts Democratic leaders expressed confidence they would keep Kerry's former seat.
Markey and Lynch both issued statements Friday saying they understood and respected Brown's reasons for not getting into the race.
Weld recently returned to Massachusetts to join a Boston law firm and had said he would consider a run for the Senate if Brown did not. Weld did not return a call seeking comment on Friday.
A message was also left with Healey, who served as lieutenant governor from 2003-2007 under then-Gov. Mitt Romney and lost the governor's race to Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick in 2006.
Winslow, a former judge and chief legal counsel in Romney's administration, said in a statement that he would reflect over the weekend on whether to run, weighing family considerations and "whether there is room in the national Republican Party for a member who is both fiscally prudent and socially tolerant."
Tisei ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House last year against Democratic Rep. John Tierney. He said Friday he was surprised by Brown's decision and would discuss his options with family, friends and supporters in the coming days.
Candidates will have a tight window — about four weeks — to gather the required 10,000 signatures to get their names on the primary election ballot.
The general election is scheduled for June 25.
The winner of the special election would have to face voters again in November 2014, when Kerry's six-year term would have expired.
Patrick this week named William "Mo" Cowan, a former top aide, to fill Kerry's seat on an interim basis until the election.
Associated Press reporter Steve LeBlanc contributed to this report.


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February 07. 2013 10:55PM
At Goffstown session, budget is $19 million
By KATHY REMILLARD
Union Leader Correspondent
GOFFSTOWN - Warrant articles went unchanged at the town's deliberative session Wednesday night, including a $19 million operating budget.
Should voters pass the operating budget and all warrant articles, the estimated town portion of the tax rate will be $9.62, a 23 cent increase over 2012, or an additional $50 on a $220,000 home.
Article 11 is the town's operating budget, which is set at $19,382,591. Included in that figure are dollar amounts that could be removed if voters choose to set up revolving funds for cable television and police details.
Vice Chairman Scott Gross said the budget increased by about $391,000, which included $160,000 for employee retirement costs downshifted from the state, $78,000 for dental and health insurance premiums, and the remainder for fuel and heating oil costs and wages.
"The vast majority of the line items, for the most part, were level funded," Gross said.
Article 12 will ask voters to approve a collective bargaining agreement for DPW workers, which will cost $30,208 its first year.
. Articles 13, 14, 15 and 16 will have no tax impact, because funding will come from a combination of the town's unassigned fund balance, impact fees and grant money.
. Article 13 sets aside nearly $277,000 for the purchase of computer software for town offices.
. Article 14 asks for $169,000 for police department software.
. Article 15 wants voters to expend $120,000 for the repair of a culvert on town land, and;
. Article 16 sets aside $761,000 for improvements at Main and Pleasant streets, and Main, Elm and High streets.
About $461,000 for the intersection improvements will come from a Congestion Mitigation Air Quality grant from the Department of Transportation.
Selectman Collis Adams said preliminary project designs recommend a roundabout at the intersection of Main and Pleasant streets.
According to Board of Selectmen Chairman David Pierce, the town's fund balance is currently at $5.4 million, and even with the withdrawal of $819,000 for the four warrant articles, it remains well within limits acceptable to the Department of Revenue Administration.
Pierce said the fund balance is used for one-time projects, not ongoing expenses.
. Article 17 will request $75,000 to be put into the Fire Apparatus Capital Reserve Fund.
. Articles 18 and 19 seek to establish revolving funds for purposes currently in the budget - PEG TV and Police Special Detail.
Should those articles pass, the operating budget will be reduced on both the expenditure and revenue side of the budget.
The first fund will be for cable access television provided by GTV, the town's cable access channel.
GTV expenses and revenues are included in the 2013 operating budget. If both the cable revolving fund and operating budget are approved, $84,000 will be removed from the operating budget and 40 percent of the cable revenue received from the town's cable franchise agreement with Comcast will be placed into that fund.
Resident Brad Parkhurst spoke in favor of the article, which he said would increase the quality of the programming.
"Broadcasts will be so much better with the passage of this article," he said.
Voters will also be asked to approve a revolving fund for police details. If the operating budget is approved along with this fund, an additional $55,000 will be removed from the operating budget, and all special police detail revenue paid by vendors will be placed into the fund.
Voters did not amend Article 20, which will seek $20,000 to support the Main Street Program, or a petitioned warrant article, Article 21, seeking $20,000 for the support of Crispin's House, a youth services program.


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Elf, Santa address Manchester school officials on overcrowdingBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 11. 2012 12:08AM
MANCHESTER - Parents again lined up to criticize some of the mayor's recent actions as chairman of the school board. His critics on Monday included a man in the guise of an elf accompanied by Santa Claus.
The elf was John Lyscars, a Hooksett parent and activist who has spoken out against conditions in Manchester high schools that have prompted the town's school board to find the city in breach of its contract to send its high school students to district schools.
"The overcrowding at Central is serious and could cost you your accreditation. Santa and I have a proposal to solve many of your problems," Lyscars told the board during the public comment period before the Board of School Committee meeting Monday, sitting beside a man dressed as Santa. "Santa and I are full of hope that you will truly bestow gifts on the children of Manchester, Hooksett and Candia."
Lyscars distributed a seven-point plan to the school board. He said he did not want to release it to the media until the board members had a chance to review it.
Mayor Ted Gatsas did not appear to be amused by Lyscars' presentation.
Lyscars addressed the board after other parents and teachers spoke for more than an hour. They raised similar concerns about keeping Hooksett and Candia from pulling their kids from the district, and they urged the board to ask a Southern New Hampshire University dean to continue to assist in the board's strategic planning process.
Dean invited back
SNHU School of Education Dean Mark McQuillan had indicated that he would no longer participate after Gatsas called on him to answer for comments he made suggesting city schools were underfunded.
The first action of the school board when its official meeting began was to unanimously pass a motion to ask McQuillan to return. The action followed a similar motion by the aldermen last week.
Board member Kathy Staub, who has been leading the strategic planning process, said that McQuillan told her he would be willing to come back.
"But he wold like to know that this board also supports what we're doing and understands we need to have space for differences of opinion," she said.
Gatsas said he had no problem personally with McQuillan, and he noted that he had worked with him long before the issue with the planning committee arose.
"All I was asking for was for him to come forward. He could've called me. I don't have a problem with Mr. McQuillan stepping up and helping this district," Gatsas said.
Administrator contracts
In other business Monday, the school board voted to renew the contracts of its three top administrators.
The vote came after considerable debate over a motion from board member Art Beaudry to make Assistant Superintendents Karen Burkush and Michael Tursi unclassified employees, until a new superintendent is hired.
The board voted to renew the contract for Business Administrator Karen DeFrancis without debate.
Superintendent Thomas Brennan, who is stepping down at the end of this school year, recommended the contracts for all three be renewed, and he recommended a 2.5 percent cost-of-living raise.
Citing the economy, the administrators declined to accept the raises, unless they are part of the contract negotiated with school principals.
The board voted 7-4 to renew Burkush's contract, and 6-4 to renew Tursi's.
Board members Christopher Stewart, Debra Gagnon Langton, John Avard and Beaudry voted no in both cases.
Gatsas joined board members Dave Gelinas, Sarah Ambrogi, Roy Shoults, Donna Soucy, Erika Connors and Kathy Staub in voting to renew Burkush's contract. The same members voted to renew Tursi's contract, with the exception of Gatsas, who abstained, along with Ted Rokas, who abstained in both votes.
Burkush is paid more than $111,000, while Tursi and DeFrancis are both paid about $105,000.
The new contracts would start in the fall of 2013.
$40,000 for audit
In other action, the board voted to spend $40,000 on a contract for a company to perform an audit of the schools over the spring. A total of $35,000 would be reallocated from the athletics trust fund, leaving a $5,000 balance. Another $5,000 would come from a special fund created through voluntary donations that residents sent in along with their tax bills.
The vote was 7-5, with board members Stewart, Shoults, Soucy, Gelinas and Gatsas voting no, and Ambrogi, Avard, Beaudry, Connors, Langton, Rokas and Staub voting yes.


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A devastating drought consumed nearly all of Texas in 2011, killing livestock, destroying agriculture and sparking fires that burned thousands of homes. It was the worst single-year drought in the state's recorded history.
As part of NPR's state-based public policy reporting network, StateImpact, we created an interactive news application to show how state policy (and in this case, climate forces) have affected people's lives.
The interactive is broken up into four buckets: the history and the drought's progression, the impact and devastation, the policy choices and their limitations, and the Texans, who we hope will tell us their stories. To tell us your Texas drought story, comment on the app or leave us a voice mail at (512) 537-SITX (7489).
Elise Hu is the digital editor of NPR's StateImpact network, a collaboration among NPR and member stations examining how state issues affect people's lives. Read more about it.
Let's go to Texas now. That state has suffered through record drought. But there may now be signs of hope. Last year was both the driest ever and one of the hottest. Hundreds of thousands of cattle died as lakes, streams and reservoirs ran bone dry. A relatively wet winter has brought back some greenery and some optimism. But experts warn Texas is not out of the woods, and there are concerns that local authorities are not dealing effectively with the ongoing threat.
Terrence Henry of member station KUT in Austin our report.
TERRENCE HENRY, BYLINE: It's chow time for the cows at the Bastrop Cattle Ranch, east of Austin, Texas.
PATTI JACOBS: Girls. Here, get off the ground there. Sarah, eat off the ground, Sarah. There isn't any more. Come on. Come on. Come here. Here. Girls. Come on.
HENRY: Things were pretty grim a few months ago for rancher Patti Jacobs. Standing today on her 235-acre property, she reflects back to just how bleak it was last year.
JACOBS: Right now, we're looking at one of our stock tanks. That was completely dry. There was no water in there.
HENRY: And without rain, her grazing grass turned to dust.
JACOBS: Four months ago, this was just bare dirt. There was nothing.
HENRY: In the fall of 2010, Texas entered the worst single-year drought in its history. Without rain, lakes dried up, grass died and millions of acres burned in wildfires. For some ranchers, this year's wet winter was a godsend, but in the far western part of the state, the extreme drought continues. Neil Newsome, who grows wine grapes in west Texas, says he has yet to recover from what was a disastrous year.
NEIL NEWSOME: We had some zero-degree weather during the winter. It was cold - which is too cold for grapes. And then on May the 7th, we had the latest freeze in history, and we just thought it was getting bad. And then the drought starts. So, after that, all that was left was maybe the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs was next.
HENRY: And what about all that talk about a wet winter?
NEWSOME: We're still very dry. The winds are starting to kick up now, so the dust is starting to move around. So here we go again if we don't get some rains here pretty soon.
HENRY: So what did Texas do to get itself in this predicament? It's simple. Much like its government and citizens, the Texas climate is notably independent from the rest of the country.
RAYMOND SLADE: Very little water enters this state from outside of the state, and that's only on the Rio Grande. All other rivers originate from in the state. So when we don't have rain, this state's the one that suffers.
HENRY: That's Raymond Slade, a hydrologist who follows water issues in Texas.
SLADE: Things are green now, so people think the drought is over. But unfortunately, the lakes are still not full throughout most of the state, and the streams are still not back to normal. So this drought continues, as far as water availability.
HENRY: Patti Jacobs, the rancher from Bass Drop Cattle, is not about to get complacent just because of a favorable winter.
JACOBS: We lost, effectively, between 600,000 and a million head of cattle out of the state. And what most people don't realize is this wasn't a one-year drought. This actually has been going for three or four years, and we're not out of it yet.
TODD STAPLES: These numbers are unprecedented.
HENRY: That's Todd Staples, Texas' commissioner of agriculture. He says that total agricultural losses from the drought stand from $8 million.
STAPLES: And this is a new record for the Lone Star State. Unfortunately, we like to be setting new records. This is not the direction that we want to go.
HENRY: Everyone is hoping the relatively wet winter will lead to an even wetter spring. But some scientists, like Raymond Slade, aren't optimistic.
SLADE: It's projected it could get worse. We may have below what's been normal rainfall, could be below for the next several years.
HENRY: And for all the talk of funding plans for a dryer future, combined with a growing population, no one's sure where the money will come from. Texas is known for limited government and deep budget cuts. Slade finds himself frustrated.
SLADE: I've told many people that the drought needs to continue, because regardless of what scientists say, planners are not planning, the legislature is not funding money for drought management strategies. So the drought, in my opinion, needs to continue for another year or two to get people's attention.
HENRY: And for the farmers and ranchers in the West, that would only add to their misery. For NPR News, I'm Terrence Henry.
GREENE: That report on the drought in Texas comes to us from State Impact, a collaboration between NPR and member stations examining how state issues affect people's lives. For an interactive look at the drought in Texas and to share your stories, you can go to npr.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Federal judge rules criminal alien names aren't for public to knowBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Sunday News
April 30. 2013 7:54PM
The Union Leader Corp. is not entitled to the names and addresses of six convicted criminal aliens arrested in New Hampshire during a government crackdown called Operation Cross Check in 2011, a federal judge ruled, arguing their privacy outweigh the public's right to know.
"Because the Union Leader has not explained how more would be revealed about the government's conduct during Operation Cross Check if the names and addresses were disclosed, I conclude that any additional information that could be gained from disclosure of the names and addresses is merely speculative and does not outweigh the individuals' privacy interests," U.S. District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro wrote in his ruling dismissing the newspaper's lawsuit.
Attorney Gregory Sullivan, who represented the Union Leader Corp., was disappointed the judge didn't compel the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release the information.
"I believe secret arrests to be dangerously un-American," Sullivan said in an email after the decision. "Unfortunately, all of the federal judges who have dealt with arrests by ICE do not share this opinion."
Sullivan said the newspaper is reviewing its legal options.
Joseph W. McQuaid, publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader and the New Hampshire Sunday News, called the decision "juridical rubbish."
"We need the names of the arrested to see how the government, ICE, is doing its job. We need to know how many times ICE may have arrested the same Juan Doe and then recommended no bail or low bail or dropped the charges entirely," McQuaid said in an email.
Judge Barbadoro disagreed.
"The Union Leader does not argue that the disclosure of the names and addresses of arrestees would directly reveal anything about the way in which the government is conducting Operation Cross Check," the judge wrote in his 17-page decision. "Instead, it argues that the public interest would be served if the information is disclosed because the public might be able to use the names and addresses to discover additional relevant information.
"I am not persuaded by this 'derivative use' argument because the Supreme Court has recognized that such arguments must be based on more than '(m)ere speculation about hypothetical public benefits,'" the judge said in the decision, dated April 18.
An ICE spokesman, Ross Feinstein, Tuesday would not comment on the ruling.
The issue began on Sept. 28, 2011, when ICE's public affairs office issued a news release describing the operation and listing cities in New England where ICE arrested individuals.
The New Hampshire Union Leader contacted a public affairs officer to request the names and addresses of the six people arrested in New Hampshire. The officer provided the newspaper information about the arrestees, including their sexes, ages, countries of birth, the state in which where they were arrested, criminal conviction information as well as their ICE custody status, according to the decision.
Those arrested were born in Mexico, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic or Colombia, ranged in age from 23 to 63 and had been convicted for either selling or possessing cocaine, driving while intoxicated and commiting an assault, commiting and assault and shoplifting, or entering the United States illegally.
The newspaper in February 2012 submitted a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents related to the six people ICE arrested in New Hampshire. ICE identified 19 pages of documents, but redacted portions of them, including the names, addresses, places of employment and other information.
The Union Leader filed its suit in U.S. District Court in Concord in April 2012.
Last November, the New York Times filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after denying full access to a document listing aliens who were convicted of criminal charges and were to be deported to their home countries following sentencing but instead were set free.
ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, cited an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, according to the suit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York. Maria Sacchetti, a reporter for The Boston Globe, which the Times owns, also is named a plaintiff.
The case remains pending.
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Administrators are unsure if personnel will be hired back for 2013-14 amid budget constraints caused by the state.
Three certified teachers and five support personnel in Bushnell-Prairie City schools were let go Wednesday for the next academic year, and district administrators aren't sure if any of them will be hired back.
Illinois school districts go through the rite of reductions-in-force every year at this time, and typically those let go are rehired once there is a clearer picture of class sizes and budget. But given the education funding cuts on the horizon for the next fiscal year, staff reductions seem more difficult for those who have to make the decisions.
During a special meeting Wednesday night, the B-PC Board of Education, in eight separate motions, let go those eight positions, effective for the 2013-14. The certified staff includes full-time preschool, first-grade and sixth-through-eighth grade literature teachers. Among the support personnel are three full-time classroom aides and two part-time custodians.
"It's with deep regret the board had to do this," said board President Steve Hess. "Certainly, our hope is things will turn around for the state of Illinois."
Interim Superintendent Mike Dickson said the staff reductions equal a $225,000 budget cut for the 2013-14 school year. He's uncertain if any of the teachers or support personnel will be hired back before the next school year begins, but he is more certain about the impact it could have on class sizes with fewer teachers available.
"Depending upon the class size, it may have an impact," he said. "That's what makes it makes it difficult making these decisions."
B-PC Elementary Principal JoEllen Pensinger, who will lose two teachers if the preschool and first-grade teachers are not rehired, said the average class size at B-PC Elementary is currently 18 to 24 students, depending on grade level.
"I'm always hopeful they'll be hired back," she said, "but with the budget constraints, with the budget looking as dismal as it is, I'm not counting on that."
Dickson said it's possible more non-certified staff could be eliminated from the 2013-14 budget because the school district legally has until 30 days prior to the end of school year to give those affected notice.
Dickson said he's concerned with Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to cut more transportation funding next year by prorating it by 20 percent. Quinn announced in his 2013-14 budget address last week that he wants to cut 3 percent of the total education budget to help alleviate the state's unfunded pension problem.
"We could lose upwards of $60,000," Dickson said about the transportation cuts. "It's sizable cuts. The difficult thing about Quinn is he's always making his decisions on the backs of public education, and I think that's wrong."
The B-PC Board of Education will hold a regular meeting at 7 p.m. next Wednesday, March 20, at the B-PC High School Library.


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Down by two, Guy-Perkins closed the first half with a 15-3 run and never looked back, eliminating Concord's Lady Pirates 62-49 in the first round of the 1A, Region 3 Tournament on Friday night in Greers Ferry.
Down by two, Guy-Perkins closed the first half with a 15-3 run and never looked back, eliminating Concord's Lady Pirates 62-49 in the first round of the 1A, Region 3 Tournament on Friday night in Greers Ferry. Concord took the game's first lead when guard Megan Talley drained a three-pointer from left wing, but Guy retaliated with a 6-0 spurt as power forward Alexis Hogan completed an old-fashioned three-point play and guard Cari Beth Halk popped a three-pointer from left wing. With the Lady Pirates behind 15-8 after Guy forward Alli Brown notched a rebound bucket, Concord power forward Emanda Reeves hit a bank shot in the lane then Talley swiped a steal and dropped a tough bank shot over Guy forward Morgan Hooten. Late in the first quarter, Brown sank a free throw, giving the Lady Thunderbirds a 16-12 lead entering the second quarter. Concord, which finished its season with a record of 18-15, opened the second quarter with a 6-0 run, sparked by forward Mandy Thompson, who scored on a fast-break off an assist from Reeves. Concord post player Madison Robbins collected a rebound and scored then guard Sydney Harlan sank two free throws as the Lady Pirates suddenly took an 18-16 lead before Guy forward Abigail Smith hit a pair from the stripe. The Lady Pirates jumped back on top when Reeves hit two free throws and extended their lead to four on a floater in transition by Talley. But, trailing 22-18, the Lady Thunderbirds closed the first half with a game-changing 15-3 run. With 1:17 remaining until halftime, Reeves turned an offensive rebound into a free throw as the Lady Pirates trimmed their deficit to three, but Guy closed the second stanza with five quick points as Halk drained a three-pointer from left elbow and Hogan scored from left block off an assist from Brown. Leading 33-25 at intermission, Guy stretched its lead to double figures by outscoring the Lady Pirates 18-13 in the third quarter as Smith led the charge with six points, including four free throws, while Brown added five, Hogan had four and Halk added a three-pointer � her third of the contest. Trailing 51-37 entering the fourth quarter, Concord twice pulled within 10 in the final period, once on a layup by forward Kayla Richardson and again moments later when Talley hit a floater in transition. Hogan countered with five straight for the Lady Thunderbirds, who pulled away down the stretch for a 62-49 victory. Smith hit 13 free throws while scoring a game-high 21 points for Guy (28-7), Hogan followed with 15, Halk finished with 13 and Brown had 10. Reeves paced Concord with 16 points, Talley followed with 13 and Richardson finished with six.


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Last September, our son and daughter-in-law from California visited us with their 8-month old daughter.
To the Editor:
Last September, our son and daughter-in-law from California visited us with their 8-month old daughter. When we took Nora to the Cedar Hill playground, I was disgusted when two young mothers entered the toddler area and stood next to us smoking cigarettes as they pushed their young children in the swings. I had to remove my granddaughter from her swing so she would not be exposed to the strong odor. Finally, I had to ask the women to move away so we wouldn't have to smell the smoke.
Children go to playgrounds to exercise and breathe fresh air, they should not be exposed to the secondhand smoke of inconsiderate people. I know some people will argue that it is "OK" to smoke outside since the smoke will dissipate, however, if the smoke is within range that it can be smelled, it is not safe. If smoking has been banned in outdoor areas such as Neyland Stadium at the University of Tennessee and on the campuses of Board of Regents universities (ETSU and MTSU, for example) to protect adults, it certainly should be banned from areas where our children play!
The right to breathe fresh air far outweighs "smokers' rights." I have never heard of a smoker dying from a "nicotine fit," however, children have died from smoke-induced asthma attacks. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 dangerous chemicals. Children should not be exposed to these poisons. Besides the dangers of breathing secondhand smoke, children could be burned by running into a cigarette held by a smoker. Discarded cigarette butts pose a danger to small children who may get burned if they handle them or they could get sick if they put them in their mouth. In addition, many playgrounds have wood mulch and/or rubber surfaces that could burn if a discarded cigarette is thrown into it.
Unfortunately, state law TCA 39-17-1551 preempts cities from banning smoking in outdoor areas. I'm writing to ask people visiting the city playgrounds please restrict smoking within 50 feet of play areas.
I am working with Rep. John Ragan to change the law so cities can ban smoking in certain outdoor areas. It is not a popular subject with some of the smoking public and I know the powerful tobacco lobby would fight it. However, I feel the health of our precious children should be our top priority. People don't have to smoke, but they do have to breathe! I would love to be able to take Nora to smoke-free playgrounds in Oak Ridge the next time she comes to visit!
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I went day-tripping since the sun peeked out today and it is just 45 minutes away by train (stop Vernon at Gare Saint Lazar - look for track 22).
One of them passed by and said,
Been enjoying your day trips out of Paris. If you haven't been I suggest near Chartes Maison Picassiette the mosiac house--only open on certain days and limited hours
I took a bus there from Chartes--not to many signs on the road but found it---the guards wouldn't allow us to take photos--think so we would buy postcards and brochure and they watched us every moment--
Oh and I loved your blog re color green! of cours always appreciate the color red which I wear all the time.
oh heaven, really!!!! no? was there in sept in the 90's straight off the plane from ny. so good to know that you can do it entirely on public transport. i love a woman with a mission snap snap snap!
and agreeing w/ anonymous, you can't miss with chartres either
Oh Carol! This post is just the best. I love the gardens...I think I need to go. I was in NYC last week and thought of you often...guess I will have to come to Paris to catch up with you!
I am SOOOOOO enjoying your posts lately!! All those colors, all that painting, all those Blobs, all that traveling into sensory delights! Would blobs be "Gouttes" or "taches" in French?ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh..you went:)
I love your aquarelle of it:)
Ok this is LaTableDeNana speaking..The kitchen brings tears to my eyes:)Our kitchen is a pale Provençal yellow .. cabinets too~ 12 yrs here and still not tired of them..Walls a little different.. W/ blues etc..
I adore his kitchen..my friends told me I would..
I go on and on so I will cut this short..
Even the gingham curtains speak to me and all the OLD photos..
I love ours here..what few I have..
I went and did it ...I absolutely wanted a tin box and ordered the ones I mentioned to you:).
I remembered it as being egg yolk yellow
But it's much paler...
You and Vivian Swift are such photo law-breakers. And your readers appreciate your illegal but artistic efforts. Loved the blog. Brought back memories of having to hike back to the train station when no taxis were available. Good to learn transport is now readily available....ReplyDelete
Yes I went there early days and you walked through groves of Normandie apple trees...
I remember eating one too
I forgot that...tanks
Who knew Giverny was so close to Paris? As moi. This makes Paris even more attractive. With sincere wishes that you do not come to bodily harm,ReplyDelete
Carol, I await your next Giverny report...this must be a grand time of the year to see the gardens. Wonder if the wisteria was still in flower?
That custardy yellow with blue and white kitchen has always set a certain standard for coziness.
I liked your photos of the garden from inside the house. Perhaps capturing something M Monet himself might have seen on a pretty June day.
Oh, Carol, you should go to Picassiette. Years ago I bought a book on the story of the house with lots of pictures. It is wonderful and unique. Always enjoy your posts very, very much and I'm longing to visit France again. Nowadays it is quite difficult with the dollar issue here in Argentina. But I'll certainly go. Sooner or later, and hope to meet you in the flesh. Keep enjoying and posting. I travel through your eyes.
All the best, Cristina
This is by far one of my favorite posts. I just LOVE Giverny. If I could only go to one place in France it would be there. Love all the photos you snuck.. especially the one looking out the window. He would be so happy to know his garden is still going strong and being enjoyed. Every Garden I have ever done has been taken out by people moving in when I have moved on to my next place. Sad as they were so pretty. I have a rose bush like one in the second photo. Its called Simplicity. Wonder if its the same. Would be cool. Looking forward to your next post on this lovely place.ReplyDelete
Oh my!! Yes, your blobs are very Giverny. Just beautiful! Can't wait to see more from the garden.
I'm loving your Provence adventures. Seeing Aix and Giverny - brings back wonderful memories! Also sent me running to the bookstore to try to find Cote du Sud magazine. Sadly, they didn't have it. Guess I'll have to come to France instead!
Another great blog today! We visited Giverney 4 years ago. I simply loved it. I also took pictures from the window in Monet's bedroom and sneaked a pic in his kitchen!!! Hehe!!! What a magical place.
Can't wait to see your next blog on Giverney!!! And lucky you to live in Paris now and be able to run all around France!
Have a very French day!
Another one for my bucket list. Wonderful blog today. Love your blobs.ReplyDelete
You got there and I didn't.
Green with envy.
Miss you.
Saw Frances yesterday. Saw Merisi in Vienna last week.
Hoping all is well with you!
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Your colours always capture the beauty even when they are "blobs". I love Giverny and Monet. Did you read "Claude and Camille", a love story about Monet's first wife? Your blog brightens my morning every day. When I am at "home", I miss France so.ReplyDelete
I got the Sheepfarmer away on his one and only (EVER) vacation to Paris Summer of 2011. I so wanted to get tog Giverny, now I have the perfect excuse to get him to Paris again and ONTO Giverny…sounds PERFCT. Thank you pour les trés belles images :)ReplyDelete
You captured the colours perfectly in your 'blobs'. The day I was visiting that area, & planned seeing the gardens, there were coach loads of people so I gave it a miss for another time, don't think it was a Saturday though, as that's a day I usually stay at home, to keep away from the maddening crowds :)
Enjoy your weekend.
Barbara Lillian
Tut, tut. You naughty camera lady! ;-)
Love the colour blobs - I love Giverny! Went there twice last year - you really feel that you're far out of Paris yet it's not that far.
I went to Giverny in the 80s and it was so peaceful and gorgeous I had fantasies of moving there. The only sound was birdsong and cameras clicking. There were about 50 people scattered around. I went again a couple of years ago and there were hundreds of tourists waiting when the doors opened. Yikes! I still love it and will go back, but I have to recover.ReplyDelete
Have you ever seen this book, Monet's Table?
It has many beautiful photographs and Monet's cooking journals. I think you would enjoy it!
What a gorgeous book that is Joyce. Thanks for the reminderDelete
Carol, your blobs are absolutely gorgeous,and you so captured Giverny!
(Also really enjoyed all the photographs!)
Thank you for taking us there with you!
We visited quite awhile ago and it sounds as if things (with the tourists) have changed alot.
Glad we saw it when we did!
You are one awesome lady to be able to get around to all these great places the way you do!
PS Joyce is right about Monet's Table! It is wonderful!
Jardin Majorele Flower Maplewood nj would like to thank Carole for sharing this post about Monet's Garden.
Best regards
Really nice!!ReplyDelete
I got nailed on taking photos inside before I got my first one. They were like hawks when I wa there. I'm quite envious of your kitchen photos -- I just wanted to move right in and cook in that kitchen forever. Oh, yes. I'd go back in a heartbeat!
I love your blobs and painting set-up -- love to see how you work. I have to say it is the perfect spot, isn't it? Even with mounds of tourists, it's really a remarkable and beautiful spot. Oh, to live 45 minutes away!


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A look at where area high school players could be playing in college.
Many of the heroes of the high school gridiron from last fall are talking to college coaches and making visits to campuses this winter.
The first day prep recruits can sign with NCAA football programs is today (Feb. 6).
A few area players have committed to schools and will sign national letters of intent Wednesday. However, most players in the area who will end up playing at the next level will continue to mull their options for several more days or weeks, as most will be competing at the NAIA level or as non-scholarship/walk-on players for NCAA programs.
For more than 20 years this reporter has interviewed head coaches from area conferences to inquire where their recruits are considering prior to the NCAA's signing day. This year more schools than ever before said they have no football seniors planning to play at the next level. Those teams include Springfield Kickapoo and West Plains of the Ozark Conference; Pacific of the Four Rivers Conference; Salem, Ava, Thayer and Willow Springs from the South-Central Association, and independent school Cuba.
Here is a list of prep football recruits from area teams; players listed all-state are from either the Missouri Sportswriters/Sportscasters Association or the Missouri Football Coaches Association squads (last season's record in parenthesis):
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Rolla (2-9): Alex McCormack (6-4, 205) was an all-district two-way player at receiver and defensive back, catching 31 passes for 587 yards and seven TDs and making 80 tackles with three interceptions. McCormack wants to compete in both football and track in college and has visited Lincoln and Missouri Valley.
Offensive lineman Anthony Mehling (5-11, 215) is looking at Missouri Valley. Defensive end Darien Abston (6-1, 215) is considering several small schools. Running back Michael Pickrell, who rushed for 1,030 yards in '12, could no doubt find a football home, but he plans on playing baseball in college instead.
Waynesville (3-7): Two-time all-state defensive back Dylan Newcomb (6-1, 200) is a top-notch student and has been talking with all the military academys as well as MIT, Harvard, Yale, Washington University and Missouri S&T. This past season Newcomb made 40 tackles and four interceptions despite missing extended action due to injury.
Also for the Tigers LB Tim Moore (6-0, 190) is leaning towards Avila University while DL Josh Rocker (6-3, 230) is considering Missouri Valley and RB Warren Womack (6-0, 190) Missouri Valley and Lincoln.
Lebanon (9-2): The Yellowjackets have two players who have verbally committed and are set to sign with NCAA programs on Wednesday. They are all-state offensive lineman Tyler Couch (6-3, 270) at Division I Southeast Missouri State and receiver Aren Martin (6-1, 190), who transferred from Waynesville during the 2012 season, is to sign to compete in football and track at Pittsburg State, the 2011 NCAA Division II national football champion. Missouri S&T has signed Jeff Plake, a wide receiver who caught 17 far 260 yards and five touchdowns. He will also run track there.
All-state running back Brock West (5-7, 175), who rushed for 1,930 yards and 31 touchdowns last season, has committed to Evangel College of the NAIA, as has quarterback Hayden Brackett (6-2, 206). Inside linebacker Shawn Dalangin (5-11, 210) is looking at Avila University while kicker Andre Smith is also considering Evangel.
Camdenton (8-4): The Lakers have six players looking to play at the next level. Career rushing later and all-state RB Murphy Ward (5-7, 190) is interested trying to make the roster as a walk-on at Division I programs Mizzou or Arkansas. Ward rushed for 1,526 yards and 18 TDs in 2012. All-state TE-LB Chase Nugent (6-2, 200), who caught 25 passes for 365 yards on offense and led the team with 68 tackles on defense, is looking at Evangel.
Also for Camdenton DL Alec Everett (6-2, 200) is considering Central Methodist; OL Kyle Rizer (6-0, 220) Quincy; LB Jake Voorhees (5-9, 210) Westminster, and DL Tyler Danuser (5-11, 240) Central Methodist and Missouri Valley.
Joplin (5-5): The Eagles' standout tight end Adam St. Peter (6-4, 225) is slated to sign with Division I program Missouri State while DE Jarad Bader (6-2, 210) has committed to Mid-America Nazarene and QB Gabe Sachetta (6-0, 175), who passed for 1,185 yards last year, has offers from Missouri Southern, Quincy and Missouri Valley. RB Chris Payton-Barba, a 1,000-yard rusher the past three seasons, does not plan to play collegiate football.
Springfield Hillcrest (10-2): Jonah Hill, an all-sate QB for the Hornets in 2012, last summer made a verbal commitment to Division I Arkansas State as a tight end. Hillcrest all-state safety Sheldon Moeller plans to walk-on at Missouri State and OT Levi Miles is considering Missouri Valley.
Springfield Parkview (8-3): The Vikings' all-state RB Cole Jenkins (5-11, 205), who rushed for more than 1,300 yards in '12, has several offers from Division II schools and is also considering Arkansas. Also, FS Rudy Beltran (5-10, 165) has talked with Evangel and Avila.
Springfield Glendale (2-8): The Falcons' OL David Randall (6-1, 310) has committed to William Jewell. QB Will Rogers (6-1, 195) has talked with several schools, including Missouri S&T and William Jewell. Rogers' father, Roddy Rogers, was a defensive back for the S&T (then Missouri-Rolla) undefeated team of 1980. Four other Glendale players would like to play somewhere but have no real interest yet.
Springfield Kickapoo (6-5): The Chiefs have a couple of players dabbling with the thought of college football but nothing firm at this time.
West Plains (0-10): The Zizzers have no seniors interested in playing in college.
Four Rivers Conference
St. James (3-7): Two Tiger linemen have collegiate football interest. OL Josh Karnes (6-1, 280) has considered Missouri Valley, Central Methodist and Missouri S&T. And DL Jake Gleason (6-2, 195) is looking at several small schools.
Owensville (0-10): Dutchman OL Cody Hendrix (6-2, 250) is looking at Missouri S&T and Missouri Valley while QB Terrick Ellis (5-11, 150) is looking at Missouri Valley and Westminster, among others.
Sullivan (12-1): After the Eagles' huge season, which included the conference title, three players look to move on to the next level. All-state receiver Adam Wieland (6-1, 175) and QB Adam Tiefenbrunn (6-0, 185) are both considering Westminster and Iowa Wesleyan while all-state DL Seth Mesey (6-1, 215) is looking at Central Missouri State, Missouri Valley and Central Methodist.
St. Clair (10-2): The Bulldogs have a slew of players looking to play at the next level after a big 2012.
All-state OSLB Adam Brott (6-2, 195) is looking at several Division I and Division II programs, including Southeast Missouri State, Western Illinois, South Dakota, Northwest Missouri State and Central Missouri State. All-state DB Kyle Juergens (6-0, 185), who passed for 1,300 yards and rushed for 1,300 yards, is looking at Northwest Missouri State, Central Missouri State and Winona State. All-state defensive back Richard Grivetti (5-11, 170) plans on competing in both football and track and is looking at Central Methodist, Missouri Valley and, as a walk-on, Southwest Missouri State.
Other St. Clair players looking for a football program: OL-DL Jake Yerkey (6-3, 190) was to play football and run track and is looking at Central Methodist, Missouri Valley, Avila as well as walking on at Southeast Missouri. WR-DB Evan Powell (6-3, 170) is looking at Quincy, Missouri Valley, Central Methodist and Coe College. OL-DL Josh Haynes (5-11, 250), is looking at Avila, Missouri Valley, Cole College and Greenville College. TE-DE Blake Dierking (6-1, 190) is considering Missouri Valley and Iowa Wesleyan. LB Evan Murphy (5-11, 175) is considering teams including Central Methodist, Greenville, Westminster and Avila.
Hermann (4-6): The Bearcats' RB-LB Armando Matech (5-8, 185), who rushed for 921 yards in eight games, is looking at Westminster.
Union (5-5): The Wildcats have a pair of seniors looking to continue their football careers. DE Blake Wright (5-11, 180) is looking at Westminster and Truman State while LB Cody Pace (5-11, 180) is considering several small schools.
Pacific (2-8): The Indians had only four seniors on the roster last year. One of them, OL-DL Ryan Byron, had a chance to play college ball but has decided to join the Air Force.
South-Central Association
Salem (6-4): Salem QB Brady Floyd (6-2, 158) has a chance to play football; having rushed for 933 yards and 18 TDs in the Tigers' option game. However, Brady is likely to follow in his dad's footsteps by playing college baseball instead. Among several baseball programs he's considering are Drury and Missouri Southern. His father, Tony Floyd, starred at Licking High School, Three Rivers Community College and Missouri State (then Southwest Missouri State) as a pitcher before being drafted by and signing with the Oakland Athletics.
Houston (2-8): The Tigers have two players who are each looking at several small schools – FB Kaden Miller (5-9, 210) and RB Drake Bell (5-11, 190). Miller rushed for 600 yards before suffering an ankle injury in the second half of the season. Bell also rushed for around 600 yards and is to have knee surgery soon.
Mtn. Grove (11-1): The Panthers have a pair of all-staters looking to play in college. LB Brett Johnson is looking at Central Methodist. TB Tyler Collins, who rushed for 1,500 yards in 2012, is looking at Central Methodist and has some other recruiting trips scheduled.
Mtn. View Liberty (10-3): Most of the talent on the Eagles' 2012 squad were underclassmen and will be back next fall. However, OL-DL Josiah DePriest (6-4, 290) is one senior who has college options.
Cabool (0-10): All-state TE Gavin Green (6-4, 225), who had 30 receptions for 350 yards last season, has talked with Southwest Baptist, Evangel and Missouri Western.
Ava (4-6): None.
Thayer (6-5): None.
Willow Springs (5-6): None.