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3 Reasons Why SEO and PPC Are a Match Made in Heaven
June 5, 2013
Pauline Jakober
You may be investing quite a bit of effort into your online presence, and a majority of that effort may be organic SEO. And when done the right way, this is great for your brand. But did you know that organic SEO and PPC can work together to provide even stronger results?
Search marketing is about the relationship between things -- disciplines, strategies, tactics, search engines, websites, people -- and there are many ways these relationships affect one another. When working together, these things create stronger results than if they were used alone.
So we're going to look at three ways SEO and PPC work together to create a mutually beneficial relationship for a website. We'll explore:
When clients come to Group Twenty Seven looking to explore new paid search campaigns, and they already have a fair amount of data in Google Analytics, we always explore the organic side when selecting keywords to target.
What we do is analyze all the keywords that drove conversions and sales, and start thinking about how we would group them within our AdWords campaigns (assuming you've got your e-commerce reporting set up already).
So, for example, say you have a keyword phrase that is producing conversions organically, and that term is "dog beds." And as a pet store business, you have multiple lines of dog beds.
We'd then look at creating a PPC campaign around dog beds, with ad groups such as soft dog beds, extra-large dog beds, small dog beds, brand-name dog begs, and so on.
Organic e-commerce data can also help you find potential combinations of branded keywords that you may not have thought of to add to your new pay-per-click campaign. So don't forget about those.
2. Your Organic SEO Can Benefit From Your PPC, and Vice Versa
PPC is a nice complement to your search engine optimization because you can use it to quickly determine which keywords drive traffic and conversions, and then build those keywords into your organic SEO efforts.
Building on the PPC-SEO relationship, good PPC landing pages always contain the information the keyword is promising when a user clicks on an ad. This is why your on-page optimization is important when you're running both organic SEO and PPC campaigns together.
Make sure that you optimize the landing page that you're driving users to. This includes ensuring that the page not only has relevant products and information for that keyword, but also that the Meta information and content is optimized with the keyword.
This can help your overall Quality Score in PPC, and Quality Score is an important clue to how targeted and relevant your PPC campaigns are. You may also find a boost in your organic conversions after you start weaving those conversion-focused keywords onto your pages.
For more on Quality Score and how that plays into PPC, check out this post.
3. PPC Campaigns Can Help Boost the Usability of Your Site
PPC campaigns often reveal ways to group products together in a manner that people are searching for. You can use data from PPC campaigns to look at a website with a critical eye and ask, "Which pages best fulfill the promise of this ad and this ad group?"
If no pages on your site support the products you're grouping together in your AdWords campaigns (for example, you're just landing users on your home page), create a new landing page with those products grouped together so you can send your customers to the most relevant results.
This also builds on the Quality Score idea I mentioned in the last section.
Relationship Analysis: How to Know if SEO and PPC Are Working Together
Multichannel attribution is one way to know how well all your marketing channels work together on the bottom line. The "multi-channel funnel" report in Google Analytics can be very informative.
Here's a short video on it:
To access this, go to Conversions > Multi-Channel Funnels.
Here's a screenshot:
Another way you can explore whether PPC is boosting your organic SEO is to watch your organic rankings and traffic for particular keywords that you're using in PPC. If, for example, you've optimized pages of your site with PPC keywords as I talked about earlier, you should be able to tell if those keywords are driving more visibility in organic search.
In Google Analytics, look at Traffic Sources > Overview. Under "Search Traffic," click "Keyword" (by default, it should be displayed anyway).
To see which page the keyword that's driving traffic is on, you can set the secondary dimension to "landing page." From the overview section, in the bottom right of the screen, click "view full report." Then set the secondary dimension to "landing page" as shown below.
Another way to see the power of PPC and organic search together is to take a look at the search engine results pages. In a post I published on the Group Twenty Seven blog we showed an example of what the top listings in organic search can look like if you're taking advantage of all the paid and search channels that are available to you.
Here's a screenshot from that post:
Pretty impressive real estate, wouldn't you agree?
Remember, Search Marketing Is a Relationship, Even If You Don't See It
Even if hard data is not staring you right in the face, your organic search efforts and your PPC campaigns are always interconnected. Often, people tend to look at different marketing channels as separate. In reality, users follow a long path to arrive at the action you want them to take online.
One powerful example that demonstrates that marketing is holistic is the story of a client who got hit by Google's Panda algorithm update (which targets low-quality content on a site).
This client was never truly able to recover from Panda's penalty on the organic side, and we saw PPC campaigns also not performing as well around that time. Unfortunately, the client's PPC performance was never the same either.
This is just another indicator that the overall quality of a website and what it's doing in other marketing channels has a profound impact on the success of a business online.
So when you're looking at your marketing efforts online, remember: It's a relationship. Make sure you're tracking your efforts in as many ways as possible for both SEO and PPC so you can truly see this relationship in action.
Then use that data to compare and contrast how the channels are working together for a clearer picture of ROI, a stronger brand online, and a lasting relationship between your website, the search engines, and your users.
Pauline Jakober is CEO of Group Twenty Seven, a search marketing agency that specializes in optimizing pay per click advertising campaigns. Follow Pauline on Twitter here, and for more PPC tips, subscribe to Group Twenty Seven's monthly newsletter here.
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I'm still heavily lusting after this, just can't justify buying atm :(
Tried it on again in-store the other day. Tempted too.
big fan of that myself, think I could only justify it if it was sub-£100 at the moment though, so don't think I'll get it haha
a simple yellow oxford shirt... because of this:
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Yep I saw that when it went on the MR P site and it made me want a yellow oxford, which is a colour I had never tought about getting before.
I think I'm going to try one of these on for size!
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Coat looks boss Creed
I kind of associate it now with Gus Fring in Breaking Bad... the onscreen presence that yellow oxford makes!
I'm seriously considering buying one of these. Anyone know anything of the brand? I love the style.

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This is our view, every day, so really has to work all year. Originally I was in thrall to the cottage garden notion and planted things here in the traditional random mess. And regretted it. So I added clipped box and osmanthus to give some order and peace to the eye, and began repeating some plants in pattern, for the same reason. (Ligularia dentata 'Desdemona' & 'Othello', for example, one to a bed).
Variegated ground elder runs freely and helps to bring the garden together. I cut it down, with the Lysimachia ciliata 'Firecracker' in early summer, to keep them tidy, and to have a repeat sighting of their foliage coming up mixed and fresh. (well, I used to – sometimes now I don't bother and have the rather insignificant yellow flowers on the lysymachia instead.)
The colour in the flowering season is bright: reds, yellows, white, orange. (though I don't call it a 'hot' garden as the term for some reason irritates me)(it's become a cliché.) One of my helpful and best garden critics (Stephen Anderton) pointed out that the fence in front of the hornbeam arch detracted from the view of the arch, which was absolutely right, so the fence has been shortened to free the lines of the arch. But now a shrub has resurrected that problem…
The biggest problem though was box blight, which really disfigured the box balls. They had to go – and the sad story is here. But with help from our gardener, Jeff, we got that sorted (see here). And then we even got a new bird bath (not that that was unproblematic (see here..)
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Forget kiss-me-quick hats, goalscoring centre back Kaspars Gorkss could be the bargain buy from Blackpool this year!
And Watford boss Aidy Boothroyd is reportedly ready to snap up the towering Latvian defender after he requested a scouting mission at Bloomfield Road on New Years Day, according to the Blackpool Gazette.
Riga-born Gorkss has 8 international caps for Latvia but has also been a danger from set-pieces this season netting 5 goals - including a brace away at Derby in the League Cup and 1 in the 3-0 derby win against Burnley (in front of the Watford scouts) at the start of the year.
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Another excuse to post a picture of the lovely Phil Glenister as this track is also on the soundtrack to Life on Mars 😉 This song spun round and back into my consciousness recently and bought tears to my eyes. Beautiful song, lyrics about being free and a reminder of the Barry Norman fronted BBC1's Film programme which I used to love to watch.
Why did it resonate so strongly? Well a couple of things – I'm 2 weeks off of 1000 days which is a MASSIVE milestone and will see me stop counting days! Plus I had a week-end recently where I felt like I had met my ghost of drinking future. We were staying with very old friends who we used to drink with heavily. We haven't seen them for a couple of years because of the changes and choices we have made in our lives recently. It was so lovely to see them but their drinking remained as before so things felt discordant between us. We were now living completely different lives to our shared past.
I was also mindful about my co-dependent traits and people-pleasing ways and desperately wanted to fit in with them again. That manifested in me and MrHOF having a few drags of a cigarette (which tasted vile and disproved my fear that this action would lead me back to drinking!). Such was my need to feel okay.
I felt so sad and guilty around them – survivor's guilt maybe? I wanted them so much to know that I understood, that a happy life was possible without booze and that I was an ally not a threat but they were still so stuck they were beyond my reach. In the end I couldn't wait to leave because it just felt so uncomfortable for all of us and was making me feel very anxious.
Hence why this tune caused tears. Tears of joy. As Nina sings 'I wish I knew how it would feel to be free' and that's the thing, I do! This stopping drinking thing is the most liberating thing I have ever done and that week-end was a stark reminder of where my life would have been if I had continued and where it is now having stopped. I would not trade it for any thing or any amount of money. It is literally PRICELESS to me and my family 🙂
Over to Nina ……
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Children receive a children's message from Pastor before the sermon. A children's worship bulletin and busy bag of crayons and activities are available for use during the service. A toddler playroom and babysitting are available during worship for children under the age of 5 years old.
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- delivers what Christ earned for us by His sinless life, substitutionary death on thecross, and resurrection, namely the forgiveness of sins. (John 15:3)
- puts the Holy Spirit's own Words (Holy Scripture) into our ears, creating faith in us.(Romans 10:16, John 6:63)
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- The Robes make the Pastor and Liturgist anonymous so that we don't see the men or their own clothing, but only that they are servants who represent us all: dressed in black because they are sinners and robed in white because they are covered by the righteousness of Christ.
- The Altar focuses our attention front and center on no person but Jesus only (Hebrews 8:2) and reminds us of the Lord's Supper table which He spread for us; of Mount Calvary which He climbed for us; of the empty tomb, from which He rose to give us immortality; and of the Heavenly throne to which He ascended.
- The Crucifix makes us remember the horror of sin, reminds us of the greatness of God's love, and assures us of our innocence in His sight, since "It is finished."
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Top 10 Biggest Star Wars Sights on the San Diego Comic-Con Convention Floor
Go big or go home! We've all heard that catch phrase before. Well, nowhere is that saying more relevant than when talking about the presence of Star Wars on the convention floor of San Diego Comic-Con.
Star Wars has been a part of San Diego Comic-Con since Lucasfilm marketing guru Charles Lippincott introduced it at a presentation there back in 1976. He intended to drum up support for the yet to be released film by promoting a new Star Wars comic book from Marvel. He also sold a limited edition poster at the convention for all of $1.75 that featured original art by Howard Chaykin. Most of the 1,000 posters didn't sell, but SDCC had seen its first Star Wars exclusive! From those humble beginnings, the presence of Star Wars at SDCC has grown to be enourmous. So enjoy our favorite "big" things (past and present) from the show room floor!
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"Let us not talk falsely now, for the hour is getting late." -Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower
Beyond the gloom and doom of the climate crisis, there lies a powerful and regenerative grassroots solution: organic food, farming, and ranching. Even as politicians and the powerful fossil fuel lobby drag their heels and refuse to acknowledge that we have about ten years left of business-as-usual before we irreversibly destroy the climate and ourselves, there is a powerful, largely unrecognized life-force spreading its roots underground.
An army of organic farmers, ranchers, conservationists, and backyard gardeners (supported by millions of organic consumers) are demonstrating that we can build a healthy alternative to industrial agriculture and Food Inc. Our growing organic movement is proving that we can not only feed the world with healthy food, but also reverse global warming, by capturing and sequestering billions of tons of climate-destabilizing greenhouse gases in the soil, through plant photosynthesis, composting, cover crops, rotational grazing, wetlands preservation, and reforestation.
The heretofore unpublicized good news on climate change, according to the Rodale Institute and other soil scientists, is that transitioning from chemical, water, and energy-intensive industrial agriculture practices to organic farming and ranching on the world's 3.5 billion acres of farmland and 8.2 billion acres of pasture or rangeland can sequester 7,000 pounds per acre of climate-destabilizing CO2 every year, while nurturing healthy soils, plants, grasses, and trees that are resistant to drought, heavy rain, pests, and disease. Organic farms and ranches can provide us with food that is much more nutritious than industrial farms and ranches - food filled with vitamins, anti-oxidants, and essential trace minerals, free from Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), pesticides, antibiotics, and sewage sludge.
In 2006, US carbon dioxide pollution from fossil fuels was estimated at nearly 6.5 billion tons, approximately 25% of the world's total. If a 7,000 lb/CO2/ac/year sequestration rate were achieved on all 434 million acres of cropland in the US, nearly 1.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide would be sequestered per year, mitigating close to one quarter of the country's total fossil fuel emissions. If pastures and rangelands were converted to organic practices, we would be well on our way to reversing global warming.
We need an organic revolution in ranching and livestock production, as well as farming and forestry. We must drastically reduce meat overproduction (77% of all US agriculture resources are devoted to raising animals or animal feed), and over-consumption (a leading cause of obesity, heart disease and cancer) and ban methane-belching factory farms. As the Rodale Institute points out, organic livestock practices, (rotational grazing, manure management, methane capture for biogas production, improved feeds and feed additives) can drastically reduce livestock-related emissions and, because of the massive acreage currently devoted to livestock production (nearly 2.5x greater than croplands), can safely sequester approximately 60% of the total greenhouse gases that humans, animals, cars, and industry are pumping out every year.
This Organic Revolution, or "Great Sequestering," made possible by a global grassroots movement with the power to transform the marketplace and public policy, is perhaps the only short-term solution at hand that can buy us the precious time we need to radically reduce energy use and greenhouse pollution and build a green economy. Although politicians and the coal and utilities industry claim that sequestration of massive carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants is on the horizon, there is little or no scientific evidence to back this up. Sequestration of CO2 in the soils of organic farms and ranches, on the other hand, is a proven fact.
Before carbon-sequestering forests and grasslands were ravaged by chemical-intensive industrial agriculture and forestry, organic matter generally composed 6-10% of the soil volume, three-six times the 1-3% levels typical of today's industrial agriculture soils. In other words, taxpayer subsidized, chemical-based industrial agriculture and forestry, factory farms, and unrestricted grazing have turned the earth's soil (which still contains three times as much carbon as the entire amount of CO2 in the atmosphere) from being a climate-stabilizing carbon sink into a massive and dangerous source of global warming.
Given our escalating climate emergency, the burning question is how do we move organics in the US from being the 4% alternative in the marketplace to being the norm, and organic acreage from being 1% of total cultivated land to the majority of farmland, pasture, and rangeland? We must sound the alert, offer practical solutions and rapidly transform public consciousness and policy. But the Via Organica, the road to get there, will be long and arduous. The majority of Americans must stop buying chemical, GMO, globally sourced and so-called "natural" food, and switch to organic and more locally and regionally produced products. We must also rise up as a political movement and change public policy. We must force the politicians and corporations to stop our business-as-usual destruction of the climate and public health, and move to an ethical and scientifically grounded policy and practice that promotes health, conservation, greenhouse gas reduction, and organic sequestration. Please join and support the OCA and the global organic movement as we wage this epic struggle.
-Ronnie Cummins
Recent polls indicate that many green-minded consumers are confused about the qualitative difference between products labeled or advertised as "natural," versus those labeled as organic.
Many believe that "natural" means "almost organic," or that a natural product is even better than organic. What does certified organic or "USDA Organic" mean? Certified organic means the farmer or producer has undergone a regular inspection of its farm, facilities, ingredients, and practices by an independent Third Party certifier, accredited by the USDA National Organic Program (NOP). The producer has followed strict NOP regulations and maintained detailed records. Synthetic pesticides, animal drugs, sewage sludge, GMOs, irradiation, and chemical fertilizers are prohibited. Farm animals, soil, and crops have been managed organically; food can only be processed with certain methods; only allowed ingredients can be used.
On the other hand, what does "natural" really mean, in terms of farming practices, ingredients, and its impact on the environment and climate?
To put it bluntly, "natural," in the overwhelming majority of cases is meaningless, even though most consumers do not fully understand this. Natural typically means conventional, with a green veneer. Natural products are routinely produced using pesticides, chemical fertilizer, hormones, genetic engineering, and sewage sludge. Natural or conventional products - whether produce, dairy, or canned or frozen goods - are typically produced on large industrial farms or in processing plants that are highly polluting, chemical and energy intensive. "Natural," "all-natural," and "sustainable," products in most cases are neither backed up by rules and regulations, nor a Third Party certifier.
Companies selling so-called natural products are simply telling us what we want to hear, so that we pay an organic or premium price for a conventional product. Perhaps this wouldn't matter that much if we were living in normal times, with a relatively healthy population, environment, and climate. Conventional products sold as natural or "nearly organic" would be a simple matter of chicanery or consumer fraud. But we are not living in normal times. Demanding that natural and conventional producers and vendors make the transition to organic is a matter of life or death. And standing in the way of making this great transition are not only Fortune 500 food and beverage corporations, Monsanto, and corporate agribusiness, as we would expect, but the wholesale and retail giants in the organic and natural products sector as well, UNFI (United Natural Foods) and Whole Foods Market. Two thirds of all products sold by Whole Foods and UNFI are "natural," not organic.
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OCA's Washington, DC staff literally danced through the streets on Inauguration Day, passing out OCA literature emblazoned with slogans "Hope," "Change" and "Planting Peace" to the happy crowds. But January 20 proved to be just a temporary interlude in our ongoing struggle to educate and pressure corporations and politicians to "do the right thing" and green the planet. Our agenda since January has included putting pressure on the organic industry to maintain strong organic standards and pressuring President Obama and the Congress to help support and expand organic food and farming and stop using our tax money to subsidize chemical farming and GMOs (genetically modified organisms).
OCA members sent thousands of emails in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's organic garden at the White House, as well as the USDA's People's Garden on the National Mall. President Obama's repeated references to local, organic agriculture in his speeches on agriculture and health care, and his pro-organic appointments to the USDA and the National Organic Standards Board represent significant victories directly attributable to the OCA and our allies raising our collective voices.
Even our losses were offset to a certain degree. We sent 100,000 letters to Obama opposing Tom Vilsack's appointment as USDA Secretary. Although Vilsack temporarily withdrew his name from the nomination, we ultimately failed to block the confirmation of a man who has served as a cheerleader for genetic engineering and factory farming. However, the outrage demonstrated by organic consumers over Vilsack's controversial appointment, according to informed sources in Washington, is undoubtedly one of the reasons why Obama appointed a strong organic advocate, Kathleen Merrigan, as Deputy Secretary or second in command at the USDA.
It's clear that Tom Vilsack could feel the heat of OCA members looking over his shoulder as he made the Obama Administration's first appointments to the National Organic Standards Board. In past years, the OCA has had to protest NOSB appointees who represented big businesses with small stakes in organic. But Vilsack's are the best NOSB appointments in recent memory. The new members of the National Organic Standards Board include Jay Feldman of Beyond Pesticides (an OCA Advisory Board member), Joe Dickson of Whole Foods, Annette Riherd (a family farmer growing organic fruits and vegetables who is a long-time buy-local-and-organic advocate), Wendy Fulwider of Organic Valley and John Foster of Earthbound Farms.
G rassroots pressure by the OCA and litigation by our allies has finally brought about significant results on the Genetic Engineering front. In September, there was a major legal victory against genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets. The Center for Food Safety proved in federal court that the government's approval of Monsanto's GE sugar beets was illegal. In the ruling, the judge acknowledged that the "genetic pollution" of GE threatened to deprive farmers of their choice to grow non-GE crops and deprived consumers of their right to eat non-GE food.
Monsanto and the sugar industry aren't going to throw in the towel just yet. American Crystal Sugar, the nation's largest sugar beet processor, is still pro-GE. American Crystal President David Berg told the New York Times he thought customer acceptance of GE sugar was "a big non-event." In response, the OCA initiated a boycott of GE-tainted sugar. As of early October, over 35,500 organic consumers had let American Crystal know they were joining the boycott.
The profile of the Organic Caucus is growing in Congress. Legislators are raising the concerns of the organic community more vocally. In July, the House of Representatives voted on food safety legislation that would have unfairly penalized organic and small farmers. As organic consumers opposed H.R. 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act, the first vote failed because it was unable to secure the support of House Members concerned about the impact of industrial techno-fixes on organic, small-scale and local farmers.
The bill wasn't able to pass until Organic Caucus Chair Sam Farr secured a promise from bill sponsor Rep. Dingell that the bill wouldn't create conflicts with the National Organic Program, would consider the needs of small farms, organic practices and conservation methods, and "not harm farming practices that have existed for centuries with minimal documented health risk." The fight has moved to the Senate.
This November, the National Organic Standards Board will consider three strong recommendations to the USDA, put forward by OCA and our allies. The recommendations would direct the USDA to stop personal care and cosmetic companies from advertising their products as "organic" unless they are USDA certified, keep nanotechnology out of organic, and improve the living conditions of organic poultry and livestock. So far, nearly 24,000 organic activists have sent letters to the NOSB in support of these recommendations.
For the past six months OCA has turned up the heat on organic and natural product brands, retailers, and wholesalers, especially Whole Foods Market and UNFI, demanding that they all walk their talk and stop substituting conventional ingredients for organic ingredients in what were formerly certified organic products; stop pretending that cheaper conventional foods and products greenwashed or labeled as "natural" (which represent 2/3 of the sales of WFM and UNFI) are "almost organic" or almost as good as organic; and stop buying and selling conventional body products and cosmetics containing synthetic chemicals and petrochemical derivatives that call themselves organic on the front label, but which are not certified.
V iá Orgánica (The Organic Way) is OCA's sister organization in Mexico. The Via Organica (VO) headquarters are located on a beautiful 20 acre organic farm and eco-tourism center in the central highlands of Mexico, seven miles from picturesque San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, nestled between two UNESCO World Heritage sites. Utilizing its farm, farm school, organic retail and wholesale business, website, agro-eco tours, and bilingual newsletters, Via Organica's mission is to promote organic food and farming, Fair Trade, and local green economic development in Mexico and Latin America, in the process strengthening OCA's ability to deal with cross-border and global issues.
Via Organica is poised to strengthen the growing organic farming movement in Mexico. Through modern water conservation techniques, heirloom seed saving strategies, rural economic development models, Via Organica's farm school is training hundreds of campesinos (small farmers) every month. The primary goal of Via Organica's farm school is to empower and assist small farmers in preserving their food heritage and making the transition to organic.
Part of Via Organica's mission is to create practical, successful business models for Mexican small farmers and businesses. To this end, Via Organica operates a full-line organic food store and cafe in downtown San Miguel de Allende, selling local and regional organic products, some of which are grown on the Via Organica ranch. VO is also building up an organic wholesale business, linking together organic farmers markets, producers, retail stores, and restaurants across Mexico.
The VO store or tienda in San Miguel is a model of small business profitability, as well as a testament to the growing demand in Mexico for healthy, fresh organic food and green products. In addition, Via Organica's farm school, which is located at the ranch and eco-tourism center, offers regular, well-attended workshops on organic farming and permaculture for hundreds of campesinos (small farmers) throughout the region. Workshops have included hands-on demonstrations of organic composting, pest control, soil analysis, marketing, and food nutrition.
To overcome the high costs of organic certification for small farmers and producers, VO is working with local and regional groups to develop a low-cost system of community-controlled organic certification, called Certification Participativa. Other VO projects include community nutrition classes, educational radio programs, working with schools and hospitals, a summer youth camp, and a campaign to convert a number of roadside or street taco stands into healthy, inexpensive organic "fast food" outlets.
To finance our work and spread our message, OCA and VO sponsor seven-day organic Eco-Tours every month, bringing US organic consumers and farmers to Mexico for a first hand look at the organic movement there. These educational tours provide insight into the struggles and successes of Mexican organic farmers, consumers, and rural activists, who are challenged by enormous problems including NAFTA and corporate "free trade," industrial farming, climate change, and the "Wal-Mart-ization" of their economy.
An inspiring highlight of our tours is a trip to the Center for Economic Development and Sustainable Agriculture (CEDESA) in Dolores Hidalgo, a dynamic community organizing project that has been working with poor farmers for over 40 years to help them become self-sufficient using traditional organic farming and grassroots permaculture or appropriate technology techniques. The CEDESA site and farms include rooftop rainwater catchment systems, water-free composting toilets, organic vegetable, fruit, cactus, and medicinal herb gardens, beehives, and low-input outdoor stoves and ovens.
OCA and Via Organica extend a cordial invitation to organic consumers, gardeners, and farmers in the US to sign up for one of our bilingual escorted tours and visit us in beautiful sunny Mexico for your winter vacation. Tours are led by OCA Director, Ronnie Cummins. Tax-deductible donations to the OCA can be earmarked for our Mexico educational programs.
For further info or to sign up for a Via Organica monthly tour, please contact the OCA national office at 218-226-4164, or read our eco-tour information on the OCA Tours Page, or at ViaOrganica.org, Via Organica's Spanish language website.
by Molly Blakemore
As I write this letter, the papers, TV, and the internet are all broadcasting non-stop bad news about the climate crisis, war, deteriorating public health, and what is now called the Great Recession.
On World Food Day, global hunger organizations reminded us that a billion people across the globe are malnourished or starving, while two billion more, mainly small farmers and rural villagers, are living in extreme poverty. Meanwhile, public health advocates continue to decry the fact that a full two-thirds of the residents in our Fast Food Nation are either obese or overweight. Agronomists warn of impending crop failures and a serious decrease in global grain reserves. With a destabilized climate and weird weather now routine, it seems almost normal that Minnesota's autumn fall colors have been cut short by an early snow. Our Via Organica staff in Mexico tell us that the region's farmers are going through the worst drought in 50 years, with corn and bean crops seriously stunted.
Mother Nature and our billions of brothers and sisters down the block and around the world are obviously trying to tell us something: it's time for a change, big change. The "change" that the new administration promised us in January, opposed every step of the way by powerful special interests and lobbyists, has turned out to be, at least so far, small change.
Out-of-control corporations, indentured scientists, Wall Street banksters, and politicians seem perfectly content to maintain business as usual, no matter the cost - even if the cost is human survival.
It's time for a change. We are the organic grassroots force that can save the planet. We are the antidote to hopelessness and fatalism. We are the messengers of hope. We are fortunate to have a practical organic solution to offer for the climate crisis, a solution which has the power to resolve our public health and economic crisis as well.
But let us not talk falsely now. There is no time to lose. The hour is getting late.
We need your help more than ever to broadcast our message and mobilize the grassroots around OCA's life-affirming, positive message: organic food and farming and ethical green living are the practical solution to our crisis. 85 percent of our funds come from individuals like you, our grassroots supporters. Please use the enclosed reply envelope to send us a tax-deductible donation.
Thank you so much for your support.
Regards & Solidarity,
Ronnie Cummins, OCA National Director
After eight years of tireless and magnificent work, Craig Minowa, OCA's environmental scientist and editor, and our resident musical genius, is moving on to focus full-time on other duties. Craig's all-green music company, Earthology Records, and band, Cloud Cult www.cloudcult.com, have become so popular that he can no longer afford to divide his time between OCA and the music world. In addition, Craig and his wife Connie (a former field organizer with the OCA) are celebrating the birth of their new baby boy, Nova, on October 2.
Craig has served as OCA's point person on scientific matters, with a special emphasis on pesticides, toxic chemicals, body care products, and children's health. He has left his knowledgeable imprint, positive outlook, and sense of humor on OCA's electronic newsletter, Organic Bytes, over the past decade, and is a major reason why we've grown to 250,000 subscribers and become a powerful voice for organics and Fair Trade in the US. We will sorely miss Craig, but we're happy he'll be carrying our green and organic message to an even larger audience with his music and vocal skills. So thank you Craig for all you've done, and thanks in advance for all the good work and artistic inspiration that lies ahead.
Although Craig is a very difficult act to follow, we welcome another young resident staff genius, Alexis Baden-Mayer, OCA's Washington, DC lobbyist, coalition builder, and lawyer, as the new editor-in-chief of Organic Bytes.
An organic future is unlikely if the US continues to spend billions of dollars waging war, in a profoundly misguided quest for oil and a so-called "war on terrorism." We have endured eight years of war in Afghanistan and, while the president has promised to eventually withdraw from Iraq, he continues to describe Afghanistan as the "good war." In this era of climate crisis and diminishing energy, water, and food supplies, we need to be planting peace, not waging war. As US forces contaminate the Afghan countryside with depleted uranium, the possibility of this third-poorest nation in the world being able to feed itself in the future is rapidly diminishing. Meanwhile, along with other war profiteers, Monsanto has landed like a vulture in Iraq and Afghanistan to take advantage of new laws protecting the rights of corporations to patent and control seeds and food. www.organicconsumers.org/plantingpeace/
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FAIRBANKS (AP) -- Sen. Ted Stevens is hoping to add another powerful committee to his assignments, but the Alaska Republican hasn't yet convinced the Senate majority leader to place him there.
Stevens has declined to say much about it, but he wants to sit on the Senate Budget Committee. That decision is up to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss.
Stevens is seeking to fill one of the seats opened by the defeat of three Republicans in the last election. Sens. Slade Gorton of Washington, Spencer Abraham of Michigan and Rod Grams of Minnesota lost their bids for re-election.
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., claimed the seat of Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who retired. Democrats announced their committee picks almost two weeks ago.
Lott has not yet announced Republican appointments to the committee.
The Budget Committee writes the annual budget resolution setting limits on various categories of federal spending. Both houses of Congress then approve the resolution.
Stevens and Byrd, the ranking members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, have expressed frustration with the budget resolution's limits.
Some categories of federal spending need to rise so agencies can deal with a growing national economy, Stevens said repeatedly during the past year.
In practice, the spending bills crafted by Stevens, Byrd and other Ap-propriations Committee members sometimes ignore the caps. If no one objects, then nothing happens.
The Congressional Budget Office's Web site indicates that Congress spent anywhere this fiscal year from $25 billion to $31 billion more than the original allocation of about $600 billion approved in last spring's budget resolution.
Ignoring the budget resolution is a politically sensitive subject and can be exploited by critics. Some oppose the additional spending while others object to how and where the additional money is spent.
The Budget Committee also works on changes in tax policy. Any legislation from President Bush seeking to implement a massive tax cut probably would land in the Senate Budget Committee.
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''Increasingly, by setting parameters on what can and cannot be considered by other committees, the Budget Committee controls the agenda in the Senate,'' Byrd said.
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Emergency Nurses Association Announces Corporate Sponsors for Leadership Conference
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This year's sponsors are GE Healthcare and Physio-Control.
"We are so pleased that these two companies have chosen to support emergency nurses from across the country through their sponsorship of the ENA Leadership Conference," said
The ENA Leadership Conference will explore the conference theme, SOAR: Aspire to New Heights, with in-depth reviews of national issues facing emergency care professionals, professional development sessions on career and management issues and an exhibit hall featuring a plethora of suppliers of products and services for the emergency care environment.
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GE Healthcare provides medical technologies and services for patient care. Its expertise includes medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, and performance improvement. GE Healthcare enables a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention.
Physio-Control pioneered defibrillation technology more than 50 years ago and provides LIFEPAK(R) products for cardiac emergencies in hospital emergency departments.
For more information about the ENA Leadership Conference, visit the ENA website at www.ena.org.
About the Emergency Nurses Association
The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) is the only professional nursing association dedicated to defining the future of emergency nursing and emergency care through advocacy, expertise, innovation, and leadership. Founded in 1970, ENA serves as the voice of more than 35,000 members and their patients through research, publications, professional development, injury prevention, and patient education. Additional information is available at ENA's Web site, at www.ena.org.
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I am a self-confessed history geek, so it is not surprising that many of my travels feature ancient sites quite heavily. I have a bit of a vivid imagination, so it doesn't take much for a place steeped in history to come alive to me, particularly if it is a half-forgotten place, overshadowed by far more famous neighbours. So come with me to the highlands of Peru, the deserts of Argentina, the South of France – and my hometown. Are you ready to travel through time?
Chavin, Peru
Imagine going into the Andean highlands of Peru and stumbling across an ancient city far, far older than Machu Picchu. With fewer than 20 tourists in the entire site. Imagine labyrinthine tunnels leading to wonderfully carved totem poles (or Lanzons, as they are called), a stepped ancient village, with the remains of stone houses and an imposing central square, and unforgettable views. This is Chavin de Huantar, an archaeological site high in the Cordillera Blanca mountains. With alpaca grazing nonchalantly on the hills inside the site, and local villagers leading donkeys or kicking up dust on handsome stallions, this is the Peru that dreams are made of.
Perhaps nothing can replace the sheer majesty of Machu Picchu, but for truly ancient artefacts and a very rural, local, living culture, Chavin is unbeatable. Some of my most treasured photos and memories of Peru come from this hidden-away place: a Sunday school parade, peering into the history of an ancient civilisation, and falling, briefly, in love with an archaeologist I met there and never saw again.
Quilmes, Argentina
Just as surprising were the ruins of Quilmes, in the northerly province of Tucuman, Argentina. Dating back to 900 AD – also the heyday of the Chavin civilisation – this is, in some ways, an even more impressive site. It is more desolate, in its desert landscape, but it was clearly a large city, with an incredible terrace structure still very much present and stretching up the mountainside.
The physical layout tells a lot about the social structure; the further up the terraces you were, the higher your social position. The royal fortress is right at the top, whilst far below are far more working-class dwellings, still with the remnants of the industry of the day, such as large grinding stones.
Nowadays, the chief inhabitants are enormous cacti, which have taken over. It was an almost surreal experience to wander around this forgotten city. Like Chavin, there were few other tourists around, making it all the more atmospheric. Being able to explore at leisure, to really take in somewhere so ancient, felt like a very privileged experience.
Peyreperteuse, France
Ok, so if you read this blog often enough, you will have heard of Peyreperteuse. However, in the Southern regions of France, Carcassonne and Montsegur are famous, whilst other ancient citadels are buried more deeply in the mountains and mists of time. As I recall it, Peyreperteuse was fairly remote, and it took plenty of hair-raising mountain roads to get anywhere near it.
What then followed was a fairly arduous climb up many, many stone steps, carved into the mountain. It was more than worth the climb though; from the highest point of the old abbey, perched above the castle itself, the views were breathtaking. The small car park where we'd abandoned the car had disappeared from view, and took very little imagination to see the castle as it would have been, a safe haven for persecuted Cathars. I could almost hear their chatter and evensong. You can see for miles across the Pyrenees – the same view that the medieval inhabitants would have seen.
Ruined Castles, UK
I might be biased, but for a pretty tiny island, we certainly pack in a lot of ancient wonder. We might not have quite the awe-inspiring landscapes which can be found elsewhere, but the rich culture often makes up for it. Some ruins have been turned into pure money-making machines, visited by thousands and sometimes millions of people a year, but no matter where you are, you will not be far from some Anglo-Saxon, Viking or Medieval ruin. I come from a medieval town, where the sort of wonky old house used in many a historical film is the average city centre building. As a child, I played in the ruins of a Norman castle. Nobody owned it, there was no fee to pay, no tourist information save for one board with a bit of history on it. There were no signs forbidding us to keep off the walls, no ropes to keep us away. With my friends, I'd clamber all over it, scaling sometimes precarious heights. Some days it was a traditional castle, other days a pirate ship. There were never any tourists to disturb our games.
World-famous Stonehenge may be just down the road, but it is these old ruined castles, lying abandoned in many fields in the area, which really fire my imagination and leave me awestruck.
This is not unique to Salisbury either; it is something repeated over and over again all over the country. The town I currently live in, Reading, is mainly a Victorian town, with a good amount of blocky 60s architecture thrown in for good measure. However, even here, there is an ancient, ruined abbey in the centre of the town, minding its own business.
I love that so much history still feels so undiscovered. Wherever you go in the world, famous names will always jump out, but you can guarantee that if you look hard enough, you will find a forgotten city, lost in ancient times.


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One of the luxuries we had on the farm was a large backyard. Dad whacked the grass down with a mower now and then, but the only other grooming it got was by the occasional herd of sheep or milk cows. We spent a lot of time out there on summer evenings, tossing a ball back and forth or playing a game of 500.
Then my brother Jack, who could emulate Willie Mays' basket catch, got the idea that we ought to have a real diamond.
So, he built it. He measured the correct distance from the pitcher's mound to home and laid out the base paths. The rest of us helped him fill gunnysacks with gravel for each of the bases (now you know why they're call "bags" or "sacks.")
Dad and Jack put up a high chicken wire backstop behind home plate one evening after Dad came in from the fields. Mom's garden was right behind home plate. The backstop offered a measure of protection from pop-ups, but some of them went off to the side. When we went over the garden fence (we scorned gates), Mom would rap on the window and yell, "Don't step on my tomatoes!" We responded with a guilty start. Was she always watching us? I think she was.
Once the backstop was up, all Jack needed was players. He was a pitcher, and he needed a catcher. My brother Dale squatted behind home plate with an old-fashioned flat-pocketed catcher's mitt, or "pud," as it was called. Equipment? We knew nothing about it. Jack fired ball after ball at him, till Dale, four years younger than Jack, wore out or got mad, often both.
He was successful in making a catcher out of Dale, who played the position right up through slow-pitch softball. His efforts to make a first baseman out of me were somewhat less successful, though I will say this: I can catch a ball if it's thrown right to me, which was all Jack really wanted. As for batting, the book on me was: "She hits pretty good, but she runs too long in one place." I knew this because someone said it every time I came to bat. That could get on a lesser person's nerves.
I can't understand people who say baseball games and the baseball season are too long. You play as long as there's enough light to see the ball; the season lasts from snowmelt to snowfall. Most summer evenings, you'd find us out on that diamond, ignoring even calls for supper.
We built it and they came. They would have come anyway, mostly because they were related to us. The aunts came bearing potato salad and watermelon. The portly uncles came smoking cigars. The cousins, big and little, came — even the smallest were allowed to hit a grounder. We chose teams, and let the fun begin.
My uncles, along with my dad, had a reputation in their youth. My grandmother told of the time she overheard a rival player say, "Here come those Gallagher boys. We might as well go home."
The uncles could still hit well, but they had no intention of running the bases. Their method was to hit the ball out beyond the driveway, where there was a fence and a pond, used to keep pigs when the water dried up in the summer. We kids had to climb over the fence to fetch the ball, bringing it back watery or loaded with pig sludge, depending on the time of year. In the meantime, the uncle would pad calmly around the bases.
Finally, we made up our own diamond rule: Over the pigpen fence is a ground-rule double.
All of us were competitive, and all of us were sticklers for the rules, no matter how imperfectly we understood them. The "force-out" thing was a complete surprise to me, and I argued vociferously against it, until advised to go in the house and cool down.
That was when I was young. As I grew older and wiser, I was a kinder, gentler player. Home from college once, I took a station on second base. Uncle Lyle hit a home run ball, but rather than walk around the bases, he cut across the pitcher's mound from second to home.
"What's this?" I yelled in mock anger.
Uncle Lyle turned to me beseechingly. "Oh, Gail, you're not going to make your old uncle walk around all those bases, are you?"
I laughed, and waved him on.
By now, I am older than Uncle Lyle was then. I hope the universe allows me similar shortcuts.
We built it and they came. It's gone now and some of us are gone as well. Maybe, when I get to Heaven, they'll let me go back to my field of dreams.
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Vanderbilt left two runners on base three times in the first four innings and never broke through in a 5-0 loss to Florida on Sunday in the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament championship game at Hoover, Ala.
"Their pitchers were keeping the ball down for the most part so I give them credit for that," catcher Curt Casali said. "It wasn't a clutch day for us offensively."
Anthony Gomez, Jason Esposito, Connor Harrell and Riley Reynolds all had two hits, which accounted for all but one of the Commodores' total.
No one drove in a run, though, even though Vanderbilt had runners on second and third in both the first and fourth innings and again in the ninth.
"Congratulations to Vanderbilt – they have an outstanding team," Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan said. "I expect them to be successful in the postseason, but it all started on the mound for us, … We knew we would have to pitch well to get on top of Vanderbilt. The ball bounced our way early on."
The Commodores fell behind when they committed two errors and allowed two unearned runs in the second inning.
Florida pulled away with one more run in the seventh off starting pitcher Taylor Hill and two in the eighth off Will Clinard, the first of three relievers.
"I like to think of our team as being very defensive oriented," VU coach Tim Corbin said. "I thought those errors were uncharacteristic. … Those things happen in college baseball. It just happened to bite us a little bit.
"… We really had a good pitching performance by [Hill]. He did exactly what we needed on a championship day to win a ball game."
The hitters, on the other hand, did not do enough.
• Vanderbilt had a league-high players five players named to the all-tournament team, which consisted of 12 players in all. Esposito, Reynolds, pitcher Sonny Gray, first baseman Aaron Westlake and designated hitter Conrad Gregor were those named.
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Applanation tonometry measures the pressure within your eye. We use eye drops to numb the surface of the cornea, then we use a tool called a tonometer to apply light pressure (applanation) to the eye to measure intraocular pressure.
The range for normal pressure is 12-22 mm Hg ("mm Hg" refers to millimeters of mercury, a scale used to record eye pressure). Most glaucoma cases are diagnosed with pressure exceeding 20 mm Hg. However, some people can have glaucoma at pressures lower than 20 mm Hg. Remember, eye pressure is unique to each person.
This procedure examines your optic nerve for glaucoma damage. First, we use eye drops to dilate the pupil in order to examine the interior of the eye. An ophthalmoscope is used to examine the shape and color of the optic nerve.
A nerve that is cupped or not a healthy pink color is cause for concern. If your intraocular pressure is not within the normal range or if the optic nerve looks unusual, we may perform additional special glaucoma tests: perimetry, gonioscopy or optical coherence tomography.
Perimetry is a visual field that tests your peripheral vision. This test will help to determine whether your vision has been affected by glaucoma. During this test you will be asked to look straight ahead and signal when you see spots of light
You may need to repeat this test on a future visit to compare the results to your initial visual test. If glaucoma has been diagnosed, a visual field test may be done once or twice yearly to check for any changes in your vision.
This procedure helps to determine whether the angle where the iris meets the cornea is open and wide, or narrow and closed. Before this exam, eye drops are used to numb the surface of the cornea
For more precise imaging of the optic nerve, we use optical coherence tomography. This works similarly to an ultrasound, but instead of measuring sound, it measures the reflection of infrared light, which is reflected uniquely by different tissues. This test can detect glaucoma much earlier than other current methods.
Fundus photography is a highly specialized form of medical imaging that takes photos of the back of your eye by focusing light through the cornea, pupil and lens. These pictures are use to assess the health of the optic nerve. The photographs are used for comparison, documentation, and sometimes to diagnose glaucoma.
Recent research has identified a relationship between eye pressure and the thickness of the cornea. Measurement of cornea thickness, called pachymetry, is important when making a diagnosis of glaucoma. It is also important when evaluating intraocular pressure control for patients receiving treatment.
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I love pictures.
If you're anything like me and my wife, you have pictures everywhere. Hanging on walls, resting on bookcases, stored on the computer and even collecting dust in the basement. You remember, when people actually used to have film developed?
I've found that, especially after you have kids, life tends to morph into a bullet train that rockets by so fast you can barely keep up. I was walking down my hallway yesterday when a precocious toddler buzzed by me and caused me to trip. I temporarily lost my footing and hit the wall, which nearly knocked down a fairly large picture frame. As I steadied it and realigned it on the wall, I realized I hadn't looked at them in quite some time.
I stared in amazement at the two happy people looking back at me with joy in their eyes. The picture was taken years ago in a different time. The faces I saw were younger, less worn down and flush with eagerness and anticipation. A young couple on the verge of life. She was dressed in a beautiful white gown looking ever the bride, with her arms wrapped around his shoulders. He was looking dapper in his tux, soaking in the moment and wondering how the hell he got such a gorgeous girl to marry him.
The moment was captured perfectly and conveyed a truly magical moment. And as I looked at it, I couldn't help but wonder…
No really, I don't know who they are. The frame actually holds four pictures. Three of them are from our wedding. Me rubbing MJ's feet, the two of us at the altar and MJ and I posing together with our rings. But the fourth picture? Strangers. They literally came with the frame. Don't get me wrong, they're beautiful strangers. She's gorgeous and he's who I'd look like if I was 70 lbs lighter and my hairline wasn't retreating faster than the French in wartime. But the fact remains, we have photo models hanging out where our wedding picture should be.
Then, when I walked into Will's room, it was deja vu all over again.
You have to understand, I love Will's room. I decorated it and worked on it myself. I put in all new baseboards, put up a chair rail around the room, painted it and even stenciled stars and moons all along the top of the room. I also put a couple of shelves in there too. I know that sounds ridiculously easy, but not for me. I'm not a handyman. I'm impressed with myself if I can take an electrical cover outlet off correctly. So when I finished that work in Will's room it was like I had just built a damn house.
But when I looked at the two shelves above his bed I had to laugh.
We decorated his room with bumblebees. I don't remember why. So on one shelf was the cute little bumblebee clock. It has been there for more than 2.5 years. And not once during that time has it worked, mainly because I never put the batteries in there.
On the other shelf sits a bumblebee picture frame. Inside that frame is the cutest baby picture you'll ever see. The only problem is it's not Will. With the best of intentions, we put that frame up there before Will was born and figured we'd take a picture of him and stick it in there. Well, 2.5 years later we still have someone else's child peering down at us every night as we put our son to bed.
Parents of the Year right?
I thought about developing more pictures and placing them in the frame, but to be honest that smacks of effort. Besides, how fun will it be to make new friends or have people over to our house for the first time, and watch their confusion as they try to figure out who the hell the random people are in all of these family pictures? Or maybe I'll name the couple and the baby and give them cool and interesting back stories.
Or I could just get off my lazy ass and print out a picture. But what fun is that?


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Unit 1: Introduction
AP Physics C-Mechanics
Mr. Kinnaird
AP Physics C-Mechanics
All students enrolled are required to take the AP Physics C-Mechanics Exam. If the student does not take the AP Exam then we will go back into your transcript and change your class to Honors Physics. Prior completion of a physics class is recommended. Completion of or concurrent enrollment in a first-semester calculus course is recomended. This is an inquiry based science class that incorporates the use of many different labs to help establish important concepts. During the course of this class students will be asked to solve many different types of physics problems with the concepts they learn through the course. It is impossible for any teacher to go over and work every type of problem the student may encounter on the test, instead it is my expectation for the students to develop and use problem solving strategies that can be implemented to solve any problem assigned to them.
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This class will consist of two semesters; however the AP Physics test will be around the 169 day mark of the year (depending on snow). With this calendar, it is necessary to organize the course within a tight schedule that includes assignments during some holiday breaks. I find it useful to lay out a calendar by which to measure progress through the material, in order to insure completion with time for sufficient review before the AP physics C-Mechanics Exam. The calendar reflects the day-by-day unit assignments schedule outlined below.
Unit 2: Kinematics
Unit 3: Newton's Laws of Motion
Unit 4: Work, Energy, and Power
Unit 5: Systems of Particles, Momentum
Unit 6: Circular Motion and Rotation
Unit 7: Oscillations and Gravitation
Lecture/Question-Answer Sessions
Other than lab experiments, class time is taken up with lecture and question-answer sessions. A "lecture" consumes 20 to 30 minutes in which a concept presented and the reading is reviewed, stressing important definitions and limitations. The remainder of the period usually involves showing relevant demonstrations (toys are frequently used), and then introducing an assigned problem or set of problems related to the demonstration. The students are then guided in a discussion (whole class or small group) to develop solutions to the problem(s). During all of these activities, I encourage discussion, questions, hypotheses, and proposals to flow among the students as many different "looks" at the application of a concept as possible, so an appreciation of the universality of physical concepts is developed. Live demonstrations with simple equipment, often done by the students themselves for the rest of the class, are preferred. Computer simulations and video demonstrations have their place when real equipment is not available. Whenever possible, I use the analogies, conceptual discoveries, and problem-solving techniques that helped my understanding when I was a student.
Problem Assignments
At the beginning of each unit, I give students a list of "what you should know and be able to do" by the end of the unit, a day-to-day schedule with assignments, the experiments scheduled, and when a quiz on the material can be expected. Providing this informs the students about the work required to master the objectives of the unit. As we begin each unit, it is assumed that you will read the chapter(s). As you read each chapter, work out each Quick Quiz along the way with your reasoning.
The assigned problems are either from the textbook or from a supplementary problem handout. Problems are chosen to give the students experience with a wide range of applications of the subject covered in the unit. When the textbook does not have a problem covering a particular application, I use one from another text or write one. I also make extensive use of worksheets that are designed to help students develop coherent problem-solving techniques. When working problems or in question-answer sessions, I always stress starting from a general principle and moving toward a specific application. Instead of spending class time on working a problem all the way through to the answer, we work on building a general-to-specific routine in solving problems. This is an important skill to develop for success in future course work in the long term and for success on the AP Exam in the short term, since most problems students encounter will not be specific type they have worked before.
There will be a series of Problems and Challenge Problems specifically assigned for each chapter. These problems and challenges are the level of difficulty that you will encounter on the AP Exam in May. It is essential that you learn to complete problems and challenges of this type to ensure your success next May.
Quizzes are given approximately every unit. The quizzes are designed similar in construction to the AP Exam. Each consists of 8 to 12 multiple-choice questions and a multipart free-response question. A teacher-constructed "anti-memorization" sheet is permitted on all quizzes. While going through the course material, the stress is on developing concepts and problem-solving strategies, not on memorization.
The multiple-choice questions come from many sources, such as AP Released Exams, New York Regents Exam review books, and question I have written. The free-response questions have the same format as those on the AP Exam, and most are modified AP Exam questions. All are constructed to test current material and material previously covered. For example, an energy free-response question might require a free-body diagram and have a part involving a trajectory.
The day after the quizzes are given, students score each other's papers using a rubric similar to those used to score the free-response questions on the AP Exam. Before the students begin scoring papers, each section of the solution is carefully explained. This requires them to go through the solution carefully, perhaps recognizing their own mistakes and perhaps learning a little from the mistakes of others.
The only cumulative examination given before the AP Exam review time is the first and second semester final. It consists of the 35-question multiple choice section from an AP Physics C: Mechanics. This exam is taken, scored, and reviewed during a three-hour final exam period. This Exam will only consist of the concepts we have gone over at that point.
Homework is assigned through a year long assignment sheet, which students are given at the beginning of the year. Students will be given a chance to ask about homework problems at the beginning of each class. Homework is accepted only when asked for. This encourages students to stay current in their homework assignments. Since they have had the chance to ask questions, the homework they hand in is expected to be correct. Extra assigned work will be taken up at random during this year as well and averaged into the homework grade.
The student will receive one grade for each semester.
AP Exam ReviewFormal review begins two weeks before the beginning of the AP Exam administration. Each student is given an exam booklet consisting of the multiple choice sections from two AP Physics C Released Exams and the free-response questions from the last five exams. In the booklet is a listing of the multiple-choice questions sorted by subject (i.e., kinematics, Newton's laws, etc.). During the early part of the review, several of these subject areas are assigned as homework. The first part of each class period is used to answer questions on the previous day's assignment. The rest of the period is divided up into 15 minute intervals, and one free-response question is assigned during each interval. Students may work alone or in groups of no more than three. Solution notebooks are available in the classroom for students to check their work. At the end of the first week of review, the mechanics multiple-choice questions from an AP Released Physics C Exam are given for credit. After the end of the second week, the multiple-choice questions from the E&M exam are given
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COLUMN: Goodbye, infrastructure
Published 12:00 am, Monday, June 3, 2013
A stitch in time saves nine. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. You can lead a horse to water, but if an outdated bridge collapses on it, the meat will wind up marketed by IKEA.
These are truisms I hope to impress upon son Gideon (age 9), the aspiring engineer. The subject comes up because of the recent debate over the nation's aging infrastructure, spurred by the collapse of an Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River near Mount Vernon, Washington.
You've probably heard the facts and figures about deferred maintenance of the nation's infrastructure, including roads, railroads, ports, airports and telecommunications networks. The average bridge in the U.S. is 42 years old; one-third have outlived their expected "lifespan." The American Society of Civil Engineers gives the nation's bridges a C-plus grade and our overall infrastructure a D-plus. Forty-two percent of urban roads are classified as "congested." The Federal Highway Trust Fund may go broke this year. Our structures are variously described as "decaying infrastructure," "crumbling infrastructure," "Jagger-esque infrastructure"...
Infrastructure is not a sexy subject. After the initial hoopla over a ribbon-cutting ceremony, we take it for granted. People get more worked up over "Real Housewives" or a celebrity's "wardrobe malfunction." Maybe the looming crisis would get more attention if a trailer load of silicone breast implants flipped on an overpass.
Ah, even then, some people would keep pretending nothing is wrong. Long accustomed to convincing themselves that the "service engine soon" light is just a faulty sensor or reassuring themselves that the pain in their chest hasn't killed them YET, they'll assume that things will work themselves out.
Of course they could be right. Just as their antiquated municipal sewer system breaks down, but before anything can hit the fan, maybe the nation's electric grid will completely shut down and stop the fan. Serendipity to the rescue.
I think most states have been good stewards of the public transportation/infrastructure money; but many people are resistant to higher taxes or other remedies because of the sneaking suspicion that we're still paying for zeppelin mooring posts, Pony Express rails and fur trader canoe ports.
Most damaging, I understand that someone put two and two together when they found line items for "The Road To Morocco" and "Bridge On The River Kwai" in a transportation budget. ("Hey, digitally remastering classics has put us on the ROAD to culture.")
I don't advocate throwing money at the problem, but right now the situation is a drag on the economy and a threat to our safety. We need to prioritize problem sites, employ high-tech sensors to make inspection more efficient and innovate less painful means of financing.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has long pushed for more maintenance funds, but some observers excuse foot dragging by our leaders because the necessary measures would be "politically risky." Hmmm. Let's put politically risky in the balance with PHYSICALLY risky. If it comes down to a choice of getting blown to Kingdom Come by a faulty gas line or having to give a concession speech, I think I could sob "My loyal constituents, we fought a hard reelection campaign; but now I'll have to content myself with my pension and my memoirs" with the best of them.
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