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Writing Undergoes Renaissance in Curricula
Its ascent stems from the common core, college feedback, and new research
Teachers are focusing on writing instruction like never before. More and more, they're asking students to write about what they read, helping them think through and craft their work, and using such exercises as tools not only to build better writers, but to help students understand what they're studying.
The shift is still nascent, but people in the field are taking notice. It marks a departure from recent practice, which often includes little or no explicit writing instruction and only a modest amount of writing, typically in the form of stories, short summaries, or personal reflections, rather than essays or research projects on topics being studied.
In Oak Park, Mich., high school students are reading and rereading texts, taking notes on different features and levels of meaning each time, to inform their reading and discussion as well as the writing they will do about those texts.
First graders in South Strafford, Vt., are reading Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, for fun, then for greater understanding, and then to hunt for evidence. They look for events in the plot that illustrate how the whimsical protagonist tries to protect the Earth and assemble examples into a simple paragraph to support the theme of the story.
On a literacy landscape that rarely features explicit writing instruction, and where the writing that does take place is often unconnected to reading, experts say, these kinds of projects are unusual for the way they connect writing and reading. Attention to reading has persistently been high, they say, but a focus on writing has waxed and waned in the past few decades.
"Now we're seeing a lot more attention to the idea that writing about a text can improve reading about that text," said literacy expert Timothy Shanahan, the chairman of the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Driving Change
Several forces are bringing about that change. One is the Common Core State Standards, which tie reading and writing together by placing a heavy emphasis on writing in response to one or more texts. Another—echoed in the standards—is feedback from college professors and employers, who bemoan young people's weakness in the analytical writing most needed in college and training for good jobs.
Research, too, is sparking reconsideration of the role writing can play in making better readers. "Writing to Read," a 2010 meta-analysis of 93 studies of writing interventions, found that writing had consistently positive effects on students' reading skills and comprehension. Writing about what they read was particularly helpful to students' comprehension, but so were taking notes on what they read, answering questions about it, and simply writing more often.
An expert panel brought together by the International Reading Association and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development concluded in a report earlier this year that reading and writing require "independent instruction." Too little still is known about the "reading-writing connection," the panel said, but it is sufficiently promising to warrant further research to inform classroom practice.
In 2010, the Newark, Del.-based IRA revised its standards for teacher preparation to include a greater emphasis on writing "as a way of emphasizing the importance of the reading-writing connection," said Rita M. Bean, who chaired that committee and is a professor emeritus of education at the University of Pittsburgh. A recent policy brief from the National Council of Teachers of English, based in Urbana, Ill., calls for having students write about and discuss complex texts and use those texts as models for writing.
Reading has occupied a higher profile than writing on the literacy landscape in part because of the focus on discrete reading skills that emanated from the National Reading Panel report in 2000, experts say, and the ensuing emphasis on those skills in the federally funded Reading First program and in state tests required under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Noting with alarm the growing gap, the National Commission on Writing in 2003 called for schools to double the amount of time they spent on writing.
"For all intents and purposes, 'literacy' became synonymous with 'reading,' and writing became the stepchild of literacy rather than an equal partner," said Andrés Henríquez, a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which underwrote a string of studies on reading and writing, including "Writing to Read."
Students still spend little time writing in school. Teacher surveys by Steve Graham, the author of "Writing to Read," and colleagues show that students spend less than half an hour writing each day in elementary school, and much of what they write is lists and fill-in-the-blank answers to questions. Even at the high school level, seven in 10 teachers reported that their preservice training had not prepared them adequately to teach writing, and nearly half did not assign a single multiparagraph writing task per month.
"What we have, typically, is kids not writing more than a paragraph of text, all the way through high school," said Mr. Graham, a professor at Arizona State University in Tempe. "It's not very promising for writing or for writing instruction."
Poor Performance
Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress reflect correspondingly lackluster writing skills. The report issued in September, for the 2011 exam, shows only one in four middle and high school students writing at the "proficient" level or better.
The national picture of student writing led the authors of the common standards to elevate its role in literacy instruction and to tie it closely to reading, not only in language arts classes but across the curriculum. Assessments for the standards, being designed by two groups of states, are expected to reflect those connections as well, with tasks that combine research and writing.
The idea, said Susan Pimentel, one of the lead authors of the standards, is to reduce writing "opinion untethered to evidence" and "decontextualized" writing—writing not based on the reading of a text—in favor of writing that requires students to read, comprehend, and respond to text, grounding their interpretations in evidence found there. That shift reflects what young people can expect in college and work, she said.
"In faculty and employer surveys, the kinds of skills that score high are the argument and evidence-related skills, developing ideas with relevant details and reasons," Ms. Pimentel said. "Telling stories scores very low. Expressing one's feelings, very low."
Increasingly, educators are seeing the need to make explicit connections between writing and reading and to teach genre-specific types of writing, said Barbara Cambridge, the policy director for the NCTE.
"Writing hasn't always been taught, especially outside of English/language arts classrooms," she said. "We know writing helps reading. But avid readers aren't necessarily good writers. This stuff has to be taught."
That's what Linda Denstaedt and her colleagues are trying to do as they craft K-12 curriculum units to reflect the standards in Michigan. At the core of their work at Oak Park High School is the "multidraft read," aimed at teaching students to delve into reading like writers, she said, which strengthens both their reading and their writing.
They read a text again and again, first to make sense of it and note their questions, as the teacher works the room to help, Ms. Denstaedt said. A second round of annotating focuses on looking for elements of the genre and how it works. They read again to spot structural decisions the writer made to create meaning, she said. The students then use what they learned in their own writing.
"All of this adds up to learning to read in layers, learning to read like a writer," said Ms. Denstaedt, the co-director of the Oakland Writing Project, which is a consultant to Michigan on the project and is an affiliate of the Berkeley, Calif.-based National Writing Project. "And you're learning how to read better as you write."
Too often, she said, writing is "all about doing tasks, assignments. We get students doing reading, and maybe writing, but we're not necessarily helping them learn how to think their way through a text."
Schools in Westerly, R.I., found that better writing can offer new ways to demonstrate knowledge. Dismal state science scores led the district to focus on writing and an inquiry-based approach to science instruction, and it paid off.
Only 49 percent of the 4th graders at State Street Elementary School scored proficient on the state science test in 2010, but 80 percent did in 2011. That number slid to 63 percent in 2012, said Principal Audrey Faubert, but she is still pleased with the improvement.
"Maybe they learned the science concepts better because they had to explain things," she said, "but I attribute it more to having a better way to show what they know, and that's important, too."
A math teacher in Brighton, Mich., found that writing had a powerful effect on helping her 6th grade students understand algebra concepts. Julie Mallia and a colleague from the English department, Don Pawloski, teamed up in spring 2009 to have students write 10-page "how to" books for the next fall's 6th graders. Drawing both on math and on writing instruction, students had to explain concepts such as solving a problem with x.
Many students reported understanding the math concepts better after writing the books, Ms. Mallia said, because their writing brought them face-to-face with the spots where their conceptual understandings were weak. And it opened up a valuable formative-assessment tool.
"I was really surprised at how many students who were able to get the right answers realized in trying to write the books that they didn't get the ideas behind them," she said. "That gave me a chance to work with them and reteach what they didn't understand."
'A Strong Tie'
Writing is poised to occupy a heftier role in the College Board's Advanced Placement program. In 15 schools, the organization is piloting two courses that, if completed along with three other AP classes, will lead to a new "capstone" credential.
A critical-reasoning course, taken during the junior year, includes a major research project that demands a 3,000-word group paper and a 1,200-word individual paper, said John Williamson, the project's senior director. Students must also do a 15-minute written and multimedia presentation. The end-of-year exam will require three or four 500-word essays, he said. The senior-year course is in research-methodology, culminating in a 20-page paper.
"There is a strong tie between reading and writing all the way through these courses," he said. "When students write about what they read, they come to new understandings about it. And it's bigger than just the writing; it's about communicating your disciplinary understanding to different audiences."
Diana Leddy and Joey Hawkins, the teachers who developed the writing approach used with The Lorax, said the root of it is using writing to deepen understanding.
"To be able to write well, you need to understand the material well, and to do that, you need to be a good reader," said Ms. Leddy. She and Ms. Hawkins work as consultants, primarily in New England schools, and also for the New York City-based nonprofit Student Achievement Partners, whose founding partners co-led the writing of the English/language arts common standards.
Ms. Leddy's and Ms. Hawkins' method reinterprets a tenet that has been central to many in literacy instruction.
"It's been an axiom that children should write about what they know," Ms. Leddy said. "That can mean writing from personal experience. But our interpretation is that we can help them know something, and that opens up a lot of areas for them."
A memoir, a speech at a memorial service, and a college essay all offer testament to the need to know how to write from personal experience, said Ms. Hawkins. But "it's a tremendous missed opportunity if all a kid writes about is what he knows."
Accordingly, when Ms. Leddy teaches The Lorax, she walks through the text repeatedly with students, discussing it from a different angle each time. When they're through, students learn to write short "hand paragraphs," with the thumb as the topic sentence—the Lorax cares for the Earth—followed by three examples of how he does that and a "pinky sentence" restating the interpretation.
Catherine Snow, a literacy expert and professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Mass., welcomes the shift to text-based writing, saying that personal narrative has been overemphasized in most language arts classrooms.
But the risk in focusing writing exclusively on text, she said, is that many students will not be interested enough in the reading to analyze it. The text-based skills can be taught, though, through topics and texts carefully chosen to engage students, Ms. Snow said.
In a Harvard project being developed in several districts in Maryland and Massachusetts, 4th through 7th graders tackle topics that fire them up, such as whether Tater Tots should be served in the cafeteria, Ms. Snow said. Such questions drive them back to their readings to search for information they can use to build well-founded arguments, she said.
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Nairobi police chief Moses Nyakwama said the blast occurred on a so-called "matatu", or local minibus, in the district of Eastleigh, where mainly Somalis or Kenyans of Somali origin live and which has been the target of other attacks in recent weeks.
"The information we have is that there were about 25 people in the bus. It looks like it is an improvised explosive device that was thrown in it," he said.
"It occurred at a congested place so even people passing by got injured."
The Kenyan Red Cross said on its Twitter account that the death toll was now seven people while the number of wounded was 29.
Kenya has suffered a wave of grenade and gun attacks, often blamed on sympathisers of Somalia's Shebab Islamist insurgents, since its army went into Somalia last year to flush out al-Shabab. The Eastleigh area has often been a target of the violence.
On Wednesday, a suspected grenade attack in a supermarket in the district wounded one person, and two weeks earlier another explosive device went off, wounding two.
Earlier this month, attackers also hurled a grenade into a church in the northeastern town of Garissa, close to the Somali border, killing one policeman and wounding 14 people. – Sapa-AFP

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Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and 10th-Grade Surveys), 1999 (ICPSR 2940)
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Lloyd D. Johnston, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; Jerald G. Bachman, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; Patrick M. O'Malley, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; John Schulenberg, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center
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These surveys of 8th- and 10th-grade students are part of a series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Students in each grade are randomly assigned to complete one of four questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical questions but containing a set of "core" questions on demographics and drug use. There are about 300 variables across the questionnaires. Drugs covered by this survey include amphetamines (stimulants), barbiturates (tranquilizers), other prescription drugs, tobacco, alcohol, inhalants, steroids, marijuana, hashish, LSD, hallucinogens, cocaine, crack, and injection drugs such as heroin.
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- Johnston, Lloyd D., Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, and John Schulenberg. Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and 10th-Grade Surveys), 1999. ICPSR02940-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02940.v1
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You can carry a pot with a candle in it from room to room, but always place the pot on your wooden cutting board to prevent any heat from possibly damaging where the pot is sitting. — Beverly G., The Woodlands, Texas
Dear Heloise: My hint is about those nice, plastic zippered bags you get when you buy a new set of sheets. They're great for storing linens and tablecloths, plus I mark the tablecloth size on the bag. This eliminates the need to take the tablecloth out of the bag and guess whether it will fit. I have many tablecloths that are the same color but are different shapes and sizes. This has helped me out tremendously when throwing a party. — Christie L., via email
Dear Heloise: When you are doing embroidery and don't have a particular floss color, you can substitute regular sewing thread. Just take the sewing thread and double or even triple it. — Doris G., Bloomfield, N.J.


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Book – Short stories are funny things. They're short, of course, which means you don't spend very much time with them, but somehow they can pack even more emotional punch than a novel. Some writers can write beautiful novels and their short stories fall flat; some writers write incredible short stories but their novels meander strangely. For my part, I think of Angela Carter as the second type: her novels are deeply weird in a way I don't enjoy, but her short stories are incredibly powerful.
This is an omnibus collection of Carter's work, so there's a lot of variety here. Some of my favorite stories are "The Fall River Axe Murders," a narrative about Lizzie Borden; "The Bloody Chamber," a retelling of the Bluebeard fairy tale; and "The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter," a story Carter wrote after someone argued that the only thing a story needed was for something to happen. (Nothing actually happens in "The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter," but it's a moving story nonetheless.)
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Friday is my Fave Day...
When I was in high school and college there was a song that the radio guys played every Friday at6:30 am...
Friday, Friday, Friday is my favorite day!
Friday, Friday, Friday is my favorite day!
Monday is a bummer.
Tuesday's only fair.
Wednesday's getting better.
Thursdays almost there.
But, Friday, Friday,
Friday is my favorite,
Friday is my favorite,
Friday is my Favorite Day-ay-O!
Have a good weekend!
Friday, July 29, 2005
It's my Favorite Day!
Friday is my Fave Day...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Well, I seem to be having a case of "Blogger's Block"...so I am resorting to talk of the weather...
It's hot.
But I am a desert rat...so I don't mind the heat.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Summertime in the "Olden Days"
I was feeling a little bit bummed cuz our dog has a bad infestation of ticks (although she is on a monthly preventative) and it is just gross. At 8 a.m I ran out to Petsmart to buy every tick shampoo, collar and spray on the market . I was grumbling (just a little) in anticipation of the morning ahead....the bathing and cleaning and sweeping and vacuuming etc, etc.
After getting back home with several pesky-pet-products I started to give Kona a bath.
While sudsing her up The Boy came over and helped me a bit with the "rinse cycle"...I needed another set of hands to hold down this beast...she's not fond of baths. The Boy, gravitated toward the hose as we finished and before I knew it he and The Girl were playing in the hose, completely dressed, and having a blast.
The Boy often comes to us and asks us about "the Olden Days", and watching these two squeal and play in the water made me remember some fond summer memories.....for instance, my brothers and I grew up in a house that had a covered patio in the back. My brothers and I would spray it with the hose and it became super slippery. And although we had a pool, my brothers and I would spend hours slipping and sliding until our arms, knees and legs were all scraped up and bruised.
Also, in the "Olden Days", there were fun things like Bullet popsicles...not the new ones that are red, white and blue, but the real and original Bullet...the orange-on-the-outside-red-on-the-inside kind. And "back in the day" you couldn't find them in a store...your Dad had to drive you to the Circle K... and you had to dig deep in the pint-sized ice cream coolers for one. I haven't found them here, but when I went home to AZ in June I found a box at a grocery store and consumed them happily.
Thinking of all these happy summertime memories of the "Olden Years" (you'd think I was 80) made me less irritated with Kona for galavanting into the woods and catching ticks.
How about you? What are your fun summer memories from "The Olden Days"?
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Friday, July 15, 2005
Happy Summer Moment
I am listening to James Taylor's greatest hits, making chocolate cupcakes (for a BBQ with friends tonight) drinking a diet Lime Coke, and it's Friday...La Vida Dulce.
Happy Weekend!
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
I am showing my pearly whites today. Went to the dentist and got them all cleaned up and....drum roll please....no cavities!! For some of you "lucky-toothed" people this will seem incredibly silly...but for those of you who know me and my "dental woes" you know that this is a huge deal! I finally have the "issues", as the dentist would say, resolved, so just for fun I am going to go and get an old filling replaced in September....I thought going 6 months without Novocaine might be like quitting cold turkey so I made an appointment. It's a win-win situation, I get to replace an ugly old silver filling with a pretty new "tooth colored" one, and my dentist gets to take the whole month of August off for vacation to the Bahamas.
So today I might even say that today I have a bird on my finger, except I am feeling a bit like the Cheshire Cat...
I do have to say that I am starting to feel old...my Dental Hygienist was VERY young. She had just graduated this year and this was her first full time job, and she was getting married in September. When I told her I had been married for ten years she gave me that "holy cow" look and then gently tried to brush it off by saying "That's cool!". This happened last month when I got established with a new doc here in town. She was definitely my age or a bit younger...scary.
The only thing that makes me feel better is that my parents will be celebrating there 34 wedding anniversary tomorrow. Now that's old!!! (Hi Dad!)
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
No Birds Today
I should have known that today would be a bit of a bummer when I got up, got ready, got the kids dressed and presentable, and started loading up to go to the dentist, when I realized that my appointment was not today, but tomorrow.
So we had to reschedule what I had planned to do tomorrow and get it done today...
I had been putting off "tomorrow" just by the simple fact that it was to be a "Walmart" day. As most people I know (especially those with chirldren under 12), I have a love/hate relationship that goes with the dreaded Walmart visit. Quite frankly, I'd rather go to the dentist. But sometimes you can't beat the fact that even the Ramen is cheaper...
A friend here told me that there was a Super-Walmart that was not that far, and yet, it was in a different town..."Only about 20 minutes away"--a local phrase that I find myself muttering under my breath as I try to read my Mapsco and navigate down a foreign country road...How I long for the day when I can be driving back roads and short-cuts and actually get to where I am going.....but I digress.
This morning, after driving all over 3 different counties (and I am not kidding) the kids and I never found the Super-Walmart. We did however find a stretch of highway that would take us back to our county and some familiarity: Super-Target.
After taking two hours to get to Target (that is only about 20 minutes from our house), I get my list and begin shopping with two children who are complaining because they "never" get to look at the toys in Target...never, meaning not since last Monday.
Then I got home and the cellular phone issue that our "cellular phone guy" said would be taken care of last month, is not, and we received not one, but two, bills in the mail.
I had a friend in Fort Worth who, when her life was going completely as planned, or if something really awesome happened, she would say "It's like I am walking around with a bird on my finger!" (Think Mary Poppins).
There are no birds today.
Actually, I did buy ice cream this morning...things are starting to look better...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
A Big, Blogging, Blueberry, Day
I have decided to blog....
Now perhaps I can post pictures and instead of everyone having to get emails every other day you can come to the blog when you need an update or a picture fix.
Today we picked blueberries at a blueberry farm nearby. The picture above is of the 10 pounds of Blueberries we picked...The kids (and I) had fun.
So this is the first, of hopefully, many happy blogging memories (note the bit of sarcasm)
By the way....I picked La Vida Dulce...translated: the sweet life....(it's also the name of one of my favorite coffees) becasue I liked it...it can be my tag line....kind of like the Mexican Martha Stewart....only NICER!
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Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition, particularly among women of childbearing age, affecting an estimated 2 to 10 percent of American women in this age group. Endometriosis can be a debilitating disease for some women who experience ongoing pain, while others may be asymptomatic. It is also a factor in infertility, with about 30 to 40 percent of women with endometriosis experiencing difficulty conceiving a child.
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The name comes from the word "endometrium," which is the tissue that lines the uterus. During a woman's regular menstrual cycle, this tissue builds up and is shed if she does not become pregnant. Women with endometriosis develop tissue that looks and acts like endometrial tissue outside the uterus, usually on other reproductive organs inside the pelvis or in the abdominal cavity. Each month, this misplaced tissue responds to the hormonal changes of the menstrual cycle by building up and breaking down just as the endometrium does, resulting in internal bleeding.
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A staging system has been developed by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (formerly the American Fertility Society). The stages are classified according to the following:
|Level of Severity
|Stage I
|Stage II
|Stage III
|Stage IV
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- the involvement of pelvic structures in the disease
- the extent of pelvic adhesions
- the blockage of the fallopian tubes
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Where are endometrial implants often found?
- the fallopian tubes
- ligaments that support the uterus
- the internal area between the vagina and rectum
- outer surface of the uterus
- in the lining of the pelvic cavity
Occasionally, the implants are found in other places, such as:
- intestines
- rectum
- bladder
- vagina
- cervix
- vulva
- abdominal surgery scars
What are the symptoms of endometriosis?
The following are the most common symptoms for endometriosis, however, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms of endometriosis may include:
- pain, especially excessive menstrual cramps which may be felt in the abdomen or lower back
- pain during intercourse
- abnormal or heavy menstrual flow
- infertility
- fatigue
- painful urination during menstrual periods
- painful bowel movements during menstrual periods
- other gastrointestinal problems (i.e., diarrhea, constipation, and/or nausea)
It is important to note that the amount of pain a woman experiences is not necessarily related to the severity of the disease - some women with severe endometriosis may experience no pain, while others with a milder form of the disease may have severe pain or other symptoms.
Endometriosis rarely leads to endometrial cancer - this occurs in less than one percent of women with the disease.
How is endometriosis related to infertility?
Endometriosis is considered one of the three major causes of female infertility. In mild to moderate cases, the infertility may be just temporary. In these cases, surgery to remove adhesions, cysts, and scar tissue can restore fertility. In other cases (a very small percentage), women may remain infertile. Physicians are still not clear how endometriosis affects fertility.
What causes endometriosis?
The causes of endometriosis are still unknown, although many theories abound. One theory suggests that during menstruation some of the tissue backs up through the fallopian tubes into the abdomen, a sort of "reverse menstruation", where it attaches and grows. Another theory states that certain families may have predisposing genetic factors to the disease. Current research is also looking at the role of the immune system in activating cells that may secrete factors which stimulate endometriosis.
A: While the symptoms you describe can indicate endometriosis, they are also common symptoms of other gynecological conditions such as a hormonal imbalance, fibroids, or polyps. There is an increase risk of endometriosis in women who have a first-degree family member, such as a mother or sister, with the disease.While the symptoms you describe can indicate endometriosis, they are also common symptoms of other gynecological conditions such as a hormonal imbalance, fibroids, or polyps. There is an increase risk of endometriosis in women who have a first-degree family member, such as a mother or sister, with the disease.
The best way to determine if endometriosis (or any other condition) is present is to visit your gynecologist for a complete physical and pelvic examination. Your physician will conduct diagnostic tests to rule out other conditions. The only way to diagnose endometriosis is through a laparoscopy, which allows the physician to determine if there are endometrial growths by using a laparoscope (tube with lens and light). Today, laser surgery is becoming a more common method for removing these growths in mild to moderate cases.
Who is at risk for developing endometriosis?
While any woman may develop endometriosis, the following women seem to be at an increased risk for the disease:
- women who have first-degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) with the disease
- women who are giving birth for the first time after age 30
- Caucasian women
- women with an abnormal uterus
How is endometriosis diagnosed?
For many women, simply having a diagnosis of endometriosis brings relief. Diagnosis begins with a gynecologist evaluating a patient's medical history and a complete physical examination including a pelvic exam. A diagnosis of endometriosis can only be certain when the physician performs a laparoscopy (a minor surgical procedure in which a laparoscope, a thin tube with a lens and a light, is inserted into an incision in the abdominal wall. Using the laparoscope to see into the pelvic area, the physician can often determine the locations, extent, and size of the endometrial growths.).
Other examinations which may be used in the diagnosis of endometriosis include:
- biopsy - a procedure in which tissue samples are removed (with a needle or during surgery) from the body (often during a laparoscopy) for examination under a microscope; to determine if cancer or other abnormal cells are present.
- ultrasound - a diagnostic imaging technique which uses high-frequency sound waves to create an image of the internal organs.
- computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) - a non-invasive procedure that takes cross-sectional images of internal organs; to detect any abnormalities that may not show up on an ordinary x-ray.
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - a non-invasive procedure that produces a two-dimensional view of an internal organ or structure.
Treatment for endometriosis:
Specific treatment for endometriosis will be determined by your physician based on:
- your overall health and medical history
- current symptoms
- extent of the disease
- your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- expectations for the course of the disease
- your opinion or preference
- your desire for pregnancy
If symptoms are mild, physicians generally agree that no further treatment, other than pain medication, is necessary.
In general, treatment for endometriosis may include:
Simple tips that can help ease the pain of endometriosis include rest, relaxation, and meditation; warm baths; prevent constipation; regular exercise; use of hot water bottle or heating pad on your abdomen
- "watchful waiting" - to observe the course of the disease
- pain medication - such as ibuprofen or other over-the-counter analgesics
- hormone therapy, including:
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH agonist), which stops ovarian hormone production, creating a sort of "medical menopause"
- Danazol, a synthetic derivative of testosterone (a male hormone)
- oral contraceptives, with combined estrogen and progestin (a synthetic form of progesterone) hormones, prevent ovulation and reduce menstrual flow
- progesterone alone
Surgical techniques which may be used to treat endometriosis include:
- laparoscopy (also used to help diagnose endometriosis) - a minor surgical procedure in which a laparoscope, a thin tube with a lens and a light, is inserted into an incision in the abdominal wall. Using the laparoscope to see into the pelvic area, the physician can often remove the endometrial growths.
- laparotomy - a more extensive surgery to remove as much of the displaced endometrium as possible without damaging healthy tissue.
- hysterectomy - surgery to remove the uterus and possibly the ovaries.
Sometimes a combination of therapies are used, such as conservative surgery (laparoscopy or laparotomy), along with hormone therapy.
Some women also benefit from alternative treatments used in conjunction with other medical and surgical therapies for the treatment of endometriosis. These include:
- traditional Chinese medicine
- nutritional approaches
- homeopathy
- allergy management
- immune therapy
It is important to discuss any/all of these treatments thoroughly with your physician, as some may conflict with the effectiveness of others.


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Friday, February 15th, 2013
To hear various commentators speak about politicians today, the overwhelming impression one gets is that politicians fall into one of two camps—ideologues or modern day Machiavellians. Either they are hidebound in what they believe and, hence, unwilling to take seriously the other side (or even reality itself), or they are so willing to compromise for short-term gain that they neglect the common good. Of course, these are caricatures, but repeated often enough, they do stamp how the general public has come to think about its elected officials.
Although Americans have a long history of seeing politicians as "those rascals in Washington," it was once the case that they also took note of, and celebrated, the lives of those exceptional political role models, such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But this coming Monday, we will celebrate Presidents' Day, largely ignoring which president it is that we're celebrating as we run around hoping to beat the crowds buying, say, a new mattress or car.
But Monday is George Washington's birthday, and it is Washington we should be celebrating—that model of character, principle and prudence. And there is no better place to start than an extraordinary new collection, "The Meaning of George Washington's Birthday," by my AEI colleague Leon Kass and his wife, Amy Kass of the Hudson Institute. As part of their ongoing American Calendar project, the Kasses draw on speeches, stories, and writings about Washington to explore the history of his birthday holiday and follow his career from military scout, to colonial farmer, to general, to president of the United States. In so doing, they make a powerful case for Washington's greatness, and why he should remain, in the famous words of Henry Lee, "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
The American Calendar project is part of a larger patriotic and educational effort which uses the tools of the Internet to teach about the meaning of American citizenship. In addition to their work on our civic holidays, the Kasses provide a full curriculum of video discussions and lesson plans around a series of classic American short stories and songs. It's well worth checking out—even after you buy that new mattress.


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Appling-led No. 13 Michigan St tops Illinois 80-75
Illinois had a shot to be the first team in the nation with four wins over currently ranked teams.
The Fighting Illini, though, couldn't follow up a strong first half well enough to knock off No. 13 Michigan State on Thursday night.
Keith Appling led a pivotal run early in the second half and finished with 24 points and seven assists to help the Spartans to an 80-75 victory Thursday night.
The Spartans (18-4, 7-2 Big Ten) scored the first 14 points of the second half to take their first lead, following up on a prediction made by Illini coach John Groce.
"The last thing I told those guys before they left the huddle was, `Just so you know, they're going to come at you hard in the second half. They're going to turn up the heat,'" Groce recalled.
The Illini (15-7, 2-6), who were ranked as high as No. 10 this season, lost for the fifth time in six games.
"We've got to realize it's a long season," said Brandon Paul, who had 13 points. "We've got 10 games left and we can't dwell on the losses we have."
Illinois has put itself in a tough position for postseason play.
"Absolutely, our backs are against the wall," Groce said. "Nobody is going to give you anything."
Illinois started strong and responded to rallies with shots and stops in the first half.
Michigan State played with a lot of energy in the second half. Appling alternated making shots and setting up teammates to score in helping turn a 10-point deficit into a 41-37 lead for the Spartans.
The Spartans started the game without senior center Derrick Nix, finished it without sophomore guard Travis Trice and played much of the second half without freshman guard Gary Harris.
Nix didn't start because coach Tom Izzo said the captain missed some academic appointments. He entered the game midway through the first half and finished with eight points. Trice, a key guard off the bench, was limited to 11 minutes in the first half because of a blow he took to the head on a shot attempt. Trice missed five games after breaking his nose and getting a concussion in the season-opening loss to Connecticut. Harris, a starter, went to the locker room midway through the second half with back spasms and returned to the bench, but not the game.
Harris had 14 points, fellow freshman Denzel Valentine also scored 14, Braden Dawson had 12 points and nine rebounds and Adreian Payne added eight points, including a dunk off an alley-oop pass with 1:45 left to put the Spartans up 72-67.
Appling's spinning, scooping layup put them ahead by six points with 45 seconds remaining to essentially seal the victory that kept Michigan State undefeated at home this season. Appling bounced back from a three-point, no-assist, five-foul performance Sunday in a five-point loss at Indiana.
Tracy Abrams scored 16 points for Illinois, D.J. Richardson had 14 and reserve Myke Henry 11.
"Our defense wasn't good enough," Groce said. "Offensively, we were good for the most part."
The Spartans led by eight points midway through the second half, but couldn't put away a team that has been talented enough to beat some of the top teams in college basketball.
Illinois has beaten No. 7 Gonzaga by 11 points, No. 9 Butler by 17 and No. 11 Ohio State by 19 points. Since beating the Buckeyes on Jan. 5, the Illini lost lopsided games to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Michigan with their only win during the slump coming against 11th-place Nebraska.
Making five 3-pointers and having only one turnover helped the Illini lead 37-27 at halftime.
"They were good," Izzo said. "They got every loose ball."
After struggling to keep possession of the ball early in the second half against aggressive defense, Abrams made some 3-pointers to keep Illinois within a possession of tying the game, including one with 5:39 left that made the score 63-60.
Early in the game, the Spartans looked rusty playing after a three-day break and Illinois seemed fired up to play.
Michigan State got off to an awful start with four turnovers on its first four possessions, leading to the Illini taking an 8-0 lead during a first half in which they dominated in every way.
The beginning of the second half, though, ended Illinois' shot to do something special.
"The game was won in the first 4 to 5 minutes of the second half," Groce said. "They came out and punched us in the mouth. I didn't like our response."
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The State of Michigan has announced that $325 million in stimulus money has been allocated statewide. Of that, Community Action Agency (CAA) will receive $5.5 million to provide weatherization services to homeowners and renters in Lenawee and Hillsdale counties.
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PHILADELPHIA (Oct. 10, 2012) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing up to $3 million in research grants for projects that will study the benefits of green techniques in controlling stormwater pollution in Philadelphia. The funds will help advance the city's landmark Green City, Clean Waters plan.
EPA's "Science to Achieve Results" (STAR) program will fund major research projects focusing on key aspects of green infrastructure in a 40,500-acre area of the city experiencing frequent sewer system overflows.
Green stormwater infrastructure includes green roofs, tree-lined streets, porous pavement, grassy swales and other features that intercept stormwater before it can surge into sewer systems and send pollutants to local rivers and streams.
"Philadelphia is a national leader in using green techniques for reducing stormwater impacts and increasing economic and community benefits," said EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. "This funding will help the city quantify the benefits of thinking outside the pipe, and create a living laboratory of green infrastructure."
In April 2012, EPA signed a partnership agreement with the city to support the Green City, Clean Waters plan to control stormwater.
EPA will fund research projects of up to $1 million each to examine the performance and effectiveness of green stormwater infrastructure in Philadelphia.
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- · Measuring early benefits, long-term effectiveness and economic viability of green infrastructure;
· Evaluating alternative financing mechanisms;
· Quantifying benefits to neighborhoods and communities;
· Developing strategies for successfully adopting green infrastructure.
More information on the Request for Applications for "Performance and Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure Stormwater Management Approaches in the Urban Context: A Philadelphia Case Study," can be found at http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/
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Learning social skills while having fun
NORWELL — It's a late-winter Saturday afternoon, and the Skills for Living center on Accord Park Drive is bustling. The front door is constantly swinging open with parents coming and going, some with children in tow; two mothers are chatting in the waiting room; and teenagers are draped over conference room chairs, just hanging out.
"It wasn't my intention to start a community center, but it looks like that's happening!'' said Katy Shamitz, founder and director of the social learning program, standing amid the controlled chaos.
Shamitz' vision six years ago was to teach social skills to children and young adults with social learning disabilities. Children with Asperger's syndrome or autism can have difficulty interpreting social cues and interacting with peers, she said, making it hard to make friends and fit in. So, Shamitz, a Quincy resident who worked as a school counselor in the Norwell school system until her first child was born, decided she could use her expertise and perhaps fill a need.
"I thought I was going to be a stay-at-home mom, but that lasted eight weeks,'' she said, recalling her start.
Shamitz began teaching social skills in children's homes — at first running her business out of her PT Cruiser.
Today, Skills for Living operates out of a large space in an office park just off Route 3 and has become a family business. Shamitz' husband, Rob, recently left his job as a mechanical engineer at Bluefin Robotics, a Quincy-based developer of underwater vehicles, and now runs science and engineering workshops for teens attending Skills for Living. They recently built a working hovercraft and routinely take apart small appliances to learn how the machines work. The couple's two young children also come to the center on weekends and play with the children who attend.
Shamitz' staff of seven teachers and three administrative assistants — all of them from the south suburbs — have varied backgrounds in disciplines such as occupational and speech therapy, counseling, art therapy, nursing, and education. She said she has studied Michelle Garcia Winner's "Social Thinking'' curriculum, a popular treatment framework for children with social learning disabilities that helps them understand what people around them are thinking and mold their actions accordingly.
The staff is also trained in the curriculum and threads it throughout social skills classes and the more informal drop-in groups, which are centered on games such as Pokemon, Lego, and Minecraft, a popular virtual construction game. The games are hugely popular with the children and teenagers who attend and encourage interaction and collaboration.
"A bunch of these kids just need a place to fit in, especially the older kids,'' said Shamitz, adding that by building a place where youngsters can fit in and socialize, she has also created an opportunity for parents to connect, which can be difficult for parents with children with special needs.
"If young kids have a hard time connecting, so do their parents,'' she said. "It's been very rewarding to see the families and kids make connections and friendships.''
Joanne Puskar of Carver was looking for a place for her 12-year-old son, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, and Asperger's, to socialize outside of the typical, cliquey middle school environment. He started coming to Skills for Living, she said, and "it's the one and only activity that I don't have to pull teeth to get him out of the house for.''
His favorite activity is the drop-in Minecraft group. After his first day, said Puskar, her son told her, " 'The kids here are just like me.' ''
Aileen Buckley said her 13-year-old son, who has Asperger's, was struggling to make friends, and she was setting up play dates to help him, but it wasn't working. "We wanted a program that wasn't clinical and would help him make friends on his own,'' she said. So far for mother and son, Skills for Living has been a success.
"He loves it,'' said Buckley, who lives in Dorchester.
Dania Jekel, executive director of the Asperger's Association of New England, based in Watertown, said a sense of belonging is crucial for every child, but it can be elusive for children with Asperger's syndrome or autism.
"It's important that these children find a set of compatible peers who don't tease them and have similar interests,'' she said. "And this may not happen in a public school setting. Many kids with Asperger's can feel isolated.''
Jekel speaks favorably of programs such as Skills for Living as viable alternatives for families who can afford them. The sessions can add up: At Skills for Living, where Shamitz says she has priced the programs so they are accessible to most, the social skills classes are $35 each, and drop-in groups are $12. Neither is covered by insurance.
"There's definitely a two-tiered system in Massachusetts of families who can afford these programs and families who can't,'' said Jekel, adding that the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism provides her organization with grants that it then distributes as scholarships for families to enroll in social skills programs and other activities.
The organization also offers parent support groups and workshops, as well as game nights and teen events in various places around the state, including Canton and Plymouth. Among others, Massachusetts General Hospital's Aspire program runs social skills groups for children and young adults with autism, and Second Nature Social Skills in Plymouth, a for-profit business like Skills for Living, also uses Garcia Winner's social thinking framework.
On this Saturday afternoon, three boys are hanging out with Janet Daley, leader of the Teen Boys group, a social skills class. Hanging over the front desk of the center is a large blackboard with the words: "We are so happy you're here. You are clever and no one thinks just like you. You are unique, no one else sees with your eyes. You are kind. You matter.''
David McGrath, a 17-year old from Weymouth, says he likes the Teen Boys group because "we have conversations with each other.''
This day the boys played the party game Apples to Apples, in which players make funny comparisons. Daley says she played the game with a dose of sarcasm to teach the teens how to differentiate between a genuine comment and a sarcastic one. They then started planning a bake sale to raise funds for the center's new gym floor.
"The planning process teaches them that stuff doesn't just happen,'' Daley says.
Besides the weekly Teen Boys group, the youths also connect with their peers on Teen Nights, held every Friday. Shamitz
started them because, she said, "Every teen should have the opportunity to make plans on a Friday night.''
Each week there's a different theme or activity, such as bingo night or movie night. One teen who attends Skills for Living is a "Seinfeld'' fan and suggested celebrating Festivus, a secular holiday featured in the TV comedy. On the show the characters had a Festivus dinner and had a plain aluminum Festivus pole in place of a Christmas tree.
"We were sitting around the Festivus pole, eating meatloaf! We do a lot of quirky things,'' said Shamitz. "There's a phenomenal sense of community.''
While many of the children and young adults who attend Skills for Living have a social learning disability, she said she and her staff don't get caught up in an individual's diagnosis. Instead, they focus on his or her strengths and weaknesses, as well as interests.
"You don't put a Star Wars kid with a Star Trek kid,'' said Shamitz. "We group them very carefully, and most kids are happy to be here.''
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Boxer Amir Khan and promoter Frank Warren have threatened to sue Facebook for libel over allegedly "defamatory and racist" content on the social networking site.
The WBA light welterweight champion and Warren are angered that their names and images have been used in unofficial groups on the site that are full of racist abuse. Leeds-based solicitor Lupton Fawcett has been instructed to write a complaint to Facebook but have so far received only a "standard acknowledgment".
In a statement, Stephen Taylor Heath of Lupton Fawcett said: "Facebook allows users to create pages on the site with information and pictures on themselves, and to communicate with friends and contacts. Unfortunately, Amir and Frank are an example of well-known people who have become the victim of posters creating pages on the site using their name and image to draw attention to their derogatory remarks.
"At the moment the owners of Facebook do not seem to be taking the problems seriously. We have written to them outlining our concerns but all we received was a standard acknowledgment. We are still awaiting a response from their legal department."
A quick search of Facebook on Friday reveals well over 100 groups dedicated to Amir Khan formed by a mixture of fans and detractors ("We hate Amir Khan" is typical of the latter, with 38 hits on the search term "amir khan + hate"). Fan groups typically have hundreds of members while detractor groups are made up of less than 50.
Mixed in with expressions of admiration or love are insults about Khan's supposed arrogance and (occasionally well-reasoned) critiques of his boxing. Most of the racist remarks appear to have cropped up in groups celebrating Khan's knock-out at the hands of Colombian boxer Breidis Prescott in September 2008, but are by no means restricted to those groups.
Frank Warren-themed groups are smaller in number, with a common thread among the detractors involving criticising Warren's physical appearance (eg "frank warren has floppy earlobes and looks like a fuckin rabbit" is one of the more inventive titles).
Policing all that is no easy matter.
Facebook issued a statement saying there was "no place" for derogatory content and pledging to remove any such content reported to it.
Lupton Fawcett is hoping to act for other sports stars and celebrities with similar concerns over content on social networking sites, the Manchester Evening News reports. ®