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The Graduate Diploma in Dental Therapy offered by the University of Newcastle is the next academic step from the highly successful Bachelor of Oral Health, offering you an education that extends your professional expertise and provides you with new and exciting career opportunities.
Deliberately structured into four core courses, you will be provided with the most relevant skills and knowledge to practice as a highly competent dental therapist. You will study restorative dentistry, paediatric dentistry, management of acute conditions in oral health and comprehensive oral health care, all of which will improve your critical thinking, judgement and decision making abilities as you diagnose and treat dental issues.
As a graduate you will have the opportunity to obtain registration with the Australian Dental Council and the Dental Board of Australia, allowing you to perform restorative dental care for children and young adults.
Explore this page and find out if the Graduate Diploma in Dental Therapy is for you, what you will study and the career opportunities it can provide you.
Is it for you?
Have you completed a Bachelor of Oral Health or similar and are now looking to expand your career opportunities into dental therapy, where you will be equipped to practice restorative dentistry, manage acute oral conditions and provide holistic oral care advice?
The University of Newcastle's Graduate Diploma in Dental Therapy is a full-time program, completed over three trimesters (one year). Throughout the program you will learn to apply critical thinking to manage individual cases, whilst preserving sound judgement and applying active decision making. To be successful as a dental therapist you will also need to be an active listener and able to monitor and manage ongoing conditions or issues.
To find out more about what you will study, visit the 'Study' tab.
The University of Newcastle's Graduate Diploma in Dental Therapy is a comprehensive and intensive program requiring you to study full-time and mostly on campus however some programs will be available online. Run by highly qualified and enthusiastic academics you will be provided with a decidedly relevant and reputable higher education, designed to prepare you to hit the ground running once you graduate.
You will have direct access to the University's state-of-the-art contemporary facilities which conform to quality practices around the country. These facilities will be your primary learning environment as you study the four mandatory courses in restorative dentistry, paediatric dentistry, management of acute conditions in oral health and comprehensive oral health care.
Throughout this program you will study tooth morphology, pulpal physiology and clinical radiology with cavity design, restorative techniques and dental materials. You will also uncover key concepts of child psychology and behaviour management techniques.
To develop your skills and knowledge in the management of acute conditions in oral health, you will learn:
- dental and regional anatomy
- tooth and tissue physiology and clinical radiology with extraction of primary
- permanent teeth and minor oral surgery.
You will learn to identify systemic disease and oral pathology in infants and children, whilst understanding how to treat the condition and manage any pain or infection.
To complete your qualification you will be provided a case study to conduct research on, effectively preparing you to understand the effects of social, cultural and economic factors of dental conditions.
To find out more about where the Graduate Diploma in Dental Therapy can lead you, visit the 'Careers' tab.
Once you graduate from the Graduate Diploma in Dental Therapy you will have already been exposed to 328 hours of clinical placement and have obtained highly applicable skills and knowledge from the carefully prescribed courses you have studied.
You will be prepared to step into a role as a dental therapist with the confidence that you are as prepared as you possibly can be to pursue a career as a senior clinician, educator, researcher, leadership or a career in oral health care.
For more detailed information on eligibility, courses and requirements of the Graduate Diploma in Dental Therapy read the 'Details' tab.
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BP oil spill partly blamed for Gulf dolphin deaths
The deaths of over 150 dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico so far this year is due in part to the devastating 2010 BP oil spill and the chemical dispersants used to contain it, a report said Thursday.
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How can a common man participate in "revolutionizing" education?
Having spoken in TED in 2006 about how schools kill creativity, Sir Ken Robinson returned in 2010 to urge everyone to revolutionize education. He said about how we take a "fast-food" approach to deliver educated products out of the system. However, in order to really use the enormous depths of human talent, we will need to take an "organic" approach to education. We need revolution and not evolution.
So, How do we actually achieve revolution? Are there any concrete examples of schools/ colleges which do not follow the "fast-food" approach? Are there ways in which a common man can participate in "revolutionizing" education?
I am sure this is a question which commonly haunts everyone among us. But, what we lack is a coordinated set of actions to make a change. How do we do it?
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Nov 29 2011: A revolution begins by identifying where we want to go. For education this means we must decide for ourselves and together what the purpose of education should be. This becomes the guiding star for the development of a new system. To this end please consider answering the question yourself and joining others in that discussion at http://www.ted.com/conversations/7491/in_your_opinion_what_should_t.html
Nov 30 2011: We want to go where every child can start thinking critically, and not just being a dummy of the entire system. Where every student enjoys the process of learning.
Where every person is not the slave of money, materialism and status, but focussed instead on value creation in the society.
It seems to be idealistic, but as Viktor Frankl says in the following video, its only if we put humans above what they actually are, can we, in the long run, bring out what they potentially can be.
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I have thought about everything you have mentioned and I have reduced solution to my plan. Come see if anything makes sense to you.
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With polls showing President Obama in a tight race vs. Mitt Romney, several prominent Democrats are lamenting the White House push to pass health-care reform three years ago.
In the past few days, Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank and Virginia Sen. James Webb have both said the bitter battle over the health-care law severely wounded Democrats. Frank, a staunch liberal, and Webb, a moderate, are both retiring at the end of the year. Read Frank interview.
In an interview with New York magazine, Frank said the president probably should have focused on financial reform instead, especially after Republican Scott Brown captured Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat in January 2010 in a shocking upset in traditionally Democratic Massachusetts.
"I think we paid a terrible price for health care," lamented Frank, who nonetheless said he strongly supported the goals of the president's plan.
Webb, at a Washington breakfast event this week, also said the health-care push was costly to the Democrats.
"The manner in which the health-care-reform issue was put in front of the Congress - the way that the issue was dealt with by the White House - cost Obama a lot of credibility as a leader," Webb said. "From that point forward, Obama's had a difficult time selling himself as a decisive leader."
A sharp and steady decline in Obama's public-approval ratings began during the debate over his health-care law in 2009 and it helped cost Democrats control of the U.S. House in the November 2010 elections. Obama's ratings have not recovered and remain under 50%, a danger zone for presidents running for re-election.
The latest poll by CBS/New York Times underscores the president's shaky position. He and Romney were tied at 46%. Obama had leads ranging from 3 points to 6 points in two prior CBS/NYT polls and he held a double-digit lead in several other surveys just one month ago.
Another major poll by Gallup this week has Romney up 5 points, while a fresh survey by Quinnipiac gives Obama a 4-point edge. See latest polls.
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People today are more conscious about their figures, not only because it would look beautiful in front of people , but also want to live a healthier life. But , on the other hand , people do not have much time to prepare healthy meals or go to the gym to exercise. People want to achieve fast weight loss without doing much . With modern technology , there are programs and treatments lose weight fast without going under the knife .
These are usually made in plastic surgery clinics , where high-end tools that melts fat and give you the profile of the body you've always wanted. You may need a couple of sessions and then , as if by magic , to lose weight fast. Another way to lose weight fast is to drink supplements that promote fast metabolism. This is for people who have trouble losing weight no matter how hard you are exercising. These popular supplements include L - carnitine or resveratrol , which is believed to burn calories faster. There are also things you need to cut so that you have a quick weight loss . You may choose to drink more water (at least eight glasses of voice) to carbonated drinks. Do not eat heavy meals , however , you can eat three times a day in small amounts so as not to deprive the things you love to eat. Choose healthy foods instead of foods that have empty calories and unhealthy . If you work in an office , you should walk from time to time so that no fat is stored, or if you are at home , spend less time watching TV , as it tends to fall into the temptation to stop everything you are doing. You can also walk from one place to another , if similar. Driving a lot will not only use more fuel, but also will make you lazy . You need to sweat to be able to lose weight fast.


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Modern Marvels: More of The World's Biggest Machines DVD
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The ultimate celebration of outsized equipment returns for a second sweep through a world where size is everything.
- Ride in the world's largest aircraft.
- See the world's largest screen, stretching across four blocks in Las Vegas.
- Head to see with "heavy lift" ships capable of carrying massive oil rigs.
Let's face it--when it comes to impressive equipment, bigger is always better. And when it comes to the most massive of all, MODERN MARVELS® is in techie heaven with MORE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST MACHINES.
A festival of superlatives, this extreme episode goes to the edges of engineering for a look at everything big. Lumber down the runway with the Antonov, An-225, a plane that is almost as long as a football field. Visit a surviving "Big Boy" articulated locomotive, the largest steam engine ever built, and ride the rails with its outsized descendant, the 6000-horsepower GE AC 6000. Head to sea with the Discoverer Enterprise, the largest oil drilling ship on earth, and the "heavy lift" Blue Marlin, which carries massive oil rigs to deep water sites. At each stop on this tour of engineering extremes, we'll see how these remarkable machines are made and meet the people who work with them everyday.


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What's New and Highlights of Big Sur country from Big-Sur-Lodging.Com:
DON'T MISS ... Just a reminder of some of my coastal favorites: Ragged Point is always a must stop on anytime you are in the neighborhood...at the very least stretch your legs and check the California coastal views...In the tiny village of San Simeon at the south end of the Big Sur Coast visit Sebastian's General Store and Café who feature Hearst Ranch natural free range grass fed beef is getting a reputation for their great food with both tourists and locals alike and their latest addition a tasting room for Hearst Ranch Wines so now have a wine tasting room there! Do some exploring and have some adventures along with getting pampered at one of the fine resorts on the scenic Big Sur Coast Highway 1!
WHAT TO WEAR... HOW TO DRESS WHEN YOU GO TO BIG SUR CALIFORNIA: The Big Sur area has a large variety of microclimates; weather is generally mild on the coast but it changes quickly and often so it is best to come prepared and layering is the best way to dress for Big Sur any season; peal clothes off when it warms, pile them on when it starts to get cool or damp.
INFORMATION ON TRAILS, CAMPGROUNDS AND LOCAL STATE PARKS: GOOD NEWS !!!: Damage from most past Big Sur forest fires have been repaired and most most affected trails and campgrounds are now back open. The exception is Ventana Campground, coming back for fall 2014 I am told; Limekiln Creek California State Park's is open and so is the trail to Sykes Hot Springs; there is an alternate for Pfeiffer Falls Trail. In fact most trails that had closed because of the fires have now reopen including Tanbark, Ewoldson trail is open on the ocean side of the loop, while the eastern side is closed and under construction in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park . BAD NEWS...:Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park!!!: Due to dangerous conditions resulting from the Pfeiffer Ridge Fire, a partial closure order is in effect. All areas within the park west of Highway One are closed to the public. This includes the Buzzard's Roost Trail, Group Camp sites A and B, Liewald Flat, and the Tosh Meadow located adjacent to Fernwood Resort. All members of the public found within these areas will be issued criminal citations. The Campground, Pfeiffer Falls/Valley View Trail, and Big Sur Lodge remain open.
BEFORE YOU GO If you're stuck at home use this photo gallery to help plan your next Big Sur PCH 1 vacation, take a virtual photo road trip up or down the Pacific Coast Highway 1 now Montaña de Oro to Pebble Beach... or head north from San Simeon to Monterey one of Yahoo Travel Ideas of 10 Great all-American Road Trips and National Geographic lists the road trip from Monterey to Morro Bay as one of their Drives of a Lifetime they say the Big Sur Road Trip is "An exhilarating driving experience" also the Big Sur Pacific Coast Highway 1 was chosen #1 of The 20 Greatest Driving Roads in the World by PM Magazine and just recently Fox News Travel Picked Big Sur Pacific Coast Highway 1 as #1 of The Top 20 Places Every American Should See...make a plan...pack your bags...GO! even if you are a WINO... Wine Enthusiast Magazine suggests "California's Highway 1, The Wine-Lovers' Route".
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Using Student-Led Parent-Teacher Conferences to Build Relationships
Quite a few readers responded to my blog entry "In the Loop: The Payoff for Parent-Teacher Conferences." As spring approaches, the next round of conferences is just around the corner. I want to address some of your general questions and comments, and, hopefully, this will help with upcoming planning. For those who don't conference, consider building conferences into your calendar next year.
What is the difference between a conference and a portfolio folder? The only difference is that the work is shared at school, not at home. Granted, with a conference at school, parents are forced to look at their child's work; but because they care about their child's successes, they should be doing this at home anyway.
Yes, if a conference is just looking at a folder of work, it is a missed opportunity. A powerful student-led parent-teacher conference focuses on student learning goals we can set by examining the student's work. This is an active event in which the learner and those responsible for supporting her education identify her strengths and areas of growth and make plans to address these areas. Unfortunately, parents often do not know how to support their children in school, particularly if they were unsuccessful in their own schooling. The conference is one tool to help parents support their child's success.
We start off the school year with home visits. I feel these home visits have opened the door to more parental participation. Sitting down with a child and his parents in their home is a powerful tool that builds relationships and understanding. We are moving toward requiring this of all of our advisers.
Readers also commented on how to encourage more parents to attend these types of conferences. Because many parents, even at the elementary school level, often take a passive role in their child's schooling, what can a teacher do to make conferences more interesting so parents will want to attend?
One solution is to pair conferences up with something else going on that evening that may interest parents -- perhaps a concert or dance. Parents may be in the neighborhood to drop their child off, and this may make it more convenient for them.
At Envision Schools, we put aside an entire week of minimum days, which gives plenty of time and sets the priority for the school community. The incentive we use is that we hand out report cards, rather than mail them. If you don't attend a conference, you will not receive a report card. Each adviser follows up with each parent until they attend. Currently, 95 percent of our parents participate.
As students get older, especially as they begin high school, they yearn for a sense of independence and maturity. In this struggle, I find there is often a disconnect between students and their parents in regard to school performance. Because kids and parents don't often talk about school, we think parent-teacher conferences are imperative. By requiring this interaction, we are telling parents it is OK to get involved with their teenager's high school education. For students, we give them some cover; they really do want their parents involved.
Several readers addressed the issue of time management when teaching a large number of students. Those teaching 100 kids or more will have to get creative. Our teachers have responsibility for holding only 18-20 conferences. We believe that in order to achieve better results, we need to redesign secondary schools in order to foster these types of interactions.
I hope some of these ideas will support you in planning powerful conferences for your students this spring. Please post comments about your successes and challenges with student-led parent-teacher conferences.
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We are starting to do student led goal setting conferences in early October next fall. Do you have any ideas to help us get started? This has been a district decision so it has kind of been forced on us but most teachers are interested and willing. Do you know of any forms that could be used with this kind of goal setting format? Thanks so much,.
I love the idea of student led conferences. They should own their education. My district is really trying to find a way to make the standards user friendly. They want the kids to understand what it is they are supposed to learn; the standard should not just be some random number. This would lead right into student led conferences. If the studetns understand what it is they are supposed to know, then this would really help them chart their own progress. I know that when I chart my own progress, then I can really see where my weak areas are. This would be great for the studetns.
I love the idea of student led conferences. This year I have really made sure that the studetns understand what the standard is asking of them; we call it unwrapping the standard. This would lead right into studetn led conferences because the studetns will really be able to chart their own progress. I know athat when I chart my own progress, I am really able to see what my areas of weakness are. This would be a great opportunity for the studetns.
I like the idea of student-led parent teacher conferences. I teach high school (9th and 10th grade)and have found that it is very hard to bring parents in for a conference. I teach three class of inclusion and when we have IEP meeting we allow the students to be involved in the meetings. I have noticed that when the student and parent are both in attendance,and the student is given a chance to talk about his performance, the parent is impressed for the most part. The performance is not always positive but sometimes this is the first time the parent has heard of any type of performance. If I could do this with all my students that would be great, but I teach about 80 to 90 students. Some students need this interaction with parents and teachers more than others. Does anyone have any ideas how this process could be broken down to serve many students during one semester. Thank you.
My school also partipates in this type of conference. I agree with the person who says it's difficult to respond to a parent about their child when there are other parents in the room. When this happens, I usually ask them to sign up for a parent conference where we can talk more privately.
Also a huge plus to student-led conference is that 4 or 5 conferences can be going on at the same time. You can get through all of them in a couple of days time.
I like the idea of a student led conference. It is their future that we are talking about and with my 6th graders I believe that they are starting to look ahead.
Student lead conferences are a great tool for student accountability as well as communication between student-teacher and parent. The student is fully aware of the standards he/she has met/not met and communicates that with his/her parents. It allows the student to take ownership and responsibility for their work or possibly in some cases, the lack of work. In a student lead conference, the student is faced with the reality of presenting his/her work and does not have the ability to make excuses or blame the teacher. As a parent, I like to hear my child talk to me about their work in front of the teacher.
Hi Bob,
My name is Tammy Smith and my daughter attended Impact Academy in Hayward while living with my brother and his wife. Everything you are saying sounds good on paper however your school failed my daughter and she has not credit in all of her classed to prove it. Her advisor Julia Gonzalez can not even tell me when the last time She, Michaela, and her teachers along with my brother sat down for a conference to develop a plan for her. They were so charmed by my daughters good looks and great personality that they refused to hold her accountable for her actions. One of her teachers (Denise) was noted as saying, "Last week, I've attempted to move Michaela's assigned seat in my class to the front so she wouldn't be as distracted in class. I don't feel it has helped too much. I constantly have to ask her to redirect her focus to the front of the classroom when I am teaching or talking to the whole class. It is also my fault for not being consistent with the behavior management plan with her." It is my belief that the lack of consistent instruction and discipline has contributed to Michaela's failing. I would like to know your thoughts as I can not seem to connect with the Impact staff to discuss it. Jen Wickens has my number. Thank you.
Tammy Smith
Sometimes these meetings are organized in small groups over several weeks with key training teams travel to different sites to deploy initiatives training and live Web Conferencer presentations. With GoToMeeting, you can share desktops and even share the mouse and keyboard control. At the same time, managers and micro-traditionalists will no doubt take a skeptical eye of a web conferencing solution implemented on a large scale as a direct replacement for the person training.
I have two nights 5pm - 8pm of parent teacher conferences this week. Last night I meet with 29 parents, 26 of the whose students have A's in my class. Two students whose parents attended have C's, and one has an F. This happens every year. The parents of A students come to hear how wonderful their child is and what good parents they are. Last night I had my student assignment sheet with grades for individual assignments, but some computer glitch left out the overall quarter grade. As I explained this to my first parent, she pulled out the grade sheet she had already printed from the computer Parent Internet Viewer program where students and parents can view grades and teacher comments. How many high schools and why would high schools hold parent teacher conferences in the 21st century when we have email, and online grade reports? I have taught since 1978, and I am a parent. These conferences are exhausting for teachers and it seems parents are there to get a "good parent" massage.
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The hotly debated ordinance that would enable pedicab owners to allow drinking on their pedal-powered machines passed its first reading.
For a week, City Council has laid out the pros and cons to strapping a cooler of beer to these engine-less carriages and riding across downtown. Safety. Aiding drunkenness. Stifling business. Alcohol freedom. Those were the themes that officials went round and round on.
When the city attorney's office presented an amended ordinance Tuesday night, several council members balked at the idea of over-regulating the industry with a two-beer minimum on board. Councilman Chris Anderson was able to eliminate that part of the amendment before the council voted 6-3 to approve the ordinance.
Owners of Pints and Pedals and Chattanooga Brew Choo, who already offer pub crawls across town but don't allow beer on board, were thrilled with the vote.
That wasn't the only issue Chattanooga City Council debated on Tuesday afternoon.
Mayor Andy Berke's administration asked the council to amend city code to clearly spell out that the city can hire a police or fire chief from outside the department who is older than 40. Currently, the law is unclear on whether the city can externally hire anyone after their 40th birthday.
Berke Chief of Staff Travis McDonough said the city began researching the law when the search began for a new police chief to replace Bobby Dodd. The search is still under way but has been narrowed to fewer than 20 candidates.
This amendment would exclude chiefs from the requirement and clean up other language.
But both Councilwoman Carol Berz and Councilman Moses Freeman grilled the city on why officials would exclude hiring a viable candidate over 40 for any position.
"We are talking about a 40-year-old man that has been out on special forces or some other operations and wants to be one of us ... by our ordinance we are denying him an opportunity to participate," Freeman said.
McDonough said the mayor's office isn't opposed to changing the ordinance. After approving the amendment, the council instructed the city attorney's office to research how they could change the law.
In other business, the City Council also unanimously gave the city approval to pursue any grants to help with cleanup and demolition at the former Harriet Tubman public housing site. The city will close on the property April 21.
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The Greatest Planking Pic EVER
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
There it is. We can now officially retire this trend because this will NEVER be topped. Game over.
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Shop the local antiques stores for furniture, linens and jewelry worthy of display in Tyler's genteel historic homes. For trendy big-name American brand clothing and shoes, guests of our Tyler hotels head to the Broadway Square mall. Local steakhouses and barbecue joints plate up big helpings of chicken-fried steak, pulled-pork barbecue and crispy fried catfish, while Mexican restaurants specialize in sizzling fajitas and saucy enchiladas.
Choose our Holiday Inn Express® hotels in Tyler to taste your way across East Texas wine country. Wineries blanketing the gentle hills and valleys of the Piney Woods Wine Trail are within an hour's drive of our Tyler hotels. Vintners craft classic syrah and Sangiovese, as well as unique fruit, citrus and dessert wines. Savor a glass or a tasting flight in a vineyard tasting room or stay for dinner, when winery restaurants pair their favorite vintages with steak, seafood and lamb.
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Today in History, Dec. 31, 2012
By The Associated Press
Today is Monday, Dec. 31, the 366th and final day of 2012.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 31, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed an enabling act paving the way for Virginia' western counties to become the state of West Virginia, which took place in June 1863.
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In 1759, Arthur Guinness founded his famous brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin.
In 1775, during the Revolutionary War, the British repulsed an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec; Montgomery was killed.
In 1879, Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated his electric incandescent light in Menlo Park, N.J.
In 1909, the Manhattan Bridge, spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, was officially opened to vehicular traffic.
In 1946, President Harry S. Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
In 1951, the Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
In 1972, Major League baseball player Roberto Clemente, 38, was killed when a plane he'd chartered and was traveling on to bring relief supplies to earthquake-devastated Nicaragua crashed shortly after takeoff from Puerto Rico.
In 1985, singer Rick Nelson, 45, and six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was taking the group to a New Year's Eve performance in Dallas.
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Taylor's Mayor Jeffrey Lamarand appeared in Wayne County Circuit Court Friday and was quickly found in civil contempt. Judge Kathleen Macdonald did not throw him in jail, but fined the mayor $250 and ordered him to pay the city council's attorneys' fees out of his own pocket. She also accused him of lying under oath."I have been in contact with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office for the perjury that was committed in this courtroom."On Monday, Macdonald gave Lamarand 24 hours to accept an $8.1 million federal grant that would bring back dozens of laid off firefighters, but the mayor did not comply until Friday after firefighters agreed to $1.2 million in concessions by cashing in vacation and sick time during the two year grant period.Why did Lamarand tell the judge he would accept the grant within 24 hours and then not do so?"She put me under oath, but I don't recall asking me if I was going to comply with the order in 24 hours," he said."The key is ... that we're able to bring guys back to work and we're able to provide the safety for the citizens of Taylor and at a safer number for our guys working," said Glenn Ross from the Taylor Fire Department.The mayor says under the grant, 32 firefighters will now get their jobs back, but he's not sure how soon that will happen. Meanwhile, the city council president told us she's not sure they'll have anything to do."We're going to be hard pressed to find something for them to do every day, and that's unfortunate. A court here not seeing our city, not examining our financial situation can't determine that," said Cheryl Burke.It's been an ongoing political power struggle as the city grapples with a deficit elimination plan. The mayor says he's just trying to be fiscally responsible. A private company has taken over Taylor's EMS service. The department also closed two fire stations and several council members have been at odds with the mayor for months."The mayor has put himself above the law, not only contempt, but perjury," said council member John Delo. "I perfectly anticipate that perhaps the court will have provided him an impetuous to work with the council.""They have no authority to order me to do something. I don't work for city council. I work for the people of Taylor," Lamarand said.Expect more challenges and struggles to come.
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Meet the woman the banks fear
Why do they see this affable 'granny' as a threat? She wants a consumer-friendly financial industry and may soon have the power to bring it about.
Related topics: banking, credit cards, politics, customer service, Liz Weston
When I asked Elizabeth Warren last week how she'd like to be remembered, I expected her to cite one or more of her professional accomplishments. Perhaps:
Her groundbreaking research as a Harvard law professor with the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, which exposed the fragility of many American families' finances, or her best-selling books that sprang from that research, "The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke" and "All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan."
Or her role as head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, which investigated the bank bailout, criticized how rescue funds were used and suggested ending the notion of "too big to fail" by liquidating insolvent banks.
Or her current job putting together the fledging Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which she championed and which she believes, had it existed earlier, could have prevented the financial crisis by blunting the growth of subprime mortgage lending to unsophisticated borrowers.
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But no. After first asking for a rain check to consider my question, the former Sunday school teacher blurted out that what she'd really like to be known for is being "a good granny" to her three young grandchildren, whom she was flying to see in California the next day.
Warren, 61, has a way of confounding expectations. Bankers so loathed her for her criticism of their industry that naming Warren as the director of the consumer protection bureau was considered politically untenable last year. President Barack Obama instead hired her as a special assistant to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, which didn't require congressional confirmation.
But recently, in what The Wall Street Journal and others have called a "charm offensive," Warren has been reassuring groups of bankers that what she wants is more transparency, not necessarily more regulation, which the Oklahoma native likens to fences on a prairie that lawyers can easily dodge around.
She has also been soliciting the opinions of credit card companies' CEOs. In our conversation, she cited Nigel Morris, a co-founder of Capital One, as someone who "thoughtfully talks about how the thing works, how decisions are made."
"It's been people like Nigel, who are on the inside," Warren said, "who've helped me understand the role the regulation should play to keep a market free, to make a market competitive."
Warren's corner office at the Treasury Building looks out on two of D.C.'s best-known icons: She can see the Capitol from one window and the Washington Monument from another. These are visual reminders of just how far she's come, from studying the lives of financially desperate families to wrestling with some of the most financially powerful special interests.
Competition is not an excuse for deception
It remains to be seen whether Warren can blunt the antipathy that bankers feel toward her in time to be named the head of the bureau by its July 21 launch date. Meanwhile, House Republicans still are looking for ways to gut the agency's funding. They're convinced that an agency devoted to protecting consumers from unsafe and deceptive financial products will squash innovation and kill jobs.
Warren, obviously, doesn't see it that way. Rather than tying lenders up in regulatory vines that prevent them from competing, she wants to see clearer disclosure and less fine print, which she famously likens to shrubbery in which the "muggers" of hidden fees and other anti-consumer "gotchas" can hide.
"A competitive market is one where the competition is not about how many things you can hide in the fine print," she said. "A competitive market is one where the consumer sees the differences, and so people are competing to attract the consumer. That's the whole difference."
The role of the bureau, Warren says, will be "to ask the questions, gather the data and to monitor the markets to make sure they work for consumers."
The credit card market, for example, has always been competitive, she said -- but not competitive in a way that necessarily benefited consumers. Instead, card companies competed for how much revenue they could produce.
"And the smartest way to do that had over time become to pretend to sell at a low price at the front end and then sock people hard on the back end with fees and interest rate repricing," Warren said. "The difficulty, of course, with doing that is that the consumer can't ask two basic questions: 'Can I really afford this?' and 'Could I get it somewhere else cheaper?'"
The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act, which went into effect a year ago, banned some of the worst practices:
- Rate hikes for no reason.
- Universal default, which allowed card issuers to raise your rates if you fell behind with another lender.
- Repeated approval of over-limit transactions in order to charge multiple fees.
- Ever-moving due dates and due times, which meant you could be slapped with a late fee if your payment didn't reach the card's processing company by a certain time of day.
Some have claimed that the Credit CARD Act caused card issuers to slash credit limits, raise interest rates and precipitously close accounts. The reality is more nuanced. Card companies began reducing credit limits, closing accounts and raising rates when the credit crunch began in late 2007, well before the act was passed. The recession accelerated those trends.
The Credit CARD Act definitely cut into issuers' revenue. According to a report by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, card companies' income from over-limit fees virtually disappeared in the year after the law went into effect and issuers were required to get consumers' consent before approving over-limit transactions. Late-fee revenue dropped in half after issuers were required to fix due dates and due times were eliminated.
The issuers knew their revenue was in peril, of course, and that interest rate hikes would be much tougher under the law, so they raised rates on many accounts before the law kicked in.
But Warren said the comptroller study, and the bureau's analysis of data supplied by the largest credit card issuers, show that the Credit CARD Act was still beneficial to consumers.
"The data indicates that the overall cost of credit cards did not go up," Warren said. "The pricing is just more visible upfront."
Hacking through the gobbledygook
But there is still work to be done, thanks to that fine-print shrubbery that Warren wants to chop down.
"Today it is not possible to look at four credit card agreements and tell which one is cheaper," Warren said. "Part of the reason is that agreements are still too long and complicated."
The same is even more true of mortgage agreements. Warren said that the agencies responsible for two forms provided to consumers have been in negotiations to combine the forms -- for the past 15 years. Instead "the forms have been revised to become longer and more complicated," she said.
Cutting through the bureaucracy is something the nascent bureau can do, since it will take over consumer protection responsibilities that are currently scattered among seven agencies.
That is, of course, exactly what scares the banks, which are used to ineffective, understaffed consumer protection departments hidden in the agencies' backwaters.
Equally scary is that the bureau may be headed by a plain-spoken, personable "granny" who understands exactly how tough it is for consumers today and who wants financial products that can help them rather than make things worse.
For her part, Warren seems to relish the challenge.
"I have so much fun doing this," she said. "I get up every morning looking forward to this."
Liz Weston is the Web's most-read personal-finance writer. She is the author of several books, most recently "The 10 Commandments of Money: Survive and Thrive in the New Economy" (find it on Bing). Weston's award-winning columns appear every Monday and Thursday, exclusively on MSN Money. Join the conversation and send in your financial questions on Liz Weston's Facebook fan page.
Warren is the same lady who warned the government during the Clinton administration of the peril in not regulating mortgage default swaps and mortgage backed securities. If she had been allowed to protect the public then, she might have been able to save this country a lot of pain.
Regulatory policy is like surgery. If it's dumb, it does more harm than good and costs money and jobs. If it's smart, it protects the interests of the American people.
This lady is smart and has a proven record of acting in the public interest. Whatever your political bent, that is the kind of public service we should support.
Since our supreme court has determined that corporations are citizens, they MUST be treated acordingly, equally with all of our other citizens. Since most states now have "3 strikes, you're out" laws (Here in Georgia it's 2 strikes, you're out) we must find the proper way to apply this to our corporate citizens.
Therefore, I propose that the first incident of financial malfeasance results in a warning to change deceptive practice. The second incident should result in heavy sanction (A nice 8 or 9 digit fine). Third strike, you're out. All of the corproations assets are seized and forfiet, all senior management goes to prison for 25-life. Just like all of our non-corporate citizens.
A nice, even handed way to handle our new influx of citizens..... Amen.
CqpraEsq is right they "gamed the system". Look at what happened. Mortgage brokers would lie, cheat, and steal to write a loan, the banks would package the mortgages, sell them, and they were broken into pieces, repackaged, sold again, fraudulently rated by people like Moody's, etc. This would increase the sales of homes, inflate values due to demand, benefit the Wall Street real estate boys (and girls), which would increase the speculations, more deals, repackaging, etc. In the meantime bankers could bet against the success of these securities with credit default swaps. It was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. What is the result? The falsely inflated bubble bursts like all Ponzi schemes. The economy collapses, we give money to the Ponzi creators, there is no tax income to the state and federal government due to the scam, and who pays?
The middle class, the working poor, teachers, students, the poor, while bail outs, tax breaks, subsidies, offshore accounts, etc. go the very rich. Look anywhere at wealth and income distribution over the last 30 years and it is quite clear. Your pockets are being emptied by the very rich and their political shills of both parties. Don't kid yourself. it's not the free market, it is the conscious redistribution of wealth and unitil we recognize it and stand up, it will continue. This is not a conservative vs. liberal issue. They use that to distract you from the truth. Just look at the numbers and the answer is clear. WAKE UP!
If you are unfamiliar with Warren, I most highly suggest watching "Maxed Out" (I think it's still available for Netflix streaming). It is an eye opener on how financial companies (specially credit card issuers) prey on the most vulnerable, and how they profit from shady practices. To those preaching that consumers are 100% at fault, I need to remind you that marketers are master manipulators. They are able to find the least suspecting and most needy, and slapping them with astonishing fees and penalties for doing exactly they were predicted to do. Ms. Warren was a prominent contributor in this important expose. Her passion and disdain for the way consumers are constantly targets of such creative means of deception was clear, even with her calm disposition and soft spoken ways.
Although I voted for the other guy, I am pleasantly surprised and applaud President Obama for appointing Warren to a position where she can help oversee how banks deal with us - the unsophisticated lenders.
What's in your wallet? .357 in mine.
B of A, the lost $14,000 of my US Saving Bonds for my kid's college. Can you believe a bank can loose your Safe Deposit Box? B of A did. Then they tried to say I never had an account with them. I showed them my Deposit box key and the manager said it was the banks key alright. Then she asked if she could have it. Can you believe it? I told her hell no you can't have it, it's the only tangible evidence I had to try and straighten out this mess. B of A never did fix the problem. I had to confront the Treasury Department. And believe me! That's a whole nother chapter in the reality of crooked business. Took almost 1.5 years and you'd better have kept good records. They sure won't go out of their way either.
In God I Trust, who else is there?
Said and done, I want to know why did Madoff get 150 years for stealing from the rich and the banks get bailouts and bonuses for screwing us?
Great for them and great for us because it is fast easy and saves a check and stamps plus the time for us to prepare and process.
However, get this......Payment is due on a given date and I send my electronic payment at least two days before the due date.....Surprise! I get a late charge because American Express says "it takes two to three days to log my payment into their accounts receivable.
The fact is that when I send money electronically it is good as soon as it is sent as it is in their bank account. Proof is that my bank has deducted and sent it to them.
American Express is simply "stealing". Nothing more nothing less. I'm sure their company "policy" is applied several thousand times per pay period.
This is the kind of white collar crime that needs to be fixed.
Love to see the Feds or a law firm take these guys on.
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We teach a style of Kundalini Yoga that is based on the teachings of Yogi Bhajan and it is one of the most formalized styles of yoga currently taught throughout the world. At KYB, our public and private classes can be gentle, strenuous or just plain fat-burning intense. Each class is tailored to meet he needs of the individual or group.
A yoga kriya (sequence of postures, breath, and sound integrated to allow the manifestation of a particular state), pranayam (breath work), relaxation, and meditation are incorporated into each class. Often we will play recorded or live music and incorporate gong meditation. The typical class is about 90 minutes: 5-10 minute warm-up, 30-45 minute kriya, 5-15 minute layout, 11-31 minutes of meditation. Each class can help one become aware of much more than just the strength of the body. It helps to facilitate a change physically as well as emotionally and spiritually. Kundalini yoga is yoga for the mind, body, and spirit.
Yoga is non-competitive. You do not need to be concerned with what you can or cannot do, everybody is different. A posture that is easy one day may not be as easy the next. Listen to your body and do what you can! The most important thing is to be present and just do what is right for your body.
Please arrive a few minutes before class begins. You are always welcome to relax in lounge before and after the class. If you arrive just as class is beginning, enter quietly and find a place in the back of the class. We will do our best to fit you in, but late arrivals may not be accommodated. If you have injuries or health conditions, please let your teacher know.
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science of the breath and movement.
It is best to practice on an empty stomach, or at least 2 1/2 hours after eating. Please drink plenty of water after class.
Please wear clothing that you can move easily in. Yoga is practiced barefoot. We have changing rooms with storage, so you can change into your yoga clothes at the studio. Please, no perfume or cologne.
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We suggest you register for class. If you are new to the studio, please arrive fifteen minutes early to check in at the desk. We recommend that you call to pre-register for workshops as they tend to fill up quickly.
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By Carol L. Spence, University of Kentucky
What a year 2012 was for agriculture: crop yields were down, water supplies were depleted, feed costs were up.
And yet, in the midst of one of the worst droughts in the country's history, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is forecasting U.S. net farm income will remain near record levels.
High prices and significant crop insurance indemnities—producer payments—have had a hand in saving what could have been a year of hard losses for farmers.
"Crop insurance constitutes one of the primary risk management programs administered and subsidized by the U.S. government, and over the past 16 years, it's one of the biggest things to hit production agriculture," said Cory Walters, assistant professor in UK agricultural economics. "In Kentucky, from 1996 through 2011, the total premium base associated with crop insurance increased from $16 million to $139 million. Insured cropland increased from 1.5 million acres to 2.8 million acres over the same time period."
So far in Kentucky in 2012, insurance has paid $208 million in indemnities for corn. For soybeans, insurance has paid out $9.5 million in indemnities and nearly $10 million for wheat.
"The indemnity number will go up, especially for corn; more claims are coming in all the time," Walters said.
He believes, though, that crop insurance isn't just about finances; it can influence a multitude of decisions farmers make.
"If we all had a dagger sticking out of our steering wheels, we'd be more careful (when driving)," he said. "But what if crop insurance removes that dagger? How would we drive then?"
Producers purchase crop insurance to manage production risk, but risk reduction can vary based on crops and regions and also in agronomic and environmental characteristics. Changes in risk will inevitably affect production decisions, including acreage decisions. As a result, small, regional environmental effects occur based on those decisions. That is the conclusion Walters drew, based on data collected between 1995 and 2002.
In his study, recently published in the Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics, using producer-level crop insurance data for four U.S. geographical regions, Iowa, North Dakota, eastern Washington State and eastern Colorado, Walters delved into the real effects of using crop insurance or "driving without that metaphorical dagger." In his peer-reviewed paper, he pointed out that there are inevitable environmental consequences when the relationship between risk, farm production decisions and environment changes.
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Most of all, maximize vitamin intake from whole foods: leafy green vegetables for vitamin K; fish oils and egg yolks for vitamins D and A; yogurt and broccoli for vitamin C and many of the B vitamins. Remember, history reminds us that the original power of vitamin supplements was to augment what was lacking in the diet.
Food sources for vitamins
Vitamin A: RDA = 900 mcg
Mango, broccoli, carrots, spinach, beef liver, butternut squash, tomato juice, sweet potatoes
Vitamin B-1: RDA = 1.2 mg
Spinach, green peas, tomatoes, watermelon, sunflower seeds, lean ham, lean pork chops, soy milk
Vitamin B-2: RDA = 1.3 mg
Spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, eggs, milk, liver, and oysters, clams
Vitamin B-3: RDA = 16 mg
Spinach, potatoes, tomato juice, lean ground beef, chicken breasts, tuna, liver, shrimp
Vitamin B-5: RDA = 5.0 mg
Many common foods
Vitamin B-6: RDA = 1.3 mg
Bananas, tomato juice, broccoli, spinach, acorn squash, potatoes, rice, chicken breasts
Vitamin B-7: RDA = 30 ugm
Many common foods
Vitamin B-9: RDA = 400 ugm
Tomato juice, green beans, broccoli, spinach, asparagus, black-eyed peas, lentils; navy, pinto and garbanzo beans
Vitamin B-12: RDA = 2.4 ugm
Meats, poultry, fish, shellfish, milk, eggs
Vitamin C: RDA = 90 mg
Many fruits and vegetables; in addition to foods above: red bell peppers, kiwi, orange, strawberries (strawberries are very high in C)
Vitamin D: RDA = 5-10 ugm
Fortified milk products, egg yolk, liver, fatty fish.
Vitamin E: RDA = 15 mg
Nuts, oils, sunflower seeds, whole grains, wheat germ, spinach
Vitamin K: RDA = 120 ugm
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GoSquared helps you understand and improve your online presence.
GoSquared creates two web applications for monitoring your website's traffic in real-time - Dashboard and Trends.
Dashboard is a real-time traffic monitoring app that gives you an overview of your website's traffic right now - in a single glance. It lets you see which pages of your site are most popular, where your visitors are coming from, and info on every visitor currently browsing your website along with how they're browsing (what browser, operating system, screen size, etc.), which language they're speaking, and what city they're from.
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Trends takes all the data in Dashboard and builds beautiful, easy to read charts and tables so that you can analyse how your website has been performing over the past day, week, month, or year. Trends enables you to gain insights into your website's traffic data quicker than ever before - without having to click a single button.
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Decreased Conscious Level Multi-site Audit
In 2005, the Paediatric Accident and Emergency Research Group in Nottingham published an evidence-based guideline, Management of a Child (aged 0-18 years) with a Decreased Conscious Level for the management of children presenting with a decreased conscious level with the aim of improving and standardising the assessment, investigations and treatment.
This 18-month multi-site clinical audit is funded by the National Reyes Syndrome Foundation UK and coordinated by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The project's Clinical Lead is Dr Stephanie Smith, Consultant Paediatrician in Emergency Medicine at Nottingham University Hospital.
The final report of the audit's findings is now available!
A decreased conscious level may be the result of a number of different conditions, ranging from traumatic injury, infections to metabolic illnesses. The annual hospital admission rate for head injuries is 381 children per 100,000, while the incidence of non-traumatic coma is 30 children per 100,000 per year. In some cases it can prove to be fatal. It is therefore essential that the appropriate assessments and investigations are carried out to help establish the cause quickly so that potentially life-saving treatment can be initiated without delay.
Timeframe for the audit
The period of data collection for this audit was 1 November 2010 to 30 September 2011.
Aims of the audit
The aims of this multi-site audit are as follows:
- to assess whether children with a decreased conscious level are receiving appropriate care, in line with the decreased conscious level guideline, by means of a multi-site clinical audit providing meaningful comparative data to individual service providers
- to identify how the guideline is currently being implemented in different settings, and identify any barriers to change
- to use the findings to inform the development of a quality improvement programme, which has the potential to improve the care of children with a decreased conscious level nationally
- to use the results to inform the development of a sustainable and cost-effective guideline implementation programme which can be adapted and rolled out for other College endorsed guidelines.
Audit tools
The decreased conscious level multi-site audit employs three audit tools:
- Service Description Questionnaire: This comprises questions about the hospital, the facilities and resources it possesses and the services it offers.
- Clinical Audit Questionnaire: This consists of anonymised patient information which relate to the audit criteria and standards being measured.
- Online/Postal Clinicians' Survey: This consists of quantitative and qualitative questions which examine clinicians' use and perceptions of the Management of a Child with a Decreased Conscious Level guideline and potential facilitators and barriers for compliance with the guideline recommendations.
- Service description questionnaire v1.4 (PDF, 98KB, 2 pages)
- Service description questionnaire guide v1.1 (PDF, 94KB, 2 pages)
- Clinicial audit questionnaire v1.3 (PDF, 137KB, 5 pages)
- Clinical audit questionnaire guide v1.1 (PDF, 114KB, 2 pages)
- Clinicians' survey v1.1 (PDF, 84KB, 4 pages)
Data collection and participating NHS trusts
Data is collected prospectively (during the course of the audit) on eligible cases of children or young people presenting to hospital with a decreased conscious level. Data for the service description and clinical audit questionnaires is collected using an online web tool.
54 NHS trusts (comprising 66 hospitals) are collecting data on the audit (see participating NHS trusts).
Data quality
Data will undergo systematic checking, cleaning and quality assurance for missing, inconsistent or erroneous data items during the course of the audit. Missing and invalid data will be highlighted to the units by means of a hospital specific data quality report and a data quality newsletter.
Data quality newsletters
- Data quality newsletter (January) v1.1 (PDF, 375KB, 1 page)
- Data quality newsletter (March) v1.0 (PDF, 377KB, 1 page)
- Data quality newsletter (May) v1.0 (PDF, 372KB, 2 pages)
Information leaflets
Information leaflets are available about the Decreased Conscious Level multi-site audit for both clinicians and families. If you would like to receive a paper-version of these leaflets, please contact the DeCon Project Team.
- Clinician information leaflet v1.3 (PDF, 326KB, 4 pages)
- Family information leaflet (PDF, 262KB, 2 pages)
DeCon Newsletters
The DeCon newsletters provides snapshot information on the audit's findings.
- August 2010 DeCon newsletter v1.0 (PDF, 332KB, 2 pages)
- November 2010 DeCon newsletter v1.0 (PDF, 502KB, 2 pages)
- February 2011 DeCon newsletter v1.1 (PDF, 489KB, 6 pages)
- April 2011 DeCon newsletter v1.1 (PDF, 453KB, 4 pages)
- June 2011 DeCon newsletter v1.1 (PDF, 551KB, 11 pages)
- August 2011 DeCon newsletter v1.0 (PDF, 332KB, 8 pages)
- October 2011 DeCon newsletter v1.0 (PDF, 389KB, 11 pages)
September Stakeholders' meeting
On 15 September 2011, the DeCon Project Team held a stakeholders' meeting to feedback some of the interim project findings and to seek advice on ideas for the revision of the Management of a Child with a Decreased Conscious Level guideline. The powerpoint presentations and meeting documents for this day are available below:
- Meeting agenda (PDF, 282KB, 1 page)
- September stakeholders' meeting minutes (PDF, 42KB, 15 pages)
- Introduction and background presentation (PDF, 304KB, 17 pages)
- Audit findings presentation (PDF, 358KB, 44 pages)
- Plans for the future presentation (PDF, 172KB, 8 pages)
Project update
(Last updated 20 February 2012)
- The DeCon Multi-site Audit has now been completed.
- 54 NHS trusts comprising 66 hospitals participated in the audit.
- There were 1135 cases submitted from 51/54 trusts.
- The final report containing the audit's results, the clinicians' survey and the recommendations for improved care of children and young people presenting to hospital with a decreased conscious level is now available.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo -- There is an app for just about everything. It isn't surprising that the demand for people to design those apps has spiked in recent years.
For those looking for a job, there's an app for that.
"I've always loved being on the cutting edge of new things. I knew this was going to be a hit back then."
Brandon Bevis has been developing apps since the first iphone landed on the market.
"We've done several of our own apps, but we've also done apps for Oak Star Bank and North Point Church," Bevis said.
His company, AppzDev, even gained a little national notoriety
"Marriage Fight Tracker which helps keep track of your arguments," Bevis said, "It said iphone marriage on the front of Time Magazine and it talked about our app when you talked about the article."
He's one of many taking advantage of a rapidly growing industry.
In a recent artcile by the Associated Press, the demand for applications for everything ranging from games to quantum physics has created 466,000 jobs in the U.S. since 2007. The numbers were provided by an analysis released Tuesday by technology trade group TechNet.
"When I first started it as a hobby, it was fun. It was entertaining."
Michael Oaks of West Plains got his first computer, a Commodore 64, when he was seven years old. "The way to make the most money is to do the application yourself-come up with the idea and do everything from the ground up," said Oaks.
Now developing mobile apps is what he does for a living. "The free version is called Privacy Inspector. The paid version is called Privacy Blocker."
The so-called "app economy" is still in its infancy. "You take a million people buy your app," said Oaks, "at $2 a piece--that's quite a bit."
There is certainly money to be made for people looking for a new career and a new direction.
"That will become more important, getting a mobile app, in years to come," said Bevis.
Appzdev told us they can get at minimum $1500 for developing single app.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.
The demand for applications for everything ranging from games to quantum physics has created 466,000 jobs in the U.S. since 2007, according to an analysis released Tuesday by technology trade group TechNet.
The estimate counts 311,000 jobs at companies making the apps and another 155,000 at local merchants who have expanded their payrolls in an economic ripple effect caused by increased spending at their businesses.
The study asserts this so-called "app economy" is still in the early stages of a boom driven by the mobile computing and social networking crazes unleashed byApple Inc.'s iPhoneand Facebook's online hangout.
"This is a telescope into what the future looks like," said Michael Mandel, the economist hired by TechNet to put together the report. "This is one part of the economy that is actually
expanding and hiring. Once you point people in that direction, they can realign their compass pretty quickly."
Apps makers were adding jobs even when the overall U.S. unemployment rate climbed to as high as 10 percent in late 2009, Mandel said. That bodes well for even more vigorous growth if the economy can extend a gradual recovery from the Great Recession. The national unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent in January, the lowest level in three years.
Government labor statistics don't yet track jobs focused on apps, partly because the market is still relatively new. That prompted TechNet to try to fill the void. The 15-year-old group represents executives at companies that employ more than 2 million people and generate more than $800 billion in annual revenue combined.
The app economy began to percolate in 2007 - the year that Apple introduced the iPhone and Facebook turned its website into a platform for other programs designed for its rapidly growing
Today, there are more than 500,000 apps available for the iPhone and Apple's iPad tablet. Some are given away for free in an attempt to make money from ads. Others are sold by young and old entrepreneurs, as well as major companies.
As its audience has grown from about 58 million users in 2007 to 845 million today, Facebook has hatched perhaps the most successful apps company so far in Zynga Inc.The San Francisco-based maker of online games such as FarmVille and Words With Friends already
employs about 2,800 people and has leased enough office space to hire thousands more during the next few years.
The seeds for even more job growth have been planted by a proliferation of other mobile devices designed to run on operating systems made by Google Inc., Research in Motion Ltd.and Microsoft Corp.More apps are likely to be coming into homes as more TVs and
appliances, including refrigerators and washing machines, are wired for Internet access.
For all its progress and future promise, the app economy remains a small fraction of the broader technology industry. TechNet estimates about 3.5 million people are working in technology jobs - occupations revolving around computers and mathematics.
But not all the jobs being created in the app economy require geeky credentials.
TechNet reasons every apps programming job hatches another position in other non-technical areas such as sales, marketing, human resources and other administrative chores.
The study also presumes the job growth in apps spurs more local spending on goods and services that encourages more hiring at neighboring businesses. Quantifying this domino effect can be tricky.
Mandel, president of the consulting firm South Mountain Economics says he believes he was conservative in his calculations. He estimates that one peripheral job is created for every two jobs added to the payroll of an apps maker.
The TechNet study found that the highest concentration of app jobs is in the technology hotbeds of the San Francisco Bay area (nearly 15 percent of the positions), New York (9 percent) and Seattle (nearly 6 percent).
But the study also found app jobs cropping up in places such as Philadelphia (nearly 2 percent), Detroit (1 percent) and Phoenix (1 percent). All told, more than 60 percent, or about 290,000, of the app jobs are located outside California, New York and Washington state, according to the study.
TechNet CEO Rey Ramsey is optimistic apps jobs will continue to be widely dispersed across the country because it's a specialty that doesn't require big factories, close proximity to railroads
and highways or even other technology hubs. All that is really required, he said, is a good idea and online access.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale and Harvard played 45 minutes of intense, scoreless soccer on Saturday at Reese Stadium, but Mother Nature wouldn't allow for any more. Heavy thunderstorms in the New Haven area forced the game to be postponed. After a 90-minute wait, the storms persisted so the game was called. The two teams will start over on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 3 p.m. at Reese Stadium.