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A proposal for massive reduction of unemployment.
All employers, large and small, private and public, should be obliged to provide part time work for unemployed people. Each workplace would be given quotas scaled to its size. The unemployed would be free to choose their preferred workplace (providing a quota was not already filled there) and their employer would pay the equivalent of their work relief benefit as a wage for the time worked. That might only be 2 or 3 days a week, depending on the award rate for their industry. Private businesses would be fully reimbursed by the government but all employers would be expected to provide on the job training in return for the free labour. If permanent employment was not offered within say, three months, the job seeker would have to move to another workplace of his/her choice.
This scheme would have multiple benefits. It would:
• provide invaluable work experience and enhanced opportunities to showcase personal skills,
•fast-track people into real jobs providing real social justice to those genuinely seeking work
•eliminate passive welfare, restoring dignity to the unemployed
•remove any incentive or opportunity for rorting or loopholing the system,
•slash welfare and bureaucracy costs while massively boosting national productivity,
•help entrench a new ethic of mutual obligation that Western democracies so urgently need to counter a pervasive culture of greed and entitlement.
Am I dreaming or is this not a viable solution?
Jan 26 2013: good point Tom. After Econ 101
I am surprised that the same mistakes are being repeated; however, I do remember reading or hearing that the Great Depression didn't start really getting serious efforts to improve things until "the bankers started being afraid."
Hopefully that is not true.
Jan 25 2013: All I want to know is, where does the money come from? How does the government get the funds to subsidize the companies? Higher taxes on the companies? I guess you could do away with capitalism altogether and take all the rich people's money away. But that would be communism, which the Soviets proved doesn't seem to work in the long run.
Jan 26 2013: Scot having studied and taught modern history and having run my own business for 35 years, I can assure you I am no communist.
No more money would be needed. The government simply pays a company the person's unemployment benefits and the company then passes it on to the person as a wage.
Far from raising taxes, they could probably be lowered as billions would be saved. Here's how.
Bureaucracy would be slashed as the unemployed would not need agencies. They would go directly to the workplace of their choice, checking online first to see if there is still quota vacancies there.
The scheme would also slash welfare costs as many people would no longer gain any benefit from rorting the system and seek full time employment. Many others would be able to find regular employment given this hands on opportunity to impress the employer. In the process, unemployment would drop and productivity would be massively boosted.
Jan 31 2013: I kind of like the idea, I had seen work/welfare programs before but the jobs were picking trash and similar work that provided no work experience continuation. The only issue is that current bureaucracy
supporting unemployed will not go away. An instructor once said " in the event of total nuclear annihilation the only survivors would be cockroaches and bureaucracies".
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Jan 26 2013: I think your voluntary scheme has merit Kate but what I am striving for here is a mega solution to (especially youth) unemployment that is over 55% in some countries and threatens to bring down western civilization!
Nor would a volunteer system prevent so many Aboriginal Australians from rejecting work offers in favour of the dole to which they have become addicted- like the alcohol they consume to fuel a self destructive spiral of worthlessness and despair.
My plan may seem radical but its not really- I think its the least any sane, civilized society should do.
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Jan 27 2013: The Australian Employment Covenant and Generation One have over private industry 60000 jobs available for 'job ready' Indigenous people. Here is the website: http://www.fiftythousandjobs.org.au/
Less than 15% of these jobs have been taken up because the training provided by the government is not job specific and because the dole is a far easier option. My proposal would resolve both those problems.
I agree that many Australians are racist but probably no more so than any other nationality and a good deal less than some.
As for others pointing out the 'financial and logistic' difficulties to my scheme, you must have seen something that I missed. Have you really read my responses to these disputants? I get the strong impression that people do not seem to be interested in solving major problems like this as much as in venting their own preconceptions and scoring points.
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Jan 27 2013: There are plenty on offer in the mining industry- for example: http://au.adsdeck.net/jobs/=indigenous-mining_ord=fr-d,f-d?gclid=CL3pyeKqh7UCFfEkpgodbkkAgg#utm_source=Adwords&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=3338640723&utm_content=indigenous+mining+jobs
If you contacted Generation One, I am sure they would provide you with a wide variety of positions available in Qld- both urban and regional.
Jan 24 2013: Thanks for your comments Edward
Having run my own business for 35 years, I can say that I would always welcome additional staff, especially if they were hard working and keen to get a regular job.The reason businesses don't employ more people is pretty obvious I would have thought: cost. My scheme would cost them little or nothing.
Bureaucracy would be slashed as the unemployed would not need agencies. They would go directly to the workplace of their choice, checking online first to see if there is still quota vacancies there. Reimbursing employers would not add cost as it would be simply redirecting the payment from the unemployed person to the employer.
The scheme would also slash welfare costs as many people would no longer gain any benefit from rorting the system and seek full time employment. Many others would be able to find regular employment given this hands on opportunity to impress the employer. In the process, productivity would inevitably increase.
Jan 24 2013: If you want to do some analysis yourself, you could begin by looking at the history of programs of this kind that have been operated on a massive scale, like the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (late 1970s), the Jobs Training Partnership act, the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit, and so on.
These programs provided incentives for private firms and nonprofit agencies to hire unemployed people and also created public sector jobs in the fashion of the WPA. You will be able to find data, I am sure, about how the money was spent- what proportion on program administration and so forth.
What these multi-billion dollar programs did not do that you propose is to force employers to hire (with subsidy) people they would never otherwise choose to train because of the size of the gap between what the person knows and can do and what would actually be useful to the employer and his customers. Another issue that was less prominent then but is relevant today when you talk about forcing such costs on businesses is the question of moving businesses abroad. Some businesses can move, of course, and some cannot. The ones that can't, like the local sandwich shop, can only raise its prices to cover new costs, pay the proprietor less if there is "give" there, or close.
As you consider how this might look on the employer end, just to understand how this might play out, I think it is useful to consider businesses really specifically. Some work requires very little training, so the training costs and issues would be small. There are such jobs at, say, a Big Box store (though there may be no productivity gain). Other operations hire mainly highly skilled people with years of education and training behind them. What happens when someone shows up the door of such a place with not even a GED? Does the business need to train the person to do high level work that normally requires years of education and training, or will the firm soon have a better tended physical plant than it needs?
Jan 24 2013: Fritzie I think you are correct about those earlier schemes being multi billion dollar programs. Mine would cost little or nothing.
But why would you assume an genuinely unemployed person seeking work in an organization of his/her choosing would not be "useful to an employer"? Millions of unemployed people who have huge potential are now unable to even get a job interview. My scheme would put them straight into work and give them the opportunity to fully display that potential to employers.
What are these onerous "costs" you refer to? If the person was highly productive, it would be worth providing some on the job training and that cost would be minimal as they would be keen and quick to learn. If the person was lazy or disinterested, the training and productivity would of course be minimal but at least that person would have to clock on and off for 2 or 3 days a week and not be able to rort the system as so many now do. I should also add that if the employer felt a person was a liability to his/her operation, that employer should be able to dismiss the person immediately.
Re your last question, employers could also immediately reject anyone who did not have the standard qualifications and or experience to do the work required, just as they would in any job application situation.
Jan 25 2013: I would not be useful to a university as a professor of Chinese, nor to Microsoft as a program manager.
The cost to a university of taking me in to teach Chinese is that I would have to be taught Chinese, to teach Chinese, and to do the research expected of a professor of Chinese.
Microsoft would have to teach me eveything I would need to know about programming and technology, as I don't know anything.
I may be keen and quick to learn as learners go, but the gap between what I know and what these organizations need suggests a lot of effort and time to instruct me that pulls the staff doing that away from other work.
This has nothing to do with lazy or disinterested.
I thought you were saying people could work at the organization of their choosing. I don't see how this is compatible with letting employers immediately reject someone who did not have standard qualifications to do the work required.
I have not seen your demonstration that this program would cost little or nothing.
Jan 25 2013: I was a retail manager in the building industry. If I was unemployed, I would be seeking work at a hardware store or manufacturer of building products. Why would I seek work at a university teaching Chinese?
The program would cost little or nothing because bureaucracy would be slashed as the unemployed would not need job agencies. They would go directly to the workplace of their choice, checking online first to see if there is still quota vacancies there. Reimbursing employers would not add cost as it would be simply redirecting the payment from the unemployed person to the employer.
The scheme would also slash welfare costs as many people would no longer gain any benefit from rorting the system and decide to seek full time employment. Many others would be able to find regular employment given this hands on opportunity to impress the employer. With millions of new workers doing this, national productivities would inevitably increase.
Jan 24 2013: Justify your premise that companies have a ligitimate, ongoing need for part-time employees. (If they have such a need why wouldn't they fill it from the ample supply of unemployed people. Why use the government as an Employment Agency?)
Justify your assertion that your plan would slash welfare and bureaucracy costs. (The government will administer the program, that is added bureaucracy. The government will fully reimburse the employers, that is added cost.)
Justify your assertion that this program will massively boost national productivity. (If productivity is suffering due to lack of workers, why are so many workers unemployed?)
You ask two questions at the end of your post. A "yes" answer to both of them would indicate that you are dreaming and this is not a viable solution. Is that the wording you intended?


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Rundles stayed mum on other details surrounding the death of Larry A. Bohannon, 51, citing the ongoing investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.
Bohannon died from gunshot wounds to the head, chest and abdomen on March 29.
Bohannon had allegedly robbed a store at gun point in Bellows Falls, Vt. earlier in the day. When he fled into New Hampshire, Alstead and Walpole officers pursued his vehicle until they were able to stop him on Upper Walpole Road in Walpole, where the shooting occurred.
Rundles would not identify the shooter, only saying that Alstead and Walpole officers were the only police on the scene.
"When an officer is involved in the discharging of a firearm that results in either the death or injury of another person," the officer is relieved from duty, "until he or she is ready to go back to regular police work."
Rundles would not comment on whether Bohannon had a firearm.
"We're not releasing any further details surrounding the shooting yet," she said.
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Today I go to one of our stores and the manager there knows I collect Sega. He tells me that he got some Sega CD games in but he didn't recognize some of the stuff. Imagine my surprise when I open up one of the bins the collection is stored inside and I see Popful Mail, a very rare Sega CD game.
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Do You Really Use Your Convertible Furniture Fully?
I have a bit of confession. In my last studio apartment, I purchased a convertible sofa which I intended to use as a combination of our bed and seating, to save space. Though I began with the best of intentions, I'd be lying if I said that bed ever saw itself in the couch position.
Apartment Therapy has a long history of advocating convertible furniture. And why not? The idea seems brilliant. Why buy a bed and a couch when you can have both? Buying only one size of a dining table seems silly—you only need a small one for yourself but could use a larger one for dinner parties. It seems these days that nearly any type of furniture can come in an ultra-convenient convertible type.
Knowing a few friends in the same boat as us (the "bought-convertible-furniture-but-it's-only-ever-been-used-one-way" boat) we wanted to survey readers about their actual convertible furniture usage. Who out there uses the piece in all its varieties on a regular basis? Since we are focusing on setting up the home this month, the question of what kind of furniture to add to a space might pop up. You just might save someone from buying a piece they won't use all the way, or inspire someone to get a little convertible in their own space!
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When I had a studio, I, too, had a convertible sofa. But I rarely, if ever, used it as a sofa. Honestly, it was just too much work in the morning to convert the bed back to a sofa.
I think that if you have the $, the ideal situation is simply a separate sofa or loveseat and a murphy bed situation.
Exactly the reason why my boyfriend won't let me get a convertible sofa bed for our apartment. He thinks I'll always keep it as a bed. Which is probably true.
We have a convertible sofa in our office, and we regularly have guests sleep there. We always turn it back into a sofa after they leave, so it gets used both ways. Same goes for my dining table, which is an antique with leaves that extends from a two-person table to seating for 4-10 for dinner parties. I keep it in my kitchen nook as a breakfast table and pull it out every couple weeks, minimum.
That said, if I used my convertible sofa as my own bed, it would probably remain in bed position.
My issue is that convertable furniture tends to be expensive. I do understand the extra engineering and materials involved, but I end up staring at the pieces and lusting after them but then buying something else.
I did, however, have a sleeper sofa in the living room of my old one bedroom apartment. It was a horrible thing, bought cheap, and I used it for company until I discovered inflatable mattresses.
Some things don't have to be used all the time for their convertible-ness to be useful and worthwhile. so what if you only get the full dining table out on holidays? It's still something there that you need. Equally with sofa beds - the fact you rarely use the bed bit is by the by, because the whole point is you don't need a spare bed quite enough to have a dedicated spare bed.
I think convertible furniture should always have one key purpose and be good at it, and you should buy it for the key purpose first and foremost
I have one of those in my library at home and it has already been used a lot by guests
I have a sofa-bed that we got from Ikea in our office/guest room and it really is a lifesaver when we have guests. But we alwas put it back after they're gone since the room is just too small to keep it that way!
I also love our extendable dining table--we only extend it for Thanksgiving but that to me is worth it enough.
My husband and I live in a small studio in New York. We have a convertible sofa that we sleep on every night. During the day we do put the bed away so that we actually have somewhere to sit.
It doesn't take too long and if we don't do it the bed takes up most of our space. When we convert it back to a sofa we have a normal living room and a much nicer place to live during the day.
Ikea convertible sofa in my spare bedroom / bike room. It gets used by guests, and then put back into sofa mode. In sofa mode it usually only holds my bag of bike stuff. Nobody ever just sits on it. A regular bed would take up too much room.
I want to marry that One Night Stand sofa from Blu Dot. I love it that much!
This has been my argument all along, especially for the artful but contrived multi-use options often showing up here. They are intellectually cool but rarely practical.
I had VERY tiny furnished studio apartments twice in my life with sofa beds. I DID put them into sofa position every day and pull them out every night. (One of them ate my sheets -- big holes when they got caught in the mechanism -- I might fold them up, but I didn't strip them every day!)
Now I have a sleep sofa from IKEA in our family room. We do sit on it often, and we do unfold it when we have enough guests to use it as an extra bed. Also, we have a leaf for out table (a pretty minimal "convertible" use, I admit) which we rarely need, but which is available.
Rather than Convertible furnishings, it makes sense to me to have "multitasking" furniture. A Parsons table (maybe with a glass topper) can be a desk, dining table, spare kitchen counter space, a TV stand, etc. depending on your needs of the moment. Adding castors makes it movable and even more versitile.
While I was a grad student, I lived in a studio apartment and used a futon as both couch and bed. I kept the linens to a minimum so that it wasn't too much of a hassle to set up and break down. Just the fitted sheet, two pillows (one for cat!) and a duvet with washable cover.
It did not always get put back up every single day, but it spent about as much time as a couch as it did a bed. I definitely used it to the max.
Now we have a $25 garage-sale sleeper sofa that gets used all the time. We live in 850 square feet near downtown, and after a night out friends will sometimes stay over. It's also great for houseguests, and it's amazingly comfortable. I think the eggcrate on top of the mattress helps quite a bit.
I have a daybed that my parents bought in Denmark around 1970. I looks like a sofa, but converts into a bed or back to a sofa in about 10 seconds. I slept on it for several years, and I still use it as a guest bed. It's been reupholstered 3 times and I've replaced the mattress. I love that day bed.
I have a gateleg kitchen table that is always extended to its biggest most open position. Kind of defeats the purpose.
I'm setting up a studio apartment now and have a futon and a table with fold-down leaves. The table leaves get folded out with some regularity but the futon does not--its too heavy for me to convert into a sofa by myself. I'd say get convertible furniture if you want but be sure you can switch it between modes on your own.
I lived on a futon for years, the room was so tiny that I had no choice but to fold it up into sofa position during the day. I loved it, kinda miss that stupid thing...
I have a futon in my tiny studio apartment, but I rarely use it in the bed position. It's as if I've been sleeping on a sofa for a couple of years. Kind of sad, really.
I had futons for years and then my mom bought me a real bed when I was in college. I still have that bed and I still hate it. Call me crazy, I just prefer a futon. They're so much more comfortable. But I never folded it up, either. My husband and I are planning to buy two of these futons for our living room to replace the couches. They *will* stay folded up until company comes over to stay the night.
I'd rather buy a good looking non-convertible sof and have friends sleep on it lengthwise than sacrifice looks and buy a convertible that would get folded out once a year.
My rule is to buy for myself first and if I can accomodate guests, great, but I'm not going to compromise of them. That said, my couch is really comfortable and I'll even sleep on it if someone wants to use my bed.
We actually have this exact BluDot couch (same color too!) and we use it all the time as a guest bed in our second bedroom/office. It's cute enough for us to live with as a couch, and just uncomfortable enough as a bed so our guests don't stay too long...
I have a table that can expand to twice it's size. I use the table in it's regular size for dining and expanded size for school/art work.
It's fantastic
When I moved into my studio, I agonized between buying a bed or a convertible sofa/bed. I have not regretted my choice of the bed yet. I do much less entertaining here than I imagined and love waking up in a real, comfortable bed. THe close friends that I do invite over don't mind sitting on the bed to watch a movie :)
My parents had a sofa bed in the family room. Every night after dinner, we'd pull out the bed and all five of us pile in to watch television.
Until recently, I would move my coffee table and roll out a memory foam mattress top after dinner to watch television with my two sons.
I remember both periods fondly and if my sons had their way, the living room furniture would be replaced by a wall to wall mattress.


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With everything that is going on right now with the Jay Cutler situation, I would like to remind people where this all started. It started with Denver's loss in the 2005 AFC Championship to the Steelers.
Little did I know, when I watched my team go down in defeat that day, I was a witness to a major turning point in Bronco history.
It all started, allegedly, with Shanahan going to the Pro Bowl to coach and seeing Peyton Manning. Right there, he realized that he needed a big-time QB like he had with Elway if he was going to get the Broncos where we wanted them to go.
When the 2006 Draft was upon us, I wasn't sure what direction the Broncos were going. I thought that they may take a RB or WR in the first round. But when I saw their pick come up and Cutler answering the phone. I was stunned. I didn't think they were going to do anything like that. I liked Plummer.
I thought he would be Denver's man for the next few years, and then they would draft a rookie in three years (we may still do that). I wasn't as hard on Plummer as others because I remember watching the Steeler QB's (namely Malone and Stoudt) stink it up in the '80s. Plummer was a lot better than those turkeys.
But, apparently, he wasn't going to be Shanahan's man anymore. He was pulled late in '06, Cutler took over, and that was that for the Plummer era. He retired after he was traded to the Bucs the next spring.
All in all, I felt that Cutler has played well the last two and a quarter seasons as Denver's starter. They had a bevy of injuries last year, and the defense was horrible the last two years. He even went to the Pro Bowl last year.
But, it looks like we could have a change with this new coach. I know that McDaniels made Cassel into a good QB, but why fix what isn't broke?
Now, I am not comparing Cutler to Michael Jordan, but, what if Phil Jackson would have wanted to trade Jordan 20 years ago when he took over the Bulls because he didn't fit into his triangle offense?
You have to find ways of taking advantage of the talents of the stars you have, not banishing them because they apparently don't fit some stupid scheme.
In conclusion, I don't know what will come of all this. It looks like Jay is gone, but you never know. If he does go, however, McDaniels better do a really good job. If the Broncos struggle, and Cutler leads his new team to the playoffs or SB in the next few years, he may be out of a job.
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Emiratization campaign to reduce number of foreign employees
Sources within Abu Dhabi announced that large numbers of foreign employees have been laid off in order to reduce costs and to help employ the Emirati youth. The source said the campaign, named Emiratization, has been adopted by the higher authorities on the Executive Board sponsored by the Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
This campaign is supervised by the younger brother of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President of the Executive Board.
A foreign employee said that the Authority of Foreign Culture asked 118 employees to leave their jobs within the next three months, in order to improve national employment and to improve the system of incentives.
David Peter, director of the Department of Middle East and North Africa for the Economist said that there is a concern about the possibility of rebellion by young Emiratis due to the unemployment situation. The UAE is one of the few countries in the Arab region that didn't witness popular protests from its youth.
Analysts say that the Emirates declined to renew contracts with some foreign staff in order to reduce salaries, as it relies on foreign employment at all economic levels, due to a lack of qualified employees.
According to the Ministry of Economy, 35,000 Emiratis are unemployed. Of those employed, only 7% work in the private sector.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed said that the government training program has successfully rehabilitated more than 6,000 Emiratis to work in the public sector. On the other hand, Saqr Gobash, the Minister of Labor, believes it is important to save 20,000 jobs a year in the private sector for the next ten years.
Ghanem Nusseibeh, Founder of Cornerstone Global Associates, headquartered in London, said that the Emirati government faces a great challenge in hiring local Emiratis who are qualified to work in the local industries, to ensure that the state retains a competitive advantage.
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First Order Versus Second Order Risk Aversion
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After I delivered my daughter, I was in some very serious pain. No one ever told me that was going to happen! I remember begging my nurse to give me a few of the pads that you crack and they instantly become ice packs to take home. They seemed to be the only thing that helped ease some of the sting. Only problem was that she only gave me three. Ugh! Now that I'm down to 3 weeks until I deliver our second girl, I am on a mission to find relief beforehand. I'm all about being prepared this time around! Here is where Padsicles come into play, as they are such an easy and amazing DIY for postpartum.
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Changes of Puberty
Examine the growth and development that takes place during the pre-teen and teen years. Middle schoolers discuss puberty and then research specific changes that occur during puberty. The class performs skits based on the changes they have researched then discuss the overall experience.
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The Changes of Puberty
Pupils study about the changes of puberty for boys and girls. In this health lesson, students study how the body changes during puberty and make a presentation about a significant change that can take place during puberty and how to deal emotionally with this change.
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Rates of Puberty Change
Eighth graders investigate the reasons for why individuals go through puberty at different times and rates. They conduct a personal worth role play to encourage diversity and self-acceptance. Group discussion is used for scaffolding the lesson.
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Understanding the Body: Day 2, Puberty
Everyone needs to know what to expect when going through puberty. Intended for a special education class, this well developed and developmentaly appropriate resource provides a full days instruction on teaching teens with special needs about the changes that come with puberty.
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Understanding the Body, Day 2: Puberty
What is puberty? Get your secondary special needs students on the right track with this develpmentally appropriate lesson. They define and describe the differences between men, women, boys, and girls, discuss major events that mark peberty, and sexual feelings.
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Introduction to Puberty
Learners describe some of the common external changes associated with puberty. They are introduced to the topic by stating that often these classes are called sex education classes. Students asked: what have you heard about these classes? What topics do you think we will learn about in sex education classes?
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Puberty/Adolescence, Day 1: Overview
What a simple way to have a health class learn about puberty! Worksheet 1 has a list of statements about puberty, and the class puts checkmarks in the boxes that they think applies to boys and/or to girls. Sure to promote lively discussion, this resource reminds learners that puberty is a process.
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Puberty/Adolescence Overview
Students inquire about life science by completing a worksheet in class. In this human sexuality activity, students define the physical and emotional changes which occur to male and female students during adolescence and puberty. Students complete a life science quiz and answer puberty study questions on a worksheet.
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Girls and Puberty
Students describe the internal and external changes females experience during puberty. They discuss the external changes of puberty. Students investigate about the changes that happen inside the female body at puberty. Students review the ages in which boys and girls go through puberty.
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Puberty and Menstruation
Students examine human health by researching the effects of puberty. In this body changing lesson, students identify the time in their adolescent lives when their bodies change, hair grows, feelings develop and voice deepen. Students define menstruation and complete worksheets based on bodily changes.
5th - 8th Visual & Performing Arts 30 Views 91 Downloads
Planning For Student Diversity When Teaching About Puberty
Young scholars begin their examination of the changes their body is going to go through during puberty. In groups of boys and girls, they discover their experiences during puberty are going to be very different from one another. As a class, they discuss the consequences of having unprotected sex and role-play various scenerios to end the lesson plan.
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Puberty: Day 2
Students investigate human health by researching sexual health facts. In this puberty lesson, students identify the changes that will occur in a teenage body over the next several years and what the eventual outcome will be. Students answer study questions regarding sexual awareness and define a list of vocabulary terms.
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Puberty and Growing Up - a workshop for youth
Students examine the changes that happen to the body during puberty. In this puberty and growing up lesson, students describe the basic physical changes that occur to the body during puberty. Students identify the physical changes that take place inside and outside the body and explore the ways to manage these changes.
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Students investigate life science by answering maturity questions. For this human health lesson, students identify the changes which occur during puberty and answer study questions based on sexual awareness. Students define scientific vocabulary terms and read assigned text regarding life science.
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Catholic voters are breaking with the Church's opposition to insurance coverage of contraception, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds. Sixty-five percent of voters — including a majority of Catholics — "said they supported the Obama administration's requirement that health insurance plans cover the cost of birth control, and 59 percent, said the health insurance plans of religiously affiliated employers should cover the cost of birth control." A Public Policy Polling survey conducted on Friday similarly found that 57 percent of Catholic voters — and 59 percent of Catholic women — support the requirement. Under the administration's policy, "women who work for institutions like Catholic hospitals and universities can obtain birth control from their insurance company without a co-pay, but their employers don't have to include contraception in their healthcare plans."
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Nationwide car finance specialist, ACF Car Finance Ltd, has appointed digital marketing agency Lakestar Media to handle its online profile. ACF Car Finance sells thousands of vehicles every year from its eight regional branches across the UK. Lakestar Media, which launched in December 2007, appointed former Big Mouth Media group commercial officer Neil McKay as CEO in September 2008.
Neil McKay said: "The internet is now the most popular research tool for those looking to buy cars and we will help signpost would-be buyers towards ACF Car Finance. Online marketing is known to generate high returns on investment and we are confident it will bring a significant boost to the firm's net profitability."
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True data virtualization should be built from the ground up, ideally on a comprehensive data integration platform that truly understands the complexity of data warehouse architectures. It must be based on lean integration principles so that the data integration process can be optimized to reduce delays and minimize waste. It must support a model-driven and service-oriented approach for defining and delivering data services that can be fully reused for any consuming application and across any project, without any rework. That means there must be no re-building of data integration logic and no re-deployment.
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The art of storytelling is alive and well in singer/songwriter Nathan Moore's repertoire, and in March the nationally-touring folk singer will be performing his award-winning live show in his home state of Virginia. His schedule includes:
March 12 Mockingbird, 123 W. Beverley St., Staunton VA 8:30pm . Tickets: www.mockingbird123.com
March 20 Tidewater Friends of Folk Music Concert Series, Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library,
4100 Virginia Beach Blvd. Virginia Beach, VA 7:30pm. Tickets: www.tffm.org
March 26 "Nationwide & Countryfried" (Nathan Moore & Bryan Elijah Smith) Shenandoah Fringe Festival, Baja Bean Co., 9 W. Beverley St., Staunton, VA 9pm.
Called "…a musician in a constant state of becoming" (State of Mind), Moore has been praised for bringing balladry into the 21st century. His ground-breaking writing and performing cause music writers to easily invoke the names Dylan, Van Zandt, Guthrie, Cohen and Cash when reviewing Moore's work as well as lining him up with contemporary greats like Jeff Tweedy, Yim Yames, Conor Oberst, and M. Ward.
Nathan has logged a lot of road and frequent flyer miles since releasing his latest EP Folk Singer in August 2009, toting his bag of tricks from coast-to-coast and giving thousands a peek inside. He thinks the new album and show are feeding a deep need for people to connect during hard times. Moore recently told an interviewer from TheWaster.com: "Since the economy has turned and with the state of the world, people are looking closer to home for things to sustain us. In that sense, the folk singer thrives…I seem to catch people off guard when I am performing, in how they are reacting to me. I think people are poised. Our culture is so accustomed to not having direct connection…people are just jaded enough to be pleasantly surprised by a little folk singer. They come up to me after the show and say "I wasn't expecting to feel any of that stuff, thank you!"
In a career that has spanned nearly two decades, Moore has recorded nineteen albums and played hundreds of gigs alongside an impressive list of talented artists at hot venues and festivals all over the country. He's been in a jam band, a string band, a rock band and now is on the rise as a solo singer/songwriter. After touring relentlessly in the 1990's and co-founding a small independent record label in Santa Fe, NM in 2001, Nathan returned to his roots in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in 2006 to launch a solo endeavor. Moore's 2007 solo album, In His Own Worlds, spent 21 weeks on the Roots Music Radio Charts, and his evocative one-man show that is an innovative combination of music, banter and magic has wowed audiences and garnered critical praise from coast-to-coast ever since. Moore won the prestigious Telluride Troubadour Contest in 2008.
In 2010 Nathan will continue touring Folk Singer nationally and record a new album. He will also be appearing on short tours with his rock band Surprise Me Mr. Davis. When not on the road, Nathan conducts a community-based educational and performing arts program in his home town in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and writes from his riverfront family home that he shares with his two brothers. He is also forming a multi-media company focused on helping people tell their stories in new and innovative ways.
For bios, photos and more information visit www.nathanmoore.org.


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this is a sideblog for my main blog, which is a politics blog. but i wanted my artblog to be its own account, so i crated a new account called "sachi-pon." (besides, my politics blog is inactive now.).
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Storytelling is Compelling at Northwest Elementary School
Northwest Elementary School students in the Amityville Public School District enjoyed a visit from renowned intergenerational storyteller and children's book author Heather Forest, who presented her workshop Musical Folktales from Around the World.
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Richard I know you probably didnt mean for it to sound this way, but give the Wood Bros some credit! Not just the engine!
Boris Said won a pole at the Pepsi 400 in a old Roush car that I could not fiqure out either!
Look it would be refreshing to see them leading laps and for a change Fords, or Dodges dominate and lead the most laps at Daytona! Just check the past history at Daytona and Talledaga and see who has ruled the last 12 years!It has been a one brand show, the 2000 Daytona was the last one that another brand dominated and look at the rule changes made to prevent another one!
As far as the new engine, Chevy got a new SB2 after Jeff Gordons and Dale Earnharts domination of the point titles in the late ninites, then they got a new Ro7 Engine after complete domination of the series in the past few years!
Look Chevy has great cars and teams, but Nascar needs to 'even it up" at the 'Super Bowl"