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Mentoring PGCE students
Posted 06 October 2004 - 04:45 PM
Mentoring PGCE students is one of the most rewarding aspects of my job. I have been mentoring for four years and I have learned so much in that time, about my own teaching and about new ideas for teaching that it is worth all the hard work!
Here are a few ideas that I try to keep central to my mentoring:
§ Partnership is the key I work with my PGCE students as colleagues. We may be at different stages in our careers but they have as much to give me as I have to offer them and when we start like that from the outset it avoids the danger of treating them like our pupils and from leaving them to flounder. There is nothing worse for a PGCE student to feel they are being patronized. I am convinced that it is through discussions with my trainees that I have got to grasp with some thorny issues like assessment the old adage that two brains are better than one!
§ Encouraging the trainee to take responsibility for his or her own learning and training is also crucial. At the very beginning of the placement this can be tricky, but using the university guidance and careful discussions with the trainee this can be done right from the outset. After the first couple of weeks my trainees will be leading the mentor meetings to all intents and purposes. They need to be proactive in the training process, not just reactive and by giving them control of the mentor meeting and to some extent the weekly target setting, they begin to do this. Obviously there is a lot of guidance from me as mentor and I do suggest and help phrase targets and then the training activities that follow but the trainee has to think about their own progress constantly.
§ One of the things that allows the trainee to take responsibility for their own learning is good, constructive feedback. After every lesson they teach a trainee should get feedback oral feedback at the end of the lesson and then written feedback that they can take away and reflect upon is ideal (although not always possible). Good feedback is hard to identify, weaker feedback much easier. Some examples of feedback that wont allow the trainee to evaluate their own teaching really thoroughly include
- a simple good lesson,
- a list of activities that took place in the lesson,
-criticism, criticism, criticism
-Why didnt you I always
§ In all feedback the central issues should be history and pupil learning. On top of this if the trainee is really going to take responsibility for their own progress the feedback needs to be linked to their current targets so that you can generate trainee-initiated discussion about new targets. What we are looking for is critical dialogue, this is what will allow the trainee to really develop their teaching.
§ Reading is also crucial. Trainees need to read, read, read and articles from the journal Teaching History are thought provoking, practical and provide more areas for discussion. Most university courses provided reading lists for the trainees I make sure that I read the article of the week too so the critical dialogue can continue and new ideas develop (both for me and the trainee)
§ It is often slightly daunting when you are faced with someone who is very able and this is also the case when mentoring a more able trainee. It is both exciting and scary but I have found that the solution is to provide them with the freedom to experiment but also to be on hand when support is needed. Risk taking inevitably leads to dips and the more able trainee is often not used to something not working again the importance of constructive feedback is paramount.
§ A final point to remember is that the trainee may be getting advice from people across the department, or indeed the school. You need to be aware of this and to be able to diffuse situations where necessary. Make sure that the trainee can discuss the different ideas that they are being given and suggest they experiment with them remember you are not trying to create a clone and if a trainee experiments with an idea and it works then thats fine. If the idea doesnt work be there to help them analyse why it didnt work.
Mentoring is hard work, but very rewarding and helping train history teachers - who will, hopefully, be even better than us means that we are ensuring the teaching of history just gets better and better!
Posted 06 October 2004 - 05:05 PM
Several of the mentees I have worked with have found it incredibly hard to ask for advice from staff. When asked about this they quote the demands senior staff are already under; feeling of self doubt and embarrassment and occasionally a lack of realisation that there was a problem.
I believe that one of the most crucial aspects of successful mentoring is working out a way of ensuring that the trainee feels able to criticise, self evaluate critically and ask for help. Today I had the first serial visit from this years ITT student. Examples of senior staff needing help and asking for advice from other colleagues were used to try and ensure that he knows that everyone in teaching needs reassurance and guidance from time to time. I also made sure that he had copies of the departmental and my personal development plan for the year as these illustrate the need to evaluate performance critically on a regular basis.
A clear focus and an agreed programme for medium term training needs is also very important. The trainee within my department will focus on classroom management techniques he observes next week, with particular reference to the way that we implement our behaviour policy.
To add to Sally's very good list of things to keep central to the process:
- liaison with the University based tutors. making sure that the in school activities tie in with the Uni based elements and that information is passed backwards and forwards quickly and efficiently is a key part of doing the job well.
Posted 06 October 2004 - 07:06 PM
The vast majority of the time i spend with our mentees is dedicated to preparation, not teaching or assessment. I always find that virtually all of their difficulties and self-criticism stem back to this, and this overcomes most of their problems.
Making learning purposeful and making sure that pupils really learn is the key to a successful PGCE student, and the moment they start to focus less on 'what and how i am going to teach them......', and more on 'what and how they are going to learn....' is the moment most of their major problems start to rapidly disappear.
How to plan for effective learning in a lesson and then a series of lessons is always my starting point with students, and the golden rule i have from day one is this: "If they are going to learn it simply by listening to you telling them, scrap it and start again"!!!!!!!!
Posted 06 October 2004 - 07:38 PM
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Posted 11 October 2004 - 07:07 PM
My first question is about my initial meeting - I was planning on giving out a pack of material for the student and thought that I would include the following:
Programme of Study
Schemes of work
Assessment policy including the articles that I gave to my department from Teaching History
NC Level descriptors that we use
Lesson Plan proforma
Examples of lesson plans that I have written
Positive behaviour management material (whole school policy)
Helpful websites
Have I left anything glaringly obvious out? have I included too much and will overwhelm them?
Posted 11 October 2004 - 07:18 PM
Have I left anything glaringly obvious out? have I included too much and will overwhelm them?
This does sound like a little bit too much to me for day one Dan.
If your student is anything like our 2 this term then they will have only been in college for a couple of weeks, and are trying to get to grips with all the stuff there as well. Anything to relieve the burden on them would be handy i think. I would give the student some of what you mention, but would leave out:
~ Lesson Plan proforma: they will probably have a standard PGCE course one from their lecturer, a different style one may confuse them, or cause problems with tutor observations and college assignments.
~ Assessment policy and NC descriptors: these can probably wait until they have got to grips with planning and teaching and are getting close to a point where they are ready to assess a piece of work.
Other than that you cover most of the major things they will need to start them off
Aims for day one?
~ Try to make them feel comfortable and not scared or intimidated
~ Make sure they are familiar with the building/department rooms, toilet locations etc
~ Introduce them to the key people - photocopying people, caretaker, cleaners etc
~ Get them to see lots of lessons from different year groups and different teachers in your department straight away so they are really enthused and get a view of the ethos/style of your department
~ Let them know their timetable and what topic they will be starting with each class so they can start to read up and plan lessons
hope this helps Dan, this is what i did with our 2 students last week and they went away very happy and calm!!!
Posted 11 October 2004 - 07:28 PM
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Posted 12 October 2004 - 10:11 AM
Just to say thanks for a great seminar and I am encouraging our mentors to contribute...via me if they aren't Historians (we don't want fume sniffers on this forum!)
Posted 13 October 2004 - 04:31 PM
On the organisational front, I try to make sure that the mentor meeting each week is a time for me to check the organisation rather then giving time over to organsing files etc. I expect my trainees from the outset to have a list of activities they do each week at the front of their file and then behind that they keep all lesson plans, feedback forms, resources, observations of other teachers, reading they have had to do to meet a training activity and so on. Then there is the mentor record sheet with the new targets. I explain right at the outset that this is my expectation and will not accept anything less - it saves having to waste valuable discussion time on admin! Perhaps a checklist of what you expect to see each week would help the less organised student?
Posted 13 October 2004 - 08:27 PM
In response to Neil's query about organisation of paper work and evidence folders...
On the organisational front, I try to make sure that the mentor meeting each week is a time for me to check the organisation rather then giving time over to organsing files etc. I expect my trainees from the outset to have a list of activities they do each week at the front of their file and then behind that they keep all lesson plans, feedback forms, resources, observations of other teachers, reading they have had to do to meet a training activity and so on. Then there is the mentor record sheet with the new targets. I explain right at the outset that this is my expectation and will not accept anything less - it saves having to waste valuable discussion time on admin! Perhaps a checklist of what you expect to see each week would help the less organised student?
With Sally on this. The admin aspects of this are the reponsibility of the ITT trainee, not the mentor. Draw up a programme of study early in their serial visits and publish this to the ITT co-ordinator, the Uni based trainer and the student. That way you spend your time passing on advice and training rather becoming bogged down in mindless and totally inappropriate admin tasks.
Posted 17 October 2004 - 05:54 PM
Posted 17 October 2004 - 07:18 PM
I remember on my PGCE itching to actually teach and getting the chance on my very first day!!!!!!
Posted 26 January 2005 - 05:06 PM
"In the past, philosophers have sought only to understand the world. The point is also to change it." - K. Marx
"Classification is exceedingly tedious" - I. Berlin
Posted 04 March 2005 - 10:32 AM
My pgce interns are still doing well, but I'm having a little trouble getting one of them to ask questions of the teachers she is observing. She gets involved when observing, teaches her own lessons well, but I'd like to get her talking about history teaching with her more experienced colleagues.
How can I help her to feel more comfortable about this?
"In the past, philosophers have sought only to understand the world. The point is also to change it." - K. Marx
"Classification is exceedingly tedious" - I. Berlin
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Red Wing #1
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"Learning to Fly"
To stay alive in the future, the best fighter pilots in the world not only have to perfect their skills and master their aircraft, they also have to know how to travel through time. The Red Wing is the story of the greatest battle in the history of the history of three worlds
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by Punchy » Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:58 amHICKLASH
by BlueStreak » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:07 amHickman is one of the stronger long-form storytellers out there today, who really excels in the "Wheels Within Wheels" type of storytelling. However, with The Red Wing being a miniseries, it should be interesting to see what Hickman does with a story with an epic feel to it in the first issue.
The Red Wing is about a war in time. Although we don't know the reasons, the enemies or the objective of the wars, we do know that it allegedly claimed the life of the protagonist, Dominic's father. Dominic's father was a Red Wing pilot, who's only shown purpose is to get shot down by alien spacecraft. Dominic, pulling a Hal Jordan, decides to follow in his father's footsteps and become a pilot too. Throughout the issue, we learn of Dominic's father's fate and see one of the risks of having a dogfight in time.
The strongest part of the book is Nick Pitarra's pencils. I think it's safe to say that one of the big two (probably Marvel) will scoop this guy up in the upcoming months as he's the real deal. Also, Hickman's usual meta-sciencey gooblygook is gotten out of the way early and actually relates to the plot in a direct way that doesn't require a recap issue at the end of the second volume to fill in the blanks.
Overall, The Red Wing is a solid read and shows why Jonathan Hickman is considered to be one of the best in the business today. If you enjoy comics, get this book.
by GLX » Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:26 pmIt was a weird read. I'm gonna have to give a couple more reads before I write on it.
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I don't understand what you mean here.
by Rockman » Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:35 pmI didn't get it
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I think he means that he hasn't read Hickman's superior creator owned work and doesn't realize that he can tell a rich, fully developed story in 4 issues.
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I assumed it was something along those lines, but I figured I'd ask just in case.
by fieldy snuts » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:11 pmI went into this week blind and didn't even know it was a Hickman book till I read the cover.
Haven't gotten to it yet...really big week this time, I'll have something by tomorrow.
by BlueStreak » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:51 pm
I've read Pax Romana and found it to be infinitely inferior to Secret Warriors.
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I posted twice in Jonah that my switch to bi-weekly shipping delayed delivery - plus I found a copy early and posted a review.
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That's the most wrong statement I've seen posted on the internet this month.
by Amoebas » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:06 pm
What were the scores for 271 - 276?
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I eagerly watched three of the Sunday morning news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press", ABC's "This Week" and last, only because I wanted to highlight it, CNN's "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley (transcript here).
Dr. Fred Frese was on, (click to view the segment) a psychologist for 40 years, and the former president of the National Mental Health Consumers' Association, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia as a young adult.
He also plays a role in an amazing PBS program "Minds on the Edge". (It's just under an hour long but compelling to watch, I assure you.)
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Most people I have spoken to, or heard speak, about their mental illness diagnosis – and my interest is nudged, in particular, regarding bipolar or bipolar II affective disorders – often share a history of other diagnoses. The most common of these is major depression.
I have felt the stigma of depression sometimes when it has been pooh-poohed as irrelevant, were I only to remain abstinent from alcohol and other drugs (which I have for most of the past 25 years). How could anyone contest, I maintain even now, that the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS in 1989 might realistically set off depression?
That was my entry into the mental health field, a psychiatrist seeing me on the condition that I be a minimum of one year sober.
The late 1980s through the early-to-mid-90s were some of my most difficult years, emotionally, (and not just mine by any stretch) and no wonder as the scythe of AIDS swept through circles of friends "in recovery" who came together as in-home care teams while memorial services were being planned for others and still others were just receiving news of their diagnosis.
I knew my anti-depressant was working as the tears flowed, not inhibiting my emotions one bit. I found out the hard way what it's like to guide one's self off such medications.
Another crisis, years later, the one which led to my bipolar II diagnosis, followed the death of my brother (but which had obviously begun much earlier) when I could not grasp the harmful consequences of spending money I did not have – and on people I could not have! The absence of depression (but hypomania) was all that mattered. My relationship wth money has been like that all my life. Spending it blinds me to the risks of being without. The proportions to which I took this, at this time however, are more embarrassing than I feel ready to go into here.
Through it all, it must be said, I have been blessed with something so many others with mental illness are too often without – a secure roof over my head. I have been in this housing co-op, with rent geared to income, since 1992. That's something I give thanks for each time I pass someone, probably with mental health problems, who has claimed a piece of sidewalk for themselves.


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Friday 14 June
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Royal Festival Hall
Cibo Matto
Saturday 15 June
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Immortal Technique
Sunday 16 June
Royal Festival Hall
Reggie Watts plus Mac Lethal
Tuesday 18 June
Royal Festival Hall
Amadeus Leopold
Tuesday 18 June
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto
Wednesday 19 June
Royal Festival Hall
Thurston Moore
Wednesday 19 June
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Iggy plus The Stooges Savages
Thursday 20 June
Royal Festival Hall
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 21 June
Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Friday 21 June
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Saturday 22 June
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Boy George
Sunday 23 June
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Double Fantasy Live With Special Guests
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's final album performed live
Sunday 23 June
Royal Festival Hall
- Activism and the Future: Two weekends of debate, workshops, films and performance
- Yoko Ono curates a special film programme at BFI including rare films by John and Yoko
- Yoko Ono's Sky Piece to Jesus Christ
- ...and much more to be announced
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- nwts this'd this
Who are "Iggy plus The Stooges Savages"?
I'll go to this, but intruiged as the who The Stooges Savages are...
I assume its The Stooges supported by Savages
and the South Bank website just needs an editor.
Ah yes, that seems to be the case.
Shame, I thought it might have been some special backing band that had been put together specifically this gig or something.
will probably attend a few of these
must be a tiny bit awkward for Thurston sharing a festival bill with his former wife/bandmate.
he did a couple fests last year on the same bill
don't think it bothers them.
they have kids together don't they ? I would imagine they have got
passed all that by now. FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDRENJaguarPirate this'd this
Someone tell me they're getting added to the Deerhunter ATP line up or else I will be forever sad.
I would love
to go too pretty much all of these.
- badmanreturns, niallKP, and UnluckyBeast this'd this
I'd love to see The Stooges and Reggie Watts
Might try and get tickets for Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto too.
So this is next week...
I'm going to the Peaches gig (not her Cut Piece thing) and maybe the free Bo Ningen show on the Friday.
Am going Iggy and the stooges.
- aboynamedgoo this'd this
I'm seeing Deerhoof. Good tickets too.
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Southbound on U.S. 17 between South Carolina Highway 170 and the Talmadge Bridge are about 817 ruts and potholes.
I think I hit 811 on Friday.
I felt the jolts all the way up my spine.
But I also felt nostalgia. I'd finished covering Republicans stumping in the Lowcountry for Saturday's critical primary; my stint as an in-the-field 2012 presidential campaign reporter was mostly over.
Sure, Georgia's primary is on March 6, but we share that date with nine other states and must compete with them to attract candidates.
Those who do come here likely will target the vote-rich Atlanta area. We'll be lucky to see them much in Savannah — before or after the primary.
So for me, the South Carolina primary was almost the end of the line. Covering it was a bit like a minor leaguer getting called up to "the show" — the major leagues — for a while.
Like the primaries there in 2008 — when I tracked, among others, Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton — the show wasn't half bad this year.
I remember the quirky things most.
For example, one day a TV interviewer asked Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who dropped out on Jan. 4, to move closer to the camera.
"Do you want to see just my eyebrows?" she jested. "Remember, I'm 55 years old."
I also remember the day Texas Gov. Rick Perry chatted up folks at Bluffton's Squat 'n' Gobble eatery.
I couldn't persuade Perry to pose for a photo with the eatery's mannequin, but he said he'd slap a campaign sticker on as he left.
As he took questions, though, he acknowledged the statuesque figure, from which an arm and a raised palm reach into the air.
"I thought that lady had a hand up over there," he quipped.
Perry made news that day not for what he said, but for what he didn't say.
Stung by the defection of a key fundraiser miffed by his attacks on then front runner Mitt Romney, Perry, who quit the race on Thursday, briefly ceased fire.
Sometimes what I heard on the campaign trail didn't seem important until later.
Take, for example, the time former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich insisted that, contrary to some reports, he'd done "no lobbying of any kind."
Under federal law, he was right, but it turned out he'd lobbied in Georgia in 2004 as our law then defined it and didn't register as a lobbyist, as the law required.
Romney's appearance on Hilton Head Island with Arizona Sen. McCain and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley forced me into a tactical decision.
The former Massachusetts governor arrived 40 minutes late. Haley spoke first, then Romney and finally McCain, who told a seemingly endless series of bad jokes. Example: "I tried to get into the Marines, but my parents were married."
Ahead of me were a long drive, tape to transcribe, and worries about my story deadline.
But I was trapped at the back of a crowded room. If I waited for it to clear when McCain finished, I figured it might take 20 minutes or so just to get out of the jammed hotel parking lot.
But I'd learned about a stairway on a balcony behind the meeting room where people who couldn't fit in the room stood. And I'd already shagged some quotes about what folks in the audience thought of Romney.
So I ducked under a yellow tape, slipped down the stairway, beat the parking lot crush, apparently missed nothing important — and made deadline.
I thought about this — and more — on Friday as I hit three more potholes on the final few yards of asphalt before the Talmadge bridge.
It had been a bumpy ride in South Carolina.
But a good one, too.
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As the topic name suggests, this thread is about hospitals. I wanted to know how many times the other Crunchyroll users had been to hospital (for themselves) and for what reason.
I hate hospitals but thankfully I've only been to them for myself once. When I was three I split the skin on my forehead open and had to get it stitched up. I still have a Y shaped scar on my forehead.
Share your stories here for the enjoyment of us all >:)
EDIT: Due to a somewhat high number of replies regarding being doctors/nurses, I'll just tell you that after school I want to either become a doctor or EMT, depending on where I'm more comfortable.
I wish I had a .38 to end this shit
Well ive never been admitted to hospital
But i'm a third year nursing student and have worked in about 4 or 5 hospitals so far for my practical rotations
So i don't mind hospitals at all, love my work
I hate hospitals.
4 years ago I was almost at every department of the hospital because I had a benign tumor on my left elbow but they didn't know what it was at first. So I had to go to a different city and I stayed there for 1 week and then had to go back and stay a week to have a surgery. Not to mention how many times they had to take my blood and how many times I fainted. One year after that my brother was in the hospital because he had a pneumothorax to make it even better it happened to him again like 6 months ago and it was worse then before. I even fainted once when I visited him.
Fortunately, I've only been to the hospital and stayed as an inpatient once as a young child(for a superficial burn to the face). However, I now go to my hospital almost every day because I work there as a physician.
I was admitted to a hospital when I was 12 because of pancreatitis was there for 2 weeks. Years later it flared up again and they found the problem. So they stuck a giant tube down my throat to get to the problem instead of surgery. I woke up during it, very uncomfortable.
i don't mind hospitals what i do mind is the bill.
Well I have to go to the hospital often. When I was younger I had to go a lot from ear infections and about 5 surgeries just on ear tubes. They kept going through my ear drum and I have almost gone deaf several times now. I had to go when I broke my right collar bone in two places. I had to go again for 3 cysts in which the third time it came back I had surgery to try and remove it permanently. I was admitted to the hospital for a week back in March of 2008 I believe. Now I have to go to one hospital ever 3 months for blood testing and check ups at a specialty clinic as well as a different hospital every 6 weeks for an infusion. So I am pretty comfortable with all of them and am known in almost every part of all three big hospitals in my area.
I hate hospitals, well its more that I hate my doctor. He creeps me out and always wants to give me physicals. For the most part though I'm a healthy horse and rarely get sick.
I haven't really been in any situations where I've had to be in a hospital since I was a child (being treated for tuberculosis, a broken arm, various check-ups), and therefore haven't developed any kind of dislike for them. I do, however, seriously dislike having to visit any kind of medical professional, but I think that's more my dad's fault than anything; he acts like every medical issue is minor and anyone who suffers is being 'overdramatic', so anyone visiting the doctor always leads to him ranting, especially if the problem is something with no symptoms visible to him.
Unfortunately, I have been several times over the last few years. Sadly, in this part of the country, there is a major issue with people taking and selling prescription painkillers so it's very hard to get a scrip for them. Because of this, each time I get a cluster headache, I end up in the hospital where they shoot me full of meds. It's kind of sad, really. Even knowing my health issues, they still refuse to give me a scrip for something I can take while at home for my occurrences. It angers me that a few bad apples spoiled it for all of us. Because of them, I have to go to a hospital every single time and getting there is not always easy. Driving with an active cluster is not possible so I usually have to get someone to take me. Then I have to sit in a waiting room for anywhere from 45 minutes to 3 hours, all while doing my best not to scream.
Funny thing was one of the nurses told me after a few visits that if I did scream, I would probably get seen faster...so the next time I did...and she was right.
I'm surprised my insurance doesn't give them crap for running up unnecessary charges. Each visit to the ER costs my insurance between $900 and $1700 depending on what they do with me. What a ridiculous waste of money when all they would have to do is give me a scrip for a painkiller that probably costs my insurance $30 a month and it's not like I would have to take pain meds everyday. Gotta love America!
No longer a kid
Went once to get my hand stiched up after it was cut open by an ice skate. What a horrible grad event that was lol
every single day because I'm a doctor, but as a patient I've been many times, once when I was little and recently I spend 6 months after surgeries and then 2 full years after an accident 1 year in rehabilitation so I could walk again and probably I will spend more time since I have many surgeries left so I don't hate hospitals or love themI'm at both sides as a doctor and patient, I wish they give disccounts or something for regular customers
Only been once, incapacitating stomach pains. They had to pump me full of morphine to stop the pain , then shortly I passed out until morning.
It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know. ~Itachi Uchiha
Fractured my elbow when I was 12, got a fence post thrown at my head which left a 2 inch splinter hanging out of my forehead when I was 13 (nearly got my eye put out by a washing line the day before), dislocated my knee when I was 15, and have had multiple seizures in the past year and am now a diagnosed epileptic. Fun times! :/


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In a post from yesterday, PCWorld's Galen Gruman declares that the "iPad Proves That Apple Wants to Kill Flash," and quite possibly Silverlight and other Internet apps while they're at it:
With the recent launch of the iPad, it's clear that Apple's goal is to do more than ignore Flash. Apple wants to kill Flash and the other RIAs. Its weapon of choice: the still-evolving HTML5 browser standard.
The HTML5 standard has its critics, particularly here at TechRepublic, but it does seem to be emerging into one of the main weapons in the Apple vs. Flash battle. So even while rival Google is cozying up to Flash with the news that the player will be better integrated into the Chrome Browser, Google is also using the HTML 5 standard to defy Apple's dumping of its Google Voice-related apps from their store, as Michael Kassner pointed out recently.
And as BNET blogger Erik Sherman, writes about HTML5:
It promises to do everything that Flash does, from delivering video and enabling slick user interfaces to providing a platform to develop small downloadable applications, without the need to download and install a browser plug-in. But exactly how HTML 5 works, and how well sites adopt it, is a contentious issue.
Sherman provides more great insight into all the major players involved in this Web standard fight in his post, "HTML 5: Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe Fight to Rule the Web."
Other than making our brains hurt, what are we to get out of all this maneuvering? Take the poll below and add your comments to the discussion.
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The Midwifery Education Accreditation Council's mission is to promote excellence in midwifery education through accreditation. It creates standards and criteria for the education of midwives. MEAC standards incorporate the nationally recognized core competencies and guiding principles set by the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), and the requirements for national certification of the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM). MEAC's accreditation criteria for midwifery education programs reflect the unique components and philosophy of the Midwives Model of Care.
The purpose of MEAC is to establish standards for the education of competent midwives, and to provide a process for self-evaluation and peer evaluation for diverse educational programs. MEAC is a non-profit organization approved by the U.S. Secretary of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency.
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MEAC is led by a Board of Directors that is supported by a staff and assisted by many wonderful volunteers.
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As an accrediting body for direct-entry midwifery educational programs, the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council plays an essential role in the development and support of the profession by requiring educators to follow a path of continual growth and improvement in the delivery of midwifery education. This is achieved by supporting the development and accountability of high-quality educational programs built on evidence-based and current best-practice research. MEAC views accountability as a necessary and positive component of professional midwifery, and we embrace our role as accreditors in this process.
MEAC sets standards for midwifery education while encouraging heterogeneity in the educational models used and the individuals served. The tension between upholding objective standards and maintaining a rich variety of options for students is a challenge we gratefully accept.
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One last thought about water bottles. It's become necessary and practically en vogue to bring a water bottle to the gym to use during and after a workout. But lately, water bottles have received negative publicity that might soon make them an endangered species.
We've all heard that the regular half-liter plastic bottles sold in grocery stores are harmful for the environment. Heck, even some fancy restaurants have recently stopped selling bottled water for that reason.
Last month, a report declared that Nalgene bottles, those sport bottles often found in the sweaty hands of club members, are no good, either. Bottles that have a 3, 6 or a 7 in the triangle at the base of the bottle contain the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, that is often released when the bottle is heated in the microwave or dishwasher. BPA mimics the hormone estrogen in our bodies, and it could induce hormonal responses. Apparently, that wouldn't be a good thing.
Most Nalgene bottles have a 7 on them, while a majority of water bottles have a 1 on them and are safe but not intended for re-use. One expert who appeared on NBC's "The Today Show" all but shunned Nalgene bottles altogether.
Putting bottles aside, let's examine the water in those grocery store bottles. Isn't that water supposedly drawn from natural, mineral streams or something? It turns out that most bottled water produced by the major soft drink companies is merely treated tap water.
We've been told time and again that we need to drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day. But wait a minute: That theory has been debunked, too. A University of Pennsylvania study says that the idea of drinking eight glasses of water a day is all wet. (Thank you, Google search, for that pun.) During our company's corporate wellness day last year, my colleague, Jennipher Shaver, gave a short lecture about how we can get water into our bodies from a variety of food sources, particularly fruit. After hearing that, I made up my mind that the theory of drinking eight glasses of water a day didn't hold that much … uh … water.
If members choose not to drink water, they have to quench their thirst with something … but what? Sport drinks, like Gatorade, are always popular, and they're advertised to rehydrate us, but there's so much sugar in those drinks that they almost defeat the purpose of sweating off those carbs. A small amount of sport drink is OK. Save the large amounts for the flu.
So what's a gym goer to do? Bring a water glass to a group ex class? One accident here, another there, and you have broken glass everywhere. There's a lawsuit just waiting to happen.
How about the good old-fashioned water fountain? Maybe, but do you really want to take a swig from a fountain right after some sweaty guy has slurped up half your nearby river? MRSA alert! MRSA alert!
Perhaps one way to help members who don't want to bring in their own water bottles is to install a water trough in the middle of your club. Members could bring a ladle from home and scoop up their desired amount of water. Or, if they're not too concerned with MRSA, they could stick their heads in the trough and start slurping.
OK, so that may not be so practical. Maybe the best solution is to mandate the office water cooler in all clubs. Coolers have cold, filtered water at the drop of a spout, and the paper cups are biodegradable. A water cooler would create more of a social atmosphere in your club since members more than likely would meet each other there. You would just need to ensure that there's plenty of water to go around.
So go ahead and throw away those bottles. Or better yet, recycle them. And leave the ladle at home.


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[This document comes from Helena Wojtczak's English Social History: Women of Nineteenth-Century Hastings and St.Leonards. An Illustrated Historical Miscellany, which the author has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web. Click on the title to obtain the original site, which has additional information.]
Mary Sophia Allen was a military-minded woman who was probably attracted to the WSPU because it was the most regimented and militant of all the suffrage societies. Born of a wealthy family in Cheltenham, she was educated at Princess Helena College. When she took over the Hastings branch in 1912 she had already achieved national fame (or notoriety). She introduced herself to local suffragettes by giving a talk at the WSPU at 8 Trinity Street describing her window smashing raids on Government buildings in London and Bristol, three terms of imprisonment, her hunger strike and force-feeding.
Mary Allen (right) shares a platform with co-speaker and WSPU leader Mrs Pankhurst (left) at Hastings' Public Hall in 1912
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Legendary Guitar: George Harrison's Rickenbacker 360/12
Meditate for a moment on the sound of The Beatles in the mid '60s—those amazing three-part harmonies aside—and your mind's ear is likely to land upon that stirring 12-string jangle and zing that was, for a time, a trademark of the Fab Four's instrumental assault.
In addition to being great and prolific songwriters, charismatic singers, and definitive pop idols, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison were consummate gearheads. They knew the power that a new sound could possess, the way a new instrument could be wielded as a tool to help a track jump right out of the groove and into the listener's consciousness. For a period of a couple years from 1964, the Rickenbacker 360/12 12-string electric guitar served as exactly that for Harrison: it was the sonic attention getter, it helped many Beatles classics to really pop.
The acoustic 12-string guitar was a major fixture in folk circles in the early '60s, a time when the folk boom helped the acoustic instrument to threaten the demise of the electric. Rickenbacker owner Francis Hall, at the helm of a company that had no competitive acoustic line, envisaged some crossover potential in a 12-string electric, and set his designers the task of producing one. Three prototypes received enthusiastic responses from the musicians who tested them, and he debut model settled into form as the 360/12 toward the end of 1963. Not long after this, in February 1964, The Beatles came to the USA for three concerts and a pair of appearances on the enormously popular Ed Sullivan show. Hall saw his chance: he took a 360/12 to The Beatles' New York hotel to present to George Harrison to try out. Hall knew he had an in with the British beat-pop band, since Lennon had long played a short-scale Rickenbacker 325 six-string. Indeed, Harrison liked the new 12-string, and his approval—and subsequent use of the model—assured the 360/12's success for all time.
Harrison used his new 360/12 on early tracks like "You Can't Do That" and "I Should Have Known Better", and brought it out for the majority of the songs on the 1964 album A Hard Day's Night. The most famous Beatles Ricky 12-string moment is undoubtedly the title track to that outing, with its chimey intro chord and the stand-out lead break around the middle of the song. With exposure like this, every kid on both sides of the big pond was soon hankering for a 360/12, or just about any of those distinctive Rickenbacker designs that they could get their hands on.
Occasionally relegated to B-list status behind Gibson and Fender, and arguably Gretsch, Rickenbacker had struggled to retain a foothold in the early rock-and-roll market, despite having roots that extended to the very birth of the electric guitar. Having evolved out of the National company (famed for its metal-bodied resonator guitars), Rickenbacker was among the first to release a commercially available electric guitar, the Electro Spanish of 1932, and its distinctive "horseshoe" pickup was one of the first successful electro-magnetic pickup designs. Amidst its struggle for market share 30 years later, the success of the 360/12, and other 12- and 6-string models of the '60s, assured the company's survival.
And this cleverly designed electric 12-string deserved the recognition it got, too. In rendering the 12-string acoustic template for the electric guitar, Rickenbacker introduced several ingenious design twists to make the instrument more appealing to pop and rock-and-roll players. Where most electrics required cumbersome, wide necks to accommodate all those strings, the Ricky designers kept theirs remarkably slim, making this a smooth, easy player.
Also, rather than spoiling the elegant lines of the headstock by extending it to hold all those tuners, they positioned the six-a-side tuners alternately at right angles, with three posts per side extending outward in the traditional manner, and three extending into partial slots in the head, somewhat like the tuners on a classical guitar. A laminated "through neck" made from maple and mahogany offered strength and added sustain, while a semi-hollow maple body helped to keep the weight down. Along with all of this, Rickenbacker's trademark single-coil "Toaster Top" pickups helped to project all the bright jangle and sizzle that these guitars are known for.
Through the years a Rickenbacker 360/12 (or similar model) would appear in the hands of Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, Pete Townshend, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell of The Heartbreakers, Peter Buck of REM, Johnny Marr of The Smiths, and many, many other notable star players. Harrison moved on from his own in the later mid '60s, knowing that a novel sound only stays fresh for so long, and the electric 12-string craze itself faded similarly. It was even on the wane soon after big names like Gibson and Fender introduced their own versions—the ES-335-12 and Electric XII respectively — later in 1965, relegating these models to "also-ran" status. Nevertheless, that shimmering chime and thrang of the Rickenbacker 360/12 had made its mark, and would have a place in popular music forever after. It's still a stirring sound, though, a guaranteed tonal attention getter and a legendary electric of the first order.
[originally by Dave Hunter, Gibson.com. To read the original article click here]
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Dr. Donald A. Holshuh was arrested on Wednesday.
Keene police say a surveillance camera showed Holshuh, a dermatologist, urinating on the employee door of Dr. Mark Wirant's office in August.
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Farmingdale State - 18, St. Joseph's - 10
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The local association is the only one in North Carolina to set up such an exchange
The Wilmington-Cape Fear Home Builders Association is tackling problems arising from the federal Affordable Care Act by creating a private health insurance marketplace for its members.
The local association is the only one in North Carolina to set up such an exchange, said Donna Girardot, the group's executive officer. The local home builders group announced Wednesday that it has signed a contract with gbac Association Practice Group to create the marketplace. It expects to launch the marketplace in 90 days, Girardot said.
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Some employers are getting massive rate increase notices on their current health insurance plans in the wake of implementation of the Affordable Care Act – also known as Obamacare – and many small businesses are making employees pick up some the cost or dropping health insurance altogether, the home builders group said.
Girardot explained that getting health insurance has always been a problem for the majority of the association's members, who are private contractors or small businesses.
"This marketplace will be offering them a lot more plans through private carriers," she said. In North Carolina, only Blue Cross Blue Shield and Coventry are available through the Affordable Care Act, Girardot said.
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"It is truly a competitive marketplace," Guilford said.
With most of its members small businesses, Girardot explained that even a two-person, husband-and-wife operation could qualify as a business that could use the marketplace. She also said groups such as a real estate sales team could qualify.
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