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AT&T Upgrades 3G Technology at Cell Sites Across Nation
Software Upgrade Sets Stage for Faster 3G Speeds, Enhanced Mobile Data Performance to Come with Capacity Upgrades Planned for 2010-2011
San Francisco, California, January 5, 2010
AT&T* today announced completion of a software upgrade at 3G cell sites nationwide that prepares the nation's fastest 3G network for even faster speeds.
The deployment of High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 technology across 3G cell sites is the first of multiple initiatives in AT&T's network enhancement strategy designed to provide customers with the best possible mobile broadband experience, both today and well into the future. After full testing of HSPA 7.2 software, AT&T decided to expedite deployment of this initial upgrade, which will result in a better overall customer experience by generally improving consistency in accessing data sessions. The software upgrade also prepares the network for faster speeds and increases network efficiency.
Faster 3G speeds will come as AT&T combines the new technology with enhanced cell site backhaul connections over the course of 2010 and 2011. AT&T is in the midst of this second initiative to dramatically increase the number of high-speed backhaul connections to cell sites, primarily with fiber-optic connections, adding capacity from cell sites to the AT&T backbone network. The combination of HSPA 7.2 technology and enhanced backhaul will support theoretical peak maximum speeds of 7.2 megabits per second, though as with any mobile broadband network, actual speeds will be lower than the theoretical maximum and will vary due to a number of factors.
In addition to the HSPA 7.2 software, initial deployment of backhaul is already underway in the six U.S. cities announced in 2009 as initial HSPA 7.2 markets – Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Miami, with capabilities being turned up on a site-by-site basis beginning last month. Further backhaul deployment will continue in these markets and begin in additional markets across the nation. We anticipate that the majority of our mobile data traffic will be carried over the expanded fiber-based, HSPA 7.2-capable backhaul by the end of this year, with deployment continuing to expand in 2011.
"We are focused on providing our customers with the industry's best combination of mobile broadband speed, performance, coverage and available devices," said John Stankey, president and CEO, AT&T Operations, who announced the network updates at the Citigroup 20th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference today. "As we light up new backhaul connections across the country, we're able to deliver a meaningful 3G speed boost for millions of customers who are already using HSPA 7.2-compatible devices. At the same time, we're also looking to the future with these backhaul enhancements, which will support our move to next-generation LTE technology starting in 2011."
As new backhaul connections are completed, AT&T 3G wireless customers will benefit from enhanced mobile broadband capacity, and the millions of AT&T customers who already have HSPA 7.2-compatible devices will immediately see the faster speeds enabled by the new technology. AT&T offers a total of 10 HSPA 7.2-compatible devices today, including the iPhone 3G S. Additional HSPA 7.2-compatible devices will be introduced in 2010.
The backhaul upgrades are also a key step in the evolution toward next-generation LTE mobile broadband technology. AT&T is designing its new backhaul deployments to accommodate both faster 3G and future LTE deployments. AT&T currently plans to begin trials of LTE technology this year, and to begin LTE deployment in 2011, matching industry time lines for widespread availability of compelling devices and supporting network equipment.
"Even as we look forward to LTE, 3G will be the predominant mobile broadband network technology worldwide for smartphones for the next few years," said Stankey. "AT&T's strategy will deliver faster 3G speeds over the next two years, while also allowing us to build the foundation for the LTE future."
The 3G and LTE upgrade initiatives follow a series of major enhancement projects in 2009 that have dramatically enhanced performance of AT&T's wireless network. AT&T last year deployed five times the number of backhaul connections compared with 2008. Additionally, AT&T in 2009 deployed high-quality 850 MHz spectrum in hundreds of markets to support 3G services and added thousands of new cell sites to expand and enhance 3G coverage. All told, in 2008 and through Q3 of 2009 AT&T invested approximately $19 billion toward wireless, with a focus on expanding and enhancing network capabilities, including network infrastructure, spectrum purchases and acquisitions.
These efforts have resulted in AT&T continuing to deliver the nation's fastest 3G network, and in delivering 3G national call retainability of 98.92 percent, meaning that only 1.08 percent of calls are dropped nationwide, based on 3G-specific, internal data.
For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit www.att.com/networknews.
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About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest 3G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. AT&T offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verseSM and AT&T | DIRECTVSM brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T's Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations are known for their leadership in directory publishing and advertising sales. In 2009, AT&T again ranked No. 1 in the telecommunications industry on FORTUNE® magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATTNews. Find us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at www.facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
© 2010 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. 3G service not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this news release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update or revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.


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In the clutch, it's Taylor again for Glenbard South
EAST PEORIA -- Hannah Taylor is as cool, calm and even-keeled as a teenage kid comes.
When you're this clutch, what's to worry about?
The author of the game-winning hit in last year's state championship game, Taylor was in the middle of things again Friday. Glenbard South's senior singled in the go-ahead run, then crushed a 2-run homer as the Raiders inched closer to a repeat title by beating Tinley Park 5-1 in Friday's Class 3A semifinal at Eastside Centre.
"I just go out, play my game, and hopefully things fall into place," Taylor batted away matter-of-factly to questions about her clutch hitting. "Coming here, it brought back good memories. But this is just another game."
The next game won't just be another game.
Glenbard South (30-5) will play Alton Marquette and Mississippi State-bound ace Alexis Silkwood, a 3-2 winner over Sterling, in today's Class 3A final, hoping to become the first large school to go back-to-back since Thornwood in 1990-91.
Graduating seven seniors off last year's team, starting two freshmen, Raiders coach Julie Fonda didn't forecast this. Glenbard South didn't even keep its reservation at the Hampton Inn, where it stayed in its four previous trips. The Raiders instead are next door at the Par-A-Dice Hotel.
The cards do seem to be coming up for Fonda and Co.
"If you would have told me in April that we'd be here, I'd have told you you're crazy. We'll take it," Fonda said. "We're here, let's try to bring home another one."
Fonda can thank Taylor for being in this spot again. Taylor, who will play next year at Wisconsin-Whitewater, has an uncanny knack for the big moment. She had the game-winning hit against Lemont in the sectional final and scored the winning run in the 11th inning in Monday's supersectional.
With two outs in the fourth inning of a 1-1 game Friday, she blooped a single just behind second base to bring in Ashton Cattenhead. Next time up, she drilled her second homer of the year to left for a pair of insurance runs.
"She has ice in her veins," Fonda said. "The kid just does not buckle under pressure."
Neither does Stephanie Chitkowski.
Relieving Jane Trzaska to start the third inning, like she did Monday, Chitkowski tossed five shutout innings and repeatedly worked into and out of trouble. Three times Tinley Park put the leadoff runner on against Chitkowski but never could bust through. Chitkowski (18-2) struck out five.
"Just need to breathe. It sounds stupid, but that's what I need to do," said Chitkowski, who will play at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs next year. "We got some clutch hits, which made things less stressful."
Tinley Park (24-8), making its first state appearance, helped make Chitkowski's task a little easier. The Titans were picked off at third base for the third out in the third and fifth innings, the second time with two runners on and No. 3 hitter Sam Alberto up in a 2-1 game. Tinley Park also had a runner cut down at the plate in the sixth, and a runner thrown out at second in the first on a play the Titans did score on.
"That's stuff you see more in summer ball. You don't see it too much in high school," Fonda said of Tinley Park trying to bait her team into mistakes in the field. "My kids reacted well. All I can say is we got out of it."
Fonda's newcomers to state fared quite well.
Freshman Payton Carli singled to start the game, and Cattenhead squeezed her in. Cattenhead singled and scored on Taylor's hit in the fourth, then doubled and scored on Taylor's homer in the sixth.
Cattenhead, a junior, transferred back to Glenbard South this year after attending Huntley as a sophomore.
"Probably playing summer ball," is where Cattenhead said she was last year at this time. "This is just like any other game, just on a bigger level."
Sounding more like a Fonda assistant coach than a high school senior, Taylor said her biggest worry Friday was how the other girls would react at state.
How can things get any better in East Peoria?
"Let's have a repeat," she said simply.
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A battery box should typically not be deeper front to back than about 24 inches or maintenance becomes difficult on the rear rows. This is about the depth of three rows of L16s or two rows of larger industrial-type cells. The length of the box often ends up between 48 and 60 inches. For example, a row of four L16s is about 50 inches. If space is factored in between each battery for ventilation, this translates into a box length of about 60 inches. Two or three sheets of 60-inch plywood is enough for most battery enclosures, with little of the waste if the panels had been cut from conventional 4-by-8-foot plywood.
Even if a box can be less than 48 inches long, a larger enclosure may be justified. A small system that uses golf-cart batteries may some day be upgraded to L16s or industrial 2 V cells. A golf-cart battery is about 10 1/2 inches long; an L16 is about 12 1/4 inches. So upsizing the box initially to fit future battery possibilities may save money in the long run.
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The inside of the box should be carefully caulked, and painted or treated with a penetrating sealer to resist minor spills or corrosive vapors. For best results, a liner of 40-mil EPDM rubber or pond liner (available at many nurseries or home improvement stores) is placed in the bottom and about 6-8 inches up the sides, folding instead of cutting for the corners. This liner protects the wood and forms a leakproof container to contain any accidental spills or leakage from the cases. Above this level, typically three 1- or 1 1/4-inch inlet ventilation holes are drilled across the front. The outside of the box should be finished with primer and paint if exposed to the weather, or varnish or penetrating oil, if inside. A removable box front can make replacing batteries easier, but this is generally only necessary with heavy industrial cells (which may tip the scales at more than 150 pounds each).
The cover should be hinged at the top to seal securely, yet allow access to the batteries for service. A piano hinge works well, as it prevents warping and is easy to seal. The lid should be sloped, partly to guide vapors up toward the vent, but mostly to discourage storing things on the box and resultant neglecting of normal maintenance. A flat-top panel about 4 inches wide behind the piano hinge will accommodate the vent pipe. The cover should be sealed with weather-stripping—soft neoprene works well; foam won't last. A kerf cut into an inside trim strip allows modern replaceable door weather-stripping to be used. Silicone rubber "flipper seals" are ideal because they are effective over a wide range of gaps and require little closing pressure (see Access). The cover should have latches. Even hooks and eyes, especially if adjustable, make a good basic latch. Use a lock, like a padlock and hasp, to prevent access to the battery by unqualified people.
A well-designed box will have a base similar to a kitchen cabinet to allow for a toe-kick space and to raise the batteries for ease of maintenance. If the bank sits on a cold slab, the box's floor can be built on 2-by-4 sleepers with rigid foam fit between or above them, keeping your battery bank warmer. Extruded polystyrene insulation panels will support battery weight.
For cable entry into the box, some installers place the conduit hole lower in the box, below the battery tops, since the hydrogen gas rises, and would be less likely to go into the conduit. Electrical conduit fittings are designed to attach to junction boxes made of thin sheet metal, not thicker plywood. To secure battery conduit fittings to the battery box, we use two concentric hole saws from opposite sides, creating a 1/4-inch-thick flange to fit a lock ring around 11/2-inch (for 2/0 cables) or 2-inch (for 4/0 cables) battery conduit. This allows the threads of the conduit fitting to get into the box with enough room for the lock nut to be attached. Then we use "duct seal," available at electrical supply houses, to carefully seal this fitting around the cables to keep gases away from the electrical equipment.
Safe Venting. Hydrogen is explosive if allowed to collect to a concentration exceeding about 4%. The gas mixture given off during charging also contains minute amounts of sulfuric acid, which is corrosive to electronics and most metals. As such, a well-built battery box is both sealed and vented, so that the gas may be carried to the outdoors to dissipate. Fortunately, hydrogen is Earth's lightest element, so it easily rises in air. A vent pipe at the top of the box will work. A second low vent allows ventilation air to enter the box.
The vent is typically made of 2-inch PVC water pipe or the equivalent. Larger sizes of PVC pipe may be used, but excessive venting can let too much heat escape in winter. The exhaust vent should exit through the building wall or roof, with all laterals rising. An insect screen should cover the outside end, with protection from rain and snow entry.
Zephyr Industries' Power Vent can be installed in a vertical section of the PVC stack, and works well for smaller venting demands. When the battery voltage rises to a setpoint below the gassing voltage, the vent's DC fan is activated. A backdraft damper prevents reverse airflow into the room. Many modern charge controllers and some inverters can automatically control Power Vent operation by one of their auxiliary relays; some even have "vent fan" as a programmable option.
Keeping Temperatures Constant. Insulating a battery box seldom makes much difference if the insulated box is located in a cold environment. Insulation slows the rate of heat loss from a warm space or object to a cooler space. Batteries are not a significant heat source; the normal charge/discharge process produces a negligible amount of usable heat. No amount of insulation will prevent batteries from eventually reaching the temperature of the environment around the insulated box, so while insulation may be included, it's important to locate the box in a tempered space. Batteries like to live at about the same temperatures humans enjoy. For optimal battery performance and longevity, select a location and enclosure design that will keep your batteries between 50°F and 75°F.
Allan Sindelar (allan at positiveenergysolar.com) installed his first off-grid PV system in 1988, founded Positive Energy in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1997, and has lived off-grid since 1999. He is a licensed commercial electrician and a NABCEP-certified PV installer.
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There's another interesting article on the BBC web site covering the continuing shift in focus from offline to online for those holding the media budget purse strings.
If you've been following this subject for any length of time ( I have for 10 years, but then I'm a big geek..) you will remember that Google beat Channel 4 for UK Advertising Revenue last year.
Channel 4 are the second biggest ad funded TV network in the UK, by the way.
This isn't as astonishing as it sounds.
The BBC article points to the massive uptake in broadband as the principle driver for this phenomenon and in this they are partially right. Without the audience, nobody is going to advertise.
What they missed was, simply put, the sheer difference in accountability.
Lets be honest here – if I'm deploying media budget and I haven't had my head under a rock for the last 10 years, I expect metrics – precise, key indicators. Not just audience demographics. Demographics are a given.
No, if I'm going to advertise, I need to know *exactly* how many of the audience are exposed to the message, what the ratio is for conversion to enquiries and sales, and it doesn't stop there.
I'm quite happily accustomed to being able to drill down to single conversions in order to be able to see what keywords brought them to the sales messages, and the difference in sales based on any number of variables I might like to introduce, test, and maybe include into my campaigns.
Broadcast media simply cannot deliver this.
Press the red button now? Not even in with a chance.
Broadcast media are attempting to become interactive by adding elements like the red button or text messaging enquiries but they can never become "NarrowCast"
Right now, they are best suited to driving awareness and acting as the "push" to augment the "pull" of online, "On Demand" marketing techniques.
I'm not suggesting for an instant that offline is dead. Far from it.
Over the next few years, I'm hoping we will see offline media making more of integration with online, and playing to its strengths. There's little reason why offline ad inventory can't be auctioned in a similar way to online – there's just the daily print and distribute time lag rather than instant updates but what the heck?
Why not add some value with an accountable enquiry service with a "Pay Per Enquiry" offering
And guess what?
Google are already doing it.
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Dewey Gerk looked up at the top of the hill. The hill, like some of the chemotherapy treatments he'd received in the last 10 years, was deceiving. One moment, as the race started, he felt great. The next moment, as time went on and he began to climb the hill, he felt drained, near death even.
He wondered if he would finish the Run 4 Greeley. The top of the hill seemed a little too far away. He wondered at times, too, if he could go on with the treatments, especially after years of feeling sick and tired.
But his family was here, 30 of them, brothers and grandparents and bunches of nieces and nephews and their kids, and so he would finish.
Doctors gave him, at most, a year to live after they diagnosed his rectal/colon cancer in 2003. But he had too much to live for. There were graduations and weddings and first communions. All those family milestones and events like this one, a July 4 race that inspired a family reunion of sorts, were the things that made life worth living.
Gerk, 51, of Greeley, acknowledges that he has Stage 4 cancer, the worst kind. But he doesn't how much time he has left. Gerk, who's carried a dark sense of humor far longer than the death sentence doctors assigned to him, likes to say he's in denial about his disease. But sometimes ignorance really is bliss, or in his case, it may mean some additional years. He's had Stage 4 since he was diagnosed.
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When the July 4 event became the Race Against Cancer a few years ago and benefitted the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute, an organization that puts cancer patients on fitness plans, the Gerks took more of an interest in it. This year's race continued to benefit the institute, and the Gerks all came out to support it and Uncle Dewey. Dewey went through the institute and, until lately, exercised throughout his treatments.
There's no doubt the years have taken a toll. Gerk's remained positive through crushing setbacks -- more than once, the cancer came back after scans offered hope that it had finally left his body -- and continual treatments that made him forget what it was like to feel normal. A week before the race, yet another different treatment had dried out his skin so much that it hurt to pick up a cup of coffee.
The options always gave him hope -- there was always another treatment to try -- but they also always left him wondering what dastardly side effects they would bring. Fatigue, nausea, pain, intestinal issues and numb feet lurked whenever he'd swallow a pill or take another infusion. Sure enough, this new treatment turned a walk to his mailbox into a painful ordeal, and he doubted he could walk a 5K. But doctors eased up on the dose, he began to feel better, and he entered the race July 3 with the intention of pushing Bush's 1-year-old son, Jack.
Though some Gerks were happy just to finish, Bush, inspired by her uncle, ran as well as she had in recent memory and placed in her age group. Her younger sister, Kendra, ran hard enough to finish as the second overall female. Bush has been inspired before by Uncle Dewey. She was in labor with her second of four children, her daughter Abby, while Dewey took chemo treatments in the same hospital. Yet Dewey came over to visit her right after his treatment was over. It was the easiest labor she had, she said, and Dewey is now Abby's godfather.
"He just has a well like no one else," Bush said.
Gerk teaches fourth grade at Christa McAuliffe in Greeley, and this year will be his 30th. He always saves his treatments for a Thursday so he's not wiped out the whole week, only this year, he went home early at times on Friday. His kids knew when he was struggling. They would ask him if that day was a chemo day. Other times, he would admit he was tired and simply ask them for their help. This year, he will teach half-days. Yet the kids, just like his neighbor who mows his lawn or his family or events like the July 4 race that he finished in about an hour, keep him going too. He doesn't want to retire next year.
He talks about next year as if it's second nature. He thinks he'll be around. There are more graduations to see. He knows there are no guarantees, and some doctors are pleasantly surprised he's alive. But among the pictures of his family on his walls sits one large word in black above his back door, the one that leads to the outside world. That word is "Believe."
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I have a new book out called 1959: The Year Everything Changed, which I suppose puts me in the ranks of authors lampooned in a story in the June 16 New York Times about books with "titles that make extravagant, impossible declarations." The piece pokes particular fun at titles with "exorbitant claims" about "things that changed the world"—and still more at writers who "claim to have found the single year that changed the world."
Times reporter Patricia Cohen doesn't mention my contribution to the genre—she singles out books about 1968, 1989, and A.D. 33 (the year of Jesus' crucifixion)—but she seems to have my number. Or does she?
I entered into my project with apprehensions of just this sort of eye-rolling. There are a lot of books out there that insist a specific year, or type of fish or grain or mathematical equation, altered the course of civilization. But I went ahead with it anyway, not because I figured I was cashing in on a trend (Cohen's article is headlined "Titlenomics, or Creating Best Sellers")—if I do, I'll be more stunned than anybody—but because, well, I was convinced that 1959 was the real deal.
It began with simple curiosity. Several years ago, it occurred to me that many of my favorite groundbreaking record albums, books, and movies—Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz To Come, The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce, Norman Mailer's Advertisements for Myself, Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus, François Truffaut's The 400 Blows—were all released in 1959.
Was this just coincidence, or was it part of a pattern? Was there something more broadly significant about that time? The more I looked into it, the more it struck me that 1959 really was a pivotal year—not only in culture but also in politics, society, science, sex: everything.
Consider: It was the year when the microchip was introduced, the Food and Drug Administration held hearings on the birth-control pill, IBM marketed the first business computer, a passenger jetliner took the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight, and America joined the Russians in the "space race." It saw the rise of free jazz, "sick comics," the New Journalism, and indie films; the birth of Motown, Happenings, and the Generation Gap; the Lady Chatterley trial that overthrew the nation's obscenity laws; the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's first report, which sparked the overhaul of segregation laws—all this bursting against fears of a "missile gap," the fallout-shelter craze, and the first U.S. casualties in the war in Vietnam.
Something was going on here, but what? I couldn't quite grasp the common theme, the connecting thread.
At some point in my research—it was still a casual query at this point, almost a hobby—I learned about a long-forgotten event that took place near the beginning of the year. On Jan. 2, 1959, a Soviet rocket carrying the Lunik 1 space capsule—also known as Mechta, or "the dream"—blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, accelerated to 7 miles per second (the magical speed known as "escape velocity"), sailed past the moon, and pushed free of Earth's orbit, becoming the first man-made object to revolve around the sun among the celestial bodies.
Lunik has since been obscured by the rapid milestones in space that followed. But it was a big deal at the time, the subject of front-page headlines and frightful fears on the floor of Congress. The next issue of Time magazine hailed the feat as "a turning point in the multibillion-year history of the solar system," for "one of the sun's planets had at last evolved a living creature that could break the chains of its gravitational field."
Suddenly the light bulb clicked on; the connections lit up. Lunik was a metaphor for all the great events of 1959 that I'd been investigating. The thing they all had in common was that they broke the chains of various gravitational fields, metaphorical or literal.
But Lunik wasn't only a symbol; it, and the race to space that it triggered, helped create the climate in which all those other breakthroughs were possible or, at least, appealing to a broad population. The breakdown of barriers in space, speed, and time made other barriers ripe for transgressing.
Outer space and lightning speed animated the popular consciousness. Mass-circulation magazines and newspapers of the day suddenly ran lengthy articles explaining the "new geography" of solar orbits and galaxies. In the spring of 1959, NASA selected its first astronauts with great fanfare, and the space agency's lingo—blast off, countdown, A-OK—swooshed into the everyday lexicon. Madison Avenue touted new products—from cars to telephones to floor waxes—as "jet age," "space age," "the world of the future," "the countdown to tomorrow."
A young outsider named John F. Kennedy started running for president at the end of the year on a slogan of "Leadership for the '60s"—the first time that the future was defined in terms of a decade, which held out both menace and hope but in any case great change, which he beheld as a "New Frontier."
For the first time in a long time, flux and change were seen as the natural state of things; the enchantment with the new galvanized a generation of artists to crash through their own sets of barriers. And they attracted a vast audience—abetted by the rapid proliferation of televisions and pocket radios—that was suddenly, even giddily, receptive to their rebellion.
Yet the thrill of the new was at once intensified and tempered by an undercurrent of dread. Outer space loomed as a frontier not only for satellites and rockets but also for ICBMs and H-bombs. It was this twin precipice—the prospect of infinite possibilities and instant annihilation, both teetering on the edge of a new decade—that gave 1959 its distinct swoon and ignited its creative energies.
Now I saw a real book taking shape: not just a string of cool stuff that happened to occur in the course of one year but a coherent story about when the world changed and how—a book about what eras are, what important events mean, what historic personalities do.
Still, there was one question that all authors writing for commercial publishers have to face: So what? Let's say I manage to convince all comers that the signature phenomena of the '60s and beyond—sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, the computer revolution, the feminist revolution, the New Left, the walk on the moon, and all the rest—had their origins at the end of the '50s, and that the instigators weren't the baby boomers but those who came of age amid depression and war and who emerged dissatisfied with the false peace that followed. Why, the question could be asked, should anyone care?
Initially, I didn't want to deal with this question. If some people don't care, so it goes; I think it's interesting; some other people will, too. In the back of my head, though, I knew this was a cop-out. Very few people read histories that shed no light on contemporary life, and, really, why should they? At the same time, I didn't want to squeeze and stretch my narrative to fit some Procrustean bed of relevance.
But the more I thought about it, the more the parallels between 1959 and 2009 seemed clear. Most obvious (though also, in a sense, most superficial) was the parallel between John Kennedy and Barack Obama—young outsiders, speaking with magical eloquence of great change and challenge ("unknown opportunities and perils," in JFK's words), whose very ascension smashed cultural barriers.
Yet a deeper parallel lay in the nature of the changes going on around them. On the precipice of another new decade—our own countdown to tomorrow—we are seeing a similar tangle of breakthroughs and breakdowns that marked the end of the '50s: global power fissuring, cultures fracturing, the world shrinking, and science poised to spawn new dreams and nightmares. Once more, there's a palpable sense that we're treading on completely new terrain. How this terrain shifted in 1959—how people and institutions responded, their triumphs and disasters—holds lessons for the options that lie before us in 2009.
In the summer of 1959, Allen Ginsberg, the generation's visionary poet of exuberance and doom, wrote in the Village Voice: "No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control. America is having a nervous breakdown. … Therefore there has been great exaltation, despair, prophecy, strain, suicide, secrecy, and public gaiety among the poets of the city."
He might as well have written that today.
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During the past six years under Curci's leadership, Tops has more than doubled its number of stores, added new jobs and expanded is geographic reach into eastern and northern New York, Vermont and northern Pennsylvania. In April, Tops also opened Orchard Fresh, a specialty and gourmet food store in Orchard Park.
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The California Senate recently approved Assembly Member Rob Bonta's (D-Oakland) bill to provide condoms in adult prisons, even though the law bans sex while imprisoned. The bill was meant to prevent transmission of HIV, hepatitis C, and other diseases within prisons and other locations where prisoners are kept during parole. The law, known as AB999, would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide condoms in five prisons by 2015 and in all 33 adult prisons by 2020.
Democratic lawmakers viewed the bill as filling a public safety need as well as a way of saving the state funds. State Sen. Rod Wright (D-Los Angeles) explained that providing condoms was cheaper than treating the disease after inmates became infected. Other lawmakers interpreted the bill as encouraging inmates to break the law (sex in prison currently is a felony).
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill in 2007 in which nonprofits and health organizations would have provided condoms to state prisoners. He requested that the corrections department test condom distribution in one prison. Inmates in California State Prison, Solano, could get free condoms from a vending machine for a year, beginning November 2008. In the 2011 report on this pilot program, health officials reported few problems and recommended expansion. At present, inmates who qualify for overnight family visits have limited permission to get condoms, as spouses and partners are allowed to bring up to 10 for such visits.
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09.09.2013; Associated Press
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Access to Stable Housing and Other Basic Necessities Huge Factor for People Living With HIV/AIDS
May 4, 2012
Last November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released what the HIV/AIDS community already knew to be true: Only 25 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. have their disease under control. Lack of access to medication and cost of meds were among the main contributing barriers.
But a new study from the University of California-San Francisco provides some other reasons. By studying 288 men living with HIV/AIDS who were homeless or in unstable housing situations, researchers found that basic necessities such as food, housing and clean clothes had the largest effect on mental and physical health -- topping drug abuse, viral load and lack of access to meds. Other findings included:
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Brad Hare, M.D. and medical director of San Francisco General Hospital's HIV clinic, told the Gate, "We're always struggling with people who need to be on HIV treatment for their health but that's not the priority. This study validates what we've seen. It recognizes just how important the structural barriers are to HIV care."
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(The following Op-Ed appeared in The Detroit News July 11, 2013.)
The Affordable Care Act of 2012, called "Obamacare" by regular people, was intended to decrease the number of uninsured Americans. But throughout the law's many pages of subsidies and mandates, little or no attention is paid to the quality of health care. If the law's authors had considered real-world incentives, they would have given much greater attention to this critical aspect.
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Consider doctors. The Medicaid expansion proposed by the law will create a rising demand for health care from new Medicaid enrollees, many of whom are older and already require more care. Given ongoing suppression of the number of doctors by politicians and the physicians' lobby, this may be overwhelming. The increased cost of doing business coupled with flooded patient lists will continue Michigan's rapid decline in the number practicing physicians.
Consider young adults. Medicaid expansion would place an increased burden on young adults' premiums because Obamacare's "community rating" mandates that insurance companies cannot charge older clients more than three times what they charge younger clients — despite the fact that the older clients' health costs are typically six times more than young adults.
Consider those struggling to enter the middle class. In some previous Medicaid expansions, as many as 50 percent of the new beneficiaries dropped the private insurance coverage they already had in order to sign up. A recent Mackinac Center study estimates that such a "crowd out" would be 29 percent if Michigan expands Medicaid. What does that say about the incentives and interference of the government, when in attempting to decrease the number of uninsured people it actually provokes newly government-subsidized patients to drop insurance? Medicaid may well be the most attractive short-term option for some people — but that hardly counts as a win.
Consider business owners, from the local coffee shop to a city consulting firm. Businesses with more than 50 employees will pay a penalty if they fail to provide insurance coverage meeting specifications decreed by politicians. This will incentivize businesses to offer scanty coverage in order to receive the smallest available fine. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees will struggle to afford the higher cost of providing insurance. This means that small business owners will have to make other compromises, whether that means only hiring people on contract or minimizing other benefits, in order to stay in business.
Now consider those currently on Medicaid — this is essential. Recent studies have shown that those on Medicaid have no better, and often worse, health outcomes than those who are uninsured. Furthermore, with the increased demand for health care without the needed influx of doctors, it will likely take even longer for those on Medicaid to receive care.
It shouldn't matter that there will be some short-term financial benefits for legislators to stock away — if those promises can be trusted at all. More people will be receiving worse care and less care. We must learn to consider long-term impact for all people, not merely short-term impact for some people.
Michigan lawmakers cannot allow the expansion of Medicaid in our state. There ought to still be hope that more people can receive better care. Legislators need to be reminded of the Hippocratic Oath: "First Do No Harm."
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2013 All-Star Large Pharma Marketing Team of the Year: AndroGel
It might be exaggerating to say that AbbVie—Abbott's new break-out pharma division—overcame a host of challenges to establish AndroGel as the preeminent product in the low-testosterone category. Or maybe not.
AbbVie took a taboo topic and, via a cagey media-and-marketing presence, rendered it less wince-inducing among its target audience. It did so at a time when a number of critics voiced their concerns that the marketing and use of testosterone-boosting products had gotten ahead of the science. "We don't have any evidence that prescribing testosterone to older men with relatively low testosterone levels does any good," the National Institute on Aging's Dr. Sergei Romashkan told the AP in September.
AndroGel's type of testosterone therapy was approved by the FDA in 2000, but the products still had to contend with a branding challenge: convincing men with low or no testosterone that their condition (known as hypogonadism) wasn't abnormal or anything to be ashamed of.
AbbVie and its agencies, which include Digitas Health for consumer and AbelsonTaylor for professional ads, portray low testosterone as "Low T"—a treatable problem. The campaign's mix of platforms include unbranded promotion (the IsItLowT.com site) and awareness-first TV spots. In 2012, an ad touted AndroGel's more concentrated dosage (1.62% vs. the prior 1%). That dosage got FDA approval in 2011 and extends patent protection until 2015.
"The 'IsItLowT' campaign was designed to raise awareness of low testosterone among men who may be at risk or have the condition," explains Jim Hynd, divisional VP, metabolics, GI and cardiovascular care, AbbVie.
Hypogonadism affects about 14 million men in the US alone, but less than 10% are currently being treated for the condition, adds Frank Jaeger, director, men's health, AbbVie. "We felt something needed to be done to educate men about this condition."
The same goals led to the development of another initiative, "Drive for Five," urging men to know their T levels, in addition to lipid, BP, blood sugar and PSA numbers.
It didn't hurt that baby-boomers have proven less than shy about availing themselves of any product that they believe will increase their quality of life. AndroGel thrived, at least in part, due to the intersection of demographics and demand.
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But the campaign's empathetic approach and consumer-friendly language resonate with the target audience. According to IMS Health, in 2011 AndroGel held nearly 49% market share in its category. In 2012, AndroGel passed the $1 billion sales mark in nine months (a 20% jump over the year-ago period), with 3.3 million scripts dispensed, an 18% jump.More educational efforts are in the works. "The real electrifying moment," shares Hynd, "is when you see the campaign start to make a difference for patients. With 'IsItLowT?,' we played a part in helping men take their health more seriously."


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What's cuter than your child's name and age on a tee shirt? This awesome sketched style is unique and different than the collegiate styles you see out there. Done in a manly blue for the little boys and cute as can be.
Just let me know the following information in the "notes to seller" box at checkout...
Size of tee shirt or Onesie.
Name you want added.
Here's what's available :-)
Gerber ® Onesies ® Brand Bodysuits are available in short or long sleeve in White
**They do run a little small so please order one size larger than you think you need by weight and height and not by age.**
Newborn (5-8 pounds)(for babies that you know will be less than 6 pounds at birth or preemies),
0-3 months (8-12 pounds)
3-6 months (12-16 pounds)
6-9 months (16-20 pounds)
12 months (20-24 pounds)
18 months (24-28 pounds)
24 months (28-32 pounds).
Infant tees are available in short sleeve only
6 month (10-16 lbs) 9" wide by 12.5" long,
12 month (17-20 lbs) 10" wide by 13" long,
18 month (21-24 lbs) 10.5" wide by 13.5" long.
24 month (25-27 lbs) 11" wide by 14" long
**Please order one size larger than you think you need based on the weight of the child to allow for shrinkage of 100% cotton items**
Color available is white only.
Toddler tees are available in short or long sleeve (unless noted)
2T (28-30 lbs) 11.5" wide by 13.5" long
3T (31-33 lbs) 12.5" wide by 15" long
4T (34-39 lbs) 14" wide by 16" long
5/6 (40-49 lbs) 15" wide by 18" long
7 (50-55 lbs) 16" wide by 19" long (only in short sleeve)
**Please order one size larger than you think you need based on the weight of the child to allow for shrinkage of 100% cotton items**
Color available is white only.
Youth tees are available in short or long sleeve
Small (6-8) (56-75 lbs) 15.5" wide by 20.5" long
Medium (10-12) (76-100 lbs) 17" wide by 23" long
Large (14-16) (101-120 lbs) 18" wide by 25" long
X Large (18-20) (121-140 lbs) 20" wide by 17" long
**Please order based on the weight of the child**
Color available is white only.
**LONG SLEEVES AVAILABLE in white for $4.00 more (just change the drop down near the add to cart button to long sleeves)**
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I'll do my best to meet these shipping estimates, but can't guarantee them. Actual delivery time will depend on the shipping method you choose.
Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 3 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 7 days of delivery
Request a cancellation within: 6 hours of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
Please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Orders that come in with all of the information needed to complete the order will be produced and shipped out in 1 to 2 business days. Business days are Monday through Friday excluding holidays. Those that do not have all of the information or require extensive editing to the image will need more time while I confirm that information.
Each listing includes a size chart and sizing instructions. The size chart is to the right of the image of the design and the instructions can be found in the "item details" of the listing.
The best suggestion I can make on picking a size is to take one of the standard tees your child has now that fits them the way you would like this to fit and lay it flat. Then measure from the highest point of the collar to the hem. That is the length measurement. Then measure the chest from arm pit to arm pit across the front and that is the width measurement. Then check the size chart in the listing, see which one of my tees is closest to that size without being smaller in either direction. Then for Infant or Toddler tees sizes 6 months to 7 go one size up from there. The Infant and Toddler tees are not pre-shrunk so they will shrink about 1/2" after you wash it.
If this item is for a gift and you do not know the dimensions for the child's tee here's a great trick that always seems to help. Take the age of the child (if between the ages of 1 and 16) then add 2 to that number and that's the size you should order for them. Children grow quickly and if the item is baggy it's much better than being too small. If ordering a Youth size order the size that is the age of that child.
**They do run a little small so please order one size larger than you think you need by weight of the child and not by age.** Also please if the item is to be worn in the future, babies grow about 1-2 pounds per month. So please remember to add that to your weight.
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Priority mail is typically 2-3 business days.
Express mail is typically 1-3 business days.
If you are not in the US the only option is First Class International mail so it depends on which country you are in how long delivery will take. But most international packages take between 7 -20 business days once the item has been shipped.
I am getting some reports that some of my items run small in comparison to other brands. It's hard to say if a brand runs small or not when there is no uniform sizing for clothing. The best advice I can give is to follow the instructions for measuring your child's current size tees and make your decision based on those measurements not on the size written on the tag. Always err on the side of a little too big with kids clothing and order one size larger than you think you might need based on the dimensions of a standard tee they wear now to allow for shrinkage as they are 100% cotton. Kids clothing doesn't differ by much from one size to the next, most times it's just an inch or so. Bigger is always better. :-)
If you add the item to the cart there will be a "notes" box. If you'll place the name you want on the item in that box at checkout it will come to me with your order and I'll make the change before the item is printed.
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Falcons are any of about 60 species of birds of prey that constitute the family Falconidae, which also includes eagles, hawks, kites, and vultures.
They are characterised by a bullet-shaped body; commonly long, pointed wings; a medium to long tail; long toes with sharp, hooked claws; and a short, hooked, usually notched bill.
Some small insectivorous falcons with long, narrow wings are called hobbies, and some which sometimes hover as they hunt for small rodents are named as kestrels.
Falcons are strong, fast fliers with great aerial agility, which makes them successful hunters capable of taking prey 6 times their own body weight! Usually they kill cleanly, breaking the back of their victims.
Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus), the fastest birds on Earth, are said to have reached stoop speeds of up to 322kms per hour (200 mph). Several species of falcons, notably the peregrine, have long been trained as hunting birds.
Your chances of seeing one in the wild
It depends on which particular species of falcon you want to see.
The falcons only serious enemy is humankind and for many years falcons were considered vermin because they were thought to exact a heavy toll on chickens and other livestock.
In recent times pesticides have been responsible for decimating and endangering several species.
One species on the endangered list is the Seychelles kestrel (F. araea), and another species, the Mauritius kestrel (F. punctatus), may already be extinct.


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A bunch of us were having dinner recently in what was alleged to be a superb restaurant in Panama City, Fla., but did not live up to the hype, when talk turned somehow to my hometown, Pelzer, S.C.
Roy Roberson, our talented and witty Southeast associate editor who lives barely a cornpone toss from where I grew up, said he had recently passed beneath the Pelzer water tower and meant to shoot a photo to bring to the meeting we were both attending. Alas, darkness overtook him and he missed the opportunity that would have shown said tower in the best possible light.
We sorely regretted missing that picture but soon discovered that Roy was well acquainted with some of the area's most notable landmarks, which, no doubt, played important roles in my physical, intellectual and social development.
Spring Park, for instance, a small municipal facility in nearby Williamston, is named for the mineral spring with purported medicinal values. I quaffed cool draughts of the funny tasting water as both youth and young adult (the latter times while learning the journalism trade at a weekly newspaper situated across the street from the park).
I never noticed any particular health benefits, but one must wonder what could have happened had I not partook of those cool drinks of bitter-tasting spring water. Perhaps I would not have recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of my 37th birthday.
Perhaps the minerals did away with some awful parasite. Who knows? Apparently, it did no harm though my joints have begun to creak a bit, prematurely, I think.
Roy also has a more than casual acquaintance with the Jockey Lot, where I learned much about merchandising, deal making and where to look if you're missing a lawn mower from your back yard.
The current reincarnation of the lot is part flea market, part carnival and part hillbilly mall. It covers acres of land that used to be pinewoods and hay fields before enterprising souls found more profitable uses for mere farmland.
But its beginnings were more humble. Before the site turned into a mega-market, it consisted of a row or two of shaky wooden tables and large stumps on which one could find an assortment of hardware, pocket knives, homemade molasses and pickles, and various crafty items. Rickety wire cages held game roosters, tame chickens, hound dogs and an occasional pet raccoon.
My dad once traded four chickens of questionable ancestry for a single-shot twenty-two rifle with which I dispatched many a squirrel.
The county sheriff routinely passed among the traders to see if any items reported missing the night before had somehow made their way to the lot. I never witnessed anyone hauled off to the hoosegow but I don't doubt that it happened.I still own a Case pocketknife or two I bought there more than 25 years ago.
Oh, the name comes from a term that may not be too familiar. In the area, jockeying meant bargaining, trying to get the best deal you could for a bit of merchandise. How willing the merchant was to cut prices was sometimes a good tip that he might not have too much invested in his inventory and could be trying to sell out before the constable made his rounds.Of course that's just a theory.
We failed to get much past that last landmark since our long-awaited main course finally arrived.


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Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White House press conference. United States President Beck (Morgan Freeman) announces the government's solution: a team of astronauts will travel to the comet and destroy it.
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21 U.S. Code § 676 - Violations
Any person, firm, or corporation who violates any provision of this chapter for which no other criminal penalty is provided by this chapter shall upon conviction be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than $1,000, or both such imprisonment and fine; but if such violation involves intent to defraud, or any distribution or attempted distribution of an article that is adulterated (except as defined in section 601(m)(8) of this title), such person, firm, or corporation shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than $10,000, or both: Provided, That no person, firm, or corporation, shall be subject to penalties under this section for receiving for transportation any article or animal in violation of this chapter if such receipt was made in good faith, unless such person, firm, or corporation refuses to furnish on request of a representative of the Secretary the name and address of the person from whom he received such article or animal, and copies of all documents, if any there be, pertaining to the delivery of the article or animal to him.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the Secretary to report for prosecution or for the institution of libel or injunction proceedings, minor violations of this chapter whenever he believes that the public interest will be adequately served by a suitable written notice of warning.
1986—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–641, § 403(c)(1), temporarily inserted provisions which related to factors required to be considered by Secretary in determining whether public interest is served by written notice of warning. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1986 Amendment note below.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99–641, § 403(c)(2), temporarily added subsec. (c). See Effective and Termination Dates of 1986 Amendment note below.
Pub. L. 99–641, title IV, § 403(c), Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3570, provided that the amendment made by that section is effective only during the 6-year period beginning Nov. 10, 1986.
For provisions relating to construction and effect of temporary amendments by section 403 of Pub. L. 99–641, see sections 403(e) and 404 of Pub. L. 99–641, set out as notes entitled "Inspection Services for Establishments Not Participating in Total Plant Quality-Control Program" and "Savings Provision", respectively, under section 609 of this title.
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Calculating Mean: A measure of central tendency
Lesson 3 of 12
Objective: SWBAT find the mean of a given data set and recognize it as a measure of center.
Curriculum Reinforcer
The curriculum reinforcer, is a daily practice piece that is incorporated into almost every lesson to help my students to retain skills and conceptual understanding from earlier lessons. My strategy is to use Spiraled Review to help my students retain what they learned during the earlier part of the year. This will help me to keep mathematical concepts fresh in the students mind so that the knowledge of these concepts become a part of students' long term memories.
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Today students will learn about Mean (Average). They will complete a learning task during instruction called "Fair Share." This activity needs the following materials: Counter chips, and a mat with 5 characters at the bottom.
Activity: Each character at the bottom of the mat will receive a certain number of counter chips. Then, I will have my students redistribute the counter chips evenly among the characters to show how each character gets their fair share. This activity is to demonstrate the meaning of finding mean (gathering all the chips together – adding. Then, distributing them among the people – dividing). To ensure that they understand mean thoroughly, I will be sure to provide my students with an example where when the counter chips are distributed, they won't be able to be distributed evenly and therefore will have a fractional answer. I will use the following amounts for each character.
- 5, 3, 6, 2, 4
- 5, 7, 4, 3, 6
- 2, 5, 3, 7, 4
A video of how I conduct this activity is attached to this section of this lesson.
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Using the activity from the opening , I will ensure to demonstrate to students how finding the mean is a measurement of the center of a data set by placing all of the numbers on a number line and showing the students where the mean is in relationship to all of the numbers in the data set.
I will also be sure to demonstrate how to find the mean of a data set using the standard procedure which is to add all the numbers presented in the data set and then divide by the quantity of numbers in the data set. While showing students how to use the standard algorithm, I will ensure that I relate the steps of the standard algorithm to the activity from the opening exercise where students gave the characters, their "fair share."
Try It Out
During the guided practice, I will have the students find the mean of the following data sets using the standard algorithm:
- 6, 7, 5, 2, 5, 7, 6, 5
- 10, 15, 13, 12, 16, 13, 13
After the students complete these two exercises, we will then discuss any trouble the students ran into while finding the mean of each of these data sets.
Something to anticipate is difficulty with the division portion of the steps to finding the mean. Students seem to always run into issues when it comes to division.
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Independent Exploration
To explore the concept of mean, the students will complete the worksheets attached to this section.
There are a variety of worksheets available in this section to accommodate the several achievement levels that are present in most classrooms.
- You will find a worksheet that requires students to use the, "fair share" method to solving problems that involve the mean... There is a front and a back to this worksheet that are attached as separate documents. This worksheet comes from a reproducible workbook from, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company entitled, Core Standards for Math.
- You will also find a worksheet that puts the concept of finding the mean in a problem-solving context.
- the last worksheet that is available in this section is a worksheet that provides an enrichment opportunity for my higher achieving students. It requires more higher order thinking in order to find the solutions. This worksheet also requires a collaboration between students after they have finished their calculations. For this reason, I will ensure that the students have approximately 15 minutes to work on the problems in the worksheet and 5 to 10 minutes to collaborate with a partner that I will assign to them.
- For low achieving students, they will be required to complete the first worksheet. If they complete that worksheet in the allotted time frame then, they can move on to the second worksheet, going as far as possible. Any problems that they are not able to solve in the given time, will have to be completed for homework.
- For average students, they will be required to complete both the first worksheet as well as the second worksheet.
- The higher achieving students will be required to complete the first and the third worksheet.
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Closing Summary
To close out this lesson, I will select several students to present one of the problems that they completed on any of the three worksheets.
- Lower achieving students will be chosen to present a problem on the first worksheet.
- Average students will be chosen to present a problem on the second worksheet.
- Higher Achieving students will be chosen to present a problem on the third worksheet.
Students are to explain the process that they utilized to arrive to their solution while using precise mathematical language.
The observing students will be ready to ask questions, critique, and comment based upon what is presented.
TOTD: Students will answer the question, what does it mean to find the mean?.


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On Tuesday night, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) delivered the Republican National Committee's keynote address, and assured the audience, "Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear" – a phrase Christie used three times. A day later, Paul Ryan vowed, "We will not duck the tough issues."
By last night, those promises seemed more like wishful thinking than campaign promises. Mitt Romney had a unique opportunity to step up, "tell us the hard truths," and take on "the tough issues," but in his formal introduction to the nation as his party's presidential nominee, Romney preferred to play it safe, delivering a generic, vague, and unambitious speech.
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A $10 million competition to bring healthcare to thepalm of your hand
Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That's the technology envisioned by this competition, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics. The end result: Radical innovation in healthcare that will give individuals far greater choices in when, where, and how they receive care.
The winning team will develop a Tricorder device that will accurately diagnose 13 health conditions (12 diseases and the absence of conditions) and capture five real-time health vital signs, independent of a health care worker or facility, and in a way that provides a compelling consumer experience.
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Now in its fifth year, the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition — which aims to create a portable medical device akin to the fictional tricorder of Star Trek fame — is moving toward naming a winner in early 2017.
Transforming the fictional Star Trek tricorder into a real-life medical scanner has turned out to be harder than expected.
As global population soars, healthcare is reaching a crisis point: developing countries struggle with a lack of access while countries like the U.S. struggle to manage an inefficient system that spends billions on unnecessary care.