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Skip to comments.Evangelical leaders urged to mobilize against administration contraception policy
Posted on 03/17/2012 10:48:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An influential Christian leader is calling for the evangelical community to match the Catholic church's efforts mobilizing against the Obama administration's policy on contraception coverage.
"I'm asking evangelical churches to get as involved as the Catholic church has," said Chuck Colson, founder of the Prison Fellowship and the Christian radio broadcast Breakpoint. "Catechize members. If it's from the pulpit, that's fine. If by pastoral letter, that's fine. If by announcements at Bible studies, that's fine. The church in America is a sleeping giant. On an issue like this, it will be aroused."
Colson e-mailed more than 500,000 people of faith Thursday afternoon and called the contraception policy "the greatest threat to religious liberty in the history of this country."
The e-mail added, "We evangelicals need to take a page from the Roman Catholics. ... It would be difficult for a Catholic attending mass to avoid reading or hearing about this battle. ... I don't want to impugn anyone's motives, but the New York Times reported last week that the Obama administration is preparing a major campaign. It has programmed one million letters to influential women across America, energizing them over this issue."
The letter urges followers to frame this as a debate about religious freedom, not contraception, because it's a more effective way to sway public opinion....
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
Strength in numbers.
I'm surprised and appalled to learn that the Protestants haven't been mobilized already. I didn't realize that just the Catholics were fighting on this front.
Obama is uniting two enormous groups of Christians. Nothing and nobody else could have done that. Good job, bro.
That's not all...
I welcome anyone and everyone into this battle, as we realize it is far more than one Catholic doctrine. It is the entire right to religious freedom and the first amendment to the constitution.
On both the religious freedom issue and Barack Hussein's "ruling" that "all that we have is his," it's time and past time to give him a resounding "No!" Both issues are — as yet — "pick-pick-pick" distractions, but freedom of religion is in Amendment ONE; that says a lot; and if he were successful in confiscating anything for his "national defense," he would soon turn toward "Hmm, confiscation, national defense... Amendment TWO; hmm...."
Henceforth, Kenyan Muslim Frauds need not apply!
The trashing of the establishment clause by the administration is the biggest constitutional crisis since the imprisonment of Japaneese Americans by FDR. That too, was given a pass by the media.
In 1942 under the cover of war, habeas corpus rights were abridged...today, the first amendment is being trashed...with no special pleading, such as war time, being used as an excuse.
This administration is simply ignoring two hundred years of precedent law...and the msm thinks that's just fine...because radical women and Obama want a kultur kampf on the Christian churches.
This is the biggest constitutional story since WWII.
No Mr. CNN blogger, it is not because it's a more effective way to sway public opinion. The letter urges the debate because it is about religious freedom...
...as Chuck states: "this issue is NOT about contraceptives; it is about religious freedom
I don't mean to demean the religious aspect, but as an employer, I don't want to be told I must provide contraceptive and abortifacient coverage, because I already object to having to provide psychiatric care in our company insurance.
Once they find they are paying for it, my employees don't want psychiatric care coverage. Three of our fourteen employees are female, so covering contraceptives isn't a big draw, and again, they won't want to pay for it.
This is a freedom issue, period. Not just a freedom of religion issue. We should have the freedom to choose, as a company, what coverages we will provide, and what coverages we won't provide, and the market will sort things out.
Chicago 'Lib-une' put their spin on Republican candidates:
Religion a key issue as Illinois Republicans go to polls
Santorum beckons social conservatives who feel persecuted because of their faith
By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune reporter
March 18, 2012
The issue of religious freedom, raised by all four Republican candidates but identified most strongly with Rick Santorum, finds an interested audience as the contest reaches Illinois.
Last year in Illinois, Catholic Charities and the Evangelical Child and Family Agency were forced to pull out of the foster care business when they refused to license couples in civil unions. The state's six Roman Catholic bishops also have protested a federal mandate requiring Catholic hospitals and universities to cover contraceptives for their employees.
Some believe Santorum's religious rhetoric could lure socially conservative voters who feel persecuted for their religious beliefs and who argue that the nation's founding principle of religious liberty is under attack by President Barack Obama's administration. Religion is seen as a lightning-rod issue, similar to the proposed bans on same-sex marriage that drew social conservatives to the polls in 2004 and helped George W. Bush win re-election.
"The language that we hear about the Obama administration waging war against religion is both energizing and polarizing," said Ralph Keen, chair of Catholic studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "The person who declares that there is an Obama-led war against religion is going to be recognized as the leader of a cause that mobilizes. It's going to mobilize the religious population."
Yet the religious calculations are not simple....
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Ping this around! I know this list is radically incomplete. Somebody help me make a better one!
You might as well. The Catholic heirarchy is demeaning the religious aspect by saying the demand for "free" contraceptives/sterilization/abortion is legitimate, as long as they don't participate. That is, it's not really about right and wrong, just a matter of personal taste.
This is a freedom issue, period.
You are right. The best way to ensure freedom of religion (and along with it, every other freedom) is to reduce government power at every level. No government should be mandating "free" provision of contraceptives/abortions/sterilization. No government should be mandating coverage for infertility treatment, gastric bypass, "alternative" medicine, or any other thing that a special interest (usually the people selling whatever it is) wants mandated.
Individuals, employers, and insurance companies could sort this out, in a free market.
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Father, We're Ready for that Homily on Contraception Now
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It is not the job of the church to provide cover for Roman Catholics .They voted for this mess and are just looking for an exemption for themselves .
They are not looking for a repeal of a murderous law they are just looking for a way out for themselves.
THE FUNDAMENTAL EVANGELICAL CHURCH (confessing church) HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ROME AND WE HAD BETTER NOT FORGET THAT OR WE WILL END UP JUST AS WATERED DOWN AND ASLEEP AS THE MAINSTREAM PROTESTANTS THAT ARE NOW EUCAMENICAL WITH HER .
I get it. You don't like the Catholic Church.
Well we are all in this fight now. It is all of us and our religious freedom at stake.
You better get the fact that we need this law repealed
we don't need an exemption for anyone we need a flat out repeal .
You better get that and your church better get that to because if we don't get that repeal we are going to suddenly wake up to a very different look America
The law contains and exemption for Muslims
If it is not repealed you are going to see an awful lot of stupid people converting to get something free
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Preeclampsia Foundation and Biomarkers in the NewsLast Updated on Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Yesterday, Chemical & Engineering News featured an article about the early detection of preeclampsia. Preeclampsia Foundation Executive Director Eleni Tsigas was interviewed, and the leading tests to identify and predict the life-threatening pregnancy complication were reviewed. The Preeclampsia Foundation eagerly observes and applauds the advances being made in molecular tests (biomarkers) to confirm diagnosis of preeclampsia and to predict early in pregnancy a woman's likelihood of developing preeclampsia.
"Biomarkers are leading tests to identify the life-threatening pregnancy complication before it becomes deadly," reports Celia Henry Arnaud, author of "Early Detection of Preeclampsia" in the December 2, 2013 issue of Chemical & Engineering News.
Noted among the innovators working in this area were:
Alere, a multinational corporation of several diagnostic and health management companies, working on a diagnosis confirmation test based on placental growth factor (PlGF). (See GUEST BLOG in this newsletter, below.)
Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) Consortium, which has established a biobank of samples from approximately 6,000 pregnant women in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. The consortium has focused on healthy, low-risk women in their first pregnancy. Samples from this study are being used to help develop predictive tests.
Thermo Fisher Scientific and PerkinElmer, both of which use biomarkers to calculate a risk score that the mother will develop preeclampsia before 34 weeks. These screening tests are meant to be used at the end of the first trimester, approximately between weeks 10 and 14.
Pronota, a company in Ghent, Belgium, which is working on a predictive test, using four biomarkers, that will be administered halfway through a pregnancy, at week 20.
Carmenta Bioscience, based in Palo Alto, California, which is also working on a predictive test and a diagnosis confirmation test.
Metabolomic Diagnostics, a company based in Cork, Ireland, which has used samples from the SCOPE study to identify metabolites for development of a predictive test that can be used early in pregnancy.

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Anne-Frances Miller believes enzymes are catalysts extraordinaire. Consider the following: The industrial process used to make the vast quantities of fertilizer necessary to support agriculture worldwide involves exposing nitrogen gas (N2) to temperatures in excess of 400 degrees Celsius at 200 atmospheres of pressure. This illustrates the difficulty of breaking the triple bond in dinitrogen (second in strength only to that of carbon monoxide). Meanwhile, in the roots of leguminous plants, bacterial enzymes are carrying out the same chemical conversion at room temperature under standard pressure.
This is the reason that Miller will never cease to be fascinated by enzymes. "Their ability to speed up chemical reactions by factors of millions, billions or more gives biology access to chemistry that would be useless at uncatalyzed rates," she says.
However, Miller, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Kentucky and director of the university's nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy facility, is quick to point out that proteins should not get all of the glory. "Many of the most marvelous enzymes subcontract out the dirty work," she says. "The most difficult chemistry is actually being executed by metal ions or organic cofactors. What the protein does is help select the proper substrate, focus the reactivity on the desired reaction and coordinate the reaction with other aspects of metabolism."
That partnership between the protein and its cofactor forms the basis of Miller's research interests. Using spectroscopic tools like NMR and electron paramagnetic resonance, which can reveal the details of the molecular interactions occurring at the interface of the protein and cofactor, Miller seeks to understand the mechanistic basis behind enzyme catalysis, particularly oxidation-reduction reactions.
And, by answering questions about, for example, how proteins guide the specificity of broadly reactive cofactors like metal ions or how a flavin's chemical properties change when it becomes associated with a protein, Miller hopes to figure out one of the most enduring mysteries in enzymology: how proteins can both activate and control such powerful chemical reactions.
"Take dioxygen, for example," Miller says. "Molecular oxygen is an extremely reactive molecule thermodynamically, but it also has a large kinetic barrier for activation. This is why it has accumulated to about 20 percent of our atmosphere. Because of that barrier, dioxygen holds a huge reservoir of potential energy."
"Then, look at proteins," she adds. "As reagents, they're pretty mild-mannered— we even eat them for breakfast. How can proteins catalyze reactions with oxygen and not get burned up?"
Such a sense of wonder about the natural world has been a staple of Miller's mindset since her youth in Toronto. She recalls that her scientific awakening occurred around the time she was 13 years old, when her family took her and a friend for a weekend naturalist program on Ontario's Bruce Peninsula. During their hikes, Miller was fascinated by how much information the guides knew about every moss, plant and liverwort they passed, including tidbits such as the plant's habitat range, what chemicals were inside it and how the indigenous people used it.
"I remember one foggy morning walk in particular," she says. "We had heard a squawk in the distance above us, and one of our guides immediately told us that was a goshawk. That weekend revealed for me just how much information surrounds us, but we don't notice, and so it passes us by. And I keep thinking how much richer our whole experience could be if we paid attention more."
That weekend getaway eventually led to a vigorous pursuit of science projects, both for science fairs and personal curiosity; Miller even dabbled in some plant breeding, which led her to pursue a degree in molecular genetics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
Along the way, Miller also began taking physics courses, because she found that most of the biology courses were too descriptive and she was eager to understand science at a deeper level; in fact, by the time she graduated in 1982, Miller was just one course short of a physics major.
At Guelph, Miller also got her first taste of NMR and EPR spectroscopy. "The notion that we could observe signals from single atoms or electrons was just amazing," she says, "and it was a technology I wanted to learn more about."
To do that, Miller crossed the border into the United States, following a career trajectory that included graduate studies at Yale University with Gary Brudvig, analyzing the assembly and mechanism of photosystem II, a postdoctoral position with William Orme-Johnson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a second postdoctoral fellowship with Al Redfield at Brandeis University, conducting NMR studies on the conformation changes in the p21-Ras protein that contribute to tumor development. Her first independent appointment was at the Johns Hopkins University in 1992.
Her professional journey was far from a series of seamless transitions. For example, Miller considers her time in graduate school to have been quite rewarding but not entirely successful. "I had two projects that either didn't prove interesting to anyone other than me, or, by the time they worked, someone else had published the result," she admits, adding that she learned valuable lessons about what constitutes good science, and that helped her career immensely later on. "I am enormously grateful to Gary Brudvig for giving me independence so I could learn these important lessons before it was my career on the line. This was especially courageous of him considering that, at the time, his was."
Other events were unforeseen, however, such as Miller having to leave her first postdoctoral position at MIT because her lab ran out of funding, forcing her to scramble to find a new lab to work in. This situation was made more difficult by the facts that her husband had just gotten a job in the Boston area and that Miller wasn't a U.S. citizen and would have to leave the country if she didn't find a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service-acceptable position very quickly.
And, while Miller did secure a position at Brandeis, two years later the "two-body problem" became an issue again. After many unsuccessful attempts at finding a suitable destination with her husband, Miller eventually received a job offer she simply could not refuse: assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins University chemistry department.
Although her long-distance "e-marriage" was trying, Miller had a fantastic time at Hopkins. "I had a chance to launch some very exciting studies and to work with fabulous colleagues; I would have loved to have been able to stay permanently." Despite the best efforts by her colleagues, the university couldn't find a way to open up a spot in the physics department for her husband. "After eight years, our family had reached a point where our first child was ready to start school, and we just had to be in the same city."
That led Miller to a difficult professional decision— relocating her lab to the University of Kentucky in 1999 so her family could be together.
While the nature of the projects in Miller's group at the University of Kentucky varies to exploit the composition and interests of her lab members, she maintains an overall theme of combining principles of biophysics and spectroscopy to examine protein control over cofactor reactivity.
The lab focuses on two enzyme types: superoxide dismutases and enzymes that use flavins as cofactors. Superoxide dismutases, which metabolize toxic superoxide ions (O2-), regulate the reactivity of potentially reactive chemical species and are fairly well studied, providing a firm foundation for detailed studies of fundamental questions.
"That is not to say superoxide dismutase has no more new stories to tell, because it certainly has," Miller says, noting some exciting work in which her lab provided the first mechanistic explanation as to why iron- or manganese-containing superoxide dismutases become inactive if their cofactor is exchanged with the opposing ion, even though the three-dimensional structures of the two enzyme types are basically superimposable.
While you won't catch more than a hint of a Canadian accent in speaking with Miller these days, she admits to having had occasional communication "challenges" when she first moved from Guelph to New Haven, Conn. This led to one of her more bizarre graduate school experiences. One day, while returning from school, she was approached and accosted by a pair of youths who demanded her bicycle. "Their accent was so strong and foreign to me that I could barely understand them," she says. Add in the fact that she came from a small, quiet college town, and she was not prepared for such a situation. "So rather than run away immediately (and lose my bike), I responded with a polite, if scared, refusal. Then they had trouble comprehending me. After several back-and-forth exchanges in which I can remember thinking I was completely crazy to be insisting on retaining my bicycle and repeating 'I beg your pardon' (because I still could not understand their English), instead of fleeing back up the street, one of them cracked a smile." She says, "This whole conversation was probably the last thing they expected and in retrospect, it really was humorous. Once it had become a joke, they waved me on and I rode off. I would, nonetheless, not recommend this as a general strategy."
Other recent spectroscopic analysis has revealed insights into how superoxide dismutase controls the movement of the electrons between the active site metal ion and substrate. "Proteins do not have good means of controlling electrons directly," Miller says. "But we found that the big bridge by which superoxide dismutases regulate the sources and destinations of the transferred electrons is the protein's exceptional control over protons, because the protons have a very big influence over where the electrons go."
Miller chose enzymes that use flavins as cofactors as her second interest, because these cofactors, which resemble nucleotides, hearken back to the ancient RNA world and are likely the remnants of the evolutionary ancestors to enzymes. And, as organic molecules, not inorganic metal ions, they have different spectroscopic properties that enable Miller to ask a different set of questions.
Solid-state NMR, which, as implied by the name, examines samples that are solids or frozen solutions, can prevent the molecules under study from moving or reorienting. This allows orientation-dependent properties to be observed in the spectra, and, in Miller's case, allows the three orientationally distinct components of the chemical shift to be resolved.
Miller has looked at the carbon and nitrogen atoms of the flavin ring system to complement solution NMR studies of the surrounding amino acids of the protein. Most importantly, the solid-state NMR results often can distinguish between effects on different orbitals of the flavin, resulting from different interactions between the flavin and the protein. With that information, she hopes to understand how different protein environments cause the bound flavin to emphasize different reactivities out of its inherently broad repertoire. Meanwhile, solution NMR studies of the surrounding protein address issues such as how some flavoenzymes like nitroreductase have such a broad substrate specificity range.
Beyond these studies, though, Miller is also busy trying to improve on the existing NMR and EPR technologies, so as to give them a broader and more cost-effective appeal.
In discussing her drive to do this, Miller reflects back on when she first came to the U.S. for graduate school. "At the time I left Guelph, there were very few positions available in Canada, as funding for universities was very tight," she says. "My professors not only repaired laboratory equipment themselves, because they couldn't afford to get it serviced, they built the equipment themselves as well."
Considering the perilous nature of today's economy, such memories resurface. "In a time of tightening budgets, there will be questions about the need to continue to run expensive NMR facilities," she says, adding that the cost not only reflects the machines but the cryogens and reagents (like heavy isotopes of carbon and nitrogen) required to produce NMR-quality samples. While NMR holds many advantages as a tool for structure determination, it is weak when it comes to sensitivity because the magnetic moments of nuclei are quite small, thus, requiring large amounts of pure protein in each sample.
Some research groups have begun trying to alleviate the sensitivity problem by combining elements of NMR and EPR technology in a new application known as dynamic nuclear polarization. Rather than directly polarizing (or exciting) nuclear magnetic moments, DNP polarizes electrons first, as they have magnetic moments about 660 times that of the 1H magnetic moment. DNP then transfers that polarization to nearby nuclei. "So in theory," says Miller, "you could have an NMR signal that's 660 times more powerful than usual, which is mind-boggling."
Thanks to a sabbatical she took, Miller, in collaboration with Thorsten Maly and Robert G. Griffin at MIT's magnet lab, has tried to take DNP one step further. "Currently, DNP relies on added free radicals as bearers of the unpaired electrons," she says, "but I realized that biology provides built-in radicals whose unpaired electrons can be used as sources of polarization. Many flavoproteins can be prepared with the flavin in a radical state, and the flavin molecule is bound in exactly the same way in each molecule. So we know where the polarization starts in every instance, in contrast with the random and uncontrolled locations of exogenous radicals." Moreover, the flavin radical is often located in the enzyme's active site.
"So, instead of having to analyze an entire protein, you can take a shortcut and focus your measurements just on the active site," she continues. This "smart" DNP, as Miller refers to it, should make the technique more applicable than ever, as a researcher won't need large quantities of protein or even a pure sample. Only protein molecules containing the flavin would be evident in a DNP-NMR spectrum.
Miller, A.-F. (2008) Redox Tuning Over Almost 1 V in a Structurally-conserved Active Site: Lessons from Superoxide Dismutase. Acc. Chem. Res. 41, 501-510.
Koder, R. L.,Walsh, J. D., Pometun, M. S., Dutton, P. L., Wittebort, R. J., and Miller, A.-F. (2006) 15N Solid-state NMR Provides a Sensitive Probe of Oxidized Flavin Reactive Sites. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 15200–15208.
Vance, C. K. and Miller, A.-F. (1998) A Simple Proposal that can Explain the Inactivity of Metal-substituted Superoxide Dismutases. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 461-467.
Miller, A.-F., Halkides, C. J., and Redfield, A. G. (1993) An NMR Comparison of the Changes Produced by Different Guanosine 5'-Triphosphate Analogs in Wild-type and Oncogenic Mutant p21ras. Biochemistry 32, 7367–7376.
Miller, A.-F. and Brudvig, G. W. (1989) Manganese and Calcium Requirements for Reconstitution of Oxygen-Evolution Activity in Manganese-Depleted Photosystem II Membranes. Biochemistry 28, 8181–8190.
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HAVELOCK � Walk-in or walk-out. Call it what you want. For Tucker Creek Middle School teacher Chadwick Howard, low teacher pay means one thing: a second job.
HAVELOCK � Walk-in or walk-out. Call it what you want. For Tucker Creek Middle School teacher Chadwick Howard, low teacher pay means one thing: a second job.
Howard was among many North Carolina teachers wearing red on Monday to protest actions by the General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory on issues of pay, tenure and budget cuts that they say hurt the state�s public schools.
Howard, for instance, left school Monday to go to his second job, one he has taken up to make ends meet because he said his low teacher salary won�t pay the bills.
�I have to go to the convention center to work until 1 a.m. at my second job, which I worked until 1 a.m. last night, and I�ll do the same thing on Tuesday night and Wednesday night, working the Marine balls, because I haven�t had a pay increase in six years and everything else has increased,� Howard said.
Howard said he is doing what has to be done as a teacher to make ends meet.
�Many of us are having to take up second jobs or third jobs, and that takes away from what we do here sometimes,� Howard said. �It�s not fair at all.
�When I talked to the legislators a couple of years ago when (former Gov.) Bev Perdue was in office, they always said that she was the problem and once she was out of office, things would change, but things definitely didn�t change for us teachers. They said they would do more for teachers and work harder for teachers, the Republican legislators that I talked to, and that isn�t what happened when they took control of the Senate and the House, in my opinion.�
Without the ability to strike, teachers banded together Monday after school in what was called a walk-in. Tucker Creek Assistant Principal Shawn McCarthy said having teachers walk out of class would have been impractical.
�Our first duty is to educate the children and in order to do that we have to be here with the children in our classroom,� he said. �So, we all agreed that while there are laws and decisions that have been passed and made that we don�t agree with, the children should not suffer because of those decisions and our dislike of those decisions, so we�re going to come and do our jobs and find another way to voice our opinion that the decisions aren�t necessarily what�s best for business and what�s best for kids. Let�s try to find another way to do what needs to be done without putting it on the backs of kids.�
McCarthy said legislators need to go to teachers to find out how their decisions impact students.
�If you�ve never been in the classroom or have never been an educator then you might not know,� he said. �For instance, I�ve never been a doctor, so I shouldn�t be making health care laws because I don�t have that expertise.�
Tucker Creek teachers made a bulletin board in which they could anonymously express their concerns without fear of reprisal. Included in the concerns was removal of tenure and merit pay.
Legislators also dropped bonus pay for future teachers who earn master�s degrees and removed the caps on class sizes. Teachers also complained about the loss of work days and pay for teacher assistants.
Teachers said Monday that qualified educators were walking away from the career or choosing to work in other states where teacher pay is better.
North Carolina ranks 46th in the nation with an average teacher salary of $45,947 compared to the national average of $55,418, according to the National Association of Educators. Over the past decade, North Carolina has had a 15.7 percent decrease in salaries when adjusted for inflation, the largest decrease in the country, according to the NEA.
North Carolina ranks 28th in the country for starting teacher salaries at $30,779, about $5,000 less than the national average of $35,672, according to the NEA.
Teachers said legislative action this spring and summer affects services to students. They said merit pay creates divisions in the staff, which, in turn, affects morale.
Daniel Edward Rapp, who has taught science and math for 13 years at Tucker Creek, said walking out on the students was not going to happen, even though the teachers needed to make a point.
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The president, shaken to the core by the massacre of 26 innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School, broke his own informal "Obama Rule" — of never leaning into an issue without a clear path to victory — first by pushing for a massive gun control package no one expected to pass, and then sticking through it even as he retrenched to a relatively modest bipartisan bill mandating national background checks on gun purchases.
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It was a bitter defeat for a president accustomed to winning, a second-term downer that may — or may not — foreshadow the slow decline suffered by so many of his predecessors. Obama seems to have the public behind him, but it illustrated his less-than-Johnsonian powers of personal persuasion, the possible shortcomings of his decision to wait a month after the killings to present a plan and above all the limits of his go-to "outside" strategy of taking his case directly to the American people.
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A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a type of brain injury caused by a blow or jolt to, or penetration of the head. A TBI can occur during a car accident, from being tackled during a football game, or from a combat-related wound.
After a TBI, nerve cells in the brain may be damaged. The neurons may have trouble doing their job of carrying signals to different parts of the brain. If you have a brain injury, you could have trouble thinking or moving normally. Your brain may also have trouble keeping your body working properly.
Most cases of brain injury that occur each year are mild. A concussion is a minor form of brain injury. But, many TBIs can be severe. Severe brain injuries require emergency care. People with severe injuries may require a lengthy recovery period, and their symptoms can linger for a long time.
A TBI may occur after your head strikes an object, or when an object goes through your skull and damages your brain. Many TBIs occur during motor vehicle accidents. Falls, firearms, explosions, and assaults are other major causes.
TBIs can cause many symptoms, depending on their severity and which part of the brain they affect. These are possible symptoms:
Your healthcare provider will ask you questions about how the injury occurred and if you are having any symptoms. He or she will also likely want to know if you were unconscious after your injury and will ask you questions to evaluate your thought process.
Your healthcare provider may want to do X-rays or a CT or MRI scan of your head and neck to assess the extent of the injury.
A mild brain injury may not require medical attention. More severe cases require medical care.
If your injury is severe, you may need surgery to treat bleeding or bruising. After treatment, you may also need rehabilitation. During rehab, therapists may help you regain abilities and skills that were lost due to the injury. For example, you may need help learning to speak, move, and take care of yourself again. Social support is also an important part of rehab for you and your family.
You can take many steps to protect yourself from a traumatic brain injury:
This type of injury may cause long-term changes. It may affect your thinking, your mood, or your ability to think, see, or hear normally. If these changes are severe enough, you may need help with your daily activities.
Protect your head. Take extra care not to do anything that could put you at risk for another head injury.
Take it slow. Get plenty of rest and take time necessary for your brain to heal. The brain is slow to recover. Also, avoid driving a car or riding a bike until your doctor approves. You may have a delayed reaction time after suffering brain injury.
Use memory aids. Use notes, a white board, alarm clocks, calendars and your mobile phone to help you remember important events or activities. Search the web for helpful memory apps you can download to your phone or computer.
Evaluate and adapt job or school tasks. Depending on your disability, your employer or school may be able to make some accommodations for you to continue work. Consider options with a flexible schedule or part time work, reduce distractions and clutter in your work area, make daily 'To Do" lists. Take notes or ask to use a tape recorder to help you remember things. Ask for less stressful assignments that have a flexible deadline.
Get support. Consider joining a local support group or find one online. Sharing your story and learning how others manage their condition can help.
Call your healthcare provider right away or go to the emergency room if you have any type of severe head injury or if you lose consciousness after a blow to the head. You should also seek help right away even after a mild head injury if you have any of the following symptoms:
These could be signs of a serious condition that needs treatment right away.
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your healthcare provider:
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Making Meaning in Literature:
A Video Library, Grades 6-8
Individual Clip Descriptions
1. Introducing the Envisionment-Building Classroom
2. Building a Literary Community
3. Asking Questions
4. Facilitating Discussion
5. Seminar Discussion
6. Dramatic Tableaux
7. Readers as Individuals
8. The Teachers Role in a Literary Community
9. Whole Group Discussions
This Video Clip
like kids to write their own questions because
more involved. If I always come up with the questions
wouldn't get to what is important to them."
Tanya Schnabl, Teacher
Sherburne-Earlville Middle School
Sherburne, New York
like kids to write their own questions because
more involved. If I always come up with the questions
wouldn't get to what is important to them."
Tanya Schnabl, Teacher
Sherburne-Earlville Middle School
Sherburne, New York
are at the center of classroom discussion for Tanya Schnabl's
students. Because they are learning how to make connections
and inferences independently, Ms. Schnabl supports and models
the process for them. She asks students to prepare for discussion
by writing questions on sticky notes while reading. She uses
these questions to center the discussion and poses her own
to help students connect personal experience with the practical
and ethical dilemmas presented by the text.
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Schnabl believes that integrating subject areas makes learning
meaningful for students and tries to find ways to connect
themes from science and history with their reading. She contextualized
Among the Hidden within a class theme centered on the
tensions between government limits and personal freedoms by
helping the class understand and explore the implications
of China's "one child" policy. She used discussion
to help students decide if they would be for or against a
two-child policy in the United States. They each then created
a poster defining and supporting their positions. Displayed
around the room, these posters provided visual links between
their positions and the situation in the book.
students read and discussed the novel, Ms. Schnabl introduced
them to Jeffrey McDaniel's poem "The Quiet World."
This poem presents a world in which the government has limited
the speech of each citizen to "exactly one hundred/and
sixty-seven words per day." In small groups, the class
examined the ways in which the poem related to the novel,
and then reported their observations to the class as a whole.
As a culminating activity, the students wrote their own poems
based on the 167-word rule and shared them with their classmates.
role of the teacher is that of facilitator. In addition to
organizing and supporting discussion directly, Ms. Schnabl's
presentation of outside materials that link to the novel at
hand helps students expand their understandings of the issues
involved and the impact of (often seemingly reasonable) government
edicts on human lives.
resources that can help you use this clip for teacher professional
development, preservice education, administrative and English/language
arts content meetings, parent conferences, and back-to-school
events, visit our Support
Materials page. There you will find PDF files of our library
guide, classroom lesson plan, student activity sheets, and
other Teacher Tools.
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World HistoryPrivate PropertyProduction Theory
The odds of a no-deal Brexit appear smaller than ever, and the exit process still has no end in sight.
While Elizabeth Warren may be correct that the system is broken, she is quite wrong in how and why it is broken — and how to fix it.
Global EconomyTaxes and SpendingWorld History
It's important to make the moral case for lower taxes, but we shouldn't overlook simply defending institutional competition.
BiographiesMedia and Culture
Money and BanksMoney and Banking
Scratching beneath the surface of the debate around countercyclical capital buffers, we find the normal level of duplicity that characterizes most debates about monetary policy.
Global Economy
Europe's new tech regulations are especially damaging to small companies, thus helping tech giants like Google.


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Growing food using a closed-loop system. Rocks instead of soil + fish poop continuously cycling through the system for nutrients = lots of delicious, healthy, organic food!
In this lesson, students explore factors that contribute to desertification. Students learn about a farmer from Burkina Faso who halted desertification on his farmlands by implementing innovative farming techniques. Students conduct an in-depth analysis of rainfall data and NASA satellite images to understand how and why desertification happens. Finally, students create a survey to examine microclimates on their school grounds. This lesson is part of curriculum related to the PBS series Earth A New Wild and was developed in collaboration with PBS LearningMedia.
Two issues of
Resource: Engineering and Technology for a Sustainable World magazine, focusing on food reliability in 2050.
"We would do well to pay attention to how our food is produced and whether that is done in a sustainable, efficient, and safe manner. Nearly 40% of the world's ice-free land is given over to agriculture. Farming has an impact on our water supply, which can be polluted by pesticides and fertilizer runoff. It affects climate, releasing, by some measures, more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, and planes in the world. Dams rearrange and disrupt rivers to provide water for crops. Landscapes are stripped of trees to create cultivable land.
"To tell the story, we gos to savannas in Africa, meat-processing plants in Brazil, and fields in the American Midwest. To show how food sustains us spiritually, it sits down at dinner tables in Mexico, the Philippines, Belarus, and Pakistan. We'll look at the farming frontier of the ocean along with the pluses and minuses of aquaculture."
National Geographic Magazine – Editor's Note – May 2014