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Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor or nurse immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
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Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
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Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
It is very important that your doctor check you or your child's progress at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly. Blood tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects.
Do not receive this medicine if you are also using any combination medicines that also contain zidovudine (e.g., Combivir® or Trizivir®). To do so may increase the amount of zidovudine in your body which may cause serious side effects. Also, do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
Zidovudine injection may cause blood problems. These problems may result in a greater chance of certain infections and slow healing. Therefore, you or your child should be careful when using regular toothbrushes, dental floss, and toothpicks not to damage your gums. Check with your medical doctor or dentist if you have any questions about proper oral hygiene (mouth care) during treatment.
Check with your doctor if you have muscle pain, tenderness, wasting, or unusual tiredness or weakness while you are receiving this medicine.
Two rare but serious reactions to this medicine are lactic acidosis (too much acid in the blood) and liver toxicity, which includes an enlarged liver. These are more common if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been taking anti-HIV medicines for a long time. Call your doctor right away if you or your child have more than one of these symptoms: abdominal discomfort or cramping; dark urine; decreased appetite; diarrhea; general feeling of discomfort; light-colored stools; muscle cramping or pain; nausea; unusual tiredness or weakness; trouble breathing; vomiting; or yellow eyes or skin.
When you or your child start taking HIV medicines, your immune system may get stronger. If you have infections that are hidden in your body (e.g., pneumonia or tuberculosis), you may notice new symptoms when your body tries to fight them. If this occurs, tell your doctor right away.
You should not breastfeed if you have HIV or AIDS, because you may give the infection to your baby through your breast milk.
Zidovudine injection does not decrease the risk of transmitting the HIV infection to others through sexual contact or by contamination through blood. HIV may be spread to others through infected body fluids, including blood, vaginal fluid, or semen. If you are infected, it is best to avoid any sexual activity involving an exchange of body fluids with other people. If you do have sex, always wear (or have your partner wear) a condom ("rubber"). Only use condoms made of latex or polyurethane and use them every time you have contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. Also, do not share needles with anyone or use dirty needles. If you have any questions about this, check with your doctor.
A nurse or other trained health professional will give you this medicine. This medicine is given through a needle placed in one of your veins.
Your doctor may give you a few doses of this medicine until your condition improves, and then you may be switched to an oral medicine that works the same way. If you have any concerns about this, talk to your doctor.
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of zidovudine injection in children.
Although appropriate studies on the relationship of age to the effects of zidovudine injection have not been performed in the geriatric population, no geriatric-specific problems have been documented to date. However, elderly patients are more likely to have age-related liver, kidney, or heart problems which may require caution and an adjustment of dosage in patients receiving zidovudine injection.
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There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Drug Interactions
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are receiving this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Other Interactions
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
Other Medical Problems
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
Zidovudine (also known as AZT) injection is used in combination with other anti-virus medicines in the treatment of the infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is the virus responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Zidovudine injection is used to slow the progression of disease in patients infected with HIV who have advanced symptoms, early symptoms, or no symptoms at all. This medicine also is used to help prevent pregnant women who have HIV from passing the virus to their babies during pregnancy and at birth.
Zidovudine injection will not cure or prevent HIV infection or AIDS; however, it helps keep HIV from reproducing and appears to slow down the destruction of the immune system. This may help delay the development of problems usually related to AIDS or HIV disease. Zidovudine injection will not keep you from spreading HIV to other people. People who receive this medicine may continue to have the problems usually related to AIDS or HIV disease.
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I decided to get around to admitting two things that I was wrong about.
#1. This one is a little late, but I expected the Democrats to take the House and the Republicans to keep the Senate.
#2. This one is very late, but here on this blog I predicted that Scott Peterson would be acquitted in his murder trial.
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It is somewhat difficult to separate the concepts and practices of detoxification from those of fasting.
Fasting, or the avoidance of solid food, as I use the term here, is one method of detoxification, probably
the most effective, yet extreme, form. There are many other ways to detoxify.
Toxicity is of much greater concern in the twentieth century than ever before. There are many new and
stronger chemicals, air and water pollution, radiation and nuclear power. We ingest new chemicals, use
more drugs of all kinds, eat more sugar and refined foods, and daily abuse ourselves with various
stimulants and sedatives. The incidence of many toxicity diseases has increased as well. Cancer and
cardiovascular disease are two of the main ones. Arthritis, allergies, obesity, and many skin problems are
others. In addition, a wide range of symptoms, such as headaches, fatigue, pains, coughs, gastrointestinal
problems, and problems from immune weakness, can all be related to toxicity.
Toxicity occurs on two basic levels--external and internal. We can acquire toxins from our environment by
breathing them, by ingesting them, or through physical contact with them. Chapter 11,
Environmental Aspects of Nutrition, deals with chemical aspects of food and how they
influence our lives and health. We all are exposed to toxins daily. We eat and drink them and impose
them upon ourselves repeatedly and regularly. Most drugs, food additives, and allergens can create toxic
elements in the body. In fact, any substance can have toxicity--water, sodium, and almost all nutrients can
be a problem in certain circumstances.
On the internal level, our body produces toxins through its normal everyday functions. Biochemical, cellular, and bodily activities generate substances that need to be eliminated. The free radicals that have
been discussed throughout this book are biochemical toxins. When these substances/molecules/toxins are not eliminated, they can cause irritation or inflammation of the cells and tissues, blocking normal functions on a cellular, organ, and whole-body level. Microbes of all kinds--intestinal bacteria, foreign bacteria, yeasts, and parasites--produce metabolic waste products that we must handle. Our thoughts and emotions and stress itself generate increased biochemical toxicity. The proper level of elimination of these toxins is essential to health. Clearly, a normal functioning body was created to handle certain levels of toxins; the concern is with excess intake or production of toxins or a reduction in the processes of elimination.
A toxin is basically any substance that creates irritating and/or harmful effects in the body, undermining
our health or stressing our biochemical or organ functions. This may result from drugs which have side
effects, or from patterns of physiology that are different from our usual functioning. Recreational drugs
also usually have some harmful effects. The free radicals irritate, inflame, age, and cause degeneration of
body tissues. Negative "ethers," psychic and spiritual influences, thought patterns, and negative emotions
all can be toxins as well--both as stressors and by changing the normal physiology of the body and
possibly producing specific symptoms.
Toxicity occurs in our body when we take in more than we can utilize and eliminate. Homeostasis means
that our body functions are in balance. This balance is disturbed when we feed ourselves more than we can
utilize or partake of specific substances that are toxic. Toxicity may depend on the dosage, frequency, or
potency of the toxin. A toxin may produce an immediate or rapid onset of symptoms, as many pesticides
and some drugs do; possibly, even more commonly, it may cause some long-term negative effect, such as
asbestos exposure leading to lung cancer.
Of course, if our body is working well, with good immune and eliminative functions, we can handle our
basic everyday exposure to toxins. The purpose of this section is to discuss ways to support the elimination
of toxins, excessive mucus, congestion, and disease and to prevent, on a day-to-day basis, the buildup of
toxicity. Through detoxification, we clear and filter toxins and wastes and allow our body to work on
enhancing its basic functions.
Our body handles toxins by either neutralizing, transforming, or eliminating them. As examples, many of
the antioxidant nutrients we have discussed so much may neutralize free-radical molecules. The liver
helps transform many toxic substances into harmless agents, while the blood carries wastes to the kidneys;
the liver also dumps wastes through the bile into the intestines, where much waste is eliminated. We also
clear toxins through sweating, from exercise or heat. Our sinuses and skin may also be accessory
elimination organs whereby excess mucus or toxins can be released, as with sinus congestion or skin
rashes, respectively.
Detoxification occurs on many other levels as well. Physically, this process can help clear congestions,
illnesses, and disease potential. It can improve energy. I believe that many "detox" processes can help
rejuvenate us and prevent degeneration. Mental detoxification is also important. Cleansing our minds of
negative thought patterns is essential to health; the physical detoxification also helps this mental process.
Emotionally, detoxification helps us uncover and express feelings, especially hidden frustrations, anger,
resentments, or fear, and replace them with forgiveness, love, joy, and hope. On a spiritual level, many
people experience new clarity and/or an enhancement of their purpose of life during cleansing processes.
A light detox over a couple of days can help us feel better, while a longer process and deeper commitment
to a new way of life, such as eliminating certain abusive habits and eating a better diet, will help us really
change our whole life.
Detoxification is part of a transformational medicine that instills change on many levels. Change and
evolution are keys to healing. Enhancing elimination helps us deal with and clear problems from our past,
from childhood and parental patterns to recent job or relationship stress. When our body has eliminated
much of its toxic buildup, we feel lighter and are able to really experience the moment and be open for the
Detoxification is a relative term. Anything that supports our elimination can be said to help us detoxify.
Doing nothing more than drinking an extra quart of water a day will usually help us eliminate more
toxins. Eating more fruits and vegetables--the high-water-content, cleansing foods--and less meat and
milk products will create less congestion and more elimination. There are many levels of the progressive
detoxication diets, from these simple changes to complete fasting. I want to express some concerns about
overelimination or overdetoxification, which I see occasionally. Some people go to extremes with fasting,
laxatives, enemas, colonics, diuretics, and even exercise and begin to lose essential nutrients from their
body. A negative balance can be created in this manner, such as protein or vitamin-mineral deficiencies
though congestion from overintake and underelimination is a more common problem in this culture. I
believe that the best and simplest way to look at symptoms and disease is in terms of excess (congestion)
and deficiency; this is the basis of the traditional Oriental philosophy.
Who Is Best Suited for
Almost everyone needs to detox, cleanse themselves, and rest their body functions at times. Cleansing or
detoxification is one part of the trilogy of nutritional action, the others being building, or toning, and
balance, or maintenance. With a regular, balanced diet, devoid of excesses, we will need less intensive
detoxification. Our body has a daily elimination cycle, mostly carried out at night and in the early
morning, up until breakfast. However, when we eat a congesting diet higher in fats, meats, dairy products,
refined foods, and chemicals, detoxification becomes more necessary. Who needs to detoxify and when is
based in part on individual lifestyle and needs.
More common toxicity symptoms include headache, fatigue, mucus problems, aches and pains, digestive
problems, "allergy" symptoms, and sensitivity to environmental agents such as chemicals, perfumes, and
synthetics. People who experience these and others on the list may benefit from diet changes or avoidance
of the drug or agent that may be influencing the symptom. It may be important to differentiate allergic
symptoms from those of toxicity to determine the appropriate medical care. The diet and detox program
here is fairly similar to the Allergy plan discussed earlier and is often helpful in reducing allergic
symptoms. Fasting can be extremely beneficial for people with allergies. Of course, there may be subtle
characteristics of toxicity that differentiate it from other health concerns.


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Effective 2017-12-15, the identifiers of lineups in GBR will be changing based on changes at our upstream.
We were trying to perform dynamic re-mapping of the old lineup names to the new names, but there are too many variations for me to effectively ensure that there was full coverage.
For example, there didn't used to be a real Freeview lineup (there was YouView, which was supposed to be a superset, but people still complained.) Now there will be Freeview and YouView. There is also multiple Sky lineups, more closely aligned to region.
On 2017-12-15, any users with the old-style GBR-000* identifiers will have those lineups removed from their accounts and you'll need to use your application to go through the "Add a headend" process again. The new lineup options will have greater granularity for regional variations.


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Our professionally produced Hud has been finished, and will be integrated once we've finished the AI. It looks *exceptional*, and thanks again to Captain Bendy.
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Make: Asks is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
Back in school they taught us "My very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas," to remember the order of the planets from the sun (though now we have to remove Pluto of course).
This week's question: What scientific or technical mnemonics have you retained, and do you use any on a regular basis?
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Raiders middle linebacker Rolando McClain was at the scene of a fight Wednesday where gun shots were fired in his hometown of Decatur, Ala., the Huntsville Times reported.
McClain was not at practice Wednesday and was on the injury report as "did not participate'' because of an injured ankle. It's not clear why he was in Alabama and not with the team.
As the Raiders went through warm-ups and drills before practice Thursday, McClain was not on the field with the team.
"We are aware of the incident. At this time we have no further comment,'' a Raiders spokesman said.
According to Lt. John Crouch, police received a report of gun shots at 10:20 p.m. and reported to find one person injured in a fight. The victim refused treatment.
McClain, according to Crouch, was present when the fight happened and the incident is under investigation.
Last Jan. 28, a Chevrolet Tahoe McClain was driving was shot at in Decatur. Police found a slug near the rear hatch of the vehicle.
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Short review: If there's something about a warm, wet mouth with a slippery thick tongue sliding over your shaft and knob that makes you absolutely insane with arousal, check this out. The ladies here know how to bring the biggest load from the balls up and then wear the expenditures covering their faces. Deepthroat Love does give the nice quality promised in tour, but don't expect a huge amount of material.
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Walking is a popular leisure activity for both residents and visitors to our area. Walking tracks provide opportunities for everyone to experience some of the natural and historic settings that are a unique part of our landscape, as well as providing a great opportunity to get outdoors, to improve health, and to socialise with family and friends.
Council currently manages about 17 kilometres of walking tracks throughout the district. There are also a number of other tracks in the district, provided and maintained by other groups such as the Department of Conservation and the local tramping clubs. Check out the walking tracks in your town below and explore some of the interesting scenery Matamata-Piako has to offer.
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Mountain Biking Tracks
Mountain biking is a popular sport and recreation activity in New Zealand. The Matamata-Piako District has two exciting mountain bike tracks.
Te Aroha Mountain Bike Tracks Te Miro Forest Mountain Bike Tracks
Hauraki Rail Trail
The Hauraki Rail Trail is a grade 1 (very easy) cycleway linking Te Aroha, Paeroa, Thames and Waihi. The trail is one of the most popular cycleways in New Zealand due to its stunning scenery and close proximity to Hamilton, Auckland and Tauranga. The Hauraki Rail Trail starts in Te Aroha at the Te Aroha railway station on Burgess Street.
Click the link below for more information about the trail, or to make luggage transfer, transport or bike hire bookings
BMX Tracks
Our District has two BMX tracks that are located on Council parks in Te Aroha and Matamata.
4WD Track and Trail Ride
Thompson's Track is a popular 4WD track and trial ride in the Kaimai Range. It can be accessed from approximately 12km south of Te Aroha off Thompson Rd. The western side of the track to the summit is approximately 6km. The eastern side (in the Western Bay of Plenty) is approximately 7km.


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Feeding guideline:
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Chicken meal, ground yellow corn, ground whole wheat, corn gluten meal, chicken fat naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols, brewers rice, beet pulp, whole flaxseeds, dehydrated alfalfa, dehydrated yeast culture, natural flavor, monosodium phosphate, potassium chloride, lecithin, calcium propionate, choline chloride, salt, glucosamine sulphate, rosemary extracts, Yucca schidigera extracts, chondroitin sulphate, dehydrated spinach, whole thyme, vitamins and minerals.
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The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product, in meal form. It is the sole meat product in the food. Followed by three grain products ahead of the fat content, we have little confidence in the meat content of the product.
The main grains are corn, wheat and brewers rice, all of which are low quality products. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value, and commonly associated with food allergies. Wheat, although a whole grain in this food, is considered by many to be the number one cause of food allergies. We prefer not to see these grains used. Corn Gluten Meal is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the corn leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Rice bran is a further grain fragment. Brewers rice is a low quality grain and byproduct.
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
The food has vitamins and minerals added, but no information is given about these and synthetics may or may not be present.
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US-EU Trade Deal In Trouble Before It Even Starts?
from the well,-look-at-that dept
For the last few months, Techdirt has been following the surprisingly rapid embrace on both sides of the Atlantic of the proposed transatlantic free trade agreement, known variously as TAFTA or TTIP. Coming out of nowhere, the agreement is being talked about as if its success and benefits are more or less guaranteed.
But this huge project is being driven as much by politics as by economics: both the US and EU see it as a way of re-asserting their influence against the background of a constantly more powerful and assertive China. And that makes progress highly vulnerable to local political shifts, as a bombshell comment from the US side, reported in the Guardian, makes clear:
The Obama administration has warned British officials that if the UK leaves Europe it will exclude itself from a US-EU trade and investment partnership potentially worth hundreds of billions of pounds a year, and that it was very unlikely that Washington would make a separate deal with Britain.
That refers to UK Prime Minister David Cameron's growing problems with the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which wants the UK out of the European Union. The sudden rise of the nationalist and traditionalist UKIP, which recently has won seats in local government and is riding high in the opinion polls, has forced Cameron to agree to hold a referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union in order to blunt UKIP's appeal to right-wing voters, and to quell a growing rebellion in the ranks of his own Conservative party.
That vote will take place sometime before 2017, which means it may not happen for a few years. But the new uncertainty, coupled with a prospect of the EU being weakened by the UK leaving -- and the US losing its main ally there -- was apparently enough for the Obama team to issue the veiled threat quoted above: that if the UK does leave, it won't be part of TAFTA, nor of any separate trade deal.
Some believe that the ramifications of UKIP's success in forcing Cameron to hold a referendum might be even more significant than simply putting pressure on Cameron to make the case to stay in the EU. For example, Gary Hufbauer, a former US Treasury official, is quoted in the same Guardian article as saying:
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This unexpected development is a reminder that nothing is certain about TAFTA/TTIP at this stage, least of all the much-touted benefits, which may well prove just as illusory as those of the free trade agreement between the US and Korea.
"If the UK separates from the EU, I think will go a long way to derail the TTIP project entirely," Hufbauer said. "There would be a lot of questions raised. The administration has many battles ahead of it. It will add another layer of confusion on an already confused picture, and there will be lots of commercial concerns in the US [from those who] have had their eye on the UK markets."
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Meffert, an all-OVC senior, slammed home 30 kills to lead sixth-seeded Tennessee Tech to a dramatic, come-from-behind 3-2 victory over No. 3 Jacksonville State Thursday in the opening round of the Ohio Valley Conference volleyball tournament at Morehead State.
The Golden Eagles, who swept all three matches from the Gamecocks this season, battled back after falling behind 2-1 through the first three sets of an extremely even contest.
Tech moves into the semifinals of the OVC Tournament Friday, where the Golden Eagles will meet No. 2 seed Austin Peay at 3:30 p.m. CT. Fans can hear the live broadcast on the Golden Eagle Sports Network via the telephone or Internet.
"This was a hard-fought win," head coach John Blair said. "Jacksonville State is the kind of team where no lead is ever safe. It was really a battle of wills and we ended up winning that battle."
"We played really clean in the fourth and fifth sets and forced Jacksonville State into some uncharacteristic errors," Blair said. "We didn't do anything overly spectacular."
Blair pointed to two of his seniors for their work at the net. Meffert hit .373 percent and posted a season-high 30 kills despite battling the flu the past three days. She took 67 swings and made just five hitting errors. Marie Pedicord had 11 kills while hitting .286.
"We got a really good match out of both Leah and Marie," Blair said. "Those are two seniors playing the way they would like to go out."
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Editor's Summary
For institutional repositories, alternative metrics reflecting online activity present valuable indicators of interest in their holdings that can supplement traditional usage statistics. A variable mix of built-in metrics is available through popular repository platforms: Digital Commons, DSpace and EPrints. These may include download counts at the collection and/or item level, search terms, total and unique visitors, page views and social media and bookmarking metrics; additional data may be available with special plug-ins. Data provide different types of information valuable for repository managers, university administrators and authors. They can reflect both scholarly and popular impact, show readership, reflect an institutions output, justify tenure and promotion and indicate direction for collection management. Practical considerations for implementing altmetrics include service costs, technical support, platform integration and user interest. Altmetrics should not be used for author ranking or comparison, and altmetrics sources should be regularly reevaluated for relevance.
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New Opportunities for Repositories in the Age of Altmetrics
by Stacy Konkiel and Dave Scherer
University administrators are increasingly trying to find new ways to measure the impact of the scholarly output of their faculty, students and researchers through quantitative means. By reporting altmetrics (alternative metrics based on online activity) for their content, institutional repositories can add value to existing metrics and prove their relevance and importance in an age of growing cutbacks to library services. This article will discuss the metrics that repositories currently deliver and how altmetrics can supplement existing usage statistics to provide a broader interpretation of research-output impact for the benefit of authors, library-based publishers and repository managers, and university administrators alike.
Metrics Repositories Currently Deliver
Many repository platforms measure usage statistics such as download counts and page views. Less often, repositories report citation counts and altmetrics culled from the social web for their holdings. Here, we will look at usage statistics that are commonly reported on the three most popular repository platforms in use today: Digital Commons, DSpace and EPrints.
Digital Commons. Digital Commons is a proprietary institutional repository and journal-publishing platform run by Bepress. Relying on proprietary, COUNTER-compliant download counts [1] and Google Analytics as a source for metrics on access, the platform records download counts, search terms and referral links for all content held in each repository. These metrics are communicated to repository managers, series administrators and authors via email. The platform provides metrics on publications available to date in each repository, downloads to date, and downloads during the lifetime of the repository. Authors also receive statistics on their deposits through a private Author Dashboard interface.
The platform also operates a federated search and discovery mechanism, the Digital Commons Discipline Browser, that provides repository managers, authors and users with usage metrics within the network of three-tiered, taxonomy-based disciplines contained in Digital Commons repositories. Google Analytics results provide metrics on access, including number of visitors, number of unique visitors, pageviews and bounce rate. Currently, there is no option to display these metrics to repository visitors or journal readers.
Bepress recently partnered with Altmetric.com (www.altmetric.com) to display an Altmetric badge for items in selected series and collections within Digital Commons and Bepress journals. Altmetric.com can display article level metrics related to social bookmarking (Mendeley, Citeulike, Connotea) and social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit and LinkedIn).
DSpace. DSpace is an open-source, configurable platform that delivers only download counts to researchers as part of its base install (Versions 1.6+). Metrics can either be displayed openly (where enabled by repository managers) or to administrators only. Repository, community, collection and item-level download counts are displayed via an HTML table. Citation metrics are available if a DSpace plug-in is installed (Versions 1.6+), where the institution has subscription access to the SciVerse Scopus API (www.developers.elsevier.com/devcms/cited-by-count-api).
Repositories running DSpace with the help of the BMC-backed Open Repositories service can display altmetrics at the item level. These repositories openly report metrics related to social bookmarking (Del.icio.us, Citeulike, Connotea) and social media (Facebook, Stumbleupon, Digg and LinkedIn) in addition to download counts.
EPrints. Similarly, the open source repository platform EPrints tracks only downloads as an out-of-the-box feature. However, they have fairly robust reporting tools available: line, bar and pie graphs; HTML tables and CSV exports. Download counts can be measured at the repository, collection and item levels. Statistics can be hidden from public view, accessible only to repository administrators. Citation metrics are available as a repository plug-in (Versions 3.2+) (http://files.eprints.org/641/); like the DSpace plug-in, subscription access to the SciVerse Scopus API is required. The few EPrints repositories to offer altmetrics have implemented them through homegrown means.
How Metrics Can Be Used
Usage and citation statistics can reveal many things to both authors and repository administrators, including the demographics of those accessing their scholarly outputs and what types of content are most popular. Authors can use these numbers to gain basic insight into the reach of their scholarship and can supplement their tenure and promotion dossiers with numbers more granular (and some say more meaningful) than journal impact factors. Repository administrators can use usage statistics to help promote similar content within their institutional repositories (IR), supplement their collection development policies and provide evidence to university administration as to the impact of their universitys intellectual output [2]. Using altmetrics, some repositories have been successfully able to showcase the social importance of repository content to the general public in non-academic settings [3].
What usage statistics do not always reveal is the nature of use or the context for how scholarship is consumed [2]. Altmetrics can help to fill in some of the knowledge gaps that usage statistics alone cannot address. In the following we provide some possible use cases for altmetrics as a supplementary type of measure that is of use to three different user groups: authors, repository managers and university administrators.
Value of Altmetrics to Authors
1. Altmetrics can help authors better understand the readership of their open access (OA) content. Many altmetrics tracking services, including Altmetric.com and ImpactStory, not only document basic usage statistics, but also capture information about readers and how they use content. For example, ImpactStorys inclusion of Topsy (a Twitter feed archiving platform) metrics links to the individual tweets that mention specific articles showcases not only who is reading and sharing scholarship, but also what they are saying about it. Altmetric.coms content dashboard also showcases sophisticated demographic reports for readers. Giving authors insight into their readership can help them better understand how their OA content stored in IRs is making an impact.
2. As supplements to the journal impact factor, altmetrics can help authors document the impact of their research when compiling tenure and promotion dossiers. The journal impact factor (JIF) is the de facto standard in many academic fields for determining the quality of articles. Many researchers include the JIFs for journals in which they have published on their vitas when going up for tenure or promotion, as a means of documenting the impact of their work. By also including supplemental measures of impact (usage counts and altmetrics) for traditional publications, as well as grey literature and other outputs deposited in IRs, faculty can more fully document the impact of their scholarship.
Value of Altmetrics to Repositories
3. Repository managers can use altmetrics to persuade potential depositors that there is value in making their content openly accessible. As Harnad contends, The prospect of increasing their usage and citation metrics (and their attendant rewards) is an incentive to researchers to provide Open Access to their findings. [4, p. 6] The possibility of increasing altmetrics counts would arguably have a similar effect on deposit rates.
4. Gathering numbers beyond general usage statistics can better communicate to repository funders most often, university administrators the value of the repository as a platform for hosting OA content. While general usage statistics might not tell a very informative story about the impact of a particular repository deposit, seeing how content is used and shared (on which websites, by which demographics and for what purposes) can. Similarly, by tracking non-academic use of content, repository managers can build a case for community engagement.
5. Altmetrics can supplement existing usage statistics to help plan collection development, resource allocation and marketing/outreach. Altmetrics such as F1000 scores and scholarly social bookmarking sites, in particular, can provide insight into what scholarship is making an impact within specific user groups. By tracking which collections and subjects are popular within a repository, IR administrators can better plan outreach activities. Such altmetrics can also be used to strengthen departmental engagement, which in turn could help build collections.
Value of Altmetrics to University Administrators
6. Administrators can use altmetrics as supplementary indicators of impact when showcasing university scholarship to both internal and external stakeholders. In particular, tracking altmetrics alongside traditional metrics can shed light on impact for university trustees and state legislatures when requesting budget increases, recruiting faculty, etc. [5].
7. Altmetrics can be used by faculty review committees (such as awards boards or promotion and tenure review systems) to better understand how a particular researchers work has been received by scholarly and lay communities [5]. Altmetrics as supplemental measures of impact not only help authors and IR managers better understand the reach of scholarship, but can also help faculty review committees do so.
Repositories will likely decide if they will implement altmetrics based on a number of factors, including possible service costs, technical support needs, platform integration restrictions (open source or proprietary) and user interest. In addition to the most popular out-of-the-box altmetrics services (Altmetric, ImpactStory and Plum Analytics), there are many ad hoc possibilities for mining and displaying altmetrics for repository content by way of web service APIs and open source tools like PLOSs Article Level Metrics package.
Library adoption will likely be customized to meet the demands not only of authors and repository managers, but also of university administrators. There are two flavors of impact (to borrow a term) scholarly and popular that repository managers should keep in mind when considering implementing altmetrics. Metrics that fall within those two categories (which are by no means mutually exclusive) should be judged in tandem with the authority and relevance of the web services that provide them and the possible value those metrics would provide to stakeholders.
There are a number of traditional and alternative metrics that track scholarly impact, including citations (sourced from Scopus and PubMed Central), Bookmarks (Mendeley, CiteULike), Faculty of 1000 reviews, and blog mentions on research blog networks. These metrics are sourced from websites and services that track usage of scholarship at various points in the research life cycle, from reading to writing to post-publication peer review.
Studies have shown that for OA content, traditional measures of scholarly impact (citations) are often closely related to altmetrics measures (social reference management bookmarks) and that for a variety of reasons some scholarly altmetrics can be a better indicator of impact than traditional usage statistics [6], [7], [8]. As supplementary metrics, scholarly altmetrics can prove value for OA content, including content held by repositories.
Popular impact metrics generally rely upon measuring the social web, including Wikipedia citations, Bit.ly clicks and shares, Facebook likes and shares, Del.icio.us bookmarks, Reddit mentions, Twitter mentions and influential tweets, general interest blog mentions and news media mentions. They can be useful when determining the reach of scholarship within a lay audience, though it is worth noting that many researchers use social media for scholarly pursuits, and so at least a portion of popular metrics are accounted for there. Occasionally, popular impact metrics can predict later citations [9].
Page views and download counts fall within a gray area of possible impact, as usage statistics generally reveal little about the end users and what they will do with that which they download. Studies have shown that page views and download counts for OA content are correlated with scholarly citations and Facebook shares, alike [10] [8].These metrics can provide general insights and should be considered carefully alongside other metrics when reporting the possible impact of research.
Altmetrics excel over current impact measures such as citations and usage metrics in the area of sentiment analysis. Though in its infancy, some researchers have shown that by combining text mining with altmetrics you can begin to understand how users regard the content they are sharing, liking and bookmarking [6], [11].
Existing barriers to participation are cost, IR technical support resources, inability to incorporate tools into proprietary platforms, limited DOI (digital object identifier) implementation in most repositories, author disambiguation issues and the political implications of displaying nonexistent metrics for relatively unpopular IR materials. Areas for caution are using altmetrics (or any other metrics) to rank or compare researchers and conflating the types of impact with one another scholarly metrics usually cannot replace popular metrics and vice versa. As certain web services lose their relevancy, their inclusion in altmetrics reports should be reconsidered (for instance, Digg).
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER). (April 2012). The COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources: Release 4. Retrieved February 27, 2013 from www.projectcounter.org/r4/COPR4.pdf
[2] Organ, M. K. (2006). Download statistics - What do they tell us? The example of Research Online, the open access institutional repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia. D-Lib Magazine, 121(11). Retrieved February 27, 2013, from www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/organ/11organ.html
[3] Digital Commons. (December 11, 2012). Purdue Libraries creates buzz at the Indiana State Fair [blog post]. DC Telegraph. Retrieved February 27, 2013, from http://blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com/2012/12/11/purdue-libraries-create-buzz-at-the-indiana-state-fair/.
[4] Harnad, S. (May 30, 2008). Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings. Ethics and Science in Environmental Politics, 8(11), 103-107. Retrieved February 27, 2013, from http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15619/
[5] Carr, L., Weal, M., & White, W. (April 16, 2010). Research assessment and a diverse role for repositories [slides]. Talk presented at the 5th International Conference on Open Repositories, Madrid, Spain, July 6-9, 2010 (OR2010). Retrieved February 27, 2013, from http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/270842/7/or2010Diverse.pdf
[6] Haustein, S., & Siebenlist, T. (2011). Applying social bookmarking data to evaluate journal usage. Journal of Informetrics, 5(3), 457446.
[7] Kraker, P., Körner, C., Jack, K., & Granitzer, M. (2012). Harnessing user library statistics for research evaluation and knowledge domain visualization. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference Companion on World Wide Web - WWW 12 Companion (pp. 10171024). New York: ACM Press.
[8] Priem, J., Piwowar, H. A., & Hemminger, B. M. (March 2012). Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact. arXchiv.org. Retrieved February 27, 2013, from http://arxiv.org/html/1203.4745v1
[9] Eysenbach, G. (2011). Can tweets predict citations? Metrics of social impact based on Twitter and correlation with traditional metrics of scientific impact. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 13(4). Retrieved February 27, 2013, from www.jmir.org/2011/4/e123
[10] Brody, T., Harnad, S., & Carr, L. (2006). Earlier web usage statistics as predictors of later citation impact. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(8), 10601072.
[11] Parra, C., Birukou, A., Casati, F., Saint-Paul, R., Wakeling, J. R., & Chlamtac, I. (June 15, 2011). UCount: A community-driven approach for measuring scientific reputation. [Version 0]. Abstract accepted for presentation at altmetrics11, Koblenz, Germany, June 14-15, 2011. Retrieved from http://altmetrics.org/workshop2011/parra-v0/
Stacy Konkiel is an eScience librarian at Indiana University. She can be reached at skonkiel <at> indiana.edu.
Dave Scherer is a scholarly repository specialist at the Purdue ePubs Repository. He can be reached at dscherer<at> purdue.edu.
Articles in this Issue
The Power of Altmetrics on a CV
Open Access and Altmetrics: Distinct but Complementary
Ask Not What Altmetrics Can Do for You, But What Altmetrics Can Do for Developing Countries
New Opportunities for Repositories in the Age of Altmetrics
The Many Faces of Article-Level Metrics
Five Challenges in Altmetrics: A Toolmakers Perspective
Are Alternative Metrics Still Alternative?
The Reception of Suzanne Briet in the United States
IA: Enabling Action: Digging Deeper into Strategies for Learning
RDAP Review: Collaborative Annotation for Scientific Data Discovery and Reuse


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There are significant differences between these two cities of the Southwest, but they are united by a positive business climate and a sense that they are both on the path to growth. Business leaders and those in the technology community echoed those feelings. For instance, a new study released by economist Howard J. Wall at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ranked Las Vegas as the "most livable metropolitan area" based on the number of people who "vote with their feet" and have moved to the city. In his ranking, the number three city is Phoenix, with Atlanta grabbing the second position.
Although a recent Dun & Bradstreet study showed Arizona below the national average in information technology startups, an American Electronics Association "Cybercities" report identified Phoenix as the 12th largest high-tech city in the nation based on employment numbers. Ed Denison, executive director of the Arizona Software and Internet Association says the numbers he sees are almost all positive. Denison says the state as a whole has about 110,000 information technology workers and 3,200 IT-based companies -- and the sector is growing at 12% a year. The association he heads up has grown meteorically from 60 members two years ago to 470 today.
"It is a great market for employers and employees," says Denison. It has successful, growing companies and a climate that keeps attracting new talent. Denison says the average IT wage in Arizona in 2000 was about $54,000 -- some $14,000 lower than the national average. However, he says, that is balanced by "not having difficult commutes and a great quality of life with lakes, mountains and four major sports teams."
"All those positives are what make us call it the Tech Oasis," Denison adds.
Jane Whisner, managing director of Eastridge Infotech, a recruiter, says the local economy in Las Vegas remains strong, with several large firms planning to add 150-200 employees in the next 12-18 months. She says the casino and resort business also continue to grow their IT operations.
Dot-com growth is also a factor in the Las Vegas economy. In a recent article, Kirk Vanek, marketing manager at Analysts International, noted that Nevada has more domain names per capita than any other state. And Richard Fitzpatrick, president of the Internet Business Association of Nevada (IBAN) says, "The region is growing, and the technology sector is growing faster than any other part of the economy."
In particular, Richardson says the IT economy is looking forward to the imminent passage of state legislation authorizing and regulating Internet gaming. Richardson says the state has developed a strong regulatory program for traditional "live" gaming and is in a good position to establish and regulate online gaming operations -- if they are based in Nevada. "This will bring a huge boost to the sector and a substantial addition to the technical job market here," he adds. Under the legislation, even the hardware and software staff of online gaming operations will have to be specially licensed. And that, Richardson says, will spell more opportunity for IT professionals.
Despite all the positives, the outlook isn?t strong for some specific technologies. Allen Plunkett, branch manager, consulting services for Robert Half International in Las Vegas, and a former manager in the firm's Phoenix office, says Las Vegas is developing as Phoenix did about five years ago. He sees opportunities in both cities for SAP and storage pros -- and especially for networking people. "SAP is well established in Phoenix ,but it is just starting to be adopted, mostly by manufacturers, in Las Vegas," he says. Similarly, big investments in storage have begun in Phoenix but haven't broken the surface yet in Las Vegas. But, Plunkett says, networking skills are hot across both cities.
David A. Small, President of Scientific Placement, Inc., Houston, a recruitment firm that also serves the Southwest market, recommends putting the salaries and job availability in context. "I think of the?job market as being broken down into two separate worlds," he says. Type A companies are those developing the technology such as Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and many others, he says. Type B, in Small's schema, is the universe of companies buying and utilizing those technologies in their businesses. One type or the other generally dominates different regions -- and some regions, like Greater Boston, have both.
"Phoenix has some type A jobs but isn't a major market like Austin, Boston, San Jose, or Seattle would be," Small says. In Las Vegas, he says, type A activity is still insignificant. However, "both Phoenix and Las Vegas have quite a few companies that are using computers in their business, so both have type B jobs -- though Phoenix is by far the larger of the two markets."
Sampling of major employers
Las Vegas area
Bank West of Nevada
Nevada State Bank
Ameristar Casinos
Circus Circus Hotel & Casino
Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
Phoenix Area
BankOne Arizona
Motorola, Inc.
Qwest Communications International Inc.
Honeywell International, Inc.
American Express Co.
About the author: Alan Robert Earls is a technology and business writer based in Franklin, Mass.


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DETROIT - The Michigan Department of Community Health confirmed Wednesday that a 15-year-old from the central region of Michigan has died from the flu.
Joshua Polenha, a 15-year-old student at Lake Fenton High School, is the fourth child to die from the flu this season. Officials say the teenager had no underlying health condition.
Previously the MDCH announced the flu-related deaths of a 6-year-old from southwest Michigan an infant from southwest Michigan and an adolescent from central Michigan.
The flu is a contagious respiratory illness with symptoms that include fever, headache, fatigue, cough, stuffy or runny nose and muscle aches.
Citizens can call their physician, local health department, or utilize the Health Map Vaccine Finder at http://flushot.healthmap.org to find nearby influenza vaccination clinics.
- Flu season ramping up early, experts say
- A simple way to keep flu away
- Watch out! You could pass the flu-bug to your pet
- What's new with the flu?
- Who needs full flu shot?
Flu can be spread to others up to about six feet away, mainly by droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk. Less often, a person might also get flu by touching a surface or object that has flu virus on it and then touching their own eyes, nose or mouth. To avoid this, wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub. The flu usually comes on suddenly and can cause mild to severe illness, and at times lead to death. People who have the flu often feel some or all of these symptoms:
• Fever or chills
• Cough
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• Runny or stuffy nose
• Muscle or body aches
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• Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea, though this is more common in children than adults.
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Tonight I once again visted the Metropolitan Opera to hear Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. His most famous opera, it deals with one of the oldest themes of the opera genre. Multiple incarnations of the Greek myth go back to as early as 1600.
My biggest regret about this opera is that I was dreadfully tired, and ended up sleeping off an on. At 90 minutes, it's a very short opera. All I can say is that I enjoyed the early classical instrumentation and orchestration, and the singing was on par with the Met's high standards. The creative set with the maqueraded chorus set on tiers was effective. Sadly, I slept through the climax of the opera when Orfeo looks back at Euridice, sending her back to Hades.
Also noteworthy is that I brought the intern who's been working with me for the week, David. Not only has he had the misfortune to spend all day with me in the operating rooms all week, but he went to the applicant dinner I hosted on Tuesday evening, and went last minute with me to the Met so that my extra complimentary ticket didn't go to waste. He's truly been my protege for the week.


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We are happily getting ready to open the Exhibition of the 3rd year's project :)
Let there be art!
Thank you all for the support!
Donnerstag, 30. August 2012
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Papergirl Cluj-Napoca has started!
Cluj-Napoca has opened arms for Papergirl! We started collecting artworks at 3 main locations in Cluj-Napoca and we are very happy to collaborate with such open-minded people!
TIFF has an eye for interesting cultural projects and has spotted Papergirl right on time. We will be collecting works at Casa Tiff, the main cultural point at the moment in the city and hoping for a brilliant exhibition to follow. L'Atelier Cafe is gathering for us as well and we are looking forward to interesting workshop there, a cafe made exclusively out of recicled carton and used wooden doors. Fabrica De Pensule (The Paintbrush Factory) is supporting us with a collecting point as well!
We are excited to be part of the Papergirl network and we hope to make a good start!
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Mittwoch, 1. August 2012
Papergirl Calgary Opening
Join us at the Papergirl Calgary Exhibition Opening if you are in cowtown!
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I have studied roman numeral analysis in my theory courses and I think that it's a good way of describing and understanding classical music, especially that of the classical and early romantic periods. I have heard from my colleagues that some theorists disagree. I've tried to find arguments online that Roman Numeral analysis is not useful, but I have not found any.
Can anyone point me to articles or websites that argue that against the practice of roman numeral analysis?


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PANAMA CITY � Grades for high schools across the state were released Friday, and Bay County high schools came in with four B�s and two C�s.
PANAMA CITY � Grades for high schools across the state were released Friday, and Bay County high schools came in with four B�s and two C�s.
Camilla Hudson, coordinator of assessment and accountability for the district, said the district did OK.
�We have three of our high schools that outperformed the state on the earned points, Bay, Bozeman and Arnold,� Hudson said. �They exceeded the state average, so we�re very proud of them.�
Hudson said the state average was 1,102; Bay had 1,137, Mosley had 1,221 and Arnold had 1,136. She said the state increased FCAT requirements and it was harder for schools to meet the higher standards.
Statewide, about half of all public high schools earned an A.
She said four schools earned enough points to make an A, but were denied the letter due to falling short in one component.
�The Florida Department of Education states you must meet a certain threshold for your at-risk students, students that when they were in eighth grade and took the FCAT, they scored a level two or lower on both the reading and the math portions of the FCAT,� Hudson said. ��If that threshold is not met, then the state says you can�t be an A school.�
High school grades are released about six months after elementary and middle school grades because there is an additional set of components for high school grading.
�We have 50 percent of the high school grade made of the FCAT scores, basically, the assessment scores, and the other 50 percent is based on acceleration participation like students that are in dual enrolled courses, or the advanced placement or the IB courses and we have part of the score is our graduation rate. Another component is whether our students are college ready.�
Newpoint Bay High School is graded on a different scale from other Bay County high schools. Hudson said that�s because that school doesn�t have enough graduation participation numbers to be graded on the same scale. Newpoint�s grade went from D to B for last year.
North Bay Haven Charter Academy was not included with the high school grades, since the school doesn�t have graduates yet.
Hudson said one component shined.
�When you look at our four-year graduation rate, all of our high schools either raised their graduation rate or maintained it,� Hudson said. �This is a success we want to cheer about because that�s our goal, to graduate our students and we�re very proud of that.�
She said they will continue to focus on graduating all of their students.
�We hope to continue working with those students so that at-risk graduation rate increases and those students are successful,� Hudson said.
Statewide, 47 percent of high schools earned an A and 31 percent a B. The number of schools receiving an A jumped 16 percent, while the number receiving a B declined by the same amount.
For detailed information, click here and select "preliminary detailed information on high schools"
Three schools were given an F, down from six in 2010-11.
The increase in the number of schools receiving an A came despite use of a new federally mandated, four-year graduation rate. This year�s grades also incorporated a stricter calculation for college readiness based on performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
There were, however, several measures in place to ease the transition into the more difficult grading. No school, for example, could drop more than one grade letter, and three more schools would have received an F if that protection were not in place, Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said. That will no longer be permitted when officials calculate grades for the current school year. They�ll also use a higher bar for measuring writing proficiency and include geometry and biology performance.
This year�s grades are the first to include exceptional student education center schools for those with disabilities. Those schools had a choice of receiving either a school improvement rating based on learning gains or a grade based also on performance.
Of those that chose to receive a grade, one received a D and 10 received an F. Seventy-two schools chose to receive an improvement rating instead.
The states grades its high schools based on student performance on the FCAT as well as indicators of college readiness and participation in advanced classes. The scores released Friday are preliminary, as schools are given time to appeal the results.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
School Grades
2012 2011
Arnold B B
Bay B B
Bozeman C B
Mosley B A
Newpoint B D
Rutherford C B


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YORK, Pa. – The York College field hockey team fell to top-ten Mary Washington 7-1 Saturday afternoon in Capital Athletic Conference action in York. With the loss, the Spartans drop to 3-7 and 0-1 in league play while the #8 Eagles improve to a flawless 11-0 and 1-0 in the CAC.
The first half proved tighter than the final result would suggest as Mary Washington held a scant 1-0 lead deep into the opening frame. However, a pair of late goals, including one from Carlee Budd off a penalty corner with no time left on the first half clock, gave the visitors a 3-0 advantage at the break.
Mary Washington would add four more in the second frame as four different Eagles found the back of the cage.
Jenna Steele, who proved dangerous for the visitors in the attack, led Mary Washington with a pair of tallies from a game-leading seven shots. She posted the first goal of the day 13:57 into the contest before finding the back of the cage yet again just over ten minutes into the second half.
Ashlin Jones also provided a pair of goals for the Eagles as she followed Steele's first and preceded her second tally.
York's Kiersten Wetzel (Spring Grove, Pa. / Spring Grove Area) ended the Eagles' shutout bid as she knocked home her third of the season with 3:55 remaining in the contest. Holly Martin (Hanover, Pa. / South Western) garnered the assist on Wetzel's tally.
The Spartans nearly owned an early 1-0 advantage less than five minutes into the contest. Martin struck a shot that was initially saved by Eagle goalkeeper Emily Badis. The ensuing rebound came to Kailey Brewer (Hartly, Del. / Smyrna) who finished her attempt to give the Green and White an apparent early edge. However, that proved not to be as the goal was called back due to a foul.
For the contest, Mary Washington owned a 20-10 advantage in shots and a 10-7 edge in penalty corners.
Emily Badis secured the win for the Eagles in the goal as she made seven saves on the day while Christina Malave posted a pair of defensive saves for Mary Washington. Abby Baker (Baltimore, Md. / Mercy) suffered the loss in the Spartan cage as she also made seven stops.
York returns to action on Wednesday, October 9, when they travel to Salisbury for a 6:00 pm CAC date with the #7 Sea Gulls.


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North Country grad will coach NBA Charlotte Bobcats
by Richard Creaser
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Steve Clifford, a 1979 graduate of North Country Union High School, has been named head coach of the NBA Charlotte Bobcats. Mr. Clifford accepted a two-year, $6-million deal with a club option for a third year. Mr. Clifford spoke with the Chronicle about his new position on Thursday, June 6.
"My dad was a really successful coach at North Country, and I think that's really where it all started," Mr. Clifford said, referring to his father, Gerald Clifford. "There were a lot of nights spent sitting around the kitchen table talking basketball. We definitely were a basketball family — it was a big part of how we lived."
By the time he graduated from North Country, Mr. Clifford had already taken his first steps on the path to the NBA. He entered the University of Maine at Farmington, graduating with a degree in special education.
"I always knew, even from a young age, that teaching and coaching were something I wanted to do," he said. "It was while in college that I started off coaching at Woodland High School."
Mr. Clifford made the transition from high school varsity to the collegiate coaching world with a four-year stint at St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire. Over the next 14 years he would find himself at Fairfield College, Boston University, and Siena College before landing a head coaching position at Adelphi University.
During his time at Adelphi, Mr. Clifford led the program to an 86-36 record and four straight 20-plus win seasons, including four appearances in the NCAA Division II tournament. Mr. Clifford would then serve one year as assistant coach at East Carolina University before making his first foray into the NBA.
Mr. Clifford's career in the NBA began in 2000 as an advance scout for the New York Knicks and as an assistant coach from 2001-2003. He then went on to serve as assistant coach to Jeff Van Gundy with the Houston Rockets from 2003-2007 and then as an assistant coach to Stan Van Gundy with the Orlando Magic from 2007-2011 before landing with the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2011-2012 season.
"I didn't set out to be an NBA coach," Mr. Clifford said. "I've just always loved my job and went where the opportunities presented themselves."
There are a few simple sounding things that have helped guide him to his current position, Mr. Clifford revealed.
"It starts with finding a profession you have a passion for," he said. "I go to work every day and I'm excited by it and challenged by it."
It's also important to focus on each and every task you encounter. You need to take pride in what you produce each and every time, Mr. Clifford said. When you take pride in your work, others will take notice.
Next you need to be able to handle the good and the bad. It's never easy to accept bad news, but it is a fact that life doesn't always give you exactly what you want or how you want it, regardless of what profession you're in, Mr. Clifford said.
"How you deal with adversity is a big part of life," he said. "Throughout my career I've been fired four times. It's never easy but you have to pick up and move on."
But success is not a plateau but an ever-evolving goal. "You need to strive to continually evolve," he said. "It's not always easy in this world but you need to be ready to jump at the opportunities that present themselves."
Along with success there are always drawbacks as well. Some sacrifices will have to be made, even as the head coach of an NBA franchise, Mr. Clifford said.
"The demands of the job will affect your personal life and your family time," he said. "That's the biggest negative. It's the kind of job where you can't just half do it. It takes a lot of your time and you have to be prepared for that."
As head coach you're always under the microscope of the fans, your employers and the media, Mr. Clifford said.
"There's nothing else I could do to make the kind of money I do at something I love," he said. "Dealing with the reality of what it is is a big part of being able to move on and do better. You don't get all of the great things without all of the bad things."
Taking the helm of a team, at any level, is a test of leadership. It involves establishing credibility with your players and setting a direction for the team, Mr. Clifford said.
"The detail parts are so important," he said. "Coaching, to me, at any level, is hard. The difference is this: If you're coaching at the high school level, you're the best coach that guy has ever played for. By the time you get to the NBA, they've played for a lot of great coaches."
Standing out among great coaches isn't easy. Despite the challenges, Mr. Clifford is certain that it's a challenge he's willing to accept.
"It's great," he said. "It's something you never take for granted. There are times when you're driving home and you've just seen the brilliance of Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard and you have to think this is the best job in the world."
contact Richard Creaser at [email protected]