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Ex-president of India, 'a great man,' visits Ocala
Former President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam addresses about 300 guests at the Holiday Inn on Saturday, September, 29, in Ocala, Florida.
Lee Ferinden/Special to the Ocala Star Banner
By Carlos E. Medina
Correspondent
Published: Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 5:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 5:06 p.m.
A former president of India visited Ocala on Saturday, bringing with him a message of selfless giving within the community.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam served as president of the world's second most populous country from 2002 to 2007. He was in Florida to speak to students from the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida, but made a detour to address about 300 people at the Holiday Inn in Ocala.
Kalam's visit was organized by the Indian Association Cultural Educational Center.
?It's an honor for a small town like Ocala that the ex-president comes to visit,? said Dr. Nandkumar Karve, a retired general surgeon who has lived in Ocala since 1974.
?He's a simple, honest, sincere person. He is not a politician. He likes to inspire the younger generation,? Karve said.
A physicist and aerospace engineer, Kalam is considered a national hero in India. Under his direction, the country developed its own missile systems, which helped make India a nuclear power.
It's an achievement that is a great source of pride to Indians across the world, Karve said.
?He was able to do it with indigenous equipment and technology from within India, without any help from outside,? Karve said.
After his term as president, Kalam returned to teaching in India.
?He's not just a president, he's known for his scientific achievements. He's a great man. He's a simple man. He lives in a small apartment with no worldly possessions,? said Lakshmi Jagalui, a mental health counselor.
On Saturday, Kalam stressed not merely charity, but sacrificing for others. He told a story of a missionary in India who donated a kidney to a stranger. Then an industrialist did the same, and soon several people had continued the ?kidney chain.?
?You should give to the people where you are. What can you do for the society where I am living?? Kalama asked the audience.
?Can you be a lantern? Can you be a lifeboat? Can you be a ladder? Help someone's heart. Help someone's heart,? he said.
Source: http://www.ocala.com/article/20120929/articles/120929691
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Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies
Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided the newspaper to unprecedented influence and profit during his three-decade tenure, died Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y., at the age of 86.
During his 34-year run as publisher, Sulzberger helped the Times navigate some of the most influential events in 20th-century journalism ? everything from the Vietnam War and the publication of the Pentagon Papers, to key legal victories for freedom of the press.
Sulzberger, who went by the nickname "Punch," helped expand the Times to a national edition as it won 31 Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership.
In this 1992 photo, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger poses for a photo in the New York Times boardroom??
"Punch Sulzberger was a giant in the industry, a leader who fought to preserve the vital role of a free press in society and championed journalism executed at the highest level," said Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt.
Sulzberger took over as publisher in 1963, when the Times had a weekday circulation of 714,000 and $100 million in annual revenue. By the time he turned over the publishing reigns in 1992 to his then 40-year-old son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the newspaper had turned into a media conglomerate, owning newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations as well as online endeavors. It had revenues of $1.7 billion, and its circulation had expanded to 1.1 million, according to AP.
"Above all, he took the quality of the product up to an entirely new level," the late Katharine Graham, chairwoman of The Washington Post Co., said at the time Sulzberger retired as publisher.
Sulzberger remained chairman of The New York Times Co. after passing the role of publisher on to his son. He retired as chairman and chief executive of the company in 1997, when Sulzberger Jr. was named chairman. Sulzberger stayed on the Times Co. board of directors until 2002.
While Sulzberger might have transformed the New York Times during his tenure as publisher, his death comes at a time when print journalism is in a tailspin, and the industry is trying to navigate a world where people increasingly get their news online.
[Related: Ex-NY Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies]
At a conference in September of 2010 his son was asked if the New York Times would print its last edition in 2015.
According to the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers' Web site, "Sulzberger (Jr.) said he saw no point in making such predictions and said all he could say was that "we will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD.""
The Web site clarifies that Sulzberger Jr. "was not making an announcement that the New York Times has definite plans to stop printing in the near future; rather making the point, in a joking fashion, that it is impossible and fruitless to predict exactly when printed newspapers might come to an end."
While the end is debatable, its current state is not good.
According to Paper Cuts, a Web site tracking the newspaper industry, 21 newspapers folded in 2011 and over 1,810 people in the industry have lost their jobs due to buyouts or layoffs in 2012.
[Related: Sulzberger set milestones for NY Times, journalism]
While newspapers have traditionally offered its content for free, that could be changing, with the New York Times playing a major role.
In March 2011, the Times announced that it would "begin charging the most frequent users of its Web site $15 for a four-week subscription in a bet that readers will pay for news they are accustomed to getting free."
Since 2009, 16 newspapers have moved their operations to Web-only versions.
Vanity Fair published an article in 2008 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of what would become the World Wide Web. The article included a discussion of how newspapers viewed the online venture.
"The media people essentially did not think the Internet would be important or disruptive," Vinod Khosla, who helped create Sun Microsystems, said in the magazine. "In 1996, I got together the CEOs of nine of the 10 major newspaper companies in America in a single room to propose something called the New Century Network. It was the CEOs of The Washington Post and The New York Times and Gannett and Times Mirror and Tribune and I forget who else.
"They couldn't convince themselves that a Google, a Yahoo, or an eBay would be important, or that eBay could ever replace classified advertising."
Journalism Web site Poynter.org reports that the decline in print classified advertising went "from $19.6 billion in 2000 to roughly $6 billion in 2009."
According to the Times, Sulzberger "guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper's founding in 1851."
It remains to be seen where the company will go now that he's gone.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
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D-Day for al-Qaida in Somalia? Last bastion attacked
By NBC News wire services
MOGADISHU, Somalia --?Troops launched an amphibious assault before dawn Friday on the al-Qaida militant group al-Shabab's last stronghold in Somalia.
Other African Union forces were traveling overland to link up with the joint Kenyan-Somali force in the port city of Kismayo.
The commander of the U.N-backed African Union troops, Lt. Gen. Andrew Gutti, said the aim was to "liberate the people of Kismayo to enable them to lead their lives in peace, stability and security."
Col. Cyrus Oguna, the Kenyan military's top spokesman, said the attack met minimal resistance, but al-Shabab denied that the city had fallen and said fighting was taking place.
Oguna told The Associated Press that al-Shabab, which formally merged with al-Qaida in February, had incurred "heavy losses" but that Kenyan forces have not yet had any injuries or deaths.
"We came from the beach side and we're moving towards the main city. Our surveillance aircraft are monitoring every event taking place on the ground," he told Reuters.
"For now, we're not everywhere. We've taken a large part of it without resistance, I don't see anything major happening," he said.
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Residents in Kismayo, a city of about 193,000 people, contacted by The Associated Press said that Kenyan troops had taken control of the port, but not the whole city.
"Al-Shabab fighters are on the streets and heading toward the front line in speeding cars. Their radio is still on the air and reporting the war," resident Mohamed Haji told The Associated Press. Haji said that helicopters were hitting targets in the town in southeastern Somalia.
At an international one-day summit Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said the world would "pay a price" if it fails to help Somalia overcome terrorism, piracy and starvation. ITV's Lee Comley reports.?
Another resident, Ismail Suglow, told Reuters that he could hear shelling from the ships and that the rebels were responding with anti-aircraft guns.
"We saw seven ships early in the morning and now their firing looks like lightning and thunder. Al-Shabab have gone towards the beach. The ships poured many AU troops on the beach," he added.
Expert: War on terror at 'critical' point as al-Qaida looks to regroup in Africa
On Thursday, residents said planes had dropped leaflets on Kismayo warning civilians to evacuate within 24 hours, Reuters reported.?More than 10,000 residents fled Kismayo in the last several weeks.
Resident Faduma Abdulle said Friday that she is now leaving too.
She said al-Shabab made an announcement on its radio station Friday to trick residents into moving toward the invading troops.
"They told residents through their radio to loot a Kenyan ship that washed up on the coast, but instead the residents who rushed there were attacked by helicopters," she said. "Some of them have died but I don't know how many. The situation is tense and many are fleeing. It's a dangerous situation."
A U.S. military spokesman, Lt. Cdr. Dave Hecht, said the U.S. Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, is closely monitoring the situation but that "we are not participating in Kenya's military activities in the region."
Militants: Taking city not 'a piece of cake'
Al-Shabab said it would not give up Kismayu easily.
"Going into Kismayo is not a piece of cake. We are still fighting them on the beach where they landed," Sheik Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabab's spokesman for military operations, told Reuters on Friday. "For us, this is just the beginning, our troops are spread everywhere."
Oguna said the assault is part of a four-prong attack involving Kenyan forces currently in villages outside Kismayo.
The amphibious assault landed between 10:30 p.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday local time (3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday ET)?, he said. Some of the troops had night-vision goggles, he said.
Somali Olympic chief killed in Mogadishu suicide blast
African Union troops pushed al-Shabab out of Mogadishu in August 2011, ending four years of control of the capital by the fighters.
The Ugandan and Burundian troops that make up the bulk of the African Union force in Mogadishu have slowly been taking control of towns outside of Mogadishu.
The expanding control by AU troops sent al-Shabab fighters fleeing south toward Kismayo, north to other regions of Somalia and across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, according to American and African Union officials.
Kenya police: Imminent attack by suicide bombers thwarted
Al-Shabab still holds sway across many small, poor villages of southern Somalia. The loss of Kismayo would be significant.
The militants taxed goods coming into its port. Al-Shabab lost its major source of financing last year when it was pushed out of Bakara market in Mogadishu, where it also charged taxes.
The march toward Kismayo by the Kenyan forces has been nearly a year in the making.
Masked 'goons' kill at least 17 in attacks on churches in Kenya
Kenyan troops entered Somalia last October after a string of kidnappings inside neighboring Kenya, including of Westerners in and around the beach resort town of Lamu, which is also seeing the construction of a new port and could one day be final point of a new oil pipeline from South Sudan.
Kenyan forces were bogged down by rain and poor roads for months but have making slow and steady progress toward Kismayo in recent weeks.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Which YouTube Network Should You Sign With?
Posted by Benny Luo on Thursday, September 27, 2012 ? ?
Recently, I?ve been a getting a good amount of calls from my YouTube friends asking for my opinion regarding which network they should sign with. We?ve written about the 5 things you should know before signing to a YouTube network in the past, but I wanted to write an updated post going more in depth for those who are on the fence about exactly which one they should choose. While I don?t have any direct experience working with specific networks, I can definitely give you guys some good tips based on what I?ve seen other creators have to deal with. So without further ado, here are my personal 5 tips when choosing which specific network to sign with.
1. Take the bad press you hear from others with a grain of salt
A few networks have been publicly called out in the past on issues involving contracts, management, marketing, etc. While I believe that you should do proper research so that you don?t get screwed over after signing, keep in mind that this is a business ? a competitive business where networks are fighting over the best talents available. No matter what people tell you, both parties are out to get the best deal possible. That doesn?t mean that they?re necessarily shady ? its just business in the end. With that being said, if a network really fits with what you want to do, make sure you do your due diligence in protecting yourself legally (see the next point for details).
2. HIRE A LAWYER
I don?t care how expensive they are ? find a good lawyer that you trust and who will sit down with you to discuss your goals. Then have him carefully review/revise the contracts that are presented to you from the networks. If money is a huge issue, one trick I?ve used in the past to get free legal advice is to call up the lawyer and offer to take him out to lunch in exchange for a short consultation when you guys meet. I?ve saved myself a TON of business disasters in the past getting advice from lawyers. Remember: this is your business career we are talking about, so this is an investment you shouldn?t skip out on.
3. Research your audience
While having a great contract and percentage split is great, one of the most important things to take into consideration is whether a YouTube network?s target demographic aligns with yours. You can have the best deal possible, but signing to a network with a different audience than the one you cater to is like putting a History Channel segment about the life of Carl Sagan on Cartoon Network ? no one that visits that network is really going to watch it. How do you research your audience, you ask? Well, by using just a few tools at your disposal you can get a rough estimate:
- Step 1: Go to your YouTube ?Analytics? tab and click ?Demographics? on the left sidebar.
- Step 2: Go to Quantcast.com
- Step 2: Type in the main website of the potential network you want to sign with, then scroll down for demographic data.
- Step 3: Compare how closely your audiences align with each other. The closer it is, the more the network can potentially be a good fit for you. While Quantcast days is not entirely accurate, it gives you some valuable data to help you with your decision.
An even better alternative is that you can simply ask the network for data on their audience and compare that way as well.
4. Figure out what your goals are, and see if they align with the potential network
You really need to sit down and map out what you want to do for your career as a YouTube creator in the long term. Do you want to just stick with YouTube, grow your audience and monetize? Or are you trying to get work outside of YouTube? These things come into play when it comes to signing with a specific network. After you map out a long-term plan, ask for the same from your potential network to see if their plans for you align with your plans for yourself. Some networks focus a lot on aiding the creator on the production end of things, while others may focus more on getting their talents work offline, and yet others focus on building subscribers and monetizing their channels. While some may claim that they can do everything, I personally believe that the truth is that no one can really succeed by spreading themselves too thin, so spend time to really figure out which areas potential networks specialize in to see if they fit with what you need.
5. Meet with employees of the company and see if you vibe well with each other
In the entertainment industry, I believe that it?s very important that you work with people that bring good vibes and help raise your creative juices. That starts with doing your best to align yourself with people who you trust and are comfortable working with. As a good friend in the industry always tell me, ?It?s not about the company you work with, it?s the people?.
For your convenience, here is a list of the applications links to all of the major networks in alphabetical order. Please email info[at]newmediarockstars[dot]com to add any other networks I?ve missed, and it?ll be added to the list.
Alloy Digital
Big Frame
The Collective
Full Screen
Machinima
Maker Studios
PMC Studios
Revision3
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Calif man behind anti-Muslim film had many aliases
En esta fotograf?a de archivo, tomada de un video el 15 de septiembre de 2012, y provista por la televisora CBS2-KCAL9, se ve a Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, el hombre detr?s de la producci?n de un video en antimusulm?n que ha generado disturbios en el Medio Oriente, es escoltado por la polic?a de Los Angeles.Nakoula, de 55 a?os, fue arrestado el jueves por violar sus condiciones de libertad, dijeron las autoridades. (Foto AP/CBS2-KCAL9, Archivo) MANDATORY CREDIT CBS-KCAL9, LOS ANGELES OUT, LOS ANGELES TV OUT
En esta fotograf?a de archivo, tomada de un video el 15 de septiembre de 2012, y provista por la televisora CBS2-KCAL9, se ve a Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, el hombre detr?s de la producci?n de un video en antimusulm?n que ha generado disturbios en el Medio Oriente, es escoltado por la polic?a de Los Angeles.Nakoula, de 55 a?os, fue arrestado el jueves por violar sus condiciones de libertad, dijeron las autoridades. (Foto AP/CBS2-KCAL9, Archivo) MANDATORY CREDIT CBS-KCAL9, LOS ANGELES OUT, LOS ANGELES TV OUT
This courtroom sketch shows Nakoula Basseley Nakoula talking with his attorney Steven Seiden, left, in court Thursday Sept. 27, 2012. The U.S. Central District Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal on Thursday determined the California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East is a flight risk and ordered him detained. (AP Photo/Mona Shafer Edwards)
This courtroom sketch shows Nakoula Basseley Nakoula talking with his attorney Steven Seiden, left, in court Thursday Sept. 27, 2012. The U.S. Central District Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal on Thursday determined the California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East is a flight risk and ordered him detained. (AP Photo/Mona Shafer Edwards)
U.S. Federal marshals drive away in a vehicle believed to be carrying Nakoula Basseley Nakoula after his arraignment in federal court in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. A federal judge on Thursday ordered Nakoula, the man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East to be detained because he is a flight risk and for violating terms of hisprobation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
A U.S. Federal marshal, right, prepare to transport Nakoula Basseley Nakoula after his arraignment in federal court in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. A federal judge on Thursday ordered Nakoula, the man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East to be detained because he is a flight risk and for violating terms of his probation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Muslims across the Middle East outraged by an anti-Islam film made in America wanted swift punishment for the man behind the movie, and now Mark Basseley Youssef is behind bars. But he's jailed for lying about his identity, not because of the video's content.
Court documents show Youssef, 55, legally changed his name from Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in 2002, but never told federal authorities, who now are using that as part of the probation violation case against him.
Youssef was ordered jailed without bail Thursday until a hearing is held to determine if he violated terms of his supervised release on a 2010 bank fraud conviction. Prosecutors allege he used multiple aliases and lied to his probation officers about his real name.
Youssef, an Egyptian-born Christian who's now a U.S. citizen, sought to obtain a passport in his new name but still had a California driver's license as Nakoula, assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Dugdale said Friday. Youssef used a third name, Sam Bacile, in association with the 14-minute trailer for the movie "Innocence of Muslims" that was posted on YouTube. It portrays Muhammad as a religious fraud, womanizer and pedophile.
Angry protests sparked by the film broke out Sept. 11 in Egypt and Libya and violence related to the film has spread, killing dozens. Enraged Muslims demanded punishment for Youssef, and a Pakistani cabinet minister has offered a $100,000 bounty to anyone who kills him.
Youssef went into hiding on Sept. 15 and his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos was put up for sale. He was arrested Thursday and appeared that afternoon for a proceeding in a courtroom that was opened only to lawyers and his family. A feed was provided to the media in a different building.
Afterward, Youssef was whisked away to a federal detention center in Los Angeles where he'll stay until the hearing.
The case isn't about Youssef's First Amendment right to make a controversial film. Rather, Dugdale said, it's about his failure to live up to his obligation to be truthful with federal authorities.
"The fact that he wasn't using his true name with probation, that's where the problem is," said Dugdale, who noted federal authorities now will refer to Nakoula as Youssef.
Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles' School of Law, said U.S. Central District Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal's decision to order Youssef held without bail is supported by the evidence.
"He has numerous different aliases and numerous government documents with different names on them and that's exactly the kind of person that judges want to be extra careful with," he said. "This is not an end-run around constitutional protections. Those are major red flags in any case and even if this was a low-profile case and the same facts had come out, this person would be denied bond."
Given the threats against him, Youssef has the motive to flee, even if there's an arrest warrant for him in his native Egypt and a call for his head in Pakistan, said Olu Orange, a former public defender and an adjunct professor in the University of Southern California's political science department.
"He has the means to leave, as well as the inclination and the know-how. I don't see him as not being a flight risk," Orange said.
Youssef's attorney, Steven Seiden, has not replied to multiple requests for comment via letter, email and phone message. In court Thursday, he sought to have the hearing closed and his client released on $10,000 bail. He argued Youssef has checked in with his probation officer frequently and made no attempts to leave Southern California.
A hearing will be scheduled to determine if Youssef violated his probation. Prosecutors also said he could face new charges, though they provided no details other than to say they could carry a two-year prison sentence.
After his 2010 conviction, Youssef was sentenced to 21 months in prison and was barred from using computers or the Internet for five years without approval from his probation officer, though prosecutors said none of the violations involved the Internet. He also wasn't supposed to use any name other than his true legal name without the prior written approval of his probation officer.
Orange County Superior Court documents show Nakoula was granted a name change petition in 2002 and legally became Mark Basseley Youssef. As reason for the change, he said: "Nakoula is a girl's name and it cause me troubles."
Authorities said Youssef used more than a dozen aliases and opened about 60 bank accounts and had more than 600 credit and debit cards to conduct the check fraud.
When he was identified as Nakoula after the movie trailer went viral, federal probation officials questioned him. He denied using the name Sam Bacile, which was listed on the YouTube account that posted the trailer, and said his role in the film was limited to writing the script. Dugdale said there is evidence showing Youssef had a larger role in the film. He declined to elaborate.
Rebecca Lonergan, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, said it's possible federal authorities never would have pursued a probation violation case against Youssef were it not for the film.
"They don't have enough people to go out and pick up every single violator on every single warrant, but he did something that brought him to everybody's attention," Lonergan said. "I think the reality is he brought this on himself."
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Associated Press writer Amy Taxin in Orange, Calif., contributed to this report.
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Bad Weather Forces Air Force One to Abort Landing
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
LifePlex Celebrates 5th Anniversary with Week of Events | WTCA ...
09/28/12 The LifePlex in Plymouth will be celebrating their 5th anniversary the week of October 1st -6th. ?During the celebration week different medical suites in the facility will be setting out information tables on their services for the public to view. The IU Health Mobile Unit will be on site Monday October 1st from 9am ? 5pm to provide FREE Health Screens. Their will be a Community Celebration Day on October the 6th from 8am -1pm within Fitness Forum Sports & Wellness.? Fitness Forum will be open to the public offering a morning of activities 100 minutes of fitness at 8am, Rock Wall climbs, Personal Training Demo at 10am, LDA dance lessons at 10am, 11am and 12pm, swimming and more.? Those participating in at least 5 of the activities will be entered into a drawing for a 5 month membership to Fitness Forum at LifePlex.? There is FREE childcare for children 6 months to 6 years while care providers are in the Fitness Forum facility. For more information on the LifePlex Community Celebration visit the Fitness Forum website at www.fitnessforum.biz
The LifePlex, a 25 year dream for Dr. Byron Holm and Mary Holm ?is the integration of multiple modalities of many forms of medicine? writes Dr. Holm.? ?It combines recreation, fitness and rehabilitation, diagnostic, and health care services? The LifePlex contributes to economic development employing over 225 health and fitness professionals.? The LifePlex has coined the term ?A? P.E.A.R. L. for Life? Prevention, Early Detection, Active participation, Risk Factor Management, Lifestyle Changes.
The LifePlex is located at 2855 Miller Dr. in Plymouth, Indiana
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Two High School Teachers May Be Better Than One
Two heads are better than one, or so the saying goes. But in a high school classroom, are two teachers better than one?
"It's all in how you implement it," says Susan Fitzell, an educational consultant. "It doesn't work if you just have two bodies in the room."
To be effective, both teachers need to be interacting with students, breaking them into small groups, and teaching to the needs of individual students, says Fitzell, a former special education teacher who began coteaching at Londonderry Senior High School in New Hampshire in 1993 and now coaches other educators on how to coteach.
While Fitzell says she's seen an increase in schools pairing two general education instructors in one classroom to manage larger classes, coteaching teams typically pair a special education teacher with an instructor specializing in general education areas, such as math or science. This allows students with learning disabilities to take the same courses as their peers while still receiving individualized instruction, she says.
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Coteaching can also give educators an opportunity to accommodate students who learn at different paces, Fitzell says.
"When you've got five, six kids in the class that didn't get the core instruction you taught the first 15 minutes of class, you can zero in on what they need immediately, right there in class," she says. "If you've got two teachers in the room, you could do a quick assessment, then reteach the students who need reteaching while allowing other students to accelerate--all within the same class."
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Sharing responsibility for planning, grading, and teaching can benefit educators as well as students, but only when there is buy-in from both teachers.
"If teachers share the same work ethic, and have skillsets that complement versus compete with each other ... coteaching can help prevent teacher burnout," says Brenda Zofrea, who taught reading and language arts to freshmen at Central High School in Florida, but resigned after one year.
"Having another teacher in my overcrowded classroom to help with lesson plans, discipline, and being able to provide more one-on-one attention to my students would have made all the difference," she says.
While collaboration and communication are key elements to a successful coteaching partnership, ceding control over their classroom can be a hurdle for some teachers, Wendy Murawski and Lisa Dieker, two professors, note in an article for the Council for Exceptional Children.
"Secondary [school] teachers are by nature often more territorial because of the subject-specific environment, and are often accustomed to teaching in isolation," they wrote.
The combination of high-stakes testing and the in-depth subject knowledge of teachers at the high school level can make teaching in tandem tricky, but the payoff for students makes it a challenge worth navigating, says Fitzell, the coteaching expert.
"Before I did coteaching and inclusion, I never saw a kid on an IEP go to college," she says, referring to individualized education plans tailored to students based on their learning challenges. "By having students in general education courses at a level that's respected by colleges ... and coteaching to make sure that these kids can be successful, we have kids that will go to college that would never have that opportunity otherwise."
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Verizon Joins Lockheed Martin Cybersecurity Alliance
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Pets Share Owners' Diseases
Dogs and cats now suffer from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and more, just like humans, and researchers are now investigating common risk factors for pets and owners
Pets share our environment and our diseases. Image: Flickr/twodolla
When Janet Riordan returned home from a European vacation in January, she expected a storm of tail wagging and barking from her 7-year-old golden retriever, Reggie. The moment she saw him, she knew something was wrong.
?He came to me in my arms and appeared to be sobbing. I had never seen an animal behave like that,? said Riordan, who lives in Mequon, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wis.
A veterinarian confirmed her fears: Reggie had an aggressive form of lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells.
Riordan knew the toll that lymphoma could take. Four years earlier her father died of it.
?It was devastating,? Riordan said. ?I never thought I would lose my dad and my dog to the same disease.?
Pet owners share their homes, their exercise habits and sometimes even their food with their four-legged companions. And increasingly, they are sharing the same diseases: Dogs and cats suffer from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and asthma, just like humans.
Now researchers are examining the role that pollutants and other environmental factors play in these dual diseases. Doctors and veterinarians have begun to work together to identify common risk factors, such as pesticides, air pollutants, cigarette smoke and household chemicals.
?Because our pets share our environments, they are exposed to many of the same pollutants as us,? said Melissa Paoloni, a veterinary oncologist at the National Cancer Institute in Maryland.
Pets, like many young children, often have higher exposures to lawn and garden pesticides and to household chemicals that can accumulate in dust or on carpets.
Scientific research is beginning to reveal some links between their environment and their health. Lawn care chemicals may increase the risk of canine lymphoma and bladder cancer. Cats exposed to flame retardants have a higher rate of thyroid disease, according to one study. And researchers are launching the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, the largest project ever to tackle disease prevention and treatment in dogs.
?People are beginning to realize the untapped resource that companion animals present for research in human health,? said Rodney Page, director of the Colorado State University?s Animal Cancer Center.
Studies in pets can never replace studies in humans, but they can present corroborating evidence. Linking pollutants to human health effects can prove controversial, ?but if we can find the same links in dogs or cats, that can have a powerful effect,? said John Reif, a Colorado State University veterinarian and epidemiologist. ?It?s one more piece of evidence that the link is a real one.?
Riordan will never know what caused Reggie?s lymphoma. Golden retrievers generally have a high rate of cancer, most likely for genetic reasons. But some research suggests that environmental chemicals may play a role in the development of lymphoma in dogs.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts and the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine questioned the owners of more than 700 dogs about use of pesticides. Roughly one-third of the dogs had been diagnosed with canine malignant lymphoma, while the other two-thirds had either benign tumors or were undergoing non-cancer surgeries.
Dogs whose owners reported use of professionally applied lawn pesticides were 70 percent more likely to have lymphoma, according to the study published in the journal Environmental Research in January.
Dogs also were at higher risk of lymphoma if their owners used self-applied insect growth regulators on their yards, such as Nylar, Precor and Gentrol, which control cockroaches, fleas and other pests. However, dogs exposed to flea powders, sprays and on-spot treatments were no more likely to develop lymphoma than those whose owners did not use them,
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Dear Credit Care,
I asked my credit card issuer to apply a large overpayment to a promotional offer balance that was about to expire instead of to my current higher interest balance and was told it was illegal for them to do that. Is this true? Incidentally, when the promotional offer expires, that interest rate will be higher than the current high interest balance. Thank you. --?Lori
Dear Lori,?
The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 does include a provision that requires card issuers to apply payment amounts above the minimum amount due to the balance with the highest interest rate. The only exception to this rule is for deferred interest rate programs. A deferred interest rate program is typically advertised as "same as cash" by card issuers. If you pay off the entire balance before the deferred interest rate period ends, you are not charged any interest. (As a warning, if you don't pay off the balance before the deferred interest period ends, you are charged interest from the date of purchase.) So if you have any other balances on your card and also a deferred interest balance, the CARD Act states that the card issuer must apply the entire payment amount above the minimum amount due to the deferred interest rate balance for the last two billing cycles before the deferred interest period ends. This exception to the rule allows you the opportunity to pay off a deferred interest balance and avoid being charged interest for any card that has multiple balances.
Because your card issuer responded to your request with the answer that it would be illegal to apply your payment to your promotional rate balance, I believe your promotional program is not a deferred interest rate program, but instead a program that includes a low interest rate for a specified period of time. These programs might include a low introductory interest rate program for a new card or a low interest rate for balance transfers. Many promotional interest rate programs last for six to 12 months and then revert to a higher interest rate at the end of the program. The interest rate is not deferred, but at a lower rate than your purchase interest rate on the card. The card issuer would not be allowed to allocate your payment to the lower interest rate balance because the exception to the rule in the Credit CARD Act only applies to deferred interest rate programs.
However, as you pointed out in your letter, the interest rate on your promotional rate balance will be higher than your current highest rate balance on the card once the promotional period ends. At that time, you can make the large overpayment and it must be applied to the balance that you want to pay off since that balance will have the highest interest rate of the balances on your card. One way to avoid having this problem in the future is to assure that any promotional rate offers you secure are on credit cards on which you do not carry an existing balance.
Should the program on your card be a deferred interest rate program, contact your card issuer again and ask to speak with a supervisor. The person that you spoke with previously may not have been aware of the Credit CARD Act rules. Although the card issuer will not have to apply the overpayment to the deferred balance until the last two billing cycles, some are willing to apply the overpayment to the deferred balance when you make the request.
Handle your credit with care!??
See related: How 'deferred interest same as cash' programs work, CARD Act bans card payment allocation trickery
Tanisha Warner is the communications manager for Money Management International, the largest nonprofit, full-service credit counseling agency in the United States. She manages educational content designed to teach consumers about personal finance topics. You can find more money management advice on Blogging for Change and MMI's Facebook page.
Credit Care answers a question about a debt or credit issue from a CreditCards.com reader each week. Send your question to Credit Care.
Published: September 24, 2012
Source: http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/minimum-payment-deferred-interest-exception-1581.php
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Washington state's first 'zombie bees' reported
Mark Hohn, a novice beekeeper, checks out bees in one of the hives in the backyard of his Kent home, Sept. 22, 2012. Dead honeybees from his 1.25-acre spread are the first in Washington confirmed to be infected by a parasitic fly. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Ellen M. Banner) SEATTLE OUT, USA TODAY OUT, MAGAZINES OUT, TELEVISION OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT
Mark Hohn, a novice beekeeper, checks out bees in one of the hives in the backyard of his Kent home, Sept. 22, 2012. Dead honeybees from his 1.25-acre spread are the first in Washington confirmed to be infected by a parasitic fly. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Ellen M. Banner) SEATTLE OUT, USA TODAY OUT, MAGAZINES OUT, TELEVISION OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT
Mark Hohn, a novice beekeeper in Kent, holds up a plastic bag with a dead zombie bee and pupae ? two at each end of the bag, Sept. 22, 2012. Hohn found that his bees are infected with a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Ellen M. Banner) SEATTLE OUT, USA TODAY OUT, MAGAZINES OUT, TELEVISION OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT
SEATTLE (AP) ? The infection is as grim as it sounds: "Zombie bees" have a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die.
And experts say the condition has crept into Washington state.
"I joke with my kids that the zombie apocalypse is starting at my house," said Mark Hohn, a novice beekeeper who spotted the infected insects at his suburban Seattle home.
Hohn returned from vacation a few weeks ago to find many of his bees either dead or flying in jerky patterns and then flopping on the floor.
He remembered hearing about zombie bees, so he collected several of the corpses and popped them into a plastic bag. About a week later, the Kent man had evidence his bees were infected: the pupae of parasitic flies.
"Curiosity got the better of me," Hohn said.
The zombie bees were the first to be confirmed in Washington state, The Seattle Times reported (http://is.gd/ji7UNX).
San Francisco State University biologist John Hafernik first discovered zombie bees in California in 2008.
Hafernik now uses a website to recruit citizen scientists like Hohn to track the infection across the country. Observers also have found zombie bees in Oregon and South Dakota.
The infection is another threat to bees that are needed to pollinate crops. Hives have been failing in recent years due to a mysterious ailment called colony collapse disorder, in which all the adult honey bees in a colony suddenly die.
The life cycle of the fly that infects zombie bees is reminiscent of the movie "Alien," the newspaper reported. A small adult female lands on the back of a honeybee and injects eggs into the bee's abdomen. The eggs hatch into maggots.
"They basically eat the insides out of the bee," Hafernik said.
After consuming their host, the maggots pupate, forming a hard outer shell that looks like a fat, brown grain of rice. That's what Hohn found in the plastic bag with the dead bees. Adult flies emerge in three to four weeks.
There's no evidence yet that the parasitic fly is a major player in the bees' decline, but it does seem the pest is targeting new hosts, said Steve Sheppard, chairman of the entomology department at Washington State University.
"It may occur a lot more widely than we think," he said.
That's what Hafernik hopes to find out with his website, zombeewatch.org. The site offers simple instructions for collecting suspect bees, watching for signs of parasites and reporting the results.
Once more people start looking, the number of sightings will probably climb, Hohn said.
"I'm pretty confident I'm not the only one in Washington state who has them," he said.
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Online:
ZombeeWatch.org, https://www.zombeewatch.org/
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Information from: The Seattle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com
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