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Military personnel of II Cavalry Regiment have also arrived to Tbilisi International Airport. The part of US soldiers will arrive to Georgia by July 31. |
The multinational exercise will officially be opened in Vaziani military airfield on August 1. The exercise is intended to support and enhance the readiness and interoperability of Georgia, the US and participating nations during a multinational training operation. |
The exercise provides leaders at all levels the opportunity to exercise their staffs in command and control; and execution of combined planning for complex joint operations. |
This year the drills will involve 1300 Georgians and 1170 US soldiers, as well as 500 soldiers from 13 other countries: Georgia, USA, UK, Germany, Estonia, France, Lithuania, Poland, Norway, Turkey, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Armenia. |
Georgian MOD reports that the goal of the multinational military exercise “Noble Partner 2018” is to improve skills in stability, defensive and offensive operations, increase interoperability between the armed forces of participating countries and contribute to security of the Black Sea region. The motto of the militar... |
The scenario of the exercise includes command post exercise, live-fire exercises at field and counteraction of maneuver and combat support elements in defensive and offensive operations. |
A petition calling on Alabama to end its joint Martin Luther King/Robert E. Lee holiday has garnered more than 17,500 signatures. |
The petition on Care2 seeks to end the joint holiday practice in Alabama and Mississippi, the last two states that combine days honoring the late civil rights leader and the Civil War general. |
Petition organizers are also urging Florida and Arkansas to drop Robert E. Lee Day from their lists of official holidays. Both states have a day honoring Lee on their calendars but do not combine it with MLK Day. |
State Rep. John Rogers, D-Birmingham, recently announced plans to introduce legislation to split the holidays in Alabama, moving Lee’s day to Confederate Memorial Day in April. |
Alabama and Mississippi have commemorated Lee's birthday since the 1800s and King's since 1983. The Lee/King holiday is one of three Confederate-related days on Alabama's official calendar, which also includes Confederate Memorial Day on the fourth Monday in April and the birthday of former Confederate President Jeffer... |
Lee was born on Jan. 19, 1807; King was born on Jan. 15, 1929. |
Tuesday's Amarillo City Council meeting had a little drama to it, but the lid blew off at the end."I asked for Jarrett's resignation," Councilman Mark Nair said late Tuesday, hours after taking the oath of office, in reference to City Manager Jarrett Atkinson."I feel like we need a change, the people need a change, and... |
While his colleagues in Parliament were reeling over a report on poor regulation of Norway’s offshore installations, and another shows that most young Norwegians oppose more oil exploration, Norwegian Oil Minister Kjell-Børge Freiberg was busy and visibly proud to be handing out a record number of new offshore oil and ... |
Even the most hard-core among them, along with several Members of Parliament, were aghast over a highly critical report on offshore safety regulation issued by Norway’s state auditor general’s office just as Freiberg was meeting oil industry officials in Sandefjord for an annual seminar. The report shows how Norway’s P... |
That all came just as Freiberg’s prepared speech text had him telling the Norwegian Petroleum Society that Norway was “a world leader” in health, working conditions and safety on oil field installations. His text also described the system, in which oil companies are responsible for health, maintenance and safety (HMS) ... |
In claiming that it was “a good day” for the country and the future, Freiberg also believes exploration activity, which can lead to production activity, will continue to generate revenues for the state treasury for years to come. This year, he told his audience in Sandefjord, the state’s net income from petroleum opera... |
Last year the oil ministry granted 75 such licenses to 34 companies, a record amount until this week. Companies from Norway’s own Equinor to Germany’s Wintershall secured licenses, with Equinor typically emerging as the big winner with 29 licenses followed by Aker BP with 21. Vår Energi, operator of the long-troubled G... |
Freiberg brushed it off, refusing to accept the premise that Norwegian oil policy runs counter to climate goals. “Norwegian petroleum activity is important for the financing of our common future, and Norwegian gas plays an important role (as an alternative to coal when exported to Europe),” he told DN. Norway’s oil min... |
Freiberg remains faced with a new generation of young Norwegians who are more concerned about climate change than the future of Norway’s oil industry. The youth organizations of the Labour Party, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals all want to halt all further oil and gas exploration and the granting of any more l... |
A recent survey conducted by the environmental organization Fremtiden i våre hender (The future in our hands) also shows that a majority of Norwegians under the age of 24 oppose exploration. The survey conducted last summer showed 53 percent of those aged 18 to 24 want Norway to stop all further oil and gas exploration... |
“We’re seeing a clear generation gap, perhaps because the climate crisis will affect the young more, and we should listen to them,” the leader of the organization, Anja Bakken Riise, told newspaper Dagsavisen. Another recent survey showed that 37 percent of all Norwegians think oil exploration should cease, while more ... |
Even the outgoing mayor of Stavanger, Norway’s oil capital, has been championing climate issues despite opposition from local businesses and her own Conservative Party that currently controls the government in which Freiberg serves. Christine Sagen Helgø joined the opposition Labour Party and the Liberals in pushing fo... |
Editor's Note: In the developed world, we often approach international partnerships with a deficit mindset, says Jennifer D. Klein, author of the new book, The Global Education Guidebook. She shares ways we, and our students, can move toward a more positive, asset-based mindset. Join Jennifer for #Globaledchat on Twitt... |
Global education experiences are too often developed on a foundation of deficit thinking, particularly in the most developed parts of the world. While many global educators are aware of the problem and working hard to reverse it, examples still abound: global partnerships that always end in fundraisers, the assumption ... |
Global education shouldn't exacerbate power differences, and many global educators work to reverse the paradigm by building partnerships founded in a "learning from and with" mentality, in which all partners bring equal, if different, value to the table. When teachers work to create partnerships using such asset-based ... |
1. Build the relationship with your partner classroom on a foundation of mutual benefit, respect, and power. |
All of the suggestions below play into this most fundamental of equity elements: global educators who want to reverse dominance paradigms strive to ensure that both planning and learning processes emphasize consistent and equitable collaboration. They strive to honor all voices, all perspectives, and all experiences, t... |
2. During planning and learning experiences, start with questions rather than assertions and look for points of intersection. |
All teachers have goals and demands, and the most equitable partnerships meet the curricular needs of all teachers involved. That doesn't necessarily mean that both teachers have to be teaching the same material to the same age groups; they might share content, they might share age groups, or they may have neither in c... |
3. Get students involved in recognizing deficit mindsets when they emerge, and in strategizing ways to flip the paradigm. |
We often underestimate the role that students might play in ensuring equity in our classrooms. Global educators striving for equity can engage their students in the effort to think critically about authentic challenges in real time through global partnerships, getting them involved in determining the potential warning ... |
4. Lean into discomfort when inequities emerge or partnerships become controversial. |
I believe it is an inherently human instinct to lean away from discomfort and controversy, though that tendency can vary along cultural lines to a degree. The bottom line? We can only resolve what we engage; we can only ensure a more just and peaceful world if we lean into controversy and difficult conversations, if we... |
5. Beware of orienting solutions toward solving problems for your partners; instead, build partnerships in which students solve for the world they know and learn from the world they don't. |
As a writing teacher, I always told my students that they should write what they knew, emphasizing that their own story was the one that was most authentically theirs to tell, whereas to tell the stories of others requires extensive investigation and even then may be rife with misrepresentation or generalization. In gl... |
In global partnerships founded in equitable action, students learn from and with each other, but the solutions they build are for challenges in their own communities, informed by what they learned from their partners. In the best examples of global partnerships, students all over the world work on the same challenge as... |
As Canadian anthropologist and National Geographic writer Wade Davis put it, "Other cultures are not a failed attempt to be you." If we can help our students recognize this through global partnerships that really equip them to collaborate on equal footing with their global counterparts, maybe they can begin to see othe... |
Connect with Jennifer, Heather, and Center for Global Education on Twitter. |
He’s not saying it’s aliens – but an astronomer has raised new questions about KIC 8462852, the strange star that stirred up a debate about “alien megastructures” months ago. |
In a paper submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters, Lousiana State University’s Bradley Schaefer reviews archival photographic plates that show KIC 8462852 at various times going back to 1890. He reports that the star, which is 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, faded by about 20 percent between the... |
“This century-long dimming is completely unprecedented for any F-type main sequence star,” Schaefer writes. |
KIC 8462852’s dimming was already worthy of note, due to observations by NASA’s Kepler space telescope that revealed unusual episodes during which the star faded by as much as 20 percent. That led Penn State astronomer Jason Wright to observe that such a pattern was consistent with what you’d expect if aliens were buil... |
Wright’s speculation touched off a flurry of reports, as well as close reviews of data from the Allen Telescope Array and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Those reviews found nothing out of the ordinary. Most astronomers came around to the view that KIC 8462852’s dimming was the result of cometary swarms that swept past... |
“This one mechanism does not appear as any isolated catastrophic event in the last century, but rather must be some ongoing process with continuous effects,” he writes. |
Speaking of astronomical anomalies and comets, another study to be published by the Washington Academy of Sciences suggests that one of the best-known anomalies in SETI lore could have been caused by a pair of comets. |
The anomalous 72-second radio emission, now renowned as the “Wow” Signal, was picked up in 1977 by the Ohio State University Radio Observatory (a.k.a. the Big Ear). The signal was so out of the ordinary that astronomer Jerry Ehman wrote the word “Wow!” beside the readings. |
Astronomers looked for a natural explanation and came up short. But the new study, written by St. Petersburg College’s Antonio Paris and Evan Davies of the Explorers Club, says the signal could have been generated by cometary clouds of hydrogen. |
Paris and Davies point to two comets in particular, known as 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs). |
Astronomers didn’t know those comets existed back in 1977, but after their discovery in 2006 and 2008, they could trace their orbital paths backward. It turns out the comets were passing through the area being monitored by the now-defunct Big Ear when the “Wow” Signal was detected. |
Paris and Davies note that the comets are on track to return to the “Wow” Signal’s celestial neighborhood in 2017 and 2018. |
“During this period, the astronomical community will have an opportunity to direct radio telescopes toward this phenomenon, analyze the hydrogen spectra of these two comets, and test the authors’ hypothesis,” they write. |
Two men are in custody as Montana police investigate the fatal shooting of two people in a Missoula motel. |
MISSOULA – Two men are in custody as Montana police investigate the fatal shooting of two people in a Missoula motel. |
Authorities say 18-year-old Preston Rossbach was arrested Saturday in Lolo and 27-year-old Jonathan Whitworth was arrested Sunday near Missoula International Airport. |
Both were booked into the Missoula County jail. It wasn't immediately known whether they had an attorney. |
Rossbach was scheduled to appear in court Monday. |
Missoula Police Corporal Michael Camerer would not comment on the nature of Rossbach's involvement in the shootings that sent a third person to the hospital with gunshot wounds. |
A man and woman were both found dead at that motel with gunshot wounds just after 1 a.m. Friday. Another man, according to police, was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. |
Twenty months after microfracture knee surgery, Broncos safety Quinton Carter says he’s finally ready to go. |
As a rookie in 2011, Carter earned a starting job and played well, and Denver had high hopes for him going forward. But in 2012 Carter suffered a knee injury during offseason practice, requiring an arthroscopic procedure. Carter tried to return at the start of the regular season, but he wasn’t fully healed, and by Octo... |
But now Carter is finally healthy and participating in the Broncos’ offseason program, and he says he feels ready to go. |
Carter, who had interceptions off both Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady in the playoffs after his rookie year, sounds relieved that he’s getting another chance at building his career. |
Carter has been gone a long time and is no lock to make the roster, but if he can get back to speed and play the way he did as a rookie, he could be a significant part of Denver’s defense. It’s been a long time, but Carter is finally ready. |
“Played well” is a bit of an overstatement. He played ok. Was out of position a lot. |
Glad he’s healthy and ready to add some depth. |
He seemed to always come up with a turnover when we needed it during the crazy Tebow run. |
43-8? In 38 season only 6 with 10+ wins, 1-1 in Superbowl. Broncos have lost more Superbowls then the Seahawks will ever be in. Seahawks are a below .500 team all time. |
I disagree, he is a lock to not only make the roster, but to make an impact in the secondary. |
This article should just say — jinx! And then put him on the cover of Madden. |
Carter is the guy that caught trying to cheat at craps in Vegas, but got out of it by explaining that he was just “working the cap”. |
How much free money did this guy make? |
Did they sign a qb yet? |
He is going to be worth the wait just like Julius Thomas was. NFL teams don’t carry dead weight unless they know they have real talent. |
The internet was still in its infancy when the Broncos won back-to-back SBs in the late 90s. Still, I can’t imagine that I would have spent much time trolling Packer and Falcon forums for months after those victories, bragging about the score like I had coached the team myself. |
I know its not all of you, but some of these Hawk fans need to move on. |
Good luck to him and I wish him well but getting a pick off of Big Ben is not a big deal. Anyone can do that. |
GET THE MAN THE RING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
^^^^^So is he dead weight or real talent? |
I remember all the years the Hawks were the dead weight, two auto wins on the schedule bottom feeder in the AFC West. It’ll take at least 10 more 43-8s for their fans to quit secretly wishing they were the Broncos. |
The bolts in Peyton’s neck are beginning to rust. You’re one QB hit away from being at the bottom of the AFC west looking into salary cap purgatory in 2015 for all the now or never moves you made. |
Drug therapy and making a switch in schools- to one better prepared to work with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – are the most effective treatments for those with the condition, a Consumer Reports Health survey finds. |
The analysis included parents of more than 900 children or adolescents under the age of 18 who had ADHD, which is characterized by excessive and prolonged inattentive behaviors, hyperactivity and impulsivity. The CDC estimates that 4.5 million children aged 5-17 in the U.S. had an ADHD diagnosis in 2006. |
Turning to medications is common among families dealing with ADHD. According to the survey, 84 percent at least try them and a third of parents said the drugs helped when it comes to academic performance and school behavior. They also modestly helped with behavior at home and in social relationships. |
"I think at some point it comes up as a possible treatment as it should," said Dr. Orly Avitzur, medical adviser for Consumer Reports and practicing neurologist, "because there are times when the effects of medication are very dramatic in a child who is very inattentive, unfocused and hyperactive; they can become basic... |
But not all parents were satisfied, Avitzur points out. The side effects to consider include a decreased appetite, sleep problems, weight loss, upset stomach and irritability. Just over half of the parents surveyed said that if they had to do it all over again, they strongly agreed that they would have their kids take ... |
Nondrug strategies, including switching schools, also worked well for some parents and children. |
"Some schools are more attuned (to ADHD) than others," Avitzur said. |
If switching schools is not an option for your child, having an advocate within the school such as a counselor may help. |
"The biggest problem with ADHD is that parents fear a deterioration in academic performance, and I think getting the school to work with you and the child is a fundamental strategy that can be of great help. You also need the feedback of what's happening at school. Have a close back and forth with the teachers to see w... |
Avitzur said parents need to know that it takes a team of specialists to get the best results for your child- from pediatrician to a psychologist or tutor who understands ADHD. |
Visit Consumer Reports Health for the entire survey and information about ADHD medications. |
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I think it it shocking that people think a treatment's 70% failure rate is acceptable. My family knows a chemically treated young man with severe behavioral problems that are the reason for his being medicated. He is unaffected by his medicines and his parents have the smug attitude that everyone must simply accept his... |
I also know for a fact that the schools here demand children to be placed on these medicines at extremely young ages (preschoolers as young as three) claiming to be EXPERTS in the diagnosis of ADHD & ADD. This can lead to a lot of misdiagnosis, because young children are so variable at developmental milestones. These s... |
With the failure rate so high for these medications; it is clear we need to work much harder on proper diagnosis and in the development of better and less dangerous treatments. We also need to stop this quick fix approach too. Better sustained coordination between a child's parents, doctors, behavioral therapists, and ... |
Has anyone (especially neurologists out there) have any experience using omega-3s, in addition to the treatments mentioned, to help with Adhd symptoms. My friend swears that her kids behave better when they eat Gudernoobs made by WooHoo Foods b/c they're packed with omega-3s. Just wondering? |
susie, my wife talked to someone recently about adhd etc and they told her that they give vitamin c, fish oil at night, and some other stuff. they said it works. Sorry i don't have the exact info, but diet and vitamins might help some. |
Let's face it, we fear what we cannot control...and we especially fear what we cannot control with our kids. We want them to grow up normal, to have good experiences, to excel in the profession or life that they choose. ADHD/ADD is something we cannot control – but does that mean it is bad? For me, as an educator, I wo... |
There is NO easy answer; some kids are absolutely drop dead brilliant without meds, but a pain in the keister as well...should we medicate them? Others will disrupt your class, ruin your lesson...and yes, even if that lesson is burying an item out back of the school, having the students dig it up, and use the scientifi... |
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