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The best advice available is to wash your hands regularly, which lowers the chances of getting sick or spreading germs from many of the viruses linked to AFM, and protect against mosquito bites by using repellent, in addition to staying indoors at dusk and dawn. |
The CDC said the vaccines your pediatrician suggests are very effective and children should continue to receive them on schedule even though there is no vaccine for AFM. |
If you visit Google Maps Labs you will notice they have added some features. |
The most exciting new feature for me is the use of Google's URL shortener for the "link" button. For example, I can now link to my business's location using http://goo.gl/maps/rNAh instead of a really long and hard to read URL. |
To activate this feature, go to Google Maps Labs and click enable for the "Short URL" feature. Then load Google Maps and check it out. |
An other new feature mentioned by Websonic in the Google Blogoscoped Forums was the "Show Me Here!: Adds an option to the context menu that lets you zoom directly to the maximum zoom level at the point under the cursor." |
Ang Lee has brought the world Oscar-winning films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. So, when a filmmaker with a pedigree like that decides to devote years to a single epic project - one he intends to shoot in 3D, no less - the world tends to take notice. Such is the case with Life of Pi. |
Lee's film - based on Yann Martel's award-winning 2001 novel of the same name - centers on a young man stranded on a small boat and accompanied only by a ravenous Bengal tiger. The source material has been previously deemed unable to be translated effectively into film, likely because it places much of its focus on one... |
Despite those detractors, Lee has spent the better part of four years working on the project. The international trailer has already showcased what are sure to be several of the film's signature moments, including the shipwreck that leads Pi (Suraj Sharma) on his journey and a breathtaking encounter with a whale. Now, Y... |
Taken out of context, the footage presented here doesn’t feature much in the way of plot or character development. However, it does provide a taste of the spectacle Life of Pi offers its audience. On sheer originality and intensity alone, the clip - which sees young Pi contend with a barrage of flying fish and the afor... |
Regardless of how the finished film turns out, there's no denying that Life of Pi looks fantastic. The crisp visuals truly underscore the sense of isolation, panic, and wonder that accompany the lead character's predicament. Whether or not such moments are framed by a cohesive story and compelling characters, however, ... |
Life of Pi hits theaters on November 21st, 2012. |
The posting below is a brief review of student development theories. It is from Chapter Six, Student Development: Solving the Great Puzzle, in the book, Using Quality Benchmarks for Assessing and Developing Undergraduate Programs, by Dana S. Dunn, Maureen A. McCarthy, Suzanne C. Baker and Jane S. Halonen. Published by ... |
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In the early twentieth century, college campuses became a natural setting in which to apply theories from the emerging disciplines of psychology and sociology (Evans et al,. 2010). Although the earliest emphasis in student development stressed vocational guidance, the 1937 publication by the American Council of Educati... |
Formal theories regarding student development began to surface in the middle of the twentieth century (Pascarrella & Terenzini, 2005). The focus of student development varies from research that is targeted at a specific aspect of the student experience (such as learning style) to researchers who are more comprehensive ... |
One of the first formal theories of student development has proved to be one of the most enduring. Interviewing male students at Harvard, Perry (1968/1999) described how students evolve in their cognitive complexity during the college years. He observed students progressing from simplistic or \"dualistic\" view of the ... |
Later cognitive theories expanded upon Perry's observations. Pointing to the limitations of using an all-male population, Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule (1986) applied Perry's stages to explain cognitive growth in female students. They posited five separate \"ways of knowing\" that women experience, from the ... |
Kohlberg (1976) developed a stage theory of moral development that has had a big impact on the understanding of student development. He asked male students at Harvard to reason their way through various moral dilemmas and captured the patterns in their rationales. Kohlberg characterized the students' moral decision mak... |
Postconventional reasoners transcend social norms and justify their moral decisions based on a richer understanding of complex moral situations and an appreciation for universal and generalizable principles. |
Kohlberg's work remains controversial. Gilligan (1982) argued that an obedience-based schema did not adequately account for moral reasoning in women. She counterproposed a \"care based\" scheme to augment Kohlberg's \"justice based\" theory as more appropriate for the patterns she discovered in women students. Similarl... |
Perhaps the most influential of the early theories is that of Chickering (1969; Chickering & Reisser, 1993). Chickering conducted comprehensive psychological assessments of students in their sophomore and senior years with the explicit goal of providing guidance to educators to enhance student development. Supporting t... |
Marcia (1966) targeted identity formation processes in young adults that contribute understanding to predictable student dilemmas. Marcia's four-part taxonomy of identity status reflects the certainty, confusion, crisis, and commitment that can be applied to many elements of the undergraduate journey through college. M... |
Kolb (1984) developed the concept of experiential learning to emphasize how the quality or efficiency of learning can differ according to individual preferences for modes of learning. He constructed a four-part taxonomy to describe those differences. Accommodators are geared toward action and prefer trial-and-error str... |
In practice, faculty and other student developers may demonstrate their own learning styles in their architecture of learning and curricular experience. However, awareness that any given group of students will have variable learning preferences encourages the development of an array of learning experiences that appeal ... |
An emerging common practice among student developers is the use of personality inventories to capture individual differences. One of the most commonly used approaches involves the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (Myers & McCaulley, 1987). Based loosely on Jungian theory, the MBTI captures and contrasts student perso... |
The MBTI has demonstrated beneficial effects for the enhancement of leadership skills (Fitzgerald & Kirby, 1997). Many students attest to the usefulness of personality inventory as a means of giving them insight when they encounter others who behave in unpredictable ways. However, the test is not without its critics (s... |
More recent scholarship in areas that enlighten student development has attempted to produce more comprehensive developmental models that have an ecological foundation. Kegan (1994) created a stage theory based on resolving evolutionary challenges that emphasized the skill needed to cope with complex modern life. He no... |
Baxter Magolda (2001) conducted longitudinal research on how students move from socialized mind status to self-authorship. She concluded that college environments succeed best in helping students make the transition to appropriate self-reliance when the facilitators provide validating feedback to students about their p... |
Regardless of the specific puzzle pieces, researchers have tried to contribute to optimizing student development, and universities have incorporated research principle in several emerging best practices that have been widely adopted to enrich student experience and facilitate their development. In this next section, we... |
LIMA, Peru — Peruvian prosecutors are seeking the arrest of the leader of a Catholic religious society accused of sexual and psychological abuse against minors. |
Luis Figari is the lay founder of the Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a conservative Roman Catholic society with chapters across South America and in the U.S. |
Prosecutors said Wednesday they were requesting Figari’s detention for nine months as well as that of five close aides to avoid him interfering with their investigation. |
A journalist and former member of the society began publicly accusing Figari of abuse in 2010. While Figari has never been charged, many of the allegations were confirmed by a Vatican inquiry. He was ordered to cut contact with members of the society. |
He’s now living in Rome. He had no immediate reaction. |
The Kenyan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission prepares to announce election results at the Bomas of Kenya, in Nairobi, Aug. 11, 2017. |
Kenya's opposition said Friday that it would "not be a party" to the election commission's imminent announcement of the result of the presidential vote because its concerns had not been addressed. |
Provisional results from polling stations showed President Uhuru Kenyatta with a lead of 1.4 million votes in his bid for a second and final five-year term. |
Opposition candidate Raila Odinga's camp has disputed the count and said it would accept the election result only if allowed to see raw data on the commission's computer servers. |
Odinga has lost the last two elections, claiming fraud in both cases. |
Many Kenyans fear a repeat of the violence that followed the 2007 contested election, when about 1,200 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced as political protests led to ethnic killings. |
"We raised some very serious concerns; they have not responded to them. As NASA [the opposition coalition], we shall not be party to the process they are about to make," senior opposition official Musalia Mudavadi said. |
James Orengo, chief election agent for the opposition coalition, said: "This has been an entire charade," adding: "The Kenyan people have never disappointed ... every time an election has been stolen, the Kenyan people have stood up to make sure changes are made to make Kenya a better place. |
"Going to court, for us, is not an alternative. We have been there before." |
Earlier, Orengo had called for the candidates and observers to be given access to the election commission's servers so there could be a transparent audit of data from 41,000 polling stations across the country. |
Yakub Guliye, election commissioner in charge of information technology, said that the opposition had not made a formal request and that the commission would not act on a verbal request. |
Normal procedure calls for the commission to release final results after cross-checking its electronic tally with paper forms. |
Odinga's camp has said figures released by the commission since Tuesday's vote were "fictitious" and that "confidential sources" within the commission had provided figures showing Odinga had a large lead in the race. |
The election commission rejected the claims, pointing out they contained basic mathematical errors. |
Police had beefed up security across much of Kenya — particularly in opposition strongholds in the west and parts of Nairobi — in anticipation of the announcing of the election result Friday. |
Supporters of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta celebrate ahead of the announcement of election results in Nairobi, Aug. 11, 2017. |
At an international conference center, ruling party supporters sang, "Today is our day, God is good," as the president arrived to address them. |
Kenya is the leading economy in East Africa, and any instability would be likely to ripple through the region. |
Odinga is a member of the Luo, an ethnic group from the west of the country that has long said it is excluded from power. |
Kenyatta is from the Kikuyu group, which has supplied three of four presidents since Kenya gained independence from Britain in 1963. |
International observers have given the thumbs-up to the vote. U.S. Ambassador Robert Godec issued a statement on behalf of the diplomatic community calling for any complaints to be channeled through the courts, not street protests. |
"If there are disputes or disagreements, the Kenyan constitution is very clear on how they are to be addressed. Violence must never be an option," he said Friday. |
But the opposition criticized foreign observers. |
"The observers largely served the interests of the government," Orengo said. |
As well as a new president, Kenyans also elected new lawmakers and local representatives. Some of those races have also been disputed, leading to violence in Garissa and Tana River counties. |
Regardless of what your local real estate market may be doing when you choose to sell your home, you can still obtain top dollar. Each buyer is unique and has some specifications that must be met. Home selling is competitive, so you want to try to appeal to as many people as is reasonable. However, if they are viewing ... |
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To be sure you attract these tech-savvy buyers, you must begin with a competitive list price. One of the biggest mistakes made in home selling is choosing to start high and lower the price after it has sat on the market for a while. If your home is priced correctly, you can stay firm when a lower offer comes in. Knowle... |
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Lane reversals, evacuation zones and order procedures all came from the "poster child" of how not to evacuate, Hurricane Floyd in 1999. |
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH – Almost 10 years after Hurricane Hugo devastated South Carolina, more than 400,000 people heeded then-Gov. Jim Hodges' call for evacuation from Hurricane Floyd in September 1999. |
They turned Interstate 26 into a giant parking lot, sparking road rage that simmered long after the storm left. |
State officials learned from that experience. Coastal evacuations now are far different, experts say. |
"Floyd was the poster child of what not to do," said Susan Cutter, who directs the Hazards and Vulnerability Institute at the University of South Carolina and is one of the state's longtime experts on hurricane evacuation. "We've learned a lot. We've gotten much better." |
Interstate lane reversals, evacuation zones and a single order for evacuation from the governor instead of two are the norm now but were not in 1999. |
Then, as now, a major hurricane threatened the Southeast with an uncertain path. |
As Floyd churned northward off the coast of Florida, anxious residents of Georgia and Florida fled, some into South Carolina, and when Hodges asked for evacuation, South Carolinians listened. Devastation from Hugo, which slammed shore near Charleston and barreled toward Charlotte, was fresh in mind from 1989. But rever... |
Many took seven to nine hours to travel from Charleston to Columbia. |
While thousands of motorists fumed, it took years before the state enacted major changes. |
Cutter said about every 10 years, federal emergency officials, the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers meet to discuss hurricane evacuation planning. She said a new plan was developed about 2010. |
Lane reversals came out of that meeting, she said, as did a decision to stop having both a voluntary evacuation request and a separate mandatory one. |
"There was a hurricane evacuation survey done of residents," she said, "and one of the results was the need to go to you evacuate or don't evacuate. So to simplify the process, they went to a single, mandatory evacuation order." |
That doesn't mean people still can't refuse to leave, she said, but there no longer is an ambiguous request by the governor that some residents might not heed because it is not mandatory. |
Another outgrowth of the meeting, Cutter said, was evacuation zones. While they had existed prior to the meeting, "people didn't know where their zones were." |
So they were simplified. Today, coastal residents can check the state Emergency Management Division website, among other places, for color-coded maps showing the different zones. Residents can type in their addresses so they know what zone in which they live. Those zones are used in evacuation orders. |
When a storm threatens today, governors can issue orders to evacuate the coast, and by the time that order goes into effect, lane reversals are created by state troopers and law enforcement officers along evacuation corridors. |
In the Grand Strand area, for instance, U.S. 501 can be reversed to allow four lanes to carry drivers from the coast. |
Still, even with those improvements, successful evacuations are dependent on a number of factors, including the timing of the evacuation, residents' attitudes and how other states' evacuations affect South Carolina's plans. |
"It's complicated," said Pamela Marie Murray-Tuite, an associate professor of civil engineering at Clemson University who studies hurricane evacuations as part of several research teams. "All of it is based on individual choices and trying to understand those." |
Do people take one car or all family cars? Do they try to ride with friends or by themselves? When do they leave, and how far do they travel? |
"I think each storm is different and each location is different," she said. |
And while South Carolina has made changes, she said ideas on how to improve the process continue to evolve across the country. |
For instance, she said, while lane reversals add capacity to a state's road system, Texas uses shoulders of roads to add additional capacity. |
And while capacity is one factor, so is the timing of an evacuation. |
"If demand is more spread out over several days, then you will have less peak congrestion than you have on one day," she said. |
In Hurricane Irma, she noted, Florida officials asked tourists in the Florida Keys to leave first, then residents the next day. |
Cutter said in the residents' survey following Floyd, three-quarters said they would evacuate in a major hurricane, defined as cateorgy 3-5. |
"I think the idea of a major hurricane is one that is going to resonate with this population," she said. |
Cutter said lesser hurricanes since Floyd have caused significant damage. |
"So I think people living in coastal areas understand and are learning as is everyone else, about the significance and impact that these storms can do," she said. |
She said evacuations are designed not to take people out of state but out of areas where there will be storm surge and flooding. |
"You don't need to go 400 miles to evacuate," she said. "You need to get out of the low-lying, flood-prone areas. And you need to shelter in a building that can protect you from the wind." |
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