Education UpdateWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 1:23AMTo register, please call (402) 362-6700 or email dschnell@yorkpublic.org at least two days prior to the scheduled class. (Key) YHS: York High School; YMS: York Middle School; HHS: Henderson High School
Speaking for Ourselves teaching guideMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 3:31AMPart of Scope's Speaking for Ourselves disability teaching pack, this teaching guide includes: 1. Introduction by Richard Rieser Director, Disability Equality in Education 2. Ways of looking at disability: medical model social model 3. What is oral history? 4. Guidance for oral history interviewers 5. Disability and cerebral palsy glossary 6. Further resources National Curriculum Relevance ...
Speaking for Ourselves teaching guideMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 3:31AMPart of Scope's Speaking for Ourselves disability teaching pack, this teaching guide includes: 1. Introduction by Richard Rieser Director, Disability Equality in Education 2. Ways of looking at disability: medical model social model 3. What is oral history? 4. Guidance for oral history interviewers 5. Disability and cerebral palsy glossary 6. Further resources National Curriculum Relevance ...
Sangamon County Courtroom 6C: A day in traffic courtSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 11:45PMCourtroom 6C is the busiest courtroom in the Sangamon County Complex. If you’ve ever been to court for a traffic ticket, you’ve more than likely been here. Click inside for a day in the life of this courtroom.
Sangamon County Courtroom 6C: A day in traffic courtSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 11:45PMCourtroom 6C is the busiest courtroom in the Sangamon County Complex. If you’ve ever been to court for a traffic ticket, you’ve more than likely been here. Click inside for a day in the life of this courtroom.
How bad is the R-wordSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 1:36AMWhen Rahm Emanuel scolded liberal groups at a closed-door meeting in Washington last summer for planning to run ads against conservative Democrats, the epithet he chose was not the most intelligent on...
Stem Cells in Your Teeth!Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 7:09PMStem cells from dental pulp are easy to obtain and can become many different types of tissue.
Press ReleaseWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 10:55AMAxoGen Inc. Posted on:03 Mar 10 AxoGen, Inc. today announced the launch of a new and expanded company web site at www.axogeninc.com . The site provides new and updated information for both surgeons and patients about strategies to repair peripheral nerve injuries.
CMSA Revises Industry Standards of PracticeWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 10:00AMLITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The CMSA 2009-2010 Board of Directors announced this week that the association's Standards of Practice for Case Management, first published 15 years ago in 1995, have been revised and are now available to CMSA members.
Indecent haste puts primary teachers to the testTuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 10:26AMJulia Gillard deliberately disregards the practical concerns of primary school teachers in her rush to have a national curriculum implemented next year.
Pubpat Releases Free Claim Construction DictionariesMonday, March 1, 2010 @ 11:24PMPubpat: "The Public Patent Foundation, Inc. ("PUBPAT") is pleased to announce that Dr. David Garrod, PUBPAT's Senior Litigation Counsel, has decided to release his groundbreaking claim construction dictionaries free of charge through PUBPAT's web site."
Michigan briefcaseSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 2:35AMSouthfield CPA firm Clayton & McKervey has launched www.claytonmckervey.cn to help Chinese businesses invest and operate in Michigan. The site, in both English and Mandarin, is also a resource for government and private industry interested in attracting Chinese investment in Michigan. The Web site includes accounting and tax questions commonly asked by Chinese ...
Can vitamin injections help you heal?Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 7:01AMCOSMETIC surgery can leave patients with weeks of downtime while they recover, but a new complementary approach claims to speed up the process.
The Crazies [2010] [R] - 1.9.8Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 6:58PMSomething is causing the people of a small Iowa town to become violent, uncontrollable killers. Efforts to find out what is happening are halted by a military force and it seems there will be no way out of town and no cure.
Health Care Summit Analysis: Closing thoughtsThursday, February 25, 2010 @ 5:46PMWashington Post reporters broke down the key flashpoints in real time as Republicans and Democrats shared their competing visions of health-care legislation.
Planned Parenthood Strives to Get Chemicals Out of Its ClinicsWednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 9:26AMPhysicians promise “to do no harm,” but they are often doctoring in the presence of materials that are dangerous to human health. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England , which operates 23 offices in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, has joined a growing movement of medical providers seeking to reduce client exposure to such toxic chemicals. read more
Budget mumbo jumbo, simplified!Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 6:09AMBudget is the annual fiscal exercise that attracts a lot interest, as it is a plan that sets goals, outlines resources to meet these goals, provides details of the government's receipts and payments, and frames the taxation policies for the country.
Shutter Island [2010] [R] - 7.9.6Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 7:49AMThriller set in 1954 about two U.S. Marshals (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) sent to Shutter Island, a remote island hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts, to investigate the disappearance of a patient.
New cancer glossary helps bridge medical communication gapsSunday, February 14, 2010 @ 1:04AMSHIPROCK — Confusing and predominantly negative translations of medical terms into the Navajo language has prompted a team of doctors and educators to overhaul the way medical professionals talk about disease.
PepsiCo Delivers Solid Results for Fiscal 2009Thursday, February 11, 2010 @ 6:58AMPepsiCo, Inc. today reported solid results for 2009 driven by healthy gains in its worldwide snacks and international beverage businesses, balanced investments in value and innovation in key markets and cost discipline across its operations. Â For the full year, reported EPS grew 17 percent to $3.77 and core constant currency EPS increased 6 percent. Â For the fourth quarter, reported EPS was $0 ...
Consumer healthTuesday, February 2, 2010 @ 4:11AMHousecall, our weekly general-interest e-newsletter, keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics with timely, reliable, practical information, recipes, blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts and more.
GSK's TYKERB® Receives Accelerated Approval For First-line Combination Treatment Of Hormone Receptor Positive, HER2 ...Saturday, January 30, 2010 @ 6:15AMGlaxoSmithKline announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval for a new combination regimen using TYKERB® (lapatinib) as a first-line, all-oral treatment for women with metastatic breast cancer. TYKERB is now indicated in combination with letrozole for the treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer that ...
Local author to sign ‘Lulie’ books at AnMedFriday, January 29, 2010 @ 11:00PMMichael P. Gibson has a five-year-old Maltese dog named Lulie. One night his wife was cooking lima beans for dinner and dropped a bean on the floor. Lulie lapped it up then spun around on the floor in ecstasy. That was the inspiration for “Lulie Loves Lima Beans,” a rhyming poem for early readers that Gibson has published in book form with colorful, winsome illustrations by Cynthia Nedved.After ...
Autism Speaks co-sponsors international autism conference in Manila, Philippines Feb. 3-5Thursday, January 28, 2010 @ 2:29PM( Autism Speaks ) Autism Speaks co-sponsors the first International Autism Conference in Manila organized by the Autism Hearts Foundation and Autism Hearts Philippines, with UC Davis MIND Institute, Philippine Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics and the Autism Society of the Philippines to address diagnosis, assessment and treatments of ASDs, and create supports for individuals and ...
Alaska Air Group Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year ResultsThursday, January 28, 2010 @ 7:00AMAlaska Air Group, Inc. today reported fourth quarter 2009 net income of $24.1 million, or $0.67 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $75.2 million, or $2.08 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2008.