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US Army Lyme Risk Assessments
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Now what is up with the US Army?.They do a study and determine that there is no need to vaccinate soldiers against Lyme disease (which makes a lot of sense, after all, soldiers are unlikely to visit a Lyme-endemic area, seeing as they only go all over the world). So the soldiers don't get given the dangerous and useless LymeRIX vaccine. They then do a study and map out which army bases on US soil are low , medium or HIGH risk for Lyme. (See below.) I expected more efficiency than this. Surely th ...
High risk insurance pool
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Anyone out there had problems getting heatlh insurance because of existing condition? I read last year there was some lobbying in Ohio to create an insurance pool for high risk individuals that worked but could otherwise not get/afford insurance. Does anyone know if Ohio or other state has created such a pool? I just lost my job and between severance and CORBRA have 20 months to find another source of insurance. Starting chemotherapy for a brain tumor I'm guessing not many company insurance prog ...
Women self-select out of high-risk jobs
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...The government does not promote gender equity in nursing, teaching, library science or childcare, because these are all intrinsically female professional bastions. Intrinsically male bastions, however, are regarded as fertile ground for cultural "re-education," and now even military spokesmen docilely toe the feminist line as expressed by one retired woman lieutenant: "In this modern era of equality of the sexes, [soldiering] has no gender." A pretty notion, but a falsehoo ...
article - high risk breeding increasing
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High-risk pregnancies are on the rise in the United States and may be more common now than at any other time since modern obstetric care became available. Why? More fortysomething moms are having babies, and epidemics of diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure are causing pregnancy and birth complications. But in this otherwise troubling trend is also some good news: A small but growing number of women are successfully having children despite life-threatening conditions that once made a safe p ...
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Educational Options - Specialized Programs (CA Dept of Education ) Community Day Schools Serve high-risk youths, including those referred by expulsion, probation, or a School Attendance Review Board; provide challenging academic curriculum; and develop pro-social skills and resiliency. Diploma Plus High Schools Serves students fifteen years of age and older who have not reached their potential in a traditional secondary school setting and are at risk of not graduating from high school. Juvenile Court Schools Serves students under the protection or authority of the juvenile court system and incarcerated in juvenile halls, homes, ranches, ...
An Investigation of Education Options for Youth-at- Risk, Ages 9 to This paper is one component of a collaborative research project being conducted by the National Commission for Employment Policy to explore the education, training, and employment issues that affect at-risk youth, aged 9-15 years old. The paper begins with a description of the dropout problem in the United States, noting that although the dropout rate has remained steady at about 25 percent for the past 3 decades, the dropout rate has become a problem recently because of the increase in high technology jobs and a need for people with more skills in the labor ...
Optionetics - Investment & Options Trading Education - Basic Concepts Options can be used in a variety of ways to profit from a rise or fall in the underlying market. The most basic strategies employ put and call options as a low capital means of garnering a profit on market movement. Options can also be used as insurance policies in a wide variety of trading scenarios. You probably have insurance on your car or house because it is the responsible and safe thing to do. Options provide the same kind of safety net for trades and investments. They also increase your leverage by enabling you to control the shares of a specific stock without tying up a large ...
The amazing versatility that an option offers in today's highly volatile markets is welcome relief from the uncertainties of traditional investing practices. Options can be used to offer protection from a decline in the market price of a long underlying stock or an increase in the market price of a short underlying stock. They can enable you to buy a stock at a lower price, sell a stock at a higher price, or create additional income against a long or short stock position. You can also use option strategies to profit from a move in the price of the underlying asset regardless ...
Cholesterol Guidelines Update, July 12, 2004 Press Release A 2004 update to the National Cholesterol Education Program's (NCEP) clinical practice guidelines on cholesterol management advises physicians to consider new, more intensive treatment options for people at high and moderately high risk for a heart attack. These options include setting lower treatment goals for LDL ("bad") cholesterol and initiating cholesterol-lowering drug therapy at lower LDL thresholds.
The NCEP defines high-risk patients as those who have coronary heart disease or disease of the blood vessels to the brain or extremities, or diabetes, or multiple (2 or more) risk factors (e.g., smoking, hypertension) that give them a greater than 20 percent chance of having a heart attack within 10 years. Very high-risk patients are those who have cardiovascular disease together with either multiple risk factors (especially diabetes), or severe and poorly controlled risk factors (e.g., continued smoking), or metabolic syndrome (a constellation ...
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Older people overlooked in HIV prevention & testing programs Older people overlooked in HIV prevention & testing programs AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, sometimes written Aids) is a human disease characterized by progressive destruction of the body's immune system. It is widely accepted that AIDS results from infection with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). SpiritIndia.com an amazing health tech site
Down in the Valley, Home Prices are Low The colleges are also sinks of uncontrolled, unregulated spending. Talk about throwing money down ratholes, or good money after bad, IMO-! The irony is, they're notorious for not paying any but the top echelons of faculty (the "names") decent wages - & the Names are 'way overpaid, like all CEOs. In any event, good article, & for once I agree w/your economic analysis & proposed solution, Dave. A combination of stupid, ignorant consumers & greedy, irresponsible sellers is a baaaaad thing. Very. Speaking of education, they USED to make all of us (back in Neanderthal ...
I think it's been a long time since they had a practical skills class like that, Nancy, but apparently some effort is being made to bring them back. As for college pay, I sure know what you're talking about. As a junior faculty member I had to teach all the most boring classes and got paid less than half what someone with tenure would get. Dave
Districts tackle rising dropout rates In the Inland area, students are dropping out of school for a variety of reasons. Some give up on their education because they are unable to pass the state's high school exit exam, which is required for a diploma, or have trouble with the English language. Others leave to go to work or to help care for younger siblings while parents are at work. Many leave because they lose interest in school.
After getting a phone call from Moreno Valley Unified, Guillermo Gastellum, 17, met with district officials to plan his continuing education. Guillermo, who was in an independent study program through March Mountain High School in Moreno Valley, quit his studies earlier this year. Without an education, Guillermo is unable to fulfill his life-long dream of becoming a Marine, he said.
FDA panel: Keep Avandia, but add safeguards The panel examined safety data on the drug and voted by a wide margin, 22-1, to recommend that the agency keep Avandia on the market. But by a similar vote, 20-3, the panelists also recognized the increased risk for heart attacks posed by the drug and urged the agency to consider raising its warning level to black-box status or implementing a patient registration program, panelists said during a news conference.
The current spotlight on Avandia, which was first sold in 1999, resulted from the publication of a New England Journal of Medicine article in May warning that use of the drug was associated with an increased risk of heart attack compared with placebo. The article prompted the FDA to issue a warning on the use of the drug for people with underlying heart disease or those at high risk of heart attack.
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INDONESIA ECOLOGY There is no question that deforestation in Indonesia is having a serious impact at international as well as at national and local levels. Destructive logging, out-of-control fires, forest clearance for plantations, mining, fossil fuel extraction, transmigration sites, aquaculture, and road-building have long been linked with negative social and economic impacts for local indigenous and forest-dependent communities, and enormous financial losses for communities and the state.
Ex-World Bank chief economist, Sir Nicholas Stern was commissioned by the UK government’s treasury to carry out a study on climate change in the run-up to the next UN climate change conference. The Stern Review on Climate Change, released in October 2006, drew international attention to climate change and the potential of forests to mitigate global warming. He proposed that ‘avoided deforestation’ measures should be part of any post-Kyoto climate agreement and that pilot schemes should start as soon as possible.
The Most Dangerous Deal in America This is what the people came for, but Stephen Feinberg looks as if he’d rather be anywhere else. He stands motionless on one end of the sprawling stage, practically hiding behind a lectern decorated with the massive golden coat of arms of Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria. The Wall Street investors who pack the room sit expectantly, ignoring—for the first time all morning—their BlackBerrys, which scroll silently in their pockets. Feinberg, who is 47, sports thinning brown hair and a wispy mustache. Without any notes, he launches into a meandering speech. Between long pauses, ...
In the early days, long hours meant Feinberg had little time to see his wife, Gisela, or his young daughters; he now has three. Though the family splits time between the home in Connecticut and an Upper East Side co-op, he clings to the ideals of middle-class life. He reportedly drives a Ford pickup truck and avoids the Manhattan social circuit. The idea of throwing himself a lavish party—say, the way Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman did on his 60th birthday—is completely alien to Feinberg. Lindsey, his oldest daughter, is entering her junior year at college. She recently asked her father ...
Down in the Valley, Home Prices are Low The colleges are also sinks of uncontrolled, unregulated spending. Talk about throwing money down ratholes, or good money after bad, IMO-! The irony is, they're notorious for not paying any but the top echelons of faculty (the "names") decent wages - & the Names are 'way overpaid, like all CEOs. In any event, good article, & for once I agree w/your economic analysis & proposed solution, Dave. A combination of stupid, ignorant consumers & greedy, irresponsible sellers is a baaaaad thing. Very. Speaking of education, they USED to make all of us (back in Neanderthal ...
I think it's been a long time since they had a practical skills class like that, Nancy, but apparently some effort is being made to bring them back. As for college pay, I sure know what you're talking about. As a junior faculty member I had to teach all the most boring classes and got paid less than half what someone with tenure would get. Dave
BLC07 McIntosh No.3: We're adopting! A strategy for social media So how has the Authority, in one year, moved from a steady band of about 20 people sharing their views and thoughts on the web, to over 350 educators? The answer from one person will never be complete, so I'm going to fill in part of the story with some of what I reckon has contributed to social media being adopted on such a relatively large scale. There are other great places to go to read more about the preparations that went into the beginnings of cultural change in the Authority, and I'd encourage colleagues working on the eduBuzz project to give their takes, too.
All strategies, you see, have flaws or miss something out in the detail. The problem with the generic term of "social media adoption" is that for each tool or way of working there is a different set of details to communicate. We've all done it: "You could use a blog to do this, or a wiki to do that. Why not add some audio and make a podcast..." If you're dealing with a dozen new tools that's an awful lot of detail to try to include, and a lot of implicit goodness to miss out.