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Nearly 700,000 Rohingya people, a minority Muslim group from Myanmar, have arrived in Bangladesh since August 2017, fleeing violence and persecution. The overwhelming majority continue to live in crowded refugee camps, where they join hundreds of thousands of other Rohingya refugees that arrived in years prior. More than half of the recent arrivals are children — and they're severely malnourished, according to a new study released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study focused on 268 children living at the Kutupalong refugee camp, a government-run settlement in Cox's Bazar in southeast Bangladesh that is the world's largest refugee camp, and found that 43.4 percent are experiencing chronic malnutrition, while 47.9 percent are suffering from anemia.
Globally, malnutrition is the largest contributor to disease, particularly among children, according to the World Food Program. Eva Leidman, MSPH, an epidemiologist with the CDC's Emergency Response and Recovery Branch and the lead researcher behind the study, told The Outline that child malnutrition can lead to severe health complications and death.
"Malnutrition is known to increase the severity and duration of many infectious diseases, including, for example, measles — a particular concern given ongoing circulation of measles in the camps," Leidman said.
The new arrivals in Bangladesh joined an estimated 200,000 Rohingya refugees who had previously fled Myanmar, where members of the Muslim ethnic group are considered illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, denied citizenship, and regularly subject to discrimination. The August 2017 exodus began after a small group of Rohingya militants attacked police posts in the Rakhine province, according to the Myanmar government. Following the attacks, Myanmar's, backed by local mobs, burned Rohingya villages and killed civilians. The recent wave of refugees caused the population of the camps to more than double, according to the CDC study.
The problem in the Rohingya refugee camps isn't a lack of food — it's the kind of food that was being distributed, Leidman found. "The Rohingya are primarily dependent on food by the humanitarian community. These distributions early on contained limited micronutrients," Leidman said, adding that humanitarian groups have since altered the kinds of foods they distribute.
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Actor Kristoff St. John's ex-wife Mia St. John is still processing his untimely death.
"Extra" spoke with Mia, who opened up about Kristoff's death and how she is doing today.
Mia admitted, "I have okay days, I have really bad days, I'm just waiting to get to the part where I'm having good days. It's difficult 'cause it's still early."
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Kristoff and Mia's son Julian died by suicide at age 24 on Nov. 23, 2014, following a lifelong battle with mental illness. She said about Kristoff, "He was so tortured since our son passed, he felt so much guilt… he felt like he failed his son."
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Mia is dealing with her own issues, and said the outpouring of support from fans is keeping her going. She shared, "I ended up in the hospital after Kristoff passed on a 5150… with the outpouring of support, I felt like I can do this, and I need to do this."
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So as the new year approached I reflected on 2016 and whether or not I had had a 'meticulous' year…
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History (9389)
International AS and A Level History is a flexible and wide-ranging syllabus covering modern history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The syllabus builds upon skills gained at Cambridge and develops lifelong skills including understanding issues and themes within a historical period.
The emphasis is again on both historical knowledge and on the skills required for historical research. Learners develop an understanding of cause and effect, continuity and change, similarity and difference, and use historical evidence as part of their studies. Both at AS and A Level learners can select from topics on European, American or International history.
Teachers choose which periods to focus on, allowing them to build a course that reflects their learners' interests and staff specialisms, or which is relevant to the local or regional context.
We recommend students that register to this course, have an IGCSE certificate in First Language English with a minimum mark of C or an IGCSE certificate in English as a Second Language with a minimum mark of A. If registering students have completed a curriculum that is not Cambridge International in grades 9 and 10, they will be required to sit an entrance examination at our High School Campus.
Link to full Syllabus: https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/Images/414985-2020-syllabus.pdf
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Cambridge International AS & A Level History is accepted by universities and employers as proof of knowledge and understanding of History. Successful candidates learn to evaluate historical evidence, present clear and logical arguments, assess different interpretations of an argument and develop an understanding of historical concepts such as cause and effect, similarity and difference and continuity and change.
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- engaged, developing their interest in history and broadening their knowledge and understanding of different perspectives.
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The events, circumstances, actions and beliefs that have a direct causal connection to consequential events and developments, circumstances, actions or beliefs. Causes can be both human and non-human.
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The patterns, processes and interplay of change and continuity within a given time frame.
- Similarity and difference
The patterns of similarity and difference that exist between people, lived experiences, events and situations in the past.
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The importance attached to an event, individual or entity in the past, whether at the time or subsequent to it. Historical significance is a constructed label that is dependent upon the perspective (context, values, interests and concerns) of the person ascribing significance and is therefore changeable.
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How the past has been subsequently reconstructed and presented by historians.
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Cambridge International AS Level History makes up the first half of the Cambridge International A Level course in History and provides a foundation for the study of History at Cambridge International A Level. Depending on local university entrance requirements, students may be able to use it to progress directly to university courses in History or some other subjects. It is also suitable as part of a course of general education.
Cambridge International A Level History provides a foundation for the study of history or related courses in higher education. Equally it is suitable as part of a course of general education.
The following are the preferred resources at Istanbul International School:
- Cambridge AS/A Level History 9389 Coursebook
- Variety of resources determined by teacher
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Paper 1
Document Question – 40% (1 hour 15 minutes)
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Candidates must answer both parts of the question they choose.
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The gang hanging out in the lobby of Alameda County's juvenile hall this August afternoon doesn't fit the profile. Most of the 270 kids locked up here are probation violators, runaways, petty thieves, and drug offenders from East O. The staff tends to mirror the inmate demographic, and visitors usually look a lot like the young woman standing in the foyer, wearing a tight pink halter top and a confused look on her face. She bends down to the receptionist's hole and asks, "Who are all these people?"
The plump receptionist shrugs. "They're here for art."
The woman backs away and stares at the odd collage of wrinkled Caucasian faces, T-shirts, jeans, white name tags, and horn-rimmed glasses. It looks as if a community college teachers' convention got lost on I-580, wandered into the San Leandro hills, and ended up in this dilapidated stucco building.
Some do, in fact, teach at community colleges, but only to pay the bills while they bide their time for a chance like this. These thirty or so people are finalists in the biggest public-arts competition the East Bay has ever seen. A 1993 ordinance states that any new county building means new money for the arts -- so the 60-acre, 370-bed Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center under construction on the hill above the old kiddie jail has minted $2.3 million for art and art programs at the new facility, including $1.6 million in potential public-art commissions to be doled out this fall.
And the artists have flocked: Heavy hitters like John Werley, Daniel Galvez, and Johanna Poethig stand center stage on the black marble-colored linoleum making chit-chat. Younger, darker, edgier artists with worse chances of hitting the big money observe from the wings. Burdened by the irony of the prison-industrial complex playing the Medici family, some of them are feeling ambivalent. "There's a lot of contradictions," says Oakland's Keba Konte, a photojournalism-trained montage artist with credits from Spin and Vibe who is trying to cross over into public murals. He also actively fought to stop construction of the new $133 million juvenile facility. "My fourteen-year-old cousin was giving me shit, like, 'You working for the jail!?'"
Konte isn't the only one who feels weird about it. Muralists Catalina Gonzalez and Tim Martinez sit next to him while cartoonist Isis Rodriguez tries to work the room. Their four unique visual styles make for some of the most cutting-edge murals in the Bay Area. Consequently, they'll have the hardest time getting their work through the miles of red tape, 45-plus bureaucrats and public critics, and a banal public review that ends up before the county's Board of Supervisors. Rarely have artist and censor seemed so destined for a showdown.
Catalina Gonzalez' off-the-rack, white button-down sleeveless shirt and quiet demeanor belie her toughness. She's a self-taught photorealist who fled life as a Modesto farmworker to catch her first break doing nude portraits for San Francisco strip clubs. She has called neighborhoods like Hunters Point and West Oakland home for more than a decade.
Tim Martinez also plays it low-key in the lobby while sporting twin tattoos of fire and water underneath his long-sleeved sweater. His guerrilla muralist team, Justin Artifice, has stealthily zapped dozens of blighted Oakland buildings with a grab-bag of instantly recognizable urban forms against vibrant neon backdrops.
Isis Rodriguez is the only finalist with flowers in her hair. Her black T-shirt featuring one of her cartoon characters references the curves and lines of graffiti. A former stripper with a fine-arts degree, whose résumé includes several murals in SF's Mission District, numerous cartoon exhibitions, and work in Low Rider magazine, she was featured in the 2002 book Vicious, Delicious, and Ambitious: 20th-Century Women Artists.
While they wait, these long shots among the ten mural finalists calculate the personal stakes of this meeting. Officials will pay $15,000 each for a dozen murals, and an artist can win up to four -- a $60,000 purse. "I can barely survive," Catalina explains. "This is life-changing money. I could pay off some credit-card bills, fix my car. Honestly, the first thing I'd do with my share is maybe go buy some new clothes and a new collar for my dog. I'd like to save some for a down payment on a house, too."
"Honestly, I'd just like to get better materials," says Tim, an accomplished carpenter who recently bought a 150-year-old house with his girlfriend on a sideshow-marred block of Chestnut Street in West Oakland. "I could paint you the most beautiful piece of art with the right materials. I'd buy the best Colorfast paint, and when it comes off the brush, the strokes, the quality of the lines -- it's so much better than the garbage you buy at Home Depot."
Isis doubts she'd profit that much after expenses, but she has other motives. "It'll really benefit my career as an artist," she says. "It's a hustle out there, and you gotta be a person who's willing to take on a project that might not pay shit and have a good attitude about it. You don't know what the project will get you."
All four know what they're likely to encounter during today's focus-group-slash-parole-hearing mashup: Kids from their own neighborhoods who have too much time and not enough supervision. The same kids who skip school to hang out at Walgreens. The ones with absent parents. The ones who've broken into their cars, tagged their stuff, scared off their neighbors, and tried to sell them drugs.
One of the artists asks Robert Calvin, the juvenile hall manager, what to expect. "The children you'll meet today have been chosen according to their stated interest in art," he replies, then adds, "Of course, behavioral concerns are taken into account."
Deeper within the facility, beige walls, fluorescent lights, and fishnetted glass hijack the aesthetic. Heavy wooden doors are locked and unlocked. The sounds of keys and industrial air-conditioning units echo down long hallways that bend out of sight. The artists and staffers collect in one such passage so guards can lock them in and then usher them to the large cafeteria, whose only salient features are bad renditions of ducks and fish on the walls, along with a sign that reads "O.C. Pepper Spray Is Used In This Institution."
"We ready?" Calvin asks his burly staff member, once the artists are in place.
"They're coming in right now."
The heat brings out the freaks on Friday, August 5, the night of Oakland's biggest art event of the year. All around Telegraph Avenue and 23rd Street, young white twentysomethings with thrift-store clothes and choppy haircuts mob the sidewalks. The drug dealers that once dotted these walkways have yielded over the last five years to squads of underground art fans smoking weed and drinking beer, doing the hipster equivalent of a pub crawl. Five galleries in a five-block radius host openings tonight to celebrate the neighborhood's transformation into ground zero of the underground art scene.
Tim Martinez and Geoff Dorn -- coconspirators of Justin Artifice -- hold court in 21 Grand, a onetime meth den turned art gallery, which tonight sizzles with bright red and yellow from their latest mural. Friends and scenesters saunter in, pay tribute, have a Sierra and a few smokes, and talk about the other work they've seen before staggering off into the night. The party lasts past 2 a.m. -- even visiting artists from Berlin and London are amazed at the vitality of the scene.
But the accepted reality of Oakland visual art is that almost all of it is pro bono. Everyone showing tonight has a day job of some kind that pays for their materials and time. "This was $400 out of our pocket," Martinez explains. "That was PG&E money. Food money."
If Oakland's underground artists all were to quit grant-writing or teaching tomorrow to pursue making their foam monsters and photorealistic murals full-time, they'd be as homeless as the vagrants who once roamed the gallery district in droves.
Two independent but parallel art worlds run through Oakland: the bright, sexy, edgy, very visible underground scene, and the near-invisible world of older designers who make a living stocking hospitals and government buildings with the artistic equivalent of tapioca pudding. Seeing that world requires a trip to the sixth-floor conference room of a gleaming government tower on the shores of Lake Merritt, where the glass doors have gilded handles, and the carpets are the color of money.
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The late summer heat is almost unbearable in Logan, Utah. Yet we still come in waves of thousands this year, to attend a conference that only hundreds attended not that long ago. Last week marked the 33rd Conference on Small Satellites, an annual gathering of next-generation space engineers, investors, executives, tinkerers and enthusiasts from around the world.
What was once an annual sideshow to the much bigger and corporate-financed National Space Symposium, the conference is now garnering the attention of senior leaders in the U.S. government. Last week's conference may very well have revealed the emergence of this generation's maverick leaders who will finally reshape the arc of a space industrial complex that emerged in the space race of the 1960s. The surging attendance and growing influence by the government was palpable. Their motivation likely comes from a yearning for real innovation at the same time that resilience—the ability to persevere in a prolonged battle—is becoming an urgent need. Or, perhaps this new generation of smallsat technology has finally demonstrated enough military utility that it has earned its seat at the table for serious conversation. Regardless, never before has there been so many senior Air Force officers and government executives eager to learn and participate as we saw last week. And for everyone, especially for those who value our modern way of life and the tax dollars associated with providing it, this is a very good sign.
During the opening panel of the symposium, two of the panelists from the Defense Department were quite unambiguous in their replies that both the Army and the Air Force are actively seeking to explore the possibilities in commercial space. Separately reported in SpaceNews, Jim Pruneski, Army Space and Missile Defense Command space and strategic systems director, said, "We are very interested in working with industry to identify new innovative [space] applications." As Colonel Dennis Bythewood, the USAF's Program Executive Officer for Space Development said, it's now up to this next generation of smallsat companies to demonstrate to him which of their concepts have the technical chops and the pricing to merit consideration for true national security missions.
Equally as interesting was the perspective of Jimi Crawford, founder and CEO of Orbital Insight, a commercial space data and AI company. His insight to the audience is that the military's needs are remarkably similar to his current commercial customers from other economic sectors, including agriculture and investment banking. Evidently, another space rubicon has been crossed: there will never again be enough analysts to leverage the valuable tsunami of exponentially increasing data collected from space. His company and others are combining machine learning tech from e-commerce with space data to improve gains all across the private sector.
This community of small satellites, next-generation launch systems and advanced analytics is starting to see the green shoots of a government renaissance. Not only has the Air Force established a fast yet disciplined acquisition approach to leveraging this commercial capability, it is already awarding real performance contracts instead of only studies. The Space Enterprise Consortium or SpEC Program is demonstrating that the Air Force knows what it needs from this community and is eager to contract for it.
In other sessions and private conversations throughout the week, senior executives from the U.S. government were routinely using a new term, hybrid space architectures, to describe large and small satellites constellations working together synergistically. The rhetorical regularity of the expression implies an almost foregone conclusion to at least one aspect of future government resilient architectures. This generation of government leaders may finally accomplish something their predecessors could not—both leverage and support the commercial space community.
Aside from associated cost savings, there was also significant discussion around the need for a strength in numbers approach to out-maneuver and endure against an imminent threat. Much like the special operations community maintains its agility by leveraging off the shelf technology in new and innovative ways, the military now needs tailored space capabilities fielded in a matter of a few months rather than several years, which is how long current strategic systems require. These recent public proclamations and the discrete contract actions of the Air Force and others indicate the national security need for these capabilities has shifted from nice to have to essential in a domain that has become contested militarily in only a few years.
Along with the political deliberations regarding a separate Space Force, the last twenty years have seen an internal government debate about the proper role it must take in addressing, leveraging and promoting the commercial space industry. The official National Space Policy is periodically updated and Presidential Policy Directives are occasionally issued, most famously NSPD-27 which provides direction to all branches of the federal government. For the most part, however, the government and the commercial industries have operated side by side, rarely having much to do with one another outside regulatory matters.
Both sides of the space economy now see the necessity and are ready to engage again in a more fulsome discussion. Government policy must be readdressed at all levels from acquisitions to export control because it will have profound implications for the direction a Space Force takes in defending America and its ally's interests. Done with the necessary forethought, the entire U.S. space industry will emerge strengthened and competitive for the future. If the government misses the mark this time, it may be eclipsed by an international industry that is growing exponentially every year and leaving the American industry, its progenitors, in its wake.
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I am currently the Executive Chairman of York Space Systems, a leader in commercial satellite design and manufacturing, as well as Chairman of the SmallSat Alliance, an organization advocating for the future of this remarkably evolving industry. I'm also an active early stage investor in the entrepreneurial space. Prior to my current chairmanships, I was President of Vulcan Aerospace, responsible for asset allocation within a privately held aerospace investment portfolio exceeding $1B. From 2009 to 2013, I was a senior executive at the Pentagon responsible for all space & intelligence acquisitions, exceeding $80B annually. I offer unique insights into current industry trends affecting commercial and private space companies and national security. I'm also a retired Air Force Colonel, having served 23 years in space & intelligence leadership positions around the world. At Forbes, my focus is on the promise of this new growth sector and what the proliferation of this new space movement means for industry stakeholders across the board.


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From recently collaborating with Nike on exclusive World Cup kits and Rimowa on transparent luggage, Virgil Abloh now graces the cover for GRIND magazine's latest issue.
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Do you regularly review what your group is doing? Often, when we get busy and new opportunities arise, we forget to go back and think about why we set the group up. We take the opportunities and forget that they are not always the things our members want us to do.
It is great practice, every six months or so, to sit down as a group and look at your journey. Go back to basics and look at your values. Look at the issues you may have faced, how could they have been avoided or perhaps could you have dealt with them in a better way? Has your membership increased? Decreased? Which social media works best for you? Facebook page? Group? Email?
Why every 6 months and not just once a year?
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Have you faced issues, disagreements, a change in leadership or perhaps people leaving because they don't like the leadership in the past six months? How did you deal with the issues? Could you have foreseen some of them? Could they have been avoided?
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It's also a good time to review the strengths and weaknesses of those involved in running the group. You may have lost some people or gained a few new ones. What are the skills missing? What skills do people have which are not being used?
A bi-annual review is also a good chance to recognise the successes. If you fail to celebrate the successes, you will eventually get tired and to be honest, just fed up of it all. Look at the feedback you have had. What has been a success?
Look at what didn't work, maybe the one thing you really expected to work? Could you have done anything differently? Was it almost what your members wanted but it just needs a few tweaks?
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Cloverdale (060) May 23 2020 Fly-InSubmitted by Captain Ray on Thu, 03/05/2020 - 10:48
Come on out and join the excitement. Ray and Sher are sure to be there to help in your Ultra-lite and Sport plane questions.
We are located at Hangar 10, Lessons, Sales and Service!! Come on out socialize and visit us.
More MoTown Pictures!Submitted by Captain Ray on Wed, 03/04/2020 - 15:58
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Motown 2020Submitted by Captain Ray on Sat, 02/15/2020 - 11:36
Captain Ray and Sher midway thru the Motown Flying Circus! Having a blast, more pictures to come after we have had too much fun. Be sure to continue on to see more pictures.
Arizona Flying Circus - Motown AirportSubmitted by Captain Ray on Thu, 01/30/2020 - 11:49
Shipway Aviation (Ray & Sher) will be attending and hoping to see all our fellow flyers!!
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Clear Lake Fly-In PicturesSubmitted by Captain Ray on Tue, 09/17/2019 - 14:27
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Faith Franklin feels like she's walking on air since moving to beautiful, sunny Florida.
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Safety is very important when riding and driving a school bus. We'd like you to follow these guidelines to ensure a safe transporation environment for your children.
1. Students shall arrive at the bus stop 5 minutes before the bus is scheduled to arrive.
2. Students must wait at the driver designated place of safety or a safe place well off roadway while waiting to board the bus. When departing the bus, students must stand in the driver designated place of safety until the bus had departed.
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5. Students must remain seated keeping aisles and exits clear.
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8. Students must refrain from eating, chewing gum and drinking on the bus except as required for medical reasons.
9. Students must not use and/or possess tobacco products on the bus or at the bus stop.
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11. Students must not throw or pass objects on, from or into the bus.
12. Students may carry on the bus only objects that can be held in their laps. (see paragraph (J) of rule 3301-83-20 of the Administrative Code). Firearms, explosives, or other dangerous materials, balloons, animals (except for service animals) and glass containers are not permitted on school buses.
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This production of Jersey Boys is Jonathan's second as associate designer. He was Maria Björnson's assistant for the original production of The Phantom of the Opera and has reproduced the show worldwide, as well as assisting her on productions for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Royal Shakespeare Company, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, English National Opera and La Scala, Milan. He has worked with Mark Thompson on productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and One Man, Two Guvnors, Blast!, Doctor Dolittle, The Wind in the Willows, 'Art', Life x 3, The Lady in the Van, Kean, And Then There Were None, Bombay Dreams and The Female of the Species. He is Mark's associate on Mamma Mia! and has designed more than 30 productions. Other work includes designs for Scottish Opera, Kent Opera, Welsh National Opera and the West End.


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World Cancer Report is an IARC publication. The co-editors are former IARC Director Dr Christopher P. Wild, IARC Director Dr Elisabete Weiderpass, and Dr Bernard W. Stewart of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The co-editors have determined that the new World Cancer Report will have a specific focus on cancer prevention and the research that underpins prevention.
The previous World Cancer Report was among a spectrum of authoritative publications documenting that the number of cases and the number of deaths from cancer worldwide will progressively rise over the coming decades. In particular as a proportion of national populations, this rise will increasingly be most marked in low-income countries. Dr Wild has highlighted cancer prevention as the option that may best address the increasing cancer burden, by concluding, "We can′t treat our way out of the cancer problem."
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Cancer prevention is achievable, as indicated by downturns, in some countries and communities, in the amount of cancer attributable to tobacco or sun exposure and, in cases of cancer caused by infectious agents, as achieved by vaccination. Other cancers, including cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer, have been reduced in incidence by earlier detection and improved access to treatment as a consequence of national screening programmes. Integrating all such research for optimal and concise presentation will be the primary responsibility of the editors of the next World Cancer Report.


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Health care will be on the menu when President Donald Trump hosts a lunch for Republican senators at the White House today. ABC News wrote the President "wants one last shot" to persuade GOP senators to find a way to to move forward on the Republicans' promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.
There has also been a lot of talk over the past 24 hours about a 'repeal-only' measure. According to Fox News, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hopes to move forward with that plan next week.
"McConnell said Tuesday that the Senate will hold a procedural vote to repeal ObamaCare "early next week," but with four Republicans already announcing their opposition, debate on a bill doesn't seem likely."
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) President & CEO Greg Vigdor issued a short statement regarding U.S. Senate leadership's latest bid to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement plan. You can watch Mr. Vigdor's response by clicking on the video or by reading his statement below.
"The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association has been consistent in our position that any repeal of the Affordable Care Act must be accompanied by an immediate replacement plan to ensure predictability for health care providers and continuity of coverage for Arizona families. That is why we are deeply troubled by a renewed push from the Trump administration and some in the U.S. Senate to repeal the federal health care law without readying something to take its place."
"Make no mistake: this shortsighted tact would immediately and painfully disrupt the healthcare system, potentially unraveling already-fragile insurance markets and panicking 32 million Americans faced with pending loss of coverage. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has previously examined the impacts of a repeal-only option, and found it would double premiums and increases the federal deficit by $137 billion over the next decade."
"We respectfully ask that Majority Leader McConnell and our elected representatives in Congress reconsider before going down this road. Yes, the Affordable Care Act has real problems. For months we have been calling on Congress to come up with real, responsible solutions that address these shortcomings and improve access, cost and choice in healthcare. This is not the way to do it."
"We echo the sentiments of Senator McCain, who is calling for Congress to 'return to regular order, hold hearings, receive input from members of both parties, and heed the recommendations of our nation's governors' in drafting a health care proposal for the American people. It's more important to get it done right than to get it done quickly."
As always, we would love to have you share your thoughts on this issue. Whether you agree or disagree, we believe keeping the lines of communication open will help us do what is best for the people, patients and communities of Arizona. And that, in turn, will help us take another step toward our long-term goal of one day making Arizona the Healthiest State in the Nation!


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Latest News
6 September 2014
LyticsLab@Stanford Releases LAW Report
RELATED: Stanford professor spurs movement to build new field: Learning analytics
10 September 2014
Teachley announces Learning Analytics Platform for schools
10 September 2014
Arlington schools announce key findings from 'Big Data' competition
Recent Blogs
Big on Big Data by Michael D. Hilborn
Using Classroom Data to Understand Learning (or Learning Analytics) by Lueny Morell
A School's Guide to Learning Analytics by Lorna Keane.
SMAC IT! by Preeti Jasnani
Learning Analytics: Not just about measuring but engaging students! by Li Yuan
Framework for Using Learning Analytics for DMin Program Assessment & Improvement by Roxanne Russell
Featured Publications
Special Issue: Selected and Extended Papers from the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge
Special Issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics based on the selected, extended, and revised papers that were presented at the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK'13).
- Scientometrics as an Important Tool for the Growth of the Field of Learning Analytics
(Negin Mirriahi, Dragan Gasevic, Shane Dawson, Phillip D. Long)
- Analysis and Reflections on the Third Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK 2013)
(Xavier Ochoa, Dan Suthers, Katrien Verbert, Erik Duval)
- Epistemology, Assessment, Pedagogy: Where Learning Meets Analytics in the Middle Space
(Simon Knight, Simon Buckingham Shum, Karen Littleton)
- Learning Analytics for Online Discussions: Embedded and Extracted Approaches
(Alyssa Wise, Yuting Zhao, Simone Hausknecht)
- Analyzing the Path of Ideas and Activity of Contributors in an Open Learning Community
(Iassen Halatchliyski, Tobias Hecking, Tilman Goehnert, H. Ulrich Hoppe)
- A Strategy for Incorporating Learning Analytics into the Design and Evaluation of a K-12 Science Curriculum
(Carlos Monroy, Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, Reid Whitaker)
- Peer Promotions as a Method to Identify Quality Content
(Bjorn Levi Gunnarsson, Richard Alterman)
- Analyzing Engineering Design through the Lens of Computation
(Marcelo Worsley, Paulo Blikstein)
Curriculum Analytics: Application of Social Network Analysis for Improving Strategic Curriculum Decision-Making in a Research-Intensive University
Shane Dawson, Harry Hubball
This paper provides insight into the use of curriculum analytics to enhance learning-centred curricula in diverse higher education contexts. Engagement in evidence-based practice to evaluate and monitor curricula is vital to the success and sustainability of efforts to reform undergraduate and graduate programs. Emerging technology-enabled inquiry methods have enormous potential to inform evidence-based practice in complex curriculum settings. For example, curriculum analytics, including data from student learning outcomes, graduate qualities, course selection and assessment activities, can be mined from various student learning systems and analysed to inform curriculum renewal strategies and demonstrate impact at both the program and course level. Curriculum analytics can serve to foster a culture of inquiry and scholarship regarding program improvements that is characterised by information sharing within and across disciplinary borders. This paper presents an innovative technology that draws on social network methodologies for assessing and visualising the integration and linkages across individual courses that ultimately form a student's complete program of study. Insights are grounded in the literature and curriculum leadership experiences in a Canadian research-intensive university setting.
Broadening and Deepening of SOTL with Learning Analytics
KOH Hian Chye & Sylvia CHONG
The last decade has witnessed the growing prominence of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and the rise of learning analytics in higher education institutions. This is not surprising given the developments in technology, pedagogy, online/open learning and data availability as well as the increasing academic interest in various aspects of teaching and learning. Learning analytics applications have made possible customised and enhanced learning experiences for the learners, and improved student retention and success for the institutions. Learning analytics can be viewed as an integral part of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). This aligns with SoTL as a research domain that enhances students' learning experiences. This article explores the educational potential of learning analytics and how it could be exploited for the SoTL in a higher education context. It examines the conceptualization and meaning of SoTL as well as Learning Analytics, followed by a discussion on how SoTL and Learning Analytics can support each other. An illustration to show that Learning Analytics can be an effective platform for educators to advance SoTL is reported.
Relations between Student Online Learning Behavior and Academic Achievement in Higher Education: A Learning Analytics Approach
Il-Hyun Jo, Taeho Yu, Hyeyun Lee, Yeonjoo Kim
The purpose of this study is to suggest more meaningful components for learning analytics in order to help learners to improve their learning achievement continuously through an educational technology approach. 41 undergraduate students in a women's university in South Korea participated in this study. The seven-predictor model was able to account for 99.3% of the variance in the final grade, F(8, 32) = 547.424, p < . 001, R2 = .993. Total login frequency in LMS, (ir)regularity of learning interval in LMS, and total assignments and assessment composites had a significant (p < .05) correlation with final grades. However, total studying time in LMS (β = .038, t = .868, p > .05), interactions with content (β = −.004, t = −.240, p > .05), interactions with peers (β = .015, t = .766, p > .05), and interactions with instructor (β = .009, t = .354, p > .05) did not predict final grades. The results provide a rationale for the treatment for student time management effort.
Calls for Papers
NEW! #design4learning: From Blended Learning to Learning Analytics in HE The Open University (Milton Keynes, UK) | 26-27 November 2014 (SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 September 2014)
Developing Effective Educational Experiences through Learning Analytics Edge Hill University Press (ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 September 2014)
Call for Ethical & Privacy Issues in the Application of Learning Analytics Project LACE / SURF SIG LA (DEADLINE: 24 September 2014)
5th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Conference Marist College (Poughkeepsie, NY) | 16-20 March 2015 (SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 14 October 2014)
Upcoming Events
6 – 9 October 2014
Learning Analytics Week
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
NEW! 10 – 16 October 2014
Seminar on Learning Analytics for Schools in Stockholm
15 October 2014
ALE Speaker Series: Charles Dziuban on Engaging Students in an Engaging Educational Environment
Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
20 October 2014
Data, Analytics and Learning: An introduction to the logic and methods of analysis of data to improve teaching and learning
University of Texas Arlington | EdX
24 October 2014
LACE SoLAR Flare
The Open University (Milton Keynes, UK)
Employment Opportunities
NEW! Bay Path University (Springfield, MA)
The American Women's College at Bay Path University seeks an experienced, talented individual to work collaboratively with key stakeholders to maximize student and institutional success through the use of data analytics to drive institutional business decisions and online learning strategies. OPEN UNTIL FILLED
University of Queensland (Australia)
The new Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITALI) will provide leadership, engagement and advocacy in educational innovation, teaching excellence and learning analytics and aims to transform & innovate teaching, learning and creativity. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 22 September 2014
Taylor's University (Malaysia)
The Learning Analytics Specialist is responsible for strategy development, data analysis, education evaluation and learning analytics. He/She will support the Taylor's University learning analytics strategic priorities through the design, development and implementation of an innovative and sustainable learning analytics strategy and will engage with academic staff to encourage the use of analytics tools to support teaching and learning. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 3 October 2014
New! Delft Extension School (The Netherlands)
We are looking for a researcher (PhD or Postdoc level), whose research focuses on the modeling
and analysis of learners and their learning processes in the context of MOOCs (Massive Open
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Gary Becker, Nobel Laurette in economics and professor of economics at the University Of Chicago, writes on capitalism in Latin America:
One legitimate reason for the opposition to capitalism in Latin America is that it frequently has been "crony capitalism" as opposed to the competitive capitalism that produces desirable social outcomes. Crony capitalism is a system where companies with close connections to the government gain economic power not by competing better, but by using the government to get favored and protected positions. These favors include monopolies over telecommunications, exclusive licenses to import different goods, and other sizeable economic advantages. Some cronyism is found in all countries, but Mexico and other Latin countries have often taken the influence of political connections to extremes.
In essence, crony capitalism often creates private monopolies that hurt consumers compared to their welfare under competition. The excesses of cronyism have provided ammunition to parties of the left that are openly hostile to capitalism and neo-liberal policies. Yet when these parties come to power they usually do not reduce the importance of political influence but shift power to groups that support them. A distinguishing characteristic of Chile since the reforms of the early 1980's is the growth in competitive capitalism at the expense of crony capitalism. This shift more than anything else explains the economic rise of Chile during the past 25 years that has made Chile the most economically successful of all Latin American nations.
The full post can be found here. His response to comments can be found here.


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Know the Safety Rules for the Swimming Pool
Creating a swimming pool is one of the best ways in which you can make the best use of the available backyard space. This is a great feature which you can have within your home. But maintaining it comes with a responsibility. Here are some safety tips for swimming pool Contractor which can follow for ensuring that it remains in a perfect working condition:-
Get to know about the existing local regulations
While selecting design of swimming pool, it is essential to follow all the existing state and local building codes and requirements. Get in touch with the local code enforcement agency in order to ensure that no issues crop up with your plans. This is a vital step in order to ensure a high level of safety and proper design of your swimming pool.
Ensure that there is a proper water balance
As a pool owner, you will have to make it a point to check the water levels on a regular basis for balance. You will have to devote just a few minutes in order to make sure that water is safe enough for swimming. You need to use proper cleaning chemicals as per directions to ensure that the water remains safe and healthy to swim. The water can be really dangerous in case the pH balance is off. You will also have to learn the correct way for testing the water and keeping it clean through the use of essential chemicals.
Offer your pool a well fitted cover
Every swimming pool requires a cover. A cover offers a high level of protection to the pool during the off season and also works as a safety guard. In order to be effective, the cover needs to have the proper fit and be in sync with the exact type of pool which you are having. Make sure that you opt for the pool of correct size and install it in a proper manner once the swimming season ends.
Safety tips to be followed during maintenance
When it comes to pool maintenance, it is always wise to handle chemicals with care. One area of pool ownership which you need to pay attention to is the maintenance of different mechanical parts such as filters and pool pumps. The pool devices are electric and may cause injury or death in case they are not handled with a high level of care. Make sure that no extension cords are used in the area which surrounds the spa or pool. Ensure that neither you nor your family members enter the water when the utility pump is being operated. Also avoid putting an aluminum handle within the pool.
Make sure that no one swims in the pool or hot tub when there is an electric storm. Store chlorine and pool chemicals in an area which is locked and ensure that the area is out of reach of children as well as pets. As a swimming pool owner, you need to be aware that a swimming pool which isn't treated is an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes and insects which can cause different types of diseases. In case you don't ensure proper cleaning and maintenance then the water of the swimming pool can become a breeding place for algae and bacteria which might make you and your family ill in case it gets ingested or enters the skin through an open wound.
"Make sure that you will clean the pool on a regular basis and keep it safe from insects, bacteria and algae."


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The journey from app idea to tangible creation is a difficult one.
The success of the project greatly depends on the way you explain your app idea to an app development team.
You have to be skillful enough to explain the idea in a way that will help the development team understand key concepts.
Failing to communicate the app idea in the right manner will result in slowing down the development process, increased costs, and delaying the release of the app.
Here are the best tips and guidelines to communicate your app idea to a development team.
Divide Your App Development Project Into Small Chunks
Problems occur in development projects because too many elements are explained to the app development team at once.
Adding small structure to your app development project will help reduce these problems.
You need to provide information in digestible chunks that will help the app development team more clearly understand your app idea.
This will also ensure you and the developers have the same project vision.
Here's the right way to do it.
1. Create an MVP Plan
In the field of mobile app development, MVP (minimum viable product) refers to creating a basic version of your mobile application without excess features that you will include in your final product.
It's a single-purpose app that's released to the market to validate your app idea.
Your MVP plan should describe the core features of your mobile app that are most important. You can add the bells and whistles at a later stage.
This stage is about envisioning how your target audience will use the app, such as what the product will be used for. You should not mention finer details at this point, but instead focus on the main use of the app.
For example, if the app will be used to sell smartwatches, don't go into specific details about the smartwatches. Instead, you can mention that the user will be able to browse through a catalog of smartwatches and make a purchase.
The main purpose of this is to help the app development team get to the core of your app idea.
An MVP plan will help you create the most useful, relevant app that your target audience will actually use.
2. Create Flow Charts
You can create flow charts, or images of different app screens to explain how the user will perform different steps to get a specific result on your app.
For example, if you are developing an e-commerce app, make screen images for different steps in the app, such as creating an order.
In the above image, the app entrepreneur made screen images for creating a new account as well as placing an order.
If you have the technical expertise, create detailed flow charts for "if-then" scenarios.
For example, if the user is opening the app for the first time, then he/she is taken to a welcome page where he/she is required to fill in user details like name, email address, and phone number.
If the user wants to create an order, then he/she needs to select the product, add it to the cart, and press pay.
If the user keeps the address field empty and taps the "Submit" button, then the app needs to display the message "address field cannot be empty," and the cursor is placed back in the address field.
Providing basic flowcharts gives the right direction to the app development team.
3. Explain Each App Function
You need to explain each app function in detail.
Be concise in your description and try to explain it in simple words.
It is necessary to communicate maximum details of every function that you plan to include in the mobile app, such as video call, chat, or picture upload.
You can create mockups or diagrams and present them to the app development team along with your plan.
4. Finalize the Deadline and Discuss the App's Budget
Every software development project has a deadline, and you need to mention a timeframe when you share your plan with the team.
However, be open to a different deadline and finalize it only after discussing it with the app development team. Also, consider estimations presented by the project manager.
This will give the developers a sense of completion time. In case you are in a hurry, the app development firm can deploy additional resources to complete the work faster. It is possible your launch date is tied to a specific event, like the Christmas holidays, which you do not want to miss.
You also need to decide on the final costs of the app development with the company. It is necessary that billing doesn't come as a surprise or disappointment at a later stage.
5. Create Visual Mockups
Visual mockups are an essential part of the communication between the app entrepreneur and development team.
A visual mockup is a full-color design often considered as a high-fidelity input from the client. A high-fidelity input means you provide in-depth insights of your idea to the team.
Whereas as flow charts depict what you want, visual mockups depict how you want it.
A large number of businesses have already established websites and brands, and they want their mobile apps to be an extension of their business in the digital world.
In these cases, the client needs to show the visual side of the project in detail to the app development team.
Without mockups, the app development team will have very little idea how the application will actually function.
Mockups will also help the development team understand the relationship between different features.
This will help the front-end developers understand your brand better and select the right design elements like color and font for the app.
6. Create User Stories
User storiesare crucial to effective communication between the client and app development team.
A user story is a useful tool in agile development. It describes the app's audience, what they want, and why. It allows app developers to include features you might not have thought of.
Each user story maps out a step-by-step approach to overall user experience.
Every step in the story separates key features, which are then sized for effort and the value they bring to the app.
The user story allows the development team to create a series of releases and understand the exact impact of every feature in the user's overall journey.
In the above image, we can see each user story intertwined with one feature and a priority level set for every feature.
This allows the client and the app development team to see the impact of one or more functional areas for the mobile app.
For example, the app development team adds keyword search functionality in the app's first release. The same functionality is enhanced in a newer release by extending the search by fields but limiting it to one keyword to reduce complexity.
If the feature is well-received by the audience, the app development refines the functionality by allowing the user to search attachments and folders.
Such stepwise development not only reduces the complexity but also reduces the development time and enables timely release of the app.
General Communication Guidelines and Tips
As an app startup entrepreneur, you need to have a good relationship with the app development team; this is generally based on effective communication.
When you have a good relationship, it is easier for both parties to understand ideas and interpret thoughts in a much better way.
The app development team is more comfortable with technical language (Swift, Java), while the client speaks and conveys his/her ideas and thoughts in English, so flowcharts, diagrams, and visual mockups can help both parties read and write from the same page and give them a shared vision for the app.
Find the Right Development Team
The most important thing in communication is to be clear and concise.
As a client, if you don't like anything at a specific stage, talk to the development team and make sure they know your opinion.
It is very difficult to go back after you have gone ahead too far in development, and it will only affect the deadline and budget more severely.
A good mobile app development company will encourage you to give feedback and will take it seriously. After all, you know your product and audience better than anyone else, and you know what is right and what is not.
About the Author
A passionate entrepreneur, Arpit is the founder of Promatics Technologies. Over the years, he has witnessed unique changes and revolutionary processes and has mastered key areas of business, including leadership, staff mentoring, motivation boosting, task optimization, resource management, and business development. He is reputed as a professional who invests his constant endeavors in the digital landscape to elevate service value through most comprehensive business and delivery models.