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Saturday, March 3, 2012
AP Exclusive: NKoreans skeptical of US nuke deal (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease soon, but rare interviews Friday by The Associated Press with Pyongyang residents suggest deep cynicism of U.S. intentions.
Internal rifts cut deep into Iran parliament races (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's name will be nowhere on Friday's ballots. But the voting for parliament seats will be very much about him and what's left of his final term in office.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Addressing the Preparation Gap: Parent-Child Home Program ...
If we want to really make strides in bridging the achievement gap, we must start thinking outside the walls of school buildings and work with those who have the most at stake in the future of their children: their parents. ? Sarah Walzer
The Parent-Child Home Program hosted a funder briefing at GMA Foundations that highlighted the impact of early intervention programs for children.
The program is an intensive, evidence-based early childhood literacy, parenting, and school readiness initiative serving 8000 low-income families in 16 states.
Sarah Walzer, Chief Executive Officer of the Parent-Child Home Program led a panel discussion with Massachusetts early childhood education experts familiar with the program.
Presenters included, Matt LiPuma of the Family Nurturing Center in Boston, Roy Belson, Superintendent of the Medford Public Schools, and Ferenanda Villar and Saima Khan of the Somerville Parent-Child Home Program.
Closing the preparation gap
Roy Belson helped frame the discussion with a sharp critique of how society invests too much on the ?back end? of education systems in an effort to fix problems that could have easily been prevented early on.
Referencing a point made by Sarah Walzer in a Huffington Post article, Benson said, ?We can?t close the achievement gap without dealing with the preparation gap.?
The long-term impact on parents
Former Massachusetts State Senator Dave Magnani pointed out that the unintended benefits of intensive home visiting interventions on parents are often as powerful as the increase in literacy skills among the children.
?Low income and immigrant parents catch the education and literacy bug by participating in these programs. They go on to be advocates for their own educations and become more active citizens in the community,? said Mr. Magnani.
Similarly, Saima Khan shared how she has seen the program help empower immigrant families that were formerly isolated and disconnected from community services.
?After they are in the program you see the kids and parents everywhere in the community ? at the library, in other programs, and getting their own education,? said Ms. Khan.
Early childhood education is still a hard sell
Despite overwhelming evidence of impact in improving educational outcomes and saving money, marshaling the political will to increase government funding for home visiting programs remains a challenge.
Massachusetts Parent-Child Home Program Advisory Board Member, Brendan Walsh put it bluntly, ?It?s a hard sell to school administrators that don?t have any incentives to shift or share funding with programs that serve children before they enroll in school. And since it happens at home, it is invisible to the public.?
GMA Foundations clients, the A.C. Ratshesky Foundation, the Linden Foundation, the Mabel Louise Riley Foundation and several other foundations co-sponsored the briefing.
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Source: http://www.gmafoundations.com/?p=2538
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Woman Who Took Money for Fake Cancer Deserves No Pity (ContributorNetwork)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Martha Ann Nicholas, a Virginia woman who faked having ovarian cancer and took upward of $10,000 for treatment with her "Cancer Sucks" T-shirts, got off with a $100 fine and five years probation. According to Trending Now, some folks aren't too happy about the slap on the wrist. They're calling the paltry fine a despicable perversion of justice, and I heartily concur.
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Dr. G's Weight Loss & Wellness Gets New Neighbors Inside The ...
The Life Enrichment Center and Body Solutions have both moved into the Contour Day Spa in Plantation, Florida. The Contour Day Spa is truly a one-stop shop for wellness. Body Solutions offers a full scale gym with one-on-one personal training and the Life Enrichment Center offers counseling, psychotherapy and life coaching. These new businesses work well with the Dr. G's Weight Loss Center and Contour Day Spa's services.
Plantation, FL (PRWEB) February 29, 2012
Contour Day Spa celebrates two new tenants that have just moved in and opened for business. There is a new and exciting atmosphere at the spa with the addition of Body Solutions Gym and The Life Enrichment Center. Dr. G?s Weight Loss & Wellness Center moved in just over one year ago and has benefited from the spa location. Customers enjoy the many services provided by all the vendors located inside the Contour Day Spa?s building.
The Life Enrichment Center is located upstairs in the spa and is operated by four professionals all specializing in different areas of counseling. Dr. Cindy Bunin LMFT; Chef & Dr. Michael Dubanewicz Ph.D., M.Ed., CFM, HHP; Carol Lazarus M.S., LMHC and Laurie Berman M.S., LMHC. Wellness is not only physical, but mental as well. These professionals help Contour Day Spa and Dr. G?s Weight Loss clients with everything from mental health to marriage counseling. Dr. Dubanewicz also brings a holistic food and nutritional background to his therapeutic expertise. Call 1-800-683-7912 for a consultation with one of these mental health professionals.
Body Solutions Gym opened for business on February 27th, inside the Contour Day Spa. Jason Tappan, the owner, created Body Solutions 9 years ago in Plantation, Florida. Jason has been in the fitness industry for more than twenty years and holds extensive certifications: Tony Abbott, NASM, NSCA CPT and ACE. Body Solutions offers everything from Gravity Circuit Training to Yoga. Call 954-475-4966 to schedule a consultation with Jason. One-on-one and group classes available.
Dr. G?s Weight Loss & Wellness is offering a Couple?s Special til the end of March. Buy one weight loss program and get the second at 50% off. This special is only valid for two people signing up at the same time and can be split to provide 25% of each persons weight loss program. Dr. G?s understands weight loss can be better accomplished with the help and support of a friend, spouse or partner. The weight loss program is a doctor-supervised prescription medication plan that includes guidance from a wellness coach on diet and exercise. Call 954-423-1495 for a free consultation with a Board Certified Doctor.
Contour Day Spa in Plantation provides every spa service imaginable plus, weight loss, mental health counseling, physical fitness and laser hair removal (954-673-5736 ask for Rose). There is no other place in Broward County that offers such a complete wellness center under one roof. The spa is conveniently located just minutes north of I-595 across the street from the Westfield (Broward) Mall. 455 SW 78th Ave. Plantation, Florida 33324. Call 954-472-7733 for directions or to schedule a spa service.
About Dr. G?s Weight Loss & Wellness
Dr. Charles Goldsmith founded Dr. G?s Weight Loss & Wellness program in 1994. Over the past 17 years, he has helped over 75,000 patients lose more than one million pounds through his specialized weight loss program. In 2011, Dr. G?s opened their first franchise in Plantation, Florida. The Hollywood, Florida location is the eleventh clinic to open in the first year. The Dr. G?s program is a physician-supervised medical weight loss plan that uses its proprietary software and a full medical evaluation including blood work, EKG, metabolic rate, body composition, and behavioral history to create customized plans for safe and effective weight loss. Plans may incorporate a combination of FDA approved medication, herbal supplements, a custom meal plan and detailed exercise program to help clients lose weight and keep it off. Dr. G?s Weight Loss & Wellness of Plantation is located inside the Contour Day Spa at 455 SW 78th Avenue Plantation, Florida. 33324. The Hollywood clinic is located at 4939 Sheridan St. Hollywood, Fl 33021. Call 954-423-1495 or 954-674-3344 respectively to schedule an appointment.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Do NASCAR Races Contribute To Motorists' Wrecks?
New research indicates that five days after major NASCAR races, there is a measurable increase in traffic accidents caused by aggressive driving.
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As NASCAR fans know well, this year's Daytona 500 race was marked by rain delays and a massive explosion when a race car collided with a jet dryer truck. The race was supposed to be run on Sunday, but after all the delays, it got done early Tuesday morning.
We want to tell you about some new psychological research now that suggests the race might still not be over for some viewers. It's possible, according to this new research, that people who watch a NASCAR race go out on the roads themselves and drive more recklessly. NPR's Shankar Vedantam joins MORNING EDITION regularly to talk about interesting social science research. And Shankar, welcome.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hi, David. Thanks for having me.
GREENE: So what is this research?
VEDANTAM: So this is work done by a psychologist called Guy Vitaglione. He's at the West Virginia University Institute of Technology, and he looked at all the traffic accidents that took place in West Virginia over a four year period, and then he tried to find the kinds of accidents that mimic what happened on a race track, where there are multiple cars or where the police officer on the scene lists the cause of the accident as aggressive driving.
And he finds that five days after major NASCAR races, there is a spike in traffic accidents. And he did a whole bunch of controls to make sure he was being as conservative as possible, and over a four year period he's found 650 extra accidents on West Virginia roads that he believes are caused by people essentially acting out NASCAR in their own driving.
GREENE: Now, let's hang on a second. I mean most people watching a NASCAR race on TV clearly know that it's a race. They know they can't drive the same way as a professional race car driver. I mean, is this researcher saying that people can't distinguish between what they're watching on TV and their own driving?
VEDANTAM: No, I don't think that's what he's saying. He's actually coming out of a large body of social science research looking at media effects in general, so when there's a highly publicized suicide in a community, people often find there's measurable increase in suicides in that community afterwards. So what the media covers seem to have a powerful effect in helping people shape their own behavior.
Vitaglione is saying the same thing might be happening in the NASCAR races. Here he is.
DR. GUY VITAGLIONE: There is the conscious awareness that I'm watching a NASCAR race, I'm not actually in a NASCAR race, and tomorrow when I drive to work I'm still not in a NASCAR race. But that understanding does not take away from the impact that mass media exposure is going to have on the way you think and the way you feel and what you actually do.
VEDANTAM: So, you know, I want to point out, David, that the effect that Vitaglione's finding is not necessarily a huge effect, but if you have 650 accidents in this one small state over a four-year period, how many accidents are we seeing nationwide?
GREENE: Let's try to pick apart this research a little bit. I mean we have a spike in accidents on the fifth day after a NASCAR race was run.
VEDANTAM: Exactly.
GREENE: Why five days, not two days, not three days?
VEDANTAM: You know, so this is a big question. He actually doesn't know the answer to that question. I mean, one possibility is that NASCAR races typically are run on Friday, Saturday, and Sundays, and five days after the NASCAR race, you know, you're heading into the next weekend. Maybe it's a Friday. Maybe people...
GREENE: More people are on the road going on vacation for the weekend...
VEDANTAM: Possibly. I mean the short answer is we don't know. There's speculation, but we don't really know why it's five days.
GREENE: Do we know anything about the people involved in the accidents, whether they're young, old, NASCAR fans?
VEDANTAM: You know, we actually don't know exactly the profile of who gets involved in these accidents. Now, Vitaglione things that there isn't a demographic profile, that it's not necessarily, for example, young men who are getting involved in these crashes. But he thinks they may be a psychological profile about the kind of person who watches this race and is then influenced by it. Here he is again.
VITAGLIONE: They are rooting for someone. They want someone to win or they want someone else to lose, and so there's that vicarious involvement in the outcomes of these competitions. So there's that role of personal identification with the people that you're watching that I think has an especially strong effect on an individual's likelihood to engage in that behavior himself or herself.
GREENE: OK. So interesting research, a lot of questions about it, but if we take the premise, I mean if people who watch NASCAR races actually go out and drive more recklessly, what can be done about it?
VEDANTAM: You know, this effect is likely happening because people aren't realizing what they're doing. They aren't realizing that they are unconsciously internalizing what they see on NASCAR on television to their own driving behavior, and so doing what you and I are doing right now, which is making this unconscious process conscious, may itself have a salutary effect.
GREENE: Shankar, thanks so much.
VEDANTAM: Thanks so much, David.
GREENE: That's NPR's science correspondent Shankar Vedantam. He joins us regularly to talk about trends in social science research, and you can give him ideas and feedback on Twitter @hiddenbrain. And while you're at it, you can follow this program @morningedition.
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Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/02/29/147621392/do-nascar-races-contribute-to-motorists-wrecks?ft=1&f=1007
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