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  • School districts receive federal incentive funds Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 1:21PMThe state received $95.6 million from the United States Department of Education as part of the Education Jobs Act,. Schools in Washington County will be getting their share and all wonder how the programs funded by the grant will be afforded in two years when the money runs out.
  • Calendar Picks and Clicks: Sept. 9-17, 2010 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 11:49AM(TELEVISION) Avery, an African American Brooklyn teen and promising track star, struggles with her “true” identity. Adopted by white Jewish lesbians, she struggles with the circumstances of her adoption and her estrangement from black culture in “Off and Running,” a documentary by Nicole Opper.
  • Guest column: Group stands behind report card Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 5:20AMThe Education Action Group would like to respond to a story and editorial published in the Journal & Courier in the wake of a recent edition of our newsletter, the Hoosier Report Card.
  • Show at KSU gallery tackles wounds of war Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 2:46AMExhibit pairs paintings by children in Vietnam with poems by Americans 'Pictures melt hearts and transform minds'
  • Iraq hit home Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 11:00PMMany Americans didn't even bother to watch President Obama's speech on Iraq last week. They didn't pay attention to the official end of the seven-year war they'd all but forgotten. But the families of the more than 4,400 Americans killed in Iraq -- including several from our area -- never had that luxury. Nor did the more than 31,000 Americans who were wounded. The war will dog them and their ...
  • Cultural exchange Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 10:29PMTONAWANDA — A group of five South Korean professionals and business people have been taking in the scenes in Erie and Niagara counties for the past four days. But, while there was some sightseeing on their itinerary, their main purpose was to get a unique cultural and vocational experience.
  • Rivalry Rage, Inc. Sponsors Colorado’s Largest Air Show…The Colorado Balloon Classic Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 2:01AMRivalry Rage, Inc., The Ultimate in Sports Trash Talk Entertainment, sponsors the 34th Annual Colorado Balloon Classic in Colorado Springs. The Colorado Balloon Classic has been selected as one of the 2010 ‘Top 100 Special Events in North America’ by the American Bus Association (ABA) and one of the ‘Top 100 Events in the USA’ by Events Media Network.
  • U.S. jobless rate hints at permanent shift Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 7:11PMStructural change in labour market may be behind lack government intervention’s lack of success
  • Vance Bourjaily, Postwar American Novelist, Dies Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 5:21PMMr. Bourjaily’s novels often explored what it meant to be an American at a particular historical moment.
  • Barbara Coombs Lee: Medical Society of New York Fights Palliative Care Information Act Despite Mounting Evidence Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 4:02PMThe ink of Governor Paterson's signature is barely dry on New York's Palliative Care Information Act (PCIA), drafted and sponsored by Compassion & Choices and...
  • Marijuana may not be the gateway drug some think it is, study finds Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 3:37PMMarijuana is thought by some to be a gateway drug among young people who eventually go on to try stronger substances. But that may be the exception rather than the rule, a new study finds.
  • Family Health Premiums Rise 3 Percent to $13,770 in 2010, But Workers' Share Jumps 14 Percent as Firms Shift Cost Burden Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:00AMAbout One In Four Covered Workers Now Face Annual Deductibles Of $1,000 Or More, Including Nearly Half Of Those Employed By Small Businesses
  • Herbert A. Fritsche, Ph.D., Joins Health Discovery Corporation as Chief Science Officer Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:57AMSAVANNAH, Ga. -- Health Discovery Corporation (OTCBB: HDVY) is pleased to announce that Herbert A. F...
  • Herbert A. Fritsche, Ph.D., Former M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Professor and Scientist, Joins Health Discovery ... Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:33AMSAVANNAH, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Herbert A. Fritsche, Ph.D., former M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Professor and Scientist, joins Health Discovery Corporation as Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer
  • Herbert A. Fritsche, Ph.D., Former M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Professor and Scientist, Joins Health Discovery ... Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:28AMSAVANNAH, Ga.----Health Discovery Corporation is pleased to announce that Herbert A. Fritsche, Ph.D., recently retired Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Chief of the Clinical Chemistry Section at The University of Texas, M.D.
  • Study Indicates Targeted Strategies Needed To Find, Prevent And Treat Breast Cancer Among Mexican-origin Women Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 8:43AMSpecific prevention and education strategies are needed to address breast cancer in Mexican-origin women in this country, according to a study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, which was published online in the journal Cancer. Among the Mexican-origin women with breast cancer who were surveyed, half were diagnosed before age 50, years earlier than the national average for non ...
  • Saving Arion Could Take A Marathon — BU's Classics Journal Raises Funds, Celebrates 2500th Anniversary of Original ... Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 8:12AMArion Development Chairman will run the Original Marathon this fall in Athens in celebration of its 2,500th anniversary to raise the awareness and funds necessary to save Boston University's prestigious classics and humanities journal.
  • Life in America's toughest jail Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:20AMShaun Attwood's blog about the appalling conditions in a US jail earned him a major book deal. Erwin James , a veteran of the British prison system, compares notes Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, calls himself "America's toughest sheriff". His fame – or his infamy – comes from his tough stance on crime and criminals, to whom he gives no quarter. He does not flinch from putting ...
  • School Digest Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:13AMLAKE FOREST
  • Risk of marijuana's 'gateway effect' overblown, research shows Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:02AMNew research from the University of New Hampshire shows that the "gateway effect" of marijuana - that teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to move on to harder illicit drugs as young adults - is overblown.
  • YOUR SCHOOLS: College Night scheduled Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:53PMThese are the Collier education briefs for the week of Sept. 4
  • Forging A Partnership Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 11:18PMThe Chautauqua Lake, Ripley and Westfield central school districts have formed a three-way partnership to expand educational opportunities for students in all three districts.
  • Florida education news: FCAT scores, AP tests, class size and more Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:08AMLATE AND WRONG: Superintendents from five of Florida's largest school districts including Hillsborough suggest that this year's FCAT results are inaccurate  and call for an independent review. More from the  Daytona Beach News-Journal  and the Sun-Sentinel . Meanwhile, Polk schools begin distributing scores to anxious parents, the Lakeland Ledger reports. MORE AP TESTS: A growing number of ...
  • First Edition: August 31, 2010 Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 7:18AM"These days, you may leave your dentist's office with more than a toothbrush and dental floss in your bag. Thousands of dentists are offering patients health-care credit cards to cover the work that needs to be done, with seemingly hard-to-resist repayment terms. If you need care and don't have insurance to cover it or cash in hand, it's tempting to sign up" (Kaiser Health News).
  • Positive and Negative Influences of Large-Scale Fitness Assessment: Results of Testing with 3 Million Texas Youth Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 7:00AMRESTON, Va., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As teachers and students head back to school, a supplement to the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES) presents key findings and issues associated with the statewide assessment of youth fitness in Texas. The supplement, "Texas Youth Fitness Study," provides an in-depth analysis and evaluation of data collected through the state-mandated ...
  • Study: Concussions among youth athletes have doubled Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 8:26PMA report in the September issue of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, shows that from 1997 to 2007 concussion-related emergency department visits in students aged 8 to 13 who participated in organized sports doubled. The number of hospital visits for older teens increased by more than 200 percent.  
  • Children raised by gay couples show good progress through school Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 4:31PMStanford researcher uses social science to shed light on public debate over family values.
  • Expert Healthcare Panel Recommends Select Nutritional Support for Baby Boomers for Healthy Aging to Maintain Active ... Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 9:30AMNutritional recommendations for the management of sarcopenia -- also described as age-related muscle and functional loss -- were published this past week in the clinical publication, Journal of American Medical Directors Association  .
  • Recent Releases In Global Health Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 8:19AMLancet Infectious Diseases Reflects On TB Diagnosis In Children "[N]ew diagnostic techniques [for tuberculosis] need to be studied in children," according to a Lancet Infectious Diseases Reflection. "Tuberculosis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children worldwide, but estimates of disease burden are inaccurate because most cases are not confirmed," the author writes. He ...
  • PCEC coordinates free or low-cost prostate cancer screenings as part of PCAW Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 8:18AMA council of leading prostate cancer experts is working to protect the lives of American men by providing lifesaving prostate cancer screenings. The Prostate Conditions Education Council – a national organization committed to men's health and a leader in prostate cancer screening – is once again coordinating free or low-cost screenings as part of its national Prostate Cancer Awareness Week to ...
  • Research Roundups: Underinsured Children; Hospital Progress On Electronic Records; Federal Officials' Work On ... Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 7:48AMNew England Journal of Medicine: Underinsurance Among Children In The United States - This study examines the scope of underinsurance, or health insurance that fails to sufficiently meet the needs, of children living in the U.S. Based on information obtained from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health, the authors of the study report, "19.3% - or 14.1 million - of all U.S. children (and ...
  • Latest achievements in brain research and treatment for mental disorders Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 6:18AMMental disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorders, addiction and schizophrenia are the core challenge of most health care systems around the world. In the EU alone, each year 27% of the total adult population - this corresponds to 83 Million citizens - suffer from mental disorders. Depression alone affects almost 20 million ranking in the EU as the most disabling disorder of all diseases.
  • 1STLEAD: German 'Jewish gene' banker launches book amid outrage Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 6:03AMavailableBerlin - German central bank executive Thilo Sarrazin on Monday defended his controversial remarks over the existence of a "Jewish gene" at the launch of his new book which claims Muslim immigrants are damaging Europe.
  • People: Week of Aug. 30, 2010 Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 5:59AMSend People items to the North Bay Business Journal, Attn: Business Register, 427 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95401; fax 707-521-5292; or e-mail news@busjrnl.com.
  • Iraq Is a Complete Failure Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 4:24AMThe United States is ending its combat mission in Iraq, leaving it in a complete mess. On virtually every count, the country is in disastrous shape, writes Amitabh Pal .
  • Teaching communication and information literacy skills Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 3:38AMUndergrads often take communication courses unrelated to their major or discipline. The Iowa State University Department of Horticulture teamed up with the Library and English Departments to develop a course section to teach students to research and understand literature searchers and incorporate them into papers and posters.
  • Herb Nadel: Rough Sailing Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 2:12AMArchitect Herb Nadel says the anti-Semitism he suffered in the Coast Guard prepared him to cope with anything.
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Appears Beneficial For Adults With ADHD Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:18AMAdults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who received medication and individual sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) showed greater improvement in symptoms through 12 months compared to patients who did not receive CBT, according to a study in the August 25 issue of JAMA. "Approximately 4.4 percent of adults in the United States have ADHD, which is a disorder ...
  • Carter will head library Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 4:30AMThe Blue Ridge Regional Library has named J. Drusilla Carter its new director. “We got a good one,” Linda Reynolds, who headed the library board’s search committee, said of Carter on Friday. “We have an ace. ... She had the ‘wow’ factor.”
  • Happenings Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:14AMSUNDAY, AUGUST 29
  • Boomer calendar: Aug. 29-Sept. 5 - From the Poughkeepsie Journal Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:12AMWine Festival - Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, 200 Hurd Road, Bethel. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 29. The festival features a tasting of regional wineries from the Hudson Valley and the Finger Lakes area of New York. Cheese, chocolate and wine are available for tasting and for sale. There is a $5 tasting fee, which includes a complimentary souvenir glass while supplies last. Free admission ...
  • Build the mosque, and we will come Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:09AMI thought this one would go away. I really did. I first heard of it weeks and weeks ago. Frankly, I'm surprised it even got into my foggy mind, as my extended family was all under one roof, sparring over towels and bathroom space, eating doughnuts for breakfast, as though the trans fat wouldn't hurt us, and daily making fun of each other's newspaper choices over coffee; the corner store carried ...
  • Social Security use gets passing grade Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 1:11AMEducation officials say use of the number can improve the effectiveness of student data collection.
  • A familiar face to readers leaves the Herald-Republic Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 12:26AMSpencer Hatton, Wednesday, April 29, 2008. It's going to be a lot quieter in the newsroom next week. Spencer Hatton, a familiar face for readers of the Yakima Herald-Republic, is retiring after nearly 28 years in a variety of editing positions, most recently as editorial page editor.
  • Business people Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:18PMDirector of Physician Outreach, Gary W. Montford, is retiring after nearly 22 years at Promise Regio ...
  • Casino Issue Flares In Georgia Governor Race Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 4:07PMRepublican Nathan Deal created a stir when he said earlier this month that he was willing to keep an "open mind" about the possibility of casinos in Georgia, drawing the ire of the state's politically-powerful Christian conservatives who oppose gambling.
  • Too big for prime time Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 2:52PMThe Academy of Arts and Sciences - you know, the guys with the big awards show every winter - have announced the recipients of their annual Governor's Awards, and it would be hard to imagine a more diverse and deserving bunch.
  • Jim O'Quinn, Beth Henley, Paula Vogel Receive Awards from Association for Theatre in Higher Education Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 11:59AMJim O'Quinn, the editor in chief of the monthly Theatre Communications Group (TCG) arts magazine American Theatre, received the Excellence in Editing award from The Assocation for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Aug. 3 in Los Angeles.
  • Pioneering study finds small amounts of dairy antibiotics in groundwater Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 10:47AMIn the first large study to track the fate of a wide range of antibiotics given to dairy cows, UC Davis scientists found that the drugs routinely end up on the ground and in manure lagoons, but are mostly broken down before they reach groundwater. The findings should help alleviate longstanding fears that dairy farms, and the fields fertilized with their waste, might lead to large-scale ...
  • Grossi, DiCarlo top LHS ‘Hall’ Class of 2010 Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 10:46AMPurple Heart recipient Dominic Grossi and Lockport women’s sports pioneer Loretta Young DiCarlo headline another stellar class of student-athletes to be inducted Sept. 24 into the prestigious Lockport High School “Hall of Fame” this year. The third-annual induction dinner will begin at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn on South Transit Street.