Filed under: Education
Unbelievable amount of money been wasted, and the humans lives been wasted is priceless! still our budget is not balance. Stop dropouts and as result, the budget finds the funds that will balance it. Harmony!
“California’s high school dropouts cost state taxpayers approximately $46.4 billion annually, according to a recent study by the California Dropout Research Project (CDRP) at the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute located at UC Santa Barbara. In addition, the authors estimate that the economic benefit from effective dropout intervention programs would be $392,000 per high school graduate.”
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1643
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger what do you think? can we fix the education system in our beloved state of California by making it sustainable, and prevent more waste of human resources and cash.
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This memorial day its about the remembrance of the fallen heroes, those sent to war for the cause of peace.
We wish our children are not sent into harms way but someone children are sent into harms way, and those families suffer greatly the lost of a love one. Our conditioning by our cultures have made us tolerate this unfairness for some to suffer excessively while others are enjoying to the extreme. The goal is to balance both sides to a middle ground.
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How many times have we had that reported? every year the figures come in about the rate of drop outs.
I’m a in shock by the sick news that one out of 4 kids in California High School is a drop out, in Oakland, my town, is one out of 3! How can we pour all these money to help the world, and deal with whomever wants to be from any whatever political fashion, when our kids, in our backyard are home depress! Or out there filling up the more jails than colleges ratio. No Prop 84 passed in 2004 support these kids that may be dropping out of mental illness cause by the stress in their lives, and other illnesses like asthma, overweight,
LA Times:
1 in 4 quit high school in California
Using a new system for tracking dropouts, California discloses a rate considerably higher than previously reported. About 1 in 3 students in Los Angeles Unified left school.
http://articles.latimes.com/p/2008/jul/17/local/me-dropout17
May 13, 2009 the news announced that there are 1 out of 5 students dropping out of high school in California. In Oakland that rate is 1 out 3. Prop 63 for the mental health act, allocates money to treat this drop out population. Programs are just beginning to be taken shape as the health care industry is revamp.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ACT Target of Proposition 83
http://www.dmh.ca.gov/Prop_63/MHSA/docs/Mental_Health_Services_Act_Full_Text.pdf
In any year, between 5% and 7% of adults have a serious mental illness as do a similar percentage of children — between 5% and 9%.
The program shall emphasize strategies to reduce the following negative outcomes that may result from untreated mental illness:
(1) Suicide.
(2) Incarcerations.
(3) School failure or dropout.
(4) Unemployment.
(5) Prolonged suffering.
(6) Homelessness.
(7) Removal of children from their homes.
Influenza is a virus – a pack of protein and DNA that lacks the capacity to self-reproduce. So it infects a cell, hijacks the inner machinery and uses it to reproduce. The virus reproduces until there are so many copies that the cell bursts and the virus spills out, spreading to other healthy cells.
There are three types of influenza viruses: A, B, and C. Swine flu (H1N1) and the much hyped avian flu (H5N1) are both Type A.
Type A: Infects people, pigs, birds, horses, seals, whales, and other animals. Wild birds are natural hosts. Divided into subtypes based on two surface proteins – hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). There are 15 HA and 9 NA subtypes, and these can be combined in various ways. Currently, the three most common subtypes in general human circulation are H1N1, H1N2, and H3N2. These can cause epidemics – defined as a high incidence of disease in an area or population – and also a widespread geographic or global disease called a pandemic.
Type B: Normally occurs only in humans. No subtypes. Known to cause human epidemics, but not pandemics.
Type C: Only causes mild respiratory illness in humans, and is not included in flu vaccines. Not capable of epidemic or pandemic spread.
Types A and B are further characterized into genetic variants called “strains.” New strains are constantly evolving and take the place of older ones. While your body may have built up resistance against one strain, it may not be able to fend off its replacement.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081224/ap_on_he_me/med_drug_interactions
The report showing just how many older people are using risky combination comes from a study of nearly 3,000 interviews with people aged 57 to 85. The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and University of Chicago, appears in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The Wise Giving Alliance of the Better Business Bureau says if charities are efficient, they’ll give at least 65 cents out of every dollar they receive to helping others.
But nonprofit organizations and study groups warn that using ratios and too much analysis of finances can be misleading and destructive.
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In response to allegation that the National Forest system allows private companies to do clear cutting inside our National forest:
“Google does its own thing and is not related to us. The satellite is a picture of the earth so obviously does not show ownership boundaries.
The area south of Union Valley and Ice House was burned in the 1992
Cleveland Fire. 22,000 acres I believe.”
(See attached file: union_map_section.jpg)
(Embedded image moved to file: pic19919.jpg)Kristi Schroeder
Public Affairs
Eldorado National Forest
100 Forni Road
Placerville, CA 95667
union map section greenhouse effect increased by clear cutting
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NEW ORLEANS – Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside.
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Filed under: Probability
I heard recently one of my constituents decision to shave his head in Obama wins, due to the fact that the beat was made in favor of McCain. You figured the odds of probability, and how races we have become, by noticing early prediction of the outcome of the elections, compare with the actual numbers after Nov 2nd, 2008
Look a this graph carefully and consider the odds, who would you bet for, and what would you bet?
Oct 28 Yahoo prediction of the final race
Filed under: extinct
Union Valley Reservoir is a public land area and El Dorado National Forest, maintained by the USDA Forest Service.
The forest area for this study is located in the foot of the California Sierra, inside public land of El Dorado National Forest, surrounding Union Valley Reservoir. The area of the study is a 40 square mile area designed as public land, to the west of Union Valley Reservoir.
Objective: to expose private owners clear cutting on the public land and report to the government, EPA, the Sierra Club so they can pressure to implement Sustainable Forestry practices.
This study corresponded to superimposing a map from the National Atlas of the US, which clearly shows the public land, and private land demarcations, and by noticing that the public land in question, has been eroded due to clear cutting.
El Dorado National Forest Map
El Dorado National Forest showing clear cutting
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=38.907064,-120.397797&spn=0.341432,0.480652&z=11&msid=114551097380186191855.00045a902066934757372
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/eldorado/recreation/dev-camp/union/
west of lake tahoe, California
over a google earth shot, to find out that clear cutting is going on in the public side of Union Valley Reservoir, and between the reservoir and Loon Lake, West site of Lake Tahoe, in California.
impose map + google earth
10 miles marker inside park area:
west side of Union Valley Reservoir
Google earth shot, showing 40miles square area:
Union Valley Reservoir
Close up of the lake region that has been sacked and clear cut:
Union Valley Northern area
Background:
California old growth forest has been reduce to 3% left!
