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Students from Laurie Ohland's fourth-grade class at Jensen Elementary are taking pictures and making movies. These students are in a group called "clickers" at Jensen Elementary. Jennifer Reiter teaches students in this group how to work better on computers. She has taught students to work on iPhoto and a little on iMovie. Students are working on creating a clickers yearbook DVD.
The Jensen character assembly celebrating responsibility will be at 2:45 p.m. Friday. On Nov. 6 Jensen families will enjoy a skate night at Incrediroll.
Karen Acres
The champions for the Karen Acres fall running club are first-graders Sydnee Kracht, Anthony Berry and Courtney Hotovev, second-graders Bryce Hall and Aileen Guaillas, third-grader Jacob Chau, fourth-graders Noah Torstenson and Katelyn Foster, and fifth-graders Nathan Torstenson and Elena Brechtel.
Calif. Still Seeking Health Care Reform
To show that health care reform in California still has a pulse, state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez will put his latest plan to a vote Wednesday before a key committee. But whether there really are any signs of life can only be measured behind closed doors. .
Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Encourages Vaccination Throughout The Influenza Season
To raise awareness of the need to vaccinate more infants, children and adolescents against influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in conjunction with Families Fighting Flu, declared, November 27, as the first ever "Children's Flu Vaccination Day." The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' (NFID) Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition commends this effort to emphasize the importance of annual influenza vaccination to protect children and their contacts from this serious and potentially deadly virus.
"Influenza claims more American lives every year than all other vaccine- preventable diseases combined," said Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, Coalition Chair, 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006), President of Canyon Ranch Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health, The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
Experts Report Progress In Food Allergy Prevention And Diet Restrictions
Progress has been made in food allergy prevention and management according to investigators presenting the latest research at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) in Dallas. Important research findings may impact diet restrictions of food allergic patients.
According to Robert A. Wood, M.D., professor of pediatrics and international health director, pediatric allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, research has determined a possible role for allergy prevention strategies. These approaches include maternal food avoidance in pregnancy, breast feeding, maternal food avoidance while breast feeding, use of hypoallergenic formulas, delayed introduction of allergenic foods and probiotics.
"A review of 18 studies demonstrates a significant protective effect of exclusive breastfeeding for at least three months for children with high risk for atopy (genetic tendency to develop allergic diseases) against the development of atopic dermatitis and early childhood asthma-like symptoms," he said.
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It seems wrong to cut down redwood trees. And I think that the medical excuse is just that, an excuse. It is pretty likely that the trees were in place before these people bought their homes, and now they've decided, for one reason or another, they want more lawn, more space to expand their houses, or whatever, so the trees have to go. These trees should not be just a convenience for homeowners' whims. It's as ridiculous as someone moving into a home by the railroad tracks and then complaining about the noise from the trains (although that happens too). The redwoods were there first. If you didn't like them, you shouldn't have bought the house. If you planted them, well, live with your decision. Kudos to Palo Alto's Emslie and Doktor for holding firm to keep redwood trees.
Researchers discover link between oral cancer and ethnicity
Clinicians from the USC School of Dentistry unravel connection between the incidence of oral cancer and race and ethnicity-- as part of first epidemiological study of oral cancer in California. Dr. Satish Kumar and Dr.Parish Sedghizadeh, clinical professors in the school�s Division of Diagnostic Sciences, gleaned through 20 years of records from the California Cancer Registry (CCR)�the state�s cancer surveillance database�for the incidence rates of invasive squamous cell carcinoma, the most common form of oral cancer. .
St. Amant firefighters receive FEMA grant
ST. AMANT — The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a $110,960 grant to the St. Amant Volunteer Fire Department, Fire Chief James LeBlanc said Tuesday. "It’s the third year in a row we have received a FEMA grant," LeBlanc said. "That’s about $300,000 the parish didn’t have to pay," he said of the three grants. Other fire departments on the east bank of the parish also have received grants, bringing the total received in the past three years to more than $500,000, LeBlanc said. The grant announced Tuesday will be used to buy firefighting protective gear, a thermal imagining camera that locates fires inside walls, complete training lesson plans with laptop computers, a PowerPoint system and training manuals, LeBlanc said.
Audit questions $26,000 in charges tied to ex-MnDOT manager
Sonia Morphew Pitt, the fired director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for the state Transportation Department, cost the state at least $26,000 in unauthorized charges and improper pay.
A summary of a state audit released Wednesday also said an investigation found that Pitt was inadequately supervised.
The audit, which was to be released in full later Wednesday, said the state incurred more than $11,500 in "unauthorized, unreasonable or inappropriate expenses." It also said that more than $14,500 of work she was paid for should have been recorded as personal leave.
The Transportation Department fired Pitt on Nov. 9. The agency's own investigation concluded that she charged the state for personal travel, amassed high bills on her state-issued cell phone because of personal calls and used poor judgment by not returning to Minnesota soon after the bridge collapse.
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