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Healthier Students Are Better Learners


1.The Role of Schools

It is neither reasonable nor realistic to expect that,on their own, schools can close the gaps in education or eliminate healthy disparities among the nation’s youth. Schools should not be solely responsible for addressing these complex and recalcitrant problems. There are essential roles to be played by families, communities,  Health care  systems, legislators, media, and by economic policy.  All of these (and other) social institutions should, and must, contribute to solving 
these problem The important role of schools in addressing health issues has been recognized by leading educational professional organizations, policy making, and interstitial group. 


2.An Opportune Time for Change


Provided resources to assist schools in addressing some health topics such as safety and  Drug  use prevention, but it has not provided leadership for integrating school health into the fundamental mission of schools and supporting the widespread development and implementation of high quality, strategically planned, and effectively coordinated approache. Community and full service schools offer in-school programs and services, including health and  mental health programs and services to support youth before and after school. Despite the widespread and substantial Investment in school health programs and services, current investments are likely to yield only limited educational benefits to students for several reason




3. Strategic Priorities

The current analysis establishes strategic priorities based on their relevance to educational outcomes and to closing the achievement gap. Three criteria were considered:  (1) prevalence and extent of health disparities, (2) evidence of causal effects on educational outcomes, and (3) feasibility of implementing proven or promising school-based programs and policies. If a health problem is the cause of an educational disparity, the Health problems must be statistically and temporally associated with the unfavorable educational outcome.
Based on these criteria, the following educationally relevant health disparities were selected as priorities: (1) vision, (2) asthma, (3)  Teen pregnancy, (4) aggression and violence, (5) physical activity, (6) breakfast, and (7) inattention and Hyperactive.


4. Causal Pathway

One or more of  five causal pathways—the mechanisms by which health factors influence motivation and ability to learn—are identified and described for each health factor: (1)   sensory perception, (2) cognition, (3) school connectedness and engagement, (4) absenteeism, and (5) temporary or permanent dropping out. Connectedness is essentially about interpersonal relationships, both with peers and school staff.  It is the extent to which students perceive that adults and peers in the school community care about them as students and as individual. Because educational outcomes are influenced by many forces differentially across various contexts, each health factor, addressed separately, should not be expected to have large or consistent effects on educational outcomes. Thus, beyond their individual effects, educationally relevant health disparities, collectively, can have an influential role in shaping the educational and social lives of the nation’s urban minority youth.


5. Delimitations and Overall Inten

Improved health status for all children is a worthy goal, but need is particularly urgent among urban minority youth who, as with adults, have great intergenerational educational and health disparities. Second, though health may influence  education  outcomes across the lifespan, attention is limited to health factors that influence school-aged youth.  A third delimitation is that health factors were selected based, in part, on feasibility of implementing proven or promising school based programs and services. Each of the educationally relevant health disparities is described with respect to nature and scope of the problem, prevalence and disparities affecting urban minority Youth , causal pathways by which the respective health disparity adversely affects motivation or ability to learn, ways that school programs and policies can address the problem, and evidence supporting proven or promising approaches.




http://www.equitycampaign.org/article.asp?id=7381

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College Students and Stress


College life can be very stressful. Sometimes parents, faculty and others tend to idealize their college experience and remember it as that idyllic time when they had few worries or responsibilities. To students currently attending college, however, the process is often stressful and frustrating. The competition for grades, the need to perform, relationships, career choice, and many other aspects of the college environment cause stress. Before condemning stress outright, we need to understand that stress is only harmful when it is excessive.



Warning Signs
  • Changes in sleep patterns
  • Change in eating patterns
  • More frequent headaches than is normal for you
  • Shoter temper than is normal for you
  • Recurring colds and minor illness
  • Frequent muscle ache and/or tightness
  • More disorganize than normal for you
  • Increase difficulty in task completion
  • A greater sense of persistent time pressure
  • Increase generalized frustration and anger




Although some stress reactions are part of deeper and more serious emotional problems, many are not, and can be handled with relatively simple counseling and stress-management techniques. You can use the following guidelines to help manage your stress understand your role in stress reactions.


1.Develop a Balance Lifestyle

Stress reaction to varrios situation are also  affected by your overall level of health. Someone who is alwas feeling overwhelmed, eat poorly  and doesn’tget enought sleep usually has limited ability to cope with stessful event. You need to pay attention to your own well being. The right balance of sleep, food, exercise, work, school and recreation is crucial.




2. Gain Perspective by Discussing Problems

It is easy to get caught up in a problem or a narrow view of something you are doing, and to lose perspective and feel that a failure or roadblock is a catastrophe. Discussing your problems with a trusted, empathic friend can allow you to gain new perspective and can allow you to move out of what might seem like an isolated and negative internal world. The act of verbalizing your concerns and putting them together will often help give you a sense of control.


3. Learn Specific Relaxation Techniques


Relaxation techniques are extremely valuable tools in stress management. Most of the techniques like meditation, self-hypnosis, and deep muscle relaxation work in a similar fashion. They make it possible for you to spend a short period of time in a state of profound relaxation. In this state both the body and the mind are at rest and the outside world is screened out for a period of time. The practice of one of these techniques on a regular basis can provide a wonderfully calming and relaxing feeling that seems to have a lasting effect for many people. Your energy level and ability to cope with the external world are replenished. Practitioners and researchers have reported many positive life effects from the regular practice of one of these techniques.


4. Clarify Your Values and Develop a Sense of Life Meaning


Stress is often caused by general unhappiness and a sense of aimlessness or lack of purpose. People sometimes wind up making choices and living life styles that really don't fit them. A student may be studying accounting when he or she really wants to be an artist, or he or she may have a wide circle of friends, but not really have the kind of intimate relationships that feel fulfilling.


Source from : http://www.counseling.ufl.edu/cwc/Stress-and-College-Students.aspx
                    : http://www.ulifeline.org/main/factsheets/78

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Roomate



What is Roommate ???
A roommate is a person who shares a living facility such as an apartment or dormitory. Similar terms include suitemate, housemate, flatmate ("flat": the usual term in British English for anapartment), or sharemate (shared living spaces are often called sharehomes in Australia,[citation needed]). In the UK, the term "roommate" means a person living in the same bedroom, whereas in the United States, "roommate" and "housemate" are used interchangeably regardless whether a bedroom is shared. This article uses the term "roommate" in the US sense of a person one shares aresidence with who is not a relative or significant other. The informal term for roommate is roomie,[1] which is commonly used by university students.
The most common reason for sharing housing is to reduce the cost of housing. In many rental markets, the monthly rent for a two- or three-bedroom apartment is proportionately less per bedroom than the rent for a one-bedroom apartment (in other words, a three-bedroom flat costs more than a one-bedroom, but not three times as much). By pooling their monthly housing money, a group of people can achieve a lower housing expense at the cost of less privacy. Other motivations are to gain better amenities than those available in single-person housing, to share the work of maintaining a household, and to have the companionship of other people.

Who Lives With Roommate ???
Roommates are a fairly common point of reference in Western culture, especially in North America. In the United States, most young adults spend at least a short part of their lives living with roommates after they leave their family's home. Therefore, many novels, movies, plays, and television programs employ roommates as a basic principle or a plot device. On the other hand, it is less common for people of any age to live with roommates in some countries, such as Japan, where single-person one-room apartments are plentiful.

There are many different forms of flat shares also, from the more established flat shares where the flatmate will get their own room that is furnished to "couch surfing" where people lend their sofa for a short period.
Many universities in the United States require first-year students to live in on-campus residence halls, sharing a dormitory room with a same-sex roommate.

Challenges ...
One difficulty is finding suitable roommates. Living with a roommate can mean much less privacy than having a residence of one's own, and for some people this can cause a lot of stress.
Another thing to consider when choosing a roommate is how to divide the cost of living. Who pays for what, or are the shared expenses divided between the two or more roommates. Also, the potential roommate should be trusted to pay their share and trusted to pay it on time. Sleeping patterns can also be disrupted when living with a number of people, so it is therefore important to choose housemates wisely.

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PEACE yO !!!



When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. --> Greg Anderson

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TherE iS a ReaL MagiC ???

Harry Posto! : The Complete 1-8 Film Collection - Limited Numbered Edition

Harry Potter : The Complete 1-8 Film Collection - Limited Numbered Edition.

Its been a while since I've updated the blog, and I've got a few toys & blu-rays which I didn't have time to photograph properly for the blog.
This entry however, imho, must be posted.

The boxset contains 19 disc, blu-ray & dvd, along with a photobook much like Harry's photo album which he received from Hagrid in year 1.

For a special 'numbered edition', I feels as if the set isn't so special. It feels as if it was lazily done.
The DVD's are taken straight from the normal dvd sets, and the box lid does not have a magnet or whatnot to close firmly.
However, the digipack is nicely done with a brief summary of the story for each year, great artwork too.
So basically, the perks in getting this boxset is the 19 disc blu-ray/dvd and the photobook. Other than that, its just a normal Harry Potter blu-ray.
Disappointingly, it is said that there will be a "Definitive COllection Set" end of next year which is rumored to have the extended edition.   

BUT , actually therE iS nO ReaL MagiC . It is aN iLLusiOn oR FantAsy on ouR earth .
PEACE !
^_^

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Sounds On Earth(Music)



Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική(mousike; "art of the Muses").[1]
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres andsubgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art. There is also a strong connection between music and mathematics.
To many people in many cultures, music is an important part of their way of life. Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound."[2] Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez summarizes the relativist, post-modern viewpoint: "The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be."[3]

 | thE nOtEs oF mUsiC thAt I heaRd souNdeD gOod EspeCiaLLy whEn I'm stresseD, mUsiC is tHe oNe thAt caN sOothE aNd caLm my tAstE. sO, Lets SING yO !
hAhA~~~~
I Loph MusiCx !!!!
mMwAhxx !!!
NgEee~~~
PEACE ! ^_^

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Earth Day is Awesome.


Not long ago I stumbled upon a great blog: 1,000 Awesome Things. It’s a blog that chronicles those every day things that are truly awesome. Things like snow days, dancing when you’re home alone, and broccoflower. I’d like to propose something that I find awesome: Earth Day.
Earth Day started as a way to inspire awareness for the issues affecting the planet and strengthen our connection to the Earth. On September 29, 1969 there was a front-page story in the New York Times that, in conjunction with the efforts of a handful of forward-thinking U.S. senators and college students, helped start the environmental movement:
“Rising concern about the “environmental crisis” is sweeping the nation’s campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam…a national day of observance of environmental problems, analogous to the mass demonstrations on Vietnam, is being planned for next spring, when a nationwide environmental ‘teach-in’…coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned….
The following spring, the first Earth Day was observed by nearly 20-million people across the U.S. Since then, Earth Day has steadily grown and it was expected that today, at least 1.5-billion people participated in global events designed to inspire us to take greener action. 1.5-billion people! Awesome? I’d say so.
This blog is about observations from my lower carbon emission relationship with Mr. Green and, without question, the most remarkable thing I’ve observed is the number of people out there who truly care about the planet – not just on Earth Day, but every day.
These are ordinary folks and not the stereotypical granola crunching extremist hippies I used to equate with greener living. These are people you bump into on the subway who have packed their lunch in reusable containers or the girls in yoga class who are practicing on mats made from recycled material by companies who will plant a tree in recognition of your purchase or chefs committed to sourcing their menus locally or even companies committed to printing their materials on 100 per cent post consumer paper.
The level of awareness out there about the challenges facing our planet and our future on it is astonishingly high – truly awesome, but, as a global community, we can do more to make sure our Earth remains a safe, flourishing place.
So today, if you haven’t yet considered how you might be able to show you care for the Earth, consider making a change. Start small. Walk to the store. Wash your clothes on the cold cycle. Dine by candlelight. Buy local food and make dinner using seasonal ingredients. We’re learning that small individual actions do make a difference.
What have you done lately for the planet?

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