วันอาทิตย์ที่ 27 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2552

Sewing A Straight Line - Easy Effective Tips

Do you sometimes find it difficult to sew a straight line?

Some channels merrily stitch a Singer perfect straight line cheerful while on the radio, while others of us work so hard at it with great concentration and get so frustrated when the results from the end looked like the wanderings of a drunken spider. We leave at the end of needles to entangle the bobbin thread and then feel completely give up sewing.

Well, there's no need for all that, as I will show you a very simple waylearn how to stitch a straight line.


Sit comfortably on your sewing machine, take the thread and the bobbin and take your foot off the pedal.
Take a piece of the firm pad of paper and place the bulk of the paper on the left side of the machine needle.
By turning the handwheel by hand until the needle is almost in the paper
Measure 1.5cm or 5/8in from the tip of the needle on the right edge of the paper. This is your seam allowance and is usuallyStandard on most models with tissue.
Now, stitch, keep your eyes on the distance between the side of the presser foot and the edge of the paper and keep the same distance as you stitch along. This is a perfect seam with the exact width of the seam allowance.
Never go to the needle up and down, see, you'll feel dizzy or even feel sick.
If you do not have a seam or measuring guide on the bed of your sewing machine, place a piece ofBand next to the ruler of paper. You have a permanent guide to the edge of the fabric running along.

Now try the same with some substance.


Cut two pieces of fabric specimen about 20cm (8in) x 30cm (12in) and pin edges together.
With tailor's chalk, draw two horizontal lines about 6 cm (2 1/2in) from top to bottom and top of the bottom of the sample.
Practice seams between the rows to keep the stitch lines 1.5cm or 5/8in apart.Think you reverse it, and cut loose threads at the beginning and end of each seam.
In another piece of fabric samples to draw big "S" and "W" shapes practice and seams to form a few times to keep the seam allowance the same width as you stitch. You may have to pivot at the corners.
To reduce the pivot, take the needle into the fabric, lift the presser foot and turn the fabric, so he turned the corner.
Lower the presser foot and continue sewing. They are used,This type of realignment much in your sewing endeavors.

If you practice these simple exercises that you will soon be able to just sew precise lines. Keep your samples in a safe place, so in a few months, you can look back and see how much of your sewing machine has improved. This feedback provides the mirror image of what can be achieved, great motivation for the exercise and improving your existing sewing skills.



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วันพุธที่ 23 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2552

Merit Pay For Teachers - How Will It Work?

Merit pay for teaching has an unfulfilled goal of many educational advocates for decades. There are examples that show it works elsewhere in the country.

What about the private, entrepreneurial segments of America? Do they use to identify rewards for exemplary performance, and motivate the quality? An outstanding performance measure in manufacturing is the productivity of employees. The more power a worker produces in a given period, the higher is the productivity ratio,increase with the possibility for profit. In retail, customer focus is a crucial measure of the administration. The health sector study trials used to reach for success through quality improvement of the quality of life of patients and prolongs life. As diverse as these three companies, disclaims any worldly remain competitive by reducing errors. Isolate Through research and testing, they initiate those areas of operation, where most errors occur, and reduce practices, these errors, withMerit rewards as the main incentive.

Although somewhat simplified, it might be useful to identify the best techniques to aid this employment segments with error reduction.

Goal Setting: In a continuous process in place to isolate error-prone activities, goals that are observable and specific, communicated in written form and explained that all involved in the reduction of error rate. Vague goals are easy to reach, but useless.

Computer-aided technology use: CreateSoftware and / or hardware for the relief tasks of a repetitive nature in general helps to reduce errors. Precision results are more likely to occur with the technique of application, as if the people perform the same tasks.

Decision Making: The responsibility for the problem is usually transferred in the best people closest to the problem. If you see remedied. Do not go to just call a specialist.

Merit Rewards: For the person who is successful on the level of expectation, their causesrepeat performance at this level will occur with greater probability of earning recognition.

Entrepreneurial Competitive Support American ingenuity remains the cause of surges in an unprecedented growth in start-up small business employment. This American service sector continues to grow and create solutions where challenges remain.

MERIT REWARDS COULD WORK IN EDUCATION?

Now let us examine how well these techniques are, or could benefit from public education. WhenPrivate sector finds success in the competition by implementing proven approaches to reduce the error rate, the public sector could do the same? Perhaps the attention to the elements that have made our American private sector the envy of the world, would do the same for education.

Let's examine them one-by-one:

Goal Setting: This is one of the most important sections of the federal policy "No Child Left
Behind "Act. Everyone is empowered with the task of writing, communication and implementationspecific, measurable student learning outcomes. This state-by-state process is slow, and many of those already published learning objectives are not measurable, so no one can agree exactly when these objectives have been identified pupils attained.

A practical solution to this dilemma would be an insistence that contain all of the target action verbs statements that define the observable human behavior. A simple but useful list of these verbs, arranged from simplest to complex would bedistinguished: compiled; too, name, describe in order;; contrast, state a rule, apply in general to demonstrate to interpret;.
This would not only explanations that these verbs be observable, but they would also lead to measurable, a necessity for the pursuit of academic progress with standardized tests.

Entrepreneurial Competitive Support: With the availability is aligned with academic goals of the observable behavior, the task of preparing test questions on these results, aPrecision task. Research by a qualified review of the company can answer questions that are consistent targets very carefully. At present, these companies offer standardized proficiency tests and test results obtained.

But these results are not very useful for teachers who need an immediate response areas for the rehabilitation diagnosis. The thing that would be very useful to educators would be an Internet system that could electronically supply teachers with short teaching and instant quizScoring.

Unique tests of any length can be downloaded based on choice of subjects the teachers of item characteristics ranging from big test of the testing company's article database.

Other support organizations could be a way to the quiz for teacher-selected curriculum provide features, but receive with each student in the class, only a few questions. And every student questions would be questions of everyone else in the class.

When sorted electronicallyand returned, the points would then all questions, and a wider range of ideas, thus providing the teacher immediate feedback on the achievement of specific academic goals for the whole class. This process is well researched and documented for over 35 years, the independent National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Teachers should find this diagnostic quiz to unsatisfactory results and the desire for a new approach in teaching the concept of a database of proven researchApproaches should be lesson plan format by electronic means available. Over the years, educational research into successful educational approaches by government grants and contracts supported, but remains hidden in some government file, or some professors on bio sheet. An entrepreneurial opportunity is to validate them and to communicate ideas, a great support for the teachers through Internet downloads.

These are just a few ideas that are available to reduce the teacher shouldError in the statement uneducated America's youth. The service sector is always ready, able and willing to fill this gap and to achieve this are competitive.

Computer-Aided Technology Use: may occur with the experience of Internet use by educators of today's transition to this class measurement techniques with little training. In fact, might be the proliferation of software and hardware service also reassure test items for test security vendors.

The service sector is aproven ability to meet this demand quickly. Teachers would respond login codes for inclusion in the program, classroom printer to download and unique quiz for students to produce the machine-scoring function in a classroom score built print and then destroy the paper tests, and database Development of quizzes and collect more test results on a semester or year for teachers look-back and self-analysis.

This is just one example of the aid of a creative society could offer support for ourNation's teachers and students lead to improved academic performance.

Decision Making: It is obvious that the individual leaders manage classroom teacher. Your success in promoting student academic achievement based on their ability, training and support. Having direct, professional feedback is much better than a long wait for "standardized test results, which came too late for the rehabilitation of the practice.

Merit Rewards: The basis for the granting of merit payfor the exceptional performance is embedded in the record electronically with each use of the technology described in this article produced. It can be done. The private sector has shown the way!



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วันอังคารที่ 22 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2552

Why is Education Important?

Education is important. It is necessary to create new things, such as the latest trends or some of the things from old times in front of thousands of years to learn. One of the best parts of the training is that you have the basic things, how situations such as family problems, such as response to your orders and to learn how some of your fears, deal. This is real life and it is not like an anime movie or a cartoon. We have to face all challenges, only to get the best possible education,we want. Let's face all our fears.

It was established that provide education, training and informative education especially for young children ... In general, basic education consists of six or seven years of schooling. It is necessary to undergo a general education, because this is the right time to improve learning and we all know that most children are not so open-minded when it comes to this. It is also necessary to ensure a goodSchool and a great location for study. It is not necessary to decide whether it is a private or public school. The most important factors for the formation of a strategic location, great teachers and a beautiful school. Perhaps children in their age, they think that it is play time for them, and not the time for learning. There is a right time for education, we have to let only the children know how important education is to his life.

Let's start the year with a largeEducation.



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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 13 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2552

The Education System in America

The role that the education system should be in the game which people live, is to educate them to be aware, critically thinking people know not to accept passively, but the question of knowing how it is taught. Education should be taught to the students the skills and intelligence they need to understand the world and how the world works in order to survive in it. However, the American educational system has been known that students who are frightening, produceignorant about the world and different cultures. One of the reasons is because the education system in its current state is not much room for critical thinking, but also trains individuals to be docile worker bees in a global economy, the rich the status quo and "others" believes it can hardly do. The problem becomes clear when we consider the many themes, the curriculum and are taught to search. There is a lack of emphasis on academic learning, and the only thing that counts is highInvestments tests. The schools in this country have teamed up with Fuzzy curricula, which flooded expect to be prepared by the continuous assessment, students living in a new global society. . . whatever that is.

I recently had a conversation with a staff and we discussed how African Americans were treated forty years ago, and I was amazed by her naivete on the subject, given the fact that it is a college graduate and an African-American . From the moment I steppedCollege, I was concerned, the history of African and Afro-American history from a perspective, which they themselves do not seem sub-human and provides college students to explore this possibility. I could not help wondering, but what kind of history and sociology classes, she had none of their conversation. But the sad truth is that when most people make the decision to attend college, it is harvested for the purpose of economic success, not for the expansion of consciousness.

Thusthe educational system in this country to the students who are not clueless about their production history and the world around them, they should be restructured in different ways. Parental involvement should be mandatory, as is the school for students is required for graduation. The lack of involvement of parents is a huge factor for the current failing educational system. Parents must teach their children how dangerous a lack of education is to reinforce theirFuture. The teachers are wonderful people, the students from the top of Mount Olympus can take to the cold and solitude of Antarctica, but they exist to teach, not parent. Many teachers spend a large part of their class time disciplining children and babysitters to play, two things that are not part of their job responsibilities. Teachers need the involvement of parents in order for education to work and education begins at home.

The financing of the education system should alsoneed to be restructured. Public schools are traditionally associated with property taxes, finances, the results in a very unequal distribution of educational opportunities. Communities that are rich have more resources to their schools than those who do not. This situation directly affects the quality of education that children receive in poor urban and rural areas. The No Child Left Behind Act is making worse only because the necessary analysis and publication of results. If parents'Buying a new house, they want in a school district, which has strong test results to live. This pushes up property values in those areas, which means that only wealthy families can afford to live in the best performing school districts. That means more property taxes on those areas, while the lower-performing schools lose their funding if they do not meet federal standards. There should be a fair tax system for education, not the net worth of home-based and homeowners. GovernmentFunding is for the most part to the various schools, which are distributed by state and local governments, and there are significant differences in the financing of this race. After the text American Education by Joel Spring, there is a gap of more than $ 1,000 per student nationwide basis of race, with big states like New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, who lead the nation in their unwillingness to fairly fund education (Spring, pg. 77). Children should not suffer because theireconomic background or ethnicity, and public education should make no distinction between rich and poor, or black and white. Every child in a public school should be given the same training. Equal funding would give teachers the right resources to educate students more effectively. School choice and privatization of the public school system would not be a factor because according to my plan, the education system in America would be funded fully and equally by the federal governmentGovernment will be closely monitored. With the influx of money would be poured into the education system by the government to change dramatically for the better schools, because that is the biggest problem in most public schools: lack of money.

The education curriculum would be modified to fit with the nation's melting pot of different cultures and ethnicities. From elementary to high school students with facts and figures about rich, white men are bombarded as ifWomen and other minorities do not contribute or something worthy of the history of America. No wonder that so many students empty out the historical facts: She was not interested in that fact because they do not relate to the actors in the story. Students should be required, courses to them a deeper understanding of the world around them, courses that history must be debated, marginalized and oppressed people in this country and around the world. They shouldrequired to read books that they think do not just process information for the next test. If more students the values and cultures of people understand, as opposed to itself, would not it be easy or even possible to lie to the government and the use of propaganda techniques to sway the masses to believe that everything was ok and their leaders responsible. High Stakes Tests were eliminated because most of the tests are designed by people who have no idea of the demographics,Ethnicity or economic background of students to be tested and these tests are biased against minorities and the poor. If students are to be tested, would provide additional support for students are available, at no cost to parents.

Having competent teachers, board members and administrators are also an important part of the restructuring of the education system. For qualified administrators and board members who know and enforce the standards and guidelines is important. What are theQualifications for an administrator? There are required qualifications? These are the questions that answers. Just because someone has a degree does not make them get the best person for the job. Board members should not be elected because they golf with the mayor, all board members should have a Master's Degree in Education or have a comprehensive social justice background. As for teachers, the education system should ensure that the best teachers are selected for thePositions and opinions should be given frequently. This would give the parents and the school system a chance to find out what is wrong and what is needed to correct the problems. Public education needs teachers and board members who actually care about the children and their education, not individuals, the benefits of working for the school system: the summer and holidays off, steadily increased, and a fat compensation package. American children are suffering because of theInadequacies of the people involved with the education system.

The "culture of poverty" theory, which is used by some politicians to account for differences in learning between the different ethnic groups is a blatant attempt to get the status quo, to "blame" people for their poverty as the education system would be restructured can to fulfill the needs of all students, not just the rich. There are large gaps between rich and poor students are not studentsbecause the poorer students have to adapt their miserable existence, but because they have no resources necessary to succeed in school to be. If the students have with textbooks that are outdated, lack of toiletries and computers from the late 1980s to do, the opportunity to advance academically is dark and deserted their chances in the school, probably.

In a just and equal society, would discuss the education I have already carried out, were decades ago, but it hasand not more than likely not. In a hierarchical society, as in America there will always be someone to do the bottom of the totem pole, and the best way to do that by the mis-education is the most vulnerable: children. The neglect of education in the United States threatens the economic welfare of the entire nation. Unless the disparity in education is reduced and their system completely restructured, the rich gulf between the rich and the pooronly increase and the U.S. for being the nation of undereducated notorious. Springsteen, Joel. American Education. (2006). New York: McGraw-Hill



วันอังคารที่ 8 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2552

Second Breast Cancer: 3 Lifestyle Risks

By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News

Sept. 8, 2009 -- Being obese, drinking seven or more alcoholic beverages per week, and smoking may make a second breast cancer more likely, a new study shows.

The study, published in the advance online edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, focused on women with estrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive) breast cancer. Most breast cancers are ER-positive, which means the tumors grow when exposed to the hormone estrogen.

Data came from more than 1,000 Seattle-area breast cancer patients, including 365 women who developed a second breast cancer in their opposite breast.

The women were interviewed about their smoking and drinking; their BMI (body mass index) was noted in their medical records.

The odds of developing a second breast cancer in the opposite breast were greater for obese women, for women who drank at least seven alcoholic beverages per week, and current smokers.

"We found that obese women had a 50% increased risk, women who consumed at least one alcoholic drink per day had a 90% increased risk, and women who were current smokers had a 120% increased risk of developing a second breast cancer," researcher Christopher Li, MD, PhD, says in a news release.

Li is an associate member of the public health sciences division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He and his colleagues recently published a separate report about tamoxifen and the odds of developing a second breast cancer.

Li's new paper doesn't show the absolute risk of developing a second breast cancer in the opposite breast, and it doesn't include women with ER-negative breast cancer. It also doesn't prove that losing weight, quitting smoking, or cutting back on alcohol would have made a difference.

However, extra weight and alcohol use have been linked to breast cancer risk in other studies. Smoking hasn't been firmly established as a breast cancer risk, but Li's team calls that biologically plausible.

Li and colleagues also found that among women who drank at least seven alcoholic beverages per week, the odds of developing a second breast cancer in the opposite breast were about seven times higher if those women were current smokers.

An editorial published with the study asks, "So does this mean that women should be advised to lose weight and avoid alcohol and smoking after breast cancer diagnosis in order to reduce the risk of a second primary breast cancer?"

The editorialist -- Jennifer Ligibel, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School -- points out that losing extra weight and quitting smoking are healthy changes to make. But Ligibel says that because moderate alcohol use may have heart health benefits, it's "premature" to advise breast cancer patients to quit drinking entirely.