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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Bilingual Beats Lead to Language, Literacy and Math Entertaining ...
By no means has it been this easy to locate materials to bring education into your home as a remain at house mom, a grandparent provided the distinct and honorable job of watching your grandchildren or as a homeschooling parent striving to do the best you can do. The web has provided us the means to seek and download countless varieties of educational materials along with the medium to research other instructional products for purchasing.
As a mom of 3 kids who each possess bilingual expertise at varying degrees along with an educator of thousands of youngsters ages 6 months via ten years, I feel the sense of urgency to quicken the pace of the studying. What better way to do that than with music? Analysis has shown that if you take a concept, add a small music, some rhythm and movement, you will have a certain fire way of introducing and engaging the young child to lengthy phrase retention of that idea.
Think back to your younger years. Do you nevertheless have that 1 song that sticks in your head no matter how many years go by? That one that taught you your days of the week in French, or how to multiply by two, or simply the catchy ABC song we now share with our own children? This concept of utilizing music to improve learning scenarios is nothing at all new and is one we must embrace as we go back to the fundamentals of early childhood learning experiences.
There is the cry to return to the nursery rhymes of long ago. To drop the Leap Pad and the personal computer games and simply share your lap with a child who will listen to and real along with those rhyming gems of lengthy ago. A strong connection among learning and rhythm was found and built upon years ago, and now we can bring worldwide understanding to our children via this same theory.
Take a song, best if it is 1 you and your child both know the melody of, make up some new words that introduce the new language correct next to your native language. This type of produced up song is called a Piggyback Song. Want an instance? Okay, right here is a simple a single. Take the tune Mary Had a Little Lamb and sing about shapes by injecting words like these:
A circle is rolling by, rolling by, rolling by,
A circle is rolling by, a circle is a circulo.
A circle is a circulo, a circulo, a circulo,
A circle is a circulo. I know my shapes.
It is so easy to then bring in the words for square, rectangle, triangle, heart and so on. In this instance, we did English and Spanish. Use your imagination and use any new target language you would like to introduce proper along with the native language of your kids.
Studying a second language has never been so straightforward! A youngster understanding this way, in what is called a bilingual format exactly where his native language is sung proper alongside his native language, will really read sooner than monolingual children who are not receiving this sort of musical, bilingual instruction according to Dr. Ellen Bialystok and her team of specialists at York University. The study carried out by this team also showed that children receiving instruction in two languages will expertise advanced cognitive development and issue solving skills and higher test scores on particular sections of standardized tests.
As a mom and as a teacher that is important to me as I know it is to you. Not only can we prepare our young youngsters for a extremely global economy, one that will need the command of a lot more than one language in order to excel, we can also provide them a enjoyable and engaging manner in which to get understanding in a second language, abilities in math and the ability to read early in life.
You cannot carry a tune? You have not even the slightest inclination as to exactly where to begin? You have not one creative bone in your body to start writing your own Piggyback Song that may well introduce French to your newborn? No worries amigas, amigos, friends. Remember the world wide web? Keep in mind those search engines? They will assist drive you to a plethora of web web sites meant solely for giving you some affordable, sometimes totally free and most frequently very practical tools and suggestions on how to jump start off your inspiration and creation of these bilingual songs.
Really feel the beat! Think creatively! Have enjoyable, and prior to you know if you and Junior will be on a journey exactly where the only required things in your backpack will be water to quench your thirst following all of your singing and some musical shakers to maintain the beat as you sing, dance and play your way to a second language.
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New tests could hamper food outbreak detection
WASHINGTON (AP) ? It's about to get faster and easier to diagnose food poisoning, but that progress for individual patients comes with a downside: It could hurt the nation's ability to spot and solve dangerous outbreaks.
Next-generation tests that promise to shave a few days off the time needed to tell whether E. coli, salmonella or other foodborne bacteria caused a patient's illness could reach medical laboratories as early as next year. That could allow doctors to treat sometimes deadly diseases much more quickly ? an exciting development.
The problem: These new tests can't detect crucial differences between different subtypes of bacteria, as current tests can. And that fingerprint is what states and the federal government use to match sick people to a contaminated food. The older tests might be replaced by the new, more efficient ones.
"It's like a forensics lab. If somebody says a shot was fired, without the bullet you don't know where it came from," explained E. coli expert Dr. Phillip Tarr of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that losing the ability to literally take a germ's fingerprint could hamper efforts to keep food safe, and the agency is searching for solutions. According to CDC estimates, 1 in 6 Americans gets sick from foodborne illnesses each year, and 3,000 die.
"These improved tests for diagnosing patients could have the unintended consequence of reducing our ability to detect and investigate outbreaks, ultimately causing more people to become sick," said Dr. John Besser of the CDC.
That means outbreaks like the salmonella illnesses linked this fall to a variety of Trader Joe's peanut butter might not be identified that quickly ? or at all.
It all comes down to what's called a bacterial culture ? whether labs grow a sample of a patient's bacteria in an old-fashioned petri dish, or skip that step because the new tests don't require it.
Here's the way it works now: Someone with serious diarrhea visits the doctor, who gets a stool sample and sends it to a private testing laboratory. The lab cultures the sample, growing larger batches of any lurking bacteria to identify what's there. If disease-causing germs such as E. coli O157 or salmonella are found, they may be sent on to a public health laboratory for more sophisticated analysis to uncover their unique DNA patterns ? their fingerprints.
Those fingerprints are posted to a national database, called PulseNet, that the CDC and state health officials use to look for food poisoning trends.
There are lots of garden-variety cases of salmonella every year, from runny eggs to a picnic lunch that sat out too long. But if a few people in, say, Baltimore have salmonella with the same molecular signature as some sick people in Cleveland, it's time to investigate, because scientists might be able narrow the outbreak to a particular food or company.
But culture-based testing takes time ? as long as two to four days after the sample reaches the lab, which makes for a long wait if you're a sick patient.
What's in the pipeline? Tests that could detect many kinds of germs simultaneously instead of hunting one at a time ? and within hours of reaching the lab ? without first having to grow a culture. Those tests are expected to be approved as early as next year.
This isn't just a science debate, said Shari Shea, food safety director at the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
If you were the patient, "you'd want to know how you got sick," she said.
PulseNet has greatly improved the ability of regulators and the food industry to solve those mysteries since it was launched in the mid-1990s, helping to spot major outbreaks in ground beef, spinach, eggs and cantaloupe in recent years. Just this fall, PulseNet matched 42 different salmonella illnesses in 20 different states that were eventually traced to a variety of Trader Joe's peanut butter.
Food and Drug Administration officials who visited the plant where the peanut butter was made found salmonella contamination all over the facility, with several of the plant samples matching the fingerprint of the salmonella that made people sick. A New Mexico-based company, Sunland Inc., recalled hundreds of products that were shipped to large retailers all over the country, including Target, Safeway and other large grocery chains.
The source of those illnesses probably would have remained a mystery without the national database, since there weren't very many illnesses in any individual state.
To ensure that kind of crucial detective work isn't lost, the CDC is asking the medical community to send samples to labs to be cultured even when they perform a new, non-culture test.
But it's not clear who would pay for that extra step. Private labs only can perform the tests that a doctor orders, noted Dr. Jay M. Lieberman of Quest Diagnostics, one of the country's largest testing labs.
A few first-generation non-culture tests are already available. When private labs in Wisconsin use them, they frequently ship leftover samples to the state lab, which grows the bacteria itself. But as more private labs switch over after the next-generation rapid tests arrive, the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene will be hard-pressed to keep up with that extra work before it can do its main job ? fingerprinting the bugs, said deputy director Dr. Dave Warshauer.
Stay tuned: Research is beginning to look for solutions that one day might allow rapid and in-depth looks at food poisoning causes in the same test.
"As molecular techniques evolve, you may be able to get the information you want from non-culture techniques," Lieberman said.
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Cyber attacks on Gulf infrastructure seen rising
DUBAI (Reuters) - The former chief of the United Arab Emirates' air force said his country's advanced cyber infrastructure made it a favorite target for hackers, especially when tension heightened in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"The last war in Gaza led to a barrage of cyber attacks because UAE has advanced telecommunications infrastructure," retired Major General Khaled al-Buainnain said.
"The biggest attack was during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war which was carried out by pro-Israeli hackers who did not understand the nature of the conflict and its parties."
His comments came a few months after a virus infected 30,000 computers at Saudi Arabia's national oil company, Saudi Aramco, which said on Sunday the attack was aimed at stopping oil and gas production at the world's biggest oil exporter.
The attack failed to disrupt production, but was one of the most destructive cyber strikes against a single business.
Cyber attacks on infrastructure by hostile governments, militant groups or private "hacktivists" have the potential to disrupt oil and gas supplies to power plants and desalination plants, on which the Gulf states are heavily reliant.
"There is an interest at the political level in cyber security which has prompted investments in protection systems to protect the interest of the people, the government and national security," Buainnain said, speaking on the sidelines of a cyber security conference in Dubai.
"All the evidence that we have confirms that the attacks will increase," said Robert Eastman, vice president for global solutions at Lockheed Martin.
Eastman said Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon's top supplier, was in discussions with officials in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates about the company's training and vulnerability analysis systems.
A company official estimated last month that 5 to 8 percent of Lockheed's revenues in the information systems sector were related to cyber security. Lockheed generated $9.4 billion sales in that division in 2011.
CYBER RISKS
"All companies have to prepare response plans," said Hervi Meurie, general manager of C4 Advanced Solutions LLC, an Abu Dhabi-based technology and security firm. "What happens if the electricity network gets hit by a virus and goes down for three days?"
Iran, the target of international economic sanctions focused on its oil industry over its disputed nuclear program, has been hit by several cyber attacks in the last few years.
In April, a virus targeted Iranian oil ministry and national oil company networks, forcing Iran to disconnect the control systems of oil facilities including Kharg Island, which handles most of the country's crude exports.
Iran has blamed some of the attacks on the United States, Israel and Britain; current and former U.S. officials told Reuters this year that the United States built the complex Stuxnet computer worm to try to prevent Tehran from completing suspected nuclear weapons work.
Buainnain said he believed Iran would remain the target of cyber attacks rather than a source for them.
"I don't think Iran poses any threat," he said. "I think their activity is less aggressive and more focused on intelligence gathering, they are in fact subject to cyber attacks because of the nuclear program."
He said the UAE was in the process of creating a government body that will be responsible for handling cyber threats, adding that the National Electronic Security Authority was expected to be officially launched within the next few months.
While it is standard industry practice to shield plant operating networks from hackers by running them on separate systems, these have not been enough to fend off cyber attacks.
Qatar's natural gas firm Rasgas was hit by a cyber attack in September, although it has not said how much damage was caused or whether it was the same virus that hit Aramco.
Theodore Karasik, director of research at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis which organized the conference, said governments and companies must stay on high alert.
"You're always in catch-up mode because the bad guys can out-think the good guys faster," he said. "The Gulf states need to stay as far ahead as possible given their enemies who may be more technically savvy."
(Writing by Mahmoud Habboush; Editing by Myra MacDonald)
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Taggart leaves Western Kentucky for South Florida
Willie Taggart is introduced as the new University of South Florida head football coach during a news conference, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. Taggart, 36, is taking over as South Florida's football coach after establishing himself as one of the nation's top young prospects by turning around a losing program at Western Kentucky. He replaces Skip Holtz, who was fired following the worst season in USF's 16-year history. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Wallace) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO TODAY OUT.
Willie Taggart is introduced as the new University of South Florida head football coach during a news conference, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. Taggart, 36, is taking over as South Florida's football coach after establishing himself as one of the nation's top young prospects by turning around a losing program at Western Kentucky. He replaces Skip Holtz, who was fired following the worst season in USF's 16-year history. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Wallace) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO TODAY OUT.
FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2011, fil ephoto, Western Kentucky coach Willie Taggart looks up at the scoreboard during the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game against Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Taggart has been hired as South Florida's new football coach after establishing himself as one of the nation's top young prospects by turning a losing program around at Western Kentucky. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File0
Willie Taggart, left, hugs his sister Eddie Dean Butler, from Palmetto, Fla., after he was introduced as the new University of South Florida head football coach during a news conference, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. His dad, John Taggart, is at right. He replaces Skip Holtz. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Wallace) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO TODAY OUT.
Plant High School coach Robert Weiner, left, shakes hands with new University of South Florida head football coach Willie Taggart during a news conference, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. Taggart, takes over after establishing himself as one of the nation's top young prospects by turning around a losing program at Western Kentucky. He replaces Skip Holtz. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Wallace) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO TODAY OUT.
Willie Taggart is introduced as the new University of South Florida head football coach during a news conference, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. Taggart, 36, is taking over as South Florida's football coach after establishing himself as one of the nation's top young prospects by turning around a losing program at Western Kentucky. He replaces Skip Holtz, who was fired following the worst season in USF's 16-year history. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Wallace) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO TODAY OUT.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? Willie Taggart entered the room to applause, shook hands with his father, hugged his mother and waved to family and friends who turned his introductory news conference into a mini-pep rally.
South Florida's new football coach made a name for himself as player and coach at Western Kentucky, but an opportunity to return home to the Tampa Bay area to try to rescue another struggling program simply was too good to ignore.
"I always said I wouldn't leave WKU unless I had a chance to go and win a national championship, and I truly believe that can be done here," Taggart said Saturday after signing a five-year, $5.75 million contract to replace Skip Holtz, who was fired after the worst season in USF's 16-year history.
"It wasn't long ago USF was No. 2 in the country. It's been proven that we can get there," Taggart added. "What we have to do now is put everybody on the bus, put 'em in the right seat and let coach T drive this bus!"
Taggart, 36, led Western Kentucky to a 7-5 record this season. The Hilltoppers, who appointed defensive coordinator Lance Guidry interim coach on Saturday, will make their first postseason appearance since joining the Football Bowl Subdivision when they face Central Michigan in the Little Caesars Bowl.
A former assistant at Stanford to Jim Harbaugh, Taggart takes over a program that went 16-21 under Holtz, who dropped nine of 10 games following a 2-0 start this season.
"We've got a winner in Willie Taggart. He's young, dynamic, driven, innovative and successful," said athletic director Doug Woolard, who led the six-day search for a successor with assistance from former NFL coach and Tampa resident Tony Dungy, who sat in on interviews with the finalists ? another selling-point with Taggart.
"My vision is to win multiple championships in a first-class manner. That's what we're going to have about," Taggart said. "Another thing we're going to be about is we're not going to bow down to no one. We're going to go out and recruit the best to come here and be the best. ... There's no reason we can't do that."
Western Kentucky had lost 20 consecutive games before Taggart returned to his alma mater three seasons ago from Stanford, where he was the running backs coach. He went 2-10 in his first season, then followed with consecutive 7-5 records to expand his resume.
The native of nearby Palmetto played for Harbaugh's father, Jack, at Western Kentucky in the mid-1990s and was part of the coaching staff there when the Hilltoppers won a national Division I-AA title in 2002.
Taggart arrives at USF with a different challenge than Holtz faced when he was lured from East Carolina to replace Jim Leavitt, who was fired for mistreating a player who had accused Leavitt of grabbing him by the throat and slapping him in the face during halftime of a game.
The Bulls were perceived at that point in their development as one of the fastest rising programs in the country, having been ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation in 2007.
Holtz welcomed the challenge of helping USF get to the next level, but leaves behind a team that has been unable to remain competitive in a conference that has also been in decline because of the departure of several members to other leagues.
The Bulls have lost 14 of their last 16 games against Big East opponents and finished last in the conference the past two seasons.
Taggart, who informed his players of his decision to leave Western Kentucky after practice Friday, played on a state championship team at Bradenton Manatee High School in 1992. His connection to the Harbaugh family began when Jim recruited Taggart to play for his dad in college.
"I tell people today that ever since I met Jim Harbaugh my life has been going nowhere but up," Taggart said, adding that the San Francisco 49ers coach has been a role model.
"Ever since then, I've been trying to be like him, a coach like him, a father like him, a brother like him, everything like him," Taggart added. "And, it's gotten me to this point."
Western Kentucky athletic director Todd Stewart said during a news conference in Bowling Green, Ky., that the Hilltoppers raised "sufficient private funds" to put together a contract offer in October that would have made Taggart the highest-paid coach in the Sun Belt Conference.
"He felt announcing a new contract during the season would be a distraction to the team and wanted to keep the focus on football. We respected that statement and mutually agreed to wait until the end of the regular season to discuss a new contract," Stewart said. "This past week we again extended a term sheet that offered him a contract for him to become the highest paid coach in our conference. We were proactive and thorough in our efforts to retain him."
Hilltoppers defensive tackle Jamarcus Allen said players were preparing to go home from practice when called a team meeting to reveal his plans.
"He came in and told us he got the job at South Florida and that he had to do what was best for him and his family. We completely understand that. He told us to continue to make history and be one of those 35 teams that win a bowl game," Allen said.
"I was shocked and, I really hurt for the young guys because it's probably hard for them to transition," Allen added. "I just know that us group of seniors has been through so much and we know how to handle it. I just know we're going to put our arms around these younger guys and help them get through it."
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AP freelancer Bradley Stephens in Bowling Green, Ky., contributed to this report.
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