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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Let nature be your teacher - South Asia Revealed - petermuellir3's ...
The Jigme Losel primary school in the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu, is a riot of green. Plants cover most surfaces and are piled precariously on walls and stairwells. On the wall behind the school?s vegetable patch a hand-painted sign says: ?Let nature be your teacher.?
?It?s become our unofficial slogan,? Choki Dukpa, who has been headteacher at Jigame Losel since 2005, says. ?We want nature to be everywhere the children are. Most of our country is mountains, but here in the city I think the children can feel disconnected. It?s our way of bringing the outside to inside the school environment.?
For the past three years, Dukpa has been putting the environment at the heart of all teaching and activities at this busy primary school. ?Environmental sustainability and nature is now central to the way we teach here,? she says.
Since the end of 2009, Bhutan has been trialling a new approach to education. Its Green Schools for Green Bhutan programme is part of the country?s attempt to integrate principles of its revolutionary Gross National Happiness (GNH) model into all areas of public policy.
Since 1971, this tiny Himalayan state has rejected the idea of measuring progress and prosperity through GDP alone, instead governing through a GNH index ? based on four pillars: equitable social development; cultural preservation; conservation of the environment and promotion of good governance.
In 2009, an Educating for GNH conference announced that its principles, in particular the pillar of environmental conservation, would be integrated into the national curriculum to make ?learning more relevant, thoughtful and aligned with sustainable practices?.
?Green schools is not just about the environment, it is a philosophy, so we?re trying to instil a sense of green minds, which are flexible and open to different types of learning,? Thakur Singh Powdyel, Bhutan?s minister of education, says. ?It?s a values-led approach to education that stems from the belief that education should be more than academic attainment, it should be about expanding children?s minds and teaching what it is to be human ? and at the forefront of this is the conservation of the natural environment.?
The primary school in Thimphu has a communal vegetable garden and teaches children basic agricultural skills. Each classroom has its own tree to look after and flower garden to tend. There is a scheme aiming to recycle all materials used in the school and a community ?green clean? scheme, where children clean the school in the morning using brooms they have made from recycled bottles and twigs.
The children also have daily prayers and meditations, and undertake community work.
The government is determined to put the GNH pillar of cultural preservation into action to counter what it considers the decay of national identity in recent years. The children at Jigme Losel listen to traditional music and stories, and are educated in ?Bhutanese values?. Although it has faced criticism of its enforcement of cultural traditions ? such as an insistence that people wear traditional dress in formal public settings ? the education minister believes Bhutan?s ?strong national identity ? should be passed down through the generations?.
However, the well-stocked classrooms and vegetable patches of Jigame Losel are a far cry from the reality of school life for many Bhutanese children. The country has made considerable progress in achieving primary education for all children. In the 1960s, only 500 children were enrolled in 11 schools in Bhutan. Last year 17,000 were attending classes in 650 primary schools across the country.
Yet Bhutan is still struggling to get teachers, let alone recycling schemes, into many of its schools located in remote and very poor mountainous regions across the country. ?The geography of Bhutan means that many children are very isolated,? Bishnu Bhakta Mishra, education officer at Unicef Bhutan, says. ?The provision of quality education is still a big issue for the country.?
Unicef Bhutan has partnered the government to help roll out the green schools initiative. The agency is trying to roll out a nationwide teacher-training initiative that it believes is vital to take the lofty principles of the initiative and translate them into practical action in the schoolyard and classroom.
?We are caught up in the challenge of providing resources to 8,000 teachers,? Mishra says. ?In terms of resources, we are stretched. Implementation at school level is still a big problem, and without training we know it really is almost impossible. The idea is brilliant but it means a lot of added work for the teachers, and we?re getting no additional resources from the government.
?I have no doubt that a generation of GNH-minded graduates would be a huge benefit to the country, but it will take time before we see if it really will work.?
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Source: http://southasiarevealed.com/2013/01/03/let-nature-teacher-bhutan-takes-conservation-classroom/
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The HTC One SV comes to the U.S. on Cricket Wireless on Jan. 16 for $349
And the first U.S. smartphone announcement of 2013 belongs to ... HTC and Cricket Wireless. The HTC One SV, last seen making its way through Europe SIM-free, and before that in Asia, is coming to Cricket Wireless starting Jan 16 for $349.99.
Spec-wise, the One SV sort of dances around what we consider to be the middle of of the HTC One line, much like the One VX on AT&T, though this is a different phone, with a different design. It's got a 4.3-inch display, same as the HTC One S, but it's switched to Super LCD 2 instead of AMOLED -- and that's a change we like. It's powered by a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 at 1.2 GHz. On-board storage won't win any awards, but you can add a 32GB microSD card and any cloud storage as you see fit. Plus, the One SV has a 5-megapixel camera with with an f/2.0 lens and backside illuminated sensor. There's a front-facing 1.6-megapixel shooter as well. Beats Audio is on board, too.
The bad news? It's running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and not the newer Jelly Bean.
But this being a Cricket phone, the real winner is in the data plans. For $70 a month you can get 10GB of 4G LTE data. Fork over $60 a month for 5GB, and $50 gets you 2GB.
We've got the full presser, including 3G data plan info, and more pics after the break.
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That Is Not an Ear Infection
A middle ear infection in children can be hard to detect, and overdiagnosediStockphoto/Thinkstock.
Last March, while on vacation in Florida, my 11-month-old came down with a fever. We took him to a local pediatrician who quickly diagnosed him with a middle ear infection and prescribed him a 10-day course of antibiotics. Two days later, back home in New York, our pediatrician said our son probably never had an ear infection, and that regardless, he should stop taking the drugs.
At the time, I was exceptionally annoyed?goddamn podunk doctor. What irked me wasn?t just the misdiagnosis; it was that he had recommended unnecessary drugs that may have upset my baby?s stomach and potentially, research suggests, increased his risk for asthma and irritable bowel disease. But it turns out Dr. Florida?s actions were less the exception than the rule: Many U.S. pediatricians overdiagnose and overtreat ear infections, in part because of how difficult it is to accurately perform ear exams and in part because doctors feel you breathing down their stethoscope-adorned necks for the meds.
To make things even more complicated, the microbes that cause ear infections are changing: Vaccines have shifted the microbial flora blooming in American children, and thanks in part to routine antibiotic overuse, some bugs have become much harder to treat.
Common in the wintertime, middle ear infections?technically called acute otitis media, not to be confused with outer ear infections (swimmer?s ear) or rare inner ear infections?aren?t a big deal. Nearly 80 percent of American kids have had one by the time they turn 3; many seem to battle them constantly?perhaps yours? No one knows why some kids are more prone to them than others, but some research suggests that genetics plays a role, and environmental factors such as day care, exposure to tobacco smoke, and formula feeding are known to boost the risk as well. Ear infections can, however, be more than just a painful, oozing nuisance: They sometimes cause fluid to build up in the middle ear, leading to long-term hearing loss and language and literacy problems (and maybe even picky eating, as I discussed in my last column). Serious infections, left untreated, can also cause meningitis or mastoiditis, an infection of the mastoid bone in the skull, which requires surgery.
So, no, ear infections should not just be ignored. But a 2008 French study reported that one-fifth of ear infections diagnosed by general practitioners are in reality something else, like minor ear inflammation; 7 percent of the time, doctors deem perfectly healthy ears infected. Why is ear health such a medical mystery? Fevers, ear pulling, and ear pain don?t necessarily predict the presence of an infection, so doctors have to examine the middle ear to be sure?and that?s really hard to do to a sick child. Doctors typically have to insert an instrument into the kid?s ear, establish an airtight seal, squeeze a rubber bulb to release several bursts of air, and then watch to see how the child?s eardrum responds. Oh, and if there?s any earwax, the doc has to pluck it out with tweezers and try the whole thing again. As you can imagine, this doesn?t always go well, so many pediatricians end up just peering into your kid?s ear, seeing a little redness and guessing at a diagnosis instead.
Even if a doctor is certain of an infection, there?s the problem of knowing what kind of ear infection it is. Some are caused by viruses, which are immune to antibiotics, whereas others arise because a respiratory virus like the cold or flu made it easier for pre-existing bacteria to grow in the middle ear canal. (During a cold, mucus can block one or both Eustachian tubes, creating negative pressure inside the middle ear that pulls nearby bacteria in; at the same time, the plugged tube stops draining middle ear secretions into the throat, so the moisture-loving bacteria overgrow.) The only way a doctor can tell an infection?s microbial origin is by inserting a needle into a child?s eardrum and aspirating out some of the middle ear fluid, which (thankfully) few doctors do.
Problem is, without knowing what?s causing an infection, it?s very difficult to know how best to treat it. Since 2004, the American Academy of Pediatrics has advised doctors against giving antibiotics to kids over the age of 2 if their ear infections are not severe. (All children under 6 months should get antibiotics, and kids between 6 months and 2 years should get them only if the doctor is absolutely certain of the infection, which is apparently only half the time.) Under this ?watchful waiting? approach, doctors are supposed to re-examine the child a few days later to see if the infection is getting better; if it?s not, drugs then might be in order. (The AAP is expected to release new treatment guidelines sometime this year.)
There?s a good reason for this conservative approach: No matter what their cause, most ear infections go away on their own. In a 2011 clinical trial, University of Pittsburgh researchers reported that 74 percent of children under 2 who were suffering from ear infections got better after one week when they weren?t given any treatment; 80 percent of those who got antibiotics got better in the same time frame. Yet half of the kids treated with antibiotics in the study got bouts of diarrhea, compared with only 27 percent of the kids who didn?t take anything. (Ear tubes, which are sometimes surgically inserted in children who have recurring infections, can help but research suggests for only about six months.) So, yes, after a week on amoxicillin your son finally stopped wailing, waking in the night, and tugging at his ear. But that could very well have been just because time had passed and his immune system fought the bug off.
Unfortunately, most doctors prescribe antibiotics anyway. In a 2010 study, Boston University researchers surveyed 300 pediatricians and found that 85 percent of the time, when infections were minor, doctors ignored the AAP?s guidelines and prescribed drugs. Most of the doctors said they thought that the guidelines made good sense, but they felt pressured by parents to give out drugs anyway. This reckless overuse of antibiotics isn?t just expensive; it is believed to drive antibiotic resistance, too. In 2007, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified a new form of Streptococcus pneumoniae called 19A that causes childhood ear infections and is resistant to every FDA-approved antibiotic. Now that?s a bug you don?t want your child to get.
Ear infections are changing in other ways, too. In 2000, a vaccine called PCV7, which protects kids against seven (out of a total of 93) subtypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae, became part of the standard U.S. vaccine schedule; in 2010, it was replaced with PVC13, which protects against five additional subtypes, including the drug-resistant 19A. As a result of these vaccines, overall ear infection numbers have dropped by 6 percent since 2000, but the types have now shifted in that more infections are now caused by Haemophilus influenzae or Moraxella catarrhalis than they used to be. Doctors disagree about what these changes mean, clinically speaking: On the one hand, the new vaccine protects against 19A and should therefore reduce the number of resistant 19A infections, but on the other hand, some strains of the now more common H. influenzae do not respond to first-line antibiotics.
The bottom line is that ear infections are beguiling, yet they are also less common than you might have been led to believe and more innocuous as well. This doesn?t mean you shouldn?t take your shrieking, ear-clawing child to the pediatrician. You should. But don?t pitch a fit while you?re there?what do you mean you?re not giving Lola antibiotics? She?s been screaming for 17 hours!?and if your doctor prescribes drugs without skipping a beat, consider asking if a watchful waiting approach might work instead. Then, pick up some pain relievers on the way home? a bottle of children?s Tylenol for her, and some chardonnay for you.
The Kids would like to thank Melinda Pettigrew at Yale University, Tumaini Coker at UCLA, and Itzhak Brook at Georgetown University.
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Friday, January 4, 2013
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