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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Comprehensive source for SBIRT information. Includes training manuals, online resources, links to organizations and publications, and list of references. http://sbirt.samhsa.gov Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). (2007). Alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) for traumapatients: Committee on Trauma quick guide. http://sbirt.samhsa.gov/documents/SBIRT_guide_Sep07.pdf Substance Use Screening amp; Assessment Instruments Database. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington.(Updated every month). Helps clinicians and researchers find instruments for screening and assessment of substance use.http://lib.adai.washington.edu/instruments Practitioner Training Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician’s Guide. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Updated 2005 edition. NIH Publication No. 05-3769. 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Biography of Sally Jewell, Ex-Secretary of the Interior

Sally Jewell (born Feb. 21, 1956) served as the 51st U.S. secretary of the interior from 2013 until 2017. Appointed by President Barak Obama, Jewell was the second woman to hold the position after Gale Norton, who served under President George W. Bush. As secretary of the Department of the Interior, Jewell knew the territory she oversaw—the great outdoors. An avid skier, kayaker, and hiker, Jewell was the only cabinet agency head to have climbed Mount Rainier seven times and to have scaled Mount Vinson, the highest mountain in Antarctica. Fast Facts: Sally Jewell Known For: She served as the 51st U.S. secretary of the interior from 2013 until 2017. Jewell won acclaim for her Every Kid initiative, which made every fourth-grade student in the nation and their families eligible for a free one-year pass to every U.S. national park.Also Known As: Sarah Margaret RoffeyBorn: Feb. 21, 1956 in London, EnglandParents: Anne (nà ©e Murphy) and Peter RoffeyEducation: University of Washington (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering)Awards and Honors: National Audubon Societys Rachel Carson Award, Woodrow Wilson Centers Award for Public Service, named to Sound Greenway Trusts Hall of Fame, named a 2012 Woman of Distinction from the Girl Scouts of Western Washington, University of Washington 2016 Alumni Lifetime Achievement AwardSpouse: Warren JewellNotable Quote: When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take r esponsibility? Personal Life and Education Born Sally Roffey in England on Feb. 21, 1956, Jewell and her parents moved to the United States in 1960. She graduated in 1973 from Renton (Wash.) High School, and in 1978 she was awarded a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington. Jewel is married to engineer Warren Jewell. When not in D.C. or scaling mountains, the Jewells live in Seattle and have two grown children. Business Experience After graduating from college, Jewell used her training as a petroleum engineer working for Mobile Oil Corp. in the Oklahoma and Colorado oil and gas fields. After working at Mobile, Jewell was employed in corporate banking. For over 20 years, she worked at Rainier Bank, Security Pacific Bank, West One Bank, and Washington Mutual. From 2000 until she took over as secretary of the interior, Jewell served as president and chief executive officer of REI (Recreation Equipment, Inc.), a retailer of  outdoor recreation equipment and services. During her tenure, Jewell helped REI grow from a regional sporting goods store to a nationwide retailing enterprise with annual sales of more than $2 billion. The firm is consistently listed among the 100 best companies to work for, according to Fortune Magazine. Environmental Experience Besides being an avid outdoorswoman, Jewell served on the board of the National Parks Conservation Association and helped to found Washington State’s Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust. In 2009, Jewell won the National Audubon Societys prestigious Rachel Carson Award for leadership in and dedication to conservation. Nomination and Senate Confirmation Jewell’s nomination and Senate confirmation process was swift and without notable opposition or controversy. On Feb. 6, 2013, ​Jewell was nominated by President Obama to succeed Ken Salazar as secretary of the interior. On March 21, 2013, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources approved her nomination by a 22-3 vote. 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During her time as interior secretary, Jewell opposed local and regional bans on â€Å"fracking,† a controversial process where oil drillers inject  millions of gallons of water,  sand, salts, and chemicals into shale deposits or other subsurface rock formations at extremely high pressure to fracture rock and extract raw fuel. Jewell said local and region bans were taking regulation of oil and gas recovery in the wrong direction. I think it’s going to be very difficult for industry to figure out what the rules are if different counties have different rules, she said in early 2015. Post-Government Service After her stint as interior secretary, Jewel joined the board of Bellevue-based life insurance company Symetra. The firm (as of February 2018) is owned by Tokyo-based Sumitomo Life Insurance Co., though it continues to operate independently. She also returned to the University of Washington, where one of her tasks is helping shape the future of  EarthLab, a new university-wide institute that seeks to connect scholars with community partners to solve environmental problems. â€Å"By coming to the university, I’m trying to help students understand how you can create a future that’s both economically successful and environmentally sustainable—one that you are proud to leave to future generations,† Jewell said upon accepting the position. In her role with EarthLab, Jewel is serving as chair of its advisory council, which seeks to raise awareness about the initiative in the community. Sources â€Å"Former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell Brings Leadership to UW Community, New EarthLab Initiative.†Ã‚  UW News.Long, Katherine. â€Å"Former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell Will Guide UWs New Climate Initiative.†Ã‚  The Seattle Times, The Seattle Times Company, 20 Nov. 2018â€Å"Sally Jewell Biography.†Ã‚  The Nature Conservancy.

Behavior and Classroom Management in Special Education

Behavior is one of the greatest challenges a special education teacher faces. This is especially true when students receiving special education services are in inclusive classrooms. There are a number of strategies that teachers—both special and general education—can employ to help with these situations. We will begin by looking at ways to provide structure, move on to addressing behavior in general, and look at structured interventions as prescribed by federal law. Classroom Management The most effective way to deal with difficult behavior is to prevent it. It really is as simple as that, but thats also sometimes easier to say than to put into practice in real life. Preventing bad behavior means creating a classroom environment that reinforces positive behavior. At the same time, you want to stimulate attention and imagination  and make your expectations clear to the students. To start, you can create a comprehensive classroom management plan. Beyond establishing rules, this plan will help you institute classroom routines, develop strategies to keep students organized and implement Positive Behavior Support systems. Behavior Management Strategies Before you have to put a Functional Behavior Analysis (FBA)  and Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) in place, there are other strategies you can try. These will help refocus behavior and avoid those higher, and more official, levels of intervention. First of all, as a teacher, its important that you understand the potential behavioral and emotional disorders children in your classroom may be dealing with. These may include psychiatric disorders or behavioral disabilities and each student will come to class with their own needs. Then, we also need to define what inappropriate behavior is. This helps us understand why a student may be acting out the way she has in the past. It also gives us guidance in properly confronting these actions. With this background, behavior management becomes part of classroom management. Here, you can begin to implement strategies to support a positive learning environment. This may include behavior contracts between yourself, the student, and their parents. It could also involve rewards for positive behavior. For example, many teachers use interactive tools like the Token Economy to recognize good behavior in the classroom. These point systems can be customized to fit the individual needs of your students and classroom. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a research-based therapeutic system based on Behaviorism (the science of behavior), which was first defined by B.F. Skinner. It has been proven to be successful in managing and changing problematic behavior. ABA also provides instruction in functional and life skills, as well as academic programming. Individual Education Plans (IEP) An Individual Education Plan (IEP) is a way to organize your thoughts in a formal manner regarding a childs behavior. This can be shared with the IEP team, parents, other teachers, and school administration. The goals outlined in an IEP should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and have a timeframe (SMART). All of this helps keep everyone on track and gives your student a very detailed sense of what is expected of them. If the IEP is not working, then you might need to resort to the formal FBA or BIP. Yet, teachers often find that with earlier intervention, the right combination of tools, and a positive classroom environment, these measures can be avoided.

The Aztec And Maya - 930 Words

As an archeologist, solving the puzzle about our past generations isn’t easy to analyze without written forms of communication. In a perfect world, every important aspect of each and every culture before us would be well documented in written texts. We can however, make inferences and analyze the artifacts and other forms of communication that are excavated from various sties around the globe. There are many different forms of important artifacts from the mesoamerican culture that shaped state authority and control. Mesoamerica is a culture and region in Mexico/northern South America, that existed from 3500 BCE to 1697 AD. Two important cultures within mesoamerica are the Aztec and Maya. More specifically, three examples of these important artifacts are the Templo Mayor, the Maya stelae and the ritual of bloodletting. These are great examples because each presents a different type of artifact and contributes to different aspects of state authority. The Templo Mayor (Spanish fo r â€Å"Great Temple†) was a historic temple for the Aztec Empire in the city/capital Tenochtitlan. Most of what we know about the temple is based on writings and other records, since it is not standing today. The temple was first built in 1325, but was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521. The temple was devoted to two gods; Huitzilopochtli, god of war and Tlaloc, god of rain (Glancey, 2015). The site of Templo Mayor is located in modern day Mexico City and covers about 800 meters squared in area. While thisShow MoreRelatedThe Maya And Aztec Civilizations866 Words   |  4 PagesThe Maya and Aztec civilizations were both indigenous people that flourished in Mesoamerica. Maya s classic period dates from 250 to 900 AD, which was considered to be the peak of their civilization. They covered much of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and were centered in what is now known as Guatemala. 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If you would have told an artist back in the 1970’s that in the future there was going to be music exclusively made in a computer, with no use of actual instruments; that musicians would have portals such as iTunes, Pandora, Spotify or Soundcloud where the audience could listen to their music as they pleased on the go in their mobile phones or even their watches, they probably would have called you crazy. However, this is the reality we live in nowadays. Almost sixty years after that time and, as you walk around a campus, a mall, a park, or anywhere else with large flow of people, you will notice people being in contact with music through several ways, most ways that you observe were not even thought to be possible a century ago.†¦show more content†¦Within the next five years phonograph parlors spread across America ushering in the first era of the recording business. At the same time, most major cities around the globe had at least one phonograph company that made r ecordings. This was the beginning of the music record labels as we know them today. Back then, people in a listening parlor were forced to listen to the music that other people chose to, not only their choices. This had its good and bad consequences. On one hand, people were excited to finally have access to reproduce music and listen to it on occasion; on the other hand, it wasn’t that comfortable to have to listen to every other person’s choice of song and have to attend a particular place just to listen to music. However, the fact that people had to share the listening lounges made it more likely for people to be open for other songs and genres that otherwise they might have not ever listened to. This aspect is one of the major things that has changed due to innovation. With the rise of electronic and digital albums, you can just pick and choose a specific song you want from an album and play it as much as you want, sometimes disregarding the other songs in the record, which you might enjoy as well. You might never realize you would enjoy them because you have that ability to pick which song you want to listen to the most anywhere, instead of being exposed

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Outpace Shaker Biography Outpace Shaker Veronica Hernandez 1 1/26/2012 Outpace Shaker demonstrates the power of words weather It was through the rap game that made him a musical icon or the poems that he wrote in his private moments. Born in Brooklyn, NY later moved to California where he grew a huge fan base because of his career In rapping and also worked as an actor. During his career he became entangled in a dispute against East Coast and West Coast rappers, he was known to insult enemies. He was killed in a drive-by shooting while in a vehicle with Death Row president Segue Knight.Life as Outpace To begin, Outpace Shaker, born Leganes Paris Crooks, was born June 16th, 1971 in Brooklyn, NY. Being the son of a Black Panther activist, Shaker moved around a lot as a child. HIS parents had separated before he was born, and his mother moved him and his sister around the country for much of their childhood. Mutual Shaker, Tubas stepfather, is sentenced to 60 years in prison for his connection with a 1981 armored-car robbery. Frequently, the family was at the poverty level. In his song Changes he states Im tired of bell poor and even worse Im black. My stomach ruts, so Im looking for a purse to snatch and In Dear Mama where he says l shed tears with my baby sister over the years we was poorer than the other little kids Shaker managed to get accepted to the prestigious Baltimore School of the Arts as a teenager where he studied acting and ballet. While living in Baltimore, he discovered rap and began performing. Before he could graduate, his family moved to the West Coast to Marin City, CA, in the late sasss when he was 17 years old. Over the next few years, he lived life on the streets and initiated his hustling.Shaker drifted into the nag life, gathering a criminal record with eight arrests by the beginning of his twenties. He demonstrates his early troubles In Dear Mama where he says Suspended from school; scared to go home, I was a fool with the big boys, breaking all the rules He then met Shock-G, the leader of Oakland, California-based hip-hop group Digital underground. He was hired as a back ground dancer. As he toured with the group, he worked on his own material. OPAC In 1991, Shaker arose as a solo artist using the name OPAC with his debut album apocalypse Now.The track Breads Got a Baby* reached as high as number three OFF Head Up, his second album Strictly 4 My N. L. G. G. A. Z platinum, selling more than a million copies. His songs were about growing up, lifes struggles, living in the ghetto and gangs. The single Dear Mama demonstrated that he was capable of sensitivity as well as violence. He recorded twelve landmark albums; nine of them went either platinum or gold. Fans, critics, and insiders ranked him as one of the greatest rappers of all time. In spite of Shakers career artist he was also an actor. He stared in six motion pictures. Shaker makes his movie debut in the Earnest Dickerson film Juice In 1992. In 1993 appeared in John Singletons release Poetic Justice with Janet Jackson. This stretched his popularity further into the mainstream. Controversy Although Outpace was a major superstar he still had the drama of everyday life. Outpace became the target of law suits and had many run ins with the law. He seemed to be living up to his aggressive gangster rap persona with a number of arrests for violent offenses in the sass. He also fell victim to violence as he was mugged and shot five times in a recording studio in Manhattan. He grew suspicious that the Notorious B. I. G. , Puffy Combs, Andre Harebell, and his own close friend Randy Stretch Walker coordinating the shooting because during the time he spent recovering he didnt receive one phone call or visit explaining why he was ambushed. Neither of them took the time to visit or write him during his deepest time of need. Slowly people started to forget about Outpace even his own fan base. Meanwhile Biggie Smalls capitalized on this and was slowly becoming the next Hip-Hop Rap King. Outpace was plotting his revenge from prison once he heard the hit Who Shot Yea! a song written by the Late Biggie Smalls.This ignited the East Coast and West Coast Hip Hop rivalry. Outpace wasnt going to let any of this stop him from becoming the greatest. He change his new found mentality and there was no way he would permit these cowards the pleasure of dethroning him and stealing his crown. This war wasnt going to be fought with fist, guns, knives but with words. He knew he needed soldiers, this was the foundation of Outlaws Outlaws Wafer Kodiak Full would always visit Outpace in prison. A few times during visits to Outpace, Kodiak spoke about a homeboy he knew from his hometown in Montclair, NJ. He was known to rap and was very much respected.Once Caudal heard of Tubas plan to start a new rap crew he referred the one and only Bruce Washington a. K. A. Hussein Fatal. They met with Shaker at Clinton Correctional Facility, where he flowed a few verses and was asked on the spot to be featured on his next album. Dramatically, Kodiak, and Bruce would soon meet with Outpace in Los Angles to begin collaborating on Pace s album called All Eyes on Me. Making a Comeback . After recovering from his injuries from the ambush shooting, Shaker was sentenced o four and a half years in prison from a sexual assault case that happened prior to the shooting.After only serving eight months Death Row President Segue Knight arranged parole and posted a 1. 4 million dollar bond. By the end of the year, OPAC was out of prison and working on his debut for Death Row. Shaker returned to music with the album All Eyes on Me in 1996. He came back with full force. This album brought his popularity to a new peak topping both the pop and RB charts and quickly receiving multi-platinum status. This appeared to be a golden time for Outpace. Films Gridlocked and Gang Related. Which unfortunately he would not live to see the results of the last two films.Death off Legend On the night of September 7th, 1996 Outpace was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of Segue Knights car. Thirteen shots were fired. One bullet striking his hip, another in his right hand, and one to his chest. Knight suffers a minor wound to his head. The two were leaving the Mike Tyson vs.. Bruce Seldom fight at the MGM Grand in Lass Vegas. Shaker was admitted to University of Nevada Medical Center where he died six days later at the due to his injuries after being placed into a medically induced coma.The cause of death was listed as respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. The killer was never caught and the case was never solved but it has been suggested that Knights ties to the mob and to gangs were the reason. Another theory is that the Notorious B. I. G. Organized the shooting as vengeance for papas comments that he slept with Baggies wife, Faith Evans in the song Hit Me Up, as he was known to insult his enemies on his tracks. Outpace Legacy Thousands of mourners appeared at the hospital after hearing news of his death, and the entire entertainment industry mourned his passing.Although Outpace died at he young age of twenty five, his talent was unbounded a raw forced that was commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic a violent homage to the power of his voice. (Pocket Books, Novo 1, 1999) Even in his death he remains a popular culture figure. The Shaker Estate and Leila Steinberg publish the Poem book The Rose That Grew From Concrete. The book contains of 71 poems written by Outpace from 1989 to 1991, before Outpace got into music. ( (C) pack. De 1997 2004). On December 21, 1999, Muar Records releases the OPAC Outlaws album Still I Rise which features 15 unreleased songs by Outpace The Outlaws.

Breast Implants Essay Example For Students

Breast Implants Essay Breast ImplantsIn the early 1980s breast implants began gaining popularity, but they have been on the market since the early 1960s. They were invented by plastic surgeons Cronin and Gerow. Dow Corning began manufacturing them commercially in 1962. Today over two million women have undergone breast augmentation surgery. There are many negative consequences that may arise from the surgery, and there is always the risk of infection or rupture. When beginning my research on the subject I assumed there would be a plethora of information. I was shocked to find out that there wasnt. Silicone breast implants have been around for 40 years and there have been very few studies on their consequences, and possible effects on a womans body. The Food and Drug Administration has never approved the use of silicone implants. It is a surprising fact, because silicone implants are still being used today, but only by women who agree to be in a study of their safety. The politics surrounding breast augmen tation are sketchy for lack of a better word. They have been promoted as being safe, yet their safety has never been fully questioned. While looking online, I found a variety of websites on the subject. There were many websites from the plastic surgery industry promoting breast implants as being safe. Then there were the websites like http://www.siliconeholocaust.org, this was by far the most disturbing site I have ever seen. There were dozens of pictures of real women who had their lives ruined by breast implants. If these, and other women had the little information that is available on the subject, they may have opted not to have the surgery because of the unnecessary consequences they now suffer. Every woman has her own reasons behind her decision to get breast implants. Some women have undergone mastectomies, and get breast implants in order to feel normal again. According to the National Womens Health Network (http://www.womenshealthnetwork.org) women who have lumpectomies have the same survival rate of women who have mastectomies as a result of breast cancer. They concluded that up to 40 percent of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer underwent unnecessary mastectomies. These mastectomies, whether necessary or not may lead to women to undergo breast augmentation surgery. Other women have always felt that their breasts were too small, and out of proportion to their bodies. There are also the women who have average to large sized breasts to begin with, but for some reason feel the need to enhance her natural form. Body image plays a large role in whether a woman decides to undergo breast augmentation surgery. Women view themselves, and judge themselves by what they se e on television, movies, and in magazines. The way the media portrays women is not natural. Models and actresses are, on the most part, thin and have seemingly flawless bodies. A young impressionable girl may feel the need to look like this herself; therefore she will grow up thinking she has to be perfect and she is not good enough. Girls as young as 11 are now contemplating plastic surgery. Breast implants are being put into the bodies of 15 year olds. A fifteen year old girl does not have the mental capacity to make a life altering decision like this. This shows us that there is a problem with the way children are being raised in todays society. Any child under the age of 18 needs parental consent to have surgery, and I doubt that a 15 year old girl has the money saved up to be able to afford breast implants. This means that parents are footing the bill, and putting their daughters lives in the hands of plastic surgeons. They do this all in the name of beauty. Because the average breast implant lasts only 7-12 years by the time a young woman is 22 she may be having her second breast augmentation surgery. The number of breast augmentation surgeries doubled in 2000, to 203,310 from 1997. This number does not include the 82,975 women who underwent the surgery for reconstruction after mastectomy. This does not mean that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women getting breast implants. Many of those surgeries were women either replacing aging or ruptured implants, or removing them. The bottom line is that all implants will rupture and will have to be replaced at some point. The longer a woman has her implants, the higher the risk of rupture. Over a womans lifetime she will have to undergo several surgeries, and that means increased scar tissue and the always present danger of infection. Not to mention the financial costs, and pain a woman will suffer with each additional surgery. Federalism EssayAlong with the physical expenses there are financial costs associated with breast augmentation. The average cost of breast implants is $3,077. This is just for the initial surgery. Every additional surgery may cost as much or even more than the first. Removal of implants is often more expensive because all scar tissue and leaked material must be removed. This often results in a woman having smaller breasts than she did before she had any surgery at all. The remaining breast tissue may be lumpy and completely unnatural looking. A woman also needs to consider the fact that no part of her surgery will be covered by health insurance, and any complications she may have from any type of plastic surgery will not be covered by her insurance. Women who have had breast implants often cannot get health insurance because they have an increased risk of illness. If a woman is able to obtain health insurance she may have to pay a higher premium because of her past plastic surgery history. After learning of the negative consequences that may, and probably will arise from breast implants, it is surprising that so many women are still getting them. It is major surgery and the benefits of having larger breast is not worth the unnecessary chance of death or serious pain for life. More work needs to be done on the study of breast implants because women need to know what they are putting in their bodies. Breast implant manufacturers need to be held responsible, and plastic surgeon should be required to make sure every woman is fully aware of all the possible side effects before she has any type of surgery done. Works Cited Brown University, Department of Biology and Medicine. 14 Feb. 2003 . Darrick Antell Homepage. 15 Feb. 2003 . Department of Health. 15 Feb. 2003 . National Center For Policy (CPR) For Women ; Families. 18 Nov. 2002 . 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