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Leighton Andrews attacks union's 24-person survey
Education minister Leighton Andrews has criticised a teaching union survey as "pathetic" and "baloney" for using a sample of 24 people.
Headteachers union NAHT Cymru said half of headteachers surveyed believed an assembly government reform on schools sharing good practice "will fail".
Mr Andrews called the survey "ridiculous" because of its size.
The union defended its methodology and said Mr Andrews' comments were "not the language expected from a minister".
The education minister hit out after the union published its "snapshot" survey on the assembly government's School Effectiveness Framework (SEF) reform.
It selected a dozen headteachers and a dozen teachers to be interviewed for their experience and opinions of the reform.
The survey in September claimed to reveal "widespread confusion over how SEF will be delivered" with more than 90% saying they "saw mounting paperwork".
However, all but one of those interviewed said they believed SEF was a "good policy on paper," the NAHT said.
Mr Andrews responded with strongly worded criticism on the assembly government's website.
He said: "The survey from the NAHT is pathetic. This is baloney. The fact that they have asked only 12 heads and 12 practitioners and would use this as a representative picture of Wales as a whole is ridiculous."
He said the "great buy-in to the SEF" included more than 860 people attending four events in Wales to learn about the reform.
Iwan Guy, acting director of NAHT Cymru, defended the methodology of the teaching union's survey and said he was not interested in "a slanging match" with Mr Andrews.
He said: "It was a snapshot survey following many concerns that headteachers have raised.
"We selected a very carefully chosen group of headteachers and teachers - some had worked on the pilot study, some had worked with SEF, others were very sceptical but had come to be supportive and vice versa.
"We would defend the methodology. It was not a random selection. It was conducted by an in-depth interview."
Mr Guy added: "It is not the sort of language we would expect from a minister."
He said that many of the people who had attended the four SEF events described by Mr Andrews were not headteachers and said an "embarrassing" number of delegates at the conferences had left at lunchtime and not returned.
NAHT Cymru has a membership of 1,300 headteachers and deputy headteachers, the majority in primary schools.
Headteachers union NAHT Cymru said half of headteachers surveyed believed an assembly government reform on schools sharing good practice "will fail".
Mr Andrews called the survey "ridiculous" because of its size.
The union defended its methodology and said Mr Andrews' comments were "not the language expected from a minister".
The education minister hit out after the union published its "snapshot" survey on the assembly government's School Effectiveness Framework (SEF) reform.
It selected a dozen headteachers and a dozen teachers to be interviewed for their experience and opinions of the reform.
The survey in September claimed to reveal "widespread confusion over how SEF will be delivered" with more than 90% saying they "saw mounting paperwork".
However, all but one of those interviewed said they believed SEF was a "good policy on paper," the NAHT said.
Mr Andrews responded with strongly worded criticism on the assembly government's website.
He said: "The survey from the NAHT is pathetic. This is baloney. The fact that they have asked only 12 heads and 12 practitioners and would use this as a representative picture of Wales as a whole is ridiculous."
He said the "great buy-in to the SEF" included more than 860 people attending four events in Wales to learn about the reform.
Iwan Guy, acting director of NAHT Cymru, defended the methodology of the teaching union's survey and said he was not interested in "a slanging match" with Mr Andrews.
He said: "It was a snapshot survey following many concerns that headteachers have raised.
"We selected a very carefully chosen group of headteachers and teachers - some had worked on the pilot study, some had worked with SEF, others were very sceptical but had come to be supportive and vice versa.
"We would defend the methodology. It was not a random selection. It was conducted by an in-depth interview."
Mr Guy added: "It is not the sort of language we would expect from a minister."
He said that many of the people who had attended the four SEF events described by Mr Andrews were not headteachers and said an "embarrassing" number of delegates at the conferences had left at lunchtime and not returned.
NAHT Cymru has a membership of 1,300 headteachers and deputy headteachers, the majority in primary schools.
Philippines Super Typhoon Megi heads to China
At least 10 people have been killed in the Philippines by a typhoon which hit the north of the country on Monday.
Officials say the toll could rise; communications links are down and the full extent of damage is not known.
Typhoon Megi was the strongest to hit the Philippines for several years and caused significant damage, tearing the roofs off houses and cutting power.
It has now passed over the main island, Luzon, and is heading towards the southern coast of China.
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Floods in Vietnam have swept travellers away and flooded thousands of homes, killing at least 31 people, with 23 people missing.
Flash floods have also hit northern Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province.
Forecasters say the typhoon is now heading towards southern China, where heavy weather is predicted by the weekend.
On the southern Chinese island of Hainan, the rain prompted more than 100,000 people to leave their homes over the weekend.
Philippines prepared?
Four people were killed on Monday in Pangasinan province, north of the capital, Manila - three were a mother and her children crushed in their house by a falling tree.
The fourth person was killed by lightning, a national Red Cross spokesman Alex Rosete said.
A storm surge at the coastal town of Maconacon in Isabela province, further north, drowned three more people, the provincial governor Faustino Dy said.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council had earlier reported three people killed elsewhere in the north of Luzon, the Philippines' main island, but the details remain unclear.
Typhoon Megi was the strongest to hit the country in four years, with its full force directed at the northern coastal provinces and the Cagayan valley.
It was a category five super typhoon with winds in excess of 250 km/h (155 mph) when it hit the east coast of north Luzon shortly before noon on Monday.
The agriculture department has estimated that at least 10% of the region's rice crop had been damaged.
However, aid officials are hoping the human cost will stay low, and crediting a rare degree of preparedness, including evacuations, for the relatively low toll.
Officials say the toll could rise; communications links are down and the full extent of damage is not known.
Typhoon Megi was the strongest to hit the Philippines for several years and caused significant damage, tearing the roofs off houses and cutting power.
It has now passed over the main island, Luzon, and is heading towards the southern coast of China.
Continue reading the main story
Related stories
* Super typhoon lashes Philippines
* In pictures: Philippines typhoon
* Animated guide: Typhoons
Floods in Vietnam have swept travellers away and flooded thousands of homes, killing at least 31 people, with 23 people missing.
Flash floods have also hit northern Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province.
Forecasters say the typhoon is now heading towards southern China, where heavy weather is predicted by the weekend.
On the southern Chinese island of Hainan, the rain prompted more than 100,000 people to leave their homes over the weekend.
Philippines prepared?
Four people were killed on Monday in Pangasinan province, north of the capital, Manila - three were a mother and her children crushed in their house by a falling tree.
The fourth person was killed by lightning, a national Red Cross spokesman Alex Rosete said.
A storm surge at the coastal town of Maconacon in Isabela province, further north, drowned three more people, the provincial governor Faustino Dy said.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council had earlier reported three people killed elsewhere in the north of Luzon, the Philippines' main island, but the details remain unclear.
Typhoon Megi was the strongest to hit the country in four years, with its full force directed at the northern coastal provinces and the Cagayan valley.
It was a category five super typhoon with winds in excess of 250 km/h (155 mph) when it hit the east coast of north Luzon shortly before noon on Monday.
The agriculture department has estimated that at least 10% of the region's rice crop had been damaged.
However, aid officials are hoping the human cost will stay low, and crediting a rare degree of preparedness, including evacuations, for the relatively low toll.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
what happen after break up?
What is love ? The true feeling of trueness or closeness or the attraction or the illusion in the mind and heart is love.
what is life ?
I mean the meaning is love. coz we are here becoz of love . we do anything for the love either u know that love in direct or indirect. The love for living. The love for success and the love for life is all love.
The love and life are the same thing and we leave the love and keep the life apart from it we think it is we doing but we can't.
you define love in your own word and is suited for you.
Actually most of we belive love is for happyness and the joys is that we right?
what happen if our love is not success and we are not able to achive our true lover.
Is that our love is fake or just the wrong thing or crime that we committed.
In general the girls do true love than the boys its a true fact from the survey in england and america.
In love we want hear from him/her sight.
We want to talk more and more with him/her.
If we met we don't want to depart from him/her.
I walk side by side.
we talk about the present past and the future of each other and the future of others too.
Even we talk about the way of living of other and want to make the way of living of our is different from them.
we talks about the likes and dislikes of each other and cares the each other likes and dislikes.
We care in talking so that we don't want to hurt each other and we don't want to go against each other feelings.
We hang on the cell phone hours and hours until the battery goes down or until the cell balance goes down.
That we call all about it the love.
Actually love is just a feeling from the deep inside the heart.
When we talk about the love even we spell the world love we feel something pain or indifferent in inner heart so it is love.
We spent most of time goes cafe , garden, beautiful sight temple and celebarate the festival and the occasions with each other.
In doing these the feelings of heart is pure from the sight of true love doer.
The galls totally give up there life to her lover but if that love is mistaken by her lover than she absolutely get hurt. Everyone gets hurt if someone plays with the feeligs of true love doer.This causes a serious problem is deepression.
So for the prevention from it we should take before falling in love with some one.
Love them but not like a everything that u see in him/her. Don't spent lot of time him/her.Don't be unsocialized in love. Love is needed but for love don't leave your friend and pals. Think your life and think positive.
When you get departed from your beloved one than we gets seriously hurt. We cry we call, we enoy we disagree we warmed we feel lonely which leads us the mental problem and we get sick of love. we feel no thing is left in the life and we are alone walking on the endless cricle of life. so we should have to develop new habit and the hobbies that makes free from tension. and try to help other so that they shouldn't have to face the same problem that you had faced already.
what is life ?
I mean the meaning is love. coz we are here becoz of love . we do anything for the love either u know that love in direct or indirect. The love for living. The love for success and the love for life is all love.
The love and life are the same thing and we leave the love and keep the life apart from it we think it is we doing but we can't.
you define love in your own word and is suited for you.
Actually most of we belive love is for happyness and the joys is that we right?
what happen if our love is not success and we are not able to achive our true lover.
Is that our love is fake or just the wrong thing or crime that we committed.
In general the girls do true love than the boys its a true fact from the survey in england and america.
In love we want hear from him/her sight.
We want to talk more and more with him/her.
If we met we don't want to depart from him/her.
I walk side by side.
we talk about the present past and the future of each other and the future of others too.
Even we talk about the way of living of other and want to make the way of living of our is different from them.
we talks about the likes and dislikes of each other and cares the each other likes and dislikes.
We care in talking so that we don't want to hurt each other and we don't want to go against each other feelings.
We hang on the cell phone hours and hours until the battery goes down or until the cell balance goes down.
That we call all about it the love.
Actually love is just a feeling from the deep inside the heart.
When we talk about the love even we spell the world love we feel something pain or indifferent in inner heart so it is love.
We spent most of time goes cafe , garden, beautiful sight temple and celebarate the festival and the occasions with each other.
In doing these the feelings of heart is pure from the sight of true love doer.
The galls totally give up there life to her lover but if that love is mistaken by her lover than she absolutely get hurt. Everyone gets hurt if someone plays with the feeligs of true love doer.This causes a serious problem is deepression.
So for the prevention from it we should take before falling in love with some one.
Love them but not like a everything that u see in him/her. Don't spent lot of time him/her.Don't be unsocialized in love. Love is needed but for love don't leave your friend and pals. Think your life and think positive.
When you get departed from your beloved one than we gets seriously hurt. We cry we call, we enoy we disagree we warmed we feel lonely which leads us the mental problem and we get sick of love. we feel no thing is left in the life and we are alone walking on the endless cricle of life. so we should have to develop new habit and the hobbies that makes free from tension. and try to help other so that they shouldn't have to face the same problem that you had faced already.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
IF You Don't Brush Your Teeth Twice a Day, You're More Likely to Develop Heart Disease, Study Finds
IF You Don't Brush Your Teeth Twice a Day, You're More Likely to Develop Heart Disease, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (May 27, 2010) — Individuals who have poor oral hygiene have an increased risk of heart disease compared to those who brush their teeth twice a day, finds research published on the British Medical Journal website.
In the last twenty years there has been increased interest in links between heart problems and gum disease. While it has been established that inflammation in the body (including mouth and gums) plays an important role in the build up of clogged arteries, this is the first study to investigate whether the number of times individuals brush their teeth has any bearing on the risk of developing heart disease, says the research.
The authors, led by Professor Richard Watt from University College London, analysed data from over 11,000 adults who took part in the Scottish Healthy Survey.
The research team analysed data about lifestyle behaviours such as smoking, physical activity and oral health routines. Individuals were asked how often they visited the dentist (at least once every six months, every one to two years, or rarely/never) and how often they brushed their teeth (twice a day, once a day or less than once a day).
On a separate visit nurses collected information on medical history and family history of heart disease, blood pressure and blood samples from consenting adults. The samples enabled the researchers to determine levels of inflammation that were present in the body. The data gathered from the interviews were linked to hospital admissions and deaths in Scotland until December 2007.
The results demonstrate that oral health behaviours were generally good with six out of ten (62%) of participants saying they visit the dentist every six months and seven out ten (71%) reporting that they brush their teeth twice a day.
Once the data were adjusted for established cardio risk factors such as social class, obesity, smoking and family history of heart disease, the researchers found that participants who reported less frequent toothbrushing had a 70% extra risk of heart disease compared to individuals who brushed their teeth twice a day, although the overall risk remained quite low. Particpants who had poor oral hygiene also tested positive for inflammatory markers such as the C-reactive protein and fibrinogen.
Professor Watt concludes: "our results confirmed and further strengthened the suggested association between oral hygiene and the risk of cardiovascular disease -- furthermore inflammatory markers were significantly associated with a very simple measure of poor oral health behaviour." He adds that "future experimental studies will be needed to confirm whether the observed association between oral health behaviour and cardio vascular disease is in fact causal or merely a risk marker."
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