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samantha maciej

Do the Olympics Boost the Economy? Studies Show the Impact is Likely Negative - The Dai... - 0 views

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  • Twenty-one out of 22 of the stadiums, arenas, sports halls and swimming pools built for the Games are either derelict, in a state of disrepair, boarded up or unable to find a buyer and underused.
  • Athens faced a bill estimated at $784 million simply to maintain this ghost town of Olympian extravagance
  • “Immediately following the Games, the positive employment effect moved into reverse. In the three months after the Games, September–November 2004, Greek industry lost 70,000 jobs, the majority in construction.
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  • A Lasting Legacy for London? Assessing the Legacy of the Olympic and Paralympic Games,
  • “In terms of purely measurable economic variables the Sydney Olympics had a negative effect on New South Wales and Australia as a whole.” According to Giesecke and Madde
  • “Diverting scarce capital and other resources from more productive uses to the Olympics very likely translates into slower rates of economic growth than that which could be realized in the absence of hosting the Olympic Games.” 
  • There appears to be little evidence of any benefit to tourism of hosting an Olympic Games, and considerable evidence of damage
  • But except for a dedicated few, there will be little desire to visit them subsequently. Instead, within a few months, all eyes will be on Rio de Janeiro, host of the 2016 Games
  • In 1996 in Georgia, home state of host city Atlanta, hotel occupancy rates fell from 73 percent in the previous year to 68 percent.
  • Sydney 2000 saw hotel occupancy fall steadily as the Games approached, from 83 percent in March to 68 percent in July and August, before a modest recovery to 80 percent during the Games themselves
  • “Olympic visitors effectively scare other visitors away. Regular tourists assume that congestion and increased prices are a feature of Mega-Events.”
  • “During the Olympic period, the entire bed-stock of a destination is devoted to the travelling officials, the press and spectators. These visitors are unlike “regular” tourists, having different spending and behavior patterns. They are not interested in “tourism”—they are interested in sport. They tend not to spend money on leisure and entertainment, and when not in the stadia they watch events on TV rather than engaging in other activities.”
  • Any financial benefit from Olympic tourism is almost exclusively short-term and hotel-specific, jacking up the room prices for a few weeks for a clientele who are unlikely ever to visit again, as they move on to the next major sporting event.
  • Spend billions that should go to schools, roads and other infrastructure?
meganduret

Survey Proves We Still Really Need To Talk About Photoshop - 0 views

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Emily Wolter

The Effects of Homework Programs and After-School Activities on School Succ...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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  • NATIONAL CONCERNS HAVE BEEN raised about the number of children who do not have supervised activities after school. The U.S. Department of Justice (1999) reported that the peak time for juvenile crime is between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. on school days, the period after school until parents typically return from work.
  • esults of the Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report suggest that after-school programs have greater potential for reducing juvenile crime than imposition of a juvenile curfew.
  • student participation in structured activities, religious activities, and time with adults during 10th grade had a significant positive impact on educational outcomes for those same students in 12th grade. Conversely
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  • that academic outcomes of this program were mediated by changes in the student's self-confidence as well as changes in teacher perceptions of the student's efforts.
  • Participation in an after-school program designed to build self-esteem had positive effects on standardized test scores in math and reading, while receiving extended school time to complete homework did not have the same positive effects on self-esteem or achievement.
  • studies indicate that after-school academic support may play a protective role by helping to prevent a loss of school engagement even if it doesn't result in higher levels of functioning.
  • The Gevirtz Homework Project
  • Most researchers believe that involvement in extracurricular activities has an indirect impact on achievement by increasing connectedness to the school and by helping to build student strengths, thereby increasing self-esteem and positive social networks
  • At the end of sixth grade, teachers rated English language learner participants in the homework project higher in academic effort and study skills than English language learners in the control group.
  • Studies have shown that involvement in extracurricular activities is associated with school engagement and achievement
  • Rather than divert students from meeting their academic goals, studies find that students engaged in extracurricular activities--including sports, service clubs, and art activities--are less likely to drop out
  • and more likely to have higher academic achievement
  • All fourth-grade students in three participating schools were engaged in the project, with students randomly assigned to treatment (Homework Project) and non-treatment after their stratification into high, medium, and low achievement groups at school. Students were also stratified on the basis of ethnicity and English proficiency, with equal numbers assigned to the homework project and to the non-treatment control group.
  • For example, while "no play" rules that prohibit students with low GPAs from participating in extracurricular activities may provide a needed incentive to some students,
bonnievouk

Family Works - Effects of Violence on Television Can Impact Family Values - 1 views

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  • Effects of Violence on Television Can Impact Family Values
  • Children who are already aggressive or have an aggressive nature are attracted to and tend to watch more violent TV.
  • They may gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems.
samantha maciej

2012 London Olympics: Economic Benefits Not What You Think - 0 views

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  • Instead of luring money to the city, it actually drives out the usual spenders and decreases tourism, drastically reducing revenue for local businesses. That means host cities hardly ever recoup the costs it takes to prepare for holding the Olympic Games. 
  • Montreal, which hosted the 1976 Olympics, is the best example of the negative economic side effects of the Olympics. 
  • Mismanagement and unexpected costs left the city's citizens with a $1.5 billion debt that took three decades to erase. The final payment on the debt was made in 2006.
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  • 58% said the Games would have no impact on business,
  • "Our business is down by about 20-40 percent depending on the time of day," Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, told the AFP. "Normally about 90 percent of our customers are Londoners but they've all left the city and haven't been replaced by tourists.
  • Not only is a tourism decline hurting the city's revenue; London is already in debt because the cost of Olympics hosting starts with the bidding process.
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  • This process is driven by private interest groups supporting construction, architecture, bankers and lawyers who care little for London's fiscal well-being and more for their own pockets. That means they pressure the city to overbid.
  • host cities tend to be captured by private interests who end up promising much more than the city can afford." 
  • Chicago, during its three-year bid process, spent $100 million on advertising, preparing venues for inspection, and promotions
  • The British government has raised its 2012 London Olympics budget estimate to nearly $15 billion - almost four times the initial amount of $4 billion.
  • And each year, the cost of hosting gets higher.
  • It is a common trend for host cities to understate budgets.
  • Atlanta spent $2.4 billion in 1996. Sydney spent $6.8 billion in 2000 and is still trying to fill the rooms it built. Athens, which spent $16 billion in 2004, has venues that are in disrepair because it cost hundreds of millions to maintain them. 
  • Then there's always the fear the exposure will cast an unappealing light on the city, driving away future tourists.
  • "Should the Games be plagued by disorganization (e.g., the current security snafu in London), the pervasive pollution of Beijing, the violence of Munich, Mexico City or Atlanta, or the corruption scandals of Salt Lake City and Nagano, then the PR effect might be negative," said Zimbalist.
  • Bottom Line: "I think the Olympics is and should be a great sporting event, but it is not and should not be considered a major economic event," said University of Michigan's Szymanski.  "It's a lot like having a party. It's a good time but it doesn't make you rich."
  • The only instances of success have been Barcelona, which did enjoy a significant tourism boom following the 1992 games, and Los Angeles, which hosted the 1984 games and already had the infrastructure and venues needed. But two examples of success are hardly anything to brag about.
Ryan Yurczyk

Why I Can't Say Enough about the Importance of Nursing - 0 views

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  • nurses tend to spend more time in direct contact with patients than physicians do
  • the ability of nurses to affect the perceived quality of care is becoming more significant.
  • how big an impact nursing has on a hospital’s culture
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  • Nursing is going to become even more important in the coming years
  • Nurses will play an enormous role in these lower-cost, higher-touch, prevent-and-manage models, because the emphasis will be on more frequent but less intense levels of care that call for coaching, outreach and simple patient self-measurements like blood pressure—routines that often don’t require much physician involvement.
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Engineers propose new approach to single-ventricle heart surgery for infants -- Science... - 0 views

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  • The new approach would potentially reduce the number of surgeries the patients have to undergo in the first six months of life from two to just one
  • it would also create a more stable circuit for blood to flow from the heart to the lungs and the rest of the body within the first days and months of life.
  • Engineers ran computer simulations of the surgery and found it would reduce the workload on the patient's heart by as much as half. It would also increase blood flow to the lungs and increase the amount of oxygen the body receives.
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  • Currently, they undergo three surgeries by age three.
  • The first surgery is performed in the first few days of life and installs a small GoreTex tube to connect the pulmonary arteries with a blood vessel off the aorta. That 3.5-millimeter shunt becomes the only source of blood to the infants' lungs -- essentially their only source of oxygen. There is a 30 percent mortality rate associated with this surgery.
  • Between 3 to 6 months, surgeons remove the shunt and connect the superior vena cava to the pulmonary artery. At that stage, half the blood flow needed for oxygenation goes through this circuit created by the physicians.
  • At around age 3, a third surgery, called a Fontan, connects both the inferior and superior vena cava to the pulmonary arteries, usually in a T-shaped configuration. Experience has shown that jumping directly to the second step too early in the child's life, without allowing sufficient time for patients to grow, resulted in very high fatality rates for pediatric patients.
  • This would create what's known in fluid mechanics as an ejector pump
  • Engineers are proposing to combine the first and second steps of the surgery, with a small modification.
  • he clipped shunt creates what's called a Venturi effect, driving a low-pressure flow stream with an injection of a high-pressure flow stream and causing the speed of the blood flow to increase.
  • The shunt could be closed later, when circulation improves, via a catheter -- a much less invasive procedure.
  • n 2009, she and colleagues proposed a custom-made Y-shaped design for the Fontan surgery, rather than the traditional T-shaped connection used. In 2010-11, six patients underwent a Y-graft surgery at Stanford University.
  • Researchers also found that the Y-graft reduced energy losses in the blood flow and distributed blood flow more evenly to both lungs.
  • Marsden and her colleagues hope that SimVascular may be used in the future to impact a wide range of cardiovascular surgeries and devices in children and adults.
  • They propose to have the shunt, slightly clipped, go into the superior vena cava, while also connecting the superior vena cava to the pulmonary arteries.
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