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Schools can implement effective bully prevention efforts through the following promising strategies: 1. Ensure leadership supports comprehensive efforts. 2. Engage all stakeholders, from assessment of issues to implementation of strategies. 3. Create and sustain systemic strategies designed to promote a safe, supportive prosocially-‐informed climate of social responsibility. 4. Integrate and sustain quality teaching and learning. 5. Focus on one-‐on-‐one/ relational practices.

PRSPs have achieved a useful mainstreaming of anti-poverty efforts in national policy processes in Africa. However, the seven country experiences synthesised in this article reveal differences as well as commonalities.

! Debate over the extent to which the mass media serves elite interests or, alternatively, plays a powerful role in shaping political outcomes has been dogged by dichotomous and one-sided claims. Some attribute enormous power to the news media (the so-called CNN effect) while others claim the media ‘manufactures consent ’ for elite policy preferences. This article reviews existing theories of media–state relations, in particular the work of Daniel Hallin and Lance Bennett, and highlights theoretical and empirical shortcomings in the manufacturing consent thesis. The article then outlines two models, a model of media influence and Gadi Wolfsfeld’s ‘political contest model’, that serve to reconcile contrasting claims over the power of the news media. The model of media influence is then applied to the Vietnam War in order to reconcile contrasting claims (Hallin vs David Culbert) regarding the role of the media during this conflict. It is argued that the two models, taken together, provide a starting point for a two-way understanding of the direction of influence between media and the state that builds upon, rather than rejects, existing theoretical accounts.! Key Words CNN effect, indexing, manufacturing consent, media influence, media–state relations, world politics

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While women are still a relatively small percentage of the total population involved in the criminal justice system, they are the fastest growing segment of the prison population (Women’s Prison Association, 2003). Yet, the majority of women in the criminal justice system are charged with non-violent offenses and do not present a risk to public safety (Greenfeld and Snell, 1999). Further, their incarceration has a disproportion-ately damaging affect on the well-being of children (Johnston, 1995) and, some would argue, on communities (Clear et al., 2001). These reasons alone should persuade us to sentence women to com-munity corrections whenever possible. Then we note that women have a relative-ly high rate of technical violations when under probation or parole supervision (Chesney-Lind, 1998). In fact, national data show that, on average, one-third of women admitted to state prison are there for parole violations and, of them, two-thirds are for technical violations, not new charges! (Travis and Lawrence, 2002). And, finally, as we have learned from map-ping technology, it is the most distressed neighborhoods that send the most people to prison and that, arguably, are the least prepared to support them in their efforts to become self-sufficient (Cadora, 2003). Effective Community-Based Interventions as Alternatives to

This report covers the geographic areas of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Transcaucasia. Of the103 countries included in these areas, 67 have national bibliographies or suitable substitutes, while 36 do not have national bibliographies. In percentages, about 65 % have national bibliographies, and 34 % do not. The newest national bibliographies (by beginning publication date) or "new beginnings"

• Patient survival is the most important single measure of cancer patient care (the diagnosis and treatment of cancer) and is of considerable interest to clinicians, patients, researchers, politicians, health administrators, and public health professionals [1]. • However, relatively little attention has been paid to the fact that each of these consumers of survival statistics have quite different needs. • The standard approach of estimating net survival (relative survival or cause-specific survival) is useful for comparing populations but not necessarily relevant to individual patients since such estimates are interpreted in the hypothetical scenario where cancer is the only possible cause of death. • In this presentation I will discuss possible approaches to estimating measures of patient survival relevant for patients and clinicians. Annual meeting of the Association of Nordic Cancer Registries, 2–4 Sept 2009 1 Interpreting relative survival estimates • The cumulative relative survival ratio can be interpreted as the proportion of

My topic discusses the cultural practices, products, poverty and politics of Mexico. It is designed for 10th grade Spanish classes. Through iWeb and the addition of music and video clips, I created a website to teach students about Mexican “Culture”, one of the five goal areas of foreign language education. Mexico is broken down into categories and sub-categories so students gain knowledge and understanding of the Mexican culture and the challenges this culture goes through. Using the website and accompanied worksheets, students fulfill the “Culture ” goal area, either as a long-term project in which students take a month to discover the Mexican culture or, in parts over the course of a school term, studying a category per month. Theoretical Application My website was created with two needs in mind, to meet the needs of a specific age group of students learning Spanish and also to meet the needs of a specific goal area of foreign language education. I designed the website specifically towards 10th grade Spanish class students. The website is made to meet their needs by being written in English, since the students have not totally been immersed yet into the Spanish language in the classroom. Next, the website focuses on an interactive look at the culture of Mexico, as students are not able to completely