Alternative school to close after 11 years From www.portlandtribune.com/news/index.php Portland's only public alternative school that is culturally specific to Latinos will shut its doors this week due to the financial woes of its community-based sponsor, the Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement. It's more of a small-school environment, with class sizes of 10 to 15 students where students "feel safe, can re-engage, can feel successful again," Bigay said. Listos served 46 Portland students this year out of about 100 total, the others hailing from the Gresham-Barlow, Reynolds...

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No-till Gardening: Sustainable Alternative to the Rototiller (Dave ... From desertification.wordpress.com The origin of no-dig gardening is sometimes attributed to Australian writer and conservationist, Esther Deans (2) who outlined a method of piling mulch over newspaper to prepare garden beds for planting. The mulch suppresses weeds, conditions the soil, and invites natural soil making processes. Typically the mulch would include straw, shredded wood chips, leaves, shredded junk mail, kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, used tea leaves, animal manures, weeds, and used potting soil. Cultivation...

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Chronicle Plays With Fire on Rent Control Attack From www.BeyondChron.org Hillary Clinton s retroactive opposition to NAFTA parallels an earlier Clinton betrayal of the state s residents. The Activist s Handbook, I describe how Bill Clinton promised during his 1992 campaign to close the East Liverpool, Ohio waste incinerator, but suddenly forgot all about this commitment after taking office. The failure of national environmentalist groups to loudly protest Clinton s issuance of incinerator permits encouraged future betrayals, creating an unfortunate dynamic that...

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Alternative Media Center offers resources to students with ... From The Spartan Daily The Alternative Media Center trains visually impaired and blind students, said Eric Christierson, the Alternative Media Center coordinator. When students get the software from the Alternative Media Center they can then use the programs and hardware of the Adaptive Technology Center to access the information. "Students learn all different ways, and we provide the tools to aid students in learning through our adaptive software," said Kerri Simmons, an Adaptive Technology Center support...

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Uterine Artery Embolization for Fibroids Found Good Alternative to ... From MedPage Today But for women who wish to retain their uterus and want a shorter hospital stay and a faster recovery, embolization may be the better way to go, the researchers added. "On the basis of these results, we determined that uterine artery embolization is a good alternative to hysterectomy," the researchers said. The Dutch multicenter randomized Embolization versus Hysterectomy Trial included 177 women with uterine fibroids and heavy menstrual bleeding who were scheduled for a hysterectomy. In the...

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