Meet one of the stars of the hit broadway play. David Bologna talks about his experience on stage and during Hurricane Katrina.
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Cartier, Jeweler of the Arts, the latest expo from Cartier’s art museum the Fondation Cartier, begins April 3 in Paris, and will bring together four artworks commissioned by the luxury jewelry house and made by artists including David Lynch and Takeshi Kitano using precious and semi-precious stones no longer deemed suitable for the brand’s jewelry. Here, Cartier Europe’s managing director Cyrille Vigneron reveals the personalities behind the works and offers insight into the maison’s close relationship with the contemporary art world.
16-Jul-2011

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Is Your Teenager Using Prescription Drugs Behind Your Back?
TestCountry Drug Test Panel Numbers Tally with NIDA Fact Sheet Reports on Prescription Drug A
San Diego, CA (Vocus) June 19, 2009 -
If sales of drug test panels are an indicator, then it could mean that prescription drug abuse among teenagers is on the rise.
TestCountry.com, a leading online distributor of drug testing kits, has recently announced an increase in their sales of drug test panels, particularly those used for determining prescription drug abuse in teenagers.
Topping the list is the sales figures for opiate panels. Opiate drugs are often prescribed to relieve pain. Examples include Vicodin, OxyContin and Percodan.
Closely following sales figures for opiate panels are those for benzodiazepines and buprenorphine. Benzodiazepines like Valium, Ativan and Halcion are used to treat sleep disorders and anxiety. On the other hand, drugs containing buprenorphine are actually used for treating opioid addiction withdrawal.
These trends coincidentally parallel the 2008 results of the annual survey made by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) through its Monitoring the Future (MFT) program. According to the NIDA fact sheet, 15.4% of teenagers in the United States reported to have gone through prescription drug abuse in 2008.
The survey further revealed that the substances being taken non-medically by these teenagers continue to be tranquilizers, barbiturates, amphetamines, opiates and sedatives. Other drugs being abused are those readily available at drugstore counters, such as cough medicine.
But while the numbers describing prescription drug abuse among teenagers is considered as alarming, this percentage is still thought of as low when compared to that of teenagers struggling with the use of marijuana and other cannabis-derived drugs. Marijuana remains to be the most commonly abused substance among teenagers in the United States. Of the teenagers surveyed by the MFT in 2008, 26.9% have reported using it.
The TestCountry.com sales reports also indicate that sales of drug test kits for marijuana are three times the figures posted for prescription drug test panels.
NIDA has reported that stress is one of the contributing factors behind prescription drug abuse among teenagers. The need to fit in and to perform well, coupled by peer pressure and lack of guidance from parents or guardians, can cause teenagers to cope with the use of prescription drugs.
Lack of information has also led teenagers to believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal substances like cocaine or heroin because they are prescribed by licensed doctors and are bought from a pharmacy.
Prescription drugs are also the ones most readily available to teenagers. They can get their dosage from the medicine used by their parents and siblings. They can also persuade friends with conditions such as ADHD to give them some of their medicine.
Despite the concerns raised by prescription drug abuse among teenagers, NIDA has nonetheless stated that there is a steady decline in substance abuse in that age group. Past-year use of illegal drugs aside from marijuana is down from 13.1% in 2007 to 11.3% in 2008. The same goes for the use of crystal meth, from 1.6% to 1.1%.
In NIDAâs prescription drug abuse research, parental supervision is named as one of the factors deemed crucial towards the prevention of non-medicated use of prescription drugs among teenagers. At home drug testing kits remain to be one of the most common ways that parents turn to in determining if the teenager in the household is taking drugs without prescriptions.
For more information on prescription drug abuse among teenagers, please visit testcountry.org.
About TestCountry
TestCountry.com is an online home test kit superstore. The company offers home or work drug test kits for a variety of needs, including HIV / AIDS testing kits, pregnancy and fertility testing, paternity and DNA testing, drug abuse testing, steroid testing, nicotine testing, lead testing, health hazard detection, nutrition and wellness testing. TestCountry specializes in easy-to-use tests that can be individually administered in the security and privacy of a home or office. All shipments are packaged discreetly, thus respecting the privacy of clients. The company also operates exclusively through their web site, found at http://www.testcountry.com, and features a question and answer section, testcountry.org, providing responses to many common concerns users may have related to the various types of home testing at company blog http://hometestingblog.testcountry.com/
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12-Jul-2011
Onion News Network, Fridays at 10/9c on IFC. The local Onion affiliate in Pennington, IL reports the tire is basically new and there for the taking.
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24-Jan-2011
Brattleboro, Vermont (PRWEB) March 27, 2006
Liberty High School has added a new online high school completion program, Liberty Online (www.libertyonline.us) as part of their Leave No Adult Behind program. Recognized and approved by the Vermont Board of Education, the online high school has all the subjects a student who left prior to graduation might need to earn a diploma.
âWeâve tried to make it as much like a real high school as we can. Even though itâs online, the students and teachers, who are all experienced high school teachers, interact as often as they need so students can succeed. The biggest difference is that it is geared for adults.â said Paul Zazzaro, Liberty High School Director. He added âMany of these students are now adults with families, jobs, other responsibilities. They understand what it meant to quit before graduation. We wanted to give them the chance to get back into the educational system. Getting a high school degree online is often the only way they can get a diploma.â
The Department of Education, the American Council on Education, and others estimate there are at least 1.3 million new dropouts every year. High school graduation peaked in 1969 at 77 percent, and has been dropping for past 37 years. In a recent study, conducted by Peter Hart Research Associates and commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, sixty percent of high school dropouts did not leave because they were failing. Almost all of them said they would return if they had the chance, according to John Bridgeland, one the report’s authors and a former Bush administration domestic policy adviser.
According to David Grebow, CEO of KnowledgeStar, Inc. and one of the Liberty Online co-founders, âLiberty High Schoolâs Leave No Adult Behind program tries to do for adults what the No Child Left Behind Act does for children. We wanted to make people aware that itâs not just children who are being left behind by the educational system.â Mr. Grebow added,â The US is now in 10th place in the world when it comes to high school completion rates. We cannot afford to simply forget about 30 million adults who donât have a high school diploma. The Leave No Adult Behind program will require the same kind of resolve at the national level that the NCLB Act demonstrated.â
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05-Jan-2011
Go behind the scenes with Alyson Stoner and her vocal coach Nick Cooper at the Vocal Corner Store and her photo shoot with Matthew Jordan Smith! www.fanlala.com http www.facebook.com
01-Jan-2011
ABC News Primetime Juvenile Corrections – Lost Children Behind Bars
They start out like most kids – innocent, loving and eager to please — until something goes terribly wrong. Across the country, more than 100,000 troubled teens are locked up in juvenile correction facilities. ABC News goes inside two juvenile facilities near Phoenix, AZ, and meets a group of kids at a critical turning point – they have one last shot to either change their ways or face the prospect of doing time in an adult prison. ABC News was granted unprecedented access in Arizona’s system for juveniles and spent nearly six months following these teens’ journey in and out of the system. Along the way, they share their shame, their secrets and their dreams. They show their pride and promise. Also in this episode, ABC News checks back with the kids a year later to see what life is like now that they are out.
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