Victims of EXPEDIA first anniversary: cat got EXPEDIA s tongue? People
Victims of EXPEDIA first anniversary: cat got EXPEDIA s tongue?
People all over the world are being alerted:
Everybody should be alerted. Your relatives or friends may be the next victims of EXPEDIA (and be scammed or lose thousands of dollars). EXPEDIA tried to scam me(1254.95 U$D). I was clever enough and acted fast, but they can try to scam other people. There is no other possible explanation for all they did after they failed to arrange one of my trips. In addition EXPEDIA never denied my case (they cannot since I have proof of their lies). They don t need to deny because their business is still very profitable (they can cheat millions of unaware people unless you help to spread the word).
It would be nice to start a chain letter by e-mail , copy and paste this page and send to your friends and family . Advice them to do the same (to avoid large number of e-mail addresses).
Read my case (all detail in my website: http://www.victimsofexpedia.com -non profit website)
This is my story
I bought (online from USA) a roundtrip from Europe to South America. For this trip I needed a paper ticket (not e-ticket) that EXPEDIA failed to deliver to me (one ticket was lost and the second was sent me to a wrong address - I provided the right address- ). I have proof of this (tracking number from UPS). Anyway, one of their representative advised me by phone to go to Europe and they will arrange with the airline I get a ticket at the airport. They never did it. I called to EXPEDIA many times from Europe and the airline that I was supposed to travel with (KLM) also contacted EXPEDIA. EXPEDIA never did anything to solve that problem that EXPEDIA generated and they didn t give me another solution. I had to buy (in Europe) another ticket from a different travel agency and I had to spend 15 extra days in Europe plus one extra week in South America. I ve also lost many days at my job. I had lost a lot of money and my trips were useless because I had to use the money I had to solve this problem instead of enjoying my trips. TO MAKE IT SHORT, I WAS ABANDONED IN EUROPE BY EXPEDIA AFTER THEY FAILED TO PROVIDE ME A TICKET I HAD ALREADY PAID WITH MY CREDIT CARD.
EXPEDIA claims that it was my fault (It is a lie because I have e-mails from the airline telling me that EXPEDIA never arranged my trip). EXPEDIA claims that they had put all the information in the airline system. But when I asked where and when they cannot give me that information. I have documentations showing how many times I called them (and copies of e-mails I sent to them), I also have an e-mail from the airline telling me that EXPEDIA never contacted them and never put on their system the information necessary to issue me new ticket from Europe. I showed that documentation to EXPEDIA but EXPEDIA just ignore it and never made an attempt to contact the airline. Why? because EXPEDIA can lie to customers but it cannot lie to the airline.
In summary, EXPEDIA charged my credit card for 1,254.96 U$D for a ticket that was never delivered. They advised me to go to EUROPE. Once I was in Europe, EXPEDIA abandoned me there at my own with no ticket. I had to re-schedule my trips by my own and I had to buy a new ticket from another travel agency in Europe to complete my trips. EXPEDIA ignored my complaints when I was abroad . After I came back to USA, EXPEDIA tried to keep the money EXPEDIA charged in my credit card for that ticket I never had a chance to use. EXPEDIA lied to me many times and tried to keep money from my credit card in a fraudulent way. Thanks to my credit card I could recover (after almost 7 month) the full amount of that ticket but I suffered huge monetary loss due to that trouble that EXPEDIA generated.
This was EXPEDIA s official response to my case:
During my trip (before returning to USA). One of EXPEDIA s supervisor admitted that it was EXPEDIA s fault and told me to submit all the receipts I had for extra expenses . This was done by phone, however he also sent me an e-mail confirming the address where I had to send it. (read that e-mail). I sent to EXPEDIA all my receipts and a detailed amount of all my expenses. But it was another lie, EXPEDIA s customer advisor team (a higher level than supervisors) denied all responsibilities.
1) First, EXPEDIA try make it look as if it was my fault and they reimbursed me part of the ticket (800 U$D) they never delivered (read the e-mail EXPEDIA sent to me). Is this fair? Does it make sense? Why EXPEDIA will reimburse money if it they are sure it was my fault? They just tried to make me happy with 800 U$D and actually steal part of my money (> 400 U$D) because EXPEDIA actually never provided the service (this is simply fraud).
2) EXPEDIA tried to steal the rest of the money. It didn t work: With the help of my credit card (VISA) I recovered another 429.99 U$D.
3) At this point, EXPEDIA still kept 59.99 because EXPEDIA charged my credit card in a way to cheat me and my credit card (see details). It didn t work again. With the help of my credit card I recovered the rest 59.99 U$D. This was after almost 7 months. Does an honest company keep customers money for seven months? This long delay only showed that EXPEDIA tried to steal (and failed) my money no matter what. I could recover that money because my credit card fought for me and because I showed them overwhelming evidence of EXPEDIA s lies.
4) EXPEDIA claims that I could not use the ticket I bought because the airline gave me wrong information. If this is true, EXPEDIA can provide me with names and dates when EXPEDIA contacted the airline to arrange for my trip. If I have that information I can stop bothering EXPEDIA and complain to the airline. Moreover, EXPEDIA can show that is an honest organization that care about their customers. I asked many times for this information but EXPEDIA was not able or did not want to give that information. Why? Because in fact, EXPEDIA never arranged my trip, thus, EXPEDIA has no proof of what they claim. EXPEDIA can contact the airline and clear this point with them: EXPEDIA never attempted to contact KLM.
5) I forwarded to EXPEDIA e-mails from the airline where the airline tells me that they tried to contact EXPEDIA and EXPEDIA never responded (Read the e-mail from KLM). EXPEDIA responses were several automated responses (since early april-2006) telling me that someone in the appropriate department is working on my case. But no one from EXPEDIA called me or e-mailed me after that. Even after showing them another letter from KLM telling me that EXPEDIA never attempted to arrange my trip EXPEDIA ignore my complaints.
6) When I asked for proof that EXPEDIA indeed contacte KLM to arrange my trip I received THIS E-MAIL (more lies)
7) The last thing EXPEDIA did was to disable my account I had with them (and I used to send e-mail to them) and completely ignore my e-mails I sent using another e-mail address.
This was the very last message from EXPEDIA:
| From: Expedia Travel Support | Mailed-By: customercare.expedia.com |
To: xxxxxx@z2mail.com
Date: Jul 19, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: Other questions, comments, or feedback - Case ID: [REQ:26607842]
Dear XXXX
Thank you for contacting Expedia.com.
I wish to apologize for the fact that you have not been contacted. I have once again forwarded your request to the appropriate department and have earmarked it with high priority, within 72 hours you should have a response.
If you have further questions regarding this concern, feel free to reply to this e-mail or contact Expedia.com customer services at 1-800-397-3342 and reference case ID 26607842. You can also visit the Expedia.com Customer Support page (http://www.Expedia.com/daily/service/default.asp) for more customer service information.
Thank you for choosing Expedia.com.
Melody
Expedia.com Customer Support Team
In response to my message: :
| From: xxx < xxx@zmail.com> | Mailed-By: zmail.com |
To: Expedia Travel Support
Date: Jul 19, 2006 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Other questions, comments, or feedback - Case ID: [REQ:26607842]2
Dear Sir/Madam
(Case ID: [REQ:21826350]
It has been around one month since I received this e-mail from you regarding the e-mail address or postal address of your CEOs and regarding documentation proving that EXPEDIA indeed provided the information to KLM (as you claim).
Why are you denying me that information?
Comment: I was updating my web site:(http://www.victimsofexpedia.com), as usual I m asking you to tell me if something I put there is wrong. Please visit the site regularly and just tell me if you find something that is wrong or untrue.
Sincerely
XXXXXX
Of course, They never contacted me again.
If you that think that what I m writing here is not true. Simply copy and paste the following letter and send to : travel@customercare.expedia.com and/or travel@expedia.com (I doubt EXPEDIA will ever answer you (they only want your money), if they do, please let me know their answer).
Dear EXPEDIA customer support team
I would appreciate if you can give me your version about the victimsofexpedia.com affaire. Apparently there is a guy who created that site (http://www.victimsofexpedia.com) and claims that EXPEDIA tried to scam him.
He claims that EXPEDIA failed to deliver an airline ticket (twice) and later, instead of fixing the problem (originated by EXPEDIA) you ignored several messages from him and from KLM to arrange his trip.
He also claims that EXPEDIA, repeatedly lied to him and tried to scam him by reimbursing only 800 U$D when actually EXPEDIA charged his credit card for 1,254.95 U$D.
According to him, he could recover the full amount of his money after 6-7 month only after he provided to his credit card company proof of your lies and attempt to scam him.
Since I don t know his name, I m providing his Case ID: [REQ:21826350]. I m sure you have all the details about his case.
Since it is difficult to believe that a legitimate company like EXPEDIA would do such horrible things to a customer I would also like to know why EXPEDIA does not sue him for libel and slander.
Sincerely Yours truly,
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Iacocca: Where Have All the Leaders Gone? By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney Had Enough? Am I the only guy in this country who s fed up with what s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, Stay the course. Stay the course? You ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I ll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out! You might think I m getting senile, that I ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress respon ds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don t need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we re fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That s not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I ve had enough. How about you? I ll go a step further. You can t call yourself a patriot if you re not outraged. This is a fight I m ready and willing to have. My friends tell me to calm down. They say, Lee, you re eighty-two years old. Leave the rage to the young people. I d love to, as soon as I can pry them away from their iPods for five seconds and get them to pay attention. I m going to speak up because it s my patriotic duty. I think people will listen to me. They say I have a reputation as a straight shooter. So I ll tell you how I see it, and it s not pretty, but at least it s real. I m hoping to strike a nerve in those young folks who say they don t vote because they don t trust politicians to represent their interests. Hey, America, wake up. These guys work for us. Who Are These Guys, Anyway? Why are we in this mess? How did we end up with this crowd in Washington? Well, we voted for them, or at least some of us did. But I ll tell you what we didn t do. We didn t agree to suspend the Constitution. We didn t agree to stop asking questions or demanding answers. Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I come from that s a dictatorship, not a democracy. And don t tell me it s all the fault of right-wing Republicans or liberal Democrats. That s an intellectually lazy argument, and it s part of the reason we re in this stew. We re not just a nation of factions. We re a people. We share common principles and ideals. And we rise and fall together. Where are the voices of leaders who can inspire us to action and make us stand taller? What happened to the strong and resolute party of Lincoln? What happened to the courageous, populist party of FDR and Truman? There was a time in this country when the voices of great leaders lifted us up and made us want to do better. Where have all the leaders gone? The Test of a Leader I ve never been Commander in Chief, but I ve been a CEO. I understand a few things about leadership at the top. I ve figured out nine points, not ten (I don t want people accusing me of thinking I m Moses). I call them the Nine Cs of Leadership. They re not fancy or complicated. Just clear, obvious qualities that every true leader should have. We should look at how the current administration stacks up. Like it or not, this crew is going to be around until January 2009. Maybe we can learn something before we go to the polls in 2008. Then let s be sure we use the leadership test to screen the candidates who say they want to run the country. It s up to us to choose wisely. A leader has to show CURIOSITY. He has to listen to people outside of the Yes, sir crowd in his inner circle. He has to read voraciously, because the world is a big, complicated place. George W. Bush brags about never reading a newspaper. I just scan the headlines, he says. Am I hearing this right? He s the President of the United States and he never reads a newspaper? Thomas Jefferson once said, Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter. Bush disagrees. As long as he gets his daily hour in the gym, with Fox News piped through the sound system, he s ready to go. If a leader never steps outside his comfort zone to hear different ideas, he grows stale. If he doesn t put his beliefs to the test, how does he know he s right? The inability to listen is a form of arrogance. It means either you think you already know it all, or you just don t care. Before the 2006 election, George Bush made a big point of saying he didn t listen to the polls. Yeah, that s what they all say when the polls stink. But maybe he should have listened, because 70 percent of the people were saying he was on the wrong track. It took thumping on election day to wake him up, but even then you got the feeling he wasn t listening so much as he was calculating how to do a better job of convincing everyone he was right. A leader has to be CREATIVE, go out on a limb, be willing to try something different. You know, think outside the box. George Bush prides himself on never changing, even as the world around him is spinning out of control. God forbid someone should accuse him of flip-flopping. There s a disturbingly messianic fervor to his certainty. Senator Joe Biden recalled a conversation he had with Bush a few months after our troops marched into Baghdad. Joe was in the Oval Office outlining his concerns to the President, the explosive mix of Shiite and Sunni, the disbanded Iraqi army, the problems securing the oil fields. The President was serene, Joe recalled. He told me he was sure that we were on the right course and that all would be well. Mr. President, I finally said, how can you be so sure when you don t yet know all the facts? Bush then reached over and put a steadying hand on Joe s shoulder. My instincts, he said. My instincts. Joe was flabergasted. He told Bush, Mr. President, your instincts aren t good enough. Joe Biden sure didn t think the matter was settled. And, as we all know now, it wasn t. Leadership is all about managing change, whether you re leading a company or leading a country. Things change, and you get creative. You adapt. Maybe Bush was absent the day they covered that at Harvard Business School. A leader has to COMMUNICATE. I m not talking about running off at the mouth or spouting sound bites. I m talking about facing reality and telling the truth. Nobody in the current administration seems to know how to talk straight anymore. Instead, they spend most of their time trying to convince us that things are not really as bad as they seem. I don t know if it s denial or dishonesty, but it can start to drive you crazy after a while. Communication has to start with telling the truth, even when it s painful. The war in Iraq has been, among other things, a grand failure of communication. Bush is like the boy who didn t cry wolf when the wolf was at the door. After years of being told that all is well, even as the casualties and chaos mount, we ve stopped listening to him. A leader has to be a person of CHARACTER. That means knowing the difference between right and wrong and having the guts to do the right thing. Abraham Lincoln once said, If you want to test a man s character, give him power. George Bush has a lot of power. What does it say about his character? Bush has shown a willingness to take bold action on the world stage because he has the power, but he shows little regard for the grievous consequences. He has sent our troops (not to mention hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens) to their deaths. For what? To build our oil reserves? To avenge his daddy because Saddam Hussein once tried to have him killed? To show his daddy he s tougher? The motivations behind the war in Iraq are questionable, and the execution of the war has been a disaster. A man of character does not ask a single soldier to die for a failed policy. A leader must have COURAGE. I m talking about balls. (That even goes for female leaders.) Swagger isn t courage. Tough talk isn t courage. George Bush comes from a blue-blooded Connecticut family, but he likes to talk like a cowboy. You know, My gun is bigger than your gun. Courage in the twenty-first century doesn t mean posturing and bravado. Courage is a commitment to sit down at the negotiating table and talk. If you re a politician, courage means taking a position even when you know it will cost you votes. Bush can t even make a public appearance unless the audience has been handpicked and sanitized. He did a series of so-called town hall meetings last year, in auditoriums packed with his most devoted fans. The questions were all softballs. To be a leader you ve got to have CONVICTION, a fire in your belly. You ve got to have passion. You ve got to really want to get something done. How do you measure fire in the belly? Bush has set the all-time record for number of vacation days taken by a U.S. President, four hundred and counting. He d rather clear brush on his ranch than immerse himself in the business of governing. He even told an interviewer that the high point of his presidency so far was catching a seven-and-a- half-pound perch in his hand-stocked lake. It s no better on Capitol Hill. Congress was in session only ninety-seven days in 2006. That s eleven days less than the record set in 1948, when President Harry Truman coined the term do-nothing Congress. Most people would expect to be fired if they worked so little and had nothing to show for it. But Congress managed to find the time to vote itself a raise. Now, that s not leadership. A leader should have CHARISMA. I m not talking about being flashy. Charisma is the quality that makes people want to follow you. It s the ability to inspire. People follow a leader because they trust him. That s my definition of charisma. Maybe George Bush is a great guy to hang out with at a barbecue or a ball game. But put him at a global summit where the future of our planet is at stake, and he doesn t look very presidential. Those frat-boy pranks and the kidding around he enjoys so much don t go over that well with world leaders. Just ask German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who received an unwelcome shoulder massage from our President at a G-8 Summit. When he came up behind her and started squeezing, I thought she was going to go right through the roof. A leader has to be COMPETENT. That seems obvious, doesn t it? You ve got to know what you re doing. More important than that, you ve got to surround yourself with people who know what they re doing. Bush brags about being our first MBA President. Does that make him competent? Well, let s see. Thanks to our first MBA President, we ve got the largest deficit in history, Social Security is on life support, and we ve run up a half-a-trillion- dollar price tag (so far) in Iraq. And that s just for starters. A leader has to be a problem solver, and the biggest problems we face as a nation seem to be on the back burner. You can t be a leader if you don t have COMMON SENSE. I call this Charlie Beacham s rule. When I was a young guy just starting out in the car business, one of my first jobs was as Ford s zone manager in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. My boss was a guy named Charlie Beacham, who was the East Coast regional manager. Charlie was a big Southerner, with a warm drawl, a huge smile, and a core of steel. Charlie used to tell me, Remember, Lee, the only thing you ve got going for you as a human being is your ability to reason and your common sense. If you don t know a dip of horseshit from a dip of vanilla ice cream, you ll never make it. George Bush doesn t have common sense. He just has a lot of sound bites. You know, Mr.they ll-welcome- us-as-liberators -no-child- left-behind- heck-of-a- job-Brownie- mission-accompli shed Bush. Former President Bill Clinton once said, I grew up in an alcoholic home. I spent half my childhood trying to get into the reality-based world, and I like it here. I think our current President should visit the real world once in a while. The Biggest C is Crisis Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It s easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else s kids off to war when you ve never seen a battlefield yourself. It s another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down. On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. Where was George Bush? He was reading a story about a pet goat to kids in Florida when he heard about the attacks. He kept sitting there for twenty minutes with a baffled look on his face. It s all on tape. You can see it for yourself. Then, instead of taking the quickest route back to Washington and immediately going on the air to reassure the panicked people of this country, he decided it wasn t safe to return to the White House. He basically went into hiding for the day, and he told Vice President Dick Cheney to stay put in his bunker. We were all frozen in front of our TVs, scared out of our wits, waiting for our leaders to tell us that we were going to be okay, and there was nobody home. It took Bush a couple of days to get his bearings and devise the right photo op at Ground Zero. That was George Bush s moment of truth, and he was paralyzed. And what did he do when he d regained his composure? He led us down the road to Iraq, a road his own father had considered disastrous when he was President. But Bush didn t listen to Daddy. He listened to a higher father. He prides himself on being faith based, not reality based. If that doesn t scare the crap out of you,I don t know what will. A Hell of a Mess. So here s where we stand. We re immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. We re running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We re losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves. The middle class is being squeezed every which way. These are times that cry out for leadership. But when you look around, you ve got to ask: Where have all the leaders gone? Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, competence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point. Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo? We ve spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened. Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane, or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm. Everyone s hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn t happen again. Now, that s just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you re going to do the next time. Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when the Big Three referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it? Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry. I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn t elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bobblehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don t you guys show some spine for a change? Had Enough? Hey, I m not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I m trying to light a fire. I m speaking out because I have hope. I believe in America. In my lifetime I ve had the privilege of living through some of America s greatest moments. I ve also experienced some of our worst crises, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, the 1970s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11. If I ve learned one thing, it s this: You don t get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it s building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That s the challenge I m raising in this book. It s a call to action for people who, like me, believe in America. It s not too late, but it s getting pretty close. So let s shake off the horseshit and go to work. Let s tell em all we ve had enough. Excerpted from Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Copyright (c) 2007 byLee Iacocca. All rights reserved.
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WEBTREATS: Evidence-Based Medicine
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-based Practice
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcix.htm
This AHRQ site links to EPC Evidence Reports, technical methodology documents, and Evidence-based Practice Centers program information.
Bandolier
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier
Bandolier is a journal produced monthly by Oxford Anglia NHS region in the UK. It contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine, hence its title. Access to Bandolier on the Internet is free of charge, but it may run several months behind the printed version
Bmjupdates+
http://bmjupdates.mcmaster.ca
BMJ Publishing Group and McMaster University HIRU collaborate to provide access to the current best evidence through this website. Citations to more than 100 premier clinical journals are pre-rated for quality and selected for clinical relevance for a searchable database and email alerting system. Registration is required.
Campbell Collaboration
http://www.campbellcollaboration.org
The international Campbell Collaboration (C2) is a non-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral, and educational areas.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
http://www.cebm.net
The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine was established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the country whose aim broadly is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them.
CIRE (Continuous Identification of Research Evidence)
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/family_planning/evidence.html
CIRE, a collaborative effect of WHO, the CDC, and Johns Hopkins, facilitates the updating of WHO?s evidence-based family planning guidance.
Cochrane Collaboration
http://www.cochrane.org
The Cochrane Collaboration facilitates the creation, review, maintenance and dissemination of systematic overviews of the effects of health care. This home page for this international Collaboration provides access to information on all its activities, to the Handbook, and to password-protected access to the Reviews.
Evidence Based Health Care Practitioners Links
http://hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/all.html
This site provides an excellent collection of links to EBM sites.
Evidence-Based Health Care Resources on the Internet
http://www.mlanet.org/education/telecon/ebhc/resource.html
The Medical Library Association Continuing Education Committee sponsors this excellent set of Internet resources as part of their Evidence-Based Health Care in Action initiative.
Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center
http://www.ebmny.org
The EBM Resource Center website, a joint project of the New York Academy of Medicine and the American College of Physicians New York Chapter, offers tools to support critical analysis of medical literature and MEDLINE searching. Extensive links are provided to all areas of EBM, including glossaries, journals, and teaching tools.
Evidence Based Medicine Resources
http://www.ottawahospital.on.ca/library/ebhc-e.asp
This well-organized grouping of links to evidence based medicine sites is recognized by Medicine on the Net (January 1998:29) for its excellence.
Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit
http://www.med.ualberta.ca/ebm/ebm.htm
This collection of tools, adapted from the Users? Guides series, help users identify, assess, and apply the evidence in practice.
Evidence4u
http://www.evidence4u.man.ac.uk
This site, from the Manchester NHS Agency, provides several evidence-based medicine tools for accessing, appraising, and applying information. User must register or login to use the site.
Health Evidence Network (HEN)
http://www.euro.who.int/HEN
HEN provides answers to specific questions in public health and health care decision-making and easy access to sources of evidence.
National Collaborating Centre for Women?s and Children?s Health
http://www.ncc-wch.org.uk
The aim of NCCWCH is to improve the health of women and children by developing the best evidence-based guidelines for the NHS.
Netting the Evidence: A ScHARR Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting
This is an annotated alphabetic listing of Internet evidence-based medicine resources compiled by Andrew Booth at the University of Sheffield.
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd
The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) aims to identify and review the results of good quality health research and to disseminate the findings to key decision makers in the NHS and to consumers of health care services. The reviews cover the effectiveness of care for particular conditions, the effectiveness of health technologies, and evidence on efficient methods of organizing and delivering particular types of healthcare.
PubMed Clinical Queries
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.shtml
This NCBI NLM website provides specialized PubMed searches for physicians by clinical study category, limited to systematic reviews, or limited to medical genetics.
Listserv: Evidence-Based-Health
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Kids”reading pornography in school
We trust teachers and librarians to select appropriate instructional materials for our children to learn from and to read. Do they? Have you ever taken time to see what your child might have access to?
It is said in most cases a grade-level appropriate text is used for students to select the most appropriate reading materials for them”it matters not if the materials is for education purpose or reading pleasure. Grade appropriate Text”"hmmm now how is that determined”"Well my research found this:
Books are generally leveled by number, 1 - 20 to coincide with Reading Recovery levels, or by letter, A ” Z, as represented in Guided Reading and Guiding Readers and Writers, 3-6 by Fountas and Pinnell.
No one aspect or characteristic of text can be used as the sole determiner of the level of a text.
Multiple aspects have implications for the reader and therefore book characteristics have to be evaluated for careful consideration and use with students.
Characteristics to consider include:
Book and print features
Length ” number of pages, number of words, number of lines of print on a page
Print ” type of font, size of print, spaces between words and between lines
Layout ” placement of phrases, sentences, picture; consistency of layout, organizational features
Punctuation ” range of punctuation
Illustrations ” number of illustrations, relationship of illustrations and print to convey meaning
Sentence complexity
length
embedded clauses
punctuation
Content, Themes, Ideas
familiarity of subject matter
technical nature of subject matter
general sophistication of theme
general sophistication of issue
complexity of the ideas presented
Language and literary features
literary language/devices ” simple text reflective of oral language to literary language using figurative language and dialogue
language structure ” simple sentences to complex sentences, to paragraphs, chapters, and sections
perspective ” point of view of author and/or characters
vocabulary ” high-frequency words and oral language representations, multi syllabic words, specialized and unusual vocabulary, specific content words, words that convey subtle meanings
Text Structure
narrative text ” predictability of story structure, description of setting, character development, plot complexity, episodic structure, genre
expository text ” level, organization, and presentation of information and ideas.
Having said all of that”-just what does it mean, hell if I know”-I just know a recent interview by Wilson Smith of What Is Goin On with William Harper opened my eyes. Mr. Harper shared this with us”"he indicates Second and Third Graders have and I am sharing this word for word”"at their hands”-pornography. Yeah, I know you want to know where it.is you don t believe it It is in the school library!!!!! Believe it or not and this is no Ripley s here ..For more on this subject, go here.
I know I have some lazy ones, so I don t want you to miss out on what this is all about” America, by E.R. Frank (3rd grade reading level), published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Shuster Children s Publishing Division, 2002 was brought home from school “-by Mr. Harper s seven year old daughter who goes to the J.D. Dickerson School in Vidalia, Georgia; it serves pre-K through second grade. Now you want to know just what has him all up in arms well here it is:
pp. 196-197: I m on the whale, and Browning s there, with a baseball, and we re throwing, and it s slippery on the whale s back, and we re throwing, and the ball turns into a dick, and it s safe, and it s good, and he s smiling, and the dick gets bigger, and then it s not safe, but it s hot, but it s bad and not safe, but it s hot, and my dick is hard, and then he stops smiling, and the dick gets bigger, and then it turns into Mr. B s, and he s not smiling, but he s safe, and the dick gets smaller, and my dick gets smaller, and then the face turns into Liza s, and she s got a dick, and it s hot, and I want to fuck her with the dick and all . . .
Do you know what your children are reading? You might want to take a look.
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