Students use AP classes to cut college costs - Post-Tribune

Students use AP classes to cut college costs - Post-Tribune
Students who plan to attend college should ask their school counselors about Advance Placement (AP) classes. Students and parents can also find answers on the Indiana Department of Education website.
Auditing a class first is a great way to get a better grade in the class.

Celebrate your Mother: Anna Marie Jarvis founder of Mother's Day

Anna Marie Jarvis is credited as the founder of Mother's Day. Her own mother expressed a wish for a day to honor mothers after a Sunday School lesson on mothers of the Bible when Anna Marie was 12. This inspired her to take up her mother's cause after her mother's death in 1905.

photo credit: Michael Drummond

Anna Marie Jarvis

Jarvis was born in West Virginia May 1, 1864. She was the ninth of 11 children born to Ann Marie Reeves and Granville Jarvis. Her mother was a teacher, and Jarvis became a teacher as well. She never had children.

Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis

Jarvis' mother's work with women's organizations inspired the creation of mother's day. The elder Reeves Jarvis organized a series of Mother's Day Work Clubs in their area to improve health and sanitary conditions. The clubs raised money and hired women to help families in which the mothers had tuberculosis. Doctors later got on board with the idea and it spread to other towns. During the Civil War, the mothers' group helped clothe and feed the soldiers. In spite of her work helping other mothers, eight of Reeves Jarvis' own children died in childhood.

Mother's Day

Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis died on May 9, 1905. Daughter Anna led a small tribute to her mother at Andrews Methodist Church on May 12, 1907, and dedicated her life to establishing a nationally recognized Mother's Day. The first official Mother's Day ceremony was in Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. Six years later, President Woodrow Wilson signed a Congressional Resolution setting aside Mother's Day as a national holiday to be celebrated on the second Sunday in May.

The New STD: HPV Can Kill

Men can have no symptoms of HPV

An article found on blackdoctor.org and floated around facebook (via Michael Baisden's page) has the social network community in a tizzy.

The Human papillomavirus once thought to be asymptomatic in men is now reportedly killing men. The article says a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reports there is a "225 percent uptick in HPV-positive," head and neck cancers since 1998--surpassing the national cervical cancer rate.

HPV

The cauliflower-like warts can be found on the hands or other parts of the body. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there is a vaccine for preventing HPV but no cure for the disease.  Currently, there is no HPV test recommended for men. The only approved HPV tests on the market are used to screen women for cervical cancer. Please click on the CDC link for more information and be sure to check with your physician if you are concerned about your health, rather than self-diagnose. (smile)

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