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The spring semester is ending. This may be a stressful time for both you and your college student. Your student has to study for the finals, plan her summer vacation and make arrangements for the fall semester. You are excited that your student may come home to visit and also concerned about the stress she’s having.

During this busy time, you may have missed some of the great articles, slides or tips we shared in the past few weeks. Don’t worry, we’ve listed them in this post for your convenience. Read as much as you want now, save the link for later and if you like any of the posts, share it with other parents and students!

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For veteran college parents:

• It’s Final Exam Time: What’s a College Parent to Do?
• How to Help Your College Student Use the Summer Months Wisely
• Roundup of Internship Resources
• How to Talk to Your Student about Different Types of Internships
• Tuition Insurance – What it Does, Why it Helps, & Why You Need It

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• Yes, You Are a College Parent. But What Exactly does it Mean?
• What is a College Orientation Leader?
• Why has My First-Year College Student been Assigned Summer Reading?
• College Acceptance or Rejection Letters – 10 Ways Parents Can Help Students Cope
• Tuition Insurance – What it Does, Why it Helps, & Why You Need It

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Professor Judith Dwyer, who led a team of researchers from the Faculty of Health Sciences, said Aboriginal patients from rural and remote areas frequently face a complex set of barriers to effective treatment.

“For this group of patients, it’s almost inevitable that their patient journey is going to be complicated,” Professor Dwyer said.

“In addition to facing long journeys, these patients often speak English as a second language, are lacking in financial resources, are vulnerable because of a high burden of illness and also face the issues of being Aboriginal in a world that is largely non-Aboriginal.”

“While not every Aboriginal patient has all these problems, the health care system needs to anticipate and assume complexity, and prepare for it.”

The team identified and analysed more than 2,700 rural Aboriginal admissions to city hospitals over a two-year period and the researchers also undertook qualitative case-studies from both patient and carer perspectives.

“We found that there are lots of good people doing good things, but it’s in patches,” Professor Dwyer said.

“Often the initiatives have short-term ‘soft’ money – they only last as long as the project funding does.”

Funding, however, is not the primary barrier to improved treatment, Professor Dwyer said.

“South Australia already has high level policies that require these issues to be addressed, but we found that they haven’t been cascading down in a systematic way: what is lacking is operational policy,” she said.

“The units where it’s working well have co-ordinators who focus on managing the patient journey – they are part of the clinical team and they are in the wards, but they are also looking outwards, and know what needs to be done before, during and after admission.

“When that preparedness for complexity is brought in, everything goes so much more smoothly, and it’s actually a better use of resources, not only for the country people and the country health services that refer them, but for the metropolitan hospitals that receive them.”

Murphy’s Law – taliesin Murphy’s Law is often quoted when things go wrong. There are other laws and principles that use this same foundation.

Murphys Law, the epigram that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, has been attributed to many authors. From mathematician Augustus De Morgan in 1866 to author Anne Roe in a Genetic Psychology book in 1951, the definition of Murphys Law can be found.

The book Murphys Law and Other Reason Why Things Go Wrong (1977), states that the law was named after a Captain Edward Murphy who said he had a lab technician who always messed up things.

History of Murphys Law

Nicolas Spark in his History of Murphys Law completed intensive research to find out where the name really originated. His book gives documented evidence that it did most likely refer to Edward Murphy. Instead of a name of honor, the title was given as a sense of mockery from Murphys team because he was so arrogant.

Of course Murphys son, Robert disputes this and claims that Murphy thought of the term himself. Murphys Law, while very well known, is not the only immutable law and principle that governs our society. College professors have written books that describe the Peter Principle and Parkinsons Law. These laws, while not as well known or recognized, can be used and practiced for amusement and logic.

Murphys Law: If anything can go wrong, it will (and at the worst possible moment.)

Did you know the National Museum of Education is located in Akron? The museum will hold its 16th annual American Young Inventors Induction Ceremony on Nov. 12 at noon at the Ramada Plaza Hotel. Read the press release here. Read more about the inductees here.

Here are the five inductees:

• David Alexandre Joseph Campeau, Grade 11 from Rochester, MN, for his  Brain Computer Interface.
• Riley Charles Ennis, Freshman at Dartmouth College from McClean, VA for his Innovative Cancer Vaccine.
•  Alexander Prodromos Gilbert, Freshman at MIT, from McClean, VA for his Improved Contrast in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for More Accurate Medical Diagnoses.
• Siddhartha Gautama Jena, Grade 12, from Bloomfield Hills, MI for his Erythrocyte Dysfunction & Amelioration in Hypercholesterolemic Conditions.
• Samantha Marie Marquez, Grade 10, from Midlothian, VA for her Celloidosomes® The Bioengineering of Artificial Glands & Bioreactors.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — More than 150 colleges gather downtown for a fair like no other. Get the higher education you need.

The National college fair of jacksonville kicks off at 9. At the Prime Osborn Convention Center in downtown. The fair is free and open to the public- free parking as well.