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SIOUX FALLS (KWSN) – The third time was the charm for the Sioux Falls Canaries. After missing on two prior chances, the Sioux Falls Canaries won their fourth game in a row for the first time this year with a 2-0 defeat of the Sioux City Explorers on Friday night.
For the third time in four games, the Canaries arms blanked the opposition. This time it took the combined effort of starter Adam Champion and relievers Kirk Clark and Alan DeRatt. Champion (4-5) led the charge with seven scoreless innings. Clark pitched a perfect eighth, and DeRatt induced a game-ending double play after allowing runners on the corners in the ninth to notch his 11th save in as many attempts.
Canaries pitching has strung together 23 consecutive innings without allowing an earned run, and they have allowed just three runs in the last four games.
Nick Van Stratten made the difference both at the plate and in the field. His leadoff home run in the third inning gave the Canaries a 1-0 lead. In the fifth inning, he helped squash the Explorers' best scoring opportunity. With runners at second and third and nobody, he threw out Yusuke Inoguchi attempting to tag up on a fly ball. Champion then induced a groundout to end the inning.
The Canaries (22-32) added another run in the bottom of the fifth inning when Anthony Trajano led off with a double. He went to third on an error and scored on Cory Morales' sacrifice fly.
Champion earned his first win in exactly one month. He scattered six hits, walked two and struck out four in a quick game that lasted two hours and two minutes.
Sioux City starter Andy Noga (3-7) was a tough-luck loser in a complete-game. He yielded five hits with two walks and four strikeouts, as the Canaries beat him for the second time in three starts.
Bryan Pounds was 3-for-4 to lead the Explorers offense as their record fell to 23-30.
The Canaries pursue a four-game series sweep against the Sioux City Explorers at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday, July 12, at Sioux Falls Stadium. The first 1,000 fans through the gates will receive a commemorative Canaries autograph card. There will also be a special autograph session after the game where fans can meet their favorite players and get autographs! The game will be broadcast on Sioux Falls Sports Radio 1230-AM, 98.1-FM KWSN and kwsn.com.
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A co-worker and fellow blogger Shawn Lowe recently posted an old Trix cereal ad from I'm thinking the 1960′s on Google+ and simply wrote "back to school kiddies!" This got me thinking about how strange the evolution of creative advertisement is. Here are a few examples:
Pop For Your Babies!
I don't know about you, but I have three kids and there's no way I would be giving them pop of any kind. But then again, there was a lot of things being done back then that we know now not to do…such as licking led paint!
Smoking for Health!
What about going to a doctor that promotes smoking…yummy for my lungs!
Baby Shaving His Face!
The only thing I'm wondering here is how where the blades before this "safety" blade? Wouldn't want to see that ad!
The Soap Horror Show!
I'm not sure what they were trying to sell over here?! Maybe that if your tub falls on you, might as well be clean?
Vive Le Pork Sausages!
Why not promote the freshness of our meat by having a pig kill itself!? Got to give it to the French!
Now, I'm not saying today's ads aren't as "interesting" but just a little more perfected. Somehow we have figured out (mostly) what and how to do creative advertising. We have gathered decades of statistics and are now able to target specific genders, age groups, geography, etc… to get the most out of the ads for as little spend as possible. To add, the tools to create and deliver an ad have also evolved making it hard to compare between 50 years ago and today. Regardless, some of the old ads are a kicker to view and still create amazing publicity even in today's age, like the pictures used in this blog post for instance, makes me want a nice cold 7up…but stay off the pork sausages!

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It is time to pull the plug on the myths strangling Spirituality! Everytime an article, blog, news report, or new book says they are "Spiritual but not Religious" the cord of religion is wrapping even more tightly. Is there a difference between Spirituality and Religion? Absolutely! Thousands of years of tradtion trail behind the word religion.
If you are ready to unplug, this is the right time. The cord still strangling the entire conversation is a logic which relies upon either/or thinking. Afterall the main problem with religious tradition is the right/wrong, inside/outside, formulas which when applied to real people and real lives fails every time. Just like "religion" the word "spirituality" is gasping for fresh air. Often when people begin to speak about Spirituality the next portion begins a series of practices or formulas which qualify as Spiritual.
The new definition is a lack of definition. Deep thinkers are beginning to realize the question, "How?" is replaced with "Why?" This actually makes real sense. By asking "How?" the temptation is to establish a new set of boundaries within which regulations dominate in the place of liberation so many long to experience and express. Beginning with "Why?" addresses the more significant issues of being human.
One of the values which guide aChurch4Me MCC is Spiritual Growth, described as setting aside assumptions and dogma we seek to use our gifts and experiences. Yes, we can be spiritual while we think, love, search, reform, transition, identify, and challenge titles or labels. Begin with questions, explore, and grow in Spirituality unpluged and breathing in the both/and of human experience which flows and flourishes in the midst of change.
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5. Go to a World Cup Finals gamePosted: 17 June 2014 Filed under: Bucket list, Ramblings | Tags: bucket list Leave a comment
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Tattoo ARPosted: 3 November 2013 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: android, ar, augemented reality, mobile phone, processing, tattoo Leave a comment
I've often thought about having a tattoo. Apart from the pain, the reason I've never got one is because what if after a year or two I don't like it anymore. Yes you can have them removed these days but then there's the added expense as well as scar tissue. So I've been toying with the idea of having some kind of augmented realty tattoo. Something that I could change on a whim or maybe for a giggle. Well, I think I'm now at the point where I can show the world the project. I've had a bar code tattooed on my right arm and using Processing I can scan it and display pretty much anything I want. so far I'm just displaying phrases. Obviously over time it will fade and hopefully I might get a bit of a tan but I can cater for that in the code.
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This weekend saw the Plymouth Respect Festival move to the University campus for the first time. The festival has been running for over 15 years and was designed to promote respect and celebrate diversity across all areas of the community. I've been fortunate enough to have been involved twice, albeit in a minor role each time. This year I built the Digital World Map.
The festival is held over 2 days and starts with a big parade thru' the city centre. There are food stalls, stands selling things and performances – I even had a bhangra lesson twisting light bulbs and picking up £10 notes
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So today I had a behind-the-scenes tour of Plymouth University's new marine building. As interesting as the ship's bridge simulator was, the wave tank was more interesting.
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I was part of the i-DAT team who developed KeJi for the Cheltenham Science Festival. KeJi means science and technology in Mandarin and is a playful artificial intelligent creature that visitors to the Cheltenham Science Festival can 'chat' to via Twitter or sms txts. Visitors can also play the game, 'KeJi Bounce'. The game gives birth to a unique KeJi spawn character whose behavior is linked to the ECG of the players heart rate and biological data. Players have to bounce on a trampoline to keep their creature afloat and win the game.
The installation went down really well with over 300 people playing the game, including Vince Cable. Check out the KeJi website for more info.
Thinking Digital 2012Posted: 1 June 2012 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: conference, gateshead, newcastle, thinking digital Leave a comment
The conference opened on the Tuesday afternoon with a number of workshops. I elected to attend the "What's trending in social media" discussion.
This was chaired by Katie Moffat (@katiemoffat) and the panel consisted of Christian Payne (@Documentally), Jas Dhaliwal (@Jas), Stephen Waddington (@wadds) and Will McInnes (@willmcinnes). This was a really interesting discussion on what's happening in social media and future trends. It's hard to believe that 1 in 5 page impressions is Facebook despite the fact that timeline is annoying a lot of its users. In fact, due to its popularity, some companies focus more on Facebook than any other web presence. Like timeline, this also has annoyed people as brands put shops where shops shouldn't be. Some other impacts of social media is how popular you are on the social networks, the more you are likely to benefit offline. For example, a high score in Klout can get you into Cathy Pacific's First and Business Class Lounge – shades of down and out in the magic kingdom by cory doctorow. As for the future, apparently "the future is niche" and SoLoMo (social, local, mobile) are gonna be big.
The next day started at 9am. I was in the Livecast Lounge (or the cheap seats as we all called them) which with hindsight was better than sitting in the main hall as a number of people complained at the 1st break about not being able to see the stage nor being able to get out easily for a "comfort break". With a teas/coffees/water table at our disposal, wifi access and the freedom to get up and walk about, this was definitely excellent forward planning on my part
The 1st session was entited "Soul of a New Machine" and was opened by Ken Segall who worked closely with Steve Jobs and has the distinction of coming up with the idea of putting "i" in front of Apple's products by naming the iMac, well the iMac. Whether you like or think this is annoying, it's loads better than Jobs' alternative which was MacMan. He was followed by Professor Paul Watson from Newcastle University who talked about his Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy project, something that I have a bit of an interest in. Adrian Hon, creator of Zombies, Run was next up. he talked about his Kickstarter funded book and offered 4 pieces of advice:
- Experiment
- Recycle failures
- Be patient
- Make enemies
Not so sure about that last one The final speaker of this session was Magnus Lindkvist (@Trendymagnus) who is always entertaining. He introduced us to 2 new words: infobesity – how we are completely overloaded with information – and ikeafication – how everything has now become reduced and shrink-wrapped to a commodity.
The session after the break was called "Thinking Digital" and was opened by Tom Chatfield (@TomChatfield) who has written a number of books exploring digital culture. He was followed by Sebastian Seung (@sebastianseung) who is a computational neuroscientist at MIT. His lab recently released EyeWire an online game that enables the public to map neural connections by playing a game of colouring neural images. He talked about how this has helped with his research into the workings of the brain and autism. The next speaker was Peter Gregson (@petergregson) who describes himself as a music & technology alchemist. Amongst the things he talked about was goPlay. He wanted to perform 21st century chamber music so helped developed a program that generated complimentary electronic music by analysing the music he played on his cello. Unfortunately the demonstration he gave didn't work but he was able to do a performance at the start of the next day which was amazing. As soon as there's a video of it available i will publish a link to it. The final speaker of the session was Mikko Hypponen (@mikko). Mikko is the Chief Research Officer at F-Secure in Finland and has fought some of the biggest virus outbreaks on the net. He talked about viruses that have infiltrated computers laying dormant for years before being activated. He also believed that the biggest threat isn't necessarily criminals but foreign governments. So, after being scared out of our wits, we then broke for lunch.
The session after lunch was called "Thinking Physical" and opened with Alice Taylor (@wonderlandblog) of MakieLab who use 3D printing to make customisable action dolls. You design your doll on their website and using 3D printing they make it. What i thought was interesting was they're sized to fit Lilipad Arduinos, Bluetooth, RFIDs and other nearfield tags. Now there's a future project if ever I saw one! Nathalie Miebach followed next and uses weather data from storms to make complex sculptures which in turn become musical scores for a string quartet to play.
After Nathalie was Helen Czerski (@helenczerski) a bubble physicist and oceanographer. Based at Sothampton she researches the role that bubbles play as an interface layer between the sea and the sky. The last speaker before the break was Pam Warhurst who gave one of the most passionate talks of the 1st day. She helped set up Incredible Edible Todmorden. She wanted to use unused public land to grow vegetables and use it to engage school children. In my opinion she was the modern day embodyment of the 70s punk ethic – just get on and do it! She also followed a long held belief of mine in that it's easier to say sorry then to get permission. So, instead of going thru council redtape, she got some volunteers to dig and plant vegetables. The project has taken off so much that plants around public buildings have even been replaced with veg.
After the next break, the next session was called "Culture Code" and opened with us voting on the finalists of the Startup Competition that was held the previous afternoon. The 2 finalists were EmberAds – an online advertising angency – and YossarianLives! – a metaphorical search engine. Both very interesting but for me the search engine just edged it and it must have for everyone else as that was the winner. The voting was followed by a talk by Zach Lieberman (@zachlieberman) whose work I've quite admired. I knew of him as he co-founded openFrameworks but the thing I found most interesting was Eyewriter which was a $50 eye tracking system made from a PS3 camera. This is the link to the Instructables page and is such a cool hack. After Zach was Margaret Maitland (@eloquentpeasant), an Egyptologist currently working as a curator with the British Museum Future Curators programme. She used her blog, The Eloquent Peasant, to report on the looting of antiquities during the Egyptian Revolution and to refute the claims of the government that nothing was wrong. Another example of blogs being used to expose the truth I feel. This was followed by a performance by Jessica Latshaw (@jessicalatshaw) whose performance on a New York subway train went viral. The day was rounded off by Professor Sugata Mitra (@sugatamitra) who is an Educational Technologist. His project consisted of building an ATM-like device in the wall of a New Delhi slum with an internet-connected PC and, with little direction, watched how a virtual classroom emerged organically where the children in the slums began to learn, teach themselves and each other. Not sure if the same outcome would happen in this country! We then went to the conference dinner where I was lucky enough to be sat with Zach Lieberman and Katherine Jewkes (@Katherine_Ann)
The first session of the day was entitled "Unconventional Wisdom" and started with Peter Gregson's rescheduled performance. He was followed by Alan Moore author of No Straight Lines: Making Sense of Our Non-linear World. He argues that old rules we have used previously to organise our lives around no longer apply. With my background this is an obvious argument but sometimes we need someone to point out what's under our noses which is what I felt Alan's talk did. After Alan was Aimee Di Marco whose talk is fair to say sorted out the men from the boys. Aimee is a specialist registrar in general surgery at Imperial College and she talked about how using robots for surgery has resulted in faster recovery times, reduced risk and reduced patient trauma due to minimal invasive procedures. She opened with a photo of a body fully opened up with all the guts and gore clearly visible. Considering it was the conference dinner the night before, I think a few people wished they had stayed at home. What was fascinating about Aimee's talk was that in just 20 years, surgery had gone from the body cavity being opened and a lengthy recuperation time for the patient to a robot now entering the body via the anus and the patient being sent home the same day with a couple of paracetamol for the discomfort. Next up was Rosanne Bachman (@rosannebachman) whose talk was about how the rapidly changes in technology, whilst being positive, has decreased predictability and increased risk. The final talk of the session was by Steven Kyffin, the Dean of the School of Design at the University of Northumbria and he talked about design led innovation.
There was another break before the next session "The Future We Will Create". This was opened by Ralph Rivera (@ralphrivera) who is the the BBC's Director of Future Media. He's responsible for the future development of BBC iPlayer whilst overseeing BBC's interactive services, BBC Online and BBC Red Button. During his talk he showed us the work undertaken by the BBC for viewing the Olympics including a version of the iPlayer that allows you to jump around the timeline and between events – VERY IMPRESSIVE. The Beeb was then followed by Facebook in the guise of Simon Cross (@sicross) who talked about how great Facebook was to work for and how the timeline was conceived out of one of their hack days. Unfortunately I couldn't stop thinking about a comment from the session on social media where someone asked, if we're providing Facebook with it's content then shouldn't we be entitled to a cut of their IPO as contributing editors. Although having said all that, having a QR code on their office roof is pretty cool After this was a talk by Richard Banks (@rbanks), a principle interaction designer at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He's part of a team that is looking at family life to try and figure out how the digital should fit in appropriately. He's written a book called The Future of Looking Back asking how we'll manage our collections after we're gone. For example, what will take the place of shoeboxes full of pictures and dog-eared record albums? Richard is looking at how we might manage the digital artifacts and content we're creating now and how we might pass on or inherit these kinds of items in the future. The final speaker of the session was Simona Francese whose work is about using chemical technology to squeeze information out of a simple fingerprint such as a person's sex, diet and contact with drugs. This was another fascinating talk not least because of the problems she had with getting funding for the project. Despite being turned down, she just carried on with the project and now has a working tool.
Lunch then followed and because of the time of my train home, I had to miss the final session called Disturbing the Universe. This was a very interesting conference with a diverse collection of speakers. Anyone working within the digital realm in whatever capacity should attend this. It's interesting, thought-provoking and inspiring.
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To the untrained eye, many corn and soybean diseases look very similar. Some can even be easily mistaken for various nutrient deficiencies or herbicide injuries. But it's still important to learn to make correct disease diagnoses in your field, says Farm Journal field agronomist Ken Ferrie.
"It's amazing how you can cripple some of these hybrids by not managing for their weaknesses," he says.
Ferrie, Bill Bauer of B&M Crop Consulting, Inc., and others led 2013 Farm Journal Corn College attendees through interactive disease diagnostic workshops to explore some of the visual nuances of some common corn and soybean diseases. There are five tips in particular to keep in mind when developing a disease management plan.
1. Know what you are comparing. For example, some companies list disease ratings from 1-10 (with 1 being the best) and others from 10-1 (with 1 being the worst). If a corn hybrid scores an 8 against gray leaf spot, for example, management style could differ significantly based on which way the scale tilts. And beware the lack of industry standardization, Ferrie says. "A 5 rating in one company is not the same as a 5 in another company," he says. "There's no standardization in place."
2. Know your hybrid. Know the strengths and weaknesses of the hybrids and varieties you select, Bauer says – and don't discount a hybrid you like just because it is susceptible to a particular disease. "If it's a high yielder, keep it in your lineup if you know how to manage around it," he says.
3. Understand that weather is only one factor. You also have to consider many other aspects, including crop rotation, tillage system, drainage, current stress level of the crop and more, Bauer says.
4. Scout, scout, scout. "Make a plan and execute it in a timely fashion," Bauer says. Also keep in mind that disease presence and persistence in your area will change over time, so stay on your toes, he says.
5. Keep a systems approach in mind at all times. "Changing one thing may cause a chain reaction throughout your system," Bauer says.
Ready to hit your fields? Consider these seven must-have scouting tools before you go.
1. Safety glasses
2. Scouting manuals or scouting apps
3. Camera
4. Hand lenses
5. Dissecting scope
6. Laptop microscope
7. Insect repellent/sunscreen
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Wait a Minute! Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping Could Benefit Baby
You may want to tell your doctor—or the excited new dad—to count to 180 before cutting your newborn's umbilical cord. Why? It could help reduce Baby's risk of developing iron deficiency anemia.
The Scoop
In the US and other western countries, it's standard practice for newborns to have their umbilical cords clamped and snipped within 30 seconds to a minute of birth. After all, you want that baby in your arms as soon as possible, right? But researchers from Sweden now think that waiting just a little longer before "cutting the cord" may reduce some babies' risk for developing iron deficiency anemia. (The thinking goes that an extra few minutes gives babies one last chance to soak up iron-rich cord blood.) Researchers estimate that for every 20 babies who have delayed clamping, one case of iron deficiency could be prevented. As for the other 19 babies? Researchers found no problems or health risks from leaving the cord in place a little bit longer.
In fact, the drawbacks appear so non-existent, and the benefits so noticeable, that Ola Andersson, neonatology consultant at the Hospital of Halland in southern Sweden and one of the study authors, says that delayed cord clamping "should be considered as standard care for full-term deliveries after uncomplicated pregnancies." (via FOX News)
At least one pediatrician who looked over the research agrees. "The balance of maternal risks and infant benefits of delayed cord clamping now clearly favors the child. How much more evidence is needed to convince obstetricians and midwives that it is worthwhile to wait for three minutes…?" writes Dr. Patrick van Rheenen, consultant pediatrician at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands.
The Research
Approximately 400 infants born after low-risk pregnancies were involved in the study. Some had their umbilical cords clamped after at least three minutes and others had them clamped in less than 10 seconds after delivery. On average, researchers found that babies who experienced delayed clamping tended to have better iron levels at 4 months of age and fewer cases of iron deficiency than babies whose cords were cut within seconds of being born.
Should you opt for delayed cord cutting? This is definitely something you want to think about—and discuss with your doctor or midwife—long before your due date.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Hurricane Isaac has made landfall in southeast Louisiana with winds near 80 mph.
Click here to see the projected path of the storm.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm's center reached land at 6:45 p.m. in Plaquemines Parish, about 90 miles southeast of New Orleans.
The storm's arrival Tuesday evening comes on the eve of the seven-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the region.
SLIDESHOW: The Gulf Coast prepares as Tropical Storm Isaac nears
While not as powerful as Katrina, Isaac threatens to flood the coasts of four states with storm surge and heavy rains on its way to New Orleans, where residents have been hunkering down behind levees fortified after Katrina struck.
Isaac also promises to test a New Orleans levee system bolstered after the catastrophic failures during Katrina.
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Singer, pianist and songwriter CARLA LOTHER has visited many diverse areas of the music industry. A native of Canada, Carla was a serious award- winning pianist. Growing up, she often traveled to compete in music competitions and spent summers studying at prestigious festivals such as The Banff School of Fine Arts.
Carla hitchhiked to New York City and enrolled in graduate school earning a Masters Degree in Piano Performance from The Mannes College of Music. She paid her way with the aid of scholarships and worked on the campus cleaning bathrooms and answering phones. Upon graduating, the reality of the legality of remaining in the United States became apparent. Carla took an administrative position at Mannes and by the age of twenty-five, was running the Continuing Education Division. She started a successful jazz program at the school, but found herself missing out on playing music and developing artistically. Five years later, she wrote her first song.
Since signing with Chesky Records, Carla has participated in a myriad of musical projects. She can be heard as a pianist on a recording of contemporary music for CRI Records. She arranged for and performed on a Christmas CD for Museum Music, and sang on a Bang-on-a Can release. She can be heard on numerous jingles - Dove Soap, Maxwell House, Ikea, Kitchen Aid, KitKat and MasterCard, among others. She has directed musical theater for at- risk kids in the South Bronx and remains on the Mannes faculty today.
In her Brooklyn neighborhood, Carla met Richie Stotts, the lead guitarist who fronted the punk rock band The Plasmatics alongside Wendy O. Williams. An unlikely match, they began collaborating on songwriting - four of which appear on her most recent Chesky release, 100 Lovers.
Carla has performed on several occasions with her 7-piece band at the famed Bottom Line in New York City. Sadly, the Bottom Line closed its doors recently. Carla and Stotts formed a duo in a toned down acoustic setting of their songs accompanied by piano and acoustic guitar, but the temptation of playing with a full band to celebrate the release of 100 Lovers proved irresistible. With a wonderful array of musicians, they packed CBGBs Gallery on February 28, 2004, and brought the house down.
In May, 2004, Carla opened for a crowd of 1200 for singer sensation Joan Osborne. Her band that night included members of the legendary Tom Scott Allstar Band, including Will Lee on bass and maestro Tom Scott on saxophone.
Carla continues to write and arrange for other artists, keeps active with session work, and teaches piano to keep her grounded and to remind her of her roots in classical music.
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This drunk girl in this video starts out dancing and ends in face-plant infamy. Some rough NSFW language, as is often the case when somebody takes a drunken spill. Check it out below. And may all your embarrassing face-plants be private.
Snails may have plenty of junk in the trunk but when it comes to shaking what God gave them, it's all in the antennae. And boy did God give this dancing snail a sweet pair of those.
Check him out as be bobs his antennae to the beat of Reel 2 Real's classic hit 'I Like to Move It.'


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In the news...
This section contains links to news stories or press releases relating to human rights and healthcare. The breadth of issues and severity of many of the cases illustrate the need to place human rights at the centre of health and social care.
Extracts taken from CQC - Care Quality Commission - media release.
'People often not at the centre of their own care, says CQC as it publishes reports from its review of services for people with learning disabilities
'The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 20 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities.
'The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. A national report into the findings of the programme will be published in the Spring.
'An area of concern to emerge from an initial analysis of the first 40 reports is that many services are failing to provide patient-...2 years 33 weeks ago
Extracts from NHS National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) page, 2012-02-08.
'Deprivation and death: Variation in place and cause of death
'National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN)
'This report suggests that people who live in deprived areas are more likely to die in hospital than those living in affluent areas.
'The report reveals that 61% of deaths amongst people living in the most deprived quintile (the poorest 20% of areas) occurred in hospital – compared to 54% amongst the two least deprived quintiles. It concludes that the gap is not solely accounted for by factors such as differences in the causes of death between the social groups.'
Access the full NHS National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) report by...2 years 33 weeks ago
Extracts from BBC News article, 09.01.12
Evidence of neglect and abuse at a private nursing home in Essex has been uncovered by a BBC investigation.
In August 2011 Partridge Care Centre, in Harlow, was at the centre of a police inquiry after three people were taken to hospital with "diabetes related problems".
Two women in their 80s died, although Essex Police dropped the investigation saying there was no evidence of "any relevant criminal offences".
The home's owner Rushcliffe Care Limited acknowledged there had been problems in the past, but claimed it had taken steps to make sure residents' "health and well-being are paramount".
But documents seen by BBC Essex show there were serious problems at the home before the police investigation.
Partridge Care Centre is a residential nursing home specialising in looking after people with...2 years 33 weeks ago
Extracts from the Summary of Age UK 'Care in Crisis 2012' report:
• There is serious underspend on older people's social care.
• Councils have cut back on their service provision.
• Many older people miss out altogether, remaining outside of the state care system.
• The financial demands on older people who receive care are increasing.
• Funding for frontline services has not been protected.
• Additional money from the NHS has not filled the gap.
• Taking into account growing demand as well the gap is even greater.
• Just to maintain the status quo a steady increase in funding will be needed.
• Provision should be extended to support people who fund their own care.
• Meeting moderate needs also needs to be factored in to the overall sums for reform.
Access the Age UK's full report, 'Care in Crisis 2012' by ...2 years 33 weeks ago
- Hospital had human rights duty to protect voluntary patient from suicide, rules Supreme Court - UK Human Rights Blog
Extracts taken from UK Human Rights Blog article, 08.02.12.
'The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that a mental health hospital had an "operational" obligation under article 2 of the European Court of Human Rights (the right to life) to protect a voluntary patient from suicide. This is the first time the reach of the article 2 obligation to protect life has been expanded to a voluntary patient; that is, a patient who was not detained under the Mental Health Act.
'My initial thoughts are that this is potentially very important, and follows on from Savage in gradually expanding the reach of Article 2, and therefore the liability of mental health hospitals to patients and (as was crucial in this case) their families. The court observed that Ms. Rabone, who committed suicide after being granted 2-...2 years 33 weeks ago
Elderly patients are being condemned to an early death by hospitals making secret use of "do not resuscitate" orders, an investigation has found.
Taken from Telegraph article 07.02.12:
The orders – which record an advance decision that a patient's life should not be saved if their heart stops – are routinely being applied without the knowledge of the patient or their relatives.
On one ward, one-third of DNR orders were issued without consultation with the patient or their family, according to the NHS's own records. At another hospital, junior doctors freely admitted that the forms were filled out by medical teams without the involvement of patients or relatives.
Under...2 years 33 weeks ago
Extracts taken from Walesonline.co.uk article, 23.01.12
The scale of abuse against elderly people across Wales has been revealed in figures showing more than 1,000 complaints against carers have been upheld in the last three years.
Despite the number of proven allegations of financial, physical and emotional abuse, only a small percentage of the carers involved have lost their jobs.
In several Welsh councils, fewer than 10% of upheld complaints led to the carers involved losing their jobs. Neglect was the most frequent complaint made by vulnerable adult service users across Wales – with 240 incidents reported to Cardiff council alone since 2008-09.There were also allegations of sexual abuse at three Welsh councils, Wrexham, Rhondda Cynon Taf and the Vale of Glamorgan.
At Denbighshire council, one...2 years 36 weeks ago
Extracts from Telegraph article, 10.01.12
Some hospital trusts commit just £2.57 for each patient's daily food and drink, according to the latest statistics, despite growing concern about poor nutrition on wards.
At least 30 hospital trusts, almost one in 10 of the total, spend less than £5 a day on breakfast, lunch and dinner for each person in their care.
The statistics, placed in the House of Commons Library this week, drew allegations from patients' groups that nutritional standards are slipping as managers strive to save money.
Compiled by the NHS Information Centre, the figures give details of spending on food and drink in 2010-11 by more than 350 primary care trusts, foundation hospitals and other NHS bodies.
In total, 30 of the NHS bodies listed spent less than £5 a day on...2 years 38 weeks ago
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He lost a point for turnbuckling Hamed. Barrera's winning rounds were so much more dominant than the ones I scored for Hamed that it looks like it should be a wider margin.
That's one thing that non-boxing fans can't understand - you could have a fight were every round was extremely close, but still see a 120-108 scorecard if one fighter did enough ot barely win each round. Conversely, a fight like this one seemed like a blow-out, even though the cards were close.


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Salt Lake's home opener Friday following an eight-game road trip to begin 2012's Triple-A season brought a bunch of new faces to Spring Mobile Ballpark.
Yet, how long prospects such as Mike Trout, Kole Calhoun and Hank Conger will remain part of the Bees' potent and versatile lineup is a question only the Los Angeles Angels can answer.
Still, "We're finally home," said Efren Navarro, speaking for the Bees (6-3), who were settling into their own locker room. "We get to wear white pants now. It's exciting."
Friday night, the Bees used their speed to claim their 5-4 victory. This included a two-run stand-up triple by Trout in the fourth inning.
Navarro, one of the few holdovers from last season, definitely brought back memories of 2011, when he was deemed the best-fielding first baseman in all of minor league baseball.
Pat O'Conner, president of Minor League Baseball, will present Navarro with his 2011 Rawlings Gold Glove Award prior to Saturday's game.
On Friday, Navarro's glove saved at least three runs for Salt Lake pitchers who walked a high-wire act before 6,560 bundled spectators.
There were a few bobbles in the field. Tucson took a 2-0 lead when Conger fired the baseball into right field in an aborted effort to turn a double play on a tap-back to the mound with the bases loaded.
Tucson (2-7) starting pitcher Jorge Reyes returned the favor in the third, throwing a bunt attempt by Andrew Romine into right field. Romine eventually scored.
That the game was being played at all was a victory of sorts. Last season, the trifecta of winter weather — snow, sleet and rain — forced postponements of home opener — twice.
Though temperatures were in the 50s at the first pitch, skies remained reasonably clear.
"It's going to rain," Salt Lake manager Keith Johnson declared, in an attempt to fake out Mother Nature with reverse psychology. "So bad we're not going to be able to play for two weeks."
Superstitious? Foolish question.
"I'm a ballplayer," Johnson said. "What do you think?"
It had already been an eventful day for the Bees long before David Pauley threw the first pitch. They left their hotel in Reno at 4:45 a.m. for the airport, where they proceeded to wait on the tarmac.
"There was a silver lining," Johnson said about the delay. "We only had to wait an hour. We still got home at a decent hour."
It was nothing new and probably a sign of what's to come for the next five months or so.
"It's a long day," Navarro said. "Your body gets used to it."
Salt Lake 5, Tucson 4
R Salt Lake first baseman Efren Navarro raps out three singles.
• Bees center fielder Mike Trout lines a two-run, stand-up triple to left in the fourth inning.
• Loek van Mil, one of four Bees pitchers, pitches two scoreless innings of relief to earn the victory.
Kurt Kragthorpe • Salt Lake Bees general manager Marc Amicone carries out baseball-loving father's wish. > D5
Bees' remaining homestand
Saturday • Tucson at Salt Lake, 6:35 p.m.
Sunday • Tucson at Salt Lake, 1:05 p.m.
Monday • Tucson at Salt Lake, 6:35 p.m.
Tuesday • Las Vegas at Salt Lake, 6:35 p.m.
Wednesday • Las Vegas at Salt Lake, 6:35 p.m.
Thursday • Las Vegas at Salt Lake, 6:35 p.m.
April 20 • Las Vegas at Salt Lake, 6:35 p.m.


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Should parents in Georgia decide whether their children take annual state exams?
A reader told me that her daughter was showing signs of test anxiety because her elementary school was already in the midst of prepping for the April CRCT.
So, the parent asked, "Can we legally opt-out?"
No, says the state Department of Education, which sent me this response: "Given both state and federal law require all students test, we encourage parents to discuss their concerns with their local districts. Some districts have policies above and beyond state policies."
When I last wrote about testing concerns, a parent posted that Georgia students can get around taking the CRCT, although the subterfuge seemed extreme to me and likely to cause the child even more stress.
The parent wrote, "All that is required is that you withdraw them from school and home school them through the two-week window of testing. As long as the student had done well in all core subjects the entire year, there is no way for a school to justify holding a child back. Know your rights. If there are problems, there is an appeal board that usually consists of the parents, teacher, principal. We did opt out last year. Took child out of 8th grade for week of testing and the following week (used to retest) and then re-enrolled child after two weeks of home schooling."
I am not sure how many kids would be comfortable formally withdrawing from school for two weeks.
But should there be a process under which students can win a reprieve from testing? Should the decision be based on student performance? Should students with exemplary grades be exempted from testing, as they often are in college classes?
FairTest has information on the growing opt-out movement.
I am pulling out a comment from this post from our resident testing expert Jerry Eads:
Most of the entries above assume that the CRCTs and EOCTs are a measure of something worthwhile. Au contraire. The tests only tell us whether a student "met" or "exceeded" totally arbitrary points on one minimum competency test that has one thing in common with the space program: low bid. The information sent back to the schools is of virtually no use to teachers or students as to what they might do better; the tests are of no use for instruction.
For too many students, the tests have driven schooling to be nothing more than trying to memorize factoids to regurgitate and then forget as quickly as possible. Learning quickly becomes drudgery instead of the joy that it should be. Effectively, students learn virtually nothing on the way to becoming citizens. Students (and teachers) learn to hate school, radically increasing the dropout rate for students and the attrition rate for teachers (particularly the good ones).
By the way, the ONLY purpose for the SAT and ACT is to predict FIRST year survival in college, nothing more. Even though they are two of the best made tests in the world, they don't do that very well at all, and are of hardly any use to colleges in guessing whether a student will be successful.
I think it's a great idea for parents to keep their kids away from the state minimum competency tests. Perhaps sooner rather than later the state would end this cruel enterprise that does little more than drain resources and worthwhile learning from schools.
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
January 28th, 2013
1:58 am
If the kids are doing the work & earning good grades then, what is the point of testing them?!?! If the work shows they understand the material, it makes no sense to have them repeat it in a stressful situation by making them recount an entire year's worth of work. In addition, they have been tested in increments throughout the year. A better idea would be to use their incremental test scores as their final test score and MAYBE have them review and retest on the material they didn't do well with. Some children do great in the schooling, but are terrible test takers.
January 28th, 2013
5:26 am
I don't know about CRCTs, but a student does not have to pass the EOCT to pass the class. If the student's grade is high enough to compensate. And with weighted grades that's not too difficult. EOCTs count as the final exam and are generally weighted at 20%, but that is only in the final exam category. The EOCT/final category gets weighted against the averages of the other categories; tests, quizzes, projects, homework, classwork, etc. If the student has done their work and passed their other tests it is likely that they could get a 65 or 60 on the EOCT and still pass the class. So relax and sit for the exam. You probably know more than you think.
That being said, I agree that there is too much testing, and too much emphasis placed on too expensive, poorly written exams that have little to do with authentic student learning. Projects and portfolios are the way to go. Assign students numbers and distribute the portfolios/capstone projects (in electronic format) evenly throughout the teachers in the state for grading. Teachers from the students school do not grade their own schools portfolios. We can do it instead of finals week.
January 28th, 2013
5:56 am
I fully support parents doing what is best for their children, een if that means pulling them out during testing. However… they need to also be aware that doing so can be damaging to a school and district. Those test scores, fairly or not, are used to make judgements about how well teachers, schools and districts are doing. Money is tied to those test scores. If too many high performing students do not take the tests, then the school looks to be underperforming. The teachers and adminstrators may be reprimanded, replaced or have even greater accountability measures put in place. There are a plethora of mandates tied to those tests… Parents need to be aware of the unintended consequences of such a decision.
January 28th, 2013
6:18 am
Or maybe it's a good idea to have them take it so they can begin to overcome test anxiety?? Unless of course you plan to have them skip the SAT as well……
January 28th, 2013
6:28 am
No, If a person does not choose public education, then either home school or seek a private school that meets their needs.
January 28th, 2013
6:43 am
Are you kidding? And then they can skip SATs, job entrance exams…hey…how about a doctor that skips his state boards? Parents need to get over it. If they freak, then their kids will freak. Just take the test and deal with the fall out. That's life.
January 28th, 2013
6:45 am
Without the right to opt out (a right that many–most?–other states have), parents are more disempowered than ever. We need that right. We need that power. If enough of us united in opposition in such a way, we might be able to restore something of a voice. Right now, parents are easily ignored by policy makers.
January 28th, 2013
6:50 am
"If the kids are doing the work & earning good grades then, what is the point of testing them?!?!"
The point is that there is no PROOF that they are doing the work and that the grades are really "earned" and not "given". How many kids have been passed along to the next grade with a "C" when it is clear that they have no knowledge of the subject matter? If Georgia mandates that children be socially promoted, at least promote them after giving them an "F" if they deserve it. No more "No scores below 50%" and "no F's allowed to be given". What do you think CAUSED the testing craze? Social promotion and grade inflation!
January 28th, 2013
6:52 am
Research by the AJC a few years ago, how kids do on the CRCT as individuals doesn't matter–they are virtually NEVER held back! CRCT is not predictive, eiher. Kids have little reason to try to do well, and the results show it. Finally, the child can fail the CRCT and somehow, by magic, after 3 weeks of additional instruction, pass it? Give me a break!
And I have told this before–I had an ELL child who almost passed the reading portion! This was a kid who had been here for a matter of months but she matched the words in the question to the words in the story and almost passed!
January 28th, 2013
6:54 am
Parents want to "opt" their children out of testing. Why not just "opt" them out of education altogether? Just home school them all the time, teach them nothing, let them fail. If a child has been even an average performer in the class, he/she will have no trouble with the test. Test anxiety? Sort of like ADD, everyone has it these days. Get used to taking tests! They are here to stay.
January 28th, 2013
7:05 am
I bet if we just cancel all testing entirely that none of the children will ever have to suffer from test anxiety again. What a marvelous world that will be. We can raise our children with NONE of the normal stresses they will have to deal with in real life. That way they'll be totally unprepared when life hits them in the face and will have us to thank for it. This is a stupid subject. Only a fool wants the tests to go away. Or a crooked politician. Or Beverly Hall!!!
January 28th, 2013
7:25 am
So will parents demand the kid skip the ACT of college exams? It is a test folks. It is not surgery or pulling a tooth. Get over it. It happens once each year.
January 28th, 2013
7:37 am
Although students don't have to pass the EOCT to pass the class, they are required to pass one EOCT in each core subject area to graduate.
For Class of 2016, there is no more GHSGT, so the EOCT in one subject is actually necessary for the student to receive his or her diploma.
I have said before that there is too much testing.
January 28th, 2013
7:39 am
…hit send too soon.
Getting rid of the GHSGT is nice, though. Right now, the average 11th grader is tested 18 times in one year. That's 10% or more of his or her school year, depending upon counties and their school year calendars.
January 28th, 2013
7:43 am
Apart from how easy the CRCTs are, the worst thing about them is that all learning essentially stops after they are administered. That's around 4 weeks instruction that just vanishes from the end of the school year. Combine that with 2 weeks of CRCT cramming before the test, and you have yet another argument for private education.
January 28th, 2013
7:50 am
@mountain man,
By law, homeschool students have to take standardized tests starting in third grade, and they generally do well on them. I'm sure there are a few lazy parents out there whose idea of homeschooling is to teach their kids nothing and let them fail, but that's not the norm.
January 28th, 2013
8:07 am
Most of the entries above assume that the CRCTs and EOCTs are a measure of something worthwhile. Au contraire. The tests only tell us whether a student "met" or "exceeded" totally arbitrary points on one minimum competency test that has one thing in common with the space program: low bid. The information sent back to the schools is of virtually no use to teachers or students as to what they might do better; the tests are of no use for instruction.
For too many students, the tests have driven schooling to be nothing more than trying to memorize factoids to regurgitate and then forget as quickly as possible. Learning quickly becomes drudgery instead of the joy that it should be. Effectively, students learn virtually nothing on the way to becoming citizens. Students (and teachers) learn to hate school, radically increasing the dropout rate for students and the attrition rate for teachers (particularly the good ones).
By the way, the ONLY purpose for the SAT and ACT is to predict FIRST year survival in college, nothing more. Even though they are two of the best made tests in the world, they don't do that very well at all, and are of hardly any use to colleges in guessing whether a student will be successful.
I think it's a great idea for parents to keep their kids away from the state minimum competency tests. Perhaps sooner rather than later the state would end this cruel enterprise that does little more than drain resources and worthwhile learning from schools.
January 28th, 2013
8:09 am
Our family loved testing week. No homework!
That said, I didn't understand about all this test anxiety until my oldest child, in first grade started acting so weird I went to the school to talk to her teacher. Turns out her teacher was soooooo stressed because they were testing the next week. Her stress infected my child. It was crazy.
January 28th, 2013
8:29 am
If your child can not pass the CRCT due to stress or lack of knowledge you as a parent need to know this so it can be addressed. Folks – the CRCT is a joke as far as content. It is so simple. If you however take away any real standardized form of measurement then you will end up back where we started which is just pushing kids through to the next level. Just pushing through kids to the next level has got to STOP. I agree with @alreadysheared that once the test is given there is virtually no instruction for the rest of the year because the year is over in the minds of many. It is not. If you do not plan to teach then let me have my kid back for that month and give us a longer summer with them.
January 28th, 2013
8:35 am
Thank you, Jerry Eads. You nail it.
January 28th, 2013
8:37 am
My youngest gets test anxiety, ONLY because of the enormous pressure the school places on those kids. He is an excellent student in a high performing school and has absolutely ZERO reason to get anxious. But the teachers get so freaking stressed out about the results that all they do for weeks on end is pound the kids about testing. It downright enrages me. Over 95% of the kids in that school have no reason to worry about that stupid CRCT. They could probably take the test at the beginning of the year, pass it with flying colors and get it over with. But oh noes..they have to freak out for two months until they take it.
I don't think I can go through the extreme of withdrawing my kid for two kids, mostly because all that will do is hurt the school and district. As things stand now, the federal govt holds school responsible for the results of that moronic test and if enough high performing kids do this, the results will be disastrous. But I wish there was a way of requesting that my kid get tested now and get it the freak over with.
January 28th, 2013
8:41 am
ABC – This is a teacher problem and a Principal supervision problem. This should never happen.
January 28th, 2013
8:41 am
We absolutely HAVE to test ALL the students for this purpose: we cannot measure how well our schools are performing without them. To allow exemptions INVITES the school to cheat. The schools will absolutely unenroll and "encourage" parents of poor-performing students to opt out so that the school's scores appear improve or even falsify the kids as being home-schooled for two weeks.
Let's get real here. It's not the test that actually causes this anxiety, which is real. It is the teachers and the schools who put the anxiety on the kids because they know the test measures how well they teach.
When I took standardized tests, I was told to get a good night's rest, eat a good breakfast and bring two number two pencils to school…that's it.
Today kids are constantly berated to do well…not for their own sake…but for the benefit of the teachers and the school systems' scores.
So, when children are experiencing test anxiety, don't blame the test…blame the teachers and the schools who are creating inappropriate and harmful pressure on the children and when appropriate…litigate.
January 28th, 2013
8:42 am
actually, I like the idea. it needs to be made clear to the parents this act could have negative blowback on their kids later, and sign off on it. and don't come blaming the system later for the decisions they made if it blows up in their faces.
myself I think CRCT is the single most stupid thing in education right now, and we'll all be better when it goes the way of the Dodo. everyone in education knows it, including the idiots in DC and the lobbyists who pushed it.
the best reason for letting kids take the stupid thing is simple: we all have stupid crap we have to do in life, and this is a introduction to that concept.
January 28th, 2013
8:46 am
@ mountain man,
I'm a long time supporter of making public ed optional after middle school.
January 28th, 2013
8:47 am
I agree with Atlanta Mom. We also loved testing week. My kids were having fun, but their teachers were definitely stressed. Parents of children with test anxiety have the elementary years to help their kids deal with the anxiety. My kids were so used to taking standardized tests that they were very calm sitting for the SAT. While I agree that we over test our kids, I think that many of these tests are here to stay and parents need to help their children deal with the stress they impart. Students who can't handle the tests should probably be in a different type of school environment (private or home school). It's important to match the learning environment with individual student needs.
January 28th, 2013
8:52 am
in all genuine sincerity:
if your child has that level of test anxiety, I strongly suggest you take him to a mental health professional. I've been in higher ed longer than many here have been alive, and the trend is for more and more of these kinds of stupid do nothing tests.
and the higher he goes in education, the more intense the real tests get as well. not to mention how this might manifest in the work world when faced with tight deadlines and imbeciles for supervisors.
if you can start working with him now, it may do a lot towards helping him out in overall life later.
January 28th, 2013
8:57 am
I wish I could opt out of work anytime things get stressful. These "clever" parents who have found a way to opt out of testing by taking their child out of school for 2 weeks are essentially teaching them then when things happen that you do not like, well just stay home. That is not a good strategy to get through life.
January 28th, 2013
9:13 am
Poor babies have to worry about "test anxiety".
O.K., fine – parents who have the need to coddle their children should be able to keep them home and exempt them from being tested on their knowledge and comprehension. We need more waiters and waitresses anyhow.
January 28th, 2013
9:14 am
I hear the many helicopters. Pretty soon we will have everyone feeling good again, and no measure of who will lead us in the future. And no one will have to work to be the best. But we'll all feel really good. I mean, after all, those silly tests are just a waste of time…and, I don't want anyone to feel bad if he or she does not do well. I don't want them to have to do the homework either, because it stresses our family. When I come home from work I don't want to have to help my kids do the math or the language….and I don't want them to have to read so much. We can't do the video games we want to do because they are having to read. And don't correct my child. He will learn from his parents how to behave and he will become responsible and able to compete with the world from us. We have been sooo successful.
January 28th, 2013
9:14 am
@ Atl Mom
oversimplified, here's why the faculty was so crazy.
-faculty know CRCT is useless. and they resent the imposition it has on actual teaching time. they are supposed to get XYZ accomplished in the classroom. benchmarks set based on classroom days, but not taking into account nearly 1/3 of the year gets eaten up by CRCT in one way or another.
-admin types go crazy because CRCT means money and recognition. and in the business of education, this is the most important thing of all. even when blessed with on site management who actually cares about education (most don't) they report to somebody who does.
January 28th, 2013
9:14 am
So in this case Maureen's for "parental choice" … if it helps traditional public schools evade accountability.
January 28th, 2013
9:19 am
If kids are going to a poor school, should parents have to pay for it?
January 28th, 2013
9:21 am
Isn't life pretty much a final exam? If you cannot handle the heat then you probably won't do very well in life either. I guess the assumption you make here is that "most" parents have a lick of sense which is debatable at best.
January 28th, 2013
9:29 am
@ whirled
schools are a reflection of the values of a community. in a sense, they already (past tense) have paid for it.
January 28th, 2013
9:36 am
"If you cannot handle the heat then you probably won't do very well in life either. "
"I wish I could opt out of work anytime things get stressful. "
Ya'll realize we are talking about CHILDREN….you know….8, 9, 10 years olds? Who in their right mind expects a 10 year old to handle stress like an adult?
I don't have a problem with a parent opting out of the CRCT. The info provided by the CRCT is useless. Schools can give short, in-house academic screeners for much less time and money with better results.
EOCT's are a different story since they count 20% of the final grade. By high school, most students are ready for the "pressure" and can handle it much better.
January 28th, 2013
9:37 am
"blame the teachers and the schools who are creating inappropriate and harmful pressure on the children and when appropriate…litigate."
No – blame the legislators and policy wonks who dictate that the schools and teachers have to show increases every year and expect even the 70 IQ students to do as well as the 150 IQ students.
Teachers and school administrators have Nothing to do with whether or not your kid has to take the test – they are bound by state laws.
Litigate? Seriously? Against who? Districts are mandated by State and Federal law to give the tests.
Think before you post please.
January 28th, 2013
9:58 am
No, students should not be able to opt out. As someone said earlier, school systems are judged by their students' test scores, and I fear the only ones left taking the tests would be those students whose parents don't care enough to sign a form opting their child out.
January 28th, 2013
9:59 am
"We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year olds by making them waste the best years of their lives on preparing for examinations"
Freemam Dyson
Professsor of Physics
Institute For Advanced Study
Princton University
January 28th, 2013
10:14 am
CORRECT – High Stress environment is a superintendent/principal/teacher issue and should be dealt with.
CORRECT – student test anxiety should be addressed by the parent, teacher, counselor and principal. There will always be tests, some more stressful than others. Students must learn to deal with them.
INCORRECT – "The tests only tell us whether a student "met" or "exceeded" totally arbitrary points
— That is a stupid statement. The testing materials are NOT totally arbitrary.
COMMENT – "low bid" Another stupid statement. Even the low bid must meet the bids specs which disqualifies most companies from even bidding.
COMMENT – "The information sent back to the schools is of virtually no use to teachers or students as to what they might do better; the tests are of no use for instruction." This is probably true regarding the teachers and students, but it does provide a parent a relative indicator of performance, and certainly is helpful to good administrators as one data point they consider in system performance evaluation and planning.
January 28th, 2013
10:21 am
Diane asks a fair question "If the kids are doing the work & earning good grades then, what is the point of testing them?!?!"
Because many students who are passing and "earning" good grades…can't read. They drop out of high school. They become criminals.
Education is political. No school wants to admit they are not teaching well. So nearly everyone gets promoted. Grades are inflated.
And as long as federal money is tied to test scores on standardized tests, schools WILL give them ESPECIALLY if your child can pass them. It's the cihldren who can't pass them that get shifted to a "10.5″ grade to hide them or told to go home sick or "transferred" before testing time.
I want standardized tests. I deserve to know what I am getting for my tax dollars and I deserve to know the quality of the school to which I send my child. Education is THE most important indicator of future income and our nation and democracy depend on genuinely, educated citizens.
January 28th, 2013
10:28 am
Schools are required to GIVE the test. Schools and teachers are NOT required to harass, bully, threaten and mentally abuse the kids so that a teacher gets her bonus and the school gets its extra twenty helpings of my federal tax dollars.
Litigate where you ask?
Litigate against the school and the individual teacher for child abuse. Mental abuse.
You cannot terrorize children just so you can get your bonus.
And that's what this is all about — you. Certainly not the kids.
January 28th, 2013
10:35 am
fjeremey you make a good point when you say that "Teachers from the students school do not grade their own schools portfolios. We can do it instead of finals week."
However, guess who chooses which papers and projects to put into the portfolio? The teacher who has the most to gain form cherry-picking the best of the best instead of the real examples of a child's work…and…
Maybe you haven't heard…In Atlanta teachers actually did the work themselves and passed it off as the child's work. They wrote lovely poems and prose and hung it up all over the school as examples of their students work.
In essence, portfolios make it easier for teacjers and schools to lie and cheat.
What we need to do is have a disinterested third party come in with the exams and give the tests and remove the tests form the school while the entire staff of the school is out of the building and off of the campus to exclude the real chance of teachers, schools and districts manipulating test scores.
January 28th, 2013
10:38 am
If the test is required everyone should have to take it, parents should not have to right to remove their child. Doing so will only teach the child that they did not have to do what is required of them if they choose not to. Do we want a country where adults think they can pick and choose what parts of being a citizen they want to follow and think they can ignore the rest?
January 28th, 2013
10:38 am
If the test is required everyone should have to take it, parents should not have to right to remove their child. Doing so will only teach the child that they did not have to do what is required of them if they choose not to. Do we want a country where adults think they can pick and choose what parts of being a citizen they want to follow and think they can ignore the rest?
January 28th, 2013
10:54 am
People against accountability? AJC readers refusing to cope with reality? {gasp} Who woulda thunk it?
January 28th, 2013
10:54 am
To the poster that say it is a Principal supervision problem: well, I don't disagree with that, but the principals are under tremendous pressure as well. If the school underperforms, it invites disaster. All for the sake of that moronic NCLB initiative which has proved NOTHING, except that no one got ahead.
To the poster that suggested I take my child to a therapist: bite me. My kid doesn't have test anxiety, he just stresses over this particular test because all the teacher does for two freakin months is drill them and pound on them and stress them out over a stupid test that he can pass with his eyes closed.He never stresses over any kind of testing because he is always prepared and because the teachers don't spend two months stressing them out over it.
I don't coddle my kid, I don't helicopter over my kids and sure as he11 don't pamper him. But no 9 year old needs to be under that kind of pressure over something that means nothing and it is stupid to begin with.
January 28th, 2013
10:56 am
Thanks Cindy, but I have very little hope that many will learn. People are bound and determined to stay under the frightful delusion that these tests tell us something useful about a child's learning. While knowledge ABOUT something is indeed necessary, it's totally insufficient. It's what people can DO with it that's important, and we've lost sight of that.
It's possible, I think, that the "Commond Core" will help that. The CC itself demands higher order thinking and reasoning; it remains to be seen whether we'll be able to afford that in the testing. And then convince administrators that it's okay to let teachers let learning be fun again.
January 28th, 2013
10:59 am
On these standardized test, how do we know that the answer the "grader" is wanting is correct. Sometimes there is more than one correct answer. Many, many years ago my school gave a test which no longer exist. One of the science questions had to do with the level of pitch in relation to the amount of water in a bottle. Knowing that this was one of the things I taught, a teacher asked me to review my lesson with her students. When the results came back, all my students had failed. After all of us researched the reason, we found the reason. The answer was based on hitting the bottle, and my students were taught "level pitch" by blowing into the bottle which produces exactly opposite results. Nothing was mentioned in the instruction manuel on how they wanted the sound produced or how to get the answer wanted by the "graders" all of whom were non-musicians. There was a "storm", and this test was eliminated as one the students in my district had to take. Because educators on the local level have so little access to the test, how do we know our students are being graded correctly and that the grades even adequately reflect what the students really know?
January 28th, 2013
11:02 am
I don't have a problem with standardized tests. I have a problem with teachers being forced to teach to the standardized test instead of teaching the subject matter in a sensible manner. That said…
Sometimes people complain for the sake of complaining. Often times people game a system simply because they can. Avoiding a test because it is too stressful has got to be the lamest excuse for parenting I've heard in a long time.
It's one thing to complain about curricula being too focused on standardized testing, it's another to avoid testing because you think it is harmful to the student. This sounds more like parents who often do school work and projects for their kids trying to keep the inflated GPA sham going. Little Johnny or Suzie cannot be subject to proving themselves compared to their peers on a district, state, or national scale. It would crush them if they found out they really aren't the best student in the world.


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FEATURE STORY: Muhammad Adjusts to College Life.
2013 Preseason All-SEC Second Team (Coaches)
2013 College Sports Madness Preseason All-SEC First Team
2013 All-SEC Second Team (Coaches)
2013 All-SEC Second Team (AP)
2012 SEC All-Freshman Team
SEC Player of the Week (Dec. 17, 2012)
SEC Freshman of the Week (Dec. 26, 2011)
2013 Subway Classic All-Tournament Team
2012 Sheraton Raleigh Wolfpack Invitational All-Tournament Team
2011 FIU Sun and Fun Classic All-Tournament Team
As a Junior (2013-14):
Selected to the coaches Preseason All-SEC Second Team...Played her first game as a junior against Ball State, scoring 11 points with six steals... Scored 15 points against Iowa State with four rebounds... Put up 10 points against Tulane and had a season high of nine rebounds... Scored a career-high 28 points with six rebounds against St. John's... Also attempted her first career slam dunk vs. the Red Storm... Scored 18 points against Florida A&M with five steals and four rebounds... Scored eight points against Presbyterian with three steals... Put up 10 points against UCLA with six rebounds and four assists... Scored nine points against Minnesota with seven rebounds... Named to Subway Classic All-Tournament Team for her efforts against UCLA and Minnesota... Scored 10 points against Mississippi State with four rebounds and two steals... Put up 17 points against Vanderbilt with eight rebounds and four blocks... Scored the 900th point of her career against South Carolina, becoming the 35th Tiger all-time to score 900 career points... Put up seven points against Alabama and had a career high of five blocks... Recorded 13 points at Florida with seven rebounds, four assists and three blocks... Put up three points against Texas A&M with four steals and a block... Scored eight points at Arkansas with seven rebounds, three steals, two blocks and an assist... Recorded seven points with five rebounds and two blocks vs. Mississippi State... Picked up eight points with three rebounds three steals and a block at Vanderbilt... Had three points with five rebounds three steals and two blocks vs. Missouri... Scored 10 points at Tennessee with four rebounds and three steals... Put up two points with three rebounds and four blocks and four steals each vs. Georgia... Recorded six points vs. Alabama with three rebounds and two blocks, assists and steals each... Had 12 points with six rebounds four steals and three blocks at Ole Miss... Averaging 11.4 points and 4.6 rebounds per game on the season.
As a Sophomore (2012-13):
Named to the Associated Press and Coaches' All-SEC Second Team... Played in all 34 games, starting 32... Finished second on the team in scoring and rebounds, averaging 14.0 points and 5.1 rebounds per game... Led the team in steals with 82, and blocks with 42... Scored in double figures in 26 games, scoring 20 or more eight times... Led Auburn in scoring in a team-high 14 games... Recorded her first career double-double at George Washington with 21 points and 10 rebounds while also tallying nine steals... The nine steals were tied for the most in the SEC during the season and tied for 13th in the NCAA in single-game steals... The nine seals were also just one off the Auburn record and are tied for fourth all-time at AU in single-game steals... Scored a career-high 27 points vs. Western Kentucky in the second round of the WNIT... Dished out a career-high six assists vs. Temple... Scored the 700th point of her career against Vanderbilt, becoming the 42nd Auburn player ever to score 700 or more career points... Had a 23-game double-digit scoring streak going through most of the season, at the time it was the longest active streak in the SEC... In the SEC she finished eighth in points per game (14.0), eighth in field goal percentage (.423), sixth in steals per game with 2.4, and 10th in blocked shots per game with 1.2... In SEC-only games she finished 12th in points per game with 13.3, ninth in field goal percentage (.407), seventh in steals per game with 1.9, and eighth in blocked shots per game with 1.4... Finished 97th in the nation in steals per game with 2.41... Her 82 steals were the second most in a single season in Auburn history and the most ever by a sophomore... Her 475 points placed her in seventh all-time at Auburn in sophomore scoring and her 42 blocks were the sixth most by a sophomore in Auburn history... Was named SEC Player of the Week on Dec. 17, marking the first time in her career to earn the honor... Named to the Sheraton Raleigh Wolfpack Invitational All-Tournament Team.
2013 Australian Tour:
Started all four games on the Australian Tour, leading Auburn in scoring in two... Averaged a team-high 23.3 points per game... Led Auburn with 24 points, four assists and three steals in the opener against the Logan Thunder... Scored 16 points against the Cairns Dolphins... Scored a Tour-high 29 points in Auburn's win over the Sydney Flames... Rounded out the trip with 24 points in the Tigers' victory over the Sutherland Sharks.
As a Freshman (2011-12):
Named to the SEC all-Freshman Team... Played in all 30 games, starting in 16... Became first Auburn true freshman to start in season-opener since Morgan Jennings started the season-opener in 2008... Scored 286 points, averaging 9.5 per game... Finished second on the team in scoring and 30th in the SEC... Was also second in the SEC in scoring among freshmen... Tallied 12 points, two rebounds, a block, and a steal in her debut as a Tiger vs. Mercer... Set career highs with 20 points, nine rebounds and four blocks against Florida in the SEC Tournament ... Scored in double figures in nine games... Pulled down 112 rebounds during the season, averaging 3.7 per game... Had a total of 40 steals, finishing second on the team in steals... Finished the season ninth in the SEC in blocked shots with 1.0 per game... Her 31 blocked shots rank eighth all-time at Auburn among freshman... Her six steals against Ole Miss on Feb. 26 are tied for 10th all-time at Auburn in single-game steals... Named SEC Freshman of the Week following her performance at the New York Life Holiday Tournament... Selected to FIU Sun and Fun Classic All-Tournament Team.
High School:
Ranked as the No. 66 overall player in the country by ESPN's HoopGurlz, she was also ranked as the 17th-best guard in the country and the No. 2 prospect in Tennessee... Ranked as the No. 50 overall prospect by the All-Star Girls Report and No. 47 by the Girls Basketball Report... As a senior, was a finalist for Tennessee's Miss Basketball... Named Memphis Interscholastic Athletic Association Female Athlete of the Year... Played in the FILA All-America Game and was nominated for the McDonald's and WBCA All-America Games... Played in the Tennessee West vs. East All-Star Game... Averaged 17.8 points, 7.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 3.9 blocks and 2.6 steals per game as a senior, leading Ridgeway High School to a 20-9 record and a 10-4 league mark... Led her team to the Region semifinals for the second year in a row... Was named to the All-State, All-Region and All-District teams as a senior... Averaged 16.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.2 blocks per game as a junior, helping her team to a 23-8 record and a TSSAA Regional Semifinal appearance... For her efforts, she was named to the All-State, All-Region and All-District teams... She also earned AAU All-America honors in 2010 while helping her Memphis Elite team to a runner-up finish at the AAU's 16-and-under Division 1 national tournament in Orlando, Fla.... As a sophomore, Muhammad was named All-District and All-Region after tallying 14.1 points and 4.3 rebounds per game... That season, she helped Ridgeway to a 22-8 overall record and an appearance in the Regional quarterfinals.
Full name is Hasina Imani Muhammad... Is the daughter of Kescia and James Muhammad... Has a sister, Ayanna, and a brother, Joshua... Birthday is August 2... Majoring in Physical Education.
Hasina Muhammad Career Statistics


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Optimal dynamic investment policy under financial restrictions and adjustment costs
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