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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Testing Resistance & Reform News: March 21 - 24, 2015 - Fair Test social media links March 24, 2015 #EdBlogNet
Fair Test social media links March 24, 2015
Senate Takes Up Bill Establishing Opt-Out Procedures
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Charter Schools See Rise in Test Opt Outs
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Testing: The Truth About Smarter Balanced
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District of Columbia
Test-and-Punish Policies Have Not Worked
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Assessment Reform Movement is Test for Jeb Bush Presidential Aspirations
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State Senate Bill Would Examine Testing Fallout
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School Testing Still Does Not Make the Grade
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Schools Drop Arts, Music for Testing
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Educators Seek Three-Year "Hold Harmless" Period From Any New Test Evaluations
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Louisiana Parish Topped 15% Opt Outs
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District Reports More Than 50% Opt Outs
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Test Study Commission Approved by Both Houses of State Legislature
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Educators Explain How Testing is Undermining Learning and Teaching
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Parents Reject State Tests to Reduce Pressure on Kids
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Kalamazoo College Goes ACT/SAT Optional
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New Jersey
Testing Obsession is Damaging Learning and Teaching
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Educators, Parents and Students Plan "Take Back the PARCC" Event
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New Mexico
PARCC Protest at School Chief's House
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New Mexico Teachers Question Times Devoted to Testing
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New York
Billionaires' Plan to Remake Public Education
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New York Governor Uses Flawed Tests as Political Weapon
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North Dakota
Opt-Out Movement Heats Up
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Superintendent "Profoundly Concerned About New Common Core Tests"
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Excessive Testing Consumes Learning Time in Ohio
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Teachers Slam Emphasis on State Tests
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House Passes Bill to Suspend Test Consequences for Teachers and Schools
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"Test In" Shows Parents, Teachers Question Value of New Exams
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Rhode Island
Districts Have Large Numbers of Opt Outs
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Common Core Tests Are a Failure
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Texans Advocating for Meaningful Assessment (aka Mothers Against Drunk Testing) Powerpoint
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State Board Will Not Use Smarter Balanced Scores to Evaluate Schools This Year
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Governor Signs Bill Into Law Repealing A-F Grades
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Test Security vs Privacy in the Social Media Age
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New Video "Defies Measurement" Available for Free
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Parents of Disabled Children Tell National Groups: "You Do Not Speak for Our Children"
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"No Child Left Behind" Is a Cheats' Charter
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The Cult-Like Religion of Corporate Ed Reform
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Webinar on Fostering Latino Family Education Leadership http://budurl.com/IDRAggt0415 Thursday April 9, 2015 – 1:00-2:30 p.m. CST – Free! #AllMeansAll
Webinar on Fostering Latino Family Education Leadership
Thursday April 9, 2015 – 1:00-2:30 p.m. CST – Free!
Webinar on Fostering Latino Family Education Leadership
Find out how you can foster Latino family engagement for leadership in education. Panelists from six organizations from across the nation whose mission includes educational equity and access will share the story of their leadership development programs that have proven successful with Latino families.
Thursday April 9, 2015 – 1:00-2:30 p.m. CST – Free!
Panelists include: Dr. Maria S. Quezada, California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE); Richard Garcia, Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition; Patricia Ochoa-Mayer, Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE); Gina Montoya, MALDEF; Hilda Crespo, ASPIRA Parents for Excellence (APEX); and Aurelio M. Montemayor, IDRA.
This conversation will bring to light practices that are both authentic and also culturally and linguistically appropriate. Presenters will also describe successes and challenges in the work.
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Monday, March 23, 2015
No, it is not wrong to celebrate Cesar Chavez Day! By Rodolfo F. Acuña #EdBlogNet @idraedu #idraed
No, it is not wrong to celebrate Cesar Chavez Day!
Rodolfo F. Acuña
In my last blog I made the point that it is becoming routine and even careless by venerating the dead instead of remembering how they changed our lives. This year's Martin Luther King Holiday was a relief from what was becoming an excuse not to go to school. The reason for this is that it was tied to the heroic changing of the system by events such as Selma. It made me think what would our lives be without sacrifices of the people who were clubbed, mauled and attacked by ferocious dogs?
Similarly Cesar Chavez could have lived a comfortable life. He had a promising career as an organizer for the Community Service Organization (CSO). Cesar sacrificed it all for a principle: promoting a life with dignity for farmworkers and their families.
The same applies to Christmas, what does it really mean? It is a day that we gorge ourselves with hormone laden turkey, making graveyards out of our stomachs. As a child I remember just wanting to get through the mass so I could rush home to unwrap my gifts that had very little meaning other than they were new.
Americans incessantly criticize Islam for being a fanatical religion, which is pure hypocrisy. The American Bigot is the most fanatically religious person in the world. He or she wallows in religion and acts pious. These same people have historically gone to church on Sunday and segregated their neighbors on Monday.
I wonder how many of them take seriously "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." If it had meaning they wouldn't be fighting health care and would be calling for a single payer system like most advance countries enjoy. They would want quality and equal education for all children. As in the Middle Ages they would recognize that greed is a mortal sin and that money policies are usurious.
To preface this is the biblical saying "'Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people," I do not think many Christians think about this when celebrating their mass. I do not think that Netanyahu thinks of all people about being his brothers and sisters that he is waging wars of extermination against.
How much different is the hypocrite from the sinner? I doubt whether he or she thinks about it while hanging his/her head in prayer contemplating the bombing of a Planned Parenthood Center.
The only think that I was asking for my last blog is for people to THINK! Look at David Bacon's photos of farmworkers and their families and pictures of deportees and THINK of what is to be done. If you don't THINK what value is there in going to church, going on a march venerating the past?
Most Americans are no different than Bull Connors or Sheriff Joe Arpaio. They hate whereas King and Chavez loved. They weren't perfect, but they we doing something unlike most Americans who deny evolution or climate change.
We are not good people because we feed the poor on one day a year and then say nothing about taking away their food stamps.
If nothing else holidays should be a day of THINKING and dedicated to changing society.
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
STUDENT TEACHERS: THE MISSING PIECE TO THE REFORM PUZZLE - MEL KATZ #EdBlogNet @idraedu #idraed
At a time when there is such extensive conversation around PARCC testing and teacher evaluations, especially in places like New Jersey, one area that hasn't been explored as much is the impact on student teaching.
Essentially, the opportunity for field placement\student teaching in the spring semester has disappeared. While we as student teachers are still "in the classroom," the opportunity to engage in what is at the core of student teaching is slowly fading away.
Teachers College at Columbia University describes student teaching as the following:
The student teaching experience provides pre-service teachers the space and opportunity to learn how to ask important questions about teaching and learning, come to know children and adolescents by observing and interacting with them consistently over time, apply newly acquired knowledge, theories, strategies and models in a variety of contexts within and across classrooms, and experiment with, design and adapt practice according to learners' needs.
During the student teaching experience, pre-service teachers are guided and instructed by two key individuals – the cooperating or mentor teacher, and the university supervisor. While both work collaboratively to support the growth and development of the student teacher, each assumes a very specific role.
Field placement\student teaching in the spring semester encompasses March and May – the testing window months of PARCC. I have heard stories of students who sit around all morning doing nothing because, well, their classes are testing. Often, those same classes are then doing lighter activities in the afternoon, even just watching movies. Students, especially in the younger grades, are coming home with no schoolwork of any sort, often reflective of the little to no work they are doing in school. One has to ask: when does all of this testing provide for the opportunity for student teachers to teach? The answer: it doesn't.
Teachers across the board have expressed concerns over taking student teachers, especially with the potential impact on their evaluations (SGO's\SGP's\VAM's of any sort). Understandably, teachers are nervous to hand over their classrooms in any capacity to someone with a lot less experience – and who is still just beginning their intense learning (as teaching and life are always about learning) – with the pressure and risk of evaluations, test scores, etc.
At the core of student teaching, in my mind, is the opportunity to make mistakes. Learning is about making mistakes. The best learning is messy. But in this time of high-stakes education, there is no room for mistakes.
Aside from this, teachers are also strapped for time: between increasing class sizes, increasing amounts of useless paperwork, and the daily work of a teacher for their classroom, where is the time for mentorship? The answer: there isn't.
Sure, this is not across the board. There are always going to be teachers who find a way to take student teachers and provide them with the best learning experience they can. But what we see happening here is no fault of the teachers: rather, it is a result of the "education reform movement" happening
our schools. Think about it: as it becomes harder and harder to find placements, and regulations on teacher education programs become stricter and stricter, it leaves more opportunities for groups like Teach for America to send their corps members into the classroom. They only have to commit for two years, schools can keep them low on the pay scale with the conveyer belt of teachers in and out of schools, and most importantly it's a win for the privatizes who love groups like TFA.
Before the State Board of Education in New Jersey earlier this month were regulation changes to teacher education programs. One of the proposed changes was increasing student teaching to a full year, or two semesters. While in theory I think this is great – more experience in the classroom – I worry about the
of that experience (we're these regulations to pass and become practice). How much am I going to learn about teaching if I'm not, well, teaching? I won't student teach for another few years by the structure of my program: what are classrooms going to look like then? I worry that I am going to miss the collaborative mentorship that is so crucial to the student teaching experience because of the testing, evaluations, and sheer commitment it takes for a host teacher, despite the aforementioned.
All I'm speaking about here are my personal experience and sharing some of the feedback I've gotten. I'm sure research would have to be done in some capacity looking at trends in student teaching over the years, etc. But the place to start is at least
the conversation? Why aren't schools of education actively expressing concern over this? That's a rhetorical question – I know the politics of it all. But we better start having the conversation before student teaching is taken over by the corporate model, too. This is a full blown attack on education from K-12 to teacher education programs\students to teachers themselves to retirees to the entire system.
I am in a teacher education program to learn about
, to be the best
I can be, and learn from the best that my
mentor teachers
have to offer me.
I am not spending five years getting my Master's in education to become a
test administrator
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Friday, March 20, 2015
David Hinojosa, J.D., Named IDRA National Director of Policy @idraedu #EdBlogNet
David Hinojosa, J.D., Named IDRA National Director of Policy
The Intercultural Development Research Association announced today that we are pleased to welcome David Hinojosa, J.D., as the new IDRA National Director of Policy. Hinojosa is well-known for his litigation and policy work as the Southwest Regional Counsel at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). He will join IDRA's Director of Policy, Dr. Albert Cortez, in developing leadership within communities, schools, and policymaking bodies to advocate educational policies that assure educational opportunity for every child.
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The Thorny Path of the Non-compliant Xeriscapist (updated with Epilogue)
The Thorny Path of the Non-compliant Xeriscapist
(in San Antonio, Texas)
It's been almost 25 years of xeriscapery, though passive at first…lazily letting whatever would grow flourish. I had finally stopped paying rent and moved into my own little house with plenty of yard space in front and back. I took pictures of the lush growth in my enclosed back yard. My green reverie was soon desiccated -- I received a citation from the city! My verdant grasses and tall plants were in violation of the city code. If I didn't comply within a certain time limit there would be a hefty fine to pay.
(Those green sprigs in the picture are Pigweed and are no longer part of my garden. See Epilogue.)
For several years I would wait for the notice and then retreat over the city code line that my natural vegetation had again criminally crossed and trim the luscious growths back to a code-acceptable height and width.
It seemed that someone in my neighborhood didn't like my yard style and would regularly make complaints. I don't think there is enough staff to patrol all our streets in search of weedophiles (it would be runcophile if I used the Latin word or
phile if I used the Spanish) – there had to be some self-appointed monitors who would call in the official weed-killers.
About ten years ago I decided to become an
xeriscapist. I researched catalogues and other online sources and found
Wildseed Farms
in Fredericksburg, Texas -- exactly what I was searching for: offering seed mixes for this region and also for special purposes, e.g., attracting butterflies.
I bought seeds by the pound and randomly strewed them in my front yard. I was getting mixed results but every year I would have more beautiful flowers that were natural to the region and needed very little care and watering. I am not a dedicated gardener – my hobbies lie elsewhere.
I continued getting periodic visits from our code compliance friends from the Development Services Department – Field Services Division – Code Enforcement Section of our venerable City of San Antonio.
One winter friends helped clear my front yard, turn the soil and plant about $200.00 of Texas native wildflowers. I had included a variety of sunflowers that grew to be huge golden borders. I was very new to all this so I had many smaller flowering plants that were hidden by the large sunflower plants. After that I increased the varieties of seeds and was more organized where I scattered them. I made sure to cover with a bit of topsoil so that the birds wouldn't have a feast at my expense. I no longer planted the big sunflowers with the edible seeds: birds, bugs and ants just love them and I won't use pesticides. The wild sunflowers, quite common to this region do quite well on our roadsides, empty lots and my front yard.
And still I would get the code-enforcer visits. One year I was actually at home (I usually got the message from a form tacked to my front door). I tried dialoguing with the lady about my garden which was in full bloom that early summer day. She was adamant that I had to chop every green thing down to a height of one foot regardless of what the plant was because everything in my front yard was considered a weed or noxious plant.
I contacted my city council office and talked to some young intern who seemed perplexed by my situation. I emailed pictures of my yard and a kind civil note, which took some effort because diplomacy is not my strong suit. A week later I got a note from a supervisor from the city department that has taken such an interest in my yard. He had driven by and saw the flowers and told me to chop them down when the yard was finally dry and flowerless.
The last two years had been uneventful until I got a Notice of Violation tacked to my door on June 25, 2014.
This year (2014) I planted my seeds very late and so everything didn't start coming up until late April.
It wasn't until late May and early June that I had a decent variety of flowers but no Bluebonnets and few Indian Blankets. Right now, aided by some rainy days, there's a color riot dominated by the Zinnias and wild sunflowers (not the edible kind). A thick growth of a plant with a tiny yellow flower (a weed I didn't plant) covered some sections of the yard and actually choked out some of my seeds. I assumed that was the noxious plant referred to. I had put fertilizer in the soil because I was planting so late and so I have a lush growth, mostly of plants I like and want. What I didn't do was trim the 'weeds' (plants I didn't want) because I didn't want to cut the flowers that are now blooming profusely.
Several years ago I started encouraging plants that die in the winter but become nice bushes in the spring and that had just appeared in my yard with no formal invitation or planting.
One is a reed-like plant that spreads easily and blooms with pleasant (to me) wheat-like spikes. Another is a dark green leafy plant with daily purple blossoms that die in the evening. The reed-like plant, located at the intersection of the public sidewalk and the one leading to my front door, this year is huge! I love it but I think it is one of the main code-criminals. We trimmed it and left a few tall spikes. (Noxious weed, now totally uprooted - See Epilogue)
So -- We went out there and trimmed more of the edges (from 1 foot wide to 2). We lawn-mowered through some of the thicker sections of the unwanted plants but there were too many floral casualties with that approach. Because the soil was moist from a recent shower I was able to pull out almost each unwanted plant (weed to the City of San Antonio).
I hope I've made my horticultural design intentions clear: the plants that remain are "… cultivated flowers and gardens, or native grasses, perennials and annual plants installed as part of a landscaping design."
Maybe I should give the whole subsection as given in the
San Antonio Property Maintenance Code – Notice of Violation – In Person/Posted.
302.4 Weeds
All improved premises and exterior property shall be maintained free from weed or plant growth in excess of 12 inches in height. All noxious weeds shall be prohibited. Weeds shall be defined as all grasses, annual plants and vegetation, other than trees and shrubs provided; however this term shall not include cultivated flowers and gardens, or native grasses, perennials and annual plants installed as part of a landscaping design.
I'm old enough to remember my youthful appreciation of Lady Bird Johnson's campaign for the bountiful natural variety of things that grow natively to Texas. I fully induct myself in that horticultural order, culture and practice.
Maybe I have neighbors with time to spare and go around as amateur code-enforcement cops. I assume their concern is 'property value' and what is deemed proper for a middle-class neighborhood. They seem to prefer the ugly, un-ecological water-gorging regularly-trimmed lawns -- they need to see an order and design that fits within very narrow perimeters. Some of my neighbors were stopped from erecting some really elegant iron fences. We are now a historical area and the codes are even stricter. (Forget that many ugly cyclone fences were left in place and grandfathered when the new codes were established.)
The only thorns along my xeriscape floral path are the San Antonio Property Maintenance Codes! But in the Lady Bird Johnson tradition I will (Candide-ly) continue to let my Texas wildflowers grow.
Last summer (July/2014) an Assistant City Arborist (Development Services Department - Land Development | ISA Certified Arborist) visited my front yard and engaged in the most diplomatic and instructive visit I have ever had from a city agent. I've had numerous visits from the code compliance offices, none of which were helpful much less understanding of my garden goals and wishes. This young man, Justin R. Krobot, was able to explain to me clearly why some plants are labeled noxious. These are the real-life versions of the "Little Shop of Horrors" people-eating plant. They spread their roots endlessly and don't let anything else grow. So my Johnson grass and Pigweed had to go because they were a threat not only to my garden but to all the neighboring turf. I no longer saw them as 'cute green plants' but as a dangerous to the life of all my other wildflowers blooming in unrestrained profusion. I will continue to keep good counsel on that.
He advised me to be a little more orderly in how I seeded the yard and have some visible sense of pattern and human-imposed order so that my neighbors and the self-appointed code-compliance-cops wouldn't be so bothered. That's a very different issue and I'm still going to have my garden be much more random than a Formal English Garden. As I continue the quest of dreaming the impossible natural floral garden, I'll encourage my crazy zinnias to snub their multicolored noses at the yards and yards of un-ecological, non-native burr-cut, water-gorging lawns that surround us.
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How far will some brides go to have the perfect wedding? A New York Times article that ran last week found they're willing to go pretty far if it means they can drop as many as 20 pounds in 10 days, a promise one Florida clinic is making.
The K-E diet has only one catch – you can't eat. At least not with your hands.
Dr. Oliver R. Di Pietro, diet founder and head of a clinic in Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., has been helping women drop weight with feeding tubes that provide all their nutrients for 10 days. He told NBC's Today Show, "People want to be perfect in this country, so I'm allowing them to do it."
While Pietro marks the first time the tube diet has been offered in the United States, it's been popular in Italy and Spain for years, and has recently gained popularity in England.
We had ACE Senior Fitness Consultant Nutrition and Weight Management Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RD, weigh in on exactly how healthy this new diet can be.
"The 'science' of how receiving nutrition by feeding tube promotes weight loss is no different than the 'science' of why any other 'diet' works -- the person is getting much fewer calories than usual," Muth said.
Tube feeding typically provides about 800 calories a day in nutrients, none of which are carbohydrates. That forces your body to get energy from carbohydrate stores, which causes a lot of water loss and, as a result, rapid weight loss.
The result "is not fat loss," Muth said. "It's water loss." And at $1,500 a pop, it's an expensive one at that.
"The feeding tube adds a new twist on the crash diet mentality but it's still a crash diet that is unsustainable, potentially very unsafe and very expensive," she said. "Just because the feeding tube is in place does not mean that a person cannot also eat by mouth, so this 'weight loss' is not guaranteed."
If you want to drop weight, you'd be better off eating fewer sugars and solid fats and more fruits, vegetables and whole grains combined with about 60 minutes of physical activity on most days, she said. "Most brides have a good 6 months to a year to plan for the wedding," Muth added. "That's plenty of time to get fit with the adoption of a healthier way of eating and more physical activity. Then, not only will she be stunning at her wedding but she's more likely to keep it up in the months, years, and pregnancies that may follow."
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NEGRIL, JAMAICA—Karisma Hotels & Resorts will open Azul Sensatori Jamaica located here later this month, marking the entry of the hotel brand in Jamaica.
Azul Sensatori Jamaica will be Azul Hotels & Villas' first property outside of Mexico and its sixth property overall, following the openings of Azul Villa Esmeralda in 2012, and Azul Fives Hotel in 2010.
Located on Negril's Seven Mile Beach with views of the Caribbean Sea, Azul Sensatori Jamaica will debut with 140 ocean-view guestrooms with contemporary design, a variety of six gourmet dining restaurants, bars and lounges, Vassa Spa, and Azulitos Play House. In winter 2014, a second phase will increase hotel accommodations to 300 rooms.
"We are thrilled to open our first Azul property outside of Mexico and expand our premiere collection of Gourmet Inclusive properties to Jamaica," stated Mandy Chomat, VP of sales & marketing at Premier Worldwide Marketing, the representative of Karisma Hotels & Resorts. "Azul Sensatori Jamaica will offer a unique new vacation experience for visitors to Negril. Its spectacular beachfront setting, swim-up suites, chic design, gourmet dining and exceptional services – unparalleled in Jamaica – are ideally suited to exceed the expectations of today's global travelers."
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JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant will give his first State of the State address next week.
A legislative resolution says the speech is set for 5:30 p.m. Jan. 24 on the south steps of the Capitol. If weather is bad, the speech will be moved to its usual spot, in the House chamber.
Bryant began his four-year term Jan. 10. A chance of rain that day forced the inaugural ceremonies inside the Capitol.
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Republican Bryant was elected governor this past November after serving one term as lieutenant governor. He was state auditor from late 1996 to early 2008.
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Brian Sinclair a victim of stereotyping?
Brian Sinclair spent 34 hours surrounded by health-care workers who could have treated him but didn't.
Dr. Catherine Cook, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's vice-president of population and aboriginal health, said she believes it could be because wrong assumptions were made, coupled with stereotypes.
When told by provincial court Judge Tim Preston an earlier witness in the inquest said they didn't disturb Sinclair because he was in "the usual position when intoxicated," Cook responded "Assumptions were made based on past behaviour or situations.
"I think it was a very unfortunate statement. One situation differs from another. That's when you start wondering if (the) stereotype of aboriginal people comes to mind instead of the actual situation."
Cook said it is like when someone sees a person stumbling around due to diabetes but assumes that person is drunk.
"They don't approach the person to ask if they need help," she said. "These types of assumptions are very dangerous."
Sinclair, 45, died while spending 34 hours in Health Sciences Centre's emergency waiting room without being triaged.
Sinclair, who was referred there by an outside clinic because of a blocked urinary catheter, died of a bladder infection on Sept. 21, 2008.
The inquest has been told Sinclair may have died up to seven hours before he was discovered by hospital staff.
When asked by Preston whether she had any recommendations for the inquest, Cook only had one. "As health-care providers, we all need to be mindful of the need to respect the people who put their trust in us."
While Sinclair didn't access any HSC or WRHA programs for aboriginal patients, there are several available under the authority's aboriginal health program.
Cook said there are many programs because of the high number of patients who are aboriginal.
She said upwards of 60 per cent of patients at some facilities or programs are aboriginal.
Cook said at the high end are kidney dialysis patients, but there are large numbers of aboriginal patients in other areas of the hospitals. "Anecdotally, 40 to 60 per cent of our wards have aboriginal people," she said.
Cook said the aboriginal health program helps First Nation, Inuit and Métis patients at hospitals throughout the city access interpreters and elders, as well as helping advocate for them and assisting in discharge planning.
As well, Cook said the WRHA has programs to conduct cultural awareness seminars for staff as well as helping hire and retain aboriginal employees.
In 2003, aboriginal employees accounted for 16 per cent of people hired and they submitted 11 per cent of the total resumes received, Cook said.
"There is a specific focus on recruiting aboriginal staff and employees in areas where a greater number of aboriginals are seeking care," she said. Pointing to studies, Cook said "aboriginal patients are more comfortable receiving care from aboriginal health-care workers."
Later, Cook said a 2003 study into services for aboriginal patients at the HSC ER noted after six weeks of observing the department at various times and interviewing staff and patients, "no overtly racist or culturally insensitive interactions or practices were observed or reported."
But the study, produced by Wassenas Counselling, Research and Education Evaluation Services of Opaskwayak Cree Nation, said improvements still needed to be made, including hiring more aboriginals to work in the ER. The study had 15 other recommendations, including creating programs to recruit and retain aboriginal employees, have ER staff take cultural competency training, and hang posters with aboriginal images and art by aboriginal artists.
Cook said all have either been implemented or are still being worked on but as for art and posters "there is some of that... But at the end of the day it is the designer that finishes it."
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Newcastle director of football Joe Kinnear resigns
Feb 3, 2014, 9:22 PM EDT
The ongoing inability to sign anyone of value around St. James Park finally came to something of a head Monday as Newcastle United's beleaguered director of football Joe Kinnear resigned.
It comes after the embarrassing defeat at home to rival Sunderland, but the roots of this discord go back well beyond the weekend.
Some kind of front office upheaval seemed inevitable after yet another transfer window of discouraging one-way traffic. Usually we see quality players come and go from Premier League teams. For Newcastle lately they've only been "going," most notably Yohan Cabaye last week.
It especially cannot be surprising to see the comeuppance for anyone who was around to witness this rather awkward press conference from the weekend. Manager Alan Pardew certainly didn't seem too sure of the ground beneath Kinnear's feet as their ongoing tussle spilled into the public.
Kinnear's departure ends a St. James Park chapter that was odd and perhaps ill-advised from the day he came aboard in the summer of 2013. (Amid fan protests even; and how many times do we see fans protest a front office choice? Coaches, yes … but front office types?)
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Nicki Minaj has admitted she gets frustrated by comparisons between her and Lady Gaga.
The 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded' star said she was a big fan of the 'Born This Way' singer, but dismissed claims they were similar.
"We're in completely different lanes. I'm a rapper…Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever," she told ABC.
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Huang Li-min, chief physician at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, yesterday said according to Hong Kong's latest research, the fatality rate of H7N9 influenza is higher than SARS.
In the wake of the first confirmed case of H7N9 influenza discovered in Taiwan this week, Huang warned that the fatality rate for the H7N9 virus is more than 10 per cent, which is higher than SARS' 8- to 10-per cent fatality rate. Everyone should be more careful and protect themselves, Huang said.
The patient, who returned to Taiwan from mainland China earlier in April, began feeling unwell on April 12 and was sent to NTUH for treatment on April 20.
The patient was later sent to an intensive care unit and received ECMO therapy. NTUH Deputy Superintendent Chang Shang-chun said the patient is in a serious but stable condition.
Huang said the reason infection rates are higher among people middle aged and older, while lower with children, is because children do not as often go to markets and interact with livestock.
Huang said that upper respiratory symptoms related with the H7N9 virus do not clearly present themselves, therefore the patient may not notice initial symptoms and thus miss out on early treatment.
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The Council of Agriculture (COA) announced that a ban on fowl slaughtering will take effect on May 17. Hualien County yesterday banned slaughtering in markets, the first city in Taiwan to enact the practice.
Hualien County official Chang Chih-chao explained that given the discovery of the first confirmed case of H7N9 in Taiwan, the county government decided to immediately implement the practice in the interest of public safety. Chang added that if a vendor continues to slaughter poultry at their stall in Hualien County they will face fines of between NT$20,000 (US$675.82) and NT$100,000.
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Taiwan's Department of Health (DOH) yesterday said that in the period before the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide Taiwan with a vaccine strain for H7N9, the DOH will complete a review of two local medical firms regarding their viability as domestic vaccine developers.
Lin Tzou-yien, deputy director of the DOH, said the US will be able to provide an H7N9 vaccine strain by June at the earliest. In light of this, Taiwan intends to designate two medical firms who will conduct first-stage preparation of vaccine development.
Adimmune Corporation said if the firm receives a vaccine strain at the earliest possible juncture then a vaccine could be available by November at the earliest.
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Given that China is set to hold an extended Labour Day holiday shortly, the Tourism Bureau expects over 5,000 mainland Chinese tourists will come to Taiwan daily during this period.
In wake of the H7N9 outbreak, Tourism Bureau official Yang Yung-sheng said the bureau has informed travel agencies in Taiwan to educate Chinese tourists about washing hands more often as well as reporting any suspected infection cases to a nearby hospital as well as government officials.
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New Zealand's apparent support of a takeover of the International Cricket Council by India, Australia and England has been strongly criticised.
After details of the takeover plan, which would put control of the ICC in the hands of the three nations emerged yesterday, New Zealand Cricket was forced to quell speculation that it stood to lose millions of dollars if those big three got their way.
But rather than coming across as an unwilling victim of what the New Zealand Cricket Players Association called "scheming" by the Indians, Australians and English, NZC gave a strong impression it supported the revolution.
It issued a short statement under the name of high-profile board member Martin Snedden, who travelled to Dubai with CEO David White for an ICC meeting where the scheme was unveiled. The statement claimed New Zealand would not be "disadvantaged" or the Black Caps "downgraded" under any "changes that are currently proposed".
Snedden and White refused to comment any further publicly, citing "strict" confidentiality provisions from the meeting where the boards of the three big nations revealed a 21-page document which advocates scrapping the Future Tours Programme (FTP).
The NZC statement seemed to be designed to quash speculation the Black Caps would be relegated to a second tier of test cricketing nations who would rarely play the big three or host them on tours here.
The FTP, the brainchild of former NZC chairman Sir John Anderson and former CEO, the late Chris Doig, is the cornerstone of international cricket funding and guarantees the high-profile nations must tour lesser nations such as New Zealand.
The big three's proposed document states that no member nation should be forced to play another, except as bilaterally agreed, while no country should be forced to host "uneconomic tours".
Sources told the Sunday Star-Times last night that NZC will back the takeover and changes after being offered a "sweetener" of more money than it could make from the FTP and the promise the Black Caps will still play India, Australia and England as often as they do now.
But the deal has been criticised by national players' association boss Heath Mills and ex-test cricketer John Morrison.
Mills admitted concern about the developments, saying his association knew little detail of them.
"[But] I do know that in the past six months you've had the heads of English cricket, Australian cricket and Indian cricket meeting quite regularly and scheming to put a new system in place to control the game, so I'm worried," he said on radio yesterday.
"I don't see how you can be supportive of the heads of three boards conducting meetings without you knowing, talking about how they want the game to be structured.
"As it appears to me, the (ICC) decision-making process is effectively being handed over to three boards who rotate the chairmanship and are soon to be making every decision.
"I think that's alarming. If we want the game to grow globally, we need to have independent thinking about how we grow the game.
'What I've sensed in the last six months is you've got three organisations that are attempting to control the decision-making, and they will get other people over the line by throwing them some smaller increases in revenue.
"We've just had ten Ashes test matches in a row. We'll just end up with a situation where the three biggest countries play each other more than other countries. Whilst we might get a little bit more revenue from the global share, I doubt they'll be keen to come down here too often."
Morrison agreed and said the restructuring of the ICC restructure was potentially "sad and dangerous" for New Zealand and could still turn the country into a "second division" cricketing nation.
He said he was concerned NZC had a "beneficiary mentality" and challenged it to win boardroom power via the performance of the Black Caps in the series against India, starting with today's one-day international in Napier.
"There's no use having the mentality of 'give us this, give us that'," he said. "That's a beneficiary mentality. You want to control your own destiny and step up and say 'we can foot it on the world stage and we want to be there'." Morrison said the FTP had "worked quite well" for New Zealand - the last tour by India five years ago reaped a $25 million payday for the NZC and the present tour will at least match that despite its being shortened at India's behest.
Former NZC boss Justin Vaughan, who ran the organisation when the FTP was implemented, also expressed concern, saying changing the present revenue-sharing model would leave world cricket "worse off".
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Article first published online: 7 SEP 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2012.01373.x
© 2012 The Authors Development, Growth & Differentiation © 2012 Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists
Development, Growth & Differentiation
Volume 54, Issue 8, pages 731–738, October 2012
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Ikenishi, A., Okayama, H., Iwamoto, N., Yoshitome, S., Tane, S., Nakamura, K., Obayashi, T., Hayashi, T. and Takeuchi, T. (2012), Cell cycle regulation in mouse heart during embryonic and postnatal stages. Development, Growth & Differentiation, 54: 731–738. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2012.01373.x
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- Article first published online: 7 SEP 2012
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The regulation of cardiomyocyte proliferation is important for heart development and function. Proliferation levels of mouse cardiomyocytes are high during early embryogenesis and start to decrease at midgestation. Many cardiomyocytes undergo mitosis without cytokinesis, resulting in binucleated cardiomyocytes during early postnatal stages, following which the cell cycle arrests irreversibly. It remains unknown how the proliferation pattern is regulated, and how the irreversible cell cycle arrest occurs. To clarify the mechanisms, fundamental information about cell cycle regulators in cardiomyocytes and cell cycle patterns during embryonic and postnatal stages is necessary. Here, we show that the expression, complex formation, and activity of main cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) changed in a synchronous manner during embryonic and postnatal stages. These levels decreased from midgestation to birth, and then showed one wave in which the peak was around postnatal day 5. Detailed analysis of the complexes suggested that CDK activities were inhibited before the protein levels decreased. Analysis of DNA content distribution patterns in mono- and binucleated cardiomyocytes after birth revealed changes in cell cycle distribution patterns and the transition from mono- to binucleated cells. These analyses indicated that the wave of cell cycle regulator expression or activities during postnatal stages mainly produced binucleated cells from mononucleated cells. The data obtained should provide a basis for the analysis of cell cycle regulation in cardiomyocytes during embryonic and postnatal stages.


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Microtel Inn by Wyndham Ciudad Juarez/By US Consulate, Ciudad Juarez's small print
Also known as
- Microtel Posada & Suites Ciudad Juarez
- Microtel Inn And Suites Ciudad Juarez
- Ciudad Juarez Microtel
- Hotel Microtel Inn & Suites Ciudad Juarez
- Microtel Ciudad Juarez
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.