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Hisense 65" XT880 UHDTV, XT780 with Google TV Named CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Award Honorees
12 Nov, 2012, 22:00 GMT
NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hisense today announced that two of its televisions have been named International CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Awards Honorees - the Ultra High Definition (4K UHDTV, 2160p) 65-inch 65XT880, and the 55-inch XT780 with Google TV.
The Hisense XT880 series of 50", 58" and 65" UHD televisions offers four times the picture resolution of 1080p High Definition televisions, enabling stunning picture quality and beautifully realistic, natural motion. In addition to standard 3D and Smart TV capabilities, the WiFi enabled XT880 supports live TV, streamed content, browsing and search, social networking, games and apps, and features a detachable camera for gesture control.
The Hisense 55-inch XT780 with Google TV expands upon Hisense's depth of experience with Google TV, allowing consumers to enjoy a new level of intuitive content discovery and viewing recommendations in addition to easy navigation to integrated services that include Netflix, Facebook, Pandora, YouTube and more. The XT780 series brings Google Play, web search, e-mail, shopping, news and online videos to users' fingertips.
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- How the design and innovation of the product compares to other products in the marketplace
Products chosen as an Innovations Honoree reflect the innovative design and engineering of the entries. Examples may include the first time various technologies are combined in a single product or dramatic enhancements to previous product designs.
Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering honoree products are featured on http://cesweb.org/Awards/CES-Innovations-Awards.aspx, which lists product categories, as well as each product name, manufacturer information, designer, description, photo and URL.
For more information, visit: www.hisense.com, www.hisense-usa.com.
About Hisense:
The high-tech enterprise Hisense was founded in China in 1969 and is a world leading provider of flat panel TVs, household appliances and mobile communication devices. It is recognized as a global top 10 player by business intelligence industry and research institutions. With 19 production facilities and six R&D centers around the globe, it has regional headquarters in Europe, North America, Australia, Africa, and Southeast Asia and its products are sold in more than 130 countries.
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Last year, I wrote about must have pregnancy apps for moms-to-be. Recently, I've come across a suite of pregnancy apps that I want to add to the must have list.
Mobile Mom — the company behind these apps — aims to put "pregnancy info on your mobile device — anytime, anywhere." And after downloading and looking at the apps, they basically have everything covered from pre-conception to pregnancy. These are the six apps that can be downloaded:
Ovulation Calendar
This app helps a woman track which days she is most fertile and likely to conceive. It actually gives the six most fertile days during a month, as well as for the next several months. One feature I liked was that it tells you when the baby's due date is, if you happened to conceive during that time. Since it gives you dates for about five months, it is a nice visual and good for planning.
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No, this isn't an actual pregnancy test. I don't think anyone would want to use it if it was. However, if a woman suspects she is pregnant, this app asks several questions pertaining to common early-pregnancy symptoms. After the questions are asked, the app generates the likelihood that a woman is pregnant. I've seen similar "quizzes" online, so it's not totally new, but it looks interested. Obviously, there's more certain ways to know if you are pregnant, but in those early days where a positive pregnancy test may not show up, it might be nice to have. Though, I'd hate to get my hopes up from this app saying I was probably pregnant, only to have it not be true!
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Weight Gain Calculator
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Baby Names
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Pregnancy Talk
This app actually hasn't been released yet, but I think it would the app I'd be most likely to use. Even though it's been almost a year since my son was born, I frequent the message boards on BabyCenter.com, just to connect with other moms going through the same things I am. From what I can tell, this app will have a similar function.
To be honest, I feel like some of these apps could have been condensed into one — mainly the first three. I'm not a big fan of downloading an app if it has very few functions, and would be far more likely to download one with those first three feature combined into one. Obviously, most of these apps aren't really new ideas, but they are well-designed, and if you want all your pregnancy apps to be from the same maker…these aren't a bad option at all. Some of them have some unique features, which makes them stand out from other apps. I think the fact that all of these are free are the most attractive part of these apps, because many times, the best pregnancy
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Obama Asks Congress to Delay DTV Transition
By: John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
President-elect Barack Obama has asked Congress to extend the Feb. 17 DTV transition date.
Citing problems with the DTV-to-analog converter box program and "inadequate funding" of government DTV education programs, John Podesta, co-chair of the Obama-Biden transition team, requested that "the cut-off date for analog signals should be reconsidered and extended."
That is according to a letter (click here to view) being sent Thursday to the chairs and ranking Republicans on the House and Senate Committees overseeing communications (The House Energy & Commerce Committee and Senate Commerce Committee).
Saying that only 28 days after the inauguration Americans would wake up to find their analog TV's no longer able to receive an over-the-air signal—and pointing to the decision on the date made in 2005 and implemented by the outgoing administration—Podesta urged them to "consider a change to the legislatively mandated cut-off date."
He said that funds to support the conversion are "woefully inadequate," particularly to address the problems of seniors and low income viewers.
He also suggested that there would be money from the president-elect's economic recovery package that would help address the funding shortfalls.
Consumers Union, which called for a similar move Wednesday after consultation with the transition, has suggested moving the date to midsummer.


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- Domino's Pizza Kempston Delivers to Wedding Reception -
Domino's Pizza in Kempston made a special delivery yesterday [Sunday, December 16] to a wedding reception taking place at the Barns Hotel in Bedford. Newlyweds Kendra and Mark Giles, from nearby Ampthill, decided to think outside of the box and treat their 60+ guests to a selection of hot, tasty pizzas instead of the usual wedding buffet.
Bride, Kendra Giles, commented: "We thought it would make a nice change from the usual sandwiches and sausage rolls as everyone loves pizza. The local store was fantastic - they delivered a huge selection of hot pizzas and side orders to us - the boxes just kept on coming, so much so we were running out of room to put them! They made us a personal pizza with our names on and brought me a lovely bouquet of flowers - we had an absolutely wonderful day and Domino's helped to make it even more special."
Franchisee for Domino's Pizza Kempston, Majid Naeem, said: "We were delighted to cater for this wedding and wanted to make this couple's day as memorable as we could. I am so glad that everyone enjoyed the pizzas - from what I hear they went down incredibly well and by the end of the night there wasn't a single slice left."
Would you like Domino's to cater for your wedding? Just log onto http://www.dominos.co.uk to find your local store.
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Domino's Pizza Group plc is the leading player in the fast-growing pizza delivery market and holds the exclusive master franchise to own, operate and franchise Domino's Pizza stores in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. The first UK store opened in Luton in 1985 and the first Irish store opened in 1991. In April 2011, the Group acquired a majority stake in the exclusive master franchise to own, operate and franchise Domino's Pizza stores in Germany. In September 2012, the Group acquired the master franchise for Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein and an option to open stores in Austria prior to the end of 2014.
As at 24 September 2012, there were 770 stores in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Germany and Switzerland. Of these, 597 stores are in England, 51 are in Scotland, 30 are in Wales, 20 are in Northern Ireland, one is on the Isle of Man, one is a mobile unit, 48 are in the Republic of Ireland, 10 are in Germany and 12 are in Switzerland.
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The Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer, featuring digital sampling and sequencing, released in 1999. It uses Korg's proprietary HI Synthesis tone generator and was eventually made available in several model variants with numerous upgrade options.
The Triton was Korg's flagship workstation synthesizer for professional music production in the early to mid 2000s. It looks and sounds beautiful, and hiding under the hood is an extremely souped-up synth-engine ready to tear up your tracks! Literally! It is a digital 62-voice synthesizer with built-in sequencing and arpeggiators and an ultra-large touch-screen control panel at the center of its face-plate.
The Triton is in-fact an evolved Trinity - Korg's previous flagship workstation. Whereas the Trinity was capable of 32-note polyphony, the Triton now boasts 62! Waveform ROM has been expanded as well, now with 32MB of multi-sample sounds that sound crystal clear and quite warm. With these samples and the Triton's in-depth programmability you can create pretty much any sounds, from an orchestral flute with life-like vibrato to all-out chord-stabs with filtering for dance-floor house music, complete with beats and cool arpeggio patterns and phrases.
Also on-board is a stereo-sampler. With 16MB RAM and space for up to 1,000 samples there's nothing you can't create with this synth. There are plenty of on-board digital effects as well for sprucing up your samples or the Triton's own internal multi-samples. Controllers include a Joystick, 2 assignable switches, 4 assignable knobs, 3 arpeggiator control knobs and inputs for a damper pedal, PC Interface Host and 2 audio-ins for the sampler section. There are also stereo outputs plus 4 individual outputs. A dedicated 16-track sequencer with a 100,000 note capacity, Real-Time Pattern Play functions and an Arpeggiator with several patterns round this beast out as a truly all-in-one music workstation.
Triton Rack
The Triton Rack, released in 2000, has all of its keyboard counterparts' sonic power, sampling functionality, intuitive operation, and expandability. In addition, this two space, rack-mountable unit dramatically expands the possible number of sounds by allowing for a total of eight EXB-PCM expansion sound boards to be installed. It also provides digital output and features numerous other functions that make it the ideal choice for the musician looking for a no-compromise sound!
Triton LE
Also in 2000, the Triton LE was released to give virtually all the same great sounds and power of the original Triton at a much lower price. Its major changes include the lack of the touch-screen interface (replaced by a smaller LCD only screen), no more ribbon controller, and only one (instead of five) insert effects. There is only one expansion slot for the Korg EXB-SMPL sampling board. Internally, the sounds and synthesis engine remain virtually the same, but a lot of the "workstation" features have been side-lined to make the LE a cheaper and more standard type of keyboard for less demanding entry-level or budget-challenged musicians. The LE was offered in 61, 76 and a weighted 88 note keyboard models. Note that the 88-key model added a 16-MB Piano ROM to the standard 32 MB of waveform memory.
Triton Studio
2002 saw the introduction of the Triton Studio. This model made the 16 MB paino ROM waveforms standard on all of its 61, 76 and 88 key models. Polyphony was essentially doubled to 120 voices (2 banks of 60 voices). The Triton Studio also added built-in S/PDIF input and output and could be fitted with an optional hard drive, CD-R/W drive or a "Digital Interface" board providing ADAT output and Word Clock.
Triton Extreme
The Triton Extreme was released in 2005. The most extreme model, it quintupled waveform memory up to 160 MB with 120 voices of polyphony. Most of the Triton series expansion boards have been pre-installed as standard in the Extreme, while many sounds from the older Tritons have been improved as well. Sample memory is also upgraded (up to 96 MB of sample RAM). And in addition to its new "paint-job" a major feature was the addition of a genuine 12AU7 "Russian Bullet" vacuum tube which could be used as either an insert or master effect, or simply by itself to allow for warmer, guitar amp-like sounds and for more extreme analog overdriven/distorted sounds. USB connectevity has also been added for direct computer interfacing to allow exchange of samples, sound programs, sequences, and other Triton-compatible files through an installable Compact Flash card, as well as for connection of a USB Hard Drive or CD-R. Unlike the Classic, Studio, and Rack Tritons, the Extreme can not be fitted with sample expansion boards due to the expansion ROMs having been pre-installed. However, it is compatible with the MOSS board.
Additional Expansion Options for the Triton Series
EXB-MOSS - the ultimate 6-voice DSP tone generator
EXB-SCSI - for external SCSI storage devices
EXB-mLan - digital audio and midi transfer for rack model
EXB-DI - optical ADAT output with 48kHz word clock in for rack model
- Polyphony -
Triton & LE - 62 voices (68 with MOSS)
Triton Rack - 60 voices (66 with MOSS)
Triton Studio & Extreme - 120 voices
- Tone Generator - HI synthesis system; 48 kHz sampling frequency, 32 Mbyte PCM ROM, 425 multi-samples + 413 drum samples
- Sound Source - 62 oscillators in single mode/ 31 voices, 62 oscillators in double mode. (60 and 30 osc. in Rack module)
- Sampler - 16 bit, 48 kHz stereo/mono sampling, 16 MB memory standard, expandable to 64 MB. Maximum of 1,000 multi-samples / 4,000 samples. Up to 128 samples can be assigned to a multi-sample. AIFF, WAVE, AKAI (S1000/S3000) and Trinity sample data can be loaded. (Triton cannot load Trinity format data from TFD-1S, TFD-2S, TFD-3S and TFD-4S , since they use data-compressed data.)
- Memory - 640 programs, 512 combinations, 64 drum programs, GM Level 2 - 256 programs + 9 drum set; External Floppy Disk Drive: 3.5 inch 2DD/2HD
- Keyboard - All models offered: 88 weighted keys, 76 key or 61 key models. All have velocity and aftertouch sensitivity
- Effects - 102 (insert effects/ 89 for master effects); Stereo digital multi-effect system - 2 master effects (mono in, stereo out), 5 insert effects (stereo in / out), and 1 master EQ (stereo in / out) simultaneously
- Sequencer - 16 timbres, 16 tracks, 1/192 resolutions, 100 preset / 100 user pattern per a song, 200 songs, 20 cues, 200,000 notes, reads and writes Standard MIDI File (Format 0 and 1)
- Arpeggiator - RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play / Recording): 1 set with 72 patterns available per song; Arpeggiator: 5 preset patterns and 232 patterns (approx. 180 preset)
- Control - MIDI (16-part), PC-Host input
- Date Produced - 1999
Rack, LE - 2000
Triton Studio - 2002
Triton Extreme - 2005
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Police, troops heavy in bomb-hit Russian city
VOLGOGRAD, Russia (AP) -- Eerily empty buses lumbered through the streets, police weighed down with body armor warily watched pedestrians near a fast-food restaurant, and members of Cossack units stood guard at bus stops. Volgograd was an ominous and jittery city Tuesday after two suicide bombings in two days killed 34 people.
Volgograd authorities canceled mass events for New Year's Eve, one of Russia's most popular holidays, and asked residents not to set off fireworks. All movie theaters were closed until Thursday.
"People are afraid it will happen again. They're trying not to go outside if they don't have to," said 20-year-old Yulia Kuzmina, a student. "We get a feeling that a war has started."
That is a worry that extends far beyond Volgograd.
Although there has been no claim of responsibility for the bombing of the city's main railway station and a trolley bus, suspicion has fallen on Islamist insurgents, whose leader ordered his adherents over the summer to do all they could to derail the Winter Olympics, which start Feb. 7 in the Russian resort city of Sochi.
Olympic organizers have introduced some of the most extensive identity checks and other security measures ever seen at an international sporting event. But even if security at the Games is tight, many analysts suggest that the Volgograd bombings show how public transit in Sochi and sites away from the sports venues are vulnerable.
Police reinforcements and Interior Ministry troops have been sent into Volgograd, regional police official Andrei Pilipchuk was quoted as telling the Interfax news agency. He said more than 5,200 security forces are deployed in the city of 1 million, but did not say how much of an increase that was from normal levels.
Officers and security guards searched the purses of young women entering a shopping center and waved metal detectors over both males and females.
The Cossacks guarding some bus stops added an unsettling note. Although these units are officially authorized volunteer patrols, they are descendants of the fierce horsemen who protected the czars and launched raids on Muslims in the Russian Caucasus, where the Islamist insurgency is now centered.
President Vladimir Putin, in his New Year's Eve address to the nation, vowed that the fight against terrorists will continue "until their destruction is complete," Russian news agencies reported.
"What blasphemy. They did it right before the holiday," said Arkady Chernyavsky, a 73-year-old retiree. He also bristled at how the attacks stained the image of a city that prides itself for the tragic valor of the World War II Battle of Stalingrad, as the city then was called.
"This is supposed to be the city of heroes and things like this are taking place," Chernyavsky said.
The city's streets emptied out as the last hours of 2013 slipped away. Police cordoned off a 10-meter (30-foot) Christmas tree decorated with lavender lights in the central square, a few hundred meters from the railway station that was bombed on Sunday. Some residents stopped to have their photos taken in front of the tree. Police allowed it but asked them not to loiter.
Suicide bombings have rocked Russia for years, but the insurgents seeking to create an Islamic state have largely confined their attacks to the North Caucasus region in recent years. The blasts in Volgograd signaled that militants want to show their reach outside their native region. Volgograd is about 300 kilometers (200 miles) north of the Caucasus and about 690 kilometers (430 miles) northeast of Sochi.
China, host of the 2008 Summer Olympics, expressed confidence Tuesday in the security of the Sochi Games.
"The competent authorities on our side have maintained close communication and cooperation with Russia in terms of the security work for the Winter Olympics. We believe that Russia is capable of ensuring security and hosting a successful Winter Olympics," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.
The U.S. would welcome closer cooperation with Russia on the security preparations, White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said Monday.


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Savings Calculator Helps Reduce Barriers for Natural Gas Vehicles
Washington, D.C. – Natural gas is 47 percent less expensive on average than equivalent gallons of gasoline and 59 percent less than equivalent gallons of diesel. The Drive Natural Gas Initiative, a collaboration between natural gas utilities and producers, is launching a Natural Gas Fleet Savings Calculator to help fleet owners conduct a preliminary analysis of the total costs associated with converting a fleet, or part of a fleet, to natural gas.
"The Natural Gas Fleet Savings Calculator is powerful step forward in our ability to help reduce barriers to entry for natural gas vehicles by providing fleet managers with the information they need to make their own assessments about the benefits of natural gas," said Drive Natural Gas Initiative Executive Director Kathryn Clay. "Throughout the nation, businesses are making the switch to natural gas because it's good for the bottom line. Any fleet owners interested in putting less money into their fuel tanks and more money into growing their businesses should consider what natural gas can do for them. By providing information tools like this new calculator, we are making it easier for more people to take advantage of our domestic abundance of this clean energy source."
The Drive Natural Gas Initiative worked with Ricardo, a leading global provider of product innovation, engineering solutions, clean technology and strategic consulting, to develop this helpful tool.
The Natural Gas Fleet Savings Calculator is a spreadsheet based, total cost of ownership evaluation tool. It comes pre-loaded with the current numbers for natural gas vehicle availability and cost, but it is also fully customizable for fleet managers to input the parameters that best describe the kind of vehicles they use, and how they use them.
Tomorrow, the Drive Natural Gas Initiative and Ricardo will hold a webinar to explain the Natural Gas Fleet Savings Calculator including a demonstration of the tool and explanation of its implications in the alternative fuel marketplace.
The Natural Gas Fleet Savings Calculator is available here.


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Matzoh Caramel Buttercrunch
adapted from Marcy Goldman...Jewish Holiday Baking
4-6 unsalted matzoh sheets
1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup brown sugar - packed firmly
3/4 cup chocolate chips or semi-sweet chocolate - coarsely chopped( I used Callebaut Bittersweet)
a nice big pinch of kosher salt
1 cup of toasted sliced almonds or coarsely chopped pecans(optional)
1 teaspoon Vanilla
Preheat oven to 375 F.
Line a cookie sheet completely with foil. Cover bottom of pan with baking parchment - on top of foil. This is very important as mixture becomes sticky during baking. Line bottom of pan evenly with matzoh boards, cutting extra pieces of matzoh, as required, to fit any spaces on the cookie sheet as evenly as possible.
Combine butter and brown sugar in a 3 quart, heavy-bottomed, saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Continue cooking 3 more minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and pour over matzoh.
Place in oven and immediately reduce heat to 350 F. Bake 12 minutes, checking every few minutes to make sure mixture is not burning. If it seems to be browning too quickly, remove from oven, lower heat to 325 F. and replace.
Remove from oven and sprinkle matzoh boards immediately with chopped chocolate or chips. Let stand 5 minutes then spread melted chocolate over matzoh. Let cool completely. Chill in refrigerator until set. Break into odd shaped pieces. Keeps well in a tin for several days....if it lasts that long.
You can also use white chocolate, coarsely chopped (or both white and dark) and chopped, toasted almonds (sprinkle on top as chocolate sets).
If you can not get Matzo you can use saltine crackers...in that case leave the salt out of the recipe
adapted from Danny Cohen/Food and Wine Magazine
One 14-ounce bag sweetened shredded coconut
One 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large egg whites
1/4 teaspoon Kosher salt
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted (I use Callebaut)
Preheat the oven to 350° and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. In a medium bowl, combine the coconut with the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla. In another bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the egg whites with the salt until firm peaks form. Fold the beaten whites into the coconut mixture.
Scoop tablespoon-size mounds of the mixture onto the baking sheets, about 1 inch apart. Bake in the upper and middle thirds of the oven for about 25 minutes, until golden; shift the sheets from top to bottom and front to back halfway through baking. Transfer the baking sheets to racks and let the cookies cool completely.
Dip the bottoms of the macaroons into the melted chocolate, letting any excess drip back into the bowl. Return the cookies to the lined baking sheets. Drizzle any remaining chocolate on top and refrigerate for about 5 minutes, until set.Or leave some plain.
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January 9, 2013
On Monday, the pro-privatization education group StudentsFirst, led by former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, released a State Policy Report Card, ranking states and giving each a letter grade based on their implementation of a slew of education reform policies. Rather than focus on issues facing students and families, particularly those affected by unequal access to school resources, the policy benchmarks in the new report reveal StudentsFirst's obsession with charter schools and de-professionalizing the teaching profession. The report pushes policies that are either untested or disproven — but happen to be welcome in the halls of right-wing think tanks and politicians.
States are given a clear choice in this report, and for that at least we can thank its authors: either you care about students, or about StudentsFirst. There's little room for both. Thankfully, many educators and policymakers across the country recognize this. That's why Richard Zeiger, California's chief deputy superintendent, called his state's F grade "a badge of honor."
Here's a list of 5 reasons why this State Report Card is a veritable wish list for privatization advocates and a recipe for failure for everyone else:
1. Ironically, It Ignores The Needs of Students
Missing from this report card is any evaluation based on multiple success measures, including student graduation rates, a college ready curriculum, access to art and music classes, or learning benchmarks that will prepare students to be critical thinkers and leaders in their community. All that is presented is a simple ideological litmus test: do states adhere to StudentsFirst's preferred policies, regardless of their effects?
Let's take a look at the rankings. Comparing StudentsFirst's list to The Opportunity to Learn (OTL) Index, which is our synthesis of numerous indicators of student achievement, is revealing. Of their top ten states, eight of them fall in the bottom half of the OTL Index. It's even more startling when you look at national achievement measures like NAEP scores, which are some of the best ways to compare states to each other. Every single state in StudentsFirst's top ten is in the bottom half of NAEP states for eighth grade reading, and only one manages to break into the top half for eighth grade math (Indiana, ranked 23rd).
There is also little correlation between StudentsFirst's rankings and the graduation gap between Black and White students — a key indicator of whether a state's policies promote equity or erode it. For example, while StudentsFirst ranks the District of Columbia #4, the Schott Foundation found that D.C. has the worst graduation gap in the nation (http://blackboysreport.org/state-reports).
2. It Opposes Personalized and Student-Centered Learning
Citing a single Brookings Institution literature review, the StudentsFirst report argues that reducing the number of children in each classroom is both only marginally effective and a poor use of education funds. That particular Brookings review has been roundly criticized for its methodology and the logic of its policy prescriptions. As the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado put it:
"In the end, Class Size: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy fails to make the case that increasing class sizes is either relatively harmless or cost-effective. It is not a report that state policy makers can trust as a valid guide to policymaking."
Research has consistently found that the teacher-to-student ratio is an important variable in ensuring that all students have an opportunity to learn. And for a report that wants to empower parents, it's curious that they would reject small class size: it's something that parents consistently clamor for.
3. It Argues That We Don't Have Enough Quality Teachers… While Advocating That We Lower the Bar for Teacher Preparation
The official line for Alternative Certification (alt cert) proponents goes something like this: existing teacher certification programs are inadequate or aren't producing enough teachers, so there should be multiple ways for people to become teachers, particularly those with subject matter expertise.
In practice, alt cert has meant that countless individuals, often with very little training in how to teach (as little as a few weeks for those in Teach For America, for example), can become teachers and take charge of a classroom full of kids. They are also twice as likely to teach in a classroom of students of color. Not surprisingly, the StudentsFirst report is in full support of weakening requirements for those entering the classroom.
If you jump over to the report's "Alternative Certification Accountability" benchmark, listed separately, you'll notice that no state that received a top mark of 4 in alternative certification also received a 4 in holding their certification programs accountable. A whopping 46 states received a score of 1 or 0 in accountability. The report itself concedes that "only five [states] have any meaningful processes by which to evaluate and decommission programs." It appears that StudentsFirst is more interested in applauding alternative certification for simply existing than alternative certification that's actually working.
Also important to note: the report is opposed to any regulations as to where alternatively certified teachers are placed. Given that even by StudentsFirst's own standards very few states can ensure quality alternative certification, why policymakers should allow them anywhere and everywhere is baffling. As a recent report from The Education Trust details, uncertified teachers and teachers lacking subject expertise are more likely to teach in high-poverty secondary schools. First-year teachers are also more likely to be found in high-poverty schools in cities and towns. The very students who need fully certified, experienced teachers are the most are the ones least likely to have them. That districts can save a few dollars by hiring a TFA graduate or someone with a similar lack of experience is likely cold comfort to the students and families being shortchanged.
4. It Continues the Disastrous High-Stakes Testing Drumbeat
StudentsFirst is adamant that both evaluations and teachers' salaries should be determined primarily (50%) on "objective measures of student growth," i.e. test scores. This will raise a red flag for anyone who has been following the standardized test craze that has enveloped America over the past 10-15 years. In a recent column in The Washington Post's "The Answer Sheet," teacher Adam Heenan relates:
"This year alone, my colleagues and I have devoted a significant chunk of the additional time we were supposed to have for teaching and collaborating to testing. By mid-October, our school had already sacrificed a week's worth of teaching and learning time for Chicago's standardized beginning-of-the-year exams for students in their regular classes, to be repeated for the middle-of-the-year and end-of-the-year exams as well. There have been two days of "testing schedules," where teachers and students in grades 9, 10 and 11 have had to sacrifice instructional time for EPAS exams (the system of grade-aligned tests from ACT)."
It's not just high school, either. Up to a third of the school year in kindergarten is now spent taking standardized tests, not even counting all the prep time.
In Louisiana, one of two states to which StudentsFirst gave its highest overall mark, a teacher rated "ineffective" when it comes to test scores will automatically be branded "ineffective" overall, regardless of other measures like classroom observations by principals and other administrators. Louisiana also mandates that each year 10% of its teachers, no matter what, must be considered ineffective. Fall into that category two years in a row, and you're fired.
And the research shows how ineffective these test-based "value added" rating systems are. In March, Phi Delta Kappan published a review of those systems, showing just how dangerously inconsistent they can be — and pointing to more accurate solutions that can actually gauge what goes on in the classroom.
5. It Advocates "Equal Funding" and "Equitable Access" for Charter Corporations and Private Schools, Not Students
The reader can be forgiven for perking up with hope upon seeing sections of the report titled "Fund Fairly" and "Enable Equitable Access to Facilities." As the OTL Campaign and our allies have long argued, the lack of equitable funding between wealthy and poor districts and schools is a critical problem facing children across the country: inequitable funding means that a student's access to educational and instructional resources is largely defined by what zip code he or she lives in. Every child deserves a fair and substantive opportunity to learn, and that includes access to everything from AP courses to up-to-date textbooks.
Unfortunately, that isn't at all what StudentsFirst is interested in here.
Instead, what concerns StudentsFirst in these two sections is making sure that the non-profit and for-profit corporations that run charter schools get every last penny of public money they can. "Enable Equitable Access to Facilities" means charters should get first dibs at public property and pay at or below market value for it. Especially in an age of school budget cuts, suggesting that charter corporations make off with public resources below market value is unconscionable. The report even promotes voucher programs (called "scholarships" in StudentsFirst parlance), one of the oldest ways to siphon public money into private hands. They insist that vouchers should provide a "tuition amount that is competitive with private school tuition."
One of StudentsFirst's crowning achievements is its consistent deployment of Orwellian language — using a term to mean its opposite.
What they call "elevating the teaching profession" is little more than its wholesale de-professionalization. Removal of workplace protections, evaluation and compensation based on crude productivity metrics, public shaming of those whose metrics drop regardless of reason, competition between teachers for scarce resources – these are the management techniques of a sweatshop assembly line, not methods for promoting excellence in teachers.
The report claims "each and every public school student deserves a quality public education" while simultaneously pushing privatization: advocating ever more transfers of public education dollars to charter corporations and private school vouchers.
There are many more problems with StudentsFirst's state report card (including the infamous "Parent Trigger" and its open disdain for democracy and elected school boards. But the overall picture is clear: for the authors and their right-wing benefactors, ideology trumps proven results. Our students, parents, teachers, and community members deserve better.


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MLSsoccer.com's "Under African Skies" series is a look at what the first World Cup held on the African continent means to Major League Soccer's African players. We continue with the Houston Dynamo's Dominic Oduro, Sammy Appiah and Joseph Ngwenya.
HOUSTON — Since the moment FIFA announced that South Africa would host the 2010 World Cup, Africans from Cape Town to Dakar have embraced and taken pride in the moment. This is not going to be South Africa's event alone; it belongs to the entire continent.
It even belongs to a trio Africans thousands of miles away from their homelands, here in heart of Texas. Houston Dynamo players Sammy Appiah and Dominic Oduro, natives of Ghana, and Joseph Ngwenya, who was born in Zimbabwe, are looking forward to the unique moment this summer when the entire continent will come together. They say there might not be another World Cup where an entire continent is behind the host nation like all of Africa is behind 2010.
"Let's face it, no one thought the World Cup would ever go to Africa," Oduro told MLSsoccer.com. "The entire African continent is excited. We're pleased South Africa is hosting it. The whole of Africa, though, is really excited and we can't wait for it to start."
"We've been dying to host it," Appiah said, "and I think we'll make good use of it. It's getting people to know more about Africa, its traditions, and cultures in Africa. It will broadcast what Africa is."
The three African Dynamo players have similar stories. All three came to the United States to attend college. Ngwenya was a star for his high school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, before enjoying an All-American career at Coastal Carolina. Oduro left Ghana to attend Virginia Commonwealth. Appiah, who developed in the Ajax Football Academy in Kumasi, Ghana, eventually played at Boston University before being drafted by the Dynamo in 2010.
Despite their limited time here, they are somewhat familiar with how the 1994 World Cup bolstered soccer in America. That's something that Africa doesn't need. As the biggest game on the continent already, soccer doesn't need that much of a boost over there. But there are non-sporting impacts that supersede even the events on the field.
"Soccer doesn't need to grow as it already is the number one sport," said Ngwenya. "That being said, it is going to have a big economic impact on South Africa and obviously on surrounding areas as well. It will improve the standard of soccer in Africa but it will also have a big economic impact on South Africa."
As for which team they will support, that's an easy answer for Appiah and Oduro: Ghana qualified and are considered by many to be darkhorses to make a deep run. The Black Stars are one of the most successful national sides on the continent, winners of four Africa Cup of Nations titles. Winning the whole thing in South Africa is a stretch, but the Houston trio will all be cheering for any team from Africa to lift the trophy at the end.
"I'm rooting for Ghana and I hope Ghana advances and wins," Oduro said. "It would be awesome if the cup stays in Africa. I hope all the African teams do well so the world knows Africa's game is progressing."
Dwain Capodice is a contributor to MLSsoccer.com. Questions or Comments can be sent via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Trapped parents got kids out of car before second smash
A MOTHER and father who were trapped in their car following a horrific crash on the Sunshine Coast told their children to climb out of the wreckage and wait for help to arrive.
Their car was then hit by a truck, leaving the parents fighting for their lives.
The couple have been named as Tammy Boyce and Nathan Boorer, of Ipswich.
Ms Boyce, 28, is believed to be 28 weeks pregnant. She is still in a critical condition in the intensive care unit at Nambour Hospital, while Mr Boorer was airlifted to the Royal Brisbane Hospital late yesterday.
The couple's two children - a nine-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl - were discharged from hospital late yesterday and are being cared for by relatives.
Police believed the initial accident happened when a Subaru, which was reported to have been driven on the wrong side of the Bruce Hwy, slammed into the Ipswich family's vehicle head-on about 10.30pm on Wednesday.
The Subaru's driver, from Rosemount, was killed.
The family was understood to be on its way to Hervey Bay for a camping holiday.
Details of how the accident happened remained unclear last night.
Police believed the Subaru, driven by a 54-year-old man, had been travelling in the wrong direction for at least 5km.
They also were investigating if the man and his 50-year-old passenger were intoxicated. Police had received several calls from motorists that the Subaru was on the wrong of the dual carriageway before the crash.
The crash happened about 1km north of the Nambour-Bli Bli exit.
The red sedan with the family onboard was flung on to the side of the highway, and the other car crashed on to a grass median strip.
A police spokesman said the children had been told by their parents to climb out of the car and stand on the side of the highway where they would be safe.
After emergency services arrived on scene, the doors and roofs off both cars had to be removed to access all occupants.
Paramedics performed CPR on both the parents, who were in critical condition, before they were taken to Nambour General Hospital for emergency surgery.
The children's grandparents made the trip from Ipswich to be by their side yesterday.
The family car had been packed with camping gear, including a tent, ice box, pillows and sleeping bags.
Police said the holiday was going to be the family's final getaway before school resumed on Tuesday.
A 50-year-old man - the passenger in the car in which the driver died - was in a stable condition in hospital last night.
Investigations are continuing.


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