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WHAT IS ESSA?
LAWS & GUIDANCE
EQUITY IN EDUCATION
TEACHERS AND SCHOOL LEADERS
ACCOUNTABILITY AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
IMPROVING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
ESSA NATIONAL NEWS
NNPA EDUCATION NEWS
What We Can Learn from Schools that Educate Military Children
by NNPA ESSA | Jul 29, 2019 | #NNPANewswire, commentary, Education, ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Featured, Featured, K-12 Public Schools, K12 Education, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, nnpaESSA, Virginia
Dr. Elizabeth Primas, NNPA ESSA Awareness Campaign Program Manager
It is not uncommon for military programs to be adopted for use in civilian life. Schools in Virginia Beach, VA, that have some of the highest percentages of military children in the country, are doing an incredible job helping those students cope with the added stresses of having parents in the military. Other schools and communities can learn from Virginia Beach City Public Schools.
I recently spent a day with families and educators from Shelton Park Elementary School. About 70 percent of the students there were children with a parent in the military or a defense contractor. There is a large population of special forces personnel in Virginia Beach and at any moment, a parent can be called on for deployment to a warzone. Their families often do not know to where they are deployed, which compounds stress and anxiety.
A unique program in Virginia Beach public schools includes 28 Military Family Life Counselors, who work closely with schools' staff and families to support students. One mother we spoke with, talked about the fears her five-year-old daughter had while her father was deployed. After a particularly bad night, the mother let the school staff and the assigned counselor know that her daughter was going through a very difficult time. However, mom was able to send her daughter to school knowing that the school community would play an active role in engaging with her to help her work through her fears. The Virginia Beach counselors, funded under a program by the U.S. Department of Defense, are licensed and specialize in child and youth behavioral issues.
It's not just supporting students through the stress of having a parent deployed where Virginia Beach schools excel in supporting this population of students. A reportfrom The Lexington Institute looks at how schools and districts with high percentages of military families are supporting students, who, on average, move every 2-3 years to far and distant places. Uprooting and moving so often is disruptive to a child's educational progress, and it can stall their academic achievement.
However, moving is not the only thing that can disrupt educational progress. Low teacher retention, frequent absenteeism, and unsafe school environments are all factors that can also inhibit academic progress.
The Every Student Succeeds Act, a federal education law, requires schools and districts to have a well-rounded curriculum. Too many schools have eliminated music, art, drama, and essential academic courses like social studies and science to give more instruction time to reading and math. Math and reading are critical, but these other subjects enrich the learning experience and help make a well-rounded, whole human being.
From the very beginning, students at Shelton Park Elementary School are exposed to art, music, leadership strategies. The well-rounded curriculum combined with support from the military counselors creates a school environment that can – and should – be modeled across the country.
As a lifetime educator, I am inspired to see how Virginia Beach Public Schools are supporting military children. They are truly a model to be emulated by anyschool, because every kid—military or not-deserves this kind of high-quality support and instruction.
Dr. Elizabeth Primas is the ESSA Program Manager for the National Newspapers Publishers Association.
COMMENTARY: Is There More to Teaching and Learning Than Testing?
by NNPA ESSA | Apr 21, 2019 | #NNPANewswire, District of Columbia, District of Columbia Government, Education, Featured, Featured, k-12, K-12 Public Schools, K12 Education, Maryland, Newswire, NNPA Newswire, nnpaESSA, Virginia
By Barbara D. Parks-Lee, Ph.D., CF, NBCT (ret.), NNPA ESSA Awareness Campaign
Teaching is a multi-faceted calling for many and an occupation for some, but how can teaching and learning effectiveness be measured without testing?
There must be some way—or ways—to measure what and whether students are learning, and teachers are teaching. Rigor, high standards, curriculum design, learning and teaching styles, and external demands all must be considered in any teaching and learning situation, regardless of location and resources.
As the teaching population becomes more monocultural and the school-aged population becomes more multicultural, teaching materials, beliefs, and techniques tend to rely too heavily on standardized tests and testing materials. In order for education to capitalize on the strengths and talents of learners and the skills and professionalism of their teachers, what kinds of additional progress measures might be employed?
Different kinds of professional development programs and materials may be needed to provide more sufficient and culturally responsive information about the teaching and learning process.
One way of assessing whether students are actively engaged in learning on a high level might be using multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary materials such as those in an original textbook of poems, shorts stories, and essays.
The book, Connections: A Collection of Poems, Short Stories, and Essays with Lessons, became part of a study in the Washington, D. C. schools and surrounding Metropolitan areas of Prince George's County, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia, from 1996-2001. (Parks-Lee, 1995)
It addresses some of the challenges Gloria Ladson-Billings pointed out when she quoted Jonathan Kozol, saying that "…Pedagogic problems in our cities are not chiefly matters of injustice, inequality, or segregation, but of insufficient information about teaching strategies." (Ladson-Billings*, 1994, p. 128)
Both neophyte and experienced teachers participated in a study that provided them with information, materials, and teaching strategies to employ with urban, poor, and predominantly, but not exclusively, African American youth.
The idea for the study originated with a concern that an increasingly middle class or suburban teaching force often seems unable to meet the needs of diverse students who are different from them in class, socioeconomic status, geography, ethnicity, and/or culture.
The Connections materials were intended to help address ways to foster a positive impact upon all children, but particularly upon children of color. In addition, teachers using these materials might also feel more empowered to think creatively and to utilize students' strengths and talents as they incorporate high and rigorous interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary lessons and higher order thinking skills in order to increase academic achievement.
Effective teachers believe that we must produce and use materials that encourage students to be able to read, to write, to speak, to be creative, to understand, and to interpret what they hear and read. If students can develop these proficiencies, they may experience greater success on standardized tests.
Success breeds success, and if our students are to be involved learners and thinkers, we cannot keep doing the same things the same ways and then blaming students and teachers if standardized test scores are not optimal. There must be more inclusive ways of tapping into and measuring what is taught and what is learned. Standardized tests are but one way and should not be the only way to validate the teaching and learning processes.
There are three domains to teaching, the cognitive, the affective, and the psychomotor. The one that is not easily addressed by standardized testing is the affective domain.
As Sharon M. Draper says, "You must reach a child before you can teach a child." (Draper, S., November 2002). The challenge comes when trying to measure the affective domain. However, affective success is often reflected in student attendance and behaviors that are involved, on-task, and diligent.
There is often a spirit of collaboration and cooperation between the teacher and the students. Fewer discipline problems are observed when there is a positive classroom community involved.
When diverse students are allowed to utilize their talents and skills, they often become self-motivated, because they feel affirmed, valued, and respected.
*Ladson-Billings, G. (1999). (Notes from speech delivered at Howard University).
Hampton Educators Learn Details of 1619 African Arrival
by Web Staff | Aug 5, 2018 | K-12 Public Schools, K12 Education, New Journal and Guide, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, nnpaESSA, Virginia
Thirty Hampton City Schools educators spent mornings July 23-26 learning the details regarding the first African Arrival in English North America from subject matter experts. Thirty Hampton City Schools educators spent mornings July 23-26 learning the details regarding the first African Arrival in English North America from subject matter experts. The initiative is part of an effort to clarify the details of the 1619 arrival so that youth of Hampton, Virginia, and the nation learn the facts of this pivotal occurrence in American history.
As witnessed and recorded by John Rolfe, the first tobacco planter in the Virginia colony, on August 20, 1619, the White Lion entered the Chesapeake Bay, docked at Point Comfort (present day Hampton) with Africans from the country Angola, of the Bantu culture. They spoke the languages of the Kimbundu and Kikongo. Many were literate and hailed from highly organized societies.
Two of those Africans, named Antoney and Isabell, became servants of Captain William Tucker, Commander of the fort at Point Comfort. Around 1623 or 1624, the union of Isabell and Antoney birthed the first African child in English North America, named William Tucker. The other arriving Africans were interspersed within the Virginia colony, from Elizabeth City County to Jamestown.
Hampton 2019 Commemorative Commission Co-Chairs Dr. Colita Fairfax and Lt. Col. (Ret.) Claude Vann, were among the discussion leaders.
Parkland Students Are Still Going Strong. Their Message to Students: Vote
by NNPA ESSA | Aug 3, 2018 | Education Week, K12 Education, school safety, Virginia
They came from all over Virginia, battling gray weather and buckets of rain, to see the faces of a student-driven movement that shows few signs of stopping.
They came by the hundreds, young people and older ones—at least a third of the attendees were parents, judging by a show of hands—to hear first-person testimonies from the survivors of the mass shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. They came to learn how they might be involved in ending gun violence. In a few cases, they came to protest.
The message they got from the speakers at this traveling town hall, over and over, was this: Vote.
As it matures over the course of its months-long Road to Change tour through the United States this summer, the March for Our Lives movement's broad goal of ending gun violence is increasingly focused on voting, one of the most essential of all civic responsibilities.
The rally here on Thursday was the 24th since the tour hit the road in June. It took place a stone's throw from Virginia Tech, the site of the nation's second deadliest school shooting, in 2007, which left 33 dead.
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Students from Once-Segregated Norfolk School Change the Conversation on Race
by Web Staff | Jul 14, 2018 | New Journal and Guide, NNPA Newswire, nnpaESSA, segregation, Virginia
By Leonard E. Colvin,Chief Reporter
In February 1959, Patricia Turner and her brother James Turner, Jr., walked through the front door of the Norview Middle School and into the history books.
They were two of the Norfolk 17, the first Black students to desegregate six Norfolk public schools.
The Turners and the other 15 students made history after months of resistance by the city of Norfolk and the state of Virginia, each refusing to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision five years earlier that segregated public schools were illegal.
During her time at Norview Middle and then Norview High School, Turner, like the 16 other Black students, endured isolation, verbal abuse and taunts inflicted by White students who were venting hatred and anger inspired by a resentful dominant culture resistant to their history-making experience.
In 1963, despite these challenges, Pat Turner would graduate from Norview High School and set herself emotionally to never look back.
She attended business college, became an accountant, married briefly and worked for Norfolk Public Schools for two decades.
Due to an Honorary Doctorate degree awarded by Old Dominion University, "Dr. Turner" is now seeking to secure an "earned" ODU doctorate.
Over the past five years, although she may have succeeded in "erasing" most of the bad memories of long ago, she has managed to secure some emotional and moral closure in a way she could have little predicted.
Today, she regularly joins a group of her White former classmates for lunch at Bubba's Seafood Restaurant on Shore Drive In Virginia Beach.
As she did when she was in school with them, Turner is the lone Black sitting amidst the remaining White female members of the Norview Senior Class of 1963.
"I sit and I am mostly quiet," said Turner, who admits she is introverted. "During the lunches, we do not talk about the past all the time. But it has come up.
"I have been able to educate them from the perspective of a member of the Norfolk 17, as they have educated me about what was going on with them back then."
Turner and the other 16 Black children desegregated those all-White schools during the fall of 1958 by federal law. But rather than admit them, the city closed all of the White schools which were targeted to be desegregated. It was the state law.
While the schools were closed, many of the White high school seniors went to work or the military. The traditional senior year transition to adulthood and college was erased.
Since no White students applied to attend any of the all-Black schools, they remained opened.
"They (the White students at Norview) were told by their parents that we (the Norfolk 17) were trying to take their schools and deny them an education," Turner said. "So they were punishing us. It was not our fault. Nor was it their fault, it was the city … the politicians which closed the schools.
"I explained to them that we were just 17 little Black kids, trying to get an education" Turner said. "Segregation was illegal. But they did not understand that. Their parents did not explain to them, why and what we were doing, until I explained it all. I also told them about me as a person. Now they know."
Turner said her interaction with her White classmates started five years ago when plans for the class of 1963's 50th reunion were being devised. She was approached to join them during the planning session in Nags Head.
"I was so surprised," Turner recently told the Guide. "Initially I was very leery … afraid. I had never had any contact with them since leaving high school. This is why I had one of my friends accompany me to that first meeting. Then I attended by myself."
Turner said after 50 years, her classmates had aged, as she did. She had no idea of how they looked back in the day; she never had the chance.
But they knew she was the "Black Girl" who was walking through a sea of White hatred and anger.
"So if they were any of the ones who said or did nasty things to me back then, I could not identify them," Turner said. "None of them have admitted they did."
"But there was one. A woman who died recently," Turner said, "and she would come up…hug me… start crying so hard…she would wet up my clothes. I do not know what was on her heart…to make her feel so bad. But I had to tell some of the other classmates, to tell her that all of the crying and hugging was not necessary. She did stop."
Turner said because she sought to educate her White classmates and explain to them, her role as a member of the Norfolk, 17, her classmates have made attempts to redeem themselves with small gestures.
Turner explained she was an "outsider" as a Black child attending Norview Middle and High schools. She had no social life.
She also did not interact with the Black students at Ruffner Middle or Booker T. Washington High schools.
So she was a "outsider," too, from the Black community, as well.
At one of the Norview class reunions, she was made the honorary Homecoming Queen.
Also, at one of the luncheons, her classmates organized a birthday party for her.
"I did not have a normal childhood after I entered Norview Middle School," Turner said. "I could not join a club, be a cheerleader, have a boyfriend or enjoy lunch time talking to friends. My childhood was stolen. I have reclaimed something from even people who thought I was trying to take something from them. But like them, all I wanted was a good education and to enjoy life."
Today, only 11 of the Norfolk 17 are still alive. Like the others, Turner despite her efforts to "move on" from her experiences at
Norview Middle and High schools, she is reminded of those experiences.
Over the years she has been reminded often of the chapter she wrote in Norfolk's and the nation's history.
Although she believed it, the idea of Pat Turner being an "outsider" in the view of the Black and most of the White community of Norfolk, has been erased long ago, as she is frequently reminded, in word, deed and image.
The spotlight will be even brighter early next year, when Norfolk will observe the 60th anniversary of the Norfolk 17 who etched their legacy in the city's, Virginia's and the nation's history books.
NNPA, New Journal and Guide Host National Black Parents' Town Hall in Norfolk
by NNPA ESSA | Jul 12, 2018 | ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Featured, Featured, National, New Journal and Guide, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, nnpaESSA, Virginia
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor)
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) recently hosted its second National Black Parents' Town Hall Meeting on Educational Excellence at the Gethsemane Community Fellowship Church in Norfolk, Va.
The event, which was livestreamed on Facebook and jointly hosted across the country in Los Angeles, kicked off the NNPA's annual convention.
Panelists for the event, where questions and comments were discussed regarding the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), were Linda Langley Davis, the director of educational services for Hampton Roads, Inc.; Fred Smoot, a former Washington Redskins cornerback and motivational speaker; Rev. Dr. Kirk T. Houston, the founder and pastor of Gethsemane Community Fellowship Church; and Deidre Love, the executive director of the nonprofit Teens with a Purpose.
Dr. Elizabeth Primas, the program manager for the NNPA ESSA Public Awareness Campaign, moderated the panel.
"I'm a product of the Norfolk public schools and I'm also the mother of a child educated in the public school system and, as someone who's taught for 33 years, I know the struggles teachers endure and it's an uphill battle," Davis said.
Each of the panelists acknowledged that teachers wear many hats, should be paid more, and all need the support of parents.
Smoot, who's now a motivational speaker, said its important that educators realize that each student is different.
"Every child succeeds when they are taught in a different way. We have to stop the exit test and find out in the beginning what they need," he said.
Houston, who once served on the local school board, said everyone, including parents, need to be educated about ESSA.
"One thing I learned on the school board was how little I know about education policies," he said. "We need parental enlightenment and stakeholder participation," Houston said.
Love, whose students gave an inspiring spoken-word performance before the town hall, said that the voice of the youth must be heard.
"Our mission is to create that platform to encourage young people to use their voice," Love said.
The panelists and moderator all noted the sobering statistics facing African American youth, including that 45 percent of Black students attend high-poverty schools compared with just 8 percent of Whites.
The high school graduation rate of Black students is 76 percent, the second lowest among all ethnic groups, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
"In 40 percent of U.S. schools, there are no teachers of color on staff," according to a report by the Center for American Progress. "As a result, White students—and teachers—in these schools may miss opportunities to question assumptions about race, class, and privilege that they might encounter in their communities…"
As one parent at the meeting noted, school segregation today is worse than it was during the Civil Rights Movement.
One young person in attendance said that sobering fact has made life difficult for him.
"In some schools, I feel very uncomfortable, because I'm like the only Black person in the school while other schools I feel comfortable where teachers are African American, and they can relate to me," said 11-year-old Doran Glass. "At school, I feel like I'm being looked at as a criminal."
Glass' sobering dialogue shifted the discussion of the meeting.
"That was a brave thing for this young man to stand up and be heard," said NNPA President Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
Another young person asked what could be done to encourage more students to participate in discussions about education.
"The question came up about how to get young people more involved in events like this and the right answer is to ask that young person who asked that question is: what is it that he thinks should be done," said Gregory Huskisson, the vice president of content and audience for the Wave newspaper in Los Angeles. "We need to do a better job of getting young people involved. The second thing is what kind of structural thing can you build into the program that would be more enticing for young people."
Huskisson said it was a privilege to take part in the town hall from Los Angeles.
"The issue is critical to organizations like the Wave and the NNPA and we need to be focused on getting together and collaborating on getting solutions, because we are solutions-based organizations and we're involved in a lot of community-based programs and projects," Huskisson said. "Anytime the NNPA creates programming that's focused on solutions in our community, especially ESSA, we are all about it and I applaud Dr. Chavis and the NNPA. I look forward to the next ESSA town hall."
Stacy Brown is an NNPA Newswire Contributor and co-author of "Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask: An Insider's Story of the King of Pop." Follow Stacy on Twitter @stacybrownmedia.
This article was originally published at BlackPressUSA.com.
2019 Georgia Teacher of the Year named
by NNPA ESSA | May 20, 2018 | Georgia, K12 Education, North Carolina, Virginia
May 19, 2018 – Allison Kerley Townsend, a third-grade teacher at Barnwell Elementary School in Fulton County, is the 2019 Georgia Teacher of the Year, State School Superintendent Richard Woods announced tonight. As Georgia Teacher of the Year, Townsend will serve as an advocate for public education in Georgia.
"It is very clear to me that Allison Kerley Townsend is a teacher who walks into her classroom every day with her focus in exactly the right place: what do these students in front of me need to learn, and how can I help them learn it?" State School Superintendent Richard Woods said. "Then she brings all of her creativity, ingenuity and skill to the fore to accomplish that goal. I am honored to recognize her as the 2019 Georgia Teacher of the Year and look forward to working with her to tell the best story I know – the story of Georgia's public schools, and the lives changing within them every single day."
Townsend graduated from Clemson University in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. Since then, she has taught Pre-K, third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students.
As a teacher, Townsend strives to give each child a voice in their learning, and inspires them to grow beyond "engagement" to "ownership." She came away from her time as a Pre-K teacher with the conviction that all children start out as curious and excited learners, and that her goal as an educator should be to nurture their passion for learning.
"Some people believe that children are the 'leaders of tomorrow,'" Townsend said. "I like to challenge this idea. We cannot ignore the incredible impact children can have on the world today, if we let them. My mission is to help students take ownership of their learning and have an impact beyond the classroom…whether they are Skyping a scientist across the country, blogging about how they believe we should combat pollution, or sharing the inspiring music videos we create as a class."
Townsend is also dedicated to having an impact on students and teachers beyond her own classroom and making her mark on education at the global level. From presenting at conferences to using Twitter as a window into her classroom, she has made connections with educators all over the world.
"I have helped a teacher in North Carolina design an authentic project-based learning unit for her students based on nutrition and fractions," Townsend said. "I have Skyped with a teacher in Virginia to teach him how to implement student-led conferences. I have even had a teacher across the world in Vietnam reach out to me to let me know that she shared my students' personal mission statements with her class, and that inspired them to write their own, too. I am passionate about inspiring students and teachers around the world and believe that our impact does not have to wait for 'tomorrow.' Every single one of us can help change the world today."
As Georgia Teacher of the Year, Townsend will represent Georgia teachers by speaking to the public about the teaching profession and potentially conducting workshops and programs for educators. She will also participate in the competitive selection process for the 2019 National Teacher of the Year.
Click here to learn more about Georgia's Teacher of the Year program.
2019 Georgia Teacher of the Year Finalists
Allison Kerley Townsend, 2019 Georgia Teacher of the Year, third grade, Barnwell Elementary School, Fulton County Schools
Maleah Stewart, speech-language pathologist, 2019 Runner-Up, North Forsyth Middle School, Forsyth County Schools
Shaylen Dixon, third grade, Peachtree City Elementary School, Fayette County Schools
Dr. Doug Doblar, fourth and fifth grade mathematics and science, R.D. Head Elementary School, Gwinnett County Schools
Dr. Stefan Lawrence, English, George Washington Carver High School, Muscogee County Schools
Nancy Rogers, English, Thomas County Middle School, Thomas County Schools
Ike Thompson, English/gifted, Veterans High School, Houston County Schools
Melanie Thompson, science, Georgia Academy for the Blind, State Schools
Stephanie Vidrine, mathematics, Woodstock Middle School, Cherokee County Schools
Kayla Yeargin, mathematics, Troup High School, Troup County Schools
*Other than the Teacher of the Year and Runner-Up, finalists are listed in alphabetical order by last name
Civil Rights Groups to Congress: Betsy DeVos is Approving Plans That Violate ESSA
by Alyson Klein | Apr 11, 2018 | Betsy DeVos, Education Week, ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Featured, Featured, Indiana, K12 Education, Missouri, National, New Mexico, US Department of Education, Virginia, Washington
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is approving plans that fly in the face of the Every Student Succeeds Act's protections for vulnerable children, according to more than a dozen civil rights groups, including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
The groups sent a letter Tuesday to Democratic and Republican leaders on the House and Senate education committees asking them to tell DeVos to stop approving "unlawful" plans.
"We call on you to fulfill your role in ESSA's implementation and to correct the Department of Education's flawed approval of state plans that do not comply core equity provisions of the law," the groups wrote to Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., as well as Reps. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., and Bobby Scott, D-Va.
This is far from the first time that the civil rights community—and Democratic lawmakers—have questioned DeVos' approach to plan approval. The Alliance for Excellent Education, one of the 17 groups that signed off on the letter, put together a legal brief questioning whether some of the plans that DeVos has approved meet ESSA's requirements. And both Murray and Scott have written letters to DeVos saying she is flouting the law.
The four leaders plan to meet with DeVos at some point to discuss Democrats' concerns with plan approval.
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Nansemond-Suffolk NAACP Honors Exceptional Youth At 52nd Annual Freedom Fund Celebration
by Web Staff | Mar 3, 2018 | K12 Education, Mentorship, New Journal and Guide, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, nnpaESSA, Virginia
On February 11, 2018, the members of the Hampton Roads community gathered in Suffolk to celebrate Nansemond-Suffolk Branch's Freedom Fund Banquet. This year's theme was: Maximizing the Moment, Laying Hold of the Future: Honoring Our Exceptional Youth.
Before a standing room only crowd, the keynote speaker was the impressive young leader, Ms. Gerica Goodman, policy director with Virginia21. She reminded the guests and audience how important it is to be engaged, to get involved in your community, and let your voices be heard.
The Suffolk NAACP hosted 20 well-deserving youth, their parents, family, and the community at-large. Each youth honoree received a medallion of excellence, a certificate of accomplishment and a stipend. Several members of the Hampton Roads legislative delegation were in attendance, including the Honorable Congressmen Donald McEachin and Bobby Scott. Many city officials attended as well.
Two of Hampton Roads' outstanding business people. Rillco, Inc., and TimeAway, Inc. received he President's Award for Small Minority-Owned Business Excellence.
NAACP President Seneca Bock said, "As we endeavor to increase economic and social justice, we always encourage small minority-owned business development, entrepreneurship and innovation. These two companies continue to lead the way for many to come behind them."
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Delegate seeks to add more mental health counselors to public high schools
by Staff | Jan 16, 2018 | ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Featured, Featured, K12 Education, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, nnpaESSA, The Legacy Newspaper, Virginia
by Liza David
THE LEGACY NEWS – A Prince William County legislator is promoting a bill to add more mental health counselors in public high schools.
The bill, HB 252, proposed by Del. Elizabeth Guzman, D-Prince William, would that each student board employ one mental health counselor for every 250 high school students in the local school division.
Del. Elizabeth Guzman
In her district of Prince William County, Guzman said the average case load for a school counselor is between 450 and 500 students, but the counseling process involves more than just those students.
"When counselors help children, it's not like they are serving one person," Guzman said. "Many times we need to involve family members and friends as part of helping a person to become successful in life."
Guzman said that if counselors have a smaller caseload, "they could help the parents to become a support system for the children."
Guzman said being a mother of four children in the public school system gives her an inside perspective to the challenges public schools have faced throughout the years.
"Any time there was a school budget cut, the fields that were affected in the public education system were special education, school counselors, psychologists, [and] social workers," Guzman said.
Guzman hopes to pass this bill with the help of her professional knowledge as a social worker. According to her campaign website, Guzman worked in the public sector for 10 years, most recently as the division chief for administrative services for the Center for Adult Services for the City of Alexandria. She also holds master's in both public administration and social work.
On Jan. 10 Guzman's bill was endorsed by both the Virginia Education Association and the Virginia Counselor Association. She said she also met with teachers and counselors before her campaign.
Becky Bowers-Lanier is the advocacy consultant for the VCA, and said, "our counselors are most supportive of her bill, [and] we will actively support it."
Guzman's bill requires high schools to meet the ratio of one counselor to every 250 students, but Bowers-Lanier said the VCA, "would love to have the ratio of one to 250 throughout K-12."
"When these children are in high school they have to be ready to face real life," Guzman said, "and if they don't get the right support while they're in school, there's not a hopeful future for them."
Bowers-Lanier said in 2016 the Virginia Board of Education proposed a revision of the standards of equality, "to tighten the ratio of counselors in K-12 to one to 250." However, adding more counselors to high schools, "has a pretty high fiscal impact, and so it was not taken forward to the General Assembly last year."
The VCA hopes to draw funds, "from the at-risk grant program to support the payment of the counselors," Bowers-Lanier said.
Bowers-Lanier said at-risk funding is part of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), so additional counselors would be paid for with federal funds. Bowers-Lanier said that ESSA applies to students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, meaning they are considered high-risk and therefore in need of counselors.
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During the project implementation programme "HIV/AIDS and drug use prevention among IDUs improvement" was developed and approved. Seven (7) seminars were conducted for each target group (in total 21 seminar), and 49 inmates participated in the trainings. The average of inmates in each seminar - 14.
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Малярная лента (), также известная как малярный скотч — разновидность самоклеящейся ленты на бумажной основе с невысокой степенью адгезии к поверхностям. Используется в основном при покраске для защиты площадей, которые не должны быть покрыты краской, а также для создания чётких краёв рисунка. Основная особенность ленты в её клеевом слое, который позволяет удалить ленту, не повреждая поверхность под ней. Лента выпускается в рулонах различной ширины, а также с различной степенью адгезии, указываемой по условной шкале 1-100. Для большинства задач достаточным является индекс 50. Бытовые серии лент отличает использование менее прочной бумаги и менее качественного клеевого покрытия.

История
Малярная лента была изобретена Ричардом Дрю (Richard Drew) в 1925 году в компании 3M Дрю обратил внимание на рабочих при малярных работах с кузовом автомобиля, которые заклеивали части кузова, не подлежащие окраске, обёрточной бумагой. При удалении бумаги используемый ими клей иногда повреждал свежие слои краски под ней, что требовало последующей реставрации краски, увеличивая трудоёмкость малярных работ. Дрю понял, что требуется лента с менее клейким слоем.

Использование
Для использования по прямому назначению, которое задумывалось, для защиты поверхностей от окраски, нужны специальные сорта малярной ленты. Специальные сорта позволяют получить очень четкие, тонкие и ровные линии при окраске, обычная малярная лента допускает подтекание краски вдоль края, что делает границу нечёткой, с произвольным неровным рисунком.

Чертёжная лента выглядит так же, как и обычная бытовая малярная лента, но менее липкая. Это позволяет закреплять чертежи и кальки на столе или на световом столе и затем удалять её без повреждений.

Бытовая малярная лента разделяется по срокам, которые может провести будучи наклеенной на поверхность без потери своих свойств. Доступны варианты в 1-, 3-, 7-, 14-, 30-, и 60- дней, варианты 7- и 14- дней наиболее распространённые. Ленты с более длительным сроком менее липкие, поэтому используются для наклейки на деликатные поверхности, такие как виниловые обои, или свежеокрашенные поверхности. Профессиональные (оформительские) малярные ленты часто имеют голубую или розовую расцветку, в отличие от бытовых вариантов, имеющих жёлтый или белый окрас. Использования спрея WD-40 — популярный способ для удаления клеевых остатков.

Малярная лента также используется для заклейки больших стеклянных панелей в ситуациях, когда есть риск их разбить и травмировать окружающих.

Другие разновидности

При использовании в качестве основы ленты полиэстеровой плёнки вместо бумаги лента может быть использована в более тяжёлых условиях. Ленты на базе полиэстера используются для защиты при травлении, нанесении покрытий, например в порошковой окраске. Ленты на базе полиимидных плёнок используются для защиты участков печатной платы при пайке и способны выдерживать контакт с расплавленным припоем. Стеклотканевые ленты используются для защиты поверхностей при пескоструйной обработке. Многослойные ламинированные ленты используются для защиты поверхностей при газотермическом напылении. Малярная лента также используется для временного крепления постеров на стену. Малярная лента может быть использована во множестве задач, не только связанных с окраской.

Используемый клеевой слой малярной ленты — ключевой параметр при подборе ленты под конкретную задачу. Существует три основных типа клеевых слоёв, с небольшими вариациями состава внутри каждого типа: резиновые, акриловые и силиконовые. Резиновые (каучуковые) клеи обладают наилучшей адгезией, но наименее термостойкие. Акриловые клеи обладают хорошей липкостью от низких температур, вплоть до примерно 150 °C. Силиконовые клеи обладают отменной термостойкостью, и позволяют применять их (с соответствующей термостойкой основой, например полиимидной) при температурах вплоть до 260 °C.

На сегодняшний день малярная лента используется в том числе и для оформительских целей, как например ленты с японским декоративным узором Васи.

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After reading the Occult brotherhood requirements I also had an idea about the further development of the guild. What if ranks above Journeyman allowed a Weaver to specialize in a certain area? This area may be defined as several types of submissions that the specific member works mostly with.
Member decides to explore the activities of social groups that use dungeons as their base, or are connected to one.
Choosing an intersection of more than two sub types can be rewarded with something else, like a point of Dexterity for every level of the titles achieved, while selecting more focused types of subs (constructed lifeforms in mountain dungeons) to work on can reward points in Intelligence (if the subs get high scores).
Progress in the chosen area can be tracked through the personal author page where each member can collect the links to the subs that qualify for the area.
Actually, I had a similar specialisation idea for a new Guild that I had played around in my head with- the Scholars' Guild. But then I didn't go ahead with it b/c I already have too much commitments (2 World settings and 2 Guilds already). So I second this idea.
One more random idea: how abt side-quests? These can be issued by any Weaver (or if we want, make it only Weavers of Level x within the Guild) and its nature is obviously designed by whoever issues it but any side-quest has to be endorsed by the Guild Leader.
- other stuff though I wouldn't suggest more graphics b/c for Dossta and me with 2+guilds, it would look too messy, I think.
how about an easier version of 5in1 like Level 2 of the Strolenati Quest? However, I would change it so that it's EITHER a normal 5in1 OR (x number of subs that collectively link to 5 subs AND have to be interrelated).


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Gelsemium ist eine Pflanzengattung in der Familie der Gelsemiaceae innerhalb der Ordnung der Enzianartigen (Gentianales). Sie enthält nur drei Arten.

Beschreibung

Vegetative Merkmale
Gelsemium-Arten sind verholzende Pflanzen und wachsen als Sträucher oder Lianen.

Die Laubblätter sind meist gegenständig oder selten wirtelig angeordnet. Die einfachen Blattspreiten sind ganzrandig. Die Nebenblätter sind stark reduziert.

Generative Merkmale
Die Blütenstände sind Thyrsen.

Die zwittrigen Blüten sind radiärsymmetrisch und fünfzählig mit doppelter Blütenhülle. Die Blüten sind heterostyl (d. h. die Griffel sind verschieden lang). Die fünf gelben Kronblätter sind zu einer Kronröhre verwachsen. Es ist nur der äußere Kreis mit fünf Staubblättern vorhanden. Die untereinander freien Staubfäden sind in der Kronröhre inseriert. Der Fruchtknoten ist oberständig. Der fadenförmige Griffel endet in einer vierspaltigen Narbe.

Die eiförmigen bis schmal-ellipsoiden, septiziden Kapselfrüchte öffnen sich vierklappig und enthalten geflügelte Samen.

Pharmakologie und Giftwirkung
Alle drei Arten enthalten Indolalkaloide und sind hochgiftig. Die Giftwirkung beruht auf der neurotoxischen Wirkung und wird wohl wesentlich über einen Agonismus an Glycin-Rezeptoren vermittelt. Gelsemium-Extrakte werden als Analgetika bei chronischen neuropathischen Schmerzen untersucht. Unter anderem probierte Arthur Conan Doyle, der Autor von Sherlock Holmes, die Giftwirkung 1879 im Selbstversuch aus, indem er es in verschiedenen Verdünnungen zu sich nahm. Gelegentlich scheint die Pflanzengattung Gelsemium bzw. deren Giftstoffe noch heute als Mordgift im Einsatz. Der chinesische Milliardär Long Liyuan verstarb am 23. Dezember 2011 in Südchina nach Genuss einer mit Gelsemium versetzten Katzenfleisch-Mahlzeit. Auch beim Tod des russischen Geschäftsmanns Alexander Perepilitschni am 10. November 2012 in London wurde zunächst eine Gelsemium-Vergiftung angenommen, bis die amtliche Todesfeststellung einen natürlichen Tod ergab.

Systematik und Verbreitung

Die Gattung Gelsemium wurde 1789 durch Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in Genera Plantarum, Seite 150 aufgestellt. Die Typusart ist Gelsemium sempervirens  Ein Synonym für Gelsemium  ist Medicia

Die Gattung Gelsemium wurde zur Familie der Loganiaceae gerechnet; L. Struwe, V. A. Albert und B. Bremer stellten sie 1994 in die eigene Familie der Gelsemiaceae. Genetische Untersuchungen stützen diese Aufteilung.

Es gibt nur drei Arten in der Gattung Gelsemium. Eine Art ist in Südostasien und zwei Arten sind in Zentralamerika und im südlichen Nordamerika verbreitet:
 Gelsemium elegans : Sie gedeiht in dichten Wäldern und Dickicht in Höhenlagen von 200 bis 2000 Metern in Indien, Indonesien, Laos, Malaysia, im nördlichen Myanmar, Taiwan, im nördlichen Thailand, Vietnam und den chinesischen Provinzen Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Yunnan sowie Zhejiang.
 Gelsemium rankinii : Sie hat ein kleines Verbreitungsgebiet im Südosten der USA.
 Carolina-Jasmin (Gelsemium sempervirens ): Sie ist vom südlichen Nordamerika bis Zentralamerika verbreitet.

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Online music streaming service Deezer called together a press announcement in London today in order to unveil two major platform developments, as well as announcements about the service's performance to date. The keynote took place in iconic music venue Ronnie Scotts (quite fitting for the announcement) and was delivered by Deezer CEO Axel Dauchaz.
The announcement kicked off with some key growth figures. Deezer boasts 5 Million subscribers, with paid subscribers in 180+ countries around the world – essentially, everywhere but the United States, a point Dauchez emphasized. The company also boasted 30 Million tracks in their catalogue, more than 200 years of music in total.
Lastly, Deezer announced a new private beta application (Mac-only, PC to come soon) that Dauchez dubbed "Dropbox for Music." Dauchez says the goal is to onboard mobile users (he says 60%) who prefer to have folders for music, to share music with friends, and to keep their own private catalogue. The product will be released by the end of the year, and is a light-weight mini-player that provides access to all 30 Million songs, as well as a Dropbox-like file storage system. The product is set to launch by the end of the year.
Deezer also announced two key hires: former head of Paypal Europe Christopher Coonen, who will join as COO, as well as Gerrit schumann, founder of German music streaming service Simfy, who joins as VP of Europe.
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Subject: What T. Boone Pickens Taught Me About Investing in Commodities
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What T. Boone Pickens Taught Me About Investing in Commodities
By Porter Stansberry, Special Contributor, Money Morning • November 11, 2022
"Why don't we fly to Aspen for lunch...?"
About 10 years ago, I visited T. Boone Pickens at his famous ranch, Mesa Vista.
The ranch, at 100 square miles, consumes a little over 10% of Roberts County, Texas. It has 18 miles of manmade lakes for duck hunting and bass fishing. There are more than 100 different fields for hunting quail and over 1,000 wild quail feeders.
The landscape was also covered in oil and gas wells.
"It's the damndest thing, Porter... I spent most of the 1960s and 1970s looking for oil in Canada and Libya... if I'd only known how much oil I had right here, on my own ranch!"
Boone was, for most of his life, an ardent believer in "Peak Oil." He believed that oil production in the U.S. had peaked in the early 1970s and that, in only a few more years, all the oil would be gone.
I'd first met Boone in part because I had mocked Peak Oil as yet another nonsense Malthusian fantasy. At a 2014 Stansberry Research Conference event in Dallas, T. Boone conceded that he'd been dead wrong about Peak Oil.
(In a wonderful example of how truth is often stranger than fiction, a huge amount of oil and gas was discovered directly underneath Boone's own ranch. By 2014, oil and gas production in Roberts County exceeded 3 million barrels annually.)
The most important lesson T. Boone taught me was that commodity industries – like oil and gas – that require huge capital investments are fraught with risk.
The Real Story of T. Boone: A Fortune Made on A Myth
Most people think T. Boone Pickens made his fortune developing Mesa Petroleum, which by the early 1980s was America's largest and most successful independent oil and gas company.
But that's not so...
Boone's unfailing belief in ever-higher prices for fossil fuels led Mesa Petroleum into serious financial distress in 1996. Boone was forced out of the company. He was 67 years old and virtually broke. He took his last $8 million and raised another $30 million from friends to start a hedge fund, BP Capital.
What did he invest in? Natural gas, of course. He kept pyramiding leveraged bets on higher prices for natural gas. Within 18 months, he'd lost more than 90% of his fund, which dwindled to under $3 million.
What happened next was the greatest speculative triumph in the history of the financial markets.
Boone Pickens continued to bet on natural gas going higher, using the futures market. And in 2000, his commodity fund rose by $250 million, generating a 9,000%-plus return.
The gains came, in large part, because of the California state energy crisis and the subsequent spike in natural gas prices. And the same thing is about to happen again – but on a much bigger scale – in Europe.
In 1996, California "deregulated" electricity, creating a market structure that could have only been built by politicians. Baseload providers (Mirant, Reliant, Williams, Dynegy, and AES) were to supply power on a competitive basis to the California Power Exchange.
But to ensure competition, they could only sell power to the system the day before it was to be delivered to the customer. Worse, the regulators demanded caps on wholesale energy prices for a decade and based the caps on prices for energy that existed before deregulation began.
As a result of these caps, there were no additional power plants built in California between 1990 and 1999. Meanwhile, the population grew by 13%. Additional demand for power was supplied by importing electricity from Oregon and Washington, which normally came from hydro-electrical plants.
In 2000, the stage was set for a huge crisis when California finally deregulated wholesale prices – but continued to regulate retail prices. A drought led the hydro-sourced power to leave the market. That, along with an absence of any long-term market for power, led to skyrocketing wholesale electrical prices – which the retail utilities had to pay because long-term contracts were not allowed.
The result? The power went out all over California with rolling blackouts as the retail utilities – which couldn't pass the price increases on to consumers – were forced to balance supply with demand by rationing power. Eventually the state was forced to sign long-term supply agreements with major natural gas-based suppliers. The crisis cost the state of California an estimated $40 billion, as natural gas prices soared on anticipation of increasing demand.
And in the meantime, Pickens' hedge fund had been buying natural gas futures throughout 1999 and 2000 and continued to do so through 2007. By early 2008, as oil soared to around $150 per barrel, T. Boone's fund had earned more than $8 billion in profits.
Pickens spent 40 years looking for oil and producing millions and millions of barrels of it. But what made him a billionaire wasn't producing anything. BP Capital didn't own a single oil field or gas well. It merely owned the rights to energy other companies had to produce.
California All Over Again…But Supersized
Just imagine what Pickens would think of the opportunity being created by European politicians today.
Just like California in the 1990s, Europe has regulated itself into a severe energy shortage. Bans on hydraulic fracturing and political decisions to abandon nuclear power led to dependence on Russian natural gas. Then Russian President Vladimir Putin turned out to be even less reliable than wind and solar power.
The result: Europe is spiraling into an economic collapse, with severe consequences for the entire global economy. The only solution: Much higher prices for natural gas.
Fears of a halt in Russian energy flows this winter have recently sent European natural gas prices spiking into previously unimaginable territory, hitting a record of $272 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) this summer. (For reference, U.S. gas prices traded around $3-$4 per mcf for much of the last decade.)
Europe finds itself in a situation with power prices trading like a meme stock stuck in a short squeeze.
This isn't only hurting consumer demand. Natural gas and electricity are the two key inputs for manufacturing in Europe.
Mild weather and ample gas storage in Europe has caused spot natural gas prices to plunge in recent weeks. But the lack of Russian volume means that Europe's energy supply remains dependent upon the whims of mother nature.
We Can Make a Fortune the Same Way Pickens Made His
For now, the wholesale power market is the focal point of the European energy crisis. But it's only a matter of time before wholesale prices hit consumers in the retail market. The political solution so far has been to print more money and attempt to manipulate the market with price controls!
And across Europe, governments continue to regulate retail prices of electricity, while subsidizing utility companies (with printed money) that have been bankrupted because they cannot pass on the new, vastly higher cost of energy. The only solution is producing or importing a lot more natural gas.
BP Capital made $8 billion when these exact same things happened in California. How much will you make on Europe's crisis, which will be even bigger and last even longer? The situation is like a coin where both sides are heads.
As Russian energy supplies leave the world's markets, global demand for American energy will continue to grow, pushing up the price of energy that can be exported from America, like oil, coal, and liquefied natural gas ("LNG"). That will, in turn, lead to higher electrical prices here, too.
And in places like New England, which rely heavily on natural gas – but which lack new natural gas infrastructure – the price spikes will look more and more like Europe's:
The only cure to these problems is increases to baseload power generation – that is, raising the minimum power that can be produced by the electrical grid.
And the fastest and quickest way to accomplish that in Europe is building natural gas-fired power plants. That will mean big increases to American LNG exports over the next decade. There's truly no other solution.
In America, that will mean more natural gas pipelines, more drilling, and more production. Well-informed investors (including my subscribers) are well positioned to profit with several pure LNG plays
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Q: error: lvalue required as unary '&' operand when passing std::string I am writing C++ code and I am using a struct.
struct Info_t {
    cass_int64_t internal_id;
    cass_double_t amount;
    std::string client;
}

I am passing a pointer to this struct in a function and I am using it like this
get_string(row_by_name(row, "cl"), &info->client.c_str());

but the compiler complains with error "*error: lvalue required as unary '&' operand"
The third argument of the row_by_name should be const char* and I am passing a std::string that I am trying to make it char* with c_str(). What is wrong?

A: To escape the error just write
get_string(row_by_name(row, "cl"), info->client.c_str());

You may not apply operator & to temporary objects. This expression
info->client.c_str()

already has type const char *.
However it is not clear what you are trying to achieve. Maybe you should declare the corresponding parameter as for example const std::string & and pass as the argument the object of std::string itself?
If the corresponding parameter is declared like const char ** though that is strange, then before passing the argument you have to declare an intermediate variable for example like this
const char *p =  info->client.c_str();
and pass it as argument using expression &p

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Interview: Ashok Dhawale of AIKS
'Systemic political change needed for systemic agrarian change'
LYLA BAVADAM
Print edition : July 07, 2017 T+ T-
Ashok Dhawale. Photo: By Special Arrangement
Interview with Ashok Dhawale, joint secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha.
THE Devendra Fadnavis government's first reaction to the largely spontaneous farmers' strike in Maharashtra was casual. But escalating events such as the rasta roko and the dumping of produce and milk on the roads, the June 5 Maharashtra bandh, the June 6 killing of farmers in police firing at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, and the June 8 Nashik convention where a decision to stage a rail roko agitation on June 13 was made, all played a part in forcing the government to view the matter seriously.
After an initial attempt, Fadnavis left the negotiations to a group of Ministers headed by Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil. The team negotiated with a 35-member core committee consisting of representatives from farmers' organisations.
On June 11, Patil took aside six members of the core committee to have a heart-to-heart talk to resolve the crisis that began on June 1. Dr Ashok Dhawale, joint secretary, All India Kisan Sabha, was one of the six. In an interview to Frontline, he spoke about the inner workings that helped resolve the crisis and what the way forward should be. Excerpts:
This has been a successful strike. How seriously do you think the government will take farmers' issues now?
Yes, it has been an unprecedented 11-day strike by the peasants of Maharashtra. And the outcome of it in the form of a farm loan waiver and an increase in milk price has been historic. All the credit must go to the united struggle of farmers of the State. As we can see, the struggle for a loan waiver and for remunerative prices is spreading to other States. The government will be forced to take farmers' issues seriously as a result of this experience. However, it is not the State but the Central government that decides the minimum support price [MSP] for various crops. So the State body will have only a limited role.
What is the plan of action to have the Swaminathan Commission Report implemented? Should there not be a mandatory buying guarantee like the old cotton monopoly scheme?
You are absolutely right. The Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014 on the promise that it would implement the Swaminathan Report. It has not kept that promise.
Implementation of the report is the responsibility of the Central government. The AIKS has begun efforts to bring together all farmers' organisations throughout the country to build a powerful movement for the implementation of the Swaminathan Report, which has other excellent recommendations besides the key issues of remunerative prices and a buying guarantee.
Some observers say loan waivers are not a long-term solution.
In the present situation of deep agrarian crisis, when nearly four lakh debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide in the past 25 years since the advent of neoliberal policies, loan waivers will certainly provide the much-needed relief to the peasants.
How did the tide turn in favour of farmers at the meeting with Ministers?
The reasons for this were as follows. The June 3 announcements were rejected by the peasantry and the strike continued. The June 5 Maharashtra bandh, in support of the just demands of the farmers, was a smashing success and an eye-opener. The June 6 brutal police firing in Mandsaur was a grave warning of the shape of things to come. The farmers' unity and their fighting spirit were on display at the joint State convention at Nashik on June 8, and the State-wide rail roko and rasta roko call for June 13 given at that convention unnerved the government.
Farmers have received support from the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) and the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS). What does it say about the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, two of whose affiliates are against its policies?
The BJP-Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh combine is notorious for its forked tongue, with its different organisations speaking in different voices.
The so-called support to farmers by the SJM and the BKS falls in this category. We need not read too much into this. At crucial junctures, they always fall in line with the dictates of their parent body.
How easy will it be for farmers to get new credit since cooperative banks are in the doldrums?
The government should make determined efforts at all levels to revive the cooperative banks and get them out of the doldrums. The banks and the Central and State governments must enhance the quantum of rural credit substantially. The present scandalous situation, where a large part of rural credit is cornered by the corporates and the rich, must be reversed. Poor and medium farmers must be given priority in bank and institutional credit so that they are not pushed into the arms of rapacious moneylenders, as is the case now.
Should cooperative land mortgaging banks not be revived so that loans are given for agricultural infrastructure too?
Yes, their revival is necessary.
The agrarian crisis is a complex situation. The appearance of a solution can be quite different from the reality that farmers face. What are the fundamental and systemic changes that are required for a long-term revival of the agriculture sector?
That is a cardinal question. First, it is clear that the present agrarian crisis has been aggravated by the neoliberal policies. Peasants, agricultural workers, the working class, the middle class have all been adversely affected by these policies. These policies need to be dumped and an alternative trajectory of development needs to be put in place. Second, in all agrarian policymaking on vital issues such as inputs, prices, credit, employment, food security, irrigation, power, crop insurance, markets, cooperatives, infrastructure and social security, the best interests of the millions of toiling farmers and agricultural workers must be clearly made the focal point, not the best interests of corporates, landlords and the urban and rural rich. Third, the land issue must be squarely addressed.
Unjust and unnecessary land acquisition from farmers for the corporates must be stopped. The Forest Rights Act must be implemented stringently as has been done by the Left Front government of Tripura. The vital question of land reforms must be brought back on the agenda. But all this requires political will, which the ruling classes can never summon owing to their very class nature.
Hence, while united struggles for winning the demands of the peasantry must be intensified now and in the future, in the long run, it is only a systemic political change that can ensure a systemic agrarian change.
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Q: Find the first word after a comma in SAS I have a dataset in SAS that I need to find each of these codes. Each letter represents a different food group. I did consider taking the first three characters and then the first three characters after each comma but the character length is variable and it includes reference to the type of orange juice then too which is not my intention.
Reprex:
Diet
p10 - pumpkin,h13 - lollipop
p18 - potato
h13 - lollipop, d80 - orange juice, without pulp
b423 - cinnamon,d80.5 - orange juice with pulp, strained,h40 - apple-cinnamon muffins
d93.8 - apple juice
h40 - apple-cinnamon muffins

My intended outcome:
Diet_1  Diet_2  Diet_3
p10     h13
p18
h13     d80
b423    d80.5   h40
d93.8
h40

Any suggestions or references to similar problems would be appreciated.

A: The list of values appear to be separated by commas.  So just use SCAN() to pick each value from the list. Then use SCAN() again to take the part before the hyphen.  So assuming your current dataset is named HAVE and the variable is named REPREX you could do this:
data want;
   set have;
   array diet_ [10] $7 ;
   do index=1 to min(dim(diet_),countw(REPREX,','));
     diet_[index]=scan(scan(REPREX,index,','),1,'-');
   end;
   drop index;
run;

You can adjust the number of variables to create and the length of each variable in the ARRAY statement.

A: Try this. Feel free to ask :-)
data have;
input diet $ 1-200;
infile datalines truncover;
datalines;
p10 - pumpkin,h13 - lollipop
p18 - potato
h13 - lollipop, d80 - orange juice, without pulp
b423 - cinnamon,d80.5 - orange juice with pulp, strained,h40 - apple-cinnamon muffins
d93.8 - apple juice
h40 - apple-cinnamon muffins
;

data want(keep = diet_:);
   set have;
   array diet_{3} $;
   j = 1;
   do i = 1 to countw(diet);
      w = scan(diet, i, ' ,');
      if prxmatch('/\w\d+\.*\d*/', w) then do;
         diet_[j] = w;
         j + 1;
      end;
   end;
run;

Result:
diet_1 diet_2 diet_3
p10    h13
p18
h13    d80
b423   d80.5  h40
d93.8
h40