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Information for the TV, radio and on-demand industry
Guidance for TV and radio
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International Coordination Agreements for DTT
UK Digital Terrestrial Television: International Coordination Agreements
1. All UHF (Band IV / Band V) television broadcast allocations have international spectrum rights co-ordinated through a framework of international bilateral agreements. Under these agreements, the administrations of neighbouring countries define incoming levels of field strength that can be accepted towards transmitters that share the same frequency. This is often achieved by agreeing signal levels towards test points on the country's coastline, national border, or to transmission service areas.
2. The UK's current digital television frequency plan has evolved from the original Geneva 2006 Plan (GE06) Plan, which was agreed at the ITU Regional Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva during 2006 (RRC-06). International co-ordination of spectrum rights was achieved via bilateral negotiations to form the basis of the overall networks, and agreed through the RRC-06 processes
3. Following decisions at EU level to harmonise band plans for mobile services in the 800 MHz spectrum (and the UK's decision in 2008 to align with these arrangements), the original GE06 frequency plan required further international co-ordination in order to clear the use of Channels 61 and 62 (in addition to the clearance of Channels 63 to 68 already possible originally from RRC-06) for the 800 MHz DTT clearance programme.
4. Existing alongside the broadcasting assignments and allotments listed in the GE06 plan are associated detailed bilateral co-ordination agreements. These agreements set out in detail the parameters of permitted cross-border interference negotiated between the two countries in question. These detailed agreements underpin the UK's TV assignments negotiated with its four immediate neighbours: Belgium, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Each assignment in the UK plan is agreed with specific technical parameters. These include the site location and height, antenna height and maximum power as well as any agreed restrictions relating to a reduction in transmitted power in certain directions (azimuth) towards the assignments or allotments using the same channel in other countries
5. These technical details are recorded with each assignment for each country where co-ordination is applicable (e.g. mainly with Ireland for sites in western parts of the UK, and mainly with France, Belgium and the Netherlands in the case of sites in southern and eastern parts of the UK).
6. The format of the recorded technical agreement can vary depending upon whether the neighbouring country's frequency plan is primarily allotment-based (i.e. whether it makes extensive use of Single Frequency networks) or assignment based (for example, the multi-frequency networks used in the UK). In the case of allotment-based countries typically a maximum received interfering field strength to the allotment boundary, coastline or country border is recorded. In the case of an assignment-based network plan a maximum transmitter power and antenna template with azimuth and restrictions may be recorded. In some cases there is a mixture of both approaches.
Current Status of Bilateral Agreements
7. The UK has negotiated bilateral co-ordination agreements for the technical parameters of all DTT transmitter stations in the UK 800 MHz DTT Clearance Plan.
8. The UK concluded the co-ordination process for the 800MHz DTT clearance and has signed official bilateral agreement documents with Belgium, France and Ireland to formally record the co-ordinated spectrum rights.
9. International co-ordination technical parameters and the UK frequency plan have been bilaterally agreed with the Netherlands. Ofcom is currently in the process of obtaining a formal signed agreement.
10. The UK's 800MHz DTT Clearance frequency assignment plans will in due course be submitted to the ITU for entry into the GE06 plan, ensuring that each allocation is granted international recognition and protection.
Current International Co-ordination Documents
Please note that the documents below summarise the UK's internationally agreed rights and obligations. However they do not fully reflect all of the characteristics deployed in practice by the broadcasters in the UK's DTT transmitter network (although specific transmitters must operate at or below the levels specified in any relevant international agreements). Details of in-use frequency assignments for the full UK DTT networks are available.
11. Band IV/V bilateral co-ordination agreement between the administrations of France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Agreement and Annexes
This agreement and annex detail the re-plan and modification of the Geneva 2006 Plan (GE06) to facilitate the mutual clearance of the terrestrial broadcasting services from the 790MHz - 862MHz band ("800MHz band") between the UK and France.
12. Band IV/V bilateral co-ordination agreement between the administrations of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
This Agreement details the re-plan and modification of the Geneva 2006 Plan (GE06) to facilitate the mutual clearance of the terrestrial broadcasting services from the 790MHz - 862MHz band ("800MHz band") between the UK and Ireland.
13. Band IV/V bilateral co-ordination agreement between the administrations of Belgium and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
This agreement details the modification of the Geneva 2006 Plan (GE06) required to facilitate the mutual clearance of the terrestrial broadcasting services from the 790MHz - 862MHz band (800MHz band) between the UK and Belgium.
14. Pending bilateral co-ordination agreement additional to RRC-06 bilateral agreement between the administrations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The administrations of the UK and the Netherlands have agreed the 800MHz DTT Clearance technical co-ordination details as detailed in the co-ordination spreadsheet at a bilateral meeting, however the 800MHz DTT Clearance co-ordination agreement is still pending final agreement and signature as of May 2013.
15. UK Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Band IV/V 800MHz DTT Clearance International Co-ordination Technical Parameters and Nominal Antenna Restriction Templates
Technical parameters and nominal antenna restriction templates derived from the international co-ordination technical agreements for the 800MHz DTT Clearance with Belgium, France, Ireland and the Netherlands provided in two sections:-
Section 1 lists those assignments with an international co-ordination antenna restriction in the template
Section 2 lists assignments without an international co-ordination antenna restriction and therefore the restriction template is omni-directional.
A spreadsheet summary of UK assignment technical details and nominal co-ordination template names

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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, emerged on Thursday after a three hour meeting with commercial banks chief executives and the Central Bank of Kenya top management, to announce what is so far the strongest pitch for the restoration of calm in the financial markets.
Mr Kenyatta's statement reflected a common approach by the main players to restore the stability of the Shilling.
In the statement, the government did not condemn the commercial banks for engaging in speculation.
Instead, the minister's statement attributed the current situation to supply and demand forces and the upsurge in a genuine demand for dollars.
Perhaps the most significant measure was the lowering of foreign exchange exposure by commercial banks from 20 per cent to 10 per cent.
This is an acceptable way of limiting speculations by commercial banks.
With the foreign exchange exposure by commercial banks controlled, the Central Bank of Kenya will now be watching an attack on the shilling by external forces.
Another significant move is the commitment by the CBK to meet 'any genuine foreign demand for foreign exchange through the interbank Indirectly, the minister was saying that the recent threat by the CBK to sell dollars to selected sectors was wrong. The Central Bank will be injecting dollars whenever there are shortages.
But this will be done transparently through the interbank. Mr Kenyatta's pledge for the revival of the Forex Dealer's forum was also significant.
As the shilling continued to take a beating, relations between the Central Bank and this group appeared to be worsening.
The country was at a point when treasurers and dealers did not want to be quoted for fear of the regulators.
Mr Kenyatta's statement sent the signal to dealers and treasurers that he recognised then as important players in the battle to restore stability in the marketplace.
Whether the minister's statement will immediately restore calm in the markets remains to be seen.
Chances are that any major recovery of the shilling will come after conclusion of the meeting with the IMF.


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Fast and slow chicken skeletal muscles contain different alpha and beta tropomyosins
An actin-like protein and gene in the unicellular green alga Dunaliella
© Artur Scherf
Scanning Electron Microscopy of Red Blood Cell infected by Plasmodium falciparum.
Publication	: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Staphylococci adherence to trypanosomes exposed to immune sera as a method for the diagnosis of Chagas' disease
Team: Biology of Host-parasite Interactions
Member: Denise Mattei
Published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 01 Jan 1983
Camargo EP, Mattei DM, Yoshida N, Caulada Z
Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 6420951
Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 1983;77(6):825-8
A new method, the staphylococci adherence test (SAT), for the serological diagnosis of Chagas' disease is described; it is based on the affinity of staphylococcal Protein A for IgG globulins and uses epimastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi which are fixed on to glass slides and incubated stepwise with probing sera and a Staphylococcus aureus A suspension. After Giemsa staining, epimastigote preparations which have been incubated with positive sera appear covered by cocci. Results using indirect immunofluorescence, complement fixation and SAT were in agreement in 98.37% of 860 human sera. A slightly modified SAT (SAT') may also be utilized for the diagnosis of acute Chagas' disease. The simplicity of the method may allow its adaptation for field work. Other possible uses were investigated.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6420951


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The MiniPlex-2S is an advanced NMEA multiplexer, combining data from up to four navigation instruments into two NMEA outputs and an RS–232 port. It also supports AIS and other high speed NMEA devices up to 57600 Baud.
Data from multiple instruments is available as one single stream on one single cable. This reduces wiring cost.
Seamless integration into an existing Raymarine Seatalk® network.
All inputs are galvanically isolated, eliminating ground loops between instruments.
Full galvanic isolation on the RS-232 port, eliminating ground loops between multiplexer and computer which are often on separate power grids.
The MiniPlex allows you to fully control the source, the destination and the rate of each individual NMEA sentence by its powerful sentence filtering and routing facility.
Automatic switching between computer navigation and GPS based navigation.
Automatic switching between primary and secondary instruments in case of failure or invalid data.
Two NMEA outputs (talker ports) allow distribution of the NMEA data to up to eight instruments.
The MiniPlex-2S can be connected to a computer through the galvanically isolated RS-232 interface for computerized navigation. Stand-alone operation is also possible, in which case the RS-232 interface is only used to configure the multiplexer.
The MiniPlex-2S has a rich set of features and configuration options, enabling the user to tackle almost any NMEA bottleneck or interface problem. The supplied Windows utility MPX-Config allows full configuration of the multiplexer and monitoring of NMEA data passing through the multiplexer.
NMEA routing NMEA data can be routed from any input to any output. A default route can be set as well as specific routing rules for individual NMEA sentences.
NMEA filtering A flexible NMEA filter can be configured to pass or block specific sentences from each input channel. This greatly reduces the chance of an overflow and the resulting loss of data. Many GPS receivers for instance, transmit an abundance of sentences every second, accounting for 85% of the available bandwidth of the NMEA channel. By blocking unwanted or unnecessary sentences, bandwidth is preserved for other instruments. The filter can also be configured to reduce the rate of specific NMEA sentences.
Flexible communication speed The communication speed of all inputs and outputs can be set from 4800 to 57600 Baud to allow connection of devices that operate at non-standard (4800 Baud) communication speeds like integrated weather sensors, gyrocompasses or AIS equipment.
SeaTalk® conversion When the SeaTalk -> NMEA option is enabled, one of the NMEA inputs becomes a SeaTalk® compatible input, offering conversion of the most common SeaTalk datagrams on a Raymarine® network into NMEA sentences. This data is combined with NMEA data received on the other inputs. When Priority is enabled, SeaTalk data can be assigned highest or lowest priority.
Real-Time forwarding Gyro- and fluxgate compasses produce NMEA sentences at a high rate (10 sentences/second or more). This can lead to a buffer overflow in the multiplexer. Although this overflow is handled properly without data corruption, it will lead to a delay of NMEA sentences of up to 20 seconds in extreme situations. This produces a severe problem for autopilots, which cannot make proper course corrections when their heading feedback is delayed for 20 seconds. The Real-Time option prevents this delay by bypassing the buffer of that specific channel and forwarding the data immediately to the multiplexer's NMEA output. As a result, the heading is never delayed more than 0.2 to 0.5 seconds, depending on the amount of other NMEA sentences passing through the multiplexer.
Heading conversion This option converts a Magnetic Heading sentence (HDG) into a True Heading sentence (HDT). If the originating magnetic heading sentence contains a magnetic variation, it is used to calculate the true heading before conversion. This feature is useful for certain equipment like VDR's which need a true heading input, while the only available heading source is a fluxgate, delivering a magnetic heading.
Priority With Priority enabled, similar NMEA sentences on different inputs are only passed from the input with the highest priority. The RS-232 port has the highest priority, followed by inputs 1 to 4, in descending order. When for instance two GPS receivers are connected to inputs 1 and 2, and both transmit the same type of NMEA sentences, only those received on input 1 are passed. An adjustable time-out ensures that similar sentences from the GPS at input 2 are passed when the GPS at input 1 stops sending these sentences. Optionally, GPS sentences are checked for a valid status field, causing automatic switchover when the primary GPS looses satellite signal.
Channel information When this feature is switched on, the multiplexer will transmit a proprietary NMEA sentence indicating on which input channel the following NMEA sentence is received. Optionally, the multiplexer can append NMEA V4.0 TAG block to each NMEA sentence to indicate its originating input.
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Another Reason To Lift? It's Really Good For Heart Health
Trending News: That Lift Session Is Benefiting More Than Just Your Biceps
Matt Shea
Strength training: good for bone health, physical function and your self-esteem when you start to notice the results.
But new research has confirmed a more recent discovery — that weightlifting is good for the heart. More importantly, it shows it takes very little of it to see remarkable results. The study, published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, concluded that lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk of a heart attack or stroke by between 40 and 70 percent.
"People may think they need to spend a lot of time lifting weights, but just two sets of bench presses that take less than five minutes could be effective," DC (Duck-chul) Lee said in a news release. Lee is an associate professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University.
Perhaps most interestingly, subjects achieved the positive results independent of running and other types of aerobic exercise. You don't need to meet the recommended guidelines for aerobic physical activity to lower your risk; weight training alone does the trick.
Lee and his colleagues analyzed the data of nearly 13,000 adults in what's known as the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study. They looked at three health outcomes: cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke that did not lead to death, all cardiovascular events including death, and then any type of death. Lee says resistance exercise reduced the risk of all three.
There were other benefits from the resistance exercise, with the risk of high cholesterol and diabetes both lowered by a short session on the weights.
So what's going on here? Lee reckons the wider benefits of building muscle and how muscle affects the body are misunderstood. "If you build muscle, even if you're not aerobically active, you burn more energy because you have more muscle," he said. "This also helps prevent obesity and provide long-term benefits on various health outcomes."
THE ONE PROBLEM WITH RESISTANCE EXERCISE
Of course, the issue when it comes to taking the route of weights to better heart health is that they're much harder than aerobic exercise to incorporate into your daily routine. You can walk to the office but in the modern age, there are few regular routines that involve heavy lifting.
Plus, a lot of people don't have weights lying around. Unless of course, they have a gym membership and — surprise, surprise — Lee says those with gym memberships tend to exercise more.
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Q: Dedicated network port in C# How do I ensure that a particular port on my computer is not being used for any other purpose other than the service I need in C#??
In my program for a simulation of a lan-messenger, I am getting a connection refused error when trying to connect to a remote host.Hence I need to somehow ensure that the port isn't being used for any other purpose.

A: You can't ensure that. Any program can register to listen on any port, and the OS will allow it if no other process is using it.
Your best bet is to choose a port that is now known to be used by any service, and use that as your incoming port. Here's a list of well known ports.

A: IPAddress localAddr = IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1");
server = new TcpListener(localAddr, 0);

This will give you the first available port on local machine.
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A: Open a tcp-socket listen on it? That blocks anyone else from doing the same.
Connection refused sounds more like a firewall issue.


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The Subject-matter of Phonetics
1. The subject-matter of phonetics
2. The functional aspect of speech sounds
3. Phonetic and phonological mistakes
4. Articulatory and physiological aspect of speech sounds
5. Branches of phonetics
6. Connection of phonetics with other sciences
Phonetics deals with speech sounds. It studies the sound matter, its aspects and functions. The phonetic system of English consists of the following four components: speech sounds, the syllabic structure of words, word stress and intonation (prosody). These four components constitute what is called the pronunciation of English.
Units of the language are divided into segmental and supersegmental. The segmental feature deals with speech sounds. Sounds of speech are segments interconnected with minimal distinctive units - phonemes. Supersegmental units of speech: tone, stress and intonation are interconnected with longer units of speech: syllables, words and intonation groups.
The difference between the sounds serves to distinguish between words and morphemes, this difference doesn't depend upon the position of the sounds within the word. These sounds are called the phonemes. In words bit -pit [b] and [p] are phonemes, because difference between them helps to distinguish between the words. The same can be said of phoneme [e] in set and [æ] in sat; [ɪ] (lid) and [i:] (lead); [m] (might) and [n] (night). In these and similar cases we deal with phonological oppositions.
When the difference between two sounds depends on phonetic environment, then these sounds are not different ones, but they are variants of one and the same phoneme. These sounds are known as allophones. [l] in light is more palatalized than in [l] in fell, [ɪ] in bit is shorter than [ɪ] in bid.
Phonetically the number of sounds that we actually pronounce and hear is much greater then the number of letters. One and the same letter may be used to represent two or more different phonemes ("s" stands for [s] in sale, set, bus and [z] in busy, resemble).
Now let's consider the system of phonetic notation which is generally termed as "transcription". Transcription is a set of symbols representing speech sounds. Writing transcription symbols one should use the form of print rather than handwriting, should not use capital letters; shouldn't confuse orthography and phonemic representation.
Slant brackets are used to mark off phonemic transcription, square brackets are used for allophones ("nasalized" vowel [aɪ] in /maɪs/, retroflex (when the tip of the tongue is turned back so, that the closer is relatively far back on the palate) [t] in
/traɪ/). Syllabic consonants are indicated by [,] placed beneath the symbol (written /rɪtņ/). Primary stress is indicated by [' ] before the stressed syllable, secondary stress is shown by [,] before the syllable (examination /ɪɡˌzæmɪˈneɪʃn/).
A teacher of English must be able to pronounce isolated sounds and know how to treat them in different phonetic contexts. If you wish to understand and be understood in English you are to make a clear distinction between consonant and especially vowel sounds. But preoccupation with clarity of articulation bears little relationship to the special problem of natural speech. A learner of English must also form a new habit of syllabic formation, weakening of unstressed vowels in connection with particular speech rhythm and intonation patterns and the like. While teaching phonetics we must bear in mind two types of mistakes usually made by non-native speakers: phonetic and phonological. The so-called phonological mistakes affect the meaning (Are you fond of walking here? - Are you fond of working here?). Phonological mistakes in intonation can be most commonly traced in the substitution of one nuclear tone by another, in the wrong position of the nuclear tone etc.
Isn't she un ͵ well? (general question) vs Isn't she un ˋwell (exclamation) It's ˋTom's fault, vs It's →Tom's ˋfault.
In the case of phonetic mistakes the meaning is not affected (the vowel [i:] must be shorter before a voiceless consonant, and you will make a phonetic mistake if you pronounce [i:] too long. Mistakes can also be qualified as phonetic when an English sound is completely or partially substituted by a similar Russian sound.
Human speech is the result of a series of events. The formation of the concept takes place at a linguistic level, that is in the brain of the speaker; this stage may be called psychological. The message formed within the brain is transmitted along the nervous system to the speech organs. This second stage may be called physiological. The movements of the speech apparatus disturb the air stream thus producing sound waves. Consequently the third stage may be called physical or acoustic. Further, any communication requires a listener, as well as the speaker. So the last stages are the reception of the sound waves by the listener's hearing physiological apparatus, the transmission of the spoken message through the nervous system to the brain and the linguistic interpretation of the information conveyed.
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Handguns allowed in Seattle libraries starting Monday
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SEATTLE -- Seattle public libraries are places to read and research, study or just enjoy the peace and quiet.
Now it's also a place for handguns, whether carried concealed or where everyone can see.
Patrons who spend a lot of time at the library have mixed feelings about guns in their library.
"It's out there on the streets so it might as well be in here as well," library visitor Randy Larson said.
"It's a gun and it can go off very quickly and has really bad results," library visitor Catherine Reynolds said.
The city of Seattle has for years tried to ban guns in public places, even though the state Constitution grants citizens that right.
Library officials voted to make the change and allow guns inside, but in reality they had no choice.
"The reason for the rule change is the Seattle Public Libraries needs to be in compliance with state law around firearms," Seattle public library spokeswoman Andra Addison said.
Where one can carry a gun has long been a big issue for those on both sides of the gun debate.
"It's a terrible idea, absolutely terrible idea," said Ralph Fascitelli, spokesman for the gun-safety organization Washington CeaseFire.
"Whether it's a good idea or bad idea, they have to comply with state law," said Dave Workman, spokesman for the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation.
The foundation filed a successful lawsuit to stop Seattle's ban on guns in parks.
Workman said that lifting the decades-old ban on libraries is long overdue.
"This may come as a shock to some of the people at the Seattle library system, but armed citizens have been going in and using that facility for years. Now is the time for the Seattle library system to comply with the state law and they're doing that and that's the responsible thing to do," Workman said.
Washington CeaseFire disagrees.
"Cities like Seattle that want to protect their people can't. They can't protect them in parks. They can't protect them in libraries. And like I say, it's a bad law. It's a bad law because where you have guns you have gun violence," Fascitelli said.


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For or Against Children
The problematic history of Stand for Children
By Adam Sanchez, Ken Libby
Illustrator: David McLimans
Illustration: David McLimans
Last October, a friend called with a question: "What do you know about Stand for Children?" The advocacy organization, based in our hometown of Portland, Ore., was expanding into his state of Illinois, and he hoped to glean some insight into the kinds of reforms the group would support. Just two months later, Stand's Illinois branch had amassed more than $3 million in a political action committee and unveiled an aggressive teacher evaluation bill.
"Have they always been like this?" he asked.
The short answer: no.
Stand for Children was founded in the late 1990s as a way to advocate for the welfare of children. It grew out of a 1996 march by more than 250,000 people in Washington, D.C. The aim of the march was to highlight child poverty at a time when Congress and the Clinton administration were preparing to "end welfare as we know it." Jonah Edelman, son of children's and civil rights activist Marian Wright Edelman, co-founded the group and continues to serve as CEO. Stand's first chapter was in Oregon, but the group now operates in eight additional states: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.
According to Susan Barrett, a parent volunteer who recently left Portland's Stand chapter, Stand started with a genuine focus on improving the lives of poor children:
[Stand] worked on smaller issues with positive impact, such as after-school program funding and emergency dental care for uninsured kids. Many parents like me who joined Stand a while back still remember how it was an organization fighting for the Portland Children's Levy, which provided funds for early childhood education, foster care, child abuse prevention programs, and a variety of other programs centered on children.1
Here is a snapshot of Stand's agenda during that period:
Health coverage for uninsured children
Monitoring the impact of welfare reform
More money for affordable, high-quality child care
Safe and productive after-school activities
Schools that have small classes, well-trained teachers, high standards, and involved parents. 2
Fifteen years later, Stand seems to have morphed into something quite different. For Oregonians, the first public indications that Stand had made a striking 180-degree turn in its politics was its support for Race to the Top legislation and its active promotion of the antiunion, anti-public school film Waiting for "Superman." Stand led a well-financed, intensive campaign for the film, organizing special invitation-only showings for various constituencies.
According to Barrett:
This past year, Oregon Stand staff wanted us to press our legislators to pass a "bipartisan education package," which basically tied the release of much-needed school funding to the expansion of charter schools, online learning, and other so-called "reforms." Stand also pushed to lower the capital gains tax.
For Tom Olson, another former Portland Stand member, the final straw was the appointment of a new executive director for the Oregon chapter:
We were appalled that [Sue Levin] had virtually no experience leading grassroots organizations. Instead, we were told that she had a truly impressive background as an "entrepreneur" (a phrase we began to hear [CEO Edelman] use quite frequently during [his] transformation during 2009–10). Levin had been the founder and CEO of a women's apparel company, Lucy Inc. Prior to that, she had been a women's sports apparel VP at Nike Inc. Grassroots leadership experience? Absolutely none. Connections with millionaires? A whole bunch. 3
For Stand's Portland chapter, where the organization is headquartered and one of the few places where it has a significant history of grassroots activism, the changes in Stand's role have clearly been traumatic for parents and community members who had a very different image of the organization. This is clearly not a local phenomenon. As Stand has expanded, it has followed a similar pattern: In state after state, Stand has made the corporate-driven agenda of expanding charter schools and tying teacher pay and evaluations to student test scores their top priority.
To be sure, Stand has maintained some vestiges of its original focus on children. Stand recently supported bills in Colorado and Oregon that would allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at state colleges; in both states, conservative activists expressed hostility to these measures. The Colorado chapter opposed a proposition and two statewide amendments that would have gutted education funding. The Arizona chapter supported a temporary 1 percent tax increase that avoided significant cuts to public schools. The Tennessee chapter fought an English-only amendment that would have negatively affected schools and families, supported changes to suspension policies that hurt children, and pushed for more pre-K funds.
But, unfortunately, the dominant impact of Stand, everywhere it has a presence, is much more pro-business than pro-children. This was certainly the case in Illinois, where Stand for Children played a part in crafting what they are touting as their biggest victory yet: Senate Bill 7.Standing Against Illinois Teachers
SB 7, which passed the Illinois Senate in a unanimous vote and the General Assembly with a single dissenter, undermines seniority as the basis of teacher job security and specifically singles out the Chicago Teachers Union by severely restricting its right to strike.
Chicago has become a testing ground for corporate education policy. Recent CEOs of Chicago Public Schools have included Paul Vallas (1995–2001), who later became the architect behind the union-busting and charterization plan in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina; and Arne Duncan (2001–08), who privatized Chicago public schools at a rate of about 10 per year before becoming Barack Obama's education secretary. The policies pushed by these corporate reformers have been touted as "miraculous" by business leaders, but have created a horrendous environment for Chicago teachers.
Intensive and strategic organizing in the face of layoffs, increasing attacks on teachers, and school closings led to last year's victory for the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE), which swept the 2010 Chicago Teachers Union elections, winning every single seat. But CORE came to power in the context of an economic crisis in which workers are being forced to bear the brunt of economic sacrifice. The city's elite became even more determined to break the teachers' union.
Bruce Rainer, a Republican venture capitalist, recruited Edelman to come to Illinois and help with this task. Thanks to a speech caught on video and posted on YouTube, we now know the intimate details of how Stand for Children helped shape Illinois' latest anti-teacher legislation. Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, billionaire James Crown and Jonah Edelman caused an uproar with their comments about SB 7.
Their panel discussion, titled "If It Can Happen There, It Can Happen Anywhere: Transformational Education Legislation in Illinois," began with Crown painting a picture of an all-powerful teachers' union that consistently blocks education reform and has a stranglehold on Illinois politics. Crown was particularly angry that teachers in Illinois had maintained their right to strike. "In 45 of the 50 states, there is no right to strike by teachers," he protested. "So this was an incredibly strike-permissive environment with these other efforts by the unions, and so forth, that created an unsustainable structure in our school system."
Following Crown, Edelman gave a step-by-step account of how Stand for Children worked to undermine teachers' union rights in Illinois. After explaining how Stand essentially bought a handful of Illinois legislators with campaign contributions—most crucially, Democratic Assembly Speaker Michael Madigan—Edelman explained Stand's strategy:
After the election, Advance Illinois and Stand had drafted a very bold proposal we called Performance Counts. It tied tenure and layoffs to performance. It let principals hire who they choose. It streamlined dismissal of ineffective tenured teachers substantially—from two-plus years and $200,000 in legal fees, on average, to three to four months, with very little likelihood of legal recourse.
And, most importantly, we called for the reform of collective bargaining throughout the state—essentially, proposing that school boards would be able to decide any disputed issue at impasse. So a very, very bold proposal for Illinois, and one that six months earlier would have been unthinkable, undiscussable. . . .
We hired 11 lobbyists, including the four best insiders and seven of the best minority lobbyists, preventing the unions from hiring them. We enlisted a statewide public affairs firm. . . . We raised $3 million for our political action committee between the election and the end of the year. That's more money than either of the unions have in their political action committees.
And so essentially, what we did in a very short period of time was shift the balance of power. I can tell you there was a palpable sense of concern, if not shock, on the part of the teachers' unions in Illinois that Speaker Madigan had changed allegiance, and that we had clear political capability to potentially jam this proposal down their throats, the same way the pension reform had been jammed down their throats six months earlier.
Edelman's comments produced outrage among union and education activists. He issued an apology, saying he regretted that he "left children mostly out of the equation," and that the speech "could cause viewers to wrongly conclude that I'm against unions."
For their part, the leaders of Illinois' three main education unions blasted Edelman in a joint statement:
We heard a lot from Jonah Edelman about power in politics, power over unions, and management power over teachers. Sadly, we didn't hear anything in that hour-long session about improving education. . . . What's worse is that these false claims clearly show an organizational agenda that has nothing to do with helping kids learn.
It's clear from Edelman's remarks that Stand's effectiveness is reliant on a public perception that it represents the interests of parents. But in fact, Stand's agenda is now closely aligned with those who call for privatization, charters, vouchers, and an end to teachers' unions.
This is true throughout the country. For example, Stand's most significant work in Colorado was their support of Senate Bill 191, a landmark piece of legislation that bases 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation on student achievement data. As Dana Goldstein explained in a recent American Prospect article, this may lead the state to test every student, in every grade, in every subject—including art, music, and PE. The poisonous debate around the bill vilified those in opposition and demoralized teachers across the state. One teacher, recalling the negotiations over the bill, told Goldstein, "I've chosen a profession that, in the public eyes, is worse than prostitution."
Stand's Colorado operations are funded in part by the Walton Family Foundation and the Daniels Fund, two right-wing philanthropies that have pushed for vouchers and charter schools.
Stand entered Texas in early 2011 as the state wrestled with a budget shortfall that could be as high as $27 billion. The dramatic cuts to schools in the Lone Star state will undoubtedly harm children, yet Stand put their might behind a campaign to evaluate teachers. Texas Senate Bill 4 and the companion bill in the House call for basing from 30 to 50 percent of teacher evaluations on test score growth. In addition, Stand supported legislation that would aid Texas charter schools.
To further this agenda, Stand hired nine lobbyists with ties to the Republican Party, including three lobbyists from Delisi Communications. The firm's president, Ted Delisi, purchased Karl Rove's consulting and direct mail company when Rove joined the Bush presidential campaign in 1999, and ran the Bush/Cheney fundraising and mailer campaign the following year.
Stand set up shop in Indiana in early 2011 and began advocating for changes to teacher evaluations as Gov. Mitch Daniels and the Republican-controlled legislature passed the most expansive state voucher program in U.S. history, expanded charter schools, restricted collective bargaining, and made serious changes to teacher evaluations. Stand's advocacy for test-based teacher evaluations included statements that were blatantly false, including: "Studies show that a teacher's influence on student achievement is 20 times greater than any other variable, including class size or poverty."
What happened? How did Stand morph from an organization with a focus on children's health issues, nonschool factors, and research-based school improvements to an organization that pushes core elements of the corporate destruction of public education?
Stand has seen an enormous influx of corporate cash. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation began by offering a relatively modest two-year grant of $80,000 in 2005. In 2007, Stand for Children received a $682,565 grant. In 2009, the point at which Stand's drastically different political agenda became obvious, Gates awarded a $971,280 grant to support "common policy priorities" and in 2010, a $3,476,300 grant.
Though the Gates Foundation remains the biggest donor to Stand for Children, other players in the world of corporate education reform have also begun to see Stand as an effective vehicle to push their agenda.
New Profit Inc. has funded Stand since 2008—to the tune of $1,458,500. According to its website, New Profit is a "national venture philanthropy fund that seeks to harness America's spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship to help solve the country's biggest social problems."
The Walton Family Foundation made a 2010 grant of $1,378,527. Several other major funders are tied to Bain Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm founded by Mitt Romney.
In a similar time frame, Stand's National Board of Directors has seen dramatic changes. Lauene Powell Jobs joined the board of Stand for Children in 2006. She also serves on the board of Teach for America. Both Powell Jobs and Julie Mikuta, who joined the Stand board in 2007, are integrally involved with the NewSchools Venture Fund. NewSchools is a venture philanthropy firm, started by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and financed by many of the same donors who give to Stand for Children—Bill Gates, the Walton Family—as well as Eli Broad and Gap founder Donald Fisher. NewSchools Venture Fund pours money into charter schools and "human capital" projects with the aim of using market models and corporate management to drastically reshape the education system.
In 2010, Emma Bloomberg, daughter of billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, became the newest member of Stand's national board. Emma Bloomberg is a program officer at the Robin Hood Foundation, another venture philanthropy organization, whose board of directors is dominated by corporate titans like General Electric CEO Jeffery Immelt and JP Morgan CEO Jes Staley.
Marian Wright Edelman is no longer a board member. In fact, 11 of the 14 board members of Stand for Children and the Stand for Children Leadership Center have joined the organization since 2006.
The education policy environment has changed significantly during the past 10 years. Particularly since the onset of the economic crisis, teachers have increasingly been blamed for "failing public schools." Major foundations have spent millions in efforts to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores, make it easier to hire and fire teachers, and restrict teachers' rights to due process and to strike. Co-opting organizations like Stand for Children Reshapes the public face of corporate education reform and helps make anti-union and privatization schemes more palatable to liberals and progressives. It's clear that conservative foundations and corporate-backed operatives recognize that organizing parents is a promising way to further their agendas (see David Bacon's "Trigger Laws: Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice?" ).
There is a legitimate concern for teacher quality, how layoffs are handled, and the need for greater parent and community involvement in teacher contract negotiations. These are serious issues for low-income families and other marginalized communities, but Stand's approach fails to bring parents, teachers, and communities together, and instead embraces policies favored by historic opponents of public schools and teachers' unions.
As Susan Barrett explains:
My fear is that unwitting parents and community members will join Stand because they want to rectify the problems they see every day in their children's public schools, such as underfunding, lack of arts programs, large class sizes and cuts to the school year, only to find that they get roped into very different goals. . . I worry we will lose a truly democratic discussion and action on education weighted in favor of corporate reforms.
We agree. There is a need for a parent- and community-driven organization that is not directly tied to teachers unions. An organization that pushes for quality early childhood education, adequate funding for the public education system, and attention to childhood health issues would certainly represent a kid-first agenda. It is even possible to critique teacher training, hiring, and firing in such a broad agenda. But putting kids first is no longer the focus of Stand for Children.
TRAMPLING THE GRASSROOTS
A sharp right turn in Massachusetts
August 2009: It was an emergency. The Massachusetts Stand for Children director said a decision must be made immediately—that very day.
She was pressing the two dozen local leaders holding their statewide meeting to get on board with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's education "reform" bill, which called for more charter schools and the use of test scores to evaluate teachers.
That would be a big shift. Until then, Stand had been all about getting more money for schools. In previous years, the group had brought as many as 2,000 parents and other activists to the Statehouse to lobby for more money for children in the budget.
The staff had also taught Stand chapters how to run funding campaigns in their own communities. "They helped us divvy up call lists and organize meetings to get the city to adopt an optional meals tax," says Sharon Guzik, a former Stand activist in the Boston suburb of Medford. "We were very new and very grateful."
But at the August meeting, the state director said Stand must change, and fast.
Why the rush? Gov. Patrick was trying to win a huge federal Race to the Top grant, working on a tight schedule. His "reform" bill was the key to the money. If Stand helped, it would get a seat at the table.
There was no mention of the big bucks that corporate foundations were starting to pour into the Stand national organization that year as it swung around to match the corporate agenda all across the country.
Some chapter leaders at the meeting refused to go along. They had been battling proposed charter schools in their communities that would suck money from their school budgets.
But the majority deferred to the staff. "Most of the people there were newbies," recalls Roger Garberg from the town of Gloucester, where an intense charter school fight was under way. In the end, he and his allies were outvoted.
After the meeting, Stand lobbyists worked hard to pass the governor's bill, but some members continued to resist. Tracy Novick, an activist in Worcester, got parents together to write their legislators, as Stand members, in opposition.
"Well, that blew the top off," she says. "We had the statewide chair out for meetings, it was a circus."
Not a fun circus—friendships broke up as the Worcester chapter fell apart.
Garberg is still angry, but he understands why some Stand leaders and staff wanted to change course. Before, he says, "year after year, after budget season, we [Stand leaders] would put the budget under a microscope to identify our successes. You have to have a story that tells members their efforts were worthwhile. But it was becoming harder and harder."
"A seat at the table" must have been very alluring, especially combined with the prospect of serious money for the organization. "That made it easy to adopt a rhetoric with a civil rights cast to it about closing achievement gaps," he says. "The problem is, the rhetoric and reality were completely at odds."
For Worcester, Gloucester, Medford, and other big Stand chapters, the organization's turnabout was the end of the line. Within a few months, they folded, unwilling to toe the new line.
But flush with funding and new staff, Stand is very much alive in Massachusetts. The group is building chapters in Boston and other communities, including a new one in Worcester.
Recently, the state commissioner of education publicly thanked Stand for supporting his new teacher evaluation formula, which includes student test scores.
Now, Stand is pushing out ahead of Gov. Patrick with its corporate agenda. It supported a business-backed bill that will supposedly "save" municipalities $100 million by restricting bargaining on health benefits for teachers and other public employees. Patrick softened the bill before he agreed to sign it. And Stand announced it will push for a statewide ballot initiative to put teacher "effectiveness" ahead of seniority in determining layoffs or transfers. Patrick's education secretary immediately said it's too soon to talk about doing that because the state's brand-new teacher evaluation system has yet to prove itself.
But with plenty of corporate money to pay signature gatherers, there's little doubt that Stand will get its petition onto the 2012 ballot, setting off a battle that will pit this formerly progressive group against many of its own ex-leaders and supporters.
Barrett, Susan. "Stand for Children: A Hometown Perspective of Its Evolution," Parents Across America website: parentsacrossamerica.org/2011/07/stand-for-children-a-hometown-perspective-of-its-evolution.
Goldstein, Dana . "The Test Generation," The American Prospect. April 11, 2011: http://prospect.org/cs/ articles?article=the_test_generation.
Olson, Tom. "Another Former Stand for Children Member Speaks Out," Parents Across America website: parentsacrossamerica.org/2011/07/tom-olsen-another-former-stand-for-children- member-speaks-out.
Ken Libby (kenmlibby@gmail.com)is a graduate student in the Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Adam Sanchez (adam.m.sanchez@gmail.com) is a substitute teacher based in Portland, Oregon.
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Teachers in perfect harmony
Tonight is the night. The audience will be waiting in Yale's Marquand Chapel at four o'clock whether she is ready or not, though of course she will be. She's been practicing since she was a four year old girl in Ireland, sitting with the same piano teacher her mother had when she was a child. Her confidence, along with years of study and rehearsal, helps her relax and conserve the energy she'll need to conduct her orchestra in just a few short hours. She decides to bake scones.
On the other side of the world, another musician is preparing for the concert of a lifetime. She has just flown across the world to perform for an audience of 10,000. To get herself ready, the diligent musician is warming up the reeds she made for her oboe. After the pieces are perfectly fitted and ready, it's practice, practice, practice until show time. Confident and methodical, she's prepared to give it all she's got.
These two musicians, each incredibly disciplined and inspired, yet distinct in their approach to the craft, are music teachers at The Lewis School.
Hannah Carr
Hannah Carr grew up in Ireland and plays piano and organ. Leading up to a performance, you will likely find Ms. Carr indulging in some rest and rejuvenation, a tradition that dates back to her degree recital at the Yale Institute for Sacred Music. "I prepared by baking scones for the reception," she said. "I think it is often better to relax before something like that, whenever possible." Today Ms. Carr counts the Yale recital as one of her proudest achievements.
Dr. Marie Trudeau is also a trained pianist, in addition to playing oboe, English horn and baroque oboe. Her knowledge and appreciation for her instruments began when she was ten years old. Unlike Ms. Carr, Dr. Trudeau was raised in a home without much music. "I had to discover it myself," said Dr. Trudeau. She joined the school band playing the oboe and loved it from the start. The student-turned-professional musician recently returned from a whirlwind trip to perform in China. "The city spent $140,000,000 to light up the buildings in the background," she said about the event. "The audience wanted pictures and selfies with us after." To Dr. Trudeau, this experience was the most memorable of her career thus far.
Dr. Marie Trudeau
Dr. Trudeau prepares for a performance by making reeds for her instrument. "I have to make my own mouthpieces for oboe," she said. "It's the most difficult part about the instrument and requires several hours each week. I warm up slowly and practice the parts. Making sure I'm solid in my own sound and part makes the entire orchestra better, like a team."
Ms. Carr and Dr. Trudeau joined Lewis in the Fall of 2017 and the Spring of 2018, respectively. Along with teaching music during the day and leading choir after school, they have conducted and contributed to several performances in their time at Lewis.
"I want my students to discover that there is more to music than what they hear on the radio," said Dr. Trudeau. "I want them to get a full perspective of what music has given to humanity in a broader historical context." Ms. Carr is eager to teach the students the importance of studying and practicing. "The process can often be more enjoyable than the product," she said. In order to be a successful music student, "a love of music is most important," according to Ms. Carr. Dr. Trudeau echoes that same sentiment, advising students to "listen often and to a lot of music!"
Both teachers see the potential in their students. "Every student at The Lewis School has music ability," said Dr. Trudeau. "I've seen it! And they inspire me every day." One such student is Sammy Kravitz, who will join Ms. Carr's beloved womens' choir when they perform in Hoboken, New Jersey mid-December. Sammy will join as the choir's professional musician.
When they are not practicing, teaching or performing, Ms. Carr loves to cook, paint, and relax with her new baby. You might find Dr. Trudeau at the beach, exercising or spending time with her two orange cats.
Two musicians, both with nearly a lifetime of exposure and practice, each incredibly disciplined and inspired, yet uniquely distinct in their approach to the craft. Their journeys have led them both to The Lewis School where they are like two separate notes working together to create a beautiful harmony for their students.
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Upper School student, Sheridan Durant, had a wonderful idea: "We could Trick or Treat in reverse!" Her original idea was to round up students to walk through the Princeton neighborhood in costumes on Halloween – but instead of asking for candy, they would ask for canned foods to be donated to the local pantry. This idea morphed into something a bit safer, but still in keeping with the spirit of service. The Scare Away Hunger project asks the Lewis community to bring canned foods between Halloween and Thanksgiving. Her goal is to create a "Great Wall of Cans" that, when brought down, would open up possibilities to children who are hungry during this season of plenty.
What was Sheridan's inspiration? "Like most kids, I love Halloween. It is a really fun time of pumpkin carving, picking out a costume…and who doesn't love free candy?" she asks. "But as happy as this time of year makes me, it also makes me think of the kids who don't even get to eat real food, let alone candy."
It is this spirit of service to others that reminds me of the words of Mother Teresa: "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." From the heart of one student, let us bring food to the table of a hundred children. – Chantra Reinman
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We've been doing some serious spring cleaning over here at Wistia HQ, and one of the spaces in the office we just could not ignore was the studio. Over time, our once-beloved home for all things video had slowly become … well, embarrassing.
Luckily, with the help of some professional organizers (and, of course, The Container Store), we were able to revamp our entire space, turning it from drab to fab. Here's a look at the makeover from start to finish!
First, we started off by taking everything out of the studio and doing a good old-fashioned purge. With a better idea of what we were actually working with, we then organized all of our gear by category, differentiating between what we needed on a daily basis and what could go outside the studio in "deep storage." In this case, deep storage just means outside the confines of the studio itself.
Next, the organizers (shout out to The Little Details for their help with this!) sized everything up and created CAD drawings for where things would go. The whole transition from a cluttered mess to clean and clear took about 20 hours, and although parts of it were pretty daunting, it was totally worth it.
Still itching to see how this actually went down? Check out this whirlwind of a timelapse video for a glimpse into our sordid past!
Our motivation to clean and organize the studio was not just for our own personal gain on the video team. We wanted to set up the studio to make it super easy for any Wistian to borrow a piece of video gear. The way we did this was to give everything a home and make crystal clear labels.
As we mentioned before, we broke the studio into two parts. The essential video gear we use practically every single day like lenses and SD cards, and the other items we rarely use like fog machines and my Arri kit from 2002. But wherever we placed items, we made sure to create a label.
Sure, as a video producer, I may have known exactly where that fresh stack of SD cards was hanging out, but someone else at Wistia would have no idea where to look first. Now that we have a more democratized studio space, everyone will be able to find exactly what they need with minimal stress. It will hopefully empower folks to use it confidently and with more intention.
And so far I have to say … it's been working! Shoot set up times have decreased because we spend less time searching for gear and more time setting up. And breaking down afterward has actually become quite, dare I say, therapeutic. With a place for everything and everything in its place, we're able to operate on cruise control and shut off our brains as we wrap XLR cables and return light stands to their perfect little home.
So, there you have it! The Wistia studio is now running like a well-oiled machine, accessible to all and devoid of the menacing pile. Thanks again to the organizers at The Little Details and our favorite store to purchase containers. We couldn't have done it without you.
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