Public Utility Commission Technical Filing Requirements – While many content providers and outsourced service providers focus on indirect tax, compliance with state Public Utility Commissions does not get the attention that is needed. Your PUC license is a valuable asset of your business. Without focus on Regulatory Compliance this valuable asset can be lost or placed in jeopardy. This Workshop will focus on the technical filing requirements of PUC compliance.
Case Study in Public Utility Compliance – Regulatory compliance issues, the rules driving commission remittances and imposition based on license type are the focus of the session. We will also explore recent case studies and activity by the commissions to seek out non-compliant carriers. This session will map a path, that will avoid the pitfalls of non-compliance and focus on what each licensed carrier type should be prepared for.
Licensing with the Public Utility Commission (A Company Asset) – This session will focus on the various licensing requirements for specific carrier types. The presenters will share the highlights of the process to obtain an asset license for your business, focusing on requirements, process, pitfalls, timeline and cost.
GSA has teamed up with two other industry leading suppliers to provide a cohesive solution to Evolve your VoIP or CLEC business through greater control over customer DIDs. This unique offering allows VoIP providers to gain greater control over the port in and out of customers DIDs. In recent studies, findings show that the average VoIP provider can not only gain greater control over their DID's but in most cases, it can also result in a significant increase in profit.
In 2016, the FCC changed the rule regarding qualifications for carriers who wish to manage their own DIDs. Prior to this ruling, only CLECs and ILECs could directly control DIDs, handle porting, gain access to local number pooling, and register to 911. Later in the year, the order was extended to VoIP and Wireless Carriers who register and qualify under the guidelines. In short, a VoIP or Wireless Carrier must be an Interconnected Carrier – either by their own infrastructure, or through interconnection agreements, and show proof that they can and will conform to the Numbering Database guidelines for managing the DIDs they possess.
Providers looking to enter this space, and take control of their numbering assets, are faced with an uphill regulatory battle on top of new administrative challenges. While it is now possible for VoIP and Wireless Carriers, the underlying requirements and procedural changes can be daunting and out of reach for most businesses without significant financial investment.
Porting.com has teamed up with Global Strategic Accountants, LLC (www.gsaudits.com) and Peerless Network(www.peerlessnetwork.com) to unveil a simplified method for VoIP and Wireless Carriers to scale their businesses through new revenue channels, reduced overhead, and enhanced control of their most important asset – numbers. This collaborative solution, aptly named VoIP Evolution, is a process by which providers can transition from a reseller to becoming an FCC-approved Interconnected VOIP Provider (IVP), establish wholesale interconnect agreements to gain access to the PSTN, and gain access to their own numbering resources for local and toll-free numbers.
Research has shown that there is significant cost savings associated with controlling numbering resources. Recurring DID fees are eliminated for numbers that are "on-net" (LATAs where the business has thousand blocks), and provisioning teams gain direct control of the pre-port (LSR) and port (SV Management) process, leading to greater customer satisfaction and faster activations. For numbers that are "off net" you still will have the ability to view and control activities with this program.
In a recent study performed by Global Strategic Accountants, LLC, a business with 15,000 DIDs under contract and 500 ports per month would realize an estimated monthly savings of $10,770. With return on investment being achieved in 2.79 months, the business would see an estimated $99,240 first year benefit and $116,172 benefit in the second year to devote towards additional support for managing the DIDs inhouse.
Together, through this collaborative solution, Global Strategic Accountants, LLC, Peerless Network and Porting.com, aim to grant local number control to providers who have yet to realize their most important business asset.
Global Strategic Accountants, LLC was formed in 2002 with the goal of providing superior telecommunications consulting services and solutions to help clients meet their business needs. They are among the most recognized telecommunications consulting firms in the country and are a dynamic business spearheaded by industry leaders with proven track records of providing unparalleled first-class service to meet compliance and customer needs. Under their guidance, they are able to define clear objectives, deliver topnotch work, and meet deadlines to effectively provide assistance when businesses need it most.
From CSR/LSR to SV activation and every step in between, Porting.com features full-service solutions for local number porting, CSR/LSR, LSMS, and local number query. With the most technologically-advanced, user- and developer-friendly TPP management and SOA platform on the market, as well as the only provider to include APIs with each subscription at no additional cost, Porting.com is leading the industry in LNP automation.
The overriding goal at Peerless Network is to simplify the interconnection process of telecommunication systems and enhance competitiveness in emerging markets. Peerless does this by building solutions that help customers lower their costs, scale more efficiently, enter new markets faster, and improve the quality of service they deliver to their own customers.
Peerless offers a complete line of tandem, end-office and value-added services designed specifically to enhance competitiveness in the telecom market. Long Distance Providers, Wireless Carriers, Cable Companies, CLECs, VoIP and Enhanced Service Providers and telecom-intensive Enterprises all rely on Peerless Network to provide high-quality and innovative services, at market-driven rates.
Beth Brandenstein; Global Strategic Accountants, LLC's VP of Compliance Operations, has accepted a new role at GSA as the VP of Customer Success effective February 1, 2019.
Beth takes on this new position as GSA announces additional practices and service lines designed to streamline the telecommunications Back Office Accounting and Compliance offered by GSA. As the VP of Customer Success, Beth will be redefining the role GSA plays in managing the financial reporting responsibilities for carriers serving North America. From: Migrations and Onboarding to; GSA's Mergers and Acquisition Due Diligence to; Post Acquisition support projects. Beth will be leading a team to ensure that our customers are well served by the advice and professional support teams GSA offers.
Filling her role in Regulatory Compliance is Doug Hoff, Manager of Compliance Operations and led by Joe Solana, the President and COO.
The Regulatory Compliance Team will be lead by Joe Solana, President and COO and managed by Doug Hoff, Compliance Manager.
GSA will once again be participating in the 2019 Channel Partners Conference and Expo at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV April 9-12.
Learn about our Cost Control and Revenue Assurance offerings to make profit a priority for your business in 2019. Additionally, you can learn about our back office accounting services and of course GSA's best of breed compliance services for Tax and Regulatory.
GSA will be in booth 1235. We cannot wait to see you!
ATLANTA — Demand for Back Office Accounting support and Corporate Tax services lead Global Strategic Accountants LLC to offer several levels of Accounting support for the communications industry.
Managing the back-office accounting and other accounting functions such as cash flow management, vendor administration and reconciliations of various income and expense streams can be the difference between success and failure for growing companies. Whether you are a start-up or an enterprise, GSA has the expertise and automation to efficiently handle your back office accounting process and corporate and personal income taxes.
"This is a natural extension of GSA's services and expertise," said Zach LaHood CPA, GSA Controller. As a trusted advisor on tax policy and proven back office support processes you can work with professionals who understand your business and have the accounting experience to make your accounting process effortless, so you can focus on growing your business. " We have several levels of support depending upon your unique needs. GSA's team can work along side your staff or CPA to offer support and reporting where needed, " Zach added.
Back Office Accounting Services include Support levels such as standard "Bookkeeping" support for monthly account reconciliation and quarterly reporting up to "Controller" level support for a more robust suite of services such as forecasting, cash flow management, payroll and more.
Business Tax Services can include Federal and State Income Tax returns with support on gathering financial data as needed.
See you in beautiful Hollywood Beach, FL!
Global Strategic Accountants LLC, a leading practice in Tax and Regulatory consulting and services with customers from five continents, is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our accounting and consultancy practice. GSA is in Alpharetta, GA.
This position serves as manager and supervisor of the Research Section within the Regulatory Research Department.
This position is the expert advisory role to the EVP, President and CEO of a leading telecommunications/energy tax and regulatory firm. Accordingly, it participates in the design, implementation and evaluation of Public Service and Public Utility programs, assigns reports, schedule reports and creates filing policies in all domestic jurisdictions and Canada. The position also requires immediate interpretation of new Public Service and Public Utility requirements, data requests and regulatory posturing obligations by unique state specific carrier type. The role reviews drafted legislation, federal rules and policy, as well as agency orders to assess impact on the client. This position's duties also include researching, advising and assisting the EVP, President and CEO on a frequent basis. The position will require client interaction daily and will require on-site visits for client onboarding.
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be adaptable, flexible, and able to work independently to accomplish tasks in a time sensitive manner. Knowledge of: state and federal laws impacting utility legislation; how to handle adversarial interactions; how to negotiate reasonable solutions; effective research techniques; ability to: plan, direct and coordinate activities of a complex, interrelated and interdependent nature, where unknowns and numerous contingency factors are involved; work with outside parties and establish a working relationship in order to accomplish program goals; interpret existing and proposal laws, policies and procedures and how they relate to utility regulations; assess the client specific impact, operational and organizational implications of existing and proposed legislative, policy and program decisions; formulate firm policies, procedures and guidelines; and serve as technical advisor and liaison with internal staff, clients and staff, industry, affiliate groups and local, state and federal agencies. Analytical and computer skills required. Testing of analytical, computer and research skills will be part of the interview process.
ATLANTA — RBO® TEM (Telecom Expense Management) from Global Strategic Accountants LLC is a software-as-a-service product that systematically audits invoices from wholesale telecom carriers such as AT&T and Verizon as well as independent and local exchange carriers or resellers. TEM replaces manual efforts and ensures that resellers are not double-taxed and that the correct regulatory rules are applied to the bills.
RBO® TEM is the first expense management solution with revenue assurance built in. For customers using billing service company Rev.io, RBO® TEM also links every wholesale cost element from the likes of AT&T and Verizon with elements on all end-user bills to ensure that resellers get every service billed to the end customer. "Rev.io's new REST API can be used with GSA's RBO® TEM so our mutual clients can capture all of their earned revenue," said Rev.io Vice President of Sales and Marketing Evan Rice.
Customer trials show that the average reseller captures an additional 34 percent of gross profit by eliminating billing errors from their carriers. Overbilling, coupled with underbilling resale customers, is a costly and common issue in telecommunications.
"Invoice and contract auditing is the source of over half of the expense and revenue recovery by a carrier. The current process used by most carriers, like reverse audits, is archaic and outdated. We believe we have a first for our industry in mid-market revenue assurance automation. For every reseller, I say, 'it's time to automate!,'" said Matt LaHood, chief executive officer, Global Strategic Accountants LLC.
Rev.io, recognized as an Inc. 5000 company, provides sophisticated billing-as-a-service (BaaS) to communications and Internet of Things (IoT) service providers, enabling them to manage their end customers' subscriptions, usage, taxation, billing, and payments. To learn more about Rev.io, go to the Rev.io website or give us a call at 866-470-5502.
Global Strategic Accountants LLC provides regulatory, tax, and compliance accounting via a suite of services under the brand name RBO®. These Regulatory Back Office services manage regulatory rules and policies; billing-related customer experience management; carrier licensing; and, reporting and remittance. Within the telecommunications space, GSA provides revenue assurance through its latest service, RBO® TEM (Telecom Expense Management). In addition, the company's certified incubator aids international or mobile carriers entering the lucrative North American market. GSA serves customers on five continents.


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"Dropout Factories"
October 31, 2007 Eduflack High School, higher ed, Marketing, NAEP, NCLB, STEM
From most media coverage over the past few years, we like to think of our high schools as incubators for success. We throw around terms like rigor and relevance. We opine that every child should go onto to college. We push efforts to add additional AP or IB or dual enrollment programs to our schools. And then, researchers such as those at Johns Hopkins throw a big wake-up call at our feet, reminding us of how far we still need to go.
If you missed it, Nancy Zuckerbrod at AP has the story. http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/10/30/1_in_10_schools_are_dropout_factories?mode=PF The summary: one in 10 high schools in the United States post a graduation rate of 60 percent or less. That's 17 percent of all of the high schools in the United States.
For years, these school districts have underestimated the problem. The folks at Manhattan Institute would tell us an urban school district's graduation rate was 55 percent. The district would self-report 87 percent. And we'd believe the latter. We all want to believe statistics, and given the choice want to believe those that make us feel better about ourselves. And there is no feel-good message in half of our students failing to earn a high school diploma.
We'd like to believe this is a problem in our urban areas. But it isn't limited to those communities. These factories are just as likely in rural communities. Why? It's purely economics. We're far more likely to find these schools in poor communities. Dropout factories may be colorblind, but they know per-capita income. According to the Johns Hopkins researchers, Florida and South Carolina have the greatest percentage of these schools.
Those communities providing refuge to such schools have been all abuzz about their dropout factories over the past few days. We're quick to defend, to refute, and to deny. Such response is natural in crisis communications, and losing nearly half your students before graduation is indeed a crisis. But if there were ever a time calling out for vision and for strategy, it has to be now.
In her piece, Zuckerbrod points to a number of legislative proposals to help fix the problem. A common graduation rate formula is essential, as is stronger data collection and effective disaggregation of that data. Then what?
We need to ask WHY these students are dropping out. Despite popular opinion, few students leave high school because it is too hard. To the contrary, many will leave because it is too boring or irrelevant.
Are they leaving to go to work? If so, what "good" job is out there for a 16-year-old high school dropout? Some say they are dropping out because of NCLB or testing. But I'd opine that most high school students don't even know what NCLB is.
If we can gather data on why students leave school, we can craft the messages to get them to stay in school. Even without the data, we know that the message must be personalized, must be relevant, and must just be common sense. What does Eduflack mean?
* We need to start early. Focusing on high schools and careers in ninth or 10th grade is just too late. We need to get our kids on the right paths in middle school, get them thinking about the future, and show them the opportunities that really exist. Middle school is the time to dream … and to plan.
* We need to better link high school to career. Why take Algebra II? If you want to design video games or work in a hospital, you need it. High school courses are relevant.
* We need to take an interest. In talking with today's high school students about dropping out, most are staying in school because their teachers know them and take an interest in their lives. We get rid of the factory mentality when we treat students as individuals.
* Every child has opportunity. Education is the great equalizer. With it, any student — regardless of socioeconomic level — can succeed. But they need that high school diploma (and likely college degree) to do so.
* We cannot accept mediocrity. We should be appalled by with the dropout rates reported by Manhattan Institute and others. We simply cannot afford to lose a third of our students before the end of high school (and then another sizable group between high school and college completion).
I know, I know, I'm up on my high horse again. But sometimes, we just have to ride that stag. Dropout factories are simply unacceptable. Dropping out of high school is never a viable choice. If we want to build a new, strong economy based on high skill jobs, these are just the sort of factories that need a visit from the wrecking ball. We need schools that prepare us for the rigors, challenges and opportunities of the future, not those that keep us from participating in that future.
College for Everyone?
October 28, 2007 Eduflack early college, higher ed, Marketing, Presidential campaign
As we move closer to the early 2008 primaries, the presidential candidates (particularly the Democratic ones) are starting to discuss their ideas on public education. We still have a long way to go before we truly know what the candidates will do to improve public education and boost student achievement (funding preK is a start, railing against NCLB not so much). But education is finally a second-tier issue in discussions, debates, and policy joustings.
And John Edwards is part of the chorus. As of late, Edwards has started floating the idea of "College for Everyone," his plan to provide every American with one year of free college (tuition, fees, and books), in exchange for having taken a college prep curriculum in high school, holding a part-time job in college, and generally staying out of trouble in life.
It's a wonderful start, but, to Eduflack, the message falls grossly short. Virtually everyone agrees that postsecondary education today is necessary for success tomorrow. It provides the skills needed for a good job. It provides choices. It provides opportunity. Be it a career certificate, two-year college degree, or four-year degree, postsecondary ed is a necessary component to contribute to the 21st century economy.
Edwards knows that. The self-made millionaire owes his a good chunk of his success to his postsecondary education. And as he tours the country talking about Two Americas, he has to know that education is the great equalizer between the haves and the have nots. We reduce the gap between the two Americas through education and through the notion that success can be attained by all.
Knowing that, why does Edwards limit College for Everyone to just one year? Are the doors of opportunity opened after taking a few 101 courses? Of course not. The path to success is accessed, in large part, through a degree. That diploma is a measurement of achievement. Employers aren't looking for workers who have taken one year of intro courses. They want workers with college degrees.
When one looks at the number of organizations advocating for postsecondary education for all, one of the key messages is degree attainment. We have built a national dialogue that students must graduate from high school, and that dropping out is not an option. Postsecondary education is no different. Students must use their high school years to get college ready. And once the get to college, they need to earn their degree. The ole sheepskin is still the common measurement of academic success.
In proposing an ambitious plan to get kids to college, Edwards is simply playing the role of tease. The incentive should be a degree, not just a chance to hang out at the cool kids table for two semesters. Ultimately, Edwards' goal should be to boost the number of first-generation students graduating from high school and earning a college degree. That's the true road to equality and opportunity. Anything short, an we are dangling success in front of many, only to pull it back when they reach for it.
If we truly want to open the doors of postsecondary education to all students, we should be looking at adopting models that boost access and attainment, efforts like the Georgia Hope Scholarships. Readiness. Attainment. Application. That's how we move students from high school through postsecondary and into career. The goal should be a college degree for all, not a course or two of college for most.
Without such a commitment, Edwards' College for Everyone plan may only do one thing. That part-time job requirement may be the "path" that many students follow after they drop out of college after that first-year taste. It'll be one of a handful of part-time jobs they hold to help pay the rent.
How Quickly We Forget
October 25, 2007 Eduflack HQT, national standards, NCLB, NEA, NGA, President Bush
We all remember that George H.W. Bush (the First) was supposed to an education president. Convening an education summit at Eduflack's alma mater, Bush brought governors, business leaders, and other influencers together to focus on how to improve American education as we headed into the 21st century.
Then there is Bush II, and his legacy of No Child Left Behind. Like it or not, NCLB will be remembered as the federal government's largest investment in public education to date, and praised (or demonized) for its focus on research and results-based education.
What about that president in between? You know, that guy named Clinton. Sure, as governor of Arkansas, he was one of the primary leaders at Bush I's U.Va. summit. But when we think of President Bill Clinton's domestic policy successes, education doesn't leap to mind. Instead, we think of a strong economy, a balanced budget, community policing, and other such programs.
So what about President 42 and education? Eduflack was down in Little Rock, Arkansas this week, and had to make a stop at the Clinton Presidential Library. I'm just a sucker for presidential libraries, dating back to my father's involvement in the development of the JFK Library in Boston.
At the Clinton Center, they've focused on eight or so key issues that defined the Clinton Administration … and one of those issues is education. (In fact, the education alcove is larger than the section dedicated to the role of Vice President Al Gore in the eight-year administration.)
Clinton's impact on education is defined broadly. A commitment to lifetime learning. Investments in Head Start and Healthy Start. Goals 2000 standards. School choice (with a big ole spotlight on a Checker Finn book). Hiring 100,000 new teachers. Providing 1.3 million children with a safe place after school hours. Wiring 98 percent of our nation's classrooms with the Internet. Providing two years of college education to all students. School to work. Adult education.
I know, I know. It reads more like a grocery list that core accomplishments. Some are quantifiable, others can only be quantified by how many dollars were spent. Some are narrowly defined, others broadly. So it raises the larger question: What was the true impact of President Clinton's education agenda?
Eduflack is treading on dangerous ground here, knowing that Eduwife worked at the U.S. Department of Education in mid-1990s and did tremendous work there, particularly in the area of parental involvement. But we have to ask the question, why have we quickly forgotten so many of these Clinton era education initiatives?
Some of it, we just take for granted. Of course our classrooms are wired. We forget that when Clinton took office in 1993, there were only 170 total Web sites on the planet. Today, some of us will visit 170 sites in the course of a work day.
Some just didn't leave an impact. We may have hired 100,000 new teachers during the Clinton years, but we still bemoan the great teacher shortages in our schools. We may have sought to provide two years of college education to all high school graduates, but college costs continue to skyrocket and college readiness and college attainment numbers have flatlined. If everyone got those two years, would the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have to make the investments it is making to get kids through high school and into postsecondary education?
And some we just don't appreciate. Clinton supported school choice, and did so at a time when the teachers unions (those folks who helped him get elected in the first place) were strongly opposed to any change from the status quo. We take school choice and charters for granted now, but that was a major step for Clinton to take at the time. And it paved the way for W's voucher program and the expansion of school choice under NCLB.
But Goals 2000 is perhaps the most interesting, and most neglected, piece of the Clinton education portfolio. When he left office, 49 states had bought into Goals 2000. The program stood as a real, concrete first step toward national education standards. What had long been a third rail in education policy had been doggedly pursued by Richard Riley, Mike Cohen, and others, with tangible successes. Without it, who knows if we would even be talking about a national standard for Algebra II (as Achieve has put in place) or comprehensive standards as discussed by NGA, CCSSO, and others.
Ultimately, though, the easiest answer to why so much has been forgotten is impact. As we look at the Clinton agenda, we lose track of many of these initiatives because they seem to place process over results. Yes, the issues and the dollars behind them are impressive. But how has it improved student achievement? How did it boost teacher quality? How did it truly impact K-12 classrooms in schools across the nation?
Instead of answering these questions, we simply moved on. We set aside Goals 2000 and Clinton-era school choice and such so we could focus on NCLB, Reading First, and HQT. Out with the old, in with the new. Instead of building on successes and momentum, the Clinton/Riley agenda was put in storage, waiting to be rediscovered by historians in the decades to come.
Not every president is going to be an education president. And not every president should be. The needs and focus of the nation change from administration to administration. But if we are going to urge our schools to direct their attentions to long-term improvements and longitudinal evaluations, maybe we should consider the same in our federal policies. No, we shouldn't accept previous efforts blindly, without questioning them or looking for ways to improve them. But with changes in administration — whether it be at the school, district, state, or federal level — shouldn't we build on the forward progress and financial investments of our predecessors?
How Safe Is My School?
October 23, 2007 Eduflack DCPS, Students
For decades now, we've talked about school security. Metal detectors have become the norm in many urban schools, and we talk about arming teachers in rural and suburban schools to confront some of the school violence we've seen over the last decade. All the talk sends a core message — can our children learn if they aren't safe?
Two decades ago, the movie Lean on Me told the real-life story of Joe Clark and his crusade to save a New Jersey high school about to implode. For those who don't remember the Morgan Freeman movie, Clark almost lost his job after chaining the school doors to keep the drug dealers out, and was only saved when his test scores showed he had improved student performance where all hope was lost.
That was the 1980s. Clearly, we've learned a thing or two since then. Right?
Imagine Eduflack's surprise, then, when it was reported in most Washington, DC media outlets this morning that DCPS was finally eliminating the chains on some of its high school doors, replacing them with honest-to-goodness state-of-the-art security doors?
Did we learn nothing from Lean on Me? Are we honestly saying that for all of the talk the past decade about improving DC's schools and the increased concern for student safety, that no one thought that padlocks and rusted chains weren't a priority issue that demanded attention?
Sure, there is scant evidence that a safe school directly results in increased student achievement. But it is common sense that an unsafe school doesn't provide the learning environment kids need to succeed.
October 22, 2007 Eduflack Uncategorized
For a blog about effective communication, Eduflack has really dropped the ball. The call of the professional life — you know, the one that delivers the paycheck — has had me on the road and up to my reddish goatee in high school reform and STEM initiatives these past two weeks. And the result can be found on the empty pages of this blog over that time.
Rest assured, Eduflack is back online. Despite the travel and the work demands, I'm making the early New Years resolution to ensure that I'm getting at least three posts a week up, starting this week. So if you see me slacking, please rap my knuckles with the electronic ruler to get me back on track.
Multiple Pathways for Students … and Teachers
October 8, 2007 Eduflack AYP, HQT, NCLB, NEA, PR, Teacher Education
We all like to believe that we're all entitled to one week in the sun. No one can dispute that last week was just such a week for Teach For America. Bookended by articles in The New York Times magazine and the Economist, TFA has been the "it" program of the week. No small feat, what with continued discussions of NCLB, merit pay, and a host of national policy shifts.
Without doubt, TFA has a growing cadre of supporters throughout the nation. As it has expanded the cities and communities in which it serves, the organization has had a demonstrable impact on the school culture, on student and teacher motivation, and, yes, on student performance. Don't believe Eduflack? Check out the comprehensive research study Mathematica has done on the effectiveness of TFA.
Unfortunately, such attention and growth also gives birth to a healthy opposition. I've long told reform clients that if you don't have such critics, you aren't doing your job. Changing the status quo, calling on stakeholders to work harder or think smarter or do better invariably always brings forward that opposition. And TFA is no exception.
For years, those critics have been led by Stanford University professor Linda Darling-Hammond, perhaps the greatest defender of the status quo pedagogy of teacher education. Yes, she is a name to be reckoned with. Yes, she brings a distinguished history of good work and a commitment to public education. But sometimes, even the best take a wrong turn.
The status quoers have tried to protect teacher education for decades. The result? Our students' test scores have been relatively flat for most of Eduflack's lifetime. We may claim that our schools of education are churning out the best educators ever to face a classroom, but the results don't reflect that. For too long, we've allowed pedagogy to substitute for results. Sure, the inputs may be great, but what out the final outcomes? To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, are our students better of now than they were two decades ago?
The simple answer is, of course not. Today, we are asking far more of our students than ever before. Success in 2007 requires a high school diploma and a postsecondary degree or certificate. The time when only a third of high school students went to college is over. Instead, we are demanding multiple educational pathways for our students, pathways that provide every student with a way to postsecondary education and a guide to life success.
Which takes us back to Teach For America. If we are expected to build multiple instructional pathways for our students, it only goes to reason that we are to build multiple instructional pathways for our teachers as well. There is no one way to train a teacher. If there was, we'd build that factory and have a non-stop supply of highly qualified, effective teachers for every classroom, including those in low-performing areas.
No, the challenges of our schools requires multiple ways of thinking. From looking at those schools where programs like Teach For America or Troops to Teachers reside, we know that pedagogy is the least of these classrooms' problems. Here, many students have all but given up hope. They've lost faith in the school, or in the teacher, or in learning itself. For them, it isn't about instructional approaches. It is about repairing the school culture. Returning hope. Connecting the student with the teacher and the school.
And that's where programs like TFA excel. Success is not measured by an individual teacher or a specific cadre of corps members. Success, in the long run, comes from knowing there will always been a TFA teacher in front of that classroom, a teacher who connects with the student, inspires the student, and reconnects the student's passion for learning.
Accomplish that, and the student achievement will come. And scientific research can prove it. If anything, Darling-Hammond and her defenders of the status quo should be seeking out more opportunities and efforts like TFA. More programs that bring hope to inner-city schools. More programs that instill a culture of learning. More programs that provide our schools with enthusiastic, driven instructors eager to lead a classroom that has long been neglected. More programs that build a future generation of leadership on the notion that no issue is more important to the success of our nation and our community than a high-quality, effective education for ALL students.
Some critics, including those at dear ole Stanford, would point to the lifespan of a TFA teacher, questioning whether two years in the classroom really makes a difference. But how different is the two-year commitment of a TFA teacher from the short lifespan of today's traditional new teacher? TFA's mission was never to focus on teacher retention issues — it was to provide an ongoing stream of qualified, enthusiastic, committed educators in the communities that need them the most. TFA plays that specific role extremely well, so much so that it is continually embraced by superintendents, principals, and teachers across the nation. And in reality, the studies of TFA alumni show many of them stay in the classroom, go into school administration, or assume other roles that support education and growth in the community. And isn't that a measure of an effective educator?
In a nation looking for K-12 solutions, we need multiple answers. One just won't do. And Teach For America is definitely one of the answers. Ask a "traditional" teacher who works with a TFAer, and they'll tell you the same thing. Ask a family whose child is in a TFA classroom, and they'll concur. Ask Mathematica and other researchers, and they'll give you the proof points.
Teacher For America and its leaders should enjoy their week in the sun. The hard work begins today. Across the nation, districts and schools know TFA and programs like it work. So as the critics circle, TFA, its leadership, and its corps members need to ensure the highest quality implementation, instruction, and effect. Success is the best defense of the critics and the status quoers. And TFA is on its way.
Putting Our Money on a Winning Proposition
October 7, 2007 Eduflack AYP, DCPS, higher ed, Math
In education, the focus is often on people first, results second, and the money third. We think of the teachers and the students, then on achievement, and only then do we really start talking about dollars. We talk of per student costs, and compare our per-pupil spending with similar districts or with those who are outperforming us. The punchline, inevitably, is that we need more dollars for our classrooms.
Eduflack was taken by the discussion of two pricetags this Sunday morning, one depicting the worst of times, the other the possible best of the future. The first was a preview of Ted Koppel's program this evening on California's prison system. By his numbers, it is now $43,200 per year to send a student to Harvard University. It costs the State of California $43,000 per year to incarcerate an individual (and that person gets $200 upon leaving prison to get their lives started).
We can leave it to the economists and statisticians to tell us the long-term community effect of moving a quarter of those individuals from prison into a two- or four-year postsecondary institution. The effect of seeing there are opportunities that come from schoolhouse doors, rather than leading to prison doors. It's an age-old fight, but it is one that still remains important, particularly as we now see that postsecondary education is a necessary piece to a successful life.
As disheartening as the Koppel numbers are, education reformers around the nation should take note of the second pricetag, featured in a column written in today's Washington Post by Marc Fisher. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/06/AR2007100601111.html?hpid=topnews) We've all talked the talk on student preparedness for postsecondary education. We've recited the numbers on remediation and how the majority of today's high school grads simply lack the skills to succeed in college. Now we have a response.
In his piece, Fisher throws a spotlight on an important initiative happening on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia. At UDC, professors saw a 50-percent dropout rate in organic chemistry courses. And for those who stuck in the class, nearly a third received Fs. All of this in a course required of those students seeking a career in medicine.
On top of that, 80 percent of UDC students were taking remedial math classes. Makes it so one is ready to just give up on trying to encourage UDC's students — many low-income or minority or first-generation college-goers — to prepare for college, attend college, stay in college, and graduate with the ability to earn jobs in demanding fields like medicine, engineering, math, and such.
UDC's solution? A summer program designed to provide college readiness to UDC's incoming freshmen and fill the instructional gaps left by DCPS (since that's where many of UDC's students come from). By UDC's count, the program is reaping major rewards. And the cost? About $2,000 per student.
Currently, the UDC program is only serving a small number of students, working from grant money from The Washington Post Co. and the federal government. But the early indications are positive, with unexpected consequences. The math intervention effort is not only boosting math ability, but it has raised reading scores for those students 10 percent.
Sure, it's a pilot. But that doesn't mean it isn't a good idea. As we look at the best ways to spend our education dollars, as we look at ways to increase college readiness and college going in underserved communities, maybe, just maybe, UDC is on to something. At the very least, they've demonstrated it doesn't take the largest check to generate measurable results. Our K-12 schools and the defenders of the status quo could learn a lot from that.
The Next Great "Ed" Reform Idea
October 6, 2007 Eduflack AYP, LAUSD, NAEP, national standards, NCLB, Roy Romer
NCLB may be now, with reauthorization and merit pay being leading topics of education cocktail parties. But as Eduflack friend and online marketing guru Geoff Livingston says, now is gone. Now is what has happened. We need to focus on what is to happen. If the last few weeks has been any indication, the future of education reform could center around two key words — national standards.
For decades, almost no one wanted to touch the issue of national standards. It was almost the third rail of public education. It was an affront to local control. It stood against hundreds of years of American educational tradition. National standards was a dead-end issue before the words ever fully left the lips of the most eager reformer.
But not any more. In recent days, we've heard from a varied chorus led by Diane Ravitch and DC area superintendents calling for some form of national standards. And now, we get to enjoy a passionate solo from Roy Romer, chairman of Ed in 08.
At Jobs for the Future's Double the Numbers 2007 Conference Thursday, Romer asked the question — Why are we, as a nation, not focused on what we can to improve public education? If we truly want to improve our schools, Romer contends, we need to change the national discussion. We need each and every citizen to declare, "I want my child to be ready for life. I want them to have the opportunity for a good college and a good career."
Amen. For months now, we've been waiting on some bold statements to come from Strong American Schools and Ed in 08. And bold may not even be strong enough for Romer's call to action. I might even call it visionary.
For those who missed it, Romer too has issued the call for national standards. The former "education" governor of Colorado, the former superintendent of LAUSD, even took it a step further. According to Romer, the time has come for a collection of leading states to come together and write common education standards. He issued the call to "education" governors to be proactive, and create the measurements by which our nation's schools should be evaluated. Those founding states would all adhere to the common standard. The remainder of states would soon follow. And national standards are born.
That one standard, then, would benchmark with standards in countries across the world. Finally, we would truly know how our students compare with learners across the world. And the feds role in all of this — to pay for the test. States set a national measurement and hold themselves to it, and the folks back in Washington write the check. Sounds simple enough to actually work.
The result — true consumer protection in American public education. We have our standards. We know what we're doing. And we know where we stand. Doesn't matter if a parent or student is in Seattle, Dubuque, Huntsville, or Boston. Achievement is achievement, regardless of state border or school district boundary.
Some may be uncomfortable with this discussion, but it is just the sort of issue the education community should be talking about. Worried about high stakes testing? Make sure the national standard is one that measures true knowledge. Concerned we need more stringent accountability measures? Focus on a standard that truly means something, and doesn't just speak to the common denominator.
If Romer and Ed in 08 want to really leave their mark on the upcoming presidential elections, this may very well be the way to do so. We shouldn't just talk about education, we should be talking about how to improve it. True national school improvement requires more than asking a question on a YouTube debate or getting an oped printed. It comes from changing the national discussion. Only then can we really start identifying and adopting the sorts of solutions that can fix the problem … for good.
Unusual Allies
October 3, 2007 Eduflack AYP, NAEP, NCLB, PR
As one would suspect, there is a great deal of buzz in the ed reform community regarding this morning's New York Times op-ed piece from Diane Ravitch. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/opinion/03ravitch.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin With a provocative title "Get Congress Out of the Classroom" and a strong academic reputation, Ravitch gets people to take notice … even if NCLB bashing is cliché at this point.
What's far more interesting, though, is holding Ravitch's recommendations up against those made by Fairfax County (VA) Superintendent Jack Dale and others earlier this week in The Washington Post. At the time, Eduflack wrote, with great surprise, of Dale and company's call for national testing and the realignment of responsibilities between the states and the feds. http://blog.eduflack.com/2007/10/01/advocacy-from-the-urban-superintendent.aspx
Who would have thought that Ravitch, Dale, and Montgomery County (MD) Superintendent Jerry Weast would all be singing from the same hymnal? If researchers like Ravitch and urban superintendents like Dale and Weast keep sharing each other's talking points on public education reform, we may just have meaningful, long-term school improvement yet!
Looking for Ideas Behind the Endorsement
October 3, 2007 Eduflack AYP, early childhood education, HQT, PR, Presidential campaign
This afternoon, the American Federation of Teachers endorsed Hillary Clinton for President of the United States of America. It should be no surprise. The former Clinton administration had strong support in the teachers unions. And Senator Clinton has long been a friend of UFT, NYSUT, and AFT. In its endorsement, AFT cites Clinton's "proven ability to advance our nation's key priorities, and her bold plans for a stronger America."
And good for the AFT. Rather than wait for additional polling data from the key early states, or wanting to see another quarter of fundraising totals, or waiting to hear more detail on specific issues and policies, the AFT has put its money down on the horse they expect to see in the winner's circle. And they've done so believing that Clinton represents the best opportunity for AFT-friendly policies come January 2009.
Eduflack is going to assume that Clinton just wowed AFT during the interview process, discussing those bold plans and awing them with her discussion of how she would deal with those key priorities. Now she's won their endorsement, and the organizational prowess, resources, and support that come with it.
But it's got me scratching my head. For those of us watching from the cheap seats, what exactly is Hillary Clinton's education platform? Visit her website, and you don't even see "education" in her issues menu. Take some time to explore, and in the "Supporting Parents and Caring for Children" list, you'll find a bullet to attract and retain good teachers and principals, one to improve NCLB and a bullet increasing access to high-quality early education (a plank she has been quite vocal on and should be credited for). But those issues are part of a laundry list that includes care for elderly Americans, support for "kinship families," and opposition to sex and violence in the media.
We all talk about the importance of education. About the need to improve our schools. About the need to give every child a chance. And about how high-quality education affects everything from jobs to healthcare to justice to environment. Many of us cite education as the top domestic issue this nation faces. And national polls seem to regularly put it in the list of top fives issues, foreign or domestic.
So if it is so important, why are we still hearing so little of it from presidential candidates? What platform did Clinton offer to win the support of AFT? What changes would she make to improve NCLB? What commitments will she make to attract and retain good teachers? Does she support merit pay? What about alternative certification programs? How about multiple measures of progress? What interventions does she support to increase the graduation rate? What is the platform?
I don't mean to pick on Clinton. She should be credited for putting forward a meaningful, thought-providing plan for improving early education. And at the end of the day, she may be the strongest education candidate, in terms of policy ideas, an understanding for the possible, and the capability to reach for the near-impossible. But if she wins the endorsement of the AFT (and we assume and NEA endorsement may not be too far behind), don't the voters have a right to hear the specific ways the candidate will improve educational quality and delivery in the United States? And if we don't, how do we hold the candidate, any candidate, accountable?
In this rush to wrap up the presidential campaigns by this winter, we run the risk of placing assumptions and core rhetoric ahead of real ideas and policies. In doing so, we continue to perpetuate the same old empty reform rhetoric, with no one being held accountable. For those of us who vote on education issues, we want to hear those "bold ideas" Senator Clinton has. That doesn't come from one debate question or a well-placed oped. It comes from an integrated, coherent strategic plan for improving K-12 education.
Eduflack has bold ideas for a strong America too. But no one is going to rush to endorse me for President. Now that Clinton has the backing of AFT, I hope she will tell 1.4 million AFT members (and hundreds of millions of American voters) what specifically she is going to improve public education in the United States. That would be something to truly endorse. Now where's Ed in 08 when we need them?

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And I'm addicted to the Adirondacks. I swear these mountains are worse than cigarettes. I'm a 25-year-old architectural intern. My addiction started at two years old, when my father would take me fishing, this lead to backpacking. My first trip was at age five to Lost Pond in the Pharaoh Lake Wilderness. We use to take a weekend trip at least once a year from that point on until I started to go on my own with friends. I didn't start climbing any of the high peaks until a few years ago. My first high peak was Dix. We went in from 73 and then took the north slide to the top. I'm now currently halfway complete with the 46 high peaks, but I see myself hiking those and many other mountains over and over again. I hiked the Northville-Placid Trail end-to-end last summer. Generally if I'm not off hiking I'm out on the water in my canoe.


Moin Khan produced a Test-best 137 at a time when Pakistan needed it, and took his team out of the woods in the first Test against New Zealand. After Moin led his team to 463, New Zealand faced two overs and were 4 for 0 at stumps on the fourth day. Play will start half an hour early, at 10.30am, on the final day, to make up for time lost because of rain.
Moin came to the wicket when Inzamam-ul-Haq fell to the new ball. And despite losing Abdul Razzaq soon after, Moin found a staunch, if unlikely, ally in Mohammad Sami to see Pakistan past the follow-on mark of 364.
The day had been cut short because of overnight rain and only half an hour's play was possible before lunch. Fourteen tentative runs were added in that time, after Inzamam survived a first-ball chance when Lou Vincent dropped a catch in the gully region off Chris Cairns's bowling.
Inzamam scored his 34th half-century but then fell to Daryl Tuffey, clearly New Zealand's best bowler. Tuffey, operating with the new ball, beat Inzamam with successive balls that slipped past the bat, and then got one inside it that trapped him leg-before. Razzaq had demonstrated some of the touches that made him such a fearless hitter at the death in the recent one-day series against New Zealand, and was on 48 when he nicked a rare leg-side ball from Tuffey and Robbie Hart took the chance low down.
Pakistan still required 79 runs to avoid the follow-on, and Moin and Sami had to contend with an improved New Zealand bowling approach. Chris Cairns and Ian Butler found better rhythm. Butler was especially unlucky in having good yorker balls take the inside edge, miss the stumps and go for boundaries on several occasions. He hit Moin once when he ducked into a shorter one, but in a show of the type of mood he was in, Moin clouted the next ball back down the pitch for four.
Moin survived a close call for a run-out when taking on Cairns's arm from the outfield. It took a long look at video evidence before Tony Hill, the third umpire, was able to rule that he had just made his ground.
Moin brought up his 50 off 75 balls, and then freed up once the follow-on mark had been passed, using some more innovative shots. He brought up his fourth Test century by hitting a boundary, a six and another boundary off successive balls from Daniel Vettori. He and Sami shared the only century partnership of Pakistan's innings, adding 152 before Vettori finally had Sami caught at the wicket 25 (437 for 7). Soon after Jacob Oram trapped Moin leg-before for 137 and Pakistan were 453 for 8.
Tuffey was outstanding. He secured his sixth five-wicket bag in Tests and was consistent in his line on or about off stump. He was tireless and his work was rewarded. Ian Butler polished off the last two wickets and Pakistan were all out for 463.
There was still some excitement left in the day when New Zealand batted out a small passsage of play. Mark Richardson hit a four off the first ball of the second innings, and then at the end of the over appeared to have a disagreement with Mohammad Sami, who had bowled his most fiery over of the match.


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Q: D3 Graph with background AJAX update: cannot redraw graph I'm really new to D3, so I'm trying to learn by modifying some example.
Using this as a starting point, (here's the working Pen) I' trying move the needle by fetching data with AJAX in background.
I have tried using this code:
 $.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            url: 'randomdata.php',
            dataType: 'json',
            async: false,
            data: "{}",
            success: function (data) {
               var pos_data = data;
               needle.moveTo(percent);

            },
            error: function (result) {

}
    })

(with randomdata.php just providing random values between 0 and 100)
..but I don't get any needle movement, even by just calling the needle.moveTo in a setTimeout.
Again, I'm a total noob here.. and I'm surely missing something.
Can I ask for help please?
Thanks!

A: Add a
console.log(percent + ", " + typeof(percent));

to your success function for determining the percent variable value and type of variable.
Your code has a problem there since in your codePen example commands like
needle.moveTo(0.7);
needle.moveTo("0.7");

work. So I guess a function call doesn't have a valid percentage value (from 0 to 1, not 0 to 100) or proper format of it (a dot, not a comma etc).
If you have a value between 0 to 100 then just change the call to
needle.moveTo((percent/100).toFixed(2));

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Rocco Vata (born 18 April 2005) is a professional footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Celtic. Born in Scotland, he is a youth international for Ireland.

Club career
Born in Glasgow, Vata followed in the footsteps of his father, former professional footballer and Celtic player Rudi Vata by joining Celtic at the age of seven. He signed his first professional contract with the club in July 2021.

He was included in pre-season training with the Celtic first team ahead of the 2022–23 season, but was assigned to the club's B team in 2022, making his debut in the Lowland League the same year. Following impressive performances for Celtic's youth and B teams, he is seen as one of Celtic and Ireland's most promising players, and was linked with Italian clubs Juventus, Roma and AC Milan, as well as English sides Arsenal and Manchester City in October 2022.

Vata made his first team debut for Celtic on 28 December 2022, coming on as a substitute for Matt O'Riley as Celtic beat Hibernian 4–0 away at Easter Road.

International career
Vata is eligible to represent Albania through his father (who played for the Albania national team), the Republic of Ireland through his grandmother on his mother's side, Scotland by virtue of being born there, and Montenegro. He has represented the Republic of Ireland at youth international level.

Career statistics

Club

Notes

References

2005 births
Living people
Footballers from Glasgow
Republic of Ireland association footballers
Republic of Ireland youth international footballers
Scottish footballers
Irish people of Albanian descent
Irish people of Montenegrin descent
Scottish people of Irish descent
Scottish people of Albanian descent
Association football midfielders
Lowland Football League players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Celtic F.C. players

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Some Eastern Kentucky counties, including Magoffin and Owsley counties, have just one child care center, according to data from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
"The numbers are just startlingly small," said June Widman, executive director of the Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition.
According to the Center for American Progress, a liberal-leaning public policy and advocacy organization, 50 percent of Kentuckians live in a "child care desert." The Center defines this as a census tract where there are either no child care providers, or where there are more than three times as many children as available child care slots.
Child care experts and advocates said that figure is even higher in the eastern corner of the state, where limited access to quality child care is one of several factors impeding economic development in a region struggling to rebound after the coal industry's rapid decline in recent years.
Officials hope a handful of big-ticket projects, including a proposed aluminum mill near Ashland and a solar farm in Pike County, will help the region's economy bounce back. But as those efforts continue, experts contend that many counties don't have enough quality child care options to support a healthy workforce.
"We need to have the infrastructure to support workers, and a big part of that infrastructure is having day care, having some sort of child care option," Ault said.
That lack of access became especially apparent earlier this year in Perry County, where the closure of a child care center near Hazard left dozens of families scrambling to find a new provider for their children.
In February, the Hazard Lions Club Montessori Schools sent a letter to parents saying the center would close in just three days. Some of those parents came to New Beginnings Child Care & Preschool in Hazard.
Ashley Hudson, director of New Beginnings, said they were desperate.
The lack of providers in Eastern Kentucky is largely attributable to the state's inadequate funding system for low-income families, according to advocates.
It can be hard for quality child care centers to meet their expenses if too many parents qualify for the state's Child Care Assistance Program, said Mary Ann Mullins, managing director of New Beginnings.
The CCAP program helps pay child care expenses for some low-income families, but reimbursement rates don't fully cover the cost of care, Mullins said. That is a huge issue for New Beginnings, where about half of clients qualify for CCAP, she said.
The daycare charges $25 a day for infants for non-CCAP families, but is reimbursed just $19 for CCAP families.
Mullins said New Beginnings basically breaks even each year, but she's hesitant to increase rates because many residents — even those who don't qualify for CCAP — can't afford to pay more.
Mullins and others have pushed the state to increase the reimbursement rate for CCAP families, and to relax the income guidelines so that more parents are eligible for assistance. According to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, families applying for CCAP must be at or below 160 percent of the federal poverty level to be eligible, and at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level to re-certify with the program.
"The state is currently under-investing, and it makes it really difficult for what is essentially a small business to open, stay open, and sustain the model with high quality," Ramsey said.
Every two years, Kentucky's Division of Child Care contracts with the University of Kentucky to research and reevaluate child care rates and CCAP reimbursement rates in every county. As the cost of living and child care in local communities change over time, the division alters reimbursement rates to reflect those changes.
Last year, the majority of an additional $42 million allotted to Kentucky from the federal Child Development Block Grant went straight to the state CCAP program, said Sarah Taylor Vanover, director of the state's Division of Child Care, in an email to the Herald-Leader.
"By giving those additional funds to the CCAP program, families have access to centers that participate in CCAP, and centers are receiving a higher rate of funding so they may increase pay for child care providers and meet other business needs," Vanover said.
The division also gives additional funding to child care centers that receive three or more stars through its Kentucky ALL-STARS program (five stars being the highest quality of care).
Still, Vanover said, the number of available slots for children doesn't meet the demand in parts of Kentucky.
"There is still a need for additional child care providers to provide quality care to young children and enhance workforce development," Vanover said.
The Prichard Committee and the Division of Child Care are one year into a three-year grant from the Kellogg Foundation to study child care deserts in Kentucky, and the viability of increasing at-home child care — a system where an individual provides child care from their home.
New Beginnings will likely be one of a handful of pilot programs in the grant, Mullins said. It will act as a "hub" for in-home child care providers who require additional support, such as bookkeeping.
For communities where a traditional daycare is difficult to maintain, boosting in-home child care could help families who either can't afford a daycare or can't travel to one, Ramsey said.
The pilot programs will aim to boost the number of providers, while offering support to help maintain a high level of care.
"As we increase access, we want to do that in a way that supports quality," Ramsey said.
Widman of the Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition said she is glad the state is focusing on in-home child care, which, she said, has seen a substantial drop in participation in recent years.
Since about 2005, the number of licensed in-home providers across the state dropped from about 1,200 to less than 250, Widman said.
Increased regulations and higher insurance costs both contributed to that decline, as did a 2013 temporary moratorium on new enrollments in the CCAP program, she said.
"I would welcome the attention in a really thoughtful way that it's not just about regulating, but it's about, 'How can we recognize this particular job and the importance of keeping in our communities a place where family child care is honored and revered?'" Widman said.
In Eastern Kentucky, Harlan County once had about 20 certified in-home providers, but now there's just one. In Perry County and six of the counties that surround it, there are now just two certified in-home providers.
With the Kellogg Foundation grant, Widman said she hopes to eventually create 25 in-home providers in Eastern Kentucky, starting with five in Perry and its surrounding counties.
Mullins, at New Beginnings, said she believes the state's willingness to boost in-home child care will ease the pressure on rural daycares that struggle to meet demand.


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Q: reorder a 1 dimensional dataframe based on the column order of a larger dataframe (R) relevant_ods_reordered <- relevant_ods[names(cpm)]

the above seeks to reorder column names of a dataframe relevant_ods:
     Plate1_DMSO_A01 Plate1_DMSO_B01 Plate1_DMSO_C01 Plate1_Lopinavir_D01
OD595           0.431          0.4495          0.4993               0.5785
      Plate1_DMSO_E01 Plate1_DMSO_F01 Plate1_DMSO_G01 Plate1_DMSO_H01
OD595          0.5336          0.5133           0.527          0.5413
      Plate1_DMSO_C12 Plate1_DMSO_D12 Plate1_Lopinavir_E12 Plate1_DMSO_F12
OD595          0.4137          0.4274               0.5241          0.4264
      Plate1_DMSO_G12 Plate1_DMSO_H12
OD595          0.4561          0.4767

to match the order of the columns in a significantly larger dataframe:
[1] "Plate1_DMSO_A01"         "Plate1_DMSO_A12"
 [3] "Plate1_DMSO_B01"         "Plate1_DMSO_B12"
 [5] "Plate1_DMSO_C01"         "Plate1_DMSO_C12"
 [7] "Plate1_DMSO_D12"         "Plate1_DMSO_E01"
 [9] "Plate1_DMSO_F01"         "Plate1_DMSO_F12"
 [11] "Plate1_DMSO_G01"         "Plate1_DMSO_G12"
 [13] "Plate1_DMSO_H01"         "Plate1_DMSO_H12"
 [15] "Plate1_Lopinavir_D01"    "Plate1_Lopinavir_E12"
 [17] "Plate1_NS1519_22009_A02" "Plate1_NS1519_22009_A04"
 [19] "Plate1_NS1519_22009_A05" "Plate1_NS1519_22009_A06"
 [21] "Plate1_NS1519_22009_A07" "Plate1_NS1519_22009_A08"
 [23] "Plate1_NS1519_22009_A09" "Plate1_NS1519_22009_A10"
 [25] "Plate1_NS1519_22009_A11" "Plate1_NS1519_22009_B02"
 [27] "Plate1_NS1519_22009_B03" "Plate1_NS1519_22009_B04"
 [29] "Plate1_NS1519_22009_B05" "Plate1_NS1519_22009_B06"

etc.
Clearly, there is a returned
Error in `[.data.frame`(relevant_ods, names(cpm)) :
  undefined columns selected

due to the mismatch between the numbers of columns
I have tried
relevant_ods_reordered <- relevant_ods[names(cpm),]
relevant_ods_reordered <- select(relevant_ods, names(cpm))
relevant_ods_reordered <- match(relevant_ods, names(cpm))

A: With base R, you need to find the names in common. intersect is good for this and preserves the order of its first argument:
relevant_ods[intersect(names(cpm), names(relevant_ods))]

Or with dplyr, use the select helper any_of:
select(relevant_ods, any_of(names(cpm)))


The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be very similar to the summer of 2008. Things look incredibly bleak for the global economy right now. Economic activity and lending are slowing down all over the planet, and fear is starting to paralyze the entire global financial system.
Things did not look this bad back in the summer of 2011 and things certainly did not look this bad back in the summer of 2010. It is almost as if a "perfect storm" is brewing. Today, the global financial system is a finely balanced pyramid of risk, debt and leverage. Such a system requires a high degree of confidence and stability.
But when confidence disappears and fear and panic take over, the house of cards can literally start collapsing at any time. Right now we are watching a slow-motion train wreck unfold and nobody seems to know how to stop it.
Unless some kind of a miracle happens, things are going to look much different when we reach the start of 2013 than they do today.
The following are 21 signs that this could be a long, hot, crazy summer for the global financial system….
#1 There are rumors that major financial institutions are cancelling employee vacations in anticipation of a major financial crisis this summer. The following are a couple of tweets quoted in a recent article by Kenneth Schortgen Jr….
Todd Harrison tweet: Hearing (not confirmed) @PIMCO asked employees to cancel vacations to have "all hands on deck" for a Lehman-type tail event. Confirm?
Todd M. Schoenberger tweet: @todd_harrison @pimco I heard the same thing, but I also heard the same for "some" at JPM. Heard it today at a hedge fund luncheon.
As Schortgen points out, these are not just your average Twitter users….
Todd Harrison is the CEO of the award winning internet media company Minyanville, while Todd Shoenberger is a managing principal at the Blackbay Group, and an adjunct professor of Finance at Cecil College.
#2 The Bank for International Settlements is warning that global lending is contracting at the fastest pace since the financial crisis of 2008.
#3 Unemployment in the eurozone has hit a brand new all-time record high.
#4 The government of Portugal has just announced that it will be bailing out three major banks.
#5 Many U.S. banking stocks are being hit extremely hard. For example, Morgan Stanley stock has declined by 40 percent over the past four months.
#6 Yields on Spanish debt and yields on Italian debt have been absolutely soaring.
#7 10 year U.S. Treasury notes hit a record low on Friday because investors are scared and they are looking for safety. The following is from a recent USA Today article….
"Treasuries are at 1.46 because people are freaking out," says Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo Economics.
#8 New orders for factory goods in the United States have declined three times in the last four months. That is a sign that the "economic recovery" in the U.S. has clearly stalled.
#9 U.S. job growth in May was well below expectations and the unemployment rate has increased to 8.2 percent.
#10 Economies all over the developed world are seriously slowing down right now. The following is from a recent articleby Ambrose Evans-Pritchard….
Brazil wilted in the first quarter. India grew at the slowest pace in nine years. China?s HSBC manufacturing index fell further into contraction in May, with new orders dropping sharply and inventories rising.
#11 Stocks in Japan hit a 28 year low on Monday.
#12 Over the past five years, the stock markets of Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus have all fallen by more than 50 percent. Will we soon see similar results all over the rest of Europe?
#13 The Greek economy is literally shutting down. Just check out the chaos that unpaid bills are already causing….
And unpaid bills are now threatening Greece?s electricity supply. State-owned Electricity Market Operator (LAGIE), a clearing house for power transactions, hasn?t paid independent power producers for electricity it bought from them. They, in turn, haven?t paid their natural gas supplier, Public Gas Corporation (Depa), which now doesn?t have the money to pay its supplier. Payment is due on June 22. Alas, its supplier is Gazprom in Russia, and they insist on getting paid. If not, they will shut the valve, and Depa won?t get the gas to supply the independent producers, which will have to take their power plants off line, removing about a third of the country?s electricity production.
#14 It is estimated that there are 273 billion dollars of failed real estate loans in the Spanish banking system.
#15 In March, 66 billion euros was pulled out of Spanish banks and sent out of the country. That was an all-time record and that was before we even knew the results of the recent elections in Greece and France. The numbers for April and May will almost certainly be even worse.
#16 The unemployment rate in Spain is 24.4 percent and for those under the age of 25 it is over 50 percent.
#17 Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is warning that Italy may have to take drastic actions if something is not done soon….
"People are in shock. Confidence has collapsed. We have never had such a dark future," he said. Indeed, the jobless rate for youth has jumped from 27pc to 35pc in a year. Terrorism has returned. Anarchists knee-capped the head of Ansaldo Nucleare last month. Italy?s tax office chief was nearly blinded by a letter bomb.
"If Europe refuses to listen to our demands, we should say 'bye, bye? and leave the euro. Or tell the Germans to leave the euro if they are not happy," he said.
#18 It now looks like Cyprus is going to be the next European nation to need a bailout.
#19 Switzerland is threatening to implement capital controls in order to stop the massive flow of money that is coming in from banks around the rest of Europe.
#20 As I wrote about the other day, World Bank President Robert Zoellick is warning that "the summer of 2012" could end up being very similar to what we experienced back in 2008….
#21 Germany?s former vice-Chancellor, Joschka Fischer, is warning that the entire EU could fall apart over this crisis….
When was the last time that we saw so much bad economic news come out all at once?
We truly live in unprecedented times.
It will be exciting to watch what happens, but it is also important to keep in mind that the coming economic crisis will cause extreme pain for millions upon millions of people.
For example, the suicide of a mother and a son due to the deteriorating economy has absolutely shocked the entire nation of Greece….
A 60-year-old Greek musician and his 91-year-old mother jumped to their deaths from their 5th floor apartment, driven to despair by financial woes. This double death is the latest in a rising epidemic of crisis-induced suicides in Greece.
Witness accounts vary ? some say the mother, who suffered from Alzheimer?s, jumped first, screaming a prayer as she plummeted to her death. Other neighbors say the mother and her son jumped together, holding hands.
But the one thing everyone seems to agree on is that the family had been struggling for a long time. The night before, Antonis Perris posted a suicide note of sorts on a popular Greek forum, saying he had no way of resolving the family?s financial issues.
?The problem is that I didn?t realize that I would need to have cash, because the economic crisis came so suddenly. Even though I have been selling our possessions, we have no cash flow, we have no money to buy food anymore and my credit card is maxed out with 22% interest rate.?
Perris continued to say that both his and his mother?s health deteriorated, and that he saw no solution to his most basic problems ? getting food and medical help.
This is why it is so incredibly important to get prepared.
You don't want something like that happening to you or anyone in your family.
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Fortinet takes award for unified threat management market leadership
Frost & Sullivan recognises Fortinet with "Market Share Leadership Award, Unified Threat Management, North America, 2013".
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) – a world leader in high-performance network security – today announced that it received the "Market Share Leadership Award, Unified Threat Management, North America" for 2013 by Frost & Sullivan, a leading global industry analyst organisation.
The Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Share Leadership is presented to the company that demonstrates excellence in capturing the highest market share within its industry. This award recognises the company's leadership position within the unified threat management (UTM) market.
"Unified threat management appliances protect thousands of business networks around the world, by integrating firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, application control, Web filtering, anti-virus and granular user controls," said John Maddison, VP of Marketing at Fortinet. "Fortinet leads this market because no other vendor delivers as fast and secure of a UTM solution."
Frost & Sullivan points out that because UTMs integrate security technologies, they provide businesses with operational efficiencies, too. Fortinet concurs, as many customers cite superior TCO, single pane of glass management and end-to-end wired and wireless policy enforcement as key reasons for adopting its FortiGate appliances.
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"Fortinet earned 20.5% of the UTM market in 2012, leading the UTM market for the fifth consecutive year that Frost & Sullivan has tracked this market," said Chris Rodriguez, Senior Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. "This success is the result of an aggressive product development strategy and strategic business partnerships driven by a singular focus on customer needs. With many new products and features on the company's roadmap, Fortinet is well positioned to grow its share of the market further in 2013."
FortiGate – Fast and secure protection for any sized network
FortiGate appliances provide enterprise-class protection against network, content and application-level threats. From the FortiGate-20 series for small offices, to the FortiGate-5000 series for very large enterprises, service providers and carriers, Fortinet offers UTM models for any deployment environment.
Dynamic updates from the FortiGuard Labs global threat research team ensure that networks, applications and data are protected against the latest threats. Additionally, FortiGate security appliances incorporate sophisticated networking features, such as high availability (active/active, active/passive) for maximum network uptime, and virtual domain (VDOM) capabilities to separate various networks requiring different security policies.
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Dr. Peter Sjöstedt-H and Dr. Andrew Gallimore – Alien Information Theory Book Review
In this unique episode, Dr. Peter Sjöstedt-H joins together in conversation with Dr. Andrew Gallimore, Author of Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game. In the show, these two Englishmen discuss Peter's critique of Dr. Gallimore's recent book.
3 Key Points:
Dr. Andrew Gallimore's recent book, Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game, explains how DMT provides the secret to the very structure of our reality.
Based on a recently published review of Andrew's book, Dr. Peter Sjöstedt-H sifts through and confronts Andrew's idea that DMT allows one access to, and existence in a hyperspatial world.
They discuss Peter's critique, covering topics on information, consciousness, dimensions, dreams and theory.
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Peter mentions 3 'problems'
The first problem is a critique on what information is
The second point regards consciousness
The third point talks about dimensions and theories
The first problem Peter states says that the originality of the work pushes the ideas further toward art and further away from truth
Andrew says he is a fan of making things a work of art, and he says at the start of the book that it isn't something scientific
In philosophy it's called speculative metaphysics
"It's cliche isn't it, that science fiction eventually becomes science fact." – Peter
Minkowski Space Time, the theory that Einstein supports, HG Wells wrote about a half a century before Minkowski wrote about it
Peter says that a person could be defined by a set of numbers, weight, height, age, etc.
Andrew says that the information is the electron, and how it interacts with other information
How do we know that there is not more to anything than that which we can know about it?
How matter creates/is mind is a mystery
Peter asks, 'does information at a high level produce subjectivity?'
Andrew says consciousness is fundamental
Panpsychism holds a distinction between an aggregate and a hold-on
Andrew says that integrated information is consciousness
Information doesn't emerge from consciousness, information actually is consciousness
Andrew says that he is an idealist, he thinks that the world is structured
Peter says that information always has to be about something
Andrew disagrees and says that information is substantiated
You could say, the fundamental digits of our reality are ran by an 'alien computer', the physics completely different than our understanding of reality
Andrew says that the absolute self is not only aware of itself, its aware that it is aware of itself
He also says that these ideas are all musings, all things he has thought about as possibilities
Peter asks Andrew if he thinks brains are required for consciousness
Andrew says, consciousness is not a property of matter, it is an organization of things
Dimensions and Theories
Andrew says we don't need senses to experience other worlds
The DMT experience is not mind dependent, it shows another reality
When you're dreaming, it's independent of the sensory experience, but its not entirely independent of the waking world
"The dream state is informed by the waking state." – Andrew
Peter asks, 'If the brain creates dreams, why does the brain not create the DMT world?'
"We know how the brain learns to construct worlds, but we don't know how the brain learns to construct DMT worlds." – Andrew
When looking at a machine elf, is he equally as able to deny his consciousness as we are able to?
Peter concludes that Andrew is a Realist/Panthiest
Peter and Andrew think that they don't disagree with each other, but Peter believes Andrew would have to go into extremely deep detail on all of his points in his book, and the book is thick enough as it is
Peter agrees Andrew's book is a great narrative for mapping the DMT space
Andrew likes to think of it as computational idealism
Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game
Peter's Review
About Dr. Andrew Gallimore
Dr. Andrew Gallimore is a computational neurobiologist, pharmacologist, chemist, and writer who has been interested in the neural basis of psychedelic drug action for many years and is the author of a number of articles and research papers on the powerful psychedelic drug, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), as well as the book Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game (April 2019). He recently collaborated with DMT pioneer Dr. Rick Strassman, author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, to develop a pharmacokinetic model of DMT as the basis of a target-controlled intravenous infusion protocol for extended journeys in DMT space. His current interests focus on DMT as a tool for gating access to extradimensional realities and how this can be understood in terms of the neuroscience of information. He currently lives and works in Japan.
About Dr. Peter Sjöstedt-H
Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H is an Anglo-Scandinavian philosopher of mind and a metaphysician who specializes in the thought of Whitehead and Nietzsche, and in fields pertaining to panpsychism and altered states of sentience. Following his degree in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick, he became a Philosophy lecturer in London for six years and has now passed his PhD (on 'Pansentient Monism', examined by Galen Strawson and Joel Krueger) at the University of Exeter, where he also teaches philosophy modules and writing skills. He is now to become a postdoc fellow of the university. Peter is the author of Noumenautics , the TEDx Talker on 'psychedelics and consciousness', and he is inspiration to the inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.
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Steven LaRosa, M.D., with over 20 years of experience as a practicing physician and infectious disease specialist, joins as Chief Medical Officer of Aethlon
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6, 2021 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEMD), a therapeutic medical device and technology company focused on unmet needs in viral diseases, oncology and inflammation, today announced the expansion of its executive team with two key appointments: Guy Cipriani as Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer, and Steven LaRosa, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer. In his new role, Mr. Cipriani will oversee business development and partnerships, while also contributing to fundraising and corporate development. Dr. LaRosa will be responsible for the clinical development of Aethlon's Hemopurifier®, including leading clinical operations and regulatory strategy.
"The appointments of Guy and Steve enhance the breadth of experience and practical clinical and business experience of our existing leadership team," said Charles J. Fisher, Jr., M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Aethlon. "Guy brings a remarkable scope of accomplishments and experience to Aethlon, including partnering, strategy, licensing, and intellectual property development. Steve has a unique blend of clinical leadership and industry research experience to take the helm of our clinical development programs as we continue to validate the Hemopurifier in cancer and infectious diseases."
Mr. Cipriani has served on Aethlon's Board of Directors since June 2018. Prior to joining Aethlon as an executive, he served as the Chief Business Officer at Microbion Corporation, a company focused on the development of a new class of antibiotic therapies for difficult to treat and resistant infections. His business and corporate development responsibilities at Microbion included securing partnerships and raising dilutive and non-dilutive capital for the company's promising clinical-stage pipeline. Prior to Microbion, he served as VP of Business Development at Cascadian Therapeutics where he was responsible for licensing-in several promising pipeline candidates and generating external interest in the company's clinical-stage pipeline to set the stage for future strategic transactions. Prior to that role, Mr. Cipriani served as VP of Business Development at Cardiome Pharma Corp. where he led the negotiation of an $800 million global development and co-commercialization licensing deal with Merck & Company in 2009 around the company's lead Phase 3 cardiovascular program. Prior to Cardiome, Mr. Cipriani served as Sr. Director of Business Development for TransForm Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where his efforts helped facilitate the company's acquisition by Johnson and Johnson for $230 million in 2005. Mr. Cipriani began his pharmaceutical industry career at Eli Lilly & Company as a member of their Corporate Business Development team where he completed multiple in-licensing and out-licensing transactions for commercial, clinical and preclinical state assets. Mr. Cipriani holds a B.S.E.E., High Honors from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Prior to joining Aethlon, Dr. LaRosa served as the Vice President of Clinical Development of Entasis Therapeutics, a spin-out of AstraZeneca focused on pathogen-targeted small molecules to treat serious multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections. In this role, he acted as medical lead and was responsible for the clinical development of multiple programs, three of which were in Phase III clinical development. Prior to joining Entasis, Dr. LaRosa was an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Disease at Beverly Hospital, Beth Israel, in Massachusetts. Dr. LaRosa remains the Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Beverly Hospital, Beth Israel. Prior to Beth Israel, he was an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rhode Island Hospital. Prior to that, Dr. LaRosa was an Associate Staff Physician in the Department of Infectious Disease at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He also served as a Clinical Research Physician for Eli Lilly and Company. Throughout his career, Dr. LaRosa has had several academic appointments. Dr. LaRosa holds his M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine and his B.S. in Biology from Boston College and had five years of training at Cleveland Clinic, including the position of chief resident, and four years of career development at Harvard University.
About Aethlon and the Hemopurifier®
Aethlon is focused on addressing unmet needs in global health. The Aethlon Hemopurifier is a clinical-stage immunotherapeutic device designed to combat cancer and life-threatening viral infections. In cancer, the Hemopurifier is designed to deplete the presence of circulating tumor-derived exosomes that promote immune suppression.
The Hemopurifier® is an FDA designated "Breakthrough Device" related to the treatment of individuals with advanced or metastatic cancer who are either unresponsive to or intolerant of standard of care therapy, and with cancer types in which exosomes have been shown to participate in the development or severity of the disease cancer. Under an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application, in October 2019 the FDA approved an Early Feasibility Study (EFS), which is the device equivalent of a Phase 1 clinical trial for a drug or biologic, in a single center, open label trial in 10 to 12 subjects. The study is evaluating the HEMOPURIFIER® for reducing cancer-associated exosomes prior to the administration of standard-of-care pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®), which is a first-line therapy for patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The EFS is being conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center.
The Hemopurifier also holds a Breakthrough Device designation related to life-threatening viruses that are not addressed with approved therapies. In June 2020, the FDA approved an amendment to the Company's existing open IDE for the Hemopurifier in life threatening viral infections, to allow for the treatment of patients with SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection. This will allow for up to 40 of these patients to be treated under a new Early Feasibility Study protocol at up to 20 clinical sites in the U.S.
Aethlon also owns 80% of Exosome Sciences, Inc., which is focused on the discovery of exosomal biomarkers to diagnose and monitor cancer and neurological disease progression. Additional information can be found online at www.AethlonMedical.com and www.ExosomeSciences.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that involve risks and uncertainties. Statements containing words such as "may," "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "project," "will," "projections," "estimate," "potentially," "appear" or similar expressions constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Factors that may contribute to such differences include, without limitation, Aethlon Medical, Inc.'s (the Company) ability to enroll patients in the Early Feasibility Studies, the Company's ability to successfully complete the Early Feasibility Studies and achieve the endpoints for the studies, or any future studies with its Hemopurifier or to successfully develop and commercialize the Hemopurifier, the Company's ability to establish collaborations and to raise capital. The foregoing list of risks and uncertainties is illustrative, but is not exhaustive. Additional factors that could cause results to differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements can be found under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2020, and in the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Except as may be required by law, the Company does not intend, nor does it undertake any duty, to update this information to reflect future events or circumstances.
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what you need to do, establish how your University can help you to accomplish this.
Keeping old systems can hold you back from achieving the maximum potential and success - it can also leave you open to viruses and malware. Be sure take into the account ALL new costs prior to investment into any new technology. Be aware that a higher initial cost may save you money in the long run if it needs less maintenance and fulfils more of your criteria. Change can be a challenge but keeping older technology if it is no longer fit for purpose is a real disservice.
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