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No. 13 Women's Basketball Defeats Lamar 77-61 on Opening Day
N'dea Jones and Ciera Johnson both posted double-doubles in the win
Credit: KAGS-TV/Lia Musgrave
Author: Texas A&M Athletics
Published: 4:27 PM CST November 25, 2020
Updated: 4:27 PM CST November 25, 2020
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The No. 13 Texas A&M women's basketball team cemented its first victory of the 2020-21 season, pushing past the Lamar Cardinals 77-61 behind senior center Ciera Johnson, who dominated the paint with a career-high 18 rebounds Wednesday afternoon at Reed Arena.
Multiple Aggies finished with new career-highs, led by N'dea Jones' 25-point performance on a .750 shooting clip from the field, surpassing her previous high of 22 set last season. The Lawrenceville, Georgia, native also pulled in 11 rebounds on the afternoon, earning her first double-double of the season and 27th of her career. Johnson secured 18 boards along with 18 points. Her double-double marks the 19th such accomplishment of her career. The duo outrebounded the Cardinals as a time, 29-28, and propelled an offense that scored 38 points in the paint.
Kayla Wells became the 32nd member of Texas A&M's 1,000-point club. The Dallas, Texas, native entered the game two points shy and finished with eight to push her career total to 1,006.
The Aggies received contributions from their newcomers, with Jordan Nixon recording a new career high in assists as A&M's primary ball handler, tallying six in her first game in Aggieland. Destiny Pitts finished with 11 points on three made 3-pointers, leading all A&M bench players.
Johnson scored the Aggies' first points of the season, but Lamar managed to pull ahead to lead 20-17 after the first quarter. The Maroon & White fought back in the second period, holding the Cardinals to 1-11 on field goal attempts in the final seven minutes of the half. On the offensive end, Jones drew multiple fouls and lit up the scoreboard to produce a 36-27 A&M lead at halftime.
Pitts took the lid off the basket in the third quarter, scoring all 11 of her points in the period to extend the Aggie lead to 64-49, heading into the fourth. The Aggies remained on top in the final period and closed out the game, 77-61.
As a team, Texas A&M polished the glass against Lamar, outrebounding the Cardinals by a margin of 55-28. Excellent work on the offensive boards saw the Aggies capitalize on multiple second chance scoring opportunities, beating Lamar 21-8 in the category.
POSTGAME NOTES
TEAM NOTES
· With Wednesday's win, Texas A&M extends its win streak in season-opening games to eight, a record dating back to the 2013-14 season.
· The Maroon & White significantly outrebounded the Cardinals by a margin of 55-28.
· Texas A&M capitalized on second-chance opportunities, outscoring Lamar 21-8.
· The battle down low favored the Aggies as well, scoring 38 points in the paint compared to the Cardinals 22.
· With the victory, A&M climbs to 16-10 in the all-time series against Lamar.
· The Aggies opened the season with a starting lineup of Aaliyah Wilson, Jordan Nixon, Kayla Wells, N'dea Jones and Ciera Johnson
INDIVIDUAL NOTESx
· Kayla Wells became the 32nd Aggie in program history to join the 1,000-point club, scoring eight in the game to bring her career scoring total to 1,006.
· N'dea Jones started her 65th consecutive game for the Aggies, finishing with 25 points, 11 rebounds and a block.
· Jones surpassed her career-high in points, scoring 25 on Wednesday afternoon. Her previous career-high mark was 22 points in A&M's 84-77 win over No. 20 Arkansas on Jan. 2, 2020.
· Jones notched her 27th career double-double and first of the year.
· Ciera Johnson scored first for the Aggies in the 2020-21 season, going on to finish with 18 points and 18 rebounds along with two assists.
· Johnson logged a new career high in rebounds against Lamar, finishing with 18 total boards split between 6 offensive rebounds and 12 on the defensive end. Her previous career high was 17.
· Johnson submitted her first double-double of the season and the 19th of her career. The Duncanville, Texas, native recorded six double-doubles in 2019-20.
· Destiny Pitts led the Aggie bench in scoring with an 11-point flurry in the third quarter. She recorded all three of Texas A&M's 3-point field goals.
· Aaliyah Wilson notched her 19th career start at Texas A&M, scoring nine points, securing seven rebounds and adding a pair of assists.
· Jordan Nixon earned the first start of her career at Texas A&M, logging four points, six assists, and two rebounds. Her assist total surpassed a career-high of five, set during her time at Notre Dame.
· Head Coach Gary Blair got his first win of the season against former Aggie standout and Lamar head coach A'Quonesia Franklin. His career record after Wednesday's game rises to 814-330.
The No. 13 Aggies hit the road for the first time in the 2020-21 season to visit the No. 19 DePaul Blue Demons. Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois.
POSTGAME QUOTES
TEXAS A&M QUOTES
Head Coach Gary Blair
Opening Statement
"I thought they [Lamar] competed harder, particularly in the first half. We were able to get the game going our way in the second quarter when we started realizing the jump shots were not going to fall, and to get the ball inside no matter what because they didn't have the size to be able to stop us or block shots. We've got to get ready within our team and be able to compete better. We were able to see our weaknesses in dribble drive penetration, which Lamar did an excellent job on. Our defense is a pack line defense. We're good at it, but tonight we got exploited a little bit. I think if we would have played harder, we would have been able to force more turnovers. They only turned the ball over 16 times against No. 13 team in the country. If they had a better shooting percentage maybe it would have been a two or three possession ballgame. But I give credit to Ciera and N'dea, when they realized how we were struggling, they started scoring easier and we started getting the ball inside. We're trying to find that right point guard that can keep us in an offense and recognize what the defense is going to give us and what they're going to take away. I was pleased with Jones and Johnson. I wasn't pleased with myself that I had to play both of them almost 35 minutes. I needed some other kids to have some playing time, but we had to win the ball game, and we would not have won it getting into an up and down game with Lamar. They were quicker and quite personally better coached today than I coached this team.
On the contributions from A&M's post players…
"We did get the ball up and down the court a little bit better, but we were throwing it away. We were able to attack them a little bit better in transition to get some easy baskets. I like that our post players can play that many minutes because they're used to it. But, in pre-conference, you don't need your post players playing 35 minutes. That being said, if that's what it's going to take to get those other players ready and for us to win, I'll do it."
On coaching against former player A'Quonesia Franklin…
"It was special because I respect her preparation for the game. She's going to be better. She's not going to finish eighth in the Southland Conference. If she can keep those seven or eight players that she had out there today, then she's going to be in the top half of their league. It was emotional, but it was very rewarding. That's how much love we have for each other. She was the first point guard that I ever recruited here."
Senior center Ciera Johnson
On the difference between the first and second quarter…
"In the second quarter, what looked better was that we were just much more active on defense. We were getting our hands on the balls, we were in the gaps and playing our principals. We were following the scouting report in the second quarter. I thought we really got after it. Our energy and intensity picked up a lot in the second quarter."
On her and N'dea Jones getting double doubles…
"We know N'dea was going to get a double-double. It's her senior year and that's what she does. That's to be expected from N'dea. It feels good to start that way in our senior year, we both started off with a double-double and we just have to build off that."
Senior forward N'dea Jones
On first game jitters…
"Yeah, first games are challenging for everybody, especially given what we've been going through battling our own challenges. I think the in first quarter there were some nerves. It felt weird being back on the court after 264 days. It didn't feel real at first. I'm glad we got the win. We probably did not play as well as we would have wished, but like I said, it's the first game. We have a lot to learn from and we have a lot more games to do it."
On the dynamic of the new squad…
"We have a lot of new people on our team, so they're not used to being out there. A lot of times that's their first big stage that they've played on. It's a lot of nerves and then you have to account for people not knowing how to play with each other. That being said, it's going to come as time goes on."
LAMAR QUOTES
Head Coach A'Quonesia Franklin
On coaching against her former head coach…
"You know, getting into coaching, I knew as a player here at A&M that I wanted to coach and hats off to Coach Blair. What they did when I was a player is why I'm doing what I'm doing now and playing against coach Blair, I mean it's fun. I love what I do. If you really watch the game a lot of our sets look just like their sets. Those are sets that I ran, when I was a player, and I continue to learn from coach Blair. He's a great mentor, him and Coach Bond and Coach Wright, I love them to death. If I can do half of what coach Blair has done, I know I'm on the on the right path."


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Q: Is there a way to recover a dropped mysql database? I accidentally dropped a MySQL database on my server.  Are there any ways to recover a dropped database?

A: Depends on your setup. It is possible to restore if you setup your system correctly. If you have a backup you can restore it. and then apply the binary logs up to the point just before you dropped the table.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysqlbinlog.html
I suggest you do this on another server, once you have the table restored you can use mysqldump to extract it and import back to your production server. This will not be a fast restore, but you can recover the data.
If you don't know what you are doing I would suggest openning a support contract with one of the mysql consulting companies (pythian, percona, palamino are probably the best) and have them help you with this.
I wish you the best of luck

A: If you act fast there is a high chance to get your database back. The chance is higher for InnoDB, for MyISAM it's non-zero, but close.
The matter is when MySQL executes DROP TABLE or DROP DATABASE (which is essentially the same) InnoDB doesn't wipe the data out. Pages with the data are still on disk.
Depending on innodb_file_per_table setting the recovery process differs. If innodb_file_per_table is OFF (default up until 5.5) then the dropped table remains in ibdata1. If innodb_file_per_table is ON (default as of 5.5) then the dropped table was in the respective .ibd file. MySQL removes this file when drops the table.
The very first thing to do is to stop any possible writes so your table isn't overwritten. If innodb_file_per_table is OFF it's enough to stop MySQL (kill -9 is even better, but make sure you kill safe_mysqld first). If innodb_file_per_table is ON then umount partition where MySQL stores its data. If the datadir is on the root partition I recommend to shut down server or at least take an image of the disk. Let me repeat, the goal is to prevent overwriting dropped table by MySQL or operating system.
There is a tool that allows to work with InnoDB pages at low level,
TwinDB data recovery toolkit. I will use it to illustrate undrop recovery.
You need to take the media with dropped table (either ibdata1 or disk image) and find InnoDB pages on it. stream_parser tool from the toolkit does it.
./stream_parser -f /path/to/disk/image

It will scan the file, find the InnoDB pages and sort them by type and index_id. index_id is an identifier that InnoDB uses to refer to an index. A table is stored in index PRIMARY. To find what index_id is your dropped table you need to recover InnoDB dictionary.
The InnoDB dictionary is stored in ibdat1 file. You need to scan ibdata1 file the same way as above:
./stream_parser -f /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1

Now you need to get records from the InnoDB dictionary tables SYS_TABLES and SYS_INDEXES(let's say your table is sakila.actor):
./c_parser -4Df pages-ibdata1/FIL_PAGE_INDEX/0000000000000001.page -t dictionary/SYS_TABLES.sql | grep sakila/actor
000000000B28  2A000001430D4D  SYS_TABLES  "sakila/actor"  158  4  1 0   0   ""  0

158 is table_id, remember it.
./c_parser -4Df pages-ibdata1/FIL_PAGE_INDEX/0000000000000003.page -t dictionary/SYS_INDEXES.sql | grep 158
000000000B28    2A000001430BCA  SYS_INDEXES     158     376     "PRIMARY"       1       3       0       4294967295
000000000B28    2A000001430C3C  SYS_INDEXES     158     377     "idx\_actor\_last\_name"        1       0       0       4294967295

So, index_id of your dropped table(sakila.actor) is 376.
Now you can fetch records of the dropped table from InnoDB index_id 376.
You need to have the table structure of the dropped table, exactly CREATE TABLE statement which the table was created with. Where you can get it? Either from old backup, or from elsewhere. It's also possible to recover the structure from the InnoDB dictionary, but I won't cover it in this answer. Let's just assume you have it.
./c_parser -6f pages-ibdata1/FIL_PAGE_INDEX/0000000000000376.page -t actor.sql > dump.tsv 2> load_cmd.sql

c_parser outputs records as tab-separated dump to stdout. The dump can be loaded with LOAD DATA command. c_parser prints it to stderr.
See more details in posts:

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*Recover after DROP TABLE, innodb_file_per_table is ON

*Recover after DROP TABLE, innodb_file_per_table is OFF

*Recover InnoDB dictionary

A: There's no easy way to break this to you.  It doesn't matter if you dropped a db via phpmyadmin or the commandline. It is gone.
Human error is one reason to have a good backup regimen.
I'm not religious but I'll say a prayer hoping it wasn't anything too important.

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Kyle Korver enjoying mentoring young Jazz players
By Ryan Miller, KSL.com | Posted - Jan 18th, 2019 @ 11:45am
SALT LAKE CITY — Kyle Korver releases the ball so fast it's hard to notice all the details.
The wide stance and the exaggerated legs, the slight bend at the waist with the straight elbow, the distance between the fingers and the square shoulders, and the high release point with the long follow through.
Korver has analyzed every part of his shot — and then analyzed it again. He's perfected the movements and made it close to as automatic as just about any player in NBA history.
It's why he's one of the most feared sharpshooters ever. And it's why he's become one of the best mentors to young players in the league. He can do more than just space the floor and can knock down shots with little to no spacing. He can teach other players to do it too.
"I talk to him each day," Jazz guard Royce O'Neale said. "We shoot each day together. Me and Donovan (Mitchell) have been talking to him a lot, helping each other out. He's one of the greatest shooters in history — to be able to talk to him every day helps us out with our jump shots."
That's nothing new for Korver. Before his trade to Utah, he was Cleveland's quasi-shooting coach, taking young players under his wing and helping them not only develop proper technique but also add some needed confidence.
"It wasn't even so much mechanics, it was more so the mindset and confidence to step into it knowing this is a good shot for me and a good shot for our team," Cleveland forward Larry Nance Jr. said last month.
It's not uncommon to see Korver and O'Neale locked in a shooting contest following Jazz practices or shootarounds. But it's more than just shooting together; O'Neale said that he and Mitchell have used the time to pick Korver's brain and to find out exactly what he is doing when he shoots.
"Sometimes, it's as simple as hand placement," O'Neale said. "Things he sees like where to shoot, where to aim at for the basket. Details that you never realized."
Mitchell has been shooting 42 percent from 3-point range in January, and O'Neale has hit over 40 percent from distance since the Korver trade. Mitchell's free throws have even started to look like Korver's, with straight elbows to begin his shooting motion.
"I don't think I have done that much — shot with some guys, give some pointers — I'm happy to share with anything I might know," Korver said. "This is just a really great locker room. The Jazz have done a great job of bringing in the right guys."
Korver wants to make it clear: He's not a coach. He gets paid to run around screens and hit shots. But he also enjoys passing down knowledge — especially when players are eager to learn. Korver said that players, especially at the NBA, aren't always receptive to learning new things, but the Jazz locker room is unique in that regard. Everyone just wants to get better.
"I think it's like anything in life — if people want help, they are willing to make changes fairly quickly," Korver said. "If you ask any of the coaches here — and I'm not a coach, I'm just a player — but when guys want help, you can see it in their eye and you can see it in the body language."
And you can hear it as they talk about it, too. O'Neale and Mitchell have been very quick in pointing out the help that Korver has given them. Be it from shooting sessions or just from watching his tireless routine.
"Him coming in when he did and helping out," O'Neale said. "Just being able to help us out each day, shows a lot about who he is."
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VERIFY: Yes, Uber and Lyft have implemented safety measures after Samantha Josephson's murder
This case sparked calls for ridesharing safety changes to make sure people knew the vehicle they were getting into was the one they ordered.
Author: Meghan Bragg
Published: 6:56 PM EDT July 19, 2021
Updated: 11:10 PM EDT July 19, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jury selection in the trial of the man accused of killing a USC student began Monday.
Investigators say in March of 2019 Nathaniel Rowland kidnapped and killed Samantha Josephson.
According to police Josephson got into Rowland's vehicle, mistaking it for her Uber. Her body was found hours later in a wooded area. Rowland was arrested the same day, after investigators say they found Josephson's blood and cellphone in the car he was driving.
RELATED: Trial begins of man charged with killing USC student Samantha Josephson
QUESTION: Have rideshare companies worked to make rides safer for customers after Samantha Josephson's murder?
ANSWER: Yes, ridesharing services have increased their safety measure.
The Southern Carolina Legislature
WHAT WE FOUND:
In June 2019, the South Carolina Legislature passed the Samantha Josephson Ridesharing Safety Act, creating new requirements for rideshare drivers.
In South Carolina, they are now required to display their vehicle drivers license plate number on the front of their cars so that customers can see it clearly. Failure to do so can result in fines.
In September 2019, Uber and Lyft expanded safety measures nationwide. According to Uber's website, they now offer an emergency button where users can connect to 911.
Drivers are also required to snap selfies periodically to ensure they are where they claim to be on the app. There is also a ride verification system available with drivers required to enter a pin number from the passengers before the ride can begin.
Similar to Uber, Lyft added features to its app to ensure safety. According to Lyft's website, one feature allows you to share your ride and location with friends, and if your ride is stopped too soon or for an unusual amount of time, a representative will reach out to see if you need help.
These features won't work if you don't use them. It is always important to check the license plate of the car before you get into a ridesharing service to make sure it's the collect vehicle. Ridesharing services do provide the driver's picture, license plate number, and rating.
Contact Meghan Bragg at mbragg@wcnc.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Q: How do I use jQuery UI in meteor? What is the correct way to install jQuery UI in a Meteor application? Since it's not a package yet, I added the jquery-ui.min.js and jquery-1.8.3.js that came in the download into the lib folder in my meteor project. That is causing the following fatal error:
Your app is crashing. Here's the latest log.
app/lib/jquery-1.8.3.js:9472
})( window );

ReferenceError: window is not defined
at app/lib/jquery-1.8.3.js:9472:5

(.........)

Exited with code: 1
Your application is crashing. Waiting for file change.

A: I have actually added a jquery-ui meteorite package that you can install
mrt add jquery-ui
Note this package is version 1.8.16 and is a dependency of the jquery-ui-bootstrap package which, if installed, will automatically include the jquery-ui and bootstrap-updated smart packages. (All of which make bootstrap and jquery-ui play nicely together).
To install everything, you can use:
mrt add jquery-ui-bootstrap

A: You need to put jquery UI in the client directory otherwise it is loaded by Meteor on both client and server and crash your app.

A: I've created an alternative jquery-ui package for Meteor that also includes images:

https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-jqueryui

Use mrt add jqueryui (note there's no dash) to install it. I know, this Meteor package proliferation sucks, due to things not getting maintained. But it should all get better soon when Meteor releases its official packaging system.

A: This question is growing whiskers...  Here is the new and correct way:

meteor add mizzao:jquery-ui

A: I made a post on how to do this correctly here
https://dontbeanocoiner.com/blog/dkuhKsg7fac67nnfP
you must install the package jquery-ui-dist  and import as:
import 'jquery-ui-dist/jquery-ui'
import 'jquery-ui-dist/jquery-ui.css'

Then copy the images folder to your /public folder.


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Home / Newsroom / Atos and GENCI announce Winners of Atos Joseph Fourier Award 2018
Atos and GENCI announce Winners of Atos Joseph Fourier Award 2018
5 revolutionary projects in numerical simulation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and quantum computing have been rewarded
Paris, June 6 2018
Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces, together with GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif) , the winners of its scientific competition, the Atos Joseph Fourier Award 2018. The award aims to accelerate research and innovation by rewarding projects in the fields of numerical simulation, and for the first time this year, in the fields of AI, and quantum computing.
The ceremony, presided over by Philippe Vannier, Group CTO, EVP Big Data & Security at Atos, and Philippe Lavocat, GENCI CEO, unfolded in the presence of many representatives of the French scientific community, researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
The jury, which is made up of independent industry figures from the French scientific and industrial sectors, awarded the following winning teams:
1st prize (10 000 €): Jean-Philip Piquemal, professor at Sorbonne Université, as well as Félix Aviat, Luc-Henri Jolly, Louis Lagardère and Yvon Maday have been rewarded for their work on dynamic molecular simulation on Tinker-HP (High Performance). This software aims to organize dynamic molecular simulations using advanced force fields. The project could potentially impact a number of sectors, including health and biology.
The second prize (200,000 hours of machine time on GENCI supercomputers) honored Ludovic Berthier, first-class numerical simulation researcher in amorphous substances, such as emulsions. The composition of these disorganized substances constitutes one of the most open and unresolved issue in today's physics, with many potential impacts in biology and computing.
1st prize (10 000 €) rewarded to the team composed of Igor Carron and Laurent Daudet, respectively co-founder and CEO & Technical Director of LightOn, a company which develops state-of-the-art optic based IT hardware, in collaboration with Kastler Brossel Laboratory, and "L'Ecole Normale Supérieure" for the creation of an innovative optic processor which allows to accelerate AI programs with unprecedented capabilities. The first results have already been seen in terms of visual and text recognition. Optic processors are a thousand times faster compared to standard processors, while consuming less energy.
The second prize (100,000 hours of machine time on GENCI supercomputers) honored Stephan Clémençon, applied mathematics professor at "Telecom ParisTech), who has developed Machine Learning based algorithms which can be applied to social networks, detection of fraud, and predictive maintenance means.
Quantum computing winner (10,000€): Jean-Charles Faugère, researcher at INRIA, and Ludovic Perret, professor at Sorbonne Université. For the past 15 years, this team has been working on cryptographic algorithms, which will be able to resist future quantum computing based decoding systems. The success of this project has led to the creation of the PQAT startup, which offers 'quantum safe' solutions.
At the ceremony, Philippe Vannier, Group CTO and EVP Big Data and Security at Atos, said: "In celebration of the recent 250th anniversary of the emblematic French physicist Joseph Fourier, it's fascinating to see such high quality ventures in the fields of HPC, AI and Quantum Computing. I want to congratulate all the scientists and researchers for their hard work and innovative ideas which will revolutionize the economy of the future. At Atos, we thrive on pushing the boundaries of science, and it is with pleasure that we reward and support these international-scale projects.''
Philippe Lavocat, CEO of GENCI added: "As a member of the jury, we analyzed more entries than in previous years and of a very high scientific quality, in the HPC category, but also in IA and quantum computing. By being part of the Atos Joseph Fourier Award, GENCI wants to not only highlight those scientists who are presenting world-renown research excellence, but also to offer French researchers access to GENCI supercomputers, in order to enable them to make advances in science and meet societal challenges."
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with approximately 100,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of around € 12 billion. The European number one in Big Data, Cybersecurity, High Performance Computing and Digital Workplace, The Group provides Cloud services, Infrastructure & Data Management, Business & Platform solutions, as well as transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payment industry. With its cutting-edge technologies, digital expertise and industry knowledge, Atos supports the digital transformation of its clients across various business sectors: Defense, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Media, Energy & Utilities, Public sector, Retail, Telecommunications and Transportation. The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull, Canopy, Unify and Worldline. Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
Bjorn Seguin | bjorn.seguin@atos.net | +33 7 50 24 16 58 | @BjornSeguin
Sylvie Raybaud | sylvie.raybaud@atos.net | +33 6 95 91 96 71 | @Sylvie_Raybaud
About GENCI
GENCI, National Equipment Intensive Computing, is a civil society owned 49% by the State, represented by the Ministry of Higher Education of Research and Innovation (MESRI), 20% by the CEA, 20 % by the CNRS, 10% by the Universities and 1% by Inria. Born from the political desire to place France at the best European and international level in the field of intensive computing, with the weight of the association of main actors of the academic research and the support of the public authorities, GENCI pursues three great missions since its creation in 2007: to finance and coordinate the implementation of a strategic plan of equipment of national centers of computation intensive for the civil research; to be a major player in the organization and the realization of a European space for intensive computing for research (as such, GENCI represents France within PRACE); to promote simulation and intensive computing in basic and industrial research. For more information: http://www.genci.fr/en
Séverine SAINT HUBERT | + 33 1 42 50 04 15 | Severine.saint-hubert@genci.fr


Xerox has taken their world-renowned Rochester Jazz Festival to a new level of interactivity for their 185,000 festival attendees with an augmented reality (AR) mobile application.
In collaboration with Xerox's agency, Robberts Communications.The AR experience centered on a series of jazz genre posters placed throughout the event during the ten day festival. Scanning any poster with the iPhone or Android "JazzFinder" app, allowed festival attendees access to historical genre information, sample music from the 110 festival artists and keep track of set times. The app also allowed for a social element as fans could take photos with an artist's augmented reality avatar that could be easily shared with friends on Facebook and Twitter.


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Southern Forestry Consultants Announces New Brand
Today we are proud to announce the launch of our new website and logo designs as a part of the continuing evolution of our brand identity. After 31 years, our business has grown in geography, offerings, and project complexity, and we felt it was time for a look that was reflective of this modernization. This update of our logos and website is indicative of what we've become since 1988: a multi-disciplinary natural resources firm focused on customer service and driven by modern technology and science. We feel it captures the essence of who we are: reliable, integrated, professional, and contemporary.
We recognize our brand and website need to function reliably within modern digital environments like the web, social media, and smaller mobile devices. This required professional graphics and colors which were cleaner, simpler, and consistent regardless of the media. Our new branding distinguishes between our different businesses by logo and color, but also recognizes the integration of each business into the SFC brand family. Furthermore, this new family of brand identities promotes our history of growth as an organization, recognizing the ongoing addition of new business lines, products, and services.
Our new SFC logo pays homage to our past with a classic and practical treatment of our familiar trinity of pines. The first step to forest stewardship is land ownership and that is represented through the Southern Forestry Realty logo, which contains the origin of every southern pine forest, a pinecone. Our newest subsidiary, Wiregrass Ecological Associates, has a classic and minimalist logo inspired by the wiregrass species itself and reflective of its modern approach toward environmental solutions.
For the last 31 years, SFC and its family of companies have provided industry leading natural resources solutions to public and private sector clients across the Southeast. While our professional core values and trusted customer service will always remain the same, we hope you appreciate our new logos' representation of our integrated approach to solutions and commitment to redefining natural resource management.
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SFC Announces new Forest Inventory Technology
The new Prism forest inventory solution is released by Lim Geomatics. SFC teamed up to create Prism for maximum configurability and ease of use. Engineered by Lim Geomatics and designed and supported by foresters, Prism serve the needs of all sizes of organizations.
Prism is part of our effort to redefine forest technology to support digital transformation in forestry and natural resources. Learn how Prism offers Automated, Map-Centric Cruising.
Learn more about Prism here.
WEA Presents at Georgia Landowner Academy Commencement
At the request of the Georgia Heirs Property Law Center, Wiregrass Ecological Associates (WEA) visited the Colquitt, Georgia community and spoke to the graduating class of a six-week workshop meant to educate landowners on a litany of land ownership issues. The Georgia Landowner Academy is a three-month program offered for landowners wanting to learn how to manage the business, agricultural, and natural resource responsibilities of land ownership. Forester Alex Harvey presented on behalf of WEA and Southern Forestry Consultants (SFC) to the program graduates on the topic of Preparing and Marketing Your Timber Sale. Mr. Harvey educated landowners on proper management their forestland, challenges to management, common mistakes to avoid, and helped connect those landowners with the resources imperative for their success. He concluded his presentation with remarks on the role of forest management and land retention in building generational wealth and strengthening bonds within rural communities. Mr. Harvey earned a Bachelor's Degree in Forestry with an emphasis in Wildlife Management from Mississippi State University. Prior to joining WEA, he worked to as an advocate and resource for small, non-industrial private forest landowners in partnership with the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Georgia Landowner Academy is sponsored by Georgia Outreach for Landowner Development ("GOLD") and its partners, Georgia Heirs Property Law Center, Golden Triangle Resource Conservation and Development Council of Southwest Georgia, Fort Valley State University, Georgia Forestry Commission, University of Georgia ("UGA") Extension Program, UGA D. B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Sustainable Forestry Initiative and the following USDA agencies: Farm Service Agency, Rural Development, National Agricultural Statistics Service, and the Georgia office of Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
The Georgia Heirs Property Law Center (The Center) is a not-for-profit law firm dedicated to increasing generational wealth, social justice, and community stability by securing and preserving property rights of low and moderate income Georgians. The Center's services include title clearing, will creation, estate planning, and connecting clients with programs to increase the value of their land and homes. Staff travel throughout the state from offices in Atlanta, Athens, and Fitzgerald. – https://www.gaheirsproperty.org/
WEA, SFC, and Endowment Partner in Program to Increase Minority Consulting Foresters
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment), in partnership with Wiregrass Ecological Associates (WEA) and its parent company Southern Forestry Consultants (SFC), have announced a pilot program to create more diversity within natural resource professions. The need for diversity in forestry and natural resource consulting is imperative, not only to address minority communities that are underserved from the forestry profession, but also to foster more inclusive relationships between land owners and professionals that have not existed historically. WEA and SFC will engage the first apprentice under this program and work with the candidate to develop and implement a robust professional development and training program. The Endowment will engage with both WEA and the apprentice to garner feedback that will allow program enhancements and the sharing of best practices with the broader community.
"Years of investment in our highly-successful Sustainable Forestry and African-American Land Retention Program designed to expand the ranks of black families engaged in active forest management, highlighted the disparity of minorities in the ranks of consulting foresters. Increasing the number of foresters and forestry technicians representing various people of color not only increases the number of bright young natural resource professionals overall – which is greatly needed – but it also increases the likelihood that more minority landowners will become interested and engaged in forest management," said Carlton Owen, President and CEO of the Endowment. "When all is said and done, a talented and diverse army of consultants benefits both forests and the communities that rely on them."
The People of Color in Forestry Apprenticeship Program will undoubtedly have a tremendous impact in addressing the unique challenges and needs of natural resource stewardship in underserved and socially disadvantaged communities. The benefits of this program will serve not only the natural resources profession but also future generations of minority land owners, through engagement around the retention, legacy, and heritage of forest management. WEA and SFC are proud to be the lead consulting firm to take part in this visionary endeavor.
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities is a not-for-profit public charity working collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest-rich communities – www.usendowment.org


The Jerry Lewis Book of Tricks and Magic - Blackman, James R.
Comments: With the exception of the Foreword, this book is exactly the same as Blackman's The Big Book of Tricks and Magic.
Released in 1962, the Jerry Lewis Book of Tricks and Magic was aimed at readers aged 8 to 12.
According to some sources, by the way, the same book was re-released later as The Big Book of Tricks and Magic with James R. Blackman listed as the author.
FOREWORD: In life there are two kinds of people: those who lead the parade and those who follow the leader. Every one of us secretly yearns to stand out from the crowd and win the admiration of our friends and family but too few of us have any idea as to how to attain this goal. Entertainment is one of the surest and most rewarding ways to popularity. The sound of laughter (and look at the things I do to get laughs) or the look of pleased amazement on your friends' faces at the completion of a well-executed magic trick are more than adequate compensation for the time taken to learn these simple tricks.
In addition to being a crowd pleaser, the art of magic offers other compensations. It develops quickness and a good use of your hands. It also will develop the necessary poise to address groups of people, since one of the most important things to a magician is a good line of patter to hold the audience's interest while he is completing a trick.
I am sure you will find the tricks demonstrated in this book by the son of my good friend James Blackman easily learned with a little practice, and magic will prove to be a very inexpensive hobby since most of the materials needed can be found in your own home.
After you have become proficient at doing the tricks you will be amazed at the amount of pleasure your friends will derive from watching you do them...but more importantly you will be astounded at the feeling of satisfaction you will have at being able to do something everyone else can't do.
Jerry Lewis played "The Great Wooley", a magician who entertained GIs in Japan, in "The Geisha Boy" (1958).
Snag Werris was the magic technical director for the film.


The Sustainable Futures Report: How Can I Help?
What can I do about climate change? Does it make any difference if I recycle? How can I affect global challenges when there are multinational corporations which seem to be set in the opposite direction? Can we really do anything about population, pollution and climate change? How can I help?
Burning questions and suggested answers.


If there is a mortgage then you need to talk with lender about including you to title of the house. A quit claim deed can be used for this purpose.
You need to download a quit claim deed, and fill it up with the help of an attorney. You can do it yourself but taking help of an attorney is better.
Aaixprovenceparis, you do not have to get tensed about it.
Allow me to explain the process. Your husband will be named as grantor and you grantee as his will be making the deed to include you as co-owner of the house. After it is filled, you need to get it notarized and recorded with your county recorder's office. If these steps are followed, you name will get included on the title of the house.
"do we need a lawyer to do this or we can do it alone? should we call mortgage company?"
Consulting a lawyer is advisable as you cannot be sure if you do it on your own, even if some error occurs you will not be able to know.
Informing the mortgage company should be the first thing, as there will be change in title ownership he might ask for loan to be refinanced.
First of all, you need to contact a lawyer and request him to draft a quit claim deed. He will draft the deed the way you want your property to be distributed.
Next, you need to get the deed signed by a notary public and then approach the County Recorder or the Register of Deeds to get the deed recorded amongst all other public records.
Once your deed is recorded, it becomes affective and a valid deed.
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Michele Serros, presente!
Wrenching. Not only too young, I still don't understand why people as beautiful as this, the rare few like Michele Serros, don't live forever. Because the next young aspiring writer inspired by activism, ocean waves and not growing up on the East Side, will need someone to identify with. Always. Not all Chicanas identify with the three B's, but many of us identify with being that "medium brown girl," the one who even in our 30's is still asked, "But your mom's white, right?" Over and over and over again. Serros new that eventually you just have to write about it, and always write something that will help you laugh it off. But not before tears, and right now isn't funny.
Long after gentrification has run its course, and the lines between these diverse Chicana/o & Latina/o So Cal communities are painstakingly blurred, Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death Identity and Oxnard, How to be a Chicana Role Model, Honey Blonde Chica, and ¡Scandalosa! will all be considered history books. Poignant, funny, honest, painful, brilliant history books. Or rather, herstory books. But for now, those of us multi-generationed California writers, who happen to be Chicana and still taking Spanish-language courses the hard way, have work to do. Michele Serros paved the way for us, speaking our language, dancing in our kind of chanclas, and making us laugh from a view atop 12-foot waves. I don't know if her work is taught in high schools, I hope it is. I'm inspired to return to school, to get back out there to teach, to teach her work, to help inspire so many of LA's medium brown girls that need some Michele Serros in their lives. Thank you Michele.
Writer Michele Serros dies at 48
by David L Ulin, LA Times
Jessica Ceballos
This is what happens when I'm inside too long and I decide to walk outside, to get some air. This is where my notes go. Notes that have, and/or will, decide to walk outside of this.
Poesia Para La Gente
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Tree patterns are fundamental to querying tree-structured data like XML. Because of the heterogeneity of XML data, it is often more appropriate to permit approximate query matching and return ranked answers, in the spirit of Information Retrieval, than to return only exact answers. In this paper, we study the problem of approximate XML query matching, based on tree pattern relaxations, and devise efficient algorithms to evaluate relaxed tree patterns. We consider weighted tree patterns, where exact and relaxed weights, associated with nodes and edges of the tree pattern, are used to compute the scores of query answers. We are interested in the problem of finding answers whose scores are at least as large as a given threshold. We design data pruning algorithms where intermediate query results are filtered dynamically during the evaluation process. We develop an optimization that exploits scores of intermediate results to improve query evaluation efficiency. Finally, we show experimentally that our techniques outperform rewriting-based and post-pruning strategies.
S. Boag, D. Chamberlin, M. Fernandez, D. Florescu, J. Robie, J. Simeon, and M. Stefanescu. XQuery 1.0: An XML query language. http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery.
Y. Chiaramella, P. Mulhem, and F. Fourel. A model for multimedia information retrieval. Technical report, FERMI ESPRIT BRA 8134, University of Glasgow. www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fermi/tech_reports/reports/fermi96-4.ps.gz.
J. Robie, J. Lapp, and D. Schach. XML query language (XQL). Available from http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/xql.html.


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Mike Williams born 1963 in Sumter, SC, received a BFA from the University of South Carolina in 1990. In 1988 he began a professional career as a fine artist and sign painter while finishing his degree. Residing in Columbia, SC, with his wife and two children, he works as a full-time painter and sculptor.
His work has been exhibited in the South Carolina State Museum, the Columbia Museum of Art, the Lake County Museum, Chicago, Ill., the Carillon Building in Charlotte, NC, the Sun Trust Plaza in Atlanta, GA, and the Volksbank in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Permanent collections include: the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, South Carolina State Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, the South Carolina State Art Collection, the Pritchard's Island Foundation, the Spring Island Trust, Palmetto Richland Hospital, Columbia, SC, and Iberia Bank.


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NYU College of Dentistry receives $3.9M grant to research improved chronic pain treatment without opioids
October 08, 2020 New York — The New York University College of Dentistry announced Sept. 25 that two of its researchers received a $3.9 million grant to study targeting endosomal receptors for the treatment of chronic pain.
The five-year grant, awarded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research through the National Institutes of Health, will support Dr. Brian Schmidt, director of NYU Bluestone Center for Clinical Research, and Nigel Bunnett, Ph.D., in their collaborative research that aims to ultimately yield improved pain management without the need for opioids.
Although opioids are widely used to treat chronic pain, their efficacy is limited and their side effects are notorious; use of these drugs often leads to misuse and addiction, according to the NYU news release. Approximately 500,000 Americans died from opioid overdose over the last two decades. While many of these deaths are caused by opiates, the cycle of addiction and death is often initiated by the use of prescription drugs that were diverted from their intended purpose.
The duo's research seeks to explore signaling mechanisms related to a family of proteins called G protein-coupled receptors, which control most disordered physiological processes, including pain, and are the target of one third of clinically used drugs. While GPCRs are thought to function at the surface of the cell, they can be subsumed within cellular organelles called endosomes. Once a GCPR enters an endosome, it is called an endosomal GPCR or eGPCR.
eGPCRs may be critical mediators of sustained neuronal excitability in the context of chronic pain. Accordingly, Drs. Bunnett and Schmidt seek to validate eGPCRs as therapeutic targets for chronic inflammatory, neuropathic and cancer pain. As part of this work they will test the hypothesis that eGPCRs generate signals in subcellular compartments of neurons that are responsible for persistent excitation and chronic pain.
"Our hypothesis — that signaling continues after a GCPR enters an endosome — breaks with the currently accepted interpretation that this process squelches signaling," said Dr. Bunnett, who is currently the chair of the Department of Molecular Pathobiology at NYU College of Dentistry. "Many GPCR-targeted drugs have failed clinical trials, but perhaps this is because drugs should be targeting eGPCRs inside the endosome instead."
If their hypothesis is correct, eGPCRs may be suitable targets for the treatment of chronic pain, generating a pathway for new therapies without the side effects and addiction potential of opioids.
"Our aim is to lay the foundation for the development of new types of medication beyond opioids that alleviate chronic pain including inflammatory, neuropathic and cancer pain," said Dr. Schmidt.


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Great Films You Need To See – Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Posted on June 28, 2012 by Three Rows Back
Although best known for introducing us to the memorable characters from This Is England, Shane Meadows has racked up a hugely impressive filmography – and none more memorable than his 2004 classic Dead Man's Shoes.
Unlike those other stalwarts of British film Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, who go where the story takes them, Meadows has chosen to locate his features almost exclusively within spitting distance of his beloved Nottingham (with the exception of his 2008 film Somers Town); so much so that the Midlands and Meadows have virtually become conjoined twins.
Shane Meadows' powerful revenge drama Dead Man's Shoes
Meadows may stick to where he knows best, but that doesn't mean he sits back on his laurels as a filmmaker. And instead of playing it safe with the kind of kitchen sink drama that is a staple of the UK's film output, he often goes looking across the Atlantic for his influences. His debut feature Small Time had Scorsese all over it, while 2002's Once Upon A Time In The Midlands (his one failure) gave a nod and a wink to Sergio Leone's love letters to the American West.
The same can certainly be said of Dead Man's Shoes. However, the influence of America and American cinema hasn't led to his aping it. Instead, those Midlands settings marry together with Meadows' idiosyncratic style to create something utterly unique.
Dead Man's Shoes begins with Smog's Bill Callahan singing "I can't be held responsible for the things I've seen" – a portentous line for what is to come. Squaddie Richard (Paddy Considine) walks across picturesque countryside to his hometown of Matlock in the Peak
District with his brother Anthony (Toby Kebbell) in tow. Home video footage is interspersed of the siblings to underline the bond between them.
The screen fades to black and Richard says: "God will forgive them. He will forgive them and allow them into heaven. I can't live with that." The 'them' he is referring to are a gang of low-level thugs and drug dealers who abused Anthony, who we discover has learning difficulties, while Richard was in the army.
Richard (Paddy Considine) wreaks his revenge in Dead Man's Shoes
Richard makes his presence known when he faces down one of the abusers, Herbie (Stuart Wolfenden), first in a pub and then outside a flat, where he turns up wearing a military gas mask, leads Herbie and his mates on a merry chase and steals the drugs that have been supplied by gang leader Sonny (ex-boxer Gary Stretch).
Sonny confronts Richard, who advises they leave town or suffer the consequences, pointing out that it's now "beyond words". When Sonny and co fail to heed Richard's suggestion they discover just who it is they are dealing with when one of the gang is discovered bludgeoned to death by an axe and the words 'one down' written in his blood.
Sonny goes on the offensive and with his lackeys heads to the abandoned farm Richard and Anthony are staying at to shoot him. However, the plan drastically backfires and the terrified gang retreat.
When the remaining members arrive back at Sonny's house they search the place expecting to find their tormentor there. But Richard is hiding and while they are upstairs he laces their kettle with the drugs he stole. A few hours later and the surviving trio are out of their minds and easy prey for Richard, who kills them one by one in an extremely disturbing scene.
There is one final member left though and Richard travels to a nearby town in search of Mark (Paul Hurtsfield), who has left his bad days behind him and now lives with a wife and children. When the horror-struck Mark learns of who is after him, he unburdens his soul to his wife, telling her of the final act of abuse inflicted on Anthony which led to him killing himself. As it transpires Richard has been alone the whole time.
Paddy Considine in Dead Man's Shoes
Richard takes Mark hostage and forces him to drive to the spot where Anthony died. However, instead of exacting his final revenge, Richard instead forces Mark to kill him, telling him that all he wants to do is lie with his brother.
The film that comes to mind most when analysing Dead Man's Shoes is the deeply pessimistic 1973 western High Plains Drifter, wherein the revenge plot is suffused with the supernatural (I choose to believe the character of Anthony is a ghost rather than a figment of Richard's broken mind).
The story doesn't quite ring true when you really think about it (where are the police in all of this?) and it soon becomes obvious that none of them is any match for Richard. The camerawork is a little pedestrian at times, also.
However, the plus points of Dead Man's Shoes far outweigh the negatives. The acting by a largely inexperienced cast is naturalistic, with Kebbell a standout in his feature debut. Portraying someone with learning difficulties can easily come across as broad and forced (Sean Penn in I Am Sam is a notable example), but Kebbell underplays the part, making Anthony a truly tragic figure.
This is Considine's show, though and he stands head and shoulders above everyone else. Since making his debut in Meadows' A Room For Romeo Brass in 1999, Considine has become one of this country's finest actors (and one of its most promising directors following the acclaimed Tyrannosaur).
It's a powerhouse performance and he is terrifying and sympathetic in equal measure. Considine does a mesmerising job playing a man racked with guilt because he wasn't there to help his brother and consumed with a rage that is as frightening to him as it is overwhelming. As Sonny points out following their first encounter: "I looked him right in the eye and he ain't the same guy that left."
Much like he did in Small Time, Meadows paints the gang as somewhat comical in nature, be it their Three Stooges-esque larking about, or the fact they drive around in a knackered old Citroen 2CV. However, the stakes facing them are far higher and this tone at times sits a little uncomfortably with the subject matter, especially during the protracted scene where Richard dispatches Sonny and the others in brutal fashion.
The effortlessly cool soundtrack, featuring the likes of Aphex Twin, Richard Hawley and Bonnie "Prince" Billy is pitch-perfect and complements Meadows' atmospheric cinematography, most notably in the moments Richard is walking through the countryside or on the farm.
Right now Meadows seems content with exploring the lives of the characters from This Is England. However, one hopes he will soon explore new avenues as we need more films like Dead Man's Shoes made in this country.
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Joseph@thecinemamonster · January 7, 2014
Excellent review, my friend, wonderfully written! I never really though of Kebbell as a ghost, always as a figment of Paddy's imagination. Interesting take!
Three Rows Back · January 10, 2014
Thanks Joseph; that means a lot buddy. That's always been my interpretation, although a figment of the imagination works too. I equate the film with being a revisionist western, a bit like High Plains Drifter which is why I went with the supernatural angle.


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The standardized testing Opt-Out Movement: Right- or wrong-minded?
by byte clay
Words like hard, nervous, hate, long, boring, hard come pouring out of kids' mouths whenever asked about standardized testing. Sometimes gum gets heard, too, but only because teachers are catching on to the research that chewing it during testing is associated with a 3% increase in math scores on standardized assessments. Small, yes, but considered "statistically significant," so why not? Ditto when it comes to homework.
As for all those negatives, it's really no wonder. Fact is, as the Council of Great City Schools reports, our kids take about 112 standardized tests between kindergarten and high school graduation, equating to about eight annually. That, in turn, translates to between 20 to 25 hours of class time every year!
The result: A collective parent and teacher uproar and the strengthening of what has become known as the Opt-Out Movement. And, rest assured, despite former Education Secretary Arne Duncan's conclusion that opt-outers are just "white suburban moms" unhappy with falling scores, this movement has multi-colored legs here in Pennsylvania and across the country.
Indeed, last spring in Lower Merion, several teachers and parents took a stand against the high stakes Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). Saying, "Our kids and schools are more than a score," they offered yard signs for one dollar apiece to residents, and every one of them was quickly scooped up. In the end, about 200 of the district's children didn't participate in the testing. In Philly, that number hit 595, with another 186 sitting out the Keystone Exams. Indeed, anti-testing pressure ultimately forced Governor Wolfe to postpone those Keystones as a graduation requirement until 2019. Meanwhile, across the commonwealth, some 4,500 students opted out last time around.
But, according to FairTest's findings, those numbers pale in comparison to the more than 620,000 students in the 14 states that reported–some 240,000 of them in New York State alone. In New Jersey, the figure hit 110,000, and these numbers are sure to grow this spring.
Not everyone is pleased with that outlook, however, and that includes the National Parent Teacher Association, which takes the position that:
"Tests and assessments are used most frequently to help students, teachers, schools, and parents know what students have learned and what they still need to study."
"Teachers can use information from assessments to design lessons that meet the needs of their students."
"School districts and states use assessment results to evaluate whether they are meeting their goals."
"Assessments also are used by policy-makers for accountability—to help gauge the effectiveness of programs and schools…"
Then there's this from Pam Stewart, Florida's education commissioner to every district: "… My belief is that students that do not want to test should not be sitting in public schools, as it is mandatory and required for students seeking a standard high school diploma. Statewide, standardized assessments are part of the requirement to attend school, like immunization records. That is our message and what we send to you to be shared with your staff."
Nevertheless, the movement grows. Just this past February, the 2016 United Opt-Out Conference was held in Philadelphia, and one of its major goals was doing a better job of reaching out to minority families to join. Moreover, as the organization reminds us: The movement is about "much more than simply refusing high-stakes tests."
For starters, the government sponsored and funded Common Core-aligned assessments—PARCC and SBAC—are more rigorous than those they replaced, so scores have slipped and anxiety levels have risen. Add that to the fact that 42 states and D.C.—up from 15 in 2009—now require that "student growth and achievement be considered in evaluations of public school teachers." Stoking the flames, New York Governor Cuomo went and proposed that 50% of a teacher's evaluation be based on those test scores. Oh, yes, in 28 states, an "ineffective rating" is cause for dismissal.
Then there's the fact that the K-12 education market pulls in more than $700 billion a year!
And one last tidbit: New Jersey is, for now anyway, the only state in the union to use the PARCC Common Core-aligned assessment as a graduation requirement—a purpose for which it was never designed. Stan Karp, director of the Secondary Reform Project of the Newark-based Education Law Center is, therefore, hoping to pressure the Department of Education to give this year's graduating class a pass.
At the same time, the California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education has joined a call for an end to high-stakes testing, saying that "there is no 'compelling' evidence to support the idea that the Common Core State Standards will improve the quality of education for children or close the achievement gap, and that Common Core assessments lack "validity, reliability and fairness."
Then there's this from Peter Gray, a research professor at Boston College: "The evidence is overwhelming that our national mania for testing—and for so much time in school and at schoolwork—is damaging the physical and psychological health of our children."
Agree? Disagree? Stay tuned; the testing season is gearing up again–and so are the opt-outers.
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