Axiata Group introduced Axiata Arena in partnership with Perbadanan Stadium Malaysia. According to The Star, the deal is worth RM55 million.
In a 10-year partnership, Axiata secured the sponsorship of Putra Indoor Stadium to jointly work on the redevelopment and modernisation of the venue. Through the corporate partnership, Axiata Arena is set to be critical aspect of the KL Sports City, when it reopens in July 2017. Currently undergoing extensive upgrading works, the multi-purpose indoor arena will become a fully integrated and high connectivity world-class venue for sports, entertainment and culture, on par with international destination venues.
The sponsorship will also facilitate the implementation of new services and innovative technology capabilities to make Axiata Arena Malaysia's first digitalised arena.
Minister of Youth and Sports, YB Brigadier General Khairy Jamaluddin, at the official opening said the partnership between Axiata and Perbadanan Stadium Malaysia is geared towards benefiting Malaysia in promoting Kuala Lumpur as a regional sports, entertainment and cultural hub, attracting global talent, connecting communities and creating employment opportunities while showcasing the nation's strong digital assets and infrastructure.
He added that Axiata Arena will be a focal point of national and regional attention as we host the SEA Games and the Para Games this year.
Ramly added that the company expects to see successful return on investment in terms of brand affiliation and recognition just as other international conglomerates have benefited from similar naming deals. Beyond the branding reach, this partnership also presents an opportunity for Axiata to leverage and further build its digital services ecosystem, expanding its entertainment offerings such as music, sports and other services with live events and activities at Axiata Arena, he said.
Axiata Arena will be a key venue for the 29th South East Asian Games and the 9th ASEAN Para Games that will be held in Kuala Lumpur in August 2017 with international music artists already in the pipeline to hold concerts from the fourth quarter this year, along with family friendly events such as Disney On Ice. The Putra Indoor Stadium will be modified to accommodate various events with a maximum capacity of 14,425 seats.
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How old is Brooke Shields?
GROWING up under the spotlights, actress and model, Brooke Shields, takes time to appreciate her mid-years.
Throughout her career, she has never allowed her age to define her.
Brooke was born in Manhattan, New York on May 31, 1965. She is 56 years old.
In a video she posted on Instagram, on November 25th, 2021, for Thanksgiving, she shows off her figure in a red one-piece.
Age is but a number, when it comes to Brooke.
According to Prevention, the former model, actress and mother of two daughters, keeps a regular diet and training regimen with trainer, Ngo Okafor.
Even after knee surgery in 2018, Brooke told the Today Show, that "It was a revelation to work with a personal trainer and it not be a crazy painful thing."
She tries her best to stay fit and healthy as she manages her busy lifestyle.
Who is Brooke Shields?
Brooke Shields is an American actress and former model.
She is best known for her work as a young star in The Blue Lagoon (1980), Jane the Virgin (2014–2019) and Pretty Baby (1978).
Her fame began at age 12 when she played a child prostitute in New Orleans in Louis Malle's film, Pretty Baby.
She was born to parents Teri and Frank Shields. Her mother was an actress and model who encouraged Brooke to do the same.
After high school, Brooke attended Princeton University in New Jersey and graduated with a B.A. in French literature.
What is Brooke Shields' net worth?
Brooke's net worth is around $40millon, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Her latest 2021 Netflix movie, A Castle for Christmas, is currently ranked #6 in the U.S. today by the streaming platform.
In the film, she gets to play an American author who travels to Scotland to escape her divorce and ends up wanting to buy a castle and finding herself in a new place.
British actor Cary Elwes also stars in the film.
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A Day of Firsts for South Carolina (Recap of Texas A&M v. South Carolina)
At around 3:00 AM or so Wednesday morning, Winter Storm Leon wound down around Columbia, South Carolina. It left about two to three inches of snow in the Columbia area, certainly around where I live in Forest Acres, which is fifteen minutes from the Colonial Life Arena, where the Gamecocks were hosting the Aggies of Texas A&M on Wednesday evening. It was the first and likely only snowstorm of the season in South Carolina.
Having lived in Long Island, New York for forty six plus years, two to three inches of snow/mixed with ice is nowhere near what I consider a snowstorm. But it can cause havoc in Southeast cities not used to having snow/ice or not prepared in stopping it. Such was the case in Atlanta and Alabama on Tuesday, where despite a winter storm warning, schools were in session and most people were at work. It resulted in a complete mess, with ice covered roads causing more than 1,000 accidents in Georgia and highways were complete logjams. Kids were stuck overnight in schools in Georgia and Alabama. Hundreds of people abandoned their cars as they could not get around due to the ice and traffic jams.
Here in South Carolina, we were better prepared. Knowing that the National Weather Service had an issued a Winter Storm Warning starting at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, schools chose to close on Tuesday as did state and county offices. Most universities, including the University of South Carolina, where I work, were closed. Nikki Haley, the Governor, declared a state of emergency before any snow had started in Columbia. Most people heeded the warnings and stayed off the roads.
Again on Wednesday, schools were closed, along with the University of South Carolina, as well as state and county offices. So just like most other kids, my two sons had the day off and enjoyed the snow, which is very much a rarity in the South. Yes, I indulged in a few snowballs with my two children. But come the afternoon, I had serious cabin fever. Thankfully, the game was still on for Wednesday evening and I needed the two hour college basketball fix.
It turns out Wednesday night that the roads were quite fine and really no issues of ice. And as a result, what I thought might have been a low turnout turned out to be a crowd of nearly 10,000. The students, knowing they had a two hour delay on Thursday, came out in droves hoping for a win that evening.
Entering the game, the Gamecocks had not won a game in conference. The 0-6 record was a little misleading in that South Carolina had been in most of their games, losing four games by eight points or less. This included an 75-67 loss at Texas A&M earlier in the season. The Aggies came into the game at 3-3 in conference.
After a very pretty rendition of the national anthem by the vocal group "The Gamechords", the Gamecocks jumped out quickly on the Aggies. Duane Notice, who has been very solid since he joined the starting lineup, buried a three pointer and Michael Carrera, also back in the starting lineup, hit an old fashioned three point play. A short time later, Brenton Williams nailed a three pointer of his own and South Carolina was up 15-5.
Texas A&M would cut the lead to six, 17-11 on a couple of three pointers by Antwan Space and Jordan Green. And for nearly the next three and a half minutes, the Aggies would stay in range, only trailing by six, 21-15. After Carrera dribbled into traffic, which resulted in a steal by Texas A&M, Martin replaced him. As Carrera walked by, Martin yelled loudly at him "PASS THE BALL!"
But South Carolina would make sure that Texas A&M would not hang around much longer as they on a 17-2 run over the span of five plus minutes. With two plus minutes left in the half, the Gamecocks were up 38-17. What was impressive about the run was that it was balanced. Laimonas Chatkevicius came off the bench and scored eight points during the run. Thornwell had four points in the span and Williams had a three pointer. When you looked up at the scoreboard and saw players with eight, seven and six points, it was impressive. Brenton Williams capped the half with a three pointer and the Gamecocks led 41-21 at halftime.
But it was not only the offense that was impressive for South Carolina in the first half. The defense came to play. They were aggressive, forcing ten Texas A&M turnovers in the first twenty minutes. They also held the Aggies, who shot fifty five percent in their home win over the Gamecocks, to thirty three percent from the field in the first half. It was the best all around twenty minutes that I had seen South Carolina play all season in person.
And the fans got involved, especially the student section. Whether it was their own cabin fever after not having school for two days or starved for a conference win, the students were the loudest I had heard for a men's game all season.
The problem with a young team like the Gamecocks is sustaining a high level of play for forty minutes. Sure enough at the start of the second half, South Carolina committed four turnovers in the first two and a half minutes. Texas A&M cut the deficit down to thirteen, 43-30 on a Kourtney Robertson layup.
But Notice made sure that was as close as the Aggies would get the rest of the way. He would score ten of the Gamecocks' first twelve points in the second half. His three point play would put South Carolina up 53-37 with fourteen plus minutes left in the game.
From there, the Gamecocks went on a 19-4 run over about seven minutes. Sindarius Thornwell would hit six free throws in a row. His last free throw would give South Carolina a 69-41 lead with seven and a half minutes left in the game.
All that was left was for both teams to clear the benches and play seldom used reserves. The Gamecocks would actually extend the lead to thirty two points before winning by twenty eight, 80-52 to get their first SEC win.
The Gamecocks had four scorers in double figures led by Notice and Thornwell, each with nineteen points. Williams, despite missing two free throws, which gave him now three misses on the season, added eighteen points. Chatkevicius had a career high twelve points. The Gamecocks shot fifty two percent from the field and eighty one percent from the line (26 of 32).
The Aggies had no players in double figures in scoring. Space and Jamal Jones each had nine points for Texas A&M. The Aggies shot thirty five percent from the field and were just four of sixteen from beyond the arc.
As I left Colonial Life Arena, I heard several fans talk about maybe there should be a snowstorm more often in Columbia since the first snow of the season brought the team its first SEC win of the season. As much as that might have been a good luck charm for the Gamecocks and as much as I loved seeing my boys make a robot snowman, I gladly hope there are no more snowstorms this year. I had enough cabin fever for the rest of the season. If snow is a good luck charm, perhaps the Riverbanks Zoo can lend their snow machine from their Christmas Light show to the basketball team.
But hopefully, it's not the snow, but the start of something for the Gamecocks' basketball team. What I saw Wednesday night was the equivalent of this weekend's upcoming warm front.
Something hopeful.
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In computer science, a pilot job is a type of multilevel scheduling, in which a resource is acquired by an application so that the application can schedule work into that resource directly, rather than going through a local job scheduler, which might lead to queue waits for each work unit.  This term comes from the Condor High-Throughput Computing System, in which Condor GlideIns provides this functionality.  Other examples of pilot jobs are: the BigJob implemented in SAGA, Swift Coasters as part of the Swift parallel scripting system,  the Falkon lightweight task execution framework, and HTCaaS.

Pilot jobs are most often used on systems that have queues, as part of their purpose is, in some sense, to avoid multiple waits in these queues.  These are most often found in parallel computing systems, but pilot jobs are usually part of a distributed application, and are many times associated with Many-task computing.

References

External links
 Condor Project home page
 The SAGA Research Group at OGF
 SAGA BigJob
 The Swift Project home page
 HTCaaS home page

Parallel computing
Distributed computing
Grid computing
Job scheduling

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Jann Arden   (born Jann Arden Anne Richards; March 27, 1962) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress. She is famous for her signature ballads, "Could I Be Your Girl" and "Insensitive", which is her biggest hit to date.

Early life and education
Jann Arden was born in Calgary and moved as a child to Springbank, Alberta, where she attended Springbank Community High School.  Her father was a construction contractor and her mother was a dental assistant. She is the middle child of three children.

Arden grew up in a troubled family dynamic. Her father was an abusive alcoholic. Her brother was convicted of first-degree murder and was incarcerated in Alberta in 1992.

After she graduated high school, Arden settled in Vancouver and sang with a series of bar bands. With these bands, she would sing cover songs of Led Zeppelin, Tina Turner, and Billie Holiday in a variety of locations including lounges, bars and ski resorts. During this time, she had attempted to launch a solo singing career but she was battling a bout of alcoholism which held her back.

Career

Arden was discovered in 1985 by Calgary manager Neil MacGonigill, who worked with her from 1985 to 1998, both managing her career and acting as executive producer of her earlier albums.  The two subsequently became estranged.

Arden released her critically acclaimed debut album, Time for Mercy, in 1993, and followed with a single "I Would Die For You". Both were credited among the six Alberta Recording Industry Awards won by Arden in 1994.

Arden's 1994 album Living Under June featured her biggest hit to date outside of Canada, "Insensitive", which was released as a single from the soundtrack to the Christian Slater film Bed of Roses (number 12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100). Another single from that same album, "Could I Be Your Girl", has also had significant, and consistent airplay on Canadian adult contemporary radio since its release, and featured a dance remix version which circulated on pop radio at the time.

Subsequent albums include 1997's Happy?, 2000's Blood Red Cherry, and 2003's Love Is the Only Soldier. She also released a greatest hits album, Greatest Hurts, in 2001, and a live album, Jann Arden Live with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (2002). In 2005, she released her eighth album (her sixth album of new material); self-titled Jann Arden.

In 1998, respondents to Chart magazine's year-end reader's poll named Arden the Canadian celebrity most deserving of her own talk show.

Arden revealed that one of her brothers is serving a life sentence in prison, and that her song "Hangin' by a Thread" is dedicated to him. Arden released her ninth album, Uncover Me, on February 6, 2007. This album was her first comprising cover songs exclusively, except for one original piece, "Counterfeit Heart". This was followed by her Uncover Me Tour across Canada during the spring of 2007.

On the weekend of March 24, 2007, Arden was admitted to intensive care for heart related concerns, diagnosed as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a condition commonly associated with acute stress and exhaustion.

She had a 2007 USA summer tour with Michael Bublé. In 2010, they also carried the Olympic torch. She co-wrote his 2013 song "Close Your Eyes".

In September 2009, Arden released her tenth album, Free, and its first single, "A Million Miles Away," in June. She then undertook a cross-country Canadian tour, which began in November 2009. She toured with proceeds going to the "Raise-a-Reader Concert Series".

In November 2010, Arden released her first ever live CD and DVD set, entitled Spotlight. Her latest autobiography, Falling Backwards, was released on November 1, 2011, along with a second album of cover songs, Uncover Me 2. Arden's thirteenth album, Everything Almost, was released April 29, 2014, through Universal Music Canada. In October 2015, Arden released her fourteenth and first Christmas album, A Jann Arden Christmas.

In addition to her music, she is also a writer of memoirs: If I Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You? (2002), I'll Tell You One Damn Thing, and That's All I Know! (2004), Falling Backwards (2011) and Feeding My Mother (2017).

Published in 2017, Arden's book Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss, relates her involvement with her mother while the latter was experiencing Alzheimer's. She discussed that era in the book: "I am a mother to my mother. It's a massive learning curve, not only because I didn't have children of my own, but because there isn't a handbook telling me what I should or shouldn't be doing. Alzheimer's is a different disease for every single person it inhabits. Everything is trial by fire."

Released in 2018, her album These are the Days includes 11 songs about the most difficult time in her life. "My mom and dad both were diagnosed with basically dementia and Alzheimer's and a litany of other things. My health wasn't great. I was floundering," she recalled in a CBC interview.

In 2018, she launched The Business of Life, a lifestyle podcast on topics such as entrepreneurship, motherhood, writing, relationships and navigating life challenges, which she cohosts with Arlene Dickinson.

In October 2018, it was announced that Arden had been confirmed as a celebrity judge on CTV's music series, The Launch. While on the show, Arden mentored Winnipeg based singer-songwriter Olivia Lunny.

Acting
Arden has also worked as an actress, with supporting or guest roles in the television series Robson Arms, Corner Gas, Hell on Wheels, The Detour, Workin' Moms and Wynonna Earp. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, for her appearances as Jane Carlson in Workin' Moms.

In June 2018, CTV announced that Arden would star in Jann, a comedy television series based on a "fictionalized version" of her own life. The series premiered on March 20, 2019. During the promotion of the series, in which the fictionalized version of Arden is depicted as having recently broken up with a long-term female partner, Arden spoke openly to the press for the first time about having been in relationships with both men and women throughout her life. , Jann is Canada's most popular comedy TV series, drawing more than one million viewers per episode. At the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, she received a nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

She has also performed on stage in productions of The Vagina Monologues, in film as Blanche the snack counter lady in the 2022 film Vandits, and had a voice role as R0-FL, the robot sidekick of Overlord, in the family sitcom Overlord and the Underwoods.

Accolades

Arden has received a total of 19 Juno Award nominations to date. She has won eight of them, including solo artist of the year in 1994, Songwriter of the Year in 1995 and 2002, and Female Artist of the Year in 1995 and 2001. She has also won awards at the MuchMusic Video Awards, the Prairie Music Awards, the Western Canadian Music Awards and at the ARIA (Alberta Recording Industry Association) Awards.

She has 17 top ten singles from eight albums.

In March 2006, it was announced that she would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
In November 2006, Arden received the National Achievement Award from the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) for having six singles reach the 100,000 airplay mark on Canadian radio. She was awarded the prize at a gala in Toronto.

In November 2007, Arden was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and was the winner of the International Achievement Award at the 2007 Western Canadian Music Awards.

In 2012, Arden was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.

On December 29, 2017, Arden was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for her 'achievements as a singer-songwriter and broadcaster, and for her extensive charitable work.'

In 2020, Arden was named by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences as its 2020 inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame; however, due to the cancellation of the Juno Awards of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, she actually received her induction tribute at the Juno Awards of 2021.

She won two Canadian Screen Awards at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for Best Host in a Talk Show or Entertainment News Show for her 2019 special Jann Arden One Night Only, and Best Host of a Live Entertainment Event for her role as host of the 2019 Giller Prize ceremony.

Notable appearances
She has made a number of charity appearances, including appearances in Africa for World Vision, performing at Live 8 and the MAC Cosmetics Fashion Cares AIDS benefits. She also appeared in the opening segment of an episode from the sitcom Ellen starring Ellen DeGeneres, originally aired on January 8, 1997.

She toured with Michael Bublé on the US and European legs of his 2005 tour, and again toured with him on his 2007 US tour.
She sang "O Canada" at the 2006 NBA All-Star Game.
She was a judge on season three of Top Chef Canada, episode 13 entitled "Wild Rose Finale", where she was the judge in the elimination portion of the episode.

At the 2006 Juno Awards, to counter host Pamela Anderson's on-stage appeal against Maritime seal hunting, Arden generated cheers and controversy when she joked that her bra was "made entirely of seal eyelids".

"Run Like Mad" was originally recorded to be the international theme song for Dawson's Creek, however it was only used for the first season. The song was used again on the DVD sets from seasons 3–6 when Paula Cole's "I Don't Want to Wait" became too expensive to license. Other songs including "Good Mother" and "You Don't Know Me" were also featured on the series.

Discography

Time for Mercy (1993)
Living Under June (1994)
Happy? (1997)
Blood Red Cherry (2000)
Love Is the Only Soldier (2003)
Jann Arden (2005)
Uncover Me (2007)
Free (2009)
Uncover Me 2 (2011)
Everything Almost (2014)
A Jann Arden Christmas (2015)
These Are the Days (2018)
 Descendant (2022)

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While several of these policies are effective immediately, others will be rolled out through the remainder of the year. The facts of what happened aboard Flight 3411 and a full review of United's changes can be found at hub.united.com.
Oscar Munoz, chief executive officer of United Airlines, said, "Every customer deserves to be treated with the highest levels of service and the deepest sense of dignity and respect. Two weeks ago, we failed to meet that standard and we profoundly apologize. However, actions speak louder than words. Today, we are taking concrete, meaningful action to make things right and ensure nothing like this ever happens again."
"Our review shows that many things went wrong that day, but the headline is clear: our policies got in the way of our values and procedures interfered in doing what's right. This is a turning point for all of us at United and it signals a culture shift toward becoming a better, more customer-focused airline. Our customers should be at the center of everything we do and these changes are just the beginning of how we will earn back their trust," he added.


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Problems Surrounding Amplify's Core Knowledge Language Arts to Teach Reading
Many teachers and parents raise concerns that instruction is age-inappropriate. Many school districts have signed on to Amplify to teach subjects including language arts and reading. Teachers must teach virtual, scripted, commercial programs.
Even if you don't live in Oklahoma, I recommend checking online to read Tulsa Kids. Betty Casey is the editor and her reports about schools are well-written and informative.
Betty gave me permission to repost this report. It's about Amplify's Core Knowledge Language Arts online program. It's an eye-opener! It raises questions about how Amplify is being used not only in Oklahoma but around the country.
Are the instructional objectives and expectations with Amplify's online reading and language arts program too advanced for children? See what you think.
Also, once again teachers feel the need to be anonymous in order to state their concerns about an academic program. This should worry parents.
Is CKLA the Best Way to Teach Children to Read?
~By Betty Casey
Note: Five TPS (Tulsa Public Schools) teachers from three schools were interviewed for this article. All of them have at least eight years of experience and all are certified teachers in elementary schools. They spoke under condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation by the district. Devin Fletcher, chief academic officer at TPS, was invited to explain the district's choice of CKLA, and also to respond to the teachers' concerns, but as of press time, he had not responded to the emailed questions that the TPS administration requested.
Do you think primogeniture is fair? Justify your answer with three supporting reasons.
You may think this is from a high school test, but it's a question from a Common Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) workbook for third-graders.
Why is the War of 1812 often referred to as America's second war for independence? In your response, describe what caused the war and Great Britain's three-part plan for defeating the United States. This is a writing task for second-grade students.
A first-grade Tulsa Public Schools teacher described this reading lesson: "You say, 'I'm going to say one of the vocabulary words, and I'm going to use it in a sentence. If I use it correctly in a sentence, I want you to circle a happy face. If I use it incorrectly, I want you to circle a sad face. The sentence is Personification is when animals act like a person.'"
That lesson is given 10 days after the start of school. "I had kids who wouldn't circle either one," the teacher said. "Some cried. I have sped (special education) kids in my room, and they had no idea. That's wrong. Good grief! These are 6-year-olds!"
This is a rubric by a second-grade TPS student to answer the following writing task: "Draw and write what you know about the five senses. Use words from our word wall."
Recently, the happy and sad faces have been replaced by CANVAS (an ed-tech company) so children now respond on screens.
"It's awful," she says. "They have to take their assessments on the computer, except the writing portion."
The writing assessment asks first-grade students to complete a rubric using words and pictures. In one assessment, children are prompted to retell a fable or folktale that they have read, and to include a character, the setting, an important event from the beginning, middle and end of the plot, and then write the moral in their own words.
This is a rubric by a second-grade TPS student to answer the following writing task: "Choose one of the stories we have read. Write and draw about a character, the setting, and what happened in the beginning, middle and end of a story."
"This is especially difficult with our student population," another first-grade teacher explained, "because we have so many children who come in not speaking English. This is an unrealistic expectation, and it certainly doesn't make it inviting."
CKLA is a product of Amplify, the education division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., an entertainment/news media company. The corporation planned to disrupt the American education industry as a newcomer in the curriculum development arena by introducing its own tablet computer and bundled education software into classrooms across the United States. When the ed-tech company didn't deliver on its financial objective, Murdoch sold it to private investors.
Allowing flexibility to experiment with untested ideas and products that may be disruptive, and may often fail, can be a positive in business (sometimes described as "failing forward") but can be devastating to school systems where children are the losers when the product doesn't deliver on promises.
Shannon Johnson, a TPS teacher for 14 years who now works at TU's University School, noticed a shift in focus when TPS accepted the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for teacher evaluations.
"There was a push to have business practices put into place for education, but it didn't work," Johnson says. "The evaluation tools, the rubric, was a huge change."
In 2009, the Gates Foundation invested millions of dollars to experiment with something called a value-added model to use a scientific approach to quantify and evaluate a teacher's effectiveness in improving student outcomes. A RAND Corporation study found that the Gates reform "did not achieve its stated goals for students, particularly low-income minority students…"
"I don't think you can 'value add' a teacher. You can't assign a number to what we add or create a mathematical equation to measure what we do as teachers," Johnson said, even though her value-added number was quite high. "Clearly, I didn't put a lot of value in it."
What is CKLA?
Amplify CKLA is described on www.amplify.com as "a unique core curriculum for PreK–5 ELA, combining rich, diverse content knowledge in history, science, literature, and the arts with systematic, research-based foundational skills instruction…The Core Knowledge Language Arts Listening and Learning Strand is designed to help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary critical to listening and reading comprehension." It also promises "off-the-charts reading growth in K-8," but provides no research to back this claim.
While districts that adopt the curriculum may see it as an innovative, rigorous common core product that levels the playing field for all children, an Ad Hoc Committee tasked to study the Core Knowledge Curriculum in Rochester, New York, found otherwise.
Tasked with addressing educators' concerns, the committee stated that the "Core Knowledge Curriculum has essentially the same curricular content used in American public schools since before people of African ancestry were allowed to go to school. It is conceptually the same curriculum that was in use as urban districts became predominantly Black and Latino."
The committee writes, "There is no dispute among educators and psychologists over the developmental concept that learning for very young students would begin with themselves, which includes their families, communities and ancestral origins. However, in Core Knowledge Curriculum, young students primarily learn about Europeans and their ancestors."
Particularly concerning to the committee were racial, class and gender stereotypes in the stories, fairytales and myths. They felt that "from a developmental standpoint, examples for young students…would largely come from the best of the African world and Diaspora, past and present. Once grounded in self and cultural knowledge, children are ready for exposure to the worlds around them. This was still the approach for white students…but when it comes to Black and Latina/o students, this approach is highly resisted."
The committee also expressed "alarm regarding the detrimental impact of highly paced and scripted lessons…" on English language learners and special education students.
These mirror concerns of some TPS teachers and reading professionals.
The speed at which teachers are required to complete lessons also frustrated the teachers interviewed for this article.
"The principal says it's only a tool," a first-grade teacher said, "but she also says it has to be done on time to take the assessment. If we do one lesson a day (CKLA and Eureka Math), we're not even through it. There are days we can't even get to a lesson, or the kids might need two days on one lesson. We can't do that. Everybody has to be on the same lesson at the same time. There's no time to give children extra help. They (the administration) tell us to just keep going. They'll get it by the end of the year. About half of them are failing reading."
A veteran teacher who has taught CKLA in third and fourth grades at another TPS school described her concerns about content and delivery.
"CKLA teaches a lot of content, but not necessarily scaffold and spiral," she said. "It builds on content so kids in primary grades learn about ancient civilizations, and it shows some vertical articulation, but it doesn't have good scope and sequence when learning skills. It's not developmentally appropriate to introduce a skill or curriculum or new learning concept and then not refer to it again for a very long time."
One of the selling points of CKLA is that it is content rich. The rationale is that children, especially those coming from impoverished backgrounds, need to be exposed to a lot of content in order to achieve equity with their more privileged peers. Many teachers, however, say the content is developmentally inappropriate and, as the Rochester, NY, committee found, not culturally sensitive. Teachers also say that the curriculum is dry and workbook heavy (9-14 workbooks in first through third grades), and they have no time or autonomy to make sure the children are actually learning. They also have little time to try to create meaningful context so that students will understand the lessons.
Even though the principal at one school told teachers that they could supplement with outside material, the teachers said that CKLA doesn't allow time for that. As long-time educators, these teachers have developed engaging supplemental units and hands-on projects, but those materials sit gathering dust in a closet because there's no time to use them.
One teacher said that her principal was "very disappointed that there wasn't a lot of neat stuff in the hall, but CKLA doesn't allow for much creative-type work. I didn't want to hang worksheets in the hall," she said.
Dr. Mindy Smith, a recently retired NSU literacy professor and owner of Lavender's Bleu Literacy Market, a children's bookstore and literacy center in south Tulsa, has seen significant changes in how reading is taught. While she says that professors are sending teachers out with good skills and qualifications, the new teachers are facing fewer opportunities to use those professional skills.
"It's a challenging job to teach," Smith said. "We feel good about our candidates, but there's been a change in districts. What we feel is good practice hasn't changed at all over the years, but how districts say it needs to be delivered is not the same. Unfortunately, there's not enough autonomy. They don't trust teachers enough to give them autonomy. Knowing the kids and guiding your instruction based on the kids doesn't really happen anymore. It's more prescribed."
Smith feels that using a scripted curriculum may be the result of having so many emergency certified teachers.
"It's not the right thing for kids," Smith said, "and teachers intuitively feel that. I would tell my university students to continue to try to differentiate instruction when they started teaching. When districts have a thumb on you, you don't feel you're being successful. It's not fun to teach."
However, Smith says she is encouraged by the interest in her workshops for teachers at Lavender's Bleu. They have been well attended, and teachers are excited about learning effective and creative classroom strategies for teaching reading.
Testing and Professional Autonomy
After an 8-year break from teaching, Shannon Johnson returned post-No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which introduced high-stakes testing into public education. Johnson was hitting the 90th percentile and above with her fourth-graders, and enjoyed professional autonomy.
"I had autonomy until CKLA was adopted," Johnson said. "My first two principals at Carnegie let us teach how we wanted, and the third one did as well until she was instructed to make us use the district-wide CKLA scripted curriculum."
For Johnson, who had always based her lessons on high-quality children's literature, CKLA was a step back to the old "Dick and Jane" basal reading approach of dry text followed by workbook pages. CKLA left little room for teaching critical thinking, new vocabulary and interesting content. It also took away the opportunity to encourage her students to love reading.
"You get a piece of a book (with CKLA)," she said, "a taste of a book, not a full novel experience. We always read whole books, and studied them, and I worked my curriculum around it. We would do projects and spelling lists, and language arts. I don't remember any chapter of a basal reader, but my former students talk about the books we read."
The last year that Johnson taught at TPS she said she did not teach CKLA, although "everyone else in the district was teaching it. I was teaching literacy rich lessons using novels, not CKLA," she said, "and my OCCT reading scores were the highest for fourth grade in the district."
Johnson said she couldn't continue at TPS when the district required that she use CKLA, so she left.
"I'm a TPS grad, and I loved the school I was in, but I wasn't treated like a professional. My job was to make the students love reading. I'm supposed to read a script and follow along?" she said. "I'm not needed."
Many teachers echoed Johnson's assertion that part of their job was to encourage a love of reading, and were trying hard to find ways to create contextual relevance with CKLA.
"I try to hook the lessons to something kids have already known or experienced," one teacher explained. "The kids are learning about the Roman Empire, aqueducts 2000 years ago. They don't have the concept of time to understand that, so we've been talking about how ancient Romans invented concrete – roads are made from concrete. The lesson says that Romans developed veto. Do they understand what veto is? They might make connections," she said.
Although she is trying to find ways to make CKLA content fun and engaging, this teacher says it's difficult.
"I wouldn't want my children taught this way," she said. "I don't know the rationale behind adopting it. The curriculum doesn't light up the eyes of kids. It removes the autonomy from the teacher. I guess if people have come through an alternate route and don't have a teaching degree, you can teach it without much experience."
Tulsa teachers have also felt left out of the process of choosing a reading curriculum. Prior to Superintendent Gist taking over, the teachers would gather to review and discuss several curriculum options, and then vote on the best. Now, the district administration chooses the curriculum.
Peter DeWitt, Ed.D., a former elementary school principal, author and consultant in New York, who has worked as a consultant in Oklahoma, says that tying teacher evaluation to state testing has resulted in politicizing education, thus creating a system where states and districts work backwards from the test rather than beginning with the children.
"We've seen an increase in special needs and mental health," DeWitt said, "because people want their kids to do better on the test. We know for a fact that principals and superintendents are taking recess out of the curriculum…taking away brain breaks."
DeWitt believes that some students understand the CKLA content because they have already had exposure at home, but there is a large percentage of students who will not understand it.
"Kids in poverty are going to be the ones who struggle more," DeWitt said. "CKLA doesn't bridge the gap, and they're having it shoved down their throats. Oklahoma has one of the highest percentages of kids living in trauma. We're not going to meet them at an academic level unless we're meeting the social and emotional needs. I'm sad for Oklahoma because of low pay, lack of resources, kids in trauma and poverty.
The way they teach will trigger their trauma. And with compliance classroom management, the kid will look like the one with the problem, but it's the teaching strategy that is the problem."
Expecting young children to perform academic tasks and skills before they're developmentally and cognitively ready can lead to frustration, both for student and teacher.
"One of the things that has been so disconcerting is the expectations about what is developmentally appropriate for kids," Mindy Smith said. "What we expected of children readiness-wise in kindergarten in the mid '80s compared to now is exponentially different."
Smith says that first- and second-grade academic expectations are now expected of kindergarten and first graders. "It's really unfair. How you teach a preschooler is very different from how you teach a second grader because of their developmental abilities – how long they can sit, how long they can stay on task. We've made expectations unreasonable to achieve."
The two first-grade teachers interviewed said that kindergarten children are expected to come to first grade knowing material that they are not cognitively ready for such as all letters and sounds, consonant-vowel-consonant words, how to phonetically blend words together, and to be able to write complete sentences at the end of kindergarten. And teachers only have the first three weeks of first grade to "review" these lessons.
"The children are so overwhelmed," one teacher lamented. "I've got kids who say, 'when is it time to go home? When is lunch?' They cry because they don't understand it, and the speed of the lessons doesn't allow time to go back and review and reteach."
According to The Alliance for Childhood, there is no research documenting long-term gains from learning to read in kindergarten. In a report entitled "Reading Instruction in Kindergarten: Little to Gain and Much to Lose," researchers found that adopting these standards "falsely implies that having children achieve these standards will overcome the impact of poverty on development and learning, and will create equal educational opportunity for all children." In fact, a study found the opposite to be true. Preschoolers and kindergarteners show "greater gains from play-based programs than from preschools and kindergartens with a more academic focus. Active, play-based experiences in language-rich environments help children develop their ideas about symbols, oral language and the printed word – all vital components of reading."
Reading Problems or a Testing Problem
Sometimes trauma or inappropriate curriculum may make a child look as if she has a learning disability. Another issue may be the method of testing or the test itself.
"With MAP (Measures of Academic Progress, www.nwea.org), students get a percentile," a first-grade teacher explained. "If you're a kindergartner or a first-grader under a 40th percentile, we make a reading plan. There are 44 questions on a computer for 5- and 6-year-olds.
They may take 10 minutes to do it. I have a student who scored 35 percent, yet he is in my top reading group. He can read second-grade material. But the opposite can happen as well. You can get someone who scores high on the MAP test, but they can't do anything. Lucky guesser. On the questions, you have to push the button to get the story, then you have to push a button for the question, then you have four more buttons for the different answers, and then you have to figure out which one is the correct one and go back to that."
The teachers said that often the computers won't work, or the students are constantly kicked out of the program. "These kids are just trying to learn, but they give up. They don't even attempt it, because it's just too much," said one teacher.
Oklahoma HB 1228 requires annual professional development training programs for dyslexia awareness for teachers and administrators beginning in the 2020-21 school year. At a minimum, the law requires training in awareness of dyslexia characteristics in students; training in effective classroom instruction to meet the needs of students with dyslexia; and available dyslexia resources for teachers, students and parents.
The Dyslexia and Education Task Force developed Oklahoma Dyslexia Handbook: A Guide to Literacy Development and Reading Struggles. The book's purpose is to provide information and guidance about dyslexia to those who work with children and youth. (https://sde.ok.gov/)
According to Dr. Penny Stack, OTD, OTR/L, CLT and owner of the Dyslexia Center of Tulsa, dyslexia is a complex neurological difference that is much more than a problem with reading, yet educators too often look at the problem through the lens of teaching children to read.
"The difference between what schools do and what we do here (at the Dyslexia Center)," Stack says, "is that schools work on the educational model – getting the child back into the classroom as quickly as possible – and we use a medical model."
Stack says that going over and over the same areas will not help the person with dyslexia until the underlying neural pathway has been built to support the educational component. In her initial assessment of a child, Stack looks at all the cognitive functions required for reading success, including the underlying issues such as "lived experience," "confidence," "self-esteem" and "grit." Sometimes she discovers that a child is suffering from trauma, which is causing what looks like a learning disability, but is actually something else, and it may take a different kind of therapy to get the child on track to read.
Stack works on the whole brain system, and if there are any holes in the system, the child will continue to have difficulty. "I've seen fifth graders who could read at a high school level, but they can't remember a thing they're reading. They slip through the cracks. They're getting A's and B's in school, but they have to spend five hours on homework."
She is glad to see the state investing in training teachers to understand and recognize dyslexia.
"No matter what reading program you're using, that pattern has to be addressed," she says. "I would love to see us spend money in the early years doing a medical model rather than an educational model to help these kids. Their dropout rate is significant. We could keep these kids from dropping out."
"Are we asking too much of students at too young an age?" Peter DeWitt asks. "We have taken away the voice of the student and the autonomy of the teacher. If kids aren't allowed to have a voice, it will come out in another way, and it may be a way you don't like. It's so much more than some script that teachers have to read. Top-down compliance strips away voices of teachers and students. We don't need to go back to a time with total autonomy and no accountability. We need to find a balance of autonomy, accountability and responsibility."
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Betty says
Thanks for reposting this, Nancy. The district never did respond to my article; however, the PR agency in NYC for Amplify did. I sent them some questions to respond to, printed the answers in TulsaKids. I find it interesting that whenever I write about the ed-tech, edu-business products, the responses are from PR representatives who work for these companies, so how much can a PR company be trusted to actually understand the product? When I wrote about Summit, a PR person in San Francisco responded to me, not a local district administrator. The same thing happened with an article about No Nonsense Nurturing. There were no peer-reviewed studies that I could find on any of these products. The PR companies said that the products use tested, gold-standard methods. To an extent, that may be true, but they mix it in with untested, often age-inappropriate and developmentally inappropriate curricula.
Nancy Bailey says
I appreciate this, Betty. I hope readers outside of Oklahoma check on your writings in Tulsa Kids which tap into concerns surrounding today's school reforms. Here is No Nonsense Nurturing. https://www.tulsakids.com/teachers-cant-find-the-nurturer-in-tpss-classroom-management-system/
You are right! I have seen no peer reviewed research showing online programs as being a game changer. The companies rely on their own reporting and advertisement as proof, which is unreliable.
Then there's this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34174796
speduktr says
The teachers who commented were quite circumspect. I could not believe the questions young children were expected to handle. Oklahoma is obviously controlled by people who have never taught. I shudder to think what they expect of high school students if this is what first and second graders must master. I was asked to deliver a scripted math lesson in an elementary special ed classroom, in which I was a substitute for a parapro. I literally read a script while students worked in workbooks that I could not see and were not illustrated in the script. I might have understood the level of control if I was not a certified special ed teacher, although I never had an assistant that needed that level of direction. It was totally mindless and broke every rule of good teaching you could think of.
Well-put. Thank you! The explicit phonics programs are direct instruction. A reading specialist I know recently asked why teachers need special training. The current criticism is that teachers need such preparation from their Schools of Education. But with direct instruction, all teachers do is read from a manual!
I taught a direct instruction program my district purchased. There might be a place for a little of this, but it is overrated and certainly not excellent teaching.
Direct instruction and scripted instruction are not the same thing. There is definitely a place for direct instruction, which is under the control of the teacher. Scripted instruction demands that the teacher present a canned recitation. I haven't run across any such instruments written by classroom teachers for classroom teachers, only programs produced by private companies. Does that tell you something? Let's make learning teacher proof!
You are correct. I should have said "Explicit Direct Instruction."
I agree that these programs come from private companies.
Yes, I should have said that scripted lessons are a type of direct instruction. I thought about that as I wrote it, but thought I really wanted to emphasize that direct instruction is more than canned programs, poorly as it turns out.
No. You were right. And "canned" is it. I taught one of these programs once. Anyone could have done it. Reciting what the manual told you. I don't think it was effective. You could have put it on the computer and removed the teacher too. Fancy that!
Gwen white says
Please allow teachers to teach. Our children are not robots, nor are the teachers. Common Core all phases really takes the joy out of learning.. It has to take the joy out of teaching to be so handicapped. Children learn in different ways and must not be held to this one type of learning. It is truly sad and should be abolished.
Sheila Resseger says
I am at a loss for words to describe how unutterably sad and angry this makes me. The developmentally inappropriate questions remind me of the Engage NY language materials that I had looked at years ago. Not surprisingly, when I just looked up Engaged NY, I find that it has now morphed into CKLA–Core Knowledge Language Arts. The pedagogical/emotional/cognitive harm being perpetrated on young children and their dedicated teachers by this technological approach is indefensible. And as usual, the most vulnerable children are harmed the most. If teachers and parents don't rise up against this inhumane and counter-productive approach to "teaching/learning" and demand humane, engaging curricula for all children, we will have enabled an irreversible calamity on our society.
Sheila- that's the word for it- a calamity. As a kindergarten teacher I have seen learning by play for five and six-year-olds shrink to the point where they are expected to sit and do paper-based activities for most of the day- or other developmentally inappropriate activities. Forcing 5-6 year olds to write sentences and paragraphs when they have just learned to grip a crayon. Labeling them "struggling" if they're not reading by the time they leave kindergarten. And every one of the skills we are pushing on them can and will be learned with ease in first or even second grade – when the brain is ready. In the name of instructional minutes, recess has been systematically removed (or greatly decreased) in schools! It IS a calamity and the victims are the kids. They are physically and emotionally unhealthy. Obesity, stress, anxiety and suicide (In KIDS!) are all at all time highs. The power to change this damaging trend lies squarely in the hands of superintendents and principals. Michael Hines of Port Washington, New York is one superintendent who has the wisdom and courage to do that in his district. Hoping and praying that many more will follow his lead!
Hi Nancy, I read your article with interest as a teacher with first-hand experience using CKLA. My experience with the testing process was a carbon copy of what was written here. Here is the article I wrote soon after familiarizing myself and my students with CKLA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/09/02/test-prep-for-5-year-olds-is-a-real-thing-heres-what-it-looks-like/?outputType=amp
My school district is now using HMH Into Reading. The kindergarten curriculum is horrifying. In the first few weeks of school children were to write an opinion piece using a five step writing process from first draft to publication. A high school teacher that I know said her sophomores have difficulty with this task!
Could not possibly have been a kindergarten teacher anywhere in sight when this absurd curriculum was written. So basically what happens is, both teacher and student are being set up for frustration and failure.
What a horrible place we have gotten to when kindergarten discourages our youngest learners.
Hi Phyllis, I'm sorry it took so long to reply. Your comment is unsettling! I remembered your article in WaPo, and you covered it well. You clearly describe the movement to privatize schools. I wonder how many parents are not aware of this terrible agenda. Thank you for sharing your experiences. More teachers and parents need to do so.
Charles Emanuel Gerald says
Why so many people making millions of dollars off children
These people are not educators why
Like police
So called mental health psychologist
So called school counselors
These people make more money then the teachers in the classroom with these children
Yes Charles, money is what it all boils down to. Curriculum publishers are reckless, irresponsible. and greedy. They tell district decision-makers that their curriculum is just the thing to boost test scores. And irresponsible, misguided district leadership, frothing at the mouth to advance their all-important data, buy it.
We, teachers and students, are at their mercy. But the system is imploding because our children are unhealthy physically and emotionally. Anxiety, stress and suicide have reached all time highs. scores are no higher. And stressed out, frustrated teachers are leaving the field like never before. The whole thing is a travesty. 🙁
Our school district was looking at CKLA but chose against it for a number of reasons. Now our curriculum coordinator is looking at EL reading program. Any thoughts?
Your school district should be working with the teachers and parents and not relying on ANY online program to do all the instruction.
Emmett Hoops says
You start with some untruths. For example, the first grade assignment on personification? It doesn't exist as you describe it. I teach first grade and have used CKLA for many years. Nor is the second grade assignment on the War of 1812 anything like you describe.
The report was written about teachers who were using the program and their concerns.
https://myshop.amplify.com/collections/ckla-1st-edition-grade-2-listening-learning-strand/products/ckla-1st-edition-g2-ll-d5-anthology-the-war-of-1812


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LATINO LEADERS NETWORK HARNESSING THE POWER OF LATINO STORIES
Understanding that Latinos will represent nearly 30% of all students enrolled in U.S. schools by 2027, LLN partnered with the California Global Education Project (CGEP) to develop a curriculum guide to accompany the stories in Latino Leaders Speak: Personal Stories of Struggle and Triumph. The learning activities engage students to learn about, relate to, connect with, and act upon the powerful stories of Latino leaders in contemporary society.
Entrevista en exclusiva con Mickey Ibarra - Interview | Pedro Biaggi Encendío
Mickey Ibarra, presidente de Ibarra Strategy Group y presidente fundador de la Red de Líderes Latinos, visitó los estudios de La Red Hispana para el programa de Pedro Biaggi - Encendío. Entrevista exclusiva.
Mickey Ibarra, president of the Ibarra Strategy Group and founder chairman of the Latino Leaders Network, visited La Red Hispana (Hispanic media network) studios for an exclusive interview with Pedro Biaggi - Encendío.
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The Honorable Mickey Ibarra served as Director of The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs under the Clinton administration. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of a Mexican immigrant father and an American mother.
Mickey Ibarra Op-Ed: While Latinos took center stage at Super Bowl, Hall of Fame snubs coach Tom Flores
While Jennifer Lopez and Shakira took center stage at the Super Bowl on Sunday, one of the all-time NFL greats, Coach Tom Flores — winner of four Super Bowl rings — was once again denied his rightful place in the Hall of Fame.
FROM FOSTER HOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE With Special Guest: Mickey Ibarra
In this episode of Mucho Success, Jose Pinero and Mickey Ibarra discuss how the impact of childhood experiences shape our futures, the powerful tool to counteract the current negative rhetoric around the Latino community, the importance of optimism, and so much more!
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It's there in his work as a teacher for at-risk youth and as a representative for education associations. It weaves through his service as assistant to the president and director of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Clinton Administration as well as the work of his governmental relations firm, Ibarra Strategy Group. And it is at the heart of his founding of the Latino Leaders Network, and, with his brother David, sponsorship of four-year college scholarships for nearly 80 Latino students. That lifetime of advocacy has earned Ibarra the highest honor bestowed by the Government of Mexico — the Ohtli Award — in recognition of his contributions to the well-being, prosperity and empowerment of Latino communities in the U.S.
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ISG President Mickey Ibarra is featured by Forbes' Giovanni Rodriguez as he addressed the Silicon Valley Latino Leadership Summit to share his personal story this past weekend.
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Population of Eritrea
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The current population of Eritrea is 3,636,647 as of January 28, 2022, based on interpolation of the latest United Nations data. The population of Eritrea is projected at 3,601,467 or 3.602 million as of July 1, 2021. The total population in Eritrea is projected at 3,546,421 or 3.550 million people for the year 2020. Eritrea ranks number 133rd in the world by population in the list of 235 countries/territories. Eritrea is ranked 40th among 58 countries in Africa.
Eritrea's population will be increased year by year. The Eritrea population is projected to reach 4.24 million in 2030 and increase further to 6.0 million in 2050 and 9.06 million by 2100. Eritrea accounts for 0.046 percent of the world population. However, its global share increased by 0.033% in 1956 and is projected to increase by 0.083% by 2100.
Eritrea was at 139th position globally in 1950, and its rank is projected to decline at 103rd in 2100.
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1950 822,350 - - 0.032
1951 835,005 12,655 1.54 0.032
1960 1,007,590 24,252 2.47 0.033
1991 2,266,358 7,705 0.34 0.042
1992 2,257,596 -8,762 -0.39 0.041
1993 2,238,626 -18,970 -0.84 0.040
2002 2,481,058 106,336 4.48 0.039
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Q: How to install Rasa NLU using Anaconda prompt I have anaconda installed, and I use Anaconda Prompt to install python packages. But I'm unable to install RASA-NLU using conda prompt. Please let me know the command for the same
I have used the below command:
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PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

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A: Use pip install rasa_nlu from Anaconda Prompt as mentioned in the documentation

A: if you are using anaconda prompt, close all your active py files and IDE and run the anaconda cmd as admin. Worked for me, if not install a c compiler
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Journal of Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Sunitha Tella, Shehnaz Sultana, Pratibha Nallari, Sujatha Madireddy, Venkateshwari Ananthapur*
Institute of Genetics and Hospital for Genetic Diseases, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
*Corresponding Author: Venkateshwari Ananthapur, Institute of Genetics and Hospital for Genetic Diseases, Osmania University, Begumpet, Hyderabad-500016, Telangana, India
Received: 14 October 2020; Accepted: 27 October 2020; Published: 06 November 2020
Citation: Sunitha Tella, Shehnaz Sultana, Pratibha Nallari, Sujatha Madireddy, Venkateshwari Ananthapur. Joubert Syndrome with Homozygous Duplication in Exon 7 of SMN2 Gene and c.746G>A (p.R249H) Variant of Uncertain Significance in TRPV4 Gene: A Case Report. Journal of Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 4 (2020): 126-129.
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The case report presents 5 years old male proband with Joubert syndrome (JS) referred to the Institute with the complaint of developmental delay. Mutation analysis in the proband by MLPA showed homozygous duplication in exon 7 of SMN2 gene. Further, next generation sequencing (NGS) based gene panel study showed one copy of c.746G>A (p.R249H) variant of uncertain significance in exon 5 of TRPV4 gene in heterozygous condition. The same variant was identified in the probands father. Prenatal diagnosis in proband's mother who was pregnant, revealed heterozygous missense variants of uncertain significance at c.578C>G (p. Thr193Arg) in exon 4 of PNPLA8 gene and c.862C>T (p. Arg288Cys) in exon 6 of KCNH1 gene in the developing foetus. Thus, the advanced genetic analysis along with clinical findings and typical imaging will help in appropriate diagnosis and management of the Joubert syndrome.
Joubert Syndrome, SMN2, TRPV4, Autosomal Recessive, Duplication
Joubert Syndrome articles; SMN2 articles; TRPV4 articles; Autosomal Recessive articles; Duplication articles
Joubert Syndrome (JS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, inherited heterogeneously. The prevalence of Joubert syndrome is less than 1 in 100,000. Clinical features include ataxia, abnormal eye movements, hyperpnea episodes, hypotonia, respiratory anomalies, mental retardation, and growth retardation [1]. Molar tooth sign finding in the imaging, is the distinctive feature of Joubert syndrome, which emerges in the form of midbrain-hindbrain anomalies. Till date mutations in 34 genes are causal in Joubert syndrome, of which 33 are autosomal recessive and one X-linked. The case report presents Joubert syndrome with homozygous duplication in exon 7 of SMN2 gene and c.746G>A (p.R249H) variant of uncertain significance in TRPV4 gene.
2. Case Presentation
A 5-year-old boy with developmental delay was referred to Institute of Genetics and Hospital for Genetic Diseases. The parents of the proband were healthy and married with no consanguinity. The family members of both sides did not have developmental delay, mental retardation, or other nervous system abnormalities, including Joubert syndrome and JSRD. The proband was suspected for Spino-muscular disorder / Neuro muscular disorder / Joubert Syndrome based on clinical examination. 2D Echo of the proband showed flow across the valves with mild TR flow and normal pulmonary flow. EEG examination showed normal study. PET-CT scan showed severe hypometabolic bilateral medical temporal cortices and cerebellar hemispheres, moderate hypometabolic bilateral thalami and lateral temporal cortices with mild anti-cingulate gyri. However, ultrasound scan of the abdomen showed normal study. Mutation analysis in the proband was carried out by multiplex ligation probe dependent amplification (MLPA, MRC Holland) using SALSA MLPA probe mix P060-B2 SMA for SMN1 and SMN2 genes. Homozygous duplication in exon 7 of SMN2 gene was identified without any variation in SMN1 gene.
Further, molecular testing of the proband based on gene panel next generation sequencing (NGS) revealed one copy of c.746G>A (p.R249H) variant of uncertain significance in exon 5 of TRPV4 gene in heterozygous condition, which was also confirmed by Sanger sequencing. Further, the gene analysis was also carried out in parents of the proband, where in similar c.746G>A (p.R249H) variant was observed in the probands father in heterozygous condition. The probands mother did not reveal any such variation. As the probands mother was 4 months pregnant, taking the clinical history of the proband into consideration, prenatal screening for neuromuscular disorder was advised to the couple. Amniotic fluid was obtained by amniocentesis for prenatal screening. The prenatal diagnosis test results showed heterozygous variants of uncertain significance at c.578C>G (p. Thr193Arg) in exon 4 of PNPLA8 (transcript NM_015723.4) gene on Chr7:108155358 and c.862C>T (p. Arg288Cys) in exon 6 of KCNH1 (transcript NM_172362.2) gene on Chr1:211192295. Both the missense variants have not been reported previously as a pathogenic variant nor as a benign variant, to our knowledge.
Joubert syndrome at the neuropathological level was caused due to hypoplasia and dysplasia of the cerebellar vermis and of pontine and medullary structures, and the absence of decussation of the superior cerebellar peduncles and the pyramidal tracts [2]. Survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene on chromosome 5q 13.2 is highly conserved and a single copy is present in the genome of all eukaryotic organisms. However, in humans a genomic duplication has given rise to a second gene, SMN2. SMN2 modulate the disease severity through variation in its copy number [3]. SMN protein has several key regulatory cellular functions in neuronal cells, including roles in RNA processing and transport, impairment in these processes leads to loss of SMN protein, resulting in altered motor neuron function and progressive death of motor neurons [4]. In the present report, homozygous duplication in exon 7 of SMN2 gene was identified in the proband, which may result in altered neuronal development and Joubert syndrome.
Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 channels (TRPV4) is a calcium permeable non-selective cation channel expressed in various tissues and cell types. TRPV4gene is located on chromosome 12q23-q24.1 and composed of 15 exons coding 5 different splice variants. TRPV4 is involved in osmo and mechanotransduction, which is important for several functions, one of them is regulation of ciliary beat frequency [5]. In peripheral nervous system TRPV4 expression was exhibited in the skin sensory receptors, dorsal root ganglia and to a lesser proportion in the motor neurons [6]. The exact role of TRPV4 in neurons have not yet fully explained. However, dominant mutations in TRPV4 have been described in peripheral nervous system and skeletal diseases. One copy of c.746G>A (p.R249H) variant of uncertain significance in exon 5 of TRPV4 gene in heterozygous condition identified in the proband may hinder the nervous development and may lead to the features of Joubert syndrome.
The prenatal diagnosis of the foetus in the present case showed heterozygous variants of uncertain significance at c.578C>G (p. Thr193Arg) in exon 4 of PNPLA8 gene and c.862C>T (p. Arg288Cys) in exon 6 of KCNH1 gene, which may also have a significant role in the developmental process. The p.T193R variant in PNPLA8 gene is observed in 10/29,936 (0.0334%) alleles from individuals of South Asian background in genome AD Exomes and 1/978 (0.1022%) alleles from individuals of South Asian background in 1000 Genomes. A large physicochemical difference between arginine and cysteine, in missense variant p.R288C in KCNH1 gene, is likely to impact secondary protein structure. Both the variants p.T193R and p.R288C are predicted to be damaging by both SIFT and PolyPhen2 and conserved by GERP++ and PhyloP across 100 vertebrates and have been classified as uncertain significance.
Thus, advanced genetic testing such as Next-generation sequencing, microarray etc has enabled the identification and characterization of several genes involved in various genetic syndromes at the pathophysiological level. Thus, the report presents a rare case of Joubert syndrome based on advanced genetic diagnostics, which include multi gene panel study besides clinical history and MRI findings and helps in prenatal diagnosis and offer appropriate genetic counselling and decision making for future pregnancies.
The authors would like to thank Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi for providing funding and lab facilities.
None to declare.
Doherty D, Millen KJ, Barkovich AJ. Midbrain and hindbrain malformations: advances in clinical diagnosis, imaging, and genetics. The Lancet Neurology 12 (2013): 381-393.
Juric-Sekhar G, Adkins J, Doherty D, et al. Joubert syndrome: Brain and spinal cord malformations in genotyped cases and implications for neurodevelopmental functions of primary cilia. Acta Neuropathologica 123 (2012): 695-709.
Gennarelli M, Lucarelli M, Capon F, et al. Survival motor-neuron gene transcript analysis in muscles from spinal muscular-atrophy patients. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 213 (1995): 342-348.
Li DK, Tisdale S, Lotti, F, et al. SMN control of RNP assembly: from post-transcriptional gene regulation to motor neuron disease. Semin Cell Dev Biol 32 (2014): 22-29.
Andrade YN, Fernandes J, Vazquez E, et al. TRPV4 channel is involved in the coupling of fluid viscosity changes to epithelial ciliary activity. J Cell Biol 168 (2005): 869-874.
Facer P, Casula MA, Smith GD, et al. Differential expression of the capsaicin receptor TRPV1 and related novel receptors TRPV3, TRPV4 and TRPM8 in normal human tissues and changes in traumatic and diabetic neuropathy. BMC Neurol 23 (2007): 7-11.
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Zuring (Rumex) is een geslacht van meest overblijvende, kruidachtige planten uit de duizendknoopfamilie (Polygonaceae). De ongeveer tweehonderd soorten komen van nature voornamelijk voor in de gematigde streken van het noordelijk halfrond, maar zijn wereldwijd geïntroduceerd.

Zuring groeit meestal op zure grond. De soorten worden vaak beschouwd als onkruid. Sommige soorten, zoals de veldzuring, hebben echter eetbare bladeren die in salades gebruikt worden. Ook vormt veldzuring het hoofdbestanddeel van paling in 't groen.

De planten bevatten oxaalzuur. Hierdoor kunnen ze bij consumptie van grote hoeveelheden aanleiding geven tot vergiftigingsverschijnselen bij herkauwers en paarden. Deze plant wordt onder andere gegeten door de zuringwants (Coreus marginatus) en bruine zuringsnuitkever (Lixus bardanae).

In Nederland komen voor:
Bermzuring (Rumex ×pratensis)
Bloedzuring (Rumex sanguineus)
Geoorde zuring (Rumex thyrsiflorus)
Goudzuring (Rumex maritimus)
Kluwenzuring (Rumex conglomeratus)
Krulzuring (Rumex crispus)
Moeraszuring (Rumex palustris)
Paardenzuring (Rumex aquaticus)
Ridderzuring (Rumex obtusifolius)
Schapenzuring (Rumex acetosella)
Spaanse zuring (Rumex scutatus)
Spinaziezuring (Rumex patientia)
Veldzuring (Rumex acetosa)
Waterzuring (Rumex hydrolapathum)
Wilgzuring (Rumex triangulivalvis)

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 Biologische zaaitabel

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Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. It was recorded by Elton John and released in 1976, both as a single and as part of the Blue Moves album. The song reached No. 11 in the United Kingdom, No. 6 in the United States.
Abba - Dancing Queen
"Dancing Queen" is a Europop song by the Swedish group ABBA, and the lead single from their fourth studio album, Arrival. The song was released as a single in Sweden on 15 August 1976, followed by a UK release and the rest of Europe a few days later. It became ABBA's only number one hit in the Billboard Hot 100.
Boston - More Than a Feeling
"More Than a Feeling" is a song by the American rock band Boston. It was released as the lead single from their eponymous debut in September 1976. The single peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.
Elton John ft. Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is a 1976 duet by Elton John and Kiki Dee. It was written by Elton John with Bernie Taupin under the pseudonyms "Ann Orson" and "Carte Blanche", respectively. Released on 21 June 1976, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" was the first No. 1 single in the UK for both John and Kiki Dee, topping the chart for six weeks in mid 1976.
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"Summer" is a song by the band War, recorded on April 4, 1976 and released on June 21, 1976. The song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100.
Boney M - Daddy Cool
"Daddy Cool" is a song recorded by Boney M. and included on their debut album Take the Heat off Me. It was a 1976 hit and a staple of disco music. It reached number six in the UK charts and number 65 in the United States Billboard Hot 100.
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. "Bohemian Rhapsody" topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and had sold more than a million copies by the end of January 1976. In the United States, the song peaked at number nine in 1976, but reached a new peak of number two on the Billboard Hot 100 after being used in the film Wayne's World (1992).
Queen - Somebody To Love
"Somebody to Love" is a song by the British rock band Queen, It debuted on the band's 1976 album A Day at the Races. It reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.


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