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Is Israel of Strategic Value to the U.S., Canada and the West?
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JBG
Left-Wing Democrat (similar to NDP)
Location: New York area
Re: Is Israel of Strategic Value to the U.S., Canada and the West?
Quote from: BC_cheque on September 08, 2017, 11:32:35 pm
Wait, before I answer that, did you really say we agree?!? Because I'm pretty much saying Israel is trying to keep millions of people stateless and without human rights, just because it doesn't want to annex them and give them citizenship, and the only way to do this is to provoke and entice a perpetual state of war by doing extremely cruel things like demolishing schools and taking basic necessities from them.
You agree???
Doing that would be suicide, literally. They'd kill us if they took majority control. Think the Hebron Massacre.
In your 'support' of Israel, do you think Israel has any intention of ever giving up the West Bank to Jordan (even if Jordan wanted it)?
And if this perfect scenario does not come to fruition, are you ok with Israel demolishing Palestinian homes, schools,, livelihood and basic necessities and building Jewish settlements on them?
We probably would but Jordan in I think 1988 rejected that possibility. Even during Jordan's 1948-67 occupation it did nothing for the locals there.
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I think they would. It would solve a lot of their problems. I don't think Jordan would want it, though. They'd have to be offered a very hefty bribe, and probably security assurances and assistance. The Palestinians tried to take over their country once before after all.
And yes, I'm aware they are technically ALL Palestinians.
I'm opposed to building Jewish settlements in the West Bank. And I'm opposed to any and all injustices. I don't think those homes and energy infrastructure should have been demolished. It sounds like some officious local doing it without the consent of the law.
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Do you think Israel would even agree on the borders of West Bank and Gaza to give them up? That's the problem now and that would still be the problem with that "solution."
Quote from: cybercoma on September 09, 2017, 03:41:30 pm
If they weren't idiots, they would. The problem with the Israelis is their proportional election system. They have too many parties, and neither of the big ones is ever able to get a majority alone. That means cutting deals with all the tiny ones, even if they only have a few MPs, and most of the tiny ones are rabid religionists who want a greater Israel. The irony, of course, is most of those they represent do not serve in the IDF, don't work, and don't pay taxes.
But as long as the Palestinians have things like "the right of return" as non-negotiable they'll never agree to something like this anyway.
Quote from: SirJohn on September 09, 2017, 04:06:00 pm
Arafat received almost all his territorial demands at the 2000 Camp David talks and then blew up the deal with adding in the "right of return" at the last moment, as Clinton's presidency was ending. I think that the Palestinian side has shown no real interest in peace. None of the negotiations are over access to water, to ports or anything that indicates that they plan on building a nation. Their plan is apparently to build a springboard from which to seek to annihilate Israel as a Jewish state, and perhaps the Jewish population.
Quote from: JBG on September 08, 2017, 09:04:25 pm
I think we have to turn a blind eye towards some imperfections. In much of the world being perfect equals being dead.
If you want our continued significant financial and military support you should at act within basic international law and human rights. As long as Israel keeps building settlements, Canada should absolve all support to Israel. They can **** off.
Quote from: Moonlight Graham on September 09, 2017, 08:59:11 pm
Even if not building settlements is suicide?
What? In what way?
LOL uhhm how so? They're mainly building them in the West Bank, where they don't even have any legal claim to.
Quote from: Moonlight Graham on September 10, 2017, 01:02:49 am
The "West Bank" was created from armistice lines in 1949. The other side never recognized that as a border and never signed off on a treaty. So the Arabs' claim to that land is highly dubious. If the various Arab parties vying for control in the West Bank got together and gave Israel recognition, peace and assurance that they would keep attacks under control Israel would gladly cede control and would probably uproot settlements. In 2005 in Gaza Ariel Sharon uprooted all settlements in Gaza and evacuated all of the Jewish population. It didn't end well as we now all know. That's why stopping settlements is currently suicidal or worse.
Quote from: JBG on September 10, 2017, 06:20:00 am
Either the West Bank is Israeli territory, in which case Israel is, as people have accused it of being, an apartheid state which does not allow the same freedoms to its residents as it does to Jews, or it's an occupied foreign territory that Israel will wind up giving back. In which case its residents have no Israeli citizenship claim. You can't have it both ways. If it's Israeli territory than the Palestinians there have the right to vote in Israeli elections and have political representatives in parliament. Does Israel want to add almost four million more Muslims to its voter rolls? I don't think so.
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What about the Gaza experience?
What about it? Are you arguing that if Israel leaves the West Bank it will become a shithole run by religious fanatics and terrorists? I agree. But that's irrelevant to the points I made.
That's why, while well-intentioned it would be suicidal.
Either the West Bank is Israeli territory, in which case Israel is, as people have accused it of being, an apartheid state which does not allow the same freedoms to its residents as it does to Jews, or it's an occupied foreign territory that Israel will wind up giving back.
You think Israel will give it back? Not in a million years.
The current gov of Netanyahu will never give it back, doesn't believe in a 2-state solution, and believes the entirety all belongs to Israel based on 2000 year old land claims.
Some will argue the settlement building is done for negotiation leverage. The settlement building is done in order to annex and claim the land. If the Israeli army were to roll in to the WB and kick the out the remaining Palestinians, who would stop them?
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Q: Android Studio new project gradle sync fail I recently updated android studio to 3.1.2 version and kotlin plugin to 2.41 and had the android support repository downloaded.
Since then i have been unable to create new projects.when i try to sync the gradle i get these:
-Failed to resolve: constraint-layout
-Failed to resolve: constraint-layout-solver
-Failed to resolve: viewmodel
-Failed to resolve: runtime
-Failed to resolve: livedata-core
-Failed to resolve: common

I sensed the problem may be failing to download from maven so i tried adding lines like:
maven{url "https://maven.google.com"}
but no luck.then i changed the implementation in my module:app gradle file from
 `implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1`

to
`implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'`

(which was the downloaded version mentioned in my sdk manager)
which resulted in this error:
-Could not find viewmodel.aar (android.arch.lifecycle:viewmodel:1.1.0).
Searched in the following locations:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/android/arch/lifecycle/viewmodel/1.1.0/viewmodel-1.1.0.aar

which is funny because when i click on the link above a viewmodel-1.1.0.aar is downloaded!
What should i do to successfully sync the gradle?
Here is the app gradle:
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 'android-P'
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.example.mohamad.arkotlin"
        minSdkVersion 'P'
        targetSdkVersion 'P'
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation"org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jre7:$kotlin_version"
    implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0-alpha1'
    implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
    implementation 'com.android.support:design:28.0.0-alpha1'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test:runner:1.0.2'
    androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.0.2'
}

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buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.41'
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        mavenCentral()
        maven {
            url "https://maven.google.com"
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.2'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

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}

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Evolution from estuary to delta: Alluvial plain morphology and sedimentary characteristics of the Shoalhaven River mouth, southeastern Australia
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd The Shoalhaven River in southern New South Wales (NSW) drains a catchment of ~7000 km2, forming a barrier estuary at its mouth with a prograded strandplain to its north. Previous coring and dating across the floodplain and adjacent strandplain indicate progressive infill of the estuarine basin over the past 7000 years. Over this time the system transitioned from a wave-dominated estuary to a wave-dominated delta. The Shoalhaven River appears to have initially discharged to the sea at Crookhaven Heads, until it adopted a more direct route through an intermittently open mouth at Shoalhaven Heads; construction of Berrys Canal in 1822 now permanently links the Shoalhaven River to the adjacent smaller Crookhaven River. Airborne LiDAR reveals details of topography of prominent levees and meander scroll bars that flank the lower reaches of the river and beach/foredune ridges to the north. Sedimentological and mineralogical characteristics of modern sediment samples collected from the river channel, the beach, and the barrier reveal that the Shoalhaven River is dominated by quartz sand along its predominantly straight course through the infilled estuarine plains. This is in contrast to the tripartite classification of sedimentary depositional environments, comprising sandy fluvial delta, central mud basin, and sandy marine barrier, that characterised the initial wave-dominated estuary 7000 years ago, and is typical of most barrier estuaries in NSW. Grain size decreases downstream and sands have a higher feldspar content, and angularity, than is typical of marine sand that has been reworked in the nearshore. This fluvially-derived component is delivered to the coast intermittently by floods that re-open Shoalhaven Heads, as shown by retrospective analysis of aerial photography and satellite imagery. Grain size decreases with distance alongshore from the river mouth indicating that these sands are transported north by longshore drift to augment a gradual onshore delivery of sand within this coastal compartment. Scanning electron microscopy of selected grains implies that this fluvial sand has been contributing to incremental formation of beach ridges for much of the past 3000 years since the estuarine basin has been largely infilled, with a slight detectable acceleration in the rate of progradation.
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The Jacob Abraham Foundation
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Our organisation was set up after our son Jacob Abraham took his own life in October 2015. Jacob was 24 years old, his death deeply shocked all that knew him as Jacob presented as a happy go lucky guy, who was funny, athletic, popular, handsome and with a family and lots of friends who loved him dearly. Jacob's childhood best friend Andrew struggled with the death of his best friend and without any support to process his grief he too took his life 9 months later. Again Andrew was all the things Jacob was, with this double blow family, friends and community members were left in total devastation. Andrew and Jacob were just 2 of 17 young men to take their lives in our local and surrounding community in a 3-year period.
The community came together and raised thousands of pounds, with the money raised we decide to set up a foundation to support and educate the community on 'suicide intervention and prevention'. A vision we had was to provide free training to community members in 'suicide intervention and prevention'. We wanted people be able to recognise the signs of suicide, how to intervene effectively, and to keep someone safe. We commissioned a training provider called Safer Suicide London to deliver the training and to date we have trained just over 75 community members and professionals working with vulnerable groups on suicide first aid. Our aim is to get this figure in to the 100's.
We have also developed a 40 minute workshop on Youth Suicide Prevention, working with Social Workers, Play Therapists and Counsellors who deliver this programme. We also offer 8 weeks of well-being and mindfulness sessions and we are in the process of developing bereavement support for anyone affected by suicide.
Suicide prevention/intervention.
We provide free suicide first aid training by Nick Barnes of Safer Suicide London; Nick Barnes is Managing Director of 'Train on the Tracks' Health Housing and Social Care Training & Vocational Qualifications. Nick Barnes is commissioned by our organisation to provide the training to approx. 15-20 people every 8 weeks. Nick is credible in the field of suicide and has provided excellent training thus far; the trustees regularly review use of Safer Suicide London.
We provide a web site and attend events that sign post people to various organisations, which could address troubling life stressful events which may lead them to the thought process and planning of suicide. These include charities that provide support, help and guidance around issues such as; gambling/debt, drug and alcohol, marriage guidance, bereavement, bullying, sexuality etc. We work in partnership and collaborate with other local charities and organisations who also provide us with additional resources.
The Jacob Abraham Foundation is currently working in collaboration with Valley and Vale Community Arts who have secured funding through the South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner's Victim Fund to provide support to young people who are at risk of or who are vulnerable to suicide. As part of this project we are currently in the process of consulting with young people in the development of a series of posters which will be encouraging young people to have the courage to speak up.
We have also developed a 40-minute 'youth suicide prevention' workshop that we run in after school clubs, colleges, and youth settings this is run by the following people:
We also offer an 8-week programme of well-being and mindfulness/ counselling for vulnerable people. We aim to offer 8 – 10 referrals per year. The Foundation intends to work with the following Practitioners and organisations: Sarah Aitken BSc (Hons) Psychology – Mindfulness Practitioner (Mindfulness Association) Youth Mindfulness Teacher (youthmindfulness.org).
Through personal experience we quickly learnt that there is very little support for people bereaved through suicide, and what we did find we had to actively search for in our hours of grief. Therefore, one of our aims is to provide support to people bereaved through suicide. We envision a monthly support group that would provide postvention skills which include self-care, practical safe mourning skills, which would be facilitated by a qualified practitioner, whom we would appoint to run these groups. We would like to provide Comfort packs that will consist of bespoke comforting items for each member of a bereaved family, such as chocolates, soft blankets, picture frames, and voucher etc… The packs will also contain the 'Help is at Hand' booklet. We would like to provide a shared understanding and support for those affected by suicide. We would like to work closely with South Wales Police to identify families needing support after a sudden death.
We are currently working on a new innovative project called 'suicide stings' we are working in collaboration with Newlink Wales Wellbeing Service the project has been funded by Comic Relief.
We are looking to identify and engage with young men in need of support, by working alongside tattooists for young men over the age of 18 and working with Bee's (yes Bee's) for young men between 11-18 years old.
A tattoo artist is more likely than mainstream support services to encounter young men struggling with their mental health. We know that services are having difficulty reaching these men, and we also know that young men are often not willing to open up about their mental health – so we need to look beyond the usual referral routes.
If just 25 tattooists were given suicide prevention training, with a typical rate of three clients a day they have the potential to reach out to 19,500 people a year. If just 1% of that 19,500 engagement manages to prevent suicide, that's a saving to services of £331.5 million annually.
In the case of Jacob Abraham, after whom the Foundation is named, Jacob had a tattoo 15 days before he died. Jacob's best friend also took his life 9 months after Jacob's suicide. In that 9 month period he had the whole of his chest tattooed in Jacob's memory. We believe there was a missed opportunity to have these open conversations. The issue spreads through communities of young men, and we need to do whatever we can to stop it. Tattoo artists give us an incredibly vital way in.
Tattooists will have the opportunity to attend our Suicide Brief Intervention training and will then receive specialist support from the Jacob Abraham Foundation to help give those further skills they'll need to speak openly to young men about mental health and suicide. They will be provided with a list of organisations whereby they can signpost young men on for further support.
School workshops will be delivered teaching children the skills they need to increase their own resilience and to help a friend. We will give young people the opportunity to become Suicide Stings champions they will receive further training through a beekeeping experience day. There are many parallels between the skills we teach people in therapeutic settings and the skills we need for successful beekeeping. These skills include emotional regulation, distress tolerance, organisation, communication, empathy, mindfulness, wellness skills and environmental awareness.
Our biggest challenge is lack of income /funding in order to provide the man power and resources needed to sustain the foundation and provide a good service.


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Walter Raymond Martin was born February 12th, 1930, and passed March 22nd, 2019. Walter was 89 years old and had a very active life with his family and friends. He was also a veteran in the Air Force.
He is preceded in death by his parents, his sister and one grandchild, Shane T Russell.
Walter is survived by his children: Deborah L Hendrix (Bryon), Kent R Martin, Diane K Russell (John) and Kristi Van Meter (Ron); grandchildren: Brent T Ballard (Jenn), Clint R Ballard, Trent Ballard, Kyle C Martin (Emmy), Cortney L Russell; Great grandchildren: Tyson M Ballard, Jordan Ballard, Mason Martin and Camden Martin; nephew Greg White and niece Janet King (Scott).
He loved spending time with his friends at the local McDonald's, Lowe's and Wendy's to talk sports. He was loved by all.
Diane and family, my love and prayers of sympathy are yours in your time of sorrow, and always.
friends and family. Rest in peace.


You don't know me. You will never know me. You were murdered when you were three years old. But we have something in common: We are both autistic. Both of us have brains that work differently than usual, perceive and respond to the world differently than usual. I wish I could have known you. I bet you were a beautiful and interesting child.
These pictures are of me when I was around your age. I can remember being your age. I remember colors, smells, sounds, and the way the world seemed like a neverending kaleidoscope of experiences, many of which I didn't understand the way typical people understand things, until later. But I was there, I was experiencing them, in my way, just as I bet you were.
When the first picture was taken, I was getting lost in the deep red-brown color of the hillside that I was facing. In the second picture, I was playing with some fish in the backyard. In the third picture, I was doing what became one of my favorite things to do for many years: Climbing trees. I sometimes had an easier time getting around in trees than I did on the ground.
I wonder if you would have liked any of the same things I've liked at different times in my life: Trees, books, marbles, blocks, staring sideways at the carpet, playing with my hair, running, stars, flat surfaces, taking walks, staring at everything upside-down, cats, rubbing fuzzy things on my face, getting pine nuts out of pine cones, picking blackberries, having mischievous but loving older brothers, light switches, sparkly sidewalks, rocks from the moon, typewriters, sliding tape measures, and prisms.
There have been a lot of horrible things in my life. Things that shouldn't happen to anyone. I guess you knew about horrible things, because dying of suffocation is pretty horrible. I think I came about as close to that as I could get while surviving (physically) unscathed, on a number of occasions. But it wasn't my mother who tried to kill me. She and I both had some really difficult times when I was growing up, including times when I was going to be taken away from her, times when she was blamed for my being autistic at all, and she had nothing like the support that exists today, but she loved me enough to fight for my life, not my death, even when people were telling her my life didn't matter.
If you had lived, you might have experienced some of the other horrible things that exist in the world: Bullying from other children, institutionalization, being drugged into a stupor, abuse, and all the other things that are unfortunately common in the lives of autistic people. What they don't tell you, is that all those good things I talked about, still exist, even though the bad things exist too. They don't tell your parents that even if you never do a lot of things, there are still things you can do, still ways you can be, still things you can enjoy. And they don't tell your parents that most people like us can do a lot more than we're expected to.
I've had twenty-two more years in the world than you have, and there's a lot of things that I still can't do. When I was growing up, I didn't get to see people like me doing what I am doing now, so this was a total surprise to me. I live in my own apartment. I get help with the things I'm not good at, that most people are good at. I have friends of kinds I never would have imagined or expected. I have people who care about me and understand me, who value me as who I am, not who I am not. I have a way of communicating that is fairly stable and reliable. I still have to fight for a lot of things, and life is still unbelievably hard at times, but I still sometimes have trouble believing that I've found some of the good things I've found. Not bad for someone who was ten years ago described by doctors as unsalvageable, which was their own lack of imagination in action.
There's even a number of communities of autistic people. I don't always get along with them, but maybe you would have. Even though I often find trouble in these communities, the people in them still understand me better than most people do, and I have some close friends there. That level of understanding was unthinkable most of my life, and so were most of the things that have happened to me since I grew up. My childhood was not remotely blissful, but adulthood has been worth it, and I wish that you could experience what this is like.
Unfortunately, the horrors that happened to you are not isolated. They almost happened to me, too, and although I didn't always understand the significance at the time, it was still awful. The people who suffocated me laughed as I struggled, I wonder what it was like for you. The day after you died, a 19-year-old autistic man was killed by his parents in a fire. I read that he liked photography. I was his age before my life started beginning to turn into something more enjoyable than it had been in a long time. I was about 15 when people, unknowing of that future, were trying to kill me. People were undoubtedly sure you had no worthwhile future, but the only way to ensure that someone has no worthwhile future is to kill them.
Your future was totally cut off. So was the 19-year-old man's that I just talked about. You will not have a chance to experience any more of the bad things in life, and that's what a lot of people will want to focus on, they think your life would have been only misery and pain. But as far as I can tell, the good things outweigh the bad even in a very hard life. There are even good things that autistic people are more likely to experience, and then there are good things that are just part of the human experience in general. And I know that nothing will ever give you another chance to experience those good things, that future that people probably never expected for you, even that past in which there were surely many good aspects of your life. For that, and for the fact that neither I nor anyone else will ever get to know you, I am incredibly sad.
You could have had a wonderful and interesting life beyond anyone's imagination for you. Now that is gone, and nothing can replace it. And you will never read these words. Your life, and your story, has ended forever.
I couldn't stop crying as I read this. Wonderful writing, but, oh, I wish it never had to be written.
I've been trying to write about this and other recent murders of PWD, but I just end up in a screaming black rage when I try and put words together. Thank you as always for giving voice to what needs to be said.
Rest in peace, beautiful Katie.
That was a lovely piece of writing about a terrible subject.
You mentioned your own age (indirectly), and that did shock me. I'd assumed that for all the things that had happened to you that you must be much older; that things couldn't be that bad that recently, so to have experienced things like that you must be much older than me. Finding out that you're only a year older than me is something of a shock.
That child lived and died within a few miles of the town where we were born, the place we mean when we say "home". I did a little digging and found this.
There is still controversy on the pages of the Illinois and Indiana papers. There is not universal agreement of sympathy toward the mother, including by her own parents. Oh yeah, someone writes a letter to the editor "watch this video before you judge her," but I'm looking at what the grandfather says. His description of Katie's life. It is just like what you said.
That's beautiful written although of course I wish it hadn't to be written at the first place. My thoughts are with her. I'm an atheist, but at times like these I forget about that and imagine there is a heaven.
What you said, gal! I could not even begin to attempt to write something about this which would be nearly as good as what you have done, so I just put a link on my mostly-un-noticed-by-everybody blog to what Autism Diva had to say about it, including all her links, of course.
I was in tears as I read this. Beautifully written. I couldn't have said it better.
This is something pretty powerful (understatement).
I will not write an autobiography because there's nothing in my life (including that) that hasn't been told in many others, and because the genre of autiebiography is so exploitative and I do not want my life put to the use that many people would put it to. There's plenty of possible books I might write and/or edit though. Many of the themes I covered in this particular post were also covered in Four Sight and In: Difference.
This was great!!! I love reading your works. You are amazing!
Incidentally, I loved climbing trees (and making makeshift "treehouses"/playhouses and escaping to them) as well as trying to get closer to observe the chickadees.
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Thank you so much for opening my eyes in your blog in general and this particular entry. I can't imagine what you or Katie went through, and you are amazing. Most other people would be so resentful and bitter. Please keep on sending out your loving message.


Kyle Kinane just put out his first hourlong Comedy Central special, Whiskey Icarus. Kinane is one of my favorites. Why don't you make him one of yours, too?
To help celebrate (or promote the new disc), Kinane appeared last night on Conan, where he talked about finding love through "Thousand Island" Iced Teas, Mimosas and Bloody Marys, and how only gangs in Los Angeles might take a nature hike.


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Birth of John Todhunter, Poet & Playwright
December 30, 2020 by Jim Doyle	Leave a comment
John Todhunter, Irish poet and playwright who wrote seven volumes of poetry and several plays, is born in Dublin on December 30, 1839.
Todhunter is the eldest son of Thomas Harvey Todhunter, a Quaker merchant of English origin. He is educated at Quaker schools, including Bootham School in York and in Mountmellick, County Laois. He starts work at his father's offices in Dublin and London before continuing on to attend Trinity College, Dublin, where he studies medicine. While at Trinity, he wins the Vice-Chancellor's prize for English Verse 1864, 1865 and 1866, and the Gold Medal of the Philosophical Society 1866 for an essay. He also clerks for William Stokes while studying. He receives his Bachelor of Medicine in 1867 and his Doctorate of Medicine degree in 1871.
In 1870, one year prior to receiving his Doctorate of Medicine, Todhunter becomes a Professor of English Literature at Alexandra College, Dublin. Four years later, he resigns from that position and travels to Egypt and several places in Europe. He marries Dora L. Digby in 1879. In 1881, he finally settles in London, where his home in Bedford Park, Chiswick is located in a small community of writers and artists, including William Butler Yeats. Informal "symposia" are held at his house about once a fortnight, when friends gather at his fireside to discuss poetry and philosophy. He is involved in the founding of the Irish Literary Society there.
Todhunter's first volume is a collection of narrative and lyrical poems entitled Laurella (1876). Grace, tenderness, and melody mark these poems. In later years he does much stronger work under the influence of ancient Celtic literature, to the study of which he is led by the memorable rendering of the Cú Chulainn legend published in 1878 by Standish O'Grady. The Banshee and Other Poems (1888) and The Irish Bardic Tales (1896) contain the best of his work in poetry.
Three of Todhunter's plays have been acted with success. One of them, The Black Cat (1893), produced by the Independent Theatre Society, a private club formed to forestall censorship by the Lord Chamberlain's Office, is a factor in the revival of the literary drama. However, it only receives one performance, on December 8, 1893 at the Opera Comique. His translation of Heinrich Heine's Buch der Lieder is perhaps the best complete English version of a work than which none more irresistibly attracts or more cruelly eludes the art of the translator. He is also author of a few brief prose works, including "The Life of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan" and "A Study of Shelley."
Todhunter dies on October 25, 1916 at his residence in Bedford Park.
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https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Norwalk-man-arrested-in-Stamford-after-assaulting-10896651.php
Norwalk man accused of assaulting cop, two others in Stamford
By Nora Naughton
Updated 1:14 pm EST, Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The Stamford Police Station on Thursday, May 29, 2016.
Photo: Michael Cummo / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD — A Norwalk man has been accused of injuring a cop and assaulting two others outside a downtown restaurant just days after he was caught burglarizing a Cove home, police said.
Witnesses told officers Michael Fagan, 33, caused a disturbance at Bedford News and Variety, knocking over items in the store about 7 p.m. Monday, police said. Fagan then assaulted a 58-year-old man and his 25-year-old son outside Brickhouse Bar & Grill on Bedford Street, police said.
Sgt. George Moran spotted Fagan, who ran when he saw the officer, police said. Officers apprehended Fagan after a brief struggle in an alley behind 74 Bedford St., police said.
The victims identified Fagan as the man who assaulted them, police said. Fagan also injured an officer during the booking process, police said. The extent of the officer's injury was not immediately known.
Fagan was charged with two counts of third-degree assault, breach of peace, and interfering with the police. He is being held on a $10,000 bond.
This was the second time in three days Fagan was arrested in Stamford. He was also arrested early Saturday morning when officers responded to a burglary alarm on Cove Road.
Officer Mike Costello was checking the property when he spotted Fagan on the roof of the home, police said. Officers surrounded the home and Fagan was taken into custody after he descended from the roof, police said.
Officers found evidence Fagan had entered the home and he was charged with third-degree burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief, police said.
He was initially held on a $10,000 bond, but was released Saturday morning on a promise to appear when his bond was reviewed by a state bail commissioner.
nnaughton@stamfordadvocate.com; @noranaughton
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Staff shortages. I remember not to long ago managers would work with teams if there was a shortage/ crisis.
NOW. With almost constant staffing issues I rarely see a manager putting themselves in numbers on ward or if they do then they still sit in their office doing their work, and work on ward is still carried out by one or more less staff' but not 'officially' when recording the safe staffing numbers.
All managers work one day a week on wards in the actual numbers and doing the work needed on ward would give a little lift to ward.
And staff may feel actually supported by managers in a very practical way.
They would have to cram in there own work to 4 days not 5 but hey isn't that what myself and my colleagues do every week as a result of constantly working below numbers.
Maybe Ruth May could discuss this with ' nurse leaders' .
loosing sight of that they became to full of there own importance forgetting we members are the union not just the council members.
Change all the processes you want, it won't change the fact the union mislead it's members.
After all the work and effort put into 'scrap the cap' campaign to then put a negotiating team forward with NO b***s to get the job done right.
A gesture from the union like returning union fees for the last 6 months should be pushed for .
ending up even more tired .
2 . Pay a decent salary.
Employ more staff train more staff.
Shame on you ms Davies shows us what you think of the plight of thousands of nursing staff struggling to make ends meet.


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// Copyright (c) Dyoub Applications. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/dyoub/app/blob/master/LICENSE).

using Dyoub.App.Models.EntityModel;
using Dyoub.App.Models.EntityModel.Account.Tenants;
using Dyoub.App.Models.EntityModel.Commercial.Customers;
using Dyoub.App.Models.EntityModel.Manage.Stores;
using Dyoub.Test.Factories.Account;
using Dyoub.Test.Factories.Commercial;
using Dyoub.Test.Factories.Manage;
using Effort;

namespace Dyoub.Test.Contexts.Commercial.Customers
{
    public class DeleteCustomerWithSaleOrdersContext : TenantContext
    {
        public Customer Customer { get; private set; }

        public DeleteCustomerWithSaleOrdersContext() : base(1, DbConnectionFactory.CreateTransient())
        {
            Tenant tenant = Tenants.Add(TenantFactory.Tenant());
            Store store = Stores.Add(StoreFactory.Store(tenant));
            Customer = Customers.Add(CustomerFactory.Customer(tenant));
            SaleOrders.Add(SaleOrderFactory.SaleOrder(store, Customer));

            SaveChanges();
        }
    }
}

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There's no question about it: we all know Montreal Canadiens' star defenseman, P.K. Subban, is an exceptional hockey player.
He's always the first one off the ice between periods or at the end of a game, in order to high-five his teammates and encourage them as they exit to the locker room.
He's always the first one to take responsibility for a loss, and consistently the first to give credit to his teammates for a win.
Once again, P.K. Subban has shown us how big a heart he has, and what an exemplary human being he is. On Wednesday, he announced that he will be donating, over the next 7 years, $10M to the Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation, and he did so at the unveiling of the P.K. Subban Atrium, unveiled this morning. In attendance, besides P.K.'s family – to whom he attributes his career and his values – was Elise Béliveau, the widow of hockey great, Jean Béliveau (a man who epitomized humanity and charity). Mrs. Béliveau became a special fan of P.K's last season, and they have grown close.
His commitment includes sitting on the board, as well as being a spokesman for the Foundation (fundraising, and events). Listening to him speak, and knowing the kind of maturity and confidence he exudes, it isn't hard to see him in the role of spokesman.
P.K. has always been an impressive speaker. The first interview he ever gave, he displayed an articulate intelligence that has only increased over the years. Subban continuously speaks about others, never himself. This is the mark of a good hockey player, a teammate, but it is more the mark of the person and his outward reach to the world he inhabits.
Subban's examples of humanity have emerged over the years he's been with the Habs. His jumping into a street hockey game he came across on his way to dinner one summer day; his visits to the Montreal Children's Hospital even – or especially – when the cameras were not rolling.
Last season, he hit a shot that deflected up over the glass and hit a young boy. Visibly shaken by it, on the ice, P.K. then reached out to that young man's family; he spoke to the boy on the phone, then extended an invitation to him and his family. They attended a game, meeting with P.K. as well, and turned a scary situation (the boy was not injured) into a positive once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
I've always wanted to do something special and significant. But sometimes that takes baby steps.
I've experimented, with myself, over the years. I've come to visit the kids in the hospital. No cameras, just on my own.
I went to Haiti, with WorldVision, something that changed my life.
I saw things in Haiti that maybe a 21-year-old shouldn't see, but it was good for me.
These experiences helped mold me, into coming here to make this commitment today.
I always said I wouldn't let my profession dictate how I lived my life.
It was my experiences that helped me make this decision.
Subban told the story of how he and his sister, Natasha (also there today), used to play many games as young children. One day, he threw a ball up, it hit and broke a light, and the falling glass became embedded in Natasha's eye. Terrified, P.K. hid in his parents' bathroom, but Natasha was taken to the hospital. There, they removed the glass and her vision is perfect today. That, too, shaped his desire to give to hospitals in some capacity, as he's seen how hospitals have changed and saved many lives.
One of the more poignant stories he told was how he was brought into the life of a young boy, Alex Shapiro, a 10-year-old minor-league hockey player who was fighting cancer. Alex rallied, and in his first game back, scored a goal.
Subban brought Alex to the NHLPA Charity game, where he gave the youngster an incredible experience, meeting all the NHL players involved, and a prize spot on the bench to watch the game.
It was filled with patients, staff, and attendees for the announcement.
I've met some outstanding kids at the hospital in my visits. Courageous, inspirational kids.
I've made a promise to these kids: you'll be seeing a lot more of me.
You're not defined by what you accomplish, but by what you do for others.
This year is not about how many goals I'll score, or even how the team does. For me, it's about how I live my life.
This is about what's important in life, in general.
I just play hockey. Because someday I won't be a hockey player anymore. I'll just be someone who played hockey.
What do I want people to remember about me?
Well, every time you walk into this hospital, you'll know what I stand for.
There is a pride that comes from being a fan of the Montreal Canadiens. That pride happens as our team succeeds, achieves incredible feats on the ice, and continues to add to the already-storied history this franchise is known for, worldwide.
But the pride transcends the ice, when we see our team's players reach out, make gestures that are as small as a phone call or as huge as a $10M donation to a Children's Hospital Foundation.
I have seen the cynics; against my better judgment, I read comments on stories that outlined P.K.'s donation, many of them accusing him of trying to secure a contract beyond his 8-year deal, or trying to vie for the captaincy of the Habs.
I shake my head at the small-mindedness that dictates that kind of cynicism. The bigger picture is what P.K.'s money will do for kids in Montreal, for those who are in need, and for the kinds of children who have shaped P.K.'s experiences, adding to the already-beautiful person he has always been.
Most of all, it is the example he sets – for kids and adults alike. We can all be inspired by this gesture, and while none of us is able to give $10M to a charity, it is the heart behind the amount that is exemplary.
Does P.K. love the spotlight? He sure does. His goal celebrations have earned him much criticism for how dynamic they are (even when other players around the league celebrate as hard but do not get the scrutiny P.K. does). But it was evident in this speech, and in his many gestures off-ice, that he does not seek the spotlight for the good things he does for kids.
I suppose haters will hate.
But it's those of us who believe in the man, and the pure act of giving, who know it is from his big heart – and utterly without an agenda.
Habs fans can continue to be proud of our team, and of our players. And P.K. continues to raise the bar on how human beings ought to treat one another.


A Large genus of up to 500 species, mostly trees but some growing as shrubs. Two species native too the British isles, robur and petraea, which are valued for their timber. Most Oaks grow well on deep fertile soils, being acid or alkaline, only a couple of species are suitable for shallow Chalk soils.
Medium sized tree, with narrow oblong leaves, Bright green, margined with bristle-tipped teeth, chestnut like.
Ultimate height 20m (66ft), Spread 15m (50ft).
Medium sized tree with characteristic flaking bark, especially on young specimens. Leaves obovate, 13-18cm long green above, whitish or grey-feltish below.
Ultimate height 19m (63ft), Spread 15m (50ft).
A columnar hybrid of English and White Oak. Dark green to bluish green foliage is mildew resistant and has a red autumn colour. This columnar tree grows to a height of about 45 feet and spread of 15-25 feet. Holding it's leaves well into the winter and drops them when new ones push in the spring.
Ultimate height 14m (45ft), Spread 5m (15ft).
A medium Oak, that lives well on chalk. Fast growing with an oval habit when young, the Algerian Oak matures into a handsome, round-headed tree with dark grey, deeply fissured bark. The large, shallowly lobed leaves have a shiny green upper and a lighter downy underside, and remain on the tree until well into Winter. It will succeed equally well on heavy clay or shallow chalky soil.
A fast growing tree with columnar, compact habit, resembling Quercus cerris. Leaves dark green, margined with sharply pointed teeth.
Ultimate height 25m (80ft), Spread 8m (25ft).
A large tree with a broad crown, and dark grey bark. The leaves are bright green, medium sized, with deep serrated lobes. In Autumn this Oak produces a superb display of bright red leaves, changing branch by branch from the top to the bottom of the tree, and not falling until Winter. The acorns of the Scarlet Oak are also of interest as, unusually, they are carried in very shallow cups. A hardy Oak that will require space to thrive, on most soil types.
A cross between Q. phellos x Q. rubra. Medium to large sized tree, leaves varying from entire to strongly toothed.
Ultimate height 20m (66ft), Spread 20m (66ft).
An evergreen member of the Oak family, Quercus Ilex is a slow-growing, but ultimately large, tree; it is often grown as a multi-stemmed shrub. The lance-shaped dark green leaves are deeply and regularly lobed, with a lighter underside. As the tree matures, it develops a beautiful fissured dark grey bark, and cuts a magnificent figure as a specimen tree. It will thrive on most soil types, and is resistant to wind.
Ultimate height 22m (72ft), Spread 15m (50ft).
A large deciduous tree with a dense spherical crown, and elegant slender branches which become more pendulous as the tree matures. The bright green leaves are deeply lobed, and turn to a stunning deep red display in Autumn. Drooping Spring catkins are followed by rounded acorns in early Autumn, and are held on the tree for 2 years whilst they mature. Although this tree prefers free draining soils, it will tolerate heavy clay, and once established will also survive moderate drought conditions.
Ultimate height 23m (69ft), Spread 18m (59ft).
A large deciduous tree with long thin Willow-like foliage that set it apart from the rest of the Oak family. With a dark green upper, and bluish-green underside, the leaves turn a spectacular red and orange in the Autumn. Quercus phellos develops a broad crown at maturity so requires space to grow; it prefers a free draining fertile soil, and will give its best Autumn colour on neutral or slightly acidic soil.
Ultimate height 15m (50ft), Spread 12m (40ft).
This long-lived and much-loved tree is one of the most common species to be found in the UK, with a spreading crown which casts a dappled shade onto the ground below. Dark-green summer foliage turns shades of bronze and reddish brown in autumn before falling, leaving the majestic, bare structure to grace the landscape. Ultimately a large tree, it requires little from its location apart from the space to grow.
The Cypress Oak is a compact, narrow crowned tree, with deeply lobed, glossy green leaves that resemble those of the English Oak. In Autumn this foliage turns a golden brown colour, and will remain on the tree throughout Winter in less exposed situations. Like the English Oak, it will thrive in most soil conditions, and is particularly tolerant of heavy clay. Elegant and statuesque, the Cypress Oak makes a good feature tree, and also works especially well in avenues.
Ultimate height 20m (66ft), Spread 4m (13ft).
A quick-growing deciduous tree which has an open, spreading habit. Its majestic branches bears large green, sharply lobed leaves that turn a stunning red in Autumn. Most well drained soils will suit this tree, although it will not thrive on chalk.
Ultimate height 20m (66ft), Spread 12m (40ft).


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Prosecutor to announce charges against 3 Jungle suspects on Thursday
Originally published February 3, 2016 at 4:54 pm Updated February 3, 2016 at 11:09 pm
King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg will hold a news conference Thursday to announce charges against three teenage brothers accused of killing two people and wounding three others in The Jungle homeless encampment on Jan. 26.
Jennifer Sullivan
The news conference is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in the prosecutor's office.
A juvenile judge on Tuesday found probable cause to hold the brothers, ages 13, 16 and 17, on investigation of two counts of felony murder and three counts of first-degree assault, as well as for unlawfully possessing firearms.
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Because of their ages and the seriousness of the crimes they're accused of, the two oldest boys are expected to be charged as adults.
Witnesses to the shooting identified the boys to police, who then employed informants to record conversations in which the suspects acknowledged the shooting, police wrote in an affidavit of probable cause. The brothers also sold a .45-caliber handgun, one of two weapons used in the shootings, to an informant, police allege
The Seattle Times is not naming the boys because they have not been charged.
The two older boys have felony juvenile records, while the youngest brother was arrested in September for making a false statement to a police officer, a misdemeanor charge, according to court records. All three had been reported missing last year, according to reports.
Police allege the three brothers had gone to The Jungle to settle a $500 drug debt owed to their mother.
Information from The Seattle Times archives is included in this report. Jennifer Sullivan: 206-464-8294 or jensullivan@seattletimes.com. On Twitter @SeattleSullivan.


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Pittsburgh-based comic book artist Ed Piskor has a deep love of hip hop music, and his obsession isn't limited to collecting classic albums.
Piskor has devoted countless hours to painstakingly research, write and illustrate a history of the musical genre in his comic book series, "Hip Hop Family Tree." The first two published volumes span the formative years of 1975-83, and Piskor is on the hook to do a total of six separate volumes for Fantagraphics Books.
Piskor joined The Frame recently to talk with host John Horn about what he learned during his research for the series, how Robert Crumb influenced his project, and what hip-hop heavyweights think about his work
Interview Highlights:
What makes hip hop and comic books such a natural marriage?
There are alter egos in hip hop and alter ego in mainstream superhero comics. But the thing I like that is similar between both of them is just how they're both kind of cultural bastard children, and they make parents nervous when their kids are into them too much.
Did you know this history pretty well or did you have to go out and research it before you had to start illustrating and writing?
I am a fan, for sure, but I'm handling this in a journalistic fashion as much as possible, so I need to corroborate my sources, get this thing to be as accurate as possible. I want to create something that is highly comprehensive so that if a fan or scholar or academic who is interested in learning this history, to get all of this information in one place, they're forced to use a comic book, which is very important to me. I really believe in this art form, so I like the idea of forcing people into having to read a comic whether they like it or not.
Were you surprised about some of things that you found during your research?
One thing that did really surprise me was the important role that the downtown Manhattan art world played in the proliferation and growth of hip hop culture, because it was very close to dying out and being finished in the early '80s before people like Debbie Harry from Blondie and Fab Five Freddy brought the graffiti artists to downtown Manhattan. By bringing those guys to Manhattan to add ambience to their art gallery shows, they would bring people like Afrika Bambaataa and other DJs, so that artists who lived in the city didn't have to travel to the big scary uptown scene to check out what was going on with this new hip-hop thing.
What was Deborah Harry's role in all of this?
Debbie Harry was like an art patron who was indiscriminate in her love of art. And what she heard from Fab Five Freddy about this thing that was happening in the Bronx, I feel that it mirrored a lot of what was going on at [the club] CBGB to her — a lot of the punk rock movement and aesthetic that piqued her interest. She went uptown and caught a couple shows and was completely mesmerized. A lot of people think that Run DMC were the first rap music act on Saturday Night Live, but that's not true. She was a host in the very early '80s and she brought the Funky Four Plus One...She discovered them from going uptown with Fred to check out this hip hop scene that she'd been hearing about. So she played a very very important part.
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What are the influences you cite as an illustrator and an author?
My influences in terms of art and comics are pretty standard, guys like Robert Crumb, Dan Clowes, Chris Ware, The Hernandez Brothers. Almost everybody from the Fantagraphics family generation one. I don't say that because they are my publisher, it's just that for a while they were publishing the best comics that existed throughout the '80s and early '90s. Something that they all share is how they were able to have the confidence to allow their id to be showcased within their comics. Which is something I'm struggling with and I have to grow as an artist to be able to accomplish that.
Right now what I'm doing is these kinds of historic comics where I'm able to separate myself from the subject matter. I almost consider the hip hop comic to be kind of a companion piece to some of the stuff that Robert Crumb was doing when he was showcasing and featuring old blues musicians that he liked and adored and loved. Those were probably the most influential comics.
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Clinical review: Neuromonitoring - an update
Nino Stocchetti, Peter L. Roux, Paul Vespa, Mauro Oddo, Giuseppe Citerio, Peter J. Andrews, Robert D. Stevens, Tarek Sharshar, Fabio S. Taccone, Jean Louis Vincent
Critically ill patients are frequently at risk of neurological dysfunction as a result of primary neurological conditions or secondary insults. Determining which aspects of brain function are affected and how best to manage the neurological dysfunction can often be difficult and is complicated by the limited information that can be gained from clinical examination in such patients and the effects of therapies, notably sedation, on neurological function. Methods to measure and monitor brain function have evolved considerably in recent years and now play an important role in the evaluation and management of patients with brain injury. Importantly, no single technique is ideal for all patients and different variables will need to be monitored in different patients; in many patients, a combination of monitoring techniques will be needed. Although clinical studies support the physiologic feasibility and biologic plausibility of management based on information from various monitors, data supporting this concept from randomized trials are still required.
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc11513
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Stocchetti, N., Roux, P. L., Vespa, P., Oddo, M., Citerio, G., Andrews, P. J., ... Vincent, J. L. (2013). Clinical review: Neuromonitoring - an update. Critical Care, 17(1), [201]. https://doi.org/10.1186/cc11513
Clinical review : Neuromonitoring - an update. / Stocchetti, Nino; Roux, Peter L.; Vespa, Paul; Oddo, Mauro; Citerio, Giuseppe; Andrews, Peter J.; Stevens, Robert D.; Sharshar, Tarek; Taccone, Fabio S.; Vincent, Jean Louis.
In: Critical Care, Vol. 17, No. 1, 201, 15.01.2013.
Stocchetti, N, Roux, PL, Vespa, P, Oddo, M, Citerio, G, Andrews, PJ, Stevens, RD, Sharshar, T, Taccone, FS & Vincent, JL 2013, 'Clinical review: Neuromonitoring - an update', Critical Care, vol. 17, no. 1, 201. https://doi.org/10.1186/cc11513
Stocchetti N, Roux PL, Vespa P, Oddo M, Citerio G, Andrews PJ et al. Clinical review: Neuromonitoring - an update. Critical Care. 2013 Jan 15;17(1). 201. https://doi.org/10.1186/cc11513
Stocchetti, Nino ; Roux, Peter L. ; Vespa, Paul ; Oddo, Mauro ; Citerio, Giuseppe ; Andrews, Peter J. ; Stevens, Robert D. ; Sharshar, Tarek ; Taccone, Fabio S. ; Vincent, Jean Louis. / Clinical review : Neuromonitoring - an update. In: Critical Care. 2013 ; Vol. 17, No. 1.
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LHISD grades 3-8 out-perform area schools on STAAR
By SHELLY WILKISON
Liberty Hill students in grades three through eight out-performed their counterparts in District 8-3A, Region 13 and topped state averages on the spring 2012 administration of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR).
Although it's been almost a year since Texas students took the
STAAR exams for the first time last spring, passing standards for elementary and middle school tests were only recently finalized delaying the release of the results. Liberty Hill parents will receive notice of their student's performance with report cards later this month.
Results of 2012 high school end of course exams were released in June 2012.
The elementary and middle school STAAR tests all students in reading and math, plus grades four and seven in writing, grades five and eight in science and grade eight in social studies.
Of the six school districts that compete in District 8-3A, Liberty Hill students had a higher passing rate on all but two tests — fifth grade science and third grade math — where Llano students earned the higher marks.
"These are schools pretty much like us, and we look good in comparison," said Liberty Hill ISD Curriculum Director Claudeane Braun. "I am really pleased."
In comparison to the state averages, Liberty Hill passing rates were significantly higher. On most exams, Liberty Hill scores were 10-20 percentage points higher than the state average. Local passing rates were also higher than the average in Region 13, which includes most of Central Texas school districts.
But while Mrs. Braun and Liberty Hill administrators are celebrating the good news, she said she is also looking at the numbers realistically.
The passing standards were set lower on the first two administrations of the test (spring 2012 and 2013). Therefore, students who passed the tests were only required to correctly answer 39-69 percent of the questions, depending on the exam.
For example, eighth grade students taking the math exam were only required to correctly answer 39 percent of the questions in order to pass. Liberty Hill's passing rate on that test was 96 percent.
The highest passing standard for elementary and middle school exams was set for fifth grade science where students were required to answer 66 percent of the questions correctly in order to pass. On that test, Liberty Hill's passing rate was 79 percent — two points higher than the Region 13 average and 6 points higher than the state average.
"We are doing well with the lower bar, but we have to keep an eye on that," said Mrs. Braun.
By 2016, passing standards will increase in all testing categories, some by as much as 25 percentage points.
Mrs. Braun said Liberty Hill has a plan for helping students reach the higher bar sooner.
"2016 sounds far off, but we have to work backward to be successful," she said.
Mrs. Braun explained that she is taking current results and comparing how students would have performed at the 2016 passing standards.
"That (number) looks much lower," she said. "Then, we are setting realistic goals for each year until then. We want to do substantially better each time so that we're ready for this (2016 standards).
"We're looking at it short range and figuring out what is realistic for us, and what we have to do to get this score or higher in 2016," she said.
Mrs. Braun noted that when the state first introduced the TAKS tests (the predecessor to STAAR), the passing standards were also phased in over time.
In Liberty Hill, the lowest passing rate was on the fifth grade science exam and the eighth grade social studies exam, with both passing rates at 79 percent. Third grade math was next on the low end with 80 percent passing.
Although still well above the state and regional averages, Mrs. Braun said teachers are already working on ways to improve student performance in those areas.
"I think a lot of it has to do with academic vocabulary. Students have to be able to comprehend what they're asking," she said.
Spring 2012 was the first time third grade students were tested in math.
On math exams, students are not simply asked to add, subtract, multiply and divide, they are asked to use a "multi-step process to arrive at a solution," Mrs. Braun said.
"They're pretty young, and that process is kind of hard for our kids," she said.
Accountability ratings for each school district are based for the most part on student performance on standardized testing. Districts will receive an accountability rating in late summer based on student performance on the spring 2012 STAAR tests, Mrs. Braun said.
Elementary and middle school students will take the STAAR exams in March and April. High school end of course exams are given in late May.
When parents receive their student's STAAR performance reports at the end of the month, they will notice information about how to access to the student's testing history online. Each student has a unique access code enabling the parent to track the student's previous performance on state assessments. The information will be updated with each test through grade 12.
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