Monday, March 24, 2014
QUICK AND CONVENIENT METRO; HANG ON FOR THE RIDE
By Juan Montoya
The press release states that "If you're looking for a quick, convenient way to get from one end of the valley to the other, you need not look further than Brownsville's new Metro Connect Intercity bus service."
Well, by the look of things, they may have been right.
The above video was sent to us by one of our three readers and it clearly shows that Metro Ride is indeed, quick. In fact, they are quicker than the law allows. So fast, in fact, that they are more than 15 miles above the allowable speed limit on the expressway.
As advertised, the Metro Connect Intercity bus service is certainly quicker than even the people who took this footage, and they were doing over 80 miles per hour.
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Where's a cop when you need one??
Several things are evident from this video. The main one; the bus was traveling above the speed limit. However, let's not dismiss the fact that the person taping was also speeding, was not wearing a safety belt and did not signal the change of lanes. If we were to get technical, the person taking the video should worry about gassing up their vehicle and possibly getting the "check engine" light looked at.
For the first time in history, the Education Department also examined school discipline at the pre-K level, finding that black students as young as 4 years old are already facing unequal treatment from school administrators.
The Education Department released four papers with the data, analyzing inequality in school discipline, early learning, college readiness and teacher equity (PDFs). Here’s a breakdown of some of the key findings, taken straight from those papers. During the 2011–12 school year:
1. Black students accounted for 18 percent of the country’s pre-K enrollment, but made up 48 percent of preschoolers with multiple out-of-school suspensions.
2. Black students were expelled at three times the rate of white students.
American Indian and Native-Alaskan students represented less than 1 percent of students, but 3 percent of expulsions.
3. Black girls were suspended at higher rates than all other girls and most boys.
American Indian and Native-Alaskan girls were suspended at higher rates than white boys or girls.
4. Nearly one in four boys of color, excepting Latino and Asian American students, with disabilities received an out-of-school suspension.
5. One in five girls of color with disabilities received an out-of-school suspension.
6. A quarter of the schools with the highest percentage of black and Latino students did not offer Algebra II.
7. A third of these schools did not offer chemistry.
8. Less than half of American Indian and Native-Alaskan high school students had access to the full range of math and science courses, which consists of Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, calculus, biology, chemistry and physics.
9. Black and Latino students accounted for 40 percent of enrollment at schools with gifted programs, but only represented 26 percent of students in such programs.
10. Black, Latino and Native American students attended schools with higher concentrations of first-year teachers (3-4 percent) than white students (1 percent).
11. Black students were more than three times as likely to attend schools where fewer than 60 percent of teachers meet all state certification and licensure requirements.
12. Latino students were twice as likely to attend such schools.
The Department of Education’s civil rights survey examined all 97,000 public schools in the US, representing 49 million students. Explore the datasets, organized by school, state and district, at Ed.gov.
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA NEXT GOAL:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10717566/Aborted-babies-incinerated-to-heat-UK-hospitals.html
Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals
The remains of more than 15,000 babies were incinerated as 'clinical waste' by hospitals in Britain with some used in 'waste to energy' plants
The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with some even used to heat hospitals, an investigation has found.
Ten NHS trusts have admitted burning foetal remains alongside other rubbish while two others used the bodies in ‘waste-to-energy’ plants which generate power for heat.
Last night the Department of Health issued an instant ban on the practice which health minister Dr Dan Poulter branded ‘totally unacceptable.’
At least 15,500 foetal remains were incinerated by 27 NHS trusts over the last two years alone, Channel 4’s Dispatches discovered.
The programme, which will air tonight, found that parents who lose children in early pregnancy were often treated without compassion and were not consulted about what they wanted to happen to the remains.
One of the country’s leading hospitals, Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, incinerated 797 babies below 13 weeks gestation at their own ‘waste to energy’ plant. The mothers were told the remains had been ‘cremated.’
Another ‘waste to energy’ facility at Ipswich Hospital, operated by a private contractor, incinerated 1,101 foetal remains between 2011 and 2013.
They were brought in from another hospital before being burned, generating energy for the hospital site. Ipswich Hospital itself disposes of remains by cremation.
“This practice is totally unacceptable,” said Dr Poulter.
“While the vast majority of hospitals are acting in the appropriate way, that must be the case for all hospitals and the Human Tissue Authority has now been asked to ensure that it acts on this issue without delay.”
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS Medical Director, has written to all NHS trusts to tell them the practice must stop.
The Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, has also written to the Human Tissue Authority to ask them make sure that guidance is clear.
And the Care Quality Commission said it would investigate the programme's findings.
Prof Sir Mike Richards, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, said: “I am disappointed trusts may not be informing or consulting women and their families.
“This breaches our standard on respecting and involving people who use services and I’m keen for Dispatches to share their evidence with us.
“We scrutinise information of concern and can inspect unannounced, if required.”
A total of one in seven pregnancies ends in a miscarriage, while NHS figures show there are around 4,000 stillbirths each year in the UK, or 11 each day.
Ipswich Hospital Trust said it was concerned to discover that foetal remains from another hospital had been incinerated on its site.
A spokeswoman said: “The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust does not incinerate foetal remains.”
She added that the trust “takes great care over foetal remains”
A spokesman for the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said that trained health professionals discuss the options with parents ‘both verbally and in writing.’
"The parents are given exactly the same choice on the disposal of foetal remains as for a stillborn child and their personal wishes are respected,” they added.
This out-of-control bus is from UTB headed to UTRGV. The videographer ought to be thanked for sharing this. It's incredible to see first-hand how local government mismanages resources paid with our tax dollars.
That's Julieta Garcia driving the bus.
Where is a cop when you need one ? They are drinking coffee and sharing tacos; or, hiding under the mesquite trees with a "moviida ".!!!
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