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Parents to meet with superintendent Gilberto Gonzalez
Wednesday, 02 October 2013 22:10 Published in May 2013
Parents to meet with superintendent
Staff
-Eagle Pass
Parents will meet with EPISD Superintendent Gilberto Gonzalez Thursday morning at 11:00 A.M. at the EPISD Board Room where he will answer all their questions and concerns dealing with recent school closings at both LDC and Austin schools.
What parents are most concerned about is the lack of communication both when the decision was made to cancel classes last week from Wednesday through Friday and Tuesday when parents were advised that classes were also cancelled at Austin Elementary.
"We have been going by rumors, maybe we're going to the old junior high, maybe we're going to Austin," said an anonymous parent, "We got a memo on Monday, but no memos were sent out after that, we found out on TV and on Facebook."
Superintendent Gonzalez is repeatedly announcing on the school district's TV channel that due to fumes at the school which has not been used for at least two years when Cerna Elementary was built, as the district rushed to prepare the school to give classes to the children of LDC.
"The head of the district is having trouble making decisions," stated an irate parent in a telephone conversation with News Gram officials, "And if the leader is making decisions that do not make sense, his subordinates are going to make mistakes too," referring to the fact that a central office administrator who is not the superintendent or the assistant superintendent for support services made the decision to use oil based paint at Austin Elementary.
According to sources, there were many water lines which were in need of repair in the school and the water fountains had not been used during this time.
They say that the toilets were too high for use by children ages pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.
At LDC, the three rooms which are in the back of the building were repaired, the walls were torn down and workers replaced insulation and sheet rock in these rooms. Parents want to know why the rest of the school did not receive the same treatment during the summer.
The parents said that the superintendent had sent bottled water on Monday for the children to drink and they also appreciate that he is taking the time to meet with them, but they still want answers to all of their concerns.
The News Gram had not received official communication from the district at press time.
Perez Sentenced to Eight Years Probation $5,000.00 Fine for Theft of $1,500-$20,000
Wednesday, 02 October 2013 22:02 Published in May 2013
Press Release -Texas Attorney General's Office October 1, 2013 365th District Court
Final sentencing was held in the 365th district court of Maverick County in the cases of State vs. Martha Zamarripa and State vs. Cesar Perez. Zamarripa was sentenced to 12 months deferred adjudication community supervision on a lesser included class A misdemeanor theft by a public servant, a $500 fine and 50 hours community supervision. This was on a plea agreement. The court also sentenced Cesar Perez after a contested sentencing hearing. Perez was convicted by a jury on August 15 for theft by a public servant, 3rd degree felony as charged in the indictment. After hearing evidence and arguments of counsel, the court sentenced Perez to 8 years in the institutional division of the Texas department of criminal justice, probated for 8 years, a $5,000 fine, $1,594 restitution to Maverick County, and 500 hours of community service. Pérez sentenciado a 8 años de libertad condicional, $ 5,000.00 multa por robo de $1,500 - $20,000 Comunicado de Prensa -Oficina del Secretario General 01 de octubre 2013 365a Corte de Distrito Sentencia final se celebró en el Tribunal de Distrito 365 del Condado de Maverick en los casos del Estado frente a Martha Zamarripa y el Estado frente a César Pérez. Zamarripa fue condenada a 12 meses de supervisión comunitaria diferido de adjudicación de un robo de delito menor de clase A por un funcionario público, una multa de $500 y 50 horas de supervisión comunitaria . Esto fue un acuerdo entre la acusada y el estado. El tribunal también condenó a César Pérez después de una audiencia de
Strap on your computer, wearable tech taking off
Tuesday, 01 October 2013 19:00 Published in May 2013Strap on your computer, wearable tech taking off
MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The digital domain is creeping off our desktops and onto our bodies, from music players that match your tunes to your heart beat, to mood sweaters that change color depending on your emotional state — blue for calm, red for angry. There are vacuum shoes that clean the floor while you walk and fitness bracelets, anklets and necklaces to track your calorie burning.
"Everyone agrees the race is just beginning, and I think we're going to see some very, very big leaps in just the next year," said tech entrepreneur Manish Chandra at a wearable technology conference and fashion show in San Francisco Monday that was buzzing with hundreds of developers, engineers and designers.
Wearable technologies have long been a sideshow to mainstream laptop and smartphones, but this year Google's glasses and rumors of Apple's iWatch are popularizing the field. Analysts forecast swift growth. Last year the market for wearable technology — encompassing everything from hearing aids to wristband pedometers — totaled almost $9 billion. That should climb to $30 billion by 2018, said analyst Shane Walker at IHS Global Insights.
Humans have been wearing technology for centuries, from strapped-on compasses to pocket watches. The current surging industry is centered in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay area, where mostly smaller startups design their products locally and have them manufactured in Asia to take advantage of cheap labor. Monday's conference was one of several focusing exclusively on wearable technology in recent years.
As wearable technologies proliferate, humans will need to adapt, said Georgia Tech professor Thad Starner. He advises Google on its glasses, which are lightweight frames equipped with a hidden camera and tiny display that responds to voice commands. Starner has worn his for several years.
"We're talking about paradigm changing devices," said Starner. "Capabilities that people haven't thought of before."
He said that, unlike computers and tablets that people engage with, wearable computers are designed to be in the background, secondary to the wearer's attention.
"It seems like a paradox, but when you pull the technology closer to your body, there's a seamless interaction, it's more an extension of yourself," he said.
But there are sure to be cultural and social issues. Google Glass — and some emerging competitors — have raised concerns of people who don't want to be surreptitiously videoed or photographed. And what about interacting?
At Monday's conference, attendees slipped on monitors that measured their heart rates and temperatures to reflect whether they really were enjoying a movie, and shot photos through their Google Glasses of Vibease, the world's first wearable vibrator controlled by smartphones, promising long distance intimacy.
"Do you really want a touch screen on the front of your t-shirt? Is it socially acceptable to be poked all over your body for somebody to use your wearable computer?" asked Geneviève Dion, who directs a fashion and technology lab at Drexel University.
The answer, for some, is no.
In a newly released survey from Cornerstone OnDemand, 42 percent of workers said they would not be willing to strap on wearable tech for their jobs, with older and more traditional employees more reluctant than their counterparts. The survey polled 1,029 Americans aged 18 and over in August, and had a 3.1 percent margin of error.
And then there's an issue of bandwidth, said Ritch Blasi, a consultant with SVP-Comunicano who researches the wearable technology market. At this point, there simply isn't enough network service to support universal and constant wireless use, he said. But that too will catch up.
"It almost makes you think everyone is going to turn into a cyborg," he said, referring to a fictional, prosthetic-laden high tech comic book superhero.
And will they?
"When you look at the world and everything people are doing?" said Blasi, pausing for a moment. "I think the answer to that is yes."
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