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non-processed foods is important. Maintain a balanced diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, complex carbohydrates, complete proteins and good fats such as fish oils. • Preparation beats busy. If you plan and prepare your food in advance, you have the best chance to accomplish your goals and stay on track with nutrition. • Never underestimate the importance of rest. Getting eight hours of sleep and setting aside time to relax will only maximize your efforts in the gym. • Find motivation. Whether it is high tempo music or a group of workout buddies, utilizing motivators when you work out ensures you are more likely to accomplish your daily fitness and nutrition goals. • Drink lots of water. The benefits of drinking water
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are numerous. It helps keep you body balanced, controls hunger, helps energize muscles, keeps skin looking good, prevents dehydration, and assists in proper functioning of your GI (gastrointestinal) tract so you can properly absorb all of your nutrients. • Form matters. Maintaining proper form guarantees you will activate the muscle groups that you are training and will keep you healthy and injury-free. • Change things up. Your body should never plateau or adapt to what is coming next. When this happens, you can diminish strength gains. Switch up your routine daily. • Flexibility. The incidence of injury decreases when flexibility training is added to your daily routine due to an increased range of motion. Flexibility training helps you become more in-
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Orange County Domestic Violence Commission
Seeks to Tighten Laws to Help Save Lives O
range County leaders are helping to further protect domestic violence survivors. Recently, members of the Orange County Domestic Violence Commission (DVC) outlined two bills for the upcoming legislative session this month that will help save lives. Both bills are sponsored by Senator David Simmons, (Florida Senate, District 10), who is also the Rules Committee Chairman. Sen. Simmons, Carol Wick, Chief Executive Officer of Harbor House, DVC Co-Chairs Circuit Judge Alice Blackwell, Ninth Judicial Circuit Court, and Dick Batchelor, President, Dick Batchelor Management
Group, Inc., announced the two bills during a recent press conference. The “No contact legislation bill” (Senate Bill 342) will ensure that once an order of no contact has been ordered by the court and that it will be in effect immediately – beginning while the perpetrator is in jail and will remain in effect until modified by the court. “This has been a growing concern that perpetrators of violence, specifically domestic violence, are calling victims from jail to intimidate and harass after an order of no contact had been ordered by the court,” explained Wick. The “Electronic monitor-
ing bill” (Senate Bill 1286) would make it a third-degree felony to tamper with an electronic monitoring device issued to alleged abusers who have had an injunction filed against them. Currently, it is not a criminal act to tamper with or remove a court-mandated electronic monitoring device unless issued as part of community control. “Orange County’s Domestic Violence Commission represents a true community-coordinated response to the specific domestic violence issues faced in our community,” said Mayor Teresa Jacobs. “I’m so proud that these pieces of legislation are a
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Makes Adjustments to Elementary Testing
arbara Jenkins, Superintendent Orange County Public Schools, recently announced the following in a memorandum to school board members: Per Florida Statute, school districts are required to offer assessments in all courses. This requirement has been reiterated in technical assistance in the past. Thanks to additional guidance and advocacy on your part and others, we are comfortable making the following adjustments to elementary End-ofCourse testing: • NO formal EOC exam in social studies for grades K5 (Mastery of grade-level standards will be assessed through traditional teacher methods as done in the past).
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he School Board of Orange County recently held its regularlyscheduled board meeting; these are the highlights of the meeting:
Downtown Orlando Partnership Announced Winners at Golden Brick Awards Orlando, FL - Orlando Solar Bears Chairman Joe Haleski was named a finalist for the “2014 Downtowner of the Year” at the Downtown Orlando Partnership (DOP) Golden Brick Awards on Wednesday, February 25, at Dr. Phillips Center for the
Performing Arts. The Annual Golden Brick Awards recognizes community development projects that have positively impacted the Downtown Orlando area. Over 50 projects were recognized at the sold-out event. Since beginning opera-
• NO formal EOC exams for art, music and physical education for grades K-4 (special area teachers for these subjects will assess student progress through traditional methods as in the past); Fifth grade will take the district-created EOC for these subject areas. This decision means elementary students will take far fewer assessments in the 2014-15 school year, as formal adjustments to requirements are being considered.
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• NO formal EOC exam in science for grades K-4; (Mastery of grade-level standards will be assessed through traditional teacher methods as done in the past.); Fifth grade will take the current state exam as in the past.
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Teacher contract ratified with 99.35 percent approval. More than 13,000 teachers will be getting a 6.3 percent salary increase, on average, based on a two-year agreement between the district and the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association. The raise will be retroactive to August 2014. Final approval on revised salary structures for OCPS classified and hourly staff. Classified and hourly staff will receive raises retroactive to July 1, 2014. The School Board and Orange Education Support Professionals Association (OESPA) collabo-
ratively bargained the compensation package. The 2014-15 Classified Salary Structure maximums were increased by 10 cents per hour to accommodate this increase. The 2014-15 Hourly Salary Structure was also adjusted as a result to the minimum wage increase and new classifications added to the hourly structure. The compensation package will be paid during the month of April. District designates April 2015 as School Library Media Month. April will be celebrated as School Library Media Month in Orange County Public Schools. During the school board meeting, media specialists distributed new books to school board and cabinet members directly from the preferred Sunshine State book list. Programs such as the
Sunshine State Young Readers and Florida Teens Read are promoted throughout the district by media specialists. The month of April 2015 will also be Autism Awareness Month. Orange County Public Schools serves over 2,000 students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The district has an array of educational supports including physical, occupational, speech, or language therapy and behavioral assistance. These supports ensure that students with ASD receive their education with nondisabled peers in the least restrictive environment most appropriate for their individualized needs. For more information, contact Shari Bobinski in Media Relations at 407-3173200 ext. 2002905.
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