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[Ungawa! Intrepid global explorer David Von Drehle of the Washington Post Magazine dons his pith helmet and ventures into the geographical Belly of the Bush Beast. Result: another heapin' helpin' of turgid gorillas-in-the-midwest-mist reportage for the Sunday morning brioche set back in Dupont Circle. I know I've covered this ground before (here, here, here, here, and here), but... eh, what the hell. Hat tip to Tim Blair and iowahawk reader Greg E.]
Mission: bring back Von Drehle.
The words echo in my mind as I peer out the frost-framed window of 'Pretense,' a moderately priced new-American bistro on the edge of campus. My eyes follow clusters of students, shoulders hunched against the cold, criss-crossing the snowy Pentacrest like the exasperating strokes of a de Koonig canvas.
We all have a mission, I thought. For those faceless students: diversity seminars, Nam Jun Paik film retrospectives at the Union, maybe Dollar Pitcher Nite at the Airliner. For me: Von Drehle.
It - or rather, he - is the mission that has brought me to this dismal and lonely outpost on the edge of reason. Tomorrow I will make the dangerous trek north on Dubuque Street to Exit 242, merge into the river of semi-trailers on Interstate 80, and head west into the great red unknown between here and Boulder.
It is the same route Von Drehle followed before he went missing: I-80 to Nebraska, then south on highway 77 through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Ironically the Post had sent Von Drehle on his own mysterious mission - to learn why the natives were suddenly agitating against Post subscription offers. He went missing on January 11, emailing his final story draft with a cryptic personal note: "the horror... the horror."
My entree fork toyed with the competently-prepared lamb shank in merlot reduction, as I pondered the even more ironic irony that this ironic mission would take me to regions that were reportedly unfamiliar with irony.
"Is it true what they say?" asked Fleming, the young photographer whom the Post has assigned to accompany me on the journey up-asphalt. "I mean, about the religion, and the cannibalism?"
"No," I repond, managing a half smile. Fleming was visibly nervous, unable to eat his Portobello-duck gnocci. The truth is I had heard the stories too, and didn't really know the answer. I thought it best to reassure Fleming, a green staffer fresh from Columbia Journalism School. He might ultimately prove to be a liability on this mission, but if I was going to be in the middle of Kansas I needed a companion familiar with Maureen Dowd just to stave off the madness.
At least Fleming had an excuse, I thought; he had that false bravado of youth. But what was it that drove me here? Was it Von Drehle, or was I actually looking for something missing inside myself? I didn't have time to answer, because the third member of our party arrived at the table.
"You Dionne?" said the hulking man in the Carhhardt jacket. "I'm Epstein, from the Sociology Department."
Epstein was the legendary university sociologist who knew the west Red Country better than any man in civilization. He knew their language, their mores, their favorite NASCAR drivers. It was rumored that he had even lived among them for a time, but my editors at the Post warned me not to speak to him of it.
We poured over maps and discussed logistics until 7:45, when Epstein called for us to adjourn.
"There's a faculty panel symposium on Cuban health care over at Schaffer Auditorium," he said. "I suggest we attend, because there won't be any more where we're headed."
Mile after mile of stubbly winter cornfields elapsed past the condensed steam on the Land Rover's side windows as we worked our way west, like the cheek of a gigantic albino George Clooney infested with tiny parasitic holsteins. The asphalt ribbon lead us through Grinnell, Des Moines, then Urbandale. I was now farther west than I had ever been. I tried to break the tension with a little small talk with Epstein.
"Where did you say you did your dissertation?" I asked.
"I didn't," he replied, staring unblinkingly out the windshield. I glanced back at Fleming. His eyes were clenched shut and he was clutching his dog-eared copy of Manufacturing Consent.
At 1:15 PM the fuel gauge was hovering ominously on 1/4. We were 25 miles from Nebraska and there would soon be no turning back. We pulled off into a Casey's convenience store along the interstate. Although it was 3 below zero, Fleming nervously volunteered to man the gas pump while Epstein and I ventured inside the spartan trading post. It would be our first face-to-face encounter with the red people.
I scanned the racks of the store's cooler for a bottle of Keringet mineral water, but they were out. Four elderly tribesmen sat in a simple formica booth in the rear of the store, sipping coffee. They eyed us suspiciously, but I thought they might hold clues to Von Drehle, as well as the missing Keringet.
"Approach them slowly," warned Epstein.
I furtively neared them, sidling between the Doritos rack and the two-stroke oil. Using Epstein to translate, I asked the elders if they had seen a man in Donna Karan casuals pass through the area.
"The elders say they have seen no such man at Casey's," said Epstein. Sensing menace, we bought a Twin Bing and quickly left the store. Suddenly we realized were were not the only ones to feel impending danger.
"Fleming? Fleming?"
Our screams echoed off the store's aluminum siding.
After pumping $21.78 of Ethanol Plus, Fleming had deserted.
After crossing the muddy mud-colored mud of the Missouri river we had finally arrived in Omaha, the last stop before our maps became strictly conjectural. From here on out, until we reached Austin, we would have to rely our wits and our training in journalism to navigate through hostile red enclaves.
Luckily we stumbled upon a primitive university in Lincoln. We were surprised to encounter a native maiden, Heather, who had taken graduate studies in Lacan and Franz Fanon. She directed us to the cinderblock hut of a kindly Semiotics missionary, Professor Mintz.
"We may be doing the Lord's work here, gentlemen, but the local tribes do not always look kindly on it," he warned. "Last month one of our tenured friars merely told his students that Bush was the anti-Christ, and he was viciously attacked by counterarguments. He was so traumatized he had to report the student to the disciplinary committee."
Mintz wished us well and gave us directions, along with a copy of Howard Zinn's People's History. As night fell we drove through Beatrice, near the Kansas border.
The neon sign read "VFW Hall." A trailer marquee in front was even more explicit: "Friday Nite All-U-Can-Eat $5.95 Fish Fry."
Von Drehle was known in the Post pressroom as a thrill junkie, and this was exactly the type of place he would be unable to resist. I told Epstein to stop.
"You're a fool, Dionne - maybe even a bigger fool than Von Drehle," he snapped.
"And you're a bad liar, Epstein. You want to see what's going on inside of that VFW hall as much as I do."
A silence.
"All right Dionne," he said angrily. "But if anything starts going down, you're on your own."
I took a deep breath and tried to conceal my jagged nerves as we entered the Hall. They say the Nebraskaners can smell fear a mile away, and I would be damned if my life was going to end over a red plastic basket of deep-fried cod and a can of Falstaff.
I could feel the eyes of the lodge penetrating my coat as we walked across the linoleum and took a seat in a booth near the skee-ball machine. A zaftig waitress approached.
"Tell her I'd like the pan-seared mahi-mahi, and a glass of the house chardonnay," I instructed Epstein.
Before he could respond I was startled by two hulking, bearded men in snowmobile suits who began prodding my coat with their fingers. They traded gibberish with Epstein.
"They want to know what kind of coat that is," said Epstein, warily.
"Tell them it's from Burberry's," I said, trying to avoid eye contact.
"Buh-bay," said the men, curiously. "Buhhh-behh."
The two men began laughing menacingly, and gestured for the others to come and join in their fascination. I tried to ignore them, assuming they were simply drawn by the novelty of houndstooth wool. Then I peered up on the wall and saw a large nylon banner. On it was printed:
"Run, Epstein! Run!" I screamed, hurtling through the diamond-padded door.
Every drug pushes its own tolerance limit. Even adreneline.
After we crossed over the border into Kansas, I thought I would be prepared for the scene that would await us. I had read the seminal book on the region "What's The Matter With Kansas?" by Thomas Frank, an explorer who had onced ventured 50 miles into its blackest heart. In his journals, Frank had explained that Kansanites were in the thrall of a delusional, self-destructive madness.
Was it due to eating human brains? I would find out soon enough.
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Priceless. "Grilled mahi mahi and chardonnay" at a Nebraska fish fry. Can't you just picture it?
Oops. Make that "pan-seared" mahi mahi.
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Oh, Lordy! Here I am howling laughing, reading this aloud to Hub (who's watching the FoxNews) and I don't even have my pajamas on!
This is wonderful, so wonderful...you are a genius, and I think I love you (as a friend, of course).
Oh, that's priceless!
When does the second installment come out?
It's Fall, it's a Friday night...and the town is mysteriously empty.
Or, if they don't make Oklahoma until Springtime, they could experience Okeene or Waynoka...for the Rattlesnake Roundup.
Very good.
It used to be a dependable Democratic state. It went Republican for the first time in 20 years. The last GOP Presidential candidate to carry the Haweye State was Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Not exactly.
This is very good IH, can't you charge for this? It almost seems a crime to have this level of writing done for free. Maybe the Washington Times could serialize it?
When do we see "Dr. Livingston, I Presume?"
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Until G.W, silly. That's why liberals don't get why Iowa slipped out of their grasp.
"My entree fork toyed with the competently-prepared lamb shank in merlot reduction, as I pondered the even more ironic irony that this ironic mission would take me to regions that were reportedly unfamiliar with irony."
You are AMAZING. This is classic. Well, well done.
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I can only imagine the fear coursing through the veins of these intrepid explorers...
So when does he meet Col. Kilgore and the 1st of the 9th?
"Air Cav, Air Mobile, son!"
An echo of Kipling, as well. I can't wait for the next installment. This is achingly, sidesplittingly funny. Will Dionne awake and find the primitive chords of "In the Garden" echoing, breaking into his consciousness, along with images of the red woman in boot cut jeans flashing a knowing "have you been saved?" look.....the horror.
Outstanding! Your satire is reminiscent of the 1970's Poon.
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(This is the second column of a two-part series.)It was a cold day in Dell Rapids Dec. 10, 1942; the average temperature was 23 degrees. Nearly two weeks after the tragic event, Ruth Cobb received word regarding the death of her son, James Mallory Cobb.James was an integrated part of Dell Rapids. He had made friends growing up in Dell Rapids and graduating high school here. His ancestors, the Richardson's, were among the early settlers. James Russell Richardson, great grandfather to James, owned and built the third house in Dell Rapids. His grandfather, Chester Mallory, built a house almost entirely on his own, a great feat for a one armed man. And, of course, Ruth Cobb ran a beauty shop in Dells for nearly 70 years.Dell Rapids was a part of who James Mallory Cobb was.Nearly nine months after he enlisted in the Navy, the 22-year-old was killed.Dell Rapids Tribune March 9, 1944: "The "Purple Heart" was recently posthumously awarded James Cobb, who paid the supreme sacrifice early in December, 1942, while serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific zone. The heart is a medal officially awarded by the United State Government to all men in the service who are wounded or meet death in action.James was the first Dell Rapids man reported killed while serving with the U.S. forces for World War Two. Report of hi fate reached here on December 10, 1942 … The mead of honor was received by his mother, Mrs. Ruth Cobb, early last week. The emblem bears three stars and two bars, indicating that he had served in three major engagements, in two war zones."James, nor his body, ever came home. He is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.While some take great strides to imprint themselves on the History of Dell Rapids, for James Mallory Cobb it was just a split second that made him forever a part of Dell Rapids – and a hero.Currently there are about fifteen WWII Veterans living in Dell Rapids. Take time to thank them. Take time to honor our heroes.
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Recently voted the number one DJ on planet earth – and the known universe – Armin Van Buuren recently made a bold move. Instead of tagging on a slew of globetrotting gigs to bask in the collective appeal this magazine's placement would undoubtedly bring, he went to the studio to create his latest full-length, Imagine. While the effort is admirable, and his Internet radio show continues to broadcast weekly to 6,000,000 trance listeners, those yearning to hear him live rejoice.
Earlier this month, Van Buuren returned to the United States for a nationwide tour, including stops in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and Phoenix. We got a chance to sit with him at the Hotel on Rivington to pick his brain.
clubZone – In Holland, your album debuted at number one in the charts. It took that long for this to happen?
Armin Van Buuren – Dance music has always been bigger in Holland than in the United States, maybe. It was never that an electronic album entered the album charts at number one. It was pretty amazing. I know I'm a trance DJ and I won't walk away from the fact. That is my overall sound and I'll always make trance, because that's what I've done. But I don't want my music to become formulaic in any way.
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Armin Van Buuren – The same as here: Amy Winehouse, Duffy, that kind of sound. We're pretty much up-to-date with everything; for my album to hit number one is big news.
clubZone – Sure. You've remarked that the album is inspired by Ibiza. How has the culture and music progressed over there?
Armin Van Buuren – What's stayed the same is the Balaeric sound – the Spanish call the three islands there Mayorca, Minorca and Ibiza. They have a certain sound about their culture. When I first arrived there, I thought, 'Oh, this is a load of crap. This is not true.' But after a couple of years coming there every week, I started to feel the vibe of Ibiza and why it's so special. It really is a magical place. What has progressed in Ibiza, particularly, is the club scene. There is still the same set of superclubs within a close distance of each other. The overall sound has changed along with electronic music of today, but with a Balaeric touch. I've always played and produced trance, since 1996, when it wasn't popular. I'm trying to keep the shit real – that's what I'm trying to say to America.
clubZone – When you compiled your collaborators, were you keeping them in mind for your live sets?
Armin Van Buuren – No, not really. First and foremost, what counts for me is the music. You can be the most brilliant artist [whose] won several Grammy's; if the sound doesn't appeal to me, I can't work with it. Second of all, one of the reasons to do collaborations for the album is it gives you a total different perspective on dance music. A lot of the artists I worked with on this album aren't even dance artists. I haven't even worked with them before. For example, [I worked with] Sharon den Adel – she's the lead singer of a very famous [Dutch] gothic rock band Within Temptation. They're like the European equivalent of Evanescence and have sold more than 10 million angles. She wrote the core of a brilliant song, which we translated to a dance music format. I like to break boundaries. I know I'm a trance DJ and I won't walk away from the fact. That is my overall sound and I'll always make trance, because that's what I've done. But I don't want my music to become formulaic in any way. I know trance has very recognizable elements, but as an artist, you have an obligation to reinvent yourself with every track you make. You can't make a copy of the track you've already made. People expect you to make something new.
clubZone – So they want you to go back to a base sound they know you for?
Armin Van Buuren – To be honest, I'm sitting here talking with you and I've had quite a few hit, chart records: "Sound of Goodbye," "Born with Desire," "Yet Another Day," "Communication," "Blue Fear" and "Love You More." But for me, it's a challenge to make a good record that doesn't sound like the previous record, but still has the recognizable Armin sound.
clubZone – Ok. What kind of technology are you using?
Armin Van Buuren – The album was done with Ableton Live and Logic Pro 7. We didn't use a lot of external or internal plug-ins. We used a little bit of outboard keyboards, because it's so hands on. A couple of the tracks we wrote didn't even start with an eight-bar loop. Dance music is made by an eight-bar loop, which you loop; add a bassline, chords and several elements. A couple of those tracks were made with a guitar and a piece of paper, in the kitchen, over a cup of coffee.
clubZone – How long did Imagine take?
Armin Van Buuren – The album was written over the course of two years, because I used songs I had already produced. I DJd less over the last six months, which was a hard decision because they voted me number one DJ in the world over at DJ magazine. It was a dream come true, but it was a hard decision. My manager was in-between. He said, "Well, a) I can book you everywhere and make big bucks for you; or b) you deliver a great album, you're the number one DJ in the world and artistically, it's a lot more interesting. I cancelled a lot of gigs and I locked myself up in the studio for six months. I did take some gigs still, because they were booked; they were important and I couldn't cancel them. I already had vocal takes done. When I was on tour, for example, I had a very good contact with Jennifer Rene, who is a very good singer. I flew her to Washington D.C., which is cheaper than flying her to Holland. I booked a studio and we spent a couple of days hanging out. That's how the song "Fine Without You" came about.


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Phoronix: A New Linux OpenGL ABI Is Being Proposed
The Linux OpenGL stack along with the upstream OpenGL specification has been evolving at a fast pace in recent years. There was recently some discussion within the Khronos camp for updating the guide for how to implement OpenGL support on Linux and it's been decided it will be talked about next week at XDC2012. To get the ball rolling for planning out a new Linux OpenGL ABI, NVIDIA has published a proposal...
Can someone explain if and what benefits are to be expected for users once this is implemented?
It's not for users, it's for developers.
When Intel killed a lot of old crap from Mesa including XAA and unmaintained drivers they didn't do it for the users. Same here - it is for the developers to be easier to properly/easier setup a system and program for it - which in the long run greatly benefits the users.
Less work, less hoops to jump through for developers = easier, less complicated time for end users
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I don't really know where you guys got the impression that this benefits developers only. The article clearly states that it's a benefit for software vendors and users.
It will benefit users in being possible for multiple 3D drivers to coexist in the same filesystem. I can imagine for instance having the intel opensource stack coexisting with fglrx and being able to select the default driver to use for applications. Meaning I can select which GPU I want to run an application on.
You should also be able to have both nVidia hardware and AMD hardware in the same machine and select which app runs on which GPU.
I was under the impression that we could do this already via eselect-opengl under Gentoo, and that the benefit of the new/proposed ABI is that it would allow us to run two GL applications simultaneously on two different mfrs' cards.
I guess that we all might be a little confused regarding the implications of the proposal, and that it will be made clearer at XDC.
I'm really not 100% convinced yet that the proposal benefits anyone other than the developers of proprietary GL drivers.
since ppl are asking questions...
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whats wrong with GLUT, it makes windows and displays stuff
These aren't equivalent. GLUT is like a shitty toy version of GTK/Qt. EGL is an OS-neutral version of GLX. GLUT layers over GLX/WGL/AGL/EGL, and offers borderline useless input and timer mechanisms and window management. EGL lets you create and bind GL contexts to a full real windowing system and allows using the native fully featured window system API for input, timers, I/O, events, etc.


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Citizenship Academics Belt Loop
The Cub Scout Citizenship Belt Loop is an option for the Webelos Citizen activity badge. |
The Cub Scout Citizenship Belt Loop and Pin help prepare Scouts for the Boy Scout Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, and Citizenship in the World Merit Badges. |
The Cub Scout Citizenship belt loop and pin are a part of the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program.
Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts may earn this award in a Family, Den, Pack, school, or community setting. Tiger Cubs must be always accompanied by their Adult partner.
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Belt Loop Requirements
Complete these three requirements:
- Develop a list of jobs you can do around the home. Chart your progress for one week.
- Make a poster showing things that you can do to be a good citizen.
- Participate in a family, den, or school service project.
Academics Pin Requirements
Earn the Citizenship belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- Interview someone who has become a naturalized citizen. Give a report of your interview to your den or family.
- Write a letter to your newspaper about an issue that concerns you.
- Create a collage about America.
- Conduct a home safety or energy audit and inspect your home. Talk with your parent or adult partner about correcting any problems you find.
- Visit your local site of government. Interview someone who is involved with the governmental process.
- Visit a court room and talk with someone who works there.
- Go to the polls with your parents when they vote. Talk to them about their choices.
- Take part in a parade with your den or pack.
- List ways you can recycle various materials and conserve and protect the environment.
- Attend a community event or visit a landmark in your community.
The official source for the information shown in this article or section is: Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Guide, 2015 Edition (BSA Supply No. 33216 - SKU# 620714) |
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- Earning the Cub Scout Citizenship Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout is requirement 8 of the Webelos Citizen Activity Badge.
- Details on earning a Cub Scout Sports or Academic pin or belt loop multiple times
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- Wolf Achievement 4e. could be partially met by Cub Scout Citizenship Belt Loop requirement 1
- Wolf Achievement 4f. could be met while completing Cub Scout Citizenship Pin requirements 5, 6, 7, or 10
- Wolf Achievement 9b. and c. could be partially met while completing Cub Scout Citizenship Pin requirement 4
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- Wolf Elective 12f. could be completed while completing Cub Scout Citizenship Belt Loop requirement 2
- Bear Achievement 3d. might be met by completing Cub Scout Citizenship Belt Loop/Pin requirement 5
- Bear Achievement 7b. might be met by completing Cub Scout Citizenship Belt Loop/Pin requirement 5
- Citizen Activity Badge requirement 8. (earn the Cub Scout Citizenship Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout)
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Fired Manchester officer charged in Bedford hit and run to see pension
Pensions continue under the New Hampshire Retirement System, even if a member is arrested and convicted of a crime, said system spokesman Marty Karlon.
But other benefits aren't available. Because Coco didn't retire from his job, he won't be eligible for benefits such as a medical subsidy or survior benefit, Karlon said.
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"It's impossible to prevent them from coming in, so there's no way to permanently eradicate bedbugs from any site. They don't obey signs prohibiting them," Dunfey said.
But to several O'Malley residents, something more needs to be done.
"I'm not afraid of them anymore. I'm desensitized to them," she said. She's asked for chemical treatments, but the management has refused, she said. Meanwhile, she has to deal with a social stigma.
Dunfey said he can't speak about individual cases, but the most times any apartment at O'Malley has been treated is six times.
Manchester Alderman Pat Long said he's heard from six to eight people in the last eight months. Long, whose downtown Ward 3 includes the two high-rises, met with Dunfey last week and asked to review the housing authority's pest management plan.
"You just don't go in there, spray and they're all gone," he said.
He said the housing authority has gone as far as ripping out walls to reach bedbug hiding places.
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Dunfey said he wouldn't be able to do such a massive relocation. And he can't prohibit tenants from bringing used furniture and clothing — one of the transmitters of bedbugs — into their apartment.
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Swimmer's 'consultation' amounts to force-feeding, say Tribal leaders Representatives from seven northwest tribes walked out on a meeting with the BIA in Spokane on March 30. The meeting had been called by the Portland Area Office to further discuss Ross Swimmer's "privatization initiatives", whereby the BIA would contract out its responsibilities for a number of housing, education, forestry, welfare and trust-fund management programs. "We're not opposed to change," Tribal Chairman Mickey Pablo said. "It's just that both Congress and the president are committed to Indian self-determination, and that means the changes should be initiated by the tribes -- not forced upon us by the Assistant Secretary" of the Interior Dept. "This meeting wasn't set up for consultation; it was set up to force the initiatives down our throats," he charged. Colville Tribal Chairman Mel Tonasket said, "We came to Spokane with the understanding that we would have the opportunity to work with the appropriate BIA policymakers to make these [new] programs work for our people. . . but those policymakers weren't in attendance. "We couldn't afford to stay in that [March 30] meeting when we couldn't get answers, couldn't get responses to our suggestions, and then at the end be told that we had just had our consultation," Tonasket lamented. Immediately after the walk-out, the Tribal leaders convened their own meeting to develop strategies aimed at bridging what was termed as "Swimmer's consultation gap". The seven tribes in attendance were the Confederated Salish and Kootenai, Colville, Kalispel, Nez Perce, Coeur d'Alene, and Spokane, who met as an emergency caucus of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians. Affiliated Tribes president Allen Pinkham said Swimmer's privatization programs would merely transfer the (Continues on page two) 'Wholistic development' sessions scheduled ID 00 ON 1/5
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Showing 1 - 20 of 48 for "Calvin Writers Read"
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As part of the H. Henry Meeter Center's 30th anniversary, John Calvin's first edition of the 'Institutes of the Christian Religion' is on display through June 1st. On Loan from The Van Kampen Collection, this rare volume published in 1536 in Basle, Switzerland was Calvin's first major theological work.
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A prodigal gift of art
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A serious celebration
This year there would be 499 candles on John Calvin's birthday cake—too many to dodge the college's restrictions on open flames. Still, several hundred college employees will gather for a party that, over the past 25 years, has grown into a Calvin tradition.
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The Calvin College Board of Trustees had a full schedule during their October meetings, which included the unanimous support of 1978 alumnus Craig Lubben as chair-elect.
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First thing in my email inbox this morning was an "Advocacy Alert" from the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA): It was the "2012 Resolution Kit," a kickoff notice to get the wheels rolling so that NYSSBA presents a united front in lobbying the state legislature. This was a rather tame "alert," as these things go. Others have had a Whitney Tilson quality: "Free the Schools!" or "Full Court Press!" or "Mandate Relief? Give us a break!"
Like many such organizations, NYSSBA can be wordy and bureaucratic, but I was happy to see that this year's kit included a statement that "the Association currently lacks resolutions addressing some of public education's most pressing issues" and that "examples of issues that lack the support or opposition of a NYSSBA resolution are:
The second resolution signals a major move forward on the part of an organization that tends to be resolutely establishment (for all the reasons that reform critics have cited) and gives me some hope that organizations like NYSSBA can become leaders of school improvement. (See Adam's Choice Words post on National School Boards Association executive director Anne Bryant's strident critique of virtual...
John Chubb is CEO of Leeds Global Partners and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution where he is a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. He is co-author with Terry Moe of Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education and author of "Overcoming the Governance Challenge in K-12 Online Learning."
If a public school student wants to take an Advanced Placement course from Apex Learning, a respected provider of online AP instruction, who should determine whether the student may do so? Today, the answer is almost uniformly, the local school board (or charter board) that governs the student's school. Should it be so?
States have long delegated to local boards the authority to determine how students satisfy state standards such as graduation requirements. If a student wants to meet a state standard by some means other than what his or her school is offering, local board policies determine whether the student may. This makes a certain amount of sense. Students and families may want an option of dubious academic value.
But boards may decide these matters with more on their minds than quality control. Every time a student opts to receive a bit of education outside of a home school, the school or district faces a financial hit: it loses state revenue or gets stuck with a fee. Local boards consequently are not keen for students to try to...
As was widely reported (see here, here, and here) Jeb Bush endorsed Mitt Romney yesterday.
The Times called it a "coveted endorsement"—and indeed it is, no matter how much fun Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich had at poor Eric Fehrnstrom's expense. (For the record, that same day Fehrnstrom, a longtime Romney advisor, gave a televised interview in which he said "I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign…. Everything changes [when he's running against Obama]. It's almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.")
Jeb Bush, who has been a tireless education reformer since the mid-nineties, is no Etch A Sketch. And by coincidence I was lucky enough to spend some time with the popular two-term Florida governor (1999—2007) just last week as part Education Next's "Conversation" series with important education reformers (see my conversations with John White, Whitney Tilson, and Chris Cerf). You can read a summary of what he accomplished in Florida here; examples include instituting an A—F school grading system, ending social promotion, rewarding school success with both...
Guest blogger John Kirtley is the founder of two private equity firms in Tampa, FL. He is the chairman of Step Up For Students, a non-profit that administers the tax credit scholarship program and which now empowers the parents of nearly 40,000 low income Florida children who attend a private school of their choice, and of the Florida Federation for Children, a "527" political organization active in Florida legislative races. He is vice chair of the American Federation For Children, a national parental choice advocacy organization, and also a board member of the Florida Charter School Alliance and the Hillsborough County (Tampa) Education Foundation.
The most important governance question is: "Will low income and working class parents truly direct the taxpayer dollars used to educate their children?"
The definition of "public education" is changing rapidly, even if some don't want it to. It used to mean giving taxpayer dollars solely to districts to operate all schools, where kids are assigned by zip code. The emerging definition, which I prefer, is using taxpayer dollars to educate children in the best way possible for each of them, using a variety of providers and delivery methods.
Parents with enough means already direct dollars—their own—to the best education providers for their kids. Parents with means move to neighborhoods with good public schools, or pay tuition for a private school. Increasingly, these parents combine delivery methods and providers. The president...
Harold Kwalwasser was the General Counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2000-2003. Previously, he had served in the Clinton Administration and as a senior staffer in the California State Senate and the United States Congress. He currently writes and consults on education issues. In 2009-10, he visited 40 high performing and transforming school districts to see what is working in American education as part of his research for his book, Renewal, Remaking America's Schools for the 21st Century, which has just been published by Rowman and Littlefield.
We have spent most of the last three years watching Congress contemplate reauthorizing No Child Left Behind.
That contemplation has involved endless discussions of all sorts of issues and ideologies, but it has missed what may be the most important question in American public education today: Can we trust school districts to deliver the kind of education we want for our kids?
Does trust matter? Absolutely.
There are two indisputable facts that underscore the importance of trust. On the one hand, there are absolutely terrific districts in this country. They are so good and so effective at teaching every child, including minority children and English language learners, that the only sensible answer is to get out of the way and let them do what they are doing. Typical federal and state policy options, like categorical spending restrictions or directives about how to fix failing schools, dictated from afar are...
Guest blogger Neerav Kingsland is the chief strategy officer for New Schools for New Orleans. In this post, originally published on the Title I-Derland blog, he explains the lessons education reformers can learn from Europe's transition away from communism.
Andre Shleifer, a professor of Economics at Harvard, recently wrote an excellent article: "Seven Things I Learned About Transition from Communism." In case you don't know Andre, some consider him to be the most cited economist in the world.
The analysis is interesting throughout—it deviates from both "progressive" and "conservative" talking points on key issues. Take five minutes and read the whole thing.
For those of us Relinquishers who see opportunity in moving public schooling from government-operated to government-regulated and non-profit run, lessons abound. For those skeptical of these types of reforms—lessons also abound. See below for the summary of Andrei's lessons—laced with my takeaways for improving our educational system:
Lesson 1: "First, in all countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, economic activity shrunk at the beginning of transition, in some very sharply."
Education Takeaway: Underperforming government institutions with decades of accumulated knowledge may outperform cohorts of start-up enterprises in their early years. Could this explain the poor results of the CREDO study?
Lesson 2: "Second, the decline was not permanent. Following these declines, recovery and...
The big news last week was the release of data by the U.S. Department of Education showing that, as the press release stated,
The report, part of the annual Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) survey, included data from 72,000 schools serving 85 percent of the nation's students and found, among other things, that black male students "are far more likely to be suspended than their peers." In fact, it reported, though black students make up 18 percent of the students in the sample, they accounted for 35 percent of the students suspended once and 39 percent of the students expelled.
When I read this, I yawned. It matches perfectly the statistics in my school district. But just as my district pays little attention to the academic environment that these "bad" kids swim in, so too the ensuing national melee over OCR data didn't mention curricula and teachers. Everyone wanted to talk about "discipline" practices, school "safety" and "racism."
Wrote Jason Riley in the Wall Street Journal,
In part 1 of my New York City teacher evaluation commentary, I explained the judicial decision which determined that the public had a right to know how individual teachers were doing. Most tellingly, perhaps, was Judge Kern's dismissal of the argument that flaws in the data mattered to her decision. Referring to a previous ruling by the state's highest court, Kern said, "there is no requirement that data be reliable for it to be disclosed."
This means that we have to do this in public, a welcome window-opening in a system of baroque halls and closets. The New York Times, one of the media outlets that had sued to gain access to the Teacher Data Reportshan (TDR), made the data available and issued an invitation to teachers to "respond to your data report."
In fact, surprising many, Michael Winerip, the On Education columnist for the Times and normally no friend to education reform, had it about right:
Everyone predicted that Justice Cynthia Kern's ruling last January to allow the release of the value-added scores for New York City teachers—with the teachers' names—would set off a firestorm when the names were released (which is what happened when Los Angeles did the same thing in 2010). And it did.
"Teachers will be right in feeling assaulted and compromised," declared Merryl Tisch, chancellor of New York State's Board of Regents, just after New York City released some 18,000 teacher evaluations to the public last week.
"The arrogance of some people to say that the parents don't have the ability to look at numbers and put them in context and to make decisions is just astounding to me," Mayor Michael Bloomberg shot back. "This is about our kids' lives. This is not about anything else."
That pretty much set the tone for the debate: another assault on teachers versus the public's right to know. And it turns out that the best window on to the question is the January 11 New York State Supreme Court decision itself, a sleek nine pages in which Judge Kern said her only job was to decide whether the city education department's decision to release the teachers' names with the Teacher Data...
In another life, I was a crime writer. True crime. I've interviewed 14-year-old murderers and 15-year-old rapists, written books about college graduates who commit murder, about lowlife "woodchucks" who do the same. And anyone who has ever sat in a kitchen with a mother whose 12-year-old daughter was stabbed to death or sat alone in a room trying to recreate these gruesome scenes on paper—well, this is why I left the field and did not look back.
But my heart goes out to the parents, family, and friends of the victims of the Chardon, Ohio, shooting. And to school personnel at Chardon High School—this is when you earn your angel wings.
I know that educators all over the country are now huddling with their school security officers and school counselors and social workers. They are reviewing their building entry and lock-down procedures and reviewing the student suspension files, to look again at the records of children who may have been kicked out of school for carrying a weapon or threatening to harm someone or—or what? Everyone is asking themselves, How can we know?
The answer is that we can't. But what we might consider trying, as the next few sorrowful days unfold, is resolving to get to know our children, whether we are a parent, friend, or teacher. When we are able to look into...


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