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cradle cap. Deagon-n-Noelani's Mommy 2 kids; Eaton Rapids, Michigan 507 postsJan 31st '13
My 3yr old son I just discovered has some cradle cap. What are some remedy's to get rid of it?
I scrub his hair when I shampoo his hair.
MyPurrrtyBabies 3 kids; Alabama 8386 postsJan 31st '13
Massage baby oil in his hair. Scrub gently with a comb. Wash hair afterwards. repeat till its gone.
By repeat I mean once a day, not right away afterwards, lol
Nicola =) 1 child; Huntsville, Alabama 2783 postsJan 31st '13
DS had it bad around 3 months old. I used his baby lotion and rubbed in really well. Left it for 5 minutes. Then I got a comb and gently comed all of the dead skin off. Washed his hair and it never came back.


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Flötteröd, Yun-Pang and Bieker, Laura (2012) Demand-oriented traffic management for incidents and disasters. ICEM 2012, 13.-15. Aug. 2012, Chicago, USA.
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Traffic simulation has been extensively used as a decision support tool for efficient traffic management in daily life. During disasters and incidents, traffic simulation can further help rescue teams to understand the current traffic state and the possible impacts of proposed strategies and then to make proper decisions. At this point, the changes in traffic demand should also be considered in the simulation to reflect the latest traffic state. In this paper, a demand-oriented traffic management system for disasters and incidents with a web-based portal is introduced. In this system, not only the real-time data from loop and wireless detectors but also traffic simulation are used for reconstructing and predicting the traffic state. Furthermore, four traffic demand categories for disasters and incidents are proposed in the system. Some respective demand characteristics are collected according to historical cases, such as departure pattern and people's perception about evacuation. Such characteristics will be used in the system, since they have a great influence on the simulated traffic state and the effectiveness of applied strategies. Finally, the approach how to generate the respective special demands for disasters and incidents with consideration of the normal traffic demand is proposed as well.
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Tanimura & Antle, Inc. announced donations to two North American organizations whose work is to offer healthy school lunch programs. Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools will be able to place new salad bars in five schools in the U.S., and the Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA) will give the Freggie Friday In-School Program curriculum to ten elementary schools in Canada.
Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a public health campaign that provides salad bars to schools across the country; the United Fresh Produce Association is one of the founding partners. The Freggie Friday In-school Program is designed to teach kids about the importance of eating fruits and veggies in a fun and engaging manner.
"We very much appreciate Tanimura & Antle's ongoing support for Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools. Two of the schools receiving new salad bars donated by Tanimura & Antle are Harvest Preparatory Academy K-12, Yuma, Ariz. and Harvest Preparatory Academy K-3 in San Luis, Ariz. Every day, hundreds of these students will now be able to enjoy more fresh fruits and vegetables during lunch—right in the heart of our nation's winter lettuce and vegetable growing area," says United Fresh vice president of nutrition and health Dr. Lorelei DiSogra. "To date, Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools has donated salad bars to over 1,035 schools in 45 states, thanks to generous contributions from companies like Tanimura & Antle," says DiSogra.
"The Freggie Friday and Freggie Children's Programs are initiatives that we at CPMA are very proud of. We're encouraged by Tanimura & Antle's support which will enable us to continue to challenge Canadian kids and affect behavior change early," says Ron Lemaire, President of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA).
A fall seasonal packaging promotion on Tanimura & Antle Artisan Lettuce brought attention to the Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative and the Canadian Produce Marketing Association's (CPMA) Freggie Children's Program. This promotion, Salad Smarts, was the fourth seasonal packaging promotion for Artisan Lettuce in 2011 and the first that featured a cause marketing initiative.
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UNIONTOWN, Pa.—A veteran seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from his Iraq War service has been sentenced to three to six years in prison for a drunken crash which killed another driver.
Thirty-four-year-old Gary Lee Brackenbury, of Brownsville, was sentenced Thursday, after pleading guilty last month to homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol before a Fayette County judge.
Brackenbury's blood-alcohol content was nearly three times the state's legal limit when he caused the head-on crash that killed 35-year-old Anthony Balosky, also of Brownsville, on Aug. 1, 2012.
Balosky left behind two young sons and his family, initially, balked at the sentence. Judge John Wagner told prosecutors he would not accept a plea bargain over the family's objections, but relented once the family conferred with prosecutors and consented.


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Cord tissue is a source of many cell types, including mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Regenerative Medicine holds the promise of regenerating damaged tissues and organs by stimulating the body to heal itself. Trials are under way using MSCs to treat debilitating conditions such as heart disease, stroke, liver disease, Parkinson's disease, and spinal cord injury.
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Rahm Emanuel moves to unclog the spending spigot.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel hadn't been paying much attention to the ongoing effort by various Cabinet agencies, such as the Departments of Commerce, Energy, Health and Human Services, and Education, to disburse federal economic stimulus dollars, but he's paying attention now, according to White House sources.
Emanuel's sudden focus comes as reports continue to pour in that tens of billions of the federal dollars the Obama Administration claimed would "save jobs or create new jobs" have not been distributed to states or to entities, such as private businesses, to do what the administration expected.
"It may be that the global economy is stabilizing, and it may be that parts of the U.S. economy are stabilizing, but we're still looking at double-digit unemployment nationally, and a lack of confidence in the economic recovery," says a White House source. "The agencies have made it harder, not easier to get the stimulus dollars, and Rahm is trying to unplug the drain and get the money flowing. It's now a political issue and an economic issue."
It may not be that easy, in part, because the White House Office of Legislative Affairs and perhaps Emanuel himself left much of the stimulus bill to Democrats on Capitol Hill. Democrats in the House and Senate weighed down the stimulus bill with regulatory requirements for the hundreds of billions that were to be spent to stimulate state and local economies, some of the regulations so onerous that few qualified companies sought the federal money.
"First, you had the House and Senate's demands for regulations, then companies had to wait while the federal agencies created the regulations that Congress asked for," says a Senate Finance Committee staffer. "This was not free money; it was money with a lot of strings attached, and the White House just let it happen that way."
Those strings are now the red tape that has limited the stimulus plan's ability to do much of anything, and Emanuel wants to get the money moving out the door. White House sources say he is holding meetings with Cabinet department officials and demanding results soonest, and is asking the White House legislative affairs shop and the White House counsel's office to provide ways to sidestep federal regulatory policies to speed up the distribution of funds.
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Euro Test – DT-Swiss M 1800 29″er wheels ride impressions: (by c_g & M1)
There are many parts on a bike that fall into one of two categories: 1. Parts that you notice 2. Parts that I don't notice. Wheels, I always hope, will fall into category No. 2 and here's why. It seems to me that if you don't notice them after the very beginning of the first ride or two, the wheels are probably well built, not too heavy and stiff enough that you don't feel much, if any flex. If you do notice them after this time period, then it seems that, often, something is drastically wrong.
It has been a long time since I reported back on DT-SWISS´s first ever complete 29″er wheels, the M 1800 29″er wheels. In my First impression post on them (touching on every piece of them from a technical point of view, here) my only "real complaint" there was the non- tubeless compatibility of the rims and the slightly higher than expected weight (as these wheels are intended for Cross Mountain riding the weight is only secondary IMO). All other components, from hubs, to spokes, nipples and build were top notch and left me with very little wanting. The wheel served me pretty much all winter and spring as test wheels for the rigid fork shootout and after on several bikes and M1 has also spent some time on them converted single speed.
When I thinking of DT Swiss products two things come to mind:
1. Typical European Quality
2. Typical European BASIC design (Black/White/Red). To some great, to others, not so interesting.
Before we get into the ride impressions, let me touch on the tubeless issue with the current version– in early March I received the DT-SWISS tubeless kit for the wheels and have been
riding it tubeless in the later part of the test. The system consists of a double sided adhesive tape, a nicely profiled and snugly fitting rim strip, a valve and 50 ml bottle of latex based sealant. The kit sells for € 34.- but only contains the conversion for 1 wheel, so you´ll need two to convert your wheels tubeless. Once installed, the system works like a charm and creates a very nice tubeless profile and good bead locking action.
The diameter with the rim strips is on the larger side so mounting very tight tires like GEAX TNTs or other true UST tires may be difficult to impossible (contrary to DT´s claim to only use true UST tires with this system :)) but my tubeless ready SCHWALBE and folding MAXXIS and GEAX samples mounted and
inflated just fine with a floor pump. In the end I still blame the additional rim strip system to add approximately 45 g per wheel and create extra cost but in terms of function it performed just as nicely as any other tubeless system. For now the DT-SWISS M1800 wheels do receive some criticism for the rim design: I find the tubeless kit (despite its good function) to be a workaround of an outdated rim design but see those issues have been addressed with the 2012 version by optimizing the profile and making it tubeless from scratch.
c_g´s RIDE IMPRESSIONS: These wheels had been pleasantly uneventful, just what you want from a Do-It-All wheelset . Given the sturdy M520 rims, DT 370 hubs and DT-Comp spokes (32 x 3-crossed lacing) and evenly tensioned build the M1800 wheels were solid performers throughout. The hubs engaged securely and nicely fast with no complaint – I had never expected anything different after having years of experience on my 240s, whose internals the hubs share. The well executed seals kept the internals clean and working smoothly and the wheels remained true and stiff throughout the test period.
The total weight of just above 2000 g for the set (with rims alone weighing about 570g each) the wheels were not the snappy racer kind but felt about right for all around riding and anything where you´d want something strong and reliable. In terms of weight I see the wheels to be a bit on the heavy side, which is not uncommon for DT-wheels – they never seem to risk reliability and long term function over weight savings. Stiffness was good but not exceptional – perfectly fine for me and my style of riding but not flex free when talking about lateral rigidity. My riding experience with the 26 mm rim width (external and 19 mm internal) turned out to be good for most combinations. Only really wide tires and low pressure riding would
require the extra support from wider rims. If you run nothing wider than 2.25 (~ 58 mm) and don´t mind to add a few psi – then the M1800 29″er wheels will do the job just fine. IMO a 28 mm rim width would have made the wheels even more versatile but that might be me only. The RWS (Ratchet Wheel mounting System) quick releases work great and my sampled didn't break but according to Sea Otter News, DT-SWISS have reacted to this weak spot and have now switched to modifying the design to alloy levers and another release knob.
The wheels are all built in SWITZERLAND by DT-SWISS´s master builders (and signed of by them personally) which seems to show in the pricing. I find the asking price to be on the upper end of what the components allow for (the Swiss have to maintain a certain status you know ;-)) – and additionally one needs to purchase an extra tubeless kit for now. With my time on these wheels I certainly back up DT´s claim for reliability. Versatility is better served with the rear hub, which can accommodate several standards, than with the front that will can be gotten in QR OR 15 mm through axle but is not convertible – so I´d say claim partly met.
M1´s RIDE IMPRESSIONS: I rode these wheels with tubes and set up for a single speed application in both winter and spring conditions. The Geax Saguaro tires/tubes mounted easily and I never had any problems throughout the testing period. There's no undue flex with the wheels and they worked flawlessly the whole time as well. I never noticed any undue flex on these wheels and they also didn't stand out due to being super stiff either. They have a really nice "whirring" sound when you coast and they engage as quickly as any other quality hub when you start pedaling again. In the few hundred kilometers I rode these wheels I never felt a hiccup or anything out of the ordinary of any sort. Even running them single speed and the extra forces that puts on a free hub all worked flawlessly The set comes with the DT Swiss RWS or "Ratchet Wheel-mounting System" which takes a bit getting used to. The levers had some flex which felt a bit odd to me and I am happy to see DT going for alloy lever for the next generation.
VERDICT: Just like I had expected the DT-SWISS M 1800 29″er wheels proved to be hard running and rather tolerant to abusive riding which is really good news for those all around riders that are not "light" on their wheels or that mule through free hubs – the ratchet system is known to withstand even the worst free hub killers. These wheels do make for a very good wheelset for heavy or aggressive XC or trail riders. Overall the wheels have been a complete "mount and forget" item. So, if you look for reliability and function while, are not overly worried about weight and don´t mind running a rim strip to get tubeless qualities (or run tubes anyway) the DT- SWISS M1800 29″er wheels might be your ticket for a long running and worthy wheels set with a Swiss precision build. M1 says: The DT Swiss M 1800 29″er wheelset is a good pre-built wheelset which comes in at a reasonable weight to cost. I would definitely recommend them to others as a good all-around wheelset.
In the end, the DT Swiss M 1800 29″er wheels definitely fall into "the right category" No. 2!
c_g & M1
Ps: It is good to see how DT-Swiss (after initial skepticism :)), now is fully embracing the 29″er movement with their new product releases: For the more XC oriented riders and tubeless aficionados (with a bit bigger purse :)) DT-SWISS has just introduced the TRICON XM 1550 29″er wheels, and even a super high-end wheelset in form of the XRC 950 tubular 29″er wheels, which should become available later this year. And the XMM 29″er fork is raising more than one brow in anticipation as well.


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The Lumineers to say 'hey' to SAComment on this story
'I BELONG with you, you belong with me. You're my sweetheart…" If you don't recognise the lyrics to this song, then you have probably been living under a rock for a while.
The catchy words of the American indie-folk song Hey Ho by The Lumineers are so hypnotic that you can't help but sing along.
South Africa finally has the opportunity to do so live as they are making their way to our shores with performances in Joburg and Cape Town in a few months.
With no time to spare, their first Cape Town show was sold out already on the first day and a second show has been announced due to massive demand.
Tonight bagged an exclusive interview with band member Jeremiah Fraites (drummer and percussionist) from The Lumineers to chat about their tour and what can be expected.
Fraites is in Japan with the rest of the band for the Fuji Rock Festival as we chat over the phone. He tells me how stoked he is about playing here in December.
"The Lumineers are insanely happy and overjoyed that our show in Cape Town is sold out.
"For the past couple of years, we've just been touring wherever people would want to see us. We'll pretty much go anywhere on this planet that people will have us."
Fraites says the band tries to keep it as simple as they can.
"I think anyone with a guitar could play our music, but not necessarily anyone can write our music. We really try to pride ourselves on having it feel simple, but it takes a long time for us to write every song, so we put a lot of hard work into the songs like Ho Hey, which comes across very simple.
"In that way, music is like therapy. It kind of feels like religion without church, if that makes sense. Or rather, a church without religion. It feels like an experience that you can participate in. It's pretty good."
As for their tour to South Africa later this year, Fraites says as Americans, they have an idea of what Africa and South Africa will be like, but they can't wait to experience what it's really like.
The Lumineers are working on their second album and are touring at the moment.
"We've been in Europe doing festivals, then we have three-and-a-half months off before we go to South America and South Africa in December. So we're gonna be writing and recording as much as we can. The tours have been great but we're also very excited to get back to writing the second album.
Shedding light on what he considers the key to staying relevant in today's music industry, he shares: "Wow. I don't even know how we became relevant in the first place. I think you have to work very hard and be very lucky. I think as a band, we never tried to be relevant, we just kind of wrote music. We were just kind of writing music that we thought we would like.
"We just spent so much time writing music that eventually, we got it right.
"Our main focus is that we really try to write good music with kinda more of a selfish endeavour, where we want the music to resonate with ourselves."
• The Lumineers perform at Cape Town's Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on December 4 and at Joburg's Emmarentia Dam at on December 6. Book at Webtickets.
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I was excited to see the very rare whiffle-bird in this post.
- March 20, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- Mike said...
You so anticipate my comments. I was all set to compliment you on the subtlety of making her such a gentle airhead when you went for the shift and blew subtlety right out the door.
Damn but you're good.
- March 20, 2009 at 3:25 PM
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One of my most favored favorites, I think.
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I want to have a word or two with her about all the tree pollen currently lodged in my nasal passages.
What is up with that?
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We have come to an interesting, perhaps inevitable crossroads in our collective relationship with locavorism in Philadelphia. What started off as more of a niche phenomenon has come to pervade our food lexicon: Never mind farmers markets and co-ops—now, even processed-food producers are getting into the act, touting any and all connections they have to farms and the earth.
I couldn't help but think about this in relation to the new Milk & Honey Café at the Sister Cities Park, an offshoot of West Philly's well-regarded local-food shop Milk & Honey Market. It's a smartly conceived space, from the surrounding glass that brings in the outside—the sunlight, the kids splashing in the water—to the simple, clean lines of the gray- and silver-toned tables and chairs. The company's website touts a mission as laudable as any: supporting the local farmers, purveyors and residents in an effort to benefit both the planet in general and the immediate community in particular.
It's impossible to argue with these goals; they are as important and beneficial as can be. But at the end of the day, the food, to paraphrase that same mission statement, speaks for itself. And in that regard, Milk & Honey's new cafe has some work to do.
Take the prepackaged sandwiches, for instance. They're a fact of modern life, and some great ones are served up all over the city. But when a market is going to do that, the design of each sandwich takes on an even greater sense of importance. Wet ingredients should be layered between dry ones, which themselves should be used as insulation against the bread from growing soggy. It's a little thing, but a crucial one, and it's not being applied to Milk & Honey's Fairmount sandwich, a vegetarian construction of gouda, pickled onions, arugula, red pepper pesto and tomatoes that were draped over the exceptionally soggy edges of the bread. The Franklin sandwich suffered the opposite problem: Its star ingredient, local turkey breast, was so dried out that it was difficult to gnaw through—the pleasant red-pepper pesto and mild gouda notwithstanding.
A straightforward ham-and-cheese sandwich was much better. As always, the Green Meadow Farm ham sang through, its sweet-savory complexity a delicious argument for never purchasing the stuff from Boar's Head ever again. Lancaster cheddar and Kelchner's mustard rounded out the deceptively simple sammy, and it was among the best things I tasted here. The Coppa Caprese also worked well, even if it could have used a bit more meat; a $7 sandwich isn't cheap, and for the money, a more generous layer of Italian Market coppa—not to the point of overstuffing, just enough to find a better balance with the thickness of the bread—would have made for a more robust meal. (It also would have allowed the brightness of the basil pesto to shine through more clearly.)
Side salads were good overall, demonstrating a more consistent level of both conception and execution. Garbanzos luxuriated with greens, baby tomatoes, carrots and a balanced honey mustard. Snappy lentil salad was electrified by a taut Dijon vinaigrette. Quiche lorraine was excellent: The crust, with its deft balance of heartiness and delicacy, supported an egg layer as fluffy as a soufflé's—a perfect frame for the smoke of the swine.
Pastries are also worth checking out. I particularly enjoyed the coconut macaroon and the oatmeal cookie, both of which placed a focus on their hefty centerpiece ingredients rather than on their respective senses of sweetness. And the almond croissant was a fabulously flaky pastry wrapped around an aromatic marzipan center.
Milk & Honey's inconsistencies don't appear to be hurting business right now—it is a fantastic space for families and local businesspeople, with fountains to one side and a kid-friendly "lake" off to the other—but it'll have to shore up some of these shortfalls in order to make it through the long months when splashing around outside isn't reason enough to visit from other neighborhoods. The philosophy behind Milk & Honey Café is as solid as it gets. Now it's time for the execution to catch up.
Sister Cities Park at 18th and the Ben Franklin Parkway. 215.665.8600. milkandhoneymarket.com
Cuisine type: Sandwich and cafe-type offerings.
Hours: Weekdays: 7am-8pm; Sat., 8am-9pm; Sun., 8am-8pm.
Prices: Under $10.
Atmosphere: Bright and cheerful.
Food: Great philosophy; execution could use some work.
Service: Friendly counter service.
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Dewsbury Rams 24-12 Keighley Cougars
Dewsbury win, Keighley get bonus
Struggling Keighley fought back from 18-0 down at half-time to secure a bonus point from a 24-12 defeat at Dewsbury.
Ben Hellewell, Ryan Hepworth, Kieran Hyde and Anthony Thackeray scored tries for the Rams.
Danny Jones and Paul Handforth touched down in the second half for the Cougars.


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A central Wisconsin county is among 22 statewide to get a collective $356,000 in grants to help train farmers in nutrient management techniques and keep contaminated runoff from reaching the groundwater, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced Tuesday.
Adams County received a $2,000 Nutrient Management Farmer Education grant, formerly known as MALWEG, according to a news release from the state agency. The Tier 2 grant requires workshops, individual mapping of farms showing soil types and nutrient application restrictions and individual manure spreader calibration for each farmer.
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Dutch has added a new fabric to the DIY section of his website: Argon silnylon! Finished weight after coating of 1.06 ounces per sq yard, 1650mm waterproofness and amazingly, $5.75 per yard! This sounds like a dream come true. There are some questions and answers back and forth on the hammock forums.http://dutchwaregear.com/argon-sil-nylon.html
Wow that fabric sounds great. I wonder if it stretches more than regular silnylon when wet? The material should pack down really small.
Thank you. Will check it out. They have samples for $1 + mailing.
That sounds like the same stuff that I purchased there a few months ago. It is really thin stuff.--B.G.--
looks interesting There is a conflict between his metric and imperial figures. I guess the 1.06 oz is the correct one?Site states 1.06oz/yd. and also 48g.1.06oz/yd = 29.7g/yd or 35.5g/m48g/m = 40g/yd or 1.4oz/yd
"It is really thin stuff."As would be expected for the weight : )If you made a tent, would it survive or get ripped to shreds?Can you sew it without destroying it? With other 0.7 oz nylons like Nobul, it is so thin I worried about that, yet I've used a sleeping bag on quite a few nights and it's held up fine.What about the floor of a tent or bivy, would it hold up? seems like that has different stresses than a tentYou can't answer definitively, but maybe you have an impression
Very interesting. Ordered some of the red. Seems like even if it's too thin for a shelter, it might work well for a poncho or bivy bottom, or even VBL clothing.
I share JMole's curiosity about the weight. David, when you receive yours, would you mind weighing it for us?
"If you made a tent, would it survive or get ripped to shreds?"I checked again. What I purchased a few months ago was Argon not waterproof. What they have now is Argon waterproof sil-nylon (heavier).The stuff that I had purchased made a nice down blanket.--B.G.--
No problem, Colin. Dutchware emphasizes that this 1.06 oz *finished weight*, and contrasts it with 1.4 oz finished weight of the more common silnylon. Guess we'll see.Doesn't Golite use a lighter silnylon (15D) for their poncho tarp?
Can anyone comment on quality (especially waterproofness/hydrostatic head) yet? I was just about to splurge on 9m of 1.0oz cuben at ~5x that price, but this new argon silnylon may instead make it into my MYOG bivy and net tent.
From Dutch's HF post:"I am very proud to present my newest fabric to the ARGON product line. ARGON sil nylon is a high quality rip-stop developed specifically for us with the DIYer tarp maker in mind. Most Sil nylons advertise they are 1.1 but in reality they are 1.1 to start and then have a finished weight of 1.4 ounces per square yard. ARGON Shield has a finished weight of 1.06 ounces per square yard. Also many sil nylons boast a hydrostatic head pressure of 1100mm or less. We had ARGON independently tested in a certified lab with a result of 1650 average head pressure. What's more we are continuing with the same rich ARGON colors. We Currently have Black, Brown, Red, and Woodland Camo. These colors match the other ARGON line up so you can have a matching DIY set up. Lastly I bought a lot and I was able to get a good price on it. I am passing that on to you and I am introducing it at $5.75 for Black, Brown, and Red, $7.50 for Woodland Camo. Now let's make some great tarps.http://dutchwaregear.com/argon-sil-nylon.html"So, there's the hydrostatic head rating. Sweet! Good thing, as I have 18 yards ordered. M
"Doesn't Golite use a lighter silnylon (15D) for their poncho tarp?"Yes. Posted on another thread the weight of 1.08 osy on my scale. It is listed on the GL site as 15 denier and 1200mm HH. Medium green color. Most interesting, is they claim it is vapor permeable; that is, 'breathes' to some extent. That probably means the coating is polyurethane (PU), not silicone, like the argon. Being a 'green weenie' (colorwise), may use it for a front and rear awnings on a 'side entry' tent, with a darker and more waterproof green silnylon for the main body of the tent. How to seal? Sil sealer on silcoat material, PU sealer on PU coated material. So lap fell seams will have sil sealer on one side, PU sealer on the other. Yes, the NAPA sil sealer Permatex will also adhere to some PU coats, so might experiment with that also.It would be a gas (no pun intended) if the WPB really worked, but doubt that the PU WPB coat would be breathable enough to reduce condensation on a tent.The weave is the mini-ripstop seen on many of the 15D tent fabrics, almost invisible ripstop except when light shines through. Based on Roger Caffin's observations of leakage of ripstop materials, the finer ripstops should create less opportunity for leakage. In the last couple years, 15-20D tarps, flies and tent canopies have multiplied in the market, the manufacturer's preference leaning toward PU over sil coats. Not sure why. Have been using high HH 30 denier silnylon for tent floors for several years with no leakage; so doubt the often stated view that the PU coat is more durable per se. Using a 15D 3000mm HH silnylon for a main tent, with a 15D 1200mm HH PU coated nylon for the awnings should yield interesting results in serious rainstorms.But ordered samples of the Argon sil to check out the colors - the swatches are not large enough for a reliable weight figure. If one of the colors is light enough for me, will order a yard and test-wash-test to check the HH. With the low price, this could be a real boon to MYOGers if it can maintain waterproofing over 1500mm in ordinary use. It will be a wait and see proposition, though. Better safe than sorry.
Manufacturers lean towards nylons with a PU coating over sil because you can tape a PU coated nylon but you can't tape silnylon. Also, silnylon is not as flame retardant. In fact, I am pretty sure I read somewhere that some of the silnylon available for DIYers doesn't satisfy the safety requirements at all. As a DIYer though, I'm not worried about taping the seams or flame retardant; just give me the lightest stuff you can!
Just picked up 5 yards of this to make a shelter simlar to my Polycro shelter.Just making it a little longer to fit my pack in the bottom and my dogs to be able to fit with me.The Polycro only needs to be for me as the dogs don't see it as a barrier and just walk right through it. Also the sheet is 8 X 10 so you just can't get any bigger or longer for that matter.Polycro version weighs 8 ounces, this one should be around 12.I may even net the opening for bug protection?
Edited by awsorensen on 04/05/2014 14:13:38 MDT.
Yeah, I ordered (7) yards of the red to make a tarp out of. Gonna go ~10x10. Always wanted a square tarp to try several of the different pitches. Curious how much sag and stretch a 10d nylon tarp will have compared to 30d. Ryan
Edited by ViolentGreen on 04/05/2014 20:43:14 MDT.
I received a sample of brown Argon Silnylon and did a single non-aged HH tests. It tested as high as 3,374 mm H2O in a SINGLE non-aged test area. After I measured multiple test areas, per the applicable standard, there was a much lower average HH rating. The average for all test areas was 702.9 mm H2O.Do to the variability of the surface coating's HH it is not inconceivable that other HH testers may report different values.
Edited by richard295 on 04/15/2014 11:40:21 MDT.
10 yards of red Argon sil, ordered Thursday, received today.First impression good. Doesn't seem too thin or fragile for a shelter. Maybe a little stretchier on the bias than standard sil, and a smaller ripstop grid. Weight for all ten yards is 17.7 oz--and width is almost 60", rather than 59" advertised. So ounces/square yard matches the 1.06 oz/sy spec.Surprised by the color--I was expecting bright red, and this quite dark, with a slight orange cast, esp. with light behind it. Pretty muted for a red, which I think will work well.
Re: "Manufacturers lean towards nylons with a PU coating over sil because you can tape a PU coated nylon but you can't tape silnylon. Also, silnylon is not as flame retardant."So true, and thank you for reminding me.
This looks like a great potential option for floors. If the HH is so high, then I would assume that most of that comes from the thickness of the silicon coating. I'm mostly worried about wearing the sil coating out or exceeding HH on a floor rather than anything else. If we assume that its a similar base fabric to the Argon 67, then its a .49oz sil coating vs ~.2oz to ~0.3oz coating on "regular" silnylons. That's a substatial difference.Dutch now has some great bivy fabrics on there at a great price...hmmmm...
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Performers: Triendl, Oliver
Karl Goldmark numbers among those composers whose former fame and glory have faded to a faint glimmer. His piano quintets display typical Goldmarkian inventions and...continue...
Juon: Piano Quartets Op 50 & 37 / Triendl, Gaede, Schlichtig, Bruns
1 CD / CPO / 2008-06-24Works: Paul Juon: Piano Quartet, Op. 50; Quartet for Piano and Strings no 1 in F major "Rhapsody", Op. 37
Performers: Bruns, Peter; Gaede, Daniel; Schlichtig, Hariolf; Triendl, Oliver
Paul Juon numbers among the unknowns of music history. A contemporary critic has termed this late-romantic composer "the missing link between Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky." Born...continue...
Herzogenberg: Quintet Op 43, Trio Op 61 / Oliver Trindl, Orsolino Quintett
1 CD / CPO / 2008-05-27Works: Heinrich von Herzogenberg: Quintet for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon & piano in E flat major, Op 43; Trio for piano, oboe & horn in D major, Op. 61
Performers: Angerer, Anne; Triendl, Oliver; Wessely, Jan
Ensemble: Orsolino Quintet
CPO's Heinrich von Herzogenberg edition continues to expand, slowly but surely, and with it a highly sympathetic composer comes into view and takes his place...continue...
Kiel: Complete Piano Quartets
1 CD / CPO / 2008-01-29Works: Friedrich Kiel: Quartet for Piano and Strings no 1 in A minor, Op. 43; Quartet for Piano and Strings no 2 in E major, Op. 44; Quartet for Piano and Strings no 3 in G major, Op. 50
Performers: Jankovic, Xenia; Mathe, Ulrike-Anima; Schlichtig, Hariolf; Triendl, Oliver
The three piano quartets presented here portray the typical, outstanding characteristics of Kiel's chamber music style: ingenious counterpoint and polyphonic movements full of purity and...continue...
Harald Genzmer: Musik für Flöte, Klarinette und Klavier
1 CD / Thorofon / 2008-01-16Works: Harald Genzmer: Sonata for flute & piano no 3; Sonata for clarinet & piano; Sonate for flute no 3; Fantasy for Clarinet; Sonatine for clarinet & piano; Sonata for flute & piano no 2 in E minor
Performers: Brunner, Eduard; Thomsen, Jan; Triendl, Oliver
Weingartner: Sextet & Octet / Oliver Triendl, Ensemble Acht
1 CD / CPO / 2007-07-31Works: Felix Weingartner: Sextet in E minor, Op. 33; Octet in G major, Op. 73
Performers: Triendl, Oliver
Ensemble: Ensemble Acht
Here we have music of unprecedented mastery, resting on a classical and traditional foundation but also full of romantic expression and high suspense, with each...continue...
Thuille: Piano Quintets / Oliver Triendl, Vogler Quartet
1 CD / CPO / 2007-03-27Works: Ludwig Thuille: Piano Quintet in G minor; Quintet for Piano and Strings in E flat major, Op. 20
Performers: Triendl, Oliver
In this second Thuille release on CPO Oliver Treindl again takes the helm in the Piano Quintets: "pianist Oliver Triendl impressively negotiates the thickets of...continue...
Harald Genzmer: Solokonzerte für Flöte, Klavier und Viola
1 CD / Thorofon / 2007-01-25Works: Harald Genzmer: Flute Concerto; Piano Concertino no 2; Concerto for Viola
Performers: Lieberknecht, Andrea; Tomter, Lars Anders; Triendl, Oliver
Conductors: Albert, Werner Andreas
Recording information: Saarländischer Rundfunk, Funkhaus Halberg (04/25/2005-04/29/2005)....continue...
Harald Genzmer: Werke fur Kammerorchester
1 CD / Thorofon / 2006-11-22Works: Harald Genzmer: Piano Concertino no 1; Concerto for Violin; Chamber Concerto for oboe & string orchestra; Symphony no 2, for string orchestra
Performers: Kammerorchester, Munchener; Kussmaul, Rainer; Leleux, Francois; Lieberknecht, Andrea; Triendl, Oliver
Thuille: Symphony, Piano Concerto / Triendl, Haydn Orchestra
1 CD / CPO / 2006-01-17Works: Ludwig Thuille: Concerto for Piano in D major; Symphony in F major
Performers: Triendl, Oliver
Conductors: Francis, Alun; Rudner, Ola
Ensemble: Bolzano-Trento Haydn Orchestra
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pianist Oliver Triendl impressively negotiates the thickets of notes that Thuille throws at him... CPO does wonderful work in the cause of neglected composers...continue...
Harald Genzmer: Music for cello, contrabass & piano
1 CD / Thorofon / 2005-12-12Works: Harald Genzmer: Sonata for double-bass & piano; Sonata for cello & piano no 2; Fantasy for double-bass & piano; Bagatelles (6) for cello & double bass; Sonata for cello & piano no 1
Performers: Ostertag, Martin [Cello]; Shehata, Nabil; Triendl, Oliver
Robert Fuchs: Complete Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2
1 CD / Thorofon / 2004-09-06Works: Robert Fuchs: Sonata for Violin no 2 in D Major, Op. 33; Sonata for Violin no 3 in D Minor, Op. 68; Sonata for violin & piano no 6 in G minor, Op. 103
Performers: Berg, Ursula Maria; Triendl, Oliver
Harald Genzmer: Trio; Quartett
1 CD / Thorofon / 2004-02-09Works: Harald Genzmer: Trio for piano, violin & cello in F major (First Piano Trio); Trio for piano, violin & cello (Second Piano Trio); Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Performers: Brunner, Eduard; Triendl, Oliver; Turban, Ingolf; Yang, Wen-Sinn
Robert Fuchs: Violin Sonatas, Opp. 20, 77, 95
1 CD / Thorofon / 2002-11-25Works: Robert Fuchs: Sonata for violin & piano no 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 20; Sonata for Violin no 4 in E major, Op. 77; Sonata for Violin no 5 in A major, Op. 95
Performers: Berg, Ursula Maria; Triendl, Oliver
Harald Genzmer: Musik für Blechbläser & Klavier
1 CD / Thorofon / 2002-04-09Works: Harald Genzmer: Sonata for trombone & piano; Sonatina no 2 for trumpet & piano; Sonata for bass tuba & piano; Sonatina for trumpet & piano; Sonatina for horn & piano; Quintet after a Theme by Johann ...
Performers: Bockschweiger, Manfred; Triendl, Oliver
Harald Genzmer: Kammermusik
1 CD / Thorofon / 2001-05-01Works: Harald Genzmer: Trio for clarinet, cello & piano; Sonatina for cello & piano no 1; Sonatina for cello & piano no 2; Sonata for clarinet & piano
Performers: Adorjan, David; Triendl, Oliver; Widmann, Jorg
Genzmer: Piano Works / Oliver Triendl
1 CD / Thorofon / 1998-08-01Works: Harald Genzmer: Sonata for piano no 5; Prelude for piano, no 1, Introduktion; Prelude for piano, no 2, Allegro; Prelude for piano, no 3, Andante tranquillo; Prelude for piano, no 4, Vivace; Prelude f...
Performers: Triendl, Oliver
Fibich: Quintet; Dohnányi: Sextet / Triendl, Ensemble Acht
1 CD / Thorofon / 1998-06-01Works: Zdenek Fibich: Quintet for violin, clarinet, horn, cello & piano in D major, Op. 42; Ernst von Dohnányi: Sextet for piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet & horn in C major, Op. 37
Performers: Triendl, Oliver


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Update (12/14/09): More New Yorkers show off their tiny apartments.
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Not many couples could live in complete harmony in a space the New York Post calls the "smallest apartment in the city," but Zaarath and Christopher Prokop — plus their two cats — live in a 175-square-foot "microstudio" in Manhattan's Morningside Heights.
Purchased for $150,000 three months ago, the co-op is 14.9 feet long and 10 feet wide and is on the 16th floor of a building on 110th Street, but, get this — it's only accessible by a staircase from the 15th floor.
The couple has:
- a queen-size bed (about 1/3 of their living space)
- mini-fridge and hot plate (they don't eat in very often)
- one kitchen appliance (a cappuccino maker)
- closet-sized bathroom with shower with sink and toilet (no long, luxurious baths here)
- kitchen cabinets that are used for their clothing (they don't eat here, remember?)
With a space this small, they jog to work, picking up their clothes along the way at various dry cleaners around the city and some clothes are kept in their offices.
Curbed figures they spent about $857 per square foot in one of the priciest cities in the world. The Zillow Home Value for Morningside is $641,600 and the median value per sq ft for Morningside is $726.
The Prokops plan to pay off their mortgage in two years and then plan to remodel by installing a Murphy bed and larger windows. Their only cost at that point will be a maintenance fee of $700 a month.
"It's like having a rent-controlled apartment," she said. "We're going to own something in Manhattan in two years. How many people can say that? And we're very happy doing more with less."
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When I finished my studies in 2009, I decided to leave France for a year to travel around the world.
I passed through more than 30 countries and I was really lucky to discover how amazing our world is. Especially when you're only 23.
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Aliens have been invading films since the birth of the motion picture camera. Recent entries in the genre, such as Skyline, have failed to impress. Here are some examples to inspire filmmakers.
An amazing story by legendary scribe Ray Bradbury and direction from The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) It Came from Outer Space is a sure thing.
An early example of a relatable alien, not bend on world destruction, much like The Day the Earth Stood Still. Instead of commenting on atomic destruction, It Came from Outer Space focused on xenophobic attitudes in general. A great example of adventure and imagination in perfect balance with an idealistic message, It Came from Outer Space is not to be missed.
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959), while technically awful, earns its place on this list through sheer will power and earnestness. There certainly isn't another film quite like Plan 9.
Many have hailed Ed Wood's masterpiece as the worst film ever made but any film buff knows that's not true. There are very few films as entertaining or creative, no matter the technical quality.
What shines throughout Plan 9 is Wood's unmatched love and appreciation for the genre, which never fails to warm hearts.
Cardboard tombstones, pie tin flying saucers, queeny galactic emperors and zombies combine to create on of the greatest alien invasion films ever made.
Only the soulless could disagree.
Based on a true story of alien abduction, Fire in the Sky (1993) contains the most horrifying portrayal of an alien ever. The aliens in this film may not intend to invade but they certainly are invasive.
While the film changed many of the details of the true story, its amazing alien abduction sequence makes it all worth it.
Most of the film deals with a group of friends and co-workers following the abduction of one of their own. The townspeople do not believe their stories, until their friend Travis Walton appears once more.
The story is acceptable but not exceptional. The mind-blowing abduction sequence makes Fire in the Sky a seminal film for science fiction fans.
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) was overly ambitious and could not have possibly fully explored the many unique back alleyways of science fiction that it intended to. Nicolas Roeg's surreal film introduced an insanely unconstructed and fresh approach to the subject matter of extra-terrestrials.
David Bowie plays Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien seeking a way to end the drought on his home world. He is delayed from his noble mission by sex, love, alcoholism and television. No other cinematic alien, excepting maybe Superman, has experienced humanity on such an intimate level. Newton explores every facet of human culture, eventually becoming addicted to its more base traditions. Newton eventually becomes imprisoned and supplied with endless alcohol, much like a rock star or celebrity novelist.
The Man Who Fell To Earth has so much to say about modern culture that it is hard to distill into a single, coherent idea. It remains groundbreaking and Avant grade in the science fiction genre.
Squeezing the original into a mold fit for a new generation the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers proves that remakes can be as effective as originals.
The 1970's much like the 1950's were about self-fulfillment and enjoyment. Although the political problems of the 1970's were much more complex following the 1960's civil rights movement and the rise of feminism, the idea of happiness was embraced by culture. Disco, exercise and therapy became widespread in the era referred to as the "me decade."
Leonard Nimoy's psychiatrist character persuades everyone that his or her fears are unfounded. Of course, no one can be trusted especially those in power. The original Body Snatchers skewered the idea of conformity but the 1978 remake more disturbingly attacks the idea of happiness and self-realization.
Those too lost in their own happiness are doomed in this 1978 classic.
1953's War of the Worlds may not contain the pathos of the 2005 remake or the absolute horror of Orson Welles 1938 radio broadcast, it did contain immense imaginative designs and sounds that would become taken for granted in later films and television programs.
The design of the Martian machines of war is most likely the greatest spaceship of flying saucer design ever to appear on celluloid. The manta ray like shape of the craft, along with sleek lines and metallic sheen, created the perfect balance between awe-inspiring and fear inducing. The cold machines floating over burned out cityscapes cannot be forgotten once seen. In addition, the vaporizing heat rays shot from the machines inquisitive, periscope heads has become a science fiction trope. The sound effect of the heat ray became the go to sound effect for any ray gun including uses in The Outer Limits. The green ray, or disintegration ray, fried a victim's insides making his or her skeleton temporarily visible. This effect would be used in various subsequent films such as Mars Attacks! (1996). The sound effect would go on to be reused as the sound of photon torpedoes in Star Trek.
War of the World's Academy Award winning special effects and designs are timeless and amazingly influential, for this reason alone it deserves to be called one of the greatest alien invasion films.
The 1956 Cold War classic is without a doubt the greatest alien invasion film ever made. Invasion of the Body Snatchers originally mixed humor with its unavoidable, barely hidden Cold War horror and angst. The studio was uneasy about mixing humor and horror; as a result the final edited version became a lean, mean thriller.
The idea of "pod people" is so pervasive that is has made its way into American popular speech and force itself into three Body Snatchers remakes and an endless slew of imitations.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers does what all alien invasion movies should do; it provides a window into how humanity acts under pressure. Along the way the films explores Eisenhower era conformity and cold war hysteria equally.
The original ending to Body Snatchers is the best, perhaps only rivaled in its pessimism by Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Technically The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) is not an alien invasion film. While aliens are present and do cause mild destruction and mischief; their agenda is never invasion but rather atomic disarmament. The mysterious alien Klaatu gives the human race a choice between abandoning destructive technology or total elimination. That's pretty heavy subject matter for 1951.
The humanistic story is enhanced by featuring the friendliest, most cordial extraterrestrial prior too E.T. Michael Rennie plays Klaatu like a wise elder statesman; his performance is the greatest reason to see the film.
A robot gives the other great performance in the film. Gort's vague human features and complete power have been enough to secure is status as a science fiction icon.
John Carpenter's greatest film is The Thing (1982). The Thing lacks Carpenter's skills as a screenwriter and composer but remains a surprisingly elegant and enduring piece of work. Elegance is perhaps not Carpenter's most dependable quality but The Thing and Halloween (1978) both have a ballet-like quality about them.
A remake of the 1951 The Thing from Another World and an adaptation of the novella Who Goes There?, By John W. Campbell, Jr. The Thing is most likely the greatest remake of all time and one of the greatest adaptations.
Like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Carpenter's masterpiece features a shape-shifitng alien antagonist, but unlike Body Snatchers The Thing doesn't need to rely on political commentary to remain timeless. The Thing is simply the greatest claustrophobic who-dun-it ever produced.
Independence Day (1996) belongs on any list of science fiction films, even considering its pulpy, barely-there plot. The film was a pop culture phenomenon spawning a massive merchandising campaign. Every child in the 1990's had an Independence Day alien action figure or at least knew someone who did.
The film is simply a great American action thriller, complete with all of the tropes and tricks of the genre. Then again, who really cares? Independence Day is a huge patriotic spectacle, just like the holiday that it is named for.
The exact opposite of Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Thing, Independence Day displays how a group of alien invaders can be beaten by chiseled looks and American know-how. Body Snatchers skewered American conformity and Independence Day reinforced it. Including diverse characters such as an African American leading man and a Jewish sidekick does not serve to break up the concept of American conformity; it instead proves the superiority of Western culture and technology in general.
While this overly aware, diverse cast has its faults, the plot does unite the human race globally against an outside attacker. Of course, this is achieved thanks to the Americans and their answers for everything.
Then again, it's just really fun to watch.


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August 08, 2012 -
Michigan's exemption from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education standards granted on July 19 has landed Clear Lake Elementary on a new list.
As required by the federal waiver, Clear Lake has been identified among 10 percent of Michigan schools with the widest student achievement gap.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan said Michigan's release from federal education guidelines "is great news for our students and our schools." But one of the under-reported consequences of the federal exemption was that Michigan must adhere to new achievement criteria.
Venessa Keesler, Head of Evaluation, Research and Accountability for the Michigan Department of Education, said the long awaited exemption "waived a number of the NCLB things, . . . but it did require that we figure out a way to identify Priority, and Focus and Reward schools."
The refined emphasis is now on assessment discrepancies within student populations. Keesler said that under the previous assessment model, tests from high achieving kids and low achieving kids would coalesce into an acceptable target score. But this masked real student performance, Keesler argued.
The new "metric finds the lowest and the highest achieving kids --regardless of demographic subgroup -- and says for 10 percent of the schools within the state, your gap is bigger than average--a lot bigger than average; in fact, it's one of the worst gaps in the state. That's what Clear Lake Elementary will be looking at."
This isn't to say that the State of Michigan is no longer concerned with historically under-served groups. "We're still concerned with demographics (and) we're still watching that, but . . . we want to focus on achievement first and then demographics," Keesler assured.
Most schools in the new Focus list are Title I schools, and as such are required to set aside 10 percent of the Title I funding toward reducing the achievement gap among their students. Clear Lake is not a Title I school, however, so the financial consequences won't be enforced. But "we would obviously encourage them to go through a lot of the same steps that the Title I Focus schools are doing which is look at your data, figure out where your gaps are, develop a plan, and think about things like differentiated instruction," Keesler suggested.
The newer strategy is to find the worst gaps in achievement and by focusing attention and intensive interventions on those schools, the idea is "as those schools improve they move up and more fall in. It's kind of a rolling intervention strategy versus the more one-size-fits-all adequate yearly progress," Keesler said.
Clear Lake was the only school identified in the Oxford district with excessive achievement gaps. "Clear Lake is a high performing elementary school in our district, and has been for many years. (It is) probably our top performing elementary historically, said Dr. James Schwarz, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction for the Oxford School District. State administrators recognize the excellence present at Clear Lake. Keesler described the elementary as "one of the Focus schools that has a relatively high overall percentile ranking . . . (But) some of their improvement metrics are declining, . . . (and) they have a gap between their top thirty percent and bottom thirty percent of students in every tested subject."
Oxford administrators expressed a ready willingness to meet the latest challenge. "We're disappointed," said Schwarz, "but we're taking it very seriously."
"We will be getting together with the staff, we will plan on strategies that we will submit to the state, and we will incorporate those in our school improvement and district improvement plans," Schwarz promised.
"We're going to analyze our interventions, we're going to analyze who's eligible for those interventions. Are we missing kids that should be taking part in these specialized pullout programs that for some reason we're missing? We're going to go back and review all of that and really get a picture of what's happening, who's being missed if anybody and also analyze the interventions that we have in place and look at the tracking of how those are working" within Clear Lake.
The new categories have just been assigned, yet they aren't without controversy. As Keesler noted, "if next year the gaps close state-wide by a lot, you may see schools with even smaller gaps ending up on the list. And that's something that we have committed to watch. (One) problem with the ranking is that if everybody is doing better, at some point who you are identifying isn't doing poorly anymore."
Schwarz echoed Keesler's concern. "In some case your status can be somewhat left to chance. From year to year you could do virtually nothing and you could get off the list, depending on how everyone else around you does. Or you could pour a ton of efforts into new initiatives and interventions and still stay on the list."
"That is the problem with these normative systems," Keesler conceded. "One of the things that is true about the ranking is you can look better if every one else is worse." To compensate for the potential for skewed results, the MDE promises to maintain criterion-based proficiency targets for schools to set and meet.
Though not satisfied with the new grouping, Schwarz is sympathetic to the constraints placed on the state administrators, and hopes they see that "we're not playing with widgets here, we're playing with kids and their ability levels. You can't control it like you can control a product on a conveyor belt."
Keesler agreed with Schwarz, and stressed that "state-wide assessments and . . . accountability systems really shouldn't be the end goal—they should be the baseline. They should be the minimum that we would expect everybody to be doing. And from there, we would hope that the locals would visualize education in a more nuanced way for their student population."
Keesler was quick to recognize that a standardized test cannot "capture everything about what good education is. It won't by the nature of what is has to be." She was impressed with the interventions and initiatives already underway in the Oxford school district.
"When local do things like sit down and creatively think about what's important in education . . . that's a very exciting part of the process, and one that you wouldn't want to interfere with by mashing it into a state test"
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