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The mainstream U.S. media gave George W. Bush virtual carte blanche during the first two years of his presidency, but now the glaze is peeling from Teflon President II. The promised weapons of mass destruction haven't been found in Iraq, and the Justice Department recently launched an investigation into a White House leaker who illegally named a covert CIA agent, likely as political payback.
Now federal investigators are scrutinizing a smelly deal birthed last year from Everglades muck. A year ago, New Times probed the Bush administration's planned $120 million buyout of mineral rights in the Big Cypress National Preserve from the wealthy Collier family, whose operation is based on Florida's west coast ("Big Cypress Buyout," September 12, 2002). The deal, announced in May 2002 on the White House lawn by the president and little brother Jebbie, was also to include to-be-determined tax breaks that could have amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.
Though New Times revealed that the feds ignored staff estimates that the mineral rights were worth only $5 million to $20 million, there was little response.
So why did the inspector general of the Department of Interior just recently decide to probe the deal, as the Sun-Sentinel disclosed last week? The IG won't say a word about the inquiry, but a DOI insider has a pretty good idea of what sparked it. "There's blood in the water," the source says of the growing criticism of the White House. "It's near election time, and the sharks are circling. A lot of people are worried about what this administration is doing."
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If it chooses, the IG's office can easily verify that the inflated valuation is a waste of taxpayer money. The question the IG investigators should be asking, however, is this: Did DOI higher-ups use that federal agency to aid Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in his reelection bid against challengers Bill McBride and Janet Reno?
Coming as it did during the thick of the campaign, the proposal certainly raised eyebrows. "The timing with the Bush administration -- that energy-happy, let's-drill-everywhere administration -- was certainly very suspect," says Robin Rorapaugh, who at the time was McBride's campaign manager. "The Bush White House and Interior Department are not an environmentally friendly organization. The deal was counter to what that administration is usually doing. [The announcement] was there to help his brother."
Even the governor hinted as much at the time. "Whenever there is a convergence of good politics and good public policy, I don't think we should be ashamed about it," he declared at the White House.
The Collier family has been a major landowner in South Florida since 1921, when Barron Gift Collier bought 1.25 million acres of swampland. His heirs sold almost 700,000 acres of Everglades property to the federal government during the '70s and '80s, much of which now makes up the Big Cypress. The Colliers retained the mineral rights, however.
The family has tried to wring as much as it can from its holdings, including an attempt to trade them for surplus military bases in California and Florida in 1996. At that time, the DOI's Minerals Management Service in New Orleans determined that the rights were worth $230 million to $430 million. The deal died, though, says the DOI source, because the appraisal was so far-fetched that it couldn't pass the "red-face test." In 1999, the Colliers tried to swap the mineral rights for property at the Homestead Air Force Base, but by then, DOI staff had determined they were worth $5 million to $20 million.
The idea of a straightforward mineral rights buyout, however, gained legs in the upper echelon of the DOI a few months after Dubya's election in the fall of 2000. Some park-service staff pressed the department to use strict appraisal standards set by the Justice Department. These standards had a history of withstanding court challenges.
The DOI source says that an Interior attorney stated that "the Colliers will probably not accept a value that is derived from the standards." The source contends that giving Jeb Bush's campaign a shot in the arm was a driving force behind making the Colliers an offer they couldn't refuse. Indeed, when the park-service staff became too pesky about determining an accurate valuation, DOI higher-ups ordered them to stop all work on the Collier matter.
Early this year, Sen. Bob Graham reacted angrily when the Bush administration tried to slip a $40 million down payment for the Colliers into a 2003 appropriations bill without congressional scrutiny. It was subsequently withdrawn.
Perhaps the IG's office, which is under the control of President Bush's handpicked Interior secretary, Gale Norton, will be the first to take an honest look at the truth behind the Big Cypress deal. More likely, though, its probe will display the same rigor as John Ashcroft's conflicted hunt for the White House leak.
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As part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology in India, a new scheme to boost learning in rural areas through the internet has been in the pipeline for about three years now.
A new government-developed laptop is the latest in ultra-cheap engineering to emerge from the country. It is also the most ambitious attempt yet to bring the internet to the developing world and to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor.
India has already given the world the £1,450 Tata Nano car and a no-frills mobile telephone that costs less than 800 rupees…now we are poised on the verge of being given the £7 laptop. Or are we?
Technology experts have suggested that India's plans for a cheap laptop are unrealistic. The semi failure of the American 'One Laptop per Child' project, which set out to produce a computer (pictured above) for $100, or £68, has been quoted in dialogue about the chances of a laptop which costs less than most paperback books in the UK .
The high-profile venture led by scientist Nicholas Negroponte ran into problems after several companies, including the chip manufacturer Intel, refused to cooperate. As a result, the cost of Negroponte's laptop will be closer to $200.
The website arstechnica.com said: "Can India do it? The inner-philanthropist hopes so but the realist who buys technology says 'No way'. " The technology website said that the price of computer components is just too high to make a 500-rupee laptop.
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Now, here's the kicker: the Democrats' biggest source of frustration is the same thing. Thirty percent of Democrats think their elected officials don't do enough to cut spending either.
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By Linda Rosenkrantz
It always strikes me as somewhat curious when a name that has been hidden in plain sight for decades—or longer—attached to a significant literary or real life character will suddenly pop into the zeitgeist and take off. Sometimes the contributing factors are obvious—sharing with a more recent celebrity (looking at you, Ms Johansson) or its discovery by the parents of a starbaby. And sometimes, it just remains a mystery.
Some prominent examples:
Atticus. The Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, and the movie, starring Gregory Peck as principled lawyer and role-model dad Atticus Finch, was released two years later. Between then and now, the book has been a mainstay of English class curricula, working its way into the collective consciousness of future baby namers, while Atticus Finch was voted the greatest hero of American film by the AFI.
As the fiftieth anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird is being celebrated, the thought comes to mind that it sometimes can take decades for an iconic fictional character –usually one imprinted on our minds from a classic read during our formative adolescent years—to take off as a baby name.
A prime example of this is Atticus, as in Atticus Finch, that noble lawyer/father Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's novel, which appeared in print in 1960 and on screen in 1962, and yet didn't make it onto the Social Security baby name list until 2004. The same is true of Holden: J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield appeared in The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, but not on the pop charts until 1987. Scarlett O'Hara (GWTW book 1936, movie 1939) didn't hit the top half of the list until 2004—when it combined with the Johanssen factor. And if we want to go back even further, it took Huckleberry well over a century to suddenly be used by a couple of celebs.
Below are some literary names from 20th century American novels and plays, a few of which, like Daisy, Owen and Ethan, have already made their comebacks, others which conceivably could, plus a few that are probably too eccentric to be condsidered.
As always there's the caveat that not all these characters were particularly likable or noble namesakes. Some American literary names to consider, for both boys and girls, include:
ALABAMA –Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz
ÁNTONIA — Willa Cather, My Ántonia
AURORA — Larry McMurtry, Terms of Endearment
BLANCHE — Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
BONANZA— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
BRETT — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
CLARICE — Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
CLYTEMNESTRA (CLYTIE) — William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
DAISY— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
DENVER — Toni Morrison, Beloved
DOMINIQUE — Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
ESMÉ – J D Salinger, "For Esmé—With Love and Squalor"
EULALIA — William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
FRANCESCA — Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
INDIA – Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge
ISADORA — Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Some authors have a genuine knack for character naming, usually spread over their entire oeuvre. In the case of Margaret Mitchell, it was all focused on her only novel–Gone With the Wind–whose character names still resonate today. The 1933 book (almost titled Tomorrow is Another Day) was an unprecedented smash, selling 30 million copies and winning a Pulitzer Prize, as was the movie, released in 1939 and receiving a then-record ten Oscars. Its frequent revivals and TV screenings have kept it alive for later generations. So how have its characters' names fared for babies over the years?
SCARLETT O'Hara. For four years following the debut of the film, Scarlett sneaked onto the bottom edge of the Social Security list. It took a glamorous young, modern movie star–Ms. Johansson–to propel it to the upper echelons. A stylish color name, it's now in the Top 300 and sure to move higher.
RHETT Butler. So closely connected to the Clark Gable persona, it took Rhett a long time to make it into the mainstream, which it finally started to do in the fifties, along with similar names like Brett and Brent, all of which have pretty much faded.
ASHLEY Wilkes. At the time of the book's writing, Ashley was very much a Southern gentleman's name. It wasn't until the early 1980's that it really crossed the genderline, when it started to appear as female characters on soap operas like The Young and the Restless. Margaret Mitchell would have been shocked to see it beome the #1 girls' name in America in 1991.
You've probably noticed that Aiden is now way more popular than the original Irish Aidan. And also that Zoey is catching up with Zoe, while other names like Isiah, Kaleb, Camryn and Sienna are either ahead of or breathing down the necks of their conventionally spelled cousins. Sometimes the reasons for these changes are clear-cut, sometimes it's just something in the ether.
Not that this is a new thing. I remember the first time that someone asked me to spell my first name. "Huh?" "Well, is it Linda with an 'i' or Lynda with a 'y'? Without my really noticing, Lynda had become a spelling alternative in the wake of the popularity of Lynn. Something similar has happened with Aidan/Aiden. When the epidemic of rhyming 'en'-ending names erupted–Jaden, Braden, Caden et al–it was a logical development to make Aiden a legitimate member of that family. And when 'K'-beginning boys' names became a rage, Kaleb began pursuing Caleb up the list.
The case of Zoe/Zooey is a little different, as the spike of the latter version can be pretty much traced to a single phenomenon–'Zoey101'–the Emmy-nominated teen sitcom starring (now teen mom) Jamie Lynn Spears, which appeared on Nickelodeon in 2005. And the publicity surrounding Jamie Lynn's big sister Britney's second son helped spread that spelling of Brayden. The rise of the British actress Sienna Miller spurred the spelling change of the Italian town of Siena, actress Jorja Fox legitimized the phonetic spelling of Georgia, and Gossip Girl hottie Chace (originally his middle name) Crawford has the spelling of his name chasing Chase.
In terms of image, rather than spelling, Scarlett Johansson challenged the long-term connection of her name to Gone With the Wind spitfire Scarlett O'Hara, just as the charms of Jude Law have managed to erase the age-old associations of his name to Judas.
More recently we've seen a couple of starbabies who might have some influence on the future spellings of names: Brooke Shield's Grier (rather than Greer) and Angie Harmon's Emery (rather than Emory).
Can you think of any others?
When Pam and I wrote our first name book, Beyond Jennifer & Jason (back when Jennifer & Jason were still baby names), we had a little section called NAMES THAT ARE TOO MUCH TO LIVE UP TO, listing examples that had such a potent image that whey would overpower an innocent babe–including such biblical temptresses and goddesses as Jezebel, Salome and Venus. Well, things have now changed to the point where those names and others equally powerful have slipped into the mainstream. Why? Partly the current anything-goes atmosphere, partly some tipping point moments, such as:
DELILAH: WHY THE BAD GIRL RAP? Biblical temptress who betrayed Samson. DEFUSER? Lame old Tom Jones song; was considered as baby name by Rachel and Ross on Friends.
DESIREE: WHY? Precocious French teenager engaged to and then jilted by Napoleon. DEFUSER? Jumped onto the Social Security list in 200 at #181. Not sure why.
JEZEBEL: WHY? Scheming, promiscuous New Testament hussy; name came to mean hussy. DEFUSER? Feminists started to see her as a victim, became the name of a hot weblog. Name still means hussy.
LOLA: WHY? Sexy 19th century Spanish dancer/courtesan Lola Montez, sexy Marlene Dietrich character in The Blue Angel, sexy Pajama Game song 'Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets'. DEFUSER? Madonna nicknames baby Lourdes Lola, Kelly Ripa mentions daughter Lola every mornining
LOLITA: WHY? Iconic Nabokov lollipop-licking nymphet; DEFUSER? Actress Lolita Davidovich says it's a common name in Eastern Europe, director Brian de Palma bestows it on his baby.
SALOME: WHY? Deceitful dancing New Testament seductress, seen as even worse in Oscar Wilde play and Strauss opera; DEFUSER? Not sure, but it was defused enough for TV actress Alex Kingston to use it for her daughter.
SCARLETT: WHY? The Scarlet Letter, phrase "scarlet woman," spoiled and selfish Scarlett O'Hara; DEFUSER: Scarlett Johanssen
VENUS: WHY? Roman goddess of love, deadly Venus Flytrap plant; DEFUSER: Tennis ace Venus Williams


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Press-Telegram (Newspaper) - May 18, 1959, Long Beach, California A.4-PRESS.TELEGRAM C.lll., Mxi., Miy II, Bar Patron Slain; Thug Beafen Up LOS ANGELES UP) A gunman who killed a bar pa- tron was disarmed and beaten furiously by other customers today. They hammered him with bottles, fists and his own Crash Victims Live ive Days in Desert gun. "I had to kill, because of a JAMES A. CATHEY 'I Had to Kill' vision 1 had 10 years ago that 1 would kill somebody in a James A. Cathey, 27 mumbled as he held his ban daged head in his hands later at the city jail. Jose Lara, 21, was shot to death and Paul Merchain, 30 was wounded critically when they jumped Cathey as he was leaving the bar after tak ing from the cash regis ter. 4 POLICE, summoned by an other customer, said most o the 30 persons in the ba were pounding Cathey when they arrived. "They would have kille< said officer J. J. San tella. 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Sunday, 29 January 2012
observer ONLINE
By Lalin FERNANDOPULLE
Revenue from apparel exports last year was $3.8 b which shows that
Sri Lanka has not only sustained but also maintained growth in the
United States and European markets and increase market share by
57percent in other countries, said Orit Group Chairman and Image
Building Committee-Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) Chaiman,
Channa Palansuriya.
said during the last financial year apparel exports had increased by 34
percent to European countries and 22 percent to the United States. Other
than US and European markets, countries such as Russia, Australia and
those in Asia have imported Sri Lankan apparel which generated over $340
m from January to November 2011.
Apparel export revenue has superseded income from tea, rubber and
other agribased products to be a leading foreign exchange earner to the
With over one million people directly benefiting from the sector
theapparel industry is one of the largest contributors to the GDP.
Palansuriya said that apparel export revenue will be around $ four
billion by the end of this year despite the global economic crisis, he
The decade- long relationships built with our customers have helped
move us from mere transactional to more strategic partnerships.
By adding more value we are likely to grow with existing customers
and attract more customers. H & M the largest and fastest growing
European apparel retain chain has over 2,300 stores in 43 countries and
has an annual revenue of 127 billion Euros.
This year H & M has set up a sourcing office in Sri Lanka in addition
to current large buyers such as M & S and NEXT which emphasizes the
level of confidence placed in our industry.
Sri Lanka's exports to Europe continued to grow in spite of the
recession and the withdrawal of GSP + benefits in August 2010 in 2005,
when the country gained duty-free status to Europe, apparel exports
posted US$1billion revenues in the year.
In 2009 at the height of the recession, Sri Lanka's exports to the EU
stood at US$1.65 billion and in 2010, despite the negative sentiment
created with the removal of the duty free concession, our exports
maintained a higher growth level of 34% in the 1st 12 months of 2011,
compared with the previous year.
"The main challenge is to retain people while attracting people to
the industry. To do this we have implemented special programs to educate
people about the importance and benefits of the apparel industry.
The Small and Medium sector has huge potential to cater to speed,
flexibility and cost", Palansuriya said. With regard to the Erozone
crisis he said that the turmoil in the region will affect exports toa
certain extent though not on a large scale..
There could be drop in the buying power due to low sales in Europe.
However, there will be a slight growth in the US sector from sales which
will immensely help us to balance our exports. The euro zone economy
would contract 0.5 percent this year before returning to meager growth
of 0.8 percent in 2013.
Growth in developing economies was also expected to moderate due to
"the worsening external environment and a weakening of internal demand.,
the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said.
"The global recovery is threatened by intensifying strains in the
euro area and fragilities elsewhere." the IMF said in an update of its
World Economic Outlook (WEO) report.
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We enjoyed very much the stay in Noah´s apartment.
The apartment was great for six people, well situated and it was clean and comfortable, with all the things you need for stay a few days.
We didn´t have any problems in our stay.
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We had a fantastic stay in New York in Mr Garcia's apartment.
The car service from the airport to the apartment and return journey was faultless and very professional. It took all the stress out of travelling to your apartment when we arrived in New York on a late flight.
Mr Garcia was at the apartment to welcome us and we found him very amicable and helpful. The apartment was well presented and comfortable and suited our needs very well. Comfortable beds and seating, air conditioning, and the free wifi to keep our teenage son happy! The bathroom could do with a bit of an update but perfectly sufficient for our use.
Friendly neighbourhood with the Hudson River at the bottom of the road and the subway a 5 minute walk up the road, taking you into Times Square in about 40 minutes. Make sure you stop in at the Bus Stop Diner on your way to the subway for some great home cooked food. We would definitely come back and stay again and in our opinion the apartment was perfectly situated for our stay in New York.
It's a good neighborhood, full of life. The apartments in clean and looks even better than the pictures. Mr Garcia was really helpful. We totally recommend it.
We have been in this apartment for 5 nights and everything was good. The apartment is exactly as in the photos, tidy and clean. The queen bed is very confortable. It is just 5 minutes from the subway and very close to restaurants and a supermarket. The kitcheh has everything you need. We've really appreciated our stay, thank you very much!!!
The apartment is spacy and very convenient for 8 people (2 families with 4 childrens).
The apartment is very well located on the west side of the 135th street. It is 2 minutes walk from the subway line 1. This line is very convenient since it crosses Manhattan from the north to the south and trains are available very late. It takes 1/2h to reach Times Square. and 1 and 1/2h to reach the airport JFK.
The apartment has been rebuilt recently and is very confortable. It is rather quiet for NYC (the city that never sleeps). The rest of the building is something old but you only have to cross it.
The surrounding is quiet and you come back late during the night without any risk.
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We all know the refs are an issue, but you can't blame them for your team only scoring 12 points, with that said you might like this tid bit of information, McCoy, running back for the Eagles said one of the refs before the game told him he better up his game because he had him on his fantasy team, and some fo the refs hired were fired by the lingeree bowl, that is a fact not a joke.
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The state Department of Social Services has suspended the child care license of a Mission Hills woman who was watching a 2-month-old boy before he died last week.
In an official document called an "accusation," officials say Ana Karina Vazquez, who has been licensed since July 2009, "failed to provide safe, healthful, and comfortable accommodations" for Noah Skyler Domingo, who died after he stopped breathing in a car seat.
The coroner has not determined a cause of death.
On Jan. 28, Vazquez swaddled Noah with a blanket, restricting his movement, and put him in a car seat to nap instead of in a crib or on a mat, wrote Kathi Mowers-Moore, chief of central operations for the Community Care Licensing Division.
A state report released Tuesday says Vazquez left Noah alone sleeping in her living room while she watched kids in a playroom.
While she went to pick up children (including her own) from school and a bus stop, the report says, she left other children with an assistant who hadn't had a criminal record check or the first aid and CPR training required of child care workers.
Vazquez apparently had such training at some point herself. She started CPR on Noah when his father came to pick him up and found him not breathing, according to police and Noah's mother.
But the accusation says Vazquez had not been certified in pediatric CPR and pediatric first aid since March 28, 2011.
State records show Vazquez was served with the accusation and a temporary suspension order Friday, the day they were filed.
She also was fined $500 for having a worker without a criminal clearance and $150 for "absence of supervision."
Michael Weston, a Department of Social Services spokesman, did not know whether any children were in Vazquez's care at the time she was served.
If children are at a facility when the department serves a suspension order, he said, the state officials call parents and don't leave until all the children have been picked up.
If Vazquez appeals the suspension order, she could have a hearing before a state administrative law judge. If she doesn't appeal within 15 days, her license will be revoked, Weston said.
Under state law, one person can watch up to eight children at a time, depending on their ages, Weston said.
No one answered the phone Tuesday at the number listed for Vazquez's Marklein Avenue home business, known as both Kary's Day Care and Vazquez Family Child Care.
In a phone interview last week, before her license was suspended, Vazquez said, "I have my license. I have all the permits.
"The authorities came and say everything is OK. I have nothing else to declare."
Police said there did not appear to be foul play in Noah's death. After an autopsy Thursday, the coroner deferred a finding on the cause of death for eight to 10 weeks pending pathology tests.
Noah's mother, Zen Gutierrez, could not be reached Tuesday. She said last week Noah had been a "healthy, happy baby."
Noah's father, Noel Domingo, came to pick him up about 5 p.m. Jan. 28, the first day Noah had been left in Vazquez's care.
Domingo found the child swaddled and in a car seat, Gutierrez said. When he picked the child up, he didn't move. Domingo quickly saw Noah wasn't breathing.
Vazquez called 911 and started CPR. But she and paramedics, then nurses and doctors at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, could not save Noah.


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Steamboat Springs Will Horner helped nail together, sand and paint wooden benches and a picnic table Thursday afternoon for Yampatika at the city-owned Legacy Ranch.
It was just one of several community service projects the senior from The Lowell Whiteman School has participated in recently. Horner said he isn't sure which is his favorite.
"It's pretty cool to be at the Boys & Girls Club. You get to play with the little kids and help them with their homework," he said. "The library is cool because it's nice and relaxing. But this place is cool because you get to build stuff, which I haven't done since shop class in middle school."
This year, the school is requiring students to dedicate time each week to a volunteer effort.
In addition to assisting Yampatika, the Boys & Girls Club of Steamboat Springs and Bud Werner Memorial Library, students also will help out with the city's Afterschool Action program, with the USDA Forest Service and Colorado State Parks and at the school's campus, said Margi Missling Root, Whiteman's director of experiential education. She said students even gave blood Thursday.
In the past, students were required to volunteer, just not as often, Missling Root said. She said this is the first year the school's curriculum required that students volunteer weekly. The intention is to make the community, Steamboat and Whiteman a better place.
Missling Root said students involved in the school's foreign travel program would volunteer in fall and winter. She said the competitive skiers and snowboarders would take their turn in spring. And Missling Root said their volunteer efforts would culminate with a school-wide day of caring.
"It just helps them understand the world by getting out in it, the community," she said. "Many of our students aren't from Steamboat. It gives them a connection to Steamboat, this part of the state, the valley by getting out into it."
Yampatika Programs Coordinator Melissa Calhoon said without help from Whiteman students the past several weeks, Yampatika staff would have had a tough time getting the Legacy Ranch ready for winter. Before the snow started falling, she said, students raked leaves and repaired fencing.
Calhoon said the advantage of partnering with Whiteman not only was exposing a new group of students to Yampatika, but also helping it transform the Legacy Ranch into a continuously operating environmental education center and active demonstration site.
"Part of the reason we try to do this is to promote service learning," she said. "Not only are they out here, but they're learning the history of the area."
Calhoon said Yampatika has a long list, but upcoming projects include updating the kiosks on the Yampa River Core Trail with winter information and cleaning out the ranch barn for the Steamboat Springs 4-H participants to keep animals.
Seniors David Lea and Tomas Vrba, a boarding student from the Czech Republic, helped Horner with the benches and picnic table. Junior Cameron Ehrlich worked on projects inside the house at the Legacy Ranch.
Horner said when the Whiteman staff told students they would be participating in weekly service projects, some weren't happy. But he said most of the students are starting to enjoy the volunteer work, which is a good thing.
"Whiteman is kind of out there by itself in the woods," Horner said. "It's good to connect with the Steamboat community."


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Opinion: 7 reasons why teacher evaluations won't work
THE Teacher Effectiveness Task Force report issued March 3 by a panel appointed by Governor Christie recommended basing teacher evaluation significantly on student test scores. A few weeks earlier, acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf recommended that teacher tenure and dismissal, as well as compensation decisions, should be based largely on student assessment data.
Implicit in these recommendations is that the state and local districts would design a system for linking student assessment data to teachers for purposes of estimating teacher effectiveness. The goal of statistical "teacher effectiveness" measurement systems, including the most common approach called value-added modeling, is to estimate the extent to which a specific teacher contributes to the learning gains of a group of students assigned to that teacher in a given year.
Unfortunately, while this all sounds good, it just doesn't work, at least not well enough to even begin considering using it for making high-stakes decisions about teacher tenure, dismissal or compensation.
Bruce Baker is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Theory, Policy and Administration at Rutgers University Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick.
Here's why:
1) It is not possible to equate the difficulty of moving a group of children 5 points (or rank and percentile positions) at one end of a test scale to moving children 5 points at the other end.
Yet that is precisely what the proposed evaluations endeavor to accomplish. In such a system, the only fair way to compare one teacher to another would be to ensure that each has a randomly assigned group of children whose initial achievement is spread similarly across the testing scale.
Real schools and districts don't work that way. It is also not possible to compare a 5 point gain in reading to a 5 point gain in math. These limitations undermine the entire proposed system.
2) Even with the best models and data, teacher ratings are highly inconsistent from year to year, and have very high rates of misclassification.
According to one recent major study, there is a 35 percent chance of identifying an average teacher as poor, given one year of data, and a 25 percent chance given three years. Getting a good rating is a statistical crap shoot.
3) If we rate the same teacher with the same students, but with two different tests in the same subject, we get very different results. University of California at Berkeley economist Jesse Rothstein, re-evaluating the findings of a much-touted Gates Foundation study, noted that more than 40 percent of teachers who placed in the bottom quarter on one test were in the top half when using an alternative test.
That is, teacher ratings based on the state assessment were only slightly better than a coin toss at identifying which teachers did well using the alternative assessment.
4) No matter how hard statisticians try, and no matter how good the data and statistical model, it is very difficult to separate a teacher's effect on student learning gains from other classroom effects, like peer effect (race and poverty of peer group).
New Jersey schools are highly segregated, hampering our ability to make valid comparisons across teachers who work in vastly different settings. Statistical models attempt to adjust away these differences, but usually come up short.
5) Kids learn over the summer too, and higher-income kids learn more than their lower-income peers over the summer. As a result, annual testing data aren't very useful for measuring teacher effectiveness. Annual (rather than fall-spring) testing data poses a significant disadvantage for teachers serving children whose summer learning lags. Setting aside all of the unresolvable problems above, this one can be fixed with fall-spring assessments.
But it cannot be resolved in any fast-tracked plan involving current New Jersey assessments, which are annual. The task force report irresponsibly ignores this huge concern, recommending fast-tracked use of current assessment data.
6) As noted by the task force, only those teachers responsible for reading and math in Grades 3 to 8 could readily be assigned ratings (less than 20 percent of teachers). Testing everything else is a foolish and expensive endeavor. This means school districts will need separate contracts for separate classes of teachers and will have limited ability to move teachers from one contract type to another.
Further, pundits have been arguing that we should be using effectiveness measures instead of experience to implement layoffs due to budget cuts and that we shouldn't be laying off core classroom teachers in Grades 3 to 8. But those are the only teachers for whom "effectiveness" measures would be available.
7) Basing teacher evaluations, tenure decisions and dismissal decisions on scores that may be influenced by which students a teacher serves provides a substantial disincentive for teachers to serve kids with the greatest needs, disruptive kids or kids with disruptive family lives.
Many of these factors are not, and cannot, be captured by variables in the best models. Some have argued that including value-added metrics in teacher evaluation reduces the ability of school administrators to arbitrarily dismiss a teacher.
Opportunities for sabotage
Rather, use of these metrics provides new opportunities to sabotage a teacher's career through creative student assignment practices.
In short, we may be able to estimate a statistical model that suggests that teacher effects vary widely across the education system – that teachers matter. But we would be hard-pressed to use that model to identify with any degree of certainty which individual teachers are good teachers and which are bad.
Contrary to education reform wisdom, adopting such problematic measures will not make the teaching profession a more desirable career option for America's best and brightest college graduates.
In fact, it will likely make things much worse. Establishing a system where achieving tenure or getting a raise becomes a roll of the dice and where a teacher's career can be ended by a roll of the dice is no way to improve the teacher work force.
Using these metrics as a basis for dismissing teachers will not reduce the legal hassles associated with removal of tenured teachers. As the first rounds of teachers are dismissed by random error of statistical models alone, by manipulation of student assignments or when larger shares of minority teachers are dismissed largely as a function of the students they serve, there will likely be a new flood of lawsuits like none ever previously experienced.
Employment lawyers, sharpen your pencils and round up your statistics experts.
Authors of the task force report might argue that they are putting only 45 percent of the weight of evaluations on these measures. The rest will include a mix of other objective and subjective measures. The reality of an evaluation that includes a single large, or even significant, weight placed on a single quantified factor is that that specific factor necessarily becomes the tipping point, or trigger mechanism.
It may be 45 percent of the evaluation weight, but it becomes 100 percent of the decision, because it's a fixed, clearly defined (though poorly estimated) metric.
Self-proclaimed "reformers" make the argument that the present system of teacher evaluation is so bad as to be non-existent. Reformers argue that the current system has a 100 percent error rate (assuming current evaluations label all teachers as good, when all, they suggest, are actually bad).
From the "reformer" viewpoint, something is always better than nothing.
Value-added is something.
We must do something.
Therefore, we must do value-added.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Reformers also point to studies showing that teachers' value-added scores are the best predictor (albeit a weak and error-prone one) of a teacher's future value-added scores – a self-fulfilling prophecy.
These arguments are incredibly flimsy.
In response, I often explain that if we lived in a society where people walked everywhere, and a new automotive invention came along, but had the tendency to burst into a ball of flames on every third start, I think I'd walk.
Now is a time to walk!
Some innovations just aren't ready for broad public adoption — and some may never be. Some, like this one, may not be a very good idea to begin with.
That said, improving teacher evaluation is not a simple either/or and now may be a good time to step outside the false dichotomy and discuss more productive alternatives.
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