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The Gonski revival
I am teaching my elder son to drive. So today, for the first time in a long time, I spent an hour driving around our suburb and neighbouring suburbs on a Sunday morning. Because I spend a fair bit of time in taxis I am used to mistake ridden driving and don't sweat it too much. I just relaxed and looked out the window. It was surprising how many Evangelical churches there are in those suburbs — we passed 6 or 7 at least — and how their large car parks were filled and over-filled with very modest looking vehicles. We also passed four or five Evangelical schools, three of which have been established in the last few years. Two or three large Catholic church congregations were sighted and some Anglican and Methodist church car parks that looked sadly empty. Now that I think of it, I don't recall passing any mosques, temples or synagogues, which is surprising.
Seeing those Evangelical schools and all that Christian devotional energy made me think about the Gonski report. I don't think people realise what a boost the Gonski funding reforms will give to Evangelical schooling in Australia. The Gonski reforms have two main aims. First, to ensure a minimum level of funding for all schools in Australia. Second, to direct extra funds to areas of special need; in particular schools with: students from low socio-economic backgrounds; students with disabilities; students with poor English; and indigenous students.
To meet the first aim there is a minimum school resource standard (SRS) of $9,300 for primary school students and $12,200 for high school students. Every school will be raised to this level. That does not mean that government funding will be at this level for every school because the school 'resource' includes the resources of the parents of the children of the school (both financial and 'educational background' resources of parents). Most schools that don't currently meet the minimum SRS are either public schools from states which have under-spent on education or are private schools that have very low fees and parents with low incomes.
About 35% of Australian school children attend private schools. About 20% are in Catholic Christian schools and nearly 10% are in low fee paying, Protestant Christian schools. Many Catholic schools have low fees. But many of the very lowest fee paying schools are Evangelical schools. These schools often have terribly ordinary facilities — at least to start with. An Evangelical primary school was started by a church group in our area a few years ago with only a bunch of demountable buildings, such as you might see on a mine site. Then in the ensuring years the energy and commitment of the parent group transformed the facilities of the school into something quite impressive. These very low fee Evangelical schools with parents with low incomes will receive more funding under Gonski. Their resources will be brought up to the SRS level.
To meet the second aim of the Gonski reforms — to provide extra funding for students with special need — loadings will be applied to student funding. For schools with students from low income suburbs, these loadings will be very large. Here is a quote from the 'Better Schools' site
A percentage of the per student amount, starting with 15 per cent ($1,391 per primary student and $1,829 per secondary student) for the first student in the lowest SES quartile (Q1) increasing up to 50 per cent for Q1 enrolments over 75 per cent in a single school ($4,635 per primary student and $6,096 per secondary student).
For students in the second lowest quartile (Q2), the loading will start at 7.5 per cent for the first Q2 student ($695 per primary student and $914 per secondary student), increasing up to 37.5 per cent for Q2 enrolments over 75 per cent in a single school ($3,477 per primary student and $4,572 per secondary student).
My understanding is that this means the following. If a church group decided to start a school in a very low income area and charge fees of almost nothing, then they will receive most of the SRS ($9,300 for primary school students and $12,200 for high school students) in government funding plus a big loading for low socio-economic status (SES). That level of funding will be like 'manna from heaven' for Evangelical church groups that currently run schools on the smell of an oily rag. They will be able to use church resources, and low interest government loans, to build schools with very modest facilities. Then attract students because they offer the discipline and academic standards that public schools in many low income areas lack. Then, run and build out the school with a level of resources that will be much greater than they currently need.
Once the Gonski funding is in place we will have the perfect conditions for a massive expansion of Evangelical schools in Australia.
1. Evangelical church groups will bring the energy. Evangelical groups are literally on a mission from God. Religion for Evangelicals is not something done on Sundays and forgotten for the rest of week for them — it is the very core of their existence. Education is the single most effective way to spread the word in suburbs of Australia. Of course non-religious groups will have the same opportunity to bring the energy to building new schools — but where do you see that energy now among secular educational groups? There are low fee secular private schools, but they are thin on the ground.
2. Aspirational parents will bring the students. Many parents in low income areas are aspirational and sick of the indiscipline and low standards of the schools their kids attend (even though the indifference to discipline and educational standards of other parents is most of the problem in those schools). They don't necessarily want a religious education for their kids, but many will jump at the chance to exit the public school system.
3. The Gonski reforms will bring the funding — lots of new funding.
Eventually state education departments will resist the building of new Evangelical schools, but they won't be able to stop it. Concentrated political pressure can always move the bureaucracy to approve a new school.
This Gonski funding model is so favourable to low fee private education, for families that do not currently have that option, that it might push the share of private education in Australia over 50% in the next two decades. If that comes about it will be by far that main legacy of the Gillard Government, for good or for ill.
Personally I think that will be a good thing. It will put pressure on the public school system to improve and it will give parents with low incomes more options for their kids. But I don't think it is really what many people in Labour Party are intending. I don't think they understand what a boost to religious education in Australia this will be. Especially Evangelical education in low income areas.
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Dr. Wylie,
I agree with you that the Gonski reforms will improve education. However, wouldn't a flat voucher or maybe a progressive voucher improve school choice to a greater extent. It seems that the incentives to decrease tuition beneath it's market value are large. I guess the question I'm really asking is how do we know that the SRS is the correct price of education (accurately reflecting the supply and demand for education?)
The system of funding private education in Australia is like a flat voucher system plus a tax. The funding is per student and follows the student to whichever school the student goes to. But, the amount of the voucher decreases as parental income and education level increases (soci0-economic status measures is calculated from both income and education level).
This tax is only incident on parents who choose private education and higher for parents with higher levels of education.
Dr. Wylie,
Thanks for the explanation, I vaguely remember my parents talking to me about that. Do you think that these reforms will result in a net increase in religiousity in the next generation? Would a similar system of private/public funding work for universities?
When I finally got around to reading the Gonski report myself, I was surprised that the AEU was so supportive of what is essentially a voucher scheme. I agree that Gonski will lead to a flourishing of private schools.
I'm not sure why you use the word "Evangelical" to describe the Christian people in question. Australian Christians don't use it in that way. It's an American term. This said, it is apt, as it covers what would more commonly be described as the more active parts of the "Pentecostal" and "Protestant" movements. All the Protestant schools in my area were founded in the way you describe for "Evangelical" schools about 30 years ago.
Also, you are highly unlikely to see an empty Methodist church car park on a Sunday, given that the very few Methodist churches in the country are Tongan ethnic churches that usually meet in other congregation's buildings. You may see empty car parks belonging to buildings that contained Methodist churches before 1977, but which since then have been part of the Uniting Church.


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COLTON, Calif. -- Regional independent Stater Bros. continues to grow its sales in the face of increasing competition, though its net income took a hit for the quarter ended June 25
COLTON, Calif. -- Regional independent Stater Bros. continues to grow its sales in the face of increasing competition, though its net income took a hit for the quarter ended June 25.
Third quarter sales increased 5.4 percent, or $45.5 million to $885.9 million compared to $840.4 million for the same period last year, said the grocer. Total sales for the 39 weeks ended June 25 were $2.62 billion, a 3.7 percent or $94.2 million over last year's $2.52 billion.
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Same store sales for the quarter were affected by the timing of the Easter holiday, which fell in the third quarter of the current year compared to the second quarter this year. Easter added approximately $7.8 million to fiscal 2005 Q2 sales. After taking the effect of the Easter holiday, same store sales increased 2.3 percent for this year's fiscal Q3. Year-to-date, same store sales increased 1 percent from last year.
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1 Fiber Asset Management Software Internet2 Performance Working Group Joint Techs July 2011 Carla S. Hunt MCNC Mgr., Knowledge and Information Systems
2 About MCNC! MCNC is a private, not for profit organization that owns and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network! We provide connectivity service to over 300 research, education and health care institutions! About 65 employees! Also offer Data Center and Video Services 2 April 2011
3 About MCNC s BTOP Project! MCNC currently is working on a $146 million expansion of the North Carolina Research and Education Network expected to be complete by This initiative has been labeled the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative.! MCNC estimates the expansion of NCREN will create or save 2,500 engineering, construction, and manufacturing jobs in the state. 3 April 2011
4 MCNC BTOP Progress Map (As of July 2011) 4 April 2011
5 Fiber Asset Management Software 5 April 2011
6 Why Fiber Asset Management Software?! Fiber asset management and mapping software to be used to document and manage existing and planned Outside Plant (OSP), allowing MCNC to accurately document the location and status of fiber assets in North Carolina that are being acquired as a result of the Broadband Technology and Opportunities Program (BTOP)! At the completion of the project a little over 2years from now, we will have over 3000 miles of fiber and fiber assets to manage 6 April 2011
7 FAMS: Operational and Fault Management (adapted from our RFP)! The NOC team requires the capability to correlate alerts from existing Layer1 monitoring of our optical equipment with documentation on our fiber routes in a fiber asset management system: In the event of an outage, the NOC will need information to assist with identifying the physical location of the outage, information about whether MCNC owns and operates the fiber or whether it is IRU d to a customer, information about subscribers who are impacted If MCNC owns the fiber, MCNC needs to be able to contact the organization that is responsible for maintaining the fiber. MCNC must also be able to verify and document that fibers have been repaired (store OTDR traces) 7 8/9/11
8 FAMS: Planned Provisioning and Engineering (adapted from our RFP)! The MCNC Engineering team must be able to consult documentation in the system on available fibers and the location of OSP components in order to execute planned provisioning of future network configurations: An approval process for changes to network documentation is important Any reports or information views to support route path analysis Ability to manage the state of fiber strands such as indicating whether strands are reserved, allocated or leased. 8 8/9/11
9 FAMS Vendor Selection Process! Issued an RFI in July 2010! MCNC received 13 proposals from vendors! Review team invited respondents to demo products in a webinar in October 2010! Met with another telecommunications company to determine how they were using FAMS! MCNC hired a Director, OSP Engineering in November 2010 who joined the review team 9 April 2011
10 FAMS Vendor Selection Process (Cont.)! MCNC issued an RFP in November 2010! 11 vendors responded! Each vendor response was reviewed and scored in each of the following categories: Technical Merit Pricing References Small, Minority or Local Business Support, Training, and Professional Services Vendor Financial Viability 10 July 2011
11 FAMS Vendor Selection Process (Cont.)! MCNC invited 3 finalists to demo their product in person! 2 finalists were asked to setup a sandbox for MCNC to try their product! 2 webinars to review functionality and MCNC data in the sandbox followed! Contract and Professional Services SOW development just completed Vendor selected is 3GIS 11 July 2011
12 Technical Merit Highlights 3GIS! Ability to consume external web services or expose internal data via web services Service oriented, Web 2.0 architecture! Mapping component based on ArcGIS industry standard for GIS analysis! Support for import of any data format! Field application for mobile devices to support data collection in the field! Nice user interface 12 April 2011
13 About 3GIS U.S. based company Decatur, Alabama Small business Relatively Young (2006) ESRI Business Partner of the Year Network Express Server application built on ArcGIS Field Express Mobile application for field being redesigned for ipad and Android 13 April 2011
14 Professional Services! Application installation and configuration! Develop tools to import AutoCAD drawings, create corresponding elements and features in the GIS database! Develop integrations with inside plant database. Query MCNC ISP web service for data and either overlay data or store data in GIS database.! Assist with import of OTDR data, referenced by port or strand and stored in the database 14 April 2011
15 MCNC Operational Management Tools With Fiber Asset Management System 15 July 2011
16 Envisioning Possibilities 16 April 2011
17 Data Management Every cable has associated records for each strand within the cable.
18 Data Management Every equipment has associated records for each port attached to the equipment.
19 Data Management Connection information is maintained for Cable to Cable (Splice) connections and Port to Strand connections.
20 Data Management The connection information allows us to create records for each signal path, and store information on how that path is being used.
21 Users enter an address to determine location for new service Analysis
22 Analysis Cables usage can be quickly queried and reported on.
23 Analysis Ability to measure lengths and areas using feet, miles, meters and yards
24 Field Applications In the field users review detailed splice information and correct the data if necessary.
25 Field Applications A detail trace report can be generated that gives all the splices along the path, beginning location / port, ending location / port, and total distance of the path.
26 Common Operating Picture Many data services are available to create mash-ups. Here we see weather and equipment statuses being displayed.
27 Common Operating Picture This mash-up shows an interface to Google street view along with a web enabled demographics tool.
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Curious who else will be at SpiceWorld Las Vegas? And where they're from? Maybe you'd like the chance to interact with other attendees before the event (& coordinate some fun stuff while you're in Las Vegas - there sure it lots to after all!) Respond to this post and put a "face with your place" by letting people know that you're coming!
Haven't signed up for SpiceWorld Las Vegas yet? Don't worry there are still a few seats open, learn more by visiting the SpiceWorld Las Vegas page.
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Apr 29, 2009 at 7:35 UTC
edit: ...ooops posted in the wrong forum.
BUT.... if I happen to go, does anyone mind letting a fellow spicer surf your couch for a night?
Apr 30, 2009 at 2:47 UTC
I would offer you a couch... but South Africa is a bit far, even if it was well planned in advance. LOL!
May 1, 2009 at 5:06 UTC
I will be there. Hit me up!
May 4, 2009 at 10:24 UTC
I'm there! Already booked the Luxor for two nights.
May 4, 2009 at 4:38 UTC
It's official - I'll be there! I'm actually going to be staying at the Laughlin Resort from May 16th through the 20th and hope to recruit other spicers to join me. Last minute, but at $199 how can you afford to pass!?!?
I can't wait to meet everyone!
May 5, 2009 at 2:55 UTC
Maybe next year folks...
May 13, 2009 at 2:13 UTC
The map to the luxor. Looks like Spiceworld will be at J1.
Thought it might be handy.
May 14, 2009 at 7:00 UTC
very handy. thanks @nadams
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Bell Sing has never had a high opinion of humans - or horses. And this expedition is the worst managed caravan he's even been in. Camel handler Dost Mahomet and soldier John King are also beginning to wonder if their leader is competent, or crazy.
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We rented from a timeshare owner over Spring Break and had a great time. We liked that it is a smaller, 3-story resort, the room was very well furnished and comfortable, the grounds, and view of the mountains, was beautiful, and we loved all of the activities and things to do.
Unit: All the units there are 1-bedrooms. Ours was good-sized, with classy updated furnishings, great kitchen w/ lots of storage and everything you need. We loved our location in Room 560 - right near the activity center and overlooking the pool and beautifully landscaped courtyard. As other reviewers have noted, a LOT of the rooms overlook the parking lot; only a few dozen overlook the pool/courtyard, and a fair amount have a nice view of the golf course and mountains (I'm sure I wouldn't have rated it as high if we were in a parkling-lot view room).
Activities - there were tons of planned activities throughout the day, every day. We took part in the morning walk around the neighborhood (free), the water aerobics (free; ok; instructor wasn't great); ping pong tournament, stained glass candle making ($5), decorative coat hanger painting ($4), bird house and tote bag painting ($7) the free face-painting, free coffee on the weekend, dive-in movie at the pool w/ popcorn and snacks available, champagne Welk-um, and Parents Night Out (twice/week) - just $15 for 1st child, $10 for additional siblings, 6-10 pm, and it included dinner and activities - very cool!
Activity center - was perfect for kids - 2 ping pong tables, 2 pool tables, air hockey, lots of games and puzzles to check-out, DVDs for rent, Wii, crafts. 2 computers with free internet access and printers (very convenient); fitness center at the back of the activity center wasn't fancy, but had several cardio machines and weights.
Facilities - two pools, jacuzzi, tennis courts, my husband played on the Cathedral Canyon golf course there and liked it (just $29 w/ cart), clubhouse restaurant (generally closes at 6pm), horseshoe pits, and a basketball hoop in the parking lot. There was a snack bar at the poolw/ reasonable prices, but the food we tried was not very good, with the exception of the $2.50 chicken tenders for the kids. They also had root beer floats or build-your-own sundae nearly every afternoon for just $2.50-$3 (yum) and happy hour pool-side 3:30-6. Service was very friendly and accommodating.
Nearby attractions - we loved Knott's Soak City nearby (online discounts available, or get a season pass for just $49 which you can also use at Soak Cities in San Diego and Orange County); Boomers right down the street (mini golf, rock wall, bumper cars, bumper boats, video arcade); Vons and Trader Joe's nearby. Not too impressed w/ the Thursday night Village Fest downtown (just an average farmer's market), but loved the Palm Springs Art museum (free every Thur. 4-8 pm). Also really enjoyed the Living Desert, w/ many flowers blooming, and the kids loved feeding the giraffes, riding a camel, and the butterfly pavilion where we were surrounded by beautiful butterflies and hummingbirds. Overall, a great family trip.
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"Crossroads of the Marine Corps"
By Mike DiCicco
| | March 26, 2014
Retired Col. Frank Harris works on fixing the feeder tubes on an industrial seed planter belonging to the Natural Resources Section on March 12. Harris has been volunteering to do conservation work at Quantico since 1977, nine years before the official Conservation Volunteer Program got underway. (Photo by Mike DiCicco)
Late in the morning of March 12, two retired senior officers sat over lunch in the kitchen of the game check station on the west side of Marine Corps Base Quantico. At the request of Tim Stamps, the head of the Natural Resources Branch, they had just finished posting a sign at the Secon Pool, letting anglers know only children are permitted to fish in the pond. After lunch, they would work on repairing an industrial seed planter if the weather held.
"When we get a job, [Stamps] can write it off his list as being accomplished," said retired Army Lt. Col. Ferd Heider of Annandale. This is how he and retired Marine Corps Col. Frank Harris of Manassas have spent Wednesdays for a long time. Heider also volunteers on Mondays. He said people are sometimes surprised to find retired colonels doing manual labor.
"If we didn't [volunteer], I'd probably be dead," said Heider, 82. "If you enjoy doing something you do it."
"I look forward every Wednesday to doing this," said Harris, 89.
Harris and Heider are two of 80 to 100 men and women who volunteer a total of around 5,000 man-hours a year through the Natural Resources Section's Conservation Volunteer Program. These are the people who created the wildlife viewing area off Russell Road, built the two docks at Smith Lake and constructed the archery range. They also do less glamorous work like helping to keep backwoods roads and trails cleared, building and repairing split-rail fences, and picking up litter.
"People don't even realize it's going on, but it definitely contributes to the overall base environment," Stamps said.
The volunteers also carry out some less conventional work.
A couple of days earlier, on the afternoon of March 10, Jim Kirkman, also of Annandale, went out with a few of the base's wildlife specialists to trap turkey with "rocket nets" — literally, rocket-propelled nets — so the naturalists could outfit the birds with transmitters in an effort to track their mortality rates.
"I'm primarily a turkey hunter," he said, adding that he also hunts pheasants, geese and ducks off base. "So I particularly like projects that have to do with turkeys, like today." In a few weeks, he said, he would help with the annual turkey survey, in which volunteers travel around the base, listening for turkey calls as a way to gauge the gobbler population.
His volunteer work is not, however, exclusively turkey-oriented. The weekend before, he had repaired a dam at the Secon Pool. Before that, he posted no-hunting signs around an eagle nest. He often clears trails and has helped to build and repair handicapped-accessible hunting facilities for wounded warriors.
"I retired from the government in '04, and knew I wanted to do something in retirement besides Harry Homeowner projects," said Kirkman, a former Government Accountability Office employee.
The Conservation Volunteer Program offered him an opportunity to combine his interests in hunting and conservation. Being a volunteer allows him to call in for a hunting pass earlier in the day, upping his chances of getting a pass for the area he wants. He also enjoys meeting and socializing with people with similar interests, he said.
"We think it helps the mission of the base, because we're helping wounded warriors and active duty people by making it possible for them to hunt and use the trails to hunt," Kirkman added.
"It was an incentive to get early [hunting pass] checkout, plus I was working with the equipment, which was something I wanted to do," Harris said of his decision to start volunteering.
Engineering is his specialty, while carpentry is Heider's area of expertise.
When they started volunteering in the late 1970s, the conservation volunteers were tied to the Rod and Gun Club, where Heider remembers building an outhouse and about 20 picnic tables. Most of the conservation work was carried out by active duty Marines, he said.
The formal Conservation Volunteer Program under Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs started in 1986.
"As the Marines were put in the operating forces, these things still needed to be done, and we just stepped in and did them," Heider said.
Now, about half the volunteers have never been active duty, while the rest are active duty, reserves or retired military, Stamps said.
Heider said he started hunting at Quantico in 1967 and brought his children to the base to fish even before that. He said he always tried to give something in return when he hunted on private property, so it made sense to help out at the base.
Harris said he first arrived at the base for Officer Candidates School in 1945 and was stationed at Quantico for 13 of his 34 years in the service, so he knew the installation well when he started volunteering in 1977.
As they prepared to get back to work, he donned a hunter's-orange Marine Corps Base Quantico Conservation Volunteer Program baseball cap. Heider wore a hand-decorated, blue sweatshirt reading, "Pop pop can fix it," with a variety of tools drawn in puffy paint.
Together, the two have worked to maintain the Natural Resources Section's heavy machinery, built bridges and posted signs on the mainside trails, assisted with controlled burns, laid fish beds on the bottom of Lunga Reservoir, built and maintained duck blinds and hunting stands, and performed a host of other jobs on the base. They used to maintain food plots, plant fruit trees and stock ponds and rivers with fish, jobs that have now been taken over by base employees.
Heider often mans the game check station, and it was Harris who determined the height at which the Smith Lake docks should be built before the water level was raised.
"It's a pretty wide range of things—anything that needs to be done, we do it," Harris said. "There's quite a variety of people and specialists we have that work together to make the whole thing work."
Heider reached 10,000 volunteer hours in 2003. That's twice the total hours all volunteers work in a year these days.
It's not just selfless work, he said. "I need Quantico more than Quantico needs me."
Kirkman, whose father-in-law fought in Iwo Jima, said he, too, finds a number of pleasures in volunteering.
"Every now and then, I run into a Marine in the woods and strike up a conversation," he said. "It's a charge for me to be able to talk to these guys and express my appreciation for their work."
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Robert & Mary Lampkin were 2 g grandparents to my husband.
They were in Wilson Co, TN in 1850. They had the four children, William,Harriett, Sarah & Mary Amelia. Robert is not listed in the HH in Wilson CO, TN in 1860. The oldest two children are gone but they have added Betty Bob and she
was born in 1851. She is listed as 9 years old.
The name is spelled Lamkin in 1860. I have some pictures of Sarah, Mary and Betty Bob. Betty Bob was great grandmother to my husband. She was first md to a Mr White. He died and she md Mr Spencer. I would love to hear from some of you. I have a copy of a letter great grandmother wrote to her daughters family and she give the exact date of death for Sarah and Mary.


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On I-44, take the S. Lindbergh Boulevard exit south 0.50 mile, then Watson Road west, then Geyer Road north to Cragwold Road. Turn west on Cragwold and watch for signs.
This is a forested area with hiking trails. The nature center has two floors of interactive exhibits.
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