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IWMW 2012: The Feedback
Posted by Brian Kelly on 2 Jul 2012
"Thank you to all the organisers – another great IWMW!"
Over the 16 years of UKOLN's annual IWMW event we have always valued the importance of user feedback for the event and this year is no exception. When the rain stopped on the opening morning of the IWMW 2012 event I had the feeling that this year's event would be special – and the analysis of the evaluation forms confirms my suspicion.
There were a total of 172 participants at this year's event and we received 64 completed evaluation forms. As can be seen from the accompanying histograms, no fewer than 73% rated the organisation of the event as Excellent, with 41% regarding the content as excellent and 50% regarding the content as Very Good.
The highest ranked plenary speaker was Rob Borley. His talk which asked "Do I Need an App for That?" scored 4.42 (on a scale of 1=Poor to 5=Excellent).
The other highly ranked plenary speakers were Keith Doyle and Paddy Callaghan, whose talk on "Serve Two Masters: Creating Large-Scale Responsive Websites" received a score of 4.32; Stephen Emmott whose talk on "Measuring Impact" received a score of 4.32 and Dawn Ellis whose talk on "What Do You Really Want?" received a score of 4.24. It was also pleasing that all of the plenary speakers received scores of Very Good or Excellent.
The general comments received on the content included:
- Very good range of speakers in plenaries and interesting parallel sessions.
- First time at IWMW – excellent conference, great speakers.
- Was a bit scared that, as a learning technologist, the content would go completely over my head. Was pleasantly surprised that I understood much of the content so kudos to the presenters for putting their ideas over in a simple way.
- Great topics, well presented.
- Generally the content was well considered for the audience type and there were some interesting topics of discussion
The comments on the event organisation included:
- Very well organised event, working like clockwork!
- Well organised. Kudos.
- Really well organised and a big shout out to the catering staff who rustled up some lovely gluten and dairy-free lunch for me!
- Very efficient.
- very smooth, under 1 roof, the technology worked well.
Comments made about the plenary talks included:
- "really good overview, hopefully his talk will be online and i can get colleagues to watch it"; "i fully intend to implement some ideas at my own institution" and "Some humour helped the drier "medicine" about data, go down very well. And I will definitely be trying out that Tag Galaxy which was demoed" – talk on "Data and the Web Manager" by Kevin Ashley
- "This talk in particular has driven me to open up our data where safe"; "Good to see Edinburgh Council embracing open data and the possibilities it gives for developers" and "Excellent presentation by a very dynamic expert who is always willing to share her knowledge, experiences and to learn. Sally is a great ambassador for Edin City council. Suraj and Sally are a well rehearsed act. " – talk on "Open Data Development in the City of Edinburgh Council" by Sally Kerr and Suraj Kika
- "Really thought provoking. Visualisation is cool!"; "Interesting to see the different ways to visualise data" and "Great innovative ways to present data and information" – talk on "Data Visualisation: A Taster" by Tony Hirst and Martin Hawksey
- "I already know A LOT about KIS as I am on the University's KIS Project Board but it was good to get everyone up to speed with the KIS. Generated some healthy debate and discussion later. Andrew explained it very well and was very 'human' about the whole thing!" and "For me, this talk was the star of the whole event. A great speaker, who got stuck in and really told us the good, the bad, and the ugly about KIS and how it was going to affect us. Now all I have to do is worry about that widget…." – talk 0n "Key Information Sets Data" by Andrew Oakley
- "Excellent presentation skills and very informative"; "Well polished presentation and speaker outlying the pitfalls and benefits nicely. Well paced with good content" and "really comprehensively argued case that reinforced views that i didn't realise i had" – talk on "Do I Need an App for That?" by Rob Borley
- "Interesting and useful. Have shared with colleagues back at the Uni and will reflect further with them"; "I knew a lot about this but it was a very good talk and brought together the area very well. She did very well when there was an incident in the audience – obviously an old hand" and "Very good to have this included, as I think Web Accessibility was one of the issues which we used to all worry about a lot, and in recent years has been pushed aside. Particlarly liked the speaker's approach of showing practical solutions eg the AT Bar." – talk on "Beyond WCAG: Experiences in Implementing BS 8878" by EA Draffan
- "I didn't agree with everything he said but it was by far the most entertaining and lively talk we saw. Controversy is good"; "He was excellent, even though most of what he said was complete rubbish! Very entertaining." and "Good speaker and probably the session that we'll all remember from the conference. Some very good points, but I think it highlighted more the problem of senior managers imposing their somewhat selfish views on university web sites. " – talk on "Going Online – Do Universities Really Understand the Internet?" by Ferdinand von Prondzynski
- "This is what IWMW does best – inform about emerging trends and demonstrate approaches that other universities have taken."; "Very useful, great to have the theory paired with practical implementation and expert voices on both" and "Was completely right to have a plenary on RWD, as it has become so important in the last 18months or so" – talk on "Serve Two Masters: Creating Large-Scale Responsive Websites" by Keith Doyle and Paddy Callaghan
- "Dynamic busy individual would works with a mix of in-house and outsourced services which might well be the future for better or for worse"; "Great presentation and interesting to see the range of solutions and strategies been employed" and "Something of a twist in the tail from Stephen. I had expected a possible approach to measuring impact so to have Stephen eloquently and logically argue that it's not our job was thought-provoking and refreshing. One of my favourite IWMW presenters over the years." – talk on "Measuring Impact" by Stephen Emmott
- "Interesting to see the direction they've taken with their website which I think goes against the grain of what everyone else is doing. Also fantastic to hear about open source technologies that are being used." – talk on "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Two Years of Running a Content Management Service" by Helen Sargan
But although the plenary speakers and facilitators of the parallel sessions provide the content for the event, it always seems that the sum of greater than the individual parts. Here are some aspects of the IWMW 2012 event which were particularly liked:
- Very well organised event, working like clockwork!
- Well organised. Kudos.
- Really well organised and a big shout out to the catering staff who rustled up some lovely gluten and dairy-free lunch for me!
- "Spectacularly organised as ever. Everything seemed to run really smoothly from meeting up with everyone on the Sunday to getting bits and bats for our session to lunches and so on.
- Well done all!"
- Spot on
- I liked the central venue which was easy to find and get to by public transport.
- Generally very good.
- The venue this year was excellent. The space available (both accommodation and conference space) were of a high standard. The food should get a special mention. The only slight downside was the distance between the accommodation and the conference.
- It was nice to see a mix of old and new attendees and I know from talking to some ""newbies"" they really saw the value of the community.
And to conclude:
P.S. To whom it may concern:
Please, please, please. please, please keep funding this event. It is a lifeline to HE institutions and their hard-working web-related staff. It is the only event on the calendar which really gets to the heart of the issues we are all looking at, at the time we are looking at them
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Most of the Arrested Anti-Right-to-Work Protesters Have SEIU 'Dues Skim' Connections
Son of SEIU Healthcare Michigan president one of those facing charges
Seven of the eight people facing felony charges for their alleged actions on Dec.6 at the State Capitol are affiliated with the SEIU Healthcare Michigan union.
That's the union that has taken more than $33 million from home-based caregivers in Michigan.
One of the people arrested, Joshua Kersting, is the son of SEIU Healthcare Michigan President Marge Faville.
Kersting's current status at SEIU Healthcare Michigan is unclear. He previously was employed by the union over which Faville presides, but apparently was transferred to a different Service Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate a while back after his mother was accused of nepotism. Meanwhile, Faville's daughter, Norma Kersting, still is on staff at the union, with a $62,131 yearly salary.
The SEIU dues skim is the result of the forced unionization of Michigan's home-based caregivers that began in 2005 when Jennifer Granholm was governor. Proposal 4 on the 2012 statewide ballot was the union's unsuccessful effort to keep the forced unionization alive permanently.
Joshua Kersting and seven others were arrested on Dec. 6 at the Capitol where they were protesting right-to-work legislation. They allegedly attempted to force their way onto the floor of the Senate. Now they face felony counts of resisting and obstructing a police officer. The next legal proceeding in the case is scheduled for Jan. 22.
All eight of the union protesters are being represented by the same attorney, Randall Behrmann of Okemos.
Behrmann would not provide details about any links between the people arrested and the SEIU.
"I don't believe that's something that's been out there or reported on," Behrmann said. "I don't think that's something I would comment on."
Of the seven who are known to have connections to SEIU Healthcare Michigan, none were rank-and-file union members. The names of four of them are listed on the SEIU Healthcare Michigan LM-2 report for 2011 under the category of "political activities and lobbying."
That 2011 LM-2 report was the most recent financial statement the union filed with the U.S. Department of Labor.
The names of the eight union protesters arrested on Dec. 6 are: Joshua Kersting, Chreda Troutman, Eric Noyes, Stephen Cousins, Brett Matthews, Scott Holiday, Benjamin Wilkins and Ida Sinclair-Williams. Of these, Sinclair-Williams is the only one facing charges for whom no connection with SEIU Healthcare Michigan has been established. Whether any or all of those charged were being paid to participate in the union protest on Dec. 6 is unknown.
According to two sources, Faville's son, Joshua Kersting, had been working for the SEIU in Ohio until recently.
Troutman, Noyes, Matthews and Cousins are all listed on the 2011 SEIU Healthcare Michigan LM-2 report.
According to the report: Cousins received $59,213 in 2011 for political activities and lobbying; Noyes received $48,361 in 2011 for political activities and lobbying; Troutman received $45,989 in 2011 for political activities and lobbying; and Matthews received $27,588 in 2011 for political activities and lobbying.
Sources have described Troutman as a 20-year employee of SEIU who has been a "union organizer." Photos of her appeared in at least one prominent newspaper's coverage of the protest.
Noyes was described by sources as, until recently, having been the head of organizing for the union. Cousins is described as having been in the home healthcare worker department of the union and Matthews is said to have been involved with member services before being transferred to the union's "Good Jobs Now" project.
Sources also said Holiday and Wilkins were on staff at SEIU Healthcare Michigan as well. Wilkins is said to have been involved in organizing.
SEIU Healthcare Michigan officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Michigan Capitol Confidential is the news source produced by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Michigan Capitol Confidential reports with a free-market news perspective.

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text: PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Several bodies had been stored for up to a decade or more at a Rhode Island funeral home whose owner killed himself last week, police said Thursday.The bodies of five elderly adults three men and two women and one fetus were found along with the cremated remains of two other people last week at the Pennine Funeral home in Providence, according to the state health department.Providence police Maj. David Lapatin said there were indicators at the scene that lead him to believe some of the bodies date back to the early 2000s. He declined to say what those clues were.Detectives are waiting for the state medical examiner to finish identifying the bodies so they can contact any relatives, Lapatin said. Lapatin said the investigation is not currently considered criminal.A spokesman for the state Health Department said four of the six bodies have been tentatively identified.The funeral home's director, Alfred Pennine, committed suicide July 21 in New Hampshire, according to authorities.Another funeral director found the remains after returning from New Hampshire with Pennine's body. Michael Berarducci told the Providence Journal that some of the bodies appeared to be identified with hospital tags, and that three were in caskets and two were in long cardboard boxes. They were in a garage that had been converted into an unrefrigerated morgue, the paper reported.According to the Health Department, Pennine was put on probation for two years in 2006 for not performing a timely cremation and for not submitting a required report. His license was suspended in 2007 for two years for unprofessional conduct and reinstated in 2009 after Pennine agreed to two more years of probation.___Information from: The Providence Journal, http://www.providencejournal.com


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez was suspended for a record 211 games on Monday for his involvement in one of American sport's biggest doping scandals.
Another 12 players, including three All Stars, were handed 50-game suspensions following a Major League Baseball investigation into a Florida clinic accused of supplying them with performance enhancing drugs.
"Despite the challenges this situation has created during a great season on the field, we pursued this matter because it was not only the right thing to do, but the only thing to do," MLB commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement.
Rodriguez was suspended until the end of the 2014 season in what is the longest doping penalty ever handed out by MLB.
The highest-paid player in the sport, he stands to lose about $36 million if he serves the full suspension but immediately lodged an appeal against the ban.
"I'm fighting for my life," he said. "I have to defend myself. If I don't, no-one else will."
Under MLB rules, Rodriguez is allowed to play until his appeal has been heard. Hours after his suspension was announced, he played his first game of the season for the Yankees, who lost 8-1 to the Chicago White Sox.
Booed by spectators each time he came to the plate, Rodriguez batted four times for one hit.
The other 12 players all accepted offers of 50-game bans, which is about eight weeks in MLB. The bans will be completed just before the end of the regular season, allowing the players to rejoin their teams for the playoffs if they make it.
The dozen included three current All Stars - Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz, San Diego Padres shortstop Everth Cabrera and Detroit Tigers shortstop Jhonny Peralta.
The others were: Philadelphia Phillies reliever Antonio Bastardo, New York Mets outfielder Jordany Valdespin, Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli, Seattle Mariners catcher Jesus Montero, New York Mets outfield prospect Cesar Puello, San Diego Padres pitching prospect Fautino De Los Santos, Houston Astros pitching prospect Sergio Escalona, New York Yankees outfield prospect Fernando Martinez and free agent pitcher Jordan Norberto.
They were all treated as first-time offenders. Three more players - Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera, Oakland Athletics pitcher Bartolo Colon and Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal - were also found to have connections with the Biogenesis clinic.
But they did not receive any additional sanctions because they had already served 50-game suspensions for failing doping tests.
The players' union said the 50-game bans were all fair but they would support Rodriguez's appeal.
"We believe that the Commissioner has not acted appropriately under the Basic Agreement," the union's executive director Michael Weiner said.
"Mr. Rodriguez knows that the union, consistent with its history, will defend his rights vigorously."
Selig said Rodriguez received a stiffer penalty because he was a long-time drug user who had committed other offences.
"Rodriguez's discipline under the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program is based on his use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance-enhancing substances, including Testosterone and human Growth Hormone, over the course of multiple years," Selig said.
"Rodriguez's discipline under the Basic Agreement is for attempting to cover-up his violations of the Program by engaging in a course of conduct intended to obstruct and frustrate the Office of the Commissioner's investigation."
Although Rodriguez had never previously been punished for doping, he had admitted to using steroids when he was with the Texas Rangers but said he stopped using them about a decade ago.
One of the greatest players the sport has seen, the 38-year-old is currently fifth on the all-time home runs list with 647 home runs but the ban threatens to ruin his prospects of overtaking Barry Bonds (762) as the all-time leader.
Any suspension would also cost him financially with Selig saying he would not be paid while he was serving his ban. Rodriguez earns around $25 million a season with the Yankees and is under contract to the end of 2017.
He has about $100 million left to be paid and stands to lose about a third of that if he is suspended until the end of next season.
"We are compelled to address certain reckless and false allegations concerning the Yankees' role in this matter," the team said in a statement.
"The New York Yankees in no way instituted and/or assisted MLB in the direction of this investigation; or used the investigation as an attempt to avoid its responsibilities under a player contract; or did its medical staff fail to provide the appropriate standard of care to Alex Rodriguez."
Before Monday, only one player had been suspended over the Biogenesis investigation, which was launched earlier this year following revelations about the anti-aging clinic published in a Miami newspaper.
Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun, the National League's Most Valuable Player just two years ago, accepted a 65-game ban, ruling him out for the rest of this season.
"Although today will be a day of infamy for MLB, it is a tremendous step in the right direction for the game we love," Tweeted Tampa Rays third baseman Evan Longoria.
"All players may have been negatively affected by others selfishness."
MLB has a murky history concerning doping allegations and the sport's administrators have been heavily criticized in the past for a lax approach, including being accused of turning a blind eye to steroid use, not conducting enough tests and failing to impose stiff penalties.
Despite the recent "steroid era" where the sport's batting records were destroyed, no player had ever been suspended for more than 100 games before this latest investigation.
"Upon learning that players were linked to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, we vigorously pursued evidence that linked those individuals to violations of our program," Selig said.
"We conducted a thorough, aggressive investigation guided by facts so that we could justly enforce our rules."
The United States Anti-Doping Agency issued a statement applauding MLB for taking action.
"All clean athletes won an MVP award today," USADA chief executive Travis Tygart said.
"This is a strong and powerful message that their rights and the integrity of the game will be protected."
Reporting by Julian Linden; editing by Gene Cherry/Peter Rutherford
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Final Fantasy 11
Submitted by: RM
Alternate opening sounds:
In order for this trick to work, you must be running the Playonline viewer in windowed mode.
Open the viewer, and as soon as the window shows up, click outside of the window, which will
un-highlight the viewer. Instead of the standard music, you should hear cheering, followed
by "Welcome to Playonline".
Grass Cloth:
Synthesize a Yagudo Necklace with a Wind Crystal. This will get you three spools of Grass
Thread. Synthesize them with Earth Crystal to get Grass Cloth.
Sheep Leather:
Synthesize a Goblin mask with a Wind Crystal to get a Sheep Leather.
Silk Thread:
To get Silk Thread very easily, defeat Crawlers in East Sartabaruta.
Raise White Magic level easily:
This trick is useful to level up much needed spells such as Protect, Cure, and Shell. Go to
a local residential area and stand directly outside your Mog House. Cast the desired spell on
yourself until you run out of MP. You can also cast it on other players running in and out of
their Mog House. Once you have run out of MP, run into your Mog House, replenish it, exit,
and repeat. This saves a large amount of time from having to heal after casting. You can
level up magic by casting the spell on yourself, despite if you already have the enhancement
on yourself or have 100% HP. Keep casting and it will level up.
Easy gil:
This trick requires two characters. When starting a new character, you are always given an
Adventurer's Coupon. When given to the correct person, you will obtain 50 gil. Make two
characters and have the character that will be your main character be in his Mog house
(preferably in order to get to the Delivery Box faster) and have the second character go to
the Auction House in which ever country they are in and deliver their "Onion" weapon and
Adventurer's Coupon to the main character. You can use the Adventurer's Coupon repeatedly.
When the main character has received the items, delete the second character and make a new
one with a new coupon and weapon. As for the weapon, put it up on the Auction House for about
100 to 200 gil. You can repeat the process as many times as desired.
Bastok Mines: Entering the Zehrun Mines:
Go to Bastok Mines. Near the left on your map is a circle. Go there and enter the passage,
and you will be in Zehrun Mines.
San d'Oria: Recommended places to level up:
Go to the following locations in San d'Oria when at the indicated levels to
level up easily.
Level 1 to 7 - West and East Ronfaure
Level 7 to 13 - Ghelsaba Outpost
Level 14 to 18 - Valkrum Dunes
Level 19 to 25 - Peninsula
Level 26 to 34 - Jugner Forest
Level 35 to 43 - Davoi (possibly)
Level 44 to 52 - Xarbard
Level 53 to 60 - Deep King Ramperre's Tomb
Level 61 to 75 - Ifrit's Caltron
Final Fantasy logo:
When you board the airship and the screen is on Steiner in the front of the ship, in the
background clouds you can see the Final Fantasy symbol fly by every few seconds.
Orc jumps tree while attacking:
Go into West Ronfaure and find an Orc (any kind) near a tree. Attack the Orc and get on one
side of the tree. Make sure that the Orc is on the exact opposite side. When in the correct
location, the Orc will attempt to attack you, fly up into the tree, and fall back down in
front of you. Note: The Orc still causes damage to you while in the tree.
Bastok Metalworks elevator:
In Bastok Metalworks, put one foot on the elevator and one off. When the elevator goes up or
down you will be in first-person mode. Move to the side that the elevator is closest to. You
will now be where the elevator is at.
Higher than 1024x1024 background rendering:
Note: This procedure involves editing a registry value; do not attempt this if you are not
familiar with working with your system registry, as a mistake can cause serious problems
with Windows. Start Regedit and use the "Registry/Export Registry File" menu option to
create a backup copy of your original registry. Use the following steps to set the background
textures past a 1024x1024 resolution. In Regedit, Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE", then select
"Software". Select "PlayOnlineUS" and the "Square Enix" folder, then the "FinalFantasyXI"
tab. You should see two "strings", "003" and "004". Double click to open them, and change
the value for "003" to "800", then change the value for "004" to "800". You will notice the
values to the right after you click "OK" will change to the corresponding resolution.
Easy gil:
* Whenever you get Crystals in battle, put them in an auction for about 100 gil each. You
will make good money this way, or you can put them in your bazaar for about 50 gil each.
* At 6:00 in upper San 'Doria, the Wood Guild opens. There, you can by Arrowwood Lumber for
7 gil each. They sell for approximately 100 to 150 gil each. Also, the Luaun Lumber makes
a profit, but not as much.
* This trick requires three party members in Bastok. Behind the lighthouse in South
Gustaberg is a bush labeled as "???". There, you can trade a Quus to have Bubbly Bernie
spawn. He is not very difficult to defeat and drops a Steam Clock. If you set the second
person to Quartermaster and make him wait at the entrance to Bastok Mines, he can run
into the auction house and send it to the third person, waiting at the Mog House in
Bastok Markets. The third person should take the clock to Malene in the very northern
part of the town. She will give you 500 gil per clock. You can repeat this as many
times as desired. Note: You can only hold one clock at a time, but you can have as
many as you desired inside your delivery box.
* Once you at about level 5 (depending on your main job), collect Silk Threads from
Crawlers in either East or West Sartabaruta, outside of Windurst. They can sell at
the Auction House for 1,000 to 2,000 gil each.


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Welcome to "Ask the White House" -- an online interactive forum where you can submit questions to Administration officials and friends of the White House. Visit the "Ask the White House" archives to read other discussions with White House officials.
September 29, 2004
Margaret Spellings
Good morning. Great to be back talking about one of my favorite things -- education. It is a subject that always gets much attention. So let's get to it.
Kat, from Birmingham, Alabama writes:
Hey, Kat. I have a seventh grader myself so I think I know what you are going through. Let me first clarify your question. The President's Cabinet has many members # -- one of the positions is dedicated to Education and is known as the Secretary of education. The Secretary of Education is Rod Paige who was the supt of schools in Houston ISD before joining the Bush admin. His job is to oversee the approx 5000 of employees at the Dept of Education who are charged with overseeing and implementing federal education policy and federal funds to education. These include funding for higher education which among other things provides support for grants and loans to college and university students as well as overseeing various programs that support K-12 education such as grants to states for teacher training, poor schools working to provide opportunity for minority students, technology, reading and math and many others. Secretary Paige is the President's "go to guy" on implementing the landmark No Child Left Behind Act which calls on states to work to ensure academic proficiency for all students.
Mrs. Wright, from Oklahoma writes:
Margaret Spellings
Lori, from Baltimore writes:
Although I will be eligible for early retirement in June, I may have to go back to school. By the way, who is supposed to pay for this????
(P.S. This is one Catholic who finds miss leading the public and the immoral war far greater wrongs than a woman's right to choose.)
Margaret Spellings
No Child Left behind requires that by the 2005-2006 school year all teachers be highly qualified. The federal law says that teachers must have subject area expertise and be certified by the state.
Beyond that, the state determines how a teacher demonstrates the subject area expertise --- such as attending a class or taking a test and establishes the requirements for certification so I think your issue may really lie with the state certification board in Maryland. In addition the federal government provides about 3 billion dollars to states a 39% increase over 2001
Marie, from Brooklyn writes:
What's up with that? I need an answeron ASAP
Margaret Spellings
For starters, we must make sure that more African American students get out of high school ready to enter and be successful in higher education. Funding for federal student aid for higher education is up by 51% since 2001.
The Pell Grant which is the primary financial aid program for low and middle income students, is up from $3750 to $4050 per year and about 5.3 million students receive them -- thats a million more students than in 2001. The Dept. of Ed has a website that may be useful to you on finding financial aid opportunities it is www.Studentaid.ed.gov.
Laurel, from Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Margaret Spellings
The law provides that parents can either choose a higher performing public school or get funds for tutoring or summer school to help their child. It is important in any accountability system that consequences occur if schools dont change and improve and that is what No Child Left Behind calls for.
In addition, the President has called on Congress to set aside 50 million dollars for a Choice Incentive Fund that states can access to help provide seed money for states and localities who want to implement choice programs.
Finally, the President supported, along with DC Mayor Tony Williams, a major choice initiative in the District of Columbia for the first time. It is being implemented for the first time this school year and provides 14 million dollars in scholarships to students private school.
Matt, from UT writes:
Margaret Spellings
Robyn, from North Carolina writes:
Margaret Spellings
It appears that the ABC bonus system you wrote about is a state program in North Carolina, and therefore the federal government has no oversight over that issue. While the No Child Left Behind Act requires states to have accountability systems in place, it does not proscribe how states reward effective schools.
tina, from ohio writes:
Margaret Spellings
Vocational rehabilitation is a State and Federal partnership program with a mission to assist and empower eligible individuals with disabilities to achieve and maintain meaningful employment.
If you are eligible, a vocational rehabilitation counselor will work individually with you to provide support and assistance as you work toward reaching your job goal. College or university-based education may be a part of your plan to become employed and vocational rehabilitation is a source to help you achieve your goals.
Also, I encourage you to contact the office at your college or university providing services to students with disabilities. This office - typically in the student services office -- will be a rich resource of support and the staff may be able to provide suggestions unique to you and your school that will help you manage your coursework each semester.
They will likely be able to help coordinate with the state vocational rehabilitation program.
To find the nearest vocational rehabilitation office, Tina may contact the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission at 400 E. Campus View Boulevard, Columbus, Ohio 43235-4604, 614-438-1214 (TTY/V).
Tony, from Newark writes:
Margaret Spellings
The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to be accountable for the education of all students, including economically disadvantaged students and students with disabilities, and provides the resources to ensure results.
President Bush has increased Title I funding for disadvantaged students from $8.8 billion in 2001 to $13.3 billion in his 2005 budget, an increase of 52%.
This money goes to schools with large numbers of low-income students, and schools can use this funding to provide teacher training or tutoring, hire reading specialists, purchase new curricula, or for any other purpose to increase academic achievement.
President Bush has also increased funding for special education state grants from $6.3 billion in 2001 to $11.1 billion in 2005, a 75% increase.
Michael, from Air War College writes:
Margaret Spellings
Randy, from Pennsylvania writes:
Apparently the ones making this legislation have never taught, or have never taken the tests they are requiring students to. The idea that we have to prepare special education students to be able to achieve at a four year college level is unrealistic. Some children, no matter how hard you try, want to be left behind. There is no way any school will ever meet 100 achievement, I'll bet my house on it. Every school will eventually fail, under the stipulations of NCLB, and children will be left behind. I am all for accountability, and all the teachers I work with feel the same, however I think this is more about making education a private entity. I wish Dubya well in the election, and I realize it is more about many issues instead of one; however this is one that is real important to the education community.
Please update us on any possible changes to NCLB.
Margaret Spellings
The President has great faith in our schools and educators that these goals can be met and they are proving it everyday. In every state we are seeing improvement in closing the achievement gap and in reducing the number of schools needing improving -- every state is making progress under NCLB.
No Child Left Behind, while it does hold states accountable for the education of special education students, provides ways to meet this goal in a reasonable way.
As you know, the assessment of special ed students is governed largely by ARD committees. NCLB recognizes that different assessment systems will need to be developed for students who are not working at grade level and are classified as special ed.
Further, the law allows states to get credit for making continuous progress with these students under the safe harbor provision in the law.
Finally, states proscribe the standards and assessments that are used to measure regular and special ed students. Thanks for the opportunity to clarify these points.
Cathy, from Oklahoma writes:
Margaret Spellings
The President is concerned that half of American adults do not exercise at all and that obesity rates are on the rise in adults and children. He strongly believes that increasing personal fitness and becoming healthier is critical to achieving a better and longer life. That is why he created the HealthierUS Initiative to use the resources of the Federal government to educate Americans about the benefits from simple and modest improvements in their physical activity, nutrition, and behavior. You don't have to join a gym or become a marathon runner. We all can make small changes in our daily lives to reduce the risk and severity of many chronic diseases.
The President's budget includes $125 million for the Step to a HealthierUS program which helps local communities promote behaviors that reduce obesity, diabetes, and asthma. Also, the USDA is expanding a program to provide more fresh fruits and vegetables in school lunch programs.
For your students, remind them that they don't have to choose "diet" foods, just healthy foods. Instead of chips for a snack, a piece of fruit is healthier and cheaper. Why not a simple vegetable soup prepared at home instead of fast food or prepared meals? When pursuing a healthy lifestyle, make sure you take advantage of all the choices available to you!
Lori, from Shawnee, Oklahoma writes:
Margaret Spellings
You are so right. It is frustrating when I hear how much misinformation is out there on No Child Left Behind. No Child Left Behind simply is about results for kids. And requires that children from grades 3 - 8 be tested in reading and math and that this information be reported to parents, educators and the community so that children can get help.
Of course, for special ed students the standards and assessments will be different and states are developing proper measurement systems for those students.
Lori, thanks to you for being a teacher.
Margaret Spellings


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The Great Irish-Dutch-American Novel
Joseph O'Neill, an Irishman raised in Holland, talks about The Great Gatsby, post-9/11 New York, and his new novel, Netherland.
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by Joseph O'Neill
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On the face of it, the story of an expatriate Dutchman obsessed with playing cricket might not seem to have the makings of a quintessentially American novel. But at its heart, Joseph O'Neill's new book, Netherland, is about rehabilitating one's life and chasing the American dream, albeit at a time when that dream has lost a bit of its gloss. The novel's narrator, oil-futures analyst Hans van den Broek, finds himself marooned in post-9/11 New York City after the death of his mother, the disintegration of his marriage, and the departure of his wife and young son for England. Weekdays, he throws himself into his high-intensity work. But on weekends he spends much of his time lying on the floor of his apartment, pondering how his life has gone so wrong. The sole bright spot comes on Saturdays, when he travels to a far corner of the city to play cricket, a game that reminds him of happier days as a youth in Holland. Refereeing one of the games is a man named Chuck Ramkissoon, a shady but charming Trinidadian businessman whose dream is to build a major international cricket stadium on an abandoned lot in Brooklyn (his motto is "think fantastic"), but who in the meantime brings in money by selling Kosher products to sushi restaurants and running a city-wide gambling ring. Chuck sees the stadium not just as his chance to make his fortune, but also as a place where Americans will rub elbows with Indians, Pakistanis, Trinidadians, and others—and in the process gain some much-needed international perspective. As Chuck tells Hans,
Americans cannot really see the world. They think they can, but they can't. I don't need to tell you that. Look at the problems we're having. It's a mess, and it's going to get worse. I say, [Americans] want to have something in common with Hindus and Muslims? Chuck Ramkissoon is going to make it happen.
The two form an unlikely friendship. Together they tend the grass on Chuck's nascent cricket field and cruise about the city, with Hans practicing his driving and Chuck collecting bets. To Hans, Chuck's innate optimism and force of purpose represent a lifeline; if he can just grab onto it, he might be able to pull himself out of his stupor. Yet he also intuits that he might be wise to keep his distance, for Chuck is so intent on his glittering dream that he will do almost anything to make it come true.
O'Neill, who is Irish by way of a long stint in Holland, has lived in New York for the past ten years, and is a dedicated cricket player in his adopted city. Much of the novel's vivid and extensive detail – including such particulars as the dimensions of a cricket field and the flora and fauna of Trinidad's forests—is drawn from O'Neill's own life. (The author learned about Trinidad in the course of his former career as a barrister defending Trinidadians on death row in England.) Yet the details, which give the novel a rich texture, are secondary to Hans's ruminations. At its heart, Netherland is an interior novel, in which the reader is privy to Hans's thoughts as he slowly figures out a way to rebuild his life.
O'Neill is a regular contributor to The Atlantic and has written two previous novels, This Is the Life and The Breezes. His family history, Blood-Dark-Track, was a New York Times Notable Book.
I spoke with him by phone on March 24.
—Katie Bacon
(photo by Lisa Ackerman)
Quite a few novels cover the same territory as Netherland: New York City during and after 9/11. Did that make you hesitate at all before choosing this setting for your own novel?
I already had the beginnings of the story, and then 9/11 happened. It inserted itself into the novel, and in many ways became the book's subject matter. It felt almost compulsory to write about it. And when I was writing, there was very little written about 9/11. I think it took most people two or three years to see their way through the smoke and the dust to the point that it became something they could write about.
Was I deterred by other writing on the subject? Not really, I have to say. I think Don Delillo quickly knocked something out, which I didn't read. One or two other people may have knocked things out. I also sort of feel I've reached the stage in my life and career where I can take possession of a current event without looking over my shoulder. It's not as if the landscape is chock-a-block with terrific writers at the moment, I don't think.
Earlier in your career, would you have felt uncomfortable writing about current events? Is it something that takes a certain amount of confidence as a writer?
It takes a long, long time to write what I do write. My last book was a nonfiction book in which I wrote about my family and its history and the history of the countries and communities that gave rise to my parents. It served as a kind of entry into questions of politics and society and history. This book is my first fictional foray into that world.
I was sort of horrified to calculate the other day that this is my first novel in thirteen years. I wrote my first two novels in my twenties, and they're essentially comic novels of a certain kind. This book is a much more substantial novel, and it's also an American novel. It's my first novel as an American novelist. Now that I've lived here for ten years, I feel able to insert myself into the rather welcoming field of American literature.
The book is yoked to details of the early 2000s: 9/11, of course, but also debates over President Bush's policy in Iraq, and New Yorkers' experiences during the blackout of 2003. For someone who has lived through this time, reading the book provides a sense of recognition, almost of déjà vu. Is that a feeling you were going for?
My description of Hans's sense of New York accords to a large degree with my own sense of it. It was a time of fantastic confusion and anxiety that, amazingly, was replaced by confusion and anxiety about what the United States was doing. So there were two phases, and I think the book deals with both those phases. And in a way the second phase, the phase of the Bush Administration's reaction to 9/11, and the benightedness into which the country was plunged as a result of Bush's actions, is, I suspect, what really colors this book.
Someone asks Hans at one point whether he was there for 9/11, and he says, "You were only really there if you were in the building." And I would agree with him on that point. For the rest of us, it was a spectacle, literally. But you become more directly implicated when the country starts going to war, and when the government takes advantage of this catastrophe for its own ends.
Why did you decide to make the main character Dutch? Does the "Dutchness" of Hans's character serve as a counterpoint to the chaos going on around him?
I know Dutchmen quite well because I grew up in Holland, and was an honorary Dutchman for many years. The Dutch are terribly straightforward and blunt about things. If they're thinking something they say it. Hans isn't quite like that; he's a little more sensitive and more hesitant than most Dutch would be. He doesn't have the self-assuredness that I think is quite characteristic of Dutch people. That has partly to do with his own circumstances—the death of his mother, which left him in a state of unprecedented disorientation. And that, of course, has been amplified by the more general sense of disorientation in which New York finds itself. He's a rational guy, but he's rational to the point of passivity, so that when the war beckons, he's almost paralyzed by the question of whether or not it's a worthwhile cause of action. He's paralyzed by the simple thought, unassailably logical, that the validity of the war will depend on its outcome. And the outcome of the war is not foreseeable in advance; it's not predictable. From a logical point of view his reasoning is sound, but from a political point of view, it's hopeless. His wife takes issue with him for that reason, though this surfaces after she's left him already.
I think a lot of people here felt a similar passivity about the war, as if they were waiting for someone to tell them how they should think about it. So in a way Hans wasn't so different from a lot of Americans at the time.
Exactly, he wasn't. He places his trust in the powers that be. But he confesses, in a way, that he doesn't really care—which I think is not necessarily typical of most Americans. He's too depressed and wrapped up in a private circuit of misery. To the degree that he does reflect America's reaction, he's not equipped to think politically about the world. It's very sad to say that, after having lived ten years in America, it increasingly dawns on you how politically undereducated people in this country are. It's a very dangerous thing, especially in combination with the power that the government has. I say this even though I've become anti-anti-American—one does when one starts to live here. I've become American; I just got naturalized a few months ago. I really do feel that Hans's political limitations are reflective of limitations in American culture generally.
What about the character of Chuck Ramkissoon? Is he politically minded?
Not really. He seems to think that everything can go on as before. He's able to take an opportunistic interest at the beginning of the book in the situation of non-whites in America, as a way to get people behind him and his commercial scheme to build a cricket stadium. But that's the last political thing he ever does, except at the end where it becomes gradually clear that his scheme to build a cricket stadium is a classic American scheme, a classic affirmation of an old American narrative. I think by the end of the book that narrative is shown to be false.
The plot of this book is very similar to The Great Gatsby—you have this charismatic gangster figure and this phlegmatic narrator—but it's not a reiteration of that story. The Gatsby-esque narrative of the corrupting of the American dream is premised on the existence of an autonomous, intact America. But there are forces—including 9/11 and the globalization of the economy—which have destroyed that premise and put an end to a hugely significant literary and cultural era in American life. I think the challenge for writers is to explore that and recognize it. When Gatsby was written, the United States was a zone of exclusive opportunity and privileged possibilities. And that just isn't the case anymore, and hasn't been for the last ten years. As a character says at the end, Ramkissoon wanted to Americanize cricket and build the market from there. But that's a waste of time. You just put the stadium in America, and that's it. You don't need to build the American market; the market is elsewhere. These days, America is just a geographic spot like any other for the global economy. I think you're beginning to see this issue raise its head in American discourse now—essentially, the issue of post-nationalism. Oddly enough, you're quite well placed if you're an exotic American like me.
So you're writing this on the cusp of when this change is happening. Do you have thoughts on how this book—a book about the decade after the turn of the millennium—will be read 10, 25 years from now?
Who knows? I'd be delighted if this book were still being read a few decades from now. I think the books that continue to attract fresh generations of readers are those that are most faithful to their own time. When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of a voice and a sensibility underpinned by an authenticity which, I think, if you're a good writer, you can extract from the specific details of your own time. I think most writers do hope that their books will be read in ten years. They're all secretly hoping that they'll occupy vast chunks of anthologies in the year 2100.
When you started thinking about this book, who was your initial character? Was it Chuck Ramkissoon? He's such a flamboyant character that it's easy to imagine him being the spark for the book.
My initial thought was to write a novel about business, figuring that there are only a few such books around, and business is quite important. Then I met a guy, quite by accident, who gave me an idea. Summer for me is synonymous with playing cricket, and when I came to New York I looked at the White Pages and saw a listing for something called the World Cricket League. When I called, the person who answered said, "This is the president of the World Cricket League." He turned out to be a Pakistani entrepreneur who was intent on building a cricket stadium in New York City. He's a very interesting guy, but he bears no resemblance at all to Chuck Ramkissoon, who's a Trinidadian.
So Chuck was the character who came to you first. Were you originally thinking it would be about him, and then you realized you needed a foil?
Yes, I thought it would be about him, and I realized I'd need someone to tell his story. In coming up with all this, I thought, Well, at last I can make use of this rather inconvenient upbringing I had in Holland. Inconvenient in the sense that most writers are able to authoritatively label themselves as from somewhere, and to lay claim to readers and traditions as a result of that. I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or any of these places which other novelists are able to write about in relation to their childhoods. And I thought, Wait a second, I can draw on my memories of Holland to create this international narrator—or this post-national narrator, as I've come to think of him.
The draft in which Chuck was more prominent was much more plotted, and that didn't really work. So I went back to it and made it as uneventful as possible and sank myself into this world of the narrator and his voice. I stopped wondering what the novel was about and just concentrated as much as possible and to the best of my ability on the kind of intimacy that I look for in a novel, and which I think is very rare. It's essentially a linguistic intimacy. Out of that came what you might call the true preoccupations of the book, beyond superstructure and plot.
I noticed in the bio of an Atlantic piece of yours from 2005 that your novel was then going to be titled "The Brooklyn Dream Game." But Netherland is such a clever title, with its multiple meanings of Hans living in a netherland of his own design, and the fact that he's a Netherlander in a city settled by Netherlanders. I was surprised that wasn't the book's title all along. When did you switch?
I'm thrilled you should say that—that it has a retrospective inevitability. But I can tell you there was nothing inevitable about it. I thought I had this amazing title, "The Brooklyn Dream Game," and when I was finishing the book, a friend of mine, Paul Muldoon, the poet, said, "Oh, 'The Brooklyn Dream Game.' That's a good title. You don't have any others in mind, do you?" That's his way of being very polite. I turned to my wife and said, "Do you think I should come up with an alternative to 'The Brooklyn Dream Game'?" And she said, "Yeah, I don't think it's a very good title." And I said to her, "I've walked around for years with this title, and now you tell me it's not very good?" It's like walking around for years with a bogey sticking out of your nose, and you expect your friends to say something. But then my wife suggested the title "Netherland." And you're right, if I may say so, it does work on innumerable levels. To have a Dutch narrator in the context of an American novel is almost to have the original American narrator, because of course the Dutch were the first people here in New York. And there is reference made, from time to time in the book, to New Netherland, which is old New York. So Hans is the most recent iteration of the original American presence in this part of the world.


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Allergy-Free and Easy Cooking
30-Minute Meals without Gluten, Wheat, Dairy, Eggs, Soy, Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Fish, Shellfish, and Sesame [A Cookbook]
30-Minute Meals without Gluten, Wheat, Dairy, Eggs, Soy, Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Fish, Shellfish, and Sesame [A Cookbook]
By Cybele Pascal
By Cybele Pascal
By Cybele Pascal
By Cybele Pascal
Category: Diet & Nutrition | Cooking
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At designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista's show for Lacoste on September 8, the runway at the Lincoln Center was a master class in materials. While many designers sought to rehash the color blocking trend, it was material rather than color which featured at Lacoste.
In his fourth year at the helm, Baptista took this classic sporty brand towards a stylish post-modern sports tech, with rich prints peppered in amidst nearly clinical black and white. The materials were so visually impressive you could practically feel each piece from your seat, with dresses in thick, slinky jersey and stiff structural leather tops. The standout was the translucent synthetic material which cropped up throughout the show, in permutations ranging from a simple t-shirt lending a sporty feel to body-conscious underpinnings, or as a futuristic rain jacket.
Oversized silhouettes dominated, with hooded jackets, elongated short-sleeves and loose trousers. The brand's tennis heritage was reinterpreted in abstract prints featuring rackets, balls, and even an umpire's chair. These stunning prints were wrought in bright reds and a range of rich blues, peppered amidst the black and white.
To see the full gallery of photos and to read the full review, head to Haute Fashion Daily.
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Skvorecky, Josef
Skvorecky, Josef, Czech Josef Václav Škvoreckýyō´zĕf väts´läv shkvôr´ĕtskē [key], 1924–2012, Czech-born novelist, grad. Charles Univ., Prague (1951). Written in 1949, Skvorecky's first novel, The Cowards (1958; tr. 1970), was banned after its publication because of its ironic portrait of everyday life under Communist rule. In 1968, after the defeat of the Czech reform movement, Skvorecky immigrated to Canada, where he taught at the Univ. of Toronto (1971–91) and, with his wife, founded a Czech publishing house. His writing often focuses on the complexities of romantic love, played out against the hostile social backgrounds of Nazism and Communism. His alter ego character, the struggling and rebellious Danny Smiricky, appears in about half of his novels. Among his many works are The Emöke Legend (1963, tr. 1979), The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas (1969, tr. 1978), Miss Silver's Past (1969, tr. 1975), The Engineer of Human Souls (1977, tr. 1984), Dvorak in Love (1986, tr. 1987), and The Bride of Texas (1992, tr. 1995). In Two Murders in My Double Life (2001), his first book written in English, Skvorecky combined an autobiographical novel with a murder mystery. Autobiographical themes are also pursued in the short stories of When Eve Was Naked (2002).
See his memoir, Headed for the Blues (1997); J. Kalish, Josef Skvorecky: A Checklist (1986); studies by S. Solecki, ed. (1994) and P. I. Trensky (1991 and 1995).
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Why wealth brings more education and longer life
Better-educated Americans increasingly live longer than everyone else, and children from higher-income families in the United States are getting more education than other people. These are two of the most disturbing trends in the U.S., and it's entirely plausible that they are related.
Economists have recognized many possible connections between health and education, but so far they have done little to link the trends toward greater inequality in each area.
Linkages could run in either direction: Disproportionate gains in income among affluent families may facilitate college completion by their children, and also provide resources that lengthen their life expectancy.
On the other hand, something such as better access to cutting-edge medical treatments could increase life expectancy disproportionately for children from high-income families. And that, in turn, may make them more likely to complete college — since the payoff from a college degree would be enjoyed over a longer period of time. In that case, a force that increases life expectancy for higher-income families would also widen the college-completion gap.
Some evidence suggests that college decisions are surprisingly responsive to life expectancy. One recent study looked at what happens when people learn that they have Huntington's disease. Huntington's is caused by an inherited genetic mutation, and any child of an afflicted person has a 50 percent chance of developing the disease, which shortens life expectancy to about 60 years.
The researchers — economist Emily Oster of the University of Chicago and neurologists Ira Shoulson of Georgetown University and Ray Dorsey of Johns Hopkins University — found that offspring who learned they had the Huntington's disease gene were 30 percentage points less likely to complete college than those who didn't have it. What's more, those people who were not genetically tested but began showing symptoms of the illness before age 18 were much less likely to complete a degree than those whose symptoms became apparent after the traditional age of going to college.
These findings are in line with those from studies in other countries, and they may help solve a puzzle about the widening college-completion gap by family income. As I noted in a previous column, the gap has occurred disproportionately among daughters, rather than sons, of high-income families, so it's not a simple matter of wealthy families directly or indirectly buying advantages for their children. If that were true, why wouldn't family money help sons as much as daughters?
But consider this fact: The gain in life expectancy at age 25 for non-Hispanic white female college graduates compared with that for less-educated women has been much more rapid than that for non-Hispanic white males. From 1990 to 2008, the gap between the female college graduates and high-school dropouts widened by a factor of five, while the gap for males increased by a factor of about 2.6. (The life-expectancy gradient remains steeper for men, but the female gradient has been steepening more quickly and is rapidly catching up to the male one.) The differential gains in life expectancy may be due to something inherent in education or to something else that may be lengthening the lives of high-income women, thereby increasing the incentives for them (relative to high-income men) to complete college.
The linkages between the widening gaps in life expectancy and college completion aren't yet sorted out. What's clear, though, is that both trends deserve more attention — and they should be examined together.
-- Peter Orszag is vice chairman of corporate and investment banking and chairman of the financial strategy and solutions group at Citigroup.