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Phil: I consider you an opinion leader when it comes to education. At LearningWorks, the agency you run, you've created an environment where some of the toughest kids in Maine are able to get their high school degree. Help me understand why so many Maine students drop out of school.
Ethan: A lot of students get lost when schools don't have the resources or wherewithal to individualize education and create high-enough expectations. The system often decides who the winners and losers are pretty early.
Phil: Wouldn't that suggest the so-called "losers" be moved right away to a nurturing environment? And the "winners" challenged to reach higher?
Ethan: Both must be challenged to reach higher through individualized educational experiences. And no, they shouldn't be separated, as that simply keeps the lower performing kids performing lower. Think about your own life. When you are around high achievers, it improves your game. The same is true for lower-achieving students.
Phil: But doesn't that hold the high achievers back?
Ethan: Again, think about your own life. When you are the high achiever, does mentoring others stall your development? Of course not. In fact, you often learn through helping others achieve. But let me also say, there are many other factors that cause young people to drop out: poverty, abuse, disabilities and parental indifference, to name a few.
Phil: When all of these factors are in the classroom, I don't know how teachers can be expected to meet strict government-issued test results.
Ethan: Exactly. National tests that financially penalize failing schools, without taking into account the individual circumstances of kids and their classrooms, will never succeed at raising academic standards for all students.
Phil: Is it time to have parental factors in the testing scores for each student?
Ethan: You need to include those factors in the models we use for teaching and the resources allocated. If kids are hungry in school due to poverty, we need to feed them. If their parents can't or won't help them with homework, we need tutors. If kids are developmentally behind and need extra classes, we need to create after-school programming and extend the school year. It's not about forgiving bad test scores due to parental indifference. It's about compensating for the deficit with public support.
Phil: Are you suggesting we don't do that now?
Ethan: Barely. Resources for longer school days, staff development and to create truly individualized learning are few and far between. What's your answer to the drop-out crisis?
Phil: First, as Gov. Paul LePage said at LearningWorks' recent graduation ceremony, the at-risk children we saw that day are just the tip of the iceberg. We must acknowledge a deep, systemic problem.
Ethan: On this issue, the governor and I agree 100 percent. Let me also publicly thank him for attending the event and speaking with our students. It's not too often that someone of his significance hangs out with kids like ours. Not only that, I felt real joy from him as he handed each kid a diploma. He doesn't always come across as the happiest of fellows, so it was nice to see.
Phil: Yes, it was a grand gesture and clearly heartfelt. Second, schools like yours should be embraced and offered as options for at-risk children and their parents. Next we must adapt to the way children learn today, not the way you and I did sitting in rectangular rooms with rows of desks. Finally, we must celebrate the youngster who wants to be a mechanic or carpenter the way we do college bound students.
Ethan: So what's your policy angle? What should our governor and Legislature be doing to achieve those goals?
Phil: As LePage says, students should come first. Let's accept and embrace all types of learning environments whether it's LearningWorks, chartered or traditional public schools. Let's consider letting the dollars follow the students.
Ethan: But when you let the dollars follow the students, you are also letting the dollars leave other students behind. Those students who can't travel, or who don't have parents that care, or who aren't accepted elsewhere. Isn't it better to commit to all students in public schools and try to raise all boats?
Phil: That's the philosophy we live by today, and the results are a blinding glimpse of the obvious. Are you suggesting we just need more money for the current system, and all will work for all students?
Ethan: Not in the least. New money should be tied to change in the form of staff development, incentives for excellence, extended learning opportunities. Plus, our schools need more flexibility around staffing and scheduling. But they also need better technology in our classrooms and sometimes better classrooms. So, yes, it will indeed take increased funding to improve our schools, but that funding must be tied to change that improves outcomes. Less is not more when it comes to our schools.
Phil: Imagine how creative the school environment would be if your suggestions could be implemented. All students could benefit from what is proven to work. Students and teachers would feed off of each other to create brighter futures and garner support from taxpayers and employers.
Ethan: Yes indeed. Look, you call LePage and get him to increase funding, and I'll call Speaker of the House Mark Eves and Senate President Justin Alfond to get them to tie that money to excellence-based outcomes. Deal?
Phil: Deal. And maybe we can actually get them all in the same room to talk about it?
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Femtocell devices are small, cellular base stations geared for home or small offices that let service providers extend coverage indoors. Some of the companies that offer femtocell products include Airvana, ip.access, Sprint, Verizon and Ubiquisys.
DISA is testing femtocell products in conjunction with the agency's teleworking program, Zarrella said. Typically, people working from home rely on their own systems and mobile devices or use what their agencies provide them. If they live in areas that have wireless dead spots, they won't get adequate signal strength.
A femtocell creates a mini-cellular infrastructure within your home. It plugs into users' wireless local-area networks and picks up a cell phone signal when it is about 30 to 40 feet from the device. "So, you're essentially getting five bars of signal and clear voice," Zarrella said.
However, any technology that can benefit you can also be used against you, he noted. "So we're looking at how we can lock it down," protecting communications from being overhead.
Additionally, there is a growing requirement for stronger encryption to secure cell phones as military personnel deployed overseas talk to family members back home. "There are a number of capabilities that we are looking at that will actually encrypt the voice calls not at a classified level but at a sensitive level," Zarrella said.
DISA has been talking to vendors and assessing their products, he said. This is one of the emerging capabilities that will be crucial for the future, he added.
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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) Darion Rackley finished with 27 points, knocking down 6 of 10 3-pointers to help Jacksonville State beat Martin Methodist 79-64 Tuesday night.
Ronnie Boggs scored 20 points and had four steals, and Tarvin Gaines added 12 points off the bench to help Jacksonville State (7-2) win its fourth game in a row.
The Gamecocks built an early lead shooting 57.1 percent (16 for 28) in the first half compared to Martin Methodist's 36 percent (9 for 25).
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Bryan J. Weaver and Christopher H. Wisdom
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, one out of every two marriages in America now ends in divorce. One out of every five Americans has contracted or will contract a sexually transmitted disease in his or her lifetime. January 2013 marked the fortieth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, which legalized abortion on demand and brought with it the scourge of four decades of wrongful death for over 60 million unborn American children. And in the year 2012 there were more deaths of American soldiers by suicide (349) than in combat (229)—and that during a time of war.
How have we come to this place in our culture, whose previous history embraced (at least outwardly) the sanctity of marriage and of human life? The history of modern Western thought bears witness to the determination by certain major social thinkers and leaders to rationalize immoral sexual behavior and project it onto a universal canvas. During the last 125 years, the agenda of the Western cultural elite has entailed the reversal of Christian ethics and its impact on intellectual and social life, making desire the final criterion of morality. Nietzsche, Freud, Wilde, Mead, Sanger, Kinsey, and Foucault are but a few of the progenitors of modern Western thought. And if you dissect the thinking of such intellectual notables regarding morality, you will note the common thread of sexual license. They deliberately chose ideologies and lifestyles that cast aside moral decency and embraced the exigencies of sexual misbehavior.
Christianity, for Nietzsche, was at its end, especially in terms of its intellectual respectability. Since his declaration that God was dead in his book The Gay Science (1882), only the shadow of Christian morality remained. Many of these intellectual and cultural elites, following Nietzsche, began debunking religion, especially Christianity, during the early decades of the twentieth century. Following the rise of Nietzsche's philosophy, biblical morality began to be seen as the culprit in any cultural suppression of desire.
Or take the research of Albert Kinsey, published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Alfred C. Kinsey and others, 1948). According to the Kinsey Institute, "Kinsey sought to accumulate 'an objectively determined body of fact about sex' (p. 5, Male) that readers of the reports could use to make interpretations that fit with their understanding of 'moral values and social significances' (p. 5, Male)" (see http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/ak-data.html). By formally interviewing numerous human subjects and studying all manner of human sexual behavior (whether moral or immoral from a biblical perspective), Kinsey purportedly amassed "an objectively determined body of fact about sex."
But as the late professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, Cornelius Van Til, observed, "It is fatal for the Reformed apologist to admit that man has done justice to the objective evidence if he comes to any other conclusion than that of the truth of Christian theism" (Defense of the Faith, 3rd ed., 1967, p. 145).
Why then did Kinsey reach such errant conclusions about human sexual behavior? Because, as Van Til notes,
A "fact" does not become a fact, according to the modern scientist's assumptions, till it has been made a fact by the ultimate definitory power of the mind of man. The modern scientist, pretending to be merely a describer of facts, is in reality a maker of facts. He makes facts as he describes. His description is itself the manufacturing of facts. He requires "material" to make facts, but the material he requires must be raw material. Anything else will break his machinery. The datum is not primarily given, but is primarily taken. (Common Grace and the Gospel, 1972, p. 4)
Consider also Sigmund Freud's book, The Future of an Illusion. In it he attacks religion by perversely imputing sexual motivation to the infant's desire for its mother, its fear of its father, and its projection of those fears and need for protection onto a god, which the developing individual has supposedly created out of psychological necessity (S. Freud, The Future of an Illusion [1927], in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 21, p. 24, at http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/The-future-of-illusion/pdf/view).
By contrast, Christian theistic ethics teaches that guilt is the natural result of any transgression of the moral law (James 2:10), and that the work of the law is inherent in every human being (Rom. 2:14), so that guilt has its roots in the moral real world (John 3:20–21). The intellectual life of a thinker is not hermetically sealed off from his moral life; instead, it turns out that the intellectual life is a function of a person's moral life (Rom. 12:2–3; Heb. 5:11–14). Apprehension of the truth can only take place when the clamoring of the passions has died down (James 4:1–8). The thoughts of the mind, when expressed, are thus like windows to the soul (Matt. 15:18–20; Rom. 8:5–8).
How then did human guilt come into the real world? Romans 1:18–19 declares how man, the creature of God, having willfully sown the seeds of rebellion by rejecting God's self-revelation seen in creation (and especially in man as the image of God) has reaped a harvest of vain thinking, a foolish heart, and debased sexual behavior. Romans 1:21–25 highlights how such rejection of divine revelation leads to moral reprobation:
For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
As Van Til elsewhere asserts,
It need be no matter of surprise to the Christian that non-Christian scientists are, at bottom, fighting for their purely man-centered interpretation even when they engage in "open-minded" and "neutral" description of facts. Scripture informs us that all men are sinners and seek in all that they do to suppress the basic truth of their responsibility to their Creator. They always have an "axe to grind." To say this is not to charge men with a lack of the surface honesties and sincerities of civilized life.... It is only to be concerned with the deepest controlling motives of men and to interpret these motives in accordance with Scripture. (The God of Hope: Sermons and Addresses, 1978, p. 242)
There are thus only two ultimate alternatives: either the thinker, activist, or leader can subject sexual desire to truth or he will subjugate truth to sexual desire. If a person is dominated by desire, i.e., Eros, then that desire will be the surest explicator of his thought. The turning away of the mind from truth to carnal, distorted passions does not mean the mind stops functioning; it only means that the mind will not perceive the truth. After laboring in this abyss, the mind will choose disorder over order, carnality over spirituality, and falsehood over truth, and will create for itself idols in an attempt to usurp the rightful place of a beneficent Creator. As Paul wrote in Romans 1:28, "And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."
Van Til comments:
This is, in the last analysis, the question as to what are one's ultimate presuppositions. When man became a sinner he made of himself instead of God the ultimate or final reference point. And it is precisely this presupposition, as it controls without exception all forms of non-Christian philosophy that must be brought into question. If this presupposition is left unquestioned in any field all the facts and arguments presented to the unbeliever will be made over by him according to his pattern. The sinner has cemented colored glasses to his eyes which he cannot remove. And all is yellow to the jaundiced eye. There can be no intelligible reasoning unless those who reason together understand what they mean by their words. (Defense of the Faith, 1967, p. 77)
The sexual secularization of our Western culture is a fundamentally dishonest game in more ways than one. As the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS, has shown, the real death wish of the West is its persistent desire to engage in sexual liberation, and not in chastity. Truth was an early victim in Margaret Mead's 1928 controversial best seller, Coming of Age in Samoa. The issue for Mead was sex, sex disconnected from the norms of Christianity. Coming of Age in Samoa, with its portrayal of idyllic sex beneath the palm trees, proved to be as accurate as a Shakespearean play. What was purported to be a ground-breaking anthropological study of Samoan culture turned out in reality to be a massive rationalization of immorality.
The fact of the matter is that large numbers of the progressive trendsetters in Western society are radically dissatisfied with the traditional sexual mores of their culture and are looking for an opportunity to justify their violation of Christian sexual ethics. Historic Christian theology has always claimed that one of the results of lust is the darkening of the heart (Rom. 1:21). Hatred of God is another. In his Confessions, Augustine grasps the significance of the apostle Paul's teaching on this serious matter. He writes, "Thy law is written in the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not."
So this intellectual and sexual rebellion rages on in our day, but the final epitaph has not yet been written. In this decadent culture of immorality, death, and self-destruction that we are witnessing in our time, let us remind ourselves, then, of the words of the apostle Paul: "But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.… But we have the mind of Christ" (1 Cor. 2:15–16). If we have the mind of Christ, then let us determine in our minds that we will not be conformed to this world of secularized sexual sin, but that we will be transformed by the renewing of our minds, so that we may approve what is the holy, perfect, and acceptable will of God (see Rom. 12:2).
Rev. Weaver is a Navy chaplain; Rev. Wisdom is an Army chaplain. Both are OP ministers. They quote the NASB (updated version). This article was written against the backdrop of ongoing issues involving women and homosexuals in the U.S. military. New Horizons, May 2013.
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THE NAKED PREY (Criterion): One of the most gripping and influential films of my youth--and still the first thing I name when asked about horrific sequences in non-horror films. Amazing work from a near one-man-band (Cornel Wilde) with a healthy respect for nature which comes across in spite of the deliberately disturbing footage of predation by man and beast alike. This stands in direct contrast to...
STANLEY (BCI): Certainly not one of the "best" titles available this or any year, but unquestionably one of the most significant jobs of restoration performed in 2008. Over 15m of extra footage does, indeed, make William Grefe's "respect nature or die" snake thriller a stronger film... and simultaneously reveals it to be a work of contemptible hypocrisy from filmmakers every bit as bad as the fictional snake-bashers earmarked for lethal revenge in their work. Get 'em, Stanley!
WALKER (Criterion): Twenty years ago, I thought I was the only one who liked Alex Cox's ill-received followups to his acclaimed REPO MAN and SID AND NANCY. Well, STRAIGHT TO HELL justifiably remains a cult item at best, but there's nothing like a little Criterion vindication to set the record straight on Cox's astonishing biopic, headlining a mesmerizing Ed Harris as William Walker, the notorioius, self-appointed President of Nicaragua...
Honorable mentions: DIARY OF THE DEAD (Dimension Extreme), THE BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL and HUMAN BEASTS (BCI), RODAN/WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (Classic Media).____________________
The flood of great and rare cinema being made available for home viewing continued unabated in 2008. Indeed, it is now hardly possible to keep up with every worthwhile release: I haven't yet purchased Artificial Eye's HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA, while my pile of unwatched discs has now hit the ceiling, and contains films by Visconti, Dreyer, Melville, Naruse, Resnais and Shepitko. The following must therefore be seen as less a definitive list than a casual guide to DVDs which were of personal importance.
1- KENJI MIZOGUCHI box sets (Masters of Cinema and Eclipse): Masters of Cinema released many sublime films last year, including masterpieces by Lang, Pialat, Antonioni and Murnau. Perhaps the finest were those contained in their four Mizoguchi double-billl discs, which, along with Eclipse's FALLEN WOMEN collection, finally provided some long overdue DVD exposure for one of the greatest directors of all time. Now if only somebody would release an English-subtitled transfer of THE LOVE OF SUMAKO THE ACTRESS.
2- MARCO FERRERI COLLECTION (Koch Lorber): Another great director whose reputation has suffered from his work's lack of availability, Marco Ferreri seemed an unlikely candidate for the box set treatment. Koch Lorber's very welcome 8-disc collection (which includes an excellent documentary) contains a mixture of Ferreri's better known films (LA GRANDE BOUFFE, TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS) and rarities such as EL COCHECITO and THE SEED OF MAN. The set's highlight is the rarely seen uncut 113-minute version of the remarkable BYE BYE MONKEY, running 19 minutes longer than Image's disc, which eliminated the character played by William Berger (still uncredited here).
3- MIKLOS JANCSCO (Second Run): Second Run is another UK-based company releasing films for love rather than profit. Recent highlights include Miklós Jancsó's THE ROUND UP, THE RED AND THE WHITE and MY WAY HOME, all of which are accompanied by episodes of the director's documentary series MESSAGE OF STONES. Second Run's tireless founder Mehelli Modhi even brought Jancsó to London to help promote these discs: meeting him was among the most memorable events of 2008.
4- TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Criterion) and TRAPPED ASHES (Lionsgate): It's been almost two decades since the words "Directed by Monte Hellman" last appeared on our screens, so seeing them five times in one year certainly suggested things were looking up. Four of these directorial efforts consist of documentaries made by Hellman for Criterion's splendid TWO-LANE BLACKTOP disc, which also includes some fascinating screen tests and a new commentary track, as well as a flawless transfer of the film. The fifth is "Stanley's Girlfriend," part of Dennis Bartok's anthology TRAPPED ASHES. The version of this sublime short (a more perfect 27 minutes is difficult to imagine) found in the actual film has been damagingly shortened and reworked, but Hellman's original cut, shown separately at Cannes, is included on Lionsgate's Region 1 disc as an extra.
5- THE FLOCK (High Fliers): The image has been cropped to 1.85, there are no extras, and, quite frankly, the film isn't even that good. But the totally unexpected appearance of Andrew Lau's much revised and reshot (by Niels Mueller) US debut in a director's cut released straight to DVD by a minor UK distributor was certainly cause for celebration. High Fliers didn't bother to boast (and probably didn't even know) about the restored status of their transfer, but any resemblance between this version and the producer's cut (a Region 1 disc of which is available from Genius, whose packaging includes a still from a scene that only appears in the Region 2 edition) is purely coincidental. A comparison of the two variants testifies eloquently to the difference between a film made by a filmmaker and a film made by a committee.____________________
Our "best of" choices are presented in no particular order. Two of our choices are the Blu-ray editions of the films, although the same material is available in SD DVD as well.
PLANET OF THE APES: 40-YEAR EVOLUTION (20th Century-Fox, 5-Blu-ray Disc set):
For long-standing fans of the Planet of the Apes series such as ourselves, this is the definitive set to have of this series—finally! Besides the HD image quality, both theatrical and director's cuts of CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES are included, as well as many hours of exclusive supplements. The set also includes a hardcover book of exclusive photos and other materials.
THE INVADERS: THE FIRST SEASON (Paramount 4-DVD set): Although short-lived, the Quinn Martin produced series THE INVADERS (1967-68)—about the Cassandra-like David Vincent vainly trying to warn the world of an invasion by aliens from outer space—is vintage television at its (paranoid) best. We long looked forward to this series appearing on Region 1 DVD (season two is to appear on Region 1 DVD in late January 2009), and we were not disappointed by the presentation of the series in this excellent box set. Not only does the set include the unedited, never-aired version of the pilot ("Beachhead"), but there are new introductions to each episode provided by Roy Thinnes as well as other supplements. What's more, the transfers are excellent.
DAVID LYNCH: THE LIME GREEN SET (Absurda): This 10-DVD set is an absolute must-have for fans of Lynch's work, or those wishing for an extended introduction. The LIME GREEN SET includes 1) ERASERHEAD; 2) the (remastered) ERASERHEAD soundtrack; 3) THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH; 4) THE ELEPHANT MAN, presented here with a new audio mix approved by David Lynch and interesting new supplements; 5) THE ELEPHANT MAN EXTRAS, which includes a documentary plus new interviews with David Lynch and John Hurt; 6) BLUE VELVET with a new Lynch-approved DD 5.1 mix exclusive to this set; 7) WILD AT HEART (identical to the 2005 MGM Sp. Ed.); 8) DVD debut of INDUSTRIAL SYMPHONY No. 1, presented in 4:3 standard as well as 16:9 anamorphic WS; 9) DUMBLAND; Disc 10 is the highly anticipated "Mystery DVD," which includes roughly three dozen deleted scenes from WILD AT HEART, episodes of OUT YONDER; 4 episodes of RABBITS, and several short clips transferred from 16mm material from the late 60s while Lynch was still in Philadelphia, the "Twin Peaks Festival Greeting" (a short film Lynch recently made for the Twin Peaks Festival), and many other rare pieces. Additionally, the box comes with a 30-page booklet of stills with many rare photos.
BECKET (MPI Blu-ray): BECKET, starring Peter O'Toole as King Henry II and Richard Burton as Thomas à Becket, is one of our all-time favorite films, a grand historical epic about two old friends who become enemies. It was the martyred Thomas Becket, after all, that prompted Chaucer's entourage in THE CANTERBURY TALES to undertake their pilgrimage to Canterbury, where the shrine to Becket is located. MPI's BD issue of the restored print is simply outstanding. We're delighted to be able to retire our roughly twenty-years old (standard transfer) laser disc.
WHITE DOG (Criterion): We met the inimical Sam Fuller at the 1981 Telluride Film Festival, by which time the filming of WHITE DOG had been completed, but we have waited the twenty-seven years since that weekend to see this film. For us this release was the biggest revelation of the year. We had no idea what to expect, but we were more than impressed by WHITE DOG, one of the final films of the famed auteur.


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