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Ales Adamovych
Categorie: Belarusian books, Historical Thrillers, Historische Thrillers, Literature, Literatuur, Wit-Russische boeken
Niveau: Belarusian Literature, Wit-Russische Literatuur
It is a quiet place, with lush green grass covering the location of the former Belarusian village. A village that was burned to the ground with its inhabitants in 1943. Anyone familiar with this small corner of Eastern Europe is chilled to the bone by the events that transpired there, and the village's name Khatyn has now come to embody a horrific national tragedy. But tragedy is not all this name embodies, for it also reminds people of the tremendous courage of those who fought for the life and freedom of their country.
It is the story of this village and the events that surround its annihilation that are the focus of Ales Adamovich's novel Khatyn, which was written on the basis of historical documents. The author, himself a World War II veteran and partisan, depicts the reality of the partisan resistance to fascism in Belarus.
The main character is a man named Florian, who in his memories returns to events that transpired some thirty years ago, when as a teenager he joined a partisan unit and met his future wife, Glasha. He witnesses how the villagers of Khatyn are burned alive as reprisal for supporting the partisan movement. The monstrous cruelty of the death squad and its commanders manifested itself in the act of punishing the entire community for the deeds of those who had helped the partisans. The village, composed mostly of the elderly and mothers with children, was locked inside a barn. After being covered with dry hay, the barn was set ablaze with the families inside.
Over half a century later, Adamovich's story about the courage of ordinary people has not lost its immediacy. Today, the world is still marred by war crimes committed against communities of noncombatant. Khatyn is a testament to an event that must not be forgotten, and to a reality that must not be repeated.
For more information about this publication please consult the following website dedicated exclusively to Khatyn.
Translated by Glenys Kozlov,
Franes Longman and Sharon McKee.
Edited by Camilla Stein.
"The quiet art of Khatyn is the illumination, properly fitful and uncertain, of wartime Belarus, of the darkness of the twentieth century. The reader, like the protagonist, like the writer, cannot look away." Timothy Snyder, Times Literary Supplement
"Still, Khatyn is an important book that deserves a place on the shelves of anyone fascinated by the history of World War II. It's definitely not for the faint of heart, though. It's the kind of book that gives you nightmares, and when you wake up and realize you were only dreaming, you cry for those for whom the burning agony was a reality." Anna Horner, Diary of an Eccentric (literary blog)
"This book is probably not for very sensitive readers but if you think you can deal with all of the bad things in the book, it is most definitely worth the read." A BOOKISH AFFAIR literary blog
"Adamovich is definitely a humanist. His work is not meant solely to depress or enrage us. True, we must never forget the horrors of our past, and we must be on constant guard against forces that would create new horrors (the latter point is emphasized in the novel by the Boky discussions). But in so doing we must live on as humans ourselves." LOGOMORPHOSES BLOG
"Glagoslav Publications released a special book, a cultural heritage collectible item - Khatyn by Ales Adamovich, a classical Belorussian author who fought as a partisan during the WWII." EYES IN MAGAZINE
Readers on Goodreads.com say:
Steve: "Khatyn describes the genocide of Byelorussians in WW II, but as its author intended, it has universal meaning. Although it is fictional, it is very well researched and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in WW II history."
Crystal: "This book will make you think about things differently. It was a lot to take in and was emotional for me to read. If you like reading about WW2 and or history you will enjoy this book."
Amanda: "Wow this book is a must read... It's a book that will make you look at the world differently. At times it was difficult to read because we don't want to feel or know others suffering but through this I have a different understanding of war and the feelings and emotions that we in this day and age don't understand."
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About Ales Adamovich:
"…A decent and honest man, popular with his colleagues at the Cinema Institute in Moscow, for his last six years he was at the centre of Moscow's political and cultural life."
About the movie Come and See based on the story of Khatyn:
" The history is harrowing and the presentation is graphic; you feel it through your body as villagers are packed into a barn to be incinerated."
"Both exhilarating and exhausting, Come and See is not just a great war film, but a great piece of cinema per se."
Ales Adamovych
Ales Adamovich (1927-1994) was a Belorussian author, literary critic, and screenwriter. During World War Two he fought as a partisan, an experience which inspired his influential novel Khatyn. After the war he went on to receive this PhD in philology from the Belarusian State University and also took graduate courses in directing and screenwriting at the prestigious Moscow film school VKSR.
Adamovich was a professor and a member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. He was an active teacher and political figure. As a result of refusing to testify against his colleagues and to sign letters condemning political dissidents, he was barred from teaching at Moscow State University. However, he was a member of many public and professional unions. In 1989 he was one of the first writers to join the Belorussian PEN Center, and in 1994 the Center instituted the Ales Adamovich Literary Prize.
Ales Adamovich's writing is still widely read and the importance of his legacy to Belarusian history and culture cannot be overstated. His fiction and non-fiction make a profound case against the necessity of war, and are a testament to the kind of knowledge and wisdom so needed by humankind today.
- Award for Honor and Dignity of Talent, 1997 (posthumous)
- Order of the Red Banner, 1987
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1985
- Gold Medal of Alexander Fadeyev, 1983
- Order of the Badge of Honor, 1977
- Yakub Kolas Belarusian State Prize, 1976 (For Khatyn)
- Ministry of Defense Prize, 1974 (For Khatyn)
- Friendship Literary Prize, 1972
- Partisan Medal, 1946
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A United Nations conference aimed at ridding the world of the "scourge" of privately-owned weapons ended recently and the report of the meeting reveals that despite the failure of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the globalists' plan to abolish the Second Amendment remains intact in the form of the "Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects" (PoA).
In implementing the Programme of Action at the national level, States, where they have not yet done so, undertake: To support the development and implementation of adequate laws, regulations and administrative procedures to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects, including diversion of small arms and light weapons to unauthorized recipients.
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This should include aspects of the illicit manufacture, control, trafficking, circulation, brokering and trade, as well as tracing, finance, collection and destruction of small arms and light weapons.
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"Grassroots activism — led by my organization, the National Association for Gun Rights — derailed the U.N.'s Small Arms Treaty," Brown said. "But now they're using a more insidious avenue called the Programme Against Small Arms to push for global gun control. And it just might work, unless we mobilize Americans against it."
In a report on the efforts of the American delegation at conferences considering the PoA and the ATT, the Heritage Foundation praises the United States' ability to at least slow the UN's roll over the Constitution. Heritage writes:
PoA's backers won a victory by further institutionalizing the Programme and scheduling meetings through 2018, allowing the PoA to continue to thrive on bureaucratic momentum. As with so much at the U.N., the U.S.'s job at the Review Conference was essentially to stop too many bad things from happening. The Conference's outcome means that, if the U.S. continues to participate in the PoA, it will have to keep on playing that role.
The fight is far from over, however. The Heritage blog post describes how the forces of disarmament will continue their advance toward the eradication of the rights of Americans to own weapons. The blog reads:
Over the coming years, the ISACS [International Small Arms Control Standards] ... will be further elaborated, will move from their current base in Geneva to New York, and will be more closely integrated with the U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs. The Conference demonstrated that these standards are appealing both to the European Union and to mischief-makers like North Korea, Iran, and Cuba, which spent a good deal of the Conference yanking the U.S.'s chain by demanding civilian gun control. The dictatorships are not alone in demanding this: As one NGO speaker put it, the PoA is the basis of "U.N. gun control." The ISACS standards are central to that long-term effort.
As has so often happened, communist nations will manipulate the leadership of the United Nations in order to disarm the United States and to weaken our sovereignty and our people by taking from them their ability to resist those who would demote us to the ranks of the third world.
The United Nations' plan of action includes the scheduling of meetings through 2018 in order to encourage member nations to voluntarily impose the international organization's gun-grabbing standards.
Americans must remain vigilant and resist every effort — even seemingly harmless and humanitarian ones — to repeal the Second Amendment and destroy American sovereignty.


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AUSTIN – In a major step toward long-term preservation of the Battleship Texas, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has signed a contract with AECOM USA Group, Inc. – a globally recognized architectural and engineering firm – to design a permanent dry berth for the historic vessel before time and the elements scuttle the ship.
The 1914-vintage battleship, a veteran of both world wars, is the last of its kind. She's been moored at the San Jacinto Battleground since 1948. Her hull was last repaired in the late 1980s and has since become dangerously weakened from years of exposure to the brackish water of the Houston Ship Channel.
"The dry berthing of the Texas is the most complex project ever undertaken by this department," said TPWD project manager Neil Thomas. "The design and construction will be a very large civil engineering project. And the age and condition of the ship, which is a National Historic Landmark, adds a challenging naval architectural component as well. All these factors combine to make the project absolutely unique."
In 2007, as part of Proposition 4, voters approved a bond package that included $25 million to dry-berth the battleship. After TPWD conducted engineering studies and developed a project plan as directed by the 80th Legislature, the Legislative Budget Board approved sale of bonds "contingent on the ship being dry berthed in its current location." Funding for the project includes a $4 million contribution from the Battleship Texas Foundation.
Earlier this year, TPWD selected AECOM – a company with 40,000 employees world-wide – as the most qualified architectural-engineering firm to design the dry berth. Since that time the department has been in negotiations with the firm, a process which included developing the scope of work to be done and the products to be delivered. The contract was signed Oct. 26.
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Smith said the goal is to save the historic ship, save the taxpayers money and provide a first class experience for the visiting public that is fitting of Texas and her namesake state.
Last June, a rag and a backup pump kept the storied battleship Texas from sinking in its mooring. When park staff noticed the ship resting more than two feet lower in the water than normal, a leak was discovered on the starboard side of the ship near the waterline. A rag was stuffed into the leak until the water could be pumped out.
The just-signed contract calls for AECOM to have its preliminary design completed by spring 2011. Following a federally mandated environmental assessment expected to take about two years, the bidding process for construction of the dry berth and temporary mooring of the Texas is expected to begin in mid-2014 with construction complete by the summer of 2017.
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I guess the Michael Jackson debacle last year made the original title for this absorbing documentary (Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army) commercially inappropriate. The replacement is adequate, although nothing could have topped a simple "Urban Guerrilla," the vocation that Patty Hearst dictated to her booking officer when she was finally captured.
Robert Stone's 2004 docu is a good example of a newish trend in special subject documentaries. Instead of purporting to show the absolute truth about his essentially 'unknowable' subject, Stone simply lays out the known facts about the self-styled revolutionaries known as the Symbionese Liberation Army and their bizarre kidnapping of Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst. A few weeks after her disappearance, she surfaced on audio tape calling herself by the name "Tania" and then joined her kidnappers in robbing a bank. Every previous account of this crazy piece of 1970s history has a definite axe to grind or thesis agenda to pursue. Stone's show presents newsfilm, audio excerpts and videos of court appearances without immediate interpretation. Thus we're able to assess all the facts and come to our own conclusions if we're so inclined.
The lack of an editorial stance has attracted some criticism as well as the observation that Patty Hearst is not allowed to present her side of the story. Stone actually includes enough material to suggest that looking for the truth in that avenue isn't going to be very rewarding. Hearst presented a new face to the public every few weeks, from a series of almost-certainly coerced political communiqués on audio tape, to her later smirking defiance when captured and her gracious "I'm just a good-girl victim" pose when her lengthy sentence was commuted by President Carter. If she had been present during one of the SLA's murders, getting her off the hook would have been a much tougher problem. Everybody else played the crazy political drama for their own ends, including the two ex-SLA members Michael Bortin and Russ Little, who are interviewed. And finally, there's the biggest video mystery of the 1970s - the two-minute bank security camera tape that shows Hearst participating in the robbery, machine gun in hand. Despite her later protests, she doesn't look one bit coerced or intimidated. She looks like she's getting off on playing Revolutionary Miss,1974.
The fact that Patty Hearst never simply walked away from the SLA after she became more of a member and less of a prisoner, adds fuel to the cumulative doubt that Stone's docu slowly builds. The Hearsts, the media and even "Mr. Law 'n Order" Ronald Reagan (seen in a news conference making a shamefully duplicitous offer to the SLA) maintain a distinction between 'good conservative kids' and the radical element that needed to be torn from our streets and universities. Patty Hearst seemed to be living proof that even the children of the rich were capable of taking up arms against the system.
That's the romantic view of the Symbionese Liberation Army, and Robert Stone's docu refutes it even as it shows clips of Errol Flynn as Robin Hood to represent the SLA's warped self-image. The testimony and research reveals them to be criminals, drifters and intellectual malcontents unrelated to the Berkeley anti-war protests. Unlike The Weather Underground they weren't a splinter group from legit campus activists, but ambitious radicals pursuing an elaborate political fantasy. Their communiqués are worded to shock straight society and deliver a defiant challenge to the 'facist' system they despised.
The SLA's policies were never very clear. They extorted a food giveaway program from the Hearst family, a stunt that did little but show that their main desire was to humiliate Patty's parents. They robbed banks to support their underground existence. All the king's men couldn't round up a dozen lousy revolutionaries. The police and F.B.I. are organized to combat crimes with traceable motives (money) and telltale evidence (money), and ended up taking the most heat from outraged politicos (Reagan again).
A prominent lawyer asks why the SLA and their 'leader' Sinque didn't just give up when surrounded White Heat-style by an army of cops in south-central L.A.. They could have had their day in court and put their philosophy, if any, into the public record. Guerrilla's coverage of the shoot-out suggests that the SLA wasn't really given a chance to surrender. I remember watching the cop cars screaming down Beverly Blvd. that day, miles away from the shootout scene. The holdouts were ordered to give up, and the onslaught began after a break of only a couple of minutes. The bodies were found in the crawlspace under the house. No matter how you look at it (it's very possible that the trigger-happy SLA fired first), the assumption by almost everyone was that the L.A.P.D.'s mission was just to take the SLA out, big-time. They claimed later that they didn't know if Patty Hearst was in the house at the time, a point contested by interviewees.
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst doesn't try to get into the heads of the SLA members and only lightly sketches their individual personalities. It's really about the cultural circus that fed into the scandalous episode, with the press camped out at the Hearst home and the country held hostage by the SLA gang. Even law enforcement eventually considered the kidnapee armed and dangerous. What else could they do? Instead of conjecture, the docu offers the facts, a highly commendable stance.
The film is excellently edited by Don Kleszy. Some rock music is heard but there are no attempts to dress up the film with contemporary tunes. One hi-contrast montage effectively backs up Patty Hearst's post-capture account of the nightmarish ordeal as a prisoner of the SLA. But we can't help but hear the obviously earnest voice on the group's audio tapes and think differently about her experience.
Docurama's disc of Robert Stone's Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst is a good-quality flat letterboxed transfer of a film with a great deal of content from old videotape and 16mm newsfilm. The audio is excellent, as is the music by Gary Lionelli.
Robert Stone presents a fine commentary that illuminates his decsion process on how to tell the story in the most useful way. There is also a gallery of prime resources - The Patty Hearst audio tapes, the famous Hibernia Bank footage, and deleted material from the Sacramento courthouse twenty five years later when some former SLA members were arraigned for a murder committed during a robbery. Formatting is fine, although the packaging misleadingly states that the video is 16:9 Widescreen when it is not.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst rates:
Movie: Excellent
Video: Very good
Sound: Excellent
Supplements: audio excerpts, bank robbery footage, courthouse footage, trailer, photo gallery
Packaging: Keep case
Reviewed: October 27, 2005
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Vaccine exemptions on rise in state
Before Karen Jackson even had children, she knew that she would never get them vaccinated.
When Jackson, a Bridgeport resident, was studying to become a social worker, she wrote a paper on vaccinations and was floored by what she learned.
"The contents aren't viable," she said. "Giving my child a living virus is not my idea of saving their lives."
She is now the mother of three school-aged boys, none of whom have been vaccinated. Though the state requires several vaccinations for students starting school and at other periods, it is possible get exemptions for either medical or religious reasons. Jackson chose the latter, which she said wasn't hard to do.
She is one of a growing number of parents in the state who have obtained exemptions from vaccinations for their children. The Connecticut Department of Public Health reports that last year 1,056 children entering kindergarten and seventh grade received exemptions, a 127 percent increase from 2003, when the state recorded only 465 such exemptions.
There are several possible reasons why exemptions are on the rise, said Dr. Thomas Murray, assistant professor of medical science at Quinnipiac University's Frank H. Netter School of Medicine.
First, some parents worry vaccines could be linked to autism and other health problems in children, though experts have repeatedly said there is no evidence supporting that link. Another theory, he said, is that vaccines are a victim of their own success. Most modern parents haven't lived in a world where measles, polio and other illnesses are a common experience.
"You're much less likely to feel threatened by something if you don't see it around," Murray said.
Getting their shots
Depending on a child's age and grade level, different vaccinations are required to enter school.
For instance, children entering kindergarten in Connecticut this year need to have at least four doses of the diptheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTap) vaccine, at least three doses of the polio vaccine, two doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, three doses of hepatitis B vaccine, two doses of varicella (or chicken pox) vaccine, two doses of the hepatitis A vaccine, one dose of the pneumococcal vaccine and one dose of the Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine.
Vaccination coverage in Connecticut remains high despite the rising number of exemptions. For instance, according to the CDC, of the 45,695 students entering kindergarten in the state in 2011-2012 school years, 97.4 percent had their MMR vaccination; 97.8 percent had their DTap shots and 97.7 had percent their polio shots.
Yet even with those high numbers, some doctors in the region said they're concerned about the rise in exemptions.
"If you have more and more kids not getting vaccinated, then you have more and more of a pool for illness to take hold," said Dr. Robert Chessin, a pediatrician at Pediatric Healthcare Associates in Bridgeport and Shelton.
In Connecticut, the state Department of Health said there have already been 111 cases of pertussis reported this year and that the state could reach a 10-year high for cases of the disease. Last year, there were 68 cases in the entire year.
Unvaccinated children typically can't attend school without an exemption, said Stephanie Knutson, school health counselor with the state Department of Education. Even if parents do get their children properly excused, they have to sign a form stating that, if there's an outbreak of a contagious illness, their unimmunized child can't come to class.
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The religious exemption is easier to get, requiring parents or guardians only to provide a written statement that the immunization is contrary to their religious beliefs.
A Shelton mother of three, who didn't want her name used, said she received religious exemptions for her children. She said she does get her children vaccinated, but doesn't go by the prescribed immunization schedule, preferring to space the vaccinations out as much as possible. However, she couldn't do that without an exemption. Because her kids didn't qualify for a medical exemption, her only option was the religious exemption. She said her actions aren't uncommon among parents who object to immunization requirements. "There are a lot of parents who virtually lie and say `My religion is against this,' even though it's not," she said.
For years, some parents have expressed fears that vaccines might do more harm than good. Primarily, there were concerns the MMR vaccine was linked to autism in children, largely sparked by a 1998 article in the medical journal The Lancet. The study, led by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, followed 12 children who had developed behavioral issues as well as certain intestinal problems. Eight of them had received the MMR vaccine.
It was later revealed that Wakefield had received money from a lawyer suing vaccine manufacturers. Also, in 2004, a report from the Institute of Medicine concluded there is no link between autism and the vaccine. In 2010, The Lancet retracted the study.
For parents like Jackson who are worried about the content of vaccines, Dr. Nimrod Dayan, a pediatrician with Pediatric Healthcare Associates in Trumbull, points out that those that contain live viruses include them in a weakened form.
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The last remnants of Taylorville High's time in the CS8 — banners of its opponents above the Dolph Stanley Court — have been taken down.
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on Taylorville High School's departure from the Central State Eight Conference.
TAYLORVILLE — The last remnants of Taylorville High School's time in the Central State Eight Conference — banners of its opponents above the Dolph Stanley Court — have been taken down.
In their place hang banners of Taylorville's newest affiliation, the Apollo Conference.
The change came a little more than two years after declining enrollment and few wins convinced Taylorville district and high school officials that the Tornadoes could no longer remain competitive in the CS8.
"I understand why they're wanting to go," former Taylorville girls basketball coach Carol Wilson said. "Not all change is good, but it can be good."
When the issue first surfaced at a Taylorville School Board athletic meeting in March 2012, the big two sports — football and boys basketball — had both hit rock bottom during their time in the CS8 and other programs were also having difficulty finding wins.
About the lone bright spot at the school as the discussions were taking place came from the wrestling team.
"I thought we lost our competitiveness," former Taylorville school superintendent Rich Wilson said. "We weren't as competitive as we were in the '90s and early 2000s. When you go out on the field and know your chances of winning are slim-to-none, it's tough. You just don't want that happening to high school kids."
While much of the recent history for Taylorville's sports teams has been bleak, the Tornadoes were on top of the conference in several sports at different times during their 21-year CS8 history.
'Body Bag Night'
As the Central State Eight Conference was beginning to form in 1992 (play began in the fall of 1993), not everybody in the Christian County communities of Taylorville, Owaneco, Stonington and Mount Auburn — the towns that make up the Taylorville School District — thought Taylorville would be a good fit.
"Our old football coach was still teaching back then and he was real apprehensive about it," said Paul Held, who will begin his 10th year as THS athletic director. "He said, 'We're going to have to have "Body Bag Night" because we're going to get killed.' There was apprehension to it that we were getting in over our head."
But Scott Alberssen, who then-superintendent Wilson hired to coach the football team in 1993, thought differently.
"I remember when I took the job, telling (Wilson), 'In my opinion, in an eight-team league, there's room for three teams to be good consistently,'" Alberssen said.
Even before a game was played, Alberssen knew that Sacred Heart-Griffin and Lanphier were going to be two of the better football teams. (Lanphier won the first CS8 football title in 1993).
"I told Mr. Wilson, 'Why not us? Why can't we be the third,'" Alberssen said. "Fortunately, that's the way it kind of worked out."
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After a 3-6 season in 1993 that saw the Tornadoes lose only three games by 10 or more points, 1994 put the rest of the league on notice that Taylorville intended to be that third team.
On Oct. 14, 1994, Taylorville beat Sacred Heart-Griffin 15-13 on a last-second field goal from Mike Flynn. With the win, Taylorville finished the CS8 schedule 6-1 and forced a three-way tie between — you guessed it — Lanphier, SHG and Taylorville.
Alberssen said what Taylorville lacked in talent, it made up for in desire.
"Our kids were a lot hungrier," said Alberssen, who hasn't coached since the 2008 season. "They worked a lot harder in the offseason."
At Taylorville, Alberssen was paired with defensive coordinator Chuck Hansen for 14 seasons. With Alberssen's offensive schemes and Hansen's aggressive defense, Taylorville was a tough opponent for most teams.
But no coach can win without talented players as well.
"You look at the record books of the Central State Eight and it's littered with offensive and defensive people from Taylorville," Jacksonville coach Mark Grounds said. "You combine that with coach Alberssen when they first came in — he was a very successful coach — he had (an Illinois High School Football Coaches Association, class of 2000) hall-of-fame defensive coordinator in coach Hansen and a bunch of assistants that filled in and did great jobs."
Taylorville finished 82-69 in the conference over 21 seasons. And that's despite a 20-33 record since 2007, which includes just one winning season.
Still, Grounds remembers the Tornadoes fondly.
"I always thought they were one of the toughest teams we had to prepare for," Grounds said. "I thought their kids played to the whistle very hard."
The last big hurrah for the Tornadoes' football team was when undefeated SHG came to town to play 7-0 Taylorville in 2006. Both teams were state ranked in The Associated Press 5A poll. SHG, coming off a 2005 Class 5A state championship, was ranked No. 1 all year; Taylorville was sixth.
SHG walked away with a 42-7 victory, but Taylorville had chances early. With some of Alberssen's trademark surprises in his bag, the Tornadoes were only a couple executions on offense from making it a ballgame in the first half.
In fact no CS8 team has more wins against four-time state football champion Sacred Heart-Griffin than Taylorville. The Tornadoes' four wins against the Cyclones top Chatham Glenwood, Lanphier and Springfield High (three each). Grounds' Crimsons own three wins versus SHG, but two have come in the playoffs, not in conference play.
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This camp is for boys and girls ages 8 through 17, designed to give students an opportunity to learn the basic fundamentals of basketball. Students will have the opportunity to enroll in this 4 day program designed to instruct them in dribbling, shooting, free throws, team work, offensive moves, and defensive strategies. Ryan Hollins and his carefully selected staff will be present to assist the campers.
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Each camper should bring a lunch each day and wear appropriate athletic attire.
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Please do not bring any valuables to camp. Dedication Foundation and John Muir High School will not be responsible for lost or stolen items.
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If you cancel at least 3 weeks prior to the first day of the camp, you may receive a refund of 50%. No refunds will be given after July 21, 2014, or if a camper voluntarily leaves the camp.
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Executive Order — Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions. Survivable, resilient, enduring, and effective communications, both domestic and international, are essential to enable the executive branch to communicate within itself and with: the legislative and judicial branches; State, local, territorial, and tribal governments; private sector entities; and the public, allies, and other nations. Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience. The views of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities.
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Classical test theory is a body of related psychometric theory that predict outcomes of psychological testing such as the difficulty of items or the ability of test-takers. Generally speaking, the aim of classical test theory is to understand and improve the reliability of psychological tests.
Classical test theory may be regarded as roughly synonymous with true score theory. The term "classical" refers not only to the chronology of these models but also contrasts with the more recent psychometric theories, generally referred to collectively as item response theory, which sometimes bear the appellation "modern" as in "modern latent trait theory".
True and error scoresEdit
Classical test theory is based on the decomposition of observed scores (which are ordinal, but analyzed as interval) into true and error scores. The theory views the observed score $ x $ of person $ i $, denoted as $ x_i $, as a realization of a random variable $ X $. The person is characterized by a probability distribution over the possible realizations of this random variable. This distribution is called a "propensity distribution". The true score of person $ i $, $ t_i $, is axiomatically defined as the expectation of this propensity distribution. This definition (Novick 1966) is formally stated as
$ {\varepsilon}(X_i)=t_i $
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$ {\varepsilon}(E_i)={\varepsilon}(X_i - t_i)={\varepsilon}(X_i)-{\varepsilon}(t_i)=t_i - t_i = 0 $
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The above equations represent the assumptions that classical test theory makes at the level of the individual person. However, the theory is never used to analyze individual test scores; rather, the focus of the theory is on properties of test scores relative to populations of persons. Hence, the next step is to introduce a population-sampling scheme into the structure of classical test theory. When we assume that people are randomly sampled from a population, the true score becomes a random variable too, so that we get the canonical equation
(Eq. 4)
Classical test theory is concerned with the relations between the three variables $ X $, $ T $, and $ E $ in the population. These relations are used to say something about the quality of test scores. In this regard, the most important concept is that of reliability. The reliability of the observed test scores $ X $, which is denoted as $ {\rho^2_{XT}} $, is defined as the ratio of true score variance $ {\sigma^2_T} $ to the observed score variance $ {\sigma^2_X} $:
$ {\rho^2_{XT}} = \frac{{\sigma^2_T}}{{\sigma^2_X}} $
(Eq. 5)
Because the variance of the observed scores can be shown to equal the sum of the variance of true scores and the variance of error scores, this is equivalent to
$ {\rho^2_{XT}} = \frac{{\sigma^2_T}}{{\sigma^2_X}} = \frac{{\sigma^2_T}}{{\sigma^2_T}+{\sigma^2_E}} $
(Eq. 6)
This equation, which formulates a signal-to-noise ratio, has intuitive appeal: The reliability of test scores becomes higher as the proportion of error variance in the test scores becomes lower and vice versa. The reliability is equal to the proportion of the variance in the test scores that we could explain if we knew the true scores. The square root of the reliability is the correlation between true and observed scores.
Note that reliability is not, as is often suggested in textbooks, a fixed property of tests, but a property of test scores that is relative to a particular population, and computed for this sample. This is because test scores will not be equally reliable in every population or even every sample. For instance, as is the case for any correlation, the reliability of test scores will be lowered by restriction of range. Thus, IQ-test scores that are highly reliable in the general population will be less reliable in a population of college students and even less reliable in a sample of sophomores. Also note that test scores are perfectly unreliable for any given individual $ i $, because, as has been noted above, the true score is a constant at the level of the individual, which implies it has zero variance, so that the ratio of true score variance to observed score variance, and hence reliability, is zero. The reason for this is that, in the classical test theory model, all observed variability in $ i $'s scores is random error by definition (see Eq. 2). Classical test theory is relevant only at the level of populations and samples, not at the level of individuals.
Reliability cannot be estimated directly since that would require one to know the true scores, which according to classical test theory is impossible. However, estimates of reliability can be obtained by various means. One way of estimating reliability is by constructing a so-called parallel test. The fundamental property of a parallel test is that it yields the same true score and the same observed score variance as the original test for every individual. If we have parallel tests x and x', then this means that
$ {\varepsilon}(X_i)={\varepsilon}(X'_i) $
(Eq. 7)
$ {\sigma}^2_{E_i}={\sigma}^2_{E'_i} $
(Eq. 8)
Under these assumptions, it follows that the correlation between parallel test scores is equal to reliability (see Lord & Novick, 1968, Ch. 2, for a proof).
$ {\rho}_{XX'}= \frac{{\sigma}_{XX'}}{{\sigma}_X{\sigma}_{X'}}= \frac{ {\sigma}_T^2 }{ {\sigma}_X^2 }= {\rho}_{XT}^2 $
(Eq. 9)
Using parallel tests to estimate reliability is cumbersome because parallel tests are very hard to come by. In practice the method is rarely used. Instead, researchers use a measure of internal consistency known as Cronbach's $ {\alpha} $. Consider a test consisting of $ k $ items $ u_{j} $, $ j=1,\ldots,j,\ldots,k $. The total test score is defined as the sum of the individual item scores, so that for individual $ i $
$ X_{i}=\sum_{j=1}^{k}{U_{ij}} $
(Eq. 10)
Then Cronbach's alpha equals
$ \alpha =\frac{k}{k-1}\left(1-\frac{\sum_{j=1}^{k}{\sigma^{2}_{U_{i}}}}{\sigma^2_{X}}\right) $
(Eq. 11)
Cronbach's $ {\alpha} $ can be shown to provide a lower bound for reliability under rather mild assumptions. Thus, the reliability of test scores in a population is always higher than the value of Cronbach's $ {\alpha} $ in that population. Thus, this method is empirically feasible and, as a result, it is very popular among researchers.
As has been noted above, the entire exercise of classical test theory is done to arrive at a suitable definition of reliability. Reliability is supposed to say something about the general quality of the test scores in question. The general idea is that, the higher reliability is, the better. Classical test theory does not say how high reliability is supposed to be. Too high a value for $ {\alpha} $, say over .9, indicates redundancy of items. Around .8 is recommended for research.[1] It must be noted that these 'criteria' are not based on reasonable arguments but the result of convention. Whether they make any sense or not is unclear.
Classical test theory is by far the most influential theory of test scores in the social sciences. In psychometrics, the theory has been superseded by the more sophisticated models in Item Response Theory (IRT). IRT models, however, are catching on very slowly in mainstream research. One of the main problems causing this is the lack of widely available, user-friendly software; also, IRT is not included in standard statistical packages like SPSS, whereas these packages routinely provide estimates of Cronbach's $ {\alpha} $. As long as this problem is not solved, classical test theory will probably remain the theory of choice for many researchers.
See alsoEdit
- Concept inventory
- Educational psychology
- Generalizability theory
- Psychometrics
- Standardized test
- Test scores
- ↑ Streiner, D. L. (2003). Starting at the Beginning: An Introduction to Coefficient Alpha and Internal Consistency. Journal of Personality Assessment, 80, 99-103
- Allen, M.J., & Yen, W. M. (2002). Introduction to Measurement Theory. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
- Novick, M.R. (1966) The axioms and principal results of classical test theory Journal of Mathematical Psychology Volume 3, Issue 1, February 1966, Pages 1-18
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If the court punts, gay marriage could become legal again in some or all of California, but there likely would be no immediate impact on other states.
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At least four other justices, including conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, as well as liberals Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, raised similar questions.
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Proponents of Prop. 8, who got it on the California ballot, appealed a lower court ruling from 2010 that found the law unconstitutional. California's governor and attorney general declined to defend the measure.
The Obama Administration's representative at the argument, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, also announced in the courtroom that his view is the ballot measure's proponents lack the "standing" to litigate the case.
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Prior to stating his concern about whether the case was proper for the court to decide, Kennedy expressed some sympathies for supporters of same-sex marriage rights.
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