Hudsonville schools to explore language program

It's great that GRIID continues to monitor the poor editorial choices of the Grand Rapids Press. What isn't in the paper is often as illuminating as what is. In point of fact, the visit of a gubenatorial candidate to GR should have rated front-page coverage with, as you noted, much more extensive coverage of what was said and the questions asked. But this is not the candidate that the GR Press wishes to play up at this point–so coverage was buried at the bottom of an inside section.

But there were lots of other options for indepth stories. Another West Michigan bank failed on September 1. A West Michigan dairy violated a raft of warnings and continued to put contaminated beef on the market–the US government is now seeking a permanent injunction against Scenic View Dairy. Spartan Stores announced it was paying out a quarterly dividend, which could have triggered investigation by a reporter about how current increased prices and profits played a part in that. And in Holland, the Board of Public Works is churning over a challenge to the DNR rejection a huge new boiler at its coal-fired DeYoung Plant.

You'd think that a decent regional editor would have found one or more of those stories worthy of investigation, and left the ice sculpture, at the very least, to melt away of its own accord.

Hi Caitlin, it’s so fun reading ur blog, thank u for sharing the experience. this is what i’ve been looking for since I’m planning to enrol to a language program sometime this year… one question though .. how did u get to meet and know so many other people when u first arrived there? are they friends back from uni ? cause the thing that prevents from going at the moment is that i’m gonna be by myself .. in korea. lol

VWD isn't a language, it's a program. Microsoft web development is done mostly in ASP or ASPX – not a good choice, since you can only use what you develop on a Microsoft server (and they're in the minority). Use Javascript for client-side code and PHP for server-side code.

How long? That depends on how good a programmer you are. (Programming and a programming language are totally different things. If you don't know programming, figure on 6 months to become a beginner. Use to learn.)

If you're a good programmer, Javascript could take a couple of months to get good at. PHP is easier.

Playing the person in two weeks… that can't be my life…again. Oh crap and I HAVE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL! —

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