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Just one week after experiencing measureable snow for the first time since 2011, Lenoir County and the surrounding area is projected to see its highest levels in nearly 25 years.
At 4 p.m. on Monday, National Weather Service Meteorologist Casey Dail said today�s storm is calling for about 6 to 8 inches of snow in Kinston.
�The last time the city had that much snow, it was in 1989, between Dec. 24-26,� Dail said. �It was estimated at 8 to 12 inches.�
WCTI NewsChannel 12 Chief Meteorologist Skip Waters said the station�s computer models show snowfalls of nearly historic levels.
�If our computer models are right, Kinston would see a couple inches on the ground by 5 p.m. (today), 6 inches by midnight (Wednesday) and probably end up with 9 or 10 by Wednesday afternoon,� Waters said. �Kinston has had 11 inches on three occasions: March 2, 1927 and twice in 1912 � once on Jan. 13 and on Feb. 11. There was also 10.5 inches on March 3, 1980.�
Kinston Public Services Director Rhonda Barwick said despite the additional snowfall projected, the organization won�t waver from last week�s preparations.
�Our procedures are pretty much the same,� Barwick said. �We�ll be working with (the N.C. Department of Transportation) as a team. Since we�ve had issues with snow last week, we already have plows ready to go. We�ll be prepared and hope for the best.�
Robbie Smith, a transportation supervisor with DOT, said workers pre-treated primary roads with salt brine Monday, working through the night and continuing the process today.
�We have five trucks to cover primary routes,� Smith said. �We�re trying to get two coats of salt brine on the ground before the storm hits. Once it starts, we�ll have plows ready to push it off.
�At this time, we�re not doing anything on secondary routes. We will toward the end of the storm, but we want to get the primary ones taken care of first.�
Kinston City Manager Tony Sears said he had a staff meeting Monday in preparation for the snowstorm and will wait until today to make any decisions on closing City Hall.
�It�s really difficult because at times, the meteorologist predictions can be altered,� Sears said. �Sometimes, the mountain ranges can affect the rate of the snow, and we�ll plan accordingly. If it speeds up, we�ll react quicker. I want to refrain from making any decisions until I have everything in front of me.�
Bill Johnson, director of Kinston Department of Public Safety, said there will be additional personnel on duty, especially on the fire department side.
�We�ll have some workers (today) prepared to stay over on Wednesday and those working Wednesday starting their shifts early to have twice as many employees,� Johnson said. �We have a zone concept, meaning we�ll have twice as many reserve engines and ladders at each station as usual for emergencies, instead of having to depend on one station on the other side of town.
�On the police side, we�ll have additional officers on duty and we�ll make sure everything is prepared mechanically. All of the vehicles have been topped off with fuel and we made sure the equipment was functional (Monday).�
Lenoir County Sheriff Chris Hill said deputies have been making preparations as well.
�We made sure our four-wheel drive vehicles will be available to respond, made sure there was a sufficient supply of food in the jail for inmates, assessed the level of fuel for the generator and reviewed the adverse weather policy for non-essential personnel,� Hill said. �If things get rough, I want to make sure the staff gets home, and I told the essential personnel they may have to work over. Response time may be a little longer, but I don�t see real challenges unless there�s a lot of ice.�
Hill said he encourages residents to stay home to avoid accidents.
�When it starts snowing and the roads are covered, it�s best to just stay inside, stay warm and be informed as to what�s going on,� Hill said. �Don�t go out unless you have to.�
Many residents made preparations to gather provisions. Monday afternoon, Piggly Wiggly Manager Patrick Delaney said the store had an abundance of customers throughout the day.
�People are being very proactive in preparation for the storm,� Delaney said. �They�re getting out to make sure their bases are covered before the snow falls.�
Scott Yarber said he had to stock the refrigerator on a couple of occasions to meet the demand.
�The milk has been going pretty quick,� Yarber said.
Kinston resident Jo Howell said she was well-stocked, but wanted to pick up a few more items just in case.
�There�s nothing wrong with being even more prepared,� Howell said. �Most of these items will probably be gone soon.�
Dorothy Kilpatrick, also from Kinston, said she went to the store to pick up food which wouldn�t spoil in case the power goes down.
�I�ve got bread and jelly to make sandwiches, as well as pork and beans,� Kilpatrick said. �I�m getting things I won�t have to cook just in case the lights go out.�
Kinston resident John Leach, Jr. had some good advice for residents.
�Make sure you have milk, bread, canned goods, batteries, flashlights, candles and electric lanterns,� Leach Jr. said. �Also, make sure your phone is charged and if the power goes out, use your car charger. Finally, dress appropriately and make sure your pets are taken care of.�
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Weather closings and postponements
n Lenoir County Schools will be closed for students and teachers today
n Jones County Schools will be closed for students and teachers today and Wednesday
n Greene County Schools will be closed for students and teachers today
n Bethel Christian Academy will be closed today for all students and teachers
n Arendell Parrott Academy will be closed today for all students and teachers
n All campuses of Lenoir Community College will be closed today for students, faculty, staff and administration
n Global TransPark Career Days, scheduled for today and Wednesday at the GTP, have been canceled. No make-up dates have been announced
n The Community Planning Workshop for the area surrounding the Kinston Music Park, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed to Wednesday, Feb. 5 from 3-5 p.m.
n The Lenoir-Greene United Way board of directors meeting has been moved from today to Tuesday, Feb. 4 at noon
n Lenoir County Schools� School System Improvement Task Force meeting has been moved from Wednesday to Tuesday, Feb. 18 from 5-6:30 p.m.
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HONOLULU – 7-Eleven of Hawaii will pay $10,000 and furnish other relief to settle an appeal and underlying federal disability discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. The EEOC had charged that 7-Eleven failed to keep a former employee's medical information confidential by disclosing the information to a prospective employer, which is a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), and which caused the prospective employer to rescind a job offer.
The EEOC filed its original lawsuit in September 2007 in U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii (EEOC v. 7-Eleven of Hawaii, Inc., Case No. CV 07-00478-SPK-BMK). After the District Court ruled in 7-Eleven's favor, the EEOC appealed the decision in August 2008 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Case No. 08-16903).
In addition to the monetary relief, 7-Eleven agreed to annual training of its human resources personnel and managers in equal employment opportunity, with an emphasis on the confidentiality provisions of the ADA. For a period of two years, 7-Eleven will also be required to report annually to the EEOC regarding the company's policies and proposed training programs with respect to disability discrimination, medical disclosure, non-retaliation, and reasonable accommodation for its Hawaii personnel. The agreement settles both the appeal and the underlying District Court suit.
"The EEOC brought this suit to prevent irreparable harm to employees and prospective employees whose medical information is unlawfully disclosed," said Anna Y. Park, regional attorney for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, which includes Hawaii in its jurisdiction. "Employees should not have to fear that they may lose their jobs as a result of employers illegally disclosing their medical information."
Timothy Riera, local director of the EEOC's Honolulu Local Office, added, "It's important that employers ensure that medical information is kept confidential. This applies to applicants, current employees and former employees."
According to company information, 7-Eleven of Hawaii, Inc. employs almost 900 people on the islands of Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island. The company operates 55 7-Eleven stores as a Hawaii corporation under the Seven & I Holding Co., Ltd. of Japan.
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The fire, which started in a detached garage at 385 White Plains Road in the Wakefield section of the Bronx at 6:16 a.m., quickly engulfed neighbouring buildings. It was reported through a 911 call, and 198 firefighters rushed to the scene, the FDNY spokeswoman said.
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(CBS/AP) MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. - Colorado's brutal wildfire season has the tourism industry on edge as images of smoke-choked landmarks and flaming vacation cabins dominate the news.
Colorado is having its worst wildfire season in a decade, with more than a half dozen forest fires burning across the state's parched terrain. Some hotels and campgrounds are emptying ahead of the busy Fourth of July holiday. And some vacation hotspots far from the flames worry they'll be affected, too.
A blaze near Colorado Springs, at the base of Pikes Peak, grew to more than 6 square miles Sunday, prompting evacuation orders for 11,000 residents and an unknown number of tourists. Many were allowed to return by Monday, but smoke and haze at times obscured Pikes Peak, the most-summited high-elevation mountain in the nation and inspiration for the song "America The Beautiful."
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Meanwhile, the resort town of Estes Park near Rocky Mountain National Park was recovering a quick-moving blaze that destroyed 22 homes, many of them vacation cabins.
A few guests at the Blue Skies Inn at the base of Pikes Peak had already canceled when they saw plumes of smoke on TV Saturday. The remaining nine rooms had to be emptied after midnight Sunday, the bed-and-breakfast's first evacuation in 15 years.
"We just went room to room, knocked on doors and said, 'We need to boogie now,'" said manager Mike Dutcher. The inn was back open Monday when the evacuation was lifted, but Dutcher said his business is still in danger from edgy tourists who may avoid Colorado because of the fires.
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Dutcher remembers a brutal wildfire season a decade ago, when a former governor famously told news cameras "all of Colorado is on fire." The governor was referring to a blaze that was many miles from Pikes Peak, but Dutcher said the effect was immediate.
"The phones didn't ring for three days during the height of the season, and when they started ringing again, it was cancellations," Dutcher said. "It's something that needs to be handled carefully. Tourism is a big business in Colorado, and if you hyperventilate when CNN shows up, it hurts a lot of people."
Even while other large fires burn across the West, Colorado's blazes have demanded half the nation's firefighting fleet, according to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.
In a signal of how serious the nation's fire threat has become, the U.S. Forest Service asked the Air Force to activate four C-130 cargo planes equipped to drop water or fire retardant. The Forest Service is allowed to request the planes only when all private tanker planes already are fighting fires or are unavailable for use.
The C-130s are expected to be ready by Tuesday but officials haven't said where they would be deployed. Two are from the Wyoming Air National Guard in Cheyenne, Wyo., and two from the Colorado Air Force Reserve at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
Also over the weekend, residents of a subdivision near the northern Colorado city of Fort Collins learned that 57 more homes in their neighborhood had been lost to the High Park Fire, which already had claimed 191 homes, authorities said.
The High Park Fire is the second-largest wildfire and among the most expensive in Colorado's history. It has scorched more than 130 square miles and was just 45 percent contained.
Elsewhere, firefighters were hoping lighter winds would assist make progress against wildfires in Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico and California.
- An Alaska wildfire between Mount McKinley and town of Anderson grew to more than 30 square miles Monday. No homes were threatened.
- Despite dry, hot conditions, firefighters battling a fire that consumed nearly 70 square miles west of Roswell, N.M., was 90 percent contained, with many residents allowed to return home. And across the state, two small fires north of Santa Fe Sunday evening prompted brief evacuations of a handful of homes. One of the blazes threatened the historic El Santuario de Chimayo, a 19th century church that receives almost 300,000 visitors per year, but the church appeared out of danger Monday.
- A wildfire in Tonto National Forest near Young, Ariz., was 65 percent contained Monday as winds slowed to about 3 mph.
- Evacuation orders remained in place in Sanpete County, Utah, where said they had 10 percent containment on a fire that's threatening about 300 homes in Sanpete County.


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Last year's congressional session, derided by many as the least productive ever, is about to get a run for its money.
Despite ending the year with a glimmer of bipartisanship after passing a budget agreement and defense bill, lawmakers and aides are predicting this year will be filled mostly with show votes and partisan bickering unlikely to abate until the midterm elections.
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If the first legislative week of 2014 is a guide, those skeptics could very well be proven right. The Senate fell into a familiar state of paralysis, unable to agree on reviving emergency unemployment benefits and instead shifting to insular debates over the chamber's leadership and procedure.
The 113th Congress was not always on track to set a new low bar for lawmaking. For a while it looked like the Senate might set a tone of consensus for the more rancorous House to follow. Indeed, it was barely six months ago that the Senate could brag of passing major legislation with strong majorities to reshape policy on immigration, agriculture and water infrastructure.
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Brendan Shanahan has been preparing for this moment his entire hockey life.
The day he would take over a franchise. The opportunity to make it his. The chance to take what he knows, what he inherently believes, what he has himself experienced and learned, and turn it into something.
He knew this kind of job was coming one day: He just didn't know where or when. And when you talk to Shanahan, and listen to him closely, you'll understand how long this apprenticeship has been.
When I asked him, before his Hall of Fame Induction, what influence coaches have had on him throughout his career, he flipped the question around without prodding. He talked about learning from the general managers he played for, which is unusual for a former athlete to say.
"I played for some great GMs," Shanahan said. "To start out with Lou (Lamoriello), have Ron Caron, Jimmy Rutherford, Glen Sather and Kenny Holland, I used to study them, watch what they did. I almost learned more from my general managers than I did from my coaches."
And when he started to talk about playing for Scotty Bowman and Mike Keenan, he almost immediately returned to talking about the influence GMs had on him in his career and the relationships that he has maintained through his NHL work with most of them since.
Shanahan now leapfrogs the general manager's post to become president of the Maple Leafs. The job is difficult and challenging — just like the one he left with the NHL — and he can't wait to roll up his sleeves and get going.
Shanahan seems perfectly comfortable working with general manager Dave Nonis. There is a mutual respect between the two men. Neither expect a problem here. "They'll make each the better," said a hockey man familiar with both … The betting on Randy Carlyle's future, though, is not so clear. Nonis' inclination was to keep the Leafs coach. Not sure Shanahan feels the same way … A New Jersey report suggests that Shanahan would like to see New Jersey's Peter DeBoer coaching the Leafs. Now that makes some sense. DeBoer is all about structure. His Devils team, with considerably less talent than the Leafs, will finish ahead of Toronto … Shanahan believes coaches can do more than even they believe sometimes: "I think it's a complete cop-out that you can't learn or be taught how to score at the NHL level," he told me. "I hear coaches say all the time that you can teach defence, but you can't teach offence. I don't buy that. I'm an example of the opposite. I worked on my shot. I was a student of the game. I watched what (Brett) Hull did and learned from that." … Shanahan was a teammate of Leafs assistant GM Claude Loiselle in his first two NHL seasons in New Jersey… The strangest aspect of the Trevor Linden appointment in Vancouver: The same ownership group that hired him as team president, bad-mouthed him as selfish and spoiled in his final playing days with the Canucks … Linden had other NHL opportunities, but kept telling those who asked "his heart was in Vancouver." … Just wondering: Will Mike Gillis work again as an NHL general manager?
The Sunday essay question: Who had a worse season, Carlyle or Dallas Eakins? … Memo to James Reimer. The sun will come up tomorrow: The three best goalies in the NHL this season, Tuukka Rask, Semyon Varlamov and Ben Bishop are not performing for the team that drafted them. All three were traded away and in Bishop's case, twice … Not only did the Leafs miss the playoffs but so did former Leafs Clarke MacArthur in Ottawa and Mikhail Grabovski in Washington … I do like the Maple Leafs core of Phil Kessel, James van Riemsdyk, Jonathan Bernier, Tyler Bozak, Morgan Rielly, Jake Gardiner going forward. Those are young players you can build around. The difficulty is building around while strapped down with long-term contracts to Joffrey Lupul, Dion Phaneuf and David Clarkson … The first-half, second-half thing with Phaneuf was curious. He was sound the first-half, in Team Canada long-shot consideration, and disastrous over the final quarter of the season … This is the first year since Calgary moved from Atlanta in 1980-81 that all three Western Canadian teams, the Flames, Oilers and Canucks failed to make the playoffs. In each of the past 34 seasons, at least one of those teams has been in … It's weird to see the Raptors officially in the playoffs and maybe even stranger that the Eastern Conference is completely open, save for the Miami Heat. The Pacers have lost themselves. What an opportunity there is for a team to get hot at the right time … He can play on my team: Shane Battier.
I would like to believe in R.A. Dickey. But every time I want to, he does something like lose to the Houston Astros at home. If you're Dickey, this Cy Young guy, don't you have to eat up the Astros, home or away, the way Yu Darvish did the other night … The Blue Jays starting pitching has improved from the disaster of a year ago. So far, after 11 games, the Jays are 21st in baseball in starting pitching, up from 29th. And just as important, they're ahead of the Yankees and Orioles in that department … Melky Cabrera has four home runs in 49 at bats after just three in 344 at bats last season with the Jays. Discuss amongst yourselves … Yes, we all want to believe in miracles as Al Michaels asked, and we all can't help but cheer for Dustin McGowan. For as long as this lasts … Does anybody understand what you can and can't do at home plate anymore? The home plate story has become the pass interference of baseball … Note to hockey poolers: The St. Louis Blues will end the season with seven of their top 12 forwards out with injury. Most are expected back for the playoffs, but how ready will they be? … Another note for poolers: Evgeni Malkin scored at 90-point pace during the season. If you believe in the Penguins, he goes early … If I'm picking first in a playoff pool I'm taking David Krejci of Boston. He has led the playoffs in scoring in two of the past three seasons … Watched the entire hour of SportsCentre on ESPN on Friday night and there was not a single mention of the NHL. Not a score. Not a highlight. Nothing. They did mention the Frozen Four NCAA championships in the 58th minute of the show, which ESPN happens to be televising.
Sidney Crosby is the easy vote for Hart Trophy. It probably should be unanimous this season. But who ends up as 2-3-4-5 on your ballot? I'm juggling Claude Giroux, Ryan Getzlaf, Varlamov, Patrice Bergeron, Jonathan Toews and I keep changing the order … As the 34th leading scorer among centres, Nazem Kadri has established himself offensively as a second-line centre. What he needs to do now: learn to play in the neutral zone and defensive zone and stop with the weak turnovers and the Leafs have a special player … A year ago this time, the Ottawa Senators and Leafs were teams on the rise in the East and Paul MacLean and Carlyle were coach of the year candidates. One year later, both coaches are in trouble and teams are in dubious shape … Loved Adam Jones' response to all the questions he was being asked about Masahiro Tanaka: "Why don't you ask Tanaka about me?" the three-time all-star outfielder said. "I'm the one who's been over here in the major leagues for a while. Congratulations, he did it over there. Don't make it like he's the dirtiest guy in the world. He was 24-0 — in Japan." … Last time I talked to Jones he took a shot at CFL football. "You know what's depressing? The CFL is depressing," he said. "All those players running around. And that field. What's with that field? They've got to do something about that." … Happy birthday to Brad (Motor City Smitty) Smith (56), Jiri Crha (64), Patrik Elias (38), Josh Gordon (23), Kent Manderville (43), Sergei Gonchar (40) and Harley Race (71) … And hey, whatever became of Cory Cross?
When the seven-game series with the Bruins ended a year ago, I asked a Leafs coach if the playoff work of Cody Franson was his coming out party as an NHL defenceman.
The coach looked at me and didn't exactly share my enthusiasm. "Watch his footwork," the coach said. "He needs to work on his footwork to get to the next level."
The next level didn't happen in this disappointing season for Franson and the Leafs. In fact, there was a regression in his game.
The footwork the coach alluded to is a constant talking point among NHL scouts: "Watch him," said a veteran scout. "He's big, but he's not physical. He's not a defensive defenceman, but he's not an offensive defenceman either. His side-to-side mobility is poor, which makes him vulnerable. He has a good shot but he doesn't take. So what is he?"
A restricted free agent with less trade value that he had a year ago.
In the 20 years Jim Nill worked in Detroit's front office, the Red Wings never missed the playoffs. But Nill wasn't certain that streak of good fortune would continue when he left to become general manager of the Dallas Stars.
But here is Nill and the Stars, surprisingly in the Western Conference playoffs, in his first season. Dallas had missed the post-season for the past five years before the hiring of Nill.
Among Nill's first deals — trading for young Tyler Seguin, who has blossomed into a first-line centre and in conjunction with winger Jamie Benn has elevated the Stars into Top 8 status in the West. The Top 8 is a significant number in another way: Both Seguin and Benn are top eight in NHL scoring.
Making the playoffs is extremely important in a city like Dallas, where the Stars often get trampled on by the Cowboys, forever playoff-bound Rangers and recent NBA champion Mavericks. For Nill and coach Lindy Ruff, what a terrific first season for a franchise in need of some good news.
When do we stop gooing over Tiger Woods?
This is the ninth straight Masters he will not win and at least this time he has a reasonable excuse: He's not playing.
Since Woods last won — and really dominated the tournament — Zach Johnson, Trevor Immelman, Angel Cabrera, Phil Mickelson (twice), Charl Schwartzel, Bubba Watson and Adam Scott have won golf's favourite tournament.
Woods has won 14 majors, but none since his U.S. Open victory in 2008. That's six years ago. His last win at The Masters was in 2005. His last British Open win was 2006.
He has had a remarkable run: But isn't it time to consider that health, mental health and age have all caught up to the greatest golfer of this generation and move on with our obsession?
He may not win another major and the longer this drought goes the more of a longshot the possibility of more Grand Slam titles become.


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Vice presidential debate's estimated price tag at Centre College: $3.3 million
Hosting the Oct. 11 vice presidential debate at Centre College could cost about $3.3 million, though the college's students and the public aren't expected to pay most of it.
Just to secure the event, Centre College had to commit a $1.65 million fee to The Commission on Presidential Debates, the non-partisan organization behind the quadrennial events. The commission will use that for its operations and to build a set inside the college's Norton Center for the Arts.
Separately, the college is paying for construction of facilities needed by the Democratic and Republican campaigns and the news media. It hopes to recoup much of that cost by billing them.
News organizations must pay from $40 for one desk space with electricity to $1,900 for a television network trailer parking space. The campaigns must pay $225 for a desk, $250 for a couch, $120 for a mini-fridge, $60 for a full-length mirror. Chairs are $12 with padding, $10 without.
The college also is planning a music festival and other campus events around the debate, with the assistance of at least one sponsor, AARP, the seniors advocacy group.
When Centre College hosted the vice presidential debate in 2000, it paid $550,000 to the commission and spent roughly that much again on its own, for a total of about $1.1 million, said Clarence Wyatt, history professor and special assistant to the college's president.
Though it's impossible to know what this year's debate will cost until it's over, based on experience, doubling the sum of the commission's fee seems as educated a guess as any, Wyatt said. Whatever can't be charged back to the campaigns or the media should be covered by the college's private fund-raising, which is off to a strong start, he said.
"Although we consider this debate to be part of the overall educational mission we're providing for our students, student tuition dollars do not go to pay for this," said Wyatt, who is co-chairman of the college's debate steering committee. "This will be paid for entirely outside of the regular operational budget of the college."
Meanwhile, the city of Danville expects to spend $50,000 to $100,000 on police security and improvements to roads, landscaping, street sign age and civic beautification around the campus, said city manager Ron Scott.
Some work, such as the road paving, would have happened regardless, but Danville sped it up to get it done by the debate, Scott said. Other public sprucing will be enjoyed long after Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan climb back on their buses and depart.
Danville, which already ranks high on many lists of terrific small towns, knows it will be in the national spotlight on Oct. 11, Scott said. Reporters and political types were praising Danville's charms after they attended the 2000 debate.
"It's going to help people have an extremely positive view of Danville, which will help us," Scott said. "People may decide to visit here or move here, or relocate or open a business here. So this seems like a worthwhile investment."
The U.S. Secret Service, teaming with Kentucky State Police, will be in charge of security. State police said they could not provide an estimate of their budget for the event. The Boyle County sheriff's office will provide several deputies, and the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government is expected to send horse-mounted officers to help with crowd control.


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The death of the book (as we know it) will hasten the death of the teacher (as we know it).
The thinking is simple: if you want kids to do well on an assessment, then you make sure you teach them so they can know how to do the things you're going to ask them to do on the test. And you practice in those conditions, over and over.
And then it occurred to me the other day that we surprisingly still do standardized testing with paper books. The grading is all scanned in, but there are more inefficiencies in the system. Why kill all those trees? Why not have the kids just take tests on the computer?
That question may take a few more years to resolve logistically, but very soon computer testing will become standard. And that shouldn't really seem like a big deal until you think about how we "replicate the standardized testing environment." If you are going to be assessed in a digital environment, wouldn't you want your learning to be in the same realm?
And if learning is based mostly in the digital environment, what role does that leave for the teacher? The teacher who battles for the attention of students who are progressively more emotionally invested in their consumptive technologies?
Not much.
My students are generally on their best behavior when they have a computer in front of them. They don't disrupt, they don't talk loudly, they keep their hands to themselves (thank God, finally!).
Of course that doesn't ensure effective instruction, or even actual learning. If we're trying to socialize competent, productive members of society, you need a human leading the instruction. Otherwise, the results will be less than ideal.
But that doesn't mean people won't try to use alternate methods, particularly in lean economic times. Human teachers are expensive, in terms of investment of time and money, and wouldn't it make sense to invest more in software (as it were), as opposed to hardware? If you had a program that could show the same test results as a human, wouldn't you hire the program? Some might even say it would be immoral to do anything less. Again, that's taking for granted that learning is only worthwhile if it can be represented by a number.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to numerical assessment of student learning. When you're trying to teach someone a piece of information, the most important question is not one the pupil asks, but the question a teacher asks to check for understanding.
The problem with this new approach to education is less in the principal, but more in the practice. Mahatma Ghandi's philosophy of non-violence is well known, but less attention is devoted to his reservations and distrust of technology. He uses the introduction of trains to India and the virulence of British colonialism as an example. Ghandi says it wasn't trains themselves that were evil, but they were transporters of evil across large distances. The rapid movement of goods was a catalyst for exploitation. Can anyone say cotton gin?
Student performance scores represent a technology that can tell us a lot about how to instruct our children. But it can also be used to transport the evil of greed. Once education is completely corporatized, and once the test performance of children is tied to profit, that's when the evil will be most easily transported. That's when schools will close and open like fast food franchises. That's when caring professionals will be cast out like "obsolete" autoworkers. That's when a generation of students will be taught to value test performance over knowledge.
But we're not there quite yet. We have to be willing to weather the storms of active minds, without relying on electronic pacifiers. We have to work to ensure the careers of educators are not determined merely by test data, but the activation of student thinking and learning. That's why we need to craft an educational philosophy informed, but not enslaved by data.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Standardized Teaching
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Thematic Concerns: Computer Love, Edjumucation, Lurnin, Politricks, What's Going On?
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Olivia Oguma Joins THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES at Bucks County Playhouse, 2/13-17
The Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) has announced today that Olivia Oguma (Eve Ensler's Emotional Creature) will join Adriane Lenox and Andrea McArdle for the limited engagement of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler and directed by Karen Carpenter. Oguma replaces Elizabeth Ashley who regretfully had to withdraw due to personal reasons and hopes to return to The Playhouse stage in the near future. Performances will be Wednesday, February 13 - Sunday, February 17 at the Bucks County Playhouse (70 South Main Street in New Hope, PA).
Olivia Oguma was most recently a member of the original six person cast of Eve Ensler's newest play Emotional Creature, which had its New York Premiere Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center. She also received a CT Critics Circle Award for her work in BFE at Playwrights Horizons and Long Wharf Theater.
An Obie Award-winning whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices, including a six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter, a Bosnian survivor of rape, and a feminist happy to have found a man who "liked to look at it." The Vagina Monologues is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.Earlier this month, BCP Producing Director Jed Bernstein announced that proceeds from this production will benefit Bucks County's only organization to support victims of domestic violence, A Woman's Place.
A Woman's Place (AWP) provides comprehensive free, private, and confidential service, support, education, outreach, and advocacy to victims of domestic and dating violence and their children and the community. $10 from each full priced ticket sold will be donated back to the organization.
Says AWP Executive Director Ifeoma Aduba, "I am in awe. A Woman's Place is beyond thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with such an incredible group as the Bucks County Playhouse and on a production as deeply powerful and important to women as The Vagina Monologues. I hope everyone comes out to celebrate Valentine's Week and this collaboration to benefit our Bucks County community. "
More information can be found at awomansplace.org.
The Vagina Monologues will play the following schedule: Wednesday, February 13 at 8:00 p.m., Thursday, February 14 at 8:00 p.m., Friday, February 15 at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, February 16 at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, February 17 at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday "Preview" tickets are $29 - $49, Thursday "Valentine's Day" Premium tickets are $40 - $65 (will include a glass of champagne or sparkling cider), and Friday - Sunday "Regular" tickets are $34 - $59. Group prices (10 or more) are 25% off. For full details, and to purchase tickets, visit bcptheater.org or call 215-862-2121.
Located 90 minutes from New York City, the Bucks County Playhouse opened in 1939 on the site of a grist mill dating from the late eighteenth century. Ironically, the structure was at that time in danger of demolition; however playwright Moss Hart and the local community rallied to save the building and re-opened it as a theatrical venue, which quickly became one of the country's most famous regional theaters, with a veritable who's who of American theatrical royalty including Kim Hunter, Helen Hayes, Kitty Carlisle, Colleen Dewhurst, Shirley Booth, Lillian Gish, June Lockhart, Grace Kelly, Robert Redford, Bert Lahr, Leslie Nielsen and Walter Matthau and remained in continuous operation until December 2010. Thanks to the Bridge Street Foundation, the non-profit family foundation of Kevin and Sherri Daugherty with Tanya Cooper as President, this beloved theatrical landmark was re-opened and celebrated on July 2, 2012, exactly 73 years and day from when it originally opened in 1939.
Olivia Oguma was most recently a member of the original six person cast of Eve Ensler's newest play Emotional Creature, Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Olivia also received a CT Critics Circle Award for her work in BFE at Playwrights Horizons and Long Wharf Theater. Broadway and National Tours: Les Miserables, Mamma Mia, A Christmas Carol, Disney's High School Musical (1st national tour). Off-Broadway: The Dispute (NAATCO), BFE (Playwrights Horizons), Sarah Plain & Tall (Lortel Theater). Regional: Emotional Creature (Berkeley Rep), Snow Falling On Cedars (Portland Center Stage), Where it Came From (O'Neill Theater Center), Honk (Two River Theater) Skin of our Teeth (Bristol Riverside), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Philadelphia Theater Co & Papermill Playhouse) TV/Film: Han on Season 2 of "The Big C", "As the World Turns", "All My Children", "Law & Order", "The New Electric Co", HallMark Hall Of Fame's "Flamingo Rising", Strangers with Candy the Movie.
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Monday, June 26, 2006
When I'm Not Running...
Come June 15 I am finished up with work for 8 weeks and am not running all day long. A few hours a day is sufficient, a few sessions of lifting a week, some recreational biking..this still leaves many hours of the day.
Both boys are active in football, baseball and basketball. Baseball has been their focus since April. I am at the fields 2-3 times a week watching their games or practices.
From June 15 to August 15 I take up the yard work: the mowing, the raking, the seeding, etc. I'm here and I enjoy it.
And the gardening. I love it. When we first moved here 15 years ago the whole area was all thick oak trees. We took down over 200 trees to put in the house and to give ourselves a yard. The trees were very very thick. I couldn't get the grass to grow, we had thousands of mushrooms and a ton of moss. It was a thick shady jungle. Over the years we have thinned out the trees for a bit more yard and room for me to plant a vegetable garden. We took down 20 trees this spring that were close to the house and we were afraid that in a storm they could do damage to the roof/siding. Now my shady hosta garden is out in the sun. I'll have to change that garden around to a sunny one.
Last year Ann helped me to put in a perennial garden up at the top of the driveway in the culdesac. It's about the only sunny area I have and it is probably owned by the township actually, as it is close to the right of way. I moved around a few tons of rock last summer and planted a bunch of perennials. They actually are coming around this year and looking pretty good.
Today I finally had more dirt delivered for the opposite side of the driveway. Now the fun begins! Tomorrow I'll level it all out and move around rock. I'll be building some muscle without dumbbells! I'm planning on doing bulbs in the fall so may leave it be for planting until then.
Let the fun begin!
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- Ellie said...
Hi, Julie, I've been thinking about you often ever since your 24-hour ultra. Thinking, if Julie can do that, I can do this... whatever "this" is at the moment.
Except I don't seem able to control my daggone appetite... I'd train so much better without the equivalent of a large bag of dog food attached to me.
- Susan said...
oh my goodness - i need a crazy running dog like that - i'm thinking of an australian shepherd . . . but your border collie looks like a great running dog. how many acres do you have? we are getting ready to build on 2.5 acres and are taking down many trees for the house.
- Cliff said...
That's a one big pile of dirt indeed...have fun.
- Jessi said...
Love how almost every photo includes a grey and white blur of your pups! You could publish a book: "Where's Topaz?"
Dogs are the best!
Gotta share this morning's running moment from California. I woke at 4am, did my RT, and then did a sunrise run to the cliffs near my home. It was a crystal clear summer morning at low tide, so I ran out on the tidepool rocks as far out as I could, to a point normally under sea water. I stood there in amazement, surrounded by sea anemone and starfish, the pelicans gliding 4 inches off the water in search of breakfast, the sun coming over the horizon. In the distance was Catalina Island, where I will run 50 miles this Jan.
From Minnesota to California, summer running is out of this world isn't it! As Julie says, "Run On."
:) phil
- Julie B said...
That sounds beautiful, Phil, thanks for sharing!!
Ellie-the food is the hardest part for me, too. It will forever be a battle, that is just fact for me.


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DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Syrian rebels are taking aim at the country's military bases in an effort to prevent the government from hitting them from the air, observers say.
The Daily Telegraph reported rebels had attacked four bases near Aleppo. They included an air base, an air intelligence base and two artillery bases. The effort against bases in the northern part of the country began Sunday in spite of a cease-fire, the British newspaper said.
State television reported an air force general was assassinated Monday in Damascus, the BBC reported. A statement from the rebels confirmed the killing and said a soldier specializing in intelligence, Sgt. Ahmed Abdul Haq, was also killed, the Telegraph said.
"In the context of operations against the criminal regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the Rukn al-Din Martyrs Battalion assassinated on Monday air force Gen. Abdullah Mahmud al-Khalidi," the rebels said.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 101 people, including eight children, were killed Tuesday. The day was the first after the cease-fire for the four-day Eid holiday.
The continued carnage led Qatar's prime minister to blast the Syrian government for waging what he called a "war of extermination" against its own people, CNN said.
The Qatar News Agency said Sheik Hamad bin Jassem al-Than told the al-Jazeera Arabic network Tuesday unnamed foreign governments were giving Assad a free hand to carry out a ruthless campaign against the rebellion.
"What is happening in Syria is not a civil war but genocide, a war of extermination with a license to kill by the Syrian government and the international community," said Hamad, who also acts as foreign minister.
"Everyone knows what the solution is and what the Syrian people want," Hamad added. "Everything that is happening now is a waste of time and just buying time to kill the Syrian people and to destroy the Syrian infrastructure."
Hamad said he sensed a growing sense of urgency among Arab nations to intervene in Syria despite maneuvering on Assad's behalf in the United Nations by allies China and Russia. He also said he did not count on the United States to take any action until after the November presidential election.


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James' definition of "religion that is pure and undefiled" heard in yesterday's epistle contrasts with the merely human "tradition of the elders" condemned by Christ in the Gospel. James writes:
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this:
to care for orphans and widows in their affliction
and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
"Orphans and widows" seem a curiously narrow field of concern for the practitioner of pure religion. Yesterday, my pastor commented on that. He said that in James' time, widows and orphans were the most defenseless members of society. Neither could support themselves, and in that society, neither had any to support them. Their condition placed them outside the normal protections of society. They were the helpless poor.
In our day, my pastor said, the unborn would be among our "widows and orphans".
This is not a terribly shocking insight to a well-formed Catholic. But it would have been shocking to hear from the lips of Rev. Mark Hession, the homilist at this weekend's funeral for Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Although he and other speakers mentioned the care of "widows and orphans" several times, none mentioned the unborn.
If anyone had mentioned the unborn as among the "widows and orphans" at that particular Mass, I expect they would have been widely condemned in some quarters. It would have been more than impolite. It would have been seen as a condemnation of the merely human tradition that equates pure religion with the lore and beliefs of a particular political culture. The tradition of the elders of that culture is what was celebrated that day. And celebrating that tradition meant the unborn had to remain with none to support them – not even the Church.
I've posted nothing about the death of Senator Kennedy. I think our chief duty to the dead is to pray for them and so I do.
I don't know anyone's heart but my own – and that imperfectly. What I can say is that I've done much evil and what good I've done hasn't been untainted by ulterior motivation. I haven't cared for the orphans and widows as much as I'm called to and I haven't kept myself unstained by the world. Our faith assures us that pretty much anybody can say the same thing. So dear family and friends – Don't celebrate me at my funeral. Pray for me – I'll need it.


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Now the Hulkster's lawyer says plans are in the works to sue everyone ever, and that the wrestler himself feels leaking the secretly-recorded tryst was the "ultimate betrayal."
The racy footage was captured six years ago and shows Hogan and Heather Clem, the wife of Hulk's then-BFF Bubba the Love Sponge, gettin' jiggy wit it, apparently with Bubba's full knowledge and approval. The camera that caught the action is placed high in a bedroom, and it's pretty obvious that Hogan wasn't aware of its presence.
As recently as Tuesday morning, Hulk was on the Howard Stern show vowing to find out who leaked the tape, indicating he didn't think Bubba had anything to do with it and saying the two were still good friends. He also explained the sexytime with his best friend's wife using a rather odd metaphor involving dirty clothes.
"Let's say I've been doing laundry, brother, for this person forever, and all of a sudden this person hates the way I do laundry," he told Stern, clearly referring to his ex-wife. "And that person says, 'You suck. I hate you … I hate the way you do laundry.'"
"But my buddy, you know, him and his girl say, 'Hey, you can do our laundry any time you want!'," he continued. "Finally after the person I was doing laundry with for millions and millions of years left, and all of a sudden there was nobody there to do laundry, I was depressed … I go to my buddy's house and he says, 'Hey man you can do this other person's laundry that I'm partners with.' I said, 'Sure.'"
Later on Tuesday, TMZ reported it had seen the whole tape — bit and pieces of which have been flying around the internet — and that after Hogan left the house, Bubba can be heard saying to his wife, "If we ever did want to retire, all we'd have to do is use this footage."
She replies, "You'd never do that," and Bubba reverses course and says he wouldn't, saying only "the biggest rat" would.
After TMZ published those details, Hogan called in to 'TMZ Live' and said he was "sick to his stomach" and warned Bubba, "If you had anything to do with this, that means we were never friends."
In the meantime, he's keeping his lawyer busy. Attorney David Houston has already contacted police about a possible criminal investigation, and a lawsuit is planned against Gawker.com (which posted an edited version of the tape last week) that will include charges of invasion of privacy, damage to reputation and damage to commercial viability.


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TRENTON � Michael Bracy, Jones County Schools Superintendent, said the school system isn�t what it used to be � in a good way � but a stigma may still remain.
TRENTON � Michael Bracy, Jones County Schools Superintendent, said the school system isn�t what it used to be � in a good way � but a stigma may still remain.
A few weeks ago, he was named one of three finalists for North Carolina Superintendent of the Year after being announced as the regional Superintendent of the Year.
A selection committee narrowed down eight finalists to three in October, followed by a series of interviews. The winners were announced during a ceremony in Goldsboro earlier this month.
The winner, Mark Edwards of Mooresville Graded School District, also won Superintendent of the Year in Virginia before coming to North Carolina.
�I knew I was up for some stiff competition,� Bracy said. �That�s why I was so excited to be nominated in the top three.�
Edwards may have taken top prize, but Bracy�s spot meant something deeper to Jones County.
�There has been and continues to be a negative perception about the county,� Bracy said. �One of the things that�s been powerful (is) we focus on academics, but just as important as academics has been building relationships with students.
�That�s helped.�
He said five years ago, parents didn�t want to send their children to Jones Middle School because a bad reputation about the school spread via word of mouth.
Today, enrollment has increased, graduation rates have increased and Jones Senior High School is a top performing school, Bracy said, which are the first steps towards shattering the negativity associated with the rural education system that educates 1,251 students.
Jones Middle Principal Michael White said enrollment at his school is rising.
�The perception is so negative about the middle school and the county in general,� he said. �But I think this helps break some of the perceptions.�
Bracy taught White in the Bertie County Schools system in Bracy�s first year out of Atlantic Christian College, now Barton College.
�I�m really proud of him because I�ve known him for so long,� White said.
He is serving his sixth year at JCS, starting as assistant superintendent in 2008. Bracy is working on his educational doctorate at UNC Wilmington, usually attending evening classes.
He�s spent the bulk of his career in small counties.
�I think the smallness is a benefit,� he said about Jones County. �Central office doesn�t have the layers of people taking care of different things, we do it all. Sometimes that�s a benefit because stuff doesn�t get lost. We know it�s going to be taken care of.�
The connection he�s made with people is worthwhile, knowing most faces at the schools.
He visited the STEM lab at Jones Middle and was surprised when he didn�t recognize two students. It turned out they were both new to the campus; one arrived there less than two weeks ago.
�We are a small county,� Bracy said. �The neat piece about this experience and this opportunity to serve as superintendent in a small district is the people.�
He credited his administrative and teaching staff for his accomplishment.
�This award is not about me, and I want to make sure that�s clear,� he said. �This is about the great work that�s happening with principals, with teachers to make it happen. They get it done and they make me look good. I don�t want to short side that.�
Bracy said that he hopes his students learn success knows no status, which is very relevant to JCS students because 82 percent of them are on free or reduced lunch. The county is deemed as a �low-wealth district,� according to Bracy.
�I want them to set high expectations for themselves,� he said. �Don�t let where they live or the circumstances they�re experiencing now affect their life goals.�
Eighth grader Alana Marshall transferred into Jones Middle this year and called it an improvement from her previous school.
�The students at my other school didn�t care about what they did or whose feelings they hurt. The staff there didn�t care much about their students,� she said. �When I moved over to Jones Middle, everybody is just so welcoming and nice and the superintendent he seemed very sweet, too.�
Bracy said relations between the county commissioners and school board have improved since he became superintendent, and the two entities are hoping for major facility work.
�He has the respect of his board members, employees and students,� said JCS board member Mary Hall. �He�s carrying out his goals. He is on the right track, and he�s doing his job very well.�
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