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Richmond Heights Superintendent of Schools Robert J. Moore II said he plans to examine the report with teachers and administrators and come up with a plan to improve the results. The district only passed seven of the state's 24 standards and its students often scored low in statewide tests in math, science and reading.
This year's state report cards have no simple answer for how students in individual schools or districts performed last year.
While districts would receive an overall rating in the past, the state is skipping that this year.
Just as a student is graded in each subject, but not altogether, each school and district was graded in up to nine categories, depending on what grades the school covers.
The state has wiped out the old ratings like "continuous improvement" and "academic watch," which were hard to understand. In their place will be the traditional A to F grades for each category, similar to student report cards.
State school board member Tom Gunlock, chairman of the committee that developed the new report cards, said he hopes the new format will better highlight the strengths and weaknesses of schools and districts.
The previous cards, he said, often let shortcomings go unnoticed.
The report cards include Performance Index, a measure of how
well students scored on state tests, as well as a few measures of
value-added, a calculation that shows how much students progressed
academically over the year. Many districts fared poorly in the "value added" area.
Richmond Heights Local Schools
The full results for the district are available here.
Richmond Heights Local Schools met 7 out of 24 possible standards. Its highest grades were Cs in the four-year graduation rate, improvements in the lower 20 percent scoring students on statewide tests and improvements among disabled students.
The district scored Fs in the "standards met" and the "annual measurable objectives" categories, which measure the academic performance of specific groups of students, such as racial and demographic groups, compared with the collective performance of all the students in the state.
The score breaks down test results for reading, math and science by grade.
The best scores for reading came from fourth-grade pupils with an average of 96, the worst scores were from fifth-grade students with an average score of 59.
Math scores showed a similar range, with a high score of 80 in the math section of the 10th-grade Graduation Test, down to 33 in the eighth-grade math test.
"We are targeting areas that teachers need to hone in on, mostly math, science and reading, which is a common problem across the state," Moore said. "We plan to have after-school tutoring for children in reading and math starting in October.
"We need to teach a section, test on it and see how the students do, then reteach it if they did not do well," he said.


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The Suppleness of Shame: Jeff Looks at Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 4
Posted by: Jeff Lester on April 30, 2008
Categories: Reviews
Tags: Fourth World Omnibus, Jeff, Kirby
The fourth and final volume of Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus suggests the editorial staff at DC are either far ballsier, craftier, or more ignorant of the material than I thought: although printing four titles in the order of their publication (instead of grouping them by title) did a superb job of initially highlighting Kirby's protean imagination, reading the first 250 pages of the fourth volume is like watching the weakening death throes of a formerly-powerful animal: it's awesome in a truly depressing way.
The schema had been problematic before Volume Four: the arrangement strips the first seven issues of Forever People–basically one sprawling epic on its own–of any momentum, putting seventy pages of material between one cliffhanger and another. But considering the second volume, where this frustrated the most, also showcased a creator working at arguably the highest and final peak of his long career, the frustration was easier to dismiss. And although the problem disappears entirely in the final volume–both the Forever People and New Gods end in the first seventy-eight pages, leaving the final six issues of Mister Miracle to run consecutively–a far worse one takes its place: I would rank those final six issues of Mister Miracle as among some of the worst things Kirby's done.
Now, a statement like that requires a buttload of caveats–not only is there a ton of Kirby material I haven't read, but I'd rank the worst Kirby material as far above the worst material other writers and artists have produced in the field. Indeed, taken on their own, the issues reprinted consecutively in this Omnibus have a ton of charm. One of the pleasures of late-period Kirby is recognizing the familiar formulas while still being surprised by whatever crazy-ass shit the man decides to throw in there–it's a lot like watching a great blues guitarist tackle a classic piece. So, for example, I initially was delighted by Mister Miracle #14 where Mister Miracle and Oberon go walking in the woods and randomly encounter a crazed Satanic cult. It follows a standard pulp plot of "high-tech crooks posing as supernatural forces to scare off trespassers" but Kirby cranks the whole thing up past 11: Satan gets mentioned as often as three times a page in the first half of the book, the cultists wear impressively grotesque masks, and until Mister Miracle does his patented next-to-last page reveal of his face (and a panel or two of P.R. man Ted Brown smoking a pipe), the most normal looking person in the book is Oberon the dwarf. The whole thing is a bit like someone had tricked Fellini into directing an episode of Scooby-Doo.
Unfortunately, just three issues later, Mister Miracle, Big Barda, and protege-in-tow Shilo Norman check into a mysterious hotel after their car breaks down and what follows hits most of the same beats as issue #14. Considering that issue comes on the heels of a story where Jack uses the infamous "it was all a dream–or was it?" cliche, the middle stretch of Omnibus Vol. 4 reads like a talented but inattentive creator running out the clock. And even before then, I'll admit Kirby had already turned Mister Miracle into pretty rote stuff, despite tossing in first Big Barda and then the rest of the Female Furies as a supporting cast. Every issue opens up with Mister Miracle performing a trick while everyone around him freaks out, and nearly every fight scene features a moment focusing on on a villain performing a can't-miss killing move on M.M. only to then look around in dismay when the smoke has cleared and there's no body to be seen. (And later issues have variations on the same panel where Scott Free removes his mask at the end and we see the circuitry he's built into it–it actually looks more like Scott has sneezed up pieces of a mother board to me). In my long-ago review of Vol. 1, I'd suggested that Mister Miracle represented a dream image of Kirby himself as creator and freelancer–"a man raised in the violent war-state of Darkseid's brutal society who is not himself violent or brutal and who supports himself and enlightens others by freeing himself again and again" is the way I put in my review. If so, perhaps it's not wrong to see in those final issues a frustration on Kirby's part with the Mister Miracle concept as the cancellation of his other Fourth World books revealed that self-image for the dream it was: in each issue Mister Miracle's victory feels a little more hollow and far-fetched ("I suppose you that you have a gimmick that opened a slit in its hull!" is one of the more detailed explanations given for a deathtrap escape, to which Mister Miracle helpfully clarifies, "That's how I escaped!") until in the last issue he doesn't really win at all. The last issue of Mister Miracle–and what Kirby must've thought was to be the last issue of the Fourth World Saga–ends with Darkseid summing up (the issue and perhaps the entire saga), "It had deep sentiment–yet little joy. But–life at best is bittersweet!" All things considered, it's actually a pretty cheery take on things from a man helpless to stop his epic vision from being cut short. And if that had been the end of things, the end of the Omnibus, this review would go on to chastise DC for cynically choosing the publication format they did, for frontloading the great stuff at the beginning and sticking the bad stuff at the end and keeping readers from having a real choice as to what material they could buy.
But, of course, that wasn't the end for the Fourth World Saga. In 1984 and '85, Kirby was given the chance to come back and create an ending in the form of The Hunger Dogs, an original graphic novel, along a forty-seven page prelude titled "Even Gods Must Die!" that bridged the original stories and the graphic novels. We get apologies for the material both in the front with Paul Levitz's intro ("[F]or if the Hunger Dogs is neither the ending Jack originally hoped to do nor crafted with the same sure hand as had a decade earlier, it is still noble to try[.]") and Mark Evanier's afterword ("Jack gave it his all. Jack gave everything he did his all but he really put his heart and soul into this one, and ordinarily it would have been more than enough…but with all the problems, especially the short page count, it wasn't enough," as well as "Finally, The Hunger Dogs was published. I wish I could tell you that it was everything Kirby fans had been expecting by way of a Fourth World conclusion, but it really wasn't that. For one thing, the Fourth World wasn't concluding. For another, Jack still didn't have the thousand or so more pages it might have taken for him to build his story to the kind of climax he'd imagined.") It's safe to say the current take on this final work is not favorable.
And that's a shame. Because I found those final hundred-plus pages to be absolutely brilliant, some of the most stunning stuff Kirby's ever done. I've had The Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 4 for maybe three weeks now, and every night for the first two I'd read those last 100-plus pages again and again.
It's probably because I didn't follow Kirby after he left Marvel in the late '70s, but "Even Gods Must Die!" shocks me in its departure from earlier Kirby work: It's brasher, bolder, nearly a caricature of itself, but Kirby reframes action in ways I hadn't seen in his work since the '40s and '50s: circular inset panels, arrhythmic action scenes with arrows, confrontations where the panel borders run diagonally, making the tension of the scene literally explicit. Months ago, when reading Tezuka's Buddha, I found myself in awe of Tezuka's willingness to experiment with a page so late in his career and wondered if doing so made him a better artist than Kirby. Here, if only for a few pages, is Kirby breaking his patterns, moving finally from the blues to jazz.
Even better, the change suits the story: the circular panels reinforce the circularity of the story as Orion finally brings the battle to Darkseid, and father and son battle as a prophecy has foretold. The characters themselves are encased in circular panels, at many points appearing trapped, just as they're stuck in the cyclical nature of myth. This is something Kirby nicely underlines in his writing–in the early chapters of the New Gods, Darkseid is likened to a tiger, but in "Even Gods Must Die," that same comparison is made about Orion. If Mister Miracle was Kirby as he imagined himself to be in the '70s, the Orion of the Omnibus' final pages is the man Kirby finally realized himself to be: a man incapable of giving up, powered by a terrifying, inexhaustible anger, an anger that allows him to claw his way to the truth.
What really killed me was the scene in which Darkseid, after watching the behavior of the revivified men he's gained the power to resurrect, says to a lackey, "They don't fully return…do they?" If you think about it, that's a tremendously ballsy thing for an author to put in a story he's finishing after a decade-long absence. Kirby is speaking to the audience through Darkseid and openly telling them: "You know what? This doesn't work." In that regard, what seems like every other faux-Stan Lee title you've ever read, "Even Gods Must Die!" is in fact an apt summation of the story's point: Things are supposed to end. For most of us, that's a hard-earned truth. For a superhero comic, that's heresy.
Like "Even Gods Must Die!", The Hunger Dogs is a victory stolen from the jaws of defeat and loss, and the irony is this victory is accomplished by open acknowledging defeat and loss. In The Hunger Dogs, Darkseid sees his coming obsolescence in the face of The Micro-Mark, the digitized destroyer that is the brutal male successor to the kindly Mother Box. In a staggering page, Darkseid listens to the Micro-Mark's inventor crow about the passing of Himon and wordlessly realizes that his own time has also passed. "His day is over, great Darkseid!" the collaborator boasts. "Regard him as a pitiful, harmless object! This is Micro-Mark's hour! There's no need for intrigue or great strivings–the cosmos lies open to button-pushing babes!"
(Oh, and by the way? Holy. Fucking. Shit. It's one thing for writers, artists, photographers, and musicians these days to complain about the digital age having opened doors in their fields at the cost of lowered standards. It's another thing entirely to do it in nineteen-eighty-fucking-five. Fans of the prescient will also appreciate how both Darkseid and Lightray use suicide bombers to take out their enemies, the planet-destroying dirty bombs planted surreptitiously on New Genesis, and how Highfather turns such a terrorist attack back in on itself.)
I was raving to Graeme about all this the other day and he put it best: The Hunger Dogs is the work of an old man, possessing an old man's wisdom and an old man's sorrow. (I don't want to give away the identity of the Micro-Mark's creator, but I will say it's pretty easy to see past the origin presented and infer disgust on Kirby's part at the way the baby boomers–his beloved New Gods–grew up and sold out.) And while Kirby may have dreamed of an epic finish to his epic saga (the conclusion he sketches out here has to settle for evoking Moses leading his people out of Egypt), I found the climax to The Hunger Dogs more satisfying, truer to life: some things change, and many things don't. Although we're told Darkseid takes control of Apokolips again, our last glimpse of him is a figure made lonely and small by distance and time: even through the anger, the scorn, and the violence, Kirby evinces pity for the most horrible of his characters.
It's a good lesson to take from the Fourth World Omnibus, for although these four volumes are a tremendous achievement and will occupy a prized place on my bookshelf, it's meaningful they sit below Buddha, the three thousand page epic Tezuka created at roughly the same time in the manner the artist wanted, at the pace he preferred (collected in hardcover in America, it should be pointed out, before The Omnibus). It achieves very little to focus only on the shame of such a thing. And yet, to look at the whole of Kirby's achievement and see only the wonder, and not the warning, would only compound the shamefulness further: the compromises presented in the final volume of The Fourth World Omnibus mirror the compromises a reader must suffer in seeing such Excellent work simultaneously transcend, and fall victim to, the paucity of its era.
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Jeff, You are now free to enter the idiot free zone.


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Ah, May. That month when we gather our graduates in their mortarboards to listen to a speech they will forget before they have left the venue, diplomas in hand.
We congratulate them, throw parties for them, shake their hands, then smack them upside the head with the reality that we don't have any jobs for them.
Take these recent news bits:
- "Job picture looks bleak for 2013 college grads" (Yahoo!)
- "Class of 2013 likely to face tough start in tight job market" (CNBC)
- "Staggering number of college graduates working for minimum wage" (Huffington Post)
Or how about this from Reuters?
- "More than 40 percent of recent U.S. college graduates are underemployed or need more training to get on a career track, a poll released on Tuesday showed.
The online survey of 1,050 workers who finished school in the past two years and 1,010 who will receive their degree in 2013 also found that many graduates, some heavily in debt because of the cost of their education, say they are in jobs that do not require a college degree."
Now before your college graduate puts his diploma (and/or his head) in the toilet and flushes, consider this:
- "Job prospects brighter for 2013 college graduates" says GreenvilleOnline, a Gannett company.
Or this:
- "Job market looks fair for 2013 graduates" says UPI.com.
So who are you going to believe? I suggest nobody.
CNBC reports that "employment areas with the greatest demand for this year's graduates include business, engineering, computer sciences and accounting."
Well, OK, but CNBC also printed a story with the headline "Why businesses prefer a liberal arts education."
Geez, what's a gal in a cap and gown supposed to believe?
Well, here's what I believe, based on years of living and working and a couple of years of teaching writing at a local college.
I have students in my class to whom I would hand my house keys and checkbook and say, "Take care of things for me." Then there are those who I wouldn't let wash my car, or my dog (if I had one).
It's all about self, as in who you are, who you think you are and how you present yourself.
My students are in the process of presenting their final papers, supposedly a culmination of what they have done all semester. (I'm not that naïve. I know some of them started the paper last week.)
Here's what I tell them: "If you stand in front of the class with your head down and mumble, don't expect a good grade. Get up there, hold your head high, use a voice that reaches the back of the room and sell us on what you've done. If you're excited about it, we will be too."
Forget plastics. If Dustin Hoffman partied in my backyard in 2013, that's what I'd tell him.
I'd also tell him to ditch the cell phone if he has an interview. Here's a quote from an article in USA TODAY that I read this week: "Human resource professionals say they've seen recent college graduates text or take calls in interviews, dress inappropriately, use slang or overly casual language and exhibit other oddball behavior."
Unless you are expecting Bill Gates to call with an offer to make you his No. 2 man, leave the stinking phone in the car. Really.
I know this is difficult for a 20-something to digest, but you can live for an hour without it.
Leave Mom and Dad home too. Tie them up if you have to.
The same USA TODAY article told of a Dad who went to an interview with his son and of another who called an employer after his son got a job offer to negotiate for more money for the kid.
No. No. No.
And (I can't believe I am writing this.) leave the family pet home too. The article said someone who had an interview for a buyer's job at American Eagle brought her cat along. She plunked the cat and its crate on the interviewer's desk and played with the furry creature every so often.
So take my advice, sell yourself like you were selling ice cubes to Eskimos. And if your real self is weird, become someone better for an hour.
There are jobs to be had. They just don't go to guys with cell phones on their ears or women with a cat in a cage.
NANCY ESHELMAN: firstname.lastname@example.com


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FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan — Donna's Donuts closed for the night at 10 p.m. Monday, but the shop's employees weren't going anywhere.popular Polish pastry.
"Our production's going through the night," said Rachel Zimmerman, who works at the shop on West Bristol Road near Fenton Road.
With sugar and supplies everywhere, Zimmerman said the staff is trying to bake enough paczki for 400 pre-orders and much more to come.
"It's fun, but if things don't go right, it can be stressful," Zimmerman said about the task of preparing for the huge demand.
The operation has gone smoothly so far, and from Sunday through Monday afternoon, the shop sold 590 dozen.
That's well ahead of last year's pace, when Donna's recorded total paczki sales of 770 dozen.
The goal for this year was 1,000 dozen, and owner John Gibbons said Monday the final number will probably far exceed that.


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[Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Douglas Gibson's new book Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others, running every Friday. The following is from the chapter on Greenpeace founder, writer, and Very Merry Man, Robert Hunter.]
That sounds like Bob, all right, with only the infectious little hehheh- heh chuckle missing at the end. But that's only a tiny part of this guy's life. Let's try to do better, raising awareness of a man who would have been an icon in many other countries, but who was much too Canadian to take himself seriously, even when Time magazine in 2000 named him as one of the century's Top Ten Eco-Heroes. Others on the world list — like Rachel Carson and Jacques Cousteau — are probably better known all over Canada than he ever was.


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Infinite Bikini, New Fitzgerald
July 31, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
July 31, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Ginny | July 31, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Where do you FIND this stuff? Genius, I tell you. I'm buying new books (or bikinis) today. I've been clashing all summer.
Jeff | August 1, 2012 at 7:32 am
This is really ridiculous.
Bikinis | March 6, 2013 at 5:17 pm
Matching your bikini to your book cover, hilarious! This is going to create a whole new fashion trend on the beaches of Brazil.


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While three teams punched tickets to the Hudson County Boys Basketball Tournament's semifinals next week, one quarterfinal matchup has yet to be decided.
That's because play was halted in the second quarter of Hudson Catholic's quarterfinals matchup with Memorial of West New York last night after the Hawks' 6-foot-9 foward Michael Young shattered the glass backboard on one the baskets at Hudson Catholic High School with a dunk at the 7:07 mark of the second quarter. Hudson Catholic, the tournament's top seed, was leading 37-8 at the time of the stoppage.
The school's athletic director Terry Matthews said the glass will be replaced today and the game will be played at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Matthews was unsure if state rules mandate that the game be restarted or if action can be picked up in the second quarter.
No one was injured by the shattered glass, Matthews added.


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LAKE GEORGE - The Lake George Association asks the public to be on the lookout for yellow iris, a highly invasive species currently in bloom.
Though pretty, yellow iris is known as a "botanical bully" because it is poisonous and spreads aggressively. Roots can connect hundreds of these plants, choking native wetland plants, restricting water flow and degrading habitat for fish, plants and other animals. Its seeds spread long distances along the edges of ponds, rivers, streams and lakes.
It is not simply a yellow version of native blue flag iris.
While it is widely sold legally in New York, Vermont recently passed a law banning its sale. A bill recently passed in the New York Assembly would help the state Department of Environmental Conservation fight invaders like yellow iris.
"We are anxiously awaiting the passage of the bill in the New York State Senate, where it is currently on the floor calendar," LGA Executive Director Walt Lender said.
"If you find yellow iris on your property, please remove it," said Emily DeBolt, LGA director of education. "Please contact the LGA at 518-668-3558 if you see this plant on other property on Lake George or its tributaries. If you see it elsewhere in the Adirondack Park, contact the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program, at 518-576-2082."
To remove the plant, follow these steps:
-Wear gloves, as the plant's resins can irritate the skin.
-Clip flower heads prior to seed development.
-Pull and dig out plants, being careful to completely remove all of the roots. Any roots remaining in the ground can grow new plants.
-Cut plants standing in water below the waterline.
-Place all plant pieces in plastic bags, and take the bags to a sanitary landfill site. Do not compost.


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Kentuckians in Music
Professor and Musicologist Ronald Pen
Lexington, KY
Who Ronald Pen received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1987, writing his dissertation on the biography and works of American balladeer and composer John Jacob Niles. Ron has continued his research in the area of American vernacular music with an emphasis on the music and culture of the Southern Appalachian region. He has written book reviews, articles, forewords, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and documentary films focusing on topics such as shape note hymnody; early folk music collections; fiddle tunes; and traditional, country, and bluegrass musical styles. Ron was elected to the board of the Society for American Music and served as both program chair (Madison, WI) and local arrangements chair (Lexington, KY) for annual conferences. In addition, he serves as the book review editor for the journal American Music. He is an associate professor at the University of Kentucky and the director of its John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, which serves as a repository for research materials and actively supports the dissemination of scholarly research in American music. Ron's own ongoing scholarship includes completion of a book on Niles for the University Press of Kentucky and research on the history of old-time music and early folk music collections. At UK, he has received both the Great Teacher Award and the Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
"My father played a Hohner Echo model harmonica, and I clearly remember taking it and playing the Beethoven 'Ode to Joy' theme on it. I had never touched a harmonica before, and I am not sure how I knew that melody—obviously my parents had played it on the record player. Somehow I just knew how to play it, though.
"A story on the exact moment at which I decided to become a musician and headed down that particular path:
"I was in an English literature class and had waited until the last moment to write a paper on T.S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland.' I was in trouble, but so was a friend of mine who played electric guitar. So the two of us, in desperation, decided to make a musical 'translation' of 'Wasteland.' After an all-nighter, we submitted the tape cassette to our professor, who looked at the assignment oddly but reserved judgment until after he listened to it and played it for the composition teacher at school. I received an A. Pushed in that direction, I took a music course and found myself composing 'Water Music' for a large chamber group, several dancers, several narrators, a tape of the waterfall behind our hippie farmhouse that I had altered with a synthesizer, a light show, and several performers with squirt guns. A prestigious New York contemporary music performance ensemble was in residence at the school, and the leader of this group had just been awarded a Pulitzer Prize. This group, along with musicians and friends from the university, performed the 'Water Music' piece one evening at Lee Chapel. When 'Water Music' began, it started raining, and you could really hear it on the chapel's roof. When the piece ended, the rain ceased. At that point I knew I was going to be a musician. It was later that I decided to become a musicologist.
"Various musicians and musical styles have influenced me at various stages of my life. As a child, I was influenced by Mrs. Mary Maj, whom I had for eight years of elementary music. I wrote my first piece of music for her—'Für Mrs. Maj,' patterned on 'Für Elise'—at age 6. I had a piano teacher, Robert Metzler, who came to my home every week for 14 years to teach me piano lessons. He was a hard disciplinarian, and I did not always love piano, but he persevered and so did I. My high school music teacher, John Austin, was inspirational, and I patterned my aspirations on him in so many ways. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he was an imaginative composer with an open mind who taught glee club, music history to uninterested high school seniors, and composition to me in private sessions. His willingness to listen to Jefferson Airplane as a classical musician made me realize that it was possible to span different styles of music in an open-minded way. In college, I was privileged to be a large fish in a small pond. When I finally fell into music as a possible major, I took all the courses I could with the two faculty members who comprised the music faculty. Robert Stewart taught me composition and 20th-century music. He was a brilliant musician and like a father to me. Jim Cook was a wild-man-as-professor, a Juilliard-trained pianist who directed men's glee club and piano and taught most of the music history. Jim opened my eyes to all the possibilities of music and was a close friend. He had a sense of the zany; he cultivated my sense of humor in music and made me appreciate Frank Zappa. In graduate school, composer Robert Lombardo taught me the appreciation of a sense of line—as only an Italian composer understands. Don Ivey was my mentor in all things, and he confirmed my musical and musicological instincts; following in his steps, I began specializing in Appalachian music and jazz rather than purely 'art' music. I became an Americanist. Along the way there were countless others who directed my path and influenced me: composer Russell Wood, remarkable church musician Robert Lodine, and then all those musicians from whom I learned to play informally—traditional musicians like Marion Sumner, Lee Sexton, Clyde Davenport, Rich Kirby, Jean and Edna Ritchie, Don Pedi, Bruce Greene, Homer Ledford, and on and on....
"How can I describe their influence? When one is ready for something—whether one knows it or not—there is often someone at hand with enough power to change your directions or make you recognize and admit what you only suspected. Those are the influences that slowly uncovered layers of my being until I became who I am."
"I work closely with a community of traditional musicians spread throughout the Appalachian region. I also work closely with colleagues in the university, particularly the musicology division, the Appalachian Studies faculty, the staff of the Little Fine Arts Library, and the community surrounding the Gaines Center. Outside the university, I also collaborate closely with music and community organizations such as Appalshop in Whitesburg and the Hindman Settlement School.
"The hardest part for me is the disparity between what I want to do and what I am capable of doing. I find myself saying yes to so many things that seem wonderful, so many things that I would like to assist with, so many things that would make the world a better place—but then I don't have enough time to complete the tasks that I have already consented to undertake. I have a substantial amount of writing and research as a senior editor of the new edition of the American Groves Encyclopedia, the book review editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music, president of the South-Central Chapter of the American Musicological Society, and co-editor of the Folk Music in North America series for Scarecrow Press. These are all outside commitments. In addition I have all my university-oriented commitments and teaching. I am also in the 'un-writing' or editing stage of a book that I have taken 20-some years to complete on John Jacob Niles, as well as the final production stage of an edition of the Kentucky Harmony and Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony—so there are two books dangling close to completion. The hardest sort of work for me is completion of grants, and I am in pursuit of a large NEH [National Endowment for the Humanities] Challenge Grant that is in its third year now.
"As of last year, the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music is a formal part of my teaching/service/research assignment. The center was just an idea for many years, but it became a reality about eight years ago when we acquired the physical space in the Little Fine Arts Library and acquired the Wilcox Collection. Since that time, I have nurtured the center as a labor of love. The center is extraordinary as a collaboration between the College of Fine Arts and the university libraries; both the School of Music and the Little Fine Arts Library have been very supportive.
"I view the center's mission as twofold: archival/preservation and programmatic. There is the public performance face of the center and there is the more internalized scholarly face. I have developed a very fine traditional music concert series called 'Appalachia in the Bluegrass' and have sponsored and hosted various symposia, colloquia, and concerts. The archival aspect has resulted in the acquisition of several wonderful collections, including the John L. Lair Research Collections, the Glenn and Helen Wilcox Collection, the Charles Faber Collection of Recorded Sound, the Temple Adath Israel Centennial Collection, and the WoodSongs Archives—a wonderful ongoing collaboration with the WoodSongs radio program.
"I have been involved with the Niles Center from its beginning to the present. I have been its only employee and its only staff member. I hope to leave it to a new director who will have the firm foundation of wonderful spaces, strong research collections, collection acquisition endowments, and endowed programmatic activities. The center is pretty close to this ideal at present, lacking one critical grant and one bequest to become somewhat self-sustaining. I want to leave the center behind as a testament to one of my favorite maxims: The power that rises from the soil closest to home has the most power to affect us. We need to preserve and celebrate our own music, the music that springs from our own cultural roots."
"I see very little separation between my work and my life. I am working almost every waking hour, but it is hard to quantify all my activity as work. Even a recreational exercise like watching a film in the evening over dinner becomes work in the way that I observe the soundtrack, which can lead to teaching/research observations or can lead to thesis work by graduate students. Work and pleasure are not mutually exclusive terms, though there is certainly a job hidden in my work (meetings, reports, etc.). So, how many hours do I work a day? I am at school usually four to five days a week and arrive by 6:15 a.m. and leave usually about 5:00 p.m. But this is only a general schedule; I am frequently in town for concerts, jam sessions, and meetings, and many days are actually 16-hour days. My weekends are often flexible, but I do have many musical and work activities that occupy that time.
"A lot of my work time is in my office at the computer, whether at home or in the Library or in the School of Music Building. I am in the classroom very little in terms of actual teaching hours—but these hours are the focus of much work. I am working at the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music in the Fine Arts Library often.... My time spent playing fiddle or singing shape note music is likewise work, but this is more open-ended—out on porches, around bonfires, at square dances, in churches, etc."
How "I greatly rely on my computer. I do much of my work on Microsoft Word, classes are now augmented with PowerPoint, I use e-mail extensively, I use the web a great deal, I rely on print materials from the Little Fine Arts Library, I use a number of Mac products every day: iTunes, iPod, etc. My musical instruments are tools—my fiddle is the one most often out of the case. Homer Ledford once showed me his old pocketknife and said that 'This is my workshop.' Like Homer, I find I use my pocketknife daily for a number of small but indispensable jobs."
Why "The relationship with people is the most rewarding facet of the job: sharing music with people, sharing in the learning process with students, experiencing little epiphanies each day in the company of other people. It is also very rewarding when one of the long-term projects comes to fruition: when the Niles Gallery is packed for a concert, when a conference convenes and runs smoothly, when a CD is released, when a book is published, when a film appears on KET. The reward is in seeing the tangible product actually appear after much preparation."
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"Preparation for musicology requires a pretty standardized course of study that generally takes the form of a B.A. in music, a master's degree in music history, and a Ph.D. in musicology. That preparation includes acquiring the ability to perform on an instrument or instruments, play in ensembles, comprehend the theoretical framework of harmony and counterpoint, acquire a background in music history, acquire foreign language competency, familiarize oneself with all forms of research materials, and become acquainted with grant writing and other forms of economic support. There are different branches of musicology that require more specialized training, whether it involves archiving, fieldwork, performance practice, or pedagogical studies.
"There is a certain passion that is essential to driving a person through the long and tortuous path to a position as a musicologist. This is a pretty esoteric job that requires a lot of specialized training. It is not a short path, so you need to burn with desire to transcend all the speed bumps. Understanding why you want to do it, understanding what you hope to contribute to the world, provides meaning and helps you to transcend the trials, such as qualifying exams and preparation of a thesis, and disappointments. To be truly joyous in a job, the job and your life must essentially be the same. You need to really know yourself to know whether you possess the requisite strengths that complement the demands of musicology.
"Imagination, persistence, idealism, creativity, ability to communicate articulately in both written and spoken form, sense of drama and good vocal production, love of music, organizational skills, language facility, ability to read music and 'hear' it internally, technological competency, personal warmth and charm, firmly grounded in English writing and editing skills, a liberal outlook and flexible world view, and the ability to make music and perform competently—these are all qualities that would benefit a career in musicology."
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Welcome back to Cinejabber, your weekly open space to kick around whatever film-related thoughts you have on your mind. Who knows, some of them may even concern films that have nothing to do with Joss Whedon.
What, if anything, are you planning on seeing this weekend? Beyond "The Cabin in the Woods" -- on which I seem to be in the minority, finding it reasonably clever but not particularly revelatory -- the options aren't all that tempting. I haven't seen the Farrellys' take on "The Three Stooges," but in spite of better-than-expected reviews, can't muster up much enthusiasm for the idea. Over on my side of the Atlantic, meanwhile, the crowds are packing into "Battleship," which, as my Variety review explained, is pretty much exactly what you think it is -- for better and worse.
As is so often the case, then, the most rewarding options are to be found in the arthouses. Those of you still looking to complete your 2011 Oscar checklist now have the opportunity to check out Canadian director Philippe Falardeau's "Monsieur Lazhar," a gentle but perceptive classroom drama that I'd wager was the runner-up to "A Separation" in this year's foreign-language race, and may have come closer to toppling it than we might think.
Quietly detailing the crowing bond between an Algerian immigrant schoolteacher and the pre-teen class collectively traumatized by the suicide of their previous teacher, it's not as literate or as penetrating as "The Class," to which it's been rather routinely compared, but it's unsentimentally affecting, and graced with at least one truly astonishing performance -- that of the cherubic young Sophie Nélisse, as the most mature and most profoundly ruptured of the students. (She won a deserved Genie Award -- the Canadian Oscar -- for Best Supporting Actress.)
However, the best release of the week is, unfortunately, for the eyes of New Yorkers only: Pablo Larrain's "Post Mortem," a tonally equivalent but formally superior follow-up to 2008's way offbeat "Tony Manero," opened on Wednesday for a two-week engagement at the Film Forum, and I implore those of you in a position to see it to do so. Longtime readers may recall that the Chilean film, a midnight-black comedy set around the country's 1973 military coup overthrowing President Allende, made my 2010 Top 10 list after wowing me at that year's Venice Film Festival. (My short festival review offers more details.) It's taken its time reaching American shores, but it's worth the wait; the timing's handy, too, since there's a possibility Larrain's next film, "No," may pop up in next week's Cannes lineup.
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Ecologists welcome snow — A dry December had challenged salmon and steelhead populations
Avoiding snow for this long may have been a relief for Kitsap County residents, but posed a concern for river and stream ecologists monitoring salmon and steelhead populations.
December was a dry month for Kitsap County, said Johnny Burg, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Seattle.
The average precipitation for December is usually around 10 inches, Burg said. This year Bremerton had only 3.43 inches of precipitation in December – almost 7 inches below average.
Seattle and Olympia had their driest winter season so far on record, Burg said.
"It's kind of unusual that it held off until now," Burg said. "But it looks like we're getting our money's worth in one shot with this week's snow."
"Fish species depend on snow," said Douglas Zimmer, spokesman for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. "You need a certain amount of water flowing to protect fish species."
Salmon eggs are already down, but steelhead are starting to spawn, Zimmer said.
Higher water levels from precipitation and snow run-off allow these fish to get up the river, past blockages and log jams, Zimmer explained. The further they can get upstream into the tributaries, the better chances offspring will survive.
Snow fall also helps cover and protect eggs from avian predators, and higher water volume triggers a "biological restlessness" that gets new spawners moving.
Fish moving upstream and depositing nutrients and salt keep those areas from becoming sterile. Predators also eat some spawners and redeposit those nutrients in the forests higher up.
"It's a complex chain that starts with snow falling and ends with a tree in the upper part of the Olympic Peninsula getting the nutrients it needs," Zimmer said.
Water supply systems also depend on snowfall, Burg explained. When the snow from mountains runs off into rivers and reservoirs, it replenishes the water supply.
According to the Jan. 1 National Weather Service report, mountains were at 80 percent of their expected snowfall levels this year.
"Continued low snow fall would impact reservoir water supply, making it come up short for the summer months," Burg said. "That would lead to water restrictions for residents."
The City of Bremerton does not depend directly on snow pack, but water systems do rely on precipitation and some snow which melts and supplements the reservoir, said Kathleen Cahall, the city's water resource manager.
"The fall and winter levels are important for our water supply," Cahall said.
Cahall said that current levels are only slightly short and the winter storms will certainly help catch the city up for the year.
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"There's the danger that the dictatorial system of the deposed President Mubarak is simply resurrected with other people," Niebel told the daily Berliner Zeitung.
He said in light of the precarious political situations in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, instability in Egypt presented an enormous threat to the region's security.
Niebel said the German government had limited contact with Egyptian officials following Morsi's recent attempt to extend his presidential powers by decree. Planned debt relief had also been postponed indefinitely.
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"It's up to the Egyptian government," Niebel told the paper.
Morsi, backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, is currently trying to push through an Islamic constitution despite widespread opposition in the population. In a first round of voting marred by low turnout and irregularities, a narrow majority supported the new constitution this weekend.
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By a 54-to-40 percent margin, voters surveyed for a Quinnipiac University poll said they would support a "right-to-work" law that has been proposed by Ohio Tea Party activists. Right-to-work laws forbid workers from being compelled to pay fees to labor unions as a condition of their employment.
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Littleton said his group is trying to gather enough signatures to bypass the legislative process and place a state constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2013.
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It took them about 18 months to gather enough signatures for a health care amendment aimed at blocking part of the federal health care law. Voters approved the amendment in November.
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An otherwise sleepy town, a short drive inland from Nankunshen, YANSHUI (鹽水 (yánshuǐ) attracts thousands to its annual firework festival (鹽水蜂炮; yánshuǐ fēngpào), one of Taiwan's most famous. What makes this pyrotechnic display unique is that the fireworks – lodged in over two hundred walls or "beehives" the size of a truck – are fired horizontally into the crowds creating a cacophony of noise, fire and smoke throughout the night. Protective gear is essential if you want to participate but note that the crowds can be suffocating: around 300,000 people attend. The tradition began in 1885 when locals paraded an image of Guan Di around the town to ward off a cholera epidemic; their prayers were answered only after shooting off a ton of fireworks to "wake" the god. Each year during the Lantern Festival, usually in February, Guan Di is once again paraded around the town before the fiery climax.
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WASHINGTON - Sponsors of legislation to delay most flood insurance premium increases for four years announced a new strategy Thursday.
After trying unsuccessfully to get a quick vote on their bill through a process that required unanimous consent, the sponsors will seek to get to a vote via a cloture motion. It's a process that requires 60 votes, and, if successful, would block any filibuster effort.
The request for cloture will be made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Neva., and likely will be voted on when the Senate returns in January after the Christmas/New Year's holiday recess.
"This is an important issue for the nation," said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., on the Senate floor Thursday. Significantly higher premiums are not just coming for coastal residents, but residents across the United States, she said.
Last week, the sponsors, led by Landrieu, asked for unanimous consent to bring the bill up for a quick vote. But Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., objected, saying he was doing at the bequest of Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, the top Republican on the Banking Committee who requested that his panel first get to review the proposal. Some suggested, though, that it had more to with the Republican opposition to a Democratic move to disallow the filibuster for most presidential nominations.
The Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act would delay flood insurance increases resulting from the 2012 Biggert-Waters Act, which had a goal of making the program more solvent. But sponsors of the bill, led by Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., say some of the anticipated increases -- as much as double, triple, even 10 times current premiums -- are unaffordable.
The Senate bill would delay the increases for four years, require FEMA to complete an affordability study, propose solutions to address affordability issues, and certify that their mapping process is accurate before any flood insurance premiums can be raised in the future.
Landrieu said she's confident that there are 60 votes needed to block any filibuster.
Without referring to the Wall Street Journal, which editorialized that the Senate flood insurance bill would provide financial help to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans who own beachfront homes that often flood, Landrieu said such a view represents a myth about the federal flood insurance program.
"This is not millionaires on a beach. It's about the middle class who need affordable insurance where they have to work," Landrieu said.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who joined Landrieu on the Senate floor Thursday to discuss the flood insurance legislation, said Americans are exasperated with Congress because it doesn't deal with Americans real problems. Certainly, he said, "unaffordable increases" in flood insurance premiums in something they want fixed without delay.
Schumer said it would have been great if the Senate could have passed the bill before the holiday break to give millions of homeowners some relief before the Christmas holiday. Still, he said, Majority Leader Reid has committed to bring the bill up, perhaps as early as the week of January 6 when the Senate returns to Washington. If it not, it will happen very soon after the Senate returns, said Schumer, who says the rate increases are alarming constituents who are still recovering from Super Storm Sandy last year.
But even if the Senate adopts the measure, it's uncertain whether it can become law.
In the House, Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, last week received assurances that a compromise bill -- delaying some, but not all the premium increases -- through March, 2015, six months after they are scheduled to begin being phased in, would get a floor vote. But it was pulled from the House calendar after some members said it didn't go far enough.
Unlike the Senate bill, the Cassidy bill would not provide delays from a provision in Biggert-Waters that eliminates subsidized premiums once a home is sold. That is disrupting real estate markets, leaving some homeowners without the ability to sell their homes, according to some lawmakers.
'If you can't get flood insurance because you can't afford it, you can't get a mortgage," said Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. Thursday. "If you can't get a mortgage, there are a lot of folks who can't buy a house. And by the way, those who need to sell their houses, they can't get the buyers."
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, suggested that the Cassudt bill was as much as opponents of the FEMA premium increases could get from the leaders of the House committee with jurisdiction over the legislation. Some have said they don't want to pull back on Biggert-Waters "reforms" so soon after the bill's 2012 enactment.
Still, Schumer said he is optimistic that the House will eventually pass the Senate bill -- or something like it -- because members of Congress regardless of affiliation, are all getting the same "desperate" calls from constituents fearful about the prospects of unaffordable flood insurance premium increases.
Nelson said he understands the need to make the program better reflect the risks.
But he argued that many of the debts for the program occurred from claims filed after Hurricane Katrina, when much of the damage occurred because federally built levees in New Orleans failing to provide the intended protection. If the levees had done what they were supposed to do, payouts under the flood insurance program would have been far less, Nelson told the Senate.
During the colloquy with colleagues about flood insurance, Landrieu read notes on her website posted by constituents.
Among them was this posted from a Metairie resident:
"When things quieted down (after Katrina), we began the process of cleaning up and rebuilding. Not just our home, but the homes of relatives as well. I assure you, nothing speaks louder to one's commitment to stay than mucking out a flooded house in the September heat with no electricity to be had. I am grateful to have had coverage from the NFIP (flood insurance program) to help me make repairs. I would have been lost without it."
"If the rate increases we're hearing about go forward, you will have succeeded in doing what Katrtina didn't; break the back of Southeast Louisiana."Majority Leader Reid is acting to bring the flood insurance bill up for a Senate vote under a process known as Rule 14 that enables him to bypass the normal committee process.


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How do firms adjust their wage bill in Belgium? A decomposition along the intensive and extensive margins
This paper decomposes wage bill changes at the firm level into components due to wage changes, and components due to net flows of employment. The analysis relies on an administrative employer-employee dataset of individual annual earnings matched with firms' annual accounts for Belgium over the period 1997-2001. Results point to asymmetric behaviour depending on economic conditions. On average, wage bill contractions result essentially from employment cuts in spite of wage increases. Wage growth of job stayers is moderated but still positive; and wages of entrants compared with those of incumbents are no lower. The labour force cuts are achieved through both reduced entries and increased exits. Higher exits may be due to more layoffs, especially in smaller firms, and wider use of early retirement, especially in manufacturing. In addition, the paper points up the role of overtime hours, temporary unemployment and interim workers in adapting to short-run fluctuations. JEL Classification: J30, J60
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Baby shower
Yes, for both pregnancies. (They are 7 years apart and the second was with the twins)
I have never had one. I have 4 kids already 15, 5, 4 & 4 and this one which I am scheduled to deliver next week but have never had one and was never given a shower. :( Oh well - what can you do. I have no family near me (I am in PA and my family is in CA).
for my first yes. for this baby we plan on having a welcome to the world party when baby is 3-4 weeks old.
For my first, 10 yrs ago. Now I'm having twins and Idk if I should have one. (*I have 2 more children and didn't have showers for them) I may have something small.


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Session 107 - Open Clusters.
Display session, Thursday, January 18
North Banquet Hall, Convention Center
During the second flight of the Astro observatory in March 1995, we used the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) to obtain ultraviolet (\sim 1600 Åimages of five old open clusters. Most stars in an old open cluster are too cool to be detected in the ultraviolet, but among the possible UV-bright sources are blue stragglers, hot white dwarfs, and sdB or sdO stars. In NGC 188, we detect only the hot subdwarf and possible member II-91, and the blue straggler E43 (from Caputo et al.\ 1990, AJ, 99, 261). In M67, we detect ten blue stragglers, two white dwarf candidates (including the ROSAT source G152) and, surprisingly, the red giant S1040 from the catalogue of Sanders (1977).
The star S1040 (V = 11.52, B--V = 0.82) is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with a period of 42.8 days, and an astrometric and radial-velocity member of M67 (Mathieu et al.\ 1990, AJ, 100, 1859). It occupies a ``red straggler'' position in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD), 0.2 mag blueward of the giant branch. Our detection of S1040 in the ultraviolet implies that the secondary is likely a hot (\sim 25,000 K) white dwarf, and (2) the unusual position of S1040 in the CMD is likely due to previous mass transfer from the white dwarf progenitor. We discuss the implications our observations for the study of mass transfer binaries, and the origin of the blue stragglers in M67.
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Steel columns added to its unfinished skeleton will take it to a little over 1,250 feet high. The so-called "Freedom Tower" won't reach its full height for at least another year, at which point it is likely to be declared the tallest building in the U.S., and third tallest in the world.
Those bragging rights, though, will carry an asterisk. Crowning the world's tallest buildings is a little like picking the heavyweight champion in boxing. There is often disagreement about who deserves the belt.
In this case, the issue involves the 408-foot-tall needle that will sit on the tower's roof. Count it, and the World Trade Center is back on top. Otherwise, it will have to settle for No. 2, after the Willis Tower in Chicago.
"Height is complicated," said Nathaniel Hollister, a spokesman for The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats, a Chicago-based organization considered an authority on such records. Experts have long disagreed about where to stop measuring super-tall buildings outfitted with masts, spires and antennas.
Consider the case of the Empire State Building: Measured from the sidewalk to the tip of its needle-like antenna, the granddaddy actually stands 1,454 feet high, well above the mark being surpassed by One World Trade Center on Monday.
Purists, though, say antennas shouldn't count. An antenna, they say, is more like furniture than a piece of architecture because it can be attached or removed. The Empire State Building didn't even get its distinctive antenna until 1952. The record books, as the argument goes, shouldn't change every time someone installs a new satellite dish.
Excluding the antenna brings the Empire State Building's total height to 1,250 feet. That was still high enough to make the skyscraper the world's tallest from 1931 until 1972.
From that height, the Empire State seems to tower over the second tallest completed building in New York, the Bank of America Tower. Yet, in many record books, the two skyscrapers are separated by just 50 feet.
That's because the tall, thin mast on top of the Bank of America building isn't an antenna, but a decorative spire. And record-keepers like spires. It's a tradition that harkens back to a time when the tallest buildings in many European cities were cathedrals. Even if that spire happens to look exactly like an antenna.
This quirk in the record books has benefited buildings like Chicago's recently opened Trump International Hotel and Tower. It is routinely listed as being between 119 to 139 feet taller than the Empire State Building, thanks to the antenna-like mast that sits on its roof.
The same factors apply to measuring the height of One World Trade Center.
Designs call for the tower's roof to stand at 1,368 feet — the same height as the north tower of the original World Trade Center. The building's roof will be topped with a 408-foot, cable-stayed mast, making the total height of the structure a symbolic 1,776 feet.
So is that needle an antenna or a spire? "Not sure," wrote Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the building.
The needle will, indeed, function as a broadcast antenna. But it also will have more meat to it than your average antenna, with external cladding encasing the broadcast mast.
Without that spire, One World Trade Center would still be smaller than the Willis Tower in Chicago, formerly known as the Sears Tower, which tops out at 1,451 feet (not including its own antennas).
Debate over which of those buildings can truly claim to be the tallest in the U.S. has been raging for years on Internet message boards frequented by skyscraper enthusiasts. As for the Council on Tall Buildings, it is leaning toward giving One World Trade the benefit of the doubt.As for the world's tallest building, the undisputed champion is the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, which opened in 2010 and reaches 2,717 feet.
The time-lapse video below encapsulates eight years of construction on One World Trade Center.


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Meet Aston Martin's wild 100th birthday present to itself - the CC100 concept.
Officially unveiled overnight, the one-off, V12 concept has been designed to display future design cues as well as pay homage to Aston's only Le Mans 24 Hours winner, the 1959 DBR1.
Featuring an all-carbon fibre body, the open top Speedster uses Aston's long serving 6.0-litre V12 to power the rear wheels.
0-100km/h takes just 'over' four seconds, according to Aston, with the entire car designed and built in under six months.
Oh, and don't think the CC100 will gather dust in a museum. It's already been sold to a 'wealthy client' for a reported $780,000.
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Daphne, Alabama -- The City Council has 18 applications to sift through over the next two weeks in its search for a municipal judge.
One of the attorneys applying is Ken Hitson, the current judge who was not reappointed by the new council in November.
After Monday night's meeting, longtime Councilman John Lake said he encouraged Hitson to reapply with hopes that other council members will reconsider his reappointment.
With the position opened up by the council, Hitson, a partner with Daphne-based Holtsford Gilliland Higgins Hitson & Howard P.C., has some stiff competition.
Those seeking the position, with its $35,000-a-year salary, are as follows:
- Christina May Bolin, a partner with Mobile-based Alford Bolin Dowdy LLC.
- Buddy Brackin, longtime Foley attorney with Brackin, McGriff and Johnson P.C., who also serves a municipal judge for the cities of Orange Beach and Robertsdale.
- Brian P. Britt, a partner in Kopesky & Britt LLC in Fairhope.
- Patrick Collins, a Daphne attorney and former Daphne City Council member.
- Brian A. Dasinger, Fairhope attorney.
- Michael A. Dasinger, a partner with Hoiles, Dasinger & Hollon P.C. in Robertsdale, who also serves as municipal judge for the towns of Loxley and Elberta.
- Harry D'Olive Jr., Bay Minette attorney and former Baldwin County probate judge.
- D. Greg Dunagan, Daphne attorney.
- Michael J. Hoyt, a partner with Silverhill-based Harbison & Hoyt LLC.
- Buzz Jordan, Mobile-based defense attorney.
- Larry Charles Moorer, Mobile attorney.
- Brantley T. Richerson, a Fairhope attorney with Kopesky & Britt LLC.
- William E. Scully Jr., Daphne attorney.
- D. Robert Stankoski Jr., a partner with Fairhope-based Stankoski LLP who also serves as municipal judge in Summerdale.
- J. Clark Stankoski, a partner with Fairhope-based Stankoski LLP.
- James H. Sweet, partner with Crabtree & Sweet P.C. in Daphne.
- David P. York, partner with Coumanis & York P.C. in Daphne and former United States Attorney in Mobile.
The selection process begins with the City Council reviewing resumes over the next two weeks, and then at the next meeting on Jan. 22 each member will vote for his or her top four candidates. The four who receive the most support overall advance to the second-round interview process, which will take place at the Feb. 4 council meeting. After the interviews are done in the public meeting each council member will vote for his or her top 2 candidates and the one with the most votes wins. Ties will be broken with additional voting.
Updated information on Brantley Richardson at 12:25 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, and added J. Clark Stankoski to the list of applicants.


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John Wilkes Booth's Compass
John Wilkes Booth's pocket compass is more evocative of his desperate, 12-day flight from the manhunt than any other relic that survived him. This is the compass that guided him during his dangerous days on the run; that he and Confederate operative Thomas Jones cradled by candlelight as they plotted Booth's course across the wide and black waters of the Potomac; that each day gave him hope as it pointed the way South to his final destination; that he played with on the Garrett farmhouse lawn to the children's delight; and that the detectives plundered from his pocket as he lay dying. Today, almost a century and a half since the great chase for Lincoln's killer began, its blued steel needle still dances on its spindle, still pointing the way South.
James L. Swanson is the author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer.


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According to RedWingsCentral's Matthew Wuest, Red Wings prospect Landon Ferraro, who almost certainly battled his way through a severely sprained knee during the first month of the WHL season, has begun to recover in terms of his ability to deliver scoring on a regular basis:
November 17, RedWingsCentral: The 18-year-old Red Deer Rebels forward has shaken off an early-season knee injury and has started putting up numbers again. In his past four games, he has two multi-point outings and a goal and four assists. The mild turnaround comes after Ferraro missed 10 games early in the year with a knee injury and a nine-game goalless drought. Overall, he has two goals and six assists in 13 games in the Western Hockey League.Also of note:
"It's good to have his leadership back, his spark and his energy," Jesse Wallin, the Rebels' head coach, told the Red Deer Advocate.
Ferraro is no stranger to putting up numbers. Last season, he led the Rebels with 37 goals among 55 points in 68 games, and most figured he'd be a safe bet to crack the 40-goal plateau had he been healthy all year. Selected 32nd overall by the Red Wings in June's draft, Ferraro projects as a versatile second-line forward who can put the puck in the net.
I don't like to write players off, but, barring a fantastic turnaround that brings him back to the Eliteserien, Ryno's chances of returning to the Red Wings for a third chance to play in the NHL are zero at best.
Forward Johan Ryno (AIK, Swedish Allsvenskan) continues his disappointing third season under contract, with just two goals and an assist in 14 games of second-tier action.


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This is a great salad and would be perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner. It's really high in protein from all the eggs, quinoa, nuts, feta or hummous (or a little of both!) and good fats from the avocado, feta, hummous, eggs and dressing. You can use whatever leftovers you may have in the fridge. Brown rice would also suit here, if you didn't have quinoa.
Serves 1
- 2 eggs, boiled to your liking, or poached
- 1 tbsp cashew nuts
- 2-3 tbsp leftover quinoa (a high protein seed with a lovely, nutty flavour and soft and fluffy texture)
- 2-3 handfuls leaves e.g. baby spinach, rocket, butter lettuce
- 1 tbsp feta or hummous
- Handful of lightly steamed green beans or any other leftover veggies or salad veggies you'd like.
- 1/4 avocado
- Combine all ingredients.
- Toss a dressing through – I like a simple dressing of apple cider vinegar and either olive or flaxseed oil, with a little salt and pepper.
- Enjoy!
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009
ECU's Faculty of Business and Law is hosting a two-day seminar on The Science of Lying - Deception, Demeanour and Assessment to help people understand lying and deceptive behaviour.
The seminar will be presented by Dr Mark Frank, world-renowned expert and 'the man' behind reading facial deception and non-verbal communication.
Dr Frank is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Buffalo, State University of New York.
He has used his abilities to teach many law enforcement agents, including judges, FBI agents and terrorist interrogators, to recognise and accurately read the tiny hints that come from facial muscles that happen in the blink of an eye.
Attendees will receive practical information and a set of skills to help identify lying and deceptive behaviour, allowing them to apply actual science to that gut feeling of someone not being honest.
The seminar will be useful for anyone studying or working in law, criminology, policing, psychology, teaching or business.
The science behind deception has gained renewed interest following the hit TV series, Lie to Me.
The seminar runs from 8.30am to 5.00pm on Monday, 6 July and continues from 8.30am to 1.00pm on Tuesday, 7 July in Lecture Theatre 32 ECU Joondalup.
For more information, please contact Michelle Adamos on 6304 2370.