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Managing Editor of Anthropology News
Hosted by AAA President Virginia R. Dominguez, "Inside the President's Studio" features interviews with anthropologists about their ideas, research and passions. It is part of an ongoing effort to foster public, visible and active engagement with anthropologists. Become a part of the conversation by reading and listening to the interviews, adding your comments to the blog, and suggesting people or topics for future pieces.
This month the studio features Amy Goldenberg, Managing Editor of Anthropology News.
(1) What are you most passionate about–in work? In life?
I feel very strongly about trying to achieve work-life balance, although it usually feels more like a juggling act.
(2) How did you get interested in folklore? Do you remember exactly when and where you were when that happened or at least when you decided to pursue a doctorate in it?
By the time I started college, I was very interested in language and culture, especially Russian. I took a lot of ballet growing up and it was obvious to me that all the best dancers in the US had defected from the Soviet Union. At the same time, in the early '80s, a lot of my classmates at school would echo whatever Soviet stereotypes were popular then and talk about "evil commies." But I was intrigued by the USSR. I was convinced there was something interesting going on over there because they produced the world's best dancers. Of course, it was also obvious that negative stuff was happening too, since so many of them had in fact defected.
So I signed up to study Russian as soon as I could. The department also offered a series of Russian folklore classes. I didn't really know what it was, but the course descriptions spoke directly to my interest in culture. I signed up and loved the class. Plus the teacher was inspirational. So I signed up for the next one. One afternoon after that class, something clicked and it seemed everything in the world could be explained through folklore. Then I took some classes with another folklorist who was in the anthropology and English departments. I found out that the subject was fascinating no matter what culture or region we were discussing and I just kept on going with it.
(3) What else were you interested in when you were growing up—-say, when you were 10 or 13 or 15? And what happened to those interests?
At that time I was definitely into ballet. I did it until I was about 15 or 16 when my knees started to wear out.
(4) You now mostly work for the AAA as Managing Editor of our monthly ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS. How did you end up going from having a scholarly interest in folklore to editing a substantive monthly newsletter for the American Anthropological Association?
Like most graduate students, I had many, many, many jobs throughout school. A lot of them used and developed my editing skills, and a couple gave me design skills. I had also found that I was better at editing than teaching. By the time I was writing my dissertation, I knew academia wasn't for me, but I had this compulsion to finish. After I did, I continued to work at the university as a writer and editor (that's when I learned InDesign) while my husband finished his doctorate. After he finished, he got a job out here, so we moved and I started looking for a new job. I was fortunate to get some professional resume help, and that showed me that I actually had a lot of experience in publishing and editing, so I targeted those jobs. When AAA popped up in one of my searches, it really stood out to me because I already knew a little about it. Luckily, at the time they were looking for someone who had my skills, and the folklore background seemed to help.
(5) What did you most like about folkore as a scholarly field when you were pursuing your doctorate, and do you miss it (at least a bit) while working in editing and publishing for the AAA?
The most rewarding part for me was learning new skills to do the research I wanted to do. For my dissertation, the original research plan was to study amber jewelry, so I took a metalsmithing class to develop an eye for evaluating metal work in jewelry. During fieldwork I also spent a lot of time learning how to take photographs in different situations. I enjoy learning new things and being able to get in depth with things like with metalsmithing and photography. Now I don't have the time to spend a 25 hours a week metalsmithing or 2 days in a museum experimenting with my camera because now my job revolves around AN, and then my job was to do the dissertation. Still, there's always more to learn and do, it's just that now it revolves more around technology and the publishing industry.
But I think what I miss most right now is catching up with my friends at the AFS annual meeting. The meeting is usually a few days before AN goes to press, and that's just not a time I can be away.
(6) What makes you mad?
(7) What makes you laugh?
Babies, toddlers and kids. Everything is new and unique to them, and they always seem to come up with a new take on things that I take for granted or just don't notice.
(8) There are people with Ph.D.s in anthropology who specialize in folklore and others who study folklore without it being embedded within anthropology programs. Can you usually tell which ones have anthropology degrees and which have other degrees? I know of people in the USA in American Studies and in Folklore who consider themselves folklorists. And I have met colleagues in Europe with degrees in "European Ethnology" who remind me of folklorists I know in the U.S. Are the differences palpable? Is it interesting or surprising to you to note differences or similarities—-in training or even in people's research, curatorial work, or writing?
I have a hard time telling a person's home discipline since folklore is incredibly interdisciplinary by nature. Because there are so few dedicated folklore programs, a lot of folklorists are trained or work in other departments, so I think they need to incorporate approaches important to their home department. But I believe a good researcher or scholar will reach to whatever body of knowledge they need for their research, regardless of disciplinary boundaries. This is key to people developing and strengthening their own voice in research, writing, exhibits, and projects.
(9) Do you ever think of yourself these days as a "closet folklorist" working with the 11,000-12,000 anthropologists who are members of AAA, or perhaps as a "closet anthropologist" in the world of folklore?
I've joked with some of my friends that I can pass as an anthropologist, but I'm really a folklorist. But the truth is I'm really an editor and facilitator. I'm not doing my own research – and thank goodness, because I'm awful at grant writing. What I'm really here to do is help the people who are doing anthropology talk about issues important to anthropologists and anthropology.
(10) What have been the 1-2 things about anthropologists that have surprised you the most since beginning to work for ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS? Good or bad or perhaps just surprising?
When I started at AN (as the production editor) I noticed how some of the columns or articles criticized AAA. This surprised me because with some other publications I had worked on, such things had to be reworked – we had to be very careful about not offending this important person or that influential office. But in AN, it was not only fine, it was welcome. The important thing was that it was their opinion, and we were there to let them share it. That was both surprising and refreshing.
(11) How and when did you become interested in Poland? I know it was the focus of your dissertation research. Do you have plans to pursue other work on Polish life and culture?
I spent a year in Russia after graduating college. After that year, I spent a few weeks traveling in Eastern Europe, including Poland. Later, when I was thinking about future research and fieldwork, I just kept on thinking about Poland and the possibilities. So I made the plan to revolve around work there.
(12) Have you ever considered moving into politics, foundation work, or advocacy, using your training in folkore? What positions high up in government, in foundations, corporations, educational institutions, or international organizations of various sorts might interest you or colleagues trained in folklore? Any? And are there roles for which folklorists would be especially good?
Of course, I have to start by saying that during Bill Clinton's presidency, we had a wonderful era of folklorists heading up two big organizations – Bill Ivey was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and Bill Ferris was chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. That was inspiring.
But generally, folklorists and anthropologists are incredible assets to any organization because we're good at looking at a lot of contextual information and know that things are usually more complex than they appear. These skills can be applied to any of those areas you mention, but it really depends on the person's other interests and strengths. Positions as analysts and program developers would be especially good. Being in DC, I of course think of the government as a potential employer for folklorists and anthropologists – obviously the NEA and NEH, but also the Census Bureau, State Department, Smithsonian, USAID, Department of Education and so on.
(13). What is one thing that only your close friends and family know about you but that you might be willing to share with me and our STUDIO listeners now? I have had guests tell me that chocolate is their secret passion, that they used to want to be a truckdriver, that they are rabid fans of a specific sports team, and more.


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Directed by Moze Mossanen
The Dancemakers series is the first comprehensive suite of programs featuring six innovative Canadian choreographers: David Earle, Danny Grossman, Christopher House, James Kudelka, Ginette Laurin and Constantin Patsalas. Each half-hour program features a complete choreographic work plus rehearsal scenes and concise commentary about the choreographer's motivations and working method.
Originally broadcast on CBC Television and TVOntario, this outstanding series on Canadian contemporary dance was written, directed and produced in 1986 by Moze Mossanen. Each program is hosted by Veronica Tennant and showcases the talented dancers of some of Canada's leading dance companies including The National Ballet of Canada, Toronto Dance Theatre, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Danny Grossman Dance Company and O Vertigo Danse. The dance works recorded in the series are now considered Canadian choreographic masterworks.
More than just fostering an appreciation for dance, this series promotes insights into the creative process and lays the groundwork for discussions centred on the following topics: the forms and elements of dance; the principles of composition; the potential problems of interpretation.
Highly successful on VHS, this series is being relaunched on DVD and includes bonus features such as photo galleries, interviews with director Moze Mossanen, and an electronic teachers' guide.
Janet Millar Grant and Gabby Kamino
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The Dancemakers Teacher's Guide is an ideal resource for dance educators.
DR. JANET MILLAR GRANT (co-editor, Teacher's Guide) holds several degrees in dance and education including an Ed.D. in Curriculum Teaching and Learning from OISE. Dr. Grant has been a teacher for grades JK to 8, as well as a curriculum consultant and curriculum coordinator. She has worked for the Ministry of Education and as a pre-service course director at York University. She has published five books in the area of teaching and learning.
GABBY KAMINO (co-editor, Teacher's Guide holds a B.Sc. and a B.Ed. She has worked with many choreographers as a dancer and her own choreography has been performed in Canada, the United States and Europe. In 1975, she co-founded Dance Plus Four. Kamino has been teaching math and modern dance at Etobicoke School of the Arts for almost twenty years. She is the associate choreographer for Toronto's Ballet Creole.
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Wooster geologist at Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Canada
Mark Wilson August 10th, 2009
LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA–On our free day the IPREP study group (this apparently means "International Paleontological Research Exchange Program") drove to the spectacular Lake Louise in Banff National Park for a hike up the valley to the "Plain of Six Glaciers". It was one of those many places where I know just how fortunate I am to be a geologist. The weather could not have been better, and there was even a tea house near the end of the trail for sandwiches, peachade, and perfect chocolate cake!


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Kickan & Conkers
Thank you for the smiles
And I am so happy that I was there too! Had the best time in Berlin.
It was such an amazing weekend! I wish I had the chance to chat with you more, I LOVED your presentation and looking forward to meeting up in the future! (maybe in Copenhagen?) :)
I really enjoyed your presentation. Very honest :-) It was an amazing weekend indeed.
Following a blog becomes even more interesting after seeing the person "in person" :-)
Bye for now,
oh man! you got some good photos. Looks like you got to see some of Berlin and not just the back of heads during blogging presentations. SO wonderful to meet you. Can't wait to see what comes next :)
your work is such in inspiring - and so are you :)
It was just lovely meeting you Jeanette-just putting together a little instagram collage from the weekend! See you online soon! :-) Caroline
The first picture's road is just magical! All this light green brightens my mood!
In Whirl of Inspiration
I fell in love with Berlin, so much energy and history.
It was lovely meeting you and exchanging with so many inspiring people. Well done!
hyggelig at vi fikk en liten snakk - selv om det bare var helt mot slutten - men håper vi får en mulighet til å snakke sammen igjen. Ha en fin kveld,
Heidi, I'm with Leia
You have such an amazing talent and I love your magazine and style!:-)
Hi Jeanette,
Thank you for your comment and also thank you for your truly inspiring talk at the Hive. I had a lovely time there. I'm even thinking of taking the "Blogging Your Way 2.0 class" ;)
Have a lovely day,
Thank you for your very honest presentation at The Hive, Jeanette! I see we took the same street to go to Betahaus (first image). So un-city like wasn't it?
I'm late to the party... It was such a pleasure to meet you. I loved your presentation. Your work is beautiful and you're very talented.
See you in less than a week on BYW2.0... can't wait. Happy though I met you in person first:)
Bye from a very sunny London.
A lovely event, wish I could have been there...but you met some of my very good friends! ;)
It was lovely to meet you, albeit briefly and I'm so disappointed that I missed your talk ....
Looking forward to learning from you at BYW 2.0!
Have a glorious weekend! :)
It was such a pleasure meeting you! After London and Berlin next time in another beautiful city? ;)
Dear Jeanette,
I really enjoyed your presentation. The whole hive experience was just so inspiring for me.
... an I love your bright red skirt! :-)
Imke from Berlin
the pictures are so lovely...
I wish we had gotten the chance to properly meet! Your work is gorgeous. Hope to cross paths soon!
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All too often the nose is left simply offended by the practice of magic, burned by caustic vapors, rankled by cloying fumes and left to it's own in the aroma of the undead. Not so the largely under-developed school of the olfactomancers, the Sorcerers of Scent, the Smell-Binders, and the Magic Sniffers.
The most basic ability of the olfactomancers is the ability to scent and differentiate the various realms of magic. While the scents associated with each realm of magic very from wizard to wizard, some of the schools have some similar characteristics. Necromancy always has some hint of death and the grave in it, and elemental spells leave scents similar to their elements. A fireball spell might leave a magical scent of sulfer, or of burning cedar, whereas a lightning bolt might smell like rain, or the air after a violent storm. This is a supernatural effect and such scents can linger long after the magic in question has passed.
Most of the time, olfactomancers examine odors, but with the Ghost Smell spell, they can leave specific smells as well. This can range from a light floral scent to ease a night in a dungeon, to prankster applications, to covering their own scent to deter tracking animals.
So often using their nose for their magic, an olfactomancer could be greatly dimished if his sense of smell was compromised. The Endure Smell spell allows a sorcerer of scent to ignore penalties and distractions caused by smell, scuh as the stink of ghouls and ghasts, stinking clouds and the like. This infers no defense against poison or any other agent in a smell or cloud, so most olfactomancers use the spell with a degree of caution.
Casting this spell, the first and most honored of the Olfactomancer's spell history, allows the mage in question to differentiate and sort odors in the same fashion as a well trained bloodhound. The mage can use this power to track someone or something by it's scent alone. it also allows for the sorting of scents, such as smelling a food dish and sorting out the list of spices in it, or much less appealing, sniffing a bit of droppings (you know, poo) to get an idea of what said creature/person ate and where they might have been in the last few days. Cue the Sherlock Holmes players.
The Olfactomancer's most common combat spell, Stinking Cloud creates a cloud of smell specific to the olfactomancer that is nauseating in a fashion very similar to tear gas. While the scents may vary, the specific effects are the same, gagging, choking, profuse mucus from the nose and a chance of vomiting. No other aspects of a scent are copied, thus a flammable based scent is not explosive, nor is a necrotic based scent poisonous.
While almost every olfactomancer can scent magic, the number that can remove the smell from their magic is much smaller. This is a sort of clean-up spell that allows an olfactomancer to magically clean an area of any and all smells, including supernatural and magica odors. Dismell Magic can be used on a single person rather than an area, and for a day per wizard level, that person will create no odor, no matter how poor their hygiene or filthy their surroundings.
This spell creates a soothing cloud that lulls those who smell it to sleep, IE an area based sleep spell. Those who awaken after being hit by this spell remember a primal and emotionally deep scent that they had long since forgotton, such as a grown man remembering the smell of his mother when she held him as an infant, rocking him to sleep.
There are few things that smell worse than zombies and ghouls, and the horror of the thing is that the undead are immune to their own reek. Casting Gag the Dead renders any undead with a nose, which is pretty much all of them but skeletons, vulnerable and fully aware of their own rotting stench. This generally leaves most undead stopped in their tracks and more sentient forms of undead might be repelled by the stink and flee combat.
This is one of the few curses that is available to the school of olfactomancy and it allows the mage to swap scents in a single person. While this might seem a questionable power, it can be quite useful. If a mage suddenly finds his familiar now smells like boiled cabbage rather than a cat his magic is interrupted, and if a noble found the smell of the royal court too much to bear it could cause a scandal. This spell can be reversed by the caster or a Remove Curse spell.
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This spell can both be used for beneft or curse. It magnifies intensity of a particular scent. When used on unpleasant odors, it can be used offensively cast upon enemies to magnify it's effects. Even on pleasent odors, they can become strong enough to be overpowering. It is best used to track objects with quite faint, but known, odors.
Caster becomes undetectable by scent (or taste, for that matter) for the duration of the spell unless they engage in offensive action. Spell has no effect on other senses.
This powerful spell will cause an area to be bombarded by an enslaught of terrible, powerful smells. Different smells have different effects:
Garlic: Repels vampires and other undead.
Lavander: Repels most evil humanoids
Pine: Repels insects
Rotting Corpse: Repels most living beings
Incense: Repels evil outsiders
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This spell will cause any one object or being to permenantly smell like any one other being, object or substance. This effect is not an illusion.
Transmute Gas to Solid - Much easier than the fabled Transmute Solid to Gas, this spell can be used to give a solid material form to a small portion of some scents. It would usually appear as a small cube of unattractive color that vaguely smells of its former self.
Transmute Solid to Gas - This Legendary Power of the Smellbinders can turn solid object into smells, effectivly destroying them. It is not known if this awesome power can be used on the living.
This power of olfactomancy allows the mage in question to create pheromones, effectively charming the people around him to be more agreable to him or her. While this works almost identically to the Charm Person spell, it can be nullified by strong winds.
This power, more difficult to master than the Scent Charm has much the same effect but works on animals and monsters rather than people.
This smell-spell causes the mage in question to evince the scent of a specific predator, which has the effect of keeping smaller creatures, which tend to be food, from bothering the mage. By imitating the scent of very dangerous creatures, dragon musk anyone? the mage can keep even normal predators at bay. This does come with the off hand chance of attracting a predator of the afore mentioned species.


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"Now there is a proposition that we issue $500,000,000 or $1,000,000,000 of bonds for a waterway, and then that we just apportion part to the Mississippi and part to the Atlantic, a part to the Missouri and a part to the Ohio. I am opposed to it. I am opposed to it because it not only smells of the pork barrel, but it will be the pork barrel itself. Let every project stand on its bottom." ["The Outlook," Nov. 6, 1909, quoting Taft]The magazine article that includes the quote opens with:
We doubt whether any one knows how or when, or from what application of what story, the phrase "the National pork barrel" has come into use. If not a very elegant simile, it is at least an expressive one, and suggests a graphic picture of Congressmen eager for local advantage going, one after another, to the National pork barrel to take away their slices for home consumption.Pork in this sense is attested from 1862 (compare figurative use of bacon). Pork chop is attested from 1858. Pork pie is from 1732; pork-pie hat (1855) originally described a woman's style popular c. 1855-65, so called for its shape.
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A few of our members recently made a
bus walking bus walking trip out to Maplin Electronics here in Galway to source some electronics. A few months ago I purchased a Velleman solder-it-yourself clapper kit, which I subsequently plugged into an Arduino and had some fun with. After picking up some resistors, piezos and other bits n' bobs, I took another look at the solder-it-yourself section for some inspiration. I came across something which tickled my hackery-fancy, an "IR Light Barrier", again from Velleman.
The basic principle is the following: Two PCBs, one with the sole purpose of illuminating two IR LEDs, the other having a photo transistor and a fairly large buzzer. Place the two boards across from each other, break the IR "beam" between the IR LEDs and photo transistor and the deafening buzzer starts sounding. Belated apologies to those across the road in John Mulholland.
So in a typical maker reaction, my thoughts were, "Well that sucks". So I ripped out the buzzer, placed two wires on the PCB contacts and plugged them into my Arduino microcontroller:
What I now have is a brilliantly useful and marvellously simple security system. My next step is to hook up the Arduino code to the Twitter API and have it tweet a message every time the beam is crossed.


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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- I recently lamented that the column I wrote back in January of 2007 about Christian Dawkins, the renegade agent at the center of the recruiting controversy, had disappeared into the ether.
Well guess what?
After some fine detective work by our esteemed leader
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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) - If there is one overriding, immutable fact when it comes to interpersonal communications on the internet, it is this:
Nothing is what it seems.
One only has to see the horrified looks on the faces of those cyber-goobers eagerly awaiting the chance to boink a 13-year-old girl, who are instead blindsided by Chris Hansen on NBCs Dateline to realize that this is so. You really have absolutely no way of knowing who or what you are chatting with or sending IMs to out there in cyberspace.
And, so it seems, such is the case when it comes to internet basketball recruiting experts.
I first mentioned the name Christian Vaughn when I wrote about going to see UD recruit Devin Searcy play in person. Christian is the founder of Hoop Experts Scouting Service and author of the Motor City Hoop Experts blog. For those of you who missed it, here is what CV had to say about Devin:
One player who checked in extremely low on our updated rankings is Devin Searcy who has been rated among the top 10 in the 2007 class, and was once rated in the top 5 during his high school career. Devin was recently rated by us at #92, and that was generous. This guy is pretty bad, and no way is he a Division One player, and I dont think I will be forced to choke on my words like I had to with Marvin Skipper. If he got a Division One scholarship to mid-major power Dayton, I need to be signing to the University of The Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Mass.
Here is a recap of our initial correspondence:
Don't you think you were a little harsh in your assessment of Devin Searcy in your latest blog entry? He is coming off an injury and has only played in half of his team's games. I find your criticism of him interesting since the Detroit News said Devin was the "lone bright spot" in the game vs. a very good Pershing team.
Jim Meadows
Christians reply:
Im sorry, but Searcy is the most over-hyped player in Michigan. I think everything I said was warranted. I heard he had a double/double yesterday against Robichaud. But Searcy is just not a good basketball player. Maybe you should subscribe to The Hoop Experts, to hear about other 6'9 guys who play to their potential.
Okay, fine, the guy is standing his ground. However, I was at that Robichaud game, so I know that not only is Devin not a stiff, but hes a **** fine player. Christian and I had several subsequent email communications regarding Devin. Here is the first:
Romulus is playing Saginaw Arthur Hill on Tuesday. Since you are based in Saginaw, I would assume that you'll try and see that game. I would really be interested in your opinion of Devin Searcy's play, now that he has seemingly recovered from his high ankle sprain that limited his mobility the last time you saw him.
I will be going to the Romulus/Detroit Country Day game on February 6, as I live a mile down the road from DCD. I'd be happy to meet you there and watch Devin play against another primo team and see how he does.
Jim Meadows
I was operating under the assumption that the Arthur Hill game was in Saginaw. It wasnt; it was a home game for Romulus. Here is Vaughns reply:
Yes I will surely try to make it out to the Arthur Hill/Romulus Game. Depending on how my schedule is...I am trying to see (Dominique) Buckley, as I havent seen him since the summertime. I will be moving Searcy back up in my rankings, but not to the top 10-15 area where he once was. I suppose you are a Romulus fan, if so do you have any info on who Buckley will be playing AAU with this year...I have heard Mustangs and Hurricanes. Also would you like to write recaps on the Romulus games for me...or for that matter...all games that you go see???
So, Im making some headway with the guy. Hes gonna move Devin up in his rankings and weve gone from him hitting me up to subscribe to his recruiting rag to me writing game summaries for it. Thats progress, I guess. My response to his offer to write recaps for him:
Actually I am a Dayton grad, hence my interest in Romulus. Devin is the only reason I am going to see them play. The DCD game makes sense because it's so close to me...I normally don't attend HS games, so I won't be able to help you out.
Hope to see you on February 6th.
And Vaughns subsequent reply:
OOOO OK...Im updating my rankings now and on my C/PF list Devin is top 10...you should subscribe to see my rankings and recruiting newsletters.
So, now were back to asking me to subscribe to his newsletter again. At least he moved Devin up into his top 10. I wrote to Christian once more after the Arthur Hill game:
For some reason, I thought the Arthur Hill/Romulus game was up in your neck of the woods in Saginaw. From the account in the Freep, it sounded like Dar (Tucker) had a great game, but so did Buckley and Devin, who went for 24 points on 10-15 shooting. You might want to slide Searcy a little further up in your rankings.
Jim Meadows
Which drew this brief response:
Will have 2 see Searcy again...
I should mention that each of Christians emails had the following signature at the bottom:
I aint cocky im jus really, really confident
So when ya tell me im the best is jus a compliment
So, its C. Diddy is it, eh Christian? Looks like we got a rappin recruitin expert on our hands here, guys.
Last Wednesday, I got the following unsolicited email from a gentleman named Spencer Pulliam:
My name is Spencer Pulliam and I am the owner/lead scout of Generation Next Basketball scouting service. Our focus is on exposure for youth basketball players and I came across your article/blog posted on January 5th, 2007 that mentioned Devin Searcy and "scout" Christian Vaughn. I thought you would find it interesting that Christian is a 14-year-old high school freshman with his own "scouting service". Obviously his opinions should not be taken seriously as he was 10 years old when the 2007 college graduating class were seniors in high school. To keep it short he hasn't seen much basketball. In fact if you explore his site I believe that you will find he has ranked himself among the elite freshman across the nation and in the state of Michigan. Certainly ambitious to say the least. Interpret his site as pure entertainment and try not to be too hard on the kid. Hopefully you realize that true evaluators of the game and its talent have much more informed and accurate opinions. Take care and the best of luck with the continued success of your blog.
As the courtside announcer on Streetball likes to say:
Oh, baybee!
It all kinda makes sense now. I wrote back to Spencer and asked for his permission to include his email in this article. His response:
Thanks for the note. Feel free to share the truth about the matter. You can use my name as well for the column but be sure to quote me accurately if you do so. You would be amazed how many people start websites for youth basketball to try to gain exposure for their own kids.
The youth basketball scene is certainly a movement and colleges are catching on. I have college coaches that I talk to all the time about 8th and 9th graders and actively recruit them. It's flat out scary especially considering that so many of these "basketball recruiting websites" are people with agendas. If you ever want to talk about the game feel free to give me a call and I'm sure you will find that some of us know what to look for in terms of observing talent.
Spence sounds like a pretty cool guy. Christian Vaughn, on the other hand, should be sent to his room without supper. Im gonna follow Spencers advice and not come down too hard on the kid, other than bustin his narrow little behind in this space. Wait until the next time he tries Googling his own name and finds this --
and you know that he will!
For some reason, I dont think Christian Vaughn will be joining me for the Romulus/Detroit Country Day game on Tuesday night.
Thats it From the Swamp.
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I should work for the FBI!
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Tell you what, that kid was closer in his assessment than any of the other so-called experts.
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Fantastic! Really paying off. Can you name the top five customers? Majority of UCS sold in Portal or enterprise data center environments?


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But Pacino's operatic acting style ideally suited the film's script, which Jewison says was "a little over-the-top, like most good comedy/satire should be." Despite the film's occasional outrageousness, he says, he strove for believability, because regardless of genre, "If you don't believe it... you tune out of the movie. And this had some strange scenes in it, so that's why I went for seasoned actors."
Among the veterans were Pacino's mentor, legendary acting teacher Lee Strasberg, whom Jewison brought on to keep Pacino in line, and two-time Academy Award nominee Jack Warden.
The leading lady, however, was Christine Lahti, a newcomer Jewison discovered "in New York Off-Broadway," he says, whose height intimidated the diminutive Pacino.
"So there's a lot of scenes where I have them sitting down," he says, laughing.
The film's top-flight cast was given meaty legal roles. "Trial lawyers are really exciting people to watch because they're consummate actors," Jewison explains. "And justice doesn't even figure into it." Nor do right and wrong, or the truth, he says. "It's about winning.
"Winning is everything. And if winning is everything in your society, then there isn't any grace left. It's all about beating up the next guy. It's a pretty tough society."
As ...And Justice for All turns 30, Jewison feels that its potent satire largely still holds true: "I think it's still difficult to find justice unless you're white and very wealthy. There seems to be a justice for the rich and a justice for the poor."
When originally released, many Americans disliked the film, Jewison says, "because they felt it ridiculed the judicial system. So the American Bar Association wasn't happy.
"Now, so many, many years later, they've kind of embraced the film," Jewison marvels. "It's strange. I get invited to address law societies."
Norman Jewison hosts a screening of ...And Justice for All at 4pm Saturday, November 7, at the Paramount Theater. At 1pm Friday, November 6, he will host his film The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! at the Regal 4.


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William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy Program (I-B-3)
The Even Start Family Literacy Program provides low-income families with integrated literacy services for parents and their young children (birth through age 7). The purpose of the program is to break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy for low-income families. The basic premise behind Even Start's family literacy approach is that the four components of adult education, early childhood education, parenting education, and interactive literacy activities for parents and their children build on each other and that families need to receive all four services in order to bring lasting change and improve children's school success. Based on an analysis of the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey data from 1997, about 4,350,000 families were considered eligible for the program, as defined by age of children in a household and the educational attainment of the children's parents. Almost two million of these eligible families were living in poverty. Even Start serves about 30,000 families in any given year.
Early childhood education is important because young children who have good vocabularies and who are taught early reading skills before they start school are more likely to become good readers and achieve academic success throughout their school careers. In addition, parents play a critical role in the language and intellectual development of their children. Children who have parents who talk and play with them and who read to them have an important advantage. Parents who are competent readers are more likely to have good jobs and be able to help their children in school. Thus, Even Start provides educational services for the family, rather than for just parents or children.
WHAT'S NEW--The No Child Left Behind Act
Even Start was reauthorized in December 2000 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2001 (P.L. 106-554). The No Child Left Behind Act incorporated the following December 2000 changes.
Focuses on What Works
- Requires local projects to use instructional programs based on scientifically based reading research and preventing reading difficulties. Program elements now require the use of scientifically based reading research in instructional services and the inclusion of reading readiness activities for preschool children to ensure that children enter school ready to read.
- Requires projects to offer instructional services during the summer months. While year-round services are not new, projects can no longer fulfill this requirement with summer enrichment services only. This requirement should help to alleviate the summer fall-off phenomenon, the documented loss of reading skills that can take place when children do not practice during the summer months.
- Strengthens staff qualification requirements. By December 2004, a majority of the instructional staff must have obtained an associate's, bachelor's, or graduate degree in a field related to early childhood education, elementary or secondary school education, or adult education, as well as meet state qualifications to provide these educational services (if applicable). All new instructional staff hired since December 2000 must meet these qualifications when hired. In addition, by December 2004, the local project administrator must receive training in operating a family literacy program, and all paraprofessionals who provide support for academic instruction must have a high school diploma or the equivalent.
- Requires local projects to build on existing, high-quality community resources. An important part of the Even Start program is building on existing resources in communities for both support and instructional services. Before its reauthorization, the law simply required local projects to build on existing services to avoid duplication. The law now explicitly requires projects to build on existing services only if they are of high quality.
Increases Accountability for Student Performance
- Strengthens the accountability of local projects. States were required to develop, by June 30, 2001, indicators of program quality to use in monitoring, evaluating, and improving Even Start programs.
Other New Requirements
- Requires local projects to provide equitable services to private school school-aged children.
- Requires local projects (school districts) to meet the maintenance of effort requirement.
How It Works
Even Start is primarily a state-administered discretionary grant program in which states hold competitions to fund integrated family literacy services. The U.S. Department of Education allocates Even Start funding to states by formula. States award subgrants to partnerships of local school districts and other organizations.
Key Requirements
States are required to establish review panels that will approve applications (to the extent of available funding) that meet the following requirements: are most likely to be successful in implementing the program purpose and all of the program elements; demonstrate that the area to be served by the program has a high percentage or a large number of families who are in need of family literacy services; provide services for at least a three-year age range of children; demonstrate the greatest possible coordination between all service providers; include cost-effective budgets that demonstrate the ability to provide the required local match; are representative of urban and rural regions of the state; and show the greatest promise for providing models that may be adopted by others.
Local Even Start projects must provide four high-quality, intensive core educational components (early childhood, adult education, parenting education, and parent-child activities) taught by qualified staff, as well as support services, year-round. In addition to center-based programs, projects also must provide some educational services to families in their homes. Projects must base instructional services on scientifically based reading research. Projects have to collaborate with other agencies to build on educational and support services that already exist in their communities and provide an increasing local funding match. Projects must identify, recruit, and serve those families most in need of services, as well as screen and prepare these families for participation in the program. Projects also have to provide training to their staff, provide for an independent local evaluation, promote the continuity of family literacy services for families, and encourage the active participation and retention of participating families.
How It Achieves Quality
Even Start programs will achieve quality through new requirements to use scientifically based research evidence to design program activities, especially reading-readiness activities for preschool children. The new state indicators of program quality will allow states to make informed decisions about continuation funding for subgrantees based on whether or not they are showing sufficient progress.
How Performance Is Measured
At the state level, performance is measured through the new required indicators of program quality. These indicators must be used by states to monitor, evaluate, and improve local projects within the state. The law requires the following specific indicators for adult participants covering both the literacy and economic self-sufficiency purposes of the program (although states may develop additional indicators if they choose):
- Achievement in the areas of reading, writing, English language acquisition, problem-solving, and numeracy;
- Receipt of a high school diploma or a general equivalency diploma;
- Entry into a postsecondary school, job-training program, or employment or career advancement, including the military.
The law requires the following specific indicators for child participants:
- Improvement in ability to read on grade level or reading readiness;
- School attendance;
- Grade retention and promotion.
In addition, the law requires an independent national evaluation to document the performance and effectiveness of Even Start projects. Local projects are also required to conduct an independent local evaluation and use the evaluation for program improvement.
Key Activities For The State Education Agencies
State education agencies (SEAs) must:
- Establish a review panel to approve subgrant applications.
- Use state indicators of program quality to monitor, evaluate, and decide whether to continue local projects.
- Cooperate with the national evaluation of local programs.
In addition, SEAs can:
- Develop and implement guidelines for the new requirement to use scientifically based reading research in instructional programming.
- Monitor qualifications of program staff.
- Provide guidance on state indicators of program quality.


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Is the American autobahn finally here?
Not quite, but it's getting closer.
The signs on a newly opened Texas toll road read 85 mph, the highest posted speed limit in the nation.
The 41-mile stretch on the way from Austin to San Antonio breaks new ground in other ways as well, allowing a private company to charge drivers desperate to avoid the gridlock on nearby Interstate 35.
Since November, one fatality has been recorded on State Highway 130 and isn't believed to be speed-related. One driver has hit a deer. And two have hit feral hogs. ( You're covered for either if you have comprehensive insurance.)
Safety experts and consumer advocates have expressed concern about the new speed limit and question the motives. Under a contract with Concession Co., which will operate the road, Texas will receive a one-time payment of $100 million for setting the limit at 85 mph. The payment would drop to $67 million if the limit were a mere 80 mph.
The limit on a parallel, non-toll road was reduced from 65 mph to 55 mph.
Is a speeding ticket for 93 mph a big deal?
So when you get pulled over on State Highway 130, are you simply another driver doing a few mph over the limit, or a speed demon crowding 100?
Luckily for the lead-footed, almost all states and counties assess fines by mph over the limit, not by absolute speed. Fines vary; for example, 95 mph around Austin will cost $194, not including fees and court costs.
In some states, reckless driving is an absolute threshold. For example, Virginia makes 80 mph an automatic reckless driving ticket. Texas leaves the distinction between speeding and recklessness to the discretion of the Trooper.
Speed matters at car insurance renewal time, too.
Car insurance companies look at how far you were over the line. Guidelines vary, but a ticket less than 5 mph over the limit will typically be treated differently than a ticket where you were going 20 mph over the limit, says CarInsurance.com consumer analyst Penny Gusner.
A reckless driving charge will drive your rates up dramatically.
And speeds over 80 mph will hurt your chances for a usage-based discount. Pay-as-you-drive programs vary dramatically, with most emphasizing low miles and safe driving hours, but State Farm includes incidents exceeding 80 mph in its calculations of your discount.
Safety experts are divided
Is 85 mph safe? It depends on who you ask.
Speed limits have been increasing across the country since federal controls were repealed in 1995. Currently 35 states allow top speeds of at least 70 mph.
Not surprisingly the Texas Department of Transportation is confident that 85 mph is a safe speed. Kelli Reyna, spokesperson for TxDOT, says "It is important to remember these segments of roadway were designed and tested for high-speed travel. Safety is our top priority and tests have shown the designated speed is a safe one."
Safety and insurance experts feel 85 mph is just too high, that drivers who habitually exceed the speed limit would be traveling close to 100 mph.
"People tend to drive at a speed which they feel safe and comfortable," says John Bowman, spokesperson for the National Motorists Association. He points to Interstate 15 in Utah, where the speed limit was raised to 80 mph in two test sections three years ago. Studies found that average speeds increased only from 83 to 85 mph. Accidents decreased 11 percent in one test area and a whopping 20 percent in the other, Bowman says.
Kara Macek, spokesperson with Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), points out that while a higher speed limit may not result in more crashes, it is bound to end in more fatalities. "From a standpoint of pure physics, the faster you are traveling, the less likely you will be to survive a crash," she says."
A GHSA report released in March concluded that speed continues to be a big factor in traffic deaths. In 2010, a total of 10,530 people were killed in speed related accidents, almost a third of all traffic deaths. The GHSA found that since 2000, the share of traffic fatalities linked to speeding has increased by 7 percent.


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Recipe: Smoked salmon waffles with wasabi yogurt
"Warm smoked salmon is pretty awesome," says Bart Vandaele. The Belgian-born chef-owner of Washington's Belga Cafe and the new B Too was referring to the clever way he has managed to bring that to customers' attention: inside a waffle made of puff pastry. We agree.
It takes hardly any time to put together. Vandaele has been serving smoked salmon waffles, called gerookte zalmwafeltjes in Belgium, at Belga for about six years. At B Too, he has kicked up the presentation with wasabi-flavored yogurt. The restaurant roasts its own tomatoes (romas, peeled), which are soft and offer deeply concentrated, almost-tomato-paste flavor.
On a high-powered, commercial-quality Belgian waffle iron, the chef's smoked salmon waffles took about 6 minutes. A key point in the cooking: He gave the puff pastry room to do its thing by propping open the waffle iron with a sideways spoon. That worked for us at home as well, but our waffle irons don't put out enough heat to cook the puff pastry through. So this recipe calls for finishing them in the oven; marked with the waffle-iron grid, the effect is the same as on the lovely golden specimens you see in the accompanying photos.
It's preferable to use a large waffle iron designed to make Belgian or deep waffles. But with a bit of judicious trimming around the edges, you can make these puff pastry packets fit into just about any large waffle iron.
To turn this recipe into hors d'oeuvres, see the VARIATION below. Small portions will make this dish less of a nutritional splurge.
Serve with a salad of arugula and fresh herbs. The chef recommends a hoppy, fresh beer pairing such as Poperings Hommel Ale or a Belgian saison.
Smoked Salmon Waffles With Wasabi Yogurt
4 servings
One 10-by-10-inch frozen Dufour brand puff pastry sheet
2 or 3 stems dill
8 to 10 fresh chives
2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
4 to 6 oven-roasted or oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, preferably peeled
4 to 8 ounces good-quality thinly sliced smoked salmon
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 lemon
1/4 cup low-fat Greek-style yogurt
1/2 teaspoon wasabi paste (may substitute 1/4 teaspoon powdered wasabi)
Cover a cutting board with parchment or wax paper. Lay the puff pastry sheet flat on the paper; the dough should be cold but not stiff. From the way it was folded, the puff pastry sheet will have four quadrants; each of those will become one portion.
Heat the waffle iron; use a little cooking spray if needed. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and have a baking sheet at hand.
Finely chop the dill fronds and chives, then whisk them together with the sour cream in a small bowl. Spoon 4 dollops on one of the pastry sheets, positioned slightly off-center in each of the quadrants. (You will be folding over the dough to create sealed packets.)
Pull apart the tomatoes into bite-size pieces, laying them on top of each portion of herbed sour cream. Use the smoked salmon to completely cover each pile. Sprinkle lightly with pepper, then use a Microplane zester to grate a little lemon zest over the salmon.
Use a sharp knife to divide and separate the 4 pieces of puff pastry. Dampen your fingertip with a little water, then use it to wet the pastry around the filling on each one. Fold over the dough on each portion, using your thumb to form a wide seal around the edges.
Place one or two sealed puff pastry packets on the waffle iron. Use a heatproof spoon to keep the waffle iron from closing all the way; you're looking to create no more than a half-inch gap; this will allow the puff pastry to expand as it cooks. After 3 to 5 minutes, the waffles should be slightly puffed. You may need to cook them a bit longer, still using the spoon to partially open the waffle iron.
Carefully transfer the waffles to the baking sheet; bake for 10 to 15 minutes. The waffles are done when the edges are slightly caramelized and the pastry is golden brown.
While the waffles are in the oven, repeat the waffle-iron process with the remaining two sealed puff pastry packets. As soon as they are ready, transfer them to the baking sheet in the oven with the other two waffles.
Whisk together the yogurt and wasabi paste in a medium bowl.
Plate the first two waffles while the other two finish in the oven, by cutting them in half, on the diagonal. Divide among individual plates, with a dollop of the wasabi yogurt.
Repeat with the remaining waffles. Serve warm.
VARIATION: You can easily adapt this recipe for hors d'oeuvres by cutting the puff pastry sheet into equal halves instead of four quadrants. Spread the herbed sour cream across the surface of one piece (all the way to the edges), then arrange the tomatoes and salmon evenly as a final layer. Top with the remaining piece of puff pastry. Cut into small squares and cook in the waffle iron, using the spoon technique to allow the pastry to expand. Cook until the pastry is done; the squares will get nicely browned edges.
NUTRITION Per serving (using 4 ounces of salmon): 490 calories, 12 g protein, 30 g carbohydrates, 35 g fat, 21 g saturated fat, 95 mg cholesterol, 920 mg sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 1 g sugar


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