Bud Fisher—Pioneer Dean of the Comic Artists

The George Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University has an extensive collection of original drawings by American cartoonists. Among the most famous of these are Bud Fisher\u27s Mutt and Jeff. Bud Fisher set the pattern of a new phase of visual entertainment that has endured and blossomed to this day. Everybody knows of Mutt and Jeff - an American institution and a synonym for tall and short. Fisher was one of the most copied of the early cartoonists. One can trace his influence through dozens of strips created between 1910 and 1920

Superintendent and School Board Relations: Impacting Achievement through Collaborative Understanding of Roles and Responsibilities

One of the most important and influential persons in the governance structure of the local school district is the Superintendent of Schools. Functioning as the CEO of the district, the superintendent is responsible for a myriad of functions. Examples include daily operations inclusive of transportation and finance, curriculum and policy implementation, media relations, and empowering leaders. However, as Meador (2014) contends, a crucial role is that of board liaison. The Superintendent is responsible for keeping the board informed, making recommendations regarding district operations, and setting the board agenda. It is interesting to note that the superintendent does participate in board meetings, but in an advisory capacity. Finally, the superintendent is responsible for enacting all mandates approved by the school board

Measuring Economic Well-Being of Rural Canadians Using Income Indicators

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Tennessee roughage experiments with dairy cattle

The use of roughages for feeding dairy cattle has undergone several changes, Native pastures were supplemented with grass hays very early. The high yields and high protein contents of legume hays have led, more recently, to their frequent although not general use in place of grass hays. Silages had their start in the early days–when hay quality was probably poorer than today. General use of legume hays and improvements in harvesting have removed most of the advantage in feeding value which silages once may have possessed. The development of pasture crops and systems, particularly in the South, has recalled attention to the original, and still best source of roughage for dairy cows, namely pastures. Several factors make study of roughages for dairy cattle in the South especially desirable. The climate, the soils and topography, the growth of dairying, the need for more dairy products in the Southern diet and the present war emergency are all factors. These will be discussed briefly with especial reference to the State of Tennessee

Waterponding the Rangelands

Bare, scalded semi-arid areas in western New South Wales Australia are being transformed into biodiverse native pastures, thanks to the waterponding technique which is returning clear profit to the landholder and benefits to the environment. Waterponding is a land rehabilitation technique used on duplex scalded soils in the semi-arid rangelands. Waterponding is the holding of water on the scald in surveyed horseshoe-shaped banks, each covering 0.4 ha. The ponded water leaches the soluble salts from the scalded surface. This improves the remaining soil structure, inducing surface cracking, better water penetration and entrapment of wind-blown seed. In the 1960s, it was estimated that tens of thousands of square kilometres of sites on duplex soil in the rangelands of New South Wales had been denuded and were moderate or severely bare or „scalded‟ as a result of wind erosion of their sandy top soils. (A „duplex soil has sandy loam topsoil and clayey subsoil) (Cunningham, 1987). This was a consequence of past severe droughts and overgrazing of the native vegetation, allowing wind and water to erode the sandy loam topsoil. This left bare and relatively impermeable subsoil which prevents water penetration and is very difficult for plants to colonize

Combating Budgetary Complications from the Marcellus Shale: The Case for a Pennsylvania Gas Fund

The relationship between shale gas development and budgetary and microeconomic externalities was studied. The extraction activity in the Barnett shaleformation provided a case study for assessing per-well highway infrastructure damage and water usage. The creation of a predictive model based upon the Barnett was applied to the Marcellus formation. The results showed support for the hypothesis that shale gas development creates negative externalities that amount to unfunded mandates and freerider problems for states and localities. Implications and policy solutions, including the case for a Pennsylvania natural gas fund, are discussed

The origin and development of the Kansas benefit district road law

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Political Science, 1928

High Redshift Candidates and the Nature of Small Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field

We present results on two related topics: 1. A discussion of high redshift candidates (z>4.5), and 2. A study of very small galaxies at intermediate redshifts, both sets being detected in the region of the northern Hubble Deep Field covered by deep NICMOS observations at 1.6 and 1.1 microns. The high redshift candidates are just those with redshift z>4.5 as given in the recent catalog of Thompson, Weymann and Storrie-Lombardi, while the ``small galaxy'' sample is defined to be those objects with isophotal area <= 0.2 squ. arcsec and with photometric redshifts 1<z<4.5. Of the 19 possible high redshift candidates listed in the Thompson et al. catalog, 11 have (nominal) photometric redshifts less than 5.0. Of these, however, only 4 are ``robust'' in the sense of yielding high redshifts when the fluxes are randomly perturbed with errors comparable to the estimated measuring error in each wave band. For the 8 other objects with nominal photometric redshifts greater than 5.0, one (WFPC2 4--473) has a published spectroscopic redshift. Of the remaining 7, 4 are robust in the sense indicated above. Two of these form a close pair (NIC 586 and NIC 107). The redshift of the object having formally the highest redshift, at 6.56 (NIC118 = WFPC2 4--601), is problematic, since F606W and F814W flux are clearly present, and the nature of this object poses a dilemma. (abridged)Comment: 44 pages, 12 figures, to appear in ApJ v591, July 10, 200

Secondary Principal Leadership and the Impact on Engaging Hands-on Learning Strategies

The purpose of this narrative inquiry study was to understand how secondary campus principals build capacity in teachers to actively engage students in the processes of meaningful learning. Secondary campus principals should continuously work with teachers in a team setting in order to implement best practices. In recent years, “researchers in educational leadership have called for a new sustainable model for the future” and one must rethink how engagement aligns for student success. Hands-on learning can be instrumental in increasing student engagement, which, in turn, builds student capacity, students who do not feel challenged often become bored in the educational setting, directly contradicting the purpose of an education, which is to provide elements of inspiration that create lifelong learners. Hands-on learning strategies are comprised of many different forms in the classroom; however, they all align with engagement for students. The campus principal must ensure that the teacher is engaging students in their educational pursuits, and not creating the same pattern of worksheet behavior that drives students to be less engaged. The key to building engagement in teachers is to create elements of leadership that the principal can assist them with from a team mentality. Leadership for the campus principal matters and principals must understand how the limitations, resources, and opportunities impact how he/she needs to behave for effectiveness.. This is a narrative qualitative study which allows the researcher to question and better define how secondary principals view themselves as instructional leaders, and in what capacity this relates to engagement throughout the school year