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Before Common Core began its disfiguration of the best in American education, Massachusetts had the highest standards in the nation. Massachusetts' students scored best in 2005, in 2007, in 2009 and in 2011 –in all four major NAEP categories. Massachusetts senselessly dropped its high standards in order to apply for the Race to the Top.
Professor Sandra Stotsky was the developer of those excellent, pre-common core standards for Massachusetts. Now she has answered the question so many people have asked: "With what shall we replace Common Core?" Professor Stotsky has written a model curriculum framework for anyone to adopt, in lieu of Common Core ELA standards, at no cost.
If your state doesn't decide to use Stotsky's model curriculum, I suggest using it as an individual teacher or parent, to help your child achieve much more than the limited Common Core.
The ELA Curriculum Framework of Dr. Stotsky is available online here and I also will post a portion of the 83 page framework here. Forgive my imperfect formatting; pasting words from a PDF file doesn't create perfect formatting; I just can't refrain from sharing the document's highlights anyway.
An English Language Arts Curriculum Framework for American Public Schools
An English Language Arts Curriculum Framework
for American Public Schools: A Model
For use by any state or school district without charge
Chief author: Sandra Stotsky
Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas
February 2013
An English Language Arts Curriculum Framework for American Public Schools
Table of Contents
Purpose and Sources of this Curriculum Framework 3
Guiding Principles 4
Overview of General Standards and Learning Standards: 7
1. Discussion and Group Work 10
2. Oral Presentation 12
3. Structure and Conventions of Modern English 15
4. Vocabulary and Concept Development 17
5. Formal and Informal English 21
6. Foundations of Reading and Spelling 24
7. Nonfiction 31
8. Fiction 36
9. Poetry 39
10. Drama 41
11. Myth, Legend, Traditional Narrative, and Classical Literature 43
12. The Research Process 48
13. Analytical Writing 51
14. Persuasive Writing 54
15. Personal Writing 56
Appendix A: Suggested Authors and Illustrators Who Reflect Our Common Literary and
Cultural Heritage
Appendix B: Suggested Authors and Illustrators of World Literature and Twentieth-
Century American Literature
Appendix C: Glossary of Terms
Appendix D: A Perspective on the Goals and Content of English Language Arts
Instruction in this Country
Appendix E: The Limited English Proficient Student in the English Language Arts
Appendix F: How Literature Can Be Related to Key American Historical Documents
Appendix G: Independent Evaluative Comments
An English Language Arts Curriculum Framework for American Public Schools 3
Purpose of this Curriculum Framework
This curriculum framework provides standards designed to guide reading and English teachers in the development of a coherent English language arts curriculum from PreK to 12. It is based on
two premises: that learning in the English language arts should be cumulative and that the reading of increasingly challenging literary and non-literary works as well as the writing of increasingly
extensive research papers are the basis for developing the independent thinking needed for selfgovernment.
The four discipline-based strands in this framework—Listening and Speaking, Language Study, Reading and Literature, and Research and Composition—are interdependent. At all grade levels,
a sound English language arts curriculum integrates concepts and skills from all four strands. A sound reading and literature curriculum also expects students to apply their language skills to
increasingly challenging material linked in ways that promote cumulative learning. A coherent sequence of reading, research, and writing assignments ensures that students both broaden and
deepen their base of literary/historical knowledge. It is this broadening and deepening knowledge base that stimulates intellectual growth and enhances their capacity for independent critical
Sources of this Curriculum Framework
The four discipline-based areas reflected in the 15 General Standards are broad statements of what students should know and be able to do in the English language arts. They are then broken
down into Learning Standards for each grade from PreK to 12. These General Standards and Learning Standards come from a long-planned revision of the 2001 Massachusetts English
Language Arts Curriculum Framework. The final draft of the revised framework, completed in November 2009, reduced the 27 General Standards in the 2001 framework to 15 in order to
eliminate repetition and call attention to more demanding reading and literary study in the high school grades; expressed the 2001 Learning Standards with greater clarity; and offered additional
learning standards for beginning reading and spelling, a sequence of new standards for nonfiction reading in the elementary and middle grades, and a richer sequence for vocabulary development.
This draft framework was never sent to the board of elementary and secondary education for a vote to send it out for public comment. It went to the board in July 2010 only as a working draft
(http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/ela/0610draft.pdf) and simply for the board's information. It accompanied Common Core's final version of its English language arts standards and other
materials expressly developed to support the board's adoption of Common Core's standards. The ten Guiding Principles come from the 2001 Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum Framework; they articulate a set of beliefs about the teaching, learning, and assessing of the English language arts. Appendix A is from the original, 1997 version of this framework; it is a suggested list of authors and illustrators who reflect our common literary and cultural heritage. Its K-8 list was reviewed, organized, and approved by the editors of The Horn Book using, as requested in 1997, one criterion: literary quality; the 9-12 list was reviewed by literary scholars from diverse backgrounds. Appendix B is from the 2001 curriculum framework and is a
suggested list of twentieth-century American authors and illustrators, as well as of past and present authors from other countries and cultures. Appendix C, a glossary explaining technical
words and phrases, as well as Appendices D, E, and F, also come from the 2001 framework. Appendix G, which contains an evaluation of the 2010 draft revision of the 2001 Curriculum
Framework, is from the Fordham Institute's 2010 review of state standards.
An English Language Arts Curriculum Framework for American Public Schools
Guiding Principles
The following principles are philosophical statements to guide the construction and evaluation of English language arts curricula.
Guiding Principle 1
An effective English language arts curriculum develops thinking and language together through interactive learning. Effective language use both requires and extends thinking. As learners listen to a speech, view a documentary, discuss a poem, or write an essay, they engage in thinking. The standards in this framework specify the intellectual processes that students draw on as they use language. Students develop their ability to remember, understand, analyze, evaluate, and apply the ideas they encounter in the English language arts and in all the other disciplines when they undertake increasingly challenging assignments that require them to write or speak in response to what they are learning.
Guiding Principle 2
An effective English language arts curriculum develops students' oral language and literacy through appropriately challenging learning. A well planned English language arts instructional program provides students with a variety of oral language activities, high-quality and appropriate reading materials, and opportunities to work with others who are reading and writing. In the primary grades, systematic phonics instruction and regular practice in applying decoding skills to decodable materials are essential elements of the school program. Reading to preschool and primary grade children plays an especially critical role in developing children's vocabulary, their knowledge of the natural world, and their appreciation for the power of the imagination. Beyond the primary grades, students continue to refine all their language skills.
Guiding Principle 3
An effective English language arts curriculum draws on literature from many genres, time periods, and cultures, featuring works that reflect our common literary heritage. American students need to become familiar with works that are part of a literary tradition going back thousands of years. Thus, the curriculum should emphasize literature reflecting the literary and civic heritage of the English-speaking world. Students also should gain exposure to works from the many communities that make up contemporary America as well as from countries and cultures throughout the world. Appendix A of this framework presents a list of suggested authors and illustrators reflecting the common literary and cultural heritage of students attending public schools in this country.
Appendix B presents lists of suggested twentieth-century American authors and illustrators, as well as past and present authors from other countries and cultures. In order to foster a love of
reading and prepare students for a meaningful high school diploma, English and reading teachers need to encourage a great deal of independent reading outside of class. School librarians play a
key role in finding books to match students' interests and in suggesting further resources in public libraries.
Guiding Principle 4
An effective English language arts curriculum emphasizes writing as an essential way to develop, clarify, and communicate ideas in expository, persuasive, narrative, and expressive discourse.
At all levels, students' writing records their imagination and exploration. As students attempt to write clearly and coherently about increasingly complex ideas, their writing serves to propel
intellectual growth. Through writing, students develop their ability to think, to communicate ideas, and to create worlds unseen.
Guiding Principle 5
An effective English language arts curriculum provides for the study of all forms of media. Multimedia, television, radio, film, Internet, and videos are prominent modes of communication
in the modern world. Like literary genres, each of these media has its unique characteristics, and students learn to apply techniques used in the study of literature and exposition to the evaluation
of multimedia, television, radio, film, Internet sites, and video.
Guiding Principle 6
An effective English language arts curriculum provides explicit skill instruction in reading and writing. Explicit skill instruction can be most effective when it precedes student need. Systematic phonics lessons, in particular decoding skills, should be taught to students before they try to use them in their subsequent reading. Systematic instruction is especially important for those students who have not developed phonemic awareness — the ability to pay attention to the component sounds of language. Effective instruction can take place in small groups, individually, or on a whole class basis. Explicit skill instruction can also be effective when it responds to specific problems in student work. For example, a teacher should monitor students' progress in using quotation marks to punctuate dialogue in their stories, and then provide direct instruction when needed.
Guiding Principle 7
An effective English language arts curriculum teaches the strategies necessary for acquiring academic knowledge, achieving common academic standards, and attaining independence in
learning. Students need to develop a repertoire of learning strategies that they consciously practice and apply in increasingly diverse and demanding contexts. Skills become strategies for learning when they are internalized and applied purposefully. For example, a research skill has become a strategy when a student formulates his own questions and initiates a plan for locating information. A reading skill has become a strategy when a student sounds out unfamiliar words, or automatically makes and confirms predictions while reading. A writing skill has become a
strategy when a student monitors her own writing by spontaneously asking herself, "Does this organization work?" or "Are my punctuation and spelling correct?" When students are able to
articulate their own learning strategies, evaluate their effectiveness, and use those that work best for them, they have become independent learners.
Guiding Principle 8
An effective English language arts curriculum builds on the language, experiences, and interests that students bring to school. Teachers recognize the importance of being able to respond effectively to the challenges of linguistic and cultural differences in their classrooms. Sometimes students have learned ways of talking, thinking, and interacting that are effective at home and in their neighborhood, but which may not have the same meaning or usefulness in school. Teachers try to draw on these different ways of talking and thinking as bridges to speaking and writing in Standard American English.
Guiding Principle 9
An effective English language arts curriculum develops each student's distinctive writing or speaking voice. A student's writing and speaking voice is an expression of self. Students' voices tell us who they are, how they think, and what unique perspectives they bring to their learning. Students' voices develop when teachers provide opportunities for interaction, exploration, and communication. When students discuss ideas and read one another's writing, they learn to distinguish between formal and informal communication. They also learn about their classmates as unique individuals who can contribute their distinctive ideas, aspirations, and talents to the class, the school, the community, and the nation.
Guiding Principle 10
While encouraging respect for differences in home backgrounds, an effective English language arts curriculum nurtures students' sense of their common ground as present or future American
citizens in order to prepare them for responsible participation in our schools and in civic life. Teachers instruct an increasingly diverse group of students in their classrooms each year.
Students may come from any country or continent in the world. Taking advantage of this diversity, teachers guide discussions about the extraordinary variety of beliefs and traditions
around the world. At the same time, they provide students with common ground through discussion of significant works in American cultural history to help prepare them to become selfgoverning
citizens of the United States of America. An English language arts curriculum can serve as a unifying force in schools and society.
Appendix A: Suggested Authors and Illustrators Who Reflect Our Common Literary and Cultural Heritage
All American students must acquire knowledge of a range of literary works reflecting our common literary heritage. It is a heritage that goes back thousands of years to the ancient world. In addition, all students should become familiar with some of the outstanding works in the rich body of literature that is their particular heritage in the English-speaking world. This includes a literature that was created just for children because its authors saw childhood as a special period in life. It was also the first literature in the world created for them.
The suggestions below constitute a core list of those authors and illustrators (and a few specific works) that comprise the literary and intellectual capital drawn on by those who write in English, whether for novels, poems, newspapers, or public speeches, in this country or elsewhere. Knowledge of these authors and illustrators in their original, adapted, or revised editions will contribute significantly to a student's ability to understand literary allusions and participate effectively in our common civic culture.
A curriculum drawing on these suggested lists will also provide significant support for the major reason statewide learning standards were developed—to ensure equity and high academic expectations for all students. A literature curriculum should include works drawn from this list and contemporary works of similar quality, drawn from cultures around the world from many historical periods. It is then possible to assure parents and other citizens that all students will be expected to read at a high level of reading difficulty. By themselves, even the most carefully crafted learning standards cannot guarantee that expectation for all students.
Effective English language arts teachers teach all students to comprehend and analyze a variety of significant literature. To ensure that all students read challenging material, teachers may choose to present excerpts of longer works, or vary the amount of class time devoted to a specific work or cluster of works. As all English teachers know, some authors have written many works, not all of which are of equally high quality. We expect teachers to use their literary judgment as they make selections.
In planning a curriculum, it is important to balance depth with breadth. As teachers in schools and districts work with this curriculum framework to develop literature units, they will often combine works from the two lists into thematic units. Exemplary curriculum is always evolving. We urge districts to take initiative to create programs meeting the needs of their students.
The suggested lists of Appendices A and B are organized by the grade-span levels of PreK-2, 3-4, 5-8, and 9-12. A few authors are repeated in adjoining grade-spans, giving teachers the option to match individual students with the books that suit their interests and developmental levels. The decision to present a Grades 9-12 list (as opposed to Grades 9-10 and 11-12) stems from the recognition that teachers should be free to choose selections that challenge, but do not overwhelm, their students.
For reading, listening, and viewing: Mother Goose nursery rhymes, Aesop's fables, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, Selected Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales, Selected French fairy tales, The Bible as literature, Tales including Jonah and the whale, Daniel and the lion's den, Noah and the Ark, Moses and the burning bush, the story of Ruth, David and Goliath
Picture book authors and illustrators: Ludwig Bemelmans, Margaret Wise Brown, John Burningham, Virginia Lee Burton, Randolph Caldecott, Edgar Parin and Ingri D'Aulaire, William Pène du Bois, Wanda Gág, Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Kate Greenaway, Shirley Hughes, Crockett Johnson, Robert Lawson, Munro Leaf, Robert McCloskey, A. A. Milne, William Nicholson, Maud and Miska Petersham, Alice and Martin Provensen, Beatrix Potter, H. A. and Margaret Rey, Maurice Sendak, Vera Williams
Poets: John Ciardi, Rachel Field, David McCord, A. A. Milne, Laura Richards
Grades 3-4*
The Bible as literature: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, David and Jonathan, the Prodigal Son, the visit of the Magi, well-known psalms (e.g., 23, 24, 46, 92, 121, and 150) Greek, Roman, or Norse myths; Native American myths and legends; stories about King Arthur and Robin Hood
British authors: Frances Burnett, Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, Dick King-Smith, Edith Nesbit, Mary Norton, Margery Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, P. L. Travers American authors and illustrators L. Frank Baum, Beverly Cleary, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Mary Mapes Dodge, Elizabeth Enright, Eleanor Estes, Jean George, Sterling North, Howard Pyle, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Carl Sandburg, George Selden, Louis Slobodkin, E. B. White, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Poets: Stephen Vincent and Rosemarie Carr Benét, Lewis Carroll, John Ciardi, Rachel Field, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edward Lear, Myra Cohn Livingston, David McCord, A. A. Milne, Laura Richards *Authors and titles were reviewed by the editors of The Horn Book.
Grades 5-8*
Selections from Grimm's fairy tales, French fairy tales, Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Rudyard Kipling, Aesop's fables, Greek, Roman, or Norse myths, Native American myths and legends, Stories about King Arthur, Robin Hood, Beowulf and Grendel, St. George and the Dragon
The Bible as literature: Old Testament: Genesis, Ten Commandments, Psalms and Proverbs New Testament: Sermon on the Mount; Parables British and European authors or illustrators James Barrie, Frances Burnett, Lucy Boston, Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Daniel Defoe, Leon Garfield, Kenneth Grahame, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Edith Nesbit, Mary Norton, Philippa Pearce, Arthur Rackham, Anna Sewell, William Shakespeare, Johanna Spyri, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, J. R. R. Tolkien, P. L. Travers, T.H.White
American authors or illustrators: Louisa May Alcott, Lloyd Alexander, Natalie Babbitt, L.Frank Baum, Nathaniel Benchley, Carol Ryrie Brink, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Esther Forbes, Paula Fox, Jean George, Virginia Hamilton, Bret Harte, Irene Hunt, Washington Irving, Sterling North, Scott O'Dell, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellen Raskin, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Elizabeth Speare, Anna Sewell, Booth Tarkington, Mark Twain, James Thurber, E. B. White, Laura Ingalls Wilder, N. C. Wyeth
Poets: Stephen Vincent and Rosemarie Carr Benét, Lewis Carroll, John Ciardi, Rachel Field, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edward Lear, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, David McCord, Ogden Nash
Grades 9-12: American Literature
Historical documents of literary and philosophical significance: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, The Declaration of Independence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech, William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Lecture
Major writers of the 18th and 19th centuries: James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Thomas Jefferson, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman
Major writers of the early-to-mid 20th century: Henry Adams, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Countee Cullen, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Jessie Fauset, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Gilman, James Weldon Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Sarah Orne Jewett, Flannery O'Connor, Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Booker T. Washington, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright
Playwrights: Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson
Major poets: Elizabeth Bishop, e e cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Robinson Jeffers, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, John Ransom, Edward Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens, Alan Tate, Sara Teasdale, William Carlos Williams
The European, Asian, Caribbean, Central American and South American immigrant experience (e.g., Ole Rolvaag, Younghill Kang, Abraham Cahan), the experiences of Native Americans, and slave narratives ( e.g., Harriet Jacobs)
Grades 9-12: British and European Literature
The Bible as literature: Genesis, Ten Commandments, Psalms and Proverbs, Job, Sermon on the Mount, Parables
A higher level rereading of Greek mythology
Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Major poets: Homer
Epic poets: Dante and John Milton
Sonnets: William Shakespeare, John Milton, Edmund Spenser
Metaphysical poets: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell
Romantic poets: William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth
Victorian poets: Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Modern poets: W. H. Auden, A. E. Housman, Dylan Thomas, William Butler Yeats
Playwrights: Classical Greek dramatists, William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde
British: Joseph Addison, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson in "The Rambler," Charles Lamb, George Orwell, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf
From the Enlightenment: Voltaire, Diderot, and other Encyclopédistes, Jean Jacques Rousseau
Fiction: Selections from early novels: La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quixote, Joseph Andrews, The Vicar of Wakefield, Selections from Pilgrim's Progress
Selections from satire and mock epic, verse, or prose: Lord Byron, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift
19th century novels: Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy
20th century novels: Albert Camus, André Gide, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Jean Paul Sartre, Virginia Woolf
Appendix B: Suggested Authors and Illustrators of Twentieth Century American Literature and of World Literature
…As all English teachers know, some authors have written many works, not all of which are of equally high quality. We expect teachers to use their literary judgment in selecting any particular work. It is hoped that teachers will find here many authors with whose works they are already familiar, and will be introduced to yet others. A comprehensive literature curriculum balances these authors and illustrators with those found in Appendix A.
Grades PreK-2
Aliki, Mitsumasa Anno, Edward Ardizzone, Molly Bang, Paulette Bourgeois, Jan Brett, Norman Bridwell, Raymond Briggs, Marc Brown, Marcia Brown, Margaret Wise Brown, Eve Bunting, Ashley Bryan, Eric Carle, Lucille Clifton, Joanna Cole, Barbara Cooney, Joy Cowley, Donald Crews,Tomie dePaola, Leo and Diane Dillon, Tom Feelings, Mem Fox, Don Freeman, Gail Gibbons, Eloise Greenfield, Helen Griffith, Donald Hall, Russell and Lillian Hoban, Tana Hoban, Thacher Hurd, Gloria Huston, Trina Schart Hyman, Ezra Jack Keats, Steven Kellogg, Reeve Lindberg, Leo Lionni, Arnold Lobel, Gerald McDermott, Patricia McKissack, James Marshall, Bill Martin, Mercer Mayer, David McPhail, Else Holmelund Minarik, Robert Munsch, Jerry Pinkney, Patricia Polacco, Jack Prelutsky, Faith Ringgold, Glen Rounds, Cynthia Rylant, Allen Say, Marcia Sewall, Marjorie Sharmat, Peter Spieg, William Steig, John Steptoe, Tomi Ungerer, Chris Van Allsburg, Jean van Leeuwen, Judith Viorst, Rosemary Wells, Vera Williams, Ed Young, Margot and Harve Zemach, Charlotte Zolotow
Grades 3–4
Joan Aiken, Lynne Reid Banks, Raymond Bial, Judy Blume, Eve Bunting, Joseph Bruchac, Ashley Bryan, Betsy Byars , Ann Cameron, Andrew Clements. Shirley Climo, Eleanor Coerr, Paula Danziger,Walter Farley, John Fitzgerald, Louise Fitzhugh, Paul Fleischman, Sid Fleischman, Mem Fox, Jean Fritz, John Reynolds Gardiner, James Giblin, Patricia Reilly Giff, Jamie Gilson, Paul Goble, Marguerite Henry, Johanna Hurwitz, Peg Kehret, Jane Langton, Kathryn Lasky, Jacob Lawrence, Patricia Laube, Julius Lester, Gail Levine, David Macaulay, Patricia MacLachlan, Mary Mahy, Barry Moser, Patricia Polacco, Daniel Pinkwater, Jack Prelutsky, Louis Sachar, Alvin Schwartz, John Scieszka, Shel Silverstein, Seymour Simon, Mildred Taylor, Ann Warren Turner, Mildred Pitts Walter
Grades 5–8
Isaac Asimov, Avi, James Berry, Nancy Bond, Ray Bradbury, Bruce Brooks, Joseph Bruchac, Alice Childress, Vera and Bill Cleaver, James and Christopher Collier, Caroline Coman, Susan Cooper, Robert Cormier, Bruce Coville, Sharon Creech, Chris Crutcher, Christopher Paul Curtis, Karen Cushman, Michael Dorris, Paul Fleischman, Russell Freedman, Jack Gantos, Sheila Gordon, Bette Greene, Rosa Guy, Mary Downing Hahn, Joyce Hansen, James Herriot, Karen Hesse, S. E. Hinton, Felice Holman, Irene Hunt, Paul Janeczko, Angela Johnson, Diana Wynne Jones, Norton Juster, M. E. Kerr, E. L. Konigsburg, Kathryn Lasky, Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula LeGuin, Robert Lipsyte, Lois Lowry, Anne McCaffrey, Robin McKinley, Patricia McKissack, Margaret Mahy, Albert Marrin, Milton Meltzer, Jim Murphy, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Naomi Nye, Richard Peck, Daniel Pinkwater, Philip Pullman, Ellen Raskin, J. K. Rowling, Cynthia Rylant, Louis Sachar, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gary Soto, Mildred Taylor, Theodore Taylor, Yoshiko Uchida, Cynthia Voigt, Yoko Kawashima Watkins, Janet Wong, Laurence Yep, Jane Yolen, Paul Zindel
Grades 9–12:
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Fiction: James Agee, Maya Angelou, Saul Bellow, Pearl Buck, Raymond Carver, John Cheever Sandra Cisneros, Arthur C. Clarke, E. L. Doctorow, Louise Erdrich, Nicholas Gage, Ernest K. Gaines, Alex Haley, Joseph Heller, William Hoffman, John Irving, William Kennedy, Ken Kesey, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jon Krakauer, Harper Lee, Bernard Malamud, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Edwin O'Connor, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Potok, Reynolds Price, Annie Proulx, Richard Rodrigues, Leo Rosten, J. D. Salinger, William Saroyan, May Sarton, Jane Smiley, Betty Smith, Wallace Stegner, Amy Tan, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Tobias Wolff, Anzia Yezierska
Poetry: Claribel Alegria, Julia Alvarez, A. R. Ammons, Maya Angelou, John Ashberry, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Amirai Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Bly, Louise Bogan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Hayden Carruth, J. V. Cunningham, Rita Dove, Alan Dugan, Richard Eberhart, Martin Espada, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, John Haines, Donald Hall, Robert Hayden, Anthony Hecht, Randall Jarrell, June Jordan, Galway Kinnell, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Levine, Audrey Lord, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Louis MacNeice, James Merrill, Mary Tall Mountain, Sylvia Plath, Anna Quindlen, Ishmael Reed, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Karl Shapiro, Gary Snyder, William Stafford, Mark Strand, May Swenson, Margaret Walker, Richard Wilbur, Charles Wright, Elinor Wylie
Essays/Nonfiction (contemporary and historical)
Edward Abbey, Susan B. Anthony, Russell Baker, Ambrose Bierce, Carol Bly, Dee Brown, Art Buchwald, William F. Buckley, Rachel Carson, Margaret Cheney, Marilyn Chin, Stanley Crouch, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, W. E. B. Du Bois, Gretel Ehrlich, Loren Eiseley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Doris Goodwin, Stephen Jay Gould, John Gunther, John Hersey, Edward Hoagland, Helen Keller, William Least Heat Moon, Barry Lopez, J. Anthony Lukas, Mary McCarthy, Edward McClanahan, David McCullough, John McPhee, William Manchester, H. L. Menken, N. Scott Momaday, Samuel Eliot Morison, Lance Morrow, Bill Moyers, John Muir, Anna Quindlen, Chet Raymo, Richard Rodriguez, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Sagan, William Shirer, Shelby Steele, Lewis Thomas, Walter Muir Whitehill. Malcolm X
Edward Albee, Robert Bolt, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Archibald MacLeish, David Mamet, Terrence Rattigan, Ntozake Shange, Neil Simon, Orson Welles
Grades 9–12: Historical and Contemporary World Literature
Chinua Achebe, S. Y. Agnon, Ilse Aichinger, Isabel Allende, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Babel, James Berry, Heinrich Boll, Jorge Luis Borges, Mikhail Bulgakov, Dino Buzzati, S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, Karl Capek, Carlo Cassola, Camillo Jose Cela, Julio Cortazar, Isak Dinesen, E. M. Forster, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nikolai Gogol, William Golding, Robert Graves, Hermann Hesse, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Aldous Huxley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Yuri Kazakov, Milan Kundera, Stanislaw Lem, Primo Levi, Jacov Lind, Clarice Lispector, Naguib Mahfouz, Thomas Mann, Alberto Moravia, Mordechi Richler, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, V. S. Naipaul, Alan Paton, Cesar Pavese, Santha Rama Rau, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ignazio Silone, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alexander Solshenitsyn, Niccolo Tucci, Mario Vargas-Llosa, Elie Wiesel, Emile Zola
Bella Akhmadulina, Anna Akhmatova, Rafael Alberti, Josif Brodsky, Constantine Cavafis, Odysseus Elytis, Federico García Lorca, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Czeslaw Milosz, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Jacques Prévert, Alexander Pushkin, Salvatore Cuasimodo, Juan Ramon Ramirez, Arthur Rimbaud, Pierre de Ronsard, George Seferis, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Wole Soyinka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Paul Verlaine, Andrei Voznesensky, Derek Walcott, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Steven Hawking, Arthur Koestler, Margaret Laurence, Michel de Montaigne, Shiva Naipaul, Octavio Paz, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Alexis de Tocqueville, Voltaire, Rebecca West, Marguerite Yourcenar
Drama: Jean Anouilh, Fernando Arrabal, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Athol Fugard, Jean Giraudoux, Eugene Ionesco, Molière, John Mortimer, Sean O'Casey, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Luigi Pirandello, Racine, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tom Stoppard, John Millington Synge
Religious Literature: Analects of Confucius. Bhagavad-Gita, Koran, Tao Te Ching, Book of the Hopi, Zen parables, Buddhist scripture


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Branching Out: Lemon Tree Hotels upgrades telecom systems
Established in September 2002, Lemon Tree Hotels (LTH) currently owns and operates 13 hotels (having over 1,200 rooms) across 10 cities. Seven more hotels will be coming up shortly.
By 2012, LTH is expected to have over 2,800 rooms in 20 hotels across 15 cities – New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Gurgaon, Ahmedabad, Kaushambi (Ghaziabad), Goa, Indore, Aurangabad, Chandigarh, Alleppey and Shimla.
According to data released by the India Brand Equity Foundation, with 40 international hotel brands intending to set up shop in India over the next few years, the hospitality sector is likely to witness investments of over $11 billion.
Keeping in mind the business opportunities this may entail for the sector, LTH replaced its dated telecom infrastructure with one that could accommodate the growing demand for top-notch communication facilities. LTH's underlying idea was also to position itself as a preferred destination for business and leisure travellers alike.
tele.net traces the development of the company's telecom set-up…
The legacy system
Until 2008, the hotel chain's legacy system comprised a standalone property management system (PMS) at all its properties. It soon became evident that the PMS set-up was inadequate. "In order to keep pace with the growth of the industry, we felt that a reliable, scalable and modular system was urgently required," says Ajai Kumar, chief information officer, LTH.
With a clear agenda in mind, the hotel chain opted for new infrastructure that allowed it to not just operate on a central level with uniform training benefits and central controls, but also to interface with other compatible technologies.
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Kumar explains, "Our requirements centred around creating a broad integrated solution at an optimal cost. Keeping this in mind, we implemented a multi-tiered, centrally deployed property management system."
Accordingly, LTH migrated from its standalone PMS set-up to a centralised PMS infrastructure in mid-2008. This system was integrated with back-office and customer relationship management applications. LTH has so far fully integrated 18 locations and units with this set-up, including a recently enabled central reservation centre. Kumar explains that financially the hospitality major was only moderately impacted by the upgrade, as it did not require a huge financial outlay. LTH chose the opex model in a long-term deal.
Today, the hospitality major utilises a remotely managed and hosted data centre that caters to all of its locations and units. This centre has an MPLS and internet VPN backbone that functions on a full duplex bandwidth. MPLS has helped LTH achieve increased network scalability; simplified network service integration and network management; and offered integrated recovery.
For last mile access, LTH uses dual technologies, namely, Wi-Max (fibre-based network) and copper. The hospitality chain opted for optic fibre connectivity as it provided a higher rate of data transfer and bandwidth. It was also cost effective and provided connectivity across longer distances in comparison to other technology mediums.
Internet and MPLS connectivity at the group's various hotels is being provided by Tata Communications, while Bharti airtel provides its internet circuits.
A host of enterprise applications, including software platforms like the Protel multi-property edition, Prolific, Touché, Leisure Point and vBoss are used. At the data centre, several applications such as the BMC suite, Veritas and Symantec are used.
Benefits and challenges
According to Kumar, LTH faced two major challenges while upgrading its communications infrastructure. "Finding a reliable internet service provider and hosting agency besides tailoring requirements to suit our needs were the major hurdles at that time," he elaborates.
However, he agrees that the upgrade was worth it at the end of the day. "This set-up afforded us central control and effective monitoring in a multi-location and multi-property set-up. Other benefits included the quick rollout of infrastructure at new locations, lower total cost of ownership, enhanced workflow efficiencies, and security and controls."
That apart, this upgrade reflected well in many of the hotel's business areas too. Kumar says, "The new infrastructure increased guest satisfaction, thereby contributing to our business volumes. Besides, it helped enhance our brand value and customer focus, and gave the industry a new concept in multi-property operations and management."
The hotel's future telecom-related strategies are dependent on its rollout plans. Kumar says, "We plan to add a few more installations over the next couple of years in accordance with our plans to set up properties in Chandigarh, Mumbai and at the New Delhi international airport."
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Model Jordan Ozuna is receiving so much attention after she was photographed frolicking on a beach in Mexico with Kourtney Kardashian's ex-boyfriend, Younes Bendjima.
Jordan, 28, made news also when she was spotted with Tyga after he broke up with Kourtney's sister, Kylie Jenner.
Though Younes has denied dating fellow model Jordan and says they are just friends, and Jordan has also denied coming in between Younes and Kourtney, very few people are buying their story and have pointed out that the position they were captured in was telling.
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Jordan is a former waitress. She got married to Daniel Ozuna at a very young age but they soon separated. While still married to Daniel, she had a fling with Justin Bieber in 2013 and again in 2014. According to Daniel Ozuna's mother, Jordan and her son got married shortly after high school, but eventually got separated.
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The novelist, poet, and noted sensualist Jim Harrison died a year ago, on March 26, at the age of 78. The cause of death was a heart attack, but for those who've read his food writing, he would have appeared to defy death many times over. His appetite was large and unyielding. He loved innards, confit, and slow-cooked meats. His love was constant. He once ate a 37-course lunch — not long after a meat- and booze-free period meant to check the onset of the Type-2 diabetes that was just around the corner.
He was a yo-yo dieter by choice. He derided weight loss as an offense to the money (and meals) that went into the creation of his impressive gut. His friend, the novelist Tom McGuane once told him that according to their lifelong correspondence, he'd lost some 1,800 pounds, so he must really be "getting down there." As he himself remarked, in later years: "Everything is going fairly well except for my health and behavior."
The new book, A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life, is a collection of little-known essays published mostly throughout the 2000s. A good number first appeared in the Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant newsletter, which might further recommend them on the strength that they were probably written not for money but passion (and, one suspects, ample potable tribute). "Above all," Harrison writes, "a gourmand is one who is able to keep eating when no longer hungry." It's a good appellation for the author, sort of like an honorary title, smuggling the scent of debauched aspiration beneath its slick veneer.
The book might have easily been subtitled The Last Gourmand. These days aspirational eating runs exactly counter to Harrison's precepts, on a morality/health continuum that includes gluten sensitivity, animal ethics, and carbon footprints, not to mention trendy "superfoods." What Harrison shoots and catches he uses in its entirety, he assures his more progressive diners. Fortunately, less constrained friends like Mario Batali show up at his house bearing cartons of two-pound Kobes and white truffles for four-day feasts topped off with three cases of vintage reds. In less extravagant moods, there is comfort to be found in "a primitive soup of shinbones and short ribs, turnips, rutabaga, cabbage, a head of garlic, and some fresh sage."
The 40-odd pieces here are relentlessly informal and intimate. On occasion, Harrison resembles a fringe dinner guest who conspicuously loosens his belt after the meal, lets off a few squeakers, and makes redoubtable assertions on the back of a cratering wine buzz. But you learn many fine things from the man. Namely:
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- Seven jalapenos is one too many in a Thai pork dish.
- The best beer for beans is either Pacifico or Negra Modelo.
And a remedy that sounds just about right for a battered soul or body:
If you wish to restore your health, take out your largest iron pot and put in two pounds of pork shoulder, Serrano and pasilla (fresh chiles), onions, cumin, lots of garlic, ground Chimayo chile, chopped cilantro, and water. Bring to heat on stove, then put in the oven at 300° F for four hours, after which you jerk the pork and remove the bones. Serve on tortilla chips or Fritos with condiments of chopped onions, cilantro, and grated cheese. Eat a lot and then nap.
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Animal rights and vehicles. What on earth could these two concepts have in common? Actually, they should have a lot in common but they don't. Why? Animal rights activists don't discuss them. They like people to think that they care about animals and are working to protect them from needless harm. Sounds wonderful doesn't it? Yet, they conveniently ignore the carnage on our roads.
Why do they ignore this issue? I suspect the reason is that animal rights protest industry activists avoid the political heat of attacking activities that many people perform. Attacking the behavior of masses of people is the short path to political suicide. Animal rights protest activists, of course, are smarter than that. Or should I say, that most of the animal rights protest industry activists I have met were certainly smarter than that.
From one perspective, it makes sense to discuss issues that are more likely to be changed in our society. Okay, I can accept that. But doesn't it seem a bit sneaky to not state the complete goal of one's ideology? For example, pro-life activists will work to stop certain forms of abortion, but they are very clear that they oppose all abortions done except to save the physical life of the mother. Why don't the animal rights activists make a similar declaration about their ultimate goals? Why don't they tell society that they are against all animal killing, including that done by vehicles and that they will be enacting regulations to stop the carnage on our roads?
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The bottom of the ninth set up nicely for new O's closer Mike Gonzalez. Tampa had the bottom of the lineup coming up. But Gonzalez gave up a two-run single to Carl Crawford with the bases loaded and one out as Tampa stole the game from the Birds 4-3 on Opening Night at the Trop. The O's offense had to rely on three solo homers on the night. The Birds just could not get the clutch hit to break this game before the ninth. They went 1 for 12 tonight with runners in scoring position, but left 10 men on base, seven in scoring position. They had runners on 2nd and 3rd with no out in the 4th and didn't score and runners on 1st and 3rd and no out in the 9th and did not score. A tough loss on a night they did a lot right. Millwood's strong start, the pen solid until the end, three longballs, Tejada's defense was solid. But, a loss. The Rays did not have the led until that final hit. Heartbreak in Tampa. This one should have been a winner.
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The recent civil unrest in Baltimore, just like the mayhem that took place in Ferguson, Missouri, last year, is a stark reminder that we live in troubled times. While the events that lead to such occurrences are varied, and the societal issues that influence them can be widely debated, one thing is clear – the damage and destruction left in their wake is devastating. Shops burn, glass storefronts are shattered, inventory is stolen and valuable property is otherwise vandalized. Luckily for business owners both directly and indirectly affected by these unfortunate events, they can and should turn to their business property insurers to cover what, in many instances, can be staggering losses. First steps for obtaining coverage for losses from riots, vandalism and civil unrest For any impacted business owner, the first step is to locate and review his or her business property insurance policy. Once the policy has been located, provide notice of any losses promptly. If the policy is written on a defined risk or peril basis, generally the covered risks or perils will include riots, vandalism, civil commotion, looting and malicious mischief. If the policy is written on a broader and more inclusive all-risk or all-peril basis, any risk or peril causing a loss will be a covered event unless otherwise excluded.[1] Provided that the events surrounding the period of civil unrest are covered perils, the policy should provide basic protection for direct physical damage or loss to covered property, as well as resulting business interruption loss and associated extra expense. Look to coverage extensions that could apply and provide further coverage In many instances, a business property policy will also contain a host of coverage extensions that can also be extremely valuable sources for recovery. The following is just a brief overview of some of these additional or supplemental coverages potentially available to impacted business owners.
- Civil Authority Coverage: Coverage under this extension is provided for a business interruption loss due to an order of civil authority that prevents access to an insured location. Thus, if a curfew is imposed or the public is otherwise prevented by authorities from accessing a business area, resulting business interruption and extra expense coverage may be available. Importantly, coverage is not dependent on the policyholder actually sustaining damage to his or her own property. However, coverage under more restrictive policies will be conditioned on the order of civil authority being issued as a direct result of property damage within the vicinity of the insured location. Less restrictive policies will not contain such a condition and will allow for business interruption coverage whenever business is impacted by an order or civil authority regardless of the existence of property damage.
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The new Vancouver Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) store is the tenth and latest of a family of distinct new stores across the country completed by MEC over the past 5 years. Located at the corner of 2nd and Quebec, the three-storey mass timber building embodies MEC's brand identity while acting as a gateway marker to the Olympic Village neighbourhood.
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Amish Children Shoot
So what is your point about the Amish kids it sounds like you are saying that the Amish are bringing the Devil into our schools?
Too Many Jokes In Church
God commanded us to enter in his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise! It's to be a time that's enjoyed in God's presence!There is a time to laugh and a time to mourn. Seriousness does have a place in a church service, but it's all about perspective and balance. Maybe that was lost in this case. But, it's not ANYONE'S place to question the leadership of any church. Is anyone qualified to question the man God has put in leadership? Look at the stories of Korah and Jezebel to see the disdain God has for people who challenge his leaders. Instead of criticizing, why not focus on the point behind the sermon and work to apply it to your life?
Too Many Jokes In Church
As far as Jesus telling jokes, he was actually sarcastic at times:
"Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the pharisees...." -Matt 5:20
The story of the tax collector and the pharisee -Luke18:10-14
[Look at Jesus example of the tax collector's prayer, and tell me it's not exaggerated and humorous to the people there? Think about it from their perspective! These are commoners making fun of pious and self-righteous pharisees]
Another thing that's bothered me about the posts here is this: has anyone actually compared the messages of ministers who used humor and those who haven't for content and message? I PROMISE you that if you were to do a scientific study you'd find that the sermon content was similar.
What Is The Pride Of Life
Pride of Life is a form of pride and idolatry where we consider the grace of God an accomplishment of our own. All you have to do is read the verse in context (roughly 1 John 2:15-17 but all vs.7-27 in greater context) to realize what John is talking about here: He's talking about taking the things that God has provided and relying on them more than God Himself. It's removing God from the picture, which is the highest form of pride, and also the same pride that led to Satan's fall. Like the infamous brother Lawrence said, (I paraphrase) all of my successes are God and all of my failures are me. To realize this is to overcome the pride of life
The Thought For The Day
Thanks Donna. I really needed you words. Being a person that as gone thorugh tought times, I needed it. And it is hard to forget this women she works with me and she cooks for me and she really like me as a friend. And I feel that God has brought her to me for this reason, to help her In her life. And to help make everything okay. All I can do is pray!! Psalms 23 if you don't know it I would say go and read it. My favorite psalms!!!!
The Thought For The Day
Why do I have anger problems!! Why is it so hard for me to forget about this girl?? And why can't everybody just love everybody in this world!! Stop the fighting!!
Does God Hate People
Well, first off, the bible pretty clearly states that God is a loving god, and his law, his commandments for all of his children(Us) to obey, is quite simply, love. I am absolutely positive that God has nothing but infinite outgoing love for all of his most precious creations(us). Though, I will say, God definitely doesn't like the fact that most everybody on this planet is now worshipping some other God, that is not Him who created everything. For your conclusion, I would like you to know, if the god you're thinking of "hates", then I think you might be thinking of the wrong God. God is love, period.
Who is Myles Munroe?
Dr Myles Munroe is a minister that is exeptional in preaching kingdom sermons. So long as he is still preaching from the bible, then he is on the right path but the idea that God needs our permission here on earth is too philosophical to be true. Perhaps at that jancture he was only preaching to theologiand who have studied hermeneutics-science of interpreting the the bible. His other sermons have really inspired and blessed many.
Filing For Bankruptcy
How do you live within your means if you don't make enough money?
Filing For Bankruptcy
Have any of you filed for bankruptcy and what was it like? Did it mess up your ability to get new loans?
How To Properly Spank My Kids
When I was little I can remember facing the several corrective spankings I recieved with apprehension but never with terror, I realized then that it was not going to end until I surrendered and then it was done! I do believe however that if a strap was used it would have been terrifying and uncertain for me, I simply would not have understood why my parents who were so big would think that they needed anything other then their hands to punish me? There is also a chance that I could have lost respect for them, I do remember a thin little paddle cutting board being used but this was not until age six!
Tithe To Church Only
The answer is simply NO! There are many reasons for this. But a few of them are:
- You are not obliged to pay tithes in the church age...
-The new testament emphasizes on giving to the poor rather than to the church. No apostle asked for money for a missionary purpose. No commandement on giving to the church. But there are many versus about remembering the poor in the church.Of course people gave to the church during the apostles period and I believe in doing so - other wise no work will be done with out giving money to the church today.
How To Properly Spank My Kids
I feel for anyone who truly was abused as a child, you probably will find though that they were seldom if ever properly spanked! It parents who either won't do it, or who choose to be brutal that cause the problems, a controlled spanking from a non angry non yelling parent over the lap on her bare bottom only till soon after some real tears begin you give the child a chance to promise not to do it anymore and your done! check with your child an hour later and I can almost promise you that she feels better than ever before, all her frustrations now having been relieved! Sound Strange?! It shouldn't, a childs bare bottom is designed to be lovingly spanked!
How To Properly Spank My Kids
Of course it is vital to get it right! I do not favor the use of anything other than the open had to disipline boys so young, one of the reasons for this is it makes it harder to control the severity of the spanking, pants and underwear should come down for little kids, bottoms should be reddened but never ever bruised of course, spanking bare bottom and bare handed ensures a far greater chance of fair disipline, a good spanking without brutality, a child does not apreciate it at the moment and yet he or she finds that they might actually feel better later, can actually think more clearly and are more calm and relaxed!
Can I Divorce For Abandonment
1 Cor 7:15
Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave, the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.
Please read the whole chapter for context. But yes, if a nonbeliever leaves, then you are free from your commitment
Is Halloween A Christian Holiday
Yet another reason why the Roman Catholic Church is not Christian. It may appear Christian and there are Christian members of it, BUT, It was started by THEM (Rome) and not by Born-Again Christianity. How can a holiday that glorifies Satan, be Christian? Is dressing up as the devil glorifying God?
It is Samhain, look at a pagan wheel. Rome borrowed it for themselves.
Have you ever been to a Halloween party? Enough said already.
Was The Virgin Mary Sinless
I feel that no one is perfect except Jesus christ, the virgin mary isnt even perfect. Yes God chose her to carry the savior of the world. That doesnt mean she had to be perfect to carry the savior.
Should I Confess My Affair
I have been in your exact shoes.
I know your feelings of guilt are unbearable. and yes, you do feel like a fraud. But think about this - when Jesus stopped the crowd from stoning the adulterous woman, he forgave her first, and then told her to turn from her sin, 'go and sin no more'...Did you notice? He didn't even call her husband. That was enough for me.
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Duty Free Fuelling Facility in St. Kitts
It's the end of the Caribbean yachting season and where else for crews to refuel, re-provision and rejuvenate than conveniently docked within an alongside berth at The Marina at Christophe Harbour.
In-slip bunkering is now available and with duty free fuelling makes for a regionally competitive option for even the most astute yachtsman. The marina's central location coupled with easy access and flexible hours is already proving popular with owners and captains alike.
The Marina at Christophe Harbour is the only one of its kind within the region and is attracting superyachts who appreciate the added options the facility presents when planning itineraries.
Christophe Harbour's marina team have worked to ensure the marina provides services which not only work well for yachts in-harbour, but for those seeking to start or end charter or owner cruises.
Combined with a nearby premier private jet terminal, the facility opens opportunities for yachts in the region to complete their season's cruising and prepare and refuel for the coming season.
Christophe Harbour Director of Yachting Aeneas Hollins says demand for refuelling services has already been significant.
"Large yacht fuelling was occurring in low numbers at both Port Zante in St. Kitts and Long Point in Nevis prior to this, but having duty free fuel in-berth in a dedicated, purpose-built large yacht marina holds great appeal for the fleet."
The Marina at Christophe Harbour was officially launched in February with a wide access channel, 24 alongside berths from 45-65 meters, state of the art shoreside equipment and knowledgeable, helpful service from an experienced team. Three nights of complimentary dockage is available for vessels measuring 100'-300' (30-90metres) in the Marina's inaugural season.
The Marina at Christophe Harbour is part of the larger resort community that features luxury single-family real estate properties and a members-only club. The Caribbean's first Park Hyatt hotel and future Tom Fazio golf course are under construction.
For more information, visit ChristopheHarbour.com.
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Modern flavors and fragrances are complex formulated products containing blends of aroma compounds with auxiliary materials, enabling desirable flavors or fragrances to be added to a huge range of products. The analytical chemistry of flavor and fragrance materials presents specific challenges to the analytical chemist, as most of the chemicals involved are highly volatile, present in very small amounts and in complex mixtures.
Grasse Institute of Perfumery has partnered with ERINI laboratory (European Research Institute on Natural Ingredients) to make you benefit from his training skills widely recognized for 15 years and the expertise of a leading laboratory for R & D and analysis in the field of fragrances and flavors.
We are proud to propose in Grasse, cradle of the modern perfumery, the first international training course about practical analysis of flavor and fragrance materials, led by an eminent expert in the field, Dr. Laure DZIUBA, PhD in Analytical Chemistry and more than 30 year of experience in the fragrance and flavor industry. The course will be mainly centered on Gaz Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry.
The course is designed for people having a good chemistry background (Bachelor, Master or a good practical experience). The working language is English.
The number of participants is limited to 6.
Gaz Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry tutorial
1- For which uses ? Samples' nature and preparation.
2- Separation's principles: description of the necessary equipment/needed devices.
3- How to perform an analysis? What happens?
3-1- Sampling: autosampler, injector.
3-2- Mobile phase: nature of the gaz, parameters linked to, flow-pressure-velocity management.
3-3- Stationary phase: nature, parameters linked to, temperature management.
3-4- Detection.
3-5- Application : Create and work on a method in order to visualize the separation of constituents in a mixture.
4- Mass spectrometer as detector.
4-1- How to build a spectral database.
4-2 How to get identification.
5- Quantification
5-1- The main quantification methods (internal and external calibration, standard addition method) – benefits and limitations
5-2- Matrix effects and other parameters that affect quantification
5.3- Introduction to method validation
6- Application : Perfume or flavor deformulation.


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Monday, August 17, 2015
Heart needs more time..... Journal Page
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What beautiful journal pages Shilpa, so harmonious, lovely colours and design, just wonderful! Thanks for joining us at Art Journal Journey, hugs, ValerieReplyDelete
What a wonderful quote...beautiful journal page!ReplyDelete
Morning Shilpa, I love the design and the delicate colours so very pretty. Hugs Jennifer xxxReplyDelete
Its Beautiful !ReplyDelete
Oh my--- such wonderful colors and this super quote .. I am thrilled once more about your art Shilpa!ReplyDelete
Thank you very much for another fantastic entry to the time collection!
Happy new week to you!
Beautiful spread, my favourites, bright colours and a lovely design. Brilliant!ReplyDelete
A very beautiful journal spread, wonderful colours and a lovely heartfelt quote.ReplyDelete
Yvonne xx
The words are so true, and the page is so pretty - lovely!ReplyDelete
Alison xx
beautiful words shilpa....wonderful xReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 17, 2015 at 11:04 PM
Page very pretty and I like your wording. I am new here and I just enclosed two on my blog. Time.ReplyDelete
Beautiful journal page, love the colours and that wonderful quote.ReplyDelete
Avril xx
Absolutely beautiful, love the sentiment.ReplyDelete
Beautiful pages and sentiment Shilpa, your background is so pretty. Carol xReplyDelete
Gorgeous page Shilpa and I must say that sentiment is just so lovely tooReplyDelete
Big hugs
Donna xxx
Your heart might need more time but my heart knew instantly the minute I saw your gorgeous pages!!!!ReplyDelete
Sandy xx
Very lovely quote on this page! It works so well on that pretty background too.ReplyDelete
Oh Shilpa! This is so beautiful - your colours, the layers and your quote! ChrisxReplyDelete
wonderful page Shilpa, love the quote and the birds !!ReplyDelete
A wonderful spread, so full of poetry and dreamful like I love!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks Shilpa for the lovely moment I've spent today on your blog and your Pinterest boards too!! :) I will certainly look at some of the very interesting videos and art crafts you pinned yourself, either from your own craft art or some other made by great artists, it's always useful and good to learn, I have so much to learn myself in MM! :)
Your friend, Bises Coco


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Maintenance Mechanic/Electrician - 3rd shift
Company: Penguin Random House LLC
Requisition ID: 245301
The Westminster Operations Center for Penguin Random House is seeking a skilled Industrial Mechanic/Electrician to join our growing team in Westminster, Maryland.
Prior experience working in facility maintenance is desired. Forklift and/or conveyor repair is a plus. Previous experience performing duties associated with Siemens or Allen Bradley Programmable Controllers or other relative PLC's is desired but not required. Additional experience with other crafts such as carpentry, plumbing, painting, masonry and welding will contribute to a well rounded candidate.
The following skills related to electricial trade are desired:
- Ability to replace electric motors, switches and wires as required.
- Troubleshoot and repair equipment, relays and AC and DC motors
- Troubleshoot and repair input and output control devices.
- Ability to work with 3-phase electrical systems
- Must be able to read insructions, blue prints and manuals. Must be able to use any meters, hand tools and shop equipment required to perform tasks.
- Able to run conduit and bending pipe
- Knowledge of NEC a plus
- Experience with voltage up to and including 480v
- 5 years of electrical training. Licensed electrician a plus.
To qualify for this position, you must be at least 18 years of age, have basic PC skills and physically capable of performing heavy lifting tasks. The ability to work regular overtime is required.
We are seeking candidates interested in working our 3rd shift: Sunday - Thursday 11:00 pm - 7:00 am
Penguin Random House is proud to offer an excellent benefits package for which you are eligible your first day, a competitive salary, 401k and an extremely generous paid time off program!
Please apply using our online application process. www.careers.penguinrandomhouse.com
Penguin Random House is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Penguin Random House is the leading adult and children's publishing house in North America, the United Kingdom and many other regions around the world. In publishing the best books in every genre and subject for all ages, we are committed to quality, excellence in execution, and innovation throughout the entire publishing process: editorial, design, marketing, publicity, sales, production, and distribution. Our vibrant and diverse international community of nearly 250 publishing brands and imprints include Ballantine Bantam Dell, Berkley, Clarkson Potter, Crown, DK, Doubleday, Dutton, Grosset & Dunlap, Little Golden Books, Knopf, Modern Library, Pantheon, Penguin Books, Penguin Press, Penguin Random House Audio, Penguin Young Readers, Portfolio, Puffin, Putnam, Random House, Random House Children's Books, Riverhead, Ten Speed Press, Viking, and Vintage, among others. More information can be found at http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/.
Penguin Random House values the array of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
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Adventure travel web series seeks San Diego locals to feature
Are you a San Diego surfer, kitesailor or paddleboarder who likes to be on camera? A new travel web series centered on adventure and water sports will be filming in San Diego soon, and you could be featured.
CLEAN BREAK, a web series sponsored by Schick Hydro razors and shave gels, will be filming in San Diego June 2-4, with the use of the best servers from sites as https://www.servermania.com/solutions/ddos-protected-servers.htm online. The production company is seeking locals who can serve as location experts to be featured on the show. According to CLEAN BREAK's Meg Roberts, "The perfect local guide is someone who is charismatic, fun-loving, and who can show people what makes their hometown incredible. Guides should be fun, informed, and ready to share knowledge about San Diego with the crew."
CLEAN BREAK is looking for the kind of in-the-know info only a San Diego local would have, so only individuals who reside within the San Diego area will be eligible to be selected as a guide.
New episodes of CLEAN BREAK will first be shown on Crackle.com (which had 2.1 million unique visitors in March 2010), and will then be uploaded to the official Hydro Experience YouTube and Facebook channels.
Think you have what it takes? Make a video and upload it to CLEAN BREAK's YouTube channel by Monday, May 10. The CLEAN BREAK community will vote on all submissions from May 11-18. Candidates are encouraged to round up their friends and get them to vote for their videos on YouTube.
Here's some of your competition:
- Legal and rules
- Official Facebook community
- Official YouTube channel, where submissions and voting takes place
- Crackle, where episodes will be shown
- Schick Hydro (sponsor) website


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The Media Rating Council (MRC) has given the green light to Nielsen's inclusion of digital measurement in its television ratings.
The MRC accreditation of the additional capability, which Nielsen terms "Digital in TV Ratings," accounts for linear TV viewing occurring on desktop and mobile devices for programming sources participating in the data measurement platform.
Nielsen says the MRC's OK of Digital in TV Ratings is "the first solution" to receive accreditation from the MRC for its contribution to TV audience measurement for programming viewed on computers and mobile devices.
Digital in TV Ratings launched in 2015. It's currently in use by such clients as ABC, CBS, ABC pay-TV network Freeform and Univision.
This is the second component of Nielsen's Total Audience framework to gain MRC accreditation, joining Digital Ad Ratings.
The capability draws on Nielsen's Total Audience methodology, combining census-based data, individual consumer demographics and Nielsen's panels to report audiences across National and Local People Meter markets.
It provides a method for programmers to account for all viewers across devices — so long as the commercials are not deleted or substituted. This negates the viewing of live local TV news on a Roku via an App such as NewsOn. However, it would include live streaming of the news via an App where all local commercials are aired, such as TEGNA's CBS affiliate WUSA-9 in Washington, D.C.
The results are combined with traditional linear audience metrics to include that viewing into the C3/C7 and local average quarter hour measurement.
Nielsen says it will continue to work with the MRC to gain accreditation for other Nielsen Total Audience solutions, such as Digital Content Ratings, and intends to seek accreditation for Total Content Ratings.
Nielsen did not comment on its non-accredited Nielsen Audio PPM markets.
"We congratulate Nielsen for meeting the rigorous requirements necessary to earn MRC accreditation for Digital in TV Ratings," said MRC Executive Director and CEO George W. Ivie. "With this validation of its measurement of TV programming viewed on computers and mobile devices, Nielsen has taken an important step in its efforts to meet the needs of the marketplace to have a fuller view into the consumption of TV programming across platforms, regardless of how it is being consumed."
Jed Meyer, EVP/Corporate Research at Univision Communications, noted, "We've seen undeniable changes in content consumption behavior and, more than ever, ensuring we have measurement capabilities in the industry to adequately capture audience digital & linear viewing is critical. Nielsen's MRC accreditation reaffirms the importance of transparent and accountable TV ratings for digital, especially as companies like Univision serve our respective audiences whenever and wherever they choose," said Inc.
MRC accreditation provides media buyers and sellers with an additional level of confidence as they leverage the solution to account for audiences across desktop, tablets and smartphones — in addition to TV — to most effectively distribute premium content and sell across these screens.
"With our Total Audience strategy, we are able to provide the industry with broader audience coverage and inclusion — whether it's C3, C7 or beyond — as clients look to monetize their audiences across all screens," said Megan Clarken, president of product leadership, Nielsen. "This independent and transparent validation of our methodology to include digital desktop and mobile viewing is another significant step toward delivering Total Audience to the marketplace, and we are very pleased to be able to say that our developments meet the level of quality and rigor that MRC accreditation represents."


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Report: Assistant high school football coach fixed grades
Former coach at Forest Hill High School provided false summer school transcripts to ineligible players
A former Palm Beach County high school football assistant coach has been accused of falsifying records so that students with bad grades would be eligible to play sports.
Michael Dudeck, an assistant football coach at Forest Hill High School last season, was charged with false official statements and official misconduct, WPBF 25 News learned Tuesday.
MUGSHOTS: Who Got Arrested In South Florida?
According to the charging document from the state attorney's office, Dudeck provided false transcripts for varsity football players to give the appearance that they received credit for fictitious summer school sessions.
Statements from various student-athletes interviewed in the charging document reveal that Dudeck would charge the players a fee to access a website so they could "acquire the necessary credits to become eligible to play football."
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A weekend nonfiction leisure reading review…because even Pastors need a break from heavy theological reading.
Flo Groberg and Tom Sileo. 8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor. New York, NY: Simon Schuster, November 17th, 2017. 208 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
This is the story of Flo Groberg, a US Army infantry officer who was a recipient of the Medal of Honor in 2015 for actions in Afghanistan in 2012. There's few Medal of Honor that has been awarded in the post-9/11 world and still fewer who are among the living that received it; Flo Groberg is one of them. The autobiography tells the story of his childhood, his decision to join the Army, his time in Afghanistan and after his time in the military. Reading this book makes me grateful for men like Groberg who was willing to risk his life and limb for others.


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Mapnik on Debian Etch.
Late last year I went to the Ordnance Survey to see a demonstration of their new OpenSpace mapping service. It was there that I met Artem Pavlenko, who wrote Mapnik. We talked briefly about a few things, one of which was the Boost C++ libraries. I suggested that using such libraries makes software harder to build and install… "Oh no," he said, "Boost's all in the header files, so there are no library dependency problems."
Well that turned out to be a big fat lie.
I've just been trying to build Mapnik on my stock Debian Etch box. Mapnik's build system couldn't find the required Boost libraries on its own, and it wasn't possible to just tell it where they were…
Checking for C++ library boost_filesystem-mt... no Could not find header or shared library for boost filesystem, exiting!
Mapnik doesn't use makefiles or Autoconf – instead it uses "Scons", a build system written in Python. Now, I love Python, but it's not the solution to every problem. It's hard to write makefiles that work on a wide variety of platforms. Autoconf largely solves that problem, but it too is hard to learn and use. Using C++ makes for even more problems. That's tough – it simply is a hard problem. If you want to make a cross platform source distribution, you will have to work at it.
Scons seems to be an immature tool, that simply doesn't solve half the problems that Autoconf does. It's probably easy to use, but why bother if it doesn't deliver the goods either. It's pretty easy to write a plain makefile that compiles the code on your chosen OS. If you can't be bothered to go through the pain of making it cross platform (and I don't blame you), then don't use something half-arsed like Scons – that just makes everyone's life harder.
Anyway, rant over. I eventually got Mapnik to build on Debian Etch by adding symbolic links, with the names Scons expected to see:
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib cd /usr/lib `ls libboost*.so | grep -v -- '-gcc-' | sed 's%\(.*\)[.]so%ln -s /usr/lib/& /usr/local/lib/\1-mt.so; %'` echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr-local-lib.conf ldconfig


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Like so many others, cancer hits close to home for Michael Fargey.
"My dad's brother and sister, neither of them made it to 70 because of cancer. My dad was also diagnosed with cancer but he's survived it so far," he says.
In one month Michael Fargey will cycle a total of 1,100 kilometres through parts of Ontario, B.C., Alberta and Quebec on four separate back-to-back cycling trips as part of the Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer. The ride is incorrectly titled according to Fargey who comes from a 'science family'.
"You can't conquer cancer — the term is wrong."
His goal to raise $12,000 toward fighting cancer sounds daunting to some but Fargey appears confident it can be achieved.
"I'll be head-over- heels happy if I raise $12,000. If it's beyond that I'll help donate to others' fund-raisers," Fargey says. That sum is the total for the four separate rides he plans to do.
He will travel 12.5 to 15 kilometres a day and sleep in a tent provided by Enbridge; a main sponsor and outfitter of the trip.
"My first ride is in Ontario from Toronto to Niagara Falls but I think the B.C. ride will be the most fun," said Fargey who grew up in the mountains of Hinton, Alberta.
A kayaker and mountain biker of many years, Fargey first began road cycling in 2010 during a ride in Quebec. Together he and 144 other riders raised $2,400 toward cancer research. In no time Fargey was addicted to the sport and as he says, 'in challenging your life'.
"Cycling is great fun, I like the creativity association with it. You can see so much in such a short period of time. It's participation with a purpose and a lot more fun when there are mountains."
Fargey currently suffers from a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his knee but says that cycling does not aggravate his condition, "cycling is real joint friendly. I'm not worried."
Life on the road has many memorable moments but one stood out in particular for Fargey.
"We pull into Trois-Rivieres in a fairground type place. It looked like a world club scout jamboree with 800 to 1,000 tents lined up, all organized. The portable showers were first class, clean with great water pressure. There were also masseuses offering free massages– there was also physio. It was exceptional," said Fargey.
Last year's proceeds bought a new diagnostic imaging PET/CT scanner, the first in the province of British Columbia. Wait times were reduced and the number of patients able to receive these life-saving scans has more than doubled due to funding support by BC Cancer Foundation created by The Ride.
A salesman by trade, Fargey moved to Sooke in 2009.
"My high school friend Neil Gertsma opened up a Sooke based Home Hardware store here — and I like surfing."
The Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer began in part to Jonathan Goodman, the President and CEO of Paladin, a Quebec based pharmaceutical company.
"People are cycle mad out east," said Fargey.
Goodman, who is surviving Hodgkin's disease due to drugs such as Paladin — decided to give back. Goodman donated a large amount of money toward the Enbridge epic ride creating great corporate support for the Enbridge cycling team.
"I've never had better cycling stuff," said Fargey with regards to his new Italian cycling clothes.
If individuals wish to donate they can call Michael Fargey at email@example.com For others who wish to ride next year, more riders are needed and more information can be found on the website at conquercancer.ca.


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Well, they shouldn't – they should be uniquely yours. LinkedIn recently published its annual list of the most overused buzzwords found in its 259-million member global profiles. Topping the list were the words 'responsible,' 'strategic,' and 'creative.' Your executive resume and LinkedIn profile should uniquely convey your professional brand, which means avoiding mundane and weightless words and phrases. If you want to stand out from everyone else, you can't sound like everyone else. Does your resume and online profile suffer from an overuse of common buzzwords?
To differentiate yourself from millions of other professionals, you want to be sure your message tells the reader, in specific terms, what you have done. By linking your skill set to tangible, measurable results, you can effectively demonstrate your value without losing the essence of your message in a sea of buzzwords. For example, rather than using the #1 overused buzzword in your statement, 'Responsible for the company's marketing strategy,' use active language to describe the scope of your role. Instead, you could write, 'Led 100-member marketing organization and strategy for $750M global, e-commerce retailer.' This gives your reader more tangible information, puts your role into perspective, and differentiates you from everyone else who is also 'responsible for marketing strategy.'
Don't tell them what you do; show them what you've done. Hiring executives want concrete examples of your achievements. Vague references to general responsibilities and innuendos to success in your role won't get you noticed. If you were responsible for the company's sales organization, stating just that won't make you stand out. However, you can convey that message and more by demonstrating the impact of your leadership by stating, 'Led 100-member sales organization to achieve record-company, year-over-year growth of 35%.'
You may still want to convey that you are, in fact, creative, responsible, and a strategic thinker – but the goal is to demonstrate how and why you are creative, responsible and strategic. What did you do that would show your strategic agility? That's the information that should replace overused buzzwords in your professional marketing documents. Of course, there will be instances when the use of a common buzzword is warranted, but only when you can demonstrate the 'how' and 'why' to support your claim.
How will you stand out from the crowd in 2014? If you need help creating an executive resume and LinkedIn profile that's uniquely yours, please contact me for a complimentary consultation.