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Another mass shooting in America
The victims and families of the mass shooting in Orlando last night don't want your prayers or your thoughts. They want your OUTRAGE that a small percent of gun nuts have successfully lobbied against passing ANY common sense gun laws and have put their profits over the lives of human beings.
RAGE to your elected officials that they won't stand up to terrorist organizations like the NRA who not only allow these mass shootings but who PROFIT from this fear and horror and death.
RAGE to your elected officials that they won't listen to the overwhelming majority of the US population that WANTS common sense gun law reform.
And VOTE to change the broken system and elect officials who WILL stand up and do the right thing and work towards a SAFER future for all of us.
Megacon Orlando 2016
I went to Megacon for the first time this weekend. Previously, I made my Comic Con debut last year, in my first-ever cosplay as a girl Marty McFly to meet Lea Thompson at Tampa Bay Comic Con.
This year, we had even higher stakes as none other than Doc Brown himself, Christopher Lloyd was going to be there!!
I bought us tickets for Saturday, bought a 1:30pm photo op with Christopher Lloyd and dusted off the old Marty cosplay outfit. I was psyched!!
A little after 7am early Saturday morning, the alarm went off after about 4.5 hours of sleep. I wanted to make sure we got an early start so we could get there close to the 10am opening of the convention. We got ready and headed out, leaving a little later than I had wanted at around 9am, but given it was only a 90 minute drive, I figured that would still get us there by about 10:30am and probably in the building around 11am.
We set off on I-4 from Tampa to Orlando. Made great time until….we came to a screeching halt somewhere around Auburndale. It was just an absolute mass of cars, literally crawling forward an inch at a time, stopping, then moving forward a tiny bit more. Repeat until you go insane. (We came to a near dead stop somewhere around mile marker 50 or so and had until exit 72 for our exit. All of which was just jammed.)
What should have been an hour and a half turned into over THREE HOURS of absolute maddening traffic. We didn't even get to the convention center until noon. Where we then further got stuck in a never-ending line to the toll booth trying to park.
As we sat there the time just kept ticking by. I had a 1:30pm photo op that was booked and paid for! By the time it was nearly 12:30, I knew I couldn't wait any longer. I actually threw the car in park, grabbed my stuff and left Love to park the car.
I took off, running in 95F heat through acres of parking lot, past other concourses of the convention center trying just to get to the building. After literally over MILE of run/walking (I measured it on google maps later), I ran smack into a line extending the entire length of the West Concourse, OUTSIDE stretching back just to get in the door!!
About 15 more minutes of this line, I finally made it in the building. Only to be faced with ANOTHER LINE that literally WRAPPED around the entire perimeter of the massive room within the convention center! I had prepaid for my ticket but I needed my wristband and the line to get it was several thousand deep! I knew they were expecting over 100,000 people for the weekend but I never expected they would ALL be ahead of me in line!!
At this point, it was 1:15pm. That was the time I was supposed to line up for the photo op and I didn't even have my wristband yet! I got out of line, found a person who worked there who directed me to a manager. Another guy came up at the same time who ALSO had the same 1:30pm photo op and she escorted us both all the way up front, direct to the ticket taker and got us our wristbands. Success!
Except the photo ops were on the entire other side of the convention center. And it's a MASSIVE space that was FULL of people. The guy and I (never caught his name) stuck together, weaving in and out of people, dashing like mad fools trying to make our way to the photo section. We arrived literally right at 1:30pm. We were able to get in line and thankfully, Christopher Lloyd was running a few minutes behind.
I was DRENCHED in sweat at that point despite not even having my jacket or vest on and fighting to stop panting from the non-stop running I had done for the past hour. Remember, I bailed out of the car around 12:25pm and it was now 1:30pm and it took that long just to get from the parking lot to the line!
Again, thankfully, the photo op was running behind so I had time to cool off enough to put the rest of my costume on, touch up my makeup and reapply my lipstick. By around 2pm I got in and got my pic with Christopher Lloyd:
Mission accomplished!! 😀
So much more to the day and so many more lines! Oh, and photos too!
Birthday Girl!
Today is my 39th birthday. (Woah, I know!) I spent the day going to see Captain America: Civil War (#TeamCap!) and generally had a low-key but fun day. Here's an obligatory birthday day selfie:
Dapper Day – WDW Spring 2016
Saturday, April 16, 2016 was Dapper Day at Walt Disney World. This time, it was a Spring Fling in Magic Kingdom! Dapper Day, for those who might not know (such as most of the "regular" park guests for the day, all of whom felt I looked friendly enough to ask LOL) is a day to dress to impress. When Disneyland first opened in 1955, people wore their Sunday best; men in suits and women in dresses, hats, gloves. So Dapper Day is a twice-a-year event dedicated to bringing a little style and class back into the parks. It's not about being "vintage" specifically nor does it require a certain time period (though many do chose to embrace a mid-century 50's or 60's style.)
I went last year for the first time to the Fall Soiree held at Disney's Hollywood Studios. That day, I opted for a "provincial town" blue dress Belle Dapper Disneybound. (A Disneybound is when you dress inspired by a character, movie, attraction, etc. without going for a full, 100% accurate cosplay.)
This year, a few months ago I got the idea to do something with one of my favorite attractions, The Haunted Mansion. I found a perfectly Dapper green and black dress which reminded me of the "Maids" and "Butlers" that work the attraction. From there, I spent a lot of time finding and modifying various aspects to complete the look. (Including making a Bat Stanchion Necklace) I'm happy to report it was a total success!
Feel free to check out my entire album including more group shots and other shots with fellow Dapper Darlings here on my facebook page.
I handmade the Haunted Mansion "bat stanchion" necklace I'm wearing for the day and had so many people inquire about it that I will be doing a limited run of them for sale. Follow PhoenixFire Designs to be updated when they will become available. I need to get additional supplies and materials plus get more cast and painted. Update: Pre-orders for my Haunted Mansion Bat Stanchion Black Lace Choker Necklace Here!
Reminders of Things Best Left Forgotten
Trigger Warning: abusive father bullshit ahead
This one is dark and heavy. There's also lots of cursing head. Fair warning.
Leap Day
It seems that I only write a post once every four years these days. Regardless if that's accurate or not, I just had to post something today to have a date stamp of February 29th on the blog. 😉
So here's a gratuitous car selfie in lieu of any actual content:
Happy Mathematical Construct Day everyone! See you again in four years. 😀
I know I should probably find it "cute" or something, but I just can't. Every single day, I am "treated" to the…let's be generous and call it "singing" of the small child in the apartment below me. He (?) sings as loud as he can, shrill and screechy and ungodly out of tune over and over and over again. All day long.
Yesterday I was woken up around 8:30am to the dulcet sounds of For the First Time In Forever from Frozen. It was a living nightmare.
The approximation of the sounds that come out of this kid's mouth is something like WHAAAAAAAAAA aaaah wwawawawa MmmmAAAAWWWWW and about as in-tune as bagpipes in a garbage disposal.
The "singing" is of a volume and frequency that it travels through the floors and walls from his apartment to mine. I will sit, listening to this Hell for 10 or 15 minutes until I can't take it any longer and play the I have over 5,000 songs on my pc and speakers louder than you game.
This morning we discovered that Imagine Dragons > his punk ass.
I just love apartment living.
The Future
Marty: All right, Doc, what's goin' on, huh? Where are we? "When" are we?
Doc Brown: We're descending towards Hill Valley, California at 4:29 PM on Wednesday, October 21st, twenty-fifteen.
Marty: Two thousand fifteen?! You mean we're in the future!
Welcome to the future!
Blast From the Past – Starlog Magazine January 1990
I recently found a copy of Starlog Magazine from January 1990 while cleaning. The cover story? An interview with Robert Zemeckis on the filming of Back to the Future: Part II! This is a timely find given that we are nearly at the future – October 21, 2015.
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It features some great production photos from the film as well as a Q&A with Zemeckis. Since this is a 25 year old issue and I'm sure most BttF fans don't have a copy laying around to read, I've scanned all the pages and uploaded them for reference and review.
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The full gallery (including much larger versions of the scans) can be found here on my G+ account.
As a bonus, here's the back cover of the issue. It was a full page ad for the Back to the Future fan club. Man, I wish I had gotten in on that! (Only $9.95! 😉 )
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Great Scott! (I know, this is heavy!)
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My week from Hell
(Warning: There is bugs in this post. Specifically ants. There's also A LOT of cursing.)
I have had a fucking week from hell and I'm just over it. All I want to do is lay down and fucking cry. I have no one to vent to so I hope you will allow me to share here.
Sunday night around midnight, my husband is going to bed and…there's a fucking invasion of ants in our master bedroom. Couple weeks ago, the apt below us had a swarm in their master bedroom closet.
I need to point out that I have a hardcore phobia of ants. Like, even trying to talk about it gets me all shaky. So needless to say I had a fucking panic attack that night. They were on the floor, the bed, the curtains my fucking pillow – everywhere. I was hyperventilating and sobbing my eyes out and shaking so hard because I was so freaked out.
Meanwhile, my poor husband is trying to kill them, wipe them up, smoosh them, etc and every time he moved something, there were more.
I wound up doing like 6 loads of laundry (they were in the bedding, extra linens, clothes, etc.) and couldn't even bring myself to sleep in my own bed because I was so freaked out. I was up until 7:30am before I was finally able to doze off for about 3 hours on my couch.
Of course, my apartment complex is made up of fucking assholes. So Monday they were – big surprise – total fucktards about the whole thing. "Do you eat in your bedroom? was their reply.
First off, no I don't.
Secondly, who the fuck cares because I'm pretty damned sure the people below us don't eat in their closet so it's ridiculous for you to act like I somehow brought this on myself!!!
They were absurdly unsympathetic telling me that *I* had to put out traps because they couldn't for "liability" reasons. Oh and I needed to move every single piece of furniture away from the walls by the so they could spray Tuesday. They couldn't help me in any way because, of course, of "liability" reasons. I told the property manager I have permanent neck damage so there's a very low limit to what I can do, and she was like, oh well that's what you have to do.
So Monday night my husband and I do our best to make sure you can at least get to the baseboards as best as possible. Furniture doesn't fucking float so there's only so much it can be moved since we still need to, oh I don't know, access the bed! The living room is a disaster with overflow of laundry & linens I haven't put back away and now furniture and things taken out of the room for access.
Tuesday I sit around all day and….pest control doesn't show! Who's surprised?
Oh the pest control company had "an emergency" so they'll be here Wednesday instead. First thing, before noon, promise.
I get up early Wednesday and…wait. By 12:30pm still no sign. So I call. "Oh they're supposed to be here sometime today, you're on the list." Thanks.
Finally come about 2pm. The guy asks if I have any allergies or sensitivities. Uh, yeah to almost everything. Especially scents. (My husband can't wear cologne because it gives me migraines. Even his stupid deodorant reeks to me. I buy unscented everything.) Oh well, he says, this stuff is horrible. It even gives ME headaches and I don't have any sensitivities.
And this is what you want to spray in my BEDROOM??
So after all that, he wound up baiting and setting up traps instead, no spray. He said he'd spray outside heavily (which is the problem in the first place IMO since our whole building is swarming in ants. Like, they are everywhere!!)
Meanwhile, my husband has like 30 huge, puss-filled awful bites all over his arms and legs. I have about 4 on my feet since he was one the one right in the mix of it. Apt complex does not give any shits.
We haven't seen any more since but I'm so nervous now and worried because we never had them before and the just BAM! a ton all at once. They had to come from somewhere and I'm so afraid they'll be back.
I'm so done with this place and so very, very tired of their bullshit. I wish I could just pack up and leave tomorrow. Of course if we wanted to leave it would be thousands and thousands of dollars in early termination fees and if we just left without 90 days notice, we could never get a place anywhere else ever again. Not like we have the money to move anyway which is why we've been stuck here so long in the first place.
It's just become nearly unbearable and I'm just so damned depressed lately about everything and so overwhelmed. I feel like just laying down and crying. It's all I want to do. I have no motivation, no energy, nothing. I'm just so done with it all and I'm tired of being powerless and beat up.
Creating My Female Marty McFly Cosplay (Part 1)
A few months ago I decided I wanted to attend my first ever con: Tampa Bay Comic Con 2015. And if I was going to go, I was going to cosplay. Back to the Future is my all-time favorite movie (and movie trilogy) and 2015 is not only the 30th anniversary of it's theatrical release (originally released July 3, 1985) but in Part II, 2015 is "the future" that they travel to. (October 21, 2015.) So it just made sense that my first ever cosplay should be Marty McFly!
Of course having an idea to do a female Marty McFly cosplay and actually putting it together is two different things entirely! Because as it turns out, Marty's 1985 outfit is not only more complex than it initially looks, it's also full of rare, vintage pieces – all in men's sizing. And while Michael J. Fox may be small guy, he's still a guy. And I'm not. 😉
So I needed to find suitable outfit parts that would still look like the original and yet be made for a woman. I was also unwilling to spend hundreds (or even thousands!) of dollars on this outfit and wanted to do it inexpensively as possible. It quickly became clear that I needed to approach this creatively.
In other words: this was going to take some work.
To start, this is Marty McFly's famous 1985 complete outfit:
It's a LOT of layers.
- a burgundy tee shirt
- a white button up with a black windowpane pattern
- black suspenders
- custom Guess jacket with those distinctive dark blue accents
- burnt orange puffer jacket, jeans
- Nike Bruins red and white sneakers
There's also a ton of details like three pins on his jacket, his headphones and walkman, his marron Eastpak backpack, etc. I spent a lot of time looking up reference photos and learning all about what the original parts were so that I could find, make or modify compatible female pieces.
For example, the white and black windowpane button up shirt. There was a limited run of a reproduction version a few years ago by Shah Safari. Of course, they were in men's sizing. And if you could find one on ebay, they were going for $100 and up.
So I scoured the web and wound up finding this women's shirt. It cost me about $10 shipped and looked really good. Plus, it had the added benefit of actually FITTING me as a woman!
Next up was the puffer vest. I admit I never wound up finding exactly the right vest. I ordered four separate pieces over several months and settled on a red one. Yes, I know that it's technically orange in the film. It's a burnt orange color. Due to the lightning process and coloration of the movie, it looks red. (There's even a big debate among casual viewers if it's orange or red!)
The original is by Class-5. They went out of business in the early 80's, so finding an authentic one is not only nearly impossible, it's an extremely expensive proposition. Even if I did find one, again, it would be in men's sizing and thus too large for my size 4 frame.
I wound up settling on a red puffer vest. I also did buy an orange one but it was too neon; much more of a bright safety orange vs the darker burnt orange puff vest original. I also bought a woman's size one to help give it a little bit of shape. Puffer vests really do nothing for your figure so I opted for one that, while not screen accurate, looked good on me and still gave the impression and look of Marty's original outfit.
Like everything, Marty's original shoes proved hard to find as well. Through research I found out the originals were Nike Bruins but they don't seem to make this color combo any longer.
I spent time searching ebay and various websites but the few white-with-red swoosh versions I found were nowhere near the right size. I wear a women's 6.5 which would mean I'd need a men's 4.5 (which really is a boy's size at that point.) I finally had a lucky break when I found a vintage pair of red and white Nikes IN MY SIZE that had a very similar look. They are labeled "ACE '83" but were really an excellent find.
Marty McFly also has a very distinctive cassette walkman that he uses in the film. The original is a AIWA HS-P07 (or AIWA HS-P02 MII apparently one version was US and one was international but they both have the same styling.) These very rarely come up for sale and when they do…you guessed it. They sell for hundreds of dollars! I figured getting something with a similar "look" was close enough so I found this for about $10 on ebay instead:
Marty wears a distinctively 80's digital watch. When he's trying to call Doc Brown from the payphone in Lou's Cafe in 1955, it beeps. This was the easiest piece to track down because They still make basically the exact same model! Casio Men's CA53W Calculator Watch. It's available for about $15 on amazon!
Marty's backpack seemed like it would be easy, but it turned out it turned into one of those 30 years later challenges. The original is a marron Eastpak. A few years ago, they even re-released it as the Eastpak Pak'r Returnity Red but…those are sold out too.
I wound up buying a vintage Jansport bag. I took off the logo and added some handmade "pig ears" out of sued leather to give it the look. (The leather diamonds are sometimes referred to as "pig ears.") Another $10 ebay find.
Of course, the biggest challenge was THE JACKET. A one-of-a-kind, made by the studio just for the production, it was my biggest hurdle. And it deserves it's own post so….to be continued!
See Part II: The making of my Marty McFly 1985 Jacket here!
Female Marty McFly Cosplay at Tampa Bay Comic Con 2015
Saturday, August 1st, 2015 I did my first ever cosplay: a gender-swap/crossplay of a female Marty McFly (of course from the 1985 movie Back to the Future) and attended Tampa Bay Comic Con. This was also my first ever con too! I had such a fun time.
I also got to meet Lea Thompson, who played Lorraine Baines McFly – aka Marty's Mom – who, in Back to the Future has the hots for her son, "Calvin Klein." I had planned my costume months ago, long before I knew she was going to be there, so it was a fantastic opportunity!
First off, pics!
But you're my….you're my…
I even spotted Doc Brown! Doc, you're my only hope!
Doc and I proved quite popular and several people came to get photos with us – including Spiderman! 😉
And of course, with time travel, one needs to be careful not to run into your other self! You might cause a time paradox – the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe. (Granted, that's the worse case scenario. The destruction might, in fact, be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.)
Back to the Future was released in theaters exactly 30 years ago this year on July 3, 1985. Plus, in Part II, Doc brings Marty to "the future" which is THIS year: October 21, 2015. So when a few months ago, I decided I wanted to attend my first ever Con, there was only one character that made sense: from my all time favorite movie ever, Marty McFly!
I'm going to do a separate post all about the process of putting together the costume because while it looks simple enough, there are a LOT of details and converting a 1985 man's outfit to something a woman could wear 30 years later and trying to get all the details right, was harder than it appears. Look for that soon.
But it was SO much fun and it's hard not to have a good time when people tell you things like, "you are the most legit Marty I've seen!" 😀 If you get a chance to attend a Comic Con, do it! And, have fun with it and cosplay too! Don't be afraid of being "silly" or "embarrassed." Everyone there is there because they also love the same things you do and they will appreciate your enthusiasm and dedication to your fandom.
I will definitely do more cons in the future. (Or perhaps, the past! 😉 )
Want to make your own Marty McFly cosplay? Or just curious what went into my girl Marty costume? Check out how I made my DIY female Marty McFly cosplay costume Part I and Part II (the jacket)


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Top 100 team ranking system for whole continent.
A little while ago Nintendo announced something rather out of the blue for them, but it came as a nice surprise in my eyes.
For the continent of Europe, there will be a eshop game called Nintendo Pocket Sized Football. It plays similar to any soccer/football management titles such as Football Manager, it's a simulation where to take charge of a football team and you aim to be the best there is. However, this game plays similar as an RPG when you upgrade your weapons. You weapons in this case are your players, you can collect cards and aim for the top.
The single player mode lets you manage your team when you start them from scratch. You get to design your own kit, emblem and even give your team a name. The action looks frantic, yet it has an adorable feel to it. Online gives you the chance to kick some ass and become the highest ranked team not only in the country you are based in, but also in the whole continent of Europe.
There are 5 different aspects of the game which will get you through to either becoming a wild scoring team or a team doing so bad it makes Manchester United's form look sparkling.
Stadium gets you straight into the game, as it's a managing simulator don't expect to get too stuck in the action like you would on Fifa or Pro Evolution Soccer games. You manage from the bench to communicate with your squad, and you collect trainer cards which you give to your players to train them up. Team Camp is your training facility, whee you give your cards out, plan formations and add other items to players to make them stronger. The Office part gives you a chance to buy and sell players, change around your kit and change your line up for the next game. The last two are Federation and Airport, that deal with scouting coaches and players respectively.
They are all brief descriptions of what this game will be, it's a great chance for Nintendo to get something other than Mario to offer a football simulation game that can reach around to millions of people. It's a shame no one else besides Europe is getting this game, the price is £10.79 ($18.14) until 1st May when it will increase in price by a few pounds to £13.49 ($22.68). The price might be quite steep for an eShop game, but from what I'm seeing it looks like a great chance for football/soccer fans to dip into the world of Nintendo.
To see some of it in action, here is a link for y'all!
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Grades 9-10
Speaking and Listening SL.9-10.5
SL.9-10.5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
This standard asks students to use their laptops, tablets, and smartphones for something more than texting and playing Angry Birds. As it turns out, not only are these items great for entertainment and keeping track of the latest gossip, but they're also great ways to get the audience involved in a speech by encouraging them to do something they already spend several hours a day doing: staring at a screen. (Added bonus: Your students can finally teach you how to run the classroom's DVD player!)
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Teaching Guides Using this Standard
- 1984 Teacher Pass
- A Raisin in the Sun Teacher Pass
- A View from the Bridge Teacher Pass
- Animal Farm Teacher Pass
- Antigone Teacher Pass
- Beowulf Teacher Pass
- Brave New World Teacher Pass
- Death of a Salesman Teacher Pass
- Fahrenheit 451 Teacher Pass
- Fences Teacher Pass
- Frankenstein Teacher Pass
- Grapes Of Wrath Teacher Pass
- Great Expectations Teacher Pass
- Hamlet Teacher Pass
- Heart of Darkness Teacher Pass
- Julius Caesar Teacher Pass
- Lord of the Flies Teacher Pass
- Oedipus the King Teacher Pass
- Of Mice and Men Teacher Pass
- Romeo and Juliet Teacher Pass
- The Aeneid Teacher Pass
- The As I Lay Dying Teacher Pass
- The Bluest Eye Teacher Pass
- The Canterbury Tales General Prologue Teacher Pass
- The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale Teacher Pass
- The Cask of Amontillado Teacher Pass
- The Catch-22 Teacher Pass
- The Catcher in the Rye Teacher Pass
- The Crucible Teacher Pass
- The Great Gatsby Teacher Pass
- The House on Mango Street Teacher Pass
- The Iliad Teacher Pass
- The Lottery Teacher Pass
- The Odyssey Teacher Pass
- Their Eyes Were Watching God Teacher Pass
- Things Fall Apart Teacher Pass
- To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher Pass
- Twilight Teacher Pass
- Wuthering Heights Teacher Pass
Example 1
Sample Activities for Use in Class
1. What Can We Use?
Give students a broad sample topic. They can work on this either in groups or as a class. The topic can be nearly anything, as long as there are several different digital media options available to present information on that topic. (For instance: "How Airplanes Stay Up," "The Least Interesting U.S. President Ever," and so on.) Have students brainstorm possible digital media options for displaying information on this topic to an audience of their peers, both in small group interactions and in large lecture-hall-type settings.
Some of the options, like PowerPoint slides or videos, may be obvious. Encourage students to move beyond the obvious, however, by thinking in terms of interactive tools like audience quizzes or by changing "classic" media to a digital format, like electronic documents or e-books. You may also want to have students rank the perceived usefulness of each item, giving their reasons why it is extremely useful, somewhat useful, or not at all useful. If a type of digital media seems "not at all useful," have students name something that is useful that could replace it.
Example 2
2. Accommodations
Figuring out the best way to get a message across isn't always about amazing graphics and surround sound. In fact, preparing for the audience you're likely to have goes a lot further than having the latest technology.
For this activity, you may want to make a list yourself or have students make one of their own. The list should contain examples of several groups of people with disabilities or conditions that students would need to adapt a presentation for in order to ensure each person is able to understand the material and participate. For instance, you may include individuals who are visually or hearing impaired, have dyslexia or other learning disabilities, or have physical conditions that make it difficult for them to sit in a lecture hall or similar location long enough to hear a speech. Since some individuals have multiple disabilities, you may want to give some of the people on the list multiple conditions as well.
In groups or as a class, have students go through the list one example at a time and think of ways to adapt a simple speech - say, for a student body president campaign - so that each person on the list can understand the speech and participate in a question and answer or similar feedback session afterwards. For an added challenge, have students create a plan for a presentation that accommodates everyone on the list.
Quiz 1 QuestionsHere's an example of a quiz that could be used to test this standard.
Quiz 2 QuestionsHere's an example of a quiz that could be used to test this standard.
Aligned Resources
- A Separate Peace: Blitzball for All
- A Separate Peace: Lost in Translation? (Mapping a Community)
- Teaching A View from the Bridge: Playbill
- Teaching 1984: It's Not Over Until the Fat Lady Sings
- Teaching A Raisin in the Sun: Costume Design
- Teaching The Crucible: Dear Abby: Character Advice Columns
- The Diary of a Young Girl: National School-A-Graphic
- The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank's History in Action
- Teaching The Lottery: From Page to Stage
- Teaching The Odyssey: The Odyssey in Pictures
- The Great Gatsby: Gatsby Goes Hip-Hop
- The Great Gatsby: Commercializing Gatsby
- The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again: The Making of Middle-earth
- Teaching The House on Mango Street: Adaptation and Performance of House on Mango Street
- Teaching The House on Mango Street: "My Name" Monologues
- Teaching The House on Mango Street: Cisneros's Goals: Does Mango Street Appeal to a Wide Audience?
- Teaching The Iliad: The Recitation
- Teaching The Iliad: Words Into Art
- Teaching The Iliad: Letters To Soldiers
- Teaching The Bluest Eye: Sweet Little Shirley Temple: The Bluest Eye and Hollywood
- Teaching The Bluest Eye: Fun With Dick and Jane?: Children's Books and The Bluest Eye
- The Kite Runner: Finding Facts in the Fiction
- Teaching The Cask of Amontillado: Buried Alive: Narrative Perspective in Poe's Story
- Teaching The Cask of Amontillado: Visual Reality
- Teaching The Catcher in the Rye: Searching the Big Apple
- Teaching The Catcher in the Rye: Judging a Book by its Cover
- The Chocolate War: High School Drama
- The Chocolate War: Archie Costello: Madman or Ad Man?
- Teaching The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue & Frame Story: Dueling Portraits: The Canterbury Pilgrims in Art
- Teaching The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue & Frame Story: Mapping the Travels of Knight and the Wife of Bath
- Teaching The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue & Frame Story: Chaucer Mini-Bites: Introducing Chaucer's Poetry
- Teaching The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale: Facebook in the Middle Ages
- Teaching The Grapes of Wrath: Haunted By the Ghost of Tom Joad: The Enduring Legacy of a Mythic Character
- Teaching The Grapes of Wrath: Images of the "Grape" Depression: A Picture or a Thousand Words?
- Teaching The Grapes of Wrath: The Grapes of Wrath Part Deux: What Happens in the Sequel?


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New Year's night, dinner in Manhattan; GREAT service?
My husband has been incredibly wonderful and patient as I trained for two marathons this past fall, and a 48.6 mile challenge that I will embark on next week. I would like to treat him to a great meal in Manhattan on Wednesday night. [more inside]
101 guide to NYC laundry service
I've been dropping off my laundry for the past several years now, but really only know about the drop and fold. My work wardrobe is more business attire these days (male), but can't seem to figure out the terms and services usually available. This may sound a little silly, but I run into language barriers and unclear signs in every laundromat in a 10 block radius. So whats usually available besides the classic wash & fold (and dry cleaning)? -I have button down shirts, what does pressed mean? -Whats the correct term for wash and iron? Sometimes they look puzzled. (sometimes they don't have this service) -If you have your shirts done itemized, the $1.75 each option, what are they doing? -How do most men get there work shirts laundered at these places? Thanks, and note: these laundromat persons around me are all pleasant, and hard workers, but I just can't figure out whats what.
What can a customer do?
I placed an order on The Body Shop's website on Dec. 1 for cyber monday. There was some issue with shipping (where the courier company was given insufficient information, and never delivered and instead returned the package), and I never got the package that I had paid for. I have called, emailed, and tried numerous time to get in touch with a customer service person. I was on hold for more than half an hour each time, and no representative ever responded to my email. I am infuriated now-- they charged my credit card. What options do I have at this point? What can I do? I want either a refund or my order. I don't care which. [more inside]
Who owns/services your mortgage and what're they like? Does it matter?
We're shopping for a mortgage (in the DC area), and are feeling anxious and frustrated that 1) it's so hard to know who we'll end up with because so many lenders/originators are likely to sell our loan and/or servicing after closing, and 2) it's easy to find complaints about most servicers out there and hard to find anyone that's satisfied. What has your experience been like with the place(s) that own and/or service your mortgage? Or should we put all that to the side and just try to find someone with the best rates/fees and the best reviews/recommendations regarding smooth and quick closing? [more inside]
Making a book of Favorate Tweets
There used to be a service that took your stared tweets, and make them into a book. I can't find it now and it would be awesome for all the family stories and comments I've saved over the years... [more inside]
First time Eulogist. Helpful hints?
A very very dear friend died unexpectedly recently and I have been asked by the family to be among the non-family members who will speak at his memorial service. I've only ever spoken at my mother's memorial service, and I cheated by reading her favorite psalm. I know some things to do and some not to do, but I think I need more thoughts from the hivemind. [more inside]
Oven/Range Repair - North Orange County Edition
Hoping I could query the awesomeness of the hive mind for help with referrals to repair an older restaurant model oven/range currently living in a home in north orange county, CA. [more inside]
iPhone 4s or Galaxy S2
Do you live in an area with limited cell phone providers due to all the mountains in the way? Do you use either an iPhone 4s or Galaxy S2? Can you share your knowledge with me, please? [more inside]
Seeking Recommendations for Reliable Automatic (or Human) Transcription
I am a medical writer working on a large project. Part of this project will involve posting videos of physicians along with a transcript of whatever the speaker is saying. The topic tends to be fairly technical - the physicians will be using Technical Medical Terms that could confuse the average layperson. Length of the videos varies from three to twenty minutes. [more inside]
Is the United States Postal Service under attack?
I read somewhere that the United States Postal Service does not receive any federal or state funds from taxes, that they do all of their own accounting. [more inside]
Selective Service Indeed
Guys singled out to the exclusion of girls. Why? [more inside]
Help me switch my phone from one provider to another
Can someone help me with the technical aspects of switching my cell phone from one provider to another? [more inside]
It's like the dark ages here....
Forgive the crappy typing as I'm doing this on my phone. 2 days ago the transformer in front of our house was struck by lightening. We were without power for a day (which really sucks since we're on a well so without power we have no pump to get water). Anyway power restored but then I notice no router. The router got fried by the lightening and so I call Verizon fios and talk to dude who tells me that the earliest they can send someone out, because its not just router that fried but apparently the main thing to our house as well, is September 10th. I'm pretty pissed and frustrated. I get that it's not their fault and it might be restored earlier but come on, 8 days? Do I have any recourse? Like not paying for 8 days I have no service? I'm thinking of switching but we've only got 2 ISP's in our area, Cox and Verizon. Even the Verizon customer service guy was apologizing and saying that they are short staffed etc. Do I call every day? What's the best way to deal with this. Needless to say right now I'm thinking Verizon sucks in the worst way.
Should I just google this?
What do I need to know about promoting my small online business using Google AdWords? [more inside]
Did my mechanic just rip me off?
My front hubcaps are tied on with zip ties. After a major car service, which included checking the brakes and replacing the timing belt, the zip ties are still there. You can't access the wheel nuts without taking off the hub caps. Did my mechanic rip me off? [more inside]
How to handle a negative review on Yelp?
I'm a hostess at an upscale restaurant on the weekends, I have a higher-paying full time job during the week. I have many ADD symptoms I've struggled with, so it's much more challenging for me than the average person. I'm proud of myself for taking the job and building upon my weaknesses (i.e., low spatial intelligence). I was taking a look at the Yelp reviews while working there tonight and my heart SANK - a customer wrote a very nasty review about me, and specified the date, so it can be traced back to me. It was a busy night and I'd had an extremely stressful day before I got there, I know that's no excuse, but I was doing the best I could. Is there anything I can do? Should I message the person explaining/apologizing? If I do, should I ask them to take it down? Should I just quit so they can find someone better? I hate feeling this way. I was laughing, having a good time with the servers tonight, then after reading this felt like crying, everyone could tell something was wrong. I thought I was doing something good for myself by taking this job.
What Do Foreign Service/Intelligence Grad Programs Expect of Me?
My senior year as an Undergraduate begins this Fall. I go to a large public school that is heavily recruited from by the CIA/NSA etc... I am a Political Science/Russian double major with a 3.81 GPA. My interests are varied: nuclear proliferation, intelligence, conflict, analysis, the role of exponential tech growth, and on and on. Help me discover whether or not Grad school is right for me, and if so how to iron out a few details. [more inside]
The Sign Painter's Dilemma: Is there such a thing?
I have a question, which I think is about morals and philosophy. I'm pretty sure I can elucidate the thing I'm looking for pretty clearly and hope this doesn't turn into chatfilter. Mainly I'm wondering if formalized discussions of this exist and looking for resources to read up on it. I call it "The Sign Painter's Dilemma" but it could also be a Tattoo Artist's Dilemma... [more inside]
Best "white glove" cross-country moving service for a "van load"
My septuagenerian parents are moving about a van load of their belongs (computers, television, clothes, kitchen dishes, etc.) from coast to coast. Ideally, the company hired would come to their house and respectfully pack everything and then ship it across country where, once again, they would unpack everything. Do you know of such a service? (Related, but not exactly: do you recommend a service for moving a car – vehicle – cross country?) Thank you!
Cross-border buying/packing/shipping service?
I live in the Bay Area and often find myself wanting things, especially delicious location-specific foods, from stores in other cities that don't offer e-commerce and/or won't ship to me. (Example, example, example.) I want to pay someone --companies, individuals, I don't care-- to buy the things, pack them up, and ship them to me. This seems like it'd be a fairly common need/want, so someone must have set up a business offering it, right..?
Is "sawbuck" generally recognized as $10 in North America? Elsewhere?
I've been thinking of starting a small, single-serving Web site that offers a very specific service for $10. I was thinking about calling it "Sawbuck [Service]". How much confidence should I have that the word "sawbuck" will be understood by most casual readers as meaning $10?
virgin mobile defective phone problems
nov. 2012 I bought a kyocera rise smart phone from Virgin Mobile and upgraded my plan to go along with it. I'd been a VM customer for 12 years. It took me a while to realize that the phone was not working properly, when trying to make a call, or other task the screen would go black and the phone turn off. I called several times, could never get a CSR to understand the problem and/or come up with a fix. I lived with the problem until about a month ago when, following a failed emergency (life threatening) phone call I started calling regularly to get a fix. It never happened and finally I got the offer of a replacement phone. [more inside]
How can I pressure my mortgage servicer to give me my money back?
On Monday morning, my mortgage servicer withdrew my mortgage payment from my checking account, along with an additional withdrawal of close to $2000. [more inside]
What's so bad about french toast & mimosas?
Are you someone who has worked in a restaurant? Can you tell me why Sunday brunch is apparently the meal people hate to make and/or serve? I have no experience in the food service industry, but as a big fan of brunch, I'm curious for first hand opinions. (Or feel free to tell me that the two examples inside are totally bunk.) [more inside]
Yet Another Tipping Question
I usually over tip--22-25 percent. But I was confused about something that happened tonight. I went to a new bar, kind of a renovated dive, with a friend. We both ordered cocktails, I ordered a charchturie (sp) platter and he ordered a pizza. My food came right away, and both of our drinks came quickly. The bar was empty for our first drinks, but was filling up quickly. We ordered a second drink. The bar was filled with people that the bar tender seemed to know. The second drink came. No sign of pizza, it was more than an hour at this point. We remind the bartender, who is also the server twice. He finally says, five minutes, and five minutes later, the pizza comes. This would have been 90 minutes. No offer to comp the food, no apologies, but the food was really good, the drinks were strong, and I would like to go back...I tipped 4 on a 32 bill, after tax. They also split the bill in a weird manner. My friends kind of shy, so I took his lead, and didn't complain. How much should I have tipped? Should I have complained? Should I go back to complain? What's the protocol here?
YANAMC, YANMMC, but maybe you can answer this anyway
Why would a letter come back "not deliverable as addressed" when the address is correct? [more inside]
What's a good car service from Brooklyn to LaGuardia?
I am sorry to ask such a dumb question, but I have a very early flight from South Park Slope to LaGuardia, and googling car services so far is returning not great results. Is there a car service someone can recommend for an early pick up (our flight is at 5:30 a.m.)?
Google Maps alternative (using standard KML import) that's ad-free?
I need a non-Google Maps alternative, due to limitations in how Google displays My Maps. Mapchannels.com is very flexible, but it has two issues: its display doesn't seem to work for mobile users, and it displays small ads (and has suspended its former policy of letting a map creator pay to remove ads). Other options? [more inside]
Wi-Fi and cell service drop out intermittently at our apartment. Why?
First, let me state that I have no idea if these two things are interrelated, but it seems like they could be, so I'm going to go ahead and conjecture here: our AT&T cell phone service drops from nearly full 3G to one bar from time to time (usually during calls, of course) and our wi-fi does the same thing. I've tried timing it and I can't seem to nail it down to anything. Could these service drops be related? [more inside]
Should I join the Air Force if I want to break into Diplomacy/Intel?
I am 27 years old, and now considering whether I should join the Air Force on an intelligence track in order to improve my chances of getting a job at State, or just improving my career options in general. Is this a wise decision? [more inside]
Pasadena, CA area, is my gardener too expensive? $200/mo
We pay $200 a month for weekly service that includes all trimming, upkeep, lawn service for 3 lawns, significant pruning and leaf cleanup from 12 trees (citrus, pine, chinese elms, japanese maple, coastal oak, liquid ambars). Is this too much? What do you pay and what do you get for it? [more inside]
How Far Can Terms of Service Go for Restricting Data Access?
Law portals & content portals use their Terms of Service to restrict access to data beyond what they can restrict by means of copyright. What are the limits to this practice, and the history of enforcement? [more inside]
Have you used a good temporary answering service?
Asking for recommendations for an answering service, with a live person that can answer our office phones for a week. [more inside]
I'm the idiot on the phone help line that can't help you
I'm being forced to answer phones at work. I have NO clue and NO ability how to do this and I have to start NOW. How do I make this situation less horrible? [more inside]
What's your experience with the NPS?
Any National Park Service or other closely affiliated agency (BLM, Army Corps of Engineers, etc) able to speak about their experience with said agency? [more inside]
Getting around Jackson, MS
I have a friend who will be taking care of her mom in Jackson, MS, next week while the latter undergoes surgery. Because said friend survived an accident a few years ago and consequently prefers not to drive, can you recommend a solution for getting them both to the hospital and back? She seems to think Jackson does not have cabs, but I suspect there is a better solution. I do not know which hospital they will be visiting.
Will an iPad bought in the US get service from Apple in Europe?
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|Torey Lovullo
Lovullo with the Toronto Blue Jays
|Boston Red Sox – No. 17
|Infielder / Coach / Manager
July 25, 1965
Santa Monica, California
|MLB debut
|September 10, 1988, for the Detroit Tigers
|Last MLB appearance
|October 3, 1999, for the Philadelphia Phillies
|MLB statistics
|Batting average
|Home runs
|Runs batted in
As player
As coach
As manager
|Career highlights and awards
Salvatore Anthony "Torey" Lovullo (born July 25, 1965) is an American professional baseball coach and former Major League infielder and minor league manager. In his playing days he was listed at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 185 pounds (84 kg) and was a switch hitter who threw right-handed. As of 2016, Lovullo is the bench coach of the Boston Red Sox, after serving as Boston's interim manager for the final seven weeks of the 2015 season when his boss, John Farrell, stepped aside for successful treatment for lymphoma. Lovullo compiled a win-loss record of 28–20 (.583) from August 14, 2015, through the final day of the season, October 4.[1]
A native of Santa Monica, California, he is an alumnus of the University of California, Los Angeles; his father, Sam, was a producer on the television show Hee Haw. Lovullo was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the fifth round of the 1987 Major League Baseball draft and made his Major League debut with the Tigers on September 10, 1988. He also played in the Majors for the New York Yankees, California Angels, Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics and Cleveland Indians, and appeared in his final big-league game on October 3, 1999, for the Philadelphia Phillies. After his MLB career ended, Lovullo spent one season in Japan as a member of the Yakult Swallows in 2000.
His managing career included service in the Indians' and Red Sox' organizations.
Major League playing career[edit]
Lovullo first reached the Major Leagues for a brief trial in September 1988, his second professional season. Replacing Tom Brookens at third base in the late innings of a 9–4 Tiger loss to the Yankees at Yankee Stadium on September 10, he handled no chances in the field, but singled off Rick Rhoden in his first big-league at bat. Lovullo would play one full season and parts of seven others in the Majors. In his only full campaign, 1993 with the Angels, he appeared in 116 games played, and collected 92 hits, batting a career-high .251. He was the Angels' most-used second baseman, starting in 79 of the team's 162 games. He was a teammate that season of pitcher John Farrell, and formed an association that would influence Lovullo's managerial and coaching career.
Altogether, Lovullo appeared in 303 MLB games, including 133 at second base, and 67 each at first base and third base. He batted .224 in 737 at bats, collecting 165 total hits, including 15 home runs, 60 runs batted in, 35 doubles and one triple. In Japan in 1999 he played in only 29 games and batted .197 with one home run and two runs batted in.
Lovullo's long minor playing career —1,433 games with 1,193 hits, and a batting average of .267[2] — included extended stays with the Toledo Mud Hens, Columbus Clippers and Buffalo Bisons; he would later return to manage in both Buffalo and Columbus.
Minor league manager[edit]
Lovullo's off-field career began in the Cleveland organization in 2001 as a minor league infield coach.[3] After Farrell joined the Indians' front office as director of player development that November, Lovullo became the manager of the 2002 Columbus (Georgia) RedStixx of the Class A South Atlantic League, and guided them to the finals of the SAL playoffs. He then moved up to the High Class A Kinston Indians (2003–04) and the Double-A Akron Aeros (2005), which he piloted to an 84–58 win-loss record and the Eastern League championship. His 2005 success led to his first MLB managerial audition, when he was invited to interview for the vacant managerial job for the Los Angeles Dodgers prior to the 2006 season. When the Dodgers settled on Grady Little for their manager position, Lovullo resumed managing in the Indians' organization as skipper of the Buffalo Bisons, the Tribe's Triple-A affiliate.
During Lovullo's playing career, he had spent all or parts of three seasons (1995; 1997–98) as a player for the Bisons and won two championships: one in the American Association and one in the International League. In 2003, he also had received the highest honor awarded to an alumnus of Buffalo baseball, as he was inducted into the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame, alongside his teammate from the 1997 and 1998 championship squads, Jeff Manto. In three campaigns (2006–08) as the Bisons' manager, he led the club to two winning records, and compiled a mark of 214–212. He also interviewed for the Pittsburgh Pirates' managerial vacancy after the 2007 season.
In 2009, the Indians changed their Triple-A affiliation from Buffalo to the Columbus (Ohio) Clippers of the International League. Lovullo had played for the Clippers in 1991–92 when the team was the Yankees' top farm club. The Clippers were the International League champions in both seasons Lovullo played in Columbus, winning back-to-back Governors' Cup trophies. In 2009, his only season as the Clippers' manager, the team compiled a 57–85 (.401) record, but Lovullo was recruited by the Boston Red Sox to take over their Triple-A team, the Pawtucket Red Sox, for 2010.[4] It was his first season in the Boston organization, although both Farrell (as pitching coach) and another former Cleveland farm system official, Mike Hazen (as director of player development), were playing key roles with the Red Sox. Lovullo's 2010 PawSox finished 66–78 (.458) and out of the playoffs, fourth in the Northern Division of the International League.
During his minor league managing career, Lovullo was named "Manager of the Year" in both the Carolina League (2004) and the Eastern League (2005). For the latter season, he also was named Double-A Manager of the Year by Baseball America.[3] His nine-year (2002–10) win-loss record as a manager is 661–609 (.520).
Major League coach[edit]
At the close of the 2010 season, Farrell, then considered a top Major League managerial candidate, was hired as the pilot of the Toronto Blue Jays for 2011. He named Lovullo to his Toronto coaching staff on November 8, 2010, to replace Omar Malavé as the club's first-base coach,[5] and he served two seasons in that capacity.
After the 2012 season, the Red Sox began negotiations with the Blue Jays to release Farrell from his contract so that he could return to Boston as manager for 2013. Ultimately, the Red Sox acquired the rights to Farrell in an October 21 trade for infielder Mike Avilés. Upon being named the Red Sox' manager, Farrell hired Lovullo on October 26, 2012, as his bench coach.[6] After the Red Sox won the 2013 World Series, Lovullo was mentioned as a potential candidate to succeed Dale Sveum as manager of the Chicago Cubs for 2014,[7] but he returned as Boston's bench coach.[8] Then, upon the close of the 2014 season, Lovullo interviewed for managerial openings with the Texas Rangers[9] and Minnesota Twins,[10] but was a runner-up in each case. The 2016 season will mark Lovullo's fourth consecutive season with the Red Sox, his sixth straight overall as an aide to Farrell.
Interim manager[edit]
On August 11, 2015, Farrell underwent hernia surgery, leaving Lovullo in charge of the team. Three days later, Farrell announced that during the surgery, it was found that he had stage 1 lymphoma.[11] The Red Sox named Lovullo manager for the balance of the season while Farrell underwent chemotherapy.[12]
The Red Sox showed a significant improvement in performance under Lovullo, scoring 37 runs in their first 2 games after he took over, and recording a .636 winning percentage through the end of September, compared with a .439 winning percentage on the season under Farrell.[13] A high point came near the end of the season when the Red Sox posted a six-game winning streak and moved up to third place in the AL East. However, the team lost their last four games and ultimately finished at the bottom of their division for the second year in a row.
On October 1, 2015, it was reported that, if healthy, Farrell would return to his position as Red Sox manager at the beginning of the 2016 season,[14] leaving Lovullo's position with the organization uncertain after his performance as interim manager.[15] It was announced that Lovullo would resume his bench coach duties for the 2016 season on October 4, 2015, with Farrell returning as manager. Lovullo was also given a two-year contract extension in exchange for forgoing his right to pursue managerial job offerings.[1]
Managerial records[edit]
|Regular season record
|Post–season record
|Win %
|Win %
|Columbus Red Stixx
|Kinston Indians
|Akron Aeros
|Buffalo Bisons
|Columbus Clippers
|Pawtucket Red Sox
|Boston Red Sox
- ^ a b "John Farrell to return as Red Sox manager in 2016". ESPN. October 4, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "Minor league statistics from". Baseball Reference. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
- ^ a b Boston Red Sox 2013 Media Guide, page 60
- ^ "Torey Lovullo leaves Cleveland Indians; Joel Skinner, Mike Sarbaugh could replace him at Columbus". cleveland.com. 2009-11-25. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
- ^ "Manager and Coaches | bluejays.com: Team". Toronto.bluejays.mlb.com. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
- ^ "Sportsnet.ca". Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
- ^ "Chicago Sun-Times". Suntimes.com. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
- ^ Forde, Craig (2013-11-05). "boston.com". boston.com. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
- ^ ESPN.com
- ^ St. Paul Pioneer Press, 2014.10.28
- ^ http://www.csnne.com/boston-red-sox/boston-red-sox-manager-john-farrell-diagnosed-with-stage-1-lymphoma
- ^ https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/632289922288852992
- ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2015-schedule-scores.shtml
- ^ http://www.csnne.com/boston-red-sox/If-healthy-john-farrell-will-return-as-boston-red-sox-manager
- ^ https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/09/30/onball/B3cuO7APRngEE7h0mqNjEO/story.html
External links[edit]
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
|Preceded by
Brad Komminsk
|Akron Aeros manager
|Succeeded by
Tim Bogar
|Preceded by
Marty Brown
|Buffalo Bisons manager
|Succeeded by
Ken Oberkfell
|Preceded by
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|Preceded by
Ron Johnson
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|Toronto Blue Jays first-base coach
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Book online or call 866‐716‐8133 and mention LPARK to book this offer.
Register for SPG® Triple Up by July 17, 2016, to earn bonus Starpoints® on stays of two or more nights. Unlimited earnings with:
Plan your summer getaway between May 9 through July 31, 2016 to earn unlimited Starpoints. Register Now >>Terms & Conditions
Book two or more consecutive nights and receive 40% off every 2nd night. Valid between 4/15/2016 and 9/5/2016 for stays through 9/5/2016 when you book and pay with an American Express® Card.Terms & Conditions
Book a summer getaway with Four Points and enjoy up to 20% off our best available rates.
Book now, or call 866-716-8133 and mention one of the rate plans below.
Lowest Available Rates (rate plan DAILY)
AAA/CAA Member Discount (rate plan AUTOV)
Québec and Ontario residents can enjoy local escapes for less. Save up to 10% off our best available rate.
Book online below or call 866-716-8133. Québec residents: ask for rate code SETQNSR. Ontario residents: ask for SETONTR. A valid government-issued photo ID must be presented upon check-in to receive these rates.
Savings for Québec Residents
Savings for Ontario Residents
Whether traveling for business or pleasure, book our Best Brews package and kick back with two local craft brews every day of your stay.
Book now, or call 866-716-8133 and mention rate plan FPBRWPKG.Terms & Conditions