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Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classroomsby Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Allen Webb
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As the new English Language Arts Common Core State Standards take hold across the United States, the need grows for pre-service and in-service teachers to be ready to develop curriculum and instruction that addresses their requirements. This timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive text directly meets this need. It delineates a literacy practices and critical
As the new English Language Arts Common Core State Standards take hold across the United States, the need grows for pre-service and in-service teachers to be ready to develop curriculum and instruction that addresses their requirements. This timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive text directly meets this need. It delineates a literacy practices and critical engagement curriculum framework for 6-12 English language arts education that explains and illustrates how the Standards' highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective that is firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research.
The first 6-12 English language arts methods text to be aligned with the Standards, this book also addresses their limitations formalist assumptions about literacy learning, limited attention to media/digital literacies, lack of attention to critical literacies, and questionable assumptions about linking standards and text complexity to specific grade levels. Specific examples of teachers using the literacy practices/critical engagement curriculum framework in their classrooms shows how these limitations can be surpassed.
• Moves the CCSS framework into a view that literacy is a contextualized, social practice
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• Adds the important element of critical literacy to English language arts classrooms
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• Interactive Companion Website with student and instructor resources. The Website is designed to foster interactivity through participation in an online teaching planning simulation with a text, video, or case on one side of the screen and a chat box for instructors and students to share their reactions and planning ideas. The Companion Website is linked to a wiki that serves as a repository for links, activities/units, and further reading.
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Part I. Foundations: What is Effective English Language Arts Instruction? 1. Origins and the Goals of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts Instruction in Grades 6-12 2. A Literacy Practices Framework for Implementing the Common Core State Standards 3. How Can Teachers Plan Effective English Language Arts Instruction that Meets and Exceeds the Common Core State Standards? Part II. Implementing and Exceeding the Common Core State Standards 4. Reading: Interpreting Language Use, Ideas, and Aesthetic Quality 5. Reading: Critical Analysis of Texts 6. Narrative and Written Literary Response 7. Argumentative, Informational, and Explanatory Writing 8. Digital/Media Literacy 9. Implementing the Speaking and Listening Standards 10. Language Standards Part III. Evaluation, Assessment, and Reflection 11. Evaluating and Assessing Students' Work 12. Reflective Practice
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A NATION CHALLENGED: PORTRAITS OF GRIEF: THE VICTIMS; Budding Restaurateur, Avid Surfer and a Volunteer in Soup Kitchens
The profiles on this page were written by Al Baker, David Barstow, Jan Hoffman, Yilu Zhao, N. R. Kleinfield, Sarah Kershaw and Terry Pristin.
Published: October 26, 2001
Here are glimpses of some of the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
Dreams of a Restaurant
His dream started when he was in college. He wanted to own a restaurant.
Training in cooking and restaurant management helps, but so does money. So Jeffrey Coale went at it methodically. He worked for a number of years as a government bond trader. At night, he attended classes at the French Culinary Institute.
He quit trading and took a job as an apprentice chef at the Louis XV restaurant in Monte Carlo. Next, he returned to New York to work at the Alain Ducasse restaurant. Wanting to refine his understanding of the wine side of the business, he then took a job as an assistant wine master at Windows on the World.
Meanwhile, Mr. Coale, 31, sifted around for a location for his restaurant. He looked at several properties in Greece and New York. He had not settled on the style of cuisine.
''He left really good money to make $10 an hour at Windows,'' said Leslie Brown, his sister. ''But Jeff never settled for something. He followed his passion.''
In recent weeks, reflecting on that devotion, two friends switched to jobs that better suited their own true interests. Two other friends broke off unsatisfying relationships. In memory of Mr. Coale, they are going to follow their passions.
Drawn to the Surf
Stephen Hoffman met his wife, Gabrielle, during his freshman year in college when he checked out the girls living below his floor in a coeducational dorm. They dated for more than eight years, and a daughter, Madeline, was born five years after their wedding.
''We loved it, loved it, loved that life,'' Gabrielle Hoffman said. ''We had a great marriage, and we were very much in love.''
An avid surfer, Mr. Hoffman, 36, would sometimes get up at 5 a.m. to surf near their house in Long Beach, on Long Island. For that, he was willing to commute an hour each way to and from Cantor Fitzgerald, where he was a trader.
And he doted on Madeline, 5, whom he taught to surf last summer. ''She's a little peanut, but she got onto the surfboard six times in one day,'' Mrs. Hoffman said.
Madeline misses Daddy. She now puts cologne on his old T-shirts and sleeps in them every night.
''It's very hard for her,'' her mother said. ''He tucked her in, kissed her goodnight the previous night. The next day, he got up, went to work and she never sees him again. We are heartbroken.''
Mr. Hoffman had an identical twin, Gregory. ''Now it's a thrill to see Gregory,'' Mrs. Hoffman said. ''It makes me feel I were seeing Stephen again.''
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David Suarez cared. He cared about people who did not have his opportunities, people who did not have his education, people who had to struggle. ''He reached out to people in a very warm and genuine way,'' said Ted Suarez, his father. ''Everyone remembered his smile. From a little boy, he had a smile that was very endearing.''
Mr. Suarez, 24, was a systems consultant who worked for Deloitte Consulting. He reported each day to the office of his client, Marsh & McLennan, in the World Trade Center. He was in the process of sending out applications to colleges, because next fall he wanted to embark on an M.B.A. before returning to Deloitte. His hope was to go to Harvard.
But he always made time for the needy. Social concern was a family tradition. He volunteered for the nonprofit group New York Cares. He worked in soup kitchens and tutored high school students for their college entrance exams.
He always gave the disadvantaged the benefit of the doubt. Friends told a story about how they found him once talking to some beggars outside a bar. Mr. Suarez asked one of the beggars, who was in a wheelchair, ''What would it take to make you happy?''
The man said, ''Give me $20.''
Mr. Suarez gave him $20.
The beggar got up, folded up his wheelchair and walked off.
Mr. Suarez was not angry. The episode did not make him jaded. He shrugged it off. By his thinking, he would rather lose $20 here and there to an impostor than risk spurning someone who really needed his help. He kept on giving.
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Clinton Davis, a Port Authority policeman, was a disciplinarian. ''Keep in line, stay out of trouble and stay in school'' was the mantra he had for his children and his nephews and nieces.
''When one of the kids got into trouble, he would have a little talk with them,'' said his younger sister, Sandra Davis. The children looked up to Mr. Davis, 38, as their model, and the family savored the story of his restraining a ''huge crazy man'' at the World Trade Center. In the process, Mr. Davis tore his hamstring.
The knowledge that Mr. Davis died while helping others gives the Flushing, Queens, family comfort. One of his colleagues told his family that he ran in and out of the north tower to evacuate people, and when he went in one last time, the tower collapsed. His body was later found on a stairs next to his closest friend, another Port Authority police officer, Uhuru Houston.


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EA was making game based on Iraq war, canned it, says THQ's Bilson
THQ publishing boss Danny Bilson's revealed EA was making a game based on the Iraq war. "Was" being the operative word.
You see, before the land of Saints Row and Darksiders came calling, Bilson was at EA as an exec. And in that time, this was one of the games he oversaw.
Until it was binned, obviously.
"When I worked at my former company [EA], I had to go to the UK in the middle of the Iraq war and try to talk to them about a game that we never wound up finishing – it was well built up – that was that stuff, right?," he told CVG.
"Remember, even in America you're split 50/50 on this stuff."
He added: "You go overseas, and if you're an unconscious American, you walk into a wall. Or you just don't sell.
"This is a human story. It's not an American story. And it absolutely will expand beyond the States in future."
The closest a game has come to an Iraq situation from EA is Medal of Honor, which is based on the Afghanistan war.
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Whether you are a new faculty member looking to learn teaching tips, or an experienced faculty member seeking new insights, FLCs are a fun way to connect with other instructors and gain new perspectives. By meeting regularly (for example, every three weeks), FLCs allow you to dig deep into questions about teaching and learning and become more purposeful about your teaching.
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NEW! Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Research Group
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Consumer advocate and Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren will announce today her candidacy for the Democratic nomination to challenge Senator Scott Brown, a Massachusetts Republican rated as one of his party's more vulnerable incumbents in 2012.
Warren will be one of several Democrats running for the seat. Her planned announcement was confirmed yesterday in an e-mail from a campaign aide, Kyle Sullivan.
"The pressures on middle-class families are worse than ever, but it is the big corporations that get their way in Washington," Warren said in a statement released by her campaign. "I want to change that. I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts."
Warren, 62, served as an adviser to President Barack Obama, overseeing the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which officially began its operation in July. Republicans in Congress had signaled they would block her nomination to head the bureau, and Obama instead chose Richard Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general.
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Other Democratic candidates in the contest include Setti Warren, the mayor of Newton; Bob Massie, the party's 1994 nominee for lieutenant governor; and Alan Khazei, the founder of the nonprofit group City Year.
Warren's visibility as a champion of consumers gives her potential appeal, but she could face a struggle as a political newcomer in her bid to take on Brown, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Connecticut.
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I've been alternating between denial and panic for weeks, but time is running out and I need to own up: My beautiful teenage brother, Charles Christopher Madrid IV (Carlos), will turn 14 on April 28.
I have no idea what to get him for his birthday. I feel out of touch with his tastes because I haven't lived with him for years, but I'll be damned if I give up my title as the reigning Queen of Cool City to (ack!) my mother.
These are the things I know about my brother: He likes music, especially Common Market, Blue Scholars, Atmosphere, DEL tha funkee homosapien, and Hieroglyphics.
He is not into sports, his peers, or talking in complete sentences. But he loves music, reading about music, computer games, and skate boarding. (and His Sister)
I'm leaning towards a music-y gift because that's what he seems to dig the mostbut I'm open to any ideas (Please Jesus). Last year for his birthday I bought him a fat gift certificate to I-tunes. For Christmas, I bought him tickets to see MF Doom at Chop Suey (and then I made him take me as his date).
I hear vague mutterings from my male friends about the sea of perversion all boys dive into with relish at this age, but I am not looking for that kind of gift. He is my little brother. No boobies, no drugs.
Let me make it clear: I need to find something in the next three weeks suitable enough to impress/delight a teenage boy and his thug friends so that they continue to think I am cool. And just maybe one of them will finally get up the nerve to ask me to junior high prom.
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Turner's father, Wyman Lee Turner of Athens, said Thursday his son loved sports and excelled in high school basketball. He said his son was a normal child who didn't get into a lot of mischief.
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The teens at the Aldine Branch have been hard at work on their latest project. With the help of on-line sources, like ujam, they have been able to convert their recordings of popular poetry into original musical scores. What does that mean? Well, what you are hearing when you listen to the pieces is their voice converted into a musical instrument. Pretty cool, right?
The new series is being called Poetry Jam and make sure you don't miss the other works as we release them in the coming weeks. First up--checkout Daniela's take on an Edgar Allan Poe classic. She really captures the anxiety his work typically conjures up, if you ask us.
Inspired by the beautiful mural on the outside of the Aldine Branch building, the teens of the library decided to create their own murals inside for all to enjoy. They didn't want to put their art on the walls though because according to them, "That's been done." So the next time you find yourself browsing the Manga in the our Young Adult area look up and take in what we're calling Shelf Murals!
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Teens, we're breaking out the iPads and other devices for a special edition of Web2.Yo! this Monday (July 23rd). That means instead of previous classes where we've discovered new and awesome Web sites on laptops we'll be looking at some of the coolest apps around. This will be a great time to get some hands-on time with iPads, so don't miss out! See you at 3pm.
I don't know about you but I have a sweet tooth. Just look at these cakes in the photo above taken at a grocery store. Yum!!
If I were to enjoy a generous slice of each of these cakes, though, my cholesterol level would inch its way up higher. What if there were a way to cut the cholesterol but still retain the taste and texture of these cakes?
Teens, this Monday's Web 2.Yo! will be a very special music edition. Come and learn about sites that will help you discover new music, learn more about the music you already love, and create music that others will love. And you don't even have to be musically inclined!
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10 things BYU football can learn from Cougar basketball
Meanwhile, the basketball team went into Maples Pavilion and acted like it owned the place. BYU dictated the pace to Stanford, and the Cardinals couldn't keep up. In short, the basketball team was able to play its game while the football team was out of sync outside of LaVell Edwards Stadium.
Of course, this is just a recent example, and Wisconsin is better at football than Stanford is at basketball.
That said, BYU football's road woes extend to places like Virginia, San José State, Notre Dame, Boise State and Utah. Meanwhile, BYU basketball has won at places like San Diego State and Arizona as well as at neutral sites against Utah State, Oregon and Louisville.
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Also, number 11, mendenhall needs to focus his players more by teaching dribble dribble pass shoot. Dumb article.
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When I saw the title of this article I thought "What? Apples and
But after going through the list, I must admit the author makes some valid arguments/criticisms for the most part.
Both Rose and Mendenhall are successful head coaches and Rose probably has slight edge, but Rose's record in the WCC, especially in tournament , is nothing to write home about.
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From the article: "And while Mendenhall does an excellent job of developing
players on defense — take Kyle Van Noy, for example — the offense
still needs some work. This is particularly apparent on the offensive
Again, the Wisconsin game exemplified this problem. Only once did our defense get any real pressure on their quarterback during the game while Taysom was constantly being hurried by the Wisconsin defense.
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For years we've heard various writers make note of BYU's early season record. Or, their record in November since Mendenhal became coach. No one seems to recognize what Tom Holmoe has been battling since BYU went independent - ie. It's easier to schedule "big name" opponents earlier in the year. Point is, the schedule is typically tougher in September (non-conference games when in the MWC) and BCS teams now. It just doesn't make sense to say there's a huge problem when in fact there's such a difference. True, they need to win more of those games. But, even beating Virginia (which they didn't do) is more difficult than beating Idaho State.
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Wow. This was a thuroughly unimpressive article. The points were either
irrelevant or incorrect, and often both.
I'll just pick on the last one, "quality wins" Lets assume quality means a ranked team, a major conference team in the top 50% of their conference rankings, or a midmajor conference champion or runner up.
BYU Basketball 2012 record vs "gaulity" opponents: 4-9 with wins over Montana, Mercer, Weber St, and So. Miss. Losses came against FSU, ND, Iowa St, Baylor, St Mary's, Gonzaga, St Mary's, Gonzaga, and Baylor.
BYU Football 2013 record vs "quality" opponents: 5-1 with wins over Texas, USU, BSU, Georgia Tech, and Houston. Their loss came against Wisconsin.
BYU football has more "quality" wins through 9 games this year than Basketball had in its entire 36 game season last year.
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11. TAKE WHAT THE DEFENSE GIVES YOU. Rose has an offense ready to switch gears whether his team faces a Diamond and 1 Defense, a Moving Zone or Man-to-Man defense. Rose knows what plays to run given time, set faced and score. Anae came back to Provo with more plays, but no more ability to read and react to a defense. He doesn't know some of the most basic fundamentals of play calling given down, distance, field location and play sequence, clock and score. He gets yards, but not points. Bronco needs to get that fixed right now!
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You can't compare the football game at Wisconsin to the basketball game at Stanford. Stanford's bb team is not even close to being in the same league as Wisconsin's football team. Wisconsin is a top 20 team. Stanford would be closer to top 60 maybe. They're more like a Georgia Tech or Boise State this year. And look what the football team did to those two schools. Both our football and basketball teams are achieving at great levels primarily due to two great coaching staffs and some hard working players.
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Published: Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 5:02 p.m.
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Two government websites designed to help consumers compare hospitals and nursing homes are now easier to navigate, making it simple to learn with the click of a mouse even details such as what residents at a given Sarasota nursing home might have eaten for breakfast.
The primary change is that both Centers for Medicare Services websites are faster and easier to navigate.
Hospital Compare : A new map feature makes it clear where hospitals are in relation to your zip code. You can also now plug in the name of a specific hospital and skip the location search. New information on unnecessary imaging is sketchy for Southwest Florida, with many hospitals having too few cases so far for accurate reporting. All data currently available are a bit old, from the year that ended Sept. 30, 2011. And the site still only allows comparison of three hospitals at a time — but that may change with future upgrades.
Nursing Home Compare : The new map feature is also on this site, as is the limitation to three facilities at one time. You can now click on "Inspections and Complaints" to see narratives that detail specific findings from site visit reports, updated monthly. And there are two new measures that report a nursing home's use of anti-psychotic medications. This site is useful after you have narrowed a search to a handful of nursing homes, and want to focus on them in-depth. The star rating system — while imperfect — gives an at-a-glance notion of overall quality.
Want more detail? Background information on how the hospital reporting system works is available at qualitynet.gov. The nursing home site gets its data from a state regulatory agency,
Not online? You can call 1-800-MEDICARE (633-4227), and ask someone in the call center to walk you through the information on the websites about a specific hospital or nursing home.
"The tray ticket in front of the resident and the aide included the resident's food preference for breakfast to be 2 fried eggs with cheese and a banana," reads the latest inspection report for Tarpon Point Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. "Observation revealed the eggs without the cheese and no banana."
Narratives like this — including much more alarming infractions of the multitude of government rules for nursing homes — have long been accessible on the website of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, if you knew where to look. But posting of the reports was unreliable. Now the inspection details, updated monthly, will be more readily visible on the federal site, Nursing Home Compare at www.medicare.gov/nhcompare/.
Making performance measures of nursing homes and hospitals more transparent is a big part of the federal government's drive to raise quality while holding down unnecessary costs. Evidence from the past two years suggests that it's working — as hospitals police themselves in advance of public exposure.
The two websites that display the data were upgraded and enhanced Thursday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
New information on the sites include levels of imaging tests that involved radiation at hospitals, and rates of antipsychotic drug dosing at nursing homes — both areas singled out for high incidences of overuse. But the big change is that the usability and feel of the sites are less clunky and, well, bureaucratic.
"We've taken out a lot of the narrative you used to see, making it easier to read and more appealing to look at," said CMS deputy chief medical officer Shari Ling. There are new glossaries for medical terms, she added, because "with some of these terms it may not be immediately clear to patients what they mean or why they're relevant."
The nursing home site, with its star rating system and more narrow focus on quality, staffing and patient safety, is the more immediately useful of the two.
"My initial impression is that this is a solid improvement," said Larry Polivka, a specialist in long-term care with the Claude Pepper Foundation in Tallahassee who reviewed the new site Thursday. "It's moving in the right direction, and has been for some time. The information on use of anti-psychotic drugs is a real enhancement."
While not the final word, Ling said, the site is "a screening tool that allows you to focus on a few nursing homes you want to know more about. It raises the questions we suggest the family ask about a nursing home."
The measures on antipsychotic drug use were added, she said, to encourage facilities to try alternative therapies for improving behavioral health.
Antipsychotics can have severe side effects, and research has shown they are used too often to control residents' behavior — when something as simple as using brighter lighting might help.
"We're really trying to get at the notion of what is inappropriate," Ling said. "Zero will clearly not be the right number, because with antipsychotic agents — like any other type of medication — there will be circumstances where patient or staff safety is concerned."
The hospital site at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/, with its welter of arcane data on Medicare cases, is less handy from a consumer standpoint, Ling acknowledged — although patients with certain health conditions can find information that is personally applicable. The site aims primarily to encourage hospitals to look critically look at their own standards, knowing the world is watching.
"We all know the adage: What gets measured gets done," Ling said.
The addition of data on excessive imaging — including cardiac stress tests and brain CT scans — is an example. Information on these procedures for Southwest Florida hospitals is incomplete at this point. But just publishing the measures can make hospitals second-guess their scanning habits.
"It's a start," said Jean Opsut, who directs quality and risk management for Doctors Hospital of Sarasota. "The imaging indicators are very important, because your goal is to reduce radiation exposure, yet still get the diagnostic results you need to treat the patient."
Site users should also know that hospital data on the website lags many months behind the dramatic health care reforms happening in real time. That's because Medicare uses billing records to access the numbers, Opsut explained.
Consumers "should take that into consideration when making any decision about a hospital or provider," she said. "Hospitals are constantly trying to improve their performance."
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4-2 The dream goes on......
...haven't we got the same bunch planning our new stadium? (well the enlargement to the corporate boxes) - or is that just a nsaty rumour that I'm spreading?Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
if they're the same bunch that did the city of manchester stadium, then yes they are the ones, frightening thought isn't it ;-)
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I was only spreading a malicious rumour - totally unfounded on anything in the real world ..
I did find it humorous though, that they put it down to high winds and heavy rain.....hmmm, what rain and wind in Britain? I just hope that also figured in that there may be up 100,000 people inside it as well all jumping up and down....
You can just imagine the construction company spokesman - speaking in a Monty Python type voice '....what? you wanted it to be weather proof? Well, that's an extra that is. What sort of weather? WHAT you want people in it as well? ....' (Sharp intake of breath and sucking of teeth '.....to you John, and I'm doing meself 'ere, (do you really want people - we could always provide you with cardboard cut-outs and a sound system that provides thunder effects)...that will be an extra......'


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Hmmm its ok I would say though that if you toned down the volume on the primary bell in the song it would sound better and probably not feel so repetitive (Still good just the bell is so loud you hear it to much through out the song if that makes any sense xD)
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haha yeah that makes alot of sense! thats actually one of the things i noticed about it, but when i lost my files do tue a computer crash, i couldnt make any corrections to it lol. but thanks and i love the criticism. i wanna learn all i can to become a better musician. :)


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Violent gangs roamed the Superdome, attacking children, while in the Convention Center 30 to 40 bodies piled up in a freezer. It never happened.
Yet over five days starting Aug. 29, stories of unspeakable horror were reported around the world, by broadcast and cable TV, the British Broadcasting Corp., the Associated Press, Reuters, Web sites, and many newspapers.
"The bigger and more diffuse the disaster, the more the gatekeeping function of the media fails in the rush to get the story out," said Henry W. Fischer III, director of the Center for Disaster Research and Education at Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
The French paper Liberation ran a detailed report on 1,200 people drowning inside a school on Read Boulevard. Not true.
Evacuees railed on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" about dead bodies and gang rapes. The accounts were false.
The New Orleans Police Department has no substantiated reports of rapes. There was a single homicide inside the Convention Center, and no murders inside the Superdome, according to the Louisiana Health and Human Services Department, which is overseeing the recovery of remains.
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A new industry is coming under pressure as governments look for ways to make cars use less carbon-belching fuel: tire makers.
The European Union is expected to propose regulations that would set limits on tire rolling resistance, or the force a tire must overcome to move a vehicle. In California, legislators have passed a law calling for similar rules. In Washington, Congress is considering legislation that would create a consumer-information program on tire energy efficiency.
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- Beyond Cars: Regulators in the EU and U.S. are considering moves to make tires more energy efficient.
- Defraying Pressure: The move comes as car makers complain they bear the brunt of costly fuel-efficiency efforts.
- Differing Responses: The industry opposes the toughest measures but supports others that give them an advantage over lower-cost tire makers.
The threat of new regulations has prompted a rush by established tire makers to block the most rigorous proposals. In Europe, tire makers are moving to shape the regulations in ways that would give them an advantage against less technologically advanced rivals.
The focus on tires reflects a broader effort by governments to shift some of the burden of fuel-economy rules away from auto makers, which say job cuts and costly design changes will result from the most ambitious proposals to cut vehicle emissions. This year, the EU eased its proposal for cutting average emissions of carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming, from new cars in Europe to 18% over five years from the 25% it had proposed earlier.
To make up the difference, the European Commission plans to go beyond more-efficient engines. Among the body's new proposals: increased use of biofuels, more efficient air-conditioning systems in vehicles, and energy-efficiency standards for tires.
In theory, boosting a tire's energy efficiency is relatively easy and inexpensive. As much as 20% of the energy needed to operate a car is tire-related, according to some industry estimates. The lower a tire's rolling resistance, the less energy the car consumes.
A study last year by the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. estimated that as many as two billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel could be saved each year in the U.S. by reducing the average rolling resistance of automobile tires by 10%. That would be equivalent to taking four million cars and light trucks off the road. In Europe, adding low-rolling-resistance tires to cars drives up their production costs by about €20 to €30, or nearly $30 to $45, per vehicle, based on estimates by Credit Suisse Group.
For manufacturers, an easy way to cut a tire's rolling resistance is to reduce the thickness of its tread. The problem, some industry officials said, is that reducing a tire's rolling resistance too much can weaken its traction or shorten the tire's life span.
Germany's Continental AG said its tests indicate that tires designed primarily with low-rolling resistance in mind tend to have longer stopping distances on wet surfaces. The National Academy of Sciences study, however, reported that the safety consequences of reducing tire rolling resistance "are probably undetectable," and that a 10% reduction is "feasible and attainable within a decade" through new tire technologies and improved designs.
This year, the U.S. Senate considered a proposal to require all passenger-automobile tires to meet low-rolling-resistance standards. The tire industry warned it would have to make tires that wear out more quickly, piling up more used tires in scrap yards.
The industry coalesced around a proposal to create a national system for rating tires on energy efficiency, leaving it up to consumers and car companies to decide which tires to buy. That is part of broader legislation being considered by Congress that would also raise automobile fuel-economy standards.
"Congressional leaders were telling us that there's a lot of concern about fuel use and that you guys need to start saying something other than 'no' to doing something," said Dan Zielinski, a spokesman for the Washington-based Rubber Manufacturers Association.
Mr. Zielinski's group had less success dissuading California legislators from passing a law that requires state regulators to set energy-efficiency standards for tires. Before imposing new standards, however, state regulators are required under the law to show they won't "adversely affect" tire safety or California's effort to manage scrap tires or tire life span. Although California's law raises the prospect of a de-facto national standard, industry officials are skeptical the state will ever be able to implement such standards.
"We believe the thresholds they need to overcome are not likely to be surmountable," Mr. Zielinski said. A spokeswoman for the California Energy Commission said the agency is "confident that we can work with the tire industry to establish tire efficiency standards that meet our mandates."
In Europe, tire makers have concluded new regulations are inevitable. Unlike the U.S., the EU is party to the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty that sets mandatory targets for cutting global greenhouse-gas emissions.
Rather than try to block new EU standards, Western and Japanese tire makers are pressing regulators not only to set standards for rolling resistance, but also to establish new requirements for braking performance and to mandate consumer-friendly labels that would grade tires on energy efficiency and how well they perform on wet or slippery surfaces.
By taking on mandates, the industry's more established players, such as Continental and Japan's Bridgestone Corp. BRDCY -0.64 % , could gain an edge against tire makers from India and China, which tend to spend less on research and development, industry analysts said.
France's Michelin SA is touting the fuel-saving potential of its "green tires." The company recently started a global ad campaign for its most energy-efficient tires.
This year, Michelin got a major boost when French car maker PSA Peugeot-Citroen SA adopted its fourth-generation "Energy Saver" tire for the new Peugeot 308 hatchback. Michelin officials say the tires will cut the car's carbon dioxide emissions by four grams per kilometer, equal to a reduction of about one metric ton of carbon dioxide during the life of the vehicle. The tire's braking distance on wet roads also is about 10 feet shorter than the previous-generation tire. Michelin charges auto makers about 10% more for the tire than it does for a conventional tire, though specific price levels depend on the volume of the car maker's order, a Michelin spokesman said. Price levels for the replacement market haven't been announced yet.
"We know how to make a tire which can brake short and at the same time is fuel efficient," said Thierry Coudurier, president of Michelin's passenger-car and light-truck tire division. "We don't think all of our competitors are able to do that."
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With renewed talk of tax cuts and President Obama's "Buffett Rule," political maneuvering in Congress and on the campaign trail has turned toward the U.S. tax system. On this tax day, Jeffrey Brown discusses tax reform options with the Brookings Institution's Alice Rivlin and the Tax Policy Center's Donald Marron. Continue reading
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The Harrison County Sheriff and West Milford Volunteer Fire Department responded to a structure fire in Good Hope shortly after 10:00 PM Friday night.
The fire began at a vacant house near the Good Hope Animal Hospital.
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Hazel Lee Rollins Jr., 64, of Middleburg, died Sept. 17, 2004, at Orange Park Medical Center. He was a native of Welborn, and had resided in Middleburg since 1989, coming from New York. He was a 1958 graduate of Dunbar High School and was a custodian for the Clay County School District, retiring after 10 years of service. He was a member of St. Mark Baptist Church.
Services: 1 p.m. today at St. Mark Baptist Church in Middleburg. Officiating: The Rev. Lonnie Daniel, pastor. Burial: Grant-Forman Cemetery, Middleburg.
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I adapted Quaker Oatmeal's "Vanishing Oatmeal Raisen Cookies" recipe to lower the fat and increase the fiber (and my husband didn't even notice!) For less sugar and even lower fat, I sometimes substitute Splenda for the granulated sugar and EnerG egg substitue for the eggs.
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- 1⁄4 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄4 cup canola oil or 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
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- 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
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- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
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- Beat together butter, oil, and sugars until creamy.
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- Add baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and flour; beat well.
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These are very good, soft and chewy. I did make a couple substitutions though. To cut down on the fat and sugar, I substituted applesauce for the oil, and Splenda for the granulated sugar. I also used unsalted butter to cut down on the sodium. I made them with a small 2 tablespoon ice cream scoop and yielded 28 cookies. So, for 28 cookies, I reduced the calorie count from 142 each to 113 each. The fat content would be reduced by 17.14 mg per cookie (when making 28 cookies). Also, for those watching their sodium content, for 28 cookies, the sodium equals out to 94.28 mg. each.
Good taste and chewy - made 1/2 recipe @ 22 cookies with baking time at 10 minutes.
5 Star rating for this cookie recipe. Delicious, low fat, and thus a low calorie count. Hubby and I both like this recipe and it has been made twice in the last week. Kids are coming home this week, so have to make another batch :-)
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Narrow vision of labor's needsJuly 08,2014Could the VSEAs vision of organized labor as expressed by Steve Howard be any tinier? How about concerning themselves with employee issues such as mobility, flexibility, supporting family responsibilities, telecommuting to expand the available applicant pool, education, training, pay equity. When VSEA stops spending so much time and resource in maintaining incompetent and mediocre employees, and starts returning value to the taxpayers, then the taxpayers will elect pro-union legislators. As a former state employee and VSEA member, I have walked long distances to get to my workplace and have had to cope with blazing hot and freezing cold buildings. Compared to the issues facing Vermonters today, Id be ashamed to identify those as major concerns to define my organization and membership.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida state trooper is sitting in a Leon County jail on $250,000 bail, charged with sexual battery.
Authorities said Charles Odom was arrested late Wednesday night after a woman he pulled over last week in Wakulla County reported the assault.
The arrest followed an investigation into the complaint by the Florida Highway Patrol, Wakulla County sheriff's office and state prosecutors.
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Heading east along I-94 from Detroit's resurgent Midtown area, two massive structures loom on the horizon. For passing drivers, they're awe-inducing symbols of both the city's former industrial might and the dismaying scale of its post-industrial challenges. [...]
At the Center for Community Progress' May Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference, planners and developers discussed examples from around the world of cities that are finding opportunity in derelict industrial properties. — nextcity.org
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Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard Dies
Think of jazz. Does your mind's eye conjure a smoky scene of a monochrome, midcentury nightclub, a black man playing an instrument, a woman at a microphone? As much as jazz has a sound, it has a look — and today we take that for granted. One of the most influential creators of that image, photographer Herman Leonard, died Saturday at the age of 87.
GALLERY: Leonard discusses his photos in 2009 >>
Photography was Leonard's first love, and the marriage lasted a lifetime. He studied it at Ohio University, the only university at the time to offer a degree in photography. And in the late '40s he found himself in New York's nightclubs, photographing the thriving jazz scene. In his words, he wanted "to create a visual diary of what I heard, to make people see the way the music sounded."
In Leonard's archives are the faces of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzerald, Dizzie Gillespie, etc., ad infinitum. He had a long, successful career, culminating with book deals and a 2008 Lucie Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Portraiture," among other acknowledgments for lifetime achievement.
In The Jazz Image, a new book by K. Heather Pinson, Leonard's photography is described as "the standard by which the music style of jazz was, and continues to be, visually represented." Thanks to Leonard, it will be impossible to forget Duke and Dizzy and Ella; but it will also be hard to forget the photographer who turned their voices to visuals.
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Nashville, TN – The Tennessee State Museum and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) have collaborated to present museum visitors and theater audiences with an exhibition that gives a snapshot of Tennessee's rich African American musical heritage.
The exhibition, I Have a Voice: Tennessee's African American Musical Heritage, is free to the public and on view in the G Level Gallery in the lobby that connects the Tennessee State Museum and TPAC in the Polk Cultural Center.
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Clarksville, TN – Riverfest, presented by the City of Clarksville and Miller Lite, is pleased to announce Charles Esten of television's hit series "Nashville" will be the featured headliner at the 2015 Festival. Charles Esten will take the main stage as the headlining event on Saturday, September 12th, 2015 at 9:00pm. The concert is free and open to the public.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Charles "Chip" Esten was raised in Alexandria, VA and attended T.C. Williams High School, made famous in the film "Remember the Titans."
"Nashville" star Charles Esten to headline this year's Riverfest Festival in Clarksville.
Nashville, TN – Who has the best looking patrol cruiser in the country? The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) and we need your vote to win. The THP is competing to win the "Best Looking Cruiser Award." The contest is sponsored by the American Association of State Troopers (AAST). State highway patrols and state police organizations from across the country are competing for the esteemed award.
"We are excited to be a part of this competition that spotlights our patrol vehicles," Colonel Tracy Trott said. "It gives our state an opportunity to showcase our cruisers and bring attention to the importance of highway safety in Tennessee."
Tennessee Highway Patrol Ford Interceptor SUV at Grand Ole Opry, Nashville Tennessee.
Nashville, TN – The Roys wrap the long Labor Day weekend with SiriusXM as the media giant hosts a special-format release party on its Bluegrass Junction channel for the duo's new CD, "The View".
The celebration, which will air Monday, September 1st at 6:00pm ET, will feature The Roys performing their full album for an audience at the SiriusXM Music City Theatre.
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) is engaging in an exciting new Group Tour program that enhances local tourism, while at the same time providing amazing entertainment options for local residents right here at home.
A series of group tours lasting for 4 days each are planned for Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and Labor Day; and are billed as "Heroes, Hometowns and Legends." With the final tour this year being a 3 day event planned for the Christmas season billed as "God, Country, Christmas."
Lee Greenwood performing at APSU's George and Sharon Mabry Concert Hall as part of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Convention & Visitors Bureau's Group Tours
Clarksville, TN – The City of Clarksville is holding the 12th annual Rivers and Spires Festival in Historic Downtown Clarksville Tennessee this weekend. Running Thursday, April 24th through Saturday, April 26th. The Festival promises to be bigger and better than ever!
With the arrival of spring each year Clarksvillians began to look forward to this three-day long musical extravaganza. The Festival will be headlined on Saturday night by ACM and CMA award-nominated country musician Randy Houser. He will perform some of his biggest hits, including "Goodnight Kiss", "How Country Feels", "Boots On" and "Runnin' Outta Moonlight," this will make for a concert you do not want to miss.
Downtown Clarksville during the Annual Rivers and Spires Festival
Nashville, TN – Country songstress Sherry Lynn is set to release her sophomore CD, "A Beautiful Life", on March 11th under the Steal Heart Music imprint.
The disc contains the New Jersey native's current chart-active single, the anthemic "Girls Will Be Girls," which hit radio programmers' desks via Play MPE and CDX last month.
Penned by hit-makers Ashley Gorley, Bryan Simpson and Kelley Lovelace, the rowdy recap of modern femininity has already inspired a line dance by choreographers Bob and Marlene Peyre-Ferry.
Clarksville, TN – Sue Freeman Culverhouse, long a staff-writer for ClarksvilleOnline.com, features eleven Tennessee authors in her new book. Tennessee Literary Luminaries: From Cormac McCarthy to Robert Penn Warren (The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2013). Her author website, www.sueculverhouse.com, links her readers to information about the book and her upcoming blog.
"I'm tired of people outside Tennessee believing that we're all wearing overalls without a shirt, chewing tobacco, going barefoot, toting six-shooters, and living off road kill," Culverhouse admits. "I want our youngsters to be proud of the literary heritage these and other Tennessee writers have contributed to the world of literature. All of the authors in my book have interesting lives in addition to having written not-to-be missed books."
Tennessee Literary Luminaries by Sue Freeman Culverhouse
Nashville, TN – Some of Country's biggest stars are coming out to honor three music icons who helped shape their careers and who brought country music to mainstream America. Bill Anderson, Jean Shepard, Mandy Barnett, The Grascals and The American Three are among the celebrities set to perform at Gone But Not Forgotten.
In March of 1963, the world lost Grand Ole Opry greats Cowboy Copas, Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins, along with their pilot, Randy Hughes.
Patsy Cline. (Photo credit Grand Ole Opry Archives)


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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Officials say a new fence erected on the Alabama coast appears to be protecting the endangered Alabama red-bellied turtle.
The fence keeps the turtle in its Mobile Delta habitat and off a busy highway where it sometimes becomes road-kill.
Experts tracking the turtle population said Tuesday the number of hatchlings struck by vehicles on the Mobile Causeway declined from 94 in 2007 to 19 so far this year.
University of South Alabama herpetologist David Nelson said the credit goes to the low-barrier fence erected by the Alabama Department of Transportation along about three miles of the highway.
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