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Do you ever wish money was no object as you scour the web for cheap hotel rooms for your next holiday? Do you look wistfully at the private floors in hotel elevators, imagining their elaborate suites? Consider us your window into that world, or at least, Edmonton's small piece of it. In the Sweet Suites series, we'll take you on tours in words, photos and video of some of our city's most luxurious hotel rooms. You may never stay in any of them but you'll be able to talk about them like you have.
This week, we tour the Selkirk Suite at Fort Edmonton Park's historical Selkirk Hotel.
Cosy, tranquil and full of character, the Selkirk Suite at Fort Edmonton Park's historical Hotel Selkirk offers a 1920s experience unparalleled in this city.
The 1920s-era suite is ittybitty compared to the lavish, spacious hotel suites in Edmonton's downtown. The two-room space is just 406 square feet, including the bathroom. But consider: in 1920, the rooms were half that size, and very few had an ensuite bathroom. Most guests had to use shared facilities - outside.
The replica hotel does its best to create an authentic experience whilst offering many (but not all) modern amenities. Running water, yes. Room service, no (but maybe soon). Telephones, Internet, alarm clocks, yes. Television, no.
The original Hotel Selkirk was called the Windsor. It was built in 1903 at the southwest corner of Jasper Avenue and 101st Street, where the Royal Bank is now. For its day, the Windsor was considered a luxury hotel, boasting 40 rooms.
According to the Edmonton Heritage Council, the hotel changed ownership in 1911; proprietor Robert Mc-Donald bought up the adjacent Windsor Block and expanded the hotel to 100 rooms, renaming it when it reopened in 1913.
For 50 years, the Hotel Selkirk was a hot hangout spot, and many hotel guests were people of means and/or note.
In 1962, the hotel suffered irreparable fire damage and was demolished to make way for the bank.
Fort Edmonton's replica is based on the original blueprints, though the fact each room is larger and has an ensuite bathroom means there are fewer (29) rooms today.
Rates have gone up in the past century. In 1911, you could get a room for $1.50 a night; today, the hotel average is $149 a night, and the Selkirk Suite costs $179 a night. Still, it's remarkably reasonable considering this is a historical experience in an unparalleled urban setting, complete with staff in period costumes.
Definitely something to consider if you've ever wanted to be a tourist in your own town, or treat your in-laws to something other than the guest room in your basement.
The Selkirk Suite is on the top floor and enjoys a southwest view of 1920 Street, including the Ukrainian Bookstore and Bill's Confectionary. During the summer months, (Victoria Day to Labour Day), guests can people-watch by day, when Fort Edmonton is open to visitors, then enjoy blissful peace and quiet after hours when the site shuts down - though you can still get a drink at the historical Mahogany Bar, which once held the title of "longest bar in North America."
In the off-season, the hotel is open from time to time for special events like murder mystery parties.
The suite itself is quaint and elegant, decorated in an early 1920s style. Guests walk into a lounge painted dusty rose, furnished with table and chairs, period cream-andburgundy sofa (with pullout bed) wardrobe and dark patterned carpet. Simple accents including triangular valances, gold-framed artworks and beaded lampshade tassels give the space a feel of stepping back in time.
The adjoining bedroom's king-sized bed has soothing blue and green bedding and a ceiling-high headboard that makes the space feel larger and brighter. A work area with coffee machine is tucked into a corner. The bathroom's clawfoot tub is certainly one of the suite's highlights.
The Selkirk Suite is popular for wedding nights and romantic getaways. People "have their function downstairs and then they book up all the rooms," explains spokesperson Suzzette Mellado.
The hotel was used during the filming of western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), but lead actor Brad Pitt did not overnight in the Selkirk Suite. Premier Alison Redford has, however, been a guest. email@example.com room rates Hotel: Hotel Selkirk, Fort Edmonton Park Suite: Selkirk Suite Size: 406 square feet Rack rate: $179 a night


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Our first attempt at a pro-con QOTD was a success, so we're going to open the floor for debate again today. Instead of a specific current issue, though, let's talk about something that's more a standing concern: Are Americans going to ever truly embrace Formula One?
We do not lack for compelling racing within our national borders, but Formula One remains the sport's understood pinnacle. Even with a USGP back on the schedule this year and another one to be added next year, though, there remains substantial concern about how much interest the series will attract. Given the absence of homegrown identities in F1 and the generally troubled state of open-wheel racing in America, can the World Driving Championship stake an abiding claim in the American sports market?
(QOTD is your chance to answer the day's most pressing automotive questions and experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good "Question Of the Day" send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received much attention in recent years for their extraordinary properties that through careful engineering may be leverage for the development of numerous advantageous applications. However, to date, only few CNT based applications exist in the market place. So when and where will the commercially viable CNT revolutions occur? It has been over 15 years since CNTs were revealed and elevated to their celebrity status. Today, advancing technological infrastructure (i.e., the supporting cast) brings hope that we will see a growing number of CNT based applications in the near future. A potentially marketable application on the immediate horizon is the use of CNT arrays to aid a person's laptop from overheating by reducing the interfacial thermal resistance between power dense, microelectronic components and their associated heat sinks. In addition, improved thermal interface conductance by use of CNT arrays can be beneficial to many other heat transfer applications. Carbon nanotubes are attractive because they can be made to form a dry, removable interface with good thermal conductance. In certain configurations, CNT array interfaces may achieve thermal resistances that are comparable to or less than a soldered joint.
My group (T.S. Fisher, Inc., a.k.a. 'The Fish Bowl') has done extensive and pioneering work on the development and understanding of CNT array interfaces. In this presentation, I will discuss some of the fundamentals of thermal interfaces and CNT enhanced thermal interfaces. I will present an outline of the work we have done on CNT interfaces and discuss its evolution. I will illustrate the key issues associated with designing a CNT interface that will perform well in a given configuration, and discuss our synthesis system (plasma-enhanced CVD) and its capabilities. Finally, I will present some of the key challenges associated with developing marketable CNT array interface applications and present some possible solutions to these challenges.
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The Decision
The rich man was home. Before she left the house to go shopping, his wife had shown him the new sandals she had bought the day before. One pair was white with fake jewels all over. The other pair had Indian turquoise and silver thread on a brown leather base. She was upset that the rich man didn't say that they were "cute". The plumber had been to the house earlier to fix a plugged drain. The rich man wondered who ever bought Drano because his wife always contended that the plugged drains at his house were beyond Drano's capabilities and required a professional plumber.
There was a knock at the rich man's door. He was wearing an old, well-worn, felt cowboy hat, leather boots, leather jacket; he carried a satchel. He introduced himself as Roberto Sanchez. He said that he had come across the border looking for work. He needed work. He said that he had no money. He had to have work. Up Mount Soledad, he carried a pair of iron contraptions with leather bindings that when fastened to one's legs and under one's boots could be used to climb trees by digging the protruding spikes coming from the inside of the insole into the tree trunk. Roberto Sanchez wanted the job of climbing the rich man's palm trees and removing the dead fronds from under the live growth at the top. He was hungry and he was cold (even though the air temperature was mild). He very much wanted the rich man to provide this work for him. Roberto talked very slowly, deliberately, politely. He asked for a cup of coffee so that he could take some medicine that he was carrying in his pocket. After the rich man brought him the coffee and he took the medicine, Roberto began again to speak about his skill, experience, and thoroughness as a tree trimmer and gardener. Roberto Sanchez was in his fifties. He had come across the border to find work. This was a man that the new immigration laws required that the rich man not hire. Not only was Roberto Sanchez from a different country and culture, but he was also of another time. The rich man's neighbors had warned him to be distrustful of strangers on the street.
The rich man saw in Roberto Sanchez's proposition an opportunity to do something worthwhile this day; to make his afternoon meaningful. This man needed a job and the rich man had work that needed to be done. The rich man thought to himself, "it is unusual for a man like this to be soliciting work on this street. Does he mean to do harm?" and "this man is intruding on my peace and solitude today". But he also thought, "This man needs work and is in front of my house asking for help". The young son of the rich man was bouncing a ball nearby and listening to the conversation. The rich man saw an opportunity for his son to learn a lesson in cross-cultural communication, the value of hard work, compassion, and charity. Roberto Sanchez said that the job would lake about a week to complete. He said that he was getting older now and could not work as fast as he used to. The rich man thought about the fact that some neighbors might not appreciate this man on the block for a week; his general description was not unlike the warnings of the Community Alert Program leader. The rich man somewhat resented the dilemma that Roberto Sanchez created for him on this here-to-for simple day.
Finally, in a demonstration of his worldliness and sensitivity, the rich man said, "No trabajo hoy senor. Lo siento mucho." He then shrank back into his house. Roberto Sanchez walked back down Mount Soledad.
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Asiel Design and Lauren of Downey Street Events teamed up to put together this shabby chic wedding with a formal twist. Using old keys and Kraft tags as escort cards, soft flowers and succulents carefully settled in split peas for centerpieces makes for an elegant affair with a dash of whimsey.
All photographed by Julie Mikos at the Northern California wedding venue, Kohl Mansion. To see more prettiness visit the full gallery by clicking here.
The bridesmaids looked ultra chic in their ocean blue Twist Wrap Dresses by The Dessy Group. We love that each dress was wrapped differently, giving all of the bridesmaids their own look. Most of the wedding party wore their hair in an up-do for a sophisticated and polished look.
Emily and Will took advantage of our Free Crown Wedding Printable. We have the invitations, response cards, menus and programs available for free. You simply need to type in your information and chose your colors. If you love the crown theme we also sell a regal tote to go with your elegant affair.
We have all seen In-N-Out burger at the weddings, but never quite like this. The highlight of the evening, Emily said, was "when we had In-N-Out burger deliver to the venue at the end of the night. Our wedding planner, Lauren, was so brilliant — she had the assistant wear a cigarette tray and an In-N-Out hat and served everyone." Seriously...how cute is that?
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Well, after a month and a half blogging absence
I figure I owe an explanation ...
I'm expecting our fourth baby on February 14th!
I generally have easy pregnancies and rarely feel sick - but this time around I've struggled with nausea and tiredness.
(Could be worse, I know).
Anyways - blogging has been on the bottom
of my barely-touched to-do list.
Since I'm heading into my second trimester I'm expecting to feel better and will probably be back to blogging shortly ...
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Oh, And One More Thing: NSA Directly Accessing Information From Google, Facebook, Skype, Apple And More
from the not-a-good-week-for-the-nsa dept
The technology companies, which participate knowingly in PRISM operations, include most of the dominant global players of Silicon Valley. They are listed on a roster that bears their logos in order of entry into the program: "Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple." PalTalk, although much smaller, has hosted significant traffic during the Arab Spring and in the ongoing Syrian civil war.This program, like the constant surveillance of phone records, began in 2007, though other programs predated it. They claim that they're not collecting all data, but it's not clear that makes a real difference:
Dropbox , the cloud storage and synchronization service, is described as "coming soon."
The PRISM program is not a dragnet, exactly. From inside a company's data stream the NSA is capable of pulling out anything it likes, but under current rules the agency does not try to collect it all.I expect we'll be seeing more such revelations before long.
Analysts who use the system from a Web portal at Fort Meade key in "selectors," or search terms, that are designed to produce at least 51 percent confidence in a target's "foreignness." That is not a very stringent test. Training materials obtained by the Post instruct new analysts to submit accidentally collected U.S. content for a quarterly report, "but it's nothing to worry about."
Even when the system works just as advertised, with no American singled out for targeting, the NSA routinely collects a great deal of American content.


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Work Around: Closets as Offices
With built-in shelving to make use of the vertical space above our heads and a large open area at eye level intended for hanging clothes, a standard closet can sometimes lend itself nicely to a home workspace.
Adding curtains, translucent doors, or just keeping in mind that sunlight should get through to the back wall, what you may expect to be a claustrophobic space can feel quite comfortable. All you need is a desk, a chair, and a nearby outlet to get started, then layer in bright pops of color to keep the closet office from feeling dingy. And remember, organization is key! Otherwise it'll look like a regular old closet on which you'll want to shut the doors.
Shown above, top row, left to right:
1. Converting a Closet into An Office?
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3. Musical Offices: A Playlist of Home Office Moods
4. 5 Inspirations For Turning Your Closet Cool
5. Fitting a Home Office in Your Small Space
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6. Inspiration: Eva's Office Spaces
7. Converting a Closet
8. Finding Space for a Home Office
9. Before & After: Jason's Closet Office
10. Before & After: Closet to Office/Entertainment Center.
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Cisco Unity Connection Provisioning Interface (CUPI) is a provisioning API for Cisco Unity Connection that has been designed to be stable and simple to use. It is based on leading industry standards for web-based API development, and provides access to the most commonly provisioned data on Connection systems (users, contacts, distribution lists, and call handlers).
By using CUPI, you can securely do the following:
- Create, read, update, and delete users and user configurations
- Reset passwords
- Create, read, and update distribution lists
- Create, read, update, and delete call handlers
- Create, read, update, and delete contacts
Technical Details
Previous provisioning APIs required knowledge of the underlying database, and were vulnerable to changes in the database schema. CUPI provides a layer over the database to make the interface more stable.
CUPI is standards based. CUPI was developed by using the latest advances in web-based interfaces. It is a REST interface that standardizes operations such as add, delete, and modify. The XML comes with standard XML schema definitions that are annotated with information about what is in them.
Other product groups in VTG are developing REST-based interfaces, and as the interfaces converge this positions CUPI well to fit in with them. REST interfaces also work well with Web 2.0 applications.
As a web-based interface, CUPI is independent of operating system and programming language and does not require any client libraries to use.
Getting Started
In order to begin developing with the Cisco Unity Connection CUPI API, you need to obtain the following:
- Cisco Media Convergence Server (MCS) for Cisco Unity Connection version 8.0 and later
- For detailed hardware requirements, see the Cisco Unity Connection 8.x Supported Platforms List
- Cisco Unity Connection Software Ordering
- Not for Resale Kits (Must be eligible to purchase)
- Communications System Release Kit
Discounts for some of the required hardware and software may be available for participants in the Cisco Technology Developer Program.
We recommend that all developers have an up-to-date Cisco Developer Services support agreement. This provides the developer with access to professional support and assistance for application development.
CUPI Documentation
See the following for an index of all CUPI documentation on DocWiki:
Index of All CUPI Documentation
Other CUPI Resources
Additional information about CUPI is also available on the Cisco Developer Network (link to CDN). Note, however, that the documentation here on the DocWiki is the most up-to-date documentation available for CUPI.
To participate in the CUPI forum, see the CUPI forum on CDN.
On the CUPI page on CDN, you will also find links to the CUPI WADL and CUPI XML schema.
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The thought of adolescence can bring some frightening images to a parent's mind: head-butting over the car keys, general contrariness, and the horrified way in which your kid can groan "mo-om!" However, it is becoming increasingly common for girls to begin sprouting breasts and pubic hair before the age of 10, according to the New York Times. This early onset of puberty may leave young girls emotionally and mentally unprepared for the challenges that come with a more mature body.
Puberty in girls follows an ordered pattern of three events: the growth of breasts, the growth of pubic hair, and a first period. Most researchers now agree that breast budding is starting earlier. A 2010 study reported that some girls were developing breasts by age 7. And while eight used to be the age cutoff for normal pubic-hair growth in girls, it is now seven.
Plus: What to Expect When Puberty Hits
Precocious puberty comes with several risks, including advanced bone age—which is calculated by determining how much cartilage has turned to bone. Girls mostly stop growing after their final growth spurt, which occurs during puberty. If a growth spurt starts too early, it ends earlier as well. As a result, a child who had her period early will spend fewer years growing overall and wind up shorter than a genetically identical girl who gets her period at a later age.
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Early periods are also associated with breast cancer, though the reason for this remains uncertain. Girls who reach puberty before their peers also tend to experience lower self-esteem, more depression, and more eating disorders. While late bloomers also experience depression during puberty, as compared to typically-developing girls, their depression typically ends once adolescence is over. Early bloomers suffer higher levels of depression and anxiety throughout adulthood. They also start drinking earlier, lose their virginity sooner, and have more sexual partners and sexually transmitted diseases.
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"It may be that early maturers do not have as much time as other girls to accomplish the developmental tasks of childhood. They face new challenges while everybody else is still dealing with the usual development of childhood. This might be causing them to make less successful transitions into adolescence and beyond," explains Julia Graber, associate chairwoman of psychology at the University of Florida.
Plus: Father Absence Linked to Earlier Puberty Among Some Girls
Doctors have pointed their fingers at several contributing factors for the rising trend of precocious puberty. Girls who are overweight enter puberty earlier than thinner girls and researchers believe that fat tissue can cause a body to mature. Environmental chemicals can also be to blame, particularly those that mimic estrogen like BPA, a compound found in hard plastics and many other common products. Family stress can significantly speed up puberty, as well.
Families of early bloomers are encouraged keep their daughters active and at healthy body weights. But more importantly, they should treat them as the age they are, rather than the age they look in order to safeguard their vulnerable emotional development.
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L genealogical glossary terms
From FamilySearch Wiki
Labrador, Canada
- A large peninsula in northeastern Canada. It is currently part of Québec and Newfoundland.
Lægdsruller, Denmark
- Danish army levying rolls, which are records kept by the parish that list all males up to age 34 in a parish. Beginning in 1788 these records were taken every three years and were used as a list of potential draftees. If a male age 34 or younger moved to a new parish, the levying roll usually notes the new parish's identification number. These records can help establish where a male ancestor was living when other important records were made.
Lair, Scotland
- The Scottish word for a burial plot.
Land (not including Deeds), PERiodical Source Index
- A record type used in the Locality and Research Methodologies sections of the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) to identify articles that contain information about land records except for deeds.
Land Act of 1785, New Jersey
- A law passed by the New Jersey state government requiring county clerks to record deeds.
Land allotment records
- Land grants given to individual Native Americans.
Land and Property, FamilySearch Catalog™
- A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize records regarding land and other property transactions.
Land Commission, Hawaii
- A commission established in Hawaii in 1845 to settle land disputes between the king of Hawaii, who owned all of the land, and settlers who were not native to Hawaii. The king received a portion of the land, and the rest was divided equally between the government, chiefs, and tenants. To acquire ownership of land, an individual made a claim to the commission, whose formal name was the Board of Commissioners to Quiet Land Titles.
Land company
- An organization of land speculators that purchased large tracts of land to sell to settlers
Land grant
- A piece of land given or sold to an individual or institution by the government.
Land grant record
- A record created during the process of applying for and receiving a land grant from the government.
Land lottery
- A lottery used to distribute land.
Land lottery
- A lottery used to distribute land.
Land Office of Maine
- An office of the Maine state government that was established in 1824 to distribute land that Maine purchased from Massachusetts.
Land office records
- Records dealing with land transactions kept by land offices
Land ownership map
- A map that divides and identifies land according to who owns it. Also called a cadastral map.
Land petition: The formal, written request submitted by a person seeking a land grant.
Land records
- A generic term referring to documents concerning land transactions
Land run
- A process used in Oklahoma to open an entire district of land to settlement on a first-come basis. This created tremendous runs as people rushed to stake their claims to surveyed sections of land. The first land run was in April 1889. Other runs followed in September 1891, April 1892, September 1893, and May 1895.
Land seizure
- When land is confiscated because the owner cannot pay taxes or debts.
Land survey
- A written, legal description of the location and size of a piece of land or the process used to create the description.
Land tax assessment, England and Wales
- A tax assessed on land that was valued above the fixed rate of 20 shillings. The land tax was collected from about 1692 to 1832.
The clerk of the Court of Sessions kept land tax records from 1780 to 1831. These records are very useful because they contain the names of people who paid the tax and how much they paid.
Land tenure accounts, Denmark
- Danish land records that usually concerned the transfer of crown land and the evaluations of property. These records also include fines assessed for fornication and taxes on marriage. The Danish word for these records is jordebogsregnkaber.
Land warrant
- A certificate authorizing an individual to receive a certain amount of land.
- The process of receiving a land grant.
Landsting, Denmark:
- he Danish court of first appeal. After 1738 these courts maintained an alphabetical register of debtors and creditors. They also kept a register of the land involved in the cases. These courts were discontinued in 1805, and the jurisdiction was transferred to the herred (district) and birke (judicial district) courts.
- The vocabulary, pronunciation, and sequencing of words that are understood by a certain group of people.
Language aid
- A dictionary or other reference that helps people use a language they do not speak natively. Genealogical word lists and letter-writing guides published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are some examples of language aids.
Language and Languages, FamilySearch Catalog™
- A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize records and books related to languages.
Last will and testament
- A legal document that disburses a deceased individual's real property and personal property.
Late Loyalist, Canada
- A person who emigrated from the United States to Canada after about 1790 for land or other economic opportunities. Late Loyalists may or may not have been loyal to the British government during the American Revolution.
Latter-day Saint
- A name for a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- A type of record kept by Danish trade guilds that include business items and accounts. They may not contain much information of genealogical value.
Law and Legislation, FamilySearch Catalog™
- A subject heading used in the FamilySearch Catalog to categorize works that contain information about a government's laws and how those laws are created.
Law directory
- A list of judges and staff of various courts, lawyers, police, notaries, and registration officers.
Law library
- A library with holdings that relate to the practice of law.
Law library
- A library with holdings that relate to the practice of law.
Lay subsidy
- A tax assessed on personal property.
LDS Church
- An abbreviated name for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
LDS Search Strategies
- A section of Tracing LDS Ancestors that describes how to find family history information about people who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Lease (noun)
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Legitimate Child
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Leichenpredigten, Germany
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Leo Baeck Institute
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- In France, a booklet that a civil registrar gave to a newly married couple. The booklet included an extract of the marriage record and references to the marriage contract. The couple was responsible for taking the booklet to the registrar as each of their children was born. The registrar would update the booklet with the child's birth information and return the booklet to the family. The registrar also recorded deaths in this booklet. Families kept the booklets and often handed them down to their children. The English term for these booklets is family civil registration book.
- A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is a mix of Indian (3/4) and African (1/4). Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.
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Lodge, court records
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Lodge, societies
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Loiselle Index, Canada
- An index to about one million French-Canadian Catholic marriage records. It is one of the best sources to use to find Catholic marriages performed in Québec and some parishes outside of Québec with large settlements of French Canadians. The index covers marriages that occurred from the mid 1600s to 1900, with a few marriages to 1960.
London Company
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Long book, Latter-day Saint
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Loose papers
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Lord of regality, Scotland
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Lost at sea
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Lot, Canada
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Louisiana Purchase
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Loyal Land Company of Virginia
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Ludlow's Survey
- A line surveyed by Israel Ludlow from the source of the Little Miami River to the Great Miami River. This line defined the northern boundary of the area that John Cleves Symmes proposed to purchase.
Lurie index
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Lutheran churches
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Lyman Copeland Draper Collection
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Guest blogger Anne L. Bryant is the executive director of the National School Boards Association.
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) held its 72nd Annual Conference in Boston, April 21-23, and more than 5,000 school board members and superintendents enjoyed inspiring remarks by CNN Anchor Soledad O'Brien, Khan Academy Founder Sal Khan, and President of Harlem Children's Zone Geoffrey Canada. We also held more than 200 sessions and workshops on topics such as the common core standards, new trends in educational technology, community engagement, and strategies to turn around low-performing schools.
But perhaps the biggest star was our 2011-12 president, Mary Broderick, of East Lyme, Conn. In her term as president, Broderick has passionately articulated the need to allow teachers and students the freedom to think, teach, and learn. She's fascinated by motivation research and for years has studied the impact of federal and state policies, particularly the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), on classrooms.
She began writing a letter to President Barack Obama during her travels as NSBA president, soliciting comments and advice...
Guest blogger Jay P. Greene is the 21st Century Professor of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas and a fellow at the George W. Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University.
Being against greater national control over education policy is not the same as being for local school districts. I appreciate Peter Meyer giving me the opportunity in this space to explain what I am for when it comes to school governance.
Fundamentally, I am for parental control over the education of their children, so I guess that I am for as little governance over education as we can manage. In my ideal world, which I've tried to explain and justify at greater length in this book chapter, parents would be given as much money as is minimally necessary to fulfill their obligation to educate their children and would choose the location, manner, and content of that education. Since education is just a subset of all of the activities in which parents engage to raise their children to be productive adults, we should defer to parents as much in how they educate their children as how they raise...
A venerable maxim of successful organizational management declares that an executive's authority should be commensurate with his or her responsibility. In plain English, if you are held to account for producing certain results, you need to be in charge of the essential means of production.
In American public education today, however, that equation is sorely unbalanced. A school principal in 2012 is accountable for student achievement, for discipline, for curriculum and instruction, and for leading (and supervising) the staff team, not to mention attracting students, satisfying parents, and collaborating with innumerable other agencies and organizations.
Yet that same principal controls only a tiny part of his school's budget, has scant say over who teaches there, practically no authority when it comes to calendar or schedule, and minimal leverage over the curriculum itself. Instead of deploying all available school assets in ways that would do the most good for the most kids, the principal...
Guest blogger David Harris is the founder and chief executive officer of The Mind Trust, a nonprofit that is driving innovative K-12 education reform in Indianapolis. Under his leadership, The Mind Trust recruits proven programs to Indianapolis, incubates life-changing schools and initiatives, and develops bold plans for systemic change. Since its launch in 2006, The Mind Trust has impacted 37,500 students through its work and raised twenty-seven million dollars.
The Mind Trust's goal is to ensure every child in Indianapolis has the opportunity to receive an excellent education. We believe that dramatically increasing the number of high-quality schools in our city is critical to this mission.
The need for more high-quality public schools in Indianapolis is sizable. Less than half of students in the city's largest district, Indianapolis Public Schools, meet basic state standards on both math and English portions of Indiana's standardized test. Less than two-thirds graduate on time.
The charter schools authorized by the Indianapolis mayor's office have made significant strides at boosting student outcomes. On average last year, those charter schools exceeded the...
A teacher friend of mine showed me the new issue of the American Educator, the American Federation of Teachers publication that bills itself as "a quarterly journal of education research and ideas." He wanted me to read the cover story, called "Lead the Way: the Case for Fully Guided Instruction." The research, by Richard Clark, Paul Kirschner, and John Sweller, has been around for a while, but that's the astounding thing: not only has their research been around, but they argue, quite persuasively, that "[d]ecades of research clearly demonstrate that for novices (comprising virtually all students), direct, explicit instruction is more effective and more efficient than partial guidance."
I will not pretend to be an expert on teaching, but as a school board member I confess to deep and continuous agita over the system's inability to do the right thing; rather, its amazing ability to deny reality, which is the prime directive for institutional entropy. (It is not just the reality of good research that is ignored, it's the reality of crumbling schools and generations of untaught children.)...
Passing a set of historic reform bills last week, the Louisiana legislature handed Gov. Bobby Jindal and his new education chief, John White, the keys to reform city. By a healthy majority in both houses, it passed legislation, writes Bill Barrow of the Times-Picayune, which will
It was anything but a cakewalk for the Jindal reform package, as teachers descended on the Capitol to fight the bills and Democrats charged the second-term Republican governor with strong-arm tactics reminiscent of former political tough guys Huey Long and Edwin Edwards. "I make no apologies for having a sense of urgency," said Jindal. "I...
One might fairly wonder why the Council on Foreign Relations, of all outfits, would wade into school reform, but in fact the task force that CFR convened on this topic has made a valuable contribution.
We're accustomed to reformers arguing that America's international economic competitiveness hinges on a better-educated workforce; we're used to parallel (and equally justified) assertions that our civic future and cultural vitality depend on kids learning a great deal more in school. What the CFR team has done is remind us that revitalizing our education system is also essential for the defense of the nation itself. In their words, "America's failure to educate is affecting its national security….In the defense and aerospace industries, many executives fear this problem [dearth of adequately skilled people] will accelerate in the coming decade….Most young people do not qualify for military service….The U.S. State Department and intelligence agencies are facing critical language shortfalls in areas of strategic interest…."
They're not exactly saying that nuclear warheads will rain onto our population centers the day after tomorrow unless our schools become more effective but they are reminding us that the intersection of...
In what might be the quote of the day (if not year), Geoffrey Canada tells Anna Phillips of the New York Times that,
Who better to lead the troops than Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee, and Eva Moskowitz, three of the most aggressive education reformers of the last decade, or, if you prefer, as Phillips has it, "some of the most well-known and polarizing figures in public education."
A triumvirate of kumbaya they are not.
And what they have now done is form a group that intends to raise $10 million annually for the next five years to lobby the New York State legislature to protect the reform initiatives launched by Klein and his mayoral boss Michael Bloomberg in New York City, promote reform throughout the state, and, as Phillips writes,
Bloomberg's third (and this time final) term expires at the end of next year. Says...
Mark Anderson is a special education teacher in the Bronx. He is originally from California and still trying to convince himself that skyscrapers are equivalent to mountains. Follow Mark on Twitter @mandercorn or on his blog Schools as Ecosystems.
From where I sit—as a special education teacher in East Tremont in the Bronx—it looks to me like the same issues that plague my public school and district plague the school system at large.
It's rare that content knowledge, pedagogical wisdom, or other experiential knowledge is transferred between classrooms, let alone between schools or between districts. It does happen, when those few teachers that establish meaningful relationships with one another talk about a lesson, or ask to borrow something, or ask for help when they are struggling with a concept. But it doesn't happen often enough.
One would think that this sort of meaningful transfer of information would occur as a result of professional development or prep period time, but professional development largely seems to stand for "paying some institution lots of money so it can come and tell us how to teach." It's rare that anything that is...
Guest blogger John White is Louisiana superintendent of education. This post originally appeared as a letter to the editor in the Baton Rouge Advocate.
The Advocate has recently published several letters to the editor on public education. I have to say as an educator, I'm disappointed with the prevailing tone and content of those letters opposing change.
Here are some passages that illustrate a common thread:
"We, the public school teachers of East Baton Rouge schools, can't educate children who don't want to be educated. We can't educate children whose parents don't care and are not involved."
"…the state is going to require that very poor students take the ACT… The weaker of these students are not college-bound students who have no intention to attend college, yet he has to be compared and compete."
And one writer simply stated, "Poverty is a significant factor affecting academic scores," leaving it at that—as if that absolves us of any responsibility to educate the child.
I'm so disappointed in these comments for two reasons. First, they betray a mindset that forsakes the American dream. They show a sad belief among some that poverty is destiny in America, defying our core value that...


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I've never owned a pet (yay, rented apartments with tough policies), but I'm a cat person to a degree that's not even funny. I've always been the one trying to pet and feed every cat I met, and they returned the fondness. My first boyfriend, who had two gorgeous golden-blond tabbies, said that their approval would be crucial in the development of our relationship. (I got it, although they remained rather aloof.)My son is going the same way. At the age of 2, he managed to pet the neighbour's cat, an ancient curmudgeon who avoided kids like the plague. His sister had tried all her life, and never succeeded. The boy loves all furry, responsive animals, really - he'd pet anything that didn't run away from him. I'm working on curbing his enthusiasm, because approaching them squealing and flailing will make them run away.
Dogs, dogs, dogs all my life, with a smattering of cats and fish, plus a budgie or two. The tropical fish, both fresh and salt water, were wonderful to keep--so soothing and calming to watch; but they required constant care, no trips without a baby sitter! We currently have a cat who has several names: one granddaughter calls her Socks (grey tiger cat with four white feet), while another g'daughter calls her Rosie (from the Twilight movies). I call her Killer, because of what she does to, and with, the local rodent population. She usually eats them and leaves the heads and tails under my Jeep. As for dogs, we have had everything from German Shepherds to poodles to a rescue dalmation/pointer mix and right now a Shih Tzu. I gotta say that the Shih Tzu has been the best companion and pal; Pepper is a real buddy, calm and affectionate, and cute as a bug. This is a super breed and very easy to train and live with. Plus they are great dogs in an over-55 community, well accepted here in Wrinkle Village.....
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Freshman Excelling in Researchby Clayton Randolph '16 • June 3, 2014 Share:
Bill Nye the Science Guy likes to blow things up. So does Justin Miller '17.
It was an explosion in a high school chemistry lab that triggered Miller's love for chemistry.
"I was helping my chemistry teacher do a simple cleanup with the lab," Miller said. "I was diluting and then neutralizing some concentrated sulfuric acid and had it in this huge six-liter flask and I was slowly adding some baking soda, and finally the whole thing just exploded in the fume hood and got all over me. And at that point I said, 'You know what, as much as stuff like this sucks, it's cool it happens.'"
It was that chemical reaction which pointed Miller to chemistry. Although it is common for students to gravitate toward the sciences, Miller has taken an accelerated path. The freshman is one of many students spending their summer doing research, summer jobs, and participating in on-campus summer programs.
Miller will be a sophomore and is gaining valuable experience with an internship in the chemistry department alongside Dr. Laura Wysocki. "I teach organic (chemistry) which you usually don't take until your sophomore year. So there were two outstanding, motivated students who wanted to do research, so we decided to give them a shot," Wysocki said.
That is pretty impressive considering Miller has not yet been exposed to organic chemistry in the classroom.
"There is a little high school exposure for some of the students or snippets from the intro classes that look ahead at 'this is what organic will be concerned with,'" Wysocki said. "They haven't even sat in that first day yet to talk about how we think about organic chemistry differently than other types of chemistry."
Perhaps more remarkable is how Miller is able to soak up the information. He loves the thrill of failure, and he sees that as an opportunity to learn even more. And more times than not, that failure leads to a new discovery.
"What I found in taking both chemistry and biology is, one, how little I really know about them, and two, how vastly interesting that makes them because there is so much to learn, so much to possibly investigate," Miller said.
When it came down to choosing a college, Miller relied on his own instincts. That is because his parents and siblings did not attend college straight from high school.
"Neither of my parents went to college out of high school, though my mom did go back and get an Associate's Degree," Miller said. "So I am the first one in my family to go away for college. It really is fantastic."
But, it is the professors that helped make Wabash special and allowed him to grow.
"I ended up searching various colleges, applied to over a dozen. In the end it came down to Wabash or Hillsdale College in Michigan," Miller said. "Just being around some of the (Wabash) professors, having conversations with them on my visits, that's what really made Wabash stick out."
One of those professors is Wysocki and she has been instrumental in helping Miller realize his potential in organic chemistry. The two never had a class together and barely knew each other coming into summer, making the internship even more unique.
"It's a lot of fun," Miller said about Wysocki. "The trust she puts in us not to blow up her lab … and being able to really delve deep into some of these issues with her guidance, because most of it is well over my head that's for sure. But, just to slowly be guided through things as you learn more and more, she gives you that much more freedom to investigate."
"I trust him just as much as my other students," Wysocki added.
Miller grew up in northeast Indiana in the small village of St. Joe. Despite his early success in chemistry, he remains unsure of his future career plans.
"I really have no idea at all," Miller said.
He is very active outside of the chemistry department. You can find his news stories in The Bachelor; he is a member of Wabash Christian Men; the Parliamentary Union, the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, and, the Chemistry Club.
"Justin is curious and hardworking, he gets here early, sometimes earlier than me," Wysocki laughed. "He has a really good positive attitude in the lab, even when things are not going as you hope, and he is really quick; he catches onto things very quickly."


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Sesame Street "Failure to Launch" Hubert the Human Cannonball comes to Sesame Street to be launched out of a cannon, across the yard, and into a bucket of blue gelatin. He starts to set up all his stuff in the arbor and takes out a ruler so he can make sure the bucket is exactly five feet from the cannon. Baby Bear helps him measure it, Elmo and Telly help him into the cannon, and. D
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Barney & Friends "The Shrinking Blankey/Things I Can Do" The Shrinking Blankey - Baby Bop's blankey seems to be getting smaller; she's convinced it's shrinking. But Barney shows her that, actually, she is growing. Baby Bop is not sure she likes this idea at first, but Barney soon helps her see that growing and changing are very good things! Things I Can Do - Baby Bop isn't satisfied with the things she can do. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Night Lights/Go Snails Go!" Night Lights - Nick and Sally are making shadow puppets with the Cat in the Hat, but the batteries in the flashlight have gone out! They jump into the Thingamajigger and shrink down to visit the fireflies that live in the backyard. There they learn that the fireflies communicate by flashing their lights. And when the fireflies provide the light the kids need, the shadow puppet show can continue! Go Snails Go! - Nick, Sally and the Cat have been invited along on a snail expedition! They jump into the Thingamajigger and shrink down to meet up with Lewis and Clark, the two snails leading the way! As they travel through the forest of Slippity-Goo, having fun sliding in their own shells, the kids learn about all the different ways snails use their shells. D
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Zoboomafoo "Lids" Animal Junction becomes a petting zoo when all sorts of goats and sheep decide to "visit." Unfortunately, for the Kratt Brothers and Zoboomafoo, their snack machine breaks down and they are left holding the "feed" bag!G
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Curious George "Unbalanced/Curious George Vs. Winter" George wants to be an acrobat and learns interesting things about freezing and melting.G
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Martha Speaks "Martha Ain't Nothin' But A Pound Dog, Part 1 & Part 2" Martha Ain't Nothin' but a Pound Dog, Part 1 - Martha loses her collar and winds up in the animal shelter. Martha Ain't Nothin' but a Pound Dog, Part 2 - When Martha's family comes to take her home, she decides she can't leave her shelter friends behind.G
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The Electric Company "Shrink, Shrank, Shrunk!" Manny has borrowed the Skeleckian Shrinkanator 3002, an invention with the power to shrink anything down to a very small size. When Marcus and Jessica accidentally get shrunk, The Electric Company has to get the Shrinkinator back from Manny to get them back to normal size! This becomes even more difficult when Manny shrinks himself and is nowhere to be found. D
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WordGirl "Leslie Makes It Big/Mouse Brain Take-Over" LESLIE MAKES IT BIG - When Mr. Big gets hauled off to jail, his assistant, Leslie, takes over to carry out their latest evil plan-building the most powerful mind control device ever! Will Mr. Big help WordGirl defeat Leslie, or will Leslie become bigger than Mr. Big? Vocabulary Words: Ridiculous, Assume. MOUSE BRAIN TAKE-OVER - Just as WordGirl is about to give TJ, the winner of the "WordGirl Synonym Contest," a tour of her secret hide-out, she discovers Dr. Two-Brains' is going on an all-out cheese rampage. This time he's more evil (and more mousy) than ever! Vocabulary Words: Abandon, Dilemma. D
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Wild Kratts "Flight of the Draco" While on a mission to discover the secret of the Draco lizard's gliding abilities, Martin and Chris uncover an evil plot by fashion designer, Donita Donata. She has been capturing these amazing creatures with a plan to make them part of her new Fall collection. It's the Wild Kratts team to the rescue! Science Concept: Gliding, Gravity. D
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Cyberchase "Zeus on the Loose" (topic: Fractions) - When the kids fail to stop Hacker from stealing Pandora's box in mythological Greece, they must solve a riddle and complete challenges to satisfy Zeus and earn a second chance. In the course of their adventure, Matt, Jackie and Inez discover that a fraction is a problem in sharing. The challenge is solving increasingly difficult problems in sharing while they confront a myriad of mythological creatures. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "How to Really Train Your Dog" Uncle MacRuffmantosh is hot on the trail of the Helmet of Victory! He's chartered a train scheduled to arrive at the helmet's hidden location-but the train is riddled with riddles. Ruff sends the six FETCHers to figure out the riddles on the train, which will unlock a mysterious briefcase. But there are others who won't stop until THEY get the briefcase. D
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Nightly Business Report We talk to bond king Bill Gross about his belief the Federal Reserve will soon buy more bonds to boost the economy. The PIMCO founder talks to NBR Co-Anchor Susie Gharib. Apple's new iPad hits store shelves. D
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John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) The lead singer of The Lovin' Spoonful presents singers and songwriters of the 1950s and 1960s with a combination of historical footage and new performances. See the original Kingston Trio, New Christy Minstrels, Limelighters, Serendipity Singers, Highwaymen and Rooftop Singers. Relive Pete Seeger's and Judy Collins' duet of "If I Had a Hammer." New performances include the original and reunited Chad Mitchell Trio, Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Barry McGuire, and Jesse Colin Young of The Youngbloods.G
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"George and Allie's Lawn Service/Curious George's Scavenger Hunt"
George and Allie's Lawn Service - George and Allie are crazy about Mr. Renkins' new kids -- baby goats named Suzy and Sammy. But when the goats keep escaping their pen and chewing on everything in sight, can George and Allie find a way to keep their new friends penned up? Curious George's Scavenger Hunt - It's a race around the city as George, Marco, and Chef Pisghetti go on a shape-finding scavenger hunt to raise money for the animal shelter. They find rectangles, stars, and circles, but how are they ever going to find 100 diamonds?. D
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Hawks Harvin and Wilson Healthy Enough to Practice
Wide receiver Percy Harvin and tight end Luke Willson have participated in practice for the Seattle Seahawks, raising the possibility of each playing in this weekend's NFC divisional playoff game against New Orleans.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll said yesterday that Harvin made it through the two days he participated last week without any setbacks. Harvin has played in one game this season — Week 11 against Minnesota — following hip surgery in August. Last week was his first time on the practice field for Seattle since the middle of November.
Willson's recovery is a surprise after he was taken off the field on a cart in Seattle's season finale against St. Louis. Willson has a high-ankle sprain.
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If the actual Left 4 Dead is a little too frantic for your tastes, why not try this "choose your own adventure" version of the game by web comedy troupe Game Station.
It's nice and slow, giving you ample time to consider your choices, then decide on what seems the most logical course of action.
Being a "choose your own adventure" game, logic of course plays no part - it's all cruel chance - we're just letting you know there's time for logic if you feel like sorting it out that way regardless.


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The Apprentice 6 Tour Bus Challengehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zecr9cXT0dY
Next week's task is the sightseeing tours. Team Kinetic won exemption. Early spoiling has shown James, Stefani, and Aaron on one of the buses.Could it be that the competition will be "within" Team Arrow? I surmise that sub-teams will be .......Team 1 JamesStefaniAaronTeam 2FrankTimNicoleMichelle
Any thoughts on who will be PM for each team and what Franks team will be doing? I've been trying to find out but no luck so far.
the other team must compensate for a distracted project manager and the budding romance between two of their teammates... We know the budding romance is between Arrow's Tim and Nicole. Could they cause such a distraction that they cause their team to lose, and Trump fires them both?
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Body-Hugging Outerwear Hits the Slopes
Just in time to hit the slopes in earnest, Christina Binkley joins Lunch Break with a look at the latest in snowboard and skiwear styles. Photo: AP.
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The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors have the following grading guidelines for their annual Excellence in Writing Contest.
1. Clarity (1-15 points). No reader should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it's put together. SCORE __________
2. Lean writing (1-10 points) Deduct for unnecessary words and repetition. Give points for strong active verbs and deduct for overuse of adjectives and adverbs. SCORE __________
3. Style, Sparkle and Presentation (1-30 points) Give points for uniqueness, drama, and creativeness in telling of the story or reporting the facts. SCORE __________
4. Accuracy (1-15 points) Pertains to facts in general, but watch out for genealogical and historical errors, and/or misleading information, and deduct for same. This includes typographical errors and transpositions, even though they may or may not be the author's fault (obviously you have no way of knowing who made the error when grading published material). SCORE __________
5. Language (1-20 points) Watch the grammar, spelling (but allow for variant spellings—do not deduct for non-American English spelling), punctuation, and word usage. Deduct for clichés, qualifiers, platitudes and overused words, such as "very." Deduct for excessive and unnecessary punctuation, particularly the use of exclamation points. SCORE __________
6. Overall quality of the entry (1-10 points) Did the piece move you?__ Did you like it a lot?__ Does it stand out from the others?___ SCORE _________
7. TIE BREAKER. Judge's bonus (exactly 5 points). Use only to break a tie between entries. SCORE_____
Additional guidelines "Judges will not be influenced in any way by the size or status of the medium in which any entry might have been published. Judging is strictly based upon the entry's merits as listed below. Note: Judges do not know the names of the other judges for this contest, and the names of the judges are not released until after this year's contest winners have been announced."
Do you think the ISFHWE grading guidelines will also work in the newly developing "Blogs" category?
What about the fact that blogs can be highly personalized ~ using colloquialisms, for example? Does this cause the loss of points in section 5, but the addition of points in section 3 and perhaps 6 above? (So basically, it is a wash?)
Any other suggestions?
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Why Do We Assess and Evaluate?
The Division of Student Affairs at Longwood University assesses student learning and evaluates programs for many reasons.
Student Affairs administrators employ assessment and evaluation to better understand the needs of a constantly changing student population. In addition, assessment and evaluation are used to foster student learning, such as identity and skill development.
Assessment and evaluation are also used to improve the quality and affordability of programs and services.
Furthermore, assessment helps Student Affairs administrators develop effective university policies and procedures, contribute to strategic planning, and demonstrate to external constituents their commitment to continually change to meet various student development needs and learning styles.
In short, we use assessment and evaluation to determine and reinforce what we do well and improve what we do not.
What is the Difference between Assessment and Evaluation?
Evaluation appraises the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness.
Assessment is an on-going process aimed at improving student learning, programs, and services that involves a process of:
The Division of Student Affairs at Longwood University uses both evaluation and assessment to guide our work. Evaluation is to determine significance or worth or judge the effectiveness of educational programs. Assessment is to determine a rate or amount and is used as an activity to measure student learning and other human characteristics.


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The Lawrence Welk Show "Movie Songwriters with Henry Mancini" In this tribute to the importance of movie music, Henry Mancini leads the band as it plays the theme from The Pink Panther. Bobby and Elaine dance to the composer's haunting "Charade" and everyone comes together for his signature "Moon River."G
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Are You Being Served? "Erotic Dreams of Mrs. Slocombe" Dreams of romantic involvement with Mr. Humphries do not easily turn into reality.G
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Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "A Barbecue at Violet's" Hyacinth is sure that if she can break down Emmet's shyness, she will be offered a part in the musical even though the show is fully cast.G
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As Time Goes By "The Country Set" Jean and Lionel visit the Pargetter country home where they are adopted by the country set, who schedule a whirlwind of activities.G
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The Cafe "There's No Place Like Home" Meet the characters of this warm, funny observational series. Sarah without a job or boyfriend moves back home where her mother, Carol, owns a small seaside cafe, where her grandmother, Mary, also works. Colorful characters pop in and out, including Sara's old school friends.G
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The Red Green Show "Rent A Wreck" Mike borrows Red's van to use in a demolition derby. Red paves the Lodge driveway with crushed apples.G
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My Family "Life Begins at Fifty" Susan is suffering from severe mood swings and forgetfulness. She is arrested for stealing a pair of sunglasses because she refuses to admit she is a "woman of a certain age." Ben is convinced he can handle Susan's defense in court.G
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Doctor Who Series "A Good Man Goes to War" The Doctor needs an army by his side. As he calls in all his debts across the cosmos, his enemies use his closest friends to trap him. Today will mark the battle of Demons Run. Both sides will make sacrifices - and River Soong has something to tell the Doctor.G


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Halloween Productions At Universal Studios And Knott's Berry Farms Are Frighteningly Homophobic
We don't expect much from Universal Studios' stage shows. But in 2013, we certainly expect that they don't turn into what amounts to an all-out homophobic minstrel show, like this year's "Bill & Ted's Halloween Adventure."
Vice's Jamie Lee Curtis Taete checked out the Universal Studios Hollywood production and reported back on its unashamed anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Asian, anti-Hispanic and pro-rape jokes.
Through its disorienting potpourri of pop-culture references, this year's Bill & Ted show finds the duo running into Superman in Oz. (Don't ask.) Bill & Ted are stoked about having Superman join their journey, but their enthusiasm is quickly dashed when a witch sprinkles fairy dust on the superhero, turning him gay, of course.
After becoming gay, Superman's voice and posture changes. His lips purse, his toes point inward, and his wrists become limp. His new voice sounds like a homophobic uncle doing a drunken impression of Richard Simmons, complete with lisps and frequent use of the word "faaaaaaabulous!"
Bill and Ted, understandably, are bummed. Their initial excitement at having Superman with them on their quest turns to disappointment as, obviously, now that Superman is gay, he is not going to be of any use to them. "Who could possibly make a worse Superman?" asks Bill. "Ben Affleck?" responds Ted.
Superman also rips off his shirt. Because gay dudes hate shirts almost as much as they hate pussy (which is to say, A LOT).
Then, because Superman is now gay, he minces over to Bill and Ted, blows kisses at them, and slaps Ted on the ass. As he does this, Bill and Ted say "awwww dude!" with disgusted voices.
After a few more attempts at molesting Bill and Ted, Superman ends up aboard the Starship Enterprise, where he runs into Superman villain General Zod.
General Zod tells Superman to get on his knees. Because Superman is now gay, he assumes this is an invitation to give Zod oral sex. "Finally!" he squeals.
Also aboard the Starship Enterprise, the gang runs into George Takei. Because George Takei is gay too, he and Superman share an instant mutual attraction. "Who's your friend?" asks George, in the same lisping, gay-minstrel voice that Superman uses.
Before Bill and/or Ted can answer, Superman interrupts by yelling "Hey daddy!" to George. (If you're not homosexual, "Hey daddy!" is a mating call used by younger gays to initiate sex with older gays.)
George and Superman disappear to have sex. "Time to boldly go where no man has gone before!" says George, as they exit the stage.
And that's the last the audience sees of Superman. Yep: the character was ONLY written into this production to provide the audience with an opportunity to laugh at outrageously stale gay jokes.
Universal's show continues to offend in other jokes targeting minorities and, in the case of Wreck-It-Ralph knocking out Nicki Minaj before dragging her off stage to "wreck it," rape, but Knott's Berry Farm (aka Knott's Scary Farm in October) continues the offensive anti-gay jabs in its Halloween production, "The Hanging 2013."
Knott's production abounds with jokes built around punch lines of "ewww, gay sex," but it's the entrance of its pop-culture-turned-homosexual-incarnate character, the Lone Ranger, that really leaves a bad taste in the non-homophobe's mouth. Announcing him as "Dances with Dudes," Knott's Lone Ranger lisps incessantly and cannot for the life of himself avoid limp wrists. But he brings good news! The Lone Ranger and Tonto have tied the knot, thanks to the Supreme Court ruling! "How is this possible?" the main characters demand to know, the disgust on their faces telegraphing all the way back into the nosebleeds. The answer, of course, comes in the form of a "YMCA" parody, complete with the Village People providing back-up. The characters make a few more gay sex jokes before exiting the stage, not to be seen for the duration of the production.
Again, the gay Lone Ranger and Tonto were written in this show SOLELY to provide an opportunity for audiences to laugh at gay men.
Fast forward to the 9:30 mark for the Lone Ranger's entrance, though the rest of the full show provides plenty of homophobic material:
The outrageous affectations of gay men that were tired back in the 1950s and recycled in both of these shows are one thing, but the hypersexualized effeminate man that will stop at nothing to sexually harass ALL straight men is a dangerous stereotype to perpetuate. Can you name another gross stereotype of gay males (aside from the dispelled myths during the early AIDS era) that has lead to more homophobia and violence than this? Nope. No one in entertainment in their right minds would perpetuate this harmful caricature for cheap laughs of the lowest common denominator.
Besides, isn't Halloween supposed to be our holiday??
(Shirtless Superman image: Vice)
Hello you guys done a great job by publishing this article, so keep it up.
First of all, how in the world are "bill and ted" relevant to this year in pop culture? They aren't even relevant to this CENTURY. This entire show from what I've seen and heard seem to be geared to about the 7th grade. It looks like a horrid piece of crap. The gay jokes are the worst of it and clearly not something major companies should be involved in. I can't believe this crap made it to production. It needs to be cleaned up a bit.
i want to have gay sex with Bill -AND- Ted. you can even film me, too! i bet you guys in the comment booth would eat that up. <3
put me in the iron maiden baby.... mmmmnnnnUNGH i think i just came
actually i kinda wanna rape some of you commenters too. reading forum debates is a huge turn-on for me.
The Knott's Scary Farm show was pretty hilarious overall. Yes, the gay stereotypes were offensive, but I disagree that the characters were written in purely to mock gay people. It's a comedy show about major pop culture and political events from the past year, and I'm sure the Lone Ranger scene originated from a brainstorming session about major news headlines. Fortunately, DOMA being struck down earlier this year was huge news for gays and lesbians. Unfortunately, the show writers were less than tactful in finding a way to broach the topic comically.
I know we're in a tough spot at the moment, in that we don't want to allow any back-tracking on acceptance of and respect for LGBT folks, but we also don't want to be humorless sticks-in-the-mud that can't laugh about ourselves. We have to learn to parse out the intent behind comedy that's directed at us, although I certainly can't blame those who withhold the benefit of the doubt.
Sorry, Hank, but no. This is meant to make fun of gay men. You may be OK with being considered a mincing stereotype, but I'm guessing most gay men aren't. "Laugh about ourselves?" Really? I've never minced in my life and I've certainly never acted the way these characters act. There's sharp satire and then there's just cruel, homophobic joking, and this is certainly the latter. That any gay person could defend this amazes me.
Let's start the list with Mathew Shepard and Brandon Teena and include every other anti-gay physical assault, murder, and/or mugging over the last fifty years or so (just since the invention of television. Before that, this type of performance would reach maybe 200 people worldwide but now with TV and the internet (and videophones) just about everyone on the planet can watch Miley humping a wrecking ball. Did this specific show inspire any homophobic murder attempts, no BUT shows like this are responsible for international gay stereotypes and they make bigots feel as if they are in the majority (which of course leads to them feeling like it's perfectly okay to go out and bash some effeminate person's head in) and that they are totally justified in hating all gay people simply for existing.
I saw this show two weeks ago and it was fucking hilarious. You self-martyring homos need to get the fuck off of your cross and have a good giggle every now and then. They made fun of EVERYONE. It was the whole point of the show. I'm as gay as the day is long and that was one of my favorite performances ever! I highly recommend it. You'll laugh your ass off. I wasn't offended in the slightest, probably because I have a healthy sense of self-esteem and some really well-done humor about entire cultures at large doesn't threaten to destroy my personal confidence.
But you know, if all you want to do is whine about how no one is nice enough to you or about you, you'll always have support groups, therapists and forums full of whiny bitches to cling to.
For the rest of of, totally go see that show. Absolutely worth the price of admission.
Why do I think you'd be front row at minstrel shows? Of course it's not the same as the WBC madness, but it has the effect the WBC attempts - to reduce us to mincing stereotypes that deserve to be beaten up. You find this funny? In your earlier post, you basically tell gays to get a sense of humor. I know few gays that DON'T have a sense of humor and few of them would find this funny. This dumb, lowest common denominator humor. If I sound like a snob saying that, then I'm proud to be a snob.
This is beyond terrible. Whoever runs the Bill and Teds show should seriously be fired. Actually whoever approved this piece of crap should be too. I'm sure it was the same incompetent morons that were responsible for "Creature of the Black Lagoon the Musical". WTF!? They need to just clean house and bring in people who actually make good quality shows that appeal to everyone. Universal needs to spend all that money on great comedic writers who actually work, and on people who produce shows that get great reviews. The entertainment dept in the theme park has needed an major overhaul for a long time now. I say clean house and bring in professionals that know what they are doing. These idiots in their entertainment dept have been way too comfortable in their positions for way too long now, and have somehow managed to stay employed after all the sh*t that they produce. Its an embarrassment. Universal should be ashamed.