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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 144 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
"Stratton Design" or possible "Stratton Design Group".
Boutique young firm with a current niche of designing luxury homes, businesses, restaurants, boutique hotels and spas. Not cheesy, guady or overly extravagant, just exceptional design using the best materials, finishes, hardware, lighting design and gadgets. Typical projects are around 2 to 5 million.
Our firm does designs that are classic with understated elegance & traditional/ historic designs that are authentic but with a current, contemporary flair. We take great pride in what we do and we do it very well. We have an uncanny eye for details and creativity.
Have more work for web design, newsletter, letterhead, biz cards, ad designs, etc.
Audience is the very wealthy and sophisiticated, yet cool and easy going. Logo needs to communticate the highest quality and speak to those with discretionary income. Think five diamond all the way, i.e. Ritz Carlton.
Need Logo & emblem/ icon. To be very sophisticated & cool, Cursive is o.k. to try, yet not feminine.
Will need file in Illustrator format for advertising.
Please be simple, creative and legible.
Use of acronym "SDG" (Stratton Design Group) is o.k to incorporate as a possible look, but please do not get stuck on it.
Also need tag at bottom that could be incorporated or not, depending on usage.
Tag is "Elegant Architectural Environments"
Thanks so much designers!
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Of all the horror films to be remade in recent years "Oldboy" is probably the one I would think American studios wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole. It's an incredibly dark, violent, mean-spirited, and shocking film whose finale involves a taboo that American audiences would find revolting. Even though mainstream studios, for whatever reason, are completely stuck in the remake trend, this was an idea that felt so bad I felt compelled to watch just out of sheer morbid curiosity.
I can't honestly say that I'm a big fan of Korean films, and "R-Point," my most recent foray into Korean cinema is certainly no exception. Almost all of the Korean movies that I have seen seem to be at least half-an-hour too long, have meandering plots, and bizarre tonal shifts that I think end up really hurting them. Even Korean films that I've enjoyed like "The Host" and "I Saw the Devil" are no exception, as they both share these flaws.
I enjoyed "The Host" for two big reasons. First off was the humor, the monster stuff was done well enough but the quirky family at the center of the story was by far the feature attraction. Secondly, the courage to not have a traditional feel good ending where every main character survives the final showdown. This is always gonna play well in my household. Director Joon-ho Bong's first full-length follow up to "The Host" is a rural murder mystery/ character study called "Mother".


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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Federal officials in Texas have released five immigrant protesters who surrendered in September to U.S. authorities at the border with Mexico.
The five released Friday evening had crossed the border illegally and surrendered to protest federal immigration policies.
Hours earlier, a judge in El Paso denied requests for asylum by two immigrant protesters. Eight of the immigrant protesters remain detained, seven of them having been denied asylum and the other awaiting parole.
One of the 25 immigrants detained in El Paso in September previously was deported. Authorities released 11 people Tuesday from that group of young immigrants. They were brought to the U.S. as children but are not citizens.
They're called "dreamers" in reference to the Dream Act that would grant immigrants like them lawful status in the U.S.


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The Red Devils earned 68 total points at the meet, narrowly edging runner-up Kanab's 66. Grand's girls also fared well, as the Lady Devils took 9th out of 32 schools in the 1A/2A division at the two-day meet.
Grand senior Jacob Francis placed first in the 1600-meter run with a time of 4 minutes, 25.60 seconds, once again breaking his own personal record and the GCHS school record. He also came very close to the long-standing 2A state record of 4:25.06, set by Lance Harrison of Richfield in 1986.
The Red Devil boys also took first place in the 4x400 meter relay, with Andy Bathemess, Wade Kemmsies, Jordan Bryant, and Mason Tranter teaming up to post a time of 3:29.24, eclipsing the former GCHS school record of 3:30.25, set in 2013 by three of the same runners plus Wesley Rodda. For this year's record-setting race, Tranter replaced Rodda, who graduated last year.
"We had just enough points, even though we missed out on a few events," said GCHS head coach Dennis Wells, who noted that distance runner Jackson Knowles and sprinter Koby Sobremesana didn't make it to the BYU event, and senior high jumper Trevor Bertuzzi broke his foot while doing the high jump at BYU and is and out for the remainder of the season..
"Kanab came out of nowhere to challenge us, but we had some strong finishes," added Wells, noting that Bathemess took first in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 40.03 seconds, while Kemmsies was a close second at 40.49. "We got 18 points by going 1-2 in that one event," Wells said.
"If we're going to take state this year, it will probably be close," Wells said, adding that while the Red Devil boys won the BYU Invitational with just 68 points, they will probably need more than 100 total points to win the state meet. "We'll need everyone to step up and help us get those points," Wells said.
Also at Provo, Kemmsies placed second in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.76 seconds. Bathemess was fifth in that event with a time of 16.39 and Bryant took eighth in 17.73. Kemmsies also picked up two more points by finishing seventh in the 200-meter dash.
Francis also placed fourth in the 3,200 meters but finished 12th in the 800 meters. The boys medley relay team finished a lower-than-expected seventh place.
In field events, David Bentley placed seventh in shot put and Edgar Gomez was eighth. Richie Cordero took fourth in the javelin with a throw of 158 feet, 0.75 inches
For the GCHS girls, Mercedes James placed seventh in the 3,200 meter run. Kasey Betts tied for sixth in the high jump finals with a leap of 4 feet 11 inches. Also, Tiffanie Whipple took sixth in the 100-meter hurdles and third in the long jump. Fellow senior Madison Stocks placed eighth in the discus. The Lady Devils also placed third in the medley relay and fourth in the 4x100 meter relay.
This week, the Red Devils were scheduled to take part in the Region 15 championship meet at Salina on Tuesday, May 6. The state track meet is May 16 and 17 at BYU in Provo.


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Sea Salt and Vinegar Peanuts Recipe
Peanuts are a natural when it comes to beer-friendly snacks, as are salt and vinegar potato chips. This is an easy recipe that combines the two snacks into one.
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- Yield:Serves 4 to 6
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:1 hour, 10 minutes
- 3/4 cup apple cider vinegar, plus 1 tablespoon, divided
- 1 pound raw shelled peanuts
- 1/2 cup peanut or canola oil
- Fine sea salt or kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Combine the 3/4 cup vinegar with the peanuts in a medium bowl. Soak the peanuts for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Drain the peanuts, then dry the peanuts by spreading them onto a sheet pan lined with paper towels.
Heat the oil in a large cast-iron pan over moderately high heat until shimmering. Add half of the peanuts to the pan and cook, stirring, until golden, 3 to 5 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the peanuts to another sheet pan lined with paper towels. Season with sea salt. Repeat with the remaining peanuts.
While still warm, transfer the fried peanuts to a large bowl, then drizzle in the remaining tablespoon of vinegar and the chopped parsley. Toss to combine. Season with additional sea salt and serve immediately.
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Software deal OK'd; Soucy seat filled on Manchester school boardBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 19. 2013 11:41PM
MANCHESTER - The Board of Mayor and Aldermen has signed off on an agreement to sever its contract with its software provider and return to the company that built its current system.
The vote brings to an end two years of controversy and debate over the software deal.
Under the agreement worked out by city finance and legal officials, the current contract with Harris Computer Systems will end at the end of the month as scheduled and SunGard Public Sector will take over maintenance of the system.
The city will return a $200,000 performance bond to Harris, and the company will pay the city $30,000.
The city will pay SunGard $250,000 for services the remainder of this year and $194,000 for the next fiscal year, with a maximum 3 percent increase in the second year of the contract.
The city had been paying roughly $220,000 a year to Harris for software services.
A portion of the money paid to SunGard will be set aside for an upgraded system, One Solution, should the city choose to purchase it.
Two years ago the aldermen voted to award its software contract to Innoprise, which was subsequently purchased by Harris. At the time, Innoprise promised that it would provide a needed overhaul to an outdated computer system that handles everything from payroll to building permits. Amid company legal problems, these plans never came to fruition.
Finance Director Bill Sanders told the aldermen Tuesday that the special committee that handled the deal was satisfied with the agreements.
"We're delighted we're actually getting $30,000 out of this," he said.
Ward 12 Alderman and mayoral candidate Patrick Arnold, who has been critical of the original software deal, told Sanders, "Thank you for all your work on this," and did not say anything more about the agreement.
Bergeron confirmed
In other business Tuesday, the aldermen voted to confirm Dan Bergeron to fill the seat on the Board of School Committee left vacant by the resignation of Donna Soucy.
Soucy stepped down earlier this month, citing her duties as a newly elected state senator.
After considerable debate, the aldermen voted to suspend the two-week review period for new nominees.
Ward 6 Alderman Garth Corriveau nominated Bergeron to fill the Ward 6 school board seat and argued for the suspension of rules, citing the likelihood that the school board would be voting on a new superintendent in two weeks.
The only "no" vote for suspending the rules came from Ward 4 Alderman Jim Roy, who said it would conflict the board's past policy. He also criticized Soucy's resignation.
"I find it hard to believe the incumbent did not know the work that would be required of her in the Senate when she chose to resign," Roy said.
Bergeron is on the board of the Manchester Transit Authority and has two children who attend district schools. He works in software support and sales, and is an adjunct professor at Daniel Webster College.


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Thousands Still Living in NYC Hotels Post-Sandy
More than 2,000 people displaced by Superstorm Sandy are still living in New York City hotels five months after the storm.
The New York Times reports Friday the Federal Emergency Management Agency is paying for the rooms at an average cost of $252 a night.
More than 900 households are among those living in 45 different hotels around the city.
City Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Seth Diamond tells the newspaper that hundreds of those families will soon get public housing apartments.
City officials say the hotel stays are supposed to end by April 30.
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LONDON The Guardian newspaper says that London's Metropolitan Police Service stole the identities of dozens of dead children to use as aliases for undercover officers, learning the infants' personal histories and even issuing fake passports in their names.
The allegation is another potential embarrassment for U.K. law enforcement's undercover program, which has previously been rocked by revelations that police spies had sex with their targets and fathered children with activists.
Police said in a statement Monday that they were investigating the complaint and "appreciate the concerns that have been raised." It said the "practice referred to in the complaint is not something that would currently be authorized."
The Guardian based its story on two detailed accounts provided by former undercover officers, whom it did not identify by name.


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Please join Laura Waterman Wittstock on New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2014 as we look at the music and life of Floyd Red Crow Westerman. August 17, He died on December 13, 2007 in Los Angeles but lived a lifetime carrying the Indian world with him wherever he went. We will here a few comments from Floyd and we will play his music, familiar to most but ever new to those coming from new generations.
Please join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 as she talks with N. Bird Runningwater, Director of Sundance Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program. He oversees the Native Lab Fellowship which selects four projects annually in a national competition. Born of the Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache peoples, Runningwater was reared on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. He has overseen the Native Lab of the Institute which has launched projects such as Four Sheets to the Wind, Sikumi, Miss Navajo, Shímásání, and Drunktown's Finest.
Please join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday, January 12, 2014 as she talks with Heid Erdrich, the author of four poetry collections, including Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems, The Mother's Tongue, Fishing for Myth, and Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community . She has received awards from the Loft Literary Center, the Archibald Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, First People's Fund and she won a Minnesota Book Award for National Monuments in 2009.
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'Ken and the Fortune Teller' ~ Feb 14, 1894
Rumors were rife this morning regarding Kenneth Vine, clerk in the express office of Ald. J.W. Grote. For some three weeks back, a Madame Dunn, claiming to be ''one of the greatest trance mediums in the world,'' has been in the city, and has made good money telling credulous women their fortunes and fooling many would be sports and men-about-town out of their cash, and having a good time at their expense. She put up first at the Grand Central, and there entertained the boys until Mr. Wardrobe thought it time for her to seek fresh quarters. Kenneth Vine went driving with her one afternoon, and since then it is alleged that he has been quite friendly to the medium, who is said to be a remarkably handsome woman with lots of go in her. After quitting the Grand Central she took up quarters in the Murray House, and her business continued to thrive, until last Saturday she left town, ostensibly for Niagara Falls. On Tuesday Mr. Vine went away and did not return to the office this morning at the usual hour. Almost the first thing heard on the streets was ''Ken Vine has married the fortune teller'' and it was said that an employee of the Murray House had witnessed the marriage. The greatest possible interest was taken in the matter and it was carried to the office of Ald. Grote. Suspecting that something might be wrong in the accounts, Ald. Grote went over them and found they were correct to a cent. Shortly before noon a Standard reporter met Mr. Vine on the streets on his ways to his office and asked him it were true that he had married Madame Dunn. He refused to say yes or no to the matter, and contented himself with insinuating that most people knew more than their prayers. Madame Dunn claimed to come from Denver, Col., and mentioned freely the names of many persons resident there, prominent in the business world.
Madame Dunn Bound to Have Her Hubby' ~ Feb 16, 1894
The sensational elopement case of Mme Dunn, the handsome young clairvoyant, with young Kenneth Vine of St. Catharines, son of James Vine, a wealthy cattle and live stock broker has become quite an international affair. The couple were married here last Tuesday night by the Rev. John Crawford, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Soon after the couple left for St. Catharines. Now the bride is at the United States hotel, on the American side, and her husband, who is but a boy yet, has been coaxed back to St. Catharines by his relatives and family. Madame Dunn, the name the clairvoyant has been using is of course a nom de plume. Her marriage certificate bears the signature Baird, and her home is given as Rochester, NY. Mrs. Kenneth Vine, as her name appears on the hotel register, was interviewed today. She is a bright girl of the world, probably 22 or 23 years old. She said she was 22 years old the 19th of December last. Her family formerly lived on a farm east of Rochester. Her father is now dead, and her mother is keeping house for a brother named Lincoln, who is worth over $100,000. and the fair Berta claims to be heir to this fortune. Berta, when a girl of 7 years, developed the faculty of looking into the future through a trance medium and being of a nature delighting in excitement and adventure she started out several years ago as a travelling clairvoyant. After giving a brief history of her life, the young bride then went on to tell her troubles. ''It would look as if my husband has deserted me,'' said she. ''It's all on account of his family and relatives. They think, I suppose, that I do not come of a good family, and am a sort of an adventuress, but if they will take the trouble to enquire they will find out their mistake. Why when Kenneth went home to secure his belongings after we were married, his mother tried to shoot him, and turned the revolver on herself; his sister hung around his neck and implored him to leave me and his father said he would disown him if he went with me. His father found out that there was a law against clairvoyancy in Canada, with a year's imprisonment as a penalty, and I understand has officers watching for me to arrest me if I set foot in Canada again. So you see I am cut off from going after Kenneth. One of his uncles came over last night and succeeded in enticing him back to St. Catharines. He promised to return today but he has not arrived as yet. His uncle promised him $500 if he would leave me, and his father $500 more, so he told me. If he does not come back to me, I shall sue his father and relatives for alienating his affections. I am bound to have my Kenneth and there is a dispatch which will bring him.'' The tear-bedimmed eyes of the little fortune teller have snapped determined and the quivering lips settled into a hard determined expression. ''I wish you would correct some of the reports circulated about me. I haven't two other husbands living from whom I have never procured a divorce, and I am not even forty years old. I was never married before, and I do not want to be again, if it is going to bring me all this trouble. What am I going to do? Well, I can't tell. I shall wait here a few days, and if Kenneth does not come back I shall go home to Rochester to my uncle and take advice as to what course to pursue.
'Kenneth Rejoins His Bride' ~ Feb 17, 1894
The sequel of the Kenneth Vine - Madame Dunn elopement is that young Vine has returned from St. Catharines and joined his bride on the American side. The couple are stopping at the United States hotel and enjoying themselves. Vine says he will never desert his wife again. He will wait for his parents' wrath to cool and contemplates going into business on the American side as an insurance broker.I don't know what happened next or what became of Madame Dunn but it didn't last. By 1900 Kenneth had married a young lady named Elizabeth Reynolds and went on to be a husband, father of (at least) five and a successful businessman in St. Catharines, Ontario!
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The NCTE guideline, "NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing," makes this point: "To say that writing is a process is decidedly not to say that it should—or can—be turned into a formulaic set of steps. Experienced writers shift between different operations according to tasks and circumstances."
According to this guideline, learning how to write effectively in many different situations is a key component of good writing instruction. The new report from NCTE's Task Force on SAT and ACT Writing Tests, "The Impact of the SAT and ACT Timed Writing Tests," similarly emphasizes the importance of comprehensive writing instruction.
The report criticizes the admissions tests' timed essay component as having the potential to limit the range of writing that is taught.
Task Force Chair Robert Yagelski, of the State University of New York at Albany, says, "I support the College Board's desire to send a message about the importance of writing, but the new timed writing component of the SAT also sends troubling messages about writing and may actually undermine our efforts to improve writing instruction at the secondary level.
"No matter what the College Board tells schools, parents, teachers, and students about the need for broad preparation in writing, what will matter most to students is performing well on the specific kind of writing task on the new SAT. Inevitably, in preparing for that test, other vital kinds of writing will be ignored or devalued."
Accomplished English teachers know what good writing instruction looks like. In the following vignettes, educators share their views:
by Matt Copeland Dean of the English Department Washburn Rural High School, Topeka, Kansas
As teachers, we must avoid presenting ourselves to students as masters of written communication and must instead model for them the very struggles and processes we desire to see in their writing; teaching writing and assigning writing are two entirely different endeavors. We must not stand over our students' writing with red pen in hand; we must sit alongside them and collaboratively dirty our hands in the process and the glory of the written word.
I see this reality confirmed time and time again in my own classroom. Recently, a student of mine came to me with a piece of writing she was struggling with—a piece describing the growing sense of turmoil she felt in her older sister's leaving home to attend college. As we sat down and explored her ideas and discussed ways to convey those ideas to an audience, the piece began to take a form much different than a five-paragraph, persuasive response to a standardized prompt. The piece became something the student wanted to share and something she felt others would desire to read.
But most of all, the piece helped her to explore what her sister truly meant to her, to imagine what she must also mean to her sister, and to explore the value their relationship will hold in the future. In her mind, the process of writing was not a means of communication but a means of self-exploration and discovery, a way of approaching and making meaning of the world around her. To me, that is what teaching writing at the high school level is all about.
At the high school level, writing instruction is more than merely teaching the rules and procedures of standard communication. Teaching writing is a process of teaching critical thinking and helping students to develop knowledge and understanding both for themselves and for others. Regardless of form, genre, and audience, all writing should require students to examine and explore the world around them and their relationships within it, expanding their sense of perspective and personal relevance. As we prepare students for lives beyond the walls of our classrooms, the ability to both construct meaning and share meaning with others in clear and concise manners with an awareness to the needs of the audience is crucial.
by Sharon Mitchler Chair of the National Two-Year College English Association English and Humanities Associate Professor Centralia College, Centralia, Washington
Writing tasks at the two-year college cover an extensive range of activities. Because two-year colleges are multi-mission institutions, students who attend may be completing skill-specific certificates, one-year credentials, two-year terminal degrees, or two-year transfer degrees. There is not just one kind of writing task that works for all of the programs on a campus, but there are attributes which most programs want students to exhibit in their writing.
The purpose and audience for each text define writing tasks. Because tasks are not uniform, students need to have the ability to write in multiple genres, formats, and styles. Two-year college programs need students to be proficient in making the appropriate choices for writing in business language and in academic analytical language, as well as in formats from brief memos to 20-page reports or papers.
In most college programs, students need to write both individually and in teams. They need to identify their own strengths when writing, and they also need to support or improve the areas where they have consistent challenges. Instructor knowledge becomes paramount because the students have such a diversity of experiences, ages, proficiencies, and support structures for their educations.
by Doug Hesse Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Professor of English Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Good college writing instruction teaches strategies for analyzing and coping with a variety of writing situations. It recognizes that learning to write isn't as simple as mastering a universal set format. Rather, it means meeting the expectations of specific groups of readers—groups whose expectations may differ widely in terms of background knowledge and viewpoints, what they accept as evidence, what they find acceptable organizational strategies, tone and style, and so on.
Even within the academy, for example, there's tremendous difference between what counts as good writing in chemistry and in history. Beyond the academy, there's tremendous difference between writing a good business report, an essay for Harpers, or program notes for the community theatre. As an illustration, consider that writing beyond college often involves research. But relatively few situations require producing documents that look like traditional term papers. The challenge, then, is helping students develop a repertory of researching skills, the sense of when to use them, and the skill to incorporate others' ideas effectively into their own texts. Writers have to figure out what's appropriate for a given situation, then produce and shape language to fit.
As a result, college writing instructors develop sequences of assignments that help students build a repertory of analytic and writing skills—through practice. Students in college writing classes write several pages a week. They receive feedback, and they revise. The pattern repeats over and over again: new assignment, often with a strategic variation on a previous one; drafting; feedback; revising; until a student builds a large corpus of polished writing.
Probably the biggest difference between college writing and high school writing is the role of context. Much college writing involves reading: analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating sources. We expect students to write not in a vacuum but rather in the context of issues and ideas. For example, in one unit of a freshman writing class I taught this spring, students read several articles about stem cell research. They wrote papers that explained the main issues involved, and they wrote papers that evaluated the quality of different arguments.
However, they also wrote essays directed at readers who shared their opinion on this issue—as well as essays aimed at readers who did not. They wrote letters to the editor, and they wrote a briefing report suitable for a member of Congress needing to decide how to vote on legislation. Finally, they developed a Web page, a poster, or a one-page advocacy advertisement that incorporated visual elements to convey a viewpoint. In this disparate range of tasks, all informed by a set of current readings, for quite different audiences and purposes, I hoped students would practice the skills that will serve them in situations beyond my class.
by Bruce M. Penniman Amherst Regional High School Amherst, Massachusetts
Above all, good writing instruction invites and encourages students to develop ideas—to make discoveries as they puzzle over a topic or a genre. Students need to learn strategies for probing their own imaginations and worldviews: intuitive approaches like freewriting as well as systematic heuristics such as the journalist's 5W + H. They also need open-ended assignments that will allow them to explore and invent. In general, when students ask me, "What exactly are you looking for in this paper?" I want to be able to respond truthfully, "I don't know. What do you think would work best?"
That is not to say that students should be left to stumble about in the dark. Effective writing instruction also includes peer and teacher feedback, given early enough in the process that it can still do some good. A few years ago I learned—by accident—what has proved a valuable technique for giving feedback on major writing assignments. In an upper-level literature class I had assigned an analytical essay on Crime and Punishment, and I was planning to collect the students' working drafts on a particular day and return them in time for the students to revise them over a long weekend. But we were running a little behind in our discussions, and it became clear that students wouldn't have enough time to get the drafts done well by the specified date. The day before they were due, amid a chorus of student anxiety, I decided on the spur of the moment not to move the date but instead to ask for one page of the draft, enough to give me a sense of where—and how—it was going.
This procedure worked so well that I have been using it ever since for longer writing assignments. Since I collected only one page from each student, I was able to respond to everyone the next day. To students who clearly had a sense of direction, I could offer encouragement and suggestions for further development. For students whose ideas were still a jumble, I could help identify what seemed to be the center of gravity and pose some questions for further thinking. And in the case of students who were really struggling, I could arrange a conference to clarify the assignment and probe their understanding. The best part of this early intervention was that students had not yet committed a great deal of time to their drafts and were thus much more willing than usual to revise deeply—or even start over.
In retrospect, the advantages of having students submit partial drafts seemed so obvious that I was amazed that I hadn't thought of it 20 years sooner. But I guess that's another thing about good writing instruction—it's always changing for the better.
by Carol Rutz Director, Writing Program Carleton College Northfield, Minnesota (Carleton College's Writing Program is one of two Winter 2005 CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence Winners)
Ideally, college writing is the move from writing on demand, as is common in high school, to writing out of knowledge for an audience that you want to persuade to take some specific action: you want them to understand, to change, to vote, to join, to protest, to stay the course, whatever it is.
One thing I've seen in both a large university and a small private liberal arts college is that high school students are often asked to do close reading and analysis. They learn how to do that, not just in English classes, but in other areas as well. What they don't have as much experience with is moving beyond close reading to synthesis, to constructing a new position, to being responsible for coherent aggregation of ideas and sorting out competing claims.
In college, students learn that to write a long paper in particular, you have to know what you're talking about. You have to do research: read the literature, interview people, and gain the knowledge you need in order to have an informed opinion. My sense is the more students are challenged to think, to consider opposing or contradictory or confusing material, and to make sense out of it, the more they will be steeped in effective learning about the world and therefore effective writing.
In May, I spent a lot of time with sophomores who had portfolios due (http://webapps.acs.carleton.edu/campus/writingprogram/). I was joking with some students that the pile of papers in front of them were largely assigned by a bunch of fascists and written at gunpoint. These student papers reflected very little personal investment and were just schoolwork—much like their high school writing. The students were surprised that I was in on that joke.
They pointed with pride to papers that required more of them. The writing that students learn to value is writing that matters, whether it matters to them to solve some intellectual or moral problem through writing, or to write for a service-learning project where some institution is going to make use of their work—that's the stuff that begins to get under their skin and makes them care.
The fact is that students respect challenge and rise to it. I think they understand after some practice that "what I think depends on what I know and what I can defend." They understand what evidence is, how it can vary in different situations, how to present it in persuasive ways, and how to anticipate counter arguments. Most students don't try to get out of writing as much as they revert to what they did in high school—and that's usually not enough.
Writing across the Grades
by Niki Locklear NCTE Secondary Section Chair District Technology Resource Teacher Kenton County Schools, Kentucky
In Kentucky, students in the fourth, seventh, and twelfth grades are required to submit a writing portfolio as part of the individual school's educational assessment program. Although many people may describe this as high-stakes testing, the positive result is that the requirements for the portfolio have changed and improved writing programs through the state.
For most senior English writing instructors, teaching the analytical paper was the main focus of the writing program. Even though analytical writing is essential for developing mental and communication skills needed for post-graduate education, it is not the only kind of writing necessary for preparing students for the real world. The Kentucky Writing Portfolio focuses on showcasing students' ability to produce authentic writing, writing that asks students to synthesize, analyze, or evaluate what they have learned in order to communicate with an audience beyond the teacher.
Students are given ownership by allowing them to select a real-world form suited to the purpose and the audience. Sample forms include feature articles, editorials, brochures, proposals, memos, lab reports, speeches, letters, etc. Most of these forms were not included in the curriculum guides for all disciplines until the state incorporated the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) to improve teaching and student learning. In addition, two of the five required pieces for the portfolio must come from another discipline other that the English classroom. The results have been astounding across the entire state! Writing scores continue to increase yearly since the inception of the portfolio assessment program.
In addition to the requirement of including transactive pieces, the portfolio showcases the students' ability to write reflective, personal, and creative pieces. By including these categories of writing, schools have the opportunity to evaluate the writing instructional strengths and needs of their students.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – In the world of sports, not much is sweeter than achieving perfection. Whether it be a perfect game, a perfect night of shooting, or capping an undefeated season, perfection outweighs everything save a championship. The Tennessee Tech men's basketball team will look for its own level of perfection against the Belmont Bruins.
Tennessee Tech (6-8, 0-2)
Belmont (10-4, 1-0)
Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 / 7:30 p.m. CST
Eblen Center – Cookeville, Tenn.
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Setting the Stage
With the addition of Belmont to the Ohio Valley Conference this year, an old in-state rivalry has been given new life as the Golden Eagles and Bruins will face off for the first time since 1998-99. Belmont will join Tech in the newly formed East Division of the OVC, following 11 dominating season in the Atlantic Sun Conference that included five regular season and five tournament championships and five NCAA Tournament appearances.
Tech will hope history repeats itself as the Golden Eagles have never lost to Belmont, boasting an impressive 11-0 series lead. These aren't the Bruins of old, however, as the team boasts a 257-162 record since these two squads last met. That includes a scorching 153-55 (an incredible .736 winning percentage) record in the Atlantic Sun Conference, which the team joined in 2001-02 and left after last season.
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This series first began in 1956-57 and has been primarily hosted in Cookeville, with only two of the 11 meetings occuring in Nashville.
Several former Tech records were set in that season, including the school mark for points in a game (108 against Belmont), field goals made in a game (46 against Belmont), and the all-time career scoring record of that time (1,132 by Kenny Sidwell). The Golden Eagles have dominated the series for the most part, winning seven of the 11 by double-digits.
While the in-state foes haven't met in over a decade, many still remember the 1998-99 thriller that Tech pulled off in the Eblen Center in Belmont's first game as an NCAA Division I program, following their jump from the NAIA level.
Former Golden Eagle forward Reggie Nelson posted a double-double in the 63-62 nail-biter, scoring a game-high 17 points and pulling down 15 rebounds in an impressive 38 minutes of action. Josh Heard, a guard for Tech at the time, scored 16 points to back up Nelson and help Tech pull out the win.
Belmont did manage to put four players in double-digits in the scoring column in the contest, however it would prove to be futile as former Tech player Ricardo Woodfine made a buzzer-beating shot to carry the Golden Eagles to the victory.
The game was the first for Tech head coach Jeff Lebo, who, in four seasons, led the Golden Eagles to 75 wins and two Ohio Valley Conference Championships.
Fans looking for another easy win over Belmont will have to keep looking, as the Bruins have quickly become one of the top mid-major college basketball teams in the nation. With seven 20-win seasons in the last nine years, Belmont has garnered national attention behind the historic coaching efforts of Rick Byrd.
For those who think that name rings familiar, they'd be right. Besides owning over 600 career victories in 32 years of coaching, Byrd may also be remembered for a three-year stint as an assistant coach at Tennessee Tech. Serving under Tom Deaton from 1980-83, Byrd was a cog in the staff that built the 1984-85 OVC Championship team.
Belmont has achieved much success since Byrd's arrival, including a hot 10-4 start this season, despite owning one of the toughest schedules in the country. The Bruins will be just 48 hours removed from their first OVC win in school history when they come to Cookeville, defeating the Jacksonville State Gamecocks 73-62 Thursday evening.
The Belmont squad, which has received votes for the AP Top 25 poll on numerous occasions this season, boast two of the OVC's best in senior guards Ian Clark and Kerron Johnson. Clark is one of four Bruins averaging double-digits in the scoring department, posting 17.0 points per game, tied for fourth in the OVC.
Johnson adds 13.6 points per contest and ranks third in the conference with 4.9 assists per outing. Also posting strong scoring efforts are forwards Trevor Noack and Blake Jenkins. Another senior, Noack puts up 12.4 points while also tying for the team lead in rebounds with 5.8 per game. Jenkins, a redshirt-junior, also pulls down 5.8 boards per contest, while rounding out the double-digit scorers with 10.1 per contest.
The Bruins boast a tough offense, ranking second in the OVC with 73.4 points per game. On the flip side, they also rank second in scoring defense, allowing just 62.6 points per contest. The team's +10.8 scoring margin is tops in the OVC by over a point.
Belmont also ranks second in the OVC in free throw percentage (72.7%), field goal percentage defense (38.8%), and steals (8.9). They rank third in field goal percentage (46.7%), 3-point field goal percentage (37.1%), assists (14.8), assist/turnover ratio (1.1), defensive rebounds (24.6) and 3-point field goals made (8.8).
Despite what seems overwhelming on paper, the Golden Eagles know they can compete with the Bruins. The team will look to senior guard Jud Dillard to continue his career-year and lead Tech to another home victory. Dillard ranks second in the OVC in scoring pouring in 18.0 points per contest while also grabbing 7.2 rebounds per game to rank sixth in the conference.
A transfer from Southern Methodist, junior guard Jeremiah Samarrippas is coming off a career performance aginst Tennessee State. The Bartow, Fla. native led Tech with a career-high 22 points in 37 minutes of actionon eight-of-14 shooting. He added two rebounds, two steals, and three assists while making no turnovers.
Dennis Ogbe, a junior forward who hails from Munich, Germany, will look to once again be a force in the paint after grabbing a career-best 13 rebounds in the contest, including five on the offensive glass. Redshirt freshman guard Lanerryl Johnson posted his second 20-point performance of the season against the Tigers, scoring 21 for the Golden Eagles. Both 20-point outbursts have occurred at the Eblen Center.
Fans can tune in to 106.1 The Eagle to listen to live coverage of Tech's contest against the Bruins on Saturday. Radio coverage will begin 15 minutes prior to the 7:30 p.m. CST tip-off time. Fans can also view the live game feed on the OVC Digital Network, the Ohio Valley Conference's live webstream for free here.
Individual game tickets, as well as TTU season tickets, are on sale at the Athletics Ticket Office in Eblen Center or by calling (931) 372-3940.
To read more about the upcoming game and Tennessee Tech basketball, take a look at the game notes for the match-up against Belmont here.


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Math: The 11th-grade test doesn't add upBy BENJAMIN KEPPLE
November 11. 2013 10:46PM
When my bosses volunteered me to take a practice exam covering the Common Core's Grade 11 math standards, I wholeheartedly agreed. As an accountant, I work with numbers all day. So, I figured, how hard could it be? It's a math test.
A short while later, my head hurt and I was grinding my teeth into powder. It turns out using brain cells one hasn't accessed since one's high school days is rather stressful.
Faced with a question about "sine" and "cosine," my mind wandered off to the subject of loan applications. When I came across yet another question asking me to determine "x" in a complex, graphed-out equation, I quickly determined an answer only half-suitable for print. And even worse, nothing was divisible by nine. (That's a little accounting joke. Humor me.)
So, yes, the test was hard. I'd like to think at least some of the difficulty I had was because it covered subjects such as trigonometry and pre-calculus, things I hadn't thought about, much less focused on, since I was in 11th grade some two decades ago. Although, to be perfectly honest, I wasn't that great at them back then, either. I'm very fast at mental arithmetic, but in high school, my brain hit a brick wall at advanced math and calculus. Perhaps this test brought back repressed memories of long-ago math classes that at the time seemed to have no utility.
First, the good points: If the practice exam represents what students will learn in 11th-grade math, then Common Core will be good for students planning to go into so-called STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math. The concepts discussed will prove useful building blocks for further study in these subjects. And the questions on the test were heavily weighted toward these.
I would also like to think careful study of these topics would help every student as they progress in their educations. At least, that was my experience. When I was in college and suffering through calculus — which I only took because I'd need it if I decided to go to business school (I wound up earning a bachelor's degree in history) — I realized that doing well on the basic stuff might have made that class a lot easier. Now, the exam's bad points: Only a few questions on it dealt with real-world concepts, which I'd argue are just as important — if not more so — to most high school students. After all, not everyone is going to be a scientist or an engineer. As a result, I think a wider scope of curriculum would help students get the most out of math classes.
Heck, most students will only deal with "find x" problems again when their own children ask for help in solving them.
On the other hand, most students would find it very useful from the get-go if they could figure out change in their heads, read an amortization schedule, or understand the relationship between price and yield. Also, these types of real-world lessons would — dare I say it — make their math exams a bit more interesting than watching paint dry.
No, really. Ask yourself: Which question is more interesting?
A) Solve for "x" if 3x2 + 20 – 4.5x = 50; or
B) Where are the customers' yachts?
Obviously, it is B, as nearly 75 years ago, Fred Schwed wrote a book about Wall Street with that title, and people are still buying it today.
Now, admittedly, that particular question might be a little free-form for a math exam. But if you can make questions about math relevant and interesting, suddenly answering them becomes relevant and interesting. In my case, I finally "got" calculus when my college professor used the example of a production line throughout a series of questions, and I can't believe I'm alone in that regard.
Going forward, I just hope that our standard-writers and test-makers keep that in mind.
If you'd like to find out whether you're smarter at math than an 11th-grader, take the practice test yourself. You can find it here: unionleader.com/test
Benjamin Kepple is an accountant and former reporter for The Union Leader.
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Downtown Dover has a new hot spot for locally crafted beer, darts, music and laid back fun with 33 West Ale House and Grill's fall lineup that includes the singing talents of local musicians, a dart league and several programs aimed at creating a beer-loving community.
Dover residents may have noticed a change to the popular corner eatery 33 West. Following renovations that began Memorial Day weekend, the restaurant reopened Tuesday, June 26 with more than just a new look. They're now 33 West Ale House and Grill, featuring more than 35 choices of beer and 14 new tap choices, all of which are craft and microbrews.
Owner Brandon Pelton said the restaurant was taken down to the bare bones in order to create a new look that will hopefully produce a whole new atmosphere.
"We gutted the place and took it down to one wall so that we could expand the kitchen and offer more entertainment options," Pelton said.
Some of these new options include the Pub Club. For $50, patrons get a T-shirt and an engraved mug. Every Thursday, members receive half off draft beer and $2 off sample selections.
Service industry workers can also claim their own time slot now with the new "reverse happy hour," which takes place from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday nights.
"Servers and kitchen staff usually don't get a chance to take advantage of normal happy hours," Pelton said. "Now, they can. They just have to bring in their ABC cards or paycheck stubs and they'll get 10 percent off their orders."
Manager Sarah Ottignger said the restaurant will also welcome a new dart league on Tuesday nights come October.
"We are hoping for six teams of two but if there's enough buzz, we could change that to 12 teams of two and expand it to Thursdays as well," Ottinger said.
She added that team members could also take advantage of half-priced appetizers and beer specials on those nights.
33 West is also looking forward to a beer dinner featuring the locally crafted concoctions of Fordham and Old Dominion Brewing Company. The event is scheduled for Oct. 1 and includes a four-course meal with beer pairings. Tickets are $75 per person or $130 per couple and can be purchased during normal operating hours.
"We also want people to know that we have a full menu until 10 p.m. and a late night menu for Fridays and Saturdays," Ottinger said. "We're hoping to see a beer loving, laid back crowd to come hang out with us and enjoy all the changes we've made and all the ones we're making."
Thursday, Sept. 20 Pub Club
Thursday, Sept. 27 Pub Club
Friday, Sept. 28 The Honeybadgers
Thursday, Oct 4 Pub Club
Friday, Oct. 5 TBA
Tuesday, Oct. 9 Dart competition
Thursday, Oct. 11 Pub Club
Friday, Oct. 12 Tom and Dawne
Tuesday, Oct. 16 Dart competition
Thursday, Oct. 18 Pub Club
Friday, Oct. 19 TBA
Tuesday, Oct. 23 Dart competition
Thursday, Oct. 25 Pub Club
Friday, Oct. 26 Runaway Train Acoustic
Tuesday, Oct. 30 Dart competition
Thursday, Nov. 1 Pub Club
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STOCKTON - In these parts when you think of a moveable feast you likely are contemplating the offerings from one of the innumerable taco trucks that seem to be parked on virtually every street corner.
STOCKTON - In these parts when you think of a moveable feast you likely are contemplating the offerings from one of the innumerable taco trucks that seem to be parked on virtually every street corner.
Many of these kitchens-on-wheels serve very tasty fare, but when next you are looking for a change of pace in your truck-borne cuisine, give The Spicy Grill and its Indian-Pakistani menu a try. The very friendly truck-chef will even invite you to sample his foods for free before committing to a purchase.
One note about The Spicy Grill: It helps to be social-media savvy. The Spicy Grill announces its hours and the location of its bright green truck on a daily basis. One day, it might be parked by the Kaiser Permanente facility near Hammer and West lanes. The next, it might be hanging around St. Mary's High School.
The menu is ample and no item costs more than $8. The cuisine definitely approaches the claim written on the side of the truck: "Our food is as evocative as spring and as mild as May."
Though the food is prepared in accordance with the Halal dietary rules of the Muslim religion, we believe it's kosher to say we pigged out during our visit to The Spicy Grill. The only caveat is that next time, we'll either phone or text our order so it will be ready when we arrive. As we were warned after placing our order in person, it took 20 minutes to get our food. It was worth the wait.
We started out with an order of samosas, large puff pastries stuffed with spiced potato that were crisp and flavorful and not at all greasy even though they were fried.
Next, we divided up a gyro, the classic pita-wrapped sandwich of spiced lamb and beef that never fails to warm the soul. The sandwich did not disappoint, stuffed as it was with meat, onions, parsley, chopped tomatoes and cucumber sauce. One of these would make a terrific lunch on the go.
Additionally, we tried a selection of entrees, each of which came with a generous serving of basmati rice and naan, which for those who aren't familiar with Indian food is similar to pita bread. As was the case with the samosas, these dishes also came with mint and tamarind sauces on the side.
If there was any disappointment, it was with the chicken curry. The sauce was tasty and melded nicely with the rice, but it was a bit thin for our taste.
The chapli kabob was two grilled ground sirloin patties over rice, almost like eating a couple of highly spiced hamburgers. The chicken tikka lahori was a large piece of poultry marinated in spices and lemon juice, then cooked over charcoal. Think barbecued chicken.
For something completely different, we tried the halwa puri, described on the menu as deep-fried bread served with sweet semolina. If there is a comparison to be made, we'd say this dish is similar to a sweet polenta or to the sweet corn cakes that might be served as a side dish at a Tex-Mex restaurant. Tear off some bread, scoop up some of the halwa and enjoy.
What more could you ask for from a different sort of food truck?
The Spicy Grill has plenty for the sweet tooth: sugar cane juice, milkshakes and a solid assortment of flavors of ice cream.
We highly recommend this truck either for a quick bite or to take a feast to your family at home or to your coworkers at the office.
Just make sure you know where the truck is parked before you get in your car.
Questions? Comments? Contact LENS Editor Robin Nichols at (209) 546-8274 or email@example.com. To view recent reviews or The Record's restaurant review policy, go to recordnet.com/dining.


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There's quite a few major changes happening in 5.1. I've outlined some of the more major ones from MMO-Champion that'll affect PvP. Changes that will greatly impact PvP are bolded.
Official Blizzard Quote:
- Lynx Rush Each attack causes the target to bleed for
1,000465 damage over 15 sec, stacking up to 9 times.
Bestial Wrath
Send your pet into a rage causing 20% additional damage for 10 sec. The beast does not feel pity or remorse or fear and it cannot be stopped unless killed. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec.Send your pet into a rage, causing 20% additional damage for 10 sec and breaking all effects which cause loss of control of your pet.$?s119410[ Your pet cannot be killed while this effect is active.] Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec.
Glyph of Aimed Shot
Your Scatter Shot also removes all damage over time effects from the target.Your Aimed Shot can now be used while moving.
Glyph of Solace Your Freezing Trap
also removesand Scatter Shot also remove all damage over time effects from the target.their targets.
- Deep Freeze Stuns the target for
5 sec.4 sec.
- Frost Bomb
After 5After 6 sec, the bomb explodes, dealing (3,286 + 246.2% of SP) Frost damage to the primary target, and (1,643 + 123.1% of SP) Frost damage to all other targets within 10 yds.
- Frost Bomb
After 5After 6 sec, the bomb explodes, dealing (3,286 + 246.2% of SP) Frost damage to the primary target, and (1,643 + 123.1% of SP) Frost damage to all other targets within 10 yds.
Ice Barrier Instantly shields you, absorbing (4580 +
440.1% of SPFR) damage.330% of SPFR) damage.
- Ring of Frost
3045 sec cooldown.
- Pyroblast 3 sec cooldown.
Glyph of Discreet Magic Your Nether Tempest, Living Bomb, Frost Bomb, Arcane Barrage,
Inferno Blast, and Ice Lanceand Inferno Blast no longer affect targets more than 5 yds away from their primary target.
Healing Sphere You form a Healing Sphere out of healing mists at the target location for
2 min.10 sec.
Healing Sphere You form a Healing Sphere out of healing mists at the target location for
2 min.10 sec.
- Power Strikes Every 22 sec, you gain Power Strikes, causing your next Jab Soothing Mist, or Crackling Jade Lightning to generate 1 additional Chi.
- Mastery: Gift of the Serpent You have a 10% chance when you heal to summon a Healing Sphere nearby an injured ally. for 60 sec.
Rabid Increases your pet's attack
powerspeed by 70% for 20 sec.
- Penance Launches a volley of holy light at the target, causing (1,000 + 103.7% of SP) Holy damage to an enemy, or 6,606 + 63.5% of SP) healing to an ally instantly and every 1 sec for 2 sec.
- Blind
3 min cooldown.60 sec cooldown.
6045 sec cooldown.
Wound Poison Each strike has a 30% chance of poisoning the enemy, which instantly inflicts
390520 Nature damage and reduces all healing effects on them for 15 sec.
Burst of Speed
6050 Energy.
Cheat Death An attack that would otherwise be fatal will instead reduce you
no lowerto no less than 10% of your maximum health, and damage taken will be reduced by 80% for 3 sec.
Leeching Poison
Your melee attacks have a 50% chance to poison the target, and all your subsequent weapon strikes against the poisoned target will heal you for 10% of damage dealt.Your melee attacks have a 50% chance to poison the target for 10 sec. Your subsequent weapon strikes against the poisoned target will heal you for 10% of damage dealt.
Shuriken Toss A ranged attack that deals 1,246 Physical damage to an enemy
target.target.This damage is doubled if the enemy is farther than 10 yards away.
- Seal Fate When you critically strike with a single-target melee attack that generates combo points, you gain an additional combo point on your target.
Unleash Life Unleashes the Earthliving enchantment upon the Shaman's weapon, healing a friendly target for (3,154 + 28.6% of SP) and increasing the effect of the Shaman's next direct heal
by 30%.or Healing Rain by 30%.
Kil'jaeden's Cunning
Passive: You can cast and channel while moving, but doing so increases the cast time or channel period of the spell by 30%. Each cast reduces your movement speed by 10%, stacking up to 2 times.Passive: You can cast and channel while moving, but each cast reduces your movement speed by 10%, stacking up to 2 times.
Soul Swap (Affliction)
Soulburn: InstantlySoulburn applies Corruption, Unstable Affliction and Agony. without removing them from a target.
- Soul Swap (Demonology, Destruction)
Cataclysm The Warlock channels cataclysmic power, immolating all enemies within 10 yards. every 5 sec.
After 4 sec, all burningAfter 3 sec, all enemies within 10 yards are knocked away and stunned for 5 sec. The channelling of Cataclysm cannot be stopped and the Warlock cannot be slain until it completes.afflicted by effects which cause loss of control of your character.
- Conflagrate Generates Burning Embers. Critical strikes double this effect.
Flames of Xoroth
60 sec cooldown.
Glyph of Supernova When you are killed, all enemies within
08 yards take damage equal to 10% of your maximum health per Burning Ember held.
- Supernova (New)
- Gateway Attunement (New)
- Glyph of Gateway Attunement (New) Your Demonic Gateway will automatically activate when you step near it.
- Intervene Run at high speed towards a party or raid member, intercepting the next melee or ranged attack within 10 sec while the target remains within 10 yards.
- Glyph of Gag Order Does not work against players.
The Gag Order nerf is going to be huge for Warriors. Mages look like they took one of the heavier nerf bats.


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Lodi, CA
Minnie Ethelene Jones
August 25, 1931 - July 19, 2013
Minnie Ethelene Jones, 81, entered into eternal peace on Friday, July 19, 2013, at her home in Lodi,
Ethelene was born on August 25, 1931, in Gotebo, Oklahoma, a daughter of the late Ulysses and Nellie McGuire. She came to California in 1945 and attended Stockton High School. She married
Donald Bill Jones in July 1949 and together they made their home in Lodi where they lived for over fifty years.
She worked as a bookkeeper for National Towel & Linen and then to Valley Showcase of Stockton, CA.
Ethelene loved spending time with friends and she always had a joke to tell. She had a loving and generous heart, and was always giving to others. She enjoyed life to its fullest and had a special love for the game of golf. She has many lifelong friends that were made on the golf course. Gambling at the Casinos was another favorite pastime. It just took a mention and she was ready to go.
There were many barbeques and horseshoe games at the Jones house. Ethelene always made her family and friends feel welcome as she made sure everyone enjoyed themselves. There were very few ball games played by any of her kids, grandkids or great grandkids that she was not in the stands rooting for them.
She was a member of the Loyal Order of the Amaranth Lodge, PTA President, and 4-H instructor. She was a member of The Business Women's Golf Club, Monday Whiffers, Wednesday Strokers and The Sunday Couples Group all of Forest Lake Golf Club.
She was predeceased by her beloved husband of 61 years, Donald Jones in 2010. Also predeceased are her parents, 3 brothers and 5 sisters.
Ethelene had an unwavering faith in God. She was a member of The Gateway Church in Lockeford, CA. She loved her church and the monthly potlucks in the park.
She leaves her loving memories to be cherished by her three children, Dewight Jones (Judy), Letha Pinnell (Robert) and Ray Jones, seven grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, a loving sister Betty Kendall, and many adorning nieces and nephews and (too many to count) friends.
Services will be held Thursday morning at 11:00 am at the Chapel of the Flowers, Cherokee Memorial Park, Lodi, with Pastor Manny Campos officiating. A Celebration of her life will be held afterwards at the Lodi Womens Club, 325 W. Pine Street, Lodi.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of San Joaquin, 3888 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95204.


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Nick Stellino's Family Kitchen combines Old World traditions and a modern lifestyle with warmth, charm and inventive Italian recipes. At the heart of Family Kitchen is the fostering of family unity at the dinner table, which Stellino has called "our last tribal meeting ground." Both the series and the cookbook of the same name reveal a similar anecdotal style. While sharing ideas for the home chef with flavorful menu variations, he discusses why activities such as shopping, preparation, eating and drinking help define one's sense of family and community. Preparing food, Stellino declares, is a wonderful way to express love, as well as a simple way to answer the eternal question: "What's for dinner?"


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"Magna Carta … Holy Grail"
Jay Z (Roc-A-Fella/Roc Nation/Universal)
Jay Z has accomplished a lot in his career.
With a net worth of nearly $500 million, Jay Z has sold approximately 50 million albums worldwide, earned 17 Grammy Awards for his musical work and is often considered to be the "G.O.A.T" (acronym for "greatest of all time") in the rap world. Heck, he even invented "swag."
And his 12th (and latest) solo album, "Magna Carta…Holy Grail," went platinum before it even came out. Go figure.
But who knew Beyonc�'s hubby was such a colossal bore? On his impeccably produced but spiritually empty latest, Hova makes his prot�g�e, Kanye West sound humble in comparison, and that's saying a lot.
Shifting from party-crasher to party-pooper to president of his own fan club (often in the same song), Jay Z's anemic raps talk in great lengths about his greatness but rarely hint at what made the 43-year-old rap mogul so great in the first place. While he's certainly not the first rapper to flaunt his wealth in our collective faces, Jay Z comes off as one of the dullest. We can forgive him for his out-of-whack persecution complex and delusions of grandeur, but not for his witless tirades that lack artistic integrity, social relevance, risk-taking bravado, biting commentary or even a sense of self-depreciating humor.
The ghost of Kurt Cobain is spinning in his grave, thanks to the leadoff track "Holy Grail," which not only takes the Nirvana's front-man's name in vain but bastardizes the bridge from the Seattle's grunge rockers' breakthrough hit, "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
The song certainly smells all right. It smells of desperation and stale ideas.
On this over-inflated, self-indulgent tirade on the downside of fame, Jay Z is joined by his "Legends of Summer" co-headliner Justin Timberlake (who both play Aug. 10 and 11 at Fenway Park) and together they take turns bellyaching about being plagued by psycho (expletive that rhymes with witches) and pesky paparazzi. Jay Z — who plays second banana to Timberlake here and treats the golden chalice which the apostles drank Christ blood out of as his personal Sippy cup, unleashes a barrage of "n-words" under the pretense that they came from his baby's mouth. And, we're not talking his wife Beyonc�, but their 1-year-old daughter.
According to the song's questionable narrative, Blue Ivy advises daddy-o to remind "you (n-words)" out there that he's the one and only "(n-word)." So much for baby talk. Worse though is the wince-inducin, bastardization of the "stupid and contagious" bridge from "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
On the slinky and snarly self-serving rap, "Picasso Baby," Jay Z name-drops revolutionary fine art masters as if uttering their names makes him an artist himself. Talk about wishful thinking on his part. Not only can you find more culture in a cup of yogurt, Jay Z apparently owns pricy paintings because it is a status symbol of his wealth and has nothing to do with appreciation of the art itself (as evident, when he catches his infant daughter leaning on a Basquiat painting like it's a throw rug and tells her, "Go 'head and lean on that (expletive), Blue/You own it"). In addition to comparing his wife, Beyonc�, to the Mona Lisa, Jay Z declares himself "the modern-day Pablo, Picasso baby," although he gives no examples why he could make such a bold claim. There is one big difference between the rap mogul and cubist master. As Jonathan Richman once said, "Pablo Picasso was never called an (expletive)." Can Jay Z honestly say that? I think not.
On "Tom Ford," Jay Z pays homage to the internationally acclaimed menswear line (huh?) by desensitizing the listener by pummeling his name into the ground.
Jay Z disses rap poseurs that pretend to have street cred, while praising his greatness in the insanely (and inanely) catchy lines, "Clap for a (n-word) with his rapping ass/Blow a stack for your (n-word) with your trapping ass/Spent all my euros on tuxes and weird clothes/I party with weirdoes/Yeah, Hov. Yeah, Hov."
Perched upon a luxury yacht, Frank Ocean poignantly laments the plight of impoverished ivory poachers and slave laborers who flee Africa only to meet their untimely demise in turbulent waters on the bombastic soapbox, "Oceans." In a song that sounds like it aspires to be the musical equivalent to "Blood Diamond" (but is closer to "Operation Dumbo Drop"), Jay Z disrespects the oppressed masses of the world (and destroys any momentum that Ocean built) with his all-over-the-place musings that include him carrying on about how Christopher Wallace (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) discovered more uncharted territories than Christopher Columbus and comparing himself and his childhood friend to Pablo Escobar and the infamous Colombian drug lord's loyal hitman, Popeye.
On "FUTW," Jay Z shamelessly name-drops and even compares himself to the likes of Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, even though he's not in the same league of any of these iconic, larger-than-life figures.
After flaunting his expensive wheels, designer wardrobe, his front-row season tickets to the Nets and sold-out "Legends of Summer" date at the Rose Bowl, Jay Z even goes lower, bemoaning, "I just want a shot to show my genius/Standing on the top, hold my penis/America tried to emasculate the greats/Murder Malcolm, gave Cassius the shakes."
On "Crown," Jay Z declares, "You're in the presence of a king/Scratch that. You're in the presence of God." What, the God of hot air? I've heard of a caring God. I've heard of a vengeful God. This is the first time I've heard of a vacuous God.
Jay Z takes us from living in a gated community to knocking on heaven's door on the quasi-mortal coil opus, "Heaven." Not only does he diss the doorman at the Pearly Gates, Jay Z desecrates another great alternative rock song from the '90s (this time, R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion.")
On "Part II (On the Run)," the unofficial sequel to "03 Bonnie and Clyde," real-life married couple Jay Z and Beyonc� unconvincingly play gangsta lovers on the run.
Beyonc� seductively coos about her love for a bad guy gone good and Jay Z returns the favor by complimenting her with, "My baby momma harder than a lot of you (n-words)." Who needs Hallmark when you have Hova around?
It takes a majority of the album but Jay Z finally opens up about something other than being filthy rich on arguably the album's best track, "Jay-Z Blues." After musing about how "baby needs Pampers" and "Daddy needs at least three weeks in the Hampton," Jay Z wrestles with the scars of growing up in a dysfunctional household and his fears that he's going to repeat the sins of his father.
Still, you know the album's in trouble when the best thing about it is using sound-bites (for no apparent reason) of Faye Dunaway, in the guise of Joan Crawford, barking, "No wire hangers, ever!" from the campy classic, "Mommie Dearest."


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"Fall" in love with the Niagara River Region.
Celebrate the beginning of autumn in the historic Village of Lewiston with the work of Western New York's most talented crafters and jewelry artists. The 29th annual Lewiston Harvest Festival and Craft Show will take place on Saturday, Sept. 22, and Sunday, Sept. 23, along Center Street in Lewiston. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, and is free and open to the public. More than 85 crafters will showcase their artwork, jewelry, woodwork, candles and handmade crafts throughout the weekend.
A variety of food vendors can be found along the craft show route on Center Street. Specialty boutiques, retail shops and local restaurants will also be open, adding to the charm of the village's festival atmosphere. The farmers market located on South Fifth and Center streets will include a variety of fall harvest produce favorites, hardy mums, fresh honey, as well as a selection of wines from the Niagara Wine Trail.
On Saturday, entertainment includes WNIA Radio from Niagara University, broadcasting live from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; The Hot Country Line Dancers from 1 until 2 p.m., and Tony Petrocelli from Lewiston Music from 1:30 until 4 p.m. on the front steps of the historic Frontier House. Saturday entertainment continues at the Hennepin Park Gazebo on the corner of Center and South Fourth streets, and features Native American musician Darryl Tonemah from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the Lewiston Choraleers from 1 until 2 p.m. The Sunday entertainment schedule includes the Niagara Fiddler Club from noon to 1 p.m., Colt 45 country music band from 1:30 until 4 p.m. at the Frontier House stage, and a music showcase from Lewiston Music at Hennepin Park Gazebo from noon until 3 p.m.
Sponsors for this year's festival include Hardison Funeral Homes, The Modern Corporation, Robert Macvie Inc., Tedesco Construction, Fred Blue from Great Lakes Real Estate, Niagara Frontier Publications, State Sen. George D. Maziarz and Brown & Company LLP Certified Public Accountants.
The Lewiston Harvest Festival and Craft Show is the start of the fall events that take place in the Niagara River Region. Additional events include the annual Scarecrow Display along the main streets in the four communities from Oct. 3 through 31, the Winetique Festival on Oct. 14 in Sanborn, Old Fort Niagara "Haunted Fortress" on Oct. 20 and 27, and "Spooktacular" at the Power Vista, the Niagara Power Project's Visitors Center, on Oct. 27.
For more information on these fall events, contact the Niagara River Region Chamber of Commerce at 716-754-9500 or visit www.NiagaraRiverRegion.com.


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Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose (1) dunks the ball on a breakaway while Detroit Pistons shooting guard Richard Hamilton (32) watches during the second quarter of their game at the United Center, in Chicago, January 10, 2011. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/ Chicago Tribune) ....OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, NEW YORK TIMES OUT, CHICAGO OUT, NO DIGITAL MANIPULATION
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