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Tropical Cyclone Vaianu was moving south of the Tonga Islands on February 15, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this image at 1:35 UTC (1:35 p.m. local time). At this time, Vaianu was heading south past the chain of islands, having knocked out electricity in many areas in the preceeding two days, as well as flattening trees and crops. Flooding in low-lying areas shut down the Tonga capital, Nuku'alofa, for two days. When Aqua observed the cyclone, it had peak sustained winds of around 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour), and it was gradually losing strength. Although it was weakening, it maintained a distinct, spiral cloud structure. The only island visible is this image is Tongatapu, in the northwestern (upper left) corner, just at the end of a spiral-cloud arm. Most of the island is under thin cloud cover, but the pale blue of shallow water and coral reefs stand out from the deep blue of the Pacific Ocean around them. Tongatapu is the largest island in the Tonga Island chain, and the Tonga capital, Nuku'alofa is on this island. Credit: NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.
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Professor Enrique Fierro first joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 1989 as a visiting professor, and began his regular appointment in 1990. He has received many accolades for his poetry. Indeed, in 1997, he was honored with the Premio Nacional de Poesía in his native Uruguay. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/spanish/faculty/fierroeh
Professor Vance Holloway also came to UT in 1990, after completing his doctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley. He has directed numerous dissertations on contemporary Spanish literature, and is best known in the field for his work on postmodernist Spanish novels. He served the Department over the years in a variety of capacities, most recently as Undergraduate Adviser. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/spanish/faculty/vhollow


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Supreme Court strikes down marriage actPublished 11:29am Thursday, June 27, 2013
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, striking down the definition of marriage made explicit in Section 3 of the act.
DOMA was enacted in 1996, defining the terms "marriage" and "spouse" such that "the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife."
Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the opinion of the court, joined by justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
In his opinion, Kennedy cited the Fifth Amendment and Bolling v. Sharpe, asserting that "the Constitution's guarantee of equality 'must at the very least mean that a bare congressional desire to harm a politically unpopular group cannot justify' disparate treatment of that group."
Kennedy held that DOMA as written deprives same-sex couples of many rights and benefits afforded to heterosexual couples.
"Under DOMA, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways," Kennedy states. "By its great reach, DOMA touches many aspects of married and family life, from the mundane to the profound."
In closing, Kennedy clarified that the decision does not grant same-sex couples the right to marry in states where local law does not guarantee that right. Instead, the decision only applies to legally married same-sex couples.
"What has been explained to this point should more than suffice to establish that the principal purpose and the necessary effect of this law are to demean those persons who are in a lawful same-sex marriage," Kennedy said. "This requires the Court to hold, as it now does, that DOMA is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the liberty of the person protected by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution."
Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito all filed dissenting opinions. Justice Clarence Thomas joined Scalia's opinion, and Roberts joined part I. Thomas also joined on parts II and III of Alito's opinion. Roberts contended that the Court lacked the authority to hear the case and maintained the constitutionality of DOMA.
"I agree with Justice Scalia that this court lacks jurisdiction to review the decisions of the courts below," Roberts stated. "On the merits of the constitutional dispute the Court decides to decide, I also agree with Justice Scalia that Congress acted constitutionally in passing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)."
Roberts attested that the Court may one day be called upon to resolve challenges to state marriage definitions affecting same-sex couples, but as he saw it, this was not the issue at stake.
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In Scalia's opinion, he explained that the Court is eager to rule on the central legal question of this case, but said in issuing the opinion, the court misinterpreted and overstepped its role and powers.
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Earlier this week, a grand jury in Cass County, Mo. indicted 25-year-old Megan Blair Baker (pictured above) on charges of having sexual contact with a 17-year-old student. According to investigators, Baker, a teacher and the assistant wrestling coach at Cass High, had sex with the teen on the school bus. He later told all his friends about it (of course he did), which is how his parents found out. Not too long after that, the father of the teen reported the incident to investigators.
"We heard it happened on a school bus and the boy was openly bragging about it," Sherwood Cass parent Linda Aldin said. "He was telling everyone he had sex with the woman."
"It just really shocked us," Aldin said. "I never dreamed that it would happen at our school."
Science for the Masses used chlorophyll analog known as Chlorin e6 (or Ce6) to give healthy eyesight temporary night vision. This chemical is found in some deep sea fish and used to treat night-blindness.
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New Orleans and Miami might post numbers that look pitiful, but that's still up 25 percent, and it's because Tinder usage there is extremely strong throughout the year—and because those cities host what is essentially a year-round spring break. Boulder, meanwhile, gets our vote for Unexpectedly Horniest Place on the Planet.


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This Employee Final Release is for use when an employee voluntarily leaves or is terminated by an employer. This release will effectively release the employer from any claims which the employee may decide to make in the future regarding his/her employment. It is important that an employer have all exiting employees sign a release of this type. A written Employee Final Release will prove invaluable in the event of future claims or litigation.
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IN CONSIDERATION of the payment to me of the sum of TWO DOLLARS ($2.00), receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, I, , on behalf of myself, my heirs, administrators and assigns (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Releasor") hereby release and forever discharge , its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates and each of its and their respective officers, directors, employees, servants and agents, and their successors and assigns (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Releasee") jointly and severally from any and all actions, causes of action, contracts and covenants, whether express or implied, claims and demands for damages, indemnity, costs, interest, loss or injury of every nature and kind whatsoever arising, which I may heretofore have had, may now have or may hereinafter have and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all claims in any way relating to the hiring of, the employment by or the termination of employment of the Releasor by the Releasee and I hereby specifically covenant, represent and warrant to the Releasee that I have no further claim against the Releasee for or arising out of: my employment, or separation therefrom, or terms of such employment or employment separation by the Releasee; employee benefit plans whether or not arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"); any discrimination claim whether or not arising under any local, state or federal law or regulation, public policy or common law (including, with limitation, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act); or any state, federal or local statute, regulation, public policy, contract or tort principle in any way governing or regulating my employment, or termination, or terms of employment or termination by the Releasee. It is expressly agreed and understood that this Agreement is a general release. Nothing contained in this Agreement is a waiver of any rights or claims (including any which may arise under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act) that may arise after the date of execution by me or which, as a matter of law, cannot be released or waived.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED that the giving of the aforementioned consideration is deemed to be no admission of liability on the part of the said Releasee, said liability in fact being denied.
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Absolut appoints Sid Lee to global advertising
By Anne Cassidy, campaignlive.co.uk, Wednesday, 05 December 2012 02:42PM
Absolut has appointed Sid Lee to its global advertising business after a pitch, in a move which threatens TBWA's 30-plus-year relationship with the brand.
A statement from Absolut said that Sid Lee "will lead the development of creative work across advertising, branded content, digital and a significant body of experiential work".
However, TBWA said it remains on the Absolut roster and that it will continue to handle a considerable amount of the brand's advertising.
TBWA picked up the Absolut account shortly after launch and when the vodka was an unknown brand.
The agency made Absolut famous with a campaign based around the distinctive bottle shape, which launched in 1980, and is one of the longest running ever.
The first ad in the series had a halo and angel wings superimposed on the bottle and the line "Absolut perfection". This led to many other visual puns based around the bottle, with two-word headlines.
The Pernod Ricard brand's most recent advertising work included the "Absolut blank" campaign. Absolut signed up 18 emerging artists from across the globe to construct a work of art on an empty canvas cut to match the its bottle shape.
The work was the result of a creative partnership between Absolut and TBWA\Chiat\Day, New York.
Sid Lee will run the account from its Amsterdam office with its New York agency also playing a role in developing advertising.
Jonas Tåhlin, the vice-president of global marketing at the Absolut Company, said: "We look forward to working with Sid Lee, a trail-blazing agency specialising in creating holistic innovative brand experiences. Sid Lee shares our view on marketing, anchored in experiences. We want the brand to express itself through actions rather than words. It's extremely important to us to constantly evolve and push our boundaries.:
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WOONSOCKET – The school department's continuing budget problems will be back in the limelight this week when the school committee considers laying off all of the department's union employees for the coming school year.
The action, expected to result in the issuance of pinks slips to more than 700 district employees, will allow the school administration to preserve its options for budget cuts that may be needed in setting next year's school budget, according to Committee Chairwoman Anita McGuire-Forcier. The school committee is scheduled to consider the layoffs at a special meeting at the Hamlet Middle School Wednesday night, beginning at 5:30.
"We have been on a financial cliff and now we must look at extreme options," Forcier said Friday while confirming the panel will consider the layoffs of all union employees.
Forcier added that the step is purely one to preserve options in making staff changes for budget reasons. State law requires union employees who will not be retained in the coming year to receive notification of that action by March 1.
"This has nothing to do with performance, it is all for financial reasons," Forcier said.
Word of the planned committee action began to circulate in the district on Friday as teachers, students, and school support staff headed out on February vacation.
The news included rumors that notices were being issued Friday but that information was incorrect, Forcier said. The School Committee must consider the notifications as a formal committee vote and that will be taken up at the special meeting on Wednesday, she said.
While all teachers working for the school district will be affected, Forcier said the notices are also expected to be issued to union teacher assistants, and all other union district employees including custodians and clerks.
Although placing all those employees on notice of layoff by March 1, Forcier said it is unlikely that all of the staff members affected will remain on layoff by the time the new school year begins.
"You have to have a teacher in front of a class," she said. Instead, the notifications would allow the department greater flexibility in making staffing changes and shifts of personnel to accommodate any budget reductions the school committee considers as part of its upcoming budget work, she said.
"We have to leave our options open," Forcier said.
The school department is still working to determine if it is overspending its current budget and heading to a repeat of last year's $2.7 million budget deficit. Forcier has said the committee won't be able to begin work in next year's budget until that information has been received from Dina Dutremble, a retired school finance director, and the city's auditing firm, Braver PC.
For now, Forcier said, the committee must preserve any option that might be needed to set next year's budget.
"This is the best way to leave all our options open," she said.
Woonsocket Teachers Guild President Jeff Partington said teachers did hear on Friday that the layoffs were being considered but added that no formal notifications beyond the 54 approved by the school committee at its last meeting were made during the day.
The union official said he would prefer to withhold comment on the layoff move until more information was available.
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What's your favorite Oakley lens for outdoor tennis?
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G30 Iridium (30% LT)
Bronze (22% LT)
Bronze Polarized (18% LT)
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Fire Iridium (16% LT)
VR 28 Polarized (15% LT)
VR28 Black Iridium (14% LT)
I like the Oakley transition soflx lenses that I'm using in my radars. It goes from clear to pretty dark depending on light levels. On really bright days I use the positive red which is not very dark.
I don't even know which ones I have... I have a clear pair and a black polarized pair.
It takes about half a minute for the lenses to adjust.
I usually use these lenses in the late afternoon as the light levels slowly changes. I really like them for that purpose. As for sudden overcasts/sun breaking through, the lenses do take a while to change, but I can't say it has really bothered me to the extent where I had to take the sunglasses off.
Only thing to note is these lenses do not work as well in very hot temperatures.
I have the bronze polarized but I sweat too much for the glasses to stay on my face without wiping it off every point. Gave up on that.
The iridium coating has a reputation for scratching easily.
Has anyone noticed this?
I like the amber polarized lenses with 30% light transmission.
These still stop 100% of harmful ultraviolet rays.
I find it interesting that there are many who won't wear sunglasses, and that the other camp is to wear fairly dark tints.
My problem with very dark lenses is that they cause the ball to look like a dark blob, and don't permit as much contrast with the court and background.
The amber still removes over 2/3 of the light coming in, the polarization cuts glare, and the amber color makes the ball "pop" out against backgrounds.
Amber is a color favored by many hunters and anglers for the high contrast it provides.
Because the lenses aren't too dark, you can still get great contrast on overcast days, and even fairly late into the evening.
They also make a nice driving lens.
Edit: NE1410is, wrote the above before seeing your post in the other thread that the polarized amber lenses have been discontinued. It seems the bronze would be the closest color match, but hopefully you'll get other opinions to help you decide.
I've got the fire iridium on some radar paths that I use.
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AGF Management Limited is a premier Canadian-based investment management firm serving institutions and individuals around the globe.
Blake C. Goldring, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Judy Goldring, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, at AGF Management Limited collaborate to tell the story of AGF - the company their father co-founded in 1957.
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For nearly six decades, AGF has been providing asset management services to institutions and individuals around the globe.
AGF began as a single, innovative idea: to pool the funds of Canadian investors to provide greater access to the U.S. market. The American Growth Fund, created in 1957, was the first mutual fund in Canada to invest solely in U.S. equities and its initials, AGF, became the company's namesake.
Our founder, C. Warren Goldring and Allan Manford, set out to build a company that was innovative, focused on clients and driven by superior investment management. AGF is an independent publically traded company that is dedicated to delivering excellence in investment management and an exceptional client experience.
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The American Growth Fund (AGF) was launched in 1957. C. Warren Goldring and Allan Manford had a unique and revolutionary vision to pool the funds of Canadian investors, giving them greater access to the U.S. market through the New York Stock Exchange.
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Mary Blume looks at the life and work of fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga, one of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture. In The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World, Blume tells the story of the man and his house through the eyes of the woman who knew him best, Florette Chelot, his adviser and saleswoman who worked with him for over 30 years.
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Avgolemono soup is a traditional Greek creamy, lemony soup. This recipe is accented with Greek Seasoning and orzo.
4 cups Kitchen Basics® Original Chicken Stock
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This is a reasonable hotel in Goma. It is not cheap by local standards, but it does the job. Almost every room is $40. That's per room, not per person. This being Africa, you could probably haggle the price down if you speak to them (in French). It is relatively clean, well organised, safe and I had no problems getting to sleep. It is on the outskirts of Goma, but that is one of the reasons it is safe and quiet. It is located in a nice residential neighbourhood and you have views over (very) nearby Lake Kivu from the upper floor.
The hotel is run by several polite men and they are on duty 24 hours a day. In addition the nice garden area out front has a very high fence. Inside you have a fairly open fronted dinning room and a full service bar. The menu is not vast and it's not cheap, but your don't have to take a platoon of Army troops with you into town at night. I enjoyed my fresh spaghetti and my cold beer. They do make it up from scratch so it does take a while. The bar is essentially open 24 hours a day. You keep buying and they keep serving. The bartender sleeps behind the bar and I accidentally woke him up once. He did ask if I wanted anything to drink.
My room was small and there wasn't a lot of room once you accounted for the large bed. It was a reasonable mattress and I slept quietly and soundly. The room did have a closet, TV, table and mosquito net. I don't remember the room having air-conditioning, but it did have a fan and it was cool.
The bathroom was ok. I had a big tub, shower attachment, modern flush toilet and a reasonable mirror. Worryingly I had a hair brush. I did not take advantage of its use. The water was hot although the water pressure was a little weak.
The remote control TV had some French TV channels including 24 hours news.
Breakfast (included) was a mini - feast. Toast, bread, jams, fruit and even a fried tomato with tea and coffee. They even asked if I wanted more.
If you do want to sit and sip beers on the lake – there is another hotel almost opposite. Best to ask the price of the beers there first. I didn't and they charged me a lot.
All in all this is a very reasonable mid-price option in Goma. Budget options may involve some very real safety issues.
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Space Jet, the planned premium unit of Indonesian low cost carrier Lion Air, could operate 9 to 10 widebody aircraft on medium-haul routes from 2015.
The unit would operate its wide body fleet to destinations in North Asia, India, and Indonesia, said Rusdi Kirana, president director of Lion Air.
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The Supreme Court reinstated drunk-driving convictions for Lawrence Rothwell and Henry Smith, ruling that District Court Judge Patricia Walker had jurisdiction even though she wasn't elected solely by city voters.
GOP memo ponders Staab's political leanings
The debate over Municipal Court Judge Tracy Staab's residency isn't going away.
A memo circulated with local GOP leaders indicates that Spokane City Councilwoman Nancy McLaughlin, who is active in the party, has questioned the party's decision to oppose Staab's candidacy.
Party leaders formally opposed Staab's attempt to retain her judgeship in the November election because she lives outside the city. Spokane Municipal Court judges rule only on cases from within city limits, but state law allows the judges to live outside the borders – as long as they live in the same county.
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Spokane Municipal Court races are non partisan, but the County Republican Party is weighing in on one of the races and criticizing Judge Tracy Staab.
The GOP's problem with Staab is not judicial activism or any decision she's made. Instead, it's residence.
As in, Staab doesn't live in the city. The county executive board concluded at a recent meeting that "a municipal court jduge, like any other elected office, should be required to live within the position's respective jurisdiction."
This issue came up when Mayor Mary Verner nominated Staab for the newly created seat on the bench. Councilman Bob Apple voted against her, saying he thought the judges should live in the city, but all the other councilmembers voted for her and she got the appointment.
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By Curt email@example.com Clayton County Schools Superintendent John Thompson on Thursday called the Jonesboro High School dance team's recent performance during half time at a basketball game an "embarrassment" to the district. The team made headlines for a risqué performance Jan. 13 that included suggestive dance moves performed for males seated in chairs on the gym floor. "Somebody should have stopped it," Thompson told a group of parents Thursday. "If I had been there, I would have stopped it ... Every girl needs to have a level of respect for herself." To avoid similar episodes in the future, Thompson said he will require members of all dance programs, at all Clayton County schools, to undergo dance training led by Melissa Colon, Clayton County's Teacher Of The Year, and the dance instructor at Babb Middle School. Colon led a high school dance troupe, Zodiax, to a national title on Black Entertainment Television (BET) in November. School officials say the Jonesboro High dance team has been disbanded, and its sponsor forbidden from coaching the group if it ever reforms. The school system's human resources department is conducting an investigation into the performance. A six-minute video of the team's performance turned up on the video Web site YouTube.com and on social networking site MySpace.com. The dancers are shown wearing long-sleeve, spandex-type tops, mini-shorts and white, knee-high stockings. The video includes a three-minute portion in which males are pulled from the bleachers and seated in chairs on the gym floor. While seated, the dancers perform suggestive dance moves. Later, the dancers are shown marching into the bleachers where they continue their routine. During the routine, a crowd is shown converging in the center section of the bleachers to take pictures with cameras and cell phones. Though no administrators are shown trying to stop the performance, the video shows individuals walking in front of the crowd, apparently motioning for people to sit in the bleachers rather than on the gym floor. Board of Education members Charlton Bivins and Mary Baker, who were not at Thursday's meeting between the superintendent and parents, but spoke with the Clayton News Daily by phone beforehand, echoed Thompson's concerns about the lack of administrative intervention. Jonesboro is in Baker's district, and Bivins' daughter, Chelsea, is a senior at the school. Thompson, and the two board members said administrators should have been proactive, and stopped the performance. "Those in charge of the event didn't step up at the first sign of trouble," Bivins said. "At first you're stunned, but then you ask yourself 'Where were the adults in the room?'" Baker said. "Why would it take six minutes for an adult to not shut things down? If it had been my child up there, I would have wasted no time searching for an off button, or the power plug." Thompson said he met Wednesday with school officials from all of the district's schools about the incident. On Thursday, he told the parents the district will reprimand school officials who allow dances like the one performed at Jonesboro to occur. "When it gets to my level, it's all over," the superintendent said. Helen Arnold, a parent of a Jonesboro High School student, and an attendee at the basketball game where the dance was performed, said Jonesboro Principal Carl Jackson was not at the game. "I truly believe if our principal had been there, he would have pulled the plug early on," Arnold said. "The assistant principals, unfortunately, did not seem to think they had that same authority." Thompson said an administrator's approval is now required for all dances. The students had to gain prior approval for the routine from an administrator before the game, but may not have presented the program's actual content, said district spokesman Charles White . "They only performed part of the routine, and we suspect it may have been altered afterwards," White said. "You have to inspect before you expect," Bivins said. "If we did not have policies and procedures already in place, then we absolutely have to add some." It is unclear how many high schools in the district have a dance club, or dance team. But, at least three other high schools have some form of dancing group, according to their Web sites. "It's a club, so it could be everywhere, or it could only be at Jonesboro," White said. Mt. Zion High School has a dance club, but the school's Web site says its dancers perform mainly in musicals, and for elementary school children. North Clayton High School's dance team performs with the school's marching band, according to that school's Web site. Lovejoy High School also has a dance team, but its Web site does not specify what the group does. Lists of student organizations for Forest Park and Riverdale high schools could not be found on their respective school Web sites. Morrow and Mundy's Mill high schools did not have dance teams listed among their student organizations.
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National History Education Clearing House
Let's use a wonderful review of the workBench and the site that's hosting it as a springboard to investigate one of the Internet's great challenges for teachers. First, however, a visit to the wacky, and occasionally dark, side.
It's not likely that there is a piece of nuttiness adrift in humankind that isn't supported with conviction and "evidence" somewhere on the Internet.
We did a Google search for "the world is flat, believers" and discovered the Flat Earth Society, which has as its mission "deprogramming" our misconceptions about living on a sphere. The Internet tells us that, in addition to the world being flat, the Holocaust never happened, nor did the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. Our government orchestrated 9/11, and poor Charlemagne, he didn't exist. As a matter of fact, the entire Middle Ages didn't happen.
Yikes. Life was easier when the teacher, textbook, and library gave you the story already hewn, and all you had to do was memorize it for the test. A student could thrive back then, unencumbered by an original or critical thought, in an educational world that didn't put much stock in independent thinking.
There's been a dramatic shift. With so much unvetted information swirling about today, digital and otherwise, and with such large dollops of misinformation craftily scooped into our political discourse, the challenge is to get students to decipher the wacky from the wise independently.
It's more important today to be able to vet and validate ideas from within the methodology of a discipline than it is to know mountains of its stuff.
This challenge in information sorting and weighing brings us back to that fine review of the workBench that we found in "Tools for Teachers" in the website for the National History Education Clearinghouse.
After reading about the workBench, we naturally asked ourselves, Who are these guys? That's a good, teachable response to any Internet information. How credible is this site? Does it come from verifiable rocket scientists or from a bunch of wackos wearing beanies with propellers on top?
The initial answer to our question was at the very bottom of the review page in small print. There we found the site's parentage: The National History Education Clearing House was created by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the Stanford University History Education Group, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
Every link above takes you to a .edu web address. Just as a web address beginning with https:// suggests security for e-commerce transactions, .edu suggests a degree of security in terms of intellectual rigor and integrity.
Let's carry this one step further. Assume that an Astrological University of Transcendental Levitation might have somehow hornswoggled a .edu address, when it only really existed in a server in a dark basement in Des Moines. In addition to their .edu university status, George Mason and Stanford have national reputations and ring very substantial recognition bells.
Finally, getting funding from the U.S. Department of Education is intensely competitive. Applicants are carefully screened and often go through some form of peer review. All these credibility points add up to the who-these-guys-are needle aiming toward rocket scientists.
From our workBench review page, we began browsing the site and found a treasure trove of valuable information and links. Here's a sampling:
History Content: website reviews, online history lectures, historic sites and museums, gateway to history content, ask-a-historian, links to national centers, and research tools
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Under Best Practices, and "Examples of Historical Thinking," we found a video of Professor Williamson thinking aloud about a "statement by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) regarding the 1925 Scopes Trial." We were delighted to find that in her "sourcing" this historical document before reading it, she was asking questions similar to ours: who are these guys? Where are they coming from? Why are they writing this?
Follow the links back to the site where Professor Williamson's video is based, and you'll find yourself in the Inquiry section of the Historical Thinking Matters website – another rich vein to mine. Right below Professor Williamson's video is an audio clip entitled "Using the Think Aloud." It explains Professor Williamson's thought process and why it is integral to the historical analysis of any primary source material.
Think Alouds seem like such powerful tools for influencing how students formulate questions and solve problems. This whole issue of molding thought processes seems so important that it took us back to the NHEC's other Examples of Historical Thinking.
There are powerful and transformative ideas here – and not just for historians and history teachers.
Dig in.
(Two brief corrections: not everyone wearing a beanie with a propeller is a wacko, and the value of .edu might be a bit wobbly for hogwarts.edu, Harry Potter's alma mater, where good intentions can't overcome the fact that all downloading is via owl.)


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HARRIS COUNTY - Authorities continue their search for an armed serial robber, who just walks into places with no disguise and robs the place and the patrons.
The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force is looking for 38-year-old Vu Hoang Bui, who has local business owners and employees scared.
Craig Cohen, owner of the Legends Pool Hall in League City, said he scared knowing that Bui is creeping around and robbing pool halls and cafes in Galveston, Fort Bend and Harris counties.
Authorities said he even killed the pool hall owner at Cafe Chieu Tim on Antoine Drive on Feb. 8. Police are afraid he is not acting alone and they think he has a wing man.
They order a couple of drinks, case the place. Once they felt comfortable and safe, they robbed the patrons inside including the bar owner, J.C. Helton, with Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force, said.
Helton is with the U.S. Marshals and he said Bui also tied up, robbed and beat the owner of Vu Bida Billiards on the 12000 block of Veterans Memorial on Jan. 24.
Police were able to link Bui to both crimes after they said he left evidence behind from the first murder. Helton said his sunglasses, keys and fingerprints were left on the pool table. Until police find Bui, they are sending out a message.
These guys are very brazen, Helton said. They ve escalated their violence. If there are any other patrons, they just need to abide by whatever they are asking.
Bui is about 5 feet 8 inches tall. A witness told police he may have fled in a chocolate-colored Toyota Camry with tinted windows.
I hope he gets caught, you re going to get what s coming to you, Cohen said.