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Under Wraps Parent Review
Movie Review
Kids' animations seem to have taken on a darker tone in the recent past. Movies like ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls and even Toy Story 3 all include perilous situations and some heavier themes. The direct-to-DVD movie Under Wraps doesn't go there.
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This is the story of a clichéd modern-day family, with two distracted working parents, a teenage daughter tethered to her cell phone and a younger brother who can't stay out of trouble. They temporarily live in a travel trailer on an archaeological site in the Egypt while Mom and Dad study the inside of an ancient tomb. Eleanor has been tasked with watching her younger brother Danny. But she is preoccupied with finding cell phone reception in the middle of the desert. Without any attentive supervision, Danny gives into his inquisitive inclinations and sneaks into the tomb where he makes off with an amulet.
His thievery sets in motion a series of unfortunate events, beginning with the mummification of his parents. Stumbling upon a spell to reverse the ancient curse, Eleanor and Danny discover they only have a short time to learn to work together before their parents will be forced to remain in wraps forever.
To say this script doesn't have moments of peril would be untrue. Sure, there's a gigantic mummified Pharaoh that chases the family through the streets of their hometown. And a couple of police officers (the stereotypically stupid kind) threaten the kids as well. But this is sheer Saturday morning cartoon fare—at least the kind of Saturday morning cartoons I grew up with. While the movie does include a bit of name-calling between siblings, an evil assistant and some moments of rude humor, there's no heavy agenda in this script or deep, menacing messages about the end of the world.
Instead this is a tale about a family that learns to appreciate one another, the importance of obedience and the unexpected delight of occasionally putting down digital devices and living in the real world.Directed by Gordon Crum. Starring Brooke Shields, Drake Bell, Matthew Lillard. Running time: 48 minutes. Updated October 14, 2014
Get details on profanity, sex and violence in Under Wraps here.
Under Wraps Parents Guide
What does Eleanor discover about her family after she gets off of her phone? Does she have any real life friends or only digital ones? Is it important to have a balance between online and off-line activities?
What danger does Danny put his family in when he refuses to obey his parents' instructions?
One character in this movie plans to profit from stealing ancient artifacts and selling them to the highest bidder. Should private collectors be able to own these items? Who do you think they should belong to? What is the most interesting artifact you have ever seen?


text: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen 40 1 Youtube Babies: Charlie Bit My Finger Again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM Evil-Eye Baby: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=evil+eye+baby&search_ty pe=&aq=0&oq=evil+ Funny Baby Blood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9WmKre5O2I The Marshmallow Test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWW1vpz1ybo 40 2 40 3 LANGUAGE STAGES Stage: Crying Cooing Babbling Intonation Holophrastic Pivot-Open Word Inflections Questions & Negatives Rare & Complex Lg Mature Speech Age: Birth 6 Weeks 6 Months 8 Months 1 Year 18 Months 2 Years 2 ½ Years 5 Years 10 Years (Aitchison 570) 40 4 CARETAKER SPEECH Simplified Vocabulary Simplified Phonology Exaggerated Pitch & Intonation Many Questions by Mothers Many Imperatives by Fathers Baby-Talk Words e.g. wawa, choo-choo, tummy, scambled eggs, pasghetti (Moskowitz 534) 40 5 ACQUISITION OF SOUNDS Properties of easy sounds: Front of the Mouth Total Articulation Muscles already Developed (in Nursing) Easy Sounds: /m, p, b, t, d/ Hard Sounds: /ŋ, Θ, ð, š, r, l/ clusters Easy sounds occur in more languages and are learned earlier by children. (Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams [2011] 333-335) 40 6 ACQUISITION OF WORDS vov-vov dog for dogs, kittens, hens, zoo animals mooi moon for moon, cake <O> anything round dany bell sound for bell, clock, telephone, doorbell quack duck sound ducks, birds, insects, coins (because a coin had an eagle on it) koko rooster crowing rooster, merry-go-round, musical sounds, all sounds (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 335-336) 40 7 [?aw] "not," "no," "don't" [s:] "aerosol spray" [b^?]/[m^?] "up" [sju:] "shoe" [da] "dog" [haj] "hi" [i?o]/[si?o] "Cheerios" [sr] "shirt" "sweater" [sa] "sock" [sæ:]/[esæ:] "what's that?" [aj]/[^j] "light" [ma] "mommy" [baw]/[daw] "down" [dæ] "daddy" (J.P. at 16 months) (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 336) 40 8 [pun] "spoon" [majtl] "Michael" [peyn] "plane" [dajt-r] "diaper" [tIs] "kiss" [pati] "Papi" [taw] "cow" [mani] "Momy" [tin] "clean" [b-rt] "Bert" [pol-r] "stroller" [b-rt] "Big Bird" (- is schwa) (Michael from 18-21 months) (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 341) 40 9 Michael systematically substituted the alveolar stop [t] for the velar stop [k] as in his words for "cow," "clean," "kiss," and his own name. He also replaced labial [p] with [t] when it occurred in the middle of a word, as in his words for "Papi" and "diaper." He reduced consonant clusters in "spoon," "plane," and "stroller," and he devoiced final stops as in "Big Bird." In devoicing the final [d] in "bird," he created an ambiguous form [b-rt] referring both to Bert and Big Bird. (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 341) 40 10 "Michael's substitutions are typical of the phonological rules that operate in the very early stages of acquisition." "Other common rules are reduplication— 'bottle' becomes [baba], 'water' becomes [wawa]; and the dropping of a final consonant—'bed' becomes [be], 'cake' becomes ke]. These two rules show that the child prefers a simple CV syllable." (Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams [2011] 341) 40 11 [dot] "don't" [th ap] "stop" [kh Ip] "skip" [kIdi] "kitty" [su] "shoe" [wajt] "light" [dæt] "that" [dawi] "dolly" [ph e] "play" [go] "grow" [d^p] "thump" ([ph ] [th ] [kh ] are aspirated [p] [t] and [k] respectively) [bæt] "bath" (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 371) 40 12 ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR Holophrastic (one part of speech) Pivot-Open (two parts of speech) Telegraphic (four parts of speech) Adult (eight parts of speech) Linguist (each part of speech has many subcategories) 40 13 THREE STAGES OF ACQUISITION OF MORPHOLOGY 1. Holophrastic: men, went, broke, brought Right Answer, but Wrong Reason 2. Rule-Governed: mans, goed, breaked, bringed Wrong Answer, but Right Reason 3. Knowledge of both Rules and Exceptions to the Rules: men, went, broke, brought Right Answer, and Right Reason NOTE: These stages also operate for adults learning a new profession (Moskowitz 533) (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 336, 370-371) 40 14 WHAT WOULD A CHILD SAY? children brought worst went sang knives better geese worse (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 371) best 40 15 GRAMMAR: TWO-WORD STAGE The two-word stage is also called the Pivot-Open stage because one of the words is usually a Lexical Word (an open set that refers to something), and the other word is a Functional Word (a closed set with grammatical rather than reference meaning). In the following sentences, indicate which is the Pivot word and which is the Open word: 40 16 Allgone sock. Hi Mommy. Byebye boat. Allgone sticky. More wet. It ball. Katherine Sock. Dirty sock. (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2007] 333) 40 17 See boy Push it. See soci. Move it. Pretty boat. Mommy sleep. Pretty fan. Bye-bye melon. More taxi. Bye-bye hot. More melon. (Adam, Eve, and Sarah) (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 369-370) 40 18 M. L. U. As children progress from the holophrastic to the pivot-open to the telegraphic to the mature stages of language development, a simple but effective gauge of their level of development is MLU. MLU means "Mean Length of Utterance." "MLU is the average length of the utterances the child is producing at a particular point." (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 347) 40 19 TELEGRAPHIC SPEECH During this stage of development, the functional categories like Determiners, Auxiliaries, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Expletives are missing. And the Lexical categories like Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs (usually without any suffixes) are present. 40 20 Cat stand up table. What that? He play little tune. Andrew want that. Cathy build house. No sit there. (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 347) 40 21 ACQUISITION OF MORPHOLOGY AGE 2: Progressive –ing: I singing. Plural –s: blue shoes. Copula am, is, are: He is asleep. Articles a, the: He is a doctor. (Aitchison 574) 40 22 ACQUISITION OF MORPHOLOGY 2 AGE 3: Third Person Singular –s: He wants an apple Past tense –d: I helped Mummy Full Progressive be + -ing: I am singing Shortened Copula: He's a doctor Shortened Progressive: I'm singing (Aitchison 574) 40 23 CHILD: Nobody don't like me. MOTHER: No, say "Nobody likes me." CHILD: Nobody don't like me. (dialogue repeated eight times) MOTHER: Now, listen carefully, say "Nobody likes me." CHILD: Oh, nobody don't likes me. (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 326) 40 24 ADULT: What does [maws] mean? CHILD: Like a cat. ADULT: Yes, What else? CHILD: Nothing else. ADULT: It's part of your head. CHILD: [fascinated] ADULT: [touching child's mouth] What's this? CHILD: [maws] (Neil Smith talking to 2-year-old Amahl) (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2007] 327) 40 25 CHILDREN'S METAPHORS Don't giggle me. I danced the clown. Yawny Baby—you can push her mouth open to drink her. Who deaded my kitty cat? Are you gonna nice yourself? CF: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2007] 361) 40 26 "WUG" AS A NOUN Make it plural. Make it possessive. Make it plural and possessive. (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 343-344) 40 27 "WUG" AS A VERB Put it after "he" in a sentence. Make it past tense. Make it a past participle. Make it a present participle. (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 343-344) 40 28 "WUG" AS AN ADJECTIVE OR ADVERB Make it comparative. Make it superlative. (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 343-344) 40 29 ACQUISITION OF NEGATIVES Stage One: "No you catch me." Stage Two: "You didn't caught me." Stage Three: "You didn't catch me." (Moskowitz 547) 40 30 ACQUISITION OF WH-QUESTIONS STAGE ONE: What Mummy doing? Why you singing? Where daddy go? STAGE TWO: Where you will go? Why kitty can't see? Why you don't know? STAGE THREE: Where will you go? Why can't kitty see? Why don't you know? (Aitchison, 575) 40 31 CHILD: Want other one spoon, Daddy. FATHER: You mean, you want the other spoon. CHILD: Yes, I want the other one spoon, please Daddy. FATHER: Can you say, "the other spoon"? CHILD: Other … one … spoon. FATHER: Say "other." CHILD: Other. FATHER: Spoon CHILD: Spoon FATHER: Other spoon. CHILD: Other … spoon. Now give me other one spoon? (Aitchison, 565)(Braine, 161) (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 327) 40 32 CHILD: My teacher holded the baby rabbits and we patted them. ADULT: Did you say your teacher held the baby rabbits? CHILD: Yes ADULT: What did you say she did? CHILD: She holded the baby rabbits and we patted them. ADULT: Did you say she held them tightly? CHILD: No, she holded them loosely (Aitchison 566)(Cazden 92) (Fromkin Rodman Hyams [2011] 325) 40 33 EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING Self-Directed Louding: Baby's getting a rash Rhetorical Questions: Don't you know I just wiped that off? Self-Answered Questions: What does the lamb say? Baaa. Limiting Questions: Do you want chocolate or vanilla? What is the function of egocentric speech? Do adults use this device? (Heath 617) 40 34 RESTRICTED AND ELABORATED CODES In 1971, Basil Bernstein distinguished between local language (restricted codes) and public language (elaborated codes). Restricted codes use "he" and "she" instead of "Mom" and "Dad." They use back channels like "You know." They use tags like "isn't it." They use fewer verbs and adjectives. They use more slang, fixed expressions, and cliches. (Bernstein 5) 40 35 ACQUISITION OF HUMOR Even babies have a sense of humor. Adults laugh with children who are playing peek-aboo or watching Sesame Street with its Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Young children are also fond of knock-knock jokes and riddles. (Nilsen & Nilsen 9-10) 40 36 TOILET HUMOR Alvin Schwartz says that children who are six or seven enjoy toilet humor because they no longer have accidents, but they still remember when they did. They like the following poem: 40 37 I see London; I see France. I see Betsy's underpants. They aren't green; they aren't blue. They're just filled with number two. They also like to talk about the secret parts of the body: Mary had a little bear, The best that she could find. And everywhere that Mary went, There was her bare behind. (Nilsen & Nilsen 11) 40 38 CONSERVATION HUMOR Paul McGhee told a joke to children of different ages: "A man goes into a pizza parlor and tells the server to cut his pizza into four pieces because he isn't hungry enough to eat six pieces." 1st Graders didn't laugh because they didn't get the joke. They hadn't yet mastered conservation. (Nilsen & Nilsen 10) 40 39 8th Graders didn't laugh because they had mastered conservation so long ago that there was no tension. The students in the middle grades laughed the hardest. They experienced pleasure because they could take pride in the fact that they were able to figure out that the amount of pizza was the same regardless of how many pieces it was cut into. (Nilsen & Nilsen 10) 40 40 !6 LEVELS OF HUMOR DEVELOPMENT In Antony Chapman's It's a Funny Thing, Humor, Alice Sheppard has outlined six levels of humor development for children: LEVEL 1 (IDIOSYNCRATIC): Involves amusement related to a young child's individual experience as with a surprise, a physical sensation, or a response to someone else's smile or laughter. (Nilsen & Nilsen 10) 40 41 !LEVEL 2 (NORMATIVE): Involves a generalization that implies a rule, or a convention. Later, the child will violate the rule or convention. LEVEL 3 (EXPECTATION): Involves a reference to the unusualness or the improbability of an event. LEVEL 4 (RELATIONAL): Involves concern for inner motives related to a situation, relations among events, and multiple aspects of the situation. (Nilsen & Nilsen 10) 40 42 !!LEVEL 5 (EXTRA-CONTEXTUAL): Involves context beyond the situation implied in the notion of parody, take-off, irony, or satire. It also involves the distinction between appearance and reality; the humor is revealed as contingent upon subtle aspects of events. LEVEL 6 (PHILOSOPHICAL): Involves the ability to see what is ridiculous in the nature of things and to generalize an outlook from humor examples. (Nilsen & Nilsen 10) 40 43 !!!Summary of Life 40 44 References: Aitchison, Jean. "Predestinate Grooves: Is There a Preordained Language `Program'?" (Clark, 560-579). Bernstein, Basil. Class, Codes and Control: Three Volumes. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971-1975. Braine, M. D. S. "The Acquisition of Language in Infant and Child." in The Learning of Language Ed. C. E. Reed. New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971. Cazden, Courtney. Child Language and Education New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. Chapman, Antony J., and Hugh C. Foot, eds. Humor and Laughter: Theory, Research, and Applications. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1996. 40 45 Clark, Virginia, Paul Eschholz, and Alfred Rosa. Language: Readings in Language and Culture, 6th Edition. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams. "Language Acquisition." An Introduction to Language, 9th Edition. Boston, MA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2011, 324-374. Fromkin, Victoria, Stephen Krashen, Susan Curtiss, David Rigler and Marilyn Rigler. "The Development of Language in Genie: A Case of Language Acquisition beyond the `Critical Period'" (Clark, 588-604). Groch, A. "Joking and Appreciation of Humor in Nursery School Children." Child Development 45.4 (1974): 1098-1102. Heath, Shirley Brice. "Teaching How to Talk in Roadville: The First Words" (609-625). 40 46 Hyams, Nina. Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters. New York, NY: D. Reidel Publishers, 1986. Lenneberg, Eric. "Developmental Milestones in Motor and Language Development (Clark, 556-559). McGhee, Paul E. How to Develop Your Sense of Humor: An 8-Step Humor Development Training Program. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1994. McGhee, Paul E. Humor and Children's Development: A Guide to Practical Applications. New York, NY: Haworth, 1989. McGhee, Paul E. Humor Log for the 8-Step Humor Development Training Program. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1994. 40 47 Miller, George and Patricia Gildea. "How Children Learn Words" (Clark, 580-587). Moskowitz, Breyne. "The Acquisition of Language (Clark, 529-555). Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen. "Acquisition of a Sense of Humor." Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Humor. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000, 9-11. Pines, Maya. "Genie: A Postscript" (Clark, 605-608). 40 48

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Chapter 8
She handed her self in the next day. Eyes glazed over, she walked up to the teachers during breakfast, and called out to the whole school.
'I did it. I killed Leo. I hated him. And he was just there on Halloween. I had to.' She shouted.
Guilt rushed through me. I did it, not her. And now she was going to be punished for it. I went to stand up, but Rosie grabbed my arm.
'Don't, Gwen. It was an accident. And you can't be blamed for it. She said this was ok.' Rosie hissed in my ear. I knew this wasn't true, but I didn't say anything. I knew what Rosie could do now. I wasn't going to get on her bad side.
The last we saw of Lynda was Dumbledore taking her out of the hall by the door behind him. In the next couple of weeks, there were rumours flying around about her. That she had been taken to Azkaban, given to the Dementors for the kiss. But the only thing people knew for certain was that she wasn't coming back. No one cared though. Not even Rosie. She acted as if Lynda had never existed.
For the next few weeks, Rosie kept quiet about doing other things. She said she wanted to make sure I was up to date on work, but I knew the real reason. I had kept up the late night listening, and had found out why. The Dark Lord had ordered that there was no more trouble.
'He has punished me for losing us a valued Helper. But he sees the reasons why I did it.' She had said to Adrian one night. 'He wants us to keep things to a minimum for the next few weeks- he can't loose any one else.'
Adrian snorted. 'Valued. She hated the kid, and wanted her gone. It was a good thing she was taken.'
'Yes, but the Dark Lord must not know that. He has to trust us.'
I had left after that. I truly did not understand what was going on. But I had an idea of how to find out. I knew that there was a truth potion. And I knew where to get it.


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Once Upon A Storm
Short Story by: ThornsHaveRoses
Status: Finished
Genre: Children Stories
"Mommy?" my daughter asked in that soft voice of hers, tugging on the edge of my skirt as we stood in line at the grocery store. And boy was this line long.
"Not now, sweetie. Mommy's on the phone," I said with a small smile directed down at her, pointing to the cell phone I was holding between my chin and my shoulder. She pouted and sighed, turning her baby blue eyes to the rows of candies. I shook my head and went back to Derek.
"So, are you feeling better today, honey?" I asked into the speaker of my old cell phone. My new one broke a few weeks ago, but with my fiancé, Derek, in the hospital; we just didn't have the money to repair it. In fact, this was my first grocery store trip in a week.
"No, not really," he mumbled. I had to turn up the volume so I could hear him clearly over the rain that pounded the tin roof of the cheap version of Wal-Mart we could afford. Where was the volume button…?
"I can't feel anything of my right leg. I can't move it, or anything. It's gone numb, Selena."
"Hold on Derek, just one second," I said as I pushed the cart forward a little, fumbling with my phone. "Alright, I had to turn up the volume, sweet heart. Sorry. Now what were you saying?"
A static sigh came from the other end.
"I…" I wasn't able to hear what he said because my phone burst into obnoxious beeping sounds.
"What the…?" I turned my phone around and stared at the dim screen. LOW BATTERY, it said. Now was not the time for this…
A tap on my shoulder sent my head whipping around to stare at the person responsible. He was a crinkled old man who smelled of spring gardens and maple syrup. His toothless mouth opened and closed as he pointed a shaky hand towards the door, where a little blonde head was bobbing its way towards the parking lot.
"A-Alice!" I cried out to my girl, dropping my phone and running after her, completely forgetting my cart in my panic. "ALICE!"
When I turned the corner I skidded to a stop. Tons of women were standing in front of the doors that didn't slide, but always stood open, rain or shine, gawking at something beyond. I stepped cautiously through the crowd until I got to the front, and found myself gawking as well.
Children were everywhere. Squatting in the mud, rolling in the damp grass, or just standing with their faces turned towards the gray sky. But not my Alice, who had just come out. She danced in the rain. Danced with another little girl, who laughed and giggled along with her. They were getting soaked, but they were having fun. How could that be?
I almost stomped out there to grab her by the arm and drag her back inside, where I would get back to Derek and my groceries. But a woman from the crowd beat me to it, walking slowly, almost with uncertainty, towards her daughter. The little black haired girl grinned up at her mother, rain washing down her dark cheeks, her eyes squinted, but sparkling. She grabbed her momma's hand and made her dance. Before I knew what was happening, they were both laughing and dancing and splashing.
I looked around at the faces of the other moms, and they were all smiling softly, their eyes all containing a childish sparkle identical to their children's.
I found myself grinning widely and dropped my purse on the ground, sprinting out to my daughter. I grabbed both her and the other girl into my arms and spun them around. We all laughed and danced and had the best of times. But the best part of it all was that I got completely soaked. I'd never laughed so much since Derek was in the hospital. There was really nothing much to laugh about.
But, as I discovered today, I was so wrong. There is so much to laugh about; it's funny how I didn't realize that earlier.
So, once upon a storm, I realized that maybe life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.
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Having initially kicked off the Vans 3 Feet High collection back in 2007, the program is set for a long overdue second installment. The first series featured the Chukka Boot as the shared template amongst DQM, HUF and KICKS/HI while this second time around sees the focus moved to the Half Cab. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.
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A Frozen Orchestra in Minnesota
The Minnesota Orchestra seemed to have it all: well-paid, world class musicians; a star conductor, Osmo Vänskä; a devoted audience in one of the most philanthropic cities in America. But last year, contract negotiations brought the orchestra to a screeching halt and management locked the players out of Orchestra Hall. An entire season of performances was cancelled, and the conductor quit. Fifteen months later, the situation remains at an impasse. Star Tribune critic Graydon Royce, who has reported on it extensively, tells Kurt Andersen, "without hyperbole, this is the most serious labor dispute in the last 40-50 years in the American symphonic world."
The dispute is complicated (excellent sources of information are here, here, and here.) At the center of it are steep cuts to the players' compensation; base pay under the old contract started at around $115,000 per year.
But Royce says the conflict has recently taken on a different tenor, in which "one side [doesn't want] to be seen as though we're giving into the other side. It gets beyond money." At one point, management bought up domain names such as "SaveOurMinnesotaOrchestra" that might be used by the musicians and their supporters — a tactic that surprises Kurt, belying the stereotype of "Minnesota nice." "You just got to cut deeper, Kurt, and you can find the ugly side inside us," Royce tells him.
Meanwhile, the Grammy-nominated musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra have raised $650,000 to fund a winter-spring season of 10 concerts of their own. That season kicks off this weekend with performances of Beethoven, Britten, and Mozart's Requiem at the Ted Mann Concert Hall at the University of Minnesota.
→ Management's last offer included an average salary of $104,500 for musicians. Do you think the musicians should have accepted it? Tell us in a Comment below.
UPDATE 1/14: Management and players have reached an agreement ending the lockout.
The musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra accepted a new contract that reduces their pay by 15% from 2012 levels. The musicians will be back in Orchestra Hall by February 1. It is not yet known whether Osma Vänska will return as Music Director.
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Of course, the whole point of Hate Speech laws and political correctness is to intimidate and chill anyone who dissents.
//Houston's embattled equal rights ordinance took another legal turn this week when it surfaced that city attorneys, in an unusual step, subpoenaed sermons given by local pastors who oppose the law and are tied to the conservative Christian activists that have sued the city.
Opponents of the equal rights ordinance are hoping to force a repeal referendum when they get their day in court in January, claiming City Attorney David Feldman wrongly determined they had not gathered enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. City attorneys issued subpoenas last month during the case's discovery phase, seeking, among other communications, "all speeches, presentations, or sermons related to HERO, the Petition, Mayor Annise Parker, homosexuality, or gender identity prepared by, delivered by, revised by, or approved by you or in your possession."
The subpoenas were issued to several high-profile pastors and religious leaders who have been vocal in opposing the ordinance. The Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a motion on behalf of the pastors seeking to quash the subpoenas.//
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Companies born before the internet took hold have an enormous challenge: improving their online products and services at the warp speed of their online competitors. The ability to make thousands of changes a day to its online retail service has been a key reason Amazon is expanding its online lead over Walmart and other historically "bricks and mortar" retailers. Amazon e-commerce revenue growth was 10 times Walmart's last year in dollar terms, and 1.5 times faster in percentage terms.
Other companies that are making the transition to the digital era face similar challenges from digital natives. Newspaper, pay TV, magazine and other media companies that have been losing customers in droves to digital media firms like the Huffington Post or Netflix. Virtual financial services firms such as Wealthfront and Betterment are siphoning investments from established banks through a great mobile app and a website. Even companies that make industrial products like cars, medical devices, and construction equipment are increasingly competing with digitally sophisticated firms like Tesla and Nest that regularly update their connected physical products online.
Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages:
From studying companies that excel at continuous online product innovation and companies that don't, I have found the leaders have five capabilities that laggards have yet to master or, in some cases, even begun to pursue:
To move fast on many fronts with minimal overhead, they are organized around small teams that are responsible for the building blocks of products (often called "services") and have full-time leaders. Each team is responsible for a small product function such as registering a new customer or taking a credit card payment. A team typically consists of three to seven people who have strong software engineering, product management, testing, and marketing skills. They require uncommon teamwork between marketing-oriented product managers and software developers with a technical orientation.
To make numerous fast changes, they automate testing and making product updates. In traditional development of physical products such as automobiles, barbecue grills, and medical devices, products go through a round of tests to make sure their core components work according to specifications and work together as a whole. This process can take months. But when a product is delivered online (e.g., a checking account via a mobile app, a streaming movie service, or an online newspaper), taking months to test updates can be a huge disadvantage against competitors that make changes daily. Product testing needs to be shortened from days, weeks, or months to minutes.
This can be achieved by automating the testing process. This entails taking the step-by-step testing that has traditionally been done by people (such as making sure that a new feature works the way it's supposed to) and coding those steps in software so that computers can do it fast yet reliably. Online companies usually have one system that scans for common coding errors and compliance with technical standards and another that puts the new or updated product into the field. Because many small changes will come from product teams, another system combines all the changes, tests their impact on each other, and reports any errors. Google runs hundreds of millions of tests each day on updates to its online products (the search engine, Gmail, YouTube, and others).
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Lahore, Jun.11 (ANI): Pakistan intelligence agencies have revealed that there exists a dirty nexus between local criminals and terrorists in Punjab, especially in the provincial capital Lahore, which has witnessed a spate of bloody terror strikes in the recent past.
According to intelligence inputs, there was damning evidence that the terrorist were providing various logistical support to the criminals to assist them in kidnapping for ransom and robberies in order to generate funds that they eventually use in carrying out terror attacks.
"Karachi has been known in the past as a place where terrorists collaborated with criminals to raise funds for their own activities, however, terrorists are now zooming in on Lahore," The Daily Times quoted sources, as saying.
Following the intelligence report, the top brass of the Lahore police have decided to maintain a comprehensive database of criminals, especially those who had been involved in robberies and kidnapping for ransom.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is strengthening its position in Punjab continuously and has joined hands with local 'jihadi' groups, but strangely enough the provincial government is living in denial, as it has opposed the idea of a Swat like military operation in the province.
While Interior Minister Rehman Malik had clearly pointed out that Punjab based terror organisations pose a great risk and that they are planning some major attacks across the country, provincial leaders believe that the situation is under control.
"Army operations are required only where there are no-go areas and there is no such situation in any part of Punjab," said Rana Sanaullah, Punjab Law Minister and a trusted aide of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
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text: SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (NYSE: HTA) announced today that it had executed a new $300 million senior unsecured, 4-year term loan (the "New Term Loan"). The New Term Loan replaces the existing $300 million term loan (the "Existing Term Loan") that was originally scheduled to mature in March 2016. The New Term Loan will have an initial maturity date of January 2018 and can be extended by HTA for up to 1 year, subject to certain conditions. Based on HTA's recent upgrade by Moody's to Baa2 (announced on December 19, 2013), the New Term Loan will be initially priced at LIBOR plus 120 bps. This represents a reduction of 65 bps from the borrowing cost on the Existing Term Loan as of December 18, 2013. The ratings upgrade also reduced the borrowing rate and facility fees on HTA's existing (i) $650 million revolving credit facility maturing in 2016 and (ii) $155 million term loan maturing in 2019. As a result, total interest expense savings on the current outstanding balances on these facilities are anticipated to total over $2.5 million in 2014. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC served as Joint Bookrunners and Joint Lead Arrangers with JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. serving as the Administrative Agent and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association serving as the Syndication Agent. U.S. Bank National Association, Fifth Third Bank, Capital One, N.A., Regions Bank, Compass Bank and Bank of Montreal were documentation agents. The Bank of Nova Scotia and PNC Bank served as managing agents. "The New Term Loan demonstrates the credit strengths of HTA's medical office building portfolio, its enterprise property management and leasing platform, and our strong and flexible balance sheet," stated Kellie S. Pruitt, Chief Financial Officer at HTA. "We are pleased to continue growing our relationships with these leading financial institutions." About Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (NYSE:HTA), a publicly traded real estate investment trust, is a full-service real estate company focused on acquiring, owning and operating high-quality medical office buildings that are predominantly located on or aligned with campuses of nationally or regionally recognized healthcare systems in the U.S. Since its formation in 2006, HTA has invested approximately $3.0 billion to build a portfolio of properties that is comprised of approximately 14.1 million square feet of gross leasable area located in 27 states. It operates its properties through regional offices in Scottsdale, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Dallas and Pittsburgh. For more information on Healthcare Trust of America, Inc., please visit www.htareit.com. FORWARD-LOOKING LANGUAGE This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, plans, estimates, assumptions and beliefs, including expectations, plans, estimates, assumptions and beliefs about HTA, stockholder value and earnings growth.


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If you have $4.65 to spare, you should head over to iTunes and purchase Bebe Rexha's debut EP I Don't Wanna Grow Up.
The singer, who gained noteriety for singing on Cash Cash's electronic smash hit "Take Me Home," has been working on releasing a new project for quite some time now, and it was definitely worth the wait. The five-song EP features the catchy melodies and vivid lyrics we've come to expect from the newcomer. Rexha displays the type of lyrical vulnerability and honesty we've come to expect from singer/songwriters such as Tove Lo and it is certainly refreshing.
The EP's title track is more subdued than we're used to from Rexha, production wise. "Nothing makes me feel like you do," she coos on the hook, showing off her beautiful head voice. And, the refrain on "Pray" will be stuck in your head for days. Guaranteed. Then, of course there are the emotionally-charged pop singles "I Can't Stop Drinking About You" and "I'm Gonna Show You Crazy."
If you're still not convinced it's worth purchasing, you can head below to stream the project in it's entirety.
Sidenote: I didn't realize Rexha co-wrote Tinashe's "All Hands On Deck" until Jon Ali pointed it out! The singer/songwriter previously co-wrote Eminem and Rihanna's "The Monster." Continue reading
MNEK combined Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" with B-52's' "Love Shack" earlier this year and it is still in heavy rotation in my home and car. Over the past year or so the singer/songwriter/producer has proven he has a talent for combining popular songs that you may not have thought would go well together and turning them in electronic monsters.
This time he's chosen to "refix" Cher's "Believe" and Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do." It's unexpectedly awesome in all of the best ways. And, even with all of the production surrounding his voice, his vocals still manages to stand out.
This "refix" doesn't have anything on the "A Thousand Miles" or "Never Leave You" (Lumidee) "refixes," but it's still pretty good.
MNEK recently released an EP titled Small Talk, which featured songs such as "Every Little Word," "The Rhythm" and "Wrote A Song About You." It was nice, but since fans had already heard many of those songs, I think it's safe to say we're already itching for new material. Continue reading
Tori Kelly's "Nobody Love" is pretty good as far as pop music goes. The feel-good Max Martin-produced track was a great way to introduce the YouTube star to a more mainstream audience. But, if you've been a fan of Kelly's for a while, the single may have left you worrying about the singer's future sound.
It's not uncommon for singer's to abandon their stripped-down, soulful sound the minute they find fame, but the title track for Kelly's debut album Unbreakable Smile finds the singer promising not to sell out.
Not only is the song more aligned sonically with Kelly's EPs, such as Forward, but the song also finds the singer promising she won't be taking off her clothes ("God made me sexy I don't care if only I know") or making tabloid headlines any time soon ("I'd rather make them yawn than be a pawn on your chess board").
Unbreakable Smile is scheduled for a June 23 release. Continue reading
I've been skeptical of Nate Ruess' solo album ever since he announced it, mostly because I'm a selfish fun. fan and I worry about what his solo success and the success of Jack Antonoff's side project Bleachers could mean for the band's future.
Ruess has released a buzz track from his forthcoming album Grand Romantic. "AhHa" is a raucous cut that takes a nod lyrically from fun.'s "Some Nights" ("It's for the best you didn't listen. It's for the best we get our distance."), because this whole solo project isn't confusing and emotional enough.
The song is as rambunctious and self-deprecating as anything you'd expect from Ruess, so his fans will certainly love it.
Grand Romantic is scheduled to be released on June 16. Continue reading
Bebe Rexha's "I'm Gonna Show You Crazy" has one of my favorite messages from the pop songs that have been released this year.
The song finds Rexha battling with mental illness and reeling against traditional methods of treatment. The newly released music video doesn't stray too much from this, although it isn't specifically about mental illness.
In the visuals, Rexha is sent to reform school after failing to get along with her prim and proper family members. Once there, she refuses to conform and ends up taking over the school, of course. This is a pop video, remember?
It's worth noting Bebe Rexha does look absolutely stunning in this video. It's great to see her coming into her own as an artists. She's been writing hits for major pop stars and now it looks like it may finally be her time to shine.
(It's also worth noting the acoustic version of this song is still amazing and way better than the single version.) Continue reading
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After hearing Travis Garland's cover of The Weeknd's "Earned It," I'm not entirely sure.
Travis Garland has always been able to make me swoon with his light falsetto, soulful vocal runs and sensual lyrics, but this cover takes all of that to new heights.
I like The Weeknd's version, which was created for the 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack, but it doesn't have anything on this version.
According to Garland's YouTube channel, the cover was recorded live at The Green Room in L.A.
I just want a new album. Is that too much to ask? Continue reading
"If no one knows it, it ain't really cheating."
No, Charlie, that's not really how this works, sir.
Singer Charlie Puth (you may know him from collaborating with Wiz Khalifa on the recent Furious 7 hit "See You Again") has released a new single ("I Won't Tell A Soul") ahead of his debut album and it and it's message is ridiculous, but the song itself is pretty darn catchy.
The doo-wop inspired ballad really highlights Puth's vocals and, to be fair, the lyrics lay out his argument in a way that
could be convincing (and, almost romantic?) if you're not careful.
This song will likely be the future anthem for side baes everywhere, but it can also be enjoyed by the people who don't agree with that arrangement.
Listen to the new release below. It's okay if you like it. We won't tell a soul. Continue reading
I've been waiting for Deborah Cox to make an album announcement since she recreated some of Whitney Houston's songs for the Lifetime biopic I Will Always Love You: The Whitney Houston Story.
For a quick minute I'd forgotten just how amazing her voice is.
Releasing the first single from her forthcoming six studio album, Cox revisits an old relationship on "More Than I Knew" with those powerhouse vocals that she's known for. "I miss you so much more than I ever loved you," she sings. Her raspy vocals really shine on this ballad and the lyrics are something I'm sure many people can relate to.
Cox is scheduled to release Work of Art on Aug. 15. Continue reading
Jessie Ware's "Say You Love Me" was one of my favorite love songs from 2014, which isn't surprising since Ed Sheeran co-wrote it.
The UK star appeared on CBS' Late Late Show with James Corden recently to perform the emotional track and she definitely did not disappoint.
Ware kept the performance simple, focusing on emoting and singing, but that's all that was needed for this type of song.
"Say You Love Me" is a single from Ware's 2014 sophomore album Tough Love
Watch the performance and share your thoughts below. Continue reading
Hilary Duff attempted a comeback last year, but it didn't go far. Songs like "Chasing the Sun" and "All About You" just weren't the monumental hits the singer needed to get fans excited for a comeback album. Duff wasn't alone in this, however. Gwen Stefani and Fergie's comeback efforts both had similar fates.
Duff isn't done trying, though. With the help of pop songwriter Tove Lo, the singer has made a solid attempt at radio gold. Her latest release, "Sparks," features a whistle refrain similar to Flo Rida's "Whistle" and a melody that would've fit right in on Lo's Queen of the Clouds debut album. It has all of the markings for a pop hit, but that may be the problem. It feels a little too manufactured at times.
That won't stop it from getting stuck in your head, though.
Give it a listen and share your thoughts below. Continue reading


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If the student scores 0 on any one of the first five items administered, administer the preceding items in reverse order until the student makes five consecutive correct responses. WIAT-II Discontinue Rule-vary by subtest and listed in record booklet WIAT-II Comprehensive Battery Subtests 1-Word Reading: Assesses the student's ability to read familiar words aloud from a list. Both accuracy and automaticity (speed of response) are measured. and WIAT-II 2-Pseudword DecodingAssesses the student's ability to apply phonetic decoding skills. WIAT-II 3-Reading ComprehensionReflects the type of reading conducted in general education classrooms. Initial items include matching a written word with its representative picture. Students also read different types of passages and respond to questions involving comprehension of the content. WIAT-II 4-Numerical Operations-Evaluates the student's ability to identify and write dictated numerals and solve written calculation problems and equations involving all basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division WIAT-II 5-Math Reasoning-Presents a series of problems both verbally and visually to assess the student's ability to reason mathematically. WIAT-II 6-Spelling-Evaluates the student's ability to spell by writing dictated letters, letter blends, and words. WIAT-II 7-Written Expression-Evaluates the student's writing skills at the letter, word, sentence and text levels by asking him or her to write the alphabet from memory within a time limit, to demonstrate written word fluency, to combine sentences, to generate sentences from written cues, and to produce a well constructed paragraph WIAT-II 8-Listening ComprehensionMeasures the student's ability to listen for details. 9-Oral ComprehensionMeasures receptive and expressive vocabulary WIAT-II Reading Word Reading Reading Comprehension Reasoning Pseudoword Reading WIAT-II Mathematics Numerical Operations Math Reasoning WIAT-II Written Language Spelling Written Expression WIAT-II 1-The WIAT yields two types of scores-raw scores and standard scores 2-Raw scores reflect the number of points earned by the student on each subtest WIAT-II 3-Raw scores are converted to standard scores for purposes of comparison with the general population 4-Each item (other than Written Expression) is scored as correct (1) or incorrect (0) WIAT-II 3 Levels of Comparison a-Composite Comparisons b-Achievement level with cognitive leveldiscrepancy c-Examination of the student's relative strengths and weaknesses through subtest comparisons and skill analysis WIAT-II Goals of Interpretation a-To provide a comparison with peers b-To provide information on the individual student's academic strengths and weaknesses and derive hypotheses to explain the student's pattern of scores ( explored further through other test data, classroom products, teacher observation, classroom observation etc.) WIAT-II 1-The Total Composite score is the most reliable and valid measure of the student's overall achievement in the 9 areas tested WIAT-II 2-It provides information on how the student's performance compares to that of peers. Is the student functioning on, above or below level WIAT-II Next we compare the individual Composite Scores with each other to determine whether the student's academic skills are evenly or unevenly developed WIAT-II EXAMINEE: Haley Keller REPORT DATE: 12/4/03 AGE: 11 years 9 months GRADE: Not Specified DATE OF BIRTH: 2/18/92 ETHNICITY: <Not Specified> EXAMINEE ID: Not Specified EXAMINER: Emily Martinez GENDER: Female Tests Administered: WISC-IV (6/12/03) WIAT-II (6/12/03) Age at Testing: WISC-IV (11 years 3 months) WIAT-II (11 years 3 months) Is this a retest? No WIAT-II Example WIAT-II Results WIAT-II Reason for Referral Referral information for Haley is unknown at this time. Home There is no data available regarding Haley's parent(s), guardian(s), living arrangements, or family stressors. Language There is no data available regarding Haley's language. Development There is no data available regarding Haley's pregnancy, birth and developmental history. WIAT-II Health There is no information available regarding Haley's sensory/motor status. There is no information or behavioral observations available regarding Haley's medical, psychiatric, and neurological status. There is no data available regarding Haley's use of medication and substances. WIAT-II School There is no information provided regarding Haley's early educational history. Haley's school performance with regard to her attendance, conduct, and academics are unknown at this time. Haley's past and recent performance on standardized achievement tests is unknown at this time. WIAT-II Behavior Observation There are no additional behavioral observations regarding Haley's appearance, affect, test-taking attitude and behavior. WIAT-II SUBTESTS* RAW STD 95% PR NCE S9 AGE/EQU GRADE/EQU Word Reading 79 72 67- 77 3 11 1 7:8 Reading Com 108** 83 76- 90 13 26 3 8:8 Pseudoword 12 75 70- 80 5 15 2 6:4 Numerical Op 28 103 94- 112 58 54 5 11:4 Math Reason 40 91 83- 99 27 37 4 10:0 Spelling 27 88 82- 94 21 33 3 9:4 Written Expres 12 78 65- 91 7 19 2 8:0 Listening Comp 22 84 70- 98 14 28 3 8:4 Oral Expression 20 83 71- 95 13 26 3 7:8 2:6 3:2 1:7 5:8 4:8 3:8 3:0 3:2 3:0 WIAT-II COMPOSITES* RAW STD INTERVAL PR NCE S9 Reading 230 75 71- 79 5 15 2 Mathematics 194 96 89- 103 39 44 4 Written Language 166 82 74- 90 12 25 3 Oral Language 167 81 70- 92 10 23 2 Total 757 80 76- 84 9 22 2 Interpretation of WIAT-II Results Reading Haley presents a diverse set of skills on different aspects of reading. She performed much better on tasks that assessed her capability to read sentences and paragraphs and answer questions about what was read (Reading Comprehension standard score = 83) than on tasks that required her to correctly read a series of printed words (Word Reading standard score = 72). A relative strength in comprehension skills as compared to reading words in isolation may indicate that WIAT-II Haley is able to derive meaning from text using context clues but may not have learned vocabulary words to automaticity. For this reason, the Reading Composite score may not be the most accurate manner in which to summarize her reading skills. Her Reading Comprehension subtest score is higher than only approximately 13% of her peers, placing these skills in the Low Average range. Haley's performance on Word Reading is within the Borderline range and exceeds that of approximately 3% of students her age. WIAT-II Mathematics In overall mathematics skills Haley performed in the Average range, as indicated by her Mathematics Composite standard score (96). However, her skills in this area exceed that of only approximately 39% of students her age. Haley's performance on tasks that required her to add, subtract, multiple, and divide one- to three-digit numbers (Numerical Operations standard score = 103) is comparable to her performance on tasks that requires her to understand number, consumer math concepts, geometric measurement, basic graphs, and solve one-step word problems (Math Reasoning standard score = 91). WIAT-II Haley performed in the Low Average range in overall language skills, as indicated by her standard score on the Oral Language Composite (81). Her skills in this area exceed those of only approximately 10% of students her age. Haley performed comparably on tasks that required her to identify the picture that best represents an orally presented descriptor or generate WIAT-II a word that matches the picture (Listening Comprehension standard score = 84) and generate words within a category, describe scenes, and give directions (Oral Expression standard score =83). WIAT-II Written Language In overall written language skills, Haley performed in the Low Average range, as indicated by her Written Language Composite standard score (82). Her achievement in this area is better than of only approximately 12% of students her age. Haley's performance on tasks that required her to generate words within a category, generate sentences to describe visual cues, combine sentences, and compose an organized paragraph (Written Expression standard score = 78) is comparable to her performance on tasks that required her to correctly spell verbally presented words (Spelling standard score = 88). WIAT-II Strengths And Weaknesses Compared to Haley's mean score for all WIAT-II subtests, her performance is significantly better in Numerical Operations, indicating that this is an area of relative strength for her. Compared to those of other children her age, however, her skills in this area are in the Average range. WIAT-II Word Reading and Pseudoword Decoding are notable weaknesses for Haley. Her scores on these subtests are significantly less than her mean score for all WIAT-II subtests, indicating that these are areas of lower performance relative to her other skills. She performed better than only approximately 3% and 5% of her peers on Word Reading and Pseudoword Decoding, respectively. Thus, Haley may experience great difficulty keeping up with other students when these skills are needed.


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JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa, Minett
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 221 smoke-free guestrooms
- On a private beach
- 4 restaurants
- Full-service spa
- Indoor pool and 3 spa tubs
- Breakfast available
- Fitness center
- Valet parking
- Business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
Feel at home
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Kitchenette
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Stovetop
- Microwave
What's around
- The Rock Golf Course (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
- Muskoka Sports and Recreation (1 mi / 1.6 km)
- The Port Carling Wall (9.9 mi / 15.9 km)
- Muskoka Lakes Museum (9.9 mi / 16 km)
- WildRose Designs Gallery (11.5 mi / 18.5 km)
JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa, Minett
Hotel Info: 855-239-9485from $186
- Standard Room, 1 Bedroom, Balcony
- Junior Suite, 2 Bedrooms, Balcony, View
- Standard Room, 1 Bedroom, Sea View
- One Bedroom Corner
- Suite, 1 Bedroom
- Studio, 1 King Bed with Sofa bed, Fireplace, No View
- Suite, 1 Bedroom
- Studio, 2 Queen Beds, Fireplace, No View
- Deluxe Studio, 1 King Bed
- Studio, 1 King Bed with Sofa bed, Balcony
- House, 1 Bedroom
- Penthouse Suite
- Executive Suite, 2 Bedrooms, Balcony, View
- Studio, 2 Queen Beds, Balcony
- Studio, 1 King Bed with Sofa bed, Balcony, View
- Junior Suite, 2 Bedrooms, Fireplace, No View
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 221 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
- Check-in time starts at 4 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Free self parking
- Valet parking *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
Nearby Four Star Minett hotels
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast (surcharge)
- 4 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Room service (during limited hours)
- On private beach
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Number of spa tubs - 3
- Steam room
- Business center
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 10
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Wedding services
- Porter/bellhop
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Iron/ironing board
- Premium bedding
- Fireplace
- Private bathroom
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Flat-screen TV
- Premium TV channels
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Kitchenette
- Stovetop
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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Special features
Spa Rosseau has massage/treatment rooms and couples treatment room(s). Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. The spa is equipped with a sauna. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
DiningCottages - This restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner.
Teca - This restaurant serves dinner only.
On Site
- Fitness facilities
- Steam room
- Free bicycles on site
- Ecotours on site
- Fishing on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Ice skating on site
- Kayaking on site
- Motor boating on site
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Snowmobiling on site
- Snowshoeing on site
- Water skiing on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa, Minett's small print
Also known as
- JW Marriott Resort Muskoka
- JW Marriott Rosseau Muskoka Minett
- JW Marriott Rosseau Muskoka Resort Minett
- Jw Marriott Minett
- The Rosseau, a Jw Marriott Hotel Minett
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
A resort fee is collected at the property. From now - May 18, 2017 and October 10, 2017 - May 17, 2018, the resort fee is CAD 29. From May 19 - October 9, 2017 and May 18 - October 8, 2018, the resort fee is CAD 39. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- Resort fee: CAD 39.00 per accommodation, per night
Optional extras
Valet parking costs CAD 30 per day
Rollaway beds are available for CAD 30.00 per night
Breakfast costs between CAD 8 and CAD 20 per person (approximately)
Cribs/Infant beds are available for CAD 20 per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.3 /5 from 173 reviews
My cousin had a birthday party for wife at keebala,Motley crue was there is was a private party was amazing
We had a fantastic long weekend to celebrate our wedding anniversary and "babymoon!" Fantastic weather let us kayak, paddleboard, bike, and do lots of walking in a gorgeous setting with lovely staff. We had a lovely afternoon at the spa, and enjoyed the private pool area, as well. Great dinners at both Teca and Cottages, but also enjoyed having Port Carling a quick drive away for other dining and shopping options.
In town for a friend's wedding.Great location, very relaxing. The pool area and spa could use an updating on their decor. Outside of that, beautiful place.
The entire facility is supposed to be smoke-free. However, not true. Cigarette and cigar smoke throughout our stay. Very unpleasant. Also, breakfast buffet was below average. That said, the facility is amazing. Great location/views. Appears to be a lot of activities for families.
Defiantly will recommend this resort. My experience was great. I read some bad reviews, and sorry that it happened to the Marriott guests. From experience I can tell that everything was amazing, service, room, amenities was excellent.
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Christie Brinkley broke down yesterday as she told a court how her pornography obsessed husband cheated on her with a 18-year-old employee.
The 54-year-old former supermodel said: 'My world was completely shattered.'
Taking the stand on day two of the sensational trial, the 54-year-old also revealed her true feelings about architect husband Peter Cook.
'I think a certain amount of anger would be perfectly normal,' she said.
'After all I supported this man for almost ten years, he never paid for a single thing and he lived a wonderful life all the while he was carrying on like this behind my back.
Court battle: Christie Brinkley leaves court yesterday with her lawyer Robert Cohen after giving her bombshell evidence
'It goes without saying that there was a certain amount of anger.'
The former cover girl is battling for custody of her two children Jack, 13, and 10-year-old Sailor at Central Islip Supreme Court in Suffolk County.
Brinkley first challenged 49-year-old Cook's claim that their children had no inclination about his addiction to online pornography.
She recalled working side by side with son Jack at the computer as he researched ancient Sumeria on the Internet for a school project.
Brinkley told the court: 'Suddenly a pornography slideshow pops up that was stored on the computer and it was like pictures of women piled on women.
'It made me wonder what else could he come across on the computer. What else could Jack inadvertently uncover.'
The former supermodel went on to discover Cook's profile on an online swingers site.
'It was not a voyeur site,' she said. 'It was to put people together and that was more than I could really bear.
'The man who I was living with, I didn't know who he was.'
Torrid affair: Cook and Bianchi began having sex shortly after the-then 18-year-old started working in the 49-year-old architect's office
Brinkley claimed the profile offered to take woman shopping or even pay cash for sex.
She also discovered evidence of Cook's romp's with his teenage mistress at a vacant property the couple purchased as an investment.
There was beer and wine stocked in the fridge and a bed in an otherwise empty house.
'The sheets had been rumpled and there was a long black hair in the bed,' the blonde Brinkley recalled.
The court heard how Brinkley first learned of her husband's infidelity at a school graduation ceremony in June 2006.
She had just delivered the commencement address, when a man approached her as she left the podium.
As pupils collected their diplomas on stage, the man whispered into her ear.
'Suddenly, I heard these words, "That husband of yours just won't knock it off. He's having an affair with my teenage daughter and that bastard won't knock it off and I have to come to you",' Brinkley said.
The man was Brian Platt, stepfather of then 19-year-old Diana Brianchi, the office assistant who'd been working in Cook's office.
'I said, "What did you say?" At this point my eyes were fading out at the edges, this tunnel vision in a way,' Brinkley recalled.
She stared at Cook and seeing him look on in horror as Platt spoke. Her husband shook his head, she said, and repeatedly mouthed the word 'no'.
'I looked at Peter and he was just going "no" and I thought it's true - he did that,' she added.
Happier times: Christie Brinkley with husband Peter Cook
Confronting him afterwards, she recalled shouting at him: 'How could you?'
Brinkley added: 'And he said, "You are not going to believe that man over are you? ...
'The man's a drunk ... He's murdered somebody and you can't believe a word he said".'
Realising that she could no longer trust her husband, Brinkley described driving away from their home. 'I just started driving away from the perfect life,' she said.
She claimed Cook threatened to commit suicide several weeks after she discovered his affair.
Cook phoned her up in a hysterical state: 'He was sobbing and said he was driving erratically and that, "I'm going to drive into a tree."
'I said, "Pull over. You need help." He said, "No, I'm going to kill myself." Then I spent the rest of the day trying to find a place he could go to get help.'
Earlier, Brinkley's best friend Jill Rappaport recalled the moment the former supermodel told her of her husband's philandering.
Rappaport, who first introduced Brinkley to Cook, found her pulled over on the roadside on June 25, her knees all bloody from sobbing hysterical on the gravel.
"'Please tell me this isn't true, please tell me this is a nightmare,'" Rappaport said Brinkley pleaded.
Uptown girl: Brinkley and Billy Joel after the singer/songwriter penned the global hit, Uptown Girl, about the supermodel
Cook's lawyer attacked Brinkley's emotional testimony, referring to her acting background.
Brinkley responded with a laugh, declaring, 'If you want to call me an actress, that's fine. I'm no Meryl Streep, but I have been in a very successful movie.'
Brinkley had a small role in successful 1983 comedy National Lampoon's Vacation.
She added: 'Thirty years later, it's still got legs, what can I say? Thanks for the promotion.'
Outside the court yesterday, Cook also criticised his estranged wife's testimony, declaring: 'Shrek was more believable.'
Miss Bianchi claimed on the stand on Wednesday that Cook also hid cash for her under a rock and gave her £7,500 to help her buy a Nissan Maxima in 2005.
Cook met Miss Bianchi while she was working at a Hamptons toy store in 2004.
He said he soon hired her to work at his architecture firm, paying her £10,000 to type magazine articles on to the company's website.
Before long, he seduced her while they were working together in the office, she testified.
Leaving court, Cook underlined the bitterness of the 2006 break-up by telling reporters that the Shrek animated film 'was more believable' than Miss Brinkley's evidence.
The couple married in 1996 and she filed for divorce two years ago amid the public scandal over the affair.
Miss Brinkley, who has been married four times and inspired Billy Joel to write the song Uptown Girl, has a daughter, Alexa Ray, 22, with Joel; a son Jack, 13, with third husband Richard Taubman; and a daughter Sailor Lee, ten, with Cook.
Cook adopted Jack shortly after they wed in 1996. The couple are battling for custody of Jack and Sailor Lee.


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About face
When will the Facebook juggernaut slow down? The number of people using the social networking site grew by 270 per cent last year. Watch out for the next big thing: Phonebook - a social utility that connects you to your actual friends.
Boardroom Blitz
On Tuesday, BSkyB bought 100 per cent (not '110 per cent, Sir Alan') of Sir Alan Sugar's Amstrad for £125m. Cue numerous 'You're hired' headlines in all papers.
What's sauce for the Goose
The media went 'goosing' mad after builder Rufus Burdett pinched the bottom of Channel 4 News reporter Sue Turton on air. Admirably, Turton barely flinched. Rufus escaped with a caution. About 400,000 people had a gander at the footage on YouTube.
Camera obscurer
On Tuesday, ITV admitted that its documentary on Alzheimer's disease, Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell, did not, contrary to what the media had been led to believe, show sufferer Malcolm Pointon's death; he died two and a half days after the scene in the film. Not what the network needed as it awaits its Deloitte report into premium-rate phone competitions.
Hand on at EMI
Private equity firm Terra Firma got its hands on EMI on Thursday. It was a nail-biting finish for Guy Hands, though. His £2.4bn offer was almost scuppered by chaos in the debt markets.
Good week for ...
James Murdoch, boss of satellite broadcaster BSkyB and son of Rupert, who makes almost £3m annually. It was revealed on Tuesday he earned £2.9m last year, including a Sky-high £1.9m bonus.
Bad week for ...
BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons, again under scrutiny. The Lords communications committee said ministers had too much control over hiring the BBC boss. Is that the sound of a bolting horse I hear?
Headline of the week
Shoplifting squirrel steals kinder eggs
Der Spiegel


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Here Today
The Denver Botanic Gardens is living in the past this summer, beginning with the installation of dinosaurs, or at least a bevy of life-sized sculptures of same, which are strewn about the gardens in scary proximity to the pathways. And while Jurassic Gardens: Evolution and Extinction is clearly just there for fun, the DBG also takes on the idea of extinction from a more serious point of view with the May 23 opening of Extinction: Artists Respond, a fine-art exhibit of works by Colorado artists that was juried by two of the towns high-profile art mavens: Simon Zalkind of the Mizel Arts Centers Singer Gallery and Ivar Zeile of Plus Gallery.
The hardest part of putting this show together, both jurors agree, was the difficulty of picking and choosing from online submissions, and while both obviously looked for works that stood out aesthetically, they had to go a bit further in hoeing a virtually weed-free garden. I had to ask myself what the obvious choice would be versus how something fit into the parameters of the concept in a different way, Zeile notes. This process led both jurors to look for unique interpretations of extinction and how it relates to the unexpected endangered places of modern life beyond the natural world: newspapers, for instance, or the classic Volkswagen Beetle. The seventeen chosen entries, Zeile adds, only begin to tell the story.
Expect this to be a small but very good show. The exhibit continues through July 26; an opening reception takes place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. May 28 (RSVP at email@example.com). For details, log on to www.botanicgardens.org or call 720-865-3500.
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What is AAT?
The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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About MeMODEL | PHOTOGRAPHER
I was the featured sex columnist for GET OUT! Magazine; titled "The City: series of Sexual Ambivalence" | www.getoutmag.com
Becoming… Entertainer | Model | Web Reality | Writer | Actor
Also, one of the ORIGINAL Cast Members for "Made for Manhattan"
I've always been a man of the arts. I love to write (poems, Songs, Short stories) Photography, Videography, Phoneography, NOT Scientology. lol
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Blake, William. That's really all you need to know. That and "Don't dream it, be it!"
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Credit NotesI'm Creator of a new comedy miniseries 'INFAMOUS | icons' which features several parody skits [each episode running 1-4 minutes long. the first of it being "JUST💋KIM KARDASHIAN"; I play kim kardashian.
I was the featured sex columnist for GET OUT! Magazine; titled "The City: series of Sexual Ambivalence" | www.getoutmag.com
Made For Manhattan - Reality Show
Cover & 4 Page Spread in the Dec 2010, of Get Out! Magazine
Full EXCLUSIVE Article written & photographed by Myself in Get Out! Magazine (April,2012)
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- 1 the day before today Yesterday was Sunday. What happened at yesterday's meeting?
- 2 (also yesterdays [plural]) the recent past Yesterday's students are today's employees. All her yesterdays had vanished without a trace. Word OriginOld English giestran dæg (from yester- Old English geostran, of Germanic origin + day).
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Bastille's New "Oblivion" Video
I thought Bastille was giving us something last week on the 14th (since it was Bastille Day and Dan Smith's birthday!) but ok, I'll take what we got today. Better late than never!
The guys released the new video for their song "Oblivion", starring Sophie Turner from Game of Thrones and a bunch of cars getting mangled!
Seeing this, now I want to set something up where we can have Bastille involved in a demolition derby! They're pretty adventurous, I bet they'd do it. Or at least be there watching the REAL sport of kings!