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Like a straight-laced teetotaler at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, I am a horrible ambassador for grading reform. I am possibly the worst person to try to explain how to change someone else's classroom into a standards-based learning environment because it was never much of a struggle for me. I saw a need to reform my grading practices and I did it. Most of what I read leading up to the changes I've made said that it would be a tough and nasty fight, mistakes would be made, and that I should expect resistance from all the different stakeholders in the system. Mistakes have been made, for sure, but I'd call that "learning what works." The fights and nastiness have never really materialized, save for a few parents of "A students" who were less than thrilled to suddenly have "B students."
With that said, I now find myself advocating for SBL/SBG and am being mentioned/linked occasionally here and there, including at my own little high school. My principal has asked me, along with 3 other teachers trying various implementations of SBL, to present the topic at an upcoming faculty meeting.
Here's my problem: how do I go back and put myself in the mindset of someone who is just now hearing about this "new" standards-based learning/grading stuff and make the case that teachers should make sweeping changes to how they assess and grade students? How do I show how awesome standards-based learning can be for them and their students without seeming to preach that everyone needs to drop what they're doing and adopt it now, now, now!?
Its probably going to sound preachy no matter what I do, that's in the eye of the beholder and can't really be changed on my end, but I think the message will be better received if I focus on describing my journey rather than telling people how to do SBL in their classroom. After all, a science teacher like me sure isn't going to know much about what standards an English teacher wants to use in their classroom. Best to stick to the why, and not so much the how.
To my mind there are three "why" questions that keep popping up about SBL that teachers will want to hear about. They are interrelated "whys," but are indeed separate aspects of the reasons lots of people, myself included, are trying out standards-based learning systems.
Q #1: Why use standards-based learning instead of a points-based system?
A1: Because assessment of learning and Assignment of Grades Should be completely separate.
Assessment of learning lets both you and the student know whether they understand the content knowledge and skills that are needed to master a particular course. Grading, however, is a teacher's judgement call about the relative location of a student's performance on some scale of "gradations" that has been established for the purposes of comparison.
If we start from a mindset of assessment of learning, then we have to start from an exploration of the standards and performance indicators for students: What is it that I need to assess? What content and performance standards do students need to demonstrate? How will everyone know that they've been successful at meeting these learning targets? The observation of performances of specific learning targets helps focus such a system on assessment of student learning and does not necessarily have to lead to a letter grade.
However, if I start from a mindset of assigning points for each assignment, and those points always go into the gradebook to help me determine a student's grade, then I am not assessing learning, I am grading, right from the start. There is only one measurement that happens when everything students do is worth points, and it is not measurement of learning. Accumulated points measure assignment completion; they measure compliance. Which is fine, if you believe that teaching compliance is the goal your classroom. However, if you are one of the thousands of teachers struggling to write lesson plans that claim to assess the CCSS and NGSS or CAS or whoever's "S", just so you know, "S" is for Standards, and "C" is never for compliance. It should be about the learning.
I tackled this issue a while back by reducing point values to almost nothing, a simple binary grading system of 1's and 0's for most assignments. It worked to some extent, in that it minimized the point values given to formative assessments that really had no business being included in a final evaluation of a student's learning. Most points came from tests and quizzes, which were more appropriate assessments of student learning, but still, the signal to noise ratio was pretty terrible for everyone concerned. If you were getting a 78% in my class back then, you only knew that you had to work "harder" or turn in more stuff to move up to a B. That 78% rating didn't tell students what they were good at, only that they had turned in or "earned" 78% of the points possible. They might not even have to change a thing about their performance in the class if I curved the grades to make them more "realistic."
Even with points minimized, my students were still at the mercy of the numbers game, portrayed so well in this pic taken from this awesome resource by Thomas Guskey (via Scott McLeod):
Short answer to the question: None of these mathematical tweaks is best. No single one is any more fair than the others. They are all horrible at showing exactly what a student did or did not do to earn those numbers. Does your gradebook look like this? Mine did. It annoyed me, so I ditched it completely (and no, you don't have to–see the first paragraph of this post).
Q #2: Why allow for multiple chances to prove mastery of a standard?
A2: You don't have to.
Admit it. You hate the idea of retests, reassessments, and grading the same assignment over and over forever and ever until the end of the semester.
But there is no set rule in the (non-existent) SBL playbook that says that you have to give students every chance in the world to pass a test about one of your standards. Nor is there a rule that says you have to give different assessments for the same standard. In fact, there are no rules about the "right" or "wrong" way to do reassessments in SBL.
A rational person will, however, recognize that the goal of a teacher-student relationship should be to demonstrate learning, and if we are talking about a standards-based classroom, then the learning should correlate to particular learning targets. If a student happens to miss the target or fail to provide evidence for learning that standard, wouldn't the kind thing to do be to give them another shot at it?
Normal (i.e. non-SBL) teachers have a word for this: its called differentiation. Differentiation happens easily in an SBL system, but too often I hear people bashing SBL for its mushy deadlines and hippy-dippy approach to letting students have one more chance to prove themselves. Honestly, if you are really into training students to be compliant with your one-shot tests and strict deadlines, then maybe this whole differentiation thing isn't exactly for you anyway. (I'd start working on your grading curve now)
Q #3: Why use standards-based portfolios of student learning?
A3: Because communicating standards-based learning in a report card is awful.
One of the noted failings of SBL is how ironically terrible the communication of student achievement can get. Standards-based report cards are notoriously cryptic if short enough for human consumption (STD3.1.1a = P) and horrendously long if written so that anyone other than a curriculum specialist can understand it (Learn and Understand Biology-Related Terminology, Concepts, Representations, and Models: Biomolecules: Understand the structure and function of important biomolecules such as carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins). Furthermore, SBL-based grade reporting usually requires tweaks of existing online gradebook programs and parent info portals, often with confusing and inconsistent results. I've seen those kinds of report cards. They are not helpful.
Instead, why not give parents something to see that demonstrates their kids' achievements in your class. Show them the actual work that demonstrates that their child can analyze data, communicate well, or work in collaborative groups for the betterment of all. Show off your student's work, sorted by standard. This communicates both your standards and the efforts that students have put in to meet those standards.
Also, portfolios give students a guide to what they need to accomplish while in your classroom. A blank portfolio delivered to them at the beginning of the year is the gauntlet that you throw down to challenge them: "I dare you to fill this in with proof that you can learn how to do all these things." Its one more tool that helps hand off the burden of learning to the student.
Alt A3: You don't have to.
Standards-based learning is just that: a system of activities and assessments centered around defined learning goals rather than accumulation of points for a grade. Each and every way that teachers use to keep track of learning by standards will work, even without portfolios. Make a spreadsheet. Use your existing grade book, just change the headers on your columns. Even if you use (gasp) numerical representations of learning, a.k.a points, to keep track of achievement in individual standards, you're still ahead of where you and your students were back when they were counting up how many points they needed for an A and you were wondering how far to curve the latest exam to make the class average a 75%.
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Chris – would it be possible for you to talk a little about feedback?
More specifically, I'm trying to get a feel for how daily learning activities are handled differently than "desks in rows" paper and pencil assessments when it comes to feedback. Does all of your feedback end up in Blue Harvest or is some feedback written directly on work the students do?
Chris–I enjoyed reading your assessment of SBG. I agree with you that teachers should have the choice of giving re-takes. Sometimes I give a retake, but only one per test or quiz, not multiple tries. That's partly for my sanity and the fact that I've seen too many kids in other classes take advantage of the unlimited re-take policy and they are not learning the material, only learning how to manipulate the system. But retakes can only be earned if they have done all of the formative assessments (HW) beforethe summative assessment. Other times, I don't give a retake. I let the kids know if there's going to be one or not. Usually in my AP chemistry class, I give a retake on the really hard topics but not the historically easy ones. I also agree with the policy of making HW not count for a grade since the HW is used as a formative assessment. Plus, this saves me tons of time with grading. What I struggle with is the idea that you have to assign a grade based on a 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 scale. There are arbitrary cut-offs in any scale whether it's out of 100 points and you use an 80% as a B or on a 0-4 scale and you think that a 3 is a B. Teachers that have used SBG scales in our school have half-points available (i.e.–3.5, 2.5, 1.5) to help when they are grading a summative assessment and they are struggling with the choice of giving a student a score of a 3 or a 2. Anyway, what's silly about SBG in our building is that these numbers of 4, 3, 2, or 90%, 80%, 70% still get turned into a letter grade on the final report card. So either way, you are telling a college that a kid is an A, B, or C student no matter what system you use. Finally, can you tell me how all of your SBG grades for the semester get combined into one final score? Do you use the mean, median or mode or some other system?
Dan, I hope it's ok if I throw in here until Chris responds. Under the system I currently use we have defined the scores 1-4 to mean something other than A, B, or C. So a 2, for example, means that you can accomplish the task but need a little assistance to get there. Scoring a 1 means that you need additional teaching. A three means that you have accomplished the task without any additional help – on your own. And a 4 means you have been able to show understanding that goes beyond what is explicitly taught in class. The strength of these definitions is that a student or parent can look at the grade book and instantly see where help is needed – namely any score that is a 1 or 2. It is very easy to get parents and students to understand that 1 and 2 mean "needs to get some more help and you know when I am available to get it". Whereas under the old system a 75% might be ok or not ok depending on the student and parent. The hope is that we replace the old thinking – "Oh, I got a 75%" with new thinking – "Oh, I got a 2, that isn't good enough yet so I better get in for some help." The weakness in the system is that although a score might indicate more help is needed, it doesn't actually provide any help. So I am at a point now where if something isn't a 3 or 4 I don't score it and just provide feedback and time for the students to respond to the feedback. Really, the system needs to be "good to go" or "not yet". So, I guess my grade book would have 3's, 4's, and blanks (or incompletes?) in it as we go through the semester. My plan for next year is to leverage Blue Harvest for facilitating the conversations about the feedback I give.
Right now then, turning all the 1's, 2's, 3's and 4's into one letter means defining what each letter means. So maybe 4's on all standards is an A. All 3's with some 4's is a B. All 3's is a C and then whatever you decide for D's and F's. It is an "at least this, but none of that" kind of conjunctive system.
Chris – I was talking to a colleague today about the portfolio/blog plan and he raised the following concern: How do you know if the work you are seeing on the blogs actually reflects what that student knows? How do you know the ideas expressed there are not "borrowed" from someone else?
The implication is that unless a student works alone in a controlled "testing" environment – we can't be sure what that student knows on his/her own.
How would you answer that? How much of a role do typical tests play under your system?


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Watergate's final secret... how Brezhnev backed
comrade Tricky Dicky
A MAN in crisis may find some unlikely friends, but
few would expect comforting words from their
nuclear-armed arch-enemy.
However, as the Watergate scandal enveloped Richard
Nixon, the then United States president, in the 1970s,
he received a secret message of support from Leonid
Brezhnev, the Soviet leader at the time, it emerged
The message, delivered by then Soviet ambassador
Anatoly Dobrynin, stated: "No doubt, there are some
people - not only in the US - who anticipate Richard
Nixon won't be able to take it and will crack under
the pressure. But, we are pleased to note, you have no
intention of giving them that satisfaction."
In response, Mr Nixon said he wished to thank Mr
Brezhnev "for the fact that he, perhaps alone among
the leaders of other nations, including the allies,
had found simple human words to lift his spirits", Mr
Dobrynin wrote in documents which have now been
released by the US State Department.
At first, Moscow paid little attention to Watergate,
but as the scandal of the 1972 break-in at the
Democratic Party offices focused on Mr Nixon, concern
grew in the Politburo that it could hamper any
improvement in US-Soviet relations.
"One began to sense [Mr Nixon's] growing bewilderment,
lack of confidence and withdrawal from other matters,"
Mr Dobrynin wrote.
The ambassador was instructed to secretly meet Mr
Nixon to deliver the message of support.
Mr Brezhnev clearly thought Mr Nixon was someone he
could do business with. The then US president was
opposed to brinkmanship in dealing with the Soviet
Union, Mr Dobrynin reported to Moscow in 1969.
The State Department documents portray Mr Nixon as not
counting on the use of force in dealings with the
Soviet Union.
According to a telegram Mr Dobrynin sent to Moscow,
sizing up the president, differences were too deep to
bridge completely. But, Mr Dobrynin told the Soviet
Foreign Ministry, "the president is opposed to
brinkmanship in relations with the USSR, since he
believes both our countries have sufficient nuclear
missiles to annihilate each other many times over."
By all indications, Mr Dobrynin told Moscow, Mr Nixon
"will pursue a pragmatic course that envisages
negotiations with the Soviet Union in cases where it
serves US interests and it is possible to compromise".
Agreements to ban biological weapons and to limit the
arsenals of long-range missiles are among the
understandings that emerged from the complicated
US-Soviet relationship.
Also, an agreement was forged in 1971 between the two
superpowers, Britain and France to reduce tensions
over then-divided Berlin.
However, Mr Nixon also sent a carrier fleet into the
Indian Ocean in December 1971 to warn the Soviets to
restrain their ally, India, in the war with Pakistan
which created Bangladesh from East Pakistan.
Historian David Geyer, the principal US compiler of
the documents, said yesterday that they reflected "an
unprecedented partnership between the two governments
to document an exchange of views at a high level,
particularly at an important period of the Cold War".
He added: "The documents also give readers and
scholars a different view on foreign policy from the
perspective of the other superpower."
ON 17 June, 1972, five men were arrested after
breaking into the Democratic National Committee
headquarters situated in the office and hotel complex
called the Watergate. It was the start of one of the
biggest political scandals in American history and led
to the resignation of US president Richard Nixon.
Investigations into the break-in revealed it was just
one instance in a long line of illegal activities
conducted on behalf of Mr Nixon and his staff.
The investigative coverage by the press was
spearheaded by two reporters on the Washington Post,
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who received tip-offs
from an anonymous source known as ''Deep Throat''. He
suggested knowledge of the break-in and attempts to
cover it up could be linked to the White House.
After two years of investigation, it emerged the
president had recorded conversations which showed he
obstructed justice and attempted to cover up the
break-in. The US Supreme Court ruled the tapes be
handed over. With the certainty of impeachment and
conviction in the Senate, Mr Nixon became the only US
president to resign on 9 August, 1974.
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VILNIUS, Lithuania — The European Union called on Saturday for a "clear and strong" international response to what it said is "strong evidence" that Syrian President Bashar Assad's government was responsible for a major chemical weapons attack two weeks ago near Damascus.
But the EU statement stopped far short of endorsing a U.S. military strike —something that American officials acknowledged many of the organization's 28 members do not support.
EU foreign ministers, after listening to Secretary of State John Kerry explain the U.S. position on punishing Syria with a limited strike, indicated that no action should take place until U.N. chemical weapons inspectors release their report at least two weeks from now.
A similar delay was advocated on Friday by France's President François Hollande, whose government had said until last week that it was "ready" to participate in a U.S.-led military strike against Syria.
The European Union said it "hopes the U.N. preliminary report can be released as soon as possible and welcomes" Hollande's preference to await its results.
Kerry, speaking in a brief appearance here with Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius, who hosted the meeting, expressed gratitude for "support for efforts to hold the Assad regime accountable for what they have done."
While U.N. evidence of a chemical attack may allow some Europeans to feel more comfortable about a U.S. strike and nudge public opinion toward supporting it, others say no attack can take place unless the United Nations authorizes the use of force — a development that remains unlikely. China and Russia, Assad's main military and political backer, have indicated they will continue to veto any such U.N. Security Council resolution.
Linkevicius, echoing the uneasiness voiced by many European governments about military action without U.N. authorization, said in his appearance with Kerry that "those responsible should be brought to justice; we will make full use of the United Nations."
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This app is presented in animation. Many of the moving objects including Santa himself appear as though they are brightly painted wood figures reminiscent of old-fashioned, chunky wooden puzzles. The graphics are brilliant, cheery and all characters have happy smiles on their faces. The 3D effect is mesmerizing and definitely has a eye-opening effect on the reader! I particularly got a laugh out of Santa's bag of goodies called "Pressies" (short for presents), as I have often used the same word myself!
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Apple Glazed Roasted Chicken
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Low-cal, low effort and delicious. The best part of this recipe is the apple-cinnamon glaze, which goes great over the chicken and a side of white rice. Originally from a free recipe card I got at Giant grocery store.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 -3 1⁄2 lbs whole chickens
- 1 cup frozen apple juice concentrate
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
Directions See How It's Made
- Heat oven to 375 degrees; be sure racks are positioned to allow for roasting a whole chicken.
- Whisk together apple juice concentrate, corn starch and cinnamon in saucepan over medium heat. Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Remove from heat.
- Spray roasting pan with non-stick spray. Remove skin from breast portion of chicken and top of drumsticks. Place in pan, breast-side up.
- Spoon some of the apple-cinnamon glaze over chicken breast and drumsticks, enough for a thin coating **To avoid bacterial contamination, never touch the spoon to the raw chicken; you may wish to use a basting brush to spread the glaze around on the chicken, but never bring this into contact with the remaining glaze.**.
- Roast uncovered for 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours until cooked through and juices run clear. It is best --but not crucial-- to reapply the glaze every 20 minutes or so.
- Heat remaining glaze in microwave and serve alongside chicken.


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I was a bit cabbaged when I read this first time and thought this was a list of cowbell styled cover versions. (I don't really know why.) I did look at the site and aside from the dross there are some good tunes on there, though I suspect the definition of a "cowbell" used might be a bit wide. But you have to give some props to any list with "Compared to What" by Les McCann and Eddie Harris, written by Eugene MacDaniels, on it. Gene MacDaniels' album Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse was referred to the FBI by Spiro T Agnew who didn't understand it, but thought it might be subversive. Don't think it has any cowbells on it, but I'll give it a spin over the weekend and let you know if it does.
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The common belief is that a ZIP code means everything in determining the quality of education.
The Register's Best High Schools report indicates that theory, at least in part, holds true. But the quality of education can vary widely within individual school districts, due in large part to the size of the district.
The Anaheim Union High School District, for instance, has two schools that ranked in the Top 10, including the highest performing school in the county – Oxford Academy, which tops the Register's overall list and outshined the competition in the subcategories of academics and college preparation.
But Anaheim Union, which encompasses 46 square miles ranging through Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, La Palma and Stanton, also has two schools that ranked in the bottom 10, Anaheim High and Katella High.
So in head-to-head rankings of districts, Anaheim was ninth on the list of 15 school districts with comprehensive public high schools.
All four of Irvine Unified's high schools were ranked in the Top 10, which propelled the Irvine to the top of the district rankings.
"We are tremendously proud to hear that all four of our comprehensive high schools ranked among the Orange County Register's Top 10," said Superintendent Gwen Gross. "Our high schools offer challenging curricular programs and extensive college preparatory course work to ensure students are prepared to be successful at whatever pursuit they choose."
Gross said that students' success at the high school level starts at elementary school and can be attributed to the entire community in Irvine being dedicated to fostering strong educational experiences.
None of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified district's high schools placed among the Top 10, but collectively they performed well enough to place PLYUSD second on the list of top districts.
The Los Alamitos Unified and Brea-Olinda Unified districts, which each have just one high school, placed second and fourth respectively on the district list.
Similar to the situation in the Anaheim Union district, the Fullerton Joint Union High School district includes schools near the top – Troy High – and near the bottom – Buena Park High.
Some people in those districts say that schools such as Oxford and Troy lure away some of the top-performing students, negatively affecting other schools in the district.
District officials don't buy the so-called "brain drain" argument.
"If you look at it mathematically, it's such a small number of students at each school that I really don't see it having much of an effect that some high-achieving students leave to go to Oxford," said Anaheim Union Superintendent Joseph Farley.
He said the district is well aware of the achievement gap between schools and has spent the last several years trying to implement a curriculum that will focus all schools on meeting high academic standards.
"I don't think we see it reflected in test scores yet," Farley said. "But we are focused on maximizing achievement for all of our students, regardless of where they live."


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Synergy expects banner year with acquisition, horizontal program
January 18, 2013
Fast-moving Synergy Resources has a hefty 2013 ahead with a planned capital spending program of $82 million.
It's a program buoyed immensely by Synergy's plans to break into horizontal drilling and 36 new wells it picked up in a recent acquisition of Greeley's Orr Energy.
In a conference call last week announcing the company's first-quarter financial results, Synergy officials detailed the planned growth for the 5-year-old company.
"(This year) is definitely going to be our best year ever," said Ed Holloway, Synergy's CEO and president.
Until this year, the Platteville-based oil and gas exploration company had only participated with other companies on horizontal drilling. This year, it will break out on its own with four horizontal wells in northern Weld that should cost it $17 million.
Meanwhile, the company will get the most it can out of the 35 of the 36 vertical Orr wells it acquired in a deal that closed for $42 million on Dec. 5. All are in areas that produce more oil than gas, called "the sweet spot" by some in the industry. Officials are now evaluating which ones to begin tapping for additional production.
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"Even making this acquisition is a big leap going forward," Holloway said. "These assets are tougher and harder to come by, and we couldn't have asked for a better situation. … With Orr, you have just almost a perfect scenario."
All but one of the Orr wells has one surface owner and one mineral owner, making the transition as smooth as possible, Holloway said.
Orr's wells have been producing steadily an average of 360 barrels of oil equivalent per day. But they hope to get more this year.
Vertical wells typically have more than one life to them, Orr explained. By re-stimulating wells, companies work to get more production out of them. Re-stimulating wells has been going on since 1997, when companies tested the idea to re-frack them when production sinks to low levels.
"It's been very successful and the return on investment is higher because the cost to do that is a lot less than to drill and complete another well," Holloway said.
So far, horizontal wells (drilled vertically about 7,000-8,000 feet, then runs parallel to the surface for another few thousand feet) are a relatively new occurrence in drilling, but a direction that drillers are increasingly moving in the Wattenberg field, which blankets much of Greeley and Weld County. No one has yet attempted to re-stimulate those types of wells.
The Orr acquisition covers roughly 3,100 leased acres, with the potential to drill 75 new vertical wells and an extra 55 horizontal wells.
"We bought it on its vertical production as it sits today," Holloway said. "We didn't pay any additional money for the potential of what horizontals could bring to the acquisition.
"Being in the Wattenberg field is a huge plus, and where it's at in the Wattenberg is even bigger. It's in the hotter spot of Wattenberg for horizontals, which is a double positive, actually."
While Synergy officials evaluate which vertical wells from the Orr acquisition to re-stimulate, they'll move into the expensive prospect of horizontal drilling, though not yet on the Orr acreage.
Companies could drill probably four vertical wells for the cost of one horizontal, but it's been said that one horizontal well can produce by some estimates up to 15 times that of a vertical well.
"It's very capital intensive to go from a vertical company to a horizontal company, but that is where we're headed," Holloway said. "But it takes a while to get that amount of capital coming in so you can continue."
The company's vertical program will keep the stable production in play, while Synergy branches out with the likes of Noble Energy and Anadarko Petroleum, the two biggest players in the Wattenberg field.
"To become a true horizontal player day in and out, we'd probably have to double or triple that capital spending," Holloway said.
"But that's the exciting part," he added. "We have that growth mode ahead of us. We may drill four this year. We may drill eight to 10 next year and 20-25 years after that."
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• galore •
Pronunciation: gê-lor
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: In abundance
Notes: Today's good adjective is unusual in that, rather than appearing before the noun it modifies, it appears after it: "Words galore mean fun galore." Enough, the original meaning of today's word, is an adjective that may be placed on either side of its noun: "I have had enough turnips for one day" or "I have had turnips enough for one day." Galore, however, may only follow its noun.
In Play: The opportunity to use today's word lurks wherever there is superfluity: "Investigators of Enron Corporation's management have found guilt galore." (Plenty to go around.) Since his novels often deal with excesses, it should be no surprise that the world of Ian Fleming offers opportunities for the exercise of this word: "Even though he is in captivity for much of the novel, James Bond has adventures Galore in Ian Fleming's novel, Goldfinger."
Word History: Today's good word comes from Irish Gaelic go leór "enough", based on go, an adverb particle + leór "enough". Leór is a variant of Old Irish roar, a reduction of Proto-Indo-European ro- "for" + werê "truth". In Latin we see the same root in verus "true", a word at the base of many English borrowings referring to truth: verify, verdict, aver. Yes, very also came from Latin verus via Old French verai "true". The PIE root werê also emerged in English warlock "male witch", from Old English wærloga "oath-breaker": wær "oath" + loga "liar". (Which reminds us, we are very grateful to Jon Jackson for providing us lexical fun galore with the suggestion of today's word.)
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Tom was being honored by the Wiesenthal Center with the Humanitarian Award for his longtime support for the Jewish rights organization. Also in attendance: Tom's 16-year-old son Connor whom Tom adopted with ex-wife Nicole Kidman.
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How many GameCube games have you all bought over the past three month period? If you're a normal person, the answer is probably a sensible 'none.' After all, the GameCube hasn't been a current-gen console in over 5 years. However, if you just so happen to be me (and if you are me, please explain to me how that works), the answer is six.
Yes, I have bought six GameCube games since last December. What can I say? They're cheap now. I have taken the opportunity to catch up on some of the titles I may not have gotten around to purchasing over the years.
So, without further ado, let's get down to it. I'm sure you're all dying to know what six games I bought, that's why you clicked the link, After all. (That, or someone you're following commented and you just want to see what they said).
Star Fox Adventures/Star Fox: Assault Rare/Namco -- Nintendo
Yeah, I'm probably going to be grouping a couple together since there's not much to say to differentiate them. I hesitate to call Star Fox my favorite Nintendo franchise, since I'm all too aware of many of the games' shortcomings. But, I suppose in spite of that, it is the series I am the "biggest fan" of. So, it goes without saying that I had to add these to my collection, especially considering how inexpensive they can be. While most people accept that all 3 games that were released after Star Fox 64 weren't nearly as good as the first two, I'm of an opinion that each of the games did a few things really well, but then did a few things not so well. So, taking the good with the bad, I enjoy every game in the series.
Killer7 Grasshopper Manufacture (Suda51) -- Capcom
Wow, this game is super bizarre. I've played and enjoyed a fair share of "cult hit" games, but this game is a cult game amongst cult games. The game has a narrative that straddles the line between a deep, multi-level, and thought-provoking masterwork of neo-noir and nonsensical, psychotic rambling. The game's menus are designed to be strange and counter-intuitive, and the gameplay is a schizophrenic fusion of a rail shooter and an adventure game. It certainly is a unique experience, but not everyone is going to like it.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Intelligent Systems -- Nintendo
I love Mario RPGs. They are always filled with humorous and bombastic writing, and always carry solid game mechanics, and this game is no exception. This game packs the same compelling and unique approach to turn-based combat that other Mario RPGs do, along with a solid (albeit simple) narrative. The game also has very unique and interesting locations to travel to, which gives it a bit of an edge amongst its brethren.
Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean/Baten Kaitos Origins tri-Crescendo & Monolith Soft -- Namco
I don't understand why these games are so obscure, because based on what I've heard, they are great games. They boast a great narrative with a unique take on common elements in the Japanese Role-Playing Game genre. I haven't played them yet myself (I just don't think I want to start a 70+ hour JRPG epic right now, it feels like a bad time to try something that ambitious), but if what I hear is true, I'm sure I'll back to talk about them once I have experienced more of them.
So, there you have it. My own attempts to get those games I missed during the last generation. Are there weird and wonderful titles of the last gen you want to catch up on or spread the word about?


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Henrietta Harriett, tired of having her hair brushed, insists that there will be, "No more brushing!" Eventually, realizing her mistake, she enlists Mama's help to clean up her messy hair, but not before experiencing some hairy episodes with a lazy Tangles family. No Time for Tangles - the first installment in the Henrietta Harriett series - is a funny, rhyming story, perfect for anyone who must first engage in battle with beloved children before battling those pesky tangles.
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Through the first 11 months of 2013, occupancy levels at hotels statewide was 65.8 percent, a smidgen better than the 65.7 percent rate recorded a year earlier. The figures were just as close In Salt Lake County, home to the largest number of hotel rooms: 72.2 percent filled nightly this year compared to 72.9 percent in 2012.
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|FYI — November 2003
|By Brad Dunn
A Word With...
Lee S. Wilbur
Q: When did
you first fall in love with boats?
Q: Did any
one boat have a major impact on your interest in becoming a builder?
Q: What do
you like most about the business?
Q: Speaking
of writing, you contribute monthly columns to a local trade newspaper.
How did that come about?
Q: Where are
you planning to go?
Q: What's
the most memorable cruise you've taken?
Q: What advice
would you give someone who wants to make a business out of building
and designing boats?
Ladies, Let's
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To keep pace with the times, the NMMA has added a large section to its Discover Boating Web site devoted exclusively to female boaters. "Women at the Helm" at www.discoverboating.com/women offers a variety of articles, columns, and tips to keep women of all skill levels and nautical backgrounds up to date on the latest boating issues.
Regular columns include "Woman of the Month," which highlights interesting and accomplished boaters, and "Ask the Boating Moms," in which two nautical pros address readers' questions covering all manners of boating issues. For the cruising gourmands, there's even a "Recipe of the Month" feature, which helps men and women alike get the most out of their galleys. Best of all, all of the information on the site is free.
Got an interesting boating story for this column? Write to FYI, Power & Motoryacht, 260 Madison Ave., 8th Fl., New York, NY 10016. Fax: (917) 256-2282. e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. No phone calls please.
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