text:
gümüş

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) silver

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) silver

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Alternative spelling of gumuş.

Etymology
From, from. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) silver (metal)

Adjective

 * 1) silver, made of silver

title: gümüş


text:
Alabama State Route 261

State Route 261 (SR 261) is a 6 mi state highway that connects Helena with Pelham in northern Shelby County, as part of the Birmingham/Hoover metropolitan area. SR 261 is two lanes wide for the entirety of its route. It serves as a feeder route to numerous subdivisions in Helena and Pelham.

Route description

The southern terminus of the route is at the intersection with Shelby County Road 17 (CR 17), CR 52, and CR 91 in Helena. The northern terminus is at the intersection with U.S. Route 31 (US 31) in Pelham. North of US 31, the route is designated as CR 17 and continues to US 280 in the Inverness area of Hoover. Mileage is measured from Helena; miles are marked by roadside green metal mile markers. Throughout its length SR 261 is also known as and commonly appears on maps and street signs as Helena Road. The majority of the route is relatively level through suburban housing and commercial businesses, the steepest grades occur approaching and departing the Buck Creek floodplain.

It is expected that as work will begin to widen the highway to five lanes between US 31 and CR 105 (Bearden Road) as soon as 2012. Long range plans call for routing SR 261 around historic Old Town Helena via a new bypass that will intersect with CR 52 west of the current terminus.

SR 261 crosses the Vulcan Materials Helena quarry on a concrete deck bridge (MP 2.2) east of Old Town Helena. The route crosses Buck Creek on a concrete pier supported steel W-shape girder bridge with a concrete deck (MP 1.3). Steel railings provide vehicle protection, a narrow sidewalk is present on the downstream side of the bridge. SR 261 crosses three railroad tracks at grade consisting of the CSX Transportation Lineville Subdivision east of Buck Creek (MP 1.4) and the CSX Transportation S&NA Subdivision (and connected siding) west of Buck Creek (MP 1.2). The Lineville Subdivision crossing is equipped with flashing lights, the S&NA South Subdivision crossing is equipped with flashing lights and crossing arms.

A historic marker for the Central Iron Works rolling mill, built in 1865 and since destroyed, is at the intersection of Lake Davidson Road and SR 261 in Helena at milepost 1.2.

On March 27, 1994, a F2 tornado touched down on the northern edge of Helena at the Bearden Farm on the west side of the route, then moved across the road near Pelham High School and continued into Pelham and other communities to the east causing damage to many business buildings.

source: wikimedia

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Alabama State Route 261


text:
Template talk:User Proud Celtic

Image gone
Looks like the Picture has been Deleted, it should be fixed or replaced.--Hibernian 14:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Ok I've put in the image of a Triskele, at-least as a temporary measure. --Hibernian 23:09, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

 * There's now an SVG version at Image:Triskele-hollow-triangle.svg -- AnonMoos 08:18, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

title: Template talk:User Proud Celtic


text:
User:LueDash/sandbox

Robert B. Norris is the 13th Sheriff of Kootenai County, Idaho. He defeated the Independent candidate for sheriff, Mike Bauer, in the 2020 Kootenai County Sheriff race, making him the first Kootenai County Sheriff-elect to not have any prior connection with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office. Before becoming Sheriff, he was a lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Career at the LASD
During Norris’ career at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, his assignments included: patrol, custody, narcotics, gangs, investigations, counter-terrorism, and emergency preparedness. Norris also graduated from the LASO’s Leadership Certification program.

After 9/11 Norris was selected to lead a team at the newly created Joint Regional Intelligence Center to assist the United States during the war on terror. Norris held an SCI and was responsible for managing personnel and resources from local, state, and federal agencies such as the FBI, CIA, and the US Attorney’s Office while under the direction of Condoleezza Rice. After leaving the JRIC, he was promoted to Lieutenant at the LASD by former Los Angeles Sheriff, Lee Baca.

Since Norris' career at the Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept, he's been a volunteer for the Kootenai County Search and Rescue team from mid-2017 to late-2019, and was put on administrative leave due to political interference.

Kootenai County Sheriff
Norris was appointed to the office on January 1st, 2021. Due to his predecessor leaving the office early, he was appointed unanimously by the Kootenai County board of commissioners. He started his appointed term as Sheriff on January 1st, 2021, and ended on January 10th, 2021. He was officially sworn in as the elected Kootenai County Sheriff on January 11th, 2021.

Reforms and Controversy
North Idaho Exposed Incident

In Norris' first month as Kootenai County Sheriff, a video surfaced online of him pulling out pepper spray while talking to a man who was recording a traffic stop. It appeared to show Brad Nelson, a citizen of Kootenai County, asking questions regarding a traffic stop. After Nelson got, what looked about, 15 feet away from the stop, so Lt. Higgins and Norris could hear his questions, Norris approached Nelson and asked him to step back. Nelson was apprehensive and told Norris to, "Shut the fuck up and get back to work." Norris stepped closer to Nelson and grabbed pepper spray from out of his belt, and told him loudly if he didn't step back he would use it. Nelson moved back.

Nelson, after the confrontation, gave the video he had recorded to Casey Whalen, a self-described independent journalist. Whalen then uploaded Nelson's video to his YouTube channel with over 16,000 subscribers. The video got upwards of 20,000 views in the first week it had been uploaded. Many local papers and news stations covered the altercation, making the video go increasingly viral. After the video had received 30,000 views, and many of his critics attacking him for the way he handled himself, Norris released a public statement saying, "The idea of local citizens using their video cameras with the intention of harassing our local officers and interfering with their duties, only to get characterized later online as if we were in the wrong, contributes toward this national disgrace." Many residents felt as if his response to the incident was worse than his actual behavior during the altercation. The video has now received 40,000 views.

COVID-19 Pandemic

Norris' response to the COVID-19 pandemic sought to make sure that law enforcement had little to no say, on what happens between "you and your doctor". The office's position was not particularly stated, however, Norris did campaign on an anti-mask rhetoric. On the day he was officially sworn in as the elected Sheriff, he released a press statement saying that he would not enforce dictates on healthy citizens; however, he never specifically mentioned mask enforcement nor COVID restrictions.

Although he never mentioned COVID-19 by name, people took it as his way of saying he would not force or mandate anyone to follow guidelines set in place by Governor Brad Little. This was a widely accepted decision by many residents of Kootenai County.

Campaign
Primary Race

In late-2018, Norris announced he would run for Kootenai County Sheriff. Several potential Republican sheriff candidates, including KCSO Captain Kim Edmondson, Businessman John Grimm, former U.S. prosecutor Scott Jones, former house representative John Green and retired Texas officer Richard Whitehead, all announced their campaigns shortly after one another. As Jones' sheriff campaign failed to gain traction during the summer of 2019, he was pressured to drop out and make the Kootenai County Sheriff race less crowded. On July 11th, 2019, Jones officially dropped out of the Sheriff's race and announced the next day that he intended to endorse Norris. John Green, however, which many presumed to be the front runner, never really dropped out of the race. Green had been silent for a couple of months regarding his Sheriff campaign but became officially disqualified after he was convicted in January of 2020, for trying to defraud the United States. Green's name never appeared on the ballot. That opened a doorway for Richard Whitehead, who would run on somewhat of a tea party platform, which many former Green supporters found appealing since Green did as well. Captain Kim Edmondson and businessman John Grimm joined the race as the moderate Republicans. Many local Kootenai County residents found Edmondson's campaign attractive since she was the only candidate that had law enforcement experience with-in the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office.

As the primary election got closer, the race for Sheriff became much more aggressive, among the four candidates; one campaign had even begun being investigated by the FBI. Many noted that this Sheriff election seemed much more divisive than the past ones. Sheriff Wolfinger agreeing with that sentiment, but also noting that this isn't the first time a Sheriff's election had become so polarized.

Many started to believe that Edmondson would easily win the Republican primary nomination, many people seemed to support her, many as well campaigned for her. But, weeks before the election, Gov. Brad Little declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making it so that you had to request an absentee ballot in order to vote in the primary election. Driving down the turnout rate for primary elections throughout the state of Idaho. With that, Norris seized on the opportunity and was able to get the phone numbers of people who had requested absentee ballots, he called over 9,000 individual people in an effort to try to convince them to vote for him. When election day arrived, Norris had won with nearly 3,000 more votes over Edmondson, making him the Republican candidate for Sheriff.

General Election

With many Kootenai County residents regarding the Sheriff primary election as one of the most divisive Kooteani County elections in modern history, most presumed that the general Sheriff election would be a breath of fresh air for voters of Kootenai County.

Mike Bauer, a former Captain at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department decided to file his paper work for Kootenai County Sheriff in spring of 2019. Many speculated his reason for joining the already crowded race, and why he had filed with a non-partisan affiliation. In an interview Bauer did, when asked why he was running for Sheriff, he said,”I’m not —- impressed with the 4 candidates that are running, especially one that seems to have a —- unverified background.” Voters later realized that Bauer was referring to Norris. Bauer had alleged that Norris was involved in a massive pay-to-play scandal while working at the LASD. Although, Norris denied these claims, Bauer’s campaign had proof that Norris had donated $600 dollars to Paul Tanaka’s Mayor of Gardena campaign. The LASD pay-to-play scandal alleges that Tanaka worked with former L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca to promote those who had donated to Tanaka’s mayoral campaign. Norris did in fact receive a promotion, however it was 6 years later. (Read more on the pay-to-play scandal down below in the “Allegations of Corruption and Misconduct” section.)

Although Bauer wasn't running during the primary, even at that time it had already been established that Norris believed that his main threat was Bauer. They had worked in the same agency, they knew the same people, and had both worked under past LASD Sheriff, convicted felon Lee Baca. Bauer had used this fact to his advantage, posting documents and photographs with the Sheriff he worked with before Baca, Sherman Block, which Norris never had worked for. Norris, knowing that Bauer had worked under Baca for some time, contacted L.A. Sheriff photographer, Jaime Lopez, and asked him if he could access Bauer's personnel file, since Bauer had a flood and he was trying to assist him in restoring documents and images that had been lost in this flood. In reality, there had been no flood; Norris had been attempting to gain a photograph between Bauer and Baca, and in his words,"It wasn't lying, it was politics." (Read more on the attempted wire fraud down below in the “Allegations of Corruption and Misconduct” section.)

At the end of the Bauer campaign, Bauer had received support of Spokane county Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich and previous Kootenai County Sheriff Pierce Clegg, and had driven up support for a non-partisan Sheriff office. Which the Kootenai BOCC would soon consider.

Justin Nagel, a carpenter and Kootenai County native decided he'd file as well. He ran on the libertarian ticket, and received just over 8,000 votes.

Allegations of Corruption and Misconduct
Pay-to-play scandal

Attempted Wire-fraud

Alleged Lynwood Viking membership

Voter-fraud

Tax-fraud

Past political affiliations

COVID-19 stance

Hank's law debate

Brett Surplus debacle

Under-sheriff and LASD policy changes

BLM protest opinions

Janice McGeachin endorsement

2020 Election Results
Official Results from the Kootenai County Clerk's Office. Sheriff candidates are listed individually below if they received more than 0.1% of the overall vote.

Official Results from the Kootenai County Clerk's Office.

Personal life
Norris' wife is Susan Mel. Norris has had a total of three children with his past spouses and is a step-father to Susan Mel's children. Norris and his family live in Post Falls, Idaho.

title: User:LueDash/sandbox


text:
capuche

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A long, pointed hood, as that worn by the Augustinians, Capuchins or Franciscans.

Etymology
From cape + -uche.

Noun

 * 1) hood headwear
 * 2) hoodie

title: capuche


text:
Talk:Developing Scripts and Case Studies for cisLunarFreighter/Radio Communications/STC/implementation/Initial Screen

wtf are you talking about? CQ 04:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


text:
Talk:National and Local Government Officers' Association

Title of union
I've changed the text to reflect the fact that the full name of NALGO changed in 1952 from National Association of Local Government Officers to the National And Local Government Officers Association. In my view the title of the article should be NALGO, as that is what the union was always known as in practice, rather than either of the full titles. Does anyone agree ? Ghmyrtle 18:24, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Infobox
Good idea to have an infobox, but under "people" I don't really see why one Gen Sec should be listed but not others. But then, do we list all of them, or does that make an unwieldy list? Are there any other criteria that should be used, in terms of notability or length of service? Ghmyrtle (talk) 23:11, 11 February 2010 (UTC)


text:
Philosophy of History/How to Write History Better

Prof. William E.Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
I do not want to be presumptuous because I am certainly not the source of all knowledge on this. As a matter of fact I can boil down everything I know about writing into three sentences:

1. Check every single verb on each page of your manuscript mechanically to eliminate the passive voice, if at all possible.

2. Avoid repeated words, not only in the same sentence or paragraph, but within the entire paper.

3. Make sure your topic sentence is what the paragraph is about.

Prof. Mary Beth Norton, Alger Professor of American History, Cornell University
1) Read everything aloud to yourself. Such a strategy helps you to "hear" awkward constructions and word repetitions.

2) Do not use weak transitional words and phrases, such as "however" and "we see that. . ."

3) Avoid the "this-it syndrome"--that is, the use of vague terms without obvious referants. Especially avoid the "lonely this," as in "she wanted this above all" or "this is. . ."

Byron Hollinshead, President, American Historical Publications
One should always look for exactly the right verb to describe an action, rather than picking out any old verb and adding an adjective or adverb to it; e.g. try "stroll" instead of "walk leisurely."

Will Fitzhugh, Editor and Publisher of The Concord Review
To write history well, make it a practice to read good historical writing. A good place to start would be the essays in The Concord Review.

Thomas M. Preisser, Professor and Chair, Department of Humanities, Government, and Modern Languages, Sinclair Community College, Dayton (OH)
Make sure your manuscript has a thesis which you develop and support.

Stephen Webre, Chair, Dept. of History, Louisiana Tech University
1) Write with nouns and verbs. Consider all adjectives and adverbs guilty until proven innocent. Use them only when they make a necessary contribution to meaning. One adverb that fails this test is "very." Avoid it.

2) Keep the noun and verb close together.

3) Place the time reference (for example, the date of the event being discussed), at the beginning of the sentence or the clause.

4) You need a clearly stated thesis, but you also need what Alfred Hitchcock used to call a "MacGuffin." The MacGuffin is the thing the paper is about. Know what it is and do not lose sight of it. If there's something in your paper that's not about the MacGuffin, take it out. Know the difference between a thesis and a MacGuffin.


text:
Web Design/Web design challenges

These challenges are designed to be completed in around 3 hours, preferably as a small group activity (2-3) in a classroom situation where groups can compare their designs and coding during the review. The aim is that those people who are not confident can work together with those who are confident - even if it just means watching for the first few challenges - seeing a small project from idea to html/css prototype. Try to nurture each other and help each other learn wherever possible.

The challenges themselves are based around annual events so that they can be re-used while still remaining relevant. If you have any ideas, please add them!

Scope
Due to the limited time, the scope of the exercise will only include the following:
 * Design sketches (annotated with structural info such as divs)
 * Prototype graphics production where required,
 * HTML/CSS prototype of 1 or 2 pages (depending on challenge), including dummy content (lorem ipsums).

 * The following will be defined for you for each challenge:

 * The purpose of the site
 * The primary target user audience

After completion, prototypes will be reviewed in a meeting.

Project plan
A suggested time-plan was put together by some students as:
 * Quick team meeting: 15mins (decide on a leader who will have the final call on decisions).
 * Sketch design: 10-15mins
 * Photoshop mockup (optional): 30mins
 * Plan page structure (in terms of divs/layout)
 * HTML + CSS coding 1.5hrs
 * Team review: 10mins
 * Validating + cross browser: 5mins (phew!)

Resources

 * Flickr's advanced search allows searching of only Creative Commons images that you can modify.
 * lorum ipsum generator for creating dummy paragraphs of text.

Drug Action Week - Local group awareness
When: End of June (In 2007 it's 18-22 June)

Background: Drug Action Week is a national event in Australia, but your local city is preparing it's own advertising/marketing on the councils website with local events, posts by local celebrities, etc.

Purpose: Engage local youth and business with local drug action week activities.

Example goals:

 * Increase physical participation in local Drug Action Week events by 15% over two year period.
 * Increase business sponsorship by 30% over two year period.

Targeted audiences:

 * Youth at risk of peer drug use,
 * Local business owners who might consider sponsoring events
 * Youth/Social workers who can contribute engaging content.

 How should users perceive the site

 * Fun, healthy, "no need for drugs" feel (whatever that means)

 Content

 * The Drug action week logo should be prominent but blend in with the design (the colours can be changed).
 * The title/banner of the site is to include "Drug Action Week [your city's name]" in a fun, healthy font (not Comic Sans!), perhaps with an appropriate background of youthful fun.
 * The navigation is to include home, local events, testimonies, sponsors (note: prototypes required for home and testimonies pages only).
 * The footer area is to include a copyright statement as well as links to a privacy policy and terms of use.
 * The home page is to include three main content areas:
 * A brief summary of the site consisting of one short sentence (strong type), followed by a single paragraph with more detail (Just use lorem ipsums)
 * A main content area with the latest 3 posts (each post is just a heading, a date-posted timestamp such as "Published April 15th, 2007 by James" and a few paragraphs of formatted text.
 * A small local-sponsors area with space for three logos of local sponsors (linked to their websites).
 * The testimonies page is to include only one content area which will display 3 testimonies of local celebrities. Each testimony consists of a heading, a few paragraphs of text and a suitably placed image of the celebrity. At the bottom of the page is to be a form that allows readers to with the following fields: Name, email, message (a text area) as well as a check box that is checked by default with the label "Subscribe me to Drug Action newsletter".

Software Freedom Day - Your local city
When: 3rd Saturday of September (in 2007: 15th Sept)

Background: Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the world organise events on the third Saturday in September. The most recent event involved over 200 teams from all over the world.

Vision: The vision of software freedom day is: "to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable."

Website goals:

 * Establish a local free software group that meets up quarterly in your area for software reviews and business applications.
 * Establish a support network for new free software users in your area.

Targeted audiences:
 * Beginner computer users who may benefit from free software such as Firefox and OpenOffice.
 * Intermediate computer users who would benefit from free software such as Gimp, Inkscape and the Ubuntu operating system.
 * Users of free software who might be able to help with local support.

 How should users perceive the site

 * Polished (definitely not tacky-free), vibrant and full of people (you might want to browse the 2006 Gallery for photos.

 Content
 * One of the 2007 Software Freedom Day logos should feature prominently on all pages (you can download the large versions from the 2007 logo page).
 * There will only be three pages: the home page, an events and a "join us" page. You can place the navigation as you see fit.
 * All pages are to include:
 * A footer area with links for a copyright statement, privacy policy and terms of use (as well as valid XHTML/CSS if you're keen).
 * 3 of the primary sponsors from the main site.
 * Some kind of local feel for your city (maybe a prominent landmark)

 * The home page needs to:
 * reach the three targeted audiences, directing them to either the events page or the support us page, depending on the user. For example "Do you want a better browsing experience? Then come along at 11am for the Firefox demo to see ... " Appropriately sized images may be important here.
 * fter the above introduction to meet target users, the most recent blog post will be displayed (with a title, a date posted, followed by one paragraph and a "more" link which will go to the blog when it's created.)
 * The events page will include:
 * an intro sentence "Check out the details below to find out what's happening where!"
 * a table with the first column containing the times of the events (11am, 12:30pm, 2pm, 4pm), second column will be the location and the third the description of the event (Events in your city are yet to be decided, just use dummy text for the descriptions).
 * The "Join Us" page will include:
 * An introductory paragraph along the lines of: "Are you new to free software and keen to find out more from locals here in [your city]? Sign up below to receive our occasional newsletter." followed by a small form containing a text field and a submit button with the text "Sign up!"
 * An introductory paragraph along the lines of: "Perhaps you're already up to speed with free software and might want to join our support network to help locals in the area, or contribute a review to an occasional gathering here in [your city]? Add your details below and we'll contact you after the event" Followed by a form with name, email and 'particular interests' fields.

Pink Ribbon day
When: October each year (Pink Ribbon day is 20th Oct. in 2007)

Background: Breast cancer month is part of PinkRibbon, which is itself the official trademark of the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

 * Pink Ribbon Day is the signature day of the NBCF and is officially the fourth Monday in October. October is also internationally known as Breast Cancer Month.

Redesign Problem: The current Pink Ribbon site is excellent, but your client is keen to know whether it's possible to have a design that isn't so pink - perhaps being a little more vibrant (and perhaps not so similar to White Lady Funerals).

It's also been mentioned to your client on a number of occasions that the information/navigation of the site could be vastly improved to help people find what they're after when they hit the home page.

 Redesign Goals:

 * Find or create a colour scheme that is still has the correct pink as the dominant colour but uses complimentary or contrasting colours to bring more vibrancy to the site.
 * Re-architect the site around the things that the identified audience might want to be able to do. This is particularly important on the home page, which is currently quite cluttered visually. Your client would like visitors to have three large visual options to choose from when they hit the home page (but he's not sure what they should be).
 * In addition to the three un-changing options on the home page, the client would like just one prominent space for a featured campaign or product (such as the current pink mobile phone cover) rather than adding to the page every time there is a new campaign or product. If possible (ie. depending on the skills of your team), he'd like this to change when the page is reloaded.

Your team's task is to come up with a new home page design that incorporates the above goals. It must use the current branding (Pink ribbon logo, prominent link to national breast cancer foundation), but everything else is up to you.

 Breaking down the tasks:

It's up to your team (your nominated leader) how you approach this challenge - you may all work together on each task or break up to get things done. The following task breakdown is just for reference.
 * Create two or three options for the colour scheme (?? mins).
 * Brainstorm what visitors might want to be able to do when they visit the site (?? mins)
 * Define new site architecture (even though you're only prototyping the home page, your client still needs to know how users will get to the content through your new and improved home page) (?? mins)
 * Sketch new and improved home page design (?? mins)
 * Create required graphics / source images for home page prototype (?? mins)
 * Code HTML/CSS for home page prototype (?? mins)
 * Optional (depending on your teams skills): Research and integrate (or write) Javascript or PHP code for the rotating featured campaign/product (?? mins)

November
When: During the month of November each year

Background: From What is Movember?: At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants known as Mo Bros then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their moustache and along the way raise as much money and awareness about male health issues as possible.

Design problem: [Fictitious] As successful as Movember is for raising money, it is currently quite a one-sided affair. Where Pink-ribbon raises money for breast cancer and anyone can be involved, purchase/wear a pink-ribbon or organise fund-raising, in Movember only the males can actively participate. There is a page on the site devoted to 'Mo sistas':
 * Whilst growing a Mo is left to the guys, Mo Sistas (ladies that support their guys or just love Mo's!) form an important part of Movember by recruiting Mo Bros, helping to raise funds and attending the highly anticipated Gala Partés.

Mo sistas can take part by:
 * Helping your Mo Bro to raise some awareness and money for men's health

Hmm. Can the females among us call out if you want to be involved as a support? The board has realised this and is actively after a way to modify the 'Movember' concept so that those who can't or don't want to grow a mo can actively participate in raising money and awareness for prostate cancer and male-depression without being reduced to a support role.

Your task: In your medium-sized groups of 4-6 people:
 * 1) Develop a number of concepts for inclusively raising money and awareness of prostate cancer and male-depression. You might want to consider both complete re-brands (pros and cons) as well as adding or updating the current 'Movember' brand. It's important at this stage that everyone gets to express their ideas and is heard.
 * 2) Decide together on your winning concept (either take a democratic vote, or leave the decision to your group's leader).
 * 3) Work together to create a list of content/functionality that will enable your site to involve and encourage involvement from both those with mo's and those without. (The current site has a competition where mo-sisters can write why they are the best mo-sister to win a car).
 * 4) Next, individually take your group's content/functionality ideas and take 30 mins or so to group the content (keeping your target audience in mind) and then design sketches (paper is fine or photoshop if you prefer) for all your significant/interesting concepts (home page, competition page etc.).
 * 5) Coming back to your group, share and combine your ideas. Once decided you'll then create your final prototype (paper - large post-it notes or a photoshop prototype) for a number of your pages to communicate your concept back to the class.
 * 6) Finally, decide how you will present your concept. For example, one person might introduce the concept, another outline the detailed thinking behind the concept, another demonstrate the concept, another summarise the pros and cons or even potential risks etc.

title: Web Design/Web design challenges


text:
Instructional design/Affective behaviors/A Comprehensive Approach to Character Development/Task Two Worksheet

Back to Page 2 of Lesson 3:  Page Two: A Comprehensive Approach to Character Development

Task Two Worksheet

To fill out worksheet, please print.

1. List the six guidelines presented by Simonson and Maushak for effective design of attitude instruction.

2. List the three key instructional approaches relating to the behavioral aspects of attitude learning presented by Smith and Ragan.

3. Identify each of the strategies listed below as either being a classroom strategy or a schoolwide strategy by putting a C for classroom or S for schoolwide next to each strategy.

 * Develop students' caring beyond the classroom through exposure to altruistic role models and continuing opportunities for service (in face-to-face relationships) in their schools and communities.
 * Teachers should respect and care about their students, set a good example, and provide directive moral guidance.
 * Create a caring classroom community by helping students to know each other as persons; respect, care about, and affirm each other; and feel a valued member of the group.
 * Help students develop moral reasoning, self-discipline, and respect for others.
 * Involve students, through regular class meetings, in shared decision-making.
 * Teach virtues through the curriculum by "mining" it for its moral potential.
 * Recruit parents and the community as partners in character education.
 * Use cooperative learning to give students regular practice on important social and moral competencies while learning academic material and to contribute to the development of a cohesive and caring classroom community. Students should regularly reflect on how well they cooperated, and should develop guidelines.
 * Help students develop the "conscience of craft" (desire to do a good job), including self-discipline, persistence, dependability, diligence, and responsibility, by setting a good example, combining high expectations and high support, engaging all learners, and assigning regular and meaningful homework.
 * Create a positive moral culture in the school by defining, modeling, teaching, and upholding the school's character expectations in all areas of school life. Participatory school democracy is a powerful tool for mobilizing the peer culture on the side of virtue.
 * Teach students what the virtues are, how their habitual practice will lead to a more fulfilling life, and how each of us must take responsibility for developing our own character.
 * Teach students how to resolve conflicts.

Check your answers to find out how you did!

Back to Page 2 of Lesson 3:  Page Two: A Comprehensive Approach to Character Development


text:
User:JWSchmidt/Blog/12 May 2007

I started trying to bring the dynamic navigation box technology over to Wikiversity from Wikipedia. There seems to be a problem with getting the hide/show button to display correctly on the navigation boxes.

Navigation templates
While trying to making some page navigation templates for Wikiversity I noticed that Template:Navigation seemed to have a problem with the collapse/expand button not being on the navigation box (Figure 1).

Also, I wanted to have a navigation template that would show the "v d e" links as shown in Figure 2. I made Template:Navigation2 and Template:Tnavbar2 by copying from the current versions of w:Template:Navigation and w:Template:Tnavbar. Template:Navigation2 had the same problem with the position of the collapse/expand button.

MediaWiki files
I tried adding this code to MediaWiki:Common.js and the code for navigation at MediaWiki:Common.css is the same as at Wikipedia, as far as I can tell.

Wikipedia uses hide/show while Wikiversity is using collapse/expand. This can be changed in the MediaWiki:Common.css file (change "var NavigationBarHide = 'Collapse';", etc) if anyone cares.

Examples
These are some navigation boxes I am working on for School:Medicine:

Dr. Darklama
With much help from User:Darklama the problem with the collapse/expand "button" was fixed. MediaWiki:Common.js now holds code that correctly produces collapse/expand "buttons" on the navigation boxes.

Related discussion

 * User:JWSchmidt/quiz - a way to make quiz questions.
 * Talk:Threaded discussions with NavFrames - Threaded discussions
 * Science and the nonphysical - archive course discussions
 * User_talk:Sebmol
 * Colloquium

title: User:JWSchmidt/Blog/12 May 2007


text:
Samyr Lainé

Samyr Laine (born July 17, 1984 in Nyack, New York) is a Haitian-American triple jumper who competed for Haiti at the 2012 Summer Olympics and other international competitions since the 2007 Pan American Games.

Early life
Laine's parents were born in Haiti. He began participating in sports in the 7th grade, where he was relegated to the distance events because of his size. Laine joined the team for the sprints, but ended up running the mile, 2-mile and steeplechase that year. The following year he picked up tennis for three years, even playing for his high school tennis team at Newburgh Free Academy.

During the 2000 Sydney Olympics Laine watched and recorded every athletics event. The Games served as his inspiration and he began to train in anticipation of the 2000–2001 season. He trained and was able to negotiate his way into the 200m/400m group, with some horizontal jumping sprinkled in to help the team with points. He stepped away from the track again to focus on his schooling and debating, having been a member of the debate team since the 8th grade. Laine continued to train and competed at New York's Empire State Games during the summer.

Education and training
During his senior year of high school was when he was able to get a full year of athletics. He made substantial gains that year in what would quickly become his best event, the triple jump, improving from the 42 feet (12.80m) the year before to 45 feet (13.70m) indoors and then 46 feet (14m) outdoors, good enough for 3rd place at the State Championships. After being recruited by nearly all the Ivy League Schools, Laine chose to attend Harvard University. In his freshman year, he was roommates with Mark Zuckerberg.

In his four years at Harvard University his jump improved over 7 feet (2.15m). After two second-place finishes at the conference championships in his freshman year, he placed first in indoors and outdoors for the next two years. In his junior year, although battling with some injuries, he was able to achieve the status of All-American at the NCAA Championships. At that meet, he set what was the Ivy League record at the time and is still the Harvard University triple jump record of 51 feet, 11 1/4 inches and Harvard's outdoor triple jump record of 53 feet, 7 1/2 inches. The following year he struggled with more injuries and was forced to “red shirt” his final outdoor season and watch the team of which he had been voted captain from the sidelines. His injury enabled him to use his final season of collegiate eligibility at the University of Texas at Austin, where he finished his graduate program in 2007. He was able to return to his 2005 form, and achieved the Pan American Games standard. He later graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2010.

Athletic career
It was in 2007 that he first competed under the Haitian flag. Although he was born in the United States, both of his parents and the majority of his extended family had emigrated from Haiti, which allowed him to represent the nation at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and beyond.

Personal life
Laine currently trains and resides in the Washington, D.C. area and speaks fluent French. Laine is working on his Jump for Haiti Foundation, which will focus on mentoring Haitian children and developing more Haitian athletes.

title: Samyr Lainé