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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Sidebar moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve moved Editor&#8217;s Sidebar to Viviti.com which allows me to include more of the original resources than I can put here, and in a more logical fashion. To visit the new Editor&#8217;s Sidebar, click here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=726&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New report card guidelines open the door to clarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While our educators have been working hard for years on such tasks as &#8220;strategizing thematic applications,&#8221; &#8220;deploying school-to-work critical thinking,&#8221; and &#8220;embracing visionary assessments,&#8221; it seems that some parents, and at least one trustee, have been silently fuming at the incomprehensible jargon. Especially when it appears on report cards. Teachers, however, are saying that they&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=711&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But &#8212; isn&#8217;t it his home?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Trever James Wearmouth and Thomas Anthony Bryce-Hartmen sneaked into the Calgary zoo after hours, engaged in a little playful banter with a Siberian tiger, and ended up in hospital. In his capacity as Calgary Police acting Staff Sergeant and Spokesperson for the Department of the Obvious,  Rick Halford noted that both 27-year-old men had been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=705&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Browns&#8217; B Magazine: Promoting shoes and illiteracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Browns shoes puts out a seasonal magazine called <i>B Magazine</i> to promote their products. This issue, however, not only shows a complete disregard for any professional editorial standards, but also a dismissive, condescending attitude towards their customers. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=687&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Editors Only piece reveals flaws in cutting editorial staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So begins William Dunkerley&#8217;s incisive and informed piece, Editors suffer from recession cuts, on the suicidal tendency of publications to cut their editorial staff during tough economic times. &#8220;The usual view,&#8221; he points out, &#8220;is that if sales-related jobs are cut, revenues will decline further.&#8221; The problem, however, is that while this may make sense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=677&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">With editorial staff cut to the bone, newspapers find new uses for their retail boxes.</media:title>
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		<title>Grammar Help: The simple, intuitive approach to prepositions</title>
		<link>http://kitsimpson.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/grammar-help-how-to-intuitively-understand-prepositions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost all our communication deals with expressing the relation of one noun&#8217;s position to some other element. The words we use for this are called &#8220;prepositions&#8221;: words that indicate the &#8220;position&#8221; of something that comes before (or &#8220;pre&#8221;) a noun. The relationship can be between noun to noun or verb to noun. Noun to noun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=668&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grammar help: The simple, intuitive approach to verbs</title>
		<link>http://kitsimpson.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/grammar-help-the-simple-intuitive-approach-to-verbs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Grammar Help: The simple, intuitive way to understand subject and object,&#8221; we looked at how every native speaker of English already knows the difference between subjects and objects, and we learned a simple trick that allows us to quickly determine them. A similar approach can be taken with verbs. As with subject and object, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=659&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>•  Grammar help: The simple, intuitive way to understand subject and object</title>
		<link>http://kitsimpson.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/grammar-help-the-simple-intuitive-way-to-understand-subject-and-object/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kitsimpson.wordpress.com/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The principles of grammar are inherently simple. Just as all mathematical operations essentially boil down to adding and subtracting (division is just repeated subtractions, multiplication is repeated additions), grammar boils down to nouns, verbs, and modifiers (considering, for the moment, prepositions and articles as kinds of modifiers). The most common mistakes come from an inadequate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=637&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>•  Touring the news media</title>
		<link>http://kitsimpson.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/touring-the-news-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the NDP almost does something One of the top stories in Canada right now is about the New Democratic Party failing to change their name to the Democratic Party at a weekend convention in Halifax. For some time the NDP, which has been losing ground in recent years, has contemplated the bold strategy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=598&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>•  I watched the news today &#8212; oh boy</title>
		<link>http://kitsimpson.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/i-watched-the-news-today-oh-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Simpson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Television news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In general, I get my news from newspapers, which are still the most reliable and comprehensive sources around. Those who denigrate newspapers and praise the Internet are generally just getting stories online that originated with a traditional news service. In times of crisis, social networking platforms sometimes provide information unavailable to regular journalists, but at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kitsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7267217&amp;post=583&amp;subd=kitsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Breaking news: leaky faucets cost money</media:title>
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