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America's Teaching Crisis
Our public schools are failing. To save them, we need to look to the
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For too many students, American public education is failing. Class and race still play a significant and disturbing role in determining access to educational opportunity, and as a result large and unjust gaps in achievement and outcomes still divide American children. The 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress indicates that, by the time they are in the fourth grade, low-income children are roughly two-and-a-half times less likely to be meeting grade-level proficiency standards as compared to their more affluent peers. And studies from Education Week, the Harvard Civil Rights Project, and the Manhattan Institute all indicate that barely more than half of African-American and Hispanic students finish high school on time, while more than three-quarters of white students do. These disparities exist not because some children are inherently less capable than others, but because we have failed to create an educational system that provides even an approximation of equal opportunity to all children, regardless of background. These opportunity-crushing gaps tear at the fabric of America's social compact, especially as jobs requiring a strong mind rather than a strong back increasingly become the avenue for individual opportunity and national competitiveness.
There is no shortage of education-reform movements and proposals, some of them promising. Both Republicans and Democrats have embraced "standards-based reform," as embodied in President Bill Clinton's 1994 Improving America's Schools Act and President George W. Bush's 2001 No Child Left Behind Act. And there is an emerging consensus about the value of expanding choice in public education. But just beneath the surface of this promising consensus, complicated questions abound. And none is as politically and substantively complicated as the question of human capital. In the effort to significantly boost our students' achievement, how does the public education system in this nation select, prepare, support, and compensate its most important resource: teachers? People matter most in this incredibly complicated and challenging intellectual work, and the best curricula, assessments, and intervention programs will all fall short without highly capable and effective teachers, principals, and specialists. In fact, research shows that teacher effectiveness is the most powerful in-school factor affecting student learning. Having highly effective teachers for multiple years can help low-performing students overcome any achievement gaps they face, while multiple years of ineffective teachers can lead to devastating deficits. A more strategic approach to human capital is absolutely critical.
Yet despite the centrality of people to education, current strategies for teacher recruitment, training, evaluation, and compensation are largely divorced from the goals of effectiveness and equity and are misaligned with what we know works. While politicians repeatedly profess their respect for teachers, our public policies fundamentally disrespect them and the work they do. No enterprise, public or private, can thrive over time without paying close attention to how it recruits, trains, and retains its very best people. Considering that the majority of the $500 billion spent annually on American public education goes directly to supporting personnel, it is unacceptable that we have a system that does not manage human capital more effectively.
This inattention to human capital is in part the natural byproduct of a historically favorable labor market for schools. For much of the twentieth century, discrimination prevented many highly educated women and minorities from entering most professions. The field of education, however, was open to them. As a result, schools enjoyed a relatively captive labor market, keeping aggregate quality higher than it otherwise would have been. Thankfully, these barriers in the labor market are now mostly gone. But, as a consequence, public schools must now compete for high-quality talent on the same terms as every other profession. At the same time, lucrative, private-sector opportunities for college-educated Americans continue to proliferate. Despite these changes in the labor market, teachers are still recruited, trained, credentialed, and paid much as they were a generation ago.
What does the resulting system look like? Not surprisingly, it suffers from what labor economists would characterize as an adverse-selection problem. Individuals with excellent academic credentials are disproportionately drawn away from teaching in the first place. And top-performers that join the profession are more likely than others to leave within the first few years on the job.
At the same time, quality teachers are not equally distributed across school districts. For example, according to the Education Trust, low-income and minority students are much less likely than other students to have teachers with a college major in the subject they are teaching. And while certain subjects enjoy an abundance of candidates, others–like math, science, and special education–suffer from chronic and acute shortages.
Finally, while roughly three-quarters of our total education dollars are devoted to human capital, these resources are often misaligned from the goal of improving student learning. According to University of Washington school-finance expert Marguerite Roza, almost 20 percent of annual public-school funding is tied to programs and policies that are neither grounded in research nor aligned with the goals of improving student learning. It is estimated that these inefficiencies add up to $77 billion, money that could be used to pay teachers more and train and support them more effectively.
A few years ago, University of Washington researcher Paul Hill dubbed the lack of attention to many of these issues a "conspiracy of silence." And while the focus on human capital has increased modestly in recent years (we now see limited challenges to the uniform salary schedule as well as a handful of truly alternative teacher preparation routes) the "conspiracy" continues. What has not occurred is what the entire education system desperately needs: a top-to-bottom overhaul of how this nation recruits, trains, evaluates, and compensates the men and women who teach our nation's children.
In other words, the nation needs a New Deal for teachers. Rather than a singular reform, we need a broad array of new initiatives to support four essential goals: higher aggregate quality in the teaching candidate pool, more opportunities for educator-driven innovation and professional growth, better measurement of teacher effectiveness, and new forms of compensation and promotion based on skills and performance. Like other trends in education, human-capital strategies must move from being process- and compliance-oriented, with little attention to performance, to being flexible, customized, and directly tied to results. Such changes would benefit teachers, as they would provide educators with the training, development, compensation, and respect they deserve. But, even more importantly, such a fundamental redesign of our education system would benefit our children. After all, real freedom–the kind that allows young people, regardless of background, to pursue their dreams and fully exercise their rights–is simply impossible without access to an excellent education.
Teaching Today
The current human-capital system in American public education revolves around three primary functions: Preparation, training, and evaluation and compensation. In each of these areas, the system is misaligned with the needs of children and disconnected from the goals of equity and effectiveness. The problems are complicated and deeply rooted, and consequently the solutions require much more than additional resources; they require fundamental reform that addresses all three of these areas.
Preparation The vast majority of teachers in this country enter the profession through traditional routes. They participate in either undergraduate or graduate programs in education designed to prepare them for the teaching profession. These programs influence the supply of highly effective teachers in three ways: by setting admissions standards, by imparting skills that help their graduates become effective teachers, and by setting program completion standards. Yet in each of these areas, many schools of education are not serving their students at a level that will lead to the increased student effectiveness we all desire. Of course, there are notable exceptions. But, in general, traditional teacher preparation in America is misaligned with the rigorous demands facing today's educators.
Take the criteria that education programs use to select their students. If the principal objective of a teacher-preparation program is to develop highly effective educators, then it ought to select its students with attention to the characteristics that correlate with effectiveness in the classroom. One such broadly recognized characteristic is the level of a prospective teacher's "literacy"–not merely an individual's ability to read, but rather one's "world knowledge," general academic proficiency, and ability to communicate. To be sure, this broadly defined literacy does not, by itself, guarantee effective teaching, but it is, on average, very much related to success in the classroom. Multiple studies examining different proxies for literacy have shown that educators who are considered "highly literate" consistently produce student achievement that outpaces that of their "less literate" peers, sometimes by more than a third of a grade level per year. One study of Philadelphia students suggests that this effect may be greatest for low-income and minority students. Summarizing the evidence, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), of which we are both members, reports that, "clearly a prospective teacher's level of literacy, however measured, should be a primary consideration in the hiring process."
Despite this evidence, many schools of education do not select their students with an aggressive eye toward this broadly defined literacy. For example, one study of the graduates of the State University of New York system found that, on standardized aptitude tests, elementary and secondary teachers were more likely to score on the lower end of the distribution than their non-teaching peers, and less likely to score at the higher end. National data reflect the same trends: Fewer than 7 percent of public school teachers, for instance, graduated from "selective" colleges. Of course, test scores and college selectivity are not the only indicators of effective teaching; a range of factors leads to excellence in the classroom. However, research suggests that there is a real connection between effectiveness in the classroom and "literacy" that could be more fully addressed in how current teacher preparation programs select candidates.
While higher selectivity is important, imparting the most salient teaching skills is vital. Yet, in many cases, these skills are not being addressed in as robust a manner as possible. For instance, a recent NCTQ study of elementary education programs found that only 15 percent actually teach the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel as essential to reading instruction. Another study, by David Steiner, the dean of the School of Education at Hunter College, and Susan Rozen, the director of reading and literacy for the Bedford, Massachusetts, public school system, examined the syllabi from education programs across the country and concluded: "Most schools of education we reviewed risk…not providing their students with a thoughtful and academically rich background in the fundamentals of what it means to be an outstanding educator."
In addition to what they teach, education schools can also influence teacher effectiveness by using actual performance data about each prospective graduate (gleaned from student practicum experiences) to set exit standards. However, where robust practicum experiences are required, students are infrequently held accountable for their performance. Further complicating matters, there is little appetite among many policymakers to hold teacher-preparation programs themselves accountable for the performance of their graduates. In fact, only a handful of states actually track teacher-performance data with the explicit purpose of gauging the effectiveness of preparation programs.
What about alternative paths to the teaching profession? Do they fare any better than their traditional counterparts? This is a difficult question to answer because such programs vary so widely in design, and many mirror traditional programs in their basic structure and content. In practice, what seems to matter most is not the program's classification–traditional or alternative–but rather the extent to which it pays attention to the levers of quality: high admissions standards with a focus on literacy levels, rigorous and relevant coursework, and high graduation standards based in large part on student teaching performance.
Programs that do these things typically get results. Take for instance the best known, Teach for America (TFA), which recruits top college students to teach in high-poverty communities for at least two years. It has very high admissions standards (only one in eight applicants to the program was admitted in 2006); requires streamlined, but rigorous, coursework the summer before TFA corps members begin teaching; and provides intensive ongoing support and training. And while many TFA teachers would agree with the program's critics who say that additional training beyond the summer institute would have been useful, randomized trials indicate that these educators are, on average, as effective, and in some cases more effective, than traditionally prepared teachers. Obviously, scale dictates that TFA and similar programs (such as the non-profit New Teacher Project, which works with urban districts to recruit, train, and place teachers) are not "the answer" to the human capital crisis in education. But by taking teacher selection and recruiting so seriously, these and other initiatives do offer broader lessons for the American public education system.
Induction, Mentoring, and Professional Development After they are hired, teachers typically receive limited ongoing support from their school systems. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which for years has championed better induction and mentoring for teachers, has found that while states frequently have induction and mentoring programs on the books, they often lack funding, rigor, and sustained district support.
Mentoring programs can be an incredibly important support for novice teachers. Such programs, where they exist, however, are frequently ineffective, for two reasons. First, in many school systems, there are simply not enough quality mentors to go around. This is particularly true in high-poverty districts that struggle to retain their highest-performing teachers in the first place. As a result, mentors often have only limited opportunities to connect with the new teachers in their charge. Furthermore, because of the scarcity of quality mentors, it is not uncommon for a school system to pair two educators who teach different subjects and different grade levels. Of course, some elements of pedagogy are universally transferable. But, if two colleagues are to wrestle deeply with their instructional methods, it certainly helps if they teach the same subject and roughly the same grade. Second, many mentoring programs are ineffective because they rarely offer quality training to the mentors themselves. Without formal training, it can be difficult for a teacher–even a highly successful one–to help a colleague effectively reflect upon and improve his or her practice.
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This very thoughful article echoes some excellent points that I have seen (and made myself). The suggestion of a New Deal for teachers appears similar to Linda Darling-Hammond's call recently for a "Marshall Plan" for education. Several of the suggestions for changing teacher compensation, career options, mentoring, recruitment and retention match those in the Performance Pay for Teachers report published by Center for Teaching Quality of North Carolina. While there are some points in the article with which I disagree, I am encouraged to hear so many of the same ideas coming from very different corners within the education community. I hope this signals the beginning of a sustained movement among teachers to take charge of our own profession.
Jun 27, 2007, 9:56 PMThe authors acknoledge the critical importance of
effective teacher evaluation, but don't provide
concrete examples of specific criteria to be used
and the application of these criteria (or factors)
to the performance of humans by other humans
who generally are colleagues, if not personal friends. The public will vote (provide) funds neces-
sary to support a superlative education system in the U.S. only when they see evidence of a credit- able teacher performance system that is used to
"objectively" make retention and pay decisions.
There will be a union fight if this new deal gets more traction. Teachers will fight over students, parents will fight over teachers, principals will fight over zones....
I agree with so much in the article, but, as a teacher, I am leery of differentiated pay. Do doctors get paid based on patient outcomes? Do police, or firefighters, or nurses? I don't think so. It's a non-starter.
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Visiting London's Westminster Abbey
When you attempt to photograph something as massive as London's Westminster Abbey, you are going to have a few decisions to make. As you can see, I decided to use my wide-angle lens in order to stay relatively close to the Westminster Abbey to keep some of the intricate details.
The downside of that decision is the distortion found at the edges of my photograph. Trust me, when you stand in front of this majestic building, everything is perfectly symmetrical.
The other thing that bummed me out is that there is no photography allowed inside the Westminster Abbey. WAH!
Highlights of Westminster Abbey
- Westminster Abbey is usually open to visitors from Monday to Saturday throughout the year. On Sundays and religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas, the Abbey is open for worship only. All are welcome to services.
- In spite of the fairly steep entrance fee (Adults £16), massive swarms of people are likely to be encountered. Go early, if you can!
- Your ticket price includes a free audio tour narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons. This will allow you to travel the Westminster Abbey at your own pace.
- The Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066 and is the final resting place of seventeen monarchs.
- The present church, begun by Henry III in 1245, is one of the most important Gothic buildings in the country, with the medieval shrine of an Anglo-Saxon saint still at its heart.
- In the north aisle of the chapel is the tomb of Elizabeth I and her half-sister Mary I. In the south aisle are monuments to Mary, Queen of Scots and Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. Here also is the vault where Charles II, William III and Mary II and Queen Anne lie, although none of them has a monument. George II, the last monarch to be buried at the Abbey, is interred in a vault below the central part of the chapel.
- In Poets' Corner, you will find the final resting place of Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Charles Dickens. You'll also find monuments to John Milton, Shakespeare, William Blake, and you'll even find the grave and monument of George Frederic Handel.
- Be prepared to be completely awestruck at every turn of the head. There are magnificent details, tombs, memorials, statues, sculptures, and ethereal spaces everywhere.
In my humble opinion, Westminster Abbey belongs on your "must see" list when you visit London, England. A walk around the interiors of Westminster Abbey will have you steeped in more than a thousand years of history. Nowhere in America can you come close to such a feat.
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James Weeks's look at the time when football was considered a substitute for the manly virtues of war appeared in the September/October 1988 issue.
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In September 1862 the New York Tribune ran a masterly account of the Battle of Antietam. Here were no vague claims of "Great and Glorious Victory" or "Great Slaughter of the Rebels." Instead, the paper offered six columns of accurate, forceful prose—and got it to the readers less than thirty-six hours after the fight.
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"Save America's Treasures" has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington's tent.
65% of Americans don't know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
The "Teaching American History" grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
40% of Americans can't identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
"There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country," John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
The "We the People Program," which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.


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Clearing the Browser Tabs – How Maryland Will Rob Me to Enrich Union Fat Cats Tuesday Edition
This is the month the state of Maryland, on behalf of the public sector union known as AFSCME, steals somewhere in the area of $400 from my yearly salary in order to enrich the union. As I've written before, I did not ask for AFSCME to negotiate on my behalf and have seen no gain that I would not have received as a matter of routine operation by the state. By the by, my salary is a matter of public record, so if you think I'm one of those state employees who is living high on the hog in one of the most expensive areas in the country to live, you have only to look.
AFSCME says the law it lobbied a majority Democratic legislature and Governor to pass is a matter of fairness. I say it's a matter of some $4.7 million dollars the union will receive in money the state will pilfer for it from thousands of state workers who could use that money to help Maryland's economy. Oh, did I mention that the state's economy is still in terrible shape and we just faced down a deficit of over a trillion billion and a half dollars for fiscal 2012? (I originally had trillion, which I knew was wrong but my brain just didn't flag that I used the wrong amount. Maybe this is the Democrats' problem?)
And did I also mention that AFSCME coincidentally negotiated a $750 bonus for almost all state employees that will be given not as a lump sum but over the course of the year? That not only makes it taxable, but helps to hide the bite they will be taking from thousands of unwilling "contributors".
Slick, huh? It's almost as if the union was more interested in a big payday kept through deception than in the welfare of those it claims to nobly and selflessly represent.
You just might hear more about this on tonight's episode of The Delivery. Remember, the fun and games kick off just a little bit before 9:30 P.M. Eastern.
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- Ed Driscoll found a choice bit from Mark Steyn on the subject of immigration that's worth your time today. You can get Steyn's excellent thoughts on "Dependence Day" here.
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Creating a replica of the 2015 Corvette Stingray concept, builders from Z and M Customs have stepped out and put their name on the line with this radical design.
I'm sure that building this thing took a lot of money, time, and effort; but is the end result really an accurate Stingray replica? It is close, don't get me wrong, but there is just something funny about these cars that makes it obvious that they are indeed replicas. I'm pretty sure the point of a replica is to fool people into believing it is the real thing.
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Budget for Good Books: Comics Out July 14
- Posted by Johanna on July 13, 2010 at 8:43 pm
- Category: Shopping Guide
Another round of the budget game, considering what I'd buy with $15.
The book of the week is, of course, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (Oni Press, $12), the final volume in the series and the precursor to the movie, due out next month and eagerly anticipated. However, although Diamond is shipping the book this week, it's not supposed to be on sale until the 20th, so that doesn't count.
Manga-wise, the only volume I'm interested in is the 16th book of Inubaka Crazy for Dogs (Viz, $10), but thanks to Viz's generosity, I'm reading it now. I also read Bighead Press' Escape From Terra ($13) back at ordering time; unfortunately, I didn't care much for it.
So that leaves me with periodical comics. Oni has the second issues of two series I'm enjoying, Frenemy of the State and The Sixth Gun, at $4 each. That leaves me with $7, which is enough to get Birds of Prey #3 (DC, $3) and Avengers Academy #2 (Marvel, $3), with $1 left over for tax.
If I was going to the comic shop, I'd flip through Bongo Comics' Comic Book Guy The Comic Book #1 ($4), to see what kind of approach they were taking. If anyone checks it out, let me know. I'd probably also be curious about Girl Comics #3 (Marvel, $5), just to see who's in this issue of the anthology.
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- David Oakes Says:
July 14, 2010 at 12:05 AMI think I am going to regret this exercize. Or maybe just my LCS, when I realize how much I spend a month, and how little I enjoy.
Well, this is a more typical week, I think. In order of desire:
Superfriends #29
Astro City Silver Agent
Chew #12
CA/BP: Flags of our Fathers #4
Girl Comics #3
Rebels #18
Thanos Imperative #2
Brave and the Bold #35
Unwritten #15So yeah, only half my books at $15. And there were at least five titles I had under "Look at if you can afford it" as well. Flags, Girls, and Rebels won't be here next month, but yeah, I should probably think about B&B and Unwritten.
- Suzene Says:
July 14, 2010 at 4:06 AM$15, hm?
Chew #12. Thanks to this comic, John Lyman is on the short list of writers who can have one of my kidneys if that's what it takes to get us to the end of this story.
Frenemy of the State #2, since I've enjoyed absolutely everything I've read from DeFilippis and Weir.
Age of Reptiles #4, because it's a nature documentary about dinosaurs in comic-book form, and my inner twelve-year-old will hate me forever if I don't see the story through.
Bulletproof Coffin #2. I enjoyed the meta and the story-within-a-story in issue #1; I'm still not sure where the framing story is going, but I'm intrigued enough to keep reading along.
I liked what I saw of Sixth Gun on Oni's site, but not enough to double-dip. Tradewaiting on that one.
X-Men: Hellbound #3. This will get a flip through on the shelf to see if I'll eventually snag a used copy of the trade (which will probably be packaged with a reprint of the first Magik LS, and hence cost $30). I would also like to offer Marvel a tip of the hat for getting the Pixie mini-series collected so quickly.
And I think that's it for this week.
- Johanna Says:
July 14, 2010 at 6:53 AMAw, David, no regrets — the exercise isn't meant to make you feel bad, but to focus on what you really enjoy. Sometimes it's a good idea to leave something on the shelf instead of getting everything that catches your eye. It makes you appreciate what you have more.
Thanks to you and Suzene for sharing your lists. It's neat to hear what interests people, and I note how little overlap there is. It's a sign of how much great stuff is out there these days.
- Ed Sizemore Says:
July 14, 2010 at 7:21 AMI'm already busted out. Akira volume 3 came out this week. Even using Amazon, I'm at $16.49.
In for a penny, in for a pound. So I'll add Calling Cthulhu from Boom Studios to my overbudget expenses.
- Johanna Says:
July 14, 2010 at 7:33 AMOh, I didn't realize Boom! had that new ongoing Cthulhu horror series. Sounds right up your alley!
- JeffG Says:
July 14, 2010 at 3:42 PMHmm, won't make it to the shop until Saturday, but the following should already be set aside for me and worthy IMHO:
Locke and Key: Crown of Shadows
Unwrittenand I'll probably check out "Richard Stark's Parker: The Man With Getaway the Face (prelude)" having liked the trade from Cooke, but I'm a sucker for noir like this, Criminal, Bronx Kill, etc.
- David Oakes Says:
July 14, 2010 at 7:22 PM"[T]he exercise isn't meant to make you feel bad, but to focus on what you really enjoy."
Good, because not only did I enjoy every book I got this week – and I got every book plus one, Gorilla Man – but B&B was the best book of the week. Even better than Super Friends. (And it was one of their better issues!)
No, seriously. Everyone go out an buy Brave and the Bold #35 right now. And then buy another one an hour later.
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July 20, 2010 at 9:17 PM[…] is another cheat week. I talked about the final Scott Pilgrim last week (and I'm a bit annoyed at Amazon for not shipping my copy yet, since I've had […]


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Down-regulation of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK) through receptor internalization and degradation is critical for appropriate biological responses. The hepatocyte growth factor RTK (also known as Met) regulates epithelial remodeling, dispersal, and invasion and is deregulated in human cancers. Impaired down-regulation of the Met RTK leads to sustained signaling, cell transformation, and tumorigenesis, hence understanding mechanisms that regulate this process is crucial. Here we report that, following Met activation, the endocytic adaptor protein, Eps15, is recruited to the plasma membrane and becomes both tyrosine-phosphorylated and ubiquitinated. Recruitment of Eps15 requires Met receptor kinase activity and involves two distinct Eps15 domains. Unlike previous reports for the EGF RTK, which requires the Eps15 ubiquitin interacting motif, recruitment of Eps15 to Met involves the coiled-coil domain of Eps15 and the signaling adaptor molecule, Grb2, which binds through a proline-rich motif in the third domain of Eps15. Expression of the coiled-coil domain is sufficient to displace the wild-type Eps15 protein complex from Met, resulting in loss of tyrosine phosphorylation of Eps15. Knockdown of Eps15 results in delayed Met degradation, which can be rescued by expression of Eps15 WT but not an Eps15 mutant lacking the coiled-coil domain, identifying a role for this domain in Eps15-mediated Met down-modulation. This study demonstrates a new mechanism of recruitment for Eps15 downstream of the Met receptor, involving the coiled-coil domain of Eps15 as well as interaction of Eps15 with Grb2. This highlights distinct regulation of Eps15 recruitment and the diversity and adaptability of endocytic molecules in promoting RTK trafficking.
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[Android] Best free network data usage monitor
Posted By Ashraf On June 3, 2011 @ 2:22 AM In Best Free Android Apps | 10 Comments
"Unlimited" data plans are a thing of past. For both prepaid and post-paid, most everyone is now on a data plan with a quota (hard cap quota, such as AT&T's 2 GB a month with overage charges, or soft cap such as T-Mobile's 2 GB a month but no overage charges only speed throttling). Combine this with the fact that we are consuming more network/wireless data than ever before and there arises a need to be able to monitor your network data usage so we can ensure we avoid those pesky overage charges or speed throttling. This article lists the best free network data usage monitors – also called network monitors, bandwidth monitors, network data monitors, or data monitors – available on Android. You can use these any of the following tools to make sure you (almost) never pass your data quota limit.
Before we take a look at the list of best free network data usage monitors there is something I would like to point out. All network data usage monitors are "always on" apps; therefore they *will* have some sort of negative effect on your phone's battery life. How big of an effect varies from app-to-app. For what it is worth, I have been running multiple monitors concurrently most of the day and the effect on my Nexus S battery life has been so small it might even be considered negligible. (If you are using a task killer [1], make sure to add the network data usage app you use to the ignore list!)
(Note: Although these network data usage monitors are fairly accurate, they are not a replacement for your service provider's billing system. You can try to argue all you want with your cell phone company, but you are unlikely to convince them the amount of data the app says you used is more accurate than what their billing system says you used. How you are billed also depends on the billing scheme that your cell phone company uses, such as the size of data blocks they bill by. So, small discrepancies between what you think you should have been billed – based on the data your monitor says you used – and what you are actually billed are to be expected. Huge discrepancies, however, are significant and it could mean either your cell phone company is cheating you or the network data usage monitor you are using is very inaccurate.)
This article is part of our Best Free Android Apps [2] repository. Feel free to drop by [2] when you have time!
App Name: 3G Watchdog [7] [8]
Developer: Richard Gruet
Download Size: 618 KB
Version Reviewed: v0.28.0
Requires: Android 1.5 and up
Despite what its name may suggest, 3G Watchdog is a network data usage monitor that monitors all types of network data – 2G, 3G, 4G and everything in between. 3G Watchdog allows users to setup a daily, weekly, or monthly data quota and provides users with one warning notification when X% of the data quota has been reached (users set what the percentage is) and one warning notification when the data quota has been fully used/finished. (3G Watchdog actually *forces* users to setup a data quota. There is no way to tell 3G Watchdog that you don't want to setup a data quota. Most people will use 3G Watchdog because they are on a data quota and want to make sure they don't pass it, so being forced to use a data quota is a non-issue for them. There will, however, be a small minority that don't necessarily want to monitor data usage for a quota, but rather want to monitor data usage for other reasons. If you are within this small minority, not being able to disable the data quota feature will annoy you. See DroidStats [4] or Data counter widget [5] if you are one of these people.)
3G Watchdog breaks down network data usage into received/sent (in/out) and quota/daily/weekly/monthly segments. It displays the data usage information in three places: The main app window, where it has a nice organized table; the Android notification bar, where it places an icon and a clickable entry in the notification pull-down menu; and a widget.
For users that prefer not to have the 3G Watchdog icon/entry in the notification bar/menu, 3G Watchdog allows users to turn off the icon/entry or to only display the icon/entry when network data connection is enabled. Do note, however, if you disable the 3G Watchdog icon/entry you will not get the warning notifications mentioned earlier. (In my opinion, this is poor programming on the developer's part. Warning notifications should be displayed regardless of if the notification bar icon/entry has been enabled or not. If the developer does not want to enable this feature as an app-wide default, at the very least users should have the option if they want to receive warning notifications the notification bar icon/entry being disabled or not.)
In regards to the widgets, 3G Watchdog provides two widgets: A 1×1 widget (takes up only one icon spot) and a 2×2 widget (takes up four icon spots). Both widgets display the same thing: Information regarding how much of the quota has been used. The widgets display a bar which changes color depending on the quota usage status (it is green if you have not passed your warning notification X%, orange if you have passed it, and red if you have used more data than your quota); and users have the option to show how much of the quota has been used in terms of MB and percentage. (Both the MB and percentage displays are enabled by default, and users who don't want them need to manually turn them off.) Unfortunately, the free version of 3G Watchdog only supports widgets that show quota data. If you want more types of widgets – like widgets that show daily, weekly, and monthly data usage information – you will need to purchase 3G Watchdog Pro (about $3.25 USD). While I do think 3G Watchdog Pro is overpriced (it shouldn't be more than $2 USD), I can't really complain too much about the price because 3G Watchdog – the free version – is a brilliant app, despite its limitations.
Before I go onto other aspects of 3G Watchdog, I would like to make a quick comment about the 2×2 widget. The widget takes up a 2×2 – i.e 4 icons worth – spot; but the widget itself actually isn't large enough to justify such a big spot. In other words, the widget doesn't fill in the whole 2×2 area. The widget is larger than a simple 1×1, yes, but it isn't large enough to fill a whole 2×2 yet it still uses all that area for itself. It is sort of akin to someone parking a car in the middle of two parking spots. The car isn't large enough to fill both parking spots, but it uses up two parking spots anyway. If the developer insists on providing this "big" 2×2 widget, they should at least make it large enough to fill in the whole area it claims for itself.
In regards to information accuracy, 3G Watchdog is as accurate as it can get. 3G Watchdog itself does not monitor network data usage; it pulls data from Android. Since 3G Watchdog uses data provided by Android, it cannot get any more accurate than it is already. (After all, if the Android operating system is providing inaccurate data, a third party app like 3G Watchdog cannot be expected to show accurate data.) Plus, during my tests 3G Watchdog was showing the exact same data usage as most other apps (only one app was showing a different amount, and that app is the one that is inaccurate) which, by reasonable assumption, must mean 3G Watchdog is monitoring and recording network data usage properly.
Furthermore, 3G Watchdog has an option that allows users to control the "refresh frequency" of when 3G Watchdog polls Android for network data usage information and updates its meters. By default this refresh frequency is set to every one minute, but users have the option to change it to every 30 seconds, every 5 minutes, every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes, or every one hour. The lower the interval/frequency, the more battery 3G Watchdog will consume (i.e. a refresh frequency of 30 seconds will consumer more battery than a refresh frequency of every one hour because 3G Watchdog will be polling more often during the day). However, take note that a lower frequency does not necessarily mean more "accurate" data*.
As I already said, 3G Watchdog does not monitor network data usage itself – it imports data from Android, so the "accuracy" of the information will be the exact same if 3G Watchdog polls Android 60 times in an hour or once per hour. Rather, a lower frequency means more timely information. To show you what I mean, let's take two scenarios: In one scenario you set the refresh frequency to every minute. In the other scenario, you set it at every hour. In both scenarios you use a total of 100 MB of network data.
In scenario A, the one with the refresh frequency of one minute, you will get 60 updates about your data usage; you will be told at minute 1 how much data you have used so far, at minute 2 how data you have used so far, etc. At minute 60 you will be told you have used a total of 100 MB. In scenario B, the one with the refresh frequency of one hour, you will get 1 update about your data usage; at the end of the hour (i.e. minute 60) you will be told you used 100 MB of data. In both scenarios at the end of the hour you will be told you used 100 MB of data. However, in the first scenario you will be given intermediate reports – you will know exactly how much data you have used after 15 minutes, after 36 minutes, after 43 minutes, etc. – whereas in scenario two you will be given one report at the end of the hour.
For the most part, having these intermediate reports or not having these intermediate reports is not a big deal. If you have a data quota of 1,000 MB and you have only used 50 MB so far, being told after an hour that you used another 100 MB of data or being told every minute how much data you are using doesn't really matter because at the end of the hour you have used 100 MB regardless of your refresh frequency and at the end of the hour you are still under your data quota limit. However, now let's say you have used 960 MB thus far instead of 50 MB. If you have the refresh frequency set at an hour, at the end of the hour you will be told you have used 100 MB of data, making your total data usage 1,060 MB; this is 60 MB over your data quota. Because of you had the refresh frequency set at one hour, there was no way to knowing (aside from manually refreshing 3G Watchdog) that you were going over your data quota until the end of the hour. On the other hand, if the refresh frequency was every minute, you would have been told a lot earlier that you have used up your whole data quota (i.e. lets say after 32 minutes you used 40 MB and have reached your limit; you would have known this fact before the 33rd minute finished). Now this doesn't mean lower frequencies will make you totally avoid data overage. You may still go over your data quota with lower refresh frequencies. For example, lets say at minute 22 you have used 39.5 MB. In between minute 22 and minute 23 you use another 1 MB of data. This makes your usage so far 40.5 MB, and therefore your total quota usage to 1,000.5 MB, which means you went over your quota by .5 MB. As you can see, even with a 1 minute refresh frequency you went over your quota; a lower frequency will help you, however, in avoiding larger data overages.
(*There is one exception to what I stated above. When your phone shutdowns, Android erases its network data usage logs. 3G Watchdog tries to intelligently work around this fact and still provide you with accurate information, but having a lower refresh frequency helps 3G Watchdog. For the most part, though, you shouldn't worry too terribly about having the lowest frequency to avoid data loss when your phone shuts down or restarts. The decision of what to set the refresh frequency at is more dependent on other factors that "what happens when I shutdown or restart my phone".)
In the end, the choice of which refresh frequency to use depends on what you value more: Battery usage or avoiding data overage penalties/charges. For what it is worth, at the one minute refresh frequency (the default setting), 3G Watchdog doesn't drain battery very much. The developer claims 3G Watchdog uses no more than 10 seconds of CPU during the day for monitoring and recording your data usage; while I cannot confirm or deny this claim, I can say 3G Watchdog had pretty much a negligible effect on the battery life of my Nexus S at default settings (i.e. one minute refresh frequency). If you cannot decide what refresh frequency to use, just leave it at the default one minute setting.
Last but not least, I would just like to mention 3G Watchdog does not monitor WiFi data usage. It only monitors network data usage. Now, of course, this article is about network data usage monitors – not WiFi data usage monitors – and many people won't care about WiFi data usage. However, there are some people that will care about WiFi data usage (people that use bandwidth limited WiFi connections, people that use pay-as-you-go WiFi connections, etc.). People that want to monitor WiFi data usage obviously cannot use 3G Watchdog since it doesn't do it. (See DroidStats [4] or Data counter widget [5] if you are one of these people.) The developer may want to consider adding in this feature.
To conclude this epically long discussion about 3G Watchdog: 3G Watchdog has its drawbacks; even the best apps have drawbacks. However, compared to the competition, 3G Watchdog is the best free network data usage monitor.
App Name: DroidStats [9] [10]
Developer: Michael Ludwig
Download Size: 1.0 MB
Version Reviewed: v3.3.3
Requires: Android 1.6 and up
DroidStats is a brilliant app. Like 3G Watchdog, DroidStats monitors network data usage (2G/3G/4G). However, in addition to monitoring network data usage, DroidStats monitors WiFi data usage, SMS/MMS (text/picture messages) usage, and call minutes usage. Furthermore, like 3G Watchdog, DroidStats has widgets and a notification system when users reach X% of their data quota and when they exceed the data quota. (DroidStats does not force users to setup a data quota – it is optional.) However, DroidStats also has widgets and a notification system for SMS/MMS and minutes; and it has a notification based on "cost limits". (It has many other useful features too, such as a feature that allows users to exclude phone numbers from being counted towards minutes, a feature that allows users to exclude a time period in which calls are not counted towards minutes, etc.) Lastly, while 3G Watchdog makes users buy the Pro version to get a billing counter/system, DroidStats – the free version – has a fairly extensive billing counter/system built-in that allows users to estimate how much they will be charged based off their usage.
In regards to data accuracy, I don't now how DroidStats works exactly (I suspect it works the same way as 3G Watchdog, i.e. it pulls information from Android)l but I do know it is exactly as accurate as 3G Watchdog. (During my tests they both displayed the same amount of data usage.)
In regards to battery life, it is hard to say which one – 3G Watchdog or DroidStats – has better battery life because the effect of both apps on battery life was very little during my tests. In other words, like 3G Watchdog, DroidStats shouldn't drain your battery too much.
So, with all the positives of DroidStats, why is it ranked second to 3G Watchdog? If this article was discussing SMS/MMS and minutes monitoring, DroidStats would probably be one of the best available. However, this article is focusing on network data usage. There are three main shortcomings in the network data usage monitoring area that contributed to me concluding 3G Watchdog is better for network data usage monitoring than DroidStats:
Furthermore, although the following three points aren't "this is why 3G Watchdog is better", there are three things I would like to see changed in DroidStats:
All six points I pointed out above do not mean DroidStats "sucks". DroidStats does not suck. It is a very, very good app. However, for the purposes of network data usage monitoring, I find 3G Watchdog to be slightly better. Nonetheless, if someone opts to get DroidStats over 3G Watchdog, I will not protest.
(Like 3G Watchdog, DroidStats is ads-free and cannot be installed in/moved to the SD card.)
App Name: Data counter widget [11] [12]
Developer: Roy Solberg
Download Size: 264 KB
Version Reviewed: v1.5.5
Requires: Android 1.5 and up
Like 3G Watchdog, Data counter widget is a network data usage monitor that can monitor 2G/3G/4G data. Unlike 3G Watchdog, Data counter widget also monitors WiFi data usage. However, Data counter widget is simply a monitor/counter – it does not allow users to setup data quotas and thus does not provide any notifications when a quota is reached either.
The main attraction to Data counter widget over 3G Watchdog is the widget. Data counter widget – which also has a main app interface that displays usage data, despite what the app name may suggest – has two widgets: 1×1 and 2×1. Both these widgets show the same information, the amount of network data and WiFi data used so far in the month. What sets these widgets apart from other apps is the widgets can be customized in color (background color: black, transparent, gray, white, or "the old look"; font color: white, light grey, block, or grey). If you want more color choices, you need to purchase Data counter pro (about $2.80 USD).
(Like 3G Watchdog, Data counter widget is ads-free and cannot be installed in/moved to the SD card.)
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hahaha, I on the other hand was very unsure about how you all would accept this.. but i'm glad you guys are open for different things :))
no kolya, it's not a carpet :)) but i put the texture on it because i like the look of fabric, organic texture. thank you & thx margarite!
just joined society 6 and your work has definitely been my favorite so far! Can't decide what I want to buy yet haha
Wow Luke, that is a huge compliment if I think about how many super great artists are here!!! Let me know how you decide :)
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The design shows a group of people with different cultures and ethnics embraced in a circle with their arms. The idea of different cultures is represented by the different colors that paint their arms, hairs and clothes. At the same time, the persons are equals, represented by the same graphics in order to emphasize that everybody has the same value. The concept of the rapprochement is done by the circle and the bodies touching each other.
The colors were choose to represent the earth. The primary and vivid color were avoid to establish a language that make a call to the natural aspect of the diversity.
The diversity is also reinforced on the title, where each word is written by one font and one different color, but keeping the same tones used on the image. There is a misalignment on the text to represent the randomness of the human races on the planet.


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I'm on my way to the San Diego Comic-Con, so this will be my last post until next week. My first order of business will be take the drawing below to the Bud Plant booth for a contest he's holding. Bud will be giving away as prizes over 12 pieces of original artwork ranging from artists from Dean Yeagle to Mark Schultz
Mr. Smart Ass and Red Fanny are characters that I created and debuted in my latest book Arf Museum. Luke McDonnell did this original artwork for Bud's contest. Luke is an amazing artist who has drawn for DC and Marvel comics and now we have the great pleasure of working with him a YOE! Studio. Today is Luke's Birthday — Happy Birthday Luke! I'll pick up a birthday present for Luke at Bud Plant's booth. Bud Plant's booth is my favorite place to shop at the San Diego Comic-Con.
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Data storage: what's needed is a cultural revolution
Benoît Hallez, Director of Bull's storage business
With continued and sustained growth in data volumes, a tactical response of simply boosting storage capacity will not solve the underlying problems of controlling cost, risk and performance. Taking stock of the current situation, and setting up a global data management strategy is now essential. But that involves a real break with the past... |
30%, 40%, 50% annual growth... Analysts may disagree about the precise figures, but they all agree as to the general trend: the amount of data stored in company information systems is soaring. With the growth of multi-media, the number of very large documents is burgeoning. And as on-line services proliferate, customer data inevitably accumulates. Finally, with ever tighter regulatory and legal constraints, data is having to be stored for longer and longer periods of time. But the falling cost of storage systems does not go far enough to compensate for these higher volumes, with the result that costs are once more spiraling out of control.
In addition, the ongoing and massive expansion of storage infrastructures is giving rise to other worrying issues: because they tend to be complex and heterogeneous, maintenance is increasingly problematic, and this can lead to less secure, and more costly systems. Energy consumption is also becoming a major issue. And finally, risk - both technical and legal – is more difficult to control. Cost, performance, environmental issues, risks… when it comes to storage, there are a multitude of new challenges IT Managers will have to face; sooner rather than later.
Until now, the response to growing requirements for storage has nearly always been to tackle the problem from the hardware angle, by acquiring additional capacity. Clearly, this is no longer tenable, because it does not provide an answer to the root causes of the problem.. Before rushing to purchase new capacity, it would be wise to make a 'state of play' assessment of existing storage infrastructures. What is immediately obvious in the majority of cases? More than 50% of the storage space which is supposedly in such short supply is often not being used! The data is simply badly organized within the available space.
Moreover, in many cases no distinction is made between different types of data. For the sake of simplicity, and because no particular strategy has been established, everything is often just stacked up in a costly primary storage systemw, with security and performance levels designed for the most critical information. In this respect, many organizations are no better at managing their data than the average PC user, with the same security and performance levels for holiday photos as for a key business presentation, an erratic approach to archiving, en bloc back-ups, and no de-duplication of data...
This assessment may appear rather extreme, even brutal. Nevertheless it reflects reality in a large number of cases: but because there is no real operational urgency to address the problem, the reality is widely ignored.
So, rather than increasing capacity, the first response to storage issues should be to exploit existing infrastructures more fully, and capitalize on the many possibilities that exist for more intelligent storage management. A few simple and easily implemented rules and policies can bring about considerable benefits: data can be organized hierarchically depending on how critical it is, how the data is used, and the length of time it must be stored, thus saving costs and controlling risks. De-duplication of documents and, most importantly, of file attachments that clog up messaging systems; archiving, or even automatically destroying, any data that remains unused for a certain length of time; strictly limiting certain formats, especially video clips... all are valid options.
In order to implement this kind of global data management policy, an initial rapid assessment of the situation is required, followed by a more detailed analysis to define an action plan. After all, technology is just an instrument designed to serve this storage policy, and it is in this perspective that it should be chosen. Meeting current and future storage challenges therefore requires a double revolution: firstly a move away from investment in hardware to investment in services; and secondly, a move away from an approach based on data volumes to one driven by service levels.
We should not underestimate the impact of these changes, which represent a dual cultural revolution. For IT Managers and their teams, looking on storage as a service – including the service provided by external suppliers, as well as that offered to internal customers – represents a real break with the past. But managing this fundamental change and taking it on board is the price that must be paid today by anyone who does not want to end up drowning in their own sea of data…


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WACO — Donovan Darcell Lair, a sergeant at Fort Hood, will serve 30 years in prison for the stabbing death of his ex-wife.
Darcell pleaded guilty and could have been sentenced up to life in prison.
Records show Lair stabbed Shameka Jones in the chest during an argument. He then called for help 10 to 20 minutes after he stabbed Jones. Medical personel found Jones bleeding alive, but were not able to save her.
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How can I know when to test when I am irregular?
I have a very irregular period and I have no idea how long my cycle is but I believe that I am pregnant with my first child! I had what I believe was implantation bleeding a few weeks ago and since then my breasts have developed a hard center that reminds me of when they grew during puberty. I have had some nausea but that could be from the prenatal vitamins that the doctor told me to take just in case. I also have been constipated and gassy. The main reason for my urgency is that I am a high risk pregnancy because I have been prone to getting ovarian cysts in the past. I have no idea when to test because I have tried several over the coarse of the past few days and all have come out negative but my symptoms persist. What do you recommend I do?
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Park of the Month: Rincon Ridge Park
Amit Grewal, Sandeep Tiwari and Adesh Bassi live in Rincon Ridge and use the neighborhood park as a safe place to play basketball until it gets dark.
"It's definitely our favorite thing about the park," Sandeep said.
Serving residents of this Fountaingrove neighborhood, Rincon Ridge is relatively sleepy most of the day. Peak traffic is 2-7 p.m., when students use it to blow off steam after school.
Rincon Ridge Park, 3950 Park Garden Drive
Size: 7 acres, 4 landscaped, (3 wooded acres that are fenced)
Hours: 6 a.m.-9 p.m. through October, then 6 a.m.-6 p.m.
Amenities: A single half-sized basketball court, two picnic tables but no grilling area, separate play areas for toddlers and older children with climbing structure, swings, slides and sand.
Back story: Rincon Ridge was developed as part of the Fountaingrove neighborhood development. It sits near the top of Fountaingrove Parkway, offering panoramic views that stretch from Windsor to Sebastopol and include downtown Santa Rosa.
Ambience: Because it is surrounded by a housing development, Rincon Ridge is a relatively quiet park. Neighbors hold their birthday parties there and walk their dogs through the large grass field at its center. The field is large enough to host activities such as football and ultimate Frisbee.
The large grass field in the center hosts the army of local residents who walk their dogs in late afternoon. Cyclists and walkers who come to Fountaingrove for the challenging hills often catch their breath in the park.
Rules: Dogs must be on a leash. Alcoholic beverages and glass containers are prohibited.
Volunteer: Join a one-day clean-up of Rincon Ridge Park from 9 a.m.-noon Aug. 10 as part of the city's Park a Month Volunteer program. Hand tools will be provided, but volunteers may also bring their own. Typical jobs include raking, sweeping, spreading mulch, weeding, litter pick up and general cleaning while park employees trim the grass and make equipment repairs. More information: 543-3770.


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Pimlico. He didn't disappoint as he got the lead by the 1/4 pole and stayed there the rest of the way, winning in 1:54 2/5. Alydar rallied from 6th but just couldn't get past the stubborn Affirmed. Only three rivals showed up to challenge the pair in the Belmont and the race basically turned into a match race with the pair running 1-2 almost the whole way. The final 7 furlongs of the race they went at it head to head. For a moment at the head of the stretch Alydar actually got his head in ...
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Culture Connect Featured Event
The Unitarian Meetinghouse's Performing Arts Series hosts a concert of violin and piano music at 7:30 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013 featuring Carolyn Halsted, piano, and Anhred Stowe violin.
Unitarian Meetinghouse, 50 Bloomfield Ave, Hartford . Donations requested: $ 15.
This is the second in an exciting and varied series of performances by local musicians at the Meeting House in the 2012-13 season, and it features two widely respected musicians in a program of violin-piano duets and solo flights of sound. The program includes works by Brahms and Prokofiev and introduces Arro Part's "Fratres" to the Hartford audience
The April program in this season will be staged by the talented and prolific Jacques LaMarre, bringing readings of some of his latest works and those of other new playwrights to the Meeting house platform on April 6.


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President Barack Obama makes an emotional address during a vigil in the Newtown High School auditorium. In front of the President are candles representing those who died during Friday's attack at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Hundreds of local residents, including grieving families and first responders, filled the hall Sunday night. (STEPHEN DUNN, Hartford Courant / December 16, 2012) |
"I think it shows human side of president -- he's a president but also a father and a husband and I think just showing [the] world [that] ..." Bennett said, and Campbell finished: "It's not about politics."
Bennet said he is friends with the family of Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6, one of the victims in the shooting because he shares a church with her father, Jimmie Greene.
"He and his wife were the first people I met in Connecticut," he said. "They've been there for me during really hard times ... I just wanted to come out and do whatever I could."
Jacquie Small, of Bridgeport, was drawn to Newtown on Sunday. "I'm a mother, and words cannot express my feelings for [families] who lost loved ones. I just came to share my grief with them so that's a reason why I'm here tonight. I didn't care if it was rain, snow, sleet storm, I would still have been here."
Earlier in the day, people traveled from around the region to mourn in Newtown. Kerry Stewart came from West Hartford with his wife, Mary Lynn, and daughter, Grace.
"We just felt, as a family, we wanted to come down," he said. Stewart is a teacher at the prison in Newtown. His wife is a school nurse. "You just want to go home and hug your kid."
Mary Lynn looked at the bells hung from a large pine tree, one that was strung with lights for Christmas. Each bell had the name of a victim, and said "Angel at 6" or "Angel at 7."
Barbara McDonald came from Waterbury with her sister and her niece.
"My daughter is petrified to go to school tomorrow," McDonald said. She told the 9-year-old to "just pray," she said. McDonald and her sister, Nadia Facey, are both paraprofessionals in Waterbury schools.
"I'm here because I just feel like I need to be here. I can't describe it," said Trish Blazi of Middlebury, wiping tears from her eyes. "These poor parents. Once this town has emptied out ... Right now, the support of the whole country is around them. When that's gone, what do you do?"
People thronged makeshift memorials much of Sunday, even in a downpour in the late morning. That was when golden retrievers from the Lutheran Church Charities K-9 Comfort Dog Ministry arrived from Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Portage, Ind.
"We're here to give some emotional support," handler Dan Fulkerson said. "Wherever we're needed, we go."
Reporting by Jenny Wilson, The Associated Press and the White House pool report are included in this account.


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