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Convocation 2012
Convocation kicks off senior year with a dose of advice and longtime "capping" tradition
The advice that a Longwood University alumna gave at Convocation didn't come from a book. It came from her life - and has influenced her life.
"Sometimes you have to do something bold and crazy," Colleen Margiloff '97, president of the Alumni Association, told seniors at the ceremony Sept. 13 officially opening the academic year.
Margiloff did something "bold and crazy" when, after teaching kindergarten for a year in Buckingham County following her Longwood graduation, she moved to New York City where she had never lived and didn't know what she would do.
"All my college friends thought I was crazy," she said. "What was I doing in New York? But for me, I just believed that my path was do to this. Whatever this was. To be bold. To be scared. To just believe that it would all work out. And it did.
"This is your moment to think about what your bold next step is going to be. Move to a new city? Visit a new country? Hike a part of the Appalachian Trail? Getting out of your comfort zone is the scariest, most rewarding thing you can do. What will be your leap of faith?"
Margiloff, who lives in suburban Rye, N.Y., with her husband and three children, has taught sixth-grade English at middle schools in New York City and is on the board of Behind the Book, a nonprofit organization that motivates young people to become engaged readers. Another piece of advice she dispensed at convocation, to "get a mentor," had a Longwood connection.
"Fifteen years later, nothing brings me more happiness on this campus than going to see Dr. [Tim] Pierson who was my dean of students, or Joyce Trent who was my Kappa Delta adviser," she said. "These are people who know me, and I trust their insights and guidance. They have been invaluable."
Marianne Radcliff '92, rector of the Board of Visitors, introduced Margiloff. "This is a unique tradition," said Radcliff, adding that she remembered Convocation well from her student days. "It is the perfect blend of ceremony and irreverence. Take every opportunity to expand your horizons, make the most of every moment and go the extra mile for yourself and others. Some things endure from 1992 - an excellent faculty, you don't get lost in the crowd and you will make friends that last a lifetime."
Three Longwood faculty members received awards at Convocation for superior teaching. Dr. Lissa Power de-Fur, professor of communication sciences and disorders (CSDS), director of the Longwood Center for Communications, Literacy and Learning, and coordinator of the graduate CSDS program, received the Maria Bristow Starke Award for Faculty Excellence; Dr. Cathy Roy, associate professor of exercise science, the Maude Glenn Raiford Award for Excellence in Teaching; and Dr. Christopher Gulgas, assistant professor of chemistry, the Junior Faculty Award.
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The recent arrest of a suspected thief didn't stop the break-ins in one mid-Michigan community.
Christopher Lavoy was charged last week in connection with several break-ins in Webberville during the month of August. However, the Ingham County Sheriff's Office is still getting reports of larcenies and break-ins in the area.
The Sheriff's Office is reminding folks to be suspicious of people coming to your door, whether it's to sell something or do work on your property. It says if you didn't call for a worker to come to your property, they are probably there for criminal reasons.
Utility workers have marked newer vehicles. They have ID and will be more than happy to give you a contact number to verify who they are.
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July 14, 1922.
Campaign Against the Noise Evil
When Americans visit Germany, and more particularly, Prussia, they often give expression to their displeasure over the punctilious paternal control by state and municipal officials of all movements and actions of the general public. On one occasion, I heard an American physician express his astonishment on observing that at the railway stations passengers are prevented by the station officials from boarding at the last moment a departing train. He stated that such a thing was unheard of in the United States. In response to my question as to whether there were not accidents as a result of such uncontrolled freedom of movement, he admitted that there were. We may perhaps place in the same category the attempts of the authorities to reduce to a minimum disturbing noises. We have police ordinances and court rulings on which the general public may base claims
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Text Mining in Molecular Biology
Granada - Text mining is the topic of a workshop to be held in Granada, Spain from March 28 to 31. The workshop organizers are the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB) in Spain, the MITRE Corporation, a charitable non-profit organization, and BioCreative (Critical Assessment of Information Extraction Systems in Biology). The later is an international group assessing text mining systems in biology, by defining a common task, common data sets and a clearly defined evaluation.
The recent progress in the automation of methods such as DNA expression arrays and mass spectrometry determination has created new opportunities and challenges for biologists but also to massive amounts of data to be analyzed. Additionally the available literature is also growing constantly (MEDLINE alone, the archive of abstracts of biomedical publications, already contains more than 11 million entries). It has become clear that there is an urgent need not only for methods for the massive analysis of experimental data. Furthermore the already existing knowledge locked in the scientific literature has to be extracted and collected for the understanding of this new kind of data.
Due to the impressive amount of available literature, this is a time-consuming task. Therefore, the development of systems for the automatic processing and analysis of scientific literature is absolutely needed, saving valuable time and resources and providing a way for identifying important data.
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- May 10:
- Purdy: Michael Sam: A watershed sports moment and embrace-and why it matters
- San Francisco 49ers hoping for help from their Drafted Dozen
- Thompson: Michael Sam saga is bigger than football -- it's all about struggle and overcoming
- St. Louis Rams draft Michael Sam, first openly gay player in NFL
- NFL Draft: Raiders complete the deal
- NFL draft: Michael Sam goes to Rams
- NFL draft: 49ers finish the deal
- NFL draft: Raiders take DE in seventh round
- NFL draft: Raiders make homecoming pick
- NFL draft: 49ers keep drafting defensive backs
- NFL draft: San Jose State's David Fales selected in sixth round by Chicago Bears
- NFL draft: 49ers add third DB to draft class
- NFL draft: 49ers take pass-rusher in fifth round
- NFL draft: Stanford chases history
- San Jose State's Bené Benwikere drafted in the fifth round by Carolina Panthers
- NFL draft: 49ers take another defensive back
- NFL draft: Cal's Khairi Fortt goes to Saints
- NFL draft: A look at the Raiders' draft class
- NFL draft: Raiders take DB Keith McGill
- NFL draft: A look at the 49ers' draft class
- NFL draft: Raiders take defensive tackle Justin Ellis
- NFL draft: 49ers draft WR Bruce Ellington
- May 9:
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- Green Bay Packers draft Cal's Richard Rodgers
- NFL draft: 49ers pick offensive lineman Brandon Thomas
- NFL draft: A look at 49ers' Chris Borland
- NFL draft: Raiders take guard Jackson in third round
- NFL draft: 49ers take linebacker Borland
- NFL draft: A look at 49ers' Marcus Martin
- NFL draft: 49ers take center Martin with 70th pick
- NFL draft: Raiders' McKenzie trades for additional pick
- NFL draft: 49ers add Stevie Johnson, Carlos Hyde to offense
- Thompson: For Raiders, Carr was a no-brainer
- NFL draft: Palo Alto's Adams, Stanford's Murphy lead Bay Area products taken on Day 2
- NFL draft: Raiders pick QB Derek Carr
- 49ers trade for receiver Stevie Johnson
- 49ers' top pick Jimmie Ward tells media 'I talk with my pads'
- Will Oakland Raiders draft quarterback Derek Carr in second round?
SANTA CLARA -- If all goes as planned for Jimmie Ward's rookie season, he'll have settled in as the slot cornerback before arguably the toughest stretch of the 49ers' schedule, Oct. 13-Nov. 16.
Here's what slot receivers Ward likely will encounter in that span:
Oct. 13, at Rams: Tavon Austin, who had 30 receptions for 207 yards and two touchdowns from just the slot last season, according to ProFootballFocus.com.
Oct. 19, at Broncos: Wes Welker (57-688-2 in the slot) and Eric Decker (32-350-2). Welker had the league's second-most receptions from the slot, behind only the Titans' Kendall Wright (63-694-2).
Nov. 2, vs. Rams: After the bye, the 49ers have a rematch with their NFC West foe. Austin had only six receptions for 31 yards in his two games combined against the 49ers last season.
Nov. 9, at Saints: Marques Colston (44-590-5) and Brandin Cooks (first-round draft pick out of Oregon State).
Nov. 16, at Giants: Victor Cruz (43-561-3).
Of the 10 receivers who had the most receptions from the slot last season, the 49ers only face three: Welker, Colston and Cruz.
However, Ward & Co. will encounter several others who had at least 30 receptions in the slot: Brandon Marshall (Bears), Eddie Royal (Chargers), Santana Moss (Washington), Doug Baldwin (Seahawks), Larry Fitzgerald (Cardinals), Jason Avant (Eagles) and Andre Roberts (Redskins). There's also the Seahawks' Percy Harvin, who's been hindered by injuries the past two seasons.
Rounding out the top-10 receivers from the slot in 2013: Julian Edelman (Patriots), Harry Douglas (Falcons), T.Y. Hilton (Colts), Danny Amendola (Patriots), Jordy Nelson (Packers) and Stevie Johnson (Bills).
No. 11 on the list: Anquan Boldin, who had 40 receptions for 637 yards and a touchdown from the slot. Not a bad guy for Ward to practice against in training camp.


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STOCKTON -- Police arrested a man on suspicion of arson around 3:20 this morning after several dumpster fires were discovered, one of which had spread to an adjoining business.
People called police to the 200 block of Tuxedo Court, saying a man was lighting several dumpster fires.
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A suspect was located at Hunter and Vine streets. Police arrested Marc Chambers, 54, on suspicion of arson.
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Even the best, most conscientious companies face claims and lawsuits. We know because we defend and represent them. Here are some examples from a variety of medical technology companies:
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|A patient died 3 days after what should have been a five-minute surgical procedure. A medical device used during the surgery was not defective and did not malfunction. The medical device company's sales representative was in the operating room. The uninsured doctor contended the sales representative negligently advised her with respect to the medical device. The sales representative denied the allegation. The treating doctor was uninsured and judgment-proof. The hospital was a public entity subject to a $200,000 cap on damages.
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|A young patient suffered a stroke while receiving intravenous treatment. The family, and their experts, blamed the infusion pump for the injury. They alleged the manufacturer failed to properly warn users of the consequences of incorrectly loading the pump and inadequately trained users on proper loading of the pump. The pump manufacturer had conducted in-service training sessions on the product, but attendance was poor. The hospital was part of the state university system and was immune from all liability.
|Software incompatibility
|Laboratory software was installed and the lab staff trained. A pathologist mixed up two patients' tissue slides, and mistakenly put a diagnosis in the wrong patient's record. The error was discovered and corrected minutes later. A correction was noted in the lab software system but not in the hospital's records – a different system. The patient underwent an unnecessary surgery based upon the erroneous report. The surgeon, pathologist, hospital and software developer were all sued. State law limits total pain and suffering damages recoverable from the health care providers to a total of $250,000. There is no cap on damages applicable to the medical software provider.
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|At an in-service training for a hospital's nursing staff, the sales representative for a fluids warming device was asked about temperature settings and use of the device for patient bathing. The salesperson misunderstood the question and responded it could work. The nurses adopted this new use until a patient was severely injured. The family and nursing staff now blame the product manufacturer for its sales rep's alleged off-label promotion.
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Cumberland's City Council meeting got heated over issues with the city's police department.
Council members said officers were abusing their overtime hours, but Police Chief Derrick Akal says the hours are necessary to protect the city.
After agreeing to monitor overtime hours at the monthly City Council meeting, the council agreed to look into hiring new officers. This came just months after Mayor Loretta Cornett let two officers go: Jeremy Allen and Owen Petrey.
"The reason she gave me whenever it first happened was that because of the economy and gas prices being so high," says Petrey.
Petrey says Mayor Cornett also told him he was on a 6 month probation.
"There's nothing. I just want to find out some answers. Anything else? It's public comment, can he speak? Does anyone else have anything?" were some of the words exchanged during the City Council meeting when Petrey asked about his termination.
"They're talking about hiring academy trained police officers. Most academy trained police officers are already employed somewhere else," says Petrey.
"Officer Petrey and Officer Allen wanted to be cops. And they actually worked for substandard pay, in my opinion, to be police officers. So it's still going to be tough to get an academy trained guy," says Akal.
Police Chief Akal says he would like to see Petrey and Allen back on the force.
"My recommendation would have been not to fire Owen and Jeremy. At that time, we needed those officers as we need them now," says Akal.
And when Mayor Cornett was asked about why they have not considered returning Petrey and Allen to the police department, Mayor Cornett said, "I have no comment. Motion for adjournment?"
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Jazz Festival prepares to open Friday
Severe weather delays setup of fairgrounds
Crews are working overtime to make sure the Jazz Festival opens Friday.
The outdoor setup at the fairgrounds may be slightly behind because of Wednesday's severe weather, but festival site director Tague Richardson said his team is used to challenges, and everything will be ready, set and done when the gates open Friday morning.
"Fortunately, the guys who've been doing this for years come back and they know the drill. (We) can't train new guys. It's really about the folks who support me," said Richardson.
Organizers said a lot goes into setting up Jazz Fest, including attention to detail, safety of the crowds, sound quality of the music, and getting the food and drink vendors in place and set up.
"We get all of our requirements out here for a week. For a week, we come while track is still racing. It's a big choreography because you're starting with layers," said Linda Lesperance, who sells art pieces. "I put things up and take them down and move them around and decide which ones should be up front."
Muddy ground or not, the festival will go on. Organizers said the one thing different this year is that Jazz Fest celebrates Native Americans through art and music.
"It just fills me up, you know, and I look forward to it every year. I really do," said Richardson.
Advanced discount single-day Jazz Fest tickets are available until 8 p.m. Thursday.
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David Koechner "That Guy" from Anchorman in The Zone!
My man David Koechner came in The Zone today to talk about his new show on ABC called "Hank". It stars Kelsey Grammar from Cheers and Frasier fame. Dude is fun and also says...drumroll...there is an Anchorman sequel coming!
That is exciting and if you don't think so...you need a reminder of how awesome Anchorman was! HERE YOU GO! The quality aint perfect, but it is entertaining to be sure. There was a lot of yelling in this clip and on the show. Justin had his undies in a bundle over the incompetency of the AL umpires in Tuesday night's game, listen here. We also talked to Clint Stoerner about the Hogs chances of beating down the Rebels this weekend. He likes his former team over his former coach. We also are getting ready to hear tonight from the Hogfather Bobby Petrino tonight on Bobby Petrino Live. He and the Lone Star Gangster Ryan Mallett will drop the hammer this weekend. Following that at 8:05-make sure you check in on the Hogwild Show live from Boston's at the Holiday Inn Airport with Clint, Trey Schaap and Chris Bahn of Arkansas Sports 360.com. Good stuff. Check it out.
On Thursday in The Zone-Pat will be live from SEC Basketball Media Day in Birmingham with all of the SEC Coaches! Should be great!


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From the Desk of John Hanson, SVP of Communications a the USO:
Don't worry … this isn't a civics lesson encouraging you to vote in every election (you really should, though).
Sometime this summer, the world will not celebrate the 66th anniversary of a piece of landmark legislation. Not because it's bad legislation, but because 66 years isn't as much fun as, say, 65 or 70.
In 1944, a group of World War I veterans figured out that World War II was going to be ending at some foreseeable time. The allies were advancing in every theater.
These men had come home after their war and learned some important lessons. One was that there had to be a way to assimilate millions of veterans back into an economy that was not going to be as robust after the war as it was during the war.
And, these folks had seen what happened when bonuses promised to World War I veterans were not paid. The bonus marchers' riots in 1932 in Washington left a lasting impression and a bitter taste.
The result of their conversations was the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.
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It was ambitious. The plan included months of unemployment compensation, guaranteed home loans, and, remarkably, education benefits at colleges, universities and trade schools. The cost was going to be huge.
There was some consternation from the Congress. "This is far too expensive," some said. "We can't afford to do this." Some called it socialistic or even communistic. There are reports that it was too big for even President Roosevelt. University leaders were worried about opening the doors of higher education to the hoi polloi.
But, a few veterans' groups and interested citizens insisted, and the legislation moved forward, back and forth until the House and Senate versions had to be meshed. That shouldn't have been a problem. Each house's version passed unanimously. But, we're talking about Congress, here. There were 7 members of the joint committee. One was going to be out of town when the vote was to be taken, and he left his proxy with the chairman. The chair decided not to vote the proxy, so the absent member, from Georgia, John Gibson, had to be found at his home, driven to an airport and flown back to Washington to cast the final vote that freed the bill for consideration.
A tie vote could have killed the bill. A desperate measure saved it.
You might recognize the Readjustment Act (a great name by the way) as its more popular title – the GI Bill of Rights. It changed the course for millions of veterans and their families. It created the American middle class. It created the America we take for granted today. By a one vote margin.
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Being pregnant isn't easy under the best of circumstances. But being pregnant and having a spouse in the military – or serving yourself – can make the expecting experience exponentially more difficult. That's why the USO and the What to Expect Foundation, led by best-selling author Heidi Murkoff, team to bring Special Delivery Baby Showers to military bases around the world.
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Thomson, Ga--It seems to be the year of the running backs in the CSRA. Usually 200 yard games are really good and now the bar has been raised with guys going for 300. The latest, Chris Jordan from Thomson, is our Acadmey Sports and Outdoors player of the week.
Jordan really hit big in the second half against Lakeside scoring three times and his final rushing tally was 325 yards. He's a senior and has led by example on how the hard work will pay off on any given Friday.
"I didnt' really think that I would come out and perform like that" said Chris Jordan "But you know I work hard at practice, do good in the weight room so I guess it transfers out there on the field."
"Going into the season we knew who a couple of our bell cows were, the guys who were going to have to kind of take charge and lead us especially early on." said coach Milan Turner "Chris was one of those guys and he's done that, and I think he can continue to get even better."
Now Jordan knew he was having a good game, but didn't know how good til he was coming to the sideline and his mom got his attention from the stands.
"I was actually coming off to the sideline and I actually hear someone calling my name in the stands and she was like you're at 200 yards, and I was like ok" said Chris Jordan " I come back off not too far from 300 and we go back out on offense and we run and run and get back and she calls me again and is like you're at 300, it was funny stuff."
Making his performance a little more impressive, two guys on the offensive line were starting their first ever varsity game.


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CSPEP MK3 (Carrying Straps Personal Equipment Parachutist)
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The HAPES is a carrying strap assembly specifically designed to enable free fall parachutist to jump with a load weighing up to 100kg (200 lb) in HAHO and HALO operations.
A very simple method to carry heavy loads
- Contain equipment in a compact load with the use of the carrying straps or the option of a wrapping sheet, depending on the type of load being carried.
- Carry a personal weapon using the weapons sleeve, retained by the carrying straps and typically positioned on the side of the equipment load.
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- Release and suspend the load below the parachutist prior to landing or in an emergency situation using a one-handed, single action mechanism.
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San Diegans are veterans of such wildfires and appreciate and love the true beauty of this stretch of Southern California – whether it's burned, over easy or sunny side up. The outdoor lifestyle and incredible weather keep most here despite the San Diego discount in their paychecks and the wildfires that have disrupted their communities and changed lives.
In many cases, the lakes, the trails and some open spaces will return to their natural splendor. Some areas will take longer to heal.
The Department of Fish and Game's Rancho Jamul Ecological Reserve, which burned last week and four years ago, will struggle as far as its habitat. Hunting programs there have been suspended this year until the habitat grows back, according to Tim Dillingham, a biologist with the DFG.
The DFG's Hollenbeck Canyon Wildlife Area, which burned entirely a week ago but was spared in 2003, should bounce back better, Dillingham said.
San Diegans who are passionate about the outdoors will eventually return to their favorite trails, lakes, streams or forest as soon as the air is clean enough and the various agencies complete ecological and environmental assessments and reopen them.
"These lands bounce back," said Jerry Schad, adventurer, hiker, author and an expert on San Diego County trails. "It will be awhile before everything settles down, but it will."
Schad has released the fourth edition of his hiker's bible, "Afoot and Afield in San Diego County," but now another set of wildfires has changed the county's trails.
Schad said his new book has 250 hikes, up from 220 in his third edition. It shows the areas that changed dramatically because of the Cedar fire in October 2003.
Going by maps of the fires published in the Union-Tribune, Schad figures 28 of the trails will have been changed partially or totally by these latest fires.
That's half of the hikes in his book that were affected by the Cedar fire, he said.
It won't take long – a month or so – before small green plants sprout at the base of the burned stuff. Dormant seed banks will germinate, and the renewal will be on in many areas. It happened in Yellowstone National Park after the momentous 1988 wildfires; it happened here after the Cedar and Paradise fires in 2003. It will happen here again in most places after these blazes.
"If we have a decent amount of rainfall, there will be a wonderful opportunity to see wildflowers from February through April in these burn areas," Schad said. "Let's not forget the silver lining to this dark cloud."
But in some areas where large oaks, pines or sycamores have died because of the fires and drought, the oak and sycamore meadows and pine-lined hillsides will be replaced by ceanothus, a shrub that is a member of the buckthorn family. Initially, it is nutritious for mule deer, but it also can choke paths and game trails and make areas impenetrable. It did that after the Cedar Fire in many places, including Cuyamaca.
"This fire will help parts of the land up here," said Frank Mendenhall, part of the well-known Mendenhall family that homesteaded in the Palomar Mountain and Lake Henshaw area in 1869. "But it's hard to say how many animals die, and how many are helped by new growth. That's the question. And then there's the new growth. A majority of it gets replaced by ceanothus, which grows so high and thick it forms a barrier for everything, even animals."
Mendenhall knows these fires are nothing new.
"A hundred years ago they did the same thing, burned from the mountains to the beach," he said.
But 100 years ago communities such as Rancho Bernardo or Scripps Ranch didn't get in the fire's way. The backcountry has shrunk as the population has exploded.
Dillingham, the DFG's wildlife biologist, said deer and turkeys can often avoid fire. Deer will move ahead of it. Turkeys soar above it. He wasn't surprised to hear that observers on a Monday boat tour around Lake Sutherland, which burned in the Witch Creek Fire, saw at least 21 mule deer and six turkeys.
Dillingham advises hunters to avoid hunting burned areas and to give the wildlife and habitat a break.
"In most cases, the wildlife's cover is gone," Dillingham said.
Deer season for rifle hunters opened Saturday in San Diego County, but with the Cleveland National Forest and now Bureau of Land Management lands closed and so many areas affected by the fires, most hunters chose not to hunt.
Mendenhall postponed the opening of deer season for a week for members of his hunt club, My Country Club. John Ogle and his family, avid hunters, decided not to hunt their usual local ranch after the rancher found carcasses of deer on his scorched land. Ogle and his daughter, Rebecca, will hunt white-tailed deer in Texas, instead.
Ernie Marugg, a battalion chief for Cal Fire, hunted quail the day before he was called to the fire lines. There weren't many quail that day, and now those areas have been burned. At a recent Quail Unlimited meeting, members were advised not to shoot quail if they are only spotting a few, hanging on. It's common sense.
Displaced animals will find their way to new habitat, but the two does walking through a burned area below Poway's Blue Sky Reserve area last Thursday morning looked extremely vulnerable, just as all animals are now in burn areas.
At Sutherland on Monday morning, deer moved from their game trails in the oaks to the shoreline, where they did their best to mix in with the rocks and oaks. Turkeys mixed in and out of the burn areas, pecking for food.
"People who are displaced have FEMA," said Mike MacLean, a ranger at Sutherland for more than 20 years and a man who lost his home at El Capitan during the Cedar Fire. "Animals don't have anything. I've been here 20 years and have never seen anything like this. I take this personal. It's as if my home burned."
All around Sutherland on Monday, animals were adapting to their new environment. And all around San Diego County, people are looking forward to eventually getting back out to see them.
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Report: Wii U sold 70,000 units in the US in June
Jul 19th - Wii U sales almost doubled compared to the month before, likely due to the success of Splatoon.
Unbeatable Super Smash Bros player wins the EVO tournament
Jul 19th - Super Smash Bros player "Zero" extended his streak to 35 consecutive wins by taking the first place at EVO.
Nintendo releases transcript of Genyo Takeda's memorial address for Iwata
Jul 18th - Nintendo has released the full transcript of Genyo Takeda's memorial address at Iwata's funeral.
Splatoon getting new brush and gun today
Jul 18th - Splatoon gets some new gear today, including a gun based on the famous NES Zapper
Itagaki responds to criticism of Devil's Third
Jul 17th - Tomonobu Itagaki has taken to Facebook to defend his game from the less than favorable previews that went live on several sites earlier this week.
Watch this guy attempt the Body is Ready course in Super Mario Maker
Jul 17th - Curious just how devious the courses in Super Mario Maker can be? Watch this guy try to complete the Body is Ready course.
Develop Awards 2015 opens with tribute to Satoru Iwata
Jul 17th - Develop Awards 2015 opened with a short tribute to Satoru Iwata.
Tengami Wii U sales kept pace with PC sales
Jul 16th - Tengami sales on both Wii U and PC are drastically lower than the iOS version of the game, but Nyamyam is pleased with the game's performance on Wii U.
Super Mario Maker has content that must be unlocked
Jul 16th - Super Mario Maker is coming in September, but not all content will be available immediately when it's released.
Here's a look at the first mission in Devil's Third
Jul 16th - Check out this short preview of the first mission within Devil's Third to see a taste of what the game feels like.
Watch Pikachu face off against Lucario in Pokken Tournament [VIDEO]
Jul 16th - Pokken Tournament debuted today in Japan and plenty of eager gamers are testing the waters of the Tekken and Pokemon crossover.
Japanese sales: 3DS dominates this week, Splatoon still strong
Jul 15th - Splatoon holds onto the top five despite stiff competition from several new 3DS games in Japan this week.
Q.U.B.E: Directors Cut coming to Wii U in August
Jul 15th - Q.U.B.E: Directors Cut will be making its way to the Wii U in August, after every other console platform has been released.
Palutena amiibo is exclusive to Amazon
Jul 15th - Amazon has announced that Palutena will be their amiibo exclusive for Wave 5a.
Devil's Third previews hint at why Nintendo has been silent about the game
Jul 15th - Several first impressions of Devil's Third have gone up ahead of the Japanese release, painting a clear picture about Nintendo of America's silence concerning the game.
GameStop offering free month of Pandora with Guitar Hero Live pre-orders
Jul 14th - GameStop is offering a free month trial of Pandora One for anyone who pre-orders Guitar Hero Live on any platform.
ROM hacker immortalizes Satoru Iwata in Balloon Fight as tribute
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This week, I ruminate on Democracy in Comics, Osamu Tezuka, and Meth-head Batman.
Part One: You can do it!
One thing that I love about comics is the fact that anyone can do it. Anyone can sit down with a blank sheet of paper, a fresh window on their computer, a stack of magazine clippings, etc, and create a series of sequential images that tell a story. Not everyone wants to, and not everyone will be good at it, but anyone could. This democracy in the comics art form makes me really happy; it feels like the tape-trading world of high school punk bands (oh shit- did I just totally date myself?), where a guitar, three chords, some drums, and an urge to write lyrics was really all you needed. Everything else was just garnish.
In comics, most everything is garnish. All you really need is a pencil, an afternoon to draw, and the wherewithal to follow through. There's something to be said for a storytelling art form that is simultaneously incredibly complex, yet also wide open to anyone who wants to give it a whirl. I draw comics when I'm bored. I show them to my friends, and drawing them keeps me mentally stimulated throughout the day. It's a brain exercise that is far more satisfying to me than Sudoku or a a Rubik's cube. My girlfriend made a mini-comic last summer to trade at MoCCA. Anyone can do it.
I've reached a point in my life (birthday next week, depression to follow) where I am far more excited by a hand-stitched, home-made comic made by someone who has never read WATCHMEN, than I am by yet another by-the-books, middle-selling, professionally crafted comic by people who have spent their whole lives reading NEW WARRIORS. This is not a jab at superhero comics, which I love. Just a general malaise with the Sameness of it all. If someone who spends their days teaching pottery to kids, and has only ever painted in oils, decides to make a comic, that is something I'm interested in. That comic will have a angle and a point of view that is new to me. I find the approaches and craft decisions made by these folks to be entirely fascinating, and fresh, and energizing. This is as opposed to a book that is perfectly well made, but every line and word balloon placement speaks to hours spent devouring the works of John Byrne or Jim Shooter. I also spent those same hours, devouring those same comics, and now I want to see something drawn by someone who only ever read ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Or maybe a medical doctor who was totally influenced by the early works of Walt Disney. Which brings us to…
Part Two: Nobody is Born Whole
The great Osamu Tezuka is enjoying a resurgence here in the US, thanks to Dark Horse, Viz, and also Vertical Inc., an independent publishing house that has spent the past several years translating and packaging an awful lot of amazing Japanese literature. Beginning with BUDDHA, they have been working hard on the front lines creating a Tezuka Library, publishing much of his later, more mature works (ODE TO KIRIHITO, MW), and most recently DORORO, which is easily one of my current favorite comics.
DORORO is a classic samurai quest story, featuring a lone swordsman traveling the back roads of Old Japan, with only his weapons, his wits, and a young thief as his companions. The twist here is that the samurai is essentially an empty husk; a prosthetic man whose body was sold bit by bit to demons before he was born, by a power hungry father. His quest is to find these demons, and fight them for the pieces of his body, so he can eventually make himself whole again. If that premise alone isn't enough to get your heart pumping, it's possible you have no soul.
Yet the premise, as awesome as it it, isn't the charm of DORORO. The characters are completely lovable, made entirely real in just a few subtle lines. The design of the demons is fantastic, and a reminder that when he wanted to, Tezuka could out-design anyone on the planet. The fight scenes are amazingly tense and exciting, and the pacing is pitch perfect; despite the episodic nature of the plot (fight demon, fight demon, fight another demon) the overall narrative flows perfectly, and the book has yet to get repetitive (only two volumes are out so far). I've loved everything I've ever read from Tezuka, but DORORO has reminded me once again why he's known as the "God of Manga". It's like opening a treasure chest filled with ancient pirate doubloons, only instead of gold, they're made of incredible sound effects and perfectly flowing panels.
Also, in case you're still not interested, the main character, Hyakkimaru, has SWORDS FOR ARMS.
That is the kind of delicious concept that I might expect from Grant Morrison. Speaking of…
Part Three: I'm Sorry, I Just Can't Deal With Bat-Mite Right Now
Without reading it regularly, as far as I can decipher, BATMAN R.I.P. involves Bruce Wayne wandering the streets as a drug addict, criminals united under the Black Glove, more twisted variations on Batman, and Bat-Mite is somehow involved. I like what I just described, but for whatever reason, I'm not jumping out of my chair to go fill in the blanks.
Morrison's BATMAN run has been a mixed bag for me, like a Halloween haul filled bite-size Snickers, but also those tiny toothpaste tubes. The highs have been absolutely euphoric, and as good as any Batman stories out there. The lows have been, strange, muddy, and kind of bland. My suspicion, based on What Has Come Before with regards to Morrison, is that all of it will weave together into some sort of lovely tapestry wherein even the lame bits have a greater meaning. He has done this before (See THE INVISIBLES, SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY, ANIMAL MAN), so I trust that he knows where he's going. Until then, I just kind of wince whenever Bat-Mite pops up. (I love that fat little bastard, but he doesn't quite work when drawn in a third-generation IMAGE style.)
I'm holding out hope that it goes somewhere worthwhile, and I suddenly leap out of my chair intent on filling in all the gaps that I missed, and I have a profound insight into Batman at the end of it all, leading to a full night's sleep filled with meaningful dreams, and a bright new morning the next day where everything seems just a little better. Is that so much to ask?
I would assume the Bat-Mite stuff is a tip o' the hat to old Bob Overdog, which is awesome, but still ain't getting me to read Batman R.I.P.
I'm happy that Dororo exists, because if it did not I wouldn't have been able to play Blood Will Tell, which was an awesome game.
I've been hesitant towards Morrison's Batman, as well. I just have this feeling that very soon, I'll know if I should get the collected edition(s), or pretend it doesn't exist.
I lost interest in Batman after Club of Heroes was over. Tony Daniel's art is not to my liking. Even if Morrison makes the lame bits good down the road, they're still lame in the present.
Yeah, Tony Daniel and the Kubert art are the main turn-offs for me.
I did read the Club of Heroes arc.
Tezuka was a bona fide cartooning genius. I think his works would have turned out great no matter what his early creative exposure. Nature over nurture, ha!
What I wanna know is, why isn't the Club of Heroes arc out in hardcover yet?
Anyway, Alex, I don't know if I'd agree that DIY is as rare or as exclusive to comics as you say it is. The advent of the Internet and new digital methods of producing just about anything have made it easier than ever before to create something and put it out there. Blogging software and deviantArt have writing and drawing more or less covered; you can even put a whole book-length piece online, if you're so inclined. (And physically, heck, my grandfather self-published his memoirs thirteen years ago). YouTube and digital cameras have democratized short film; garage bands have been around forever, and have been widely accessible ever since the days of Napster. About the only media that haven't exploited this, off the top of my head, are sculpture/pottery and architecture.
All of this is, of course, a good thing, broadly speaking. While the unfortunate side effect of an upswing in My Little Pony porn is a black mark on the movement, the next Hemingway has it much easier, in terms of finding an audience, than the first Hemingway ever did.
How amusing that an article that mentions both John Byrne and Jim Shooter is written by someone named Cox.
Thank you for alerting me to the existence of Dororo and my need to own it right damn now. I haven't read much Tezuka beyond Astro Boy and Metropolis, the latter of which left me cold, but this sounds masterfully crafted. And, you know, swords for arms. That's Chris Sims enough to seal the deal.
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If you don't have a can of salmon in the cabinet, go get one. This is one fish that is crammed with nutrients and is ideal for runners. From a monetary standpoint, it is a great value as opposed to purchasing fresh, which can get very pricy. It is ready to eat out of the can, but has barely, if any, detectable levels of mercury, making it preferable to tuna. In addition, most canned salmon is wild, not farm raised, leaving it less susceptible to contaminants. Here are a few facts you should know:
- A typical four-ounce serving of salmon has just 130 – 170 calories and 23 grams of protein
- This is an ideal post run recovery meal as the protein will help repair muscles
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- Canned salmon is one of the most calcium-rich, non-dairy foods.
- One 3.5 oz. serving contains two thirds as much calcium as a cup of milk.
- This is great for runners to maintain immunity and bone health
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- Omega-3's have been suggested to help oxygen uptake during exercise, which means better endurance for a runner.
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decreasing blood lipids (cholesterol, low-density lipoproteins or LDL, and triglycerides)
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decreasing inflammatory processes in blood vessels
4. Recent Wild Salmon Vitamin Benefits
- Salmon is also a good source of Vitamin E, a powerful antioxidant.
- Antioxidants, which also include Vitamin C and beta carotene, act at the molecular level to deactivate free radicals.
- Free radicals can damage basic genetic material, and cell walls and structures, to eventually lead to cancer and heart disease.
- Salmon contains zero grams of carbohydrate.
20 Minute Meal
1 can (14.75 oz.) or 2 cans (7.5 oz. each) traditional pack Alaska salmon OR 2 cans or pouches (6 to 7.1 oz. each) skinless, boneless salmon
8 oz. tender green beans, halved
1 cup canned cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup canned pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 cucumber, chopped into chunks
12 cherry tomatoes, halved
6 green onions, finely sliced
Handful young fresh spinach leaves or watercress
3 Tablespoons olive oil
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons grainy mustard
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Salad: Drain and chunk Alaska salmon, removing skin and bones (if any). Cover and set aside. Cook green beans in lightly salted boiling water for 4 to 5 minutes, until just tender. Rinse with cold water and drain well. Transfer to a salad bowl; add cannellini and pinto beans. Add cucumber, cherry tomatoes, green onions and spinach. Toss together to mix; add salmon chunks and toss again gently.
Dressing: Mix together olive oil, lemon juice and grainy mustard. Season with salt and pepper. Pour over salad just before serving, tossing gently to combine with ingredients.
Makes 4 Servings.
Nutrients per serving: 382 calories, 17g total fat, 3g saturated fat, 42% calories from fat, 58mg cholesterol, 28g protein, 27g carbohydrate, 9g fiber, 981mg sodium, 313mg calcium and 1.9g omega-3 fatty acids.
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Also, you will need a tall round or square container that will hold a roll of paper towels that has been cut in half. I use a large serrated knife (reserved for only cutting paper towels) to cut the roll in half. I use scissors to remove the cardboard in the center of the roll. I have forgotten to remove the cardboard center a few times. It slips right out when it is wet from the homemade wipes solution. I have two canisters and can make two rolls at a time so that I can have wipes in more than one room of the house and so that I never run out. The canisters that I use were around $6 each at Wal-mart. They are the Better Homes and Garden brand.
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Grading Made Simple
What's Here
If you're looking for a more efficient method of grading papers and assessing student progress, you've come to the right place. On this page (which has been adapted from The Cornerstone book), you'll learn tips and tricks to help you gauge student progress quickly and easily.
Using Simple and Consistent Markings
Choose your color for grading and use it exclusively. I use red because it stands out well and makes it clear to parents and kids what I have written vs. what they have written (my kids often correct their own papers using blue pens). Red is the traditional teacher color, and I think that some of us as adults are kind of scarred from seeing red marks on our papers as kids. However, a young child hasn't had those types of experiences and therefore there are no negative connotations. I also use red ink for all of my stamps, so my kids associate red with positive messages, too.
I think seeing numerous corrections can be intimidating in any color, so it's more important to focus on what types of marks you are making on the paper. Be sure to use simple, quick markings, and be consistent with them. For example, I don't make big Xs by or circle wrong answers, I just draw a slash through the problem numbers.
Try not to make more work for yourself. I once knew a teacher who wrote the correct answers next to wrong ones on EVERY student paper. That's great for the kid and parent (assuming they actually read each paper) but it took her a half an hour just to grade a set of spelling tests! Another teacher I know circles the correct answers and leaves the incorrect ones alone. This helps build student confidence and makes marks from the teacher a good thing (the more, the better!) rather than a bad thing. I love this concept, but again, I wouldn't do it for the whole class because it is too time-consuming.
Keep Papers from Piling Up
Try not to let students' ungraded work sit out on your desk: until you're ready to grade, leave it in the file trays where kids turned it in. Messy piles accumulate so quickly! If you have a good filing system, it should take less than ten seconds to find any stack of ungraded student work in your filing trays. Use the ideas in Chapter 4 of The Cornerstone book (which is about Avoiding the Paper Trap), so there will be no more confusion about what's already been entered into the computer grade book, what's has been graded and what hasn't, etc.
Finding Time to Grade
In the past, I've set aside certain times of the day to grade papers, such as during students' Morning Work, while the kids used math centers or completed cooperative projects (and therefore were being pretty independent), or right after dismissal. Every day during the predetermined time, I tackled whatever papers the kids had created since the day before. This was a very effective way to make sure that papers never piled up, and was manageable because my students completed most of their written work in workbooks and journals which are not graded.
I know other teachers who stay after school one day per week to catch up on their grading, and that works well for them. However, when I stay late to work on tedious tasks, I find that I have less enthusiasm and energy the next day in the classroom. For my own sanity, I get my grading done during the school day.
Taking Papers Home to Grade
Although I've never regularly taken papers home, I do have an organized file folder system for transporting and keeping track of papers that I prefer to grade at my house. Sometimes I've used three folders for each subject (class work, homework, and tests); other years I just had one folder for each subject. Additional folders can also be useful:
• Already Graded—To Be Entered in Computer: I kept my grades electronically and put papers in this folder until the grades were entered.
• Already in Computer—To Be Filed: I would empty this folder into the basket of papers for students to take home.
• To Review/Redo With Class: When there were a lot of errors I wanted to go over, I placed the papers in this folder.
• Incomplete: These would be stapled to weekly evaluations on Friday as weekend homework.
• Make-Up Work: I normally graded make-up work every two weeks and kept it in this folder until I was ready to correct them.
• No Names: I filled this file if I was going to try to find the papers' owners later or give kids a chance to claim them.
Tips for Grading Student Writing Quickly
I realize it can be difficult (and time consuming) to think of original, carefully-worded, and encouraging comments for students, so I created this 21 page PDF of Feedback Comments for Student Writing. It contains hundreds of comment suggestions you can use for written feedback. The comments can also be used to guide your conversations during writing workshop and writing conferences, and to describe student writing for portfolio assessments, progress reports, report cards, or in parent conferences.
Often, you can also simplify the grading process for students' writing. I use one trait (or single trait) rubrics to help refine my writing instruction, help students better understand characteristics of effective writing and how their work is assessed, and simplify the scoring process.
The idea is simple: since we teach traits of effective writing individually, why not assess traits individually sometimes, too? Not every piece of writing needs a full assessment, and one trait rubrics make it easy for teachers to give meaningful feedback quickly without spending hours grading essays. Additionally, assessing student writing is a subjective process that is often a mystery to students and parents: using a straightforward rubric with only 3 or 4 criteria makes it clear why an assignment earned the grade it did. It also prevents you from downgrading a paper by weighting one aspect of good writing too heavily. Concentrating on only one trait makes it easier for the teacher to fairly assess a student's skills in a particular trait.
The system is beneficial for students, too. It can be overwhelming (especially for younger children, reluctant writers, and English language learners) to try to concentrate on all aspects of great writing at one time. Knowing that they'll only be assessed on a single trait helps students narrows their focus and makes the task more manageable.
You can read more ideas in my blog post, 10 time-saving tips for grading student writing.
Tips for Quickly Assigning Formal Grades
Use a slide chart grading aid (easy grader). This little device allows you to have any number of problems or questions in an assignment and calculates the grade. The easy grader prevents you from having to choose a basic number of questions for an assignment, such as 20, in order to make each question worth 5 points each. With a grading aid, having 27 or 34 questions is no problem. You can buy these for about $5 at teacher supply stores, or download a free one from my site. The quickgra.de website will calculate the same way for free online.
Grade an assignment on criteria for multiple subject areas. If you assign a reading passage with questions about living organisms, you can take reading AND science grades from the same assignment. A population graph activity may provide you with social studies AND math grades. At the top of students' papers, write the subject area and grade for each, e.g., 'Rdng- B, Sci- A'.
Collect grades from several workbook pages at a time. This is a useful strategy for grading assignments in workbooks when children aren't supposed to rip the pages out. It works best when you need the grades for documentation purposes and don't need them for information on student progress. Collect the workbooks and record grades all at once for several assignments by flipping to the page numbers that students completed. You can even have students fold down the page corners to help you find them more easily. This process is much more efficient than collecting workbooks or journals after every single assignment. If for some reason you must do it that way, have students stack their workbooks while they're still open to the right page so you don't have to flip through them.
When grading multi-page assignments, grade the first page for each student, the second page for each student, and so on, rather than grading the entire test for one student at a time. This is an invaluable tip that I learned years back, and it has saved me countless hours. When grading one page at a time, you tend to memorize the answers, making it easier to spot errors. If there are a lot of problems on each page, write the number the student got wrong at the bottom of the page, such as –0 or –3, and then after you have graded the whole stack, go back through and count up how many each student got wrong by looking at the minus-however-many that you wrote at the bottom of the pages.
Use accurate student papers instead of making answer keys. After the first quarter of the school year, you'll have a pretty good idea about which students will have the right answers on their papers. If you don't have an answer key for an assignment, check two or three of those students' papers against each other first, and find one that is basically correct. Mark corrections for any mistakes on the paper, then use it to check all other students' work against. This is much quicker than making an answer key, and if you photocopy the child's paper, you can save it and use it for the key again the following year.
Make an answer key transparency. For lengthy assignments or those you plan to use for several years, make photocopies of bubble sheets (like those used on standardized tests—check the back of your teacher's guides) and have your students fill in the bubbles instead of writing answers on the test or blank paper. Make an answer key on a blank transparency using a permanent marker. When you are ready to grade, place the transparency over a student's paper and count how many bubbles don't match up between the student's sheet and the answer transparency. I grade my students' Scholastic Reading Inventory tests this way and can get through an entire class set (45 questions each) in less than 10 minutes.
Tips for Keeping a Grade Book and Averaging Grades
Give letter grades instead of percentages. Not every school district allows this, and not all teachers like the idea, but this will save you so much time! Essentially, instead of having to calculate the exact percentage a child earned, such as 84%, you just write "B" in your grade book. This makes it much easier to glance over your grades and see how a child is doing and also how well the class as a whole scored on a particular assignment. At the end of the marking period, average the letters out mentally, or if the grade isn't immediately clear, assign each letter a point and average it that way (A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1). If your report cards don't allow for plusses and minuses to be given, this makes even more sense. Grading isn't rocket science in elementary school—don't make your job unnecessarily difficult.
Only use weighted grades if your district mandates that you do so. Have every assignment count equally, instead of weighting tests to be equal to 50% of students' overall grades, homework as 25%, and so on. This will save you massive amounts of time at the end of the quarter.
Simplify the way you calculate homework grades. At the end of the quarter, I simple go through and count up how many assignments were missing. If there were 42 homework assignments given in a marking period and a child did not turn in 3, she gets a 39/42 and the computer automatically translates that into a letter grade and percentage out of 100. If your district requires you to assess homework separately for report cards, then that's your grade. If your district expects homework to be included in each subject area's average, you may be able to use the same homework grade for every subject, rather than differentiate with a reading homework grade, math homework grade, etc. After all, children are either doing homework or they're not, and that choice will usually impact their grades in all subjects equally. Also, if you rarely give social studies, science, or health homework, combining all the homework assignments ensures you will have a homework grade in every subject.
Use a digital grade book. I was hesitant to start this method because I thought it would be a pain to have to record grades and then enter them in the computer, but if you back up your files, you don't have to keep a paper grade book at all! A computerized grade book allows you to pull up a child's average at any point (such as when a parent calls), and at the end of the quarter, all you have to do is print out the grades.
Grading is just the tip of the assessment iceberg! The REAL key is to gauge your kids' progress WITHOUT having to sort through a stack of papers! In the rest of Chapter 24 of The Cornerstone book ("Quick and Easy Assessment"), you'll find MORE grading tips AND advice on:
*Rethinking paper and pencil work: alternative activities that will save you time and photocopies! Includes an entire page of tips on managing individual dry erase boards
*Informal assessment methods: using benchmark students, reflection questions, a 3 Things poster, learning timeline, and exit tickets
*A simple way to tell and track: do they REALLY understand?
*Ways to involve students in the assessment process (each one involves less grading for you!)
*What not to grade: 3 questions to ask yourself when determining whether or not to grade an assignment
*What to do with work you don't grade (and why it's alright to–gasp–throw some papers away!)
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See how to make sure kids are Writing Names on Papers
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- 1 July 9, 2010 at 1:15 pm
About bubble sheet grading, we have lengthy reading and math benchmark tests three times a year. We used a laminated bubble sheet (before we started using Scantrons) and then hole punched the correct answers. All you had to do to score the test was place your key on top of a student's answer sheet then mark a slash in any answers that didn't match up. It was so fast and easy!!
- 3 April 26, 2011 at 8:25 pm
This article has been so helpful. I am a first year teacher and I have been caught in the paper trap. I refuse to have this continue to happen to me year after year. Everything you described has happened to me. I especially want to return graded papers back to my students in a timely manner. None of my colleagues had a CLEAR suggestion on how to MANAGE GRADES and NOT let the grades MANAGE ME! Thank you again , I will strive for the upcoming school year to be more efficient.
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By Stephanie Loo, Director of Teen Services
I am no expert on parenting a teen with AS—and every teen is different. Still, I'd like to offer other parents the gist of what I've learned from being a parent myself, from my colleagues at AANE, and from the many other parents I have spoken with by phone, via e-mail, or at the support group meetings I've facilitated. Please consider this article just another contribution to our community dialogue; feedback is welcome!
Instill the essential habit of a daily shower and clean clothes: peers, teachers, and future potential employers are very put off by poor hygiene. If possible, put your teen's clothes on a well-organized shelf in the bathroom, near the clothes hamper.
I want to thank three gifted professionals whose wisdom I continue to draw upon every time I talk to a parent of a teenager.
Deb Connerty is the smart, wise, compassionate Inclusion Facilitator at the Bentley School in Salem, Massachusetts. She taught me about effective, harmonious educational teams, and writing an excellent IEP.
Dr. Martha Bestebreurtje, a therapist in Cambridge, told me that separation was "in your son's job description"—a very useful touchstone. She and Deb helped my son and me survive his high school years—I am constantly grateful.
Terri McLaughlin, Transition Planning specialist at the Federation for Children with Special Needs, opens my eyes and grounds me every time we have a conversation.


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TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will take a leave of absence to seek help for substance abuse, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Dennis Morris said he spoke to Ford earlier Wednesday and said Ford has accepted that he has a problem.
"He acknowledges he has a substance abuse problem and he wants to do something about it," Morris told The Associated Press.
Ford, who is seeking re-election in October, acknowledged last year after months of denials that he smoked crack in a "drunken stupor." He has since careened from one scandal to another.
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VALLEY PARK - Megan Kimberly Turner, 27, passed away Dec. 8, 2006, at her home in Valley Park.
Megan was born on May 14, 1979, in Kirkwood. She is the daughter of Linda K. Turner of the home and Harry D. Turner of St. Louis. She graduated in 1997 from Westminster Christian Academy in St. Louis. She then attended the University of Missouri at St. Louis. During this time she also became a certified massage therapist, as well as a certified pharmacy technician. She was currently employed by Express-Scripts as a pricing specialist and was a member of the United Methodist Church in Kirkwood.
Megan was an art enthusiast and supported the St. Louis Art Museum. She loved all genre of music, painting, drawing, ceramics, polymer clay and was learning to knit.
Also surviving in addition to her parents, is her paternal grandmother, Algeron Turner of Lilbourn; along with many aunts, uncles and cousins.
Megan was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Marvin and Louise Blunt of Lilbourn; and paternal grandfather, Harry D. Turner Sr., also of Lilbourn.
Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until time for memorial services at 3 p.m. Saturday at Kutis Funeral Home, 10151 Gravois Road, in St. Louis.
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"You are Brave, Brainy and Beautiful"
Ms Latina World 2010 Valencia De La Vega to speak at two Salinas, CA community events during the weekend of May 18, 2012.
The Cebrowski Institute has been working for the past 5 years with Hartnell Community College to incentive Salinas youth to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) degrees through the highly successful "Community College Catalyst" (3C) internship program. Hartnell students are matched with an NPS researcher for 8-week internships during the summer. The success rate for these students is unparalleled; 100% of the 3C alum are pursuing a STEM degree or have already graduated from a 4 year university with a STEM degree.
STEM disciplines are not a traditional pathway for Hispanic youth. Exposing families to Hispanic STEM role models as well as offering opportunities in STEM research is important to address the US need for future scientists and engineers. Ms De La Vega fits this role well.
Ms De La Vega earned a nuclear engineer major from West Point. Shortly after 9/11, her Army unit was the third group into Afghanistan following the Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance and Army Special Forces units After leaving the Army, she earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration in Finance. She is currently the Tooling Technical Program Manager at Intel where she and her group help design tools to test Intel products.
In 2009, she was "fed up with the hyper promotion of tissue-thin beauty queens" and entered the Ms. Latina World Beauty Pageant. She wanted young women to understand that "as a women, being an engineer and being smart did not mean that I compromised my femininity. You can be both beautiful and intelligent." And we add brave to the list!
- We invited Ms De La Vega to come to the Salinas Valley the weekend of May 18 for two public events:
- Friday evening, May 18 she will address the Salinas community in the Steinbeck Hall at Hartnell College. A local youth folkloric dance group will kick off the evening at 6:30 p.m.
- On Saturday afternoon, May 19 from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. she will be at the Hartnell College Family Science Day, held on the the main Hartnell Campus
Hope to see you there!
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NEW DELHI: The CBI special court hearing the 2G case on Saturday dismissed a petition against home minister P Chidambaram. The petition, filed by Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy, had sought to make Chidambaram a co-accused in the 2G case.
"Your prayer to summon Chidambaram as an accused is dismissed," special judge OP Saini said in response to Swamy's petition. With this verdict, which comes following two Supreme Court rulings on 2G matters this week, all senior Congress leaders in the government, including the prime minister and the home minister, are - for now - no longer under legal scrutiny on the 2G case.


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Japanese Investors Head Abroad at Last
It's telling that the rise of the dollar through the 100-yen barrier can attract almost as much comment as new records for the Dow or the DAX.
The world was clearly counting on a torrent of funds cascading away from Japan ever since the country's new central bank governor Hauruhiko Kuroda got with the government's program and unleashed unprecedented liquidity back in early April. As we'll see below there are clear signs that at last it's happening.
But of course there is more to it than that. If you wanted just one number with which to gauge the health of developed-market capitalism, you'd find it hard to top the greenback's rate against the yen. It's not perfect, of course, but, even so, it's no stretch to see that the economic world is in trouble if Japan's cash-sodden investors can't think of anything better to do with their trillions than to keep them idling at home, earning the miserable rates offered there.
At last, it seems, they can, and in numbers big enough to matter, and the U.S. remains their most obvious destination.
According to data from the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo, Japanese investors were net buyers of foreign assets last week, and the week before, too, after a long period of pulling in their horns.
Crucially, Japan's mighty life insurers have added $4.2 billion to their overseas portfolios in April alone, leading the charge. And, as analysts at UBS put it this morning, these outfits typically boost their foreign holdings through the first half of the fiscal year, so this source of yen weakness could be with us for some time to come.
However, its' also worth noting that flow the other way is strong too. Foreign investors have loved the Nikkei ever since Kuroda fired his big guns. And a weaker yen will only add to the allure of Japan's export powerhouses. That said, domestic stock buying by Japanese investors appears to be tapering off now, and inflows to the Nikkei are clearly being swamped for the moment.
No wonder yen bulls are a rare breed this morning.
At 07:53 GMT the dollar was trading at Y101.27.