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Teaching on a cart I have taught in a high school setting without my own classroom in the past, and found that teaching from a cart is not optimal, but was manageable with students of that age....
I have taught in a high school setting without my own classroom in the past, and found that teaching from a cart is not optimal, but was manageable with students of that age. However, I am now teaching Middle School Language Arts, in a more difficult district, and have been informed that I will be traveling. I am sure that I can overcome this minor hiccup (because teachers are flexible by definition!) but am wondering if anyone has any pointers, suggestions, or tips?? Thanks!!
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I have found that I try to keep things on the cart that I think I will need because I cannot be sure that they will be available in the classes I share with others. I keep supplies on hand (including my own dry erase markers—if your school uses them...or chalk); I usually keep things (wite-out, paper clips, scissors, tape, safety pins, hole-puncher, etc.) in some kind of sealed container that cannot be easily "messed with" when you leave it near students. I keep a box of Kleenex on my cart—always. I have some kind of file, too: there are those that you can put hanging folders in that even have straps (like a purse). This is easily removed, cleaned out and refurbished, as needed. It can also go with you to, say, the library, if your cart cannot, with papers you want to work on.
I try to start the day with an organized, fresh cart. I add new things that I need for the day. If I have a place to keep anything in the classroom (and other teachers are really good about this), I may leave a couple of extra copies of what we used (handouts) each day for absent students (so I don't have to carry around a lot of older materials), as well as a clipboard on which I write dates and what we did that day. Because I know I need to move through the halls, I pack up five minutes early. If you sense kids will have questions, you can pack up as you speak to them. Sometimes I'll have a student follow me to my next class, walking and talking, and then send them along with a pass to their next class.
I try to have a bin on the cart in which I place collected papers (paper-clipped). It would be nice to have another bin to place graded papers that you want to return. (If there is little space, they can be stacked.)
Organization is key. Have things ready to go at the start of the day; clean cart up at the end of the day if you can. Make sure kids know that without your permission, the cart is "off limits," expecially with the younger kids.
I try to move my cart at the end of my prep or lunch while the halls are empty, waiting outside the door of my next class until the bell rings—or if the previous class is finished, I pull inside the room, out of the way to avoid the crush. I always try to plan my route, learning to avoid bottlenecks in the hallways if I can. When I park my cart at the end of the day, I try to make sure that I don't leave it where students can access it—if there is a departmental office, I put it there over night.
Do not leave anything valuable on the cart. This may seem to be a no-brainer, but kids are not always the only ones you need to worry about. Take your laptop with you. I try to never bring my purse even into the building, but leave it in my car.
Good luck. Those of us who live on carts are real classroom warriors!
From my experience, I would echo several of the suggestions already offered.
I strongly believe in color coding as a basic part of the organizational process that is essential when you need to maximize every bit of storage you can take with you while minimizing weight.
When I was in the itinerant phase of my teaching career, computers were not in our teaching world, but if a laptop is traveling with you, I would certainly become very proficient at recording everything possible on it. Use an electronic grade book and attendance records, if you have access to an electronic teacher's guide I would leave the hard copy at "home base", find web-based materials to project as support information for your instructions.
The cart - let it show your personality and that you are having fun with your travels (even if you aren't)! Get a little ringer bell like on a kid's tricycle to help you make your way through the hall or find a "Slow Moving Vehicle" sign to add to the cart. Take care of yourself, too - attach a cup holder and make sure you have a bottle of water with you wherever you go.
As a teacher who has had to share a classroom with "floaters," I can give you a few suggestions for how to keep peace with the teacher whose room you're in. Make sure that your students don't trash the room while you're in there. My room was always a mess when the other teacher left. If you move things around, make sure you put them back. The teacher who shared my room moved my books and podium and stool every day and never put them back where I had them. It was very annoying after awhile. Make sure your students respect the other teacher's things. I am the yearbook/newspaper adviser, and I have an area of my classroom devoted to journalism. I don't let other students in that area because I have things that I don't want them to bother or material that we don't want them to see yet. But the teacher who shared my room thought I was too strict and let students roam all over my room. Needless to say, things disappeared or got torn up.
I feel for you. I wish no one had to float, but I hope your experience is better than mine!
Color coding would probably be helpful. Assign a color to each class that you teach, and then code a set of folders for each. I don't have to travel from room to room, and haven't for years, but this is a habit I kept. For each class I have folders for homework in, today's handouts, handouts for the next few days, and an extra folder to corral late work, copies I'm holding for absent students, etc.
I teach night classes at a community college, and for that job I have three different colored briefcases, one for each class.
Also, having a box of basic office supplies that you can carry with you will save you the time and frustration of having to hunt around and learning where the spare whiteboard markers are hidden in each room that you use.
Oh, it's rough to be a teacher that travels! I have done both in my career. When I did travel, I found it helpful to actually have a tiny corner of each room where I could leave important things (which usually turned out to be a locking cabinet). Keep in mind, however, that when I was traveling the room actually "belonged" to another teacher. He/she usually didn't mind if I took a corner or a cabinet for my own. In this way, I was able to minimize the weight of my cart by leaving my large textbooks right in the room (when I didn't need to take them home to prepare, that is). This also presents a problem of privacy/theft. Therefore, it was also important that the cabinet was able to be locked!
Organisation, organisation, organisation. As others have mentioned, this is absolutely key. I used to work in a college that moved us around all the time, and so we never had "set" rooms that we could decorate. One thing that I found really helpful was analysing my resources and then adapting them so that they could be easily used or posted in new classrooms. For example, I always use a series of posters with "Agree" and "Disagree" and other variations. Making sure that I had a laminated set of these with means to stick them onto any wall meant I could use these resources wherever I was teaching.
I think that you have been offered some very good ideas. Outside of what has been said already, I think that you should take ownership of your cart (in the same way a teacher takes ownership for their classroom). I think that if students see you as anything but a "real teacher" (if you express negative feelings toward being a traveling teacher) the students will pick up on your feelings.
If they can look at you and see that you are excited to be coming into the classroom with the cart that you are proud of (decorate it, for example) they will respect you in a different way.
The best advice I can offer is to have a sense of humor about it. One of the English teachers in my HS had to travel, and he decorated his cart with all the posters he would put in his room, and a big sign on the front that said, "This is, for all intents and purposes, Mr. _______'s room." I have been fortunate enough to have always had a home base (even now as a part-time teacher, I have my own room), but if I had to have a cart, I'd definitely do that. As another responder said, if you have negative feelings about it, the kids will pick up on it.
The only piece of advice that helped make my life more managable as a cart person was to learn to throw stuff away. Sometimes we save the most irrelevant assignments to pass back to kids. Other times we save so many assignments to grade, when every once in a while we need to realize that our job is certainly to give practice and feedback, but sometimes extra practice doesn't hurt. Learn to let go of some of the small stuff. (If you already knew that one, I'm sorry... it's just the best one for me!)
I don't have much to add to the great suggestions already given, except to make sure to communicate with the teachers whose rooms you have to teach from. I have never had to teach off of a cart, but I have had my room used by other teachers who have erased important notes, spilled pop in the room without notifying me, and misplaced tests I had printed and ready to go. It does create tension between the two teachers if there is not a plan in place to handle these types of things.
I've had to do this in my teaching past, and I feel your pain. Hopefully, most of the teachers whose rooms you share are agreeable to allowing you cabinet and file space. It would also be nice (but probably impractical) to have a computer to use in each classroom, but a school or personal laptop would probably be more suitable. My biggest problem was realizing I'd forgotten something once I was in the next classroom, so as several of the other posts mentioned, organization is key.
I traveled in my first year teaching. The classrooms you have been assigned may not be optimal. Find out of there are better classroom arrangmeents, especially closer together or unused for two periods in a row. If you map out an efficient area, you'll save a lot of stress. Also make arrangements with each teacher you share a room with to borrow certain things and have a storage space in each room. Fight for that!
I assume you will be teaching in other teachers' classrooms during their plan periods which, while not ideal, can be workable. It might also help if you can work out an arangement with each of those teachers to give you at least one cupboard or specific space in their classroom so that you can have some additional materials for each class without having to pack it around each day.


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Size Does Matter In Photography
The Smaller The Harder, The Larger The Softer
When it comes to size in photography, one often thinks of lenses, and while proper lens selection makes sense, it's often dictated by a photographer's shooting style, not necessarily hard rules. The same applies to photographic lighting, when it comes to selecting the size of a light modifier a professional photographer tends to choose the size based on their shooting style—but they also understand the principals and fundamentals of light.
Some photographer's like hard lighting, others like it soft, and still others use a hybrid combination, however, many inexperienced photographers choose light modifiers because they are "cool" or someone else they admire is using that same gear, and herein is where many new photographers fall into a trap. They tend to purchase something because of marketing hype and not doing their research or understanding why it works for someone else, but perhaps not for them.
There are several reasons why a light modifier may not work for a photographer. The most common reason a photographer fails in light modifier selection is because they don't understand the lighting principle that the quality of light is relative to the actual distance of the light modifier from the subject—not just the size of the actual light modifier. As an example, one of the biggest misconceptions photographers often have is that soft boxes produce soft light constantly. While true if used properly, it's not always true if a photographer doesn't understand the primary fundamental of light—the smaller the light source in relation to the subject, the harsher the light, the larger the light source in relation to the subject, the softer the light quality.
Let's illustrate this example by using the great outdoors. If you took the top off the sun to fill it with marbles the size of planet Earth, it would take over a million earths before you could put the top back on. Yep, the sun is humungous, but it's also 93-million miles away, thus on a bright sunny day, it looks like one big marble from where we stand. This is why on a bright sunny day, the largest source of light in our universe, is harsh and hard, not soft. Just image for a moment how many Chimera soft boxes it would take to fill up the sun?
Even though the sun is so huge, it's distance to planet Earth is so far that the light becomes specular and harsh, not large and soft like the output of a Chimera Octa 57, which opens up to 5-feet across and with the optional extension becomes a 7-foot soft box, octagonal shaped. This seven-foot octabox, if placed near your subject, is pure soft light. Large sources of light, or light altered with large modifiers, are soft light when near the subject and larger than the subject, relatively. Though once distance is increased, between the light source and the subject, as in the case of the sun vs. the planet Earth, then the light becomes harsher with increased contrast, and specular.
The physics of light state, "The more specular the light, the more harsh the light." Think of it as someone pointing a flashlight at your subject in the dark, usually you'll see some harsh shadows on the wall behind the subject. Soft boxes are no different. If we took a medium Chimera Super Pro soft box, approximately 3- by 4-foot rectangular dimension, and placed it twenty feet from our subject, it's no longer a medium soft box, it is in fact a tiny soft box, or a harder, more specular light source that will increase contrast in the image.
Take that same medium Chimera Super Pro soft box and place it five feet from your subject and it becomes a source of light similar to a medium sized window, or a soft, sweet, forgiving light. This is important when working with female subjects. If your subject has a soft complexion, it's not as much of an issue as if your subject has a more imperfect complexion. The key to remember when it comes to soft boxes, the larger the light source (soft box in this case) in relation to your subject, the softer the quality of the light, which in essence is like adding a layer of make-up to your subject. Yes, I'm repeating myself, forgive my U.S. Army background where drill sergeants teach by repetition (and push-ups), but that's how we learn, through practice and repetition.
A photographer needs to understand why they've chosen a soft box over other light modifiers, like a beauty dish or a strip box. Basically, a traditional soft box, often simulates the size of standard windows in most ordinary homes and professional photographers know that one of the sweetest sources of light to work with is diffused window light, especially when it comes to working with female models.
This is light "passing through" a window, such as a strobe head placed on the back of a soft box emitting the light through the inner baffle then through the front of the soft box—this is direct light, diffused as it passes through the soft white materials, not reflected light which is what a beauty dish emits. The beauty dish does provide some soft light, reflected from dome to pan (board to board lighting), but if used properly, its design is a hybrid form—soft light with a contrast punch—thus not as soft as a soft box, but not as hard as specular light.
It's often said, "There's nothing sweeter than diffused window light." I have to agree, especially when you place your subject next to a large, North-facing window. Not to worry if you can't find a large window, just use something like the Chimera Super Pro Large Soft Box, which is approximately 4- by 6-foot in size, just like a large, standard window.
The combination of the white interior surface of the soft box with the fabric inner-baffle placed between the strobe head and the front of the soft box is like sweet, diffused sunlight coming through a window when the flash fires. A silver-lined soft box increases the overall light intensity with only a negligible increase in contrast and brilliance. Don't get caught up in the marketing hype of soft boxes with dual-lined (gold/silver or white/silver) interiors.
An even sweeter, more diffused light is the Chimera OctPlus 57, which comes with a 5-foot, stop-sign-shaped looking front. If you have the room, the best way to go is with the optional 2-foot extension, which makes it seven feet across the front for an even more forgiving light modifier. Not to mention, an octabank is like an umbrella with a soft box front, it wraps the soft light around the subject for an even, natural, but soft effect. It's what I like to call a fail-safe light modifier. An octabox, because of its shape, also produces a beautiful and more brilliant catch-light in the eyes of your subject.
Now let's go back to the great outdoors, it too can turn into a large soft box. Remember that specular sun on a bright, sunny day? Well, when a sheet of clouds roll in, presto, you have the front of the soft box directly above us and much closer than the sun (thousands of feet, not 93 million miles), hence why cloudy days give us softer light, often shadow-less light.
The down side to "shadow-less" light is a lack of contrast, and often we want that "punch" in an image. There are several ways to accomplish this, one method is through post-production, tweaking the levels, curves, contrast, colors, or a combination of the four in Adobe Photoshop®. However, if you're the type of photographer like me who likes to get it right in the camera, you can add contrast, or a flattering punch to your image with a little fill-flash. Just be careful, if it's on-camera flash (speed lights), it's still specular and harsher, so power it down so it just adds a "tad" of fill, not whole F/stops of light.
If your plans are to overpower the sun with flash, a technique often used by professional photographers, then ensure your light modifier is large and close to your subject—this is where portable studio flash units, like the Hensel Porty systems, come in handy.
In the end, understanding one of the primary fundamentals of light, the smaller the light source in relation to the subject, the harsher the light, is the foundation for great lighting if a photographer applies that knowledge when making choices in their light modifiers. Photographers must also understand the principle of distance of the light to the subject impacts light quality too. Bottom line—size (and distance) does matter when it comes to light modifiers, not just lenses.
I close by saying, don't forget our men and women in uniform along with their families and friends, for they help protect our rights to practice photography both indoors and outdoors, not to mention protecting all our freedoms. God Bless them all! Rolando

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We are using snapshot feature to do HBase disaster recovery. We will do snapshot in our production cluster periodically. The current flush snapshot policy require all regions of the table to coordinate to prevent write and do flush at the same time. Since we use WALPlayer to complete the data that is not in the snapshot HFile, we don't need the snapshot to do coordinated flush. The snapshot just recored all the HFile that are already there.
I added the parameter in the HBase shell. So people can choose to use the NoFlush snapshot when they need, like below. Otherwise, the default flush snpahot support is not impacted.
>snaphot 'TestTable', 'TestSnapshot', 'skipFlush'
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FAILURE: Integrated in HBase-0.94-security #490 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-0.94-security/490/)
SUCCESS: Integrated in HBase-0.98 #326 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-0.98/326/)
FAILURE: Integrated in HBase-TRUNK #5165 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-TRUNK/5165/)
SUCCESS: Integrated in HBase-0.98-on-Hadoop-1.1 #307 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-0.98-on-Hadoop-1.1/307/)
HBASE-10935 support snapshot policy where flush memstore can be skipped to prevent production cluster freeze (Tianying Chang) (matteo.bertozzi: rev 60e705b8434b00fbe07b4373fcc21e3ce6881b11)
- hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands/snapshot.rb
- hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/snapshot/TestFlushSnapshotFromClient.java
- hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/snapshot/RegionServerSnapshotManager.java
- hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase.rb
- hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/snapshot/FlushSnapshotSubprocedure.java
- hbase-protocol/src/main/protobuf/HBase.proto
- hbase-protocol/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/protobuf/generated/HBaseProtos.java
- hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/admin.rb
- hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.java
SUCCESS: Integrated in HBase-0.94-JDK7 #141 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-0.94-JDK7/141/)
HBASE-10935 support snapshot policy where flush memstore can be skipped to prevent production cluster freeze (Tianying Chang) (matteo.bertozzi: rev c8c9249bad4ccf46817434ff2595089f2bd0c7b1)
- src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/snapshot/FlushSnapshotSubprocedure.java
- src/main/ruby/shell/commands/snapshot.rb
- src/main/ruby/hbase.rb
- src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/protobuf/generated/HBaseProtos.java
- src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.java
- src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/snapshot/TestFlushSnapshotFromClient.java
- src/main/ruby/hbase/admin.rb
- src/main/protobuf/hbase.proto
- src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/snapshot/RegionServerSnapshotManager.java
FAILURE: Integrated in HBase-0.94 #1373 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-0.94/1373/)
HBASE-10935 support snapshot policy where flush memstore can be skipped to prevent production cluster freeze (Tianying Chang) (matteo.bertozzi: rev c8c9249bad4ccf46817434ff2595089f2bd0c7b1)
- src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/snapshot/TestFlushSnapshotFromClient.java
- src/main/ruby/hbase/admin.rb
- src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/snapshot/RegionServerSnapshotManager.java
- src/main/ruby/shell/commands/snapshot.rb
- src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/protobuf/generated/HBaseProtos.java
- src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/snapshot/FlushSnapshotSubprocedure.java
- src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.java
- src/main/protobuf/hbase.proto
- src/main/ruby/hbase.rb
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Tianying Chang if you are ok, I think I'm going to commit the -v1 set of patches.
it is your patch with a couple of minor changes. Instead of SKIP_FLUSH => "true" with true as string I switched it to a boolean SKIP_FLUSH => true as the other shell commands are doing (also the str comparison was wrong, it was = 'true' instead of .eq? 'true' or something like that)
Then I added the missing .proto that you forgot to include in the patch, and adjusted the test for trunk since the SnapshotTestUtil has a slightly different api.
so no real changes on the code.
Matteo Bertozzi Good catch! I have uploaded the updated patch for both 94 and trunk. Thanks
looks good to me.
only one question, do we need an else if
or args it will be empty in that case because it is equal the default value?
+ args.each do |arg| + if arg[SKIP_FLUSH] = 'true' + @admin.snapshot(snapshot_name.to_java_bytes, table.to_java_bytes, SnapshotDescription::Type::SKIPFLUSH) + end + end
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Never mind. I figure out the cause. It is due to inner class. I have tested the change, and will upload the updated patch. Thanks.
Matteo Bertozzi I made the change, but the ruby shell code seems won't accept this line I added in admin.rb: java_import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf.generated.HBaseProtos.SnapshotDescription
It throws error when I try to start hbase shell. Any idea?
[root@hbasetestnode-f7c52eba:/usr/lib/hbase/lib/ruby/hbase]# hbase shell
NoMethodError: undefined method `SnapshotDescription' for Java::OrgApacheHadoopHbaseProtobufGenerated::HBaseProtos:Class
(root) at /usr/lib/hbase/bin/../bin/../lib/ruby/hbase/admin.rb:24
require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1038
(root) at /usr/lib/hbase/bin/../bin/../lib/ruby/hbase/admin.rb:23
require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1038
(root) at /usr/lib/hbase/bin/../bin/../lib/ruby/hbase/hbase.rb:77
require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1038
(root) at /usr/lib/hbase/bin/../bin/hirb.rb:103
Tianying Chang yeah, I don't like much the client method with "String flushType" I think that the app should do the parsing and translate it in the SnapshotDescription.Type enum.
so to me the only remaining fixes for this patch are:
- remove the "void snapshot(final byte[] snapshotName, final byte[] tableName, final String flushType)" method
- interprete the type from the shell and call snapshot(..., SnapshotDescription.Type type) from the shell instead of the (..., String flushType)
Matteo Bertozzi Do you mean it is better to change the type from String to SnapshotDescription.Type.SKIPFLUSH for FlushType of the API below?
public void snapshot(final byte[] snapshotName, final byte[] tableName, final String flushType)
I don't like too much the "String typeName" version of snapshot() we have already one with SnapshotDescription.Type type why don't you use that, since you already have the SnapshotDescription.Type in the shell code?
New patch has tow more things:
1. unit test added. I put the test in TestFlushSnapshotFromClient.java instead of creating a new dedicated file since it really just one call with one parameter change. Feels no need for extra duplicated code.
2. Changed the interface to use
I will add patch for trunk in the last step after the patch for 0.94 is considered fine.
+ LOG.debug("take snapshot without flush memstore first");
'without flush' -> 'without flushing'
+ * To minimized the code change, I will not change the class name.
Change the second part of the sentence to 'class name is not changed'
Please attach patch for trunk.
Also, update release note.
This should be fine, I can change to that. And when not putting this extra parameter of{SKIP_FLUSH }
, the default behavior is still original FLUSH for backward compatibility. Sounds good?
if we are going for the true/false flag, I think that you should use the format: snapshot{SKIP_FLUSH => true}
Lars, I think boolean is better. Just not sure if "true" intuitively means with Flush, or skip Flush? Any suggestion?
Not hot on passing the specific string "skipFlush" either. Can we make that constant, or maybe just a boolean?
This would need to be in 0.96, 0.98, and 0.99 as well.
looks good to me, the only thing that I'm not sure about is the string comparison inside HBaseAdmin, it seems to me more a shell only stuff (but not totally against it).
Also you should add at least a unittest to have it running. I guess you can refactor one of the FLUSH snapshot and pass the SKIPFLUSH type.
My first draft for taking a snapshot without need to flush first. It has shell support so that the default behavior is not impacted.


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Archer Gallery at Clark College (map) Elsewhere
Feb. 16-March 14 2010
Paper works that hover between the permanent and the disposable by LA artist Aili Schmeltz and Eugene, Oregon's own Laura Vandenberg. Schmeltz's works are part of the international project La Fuente de la Vida, which explores the symbolic history of the Fountain of Life in Monterrey, Mexico. Vandenburgh's pieces parallel the organic building process. Artist reception February 27th, 5-7 pm. Aili Schmeltz guest lectures March 3rd, 7 pm.
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Two Weeks Notice Fullscreen for DVD
Lucy Kelson (Bullock), is Chief Counsel for one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with smart mind and an ulcer. Her millionaire boss, George Wade (Grant) is the reason for her neurotic self. Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad. Now, after five years of calling the shots-on everything from his clothes to his divorce settlements - Lucy is calling it quits.


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DETROIT (WWJ) – Police report that two teens were playing with a gun and now one is dead.
Detroit Police report that a 14-year-old boy is dead – the result of gun play with an 18-year-old. The two were allegely playing with a gun when it went off and killed the 14-year-old.
The suspect is in custody and the weapon has been recovered.


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Avernum 5 - Review @ JiG
Indie site Jay is Games has reviewed Avernum 5, with a score of 4.5/5:
I'm not gonna yank your chain— if you're not even the slightest fan of this genre and you never have been, there's a better chance you'll get struck by lightning than enjoy this game. It's old-school R-P-to-the-G all the way; micro-managing, drawn-out reward progression and all. Avernum 5 is a bit less action-centric than many RPGs of its kind. But it excels at the other end of the spectrum, in strategy, character-building and story presentation. That's not to say you won't get anything more out of the experience than pulling out an old tabletop dungeon-runner; there's plenty of fun to be had here, and the game is decently polished. But it's one game that's definitely made for a specific audience, and I think that's exactly what the developer had in mind.
Information aboutAvernum 5
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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[USL PRO SCHEDULE: Week 9] The Harrisburg City Islanders host Orlando City in a top-of-the-table clash Friday night. Second-place Harrisburg is off to one of
its hottest starts in team history (5-1-0), while Orlando City arrives at Skyline Sports Complex on a three-game winning streak. Both teams have benefited from MLS loan agreements.
Teenager Cristhian Hernandez, a Philadelphia Union homegrown signing, is third on the City Islanders in points with two goals and two assists. They have also gotten contributions from defender Greg Jordan and midfielder James McLaughlin. Midfielder Leo Fernandes recently joined the team on loan from Union.
But the star of the USL PRO season has been Sporting Kansas City loan player Dom Dwyer, who has scored 10 goals in eight games for Orlando City, which is averaging more than three goals a game.
USL PRO SCHEDULE, Week 9
Friday, May 17
Harrisburg vs. Orlando City
Richmond vs. Los Angeles
Saturday, May 18
Pittsburgh vs. Dayton
Rochester vs. Orlando City
Wilmington vs. Los Angeles
Sunday, May 19
Houston Dynamo Reserves vs. Charleston
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USL PRO RESULTS, Week 9
Tuesday, May 14
Charlotte 1 Charleston 0
19 Orlando City 6-1-1 23/8
15 Harrisburg 5-1-0 15/5
15 Charleston 5-2-0 14/8
14 Richmond 4-0-2 17/7
13 Los Angeles 4-4-1 17/12
12 Charlotte 3-0-3 9/4
12 VSI Tampa Bay FC 4-2-0 11/7
9 Dayton 3-2-0 7/8
8 Phoenix FC 2-5-2 11/16
6 Pittsburgh 1-4-3 5/10
4 Rochester 1-5-1 4/16
3 Wilmington 1-5-0 5/14
0 Barracuda FC 0-7-0 5/26
USL PRO SCHEDULE, Week 10
Thursday, May 23
Phoenix FC vs. Charlotte
Friday, May 24
Pittsburgh vs. Barracuda FC
Richmond vs. Harrisburg
Saturday, May 25
Charleston vs. Rochester
Orlando City vs. Wilmington
Los Angeles vs. Charlotte
Sunday, May 26
Dayton vs. Barracuda FC
VSI Tampa Bay FC vs. Wilmington
USL PRO SCHEDULE, Week 11
Friday, May 31
Richmond vs. Phoenix FC
Charleston vs. Harrisburg
Rochester vs. Los Angeles
Saturday, June 1
Pittsburgh vs. Rochester
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Wilmington vs. Phoenix FC
Charlotte vs. Harrisburg
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Here is video of Beyonce singing the National Anthem at President Obama's Second Inauguration today.
Here is video from today's Presidential Inauguration where singer Kelly Clarkson did a beautiful job of singing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
Kelly Clarkson Sings, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at Obama's 2nd Presidential Inauguration – Video 1/21/13
Here is video of President Barack Hussein Obama being officially sworn-in for a second term as President of the United States. Obama took the Oath of Office as proscribed by the U.S. Constitution today, January 20, and will take the Oath again tomorrow at the public ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. Obama was sworn-in today in the Blue Room of the White House by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts. Obama placed his hand on the Bible – something some on the Left had tried to encourage him to discard – and took the Oath of Office while his wife Michelle and his two daughters stood by.
President Barack Obama Places His Hand on the Bible and takes the Oath of Office for Second Term as President of the United States – Raw Video 1/20/13
Here is a Voice of America report on the significance of Presidential Inaugurations. President Barack Obama will officially begin his 2nd Term as President today as 12 Noon, when he takes the Oath of Office as proscribed by the U.S. Constitution on January 20. He will do so at the White House today. But because Inauguration Day falls on Sunday this year, the public ceremony at the U.S. Capitol will take place tomorrow, January 21, 2013. Obama will repeated the swearing-in tomorrow as 12 Noon ET.
President Barack Obama to begin Second Term Today at 12 Noon with Official Swearing-in at the White House; Public Ceremony to be Repeated Tomorrow at U.S. Capitol – Video 1/20/13
Here is video of the Jimmy Kimmel Show going out on the street with a "Lie Witness News" segment where they asked people if they enjoyed the Presidential Inauguration "yesterday." Of course, it has not yet taken place! But that did not keep people from saying how awesome they thought it was!
Jimmy Kimmel Show Asks People How they Enjoyed the Presidential Inauguration – Which Hasn't Taken Place Yet! – Video 1/17/13
Here is a video ad from President Barack Obama's Inaugural Committee encouraging people to take part in Obama's Inauguration to a 2nd Term as President. The official inauguration will take place on January 21, 2013, because January 20 falls on a Sunday this year. Obama will take the oath on the 20th as proscribed by the U.S. Constitution, and will do so again at the public ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on January 21.
It's interesting that this ad features Obama speaking at his first Inauguration in 2009, calling for a "new era of responsibility!" In his first term as President, Barack Obama has added $5.8 Trillion of debt to the National Debt, and just pushed through a "Fiscal Cliff" Deal that will add another $4 Trillion over the next 10 years! I'm sure that's just for starters. We have much to look forward to as Obama continues this "new era of responsibility."


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Verizon Wireless announced today that it has expanded its 3G wireless coverage in Rockland, Westchester and Monmouth counties in New York.
The cell site improvements expanded Verizon Wireless' mobile broadband service in New Rochelle and Grand View-on-Hudson. In Monmouth, Verizon is activating new data capacity in the company's cell site in Middletown, which will improve coverage in surrounding areas.
Verizon said the network enhancements are part of its multi-billion-dollar network investment each year to stay ahead of the growing demand for the company's voice and data services. Verizon Wireless spent $238 million to enhance services and coverage throughout metro New York and New Jersey in 2008, bringing total network investment to more than $2.2 billion in the region and more than $50 billion nationwide since 2000.
"We've always believed even the most advanced cell phone is only as good as the network it runs on," said Pat Devlin, Verizon Wireless' regional president. "Our 3G high-speed mobile broadband network is the largest and most reliable in the United States, and field tests are underway that will enable us to become the first wireless company to offer commercial LTE (Long Term Evolution)-based 4G service in the U.S., starting in 2010."
Last month, Cablevision, which competes with Verizon throughout the New York metropolitan area, announced it had deployed its free Wi-Fi service in Rockland County.


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• Embed the used fonts if the application provides that option.
• Aim to use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times New Roman, Symbol, or use fonts that look similar.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Size the illustrations close to the desired dimensions of the published version.
• Submit each illustration as a separate file.
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You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) then please supply 'as is' in the native document format.
Regardless of the application used other than Microsoft Office, when your electronic artwork is finalized, please 'Save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
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TIFF (or JPEG): Bitmapped (pure black & white pixels) line drawings, keep to a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF (or JPEG): Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale), keep to a minimum of 500 dpi.
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• Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF (or JPEG), EPS (or PDF), or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color online (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version. For color reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate your preference for color: in print or online only. Further information on the preparation of electronic artwork.
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Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
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Reference style
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1. Walach H, Van Asseldonk T, Bourkas P, et al. Electric measurement of ultra-high dilutions - a blinded controlled experiement. Br Hom J 1998; 87: 3-12.Books Name of author(s)followed by initials (if more than six authors as above), chapter title, name and initial of editor(s), full title of the book, volume, edition, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, page number or span.
2. Hahnemann S. Organon of medicine, 6th edn, New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers 1970, pp 63 - 68.3. McMichael DF. Mollusks - Classification, distribution, venoms apparatus and venoms, symptomatology of stings. In: Bucherl W and Buckley EE (eds) Venomous Animals and their Venoms, Vol III Venomous Invertebrates. New York: Academic Press, Inc, 1971 Chap 57, pp 373-393.
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SAN FRANCISCOEDA vendor Magma Design Automation Inc. again topped its own sales target for the quarter ended May 2, but the company posted another loss in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The company's annual loss for the fiscal year narrowed sharply compared with the previous year.
Magma (San Jose, Calif.) reported sales of $33.6 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, topping guidance of $32.5 million issued by the company in February. Sales improved by 8 percent compared with the previous quarter, but declined by 1 percent compared with the year-ago quarter.
Magma reported a fiscal fourth quarter GAAP net loss of $700,000, or about 1 cent per share, compared with a GAAP net loss of $2.6 million in the previous quarter and a GAAP net loss of $9.9 million in the year-ago quarter.
For fiscal 2010, also ended May 2, Magma posted sales of $123.1 million, down 16 percent from fiscal 2009. The company recorded a GAAP net loss for the year of $3.3 million, or 7 cents per share, compared with a GAAP net loss of $129.2 million for fiscal 2009.
"Magma is in a much stronger position than a year ago, both in terms of products and financial performance," said Rajeev Madhavan, Magma chairman and CEO, in a statement.
On a non-GAAP basis, excluding charges, Magma reported a net income for the fiscal fourth quarter of $3.7 million, or 7 cents per share, up from $3.3 million, or 7 cents per share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009.
Magma said it expects revenue for the current quarter, scheduled to close Aug. 1, to decline to between $31 million and $31.5 million. The company said it expects to report a GAAP net loss per share of 6 to 7 cents for the quarter. For fiscal 2011, Magma said it expects revenue to grow to between $130 million and $133 million. The company said it expects bookings growth for the year in the range of 22 to 30 percent.


text: After some further analysis of pro racquet specs data, here is a new very interesting (and very statistically significant) result showing that ATP Pros with racquet MgR/I value in the apparent optimum range (20.6-21.2) tend to have better rankings. Notes: 1. This dataset is for all of the Top-50 players with mass, balance, and swingweight data posted on Greg Raven's web site - 33 players are included in the analysis. 2. Only 2 players from Greg's site (Djokovic and Federer) were excluded from the analysis, due to large discrepancy between Greg Raven's data and TTW poster FabFed's apparently authentic measurements. If these players have swingweights within the the ranges of (352-366 for Djokovic) and (346-359 for Federer), they would be in the "optimized' group. 3. To adjust for wrist band use, a 0.2 'correction factor' has been added to the MgR/I value for all players found to be wearing wrist bands during matches in their peak years (or when the measurement was taken). The correction factor is needed to account for the extra mass of approximately 20g acting about 5cm beyond the wrist axis of rotation. 4. Kafelnikov's specs were assumed to be unstrung, and strung specs were estimated. Since he falls in the middle of the "optimized" group, error in the estimate of his stringbed weight will make no difference in the result of the analysis. 5. g was assumed to be equal to 980.5 cm/s^2 6. M = Racquet mass in kg 7. R = Distance from balance point to butt end in cm 8. I = Swingweight about butt end of racquet, converted from measured 10-cm axis swingweight (SW) using the parallel axis theorem, where I = SW + 20MR - 100M. Players included: <20.6 Group (n=14): Chardy Clement Nadal Dent Arazi Gasquet Benneteau Tarango Moya Gicquel Murray Gambill Soderling Karlovic 20.6-21.2 ("Optimized" Group, n=12): Pioline Ivanisevic Agassi Sampras Rafter Kafelnikov Davydenko Melzer Stepanek Kuerten Nalbandian Safin >21.2 Group (n=7): Krajicek Schalken Cahill Rusedski Ilie Lee Mirnyi For 2 closely related threads, see: http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=387805 http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=387620


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Here Lies Hope, Half-Eaten on a Plate
No matter who wins the presidency later this year, our country is doomed. That's because it's filled with people who see fit to auction off the remnants of a candidate's breakfast on eBay. In this case, a leftover bite or two of sausage and a little more than a quarter waffle abandoned by Senator Barack Obama at the Glider Diner in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But, Adam, you'll say, it's only one auction. One wayward American among many millions.
Yeah? Well, as of 12:30 p.m. today, 23 morons have bid this thing up to $76. [via MenuPages Blog]


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