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Authors Use Tools in a Writers' Workshop!
Lesson 3 of 5
Objective: SWBAT use tools for writing to answer a simple question based on past experiences.
Big Idea: Let's look at ways to use our new Writers' Workshop Journal and tools that will help us become authors!
- binders/folders for each student
- I used 1" binders because they were easy to put pages in and the kids could use them all year
- You could use folders with 3 tabs, but those are harder for the kids to manipulate
- Wrap them with a ribbon or yarn to make them a 'present'
- put some loose leaf paper inside
- Stickers/permanent markers to decorate the notebooks
- name template (you could use a light permanent marker instead)
- Special writing tools - mechanical pencils, pens, colored pencils, markers, smelly pencils, funky pens
- Writer's Workshop Journal Ideas powerpoint
- Your own journal in the same kind of binder (create one if you don't have one)
- my notebook had a letter, shopping list, printed emails, cards, letters, newsletters
- I mixed electronic pieces with some handwritten pieces
- pictures can be used for some samples
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: writing, narrative, expository, persuasive, draft, brainstorm, edit, publish
This is the third lesson in my unit about Introducing Writing in 2nd Grade. I have discussed the types of writing (expository, narrative, and persuasive) as well as the writing process. For a peek at the previous lessons that had these concepts, here are the links: Waldo Says, 'Where's Writing?' and And the Author is... Using Digital Tools in Writing.
Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words.
Explain the task
- "We have talked A LOT about writing and since you are all now 2nd grade authors, its time for some tools for writing! Let me show you my tools."
- Take out your journal and show each piece of your writing (This is supposed to be like a walk down memory lane).
- "Here's my writing journal - I love it because it keeps me organized. I keep some of these pieces together because they are special, they help me remember things, or there are things that I want to show others."
- "I like to use lots of different writing tools. Sometimes I use a pencil so I can erase, sometimes I use markers to make it look pretty. I have special pens that I only use for my journal."
- "There are different kinds of paper and that I use for publishing."
- "These are some pieces where I was brainstorming (shopping list or to-do list) and these are drafts (erasures or items crossed off) and these are some final pieces that I published."
- "This is a note I wrote that was persuasive - I was trying to convince my sister to come on a trip with me."
- "Here's an expository piece that I wrote to tell my friend about a restaurant."
- Comment about the stages of writing - "This is a draft of a web - see how I crossed off the idea."
- "Look at this list- I use for shopping. Here's a narrative and a list and card that I wrote."
- "Here are some other journal pages that I've seen." Show the powerpoint with other journal pages.
The Common Core State Standards are very invested in the students' ability to create different writing genres. Exposure to these three genres now (expository, narrative, and persuasive) and the introduction of the labels will help the students internalize this vocabulary when they see a variety of writing.
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Pass out the journals and explain the parts
- "Now for the surprise ... Would you like to have a journal too? Then I have one for you!" ... take out the journals. Hold the wrapped up journals carefully and pass out to students. Ask them to wait to open the ribbon until all of the kids have a journal. This should be done with some reverence so they understand that this will be treated with care and will be something to keep all year.
- Take a few minutes to talk about the parts of the journal. (This will ultimately benefit the class to go over the procedures now so later you can refer to page use and how to handle the journals.)
- "The notebook is like a person. it has a 'front' and a 'back'. These are also called the 'covers'".
- "The notebook is like a person. It has a 'spine'."
- "The notebook has pages inside. What is inside a person?"
- "Open up so you have a left and right page. When we write, we use 2 sides of the pages. Put your hand on the left page - good. Put you hand on the right page - good!"
- Here's a demonstration of how I discussed the journals.
Decide where you will keep the journals and what the writing tools you will allow the students to use. I have some funky pens, erasable markers, colored pencils, mechanical pencils, ... things like that. I keep this together with the journal and they are used only for Writers' Workshop.
The goal of this lesson is to answer questions, but it's also about getting excited about writing. SO many of my kids in the past have not liked to write because they thought it was so hard. For this lesson, I'm trying to rebuild that writing excitement with a shiny new notebook and special writing instruments. I just want them to write about an experience and experience the joy of writing!!!
Look over their journals
- "Let's look over your new Writers' Workshop journals!. Point to the spine, the front and the back cover. Look inside - there is lined paper ready for you to write."
- "Throughout the year, we will add new writing pieces to the journal. Sometimes, it will be on this lined notebook paper, sometimes it will be published on the computer and we'll 3-hole punch it so we can add it to your journal. This will be your journal for the whole year and it will be exciting to see how much your writing improves by the end of the year!"
Set the task
- "What kind of writing do you think we should put in our Writers' Workshop Journal? Prompt for narrative, informative, and persuasive. "Should we include the brainstorming pages and the drafts with revisions? Of course - that's how we see how much we improve."
- "Our first writing piece will be about an experience that you had. I have a question to give you some ideas. Your job when you are writing today is to answer the question by using your own experiences. Your question is...."What is your favorite place to eat?" Let them think for a minute.
- "Open you journal to the beginning and make sure that you have a left and right page." Spend a few moments so the kids learn how to do this. "On the left side, you should draw a picture of some kind - and it should be a sketch, or quick picture."
- "Then on the right side, you need to answer the question with some words or sentences. Use your experiences and give some details. Use feeling words and give me the reasons why it's your favorite. Why do you like that place to eat? When did you go there? Why is it so good?"
- "You have 10 minutes to create your FIRST journal entry! "Here are the tools you can use."
Monitor students work
- I did give them a 1 minute warning.
- Walk around and see if students are following directions about using the left page for an illustration and right side to answer the question.
- Praise students for effort - there are not right or wrong answers, but they should be able to write more details about their favorite place to eat, not just a word, but several sentences with evidence to answer your question.
- Here are 2 samples of student work: student journal page 1 and student journal page 2.
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Wrap It Up!
Wrap up the lesson
- "Does anyone want to share their ideas?" Take volunteers. "I'm looking for reasons why the place is your favorite. Share your feelings and descriptions of the favorite foods!"
- "It a great idea to share your writing. Other people like to hear your ideas and sometimes sharing ideas helps us be better friends. If 2 people discover they like the same place to eat, then you have something in common."
- "Now I'll pass out some stickers to decorate the front of the journal."
- "You can add your name with a marker or the name templates that I'm passing out."
- Take a look at 2 of my students' journals: sample notebook 1 and sample notebook 2.
I had originally had other plans to look at some other writing genres, but then I had a change in plan when the kids were done writing because we ran out of time.
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson can be easily scaffolded up and down for students of varying academic abilities.
I gave them some extra help to some students as I walked around during writing time. I would ask them questions to help them choose a restaurant and prompt further about ideas of why they like it. Sometimes, we'll 'chop' out words and write them on their slate or I'll write them on the board so the idea generation flows and they don't get caught up in the spelling/writing.
For students with greater writing ability, I can also chat with them as I walk around about using 'juicy' words to describe their favorite place. Instead of 'nice' or 'good', can they use a more descriptive word such as 'delicious' or can they describe a certain food. Set an expectation for them, such as, "I'd like to see 4 really 'juicy' words to describe this place!"


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dreamstudent wrote:That's very interesting about the dissection and seeing clay within. But makes complete sense!! Are you fearless now? What if the fear isn't exactly an object. For example what if someone feared 'being posessed' and had a lucid nightmare where that happened. Would you call the thing out first like 'show yourself!' Then freeze time and get over the fear via your way. I know your not a psychologist but I value your opinion because I feel you have insight worth while. (On a side note but still related to the topic I had an LD in which I stopped time, however, it wasnt from fear. It went like this: i get done flying (I'm already lucid) I land on a road and start walking down it but it's curvey so I cannot see all the way to the end of the road. There is a cloud shaped like an elephant with thunder in it. I see a car coming rather fast and jump up so it doesn't hit me. What I didn't know is there was a car directly behind it by a few car-lengths and I was shocked and jumped as fast as I could as it was partially under me time slowed down and stopped whilst I was in the air above the rest car from the future. Never have I seen a vehicle like this but that's not the point. The point is that was one of my very first LD s and the only time I've ever experienced time halt completely). I specifically want to know what you would do about the fear I explained above, if it was yours let's say? Your a dreamer and that's why I want your opinion?
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In my dreams when I freeze things everything but me stops. I am invulnerable so there is no need for fear, but I am curious. Analyzing is what I usually do once the world / universe is frozen. You mention the the cars, I'd inspect them, want to see who is inside. Who the jerk is that's trying to run me over. As for the cloud, if I did inspect it I might alter it in some way to make it smaller and capable of being manipulate in front of me instead of entering it. One odd aspect of my taking the form of energy is I often try to absorb other energy in space to increase my own power. A lightening storm would be an interesting item to attempt to adsorb once studied.
What is it in your dream you fear is trying to posses you? The cars or the cloud? Or is there something else not described above observing? All my foes have been corporeal so my abilities make me totally immune to their worst attacks at me. Not sure what I'd do with a foe who was on even ground.

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Editor's note: Welcome to our new series, Ask a Bartender, in which we chat with folks in the industry about what really happens behind the bar. Got a question you want answered? Leave it in the comments!
We all have our bad date stories—but bartenders have more chance than the rest of us to witness dates gone wrong. A date so bad you need a signal from the bartender? Someone soliciting your date? A boat sinking and naked pictures? Check out the stories in the slideshow.


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Billy Morgan shocks Belgium crowd
After the first qualifier heat did have its highlights before, it was time for Belgium's national hero Seppe Smits to enter the competition in qualifier heat #2.
Facing slight rainfall, the 2011 WCS Big Air Silver medalist was more than focused to do good in front of his home crowd and pulled off a super high backside 1080 double cork in his first attempt.
Awarded with 92.25 points, it seemed that the rider living close to Antwerp would win his heat.
Until Billy Morgan impressively raised the bar for the upcoming semis and finals.
The British mega talent threw in no less than a backside 1260 double cork earning the highest score so far (93.50).
Next to Morgan and Smits, it was Pat Burgener also proceeding directly to the finals having stomped a switch backside 1080 double (91.00).
Matevz Pristavec (SLO), Joel Staub (SUI), Joris Ouwerkerk (NED), Alexey Sobolev (RUS), Kevin Bronckaers (BEL) and Michael Roy (CAN) are the last six riders to compete in the semi finals.


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American Airlines is attempting a financial makeover in bankruptcy court and it's likely to roll out a new look for its airplanes as well this month.
It's part of a "rebranding" campaign by the airline, which is adding amenities for business-class and international travelers and ordering hundreds of new planes.
American is putting its latest Boeing jet into service on Jan. 31 between Dallas-Fort Worth and Brazil, prompting speculation that the new plane will bear a paint job differing from American's venerable livery of red, white and blue stripes on polished aluminum skin.
In an interview Wednesday, The Associated Press asked Thomas Horton, CEO of American parent AMR Corp., about the timing of the rebranding effort.
"We're rolling out the new (Boeing) 777-300 at the end of this month," he said, "and I don't think it's any great secret we intend to carry the new look on those airplanes."
Horton didn't offer any clues about colors or logos, which might seem trivial to many passengers but is the subject of much chattering among aviation geeks.


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The only building on the Hood College campus named for a faculty member is the Onica Prall Child Development Laboratory. Laura Onica Prall was born on February 24, 1905, in Chamberlain, South Dakota. Miss Prall was the second daughter of Thaddeus M. Prall, an insurance adjuster, and his wife Laura Prall.
Educated in the public schools of Emmitsburg, Iowa, she graduated from Iowa State University with bachelor's and master's degrees in home economics and did further graduate work at Cornell University, Columbia University and the University of Chicago. She came to Hood from Iowa State University in 1929, and taught at the College for 40 years, retiring in 1969.
As a member of the home economics department at Hood, Miss Prall managed Strawn Cottage, then known as the home management house, and initiated a child development program for the home economics curriculum. It was Miss Prall who developed the program where orphans from the Frederick County Aid Society, known by Hood students as "Strawn babies," were cared for by students living in the home management facility. This experience was designed to permit students to observe the physical, mental and social development of a child, and at the same time provide practical experiences in child care.
During her tenure at Hood, the child development program grew to be one of the best-known and well-respected programs in the country. Miss Prall was considered an expert on child development and served as a consultant to many organizations, including television's "Romper Room" and the Greek Ministry of Higher Education. She also established Hood's connection with the Merrill-Palmer Institute in Detroit, Michigan.
Energetic and resourceful, Miss Prall was a pioneer in child development. In addition to her work establishing the laboratory school at Hood College, she also organized the Child Life Program at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore in 1943. Designed to alleviate trauma and ease the hospital stays of young children, the program was revolutionary at the time. It is still in existence today and is one of the most-respected child development programs in a health care facility in the United States.
During 1944 to 1946, as part of the war relief effort, Miss Prall worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, setting up child feeding programs for Greek refugees, first in Palestine and later in Greece. These programs fed more than 1,000 children a day. After the war she was offered a Fullbright Fellowship by the Greek Ministry of Higher Education and spent a year in Greece developing a home economics education program at the college level for the Greek government.
At Hood she served on many committees, including curriculum and code, the advisory council to the president, and the trustee committee.
Active in community and professional organizations, Miss Prall served on fundraising committees for the local YMCA, the Salvation Army, and the Frederick Memorial Hospital. She was a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the American Association of University Professors, the American Association of University Women, and the American Home Economics Association. She is a past president of the Maryland Home Economics Association and a former president and member of the Zonta Club. Miss Prall is also a member of Omicron Nu and Delta Kappa Gamma.
The Onica Prall Child Development Laboratory is located on the west end of the campus in a brick building formerly known as West View Cottage. Built in 1921 by the College's workmen, it was a residence for the vice president, Charles Wehler. The building was renovated as a child development laboratory school after Miss Prall's arrival at Hood and was further renovated in 1966. Miss Prall's life was devoted to improving the quality of early childhood education and in 1971 the building was named in honor of her pioneering work.
According to Susan Bertram '78, director of the school and assistant professor of education, "The school has contributed significantly to the quality of the early childhood education teacher preparation program by providing an ideal setting for the first student teaching experience. Not every college or university can boast that it has a laboratory school; due to financial retrenchment, many lost their laboratory schools. Today there are approximately 100 lab schools in the nation."
Miss Prall's vision still guides the lab school: the curriculum is centered on the social, cognitive and physical development of the preschool child. Director Marisel Torres-Crespo with Clinical Instructors Debra Smith and Debra Hanley are responsible for classroom worlds in which children's experimentation with blocks and computer software coexist. Classroom observation of the three-and-four-year old children provides an introduction for sophomore-level students and student teaching provides practice for junior-level students. The school also serves as a resource for advanced students in education and other disciplines.
"No wonder that when the children are asked what school they attend they like to brag, 'I go to Hood College!'" said Dr. Bertram.


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1. Simple & plain is better. You want the product to be the focus, not the distracting background or the props. You can use props, just make sure that they compliment the product & focus the attention back on the product. You don't want your item to become the background to your props. If you have lots of people commenting on the props or the background, it probably means that the focus is not on your piece.
2. It's not necessarily bad to have your first shot be a close up. Focus on an interesting detail or the workmanship that has gone into the item. Draw the viewer in, then move back to the big picture.
3. Think about how the item will look in a thumbnail, this may be the first way a customer will view your item. Will it stand out among the other thumbnails? Will the viewer be able to tell what the item is? Will they be intrigued enough to click on the item?
4. Crop your shot so that you product takes center stage & one of the best tips I've seen: crop your shot square. This is the format that Etsy uses for the thumbnails & you can be certain that your product will be seen in the 'just listed' stream, as well as in your last 4 shots.
5. Natural light is best. The colors are truer & they won't have the yellow tinge that often comes from fluorescent light or the glare that comes from a flash. Adjust your camera settings so that white turns out white & black comes out black. You can also do this in post editing (there are many great free programs available: my favorite Picnik, Irfanview, Picassa ...)
Here are a few of my before & after shots:
Before shot taken on a fabric covered footstool. The red background is distracting. It's plain, but the bag handles, also red, fade in to the background. The angle is 'wonky,' so while this is not a horrible shot, it's a meh shot. It doesn't grab attention, ultimately forgettable...
|White Handbag: Fancy Free
White bag
After shot: The background is still basically plain, the colors contrast & compliment the bag & they're nuetral, so not overly distracting. The light pattern (ok, I'm a sucker for light patterns...) adds interest, but still doesn't distract from the bag. The light is natural here, no flash, so the colors are truer. The before picture was taken under florescent light, so it has a yellowish tinge, adding an old fashioned, frumpy look.
Before picture: It's a close up & has good detail, but the background is kind of distracting. Even though it's blurred & fairly plain, there's too much of it & it does nothing for the headband. I was trying a 'laundry strewn about by the wind' look. The biggest problem is that they're just hanging there & there's no indication of what they look like when worn...
|Headband: Preppy Punk
Before: There are many issues with this photo, glare from a flash, for a start. The background is plain, but the yellow is to bright & distracting, the green might have been better. It was even worse, as I started from too far away, so not only was there yellow & green, but white wicker & the pin itself was a speck, one of those "what is it?" shots...
|Steampunk Skeleton Key Pin
This is better in some ways, not as good in others, so it still needs work. I've kept both in the shop, for now. This one is better, in that it shows what the pin looks like when worn & I've placed it in a unusual spot, on the pocket of a vest, to show that it's versatile. I wanted to show the buttons & the pocket to hint at the fact that it's on a vest (more of a Steampunk look). The tiny check on the vest may be a bit distracting & the pin is in the same color family, so it kind of fades into the background....
|An update of the key pin. Just a bit of color in the background, but not enough to distract from the pin, itself
So, as you can see, it's a constant process. I'm still working on more photos & the last tip that I have for you:
6. Create a clean & unified look for your shop. This has to do with branding & marketing specifically to your customers. It looks less cluttered & gives the customer something to focus on. If you can, when re-arranging your shop stagger the light & dark photos: light, dark, light, dark...This makes it easier for the customer to see each individual item & separates them from each other, making them stand out.
I hope that this has helped & given you some ideas for your own 'product shots.' Thanks for stopping by. SAM


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Strong storms buffet Italy
Storms bring flooding, landslides and tornado to Italy
TARANTO, Italy | November 29, 2012
Fierce storms, blamed for four deaths, buffeted Italy Thursday, causing flooding and landslides that snarled transportation, officials said.
Officials said three people died and one was hospitalized in critical condition after a tornado tossed their car into another lane Wednesday, slamming it into another vehicle, the ANSA news agency reported.
Police said the driver of the second vehicle was killed on impact.
Meanwhile, officials said said an employee of the ILVA steel plant in Taranto was missing after a tornado blew a crane on which he was working into the harbor.
City officials Thursday said about 15 families from Statte were forced to sleep in hotels after a twister destroyed their homes, downed trees and damaged the town's bell tower.
In Tuscany, the regional government declared a state of emergency and sought financial assistance from the national government after flooding caused mudslides that covered roads and damaged homes throughout the region for the second time in as many weeks.
The Veneto region was on high alert Thursday as river levels were reported rising, ANSA said.
Water levels in Venice reached 50 inches and officials said they feared levels could rise. Hailstorms damaged vehicles and injured several people in the town of Trapani, ANSA said.
Ferry service between Naples and islands in the Gulf of Naples was suspended because of high waves.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority will cut 530 jobs and trim millions of dollars in spending on its effort to revive a mothballed nuclear plant in Alabama, utility officials said Wednesday in a decision that calls into question the project's future.
The Tennessee Valley Authority will cut 530 jobs and trim millions of dollars in spending on its effort to revive a mothballed nuclear plant in Alabama, utility officials said Wednesday in a decision that calls into question the project's future.
A total of 35 TVA employees and 495 contractors will lose their positions at the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Station, about northeast of Scottsboro, Ala. The budget will fall from $182 million to $66 million, a reduction of roughly 64 percent. Some of the affected TVA employees may be reassigned to other roles within the utility.
The decision comes as the price of natural gas has plummeted, making it difficult for the electric industry to justify the massive costs of new nuclear plants. Utilities in California, Florida, New Jersey and Wisconsin have either shut down plants or will halt operations in the future because they are too costly to repair or upgrade. While the industry proposed building a new wave of reactors just a few years back, only a handful are likely to be completed in the Southeast because of the same economics.
Finishing the first reactor at Bellefonte by 2020 was expected to cost roughly $4.9 billion.
"Reducing spending at Bellefonte next fiscal year will help TVA focus resources — people, money, time and energy — on nearer-term priorities," said Mike Skaggs, TVA's senior vice president for nuclear construction, in a statement. "Some decisions are harder to make because they don't affect just what we do every day — they affect people."
Already, the TVA is under pressure to control its costs. An effort to finish another of its mothballed reactors at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring City, Tenn., was originally expected to cost $2.5 billion. Finishing the project may require as much as $2 billion, according to utility estimates.
So far, the utility has not formally abandoned the Bellefonte project. However, Skaggs said TVA officials are in the process of determining how the plant fits into the utility's overall needs. Workers will continue performing maintenance at the site, protect the plant's records and keep working on an estimate outlining how much it would cost to finish one of the site's two reactors.
The TVA first secured a license to build two reactors at Bellefonte in 1974. But the electric industry overestimated the long-term demand for power, and they proved far more expensive to build than most utilities projected.
TVA officials decided to defer the construction of the first of Bellefonte's reactors in 1985 and put off the construction of the second reactor three years later. During the mid-1990s, the utility debated converting the facility into a fossil fuel plant or use it to produce tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen needed in nuclear weapons.
More recently, the TVA considered using the site to build what was then expected to be the country's first brand-new nuclear plant in a generation. Instead, that first project was eventually shifted to a Southern Co. plant in eastern Georgia.
TVA serves roughly 9 million people in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.


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The Death of an Elder
An Elder has died. With Nelson Mandela's death, "the world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass … an inspiration to us all," said Kofi Annan in a message last week.
Nelson Mandela was the founder of a network of world leaders, called the Elders. The Elders are former holders of public office, former heads of state, activists, visionaries. They are independent, and their mission is to build peace. Mandela, as founder, was an Honorary Elder in this organization, but he was also an Elder to all of us. The global public's strong emotional reaction to Mandela's death indicates how deeply rooted the role of an Elder is even in today's society, which seems to have gone a long way since the days of tribal culture, in which elders were formally acknowledged as leaders and advisors.


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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, was found dead outside a Mexico City bar after a violent dispute over the bill, authorities said Friday. He was 28.
City prosecutors are investigating the attack that sent Shabazz to a nearby hospital with severe injuries. He died hours later on Thursday. U.S. officials confirmed that Shabazz was killed in Mexico City.
Shabazz family publicist Terrie Williams said the family would issue a statement later.
Labor activist Miguel Suarez, who was traveling with Shabazz, told The Associated Press that his friend was beaten up at a bar near Plaza Garibaldi, a downtown square that is home to Mexico City's mariachis.
Plaza Garibaldi is popular with tourists, but the pair were at a bar across the street from the plaza in an area of rough dive bars tourists are warned against going to.
Suarez said he and Shabazz were lured to the bar on Wednesday night by a young woman who made conversation with the American in English. The Palace bar is on one of Mexico City's busiest avenues.
"We were dancing with the girls and drinking," said Suarez. Then the owner of the bar wanted them to pay a $1,200 bar tab, alleging that they should pay for music, drinks and the girls' companionship.
"We pretty much got hassled," he said. "A short dude came with a gun."
Suarez said he was taken by the man to a separate room. Shabazz stayed in the hall. Suarez said he heard a violent commotion in the hall and escaped from the room and the bar altogether as he saw half-naked girls running away, picking up their skirts from the dance floor.
Minutes later, Suarez came back in a cab to look for Shabazz and found him on the ground outside the bar severely injured.
"He was in shock. His face was messed up," said Suarez. "He was alive."
"I grabbed him, and I called the cops," said Suarez, who was recently deported from the United States.
He said he took Shabazz to a hospital but his friend died hours later of blunt-force injuries.
Suarez said Shabazz had traveled to Mexico to support him and his movement advocating for more rights for construction workers. He crossed the border from San Diego to Tijuana with Suarez's mother and then the pair took a bus all the way to Mexico City.
"We were planning to go to Teotihuacan, to see the Aztec pyramids," he said.
U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell did not offer details on whether they are working with Mexican investigators.
"We've been in contact with family members and have been providing appropriate... assistance," Ventrell said. "At their request, we have no further comment at this time."
Shabazz was born in 1984 to Qubilah Shabazz, one of six daughters of Malcolm X and his wife Betty Shabazz. Qubilah was 4 years old when she saw her father shot to death as he delivered a speech in a Harlem ballroom in 1965.
In June 1997, Malcolm Shabazz, then 12, set a fire at his grandmother Betty Shabazz's home. She died from severe burns, and he served four years in juvenile detention.
He later expressed regret for his actions, telling The New York Times in 2003 that he would sit on his jail cot and ask for a sign of forgiveness from his dead grandmother.
"I just wanted her to know I was sorry and I wanted to know she accepted my apology, that I didn't mean it," he said. "But I would get no response, and I really wanted that response."
Shabazz also served time on a 2002 attempted robbery conviction, and was released in 2005. In 2006, he pleaded guilty to criminal mischief for smashing the window of a Yonkers doughnut shop.
In recent years, Shabazz said he was writing a memoir and traveling the United States to speak out against youth violence. On his Facebook profile, he said he was attending John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
He proudly embraced his grandfather's legacy, describing himself on his Twitter page as "Grandson, name-sake and first male heir of the greatest revolutionary leader of the 20th century."
Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper contributed to this report from Washington.


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Hollywood executives behind Ashton Kutcher's film The Butterfly Effect have been slapped with a lawsuit by bosses at production company Benderspink alleging they are owed money from a profit share agreement.
In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Thursday (03Jul14), Benderspink heads Chris Bender and J.C. Spink name "interrelated film companies" FilmEngine, Highwire, Roulette and Rhulen as defendants and claim they are owed a 50 per cent share of profits from the 2004 time travel thriller.
In the legal documents, Bender and Spink claim to have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in 2003 with bosses at FilmEngine to produce the movie, with Benderspink to receive 50 per cent of all earnings.
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Bender and Spink say a third party notified them in 2012 that a large payment from the movie's distributors had taken the enterprise into the black, and they spent a year submitting requests for a participation report before FilmEngine provided a "one-page top sheet that indicated the Picture was not profitable".
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MIT Professor Dava Newman wants to build better astronaut suits. The modern spacesuit, while highly protective and functional, presents unique problems with regards to the pressures exerted on the human body.
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PINEHURST, N.C. – The Coker women's golf team finished play at the 2011 Pinehurst Challenge at National Golf Club with a Top 15 finish at the 5835 yard Jack Nicklaus-designed course. The UNC Pembroke Braves captured the team championship in a play-off with St. Leo University and Newberry College placed third.
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Pretty amazing that he's notched up almost 200,000 followers in such a short space of time.
India worried about the pace and bounce in the pitch, so stacking the side with batting in order to compensate for their struggles against short-pitched bowling?
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Ohhh wow that would have been an awesome catch to compliment some awesome stats. 1-0 (1.2) in a t20 would have been an epic start.
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Shane Watson WAG. That was huge.
He's just hit three bombs in a row, but terrible batting before that from Watson. Good first two overs from Harby but several balls entitled to be at least worked away for a couple.
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#408. Sixty three not out forever.
Zaheer going round the park now. Going in with so few genuine bowling options is looking like it's going to hurt India now. Don't see them chasing anything over 170 on a pitch with pace and bounce either.
This is such a great opening partnership to watch.
Awesome stuff from Watto/Warner, I really don't want to see Clarke come in next though
Bring in Haddin or Dussey or White.
India have seven batsmen plus the long handle of Harbhajan to bank on. That's their only option. Bowling's rather weak.
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Twenty20 used to be boring.
Despite having an SR of 150 Watson doesn't look totally settled.
Will be fun to watch when he is
When Warner doesn't hit him
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Dempsey has now revealed his bid of $9.2 million was accepted and he is looking forward to revitalising the firm.
He says in a statement, "I'm thrilled that we won and I'm even more excited about saving Tully's Coffee and its hundreds of jobs. Tully's is a great company with committed employees, and with its base in Seattle, one of the world's greatest cities, I'm confident we will be able to successfully build the brand and help grow the economy...
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TMZ broke the story about his dire condition on Friday, sparking interest in Raz-B and B2K almost a decade after the teen R&B quartet disbanded.
B2K performed from the late '90s until 2004, released four albums and starred in the 2003 dance flick You Got Served!
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Former B2K singer Raz-B has been placed on life support at a hospital in China a day after undergoing facial surgery following a vicious bottle attack at a nightclub on Thursday.
The 28-year-old, whose real name is De'Mario Thornton, was performing when a fight broke out in the crowd. The star allegedly tried to break up the altercation when he was smacked in the face with a glass bottle.
Raz-B was arrested, along with the two warring crowd members, but subsequently released without charge.
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Distinguished Professor Joan C. Williams spoke with The Atlantic about why men, like women, who take leave to care for family members see their long-term earnings decrease. Recent studies that highlight this effect question whether it makes sense to encourage men to take paternity leave, according to the article.
Williams, director for the Center of WorkLife Law at UC Hastings, suggested that inflexible, all-or-nothing workplaces drive women out of breadwinner roles and men out of caregiver roles, further entrenching a 1950s-style job market, in which the ideal worker is expected to be totally committed to a career with few obligations at home. Read more here.
Williams' forthcoming book, "What Works for Women at Work," with Rachel Dempsey, was named as among the top 10 books on leadership in the Washington Post. Called a "guide for mastering office politics as a woman," Williams' and Dempsey's book combines years of research with interviews with 127 successful women about the specific challenges women face in the workplace and how to combat them. The book is from NYU Press. Read more here.
Zachary Price
Visiting Professor Zachary Price's scholarship was referenced in a recent column by George Will in the Washington Post. Will argued in the opinion piece that President Obama has abused his discretion of power. Price has a law review article forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Law Review on "Enforcement Discretion and Executive Duty." Read more here.
R. Steven Lapham '79
Gov. Brown appointed R. Steven Lapham '79, a top federal prosecutor in Sacramento who was among those to prosecute Unabomber Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski, to the state bench in Sacramento County. Lapham has served as an assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District, since 1984. He was chief of the Special Prosecutions Unit since 2010. Read the Sacramento Bee profile of his career here.
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James Wagstaffe '80 was successful in persuading the California Supreme Court to admit undocumented immigrant Sergio Garcia as a member of the State Bar of California. Wagstaffe represented the state bar. The court ruled Jan. 2, 2014.
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Jeff Adachi '85, San Francisco's elected Public Defender, was featured in San Francisco magazine for his profilic and often hilarious PR operation. Adachi and his staff, including press secretary Tamara Aparton, manage to conjure, by turn, Dashiell Hammett, Armistead Maupin, and the Onion. "We know for a fact "that the district attorney reads every one of them," Aparton said. Read more here.
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Options can be frustrating for new traders used to the two-dimensional movement of underlying stock or futures prices. Options are three-dimensional and their movements are based on more factors than the simple strength or weakness of the underlying.
Thankfully, guidance can be found in pricing models and the Greeks. "The Greeks give option traders a realistic expectation of how an option price will change if certain factors in the market change," says Jim Bittman, senior instructor at the Options Institute at CBOE.
Simply stated, the Greeks are a group of mathematical models that each help to calculate the theoretical value of an option. While advanced models may involve many more variables, here we will examine the five that are most important for novice options traders.
∆ (Delta)
Delta tells you how far the value of an option is likely to move based on a $1 move in the price of the underlying asset. Delta is expressed as a range between zero and 1.00. The higher the delta, the more closely the option value will follow that of the underlying. Delta helps temper a trader's expectations of when the underlying moves.
Alan Grigoletto, director of education at The Options Industry Council, explains delta to new traders by likening it to walking with a child. "Imagine that I'm holding the hand of a small boy who is three years old. For every step that I take, he correspondingly can only take one-third of my gait. He's an out-of-the-money option and only has a delta of 33," he says. "Now imagine the boy is 10 years old. He's now an at-the-money option. Now, for every step that I take, he can cover half my gait and has a delta of 50. Then as he grows up and becomes stock, or adult-like, for every step that I take, he moves at the same rate. He's now a deep-in-the-money option."
Options with higher deltas tend to be more expensive, deep in the money and close to expiration. "You get more bang for your buck, but you pay more bucks," Bittman says. "The art of the business is matching up the amount that you are willing to risk for the so-called delta involved."
Traders who want to risk less capital might buy out-of-the-money calls, but they need to know that the option is not going to move as fast as the underlying stock, and that the likelihood of it expiring in-the-money is low. So, while you risk less money, the odds of success are much lower.
Understanding delta is helpful for traders using options to hedge a position because it tells you how many options you need to buy to fully protect yourself against moves in the underlying. Note that one equity option controls 100 shares of the underlying stock, while one futures option controls one futures contract.


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Kristen Stewart: First Post-Cheating Scandal Pictures!
Kristen Stewart emerges for the first time since her cheating scandal while she hops into a car on Monday (August 20) in Los Angeles.
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text: Student Profiles Nick Simon '09 Nick Simon '09 Hometown: Falls Church, Virginia Major: Neuroscience Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? It was a pretty easy choice. My sister went here and the couple times I went to visit her I had a blast. We went to sporting events, performances on campus, and even got the chance to see Dave Chapelle perform stand-up in Portland. Everyone struck me as fun, easygoing, and extremely smart. I had the choice of applying early to Bowdoin where I knew I'd have a great experience, or spending weekends driving around to go on college tours during my winter vacation. So for me it was kind of a no brainer, and also one of the best decisions I've made. Why did you choose your major? I totally fell into it. I came to Bowdoin thinking I would major in government or history, but ended up not getting any of the classes I really wanted freshman year. I wound up taking Organic Chemistry and Social Psychology and really enjoyed both of them. I liked reading about how humans operated in social environments and what forces had the biggest effect on people's actions. At the same time, I really enjoyed the analytic approach of organic chemistry to looking at how compounds are formed. I wanted to combine my interest in humans with the reductionistic approach of organic chemistry to try and learn about what factors are involved in determining how humans act. Looking at the available majors, neuroscience perfectly fit my interests. Also, I enjoy spending countless hours in lab. What has been a course you especially enjoyed at Bowdoin? My favorite courses at Bowdoin have been my neuroscience seminars. The two seminars I have taken here have had fewer than ten people in them and basically consisted of us talking to each other about papers people thought were cool. Each class one student led the discussion while the professors took a back seat, only chiming in after the major issues and concepts had been covered. Both of the seminars culminated in literature reviews about whatever subject interested you the most. For example, I find sleep to be very interesting. In my Comparative Neuroanatomy course I was able look at sleep not only in humans, but mammals, insects, and invertebrates. While the irony of staying up late researching the importance of sleep was not lost on me, I worked the hardest I ever have on that paper because I found the topic so compelling. I feel I learned the most in those classes because I was pushed to define and pursue the aspects of neuroscience that draw me the most. What professor or professors have especially inspired you during your time at Bowdoin? Seth Ramus, my honors advisor, has had a huge impact on my experience here at Bowdoin. The classes I've had with him, Lab in Behavior Neuroscience and Memory and the Brain, have taught me how to read critically and ask questions. I am now doing an honors project with him, looking at how memory information flows through the brain, and throughout the course of the project he has taught me how to go about answering my own questions. When something's not working, it's up to me to find the answer. I think the most valuable thing I've learned from him is how to be self-sufficient. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? While I've enjoyed the classes I've taken, it has really been my extracurriculars that have defined my time here at Bowdoin. I worked in Thorne and as an academic mentor for the Baldwin Program for Academic Development, played on the rugby team, served on a Bowdoin Student Government committee, participated in leadership training through the Outing Club, and went on an Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip to Guatemala. I am now in the process of planning another Alternative Spring Break trip to go to New Mexico to look at public health issues on Native American reservations. It has been these activities that I will look back upon as having made up my college experience. Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin? While I did not study abroad, I was able to take advantage of other opportunities on campus for travel. My junior year I went to Israel with a class, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, for two weeks during winter break—it was incredible. After spending a semester learning about the conflict it was amazing to actually go and talk to the different parties involved and hear their accounts first hand. We talked to Palestinians living in the West Bank, conservative Jews living in Jerusalem, Israeli army officials, and many other groups all with differing views and opinions. I also was able to visit a new country with a different culture through an ASB trip where we traveled to Guatemala during spring break. The purpose of the trip was to work with children who lived in the Guatemalan City Dump. While it was heartbreaking to see the conditions they lived in, it was awesome to interact and play with the children. What have you done during your summers? The summer after my first year, I worked as a waiter, which was a lot of fun, but also fairly exhausting. For the last two summers I've worked in labs, first in a lab at the University of Idaho studying ACL rehabilitation techniques, and then in a lab here at Bowdoin studying memory. In Idaho I worked one-on-one with a professor to design a study looking at how losing an ACL affects balance and reaction time, and the best ways to restore these abilities. We had women who had had an ACL reconstruction come in use different rehabilitation methods, measuring their performance on a series of tests looking at muscle activation and knee motion, before and after. At Bowdoin I've been studying the way in which memory flows through the brain. These lab jobs have been awesome and really introduced me to how scientific research actually works. What is your best Bowdoin memory? That's a very hard question so I'm not going to answer it. Instead I'll talk about what I'm going to miss the most. My favorite thing about Bowdoin is dinner, and not just because the food is amazing. Usually I'll just walk into the dining hall not having prearranged to meet up with anyone, and every time I do this I'll always find friends to sit with. This allows me to hang out with new people almost every night and often times meet people I didn't know before. Oftentimes I'll stay at dinner for an hour or two, sitting with a couple different groups of people, hanging out and chewing the fat. So next year, when I'm outside the Bowdoin bubble, I'll miss the feeling of knowing that every night, when I take a break to get some food, I can just walk into a place and know I'll have friends to sit with. What are your plans for after graduation? I haven't really figured that out yet. As a neuro major I'm looking into working in either a neuroscience or biomedical lab. Eventually I hope to end up in medical school, but as for now I have no set plans. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Do as much as you can. Sign up for anything that looks interesting and get involved. If it's not what you were expecting you can always stop participating. School is important but it's only a part of going to college, and just as with everything else, your experience is what you make of it, so make it an interesting and diverse one. Story posted on December 08, 2008 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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