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To achieve national goals for access to education for all children with disabilities, a number of special issues and special populations have required federal attention. These national concerns are reflected in a number of key amendments to the Education for the Handicapped Act (EHA; P.L. 99-457) and IDEA between 1975 and 2000.
The 1980s saw an increasing national concern for young children with disabilities and their families. Whereas P.L. 94-142 mandated programs and services for children ages 3 to 21 that were consistent with state law, the 1986 amendments to EHA (P.L. 99-457) mandated that states provide programs and services to children with disabilities from birth.
Through such sustained federal leadership, the United States today is the world leader in early intervention and preschool programs for infants, toddlers, and preschool children with disabilities. These programs prepare young children with disabilities to meet the academic and social challenges that lie ahead of them, both while in school and in later life. (See sidebar: Examples of Early Childhood Accomplishments Due to IDEA.)
At the other end of the childhood-age continuum, IDEA has supported the preparation of students for competitive employment through new and improved transition programs. The 1983 amendments to EHA (P.L. 98-199), the 1990 amendments to EHA (P.L. 101-476), which changed the name to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the 1997 amendments to IDEA
(P.L. 105-17) supported initiatives for transition services from high school to adult living. Because of these mandates, each student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) must include transition plans or procedures for identifying appropriate employment and other post-school adult living objectives for the student; referring the student to appropriate community agencies; and linking the student to available community resources, including job placement and other follow-up services. The IEP must specifically designate the person responsible for each transition activity, and transition planning should begin at age 14.
The nation also has been concerned, since the passage of P.L. 94-142, with expanding the opportunities for educating children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. In the early 1980s, IDEA supported research institutes and model demonstration projects that developed and validated effective approaches for integrating children with significant disabilities with their nondisabled family members at home and their nondisabled classmates at school. For example, the Badger School Program in Madison, Wis., demonstrated an effective system to teach such children the skills they needed to lead independent and productive lives. Through such efforts, today, millions of children with significant disabilities are attending their neighborhood schools and learning the life skills they will need for full, active participation in integrated activities with their family members, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.
IDEA has supported the provision of culturally relevant instruction for diverse learners in inclusive environments. Throughout the 1980s, IDEA-supported research institutes and projects documented that culturally and linguistically diverse students with disabilities make, at best, limited progress in school programs that employ "watered-down" instruction in segregated environments. Building on and extending this work, IDEA has supported the development and validation of culturally relevant assessment and intervention practices. (See sidebar: Culturally Relevant Instructional Principles.) For example, the Juniper Gardens Children's Project at the University of Kansas has demonstrated instructional practices, such as class wide peer tutoring and cooperative learning, that help African-American students, English language learners, and other diverse students become more actively involved in their academic assignments. Increased academic engagement leads, in turn, to improved learning and higher achievement.
From the beginning of federal legislation for special education and early intervention, families of children with disabilities have been considered important partners in educating and meeting the individual needs of children with disabilities. IDEA includes key principles to guide families and professionals to work together to enhance the educational opportunities for their children. IDEA also requires active parent participation throughout the educational process, including the development of the child's IEP. In addition, IDEA mandates that schools report progress to parents of children with disabilities as frequently as they report to parents of nondisabled children. The overall goal of these mandates is to maintain an equal and respectful partnership between schools and families.
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IDEA systems change grants continued to support state and local capacity-building throughout the 1990s. For example, IDEA supported the California Department of Education in developing a statewide network of model schools that demonstrate how to provide effective programs and services to children with significant disabilities and their families. These demonstration sites, in turn, serve as centers for training and technical assistance to personnel across the state. Similarly, Vermont's personnel preparation program helps prepare teachers to meet the needs of students with low-incidence disabilities in rural public schools and other community settings. These and other IDEA-supported projects around the country are innovative models that other states and localities should consider replicating as part of their own programs of personnel preparation.


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Asbestos companies continued to produce these products even after they were known to be hazardous to workers. These products were responsible for asbestos exposure sustained by the individuals who manufactured them as well as those who used them. Renovation and construction both at home and in schools also poses high risk areas for exposure. People also may have been exposed to asbestos-contaminated talc in baby powder
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Navy veterans who worked in navy shipyards and or served on our nation's aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, submarines and warship from WWII through the Vietnam War were exposed to high concentrations of deadly asbestos and are at a high risk for developing asbestos-related cancer. Boiler rooms, engine rooms, sleeping quarters, and other areas of naval vessels were the most common areas where asbestos was present.
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Asbestos manufacturers and distributors made a concerted effort to hide the dangers of asbestos from the public, while at the same time profiting heavily from the sale and manufacture of harmful asbestos products. Those suffering from Mesothelioma can seek compensation from the manufacturers of asbestos and asbestos-containing products by hiring a competent mesothelioma lawyer.
When deciding whether or not you should pursue your legal rights, you should think about the following three things. First, asbestos manufacturers had knowledge of the dangers of asbestos and knowingly put hardworking men and women at risk. Second, treatment for mesothelioma can be very expensive. Third, by exercising your legal rights, you can protect your loved ones in the future.
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Police: Somebody had quite the arsenal in Roslindale
Boston Police report seizing a cache of "seven high powered weapons and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition" on Seymour Street in Roslindale today.
Among the weapons seized: an AR-15-style assault rifle, an AK-47-style assault rifle, a .357 revolver, and several large-capacity feeding devices capable of holding armor-piercing ammunition. Also seized: More than 1,000 rounds of ammo, including armor-piercing bullets, more than 50 shotgun shells and "numerous grenade type projectiles for a grenade launcher." Also grabbed: Holsters and gun-cleaning kits.
Well what do you know
Hello Kitty was living in Roslindale all this time!
I would at least expect BPD to know what they seized
37mm launcher/numerous grenade type projectiles for grenade type launcher = flare gun and flares.
Are we looking at the same photo?
The underbarrel attachment on that AR-15-looking rifle is clearly an M203-like weapon.
Yeah, I'm
Yeah, I'm sure...
...legal without any permit. Boston is just OVERLY anti-gun (yes it's possible)
> grenade launcher
Psst...Billy....read the post before yours. No grenade launcher, just a perfectly legal flare gun and some exaggeration to make the pinch look better. Also, i feel safer knowing they seized those deadly cleaning kits.
It's more of a sidegrade than an upgrade
They're the same mechanism. Granted, they're different sizes, and there are no grenades that will fit in a flare launcher (standard ones, anyway), but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that someone in Roslindale probably didn't need a flare attachment on their rifle for emergency situations.
And just to clarify, I have no issue with people owning things like this, assuming the possession of them is legal, I just think it's dumb, much like someone driving down the highway in a lifted pickup truck with 30'' off road tires.
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And how do you know the owner spends all their time in the city? How do you know they don't deep sea fish, hunt in northern Maine, etc.,?
Probably does
But one doesn't hunt game with high powered riffles and armor piercing ammo.
There should be nothing wrong here, assuming he has the right permits and licensing.
Assuming he didn't, which is why his items are on a BPD table, is exactly the reason he's in trouble and probably shouldn't have had them in the first place.
Someone not willing to go through the right steps, or just to lazy too, probably isn't too careful or smart with his weapon collection either.
Burned the place to the ground
on the waaaaaaaaaater!
Where did Dookan learn to inflate?
I wonder where Annie Dookan got the idea to inflate test results and fabricate false positives? Could there be a culture of doing this by BPD and/or district Attorneys?
fer duck huntin'
anyone know what street this
anyone know what street this was on?
As Jack Bauer once said to a guy on 24:
Undisclosed location?
If BPD really needs to keep a lid on it in order to conduct further work, then it's proper not to disclose, I suppose. It's just that, if that arsenal happened to be 1 or 2 doors down from me, I think I'd like BPD to disclose the location.
What do you think? Is there much more to this disclosure business?
Shouldn't be that hard to figure out the location...
Presumably a seizure of this magnitude would have generated a fair bit of police activity that would not have gone unnoticed - unless Roslindale has far, far more crime than I think it does.
C'mon people: see something, say something (to Adamg).
Is a collection of six guns
Is a collection of six guns and a few boxes of ammo really considered an arsenal? Hell, one pistol is only a single action revolver.
The BPD
are guilty of some serious exaggeration here, as usual. And for the uninitiated, 1000 rounds is no big deal, sounds impressive if you know next to nothing about firearms, but it's actually a fairly small amount of ammo.
Of course the owner should have a proper firearms license.
Funny thing
The assault rifles I get. They're neat and fun to "play" with. And I'm not even a gun enthusiast and haven't fired anything more than an air-powered BB gun.
But the TEC-9 flavors the whole thing differently.
If he didn't have a permit its a problem, but this does seem like the BPD overreacting to a collector. I mean, I don't NEED to have three monitors connected to a kvm switch running a render farm, water cooled pc and linux box... but I do anyway. I like electronics. Guns are cheaper and have less of a nerd swing but its a similar thing.
If this dude was off his rocker or something then that's an issue too, hence why we have gun laws. I just wish the BPD would be honest instead of acting like they caught that guy in Tremors. Now THAT was an arsenal.
Also educational
No matter how prepared you think you are, Murphys law will always bat you down.
45 Seymour Street:
Wonder if these guns were related to this incident last year
Boston Globe sez
it was seized from a house on Seymour Street.
Another Ron Paul fan is going
Another Ron Paul fan is going to have to start all over again on the internet.
Must be
some huge squirrels in Rossie....
It didn't come to me right away
But I realized this would've been an easy shot for a headline along the lines of "Arsenal discovered in Roslindale instead of Watertown".
Boston police and media talking about guns
is like a catholic priest giving marriage advice. Trying to sound authoritative about something they have no personal experience or knowledge.
"large-capacity feeding devices capable of firing armor-piercing ammunition" doesn't make any sense. First of all, a feeding device, also known as a magazine, doesn't fire anything. Second, any magazine is going to be capable of loading armor piercing rounds if they are available in that caliber. They wrote that either out of complete ignorance of what they are talking about or wanted to make it sound scarier than it was.
As mentioned above, there's a 99% chance that is a flare launcher, which is perfectly legal as well as the rounds for it.
"More than 1,000 rounds of ammo" is what most people that shoot will keep on hand. Wal-Mart sells .22LR by the 500 round box. 1k rounds of ammo is nothing. "More than 50 shotgun shells". How scary. You will shoot more than that in an afternoon of skeet shooting.
I'd be interested to know if they actually had armor piercing rounds or if the cops are just clueless.
I think "capable of firing"
I think "capable of firing" is Adam's mistake. The BPD post says "capability of holding".
I don't believe
any of those so-called 'assault' rifles [they aren't real, military grade assault rifles, just sort of look like them] are automatic. I'm sure they're semi, which is perfectly legal to own, and are used for hunting and target practice, as long as you have a license.
There appears to be a tec 9 semi, which is basically junk but 'cool' looking, and is not illegal to own provided you have a license.
There are revolvers. Everybody I'm sure is familiar with a revolver. Not illegal provided, etc.,
There are cleaning kits + ammo rounds [not that much]
I'm assuming these are illegally owned by the owner, otherwise there's nothing illegal about anything here, provided you are licensed. It's called the second amendment, the right to bear arms. Many people, especially in rural areas like Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont own and use firearms. Many people like to hunt game. Many people simply enjoy target practice and collecting.
Police and prosecutors [and I'm not gratuitously anti-law enforcement] routinely do things like exaggerate what's seized in situations like this [they know most people are ignorant of firearms and the law] to help make the prosecution case stronger, they do things like deliberately make mugshots look bad or ridiculous, just to make the defendant 'look' bad, crazy, etc.,
It is what it is. The best advice anyone can be given if arrested is to keep your mouth shut until you speak with a competent lawyer. If you ever notice what happens when anyone from law enforcement gets arrested, they refuse to cooperate without their lawyer. They know. Copy what they do.
Flare gun - ok, but
If people say it is a flare guy, than most likely that is the case.
But all I know is what I see on TV and the movies. And that thing looks like a grenade launcher. Which means that is why the guy put it onto his gun. Because it looks like a grenade launcher.
TV and Movies are the worst place to learn about firearms
Thanks for being honest about your level of knowledge. TV and movies are generally very unrealistic about guns. If you only learned from those sources you would think that guns never run out of ammo and that fully automatic Uzi's can be shot accurately one handed.
Yes it looks like a grenade launcher and the guy probably put it on his gun for the reason you mention. Kinda like the guy that puts giant wing on their Honda. Silly from a utilitarian point of view, but hey, it's his gear, he can silly it up any way he wants.
It doesn't make any case stronger.
The only thing that matters is the official charges on the court complaint, the lab results from who examined the guns, and any interview where the owner explained his intent to modifying any of the firearms and their intended use (if he is unlicensed).
There isn't going to be much exaggerated in these police reports, except for what an intern screws up. Most of the cops invoved in drawing up these charges are ex-military gun nuts themselves who love the 2nd ammendment as much as the trolling gun nuts on boars like this one.
If they are such gun-nuts, then why don't they know what they are talking about? I'm not a gun nut, but I'm fairly conversant about guns and knowledgeable about MA gun laws. Here's some more ridiculous claims from the press release:
"seven high powered weapons". One of which is a .25 ACP, a tiny round barely bigger than a .22LR. No one with an understanding of firearms would refer to that as a "high powered weapon". In fact, both seized rifles are chambered in .223 according to the police. Many states ban using .223 for deer hunting because it's TOO WEAK and the fish and game departments feel its use is inhumane. So defining .25acp and .223 as "high powered" either renders the term completely meaningless or perhaps they're describing it that way to sensationalize very mundane firearms.
"ammunition magazine for the assault rifle with the capability of holding 100 rounds of .223 armor piercing rounds of ammuntion". Is there some special magazine for armor piercing rounds that only the cops know about? Because as I mentioned above, a magazine is a magazine. It's also capable of holding 100 rounds of blanks. Why didn't they mention that too?
Another question: Why did they seize and display the cleaning kit, holsters, speed loaders, etc. These are perfectly legal to own without any license.
Well, you kind of sound like a gun nut.
(even though I have the same knowledge and can consider myself a gun nut),
My point was that it doesn't matter what is written on a news blurb. What matters is what is written on the court complaint. The officers who are going to write up the warrant and arrest report aren't going to be the ones writing up the news blurb that you are complaining about.
When an affidavit is brought in front of a judge for illegal weapons and ammunition and it is signed as a warrant, it means some dangerous items are in the hands of someone who shouldn't be in possession of it. Most people are happy that the person who was in possession of these dangerous items are no longer in possession of it. Depending on the person, this seizure may have saved many lives.
And they seize all other instruments of the crime to show the intent of the suspect (that he/she used/planned to use the illegal weapons and didn't just have them as some sort of collection.)
Also, if that AR15 isn't at
Also, if that AR15 isn't at least 14 years old then it does not comply with the MA Assault Weapons Ban. Further proof that only the law abiding citizens are being restricted.
I can't tell from the photo as to whether it's a ban compliant rifle. If it's post ban production and has an adjustable/folding stock, bayonet lug or flash hider, it would be illegal in MA. If it has a fixed position stock (or permanently pinned adjustable one) and none of other features deemed too evil for MA, it's legal in MA regardless of manufacture date. All of course assuming you have the proper license.
It would be interesting to know the circumstances in this case. Is it someone that moved to MA from another state without realizing gun laws are much different here, or was someone simply ignoring the laws at their own peril.
If the guy was selling the
If the guy was selling the stuff on the street, or if he was just collecting illegally, then good for them.
Otherwise, owning multiple guns is not a big deal. Owning ammunition is not a big deal. At the shooting range, you'd go through 1,000 rounds damn quick. And 'armor-piercing ammunition' isn't a big deal either. Police departments shifted over to 'killer' ammunition many years ago, around the same time they went to higher caliber weapons.
If you put all that small stuff in a box, it would be a pretty small box.


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The NC Science and Engineering Fair is now affiliated with the Intel ISEF. While the ISEF competition is for high school the ISEF website provides resources helpful for students and teachers at all grade levels and all projects entered into the state fair must comply with ISEF safety regulations. The sites below provide detailed information on conducting research with your students, developing a science fair, and multiple details that will assist the teacher in guiding investigations and working with students.
Intel ISEF includes links to regulations, forms and many other resources
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What's your advice to people who want to get into KDE development-type stuff but don't know where to start?
How to pick a project
lists of things that are newbie friendly that need help
What's your advice to people who want to get into KDE development-type stuff but don't know where to start?
(from mpyne's People of KDE interview)
Figure out if you want to "develop-develop" or if you would be better at non-coding but still important types of tasks. I got my start in KDE doing documentation even though I knew coding at the time. When I decided I wanted to help with JuK the first thing I did was fix the documentation as much as I could, which helped me learn the codebase, that proved useful too.
If you do plan to do coding and you don't know programming, start learning now. You can learn KDE and programming in parallel but you can't start on C++ (or Python, etc.) too soon.
Learn Qt first.
Finally, absorb information. :) You can do this by lurking on mailing lists, by hanging out in IRC development channels, and by reading TechBase. You'll find out there's more you need to know than just programming, but many skills will translate well even to non-programming tasks so it doesn't hurt to learn.
How to pick a project
What app do you use most? Enjoy? Are curious about?
Not sure? Join BugSquad. :) #kde-bugs
"Have a thick skin."
You will find a huge variety of cultures in our community, that means you might come across people that seem quiet, distant or even offensive at times. Remember that in any culture, geeks tend not to have the best social skills.
Keep trying, even if somebody tells you your contribution is not useful; it will help you improve your skills and you will gain more experience from it.
Remember, most of us have day jobs so don't shy away if you don't get an answer quickly.
If you can't find somebody in our community that speaks your language, try getting other people near your area interested in KDE so you can all work together and support each other.
In general, newbies can and will be nervous. That is ok. If someone seems to be mean to you, don't take it personally. It is only one person in the project, and they may not actually intend to be mean. It might just be their personality, and they might act like that towards everyone. Maybe you misunderstand them. (...how to encourage to ask someone else for a second opinion on personal/social matters?)
patches --- who to submit them to so they get read and not lost
if something uses review board, use that, otherwise mailing lists tend to be better than bugzilla
coding style
Some projects have explicit documentation. Others, just follow the style the maintainer is using. Above all, read the stuff on techbase about general KDE style.
what to be shy about and not to be shy about (important!)
lists of things that are newbie friendly that need help
Projects with intro to do lists
kopete: mattr has a list of jobs, see #kopete
pim is on #kontact
look in bugzilla wishlists, and look for something neat, ask somebody more senior (try irc) if that is a good thing to work on (animating the tab icon while the tab is loading seems like a popular thing)
look in old suggested summer of code projects, some may still be valid
look in bugzilla for easy bugs to fix
For things like khtml, go to #khtml and you are likely to get a tutorial of the codebase, layers, etc. Easy fixes, but you need some guidance.
Bugzilla has JJ, junior jobs.
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Sex-scarred pols keep coming back
Another week and there goes another fallen officeholder trying to claw his way back from tabloid purgatory — another chance for some people to marvel about the power of forgiveness and redemption, and other people to marvel about the power of egomania and pure chutzpah.
It is one more occasion, in other words, for the vast majority of people who would stay crouched in a hole for years if they ever endured humiliation and disgrace of the sort Eliot Spitzer brought down on himself to wonder: What makes these guys tick?
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In the view of many political veterans, Spitzer's attempted comeback from sexual scandal, like Anthony Weiner's attempted comeback, like Mark Sanford's successful comeback, is more than just an eccentric 2013 coincidence.
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It is the latest (arguably quite redundant) evidence of a more fundamental truth about politics: The instinct that leads many people obsessively to pursue public approval and power through winning elections is closely linked to the instinct that leads many of these same people (and let's face it, they are all men) to sexual excess and disaster.
And this in turn is the same brass-balls instinct that compels many of these same politicians to return to the arena even after torching their careers with needy, narcissistic behavior, such as visiting hookers as governor or sharing pictures of one's private parts on social media as a high-profile member of Congress.
( PHOTOS: Mark Sanford's career)
Former South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian, who savaged Sanford during the ex-governor's successful comeback campaign, called the vulnerability to sexual scandal "part and parcel of the personality" of the successful elected official. Sanford, he said, "felt he was entitled, was somehow beyond the reach of normal mores.
"I'm sure Spitzer's that way. I'm sure Weiner's that way," said Harpootlian. "The egocentric world they live in, the drive that leads them to do what they do, also leads them to feel invulnerable to getting caught."
Republican strategist Rich Galen, a former top Newt Gingrich aide who has seen a sex scandal or two up close, agreed: "People who run for public office, especially high public office, are not like regular people. They have a sense of themselves that most of us, even if we harbor, don't tell other people."
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These views tend to overlap with a conclusion that many New York political observers have already reached about Weiner and Spitzer: Their comebacks come embedded in claims of contrition and deep self-reflection, but their fundamental personalities — driven, flamboyant, possessed at least on the outside of exceedingly high self-regard — seem basically unchanged. This has led many people to believe that the emotional makeup that drives their comebacks is very similar to what drove their scandals.
Spitzer's first day back on the campaign trail was a vivid case in point. In a battery of TV and radio interviews, the Democrat had vague or evasive answers to many shouted questions about his return to public life — why he entered a primary against another Democrat that Spitzer called his "friend," whether he and his wife are living together, how he thinks his bid compares to Weiner's.
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Perhaps more important than those answers, though, was the fact that Spitzer earned that coverage at all.
Political psychologist Stanley Renshon, the professor at CUNY's Graduate Center and Lehman College, who has studied the mental predilections of the politically powerful, said the drive for a redemptive comeback ties into the larger narcissism of these politicians.
"What people have done by forcing them to resign, is forcing them to admit publicly that they weren't all they thought they were, and now the answer to that particular bump in the road is, 'Well, if you reelect me, I'll be able to put that behind me somewhat,'" Renshon said.
He added of Spitzer, specifically: "It's not that the public needs him or them back in office. It's much more that they need to be back in office."


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'The Heat' hot at box office but 'Monsters' rule
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy brought "The Heat" against Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx at the box office.
The Fox action-comedy starring the funny ladies as mismatched detectives earned $40 million in second place in its opening weekend, topping the $25.7 million debut haul of Sony's "White House Down," according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Disney-Pixar animated prequel "Monsters University" remained box-office valedictorian in its second weekend, earning $46.1 million in first place.
As for "The Heat," employing two female leads to buck the male-dominated buddy-cop formula paid off in ticket sales.
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"White House Down," which features Tatum as a wannabe Secret Service agent and Foxx as the President of the United States of America, was inaugurated below expectations in fourth place. The film's White House takeover plot is strikingly similar to FilmDistrict's "Olympus Has Fallen," which opened in March and starred Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart.
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Meanwhile, Paramount's "World War Z" took another bite out of the box office in its second weekend domestically with $29.8 million. Overseas, the globe-trotting zombie thriller starring Brad Pitt cleared $70.1 million in 51 territories.
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"Man of Steel" is still flying high in its third week, coming in fifth place with $20.8 million in North America and $52.2 million in such international markets as Australia, Sweden and China. The Warner Bros. retelling of Superman's origin passed the $500 million mark on Saturday.
Overall, Dergarabedian said revenue and attendance are now both down just 2 percent over last year, and this weekend's films grossed 8.5 percent less than last year when Universal's "Ted" opened with $54.4 million at the box office. He said those numbers could shift further next week when Disney's "The Lone Ranger" and Universal's "Despicable Me 2" debut.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. "Monsters University," $46.1 million ($44.2 million international).
2. "The Heat," $40 million.
3. "World War Z," $29.8 million ($70.1 million international).
4. "White House Down," $25.7 million ($6.8 million international.)
5. "Man of Steel," $20.8 million ($52.2 million international).
6. "This Is the End," $8.7 million.
7. "Now You See Me," $5.5 million ($5 million international).
8. "Fast & Furious 6," $2.4 million ($6.1 million international).
9. "Star Trek: Into Darkness," $2 million ($2 million international).
10. "The Internship," $1.4 million ($3.6 million international).
Estimated weekend ticket sales at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood studios, according to Rentrak:
1. "World War Z," $70.1 million.
2. "Man of Steel," $52.2 million.
3. "Monsters University," $44.2 million.
4. "Despicable Me 2," $41.5 million.
5. "The Hangover Part III," $7.7 million.
6. "Fast & Furious 6," $6.1 million.
7. "Epic," $5.1 million.
8. "Now You See Me," $5 million.
9. "The Internship," $3.6 million.
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Well, young people tend to be less engaged in politics than their elders, they say. But in the last few election cycles, that trend has started to change. The big jump came from 2000 to 2004. And 2008 saw the highest turnout rate among younger voters in many years.
NPR's Teresa Tomassoni stopped by the University of Maryland's College Park campus to see if that might continue in this election cycle.
TERESA TOMASSONI, BYLINE: The line of students waiting to hear Texas Congressman Ron Paul speak at the Ritchie Coliseum wrapped around several blocks. Twenty-year-old Derrick Zumstein(ph) stood about halfway down the line. He's a member of the student group, College Republicans.
DERRICK ZUMSTEIN: I'm interested in what Ron Paul has to say, whether I support it or not, is moot.
TOMASSONI: Soon after Zumstein finally passed through the doors to the packed gymnasium, the audience started cheering.
TOMASSONI: They shouted President Paul, stomping their feet and waving signs that read: End the War and End the Fed. Nineteen-year-old Caroline Carlson was part of the excited crowd.
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TOMASSONI: But according to Scott Keeter, an analyst at the Pew Research Center, most young people do not have such a sustained interest in the presidential election, at least not compared to 2008.
SCOTT KEETER: We see signs in early polling that young people are not as engaged now as they were at this same time four years ago.
TOMASSONI: Eighteen-year-old Briana Drayton's one of the less engaged. She says she wants nothing to do with the election.
BRIANA DRAYTON: I'm just not very into politics. And I think that, like, it would require a lot more research and, like, looking into issues that I don't think I have the passion for, so I wouldn't want to vote and, like, not be completely informed.
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DRAYTON: I would look into it for like 10 minutes and then be bored and move on to Facebook or something.
TOMASSONI: Keeter says it's too early to know for sure how many young people will show up to the polls in November. U.S. Census data shows that about 50 percent of eligible young voters turned out in 2008, about two-thirds of them to vote for Barack Obama. But, as Keeter says, a lot's happened since 2008 and he thinks it's likely not as many young people will vote this year.
KEETER: The recession has been very, very tough on young people in particular, sort of people entering the job market in this last four years have had a very hard time, you know, getting work and getting good work. And that has tended to dampen their enthusiasm for Barack Obama and for the Democrats in general.
TOMASSONI: It's left some students, like University of Maryland freshman Alexa Lardiary(ph) confused.
ALEXA LARDIARY: When you hear someone who's a Democrat, like, give you their side of the story, you're like, oh, that makes perfect sense. But then when you hear a Republican, like, do the same thing, you're like, oh, wait, that makes perfect sense, too. So, it is a little confusing.
TOMASSONI: Lardiary is a registered Democrat, but she says she probably won't cast a ballot in the fall. The campaigns of Mitt Romney and President Obama are eager to recruit young voters. Romney adviser Lanhee Chen says Governor Romney plans to promote his economic message on campuses across the country.
LANHEE CHEN: This is really going to resonate with younger Americans because they've really been hit hard by the difficulty that we've seen the economy during President Obama's term.
TOMASSONI: But the Obama campaign is trying to remind young people about some of the president's accomplishments thus far, including the Affordable Care Act and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
VALEISHA BUTTERFIELD-JONES: It is really about educating young people on what the president has done for them over the last four years.
TOMASSONI: That's the Obama campaign's national youth vote director, Valeisha Butterfield-Jones. She said the campaign is currently wrapping up a national college tour in key swing states, states that may matter even more in this election. Pew's Scott Keeter points out that President Obama could have won without the youth vote in 2008.
KEETER: But that was an election that he won by a relatively comfortable margin. Everybody thinks, despite the early polling right now that shows him with a reasonably good-sized lead, that this is going to be a very close election.
TOMASSONI: And in a close election, Keeter says, everybody's vote matters.
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It's been so long, I hardly know where to start. Where do I start? And how did I get from there to here?
Let's start simply. I graduated from law school in 2011. Passed the bar exam on my second try, in 2012. I was awarded a graduate fellowship, which enabled me to work with one of my favorite professors, and which remains one of the high points of post-law-school life. I temped for a while, working for a solo practitioner in San Jose and a doc review firm in San Francisco. I sent out resumes, a dozen at a time. 2012 was a bad year to be a new lawyer. The profession had not yet recovered from the melting down of the economy in 2008. It will likely never recover to its pre-recession state.
While I continued job-hunting, a friend contacted me, asked if I was working, and told me he might be able to refer a potential client to me for work. I figured that it would be wrong for me to turn work away when I was so hungry for work and experience, so I agreed to meet with the potential client. They wanted to hire me, I wanted to represent them. I had a client, and they had a lot of work for me. Soon I had another client, and another, and another. For the most part, they couldn't afford to pay me very much, but I signed them anyway. I was new, and hungry to work, and hungry to advocate for people who needed help. I took breach-of-contract cases. I took a civil rights case. I agreed to negotiate a contract between two partners winding down a business. I wasn't making a lot of money, but I managed to eke out enough to keep the bills paid. By the beginning of 2013, I had enough of a regular income to lease a tiny office space.
I am aware that I'm leaving out a lot of detail. I used to be the queen of detail and elegant turns of phrase. I am not that writer anymore. Maybe with time and practice, I will be. Or maybe I'm too worn down. Or too old. I no longer have the optimism of youth on my side.
At the beginning of 2014, my biggest client fired me. I had been representing them in two lawsuits and doing some transactional work for them. Suddenly more than 80% of my billables were gone. I never made up the difference in income. I still haven't.
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It has been a year, and I'm still scrambling, still robbing Peter to pay Paul, still thanking the Fates that I am married to Lloyd, and that he has been able—after making some serious economies—to cover my share of the rent on our apartment. I hate putting him in this position. This was not supposed to happen.
There is so much more to talk about, dear friends: how a friend hired me to do some work for her in a field in which I'd had no experience, but she believed in me and she trusted me and she was willing to let me learn on the job. How I found that I loved the area of law in which my friend needed my help. How I spent half my working hours in the county law library, teaching myself substantive and procedural law. How my stepfather agreed to be my business consultant, showing me how to put together business plans and profit/loss sheets and marketing materials. How, if we'd had at least a year, our work would have paid off. How I ran out of steam—and credit—in April. How I became exhausted with trying to teach myself everything: substantive law, procedural law, business management, marketing, accounting. How isolated I had become. How terrible the effects of isolation are on me.
I'm back to sending out a few dozen resumes every week. And with each passing week, I worry, not just about how I'm going to keep my creditors happy for another month, but also about whether I'm even employable. I am a "young" lawyer, but I am not young. I am likely not the oldest noob in Silicon Valley, but I'll be damned if that's not how I feel.
I've also started baking again, after a two-year flirtation with Paleo eating, which is a long story in and of itself. I had forgotten how good it feels to be good at something. I may be an unemployable lawyer, I might have taken a catastrophically expensive risk that will never pay off, but I can still bake, and I am still good at it.
To be continued, of course.