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Much ado about NAEP
by Scott McLeod | Oct 24, 2022 | Law, Policy, and Ethics, Learning and Teaching | 3 comments
Congratulations, Silver Lining for Learning!
Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and the Denver Public Schools
Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Surprise!
Four big thoughts on all of this…
1. Below is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) graph of daily COVID cases in the U.S. Note the huge spike in January 2022 due to the Omicron variant. Also note that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) chose to administer the NAEP tests in March 2022, during the downswing of that huge spike in cases and after two years of COVID trauma (six weeks later America hit the 1 million dead mark). How many kids, families, and educators were ill, recovering from being ill, or still traumatized from loved ones' deaths, illnesses, or long recoveries? We'll never know.
2. Always remember that the labels for NAEP 'proficiency' levels are confusing. Journalists (and others) are failing us when they don't report out what NAEP levels mean. For instance, the New York Times reported this graph today from NCES:
"Appalling," right?! That's what the U.S. Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, said about these results. Just look at those low numbers in blue!
BUT… 'Proficient' on NAEP doesn't mean what most folks assume it does. NAEP itself says that 'Proficient' does not mean 'at grade level.' Instead, the label Proficient is more aspirational. Indeed, it's so aspirational that most states are not trying to reach that level with their annual assessments. See the map below from NCES (or make your own), which shows that most states are trying for their children to achieve NAEP's Basic level, not Proficient:
Once again, in the words of Tom Loveless, former director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, "Proficient on NAEP does not mean grade level performance. It's significantly above that." So essentially the New York Times and others are reporting that "only one-fourth of 8th graders performed significantly above grade level in math." Does that result surprise anyone?
Loveless noted in 2016 that:
Equating NAEP proficiency with grade level is bogus. Indeed, the validity of the achievement levels themselves is questionable. They immediately came under fire in reviews by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Education. The National Academy of Sciences report was particularly scathing, labeling NAEP's achievement levels as "fundamentally flawed."
Loveless also stated:
The National Center for Education Statistics warns that federal law requires that NAEP achievement levels be used on a trial basis until the Commissioner of Education Statistics determines that the achievement levels are "reasonable, valid, and informative to the public." As the NCES website states, "So far, no Commissioner has made such a determination, and the achievement levels remain in a trial status. The achievement levels should continue to be interpreted and used with caution."
Confounding NAEP proficient with grade-level is uninformed. Designating NAEP proficient as the achievement benchmark for accountability systems is certainly not cautious use. If high school students are required to meet NAEP proficient to graduate from high school, large numbers will fail. If middle and elementary school students are forced to repeat grades because they fall short of a standard anchored to NAEP proficient, vast numbers will repeat grades. [emphasis added]
In 2009, Gerald Bracey, one of our nation's foremost experts on educational assessment, stated:
In its prescriptive aspect, the NAEP reports the percentage of students reaching various achievement levels—Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. The achievement levels have been roundly criticized by many, including the U.S. Government Accounting Office (1993), the National Academy of Sciences (Pellegrino, Jones, & Mitchell, 1999); and the National Academy of Education (Shepard, 1993). These critiques point out that the methods for constructing the levels are flawed, that the levels demand unreasonably high performance, and that they yield results that are not corroborated by other measures.
In spite of the criticisms, the U.S. Department of Education permitted the flawed levels to be used until something better was developed. Unfortunately, no one has ever worked on developing anything better—perhaps because the apparently low student performance indicated by the small percentage of test-takers reaching Proficient has proven too politically useful to school critics.
For instance, education reformers and politicians have lamented that only about one-third of 8th graders read at the Proficient level. On the surface, this does seem awful. Yet, if students in other nations took the NAEP, only about one-third of them would also score Proficient—even in the nations scoring highest on international reading comparisons (Rothstein, Jacobsen, & Wilder, 2006).
Similarly, James Harvey, executive director of the National Superintendents Roundtable (he also helped write A Nation at Risk), noted:
The NAEP benchmarks might be more convincing if most students elsewhere could handily meet them. But that's a hard case to make, judging by a 2007 analysis from Gary Phillips, former acting commissioner of NCES. Phillips set out to map NAEP benchmarks onto international assessments in science and mathematics.
Only Taipei and Singapore have a significantly higher percentage of "proficient" students in eighth grade science (by the NAEP benchmark) than the United States. In math, the average performance of eighth-grade students could be classified as "proficient" in [only] six jurisdictions: Singapore, Korea, Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan, and Flemish Belgium. It seems that when average results by jurisdiction place typical students at the NAEP proficient level, the jurisdictions involved are typically wealthy.
We can argue whether the correct benchmark is Basic or we should be striving for Proficient, and we all can agree that more kids need more support to reach desired academic benchmarks. But let's don't pretend that 'Proficient' on NAEP aligns with most people's common understandings of that term. We should be especially wary of those educational 'reformers' who use the NAEP Proficient benchmark to cudgel schools and educators.
3. Lest we think that these NAEP results are new and surprising, it should be noted that scores on NAEP already were stagnant. Achievement gaps already were widening. After nearly two decades of the No Child Left Behind Act and standards-based, testing-oriented educational reform – and almost 40 years after the A Nation at Risk report – the 2018 and 2019 NAEP results showed that the bifurcation of American student performance remained "stubbornly wide." We continue to do the same things while expecting different results, instead of fundamentally rethinking how we do school.
4. The pundits already are chiming in on the 2022 NAEP results. They're blaming overly-cautious superintendents and school boards, "woke" educators, teacher unions, parents, online learning, video games, social media, screen addiction, "kids these days who don't want to work," state governors, and anything else they can point a finger at. As I said yesterday, it's fascinating how many people were prescient and omniscient during unprecedented times, when extremely challenging decisions needed to be made with little historical guidance, in an environment of conflicting opinions about what was right. Despite the massive swirl of disagreement about what should have occurred during the pandemic, many folks are righteously certain that they have the correct answer and everyone else is wrong. The lack of grace, understanding, and humility is staggering.
Also, look again at the graph above. One way for journalists, commentators, and policymakers to frame those results is to call them 'appalling.' Another way is to say:
Scores are down but, even during a deadly global pandemic that shut down schools and traumatized families, the math and reading achievement of about two-thirds of our students stayed at grade level or above. How do we help the rest?
Always consider how an issue is framed and whose interests it serves to frame it that way (and why).
We can whirl ourselves into a tizzy of righteous finger-pointing, which is what many folks will do because it serves their agenda to do so. Or we can
interpret these NAEP outcomes with deservable caution and an understanding of past results,
recognize that a decline in assessment scores is a naturally-expected outcome of an incredibly difficult two years of trauma during a deadly global pandemic, and then
do our best to provide the academic, socio-emotional, trauma-informed, equity, and other supports that our students, families, educators, and schools need.
I think that it's unlikely that many states, schools, and communities will actually do this because of the fragility and brittleness of our school structures. But I'm pretty sure that the path forward is not simply doubling down on more math, reading, and testing, and it sure isn't uncritically accepting NAEP results.
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Katie Pekel on October 25, 2022 at 7:44 am
It also seems time for us to return to what Checker Finn has told us for years… 1.) NAEP tells us WHAT- not WHY; 2.) The results are really only informative to state-level policymakers, who are (willing to) looking at TREND data.
That being said- we have some trends… and as you point out they started long before the pandemic.
Scott McLeod on October 25, 2022 at 1:18 pm
Thanks for chiming in, Katie. I also would encourage us to wonder if – after nearly two decades of our current educational reform efforts – we're continuing to aim at the wrong targets. Test scores (on NAEP or anything else) never should be the end goal but rather a means toward larger student competencies and outcomes. We've lost much of that perspective.
Deb Serio on October 31, 2022 at 7:59 am
I was on the NAEP ALP Committee for Grade 12 this year. A student performing at the Basic level did far more than the "Basic" moniker suggests. Sadly, I am so disappointed (but not surprised) at the politicizing of these score reports. I am sure it will just encourage more nonsense testing. In Virginia, we have added two "through" tests to the state testing in grades 3-8 math and English. One high-stakes test at the end of the year wasn't enough.
When will we say enough and concentrate on critical thinking, real-world problem-solving, and creativity? I know…I'm preaching to the choir.


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China's Coming Economic Collapse Is Unavoidable And how the "Browning of America" prevents it here
Glenn Rocess reported:
Most readers will look at the title above and wonder, "What the heck does the 'Browning of America' — the coming time when white people will comprise less than half our population — have to do with China's economic success or failure?"
It has everything to do with it.
About forty years ago, 88 percent of the Chinese population lived on less than two dollars per day. As of 2017, that figure had dropped to less than six percent. The key in this tectonic economic shift was a decision by Deng Xiaoping to open up China's economy as part of his Four Modernizations. The transformation of China's economy is unprecedented in human history and has led to the assumption by many (including myself) that China's economic supremacy (now estimated to occur as soon as 2028) will last for the foreseeable future. This view is further bolstered by the advent of China's Belt and Road Initiative, the largest infrastructure project in human history.
But now it appears their economic supremacy cannot last, and for the most human of reasons: babies. Or, more accurately, the lack thereof. Yes, you read that right — the Chinese aren't having enough babies.
Older readers will remember China's implementation of their 'One-Child Policy' wherein (with some exceptions) women were not allowed to have more than one child. Fewer still know of its more-influential predecessor, the "Later, Longer, Fewer" birth-control campaign. Both programs included (among other measures) forced abortionNote that current estimates of China's population and birth rates are from official sources. However, there are serious concerns about the veracity of those statistics. China may be facing even worse demographic problems than they are willing to publicly admit. (The reader may need to use Google Translate to read the reference)
One could claim that the same problems with population decline are being faced by many developed nations — Japan's population decline and its effect on the elderly has been exhaustively documented — but those same problems (exacerbated by the unintended consequences of the One-Child Policy) may well make it impossible for China to maintain the world's largest economy once they surpass America's a few years from now....
... I did not know that the Statue of Liberty was originally meant to celebrate the liberation of slaves, and that her face may have been modeled after that of an Egyptian woman. (yourblackworld.net)
A Brown Hand Lifts The Lamp Beside That Golden Door
America is browning. By 2044 less than half America's population will be white. Despite the most heinous (and hopeless) efforts of some to hinder the progress of minorities and to put an end to America's tradition of immigration, most Americans take pride in supporting civil rights and welcoming immigrants to our shores.
As well we should. For all America's flaws, it is those two factors that will preserve our nation's greatness. Yes, this claim sounds over-the-top, but that's what the statistical data show, validating everything Ezra Lazarus wrote in her poem "The New Colossus" at the foot of our Statue of Liberty.
Why? Look at the above list of problems faced by China due to their declining population, and how the same problems (if to lesser extents) are faced by so many other nations. With the sole exception of our slowly-depleting Social Security trust fund, America is not facing any of those problems. Yes, our white population is declining — more are dying and fewer are being born — but our minority (i.e. Black/Hispanic/Asian) population is continuing to grow and reproduce, more than making up for the deficits of white people.
As a direct result, instead of the eventual (and unavoidable) decrease in the Chinese GDP, America's GDP growth will be concomitant with our continuing population growth. What are the estimates of our population growth in the coming years? Here's a graph from the U.S. Census Bureau:
Estimated U.S. population by year (U.S. Census Bureau)...
... America's Black, Brown, and immigrant populations will not only be providing our nation's continued population growth, but — even more importantly — preserving the relative youth of our population. This not only provides a more physically-capable workforce but also avoids the trap China faces of having too few younger people to care for too many elderly people...
... SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Alibaba founder Jack Ma both stated that the biggest threat the world will face in 20 years is population collapse and its effect on global trade. [https://glennrocess.medium.com/chinas-economic-nightmare-not-enough-babies-8932864ff225]

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With just two sessions to go before we close out the month, only a few will contest that the month hasn't fared as we might have expected. President Trump tops the list of events – or 'event risk' – which might have had the markets jittery at times and having to handle a period of uncertainty. The pre/post-inauguration leaves the markets little wiser.
Executive orders are being signed in double-quick time. Article 50 is due to be triggered but the political shenanigans in the UK have been much of a sideshow to events in the US. We would think that the market reaction has been both predictable and, overall, constructive.
Equities are on a high (expecting spendthrift governments) anticipating an underpinning of current positive growth trajectories, even if economists in some quarters are suggesting a slowdown as the year progresses. After all, renegotiating trade deals as America "gets smarter" – to coin a Trump phrase – might represent some headwinds if the barriers to indeed go up. It was Mexico last week, Canada and China loom large while there's bound to be something happen between the US/Eurozone, in due course.
Fiscal profligacy means more borrowing, and government bonds have had a bad time of it of late. German 10-year Bunds are up at close on 0.50%, the 10-year Gilt yields 1.50% while the potential for an Italian election has seen yield on 10-year BTPs shoot past 2% to 2.23%. The rise in underlying yields has eaten into fixed income returns, while the equity markets deliver more comfortable January returns so far of, for example, 1.7% for the Dow and 3% for the DAX.
In credit, spreads are tighter this month as better growth dynamics justify a tightening in them, while we have had little by way of outflows – and those inflows and bond redemptions need investing. The ECB has been lifting more than usual too. So, spreads tighter (considerably in HY), but returns for euro IG and £ IG are in the red, while the shorter duration HY market is closing in on 1% of total returns for the month.
It's effectively been a risk-on January.
There were no HY deals last week, and we have had just €2.235bn this month so far. The HY market in secondary has been the outperforming credit market this month and we would have expected borrowers to feed off that better tone.
But just four borrowers have, and one of them – Telecom Italia – could be viewed as being more attractive and perhaps deserved of being effectively viewed as an IG borrower. That issuer raised €1bn, so just €1,235m from the other three represents slim pickings.
Still, secondary valuations have improved on the lack of issuance and upbeat macro. The Markit iBoxx index for HY is 30bp tighter for January.
We drew a blank on Friday in IG, leaving the week to deliver €6.1bn of deals from just five issuers although Deutsche Telekom was responsible for €3.5bn of that total in a three tranche offering. The monthly total – with two sessions still to go – stands now at €25.6bn, which comes in at around the level we expected. there are two sessions to go before we close out the month, so another €1-3bn is quite possible.
The stand-out deal in senior issuance last week came from Santander with a non-preferred benchmark transaction, ahead of this type of instrument being rubber-stamped from a regulatory perspective both domestically or from the EU. It will likely happen, and the Spanish borrower was just trying to get ahead of the curve as well as gain a little kudos for doing so (also being the first non-French issuer – where regulatory approval has been granted).
The markets should now settle, having had a taste of what to expect from the White House's new incumbent. But just when we think it's plain sailing, we have the FOMC and non-farms to look forward to.
Fortunately, we and most believe the Fed will stay put, save for a continued upbeat assessment of the economy which will have the rate-wallahs pondering the number of rate moves higher the Fed might partake in 2017. 172k is the market consensus for payroll additions, while the average hourly earnings increase might be the figure to watch out for (inflationary pressures).
Europe closed out a touch weaker last week in credit, albeit in a quiet session where the Street chose to take a defensive stance in case anything untoward came across from the Trump-May gathering.
The Markit iBoxx IG index is now at B+133bp (+0.75bp on Friday), having tightened a basis point in the week and is 3.5bp better in the month. The equivalent sterling corporate index is at G+148.75bp and unchanged last week, but 3bp tighter in the month. The top of the performance pile is HY market (as mentioned above), after 30bp of tightening this month and 7bp last week to B+373bp. That has already passed our full-year target!
The synthetic indices closed a little wider with Main at 70.5bp (+0.75bp) and X-Over at 293bp (+3bp) and these levels were 1.5bp and 8bp wider in the week, respectively.
We think more of the same is likely this week. The earnings season will be in full swing, but we can expect quieter climes into the FOMC and NFP report. Apple, Pfizer, Exxon are among those US companies reporting this week, while in Europe, we have the likes of Daimler, DT and Metro AG. Month-end valuations and the like will also keep a few sidelined and/or distracted.
The interesting development now will be on where rate markets head. Yields have backed-up a fair bit already in these opening weeks of the year. Much more, and we will be revisiting our expectations on a number of macro variables and indicators for the full-year (rates, returns, growth, inflation).


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Shipping containers and urban farming seem like odd bedfellows. But the two are perfectly matched. In fact, a shipping container farm may soon be located in a parking lot near you.
Why? Interest is container farming has exploded in the last few years. All across the U.S., start-ups, and DIYers are building shipping container farms that may soon be the answer to providing local produce to cities around the world. The reason is simple. Shipping containers provide ideal environments to grow produce, and when fitted with water, lighting, and nutrient delivery systems, shipping container farms are high yielding and easily adaptable.
How Does A Shipping Container Farm Work?
Two agricultural ideas are behind the freight farm revolution: Hydroponics and vertical farming. Shipping containers can be fitted with the technology and hardware that make both of these growing methods work.
Here's how: In a shipping container farm, plants – typically leafy greens, herbs and strawberries – are grown vertically. Vertical grow walls are installed inside of the container, with outlets for each individual plant.
Secondly, the shipping container is fitted with a network of pipes that delivers water and nutrients to each individual plant. Since they're grown hydroponically, the plants don't require dirt; instead, the root systems form within the water.
Lastly, hanging LED light strips are installed in the container, which provides red and blue light to the plants. Blue and red light are used because they are the most beneficial to plant growth. In addition to lights, exhaust and venting systems are installed to manage the humidity within the farm.
This, in a nutshell, is how shipping container growing is supported, but there are a number of key benefits to growing food like this.
Why Are Shipping Container Farms Ideal for Urban Farming?
Space Savings: Most standard size shipping containers have a small footprint of 350 square feet. Yet, by using vertically aligned plants, space is maximized. A container can provide up to three acres of growing space within a small footprint. That's why shipping containers are well-suited for urban farming.
Water Conservation: Freight farms are highly controlled, with the precise amount of water and nutrients delivered to each plant. This process prevents water waste. In fact, most shipping container farms use just 5-10 gallons of water each day – 80 to 90 percent less than traditional outdoor farms.
Year-Round Growing: Shipping containers have controlled environments, which enables temperatures to be managed. Therefore, an indoor garden can produce in all seasons, no matter the outdoor climate.
Environmental Controls: A shipping container farm does not have to contend with pests, plant diseases or fungi. It is a highly sterile environment, and that means plants can be grown pesticide-free.
Faster Growth: Since growers can fine tune light, water and nutrients, food is grown faster. For example, lettuce from seed to table can grow in about seven weeks in a shipping container, which is half the time of traditional farms. Once in full production, a typically shipping container farm can produce 50-100 pounds of lettuce per week.
In addition to the closed container garden, urban farmers are also experimenting with shipping container greenhouses, which use similar design elements.
Greenhouses replace the flat-top roof with a transparent pitched roof. Water and nutrient supply tubs are placed within the container and piped to plants above within the greenhouse. A metal grate floor is used to hold the plants above, with access from underneath. Like the container farms, the greenhouses also help to greatly reduce water use and use natural sunlight to grow plants.
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Saturday, August 11th, 2018 is the Final Big Championship Meet at Valleycrest Pool. Participants are asked to be at the pool for 7:10 AM, to be ready for warm-up at 7:25 AM. Officials should be there by 8:00 AM and the meet begins at 9:00 AM. Please don't forget to wear your purple ELM gear whether you are swimming or cheering the team on. We want the purple power to reflect in the crowd!!
Note the pool will open from 13:00 to 19:00 on Saturday, Aug 11th due to the Big Meet in the morning. The same evening, the pool will close a little earlier due to our annual Lip Synch and Sleepover.
We just got word that the results for Time Trials will not be posted until around 8:00 tonight. Our Swim Team Pizza dinner at 6:30 pm will still happen in the meantime. There will be water polo scrimmage games for any child or adult wanting to play!
The VP Swimming announced that Time Trials will be postponed to tomorrow (Sunday, August 5th) still at Glenmore. There will be a warm-up at 8:00 am and then the meet will resume at 9:00 am from Backstroke until the end. There will be a shorter break between Fly and Relay (TBD, we are asking if the break can be removed). Thank you all very much for your patience today.
Our rowdy team spirit and participation are what makes Elm Park great, so on behalf of the staff, we sincerely hope you can all make it back tomorrow and support our team to finish the meet off with a bang!
A reminder that swimmers who are swimming backstroke, butterfly and/or relay must compete tomorrow in order to be allowed to participate at Big Meet. This also means that if a participant is a swimming relay, they have to be there in order for the team to qualify. We have to have our relays tomorrow in order to have any for Big Meet. Thank you all for coming out today and we hope to see you all tomorrow!
If you cannot make it back tomorrow for any reason or are now available to swim, please communicate with the coaches ASAP as this affects the team as an entirety. We need to ensure we do our best to keep all of our lanes filled! Thanks!
Also note that Masters at 10:00 tomorrow (Sunday) will be canceled due to swim team coaches required to be at Time trials. However, weekend lessons will still happen as usual.
Lastly, don't forget the results of Time Trials will be announced to all participants and their families this Monday, August 6th during a pizza dinner at the pool at 6:30 PM. There is a small fee of $5.00 to cover the cost of the slice of pizza, drink, and chips. Please let us know via email how many family members will be joining us with your preference of pizza so we can order the correct quantity, as much as possible.


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Massachusetts Parents Outraged After Substitute Teacher Tells Second-Graders Santa Isn't Real
Parents in Stoneham, Massachusetts, were outraged to learn their second-grade children had been told by a substitute teacher that Santa Claus isn't real.
An angry mother reached out to WFXT after receiving an email from the school principal notifying parents of the incident.
"I was appalled to learn a substitute would purposely talk to students about the existence of Santa Claus," the email said.
The incident, according to one mother, happened during story time.
"She said, Santa Claus is just a character," the mother said. "There is no such thing as Santa Claus, and it's your parents who buy all the presents for you."
Students in the class reportedly came home in tears, with one describing the teacher as "really mean."
The substitute was reportedly provided by a Boston staffing agency called Kelly Services. The agency responded to the controversy when asked about the incident by WFXT.
"Kelly Services is always concerned about alleged reports of unsatisfactory behavior by one of our employees and investigates all reports," a spokeswoman said. "However, in accordance with employment regulations and prudent business practices, we do not publicly disclose employment status or information specific to an employee."
Some parents have raised questions about the agency's vetting process since the incident, and don't understand what would prompt the teacher to reveal such a thing to a room full of children.
"Who are they letting through, and what do they know about these people that they're putting with our children for the day?" one mother said. "I just want to know why -- what could possibly have been going through her mind to come out with a statement like that?"
Sources: WFXT, Atlanta Journal-Constitution / Photo credit: WFXT, Wikimedia Commons
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York County Sheriff's deputies have made an arrest in a 2016 shooting.Sheriff Bill King said Zachary Jordan, 20, of Sanford, confessed to shooting at a house last year.A house on Townhouse Road in Waterboro was shot at several times on Nov. 6, 2016, King said. Two bullets entered the house. One of them ended up in the caller's 20-year-old son's bedroom.King said Jordan was upset that the victim's son allegedly spread rumors about a woman.King said Jordan initially denied any involvement in the shooting. Bullet fragments taken from the house matched a gun seized from Jordan.Jordan is charged with aggravated reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon and more charges are expected, King said.Jordan is due in court in March.
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York County Sheriff's deputies have made an arrest in a 2016 shooting.
Sheriff Bill King said Zachary Jordan, 20, of Sanford, confessed to shooting at a house last year.
A house on Townhouse Road in Waterboro was shot at several times on Nov. 6, 2016, King said. Two bullets entered the house. One of them ended up in the caller's 20-year-old son's bedroom.
King said Jordan was upset that the victim's son allegedly spread rumors about a woman.
King said Jordan initially denied any involvement in the shooting. Bullet fragments taken from the house matched a gun seized from Jordan.
Jordan is charged with aggravated reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon and more charges are expected, King said.
Jordan is due in court in March.
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From Job to Job to Job, a Life Lived — and Lost
By Adam Geller	• Published at 3:25 pm on October 23, 2014
The fumes, reeking of gasoline, poured from the white Kia SUV as soon as an emergency medical technician broke one of the rear windows. Inside, the body of a dark-haired young woman with a beauty mark on her left cheek reclined in the driver's seat, keys dangling from the ignition.
But who was she? How was it that her life had ended here, in the corner of a convenience store parking lot, less than a mile south of Newark Liberty International Airport's runways?
Waiting for the vapors to clear so they could search her belongings, police noted the most obvious clue: She was wearing a familiar white-and-brown uniform. By that night, co-workers and friends had identified her as Maria Leonor Fernandes, 32 years old and single, who worked minimum wage jobs at three nearby Dunkin' Donuts shops — often grabbing an hour or two of sleep in her car between shifts.
Within days, Fernandes was being mourned as a tragic heroine, a victim of our times. Far beyond the Newark neighborhood where she rented a basement room with bath for $550 a month, her death became fodder for online commentary. People speculated, mistakenly, that she had been living in the U.S. illegally, or had committed suicide. Mostly, they pointed to her as a casualty of modern economics that forced someone to work so hard for so little money.
"The death of Maria Fernandes demands a call to action,'' a leader of the AFSCME labor union wrote in an online editorial, days after her death.
By the time friends filed past the open casket in which Fernandes was laid out in a sequined, scarlet dress, some had had enough. There was more to her life, they said, than the way she lost it.
The Maria Fernandes they wanted to remember was kind, perhaps too generous, and loved to talk — so much so that a family she once lived with nicknamed her "Radio.'' Her adoration of Michael Jackson was so intense that when the singer died in 2009, she called her boss, sobbing, to tell him she needed time off to fly to California for the funeral — even though she knew he was vacationing in Turkey and the hour was growing late. Fernandes worked hard, she died tragically, but she was no martyr.
"Maria did not lose!'' a friend, Rochelle Sylvestre, said in her eulogy. "Society has a way of looking down at people who try to make ends meet, who seek above the minimum wage. Maria won that battle! She is still winning!''
Maria Fernandes' working life tracked a carefully choreographed schedule. From 2 to 9 p.m. most days she staffed the counter at a Dunkin' kiosk inside Newark's main train station. Then she headed to a second shop, open around the clock in downtown Linden, where she worked from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. On Saturdays and Sundays, she added an 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. shift at a third shop in Harrison, picking up additional hours when asked.
In Harrison, she usually worked at the sandwich preparation station, chatting with fellow employees, sometimes showing them snapshots. Alaaddin Abuawada, a co-worker who also holds a second job at a thrift shop, said Fernandes often appeared exhausted.
When business was slow, she slumped on cartons in the kitchen for 15-minute naps. She slept in her car before heading to her next shift. When co-workers called her name for help, she jokingly answered, "No.''
Abuawada said he once told her that she was killing herself. "She said, 'I need the money. I have a lot of bills,''' he recalled.
Fernandes was not a complainer, but this was not the life she had expected.
More than a decade ago, she told friends she wanted to be an actress, had black-and-white publicity photos taken and took the train to New York to seek auditions. She wrote her sister in Portugal that she wanted to be a police officer. She talked about going to school to be a beautician. And, before Michael Jackson died, she spoke often about her desire to meet him.
"She would say she was going to marry him,'' friend Cristina Ribau Orama said. "And the way she said it, it was like it was going to happen.''
Fernandes had come a long way to pursue those dreams. She was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, to Portuguese immigrant parents. Her father, Antonio, worked as a welder and his wife, 28 years his junior, worked in a factory. When Fernandes was 11 her father retired and moved the family to Gafanha da Encarnacao, his hometown of 5,000 on Portugal's Atlantic coast.
"She was kind of lost in this small town which was not hers,'' said Olinda Moreira, a half-sister who lives in the nearby city of Aveiro.
Fernandes' Portuguese was shaky and colored heavily by the dialect of her mother's hometown in the Azores islands. It was hard finding friends in a town where most younger residents had moved away for work. Her father was a stern disciplinarian with little patience for a daughter who spent hours watching "The X-Files'' on television; he frowned upon her talk of moving back to the United States, alone, at least until she was 18.
In the summer of 1995, Fernandes was biking through the village when she spotted a Volkswagen Jetta with New Jersey license plates and introduced herself to owner Jose Ribau, visiting his hometown from Newark. That seeded friendships with Ribau's daughters, one the same age as Fernandes and the other four years younger, renewed each July when they returned to Portugal.
Six years later, Fernandes appeared without any notice at the Ribaus' gray-shingled house in north Newark, lugging a suitcase. She was 19.
"She said, 'Oh, I'm here from Portugal. I wanted to come to America,'' Orama recalled, with a bemused smile. "She always talked about coming to the U.S. It was just a matter of time.''
Fernandes went back to Portugal once, for three months, to work at a bakery her father had opened. But then she returned to New Jersey for good.
Eventually, she found a job behind the counter at Calandra's bakery, where she made conversation with customers in Spanish and French as well as English and Portuguese and bought co-workers birthday and holiday gifts, like a Betty Boop lava lamp for her supervisor.
Fernandes was a dedicated worker, well-liked on the afternoon shift. But in 2010 managers noticed when she began talking about needing more money to help support a new boyfriend's children and took on a second job at a Dunkin' Donuts shop.
Soon, "she was coming in late. She wouldn't show up,'' said Billy Ulkumen, the bakery's manager. Supervisors talked to Fernandes about her lateness. Eventually, she decided to quit, he said.
She had met the boyfriend online. Posting a comment on the Myspace page of an actor, Don Henrie — who played a Vampire character on a short-lived reality TV series "Mad Mad House'' - Fernandes connected with a fellow fan, Richard Culhane.
When Culhane lost his New York construction job a few months later, Fernandes urged him to move to Newark, though they'd never met. She found him an apartment and paid his first month's rent. Eventually they moved in together, with Fernandes picking up the $600 monthly expense, nearly double her previous rent, he said.
Culhane still sounds perplexed by her generosity. She bought a tent and explained that it was for a homeless man she saw near work. When Culhane's mother died, Fernandes bought him and his three sons suits for the funeral. After they broke up last year she continued to stop by with video games for the boys.
"Before she left, she was paying almost all of it,'' Culhane said of the couple's bills. "She was like, 'I'll take care of you,'' he said.
It was not always smooth. Culhane said Fernandes was fond of his boys, but was overwhelmed by the noise they caused. In 2011, the couple's landlord filed eviction papers when Fernandes fell behind, although she was able to work out a restitution plan. A neighbor says the couple fought frequently, sometimes leaving Fernandes in tears.
Culhane's three young sons are from an earlier marriage. He said a state youth protection worker told him that if he wanted custody he needed a bigger apartment. He and Fernandes found a three-bedroom for $1,100 a month and she took on a second job — supplementing pay from the bakery with earnings at a Dunkin' Donuts — to cover bills, he said.
When she quit the bakery, she picked up hours at a second Dunkin' Donuts and then a third. Co-workers said all her jobs paid at or just above the minimum wage — which New Jersey raised by $1 earlier this year to $8.25 an hour.
"I told her over and over, 'Quit one. You're working too much,'' Culhane said. "But she said, 'No, I'm used to it now.'"
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Friends say they never got solid answers from Fernandes about why she worked so much or, given her ability with languages, why she didn't pursue a different job.
Some of Fernandes' expenses reflected choices. Friends recount a number of instances when she gave them cash or handed over a debit card to help pay for food or travel. Along with her Chihuahua and three cats — the latter all named for Greek gods — Fernandes bought food for neighborhood strays.
Last year she bought the 2001 Kia for $1,000, replacing the buses and trains she'd used to commute. Like so much else, she shared it generously.
"I probably put more miles on it than she did,'' said friend and co-worker Armando Gonzalez, who sometimes borrowed the car to visit his family in Connecticut.
But the Kia needed repairs. Last December, Fernandes brought it in to Newark's Go Tire for $700 in work, asking owner Richard Fernandez for time to pay the bill because she needed money to buy Christmas gifts.
"It took a little longer than expected, but I understood so I wasn't trying to push her too much,'' the garage owner said. Two months later, Fernandes walked in with the money to settle the bill and retrieved her car from the mechanic's lot.
And then there was the money she spent to pursue her enthusiasm for all things Michael Jackson.
She was one of eight or nine women — now in their 20s to 40s and scattered through New York and New Jersey — who met and traveled together to celebrate the singer. They dubbed themselves LOTP, after a Jackson 5 tune, "Life of the Party.'' On Facebook, the woman who served frozen coffee Coolatas behind the Dunkin' counter called herself "Maria Jackson Fernandes.''
After Jackson died, members of LOTP traveled to California each June to visit his burial site at Forest Lawn Cemetery and his Neverland estate. Fernandes saved for months to make the trip. Friends who were not part of the group called it an infatuation. But in a video filmed outside Jackson's mausoleum this past June and posted to YouTube, Fernandes talked about how much the singer meant to her.
"You want to break down and cry but you're in public and, you know, this is as close as I'm ever going to get to him, ever,'' she said in the video. "To me, when you say you're not alone, it literally means Michael is always there.''
Fernandes' paychecks made the trips possible. While it's not clear exactly how much she earned, she worked at least 87 hours each week, and some friends say even more. That would equate to totally yearly income of $36,000, assuming two weeks off.
But work also increasingly limited the time she had. For the last couple of years, when LOTP met for a Christmas sleepover at friend Shelly Block's house in New Jersey, Fernandes stayed an hour or two before leaving for work. This past June — the fifth anniversary of Jackson's death — she told the other women she wouldn't be able to make it to California, then surprised them by showing up at the cemetery before vanishing at day's end.
"Honestly, I can tell you this, Michael is what kept her going,'' said Dar `Shay White, one of the members of LOTP. "She told me a lot how she was sad, how she was tired ... But she knew what she was working for _ to get to California, to see Michael.''
Early this year, Fernandes created a profile on a dating website, Gothscene.com. "Clueless,'' she called herself.
Her self-description as an animal lover interested in the supernatural and nostalgic for the 1980s caught the eye of Glen Carter, a 33-year-old Army veteran working at a Pennsylvania company that builds animal rescue vehicles.
"We were on the phone constantly from day one,'' Carter said. "I wasn't expecting, you know, to have any serious relationship with her. It's just I was talking to her and the more I talked, the more we connected.''
As the summer began, they agreed to be a couple. Carter, in the process of a divorce and having trouble making alimony payments, said he encouraged Fernandes to visit and consider moving to Pennsylvania. But the idea was cemented when Fernandes took three days off from work in early August and they met for the first time, taking Carter's daughter to Hersheypark. On their last day together, a manager from one of the doughnut shops called Fernandes to ask her to come in to work, he said.
White said she encouraged Fernandes to move to Pennsylvania, pointing out that there was little keeping her in Newark. But Fernandes was uncertain. If she left, she told her friend, managers at the doughnut shops might be left short-handed.
Back home, Fernandes kept up the schedule, putting off another visit to Carter because she didn't have money for gas. She worked so much that landlady Amelia Resende sometimes went two weeks without seeing Fernandes, who rented a basement room in her house. Five or six times in the past year, Resende said, she came outside to find Fernandes asleep in the driver's seat with the car running, once at 3 a.m.
"This is no good, Maria, no good,'' Resende said she told Fernandes.
"I'm sorry, Amelia. I'm so tired,'' she said Fernandes answered as she helped her out of the car.
Inside, Resende noticed, Fernandes reserved the sofa bed for her cats, spreading blankets for herself on the floor.
Fifteen minutes before sunrise on Monday, Aug. 25, Fernandes finished her overnight shift, punctuating a round-the-clock weekend of work. "I'll see you tomorrow,'' she told a co-worker on the morning shift. Halfway home, she pulled in to the parking lot of a Wawa convenience store. The store's video surveillance camera recorded the time as 6:27 a.m.
"U can call if you like,'' she texted Carter just as he got to work. The couple talked about the day just completed and the one ahead. Fernandes said she was planning to go to the gym before going back to work.
Then Carter hung up to start his own job. Fernandes tilted back the driver's seat, leaving the engine running, the windows up and the doors locked, to catch up on much-needed sleep.
She never woke up.
The Wawa lot is popular with livery drivers, who stop to nap between airport pickups. It wasn't until 3:51 p.m. that a store employee finishing his shift noticed that a woman he'd seen sleeping in a car that morning was still there. Inside the vehicle, police found the gas can that Fernandes kept behind the back seat, tipped over and leaking. Fernandes' death was caused by inhalation of gas vapors and was accidental, the Union County Medical Examiner would determine.
Women from LOTP raised $6,000 to pay for Fernandes' funeral. At the cemetery, less than a mile from the doughnut shop where she worked her final shift, mourners stepped forward to lay roses and sunflowers on her cream-colored casket.
"Wait! Wait! Wait!'' White sobbed, stabbing her heels into the ground as workers lowered the coffin.
Then, slowly, mourners drifted away — Culhane and his sons in the funeral suits Fernandes had bought for them, members of LOTP leaning on one another's shoulders.
Standing beside the grave, Fernandes' co-worker, Armando Gonzalez, glanced down at his watch. There was just enough time, he said, to run home, change from his slacks and tie into his familiar white-and-brown uniform and report for a 3 p.m. shift.
"We've got to keep living, you know?''


It's the 22nd of August and it's the bank holiday weekend I've finished putting my tent up and have blown up my air bed (an have flopped on it in the middle of the field lol). We're pretty much in the same place that we camped in last year which is cool.
The Mow Mow's are putting their tent up over my shoulder and The Gibb and Mrs Gibb have put up their trailer tent.
I am really excited but also kinda tired I didn't sleep great I went to bed at 1:15 and got up about 7:30. I was just too excited.
I need to move my airbed into my tent now.


Coming on to Wassup Zindagi Reviews, It is a good story with some slapstick comedy. It is a complete entertainer for Gujju audiences. In addition, it is a good romantic-comedy movie with funny dialogue, and good performances. The film editing is impressive. It has the capability to hold audiences on their seats with good frame work. The screen plays are amazing. The story line could have slightly. But overall, it is a complete entertainer for this weekend.
We recommend it to all Gujarati audiences. It has the flavor that can be enjoyed sitting at a cinema hall.
Further, knowing the complete story of the film, it revolves around youngsters and a human life. Well, we all humans that are surrounded with emotions and compassion. The film is about the common life, where human beings run behind what they don't have. With time, priorities changes. In fact, despite living a good healthy life. This is the basic nature of a human being running behind things we don't have in our life. Instead of being with our friends and family, people search for happiness all around the world.
So, the story of these four guys revolves around this same situation. They live their life outside the home and run from the problems instead of facing them. Ultimately, they realize that nothing can be more precious than having a family. The film ends up giving a good social message to the audiences.
At last, it gets an overall 4.0-star rating from our side.
This Gujju film is making receiving positive response all around. Furthermore, with good visuals like a big budget movie, it is able to grab audiences attention to theatres on the very first day of release. Made under the direction of Manoj Lalwani, is known as a winner of Filmfare award.
The Indian Television actor Ravish Desai leads the film. As the film has a known face and popular director, it had a good opening at Gujarat box office counters. In addition, 30% occupancy registers in morning and afternoon show on the first day. Below are the other details.
As per the sources, the film brings around a total collection of 8-10 lacs on the first day (Friday) at the box office. Well, the second day estimates to show huge jump due to positive word of mouth. In addition, the weekend could end up with a satisfying profit adding third day (Sunday) collection.
Have a look at Theatrical Trailer of Gujju film.
Finally, talking about the above first look and poster, it clearly indicates that four of these guys are enjoying their life leaving out their family. They are enjoying their life to the fullest having fun on the beaches.


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Volkswagen is a showing off a new pickup-truck concept that could give America the cheap truck it has been waiting for
Benjamin Zhang 15 Apr 2019
Foto: Volkswagen The new Volkswagen Tarok concept.
Volkswagen announced plans on Monday to show off its Tarok pickup-truck concept at the 2019 New York International Auto Show.
The Tarok is designed to allow VW to gauge US consumer interest in an entry-level compact pickup truck.
There are no compact pickups available for sale in the US, with the Ford Ranger, Toyota Tacoma, GM's Colorado/Canyon, and the Nissan Frontier are all considered midsize trucks.
VW's decision to show off the Tarok to US consumers is the latest signal that the German automaker is seriously considering an entry into the US pickup-truck market.
"Although there are no plans to produce the vehicle for the U.S. market, the Tarok concept is being shown to gauge market reaction for a truly versatile and compact entry-level pickup," VW said in a statement.
Read more: 17 hot cars we can't wait to see at the 2019 New York Auto Show.
The US pickup-truck market is booming, with the three best-selling vehicles in the US all full-size trucks. The midsize truck market has also been resurgent with a recently revamped Toyota Tacoma and a newly introduced Ford Ranger.
Foto: sourceVolkswagen
However, there are no compact trucks available for sale in the US, meaning the Tarok could have an entire segment to itself.
This isn't the first time in recent memory that VW has dipped its toes into the US truck market. Last year, the company unveiled a concept for a four-door midsize pickup truck in New York called the Atlas Tanoak.
The Tarok was originally unveiled last year at the Sao Paulo International Motor Show in Brazil. According to VW, a production version of the Tarok is set to go on sale in South America "in the near future."
The compact-pickup concept that will be on display in New York is built on VW's MQB platform that also underpins the Tiguan and Atlas SUVs and the Passat and Jetta sedans.
Power for the Tarok comes from a 147 horsepower 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine shared with the US market Jetta. It's likely a US production Tarok will come with a beefier powerplant.
The 147 horsepower engine sends power to a permanent multimode all-wheel-drive system through a six-speed automatic transmission.
According to VW, the Tarok has 9.6 inches of ground clearance and boasts a maximum payload of 2,271 pounds. The company did not disclose how much it could tow.
The four-door concept is 193.5 inches long with a 47.5-inch-long cargo bed. The bed is extended by 27.4 inches when the tailgate is open.
Inside, the Tarok comes with a relatively standard VW-group interior, complete with the company's Digital Cockpit instrument cluster and a 9.2-inch infotainment screen.
The 2019 New York International Auto Show will be open to the public from April 19 to April 28 at the Javits Center.


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New Delhi: GSTN today conducted a consultation workshop with leading companies developing business software. The workshop was focussed on to create synergy within the software for e-invoicing process, set to be rolled from January 2020. Participants invited from industry bodies included representatives of top business software organisations such as Microsoft , TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Tally, Oracle, Busy and Sap participated in the workshop. GSTN would be conducting a series of such briefing sessions at various key cities across the country.
E-Invoice or Electronic invoice is generated by a large number of businesses today. However, they all use the format as provided by the ERP or billing software they use. Lack of a standard format leads to a scenario where e-invoice generated on one billing software can't be read by another, requiring manual data entry from electronically generated invoice. A standard e-invoicing system will ensure complete inter-operability of e-invoices across the entire GST eco-system and will eliminate the need for manual data entry mitigating chances of errors. The e-invoice standard was drafted in consultation with trade/industry bodies and ICAI and the same has now been approved by the GST Council. The workshop focusses on standardisation of e-invoicing across business software platforms.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Prakash Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, GSTN said, "The session was the next step of what was approved by the GST council as the standard of e-invoicing during its 37th meeting held on 20th Sept 2019. The council also published the schema on its portal. Recognising the abstruse nature of the procedure, the GSTN felt the need to come up with an explanatory document to clear all kinds of confusions."
The GST Council has approved the introduction of E-invoicing in a phased manner for reporting of business to business (B2B) invoices to GST System, starting from 1st January 2020 on a voluntary basis. The machine readability and uniform interpretation is the key objective. This is also important for reporting the details to the GST System as part of Return. Apart from the GST System, adoption, a standard will also ensure that an e-invoice shared by a seller with his buyer or bank or agent or any other player in the whole business ecosystem can be read by machines and obviate and hence eliminate data entry errors.
"No changes are required as far as the businesses are concerned as they will continue to use the same software with the same user interface to generate the e-invoices such as ERP, accounting and billing software, excel based billing system etc. The companies which have developed the ERP or billing software will have to make changes in their software codes to make them conform to the approved standards." Added Mr Prakash Kumar.
Apart from developing synergies with the business software providers, GSTN is also trying to clarify misconceptions and doubts about e-Invoice through other channels. The document uploaded on the web portal is an attempt to explain the concept of e-invoice, how it operates and basics of standards. It also contains FAQs which answer the questions raised by people who responded to the draft e-invoice standard used for public consultation. It is expected that the document will also be useful for the taxpayers, tax consultants and the software companies to adopt the designed standard.
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Water walking a deadly activity for children
On behalf of Alexander Law Group, LLP | Mar 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a consumer alert urging consumers to stop participating in a new type of water-related recreational activity called water walking. Water walking or water walking balls have numerous brand or ride names. The...
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Home News Hospital treats cow and bull attack on same day
Hospital treats cow and bull attack on same day
on: December 12, 2022 In: News
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ALMONTE — A cow and a bull claimed victory in separate attacks on humans last month.
Stittsville farmer and former Ontario Landowners Association president, Tom Black, was shellacked by his 14-year-old cow and ended up in the Almonte hospital with what he thought was a broken leg and sitting next to a guy who thought he broke his leg after being charged by a bull.
Both men shared their stories while waiting to see a doctor. "There was a bit of a giggle in between the pain," Black recalled.
Black was attacked on Nov. 1 after breaking one of his own rules. Always walk near the animals with a something to defend yourself. Black noticed that his 14-year-old Charolais-cross was where he wanted her and began to wave his arms and shoo her into a new yard to load her for slaughter.
After being charged by one of his Charolais-cross cows Tom Black said he ended up in the emergency department comparing notes with a Semex employee who had been roughed up by a 600 lb. Holstein bull-calf.
She decided she wasn't going and from 10-feet away turned on Black and charged him at full speed. She picked him right off the ground and he went flying. "I wish I had a video," Black said. "I'd like to see the trajectory. I whacked my head on the ground. I got up and got on the tractor."
He said the one-inch of well-composted dry crap on the ground was a good shock absorber. As for the cow, she ended up on a truck.
"She's a hot-headed old lady but I got even," Black said, adding that the cow is now hamburger.
The day after the accident, Black's leg was so swollen he couldn't walk. He went to the hospital on Nov. 3 where he met Dave.
Black was sitting in the hospital emergency department when Dave, who works for the Semex Alliance at Kemptville, hobbled in on crutches. He had been leading a 600 lb. Holstein bull-calf by a rope down a hall and suddenly something triggered the bull and it began hammering him into the wall, Black said he was told. "Someone came and rescued him."
Semex Alliance did not respond to questions by press time.
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Q: Android Studio : emulator is already running I am trying to run emulator on my android studio 8.14. When I click run it says it is already running. Any help would be appreciated.

AVD api21 is already running.
If that is not the case, delete the files at /home/sayem/.android/avd/api21.avd/*.lock and try again

A: This working for me :
Invalidate chaches/ restart
Go to
1 - File
2 - Select Invalidate Cahes / Restart

A: This worked for me:
Go to AVD Manager and click on the down-arrow on the right and click Stop. This stops the emulator and you can re-run it.

A: When I was trying to delete multiinstance.lock it says

So, I opened Window's task manager and selected qemu-system-x86_64.exe and press End task

A: Use this for killing all emulator processes.
adb emu kill

A: Go to the down arrow and click on the "Show on Disk" link like attached image. You will get the list of all files, remove the file "hardware-qemu.ini.lock" and start again.
It works for me hope it will work for you too.

A: C:\Users\admin.android\avd\Nexus_5X_API_26.avd follow path and delete  hardware-qemu.ini.lock this folder.
make sure your problem can be  solve  :)

A: Go to (Windows)

C:\Users\directory.android\avd/Nexus_5X_API_26.avd

Or (Ubuntu)

~/.android/avd/name.avd/Nexus_5X_API_26.avd

and delete all files of with .lock extensions.

A: Thanks everyone.
I removed files of given location. but when I refresh the AVD manager, Existing emulator are all gone.
I recreated new emulator. Now it works fine.

A: When you go to the specified location and try to delete those files sometimes you might get an error stating that the file or folder is already open or is used by another application
So the simple Solution is just to go to
Tools > Android > AVD Manager and Stop the AVD that you are trying to run

Then When you try to run the AVD again you might have the problem resolved

A: For me, "delete .lock file" & "stop emulator then start" & "delete emulator then recreate" does't work.
but,delete "C/User/yourName/.android" folder can fix this problem

A:
For MAC Users

Open Terminal, cd to the given path. List all the files using the command ls. You will see two files with .lock extensions or maybe more. Just delete those files.

A: Find and open the pid folder within your *.lock folder. Inside should be a number.
Kill pid:
Windows
taskkill /F /PID pid_number

A: You don't have to completely delete the emulator when this happens. The files to delete should have a ".lock" extension:

You don't need to touch the configuration files.
You can easily find the files location by clicking on the arrow under the Actions tab (in the ADB manager), and selecting "Show on Disk".

A: Just follow the tips from Android Studio ... Delete the file corresponding to your avd and recreate it.
This happens when the virtual device is shut down in an unexpected state.

A: I Also have the same problem but in ubuntu 20.04 and I had to navigate to /home/your_username/.android/avd/Pixel_2_API_28.avd/*.lock   and then delete all file with .lock
Note: you first need to enable show hidden files and I may have used different device (Pixel_2_API_28) from yours but it is applied to any device

A: There are so many answer but i just extending to give answer of this question. What happen is when i follow Android Studio instruction and try to delete that folder Or file but i am not able to delete it, So what am i do is that i open the AVD Manager and click on down arrow which is on right side as you can see in below screenshot and click on stop after click on start and its working fine. There is no need to restart or recreate the AVD.

A: Follow the instructions on the error and go to your
   C:\Users\directory\.android\avd/Nexus_5_API_24.avd/*.lock
 and delete all files with the .lock extension and it should work.

A: I restarted the computer and it worked for me!

A: If "adb kill-server" dont work try killing the adb from System monitor app of ubuntu:
System monitor->processes

All processes will be listed here end adb from here, must be in the top of the list.

A: *

*Open Settings

*Goto developer options

*Click revoke USB debugging authorizations

A: In your Android Studio go to Tools->Android->AVD Manager. It will list your virtual devices. Click the Action column corresponding to your virtual device. It will list many actions. Click on Stop. This will shutdown your android studio. Now start android studio. Your virtual device should work fine.

A: I closed the emulator, clicked the AVD Manager Icon on the menubar then under the emulators actions tab downward arrow I selected "Cold Boot Now" then ran the program normally by pressing SHIFT + F10

A: You can also solve this problem by doing "Invalidate chaches/ restart".

A: EASIEST SOLUTION:

*

*Go to AVD Manager

*Click on down arrow in the Actions column on the right

*Click on Wipe data

You're done :)

A: For Windows: Step By Step Instructions below:

*

*Locate the avd folder: *C:\Users\username\.android\avd*

*Try delete *lock and figure out the process holding the lock

*Ctrl+Shift+Esc to get to TaskManager

*Select Pid and Process name by right clicking on the header

*Get the PID number of the offending application

*on cmd type: taskkill /F /PID /PIDnumber

*Now go back to the avd folder & delete the *lock files. It will work.

*Restart Emulator

A: For Linux this should clear them for all devices in one go if your issue is just .lock files
find $HOME/.android -type f -name '*.lock' -exec rm {} \;

Example with it just echoing out.
❯ find $HOME/.android -type f -name '*.lock' -exec echo rm {} \;
rm /home/mike/.android/build-cache.lock
rm /home/mike/.android/debug.keystore.lock
rm /home/mike/.android/avd/Pixel_6_Pro_API_33.avd/multiinstance.lock
rm /home/mike/.android/avd/Pixel_6_Pro_API_33.avd/hardware-qemu.ini.lock
rm /home/mike/.android/avd/Pixel_6_Pro_API_30.avd/multiinstance.lock
rm /home/mike/.android/avd/Pixel_6_Pro_API_30.avd/hardware-qemu.ini.lock
rm /home/mike/.android/build-cache/3.5.2.lock
~ at 10:16:27
❯

If you did not stop them all first can run this first beforehand.
adb devices | grep emulator | cut -f1 | while read line; do adb -s $line emu kill; done

A: Run this command and try again:
adb kill-server

A: In my case the emulator looked fine but it was hung.
Just killing the emulator and trying again did the trick.

A: Or you can type a command in terminal as
1.killall Finder and then type,
2.defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true it shows hidden .android folder
Open .android folder and delete .android/avd/Nexus_5X_API_26.avd/*.lock file
and now you run emulator it works fine.

A:
C:\Users\.android\avd
  follow the path and open Emulator directory and delete all .lock extension folders.

A: If you have followed all answers, and no success yet. And not able to find that specific lock.
Search all .lock extension files in /avd dir, and remove them. After then start again emultaor. It works for me without restart system.

A: I'm don't know if some one is still having this problem, but, in my case, it's was an issue related to VAGRANT.... more precisely whit Virtual Box.
I just stop the vBox proccess (i'm ussing ubuntu), remove the .lock files related to the emulator inself and that's it... the emulator should by ready to go.

A: I tried solutions above but nothing worked so I deleted the emulator, restart pc and create a new one and it was resolved

A: Check Updates...
Emulator had an update.
After I updated and restarted.. worked fine.

A: for Linux , create an executable script that contains this (depends on package psmisc ,Artix Linux):
#!/bin/bash

#kill x86 + x86_64 emulator instances
killall qemu-system-x86_64 -9
killall qemu-system-i386 -9

# delete all lock-files
for n in `find ~/.android/avd/ -name "*.lock"`; do rm -v $n;done


My organization is currently testing a new version of a vendor's software. The most significant change as far as the database goes is the upgrade from SQL Anywhere 9 (9.0.2.3924) to SQL Anywhere 11 (11.0.1.2538). For the most part, everything works great, but there is an issue I am having trouble diagnosing.
'30000'             SQLCODE=-157, ODBC 3 State="07006"
The error is being thrown by "amount > 0" in SQLA11. Without it, the SUM() works. That predicate only appears to be an issue when using numeric aggregates (SUM, AVG, etc). The database must be applying the WHERE clause to the data first, in either scenario, so I am confused as to why this is happening. The SQLA9 behaviour seems correct, but maybe I'm missing something obvious.
The topic should probably be modified to something more sensible.
SQL Anywhere's query execution engine was completely rewritten for version 10 and this is the reason why you are seeing the difference. SQL does not give you any guarentees on the order in which the predicates are computed. In your example, the executing engine has chosen to evaluate "amount > 0" prior to evaluating "isnumeric(amount) = 1".
I needed to "hide" the amount value in the SUM operator inside the IF clause so that the execution engine did not attempt to (prematurely) evaluate the column as numeric while reading the column from the row.
That explains it, thanks Mark!
expression1 is evaluated only if condition is TRUE. Similarly, expression2 is evaluated only if condition is FALSE.
As such, an IF expression (or an CASE expression) can be used when "short-circuited" evaluation (as in C/C++) is needed.
This works great too, thanks!
I asked something along these lines wrt the order of results. The response I received indicated that the order of things that are equal is decided when the statement is processed, not necessarily by the order you type it.
I would guess that just because the isnumeric is first, it does not remove the rows it excludes from evaluation from the second condition's evaluation. 'Included' is not numeric, so it will return an error for > 0.
I've also seen it stated that storing numbers as text is generally a bad idea, but as you said you can't change the schema.
That's a pretty clever solution. It looks like it works for the examples I tested it with.