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Why did you choose to work at Daniel pearl?

When did you decide you wanted to become a teacher? What sparked up your interest?

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How to conduct an interview

1) research before conducting an interview (Google to find further information)

2) always ask open-ended questions NOT yes or no questions

interviews should be conducted in person when you do you can learn about the persons personality

PRO TIPS

1)never conduct an interview over email, text, or social media

2)interview more than 4 people than you need because not all of the responses will be good

3)record interviews

DURING THE INTERVIEW

1)be kind

2)do not make the interview into an interrogation

3) ask if there is anything else that they would like to add or talk about

4) have at least 5 questions and always be actively listening

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For a Teacher- As a teacher how does this affect you? is it beneficial or do you see it as a disadvantage?

For Mr.Morrison- How does this affect the school as a whole why is it so important to have a large student enrollment number?

Students- Why do you think the district is placing the phone policy what would you alter or change about the policy?

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This article can be classified as both good news. The reason why this can be viewed as a disadvantage and an advantage. The advantage that this change brings is that technology decreases the prices and increases efficiency. The use of technology does not jack up the prices because of the addition of price tags and the labels bought for the items in a store.

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(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

The price tag is going digital.

Walmart is leading the charge into the future of in-store shopping as the the mega-retailer and other chains, including grocery giant Kroger, are replacing paper-and-ink price tags with electronic labels that can be used to quickly raise or lower the price of an item.

Electronic shelf labels are already common in Europe and will become wider spread in the U.S., with Walmart planning to implement the labels in 2,300 stores by 2026. Several Walmarts in California already feature the new technology, a spokesperson said.

It is a transition that's prompted concerns that the technology opens the door to price gouging despite retailers' assurances that the labels won't be used to jack up costs.

With the electronic labels, employees can update prices on products in a few clicks, sparing them the time-consuming task of making printed labels and putting them in place, retailers say. But the increased efficiency has been met with wariness among consumer advocates, including U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.), who worry that the ability to easily change prices paves the way for grocers to take advantage of customers.

"These digital price tags may enable Kroger and other grocery chains to transition to 'dynamic pricing,' in which the price of basic household goods could surge based on the time of day, the weather, or other transitory events," the senators wrote in a letter to Kroger Chief Executive Rodney McMullen.

Dynamic pricing could mean raising the cost of ice cream on a hot day, for example, or quickly raising the cost of water and canned goods before an upcoming storm. Kroger and Walmart said they have no plans to implement dynamic pricing, and added that electronic shelf labels will only be used to help lower costs.

"Kroger's business model is to lower prices over time so that more customers shop with us," a Kroger spokesperson said. "Any test of electronic shelf tags is to lower prices more for customers where it matters most. To suggest otherwise is not true."

A Walmart spokesperson said updates to the electronic tags will be used to reflect lower prices for items on sale or final clearance. Prices will not change throughout the day, she said.

Walmart's low prices are serving the company well as consumers navigate inflation and seek bargains for everyday goods. On Thursday, the company released its earnings report for the second quarter, which exceeded expectations. Comparable-store sales - which include sales online and at stores open for at least 12 months - rose 4.2% in the U.S. That compares with 3.8% in the first quarter and 4% in the fourth quarter last year. The company's stock price rose 6.5% on Thursday to $73.18.

Grocery industry analyst Phil Lempert said the digital tags will help save time and money amid a labor shortage, but they could lead grocery chains down a slippery slope.

"If you can make it electronic you can take a lot of costs out of the system, and that's great," Lempert said. "But once that's installed, and regardless of what any retailer is going to say, it's now easy to change prices."

Santiago Gallino, a professor specializing in retail management at the University of Pennsylvania, said he hasn't seen signs that retailers plan to use electronic shelf labels for surge pricing.

"In my conversation with retailers, it's clear that those who are pushing towards this technology are mainly trying to drive efficiency up in the stores and try to reduce costs," Gallino said. "Grocery retailers operate on very thin margins, so every time they find technology that can help them save in labor, they will do that."

What grocery stores save in labor they may lose in customer trust and loyalty, however, said RetailWire CEO Dominick Miserandino.

"Consumers are exceptionally skeptical," he said. "When most of the consumer reaction to any product seems to be overwhelmingly negative, it's probably a product that one might want to reevaluate quickly."

With years of high inflation having pushed up prices for everyday goods, consumers are especially wary of price gouging, Miserandino said. Fast-food chain Wendy's faced heavy backlash earlier this year over new digital menu boards and the prospect of
dynamic pricing.

Along with the senators' letter, Vice President Kamala Harris underscored the political potency of the issue with word she plans to voice support for a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries in a speech later this week, the New York Times reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Retailers including Walmart and Kroger have rolled out electronic shelf labels that display the cost of a product digitally and can be easily adjusted. Both companies said they will not use the technology to jack up prices.

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The articles regarding LAUSD cellphone ban miss the opinions of parents and their perspectives. I would love to hear those who opposed the cellphone ban speak up about their decision

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1) Kamala Harris

Tim Walz

Donald J. Trump

JD Vance

2) Israeli

3) Hamas

4) Donald Trump

5)Taylor Swift

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1) It will take place September 10

2) Brazil

3) Pennsylvania

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I would consider this good news because this could be a solution to many issues regarding plastic usage and recycling. They were able to discover a method that can efficiently breakdown plastic compounds to be used again.

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Despite the planet's growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient. They constitute a core material of modern medicine by helping to keep equipment sterile, deliver medicines and build prosthetics, among many other things. And they are a critical component of the wiring and hardware that underlies our technology-driven civilization.

The trouble is, when they outlive their usefulness, they become waste and end up polluting our oceans, rivers, soils and bodies.

But new research from a team of chemists at UC Berkeley suggests a glimmer of hope when it comes to the thorny problem of recycling plastics - one that may allow us to have our cake, and potentially take a very small bite, too.

The group has devised a catalytic recycling process that breaks apart the chains of some of the more commonly used plastics - polyethylene and polypropylene - in such a way that the building blocks of those plastics can be used again. In some cases, with more than 90% efficiency.

The catalysts required for the reaction - sodium or tungsten - are readily available and inexpensive, they say, and early tests show the process is likely scalable at industrial levels. It uses no water and has fewer energy requirements than other recycling methods - and is even more efficient than manufacturing new, or so-called virgin, plastics, the researchers say.

"So by making one product or two products in very high yield and at much lower temperatures, we are using some energy, but significantly less energy than any other process that's breaking down polyolefins or taking the petroleum resources and turning them into the monomers for polyolefins in the first place," said John Hartwig, a UC Berkeley chemist who was a co-author of the study published recently in the journal Science.

Polyolefins are a family of thermoplastics that include polyethylene - the material used to make single-use and "reusable" plastic bags - and polypropylene - the ubiquitous plastic that holds our yogurts and forms microwaveable dishes and car bumpers. Polyolefins are produced by combining small chain links, or monomers, of ethylene or propylene, which are typically obtained from oil and natural gas.

Polyethylene and polypropylene account for the majority (57%) of all polymer resins produced, the study authors noted. They have proven a plague to the environment, and in microplastic form have been found in drinking water, beer and every organ in the human body, as well as blood, semen and breast milk.

Hartwig and R.J. Conk, a graduate student who led the research, said they have not yet heard from the plastics, recycling or waste industries. They said they had been keeping their technology under wraps until publishing their paper and obtaining a patent on the process.

A spokeswoman for the Plastics Industry Assn. declined to comment or provide an expert to review the paper.

Hartwig said there are some caveats to the work. For instance, the plastic has to be sorted before the process can be applied. If the products are contaminated with other plastics, such as PVC or polystyrene, the outcome isn't good.

"We don't have a way to bring those [plastics] back to monomer, and they also poison our catalyst," said Hartwig. "So for us, and basically for everybody else, PVC is bad. It's not able to be chemically recycled."

He said other contaminates - food waste, dyes, adhesives, etc. - could also potentially cause problems. However, the researchers are still early in the process.

But plastic bags, such as the ones used to hold produce in supermarkets, offer promise as they are relatively clean and "nobody knows what to do with them." He said plastic bags are problematic for material recovery facilities where they are known to gum up machinery.

"There are places that do collect those bags. I don't know what they do with them. Nobody wants them," he said.

But others are less sanguine.

Neil Tangri, science and policy director at GAIA - an international environmental organization - said that while he was not a chemist or chemical engineer, and therefore couldn't comment on the methods, he noted that there are broader "real world" issues that could prevent such a technology from taking off.

"Plastic recycling is not something we do well ... we only get about 5% or 6% per year. So there's a hunt for new technologies that will do better than that," he said. "My basic warning is that going from small-batch analysis in the lab to functioning at scale with real-world conditions ... it's a huge, huge leap. So it's not like we're going to see this move into commercial production in the next year or two."

He noted that while the reaction temperature cited was lower than that used in pyrolysis - the burning of plastic for fuel - or cracking - when plastics are made from virgin material - it still requires a lot of energy, and therefore potentially creates a fairly sizable carbon footprint. In addition, he said, 608 degrees - the reaction temperature cited - is the temperature "where dioxins like to form. So, that could be a challenge." Dioxins are highly toxic byproducts of some industrial processes.

But, Tangri said, even if you could solve all of those issues - as well as the sorting and contamination issues Hartwig cited - "it is so cheap to make virgin plastic that the collection, the sorting, the cleaning ... they were talking about ... all of those steps, the energy use, you just can't sell your [recycled material] at a price that makes sense to justify all that .... And that's not really the fault of the technical approach. It's the realities of the economics of plastic these days."

It's a point to which Lee Bell, technical and policy advisor for IPEN - a global environmental advocacy group - agrees.

"What appears promising in the lab rarely translates to commercial scale success and high yields from mixed plastic waste," he said. "Not only do they have to deal with the diabolical issue of unavoidable plastic contamination [because chemical additives are in all plastic] but also competing with cheap virgin plastic in the marketplace.

"My view is that this is yet another lab experiment on plastic waste that will ultimately be thwarted by mixed plastic waste contamination and commercial realities," he said.

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Has a UC Berkeley chemistry lab discovered the holy grail of plastic recycling?

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The sun is beaming over California and the weather is high enough to melt an ice cream into liquid. Air conditioners giving out and flat lining meanwhile my hand sways from side to side, like a hula dancer, trying to fan my face. The summer season decided to extend its visit for a couple more weeks this year. All the complaints and groans that can be heard, a cry for help, among the thick hot air that is embracing them every time they go outside

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1) Taylor Swift

2)The father of the shooter will be charged with manslaughter

3)James Earl Jones

4) In Ohio the immigrants are 'eating' cats and dog of the people

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How did 9/11 affect you?

Where were you during 9/11?

What losses did you suffer when tragedy struck America?

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Although I am a yearbook editor, things are getting done slowly and but we need to start to come up with a theme and a design quickly. Personally I have had many of my photos published throughout these past 5 weeks and I take pride in the photos I have been taking. Being able to capture action and memories through the school day has brought me nothing but joy.

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1)Springfield, Ohio

2) He was almost assasinated at his own golf course in Florida.

3) Sean "Diddy" Combs

4)

a) TikTok was probably on the news to follow up on the ban.

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1) Lebennon

2) attempted assassination

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The athletic-based charter school Birmingham Charter High School is out with the old and in with the new. Many athletes, like Deven Scymczak are estatic about

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1) Lebanon

2)Hurricane Helen

3) JD Vance and Walz

4) Jimmy Carter

5) world series

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My Favorite movie is about the movie, 'Whiplash' which is about a rookie and passionate drummer, Andrew Neiman, endures many frustrations in wanting to pursue his dreams of becoming a jazz drummer. Throughout the school year in the Schaffer Conservatory, The pressure causes Neiman to spiral and have a fallout within in the music career he wants to pursue all because Neiman and his Jazz ensemble instructor strive for him to become perfect at his playing.

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1)Milton

2)Helene

3) November 5

4) Donald Trump

5)

6)Columbus Day

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I feel like yearbook editors have made progress in comparison to the first 5 weeks of school. We have been able to discuss many ideas and have brainstormed many ideas which have led us to finalizing our yearbook cover. Personally I'm glad I have been able to work on the quality of my photos I have been able to win 3 photos of the week and started working on my photography skills.

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Sophomores Valarie Sanchez and Linus Bossardt brainstorm song ideas to compile a playlist for constitution day on Sept 17. These students were challenged to find songs that described at least one of the 5 freedoms under the first amendment. "How many songs actually talk about freedom of the press?" Bossardt said skeptical of the assignment they were given.

Sophomores Kaiis Pratt and Haskell Fay play a game of basketball along with other classmates during their PE class. Both students enjoyed playing a game filled with friendly competition. "There was no way I was going to let Kaiis win that easily" Fay said.

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1)antony blinkon

2)Mcdonalds quarter pounder

3)dodgers & yankees

4)fernando valenzuela

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Preparing for Thriller Thursday, Senior Lilli Miscione creates a poster for the Halloween costume contest during her fourth period leadership class. The students will be able to participate and take the time to vote on the best Halloween costume on campus. "Im excited to see the costumes that students come up with" Miscione said.

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1) fire

2) Puerto Rico

3) January 6th

4)change their clocks back an hour

5) Daylight Saving

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Headline: Long After Sunset, the Final Two Runners Cross the Marathon Finish Line

NY Times

After a long school day, Students elongated their stay to watch the movie 'Corpse bride' to say goodbye to October's Halloween spirit.

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1 Elon musk

2 haiti

3 10 commandments

4 Gaza

5 Bitcoin

6 Beyonce

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I'm grateful for all the people who i choose to surround myself with everyday because they are all bundles of joy and make my day 100x better. Without having my friends with me, I don't think i would be able to survive the school day because they all play a big role on making me happy and giving me energy through the day.

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Seniors Giselle Garzon and Keira Van Der Molen get a picture of them behind a cardboard cutout by Senior Jasmine Mcnair, during a field trip to Santa Monica Pier to view a Cirque du soleil's "Kooza" performance. Students got the chance to go see a Cirque du Soleil show to the pier where they had the privlege of witnessing many stunts and tricks by performers.

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I have had a very exciting and fun week, finishing college apps, doing my spreads for late day, and hanging out with my friends throughout the school day and even after school made me very happy. This week is almost finished so im happy!