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By TIMES WIRES
Published February 3, 2007
What happened?
Powerful storms blew through Central Florida early Friday, spawning tornadoes that killed at least 19 people, damaged hundreds of homes, snarled traffic on Interstate 4 and knocked out power to about 40,000 households and businesses. Six people were reported dead in Lady Lake and 13 were reported dead in the Paisley-Lake Mack area as of Friday night. Search teams with dogs were still hunting for victims. Officials did not know how many people might be injured or missing.
How widespread was the damage?
The storms moved across Sumter and Lake counties about 3:15 a.m., then moved east to Volusia County. Emergency officials estimated that 500 homes were damaged or destroyed in Lake County and 100 were damaged in Sumter County. The storms demolished the Lady Lake Church of God, toppled an Orlando radio station's 1,500-foot tower and sank a 90-foot paddle-wheel tour boat, the Lady Beresford.
Why were these storms particularly deadly?
Because it hit before dawn, when most people are asleep. Forecasters issued a tornado watch about midnight and a tornado warning 8 to 15 minutes before the first one touched down, but warnings do little good at that hour. "The most dangerous tornado scenario is a threat for killer tornadoes at night, and that was the case," said Dave Sharp, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Melbourne.
How did the storms cause problems on Interstate 4?
At least five crashes took place within a quarter mile near I-4's New Smyrna Beach exit, closing the highway for about three hours. The wind lifted a semitrailer truck and dropped it on another semi.
Did the storms cause any damage locally?
No, though rain and winds were heavy at times. By 5 p.m. Friday, Tampa had recorded 0.88 inches of rain and St. Petersburg had 1.54 inches. Weather experts said the rain would help with the region's drought. About 2,500 Progress Energy customers in Pinellas County and 300 in Pasco County lost power. Tampa Electric Co. reported storm-related outages to 1,200 customers, most in eastern Hillsborough County. All but a handful had their power back on by Friday afternoon.
Was this the deadliest tornado strike in Florida history?
No, but it's the worst in nearly a decade. In February 1998, five twisters hit near Orlando over two days, killing 42 people and damaging or destroying about 2,600 homes and businesses. A March 1962 tornado killed 17 people near Milton in the Panhandle.
Does Florida have a tornado season, like hurricane season?
Florida has two tornado seasons, summer and spring. The summer, from June until September, has the highest number of tornadoes, but what state emergency officials call the "deadly spring season," which runs from February through April, is characterized by more powerful tornadoes.
Why are spring tornadoes worse?
The jet stream fuels their fury. When the jet stream hits Florida accompanied by a strong cold front and thunderstorms, its high-level winds of 100 to 200 mph can strengthen a thunderstorm into what's called a supercell or mesocyclone. They can move at speeds of 30 to 50 mph and produce dangerous downburst winds, big chunks of hail and the deadliest tornadoes.
What are state officials doing about the disaster?
Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency, then toured some of the damaged areas with Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, Attorney General Bill McCollum and Sen. Bill Nelson. The Florida National Guard is on stand-by. State Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Secretary Charles Bronson is asking anyone seeing price gouging to report it.
Compiled from reports from Times wires and staff writers Craig Pittman, Steve Huettel, Jennifer Liberto and Elena Lesley.
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American Red Cross of Volusia and Flagler counties: 341 White St., Daytona Beach, FL 32114, (386)-226-1400, or (407) 894-4141 or toll-free 1-866-245-9180
Red Cross of Lake, Sumter and Marion counties: 1211 W Main St., Leesburg, FL 34748, (352) 314-0883
Red Cross of Marion County: P.O. Box 807, Ocala, FL 34478, (352) 622-3457
Salvation Army: P.O. Box 564, DeLand, FL 32721. For donations and volunteers in Volusia County, call (386) 236-2020
State toll-free hotline for assistance: 1-800-354-3571
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More than half of teachers now have fewer than 10 years of experience. Led by this new generation, the "teacher voice movement" is Taking Back Teaching, writes Richard Lee Colvin, former director of Education Sector, in Education Next.
Several new groups work to amplify the voices of top classroom teachers as they weigh in on controversial policy issues, as with the evaluations in Los Angeles. The Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellows, the New Millennium Initiative, and the Viva Project, a digital platform for crowdsourcing teachers' ideas, all fall into this category.
The aim of another set of programs is to keep successful teachers in the profession by giving them opportunities to assume leadership roles, as with Teach Plus and its T3 project. A fellowship program launched in 2008 by Leading Educators, which began in New Orleans and is now expanding to Kansas City and Detroit, for example, provides a select group of teachers with training in education issues, management, leadership, and problem solving.
A third front in the so-called "teacher voice" movement pushes local unions to become more democratic. . . . NewTLA in Los Angeles, operates as a caucus within the union there.
Regardless of the approach, all of the groups unabashedly acknowledge that some teachers are more effective than others and that even the best teachers want to keep improving their practice. Rather than seeing themselves as adversaries to either unions or school districts, teachers who get involved in these groups tend to think of themselves as problem solvers. As a result, many district, state, and national education policymakers view them as more authentic classroom voices than union activists.
Teachers' unions often see the advocacy groups as a threat, Colvin writes. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten called Educatiors 4 Excellence, which influenced New York's policy on appeals of low performance ratings, "a wedge against the union."
E4E members (were called) "anti-union scum" and "union-busting plants" in online forums. One comment on a GothamSchools blog post complained that "in the past all young teachers paid their dues, and didn't complain about being low man on the totem pole" in the union. (Co-founder Sydney) Morris said E4E is not anti-union. "We're trying to strengthen the union in the long run by having it become more representative of its members," Morris said.
Critics say the new groups represent the foundations that provide their funding, not grassroots teachers.
Funders include the Ford Foundation, the Joyce, Stuart, Arnold and Hewlett foundations and Mayor Mike's Bloomberg Philanthropies, writes Colvin. "The largest source of funding is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which currently has $13.5 million invested in nine teacher-advocacy groups, including $975,000 over two years going to E4E. But the foundation has also given $4 million to the AFT and $500,000 to the NEA to fund similar projects."


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John Mahany has been flying for more than 30 years. He is a CFI and has corporate, airline, and charter experience, and also spent four and one-half years flying in Alaska. He currently is a King Air instructor at FlightSafety International in Long Beach, Calif.—Ed.
Nearly every pilot aspires to move up, or upgrade to bigger, faster airplanes at some point. After all, isn't that one of the main reasons why we fly? To get there faster, and carry more payload, right?
Upgrading to "bigger and faster" is relative. It depends on what you are flying now, and what you have in mind. If you are a new private pilot who has been flying a Cessna 150/152 or similar for primary training, you might simply want to move up to a 172 or Piper Warrior/Archer to carry more passengers and bags, as well as the ability to go farther, faster.
On the other hand, you might already be an aircraft owner and are using your airplane for business or personal transportation; it may be time for you to step up to a bigger airplane. It all depends on your mission. This could mean stepping up to turbocharging, multiengine, or even a turboprop or entry level jet (very light jet, aka VLJ). Simply stated, the bigger the step, the more there is. What kind of flying do you need to do? What are your requirements for speed, range, and payload? That will define what you need to consider.
Moving up from a typical two-place trainer to a Cessna 172 or Piper Warrior/Archer is a relatively simple process. There are no endorsements required. You would need to pick up the airplane flight manual (AFM), or information manual, as it might also be called, and spend time reviewing it.
Read it cover to cover. It's not exciting, but it includes important information about the airplane and its systems. And then schedule time with an instructor, on the ground, first to review the systems and performance as appropriate. Work out a sample weight and balance for a typical flight, as well as for your favorite destination. How much fuel can you take with all the seats filled? You may find that you can't fill the seats with full fuel, especially on a hot summer day. How much more runway will it take for takeoff and landing on a summer day with a high density altitude? Every airplane has its limits. Every summer some pilots seem to forget this and have a density altitude related crash on takeoff.
Keep in mind that the performance numbers as given in the POH/AFM are optimistic, generated by the marketing department, designed to sell airplanes. They do not accurately reflect the likely performance of an older, high-time piston engine and the average pilot whose skills are not at the top of his game. They are numbers that a test pilot would get in a new airplane with a new engine. So, conservatively, add at least 10 percent or more to the performance numbers to be more realistic.
Then, with your CFI, go fly for at least an hour and get a feel for it, going through maneuvers, takeoffs, and landings. Especially, work through stalls and slow flight. See how it feels and handles on the back side of the power curve. How does it handle on the stall break? Is it gentle or abrupt? Find out at a safe altitude (at least 3,000 feet agl) with an experienced CFI. You don't want surprises in the traffic pattern.
Check with your aircraft insurance broker early in the process to find out what training your insurance will require, based on your experience (flight time), before you can fly this airplane. This is important. The FAA stipulates under FAR 61 which certificates and ratings are required to fly a given airplane as the pilot in command. But the insurance company will tell you what you will need before it will insure you to fly this airplane as PIC.
Why? The insurance company writes the checks following an accident or incident. For example, if you are a low-time pilot who wants to step up to a high-performance single (Bonanza or Cirrus) or light twin-engine airplane, insurance may require, after you have completed the formal training, that an experienced mentor pilot or CFI fly or ride with you for 10 to 50 hours or more before "approving" you to fly your airplane alone.
More airplane usually means more engine(s), more horsepower, and more fuel. Translation: more money to operate on an hourly basis. Depending on how high you step up, this will determine the level of training required. I should point out that there are separate endorsements for complex (FAR 61.31 (e)); high-performance, (more than 200 HP) (FAR 61.31 (f)), and high altitude, above FL 250 (FAR 61.31(g)).
If you are moving up to a turbocharged aircraft, you will likely need the high-performance endorsement. You will need to learn how the turbocharging system operates, along with the power settings and operational techniques for that particular engine. When a piston engine is turbocharged, some of the exhaust gases are redirected to a "turbocharger." In simple terms, a turbocharger consists of an exhaust turbine and an intake compressor (impeller). Hot exhaust gases drive the exhaust turbine, which drives the intake compressor at the same very high rpm. Thus, the density of the intake air and manifold pressure are increased, allowing the engine to deliver more power than it could without a turbocharger.
If you are considering stepping up to multiengine flying, welcome to the world of twin engine operations. Multiengine training typically takes between 10 and 20 hours, depending on your proficiency and where you train. You will be limited to VFR flying unless you also include instrument flying as part of your training and checkride.
Please also understand that a typical light twin has two engines because it needs both engines. If an engine fails, especially on takeoff, you will lose 85 percent of the performance! Unless you are proficient in multiengine, engine-out procedures, the loss of the second engine will only take you to the scene of the accident. Regular, ongoing proficiency training is a must in any light twin. Your insurance will require this.
Upgrading to bigger, faster airplanes is something that nearly every pilot will experience at some point. Find a competent instructor with experience in make and model, and take it a step at a time. Spend the necessary time to become properly acquainted with it, especially learning about any quirks. This will also depend on your experience and what else you have flown. You will be a better, safer pilot for it. We will all benefit from that!—John Mahany
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Posen to have broadcast classes
POSEN – Starting in the fall, Posen Consolidated Schools will offer a school broadcast program, thanks to an agreement with Michigan Interscholastic Connection.
Board members approved adding the program after seeing a production by the company's general manager, Sparky Nitchman. Along with basic information about how the program works, he showed them a few examples of student productions. Fifteen schools in northern Michigan have signed up, including neighbors Rogers City Area Schools and Onaway Area Community Schools.
Ultimately, board members agreed they believed it was a good chance for Posen students to learn the basics in a growing career field.
"It's a great opportunity for kids to have something different than what there traditionally has been," Superintendent John Palmer said. Technology "is really up and growing, programming and stuff of that nature. And kids, I've talked to several of them about it and they're really excited about it."
For the first year, Nitchman will help the district get into the program by providing a high-definition camera, tripod, laptop and editing software, he said. After that, the district would pay a monthly membership fee. Students are taught how to film, edit and upload videos to the Michigan High School Athletics Association's website.
Board members agreed to spend no more than $1,500 to get the class started. Nitchman said the district's newly purchased laptops could fill in for the one he would provide, possibly dropping that cost to $1,000.
Although Nitchman works with this sports-focused organization to distribute student-made videos, the production possibilities are myriad, he said. He showed an example where Rogers City elementary students demonstrated positive behavior in and around the school for a series of videos. Students typically come up with lots of ideas for videos when put to the task.
"We're putting together projects that really showcase the school, and reach the community by putting the school in a different light," he said. "This essentially takes the roof off the school."
Although Posen will be a new participant to the program, its athletes are already online, Nitchman said. Other districts, like St. Ignace and Oscoda, filmed their teams playing against Posen teams.
Nitchman's company makes money by selling advertising space on a school's MSHAA video website, he said, demonstrating a few examples. He later added that local businesses can buy ads on his website, sponsor its newsletter or pay to have their logo appear on the company banner. Districts have some say as to what kind of advertising will be accepted. Once he's recooped his investment in a school program, he'll build it up using ad revenue, then split it 50-50 with the district.
In response to a query from an audience member, Nitchman said advertising can cost anywhere from $50 to $100 per month.
Hannah Pontius, Posen's industrial arts teacher, will teach the new class, and Nitchman said he was glad to hear her enthusiasm about it.
In other business:
board members approved a business manager contract with Alletta Misiak and a superintendent secretary contract with Lucia Bruski. Both will continue their roles in those positions.
board members agreed to hire Matthew Bedard as a bus driver, to contract with Joshua Nakoneczny as bus mechanic and to use The Engine Shop south of Rogers City to handle any engine problems with the district's bus fleet. Sherry Romel also will join the district as assistant cook.
with less than a month remaining before school starts, the district has 244 students enrolled, up from the end of last school year, Palmer said. A number of those are foreign exchange students.
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Mrs. Flinger: A work in progress
UPDATE TO Mrs. Flinger October 16, 2015
Because the Universe has a wicked sense of humor, after this delcaration, my blog threw up all over my last upgrade.
So I'm starting over using Craft. Turning 40 and kid entering Jr High next year, sometimes it's just time for a change. These archives will still exist in the way the last child goes off to college and their room is the same for 20 years, but it's just time to move forward.
In which I write loud letters from the bathroom and think future things, not cyborgs Sep 10, 2014
I can't tell you how many times I hear the Lost in Translation quote in my head. It doesn't sound like the movie, it sounds like a dear friend of mine from my First Real Job at Portland Public Schools; "But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk… and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life."
Jenna told me this when her own baby was only a few years old. I remember so vividly because I hadn't had children yet, but the idea stuck with a tar-like dignity that warms in the sun on certain occasions.
Tonight was such an occasion.
The nine year old girl had asked for some time to take a bath; a legitimate luxury given the schedule most days. Tonight was a fine night to do so, so we answered with a "Of course!" like any parent who can finally grant their child's ridiculously small wishes.
About thirty minutes later I sing-sang up to her that it is time to get out and hello, was it me she was looking for?
Then I started writing her pretend letters verbally, when I didn't find her again.
"Dear Lolo, I'm in the bathroom where you just were. I hope you are ok. Love, Mommy."
No response.
"Dear, Lolo, I am almost done cleaning up the bathroom where you just were. I hope you are in your room but have not heard anything. Love, Mommy."
Silence. Maybe some nose laughter.
I continue with my nightly OCD, "Dear Lolo, I'm done with the bathroom and I'm concerned I have not heard from you. I might even clean the toilet. Love, Mommy."
She appears in the doorway, filling it more than I remember her tiny self doing so, and laughs. She was, apparently, plugging her nose so she wouldn't laugh so loudly that I could hear her. She thought my letters to her were hilarious. I am glad because I was nearing the brink of sanity. Or at least, the end of my todo list in the bathroom.
We continue on like this for thirty minutes or so while the boys play some rolling-ball game in the living room. I echo a letter to her, she replies back to me in kind. We "verbally write" each other various letters. At one point she forgets to sigh her "letter" and I "write back" with, "Dear Lolo, you know, it's polite to sign one's letters with love, so and so." She replies, "Dear Mommy, sorry, I forgot. Love, Lolo."
We giggle as we compile these letters to each other in the air.
I am astonished at how big, how human, how.. grown up she is.
I can barely contain tears when I hug her at last laughing, "We make great pen-pals!" She laughs, not seeing my wet eyes, "Yup! We're very good at yelling."
I can not believe how this baby, toddler, preschooler, challenging every step of the way, this person, turned in to, well, a person. She is all that I would ever want in a nearly-tween and more. She is a most loving kid, subject to moodiness and hanger, (hungry anger) and wisdom and ridiculousness. She is kind hearted and smart and witty. She loves her brother with ferocity. And yet, she keeps a sense of herself amidst the structure of life; this free spirit that I've always known since the minute she produced herself to the world. She is, and forever shall be, her own self. And by god I love that kid. That human. That person. With a tenacious ferocity of its own. Letter writing could never convey the magnificence of it all. But I still think she understood, and even wrote me back.
Dear Lolo,
I love you biggest of all the loves in the world.
Love, Mommy.
On Coaching: Can Corporate America work like a Team Sport? Aug 02, 2014
I'm used to being yelled at. "Point! Point your toes!"
"Drop now!"
"You're overextended, bring it back, good, good, POP! MORE! Nice!"
These are words I heard coming from the side of four apparatuses growing up. I can still, to this day, call muscle memory from years and hours in the gym. I can answer, almost turrets like, questions about gymnastics.
"What is the olympic order of events from 1- 4?"
"Who was the silver medal winner in 1985"
"The Romanain with the curly bangs! Ecaterina Szabo!" This one I know because I got my BANGS PERMED to look like her. While million of little girls where trying to be Mary Lou Retton with her gold medal, flashy smile and short bob hair, I was aiming for second place and wishing to be the girl NOT from the USA team.
(This reminds me to bring this up with my therapist this next week.)
As I work on a spec outlining Front-End Best Practices, I hear coaches yelling these old pieces of advice. Not figuratively, LITERALLY, I can hear them yelling "Point your toes!" "DROP NOW!" I'm working in the gym as my daughter attends her first gymnastics lesson.
I've been careful not to push gymnastics on her too hard or too early. I was mindful not to put my own passion on the little girl I had. I remember Mr. Flinger asking me if I'd want our daughter, if we had one, to do gymnastics. He was surpised when I answered honestly, on our honeymoon, I'd never push her in to the sport. In fact, I admitted, I'd be fine if she never did it.
Sitting here in the gym for the first time in twenty-three years, I'm nostalgic. I can still do one-arm cartwheels, handstands, some other easy gymnastics basics. Years after quitting competitive gymnastics, my body knows HOW to do a double-back or a full twisting vault; I just can't physically DO it anymore.
I'm confronted with mortality of youth.
I watch the girls do backhandsprings on beam. "I can do that!" My brain yells at my legs. "COMON!" But my body; achy and older and heavy and tired, sighs, too exhausted to muster any mocking comeback.
So I continue to write my spec and notice in the background as each girl receives input for improvement. I can't help but equate my work to this teamwork. Spending nearly two decades in sports, trains a person take and give helpful critique. Somewhere in my adult life, though, critique became harsh and competitive. Someone forgot to tell the corporate world we were a team*. I'm sure it's not just the corporate world, I know this because several of the women from work today spoke of a variety of industries and experience where competition ruled motivation.
To quote Jillian Michaels, "Now that I'm forty, I just want to collaborate. I'm done competing."
As I near forty, this theme presents itself more often. Listening to the coaches, I think how valuable input can be. I trained hours, days, years with the knowledge my practice, and guidance, would help me improve.
How do I convey this to the adult world? How do we get back to team sports as adults -in our jobs? Is it possible to succeed without crushing each other to make a point about how much better than someone else we are?
I'll just sort of let that question hang out there and leave you with this:
*Views Mine, not my employers or anyone else's.
**Points of clarity: I'm not talking about a specific team here, but a general attitude of the reward system of the American Dream. It's more a discussion point to start than an accusation. At this point in my career, I've worked on a London team, Germany team, multiple types and sizes of business teams, and higher education. The idea that we can rise above our neighbor is "one of the great things about 'Merica." HOW we do that, is a question I'm asking. Gymnastics is an individual sport but we still celebrate and lift up our teammates. I get there's more at stake here; people's livelihoods and actual security, not just a happy feeling and a medal. But still, I wonder if there's a way to achieve something as a person that is greater with a team than I could do alone.
Let's call this middle age and all agree home-girl is thinking out loud….
The Universe is One Persistent Mofo Jul 12, 2014
Over a year ago, I started talking to someone about ADHD. I joined a group of other women and we talked about what it was like living with distraction, children, jobs, husbands, and the constant 32 TV monitors playing different channels in our heads.
One of the themes that started cropping up was the idea of mindfulness. Mindfulness, or the awareness of your thoughts and living in the present tense, has been shown to decrease ADHD symptoms. Meditation, it's practical companion, has been shown to help cancer and diabetes, fix marriages, and save the planet from impending astroids.*
The last one is a theory but I'm sure someone is researching that right now. Maybe.
It's been a year and a half now that the theme mindfulness has been cropping up. At first it was my women's group, then it appeared in books I was reading. (Granted, with titles like Mindfulness and the Brain and You Are Not Your Brain, I knew what I was getting in to) but lately it's picked up the pace of obviousness and is a bit more "in your face" if the Universe is like that, which it is.
Sometimes when you don't stop to listen, The Universe will start yelling.
Apparently the article in the Costco Connection this month was my last straw.
FINE FINE I GET IT NOW. I should probably start a mindfulness practice? And go back to Yoga?
Fine FIne Fine. Ok.
So today I went back to Yoga for the first time in nearly a year. A year of fighting the idea of stillness and breathing. A year of forgetting bout my core strength and my arms. A year of very few warrior stances or downward dogs. A year of being disconnected.
Luckily, my very favorite Yoga teacher started a new class down the street that has the best of both power and mindfulness. After some guided meditation, we started Vinyassa Flow. I started to remember I had muscles in my body somewhere. My arms burned and my belly got in the way during Karnapidasana, but the realization slowly sank in that regardless of how long I might ignore my own reality, it's never too far to get to a Yoga mat in the middle of a room filled with other people working on grounding themselves, too.
I hope you'll join me in this new series of Mindfulness Posts as I begin the journey to whatever it is that is Today. I'm ready to listen. Sometimes by sharing what I hear, the lesson sticks in my stubborn brain just a little bit more. And perhaps, maybe, I can help someone else who is not too far from their own message, whatever that might be.
*ADHD and Mindfulness
Alleviate stress and depression
Help cancer
Fix marriages
I thought I was more Sandra Bullock, but really I'm more Emmet Jul 11, 2014
I used to joke that when I wrote my famous novel about my life (because it's that interesting?) I would have Sandra Bullock play me in my movie. "I can see that!" friends I bribe with booze would say.
Lately the reality is setting in that I will a) never finish a book in a timely fashion and b) have zero original thought.
See, The Internet is awesome. It lets people express themselves. It allows us to connect on a global scale. It also takes all my brilliant ideas and squishes them because SOMEONE ELSE ALREADY SAID THAT.
I went to graduate school which means I understand I have no thoughts of my own and have to research everything to back up any claims I might make. Basically I paid a lot of money for someone to tell me I don't know anything.
I've taken this concept in to my professional life. I know what I know, I know there's a lot more to learn, and I know I have to use data to back up anything I might spout off if I want to be taken seriously. This means I spend a lot of time researching articles and reading ideas that have come before my own.
When I'm asked to submit an article to something awesome like HTML5Hub, I obsess over what I'm saying and ensure I'm not stepping on toes of ideas similar to mine.
This also means I have serious writer's blockage.
Stuart Firestein, in his awesome Ted Talk "The Pursuit of Ignorance," talks about this phenomenon. The more you know about a subject, the less you know about anything. It means that the more you go in your career or education, the more questions you have and the less likely you are to be confident that you know anything at all.
So at the end of all of this, my brain really feels more like an empty cavern without any original thought at all. The reality is I'm not Sandra Bullock, I'm Emmet.
In soft whispered voices Jun 30, 2014
Sitting on the edge of the bed of my seven year old he whispers to me, "I'm writing a book about a Koala and a bear. You know that bear that made us have a lockdown at school? Well, that baby bear and the koala have a story and I'm writing it. You would identify with the Koala, Mommy. It's a traveling Koala."
"Oh, I'd like that story, Bud."
"Yea, maybe you stay for a minute and rub my back?"
"Ok, I can stay another minute and rub your back."
"Wait, you can't leave yet. I'm not asleep. Maybe you go downstairs and do five minutes of work and then you come back and check on me? Then you can do the laundry. But five minutes of work, ok?"
"Ok, Bud. Five minutes and I'll check on you."
You won't be awake when we go in again. You won't see us peering over your sleeping face and smile softly to ourselves. You won't see us kiss your cheek or whisper "I love you" in your ear. But what you will do, which still amazes me, is somehow whisper, "I love you, too," in your sleepy stupor.
Some of my favorite memories are happening this moment.
There's Gold in Them Hills Jun 28, 2014
Two of my best girlfriends and I take an annual Moms/Kids camping trip. We started this at a "close-ish" park in 2009 with a toddler and a few pre-schoolers. We stuck close in case shit hit the fan and we had to call home for emergency needs like running another set of matches out because these ones don't work. You know, big things.
Of all the years we've been doing this now, there are a few stories that stand out more than all the others. Sure, there is the annual whip-cream shot after waffles in the morning. And yes, there's usually a craft and some roasting of things. There's some bike riding (and bike smashing that one year I backed up over my daughter's bike) and scootering. Kids learned how to bike while another learned to walk. But of all these stories the few we pass down each year go something like this:
"The Year of Raccoons"
The year we all slept in tents was an epic achievement. It was the first trip and I was daring this adventure with a newly turned two year old toddler. As would become the "norm", Michelle and Laura arrived first and had their shit together. I, probably after a wrong turn, arrived late and sweating.
We set up camp and successfully fed children and wore them out effectively. After kids were asleep in each of the three tents, Michelle and Laura's kids each in the smaller one near the edge of the camp and my two kids in Our Giant Red Tent Of Mansion. We sat in our pride sipping our beer when suddenly they came out of the woods; a thousand eyes. I kid you not, A THOUSAND EYES were glowing at us from the edge of the wood, not ten feet away.
We did the only natural thing any mom would at that point; squeal and jump on the table and call our husbands. The husbands did not find it necessary to save us from, what they assessed, were raccoons. Instead they sighed heavily and HUNG UP leaving us out in the woods with our raccoon perfect baby-meals and our gnaw worthy toes. I'm pretty sure one of us might have even said, "The Dingo is going to eat our babies!"
We had a very bright idea at this point, brighter than the sets of eyes closing in on us slowly. We grabbed the two older children and we placed everyone in the Giant Red Tent of Mansion. We crawled in next to the children to protect them, should a raccoon grow an opposable thumb and work the zipper, and waited until we fell asleep to the sound of tiny paws scampering by us to easier targets.
The children didn't even bat an eye when they woke up that we'd all slept in the same tent. The evidence of the night before was kept to a small bit of trash strewn about and the blood-shot eyes of three tired moms.
We decided that from then on, we'd never visit that camping site again. And we kept to that for exactly two years. But, once we did go back, we swore to stay in cabins only. "Because raccoons still can't unlock doors."
Not yet, anyway.
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"The Kids Gone Wild" year.
We still laugh when we picture Trev stripping to his intense whip cream buzz. You know what? A picture is worth a thousand words so let me keep this short. A video will explain it so much better than I can.
"The year I smashed Lauren's Bike"
This is a short story because that? Pretty much sums it up. "Mom, stop reminding me of my bike. It makes me sad," she used to say.
Now she says her new bike is too girlie. "Want me to back over it for you, hon?" She grins.
"The Year of The Weird Women Doing This :: GRIN ::"
It started drizzling. Then it started poring. The kids were neatly tucked in four beds, some sharing screens because let's face it; we're modern ladies and sometimes screens are OK. Like 10pm on a camping trip when moms want to not deal.
Trevor comes down to tell us of a Weird Lady he saw on the wall in our cabin. "She was doing this!" He scrunches his face in a weird grin and shuts his eyes. "You mean you could see that in the knots on the wall?" He looks perplexed. "Well, ya. On the wall." "Oh, no, did you tell the other kids? They'll be scared." "Er, yes… Um.. Ya."
We talk about what to do. Do we pre-empt a nightmare? Do we ignore it? They'll probably just go to sleep and not stare at the weird lady in the knots, right?
Fifteen Minutes Later Laura comes down from the cabin with something in her hand and she's laughing.
"This is the lady on the wall" she says breathlessly. She is wheezing from laughter. I look at the paper.
Dear god it's terrifying.
WHY was this on the wall? In our cabin?! We all dive in fits of laughter, us girls heaving and crying and laughing until we can't stand it. The whole imagery of the children sitting on their bunk watching the Lego Movie and noticing.. This.
Only to have your mom say something like, "Well, there are things on the walls. Don't read in to it."
"No, Mom, there is an actual picture of a weird lady doing THIS."
Reality is sometimes so much funnier than perception. Especially with these ladies.
I can't wait for next year. Or every adventure and tradition in between. We have so many now, it's hard to count. But the traditions of our friendship, the photos of the kids at various stages, keeps me grounded. Time really is slipping away, ever so slowly at first, and faster every stage. If not for the yearly traditions that staple me to the experiences of our friendship, I'd float away in daily chores and work and laundry. I'm so thankful for these families that remind me to live and breathe and laugh-
To laugh until I can't breathe and then finding a breathe again, sucking in the sweetest air of all life provides. "There's Gold in Them Hills." Thank you for the reminder, ladies. I hope to repay the gift.
Photos from the past five years. Oh, yes I did.
Reflections on A Talk, A conference, A week Jun 25, 2014
It wasn't what they were expecting. I called it the Oatmeal Raisin Cookie talk. I baked in a discussion about gender equality within the title "Creative Development." I think someone in the second row rolled their eyes.
It was probably the 8th or 9th time I've been on stage. It's always so hard to begin the speech you've been feverishly obsessing over. The last nine months, since Low asked if I'd speak, were filled of notebooks and research and outlines and more outlines. I was a proper freak stopping a TED talk or an audiobook to jot down a point I wanted to expand on or integrate in my talk. I spent more than a few meetings scribbling notes to myself in Evernote, only partially related to the meeting topic but relevant to a future conversation I would have with myself first, and an audience second.
After a few hiccups and akward moments, it began to flow. Stats, Stories, Ideas. Youtube excerpts. Comics. Scientists. I knew all the content, I just wanted to nail the delivery.
Perhaps I didn't "nail" it, exactly. It felt more like a piece of art hung on the wall with a sticky hook, but it was well received. I was so wrapped up in my own nerves that it wasn't until the fourth or fifth man that approached me for advice when I realized something shifted: They were asking about their girlfriends, wives, daughters, employees. They wanted to support their female companions, they just didn't know how.
At that moment I realized how at home I was in this community. This space, I've written about before, those "like brothers who buy you beer," were sincerely supportive. My mind relaxed in a puddle of gratitude. We expanded on ideas, I let them know all that I've read, or experienced, or heard. 100% of women developers needed a mentor to push them in the field. Was it necessary to be a women mentor? No. Could it be her father, brother, husband? Yes. We just wanted support and here they were: the fathers, brothers, husbands, asking "What can I do?"
In two words, "encourage her."
In many more words there we debates and discussion and ideas for more ideas. We talked long, long in to the night at the canal side at the favourite bar. We stood in the cold until our lips shivered and then we moved to the warmth of the shelter, where we watched the World Cup Football match a few days previously. It was there we finally called it a night, warm from booze and light and happiness and friendship. Men hugged an extra beat just to prove that it was possible and the ladies cussed an extra beat just to prove we were all alike.
I walked to my hotel room smiling stupidly. These days are always so high on the list of the Best Days of My Life. I bust in to a Green Day song once alone in my room. It doesn't really matter which one. I tied a ribbon to this night, to this week, and wrapped it in my tree of bests to hold on to when the waves of frustrations, deadlines, reality, insecurity, and distance wash me over again. For one week, for one day, for one night, I felt like I was making a difference beyond my own little world. Inside jokes, geeky code humor, and tearful laughter included.
In short, I fell in love with all the people, all the discussions, all the experience, all the things.
All the things.
For girls
Made With Code
…. adding on more soon…..
"You had to be there":
Holland Vs AU
Holland Winning in Holland
IT Crowd (After the clip I played)
Silicon Valley
Bossy Pants
All the things
Damien Rice
Alecia Keys
Women in Technology: A talk and proposed solution Jun 19, 2014
Today I am giving a talk about women in technology. This is something I've been preparing for since I first learnt Basic at age 13 on a Commodore 64. I've had several amazing men encourage me in this field and even in the age of feminism and women's rights, there is still a lot of speculation and discussion around women equality in technical and scientific fields.
As one of only two women in my Graduate program at Western Oregon where I studied computer science, the idea that more women weren't in the undergrad or graduate program boggled me. At the same time, however, I struggled with things like Java and building Server Sockets until I would vision jamming a knife under my large toenail as more enjoyable.
My Professor at one point noted, "You can get 100% of the logic on the quiz but you don't know your ass from a whole in the ground when it comes to the syntax."
I preferred to study PHP, which seemed to make more sense to me than Java. I pursued Python and Ruby and HTML/CSS instead of the huge, monolithic class structure of Java. Networking, routers, the IP stack; these are all things I found intuitive and interesting whereas the standard course for most computer science majors was the single hardest program for me to learn.
I figured I was not alone in this. I submitted a dissertation proposal in the winter of 2004, which was accepted at Oregon State University, and excitedly planned the research for my doctoral degree on women retention rates of undergraduates in the computer science departments and the correlation of programming languages taught.
This is a classic joke of mine that PhD was never finished because, being a quintessential woman in tech, I gave birth to my first child and never went back to school.
In the past decade, the topic has been given more press. Just two weeks ago Google announced its diversity numbers. A number of questions are popping up, "Where are the women?" "What can we do?" "Maybe women don't want to be in technology? Has anyone considered this?"
Today I stand up in front of 56 people, 5 of them women, and give my own story, those stories of other women developers I've talked to, and share my solution.
Special thanks to my Dad for teaching me Basic on a Commodore 64 in 1987. To my husband for funding my first tech certificate in 1999 and for supporting my efforts in grad school and keeping sharp objects away from me when I had to code Java. To Low for the opportunity to speak in a tiny town in Holland that includes some of my favorite memories ever.
Resources to my talk
Stereotype Threat:
Dr. Amen Studies:
Lord of the Flies
The Creative Process:
Impostor Syndrom:
J. M. George, "Personality, Affect, and Behavior in Groups," Journal of Applied Psychology75 (1990): 107–16; Blase E. Masini, Socialization and Selection Processes of Adolescent Peer Groups (Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest Information & Learning, 1998).
Women in CS:
The Pursuit of Ignorance:
Fey, Tina (2011-04-05). Bossypants. Little, Brown and Company.
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The thing about the past? Jun 08, 2014
Today will end up being that day you look back fondly on and think, "Remember that?"
At seven years old, you're incredibly intelligent. I'd go so far as to say presidential even. Jun 05, 2014
#Life#Things Kids Say#Those Little People
Dear Buddy,
Tonight you blew our minds with your ability to spell an entire birthday card for your teacher and read your Dinosaur book without needing much help. You practically outdid most of my previous freshman college students with your math test and ability to speak adverbs properly. So yea, we're sort of expecting great things from you.
We chose a book called "The Human Body" to read tonight. To be honest, you couldn't decide between that, the airplane book and another dinosaur book but Mama can't take another book about the big ass lizards, and was way too tired to feign interest over airplanes, so Human Body it was!
We flipped through some of the pages and landed on the pregnancy page. You started asking questions about the babies in the pictures. While I read you absorbed everything and formed ideas.
"At five weeks a fetus is the size of a bean, and heart, lungs, and organs are developing. The baby gets its nutrients from the mother through the umbilical chord."
You interrupt with some facts: "So, basically, that baby is the size of a bean? Well, that tube there keeps it from getting lost so it won't run away."
"No, Bud, that's how the baby gets its nutrition. That's how its attached to the mom so it can grow."
"Well, yea, but it's really small and if it got lost, you'd never find it. Plus, did you know a baby Koala is like this big…." You hold up your fingers showing me the size a baby Koala is. It looks astonishingly the same size as a bean. "Yea, they can scream. Don't even touch a baby Koala because they screech a higher pitch than Lauren."
You rolled your eyes with an, "I dare you because I'll totally say 'I told you so.'"
"Wow, Bud, you know a lot of interesting facts!"
"Yea, well, basically I just remember everything I hear. Did you know your jaw bone is called a Patella?"
Your eyes got droopy, and your fingers instinctively rush to rub away the sleepy tears. "Hu, are you sure?" I asked as I covered you with the blanket. You were sure, very sure. In fact, you were so sure, it was either your mouth or the side of your skull that you laid your head down on the pillow to prove a point.
And promptly fell asleep.
I'll tell you about your kneecap tomorrow. Tonight, rest that Patella on the pillow and dream of tiny animals.
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Prenatal exposure to second hand smoke and adverse perinatal outcomes
- Department of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
- Correspondence to Kristin B Ashford
Department of Nursing, #417 CON Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40514, USA; khashf0{at}uky.edu
Implications for practice and research
■ Consistent and valid prenatal screening methods are necessary to document accurate exposure rates to second hand smoke (SHS).
■ Preconceptual parental education regarding the effects of prenatal exposure to SHS could contribute to a reduction in adverse perinatal outcomes.
■ Future research should consider using biochemical markers to determine exposure.
The science is clear that maternal tobacco use during pregnancy has adverse effects on acute and long-term perinatal outcomes. However, evidence regarding outcomes of prenatal SHS exposure is …


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It is almost that time of year again. Most of you have joined us in the past for our yearly softball fund raiser. Hopefully you all will join us once again this year.
When: Saturday March 18th
Where: American Legion hall in Willowick(across from Frank's Billiards)
Time: Noon until ?????????????????
Cost: $20 per ticket
What you get: unlimited beer, pizza, wings, and sub sandwiches.
The purchase of the ticket will also get you entered into our hourly drawings.
Prizes will include CASH( 2 $25 giveaways $250 GRAND PRIZE)
and other great stuff. Winner doesnt need to be present..
We also will be holding our 1st ever Beer Pong tournament which will be awesome.(Buy-in seperate)
I hope all of you plan on making it.
Let me know as soon as you can so I can get you your tickets.
Thanks for all of you have purchased a ticket already.


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Topic: restful route for blog
i'm trying to stay restful, and so far it's been ok.
however, i want to achive the following and i'm not sure what the restful way is.
i have some blogs, for which there is a blog controller.
the index action retrieves an array of blogs and displays the summaries with links to the specific entries. clicking on a specific entry calls the show method against the blog id.
/blogs => index action showing summary
/blogs/1 => show action showing specific blog entry
now, i want to add archives which categorise by date
/blogs/archives/2007/03 => shows summary of blog posts for march 2007
what's the restful and resources way of doing this?


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On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, members of the Einstein community gathered in Riklis Auditorium, for a special screening of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Mondays at Racine, and a Q&A with the film's director, Cynthia Wade. The film chronicles the journey of two patrons of the Long Island salon Racine as they cope with the emotional side effects of their cancer therapy. The event was co-sponsored by the D. Samuel Gottesman Library, WellMed and HealthYU.
"Your hair is part of your identity…you feel like you are being erased," said Linda Hart, during a discussion of hair loss at Racine. The salon is run by two sisters— Cynthia Sansone and Rachel DelMolfetto—who, after bearing witness to their own mother's struggle with chemotherapy, decided to open their doors the third Monday of each month, free of charge to women undergoing breast cancer treatment. Along with fellow cancer patient Cambria Russell, Ms. Hart finds solace in the salon's safe and supportive environment.
Ms. Wade explained, "My job is to be able to tell as honest and true of a story as possible and that means sometimes going into an uncomfortable place with people." This included overcoming her own fear and discomfort when Ms. Russell offered to reveal her post-op scars.
Recalling that moment, she said, "If I am a woman making a film about this subject, and I am afraid to see her scars, I need to address that. This is the new normal for a lot of women and it isn't something we should be blinding our eyes from."
As the film begins, Ms. Russell is coming to terms with the need to shave off what remains of her already thinning hair. The trauma this loss causes her is clearly visible, as tears stream throughout the haircut while Ms. DelMolfetto holds her hand.
The grief Ms. Russell feels over losing a physical part of her self is nothing new for Ms. Hart, who has been living with cancer for 17 years and has lost both breasts, in addition to her hair. In the context of the supportive group environment offered by the salon, the two women are able to openly discuss their hopes and insecurities.
The film also explores the toll that cancer and its treatment can take on patients' families and intimate relationships. Throughout, Racine serves as a beacon, offering the women an opportunity to rediscover their beauty as well as an outlet for discussing their experiences. After a day of salon services Linda noted, "I feel like me again."
Following the screening, Ms. Wade—whose 2008 film Freeheld received the Academy Award for best documentary short—entertained questions pertaining to the film's subject and its impact. Of particular interest to medical students in attendance was the ethics involved in documenting patient treatment, including highly personal interactions with family members and physicians. Audience members also were interested to know how decisions are made when tackling difficult issues, such as Ms. Russell's decision to undergo a double mastectomy.
When asked how making the film has shaped her personally, Ms. Wade said, "Above all, it reinforced the notion that life is not guaranteed. It's so fleeting. It's so precious."
Remembering Dr. Olga Blumenfeld
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Sex Trafficking: A Global Issue
Friday, November 04, 2016
Funding to Tackle Children's Blood Cancers, One Fish at a Time
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Faculty Poster Sessions Illustrate Breadth of Research at Einstein
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Appreciation Day Brings Together Einstein Community
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Einstein Welcomes Dana Lee, Senior Counsel for Medical School Affairs
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Remembering Dr. Bertrand Bell, Mentor to Countless Students and Residents
Monday, October 10, 2016
Einstein's Nilda Soto Has Leadership Role with N.Y. State Minority Health Council
Friday, September 23, 2016
Dr. Safyer Announces Key Leadership Appointments at Montefiore
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Exploring Multiple Career Opportunities
Tuesday, August 30, 2016


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Late for the eleventh letter. Small problem, given that you and the big brother have been diligently falling ill. I need to do something about you two. Perhaps a drastic change in diet and nutrition? Or maybe I should send out a mannat into the big, bad universe promising to give up ice-cream if you two show some semblance of staying well for ten days at a stretch? What, what, I ask, little girl, what?
Alright, so the troublesome facts out of the way, let's focus on the good things. The boy was always fascinated by the dining table, spending hours pondering over the problems of the world under its wooden canopy. These days he likes to lead you under his small desk and looks like bumped heads are a small, small price to pay for getting to be in such a marvellous, luxuriant little nook. Sometimes I think I will never understand kids. Specially my own. Sometimes I also wish I could get to spend five minutes under a table of my own before the world came crashing down.
The battle with food continues. I wish you were less of a gourmand, who likes to turn up her little button nose at everything that the kitchen has to offer. Uff, this soup, take it away, I cannot bear to look at it. You expect me, ME, to eat this kheer, you incompetent blot on the face of chefs the world over? Ha, ha, nice joke, thinking I will partake of this fruit because here's the thing, see, I will not.
I did say we were going to talk about pleasant things. Just a minute while I tackle one last thing. What is with the sleep, huh? How can you stay awake between 5 and 6:44 am because 6:45 is when the alarm goes off for the other kid. I can almost hear you murmuring in your sleep.
Must. Not. Sleep.
Must. Stay. Awake.
Up. Till. 6:44. Oho, that's the alarm. Finally. I shall now snooze while bhaiyya takes over, zzzzzzzz.
At least I have seen all of this and then some more before so yes, you are fighting with an experienced hand, punter.
The good stuff is also aplenty. For one thing, the two of you can and do spend a lot of time playing with each other. And since Adi is most proprietary about you, proclaiming to the neighbours the other day that Raagu is his daughter and always, always referring to you as my baby, going as far as looking most worried and saying, I have to teach my baby so many things but she just doesn't listen to me, what do I do, what do I do, complete with much hand-wringing, I am hopefully looking forward to the year when both of you will keep each other entertained by discussing your parents' many flaws and said parents will take off for a nice little vacation somewhere. Hope springs eternal and just keeps springing.
I tried dragging you to watch Rio yesterday but thanks to the phlegmy, eww, chest and what-not, you and I had to beat a hasty retreat, leaving the world of cinema to the old and venerable four year olds amongst us. He told me later that he had rather imagined Rio to be about cars. Rather unfair, given that the poster had a gigantic blue bird spread over it. Oh well.
Right then, on to the messy world of advice, little one.
- Everyone comes across a lovely bathroom every once in a while where there are small, individually packed mini-soaps in a silver dish, perfume bottles, flowers in delicate vases, a case of lovely make-up and folded, fragrant hand-towels. You will feel a slight sense of adventure, a rise of the inner criminal. You want to do something that is not altogether right, something that needs to be carefully executed. One word of advice. Resist. (She will find out.)
- Spare a second look for old houses. They say so little but hide so much.
- It's perfectly alright to ask the waiter to pronounce the dish for you. Even if you are dining at the French Laundry. Consider it part of the bill.
- There is no point in stating a problem again and again. Either come up with a solution or keep silent while you figure out a solution.
- If you have to start a sentence with 'I don't want to say I told you so but...', stop right there.
- Ditto, 'I don't want to hurt your feelings but....'
- Don't laugh at people who cry while reading 'Love you forever'. I have my reasons for this one. Ask me sometime.
- Have ambition. Plenty of it. How else will you change the world?
- All of us run the risk of ending up as characters in someone's book. That's just the way it is.
- It is alright to treat astrology and palmistry and janam-patris as guilty pleasures. Just don't take them too seriously.
- The ocean is a pretty good show. Watch it alone for maximum enjoyment.
- A fight will intensify in direct proportion to the frequency of the words 'always' and 'never'.


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NSIDC's sea ice concentration data are used by scientists and students, journalists and advisers. The range of possible uses for the data is as varied as the data users themselves. The biggest hurdle encountered by many users is simply learning how to initially read and display the data. Here are some tips on how to get started.
The "Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data" are distributed in gridded binary format. NSIDC provides IDL routines to ingest and read the data. These tools can be found at the Polar Stereographic Tools Web page.
However, if you are unfamiliar with IDL, there are other options that you can use. First of all, you may be interested in downloading the data via the Polaris search and order interface. This Web tool allows you to download the data in GeoTIFF or NetCDF formats. It also allows you to make spatial and temporal constraints on the data as well as change the output projection.
If you are interested in importing the data to ArcGIS, you can either use the GeoTIFF files downloaded from Polaris (see above), or you can perform a few steps to import the native binary files. In order to do this, you will need to rename the files, create a header file for the data, and use ArcToolbox to transform the files to a different format. Instructions detailing how to do this can be found in this Online Support article.


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25 years of love for the Web
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Two main questions confront the student of Darwin's historic visit: Where did Darwin go, and exactly how did his visit affect his scientific thinking? Answering the first turns out to be easier than one might think, thanks to a rich repository of documentary sources. The British Navy had a penchant for keeping detailed records, and the Beagle's voyage is described in three ship's logs, Captain FitzRoy's personal narrative, a series of excellent maps made by the Beagle's officers, and various watercolors and sketches by crew members. We are also able to draw on Darwin's own extensive record of his dozen or so field trips, which encompasses more than 100 pages of unpublished notes and more than 80 pages of published material.
For five years the Beagle's logs recorded, often on an hourly basis, where the ship was and what it was doing. Two days after the first sighting of land in the Galápagos, on September 15, 1835, the Beagle anchored in Stephens Bay on Chatham Island, now known as San Cristóbal. (All the islands were given Spanish as well as English names by their early visitors, who included Spaniards seeking Inca gold and silver in Peru, and British buccaneers intent on stealing these riches from the Spanish.) From this anchorage, the Beagle officers recorded a bearing of N10ºE to Kicker Rock, an impressive 470-foot islet about four miles off the shore, and a bearing of N45ºE to Finger Hill, a 516-foot tuff crater. When drawn on a map, the place at which these two bearings cross indicates the Beagle's point of anchorage. Using other bearings in the Beagle's logs, together with Darwin's remarks in his diary and scientific notes, it is possible to reconstruct virtually all of Darwin's landing sites and inland treks during his five-week visit. These include many regions that are either in remote or potentially dangerous locations and hence off limits to tourists.
As the Beagle sailed from east to west through the archipelago, Darwin visited four of the larger islands, where he landed at nine different sites. On San Cristóbal, Darwin was particularly drawn to a heavily "Craterized district" on the rugged, northeastern coast. "The entire surface of this part of the island," Darwin reported, "seems to have been permeated, like a sieve, by the subterranean vapours: here and there the lava, whilst soft, has been blown into great bubbles; and on other parts, the tops of caverns similarly formed have fallen in, leaving circular pits with steep sides. From the regular form of the many craters, they gave to the country an artificial appearance, which vividly reminded me of those parts of Staffordshire, where the great iron-foundries are most numerous."
As Darwin explored San Cristóbal, he encountered many birds and animals new to him. He marveled at the remarkable tameness of the birds, pushing a curious hawk off a branch with the barrel of his gun, and trying to catch small birds with his hands or in his cap. He also noted the striking dominance of reptiles within these islands, which made the archipelago seem like a journey back in time. On the shoreline were swarms of "hideous-looking" marine iguanas—the world's only oceangoing lizards. On land, the Beagle crew encountered large land iguanas, closely allied to their marine cousin; a couple of smaller lizards; a snake; and giant land tortoises, after which the islands are named. (The old Spanish word galápago means saddle, which the shape of the tortoise's carapace resembles.)
In the midst of a partly vegetated lava field on San Cristóbal, Darwin came upon two enormous tortoises, each weighing more than 200 pounds. One, he noted, "was eating a piece of cactus, and as I approached it, it stared at me and slowly stalked away; the other gave a deep hiss, and drew in its head. These huge reptiles, surrounded by the black lava, the leafless shrubs, and large cacti, seemed to my fancy like some antediluvian animals." Altogether these giant reptiles contributed dramatically, Darwin thought, to the "strange Cyclopean scene."
Floreana was the next of the four islands Darwin visited. The first settlement in the Galápagos had been established there just three years before, populated by convicts from Ecuador; it collapsed a few years later, after some malcontented prisoners took up arms against the local governor. On Floreana, Darwin remarked in his private diary, "I industriously collected all the animals, plants, insects, & reptiles from this Island"—adding, "It will be very interesting to find from future comparison to what district or 'centre of creation' the organized beings of this archipelago must be attached." Still thinking like a creationist, Darwin was seeking to understand the islands' strange inhabitants within the ruling biological paradigm.
After a brief stop at Tagus Cove, on Isabela, the Beagle headed for Santiago. Darwin, three crew members and his servant, Syms Covington, were left for nine days to collect specimens while the Beagle returned to San Cristóbal to obtain fresh water. Guided by a settler from Floreana who had been sent to hunt tortoises, Darwin ascended to the highlands twice to collect specimens in the humid zone. There he was able to study, in considerable detail, the habits of the tortoise.
These lumbering behemoths, he found, came from all over the island to drink water at several small springs near the summit. Hordes of the giants could be seen coming and going, with necks outstretched, burying their heads in the water, "quite regardless of any spectator," to relieve their thirst. Darwin counted the number of times that the tortoises swallowed in a minute (about ten), determined their average speed (six yards a minute), and studied their diet and mating habits. While in the highlands Darwin and his companions dined exclusively on tortoise meat. He commented that it was very tasty when roasted in the shell or made into soup.
When he was not collecting specimens, Darwin devoted time to trying to understand the islands' geological features, especially the prominent tuff cones near his campsite at Buccaneer Cove. He was the first geologist to appreciate that such sandstone-like structures, which rise to a height of more than 1,000 feet, owe their peculiar features to submarine eruptions of lava and mud; they mix at high temperatures with seawater, producing tiny particles that shoot into the air and rain down on the land to form huge cinder cones.


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Thursday, May 2, 2013
U.S. Navy's First Unmanned Aircraft Squadron
The U.S. Navy on Thursday launched its first squadron to feature manned and unmanned aircraft at the Naval Air Station North Island on Coronado, near San Diego.
(Fire Scout MQ-8B. Photo, courtesy of NAVAIR.)
The squadron has been dubbed the "Magicians" and will feature an undetermined number of Fire Scout MQ-8 B, Northrop Grumman's unmanned helicopter designed to provide situational awareness and precision targeting support. The "Magicians" is the navy's first composite squadron, and also features the MH-60R, Sikorsky's manned anti-submarine helicopter.
Northrop Grumman's role in the squadron has not yet been determined, though the company does expect continue its current program of support to the deployed detachments of MQ-8B aircraft.
The new squadron is scheduled to be fully operational on the Navy's new littoral combat ship by next year.
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Petition from the National Business Men's League
The United States acquired the Philippines as a result of the 1899 peace treaty with Spain ending the Spanish-American War. Favoring free trade, this American business group opposed Filipino independence.
National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate Used with the permission of the U.S. Senate