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The Baltimore City Health Department issued the first Code Blue of the season on Tuesday amid concern that the raw temperatures could trigger hypothermia cases throughout the area.
The city declares a Code Blue whenever the temperature dips below 23 degrees for an extended period of time. Officials said they expect the Code Blue to last through the weekend, during which time anyone without a warm place to go can take shelter at one of 14 emergency centers, most of which are private facilities that are extending their hours to accommodate the need.
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A hot meal and a warm bed are never taken for granted at the American Rescue Workers Ministries. The shelter, along with 13 others in the city, is extending its hours to give the homeless a place to weather the cold snap. The Rev. Anthony Bell has 55 beds there, but he said he won't turn away overflow guests because he knows how brutal it is to sleep on an ice-cold sidewalk.
"It's not just being cold physically, but you feel cold mentally. A lot of times you don't have a family or you're too ashamed to go to them, so it's cold in every respect. It's almost suicidal. I consider myself a strong man, and I was thinking about it many times," Bell told 11 News.
City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said the current temperatures are dangerous to anyone who has to spend more than 30 minutes at a time outside. Her main concern is hypothermia for the homeless or elderly.
Barbot said dehydration speeds up the process.
"The colder outside it is and the more exposed your skin is, you lose more heat than your body can produce. So, the more heat you lose, your body starts slowing down, and one of the things that's most affected is your brain," she said.
Barbot said prolonged shivering or numbness in the fingers and toes is a warning that a person is suffering from exposure.
Bell recalled experiencing it when he lived on the street. He credited the shelter with saving his life.
"I'd be dead now -- dead or in jail. No question," he said.
Those who can't afford to heat their homes should call 311 for energy assistance, Barbot said. Her main fear is that people may start fires by using space heaters, candles or the oven to warm up their homes, and that can lead to potential fires.
To find out more details about community shelters in the area, click on the link above.
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In this lesson, after brainstorming a list of local issues, students select and research an issue that concerns them, using Internet and print sources. Next, students review the concepts of purpose and audience. They then argue a position on their selected issue in letters to two different audiences, addressing their own purpose and considering the needs of the audience in each letter. Students work with peer groups as they use an online tool to draft and revise their letters. Finally, letters are published using the online, interactive Letter Generator, and then sent to their intended readers.
- Persuasion Map: Use this online tool to map out and print your persuasive argument. Included are spaces to map out your thesis, three reasons, and supporting details.
- Letter Generator: This online tool allows students to read about the parts of a letter. They can then write and print their own friendly or business letter.
In 1998, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) undertook a study of 200 writing classrooms in grades four and eight for the purpose of looking at writing in a natural setting. One of their findings indicated the importance of an authentic audience, suggesting that "the better assignments asked students to write to an authentic audience in a genuine act of communication." The study found that "when the audience is not real and the communication not authentic, the writing is often weak." Similarly, Kixmiller writes: "Authentic writing assignments can have this power. They can help students make sense of their world while advocating for change." This lesson plan focuses on authentic audience by asking students to write letters to specific readers on local issues that concern them.
Further Reading
Peterson, Art. "NAEP/NWP Study Shows Link between Assignments, Better Student Writing." The Voice 6.2 (Mar.-Apr. 2001). 24 February 2008. Web. http://www.writingproject.org/cs/nwpp/lpt/nwpr/112
Kixmiller, Lori. A. S. "Standards without Sacrifice: The Case for Authentic Writing." English Journal 94.1 (September 2004): 29-33.
Hallman, Heidi L. "Authentic, Dialogic Writing: The Case of a Letter to the Editor." English Journal 98.5 (May 2009): 43-47.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 51 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
haus Jacobus is a home for the elderly and affords assisted accommodation. its very well known in the region an is a christian coined house.
elderly people and their familys
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NFL Wild Card: RG3's Day to Shine?
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This self-titled third album from Portico Quartet sees a slight change in personnel but a strong continuation and development of the group's hybrid, beguiling instrumental compositions. An act that have semi-confounded critics since their debut album in 2008 and the resultant Mercury Music Prize nomination, the 'they are/n't jazz' discussion seems to finally have been put to bed. The answer is: they aren't.
From the opening sirens and sounds of 'Window Seat', the Quartet reaffirm that they are experimentalists intent on holding a sense of melody throughout their forms. If a combination of melody and experimentalism is 'jazz' then throw away the dictionary.
Centring the quartet's compositions upon the still present hang instrument (a steel drum shaped orb-like in a classic UFO interpretation), recent recruit Keir Vine takes over from Nick Mulvey as chief hang-ist whilst also adding keyboards. This sees the band addressing a wider range of sounds and doing so with a pleasing confidence. It's still underpinned by continuations, a great appreciation of snapping back beats and Jack Wyllie's saxophone. Wyllie's playing continues to veer majestically between the rage and bluster of a deteriorating John Coltrane and a lounge-style that should soundtrack an aromatherapy documentary. This time, however, the compositions come from a more distant, colder, planet than on previous releases. The tail end of 'Ruins' followed by 'Spinner' demonstrates this perfectly, it's anger pacified and the shore-ebbing style of 'Spinner' could be used to assist counselors the world over.
Portico Quartet is a superb release, each track roaming freely. Across six minutes, 'City Of Glass' builds a churning mid-tempo post-rock minuet, before spinning into refrains so cold and graceful it's the closest you'll get to hearing alchemy; music changing into something that feels tactile. It's truly great, filled with big drops and the slow, soft descents of an Angelo Badalamenti crescendo.
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Snack fundraisers and candy fundraisers provide an exceptional variety of yummy goodies that appeal to all of your customers. Snack and candy fundraising is a smart way to provide a treat for everyone. With salty and sweet snacks, this fundraising case is a hot seller! The School Store fundraiser is great for any school, office lunch room, or youth group.
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No one at my school was using Old Fashion Candy and my yearbook club wanted to do something that no one else was doing. Our first fundraiser sold out within a week and everyone was asking where and how we got this new product. I told them about the catalog I received in the mail and how easy it was to use. Now, it seems like most of the clubs on campus are using OFC.
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When I started with this company, I wasn't sure if I was able to raise money by just selling candy, so I gave it a try with the JROTC. Within the first week the whole order was gone. We made enough money to purchase additional boxes and again it happened. We sold those boxes of candy for more profit.
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|Bear in the Big Blue House
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When Bear plays hide-and-seek with Tutter and Ojo, Ojo puts an abrupt end to the game when she calls for the two of them. It turns out that she's discovered something interesting -- some sort of old stones or bricks. Bear says that it looks like the remains of an old house and so Tutter and Ojo decide once again to be detectives and figure out what the deal with it is. Bear takes them to the library where they find a picture of the house as it once was in a book titled Houses of Woodland Valley. Otto and Etta recognize the name of the home's owner -- Hephaestus as being the name of Jeremiah's great-grandfather. So Bear, Ojo and Tutter head to the General Store, where Jeremiah has a quite a story for them.
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Miroslav Penkov
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Miroslav Penkov hit American shores in 2001 (he was 21) from his native Bulgaria, and he hasn't stopped writing (or winning prizes for his wild, homesick short stories) ever since. Comrades, girlfriends, bagpipe makers, Turks, Greeks, Slavs, grandparents, miners, ghosts and photos — Penkov's teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take chapters to convey — the immigrant's disorientation, the homesickness for things like bread, the strange humor of the displaced family.
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Richard Mabey
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Some of our favorite naturalists hail from England — fine gardeners, wild-eyed birders, itinerant collectors, gleaners and foragers — no hedgerow left unexplored! Richard Mabey is the latest generation of celebrity naturalists in England — with his TV and radio series, and newspaper and magazine columns he has inspired viewers and readers to get out, poke around, and find food in unexpected places. In "Weeds" Mabey takes on the true vagabonds of the plant world, the "botanical thugs," the world's least-loved plants (superweeds like kudzu, knotgrass, burdock and many others) that have re-vegetated battlefields, war zones and abandoned urban wastelands all around the ungrateful world. Mabey prowls through the archives to find weeds as familiars, lurking in our "folk memory," locked in a symbiotic relationship with humans. Like Michael Pollan in "The Botany of Desire," Mabey shows that it is not at all clear here who is in charge, who has the moral high ground and who will survive long after the last weed has been pulled from the last over-tended suburban acre.
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Michael Holroyd has earned the right to move great literary figures across the landscape of his imagination. Set in and around the Villa Cimbrone in the medieval village of Ravello on the Italian coast, "A Book of Secrets" combines memoir and biography to reveal a glimmer of the lives of people who lived and visited Cimbrone: D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, the Prince of Wales, Auguste Rodin, Vita Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, and Eve Fairfax (muse and model of Rodin). Holroyd chases these ghosts around the grounds of the palazzo like a character in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Every so often he veers into the present, his own illustrious life — a visit to Gore Vidal or a memory of his own visits to Cimbrone, "a castle reached, as in a fairy story, by two steep and wandering paths leading from the square at Ravello and finally opening on a dream garden that overlooked the Mediterranean far below."
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China's 'Super Girl' Navigates Her Own 'Idol' Fame
Following the powerful May 12 earthquake in southwest China, Chinese pop stars have been performing to raise money for the victims. Among them is a young woman from Chengdu who became China's first overnight pop idol.
Three years ago, Li Yuchun — who uses the English name Chris Lee — won a singing contest called Super Girl. She is still finding her way, and her voice, in China's pop music industry.
It all began with the show, a sort of Chinese version of American Idol, which its sponsors formally named Mongolian Cow Yogurt Super Girl Contest. In July 2005, some 400 million Chinese TV viewers tuned in to watch Lee, with her androgynous looks and spiky hairdo. Fans picked Lee, who was then 21, over thousands of other contestants, voting her the winner of the contest by cell phone text messages.
During a recent visit to Lee at her record company in Beijing, the pop star gets her makeup done before a concert. It's just hours after the earthquake. Lee says she reached her parents by phone in Chengdu — which is located near the quake's epicenter — and that they are OK.
She then talks about her fame. Her instant stardom caught her off guard, she says.
"I didn't go into it with a clear head. I just thought I was participating in a singing contest. Each part of the contest followed in quick succession, so there was no time to think about it," she says. "Finally, I realized a lot had changed. But I couldn't go back to my original life. It was all sort of dizzying."
Some parents and propaganda officials did not appreciate Super Girl's slightly rebellious tone, and perhaps even its democratic selection process. In 2006, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television set tough but vague rules for similar shows, banning what it called "weirdness, vulgarity or low taste."
Lee's look now is more conservative. On her latest album, Youth of China, she wears a Chinese-style shirt, and her hair points down, not up.
She characterizes this change as "an experiment" and her "blessing for the Beijing Olympics."
Lee has been a stylistic chameleon, dabbling in styles from Latin to rock to R&B. Last year, she recorded a Brit-pop-style tune called "Green," to support the environmental group Greenpeace.
In one song on Youth of China, Lee runs down the hall and into a classroom. "Present," she tells the teacher. "Late again," he scolds, "and you flunked your test. Go stand outside." The class laughs.
The song is called "Poor Student." Lee says it's about being an ordinary kid who dreams of standing out.
She recalls her own first year of college. "I entered the music conservatory, but because I'd never studied music before, I lagged far behind my classmates. I wanted to get good. But I felt very helpless, and I didn't know what to do or whom to talk to," she says.
Another song is called "I'm Your XX." She explains that when interviewers ask her what her fans think her image is, or why they like her, she doesn't know how to respond.
"I'm different to each of my fans. They like me for different reasons. 'I'm Your XX' just allows my fans to fill in the blanks for themselves," she says.
Lee's search for a musical persona is her way of expressing her individuality. She sees this search as a trademark of her generation, which was born in the 1980s, she says.
"We're a generation of only children. Most of us have no brothers or sisters. So our individuality is very evident. We have lots of confidence, but also a lot of uneasiness," she says. "The confidence is because we're independent, extroverted and self-centered. I can't put my finger on what the uneasiness comes from, but I often feel it."
Whatever Chinese may think of her, Lee is now a household name in China. The Super Girl phenomenon is essentially over, and she has to build her musical skills to advance her career. Right now, she says, she is learning to play the drums.


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Gay Talese, reporting in Denver for New Yorker, digs into 1977 death
My fifteen minutes with best-selling author Gay Talese, during his recent reporting trip to Denver, turned into a wild adventure that centered on a woman who allegedly died in 1977 in a motel on Colfax Avenue, included a local character with a monologue on serial killers in Denver, and ended in a race against the clock to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for a spirited show-down at the security desk.
The pioneer of the New Journalism is in fine form. At 81, he's much the same as when he was a star reporter at the New York Times in the early '60s: fit, feisty, and dapper, wearing his trademark hat and vest. He'd been stationed for a few days in Aurora at the Embassy Suites, doing leg work for a New Yorker article, and he had Gerald Foos of Brighton driving him to appointments. Foos, apparently, is the subject of the story.
He'd first met Foos back in 1980 when in Colorado reporting for his book "Thy Neighbor's Wife," which had shocked Americans with its detailed expose of the sexual-revolution subculture. Talese had stayed for about five days at the Manor House Motel in Aurora — then owned by Foos — just wandered around talking to anyone and everyone.
"I happened to fall into conversation with someone who cleaned the rooms," he told me. "She told me about the body of this woman she'd discovered. She'd heard confrontations between her and the man who was staying in the same room."
Thirty years later, dreaming up story ideas for The New Yorker, that incident sprang to mind. He's now deep into digging for information on that dead woman. By the time I met with him, he'd already "struck out" with the coroners of Adams County and Arapahoe County, and Aurora police chief Dan Oates. No one had records of that death.
He'd also called the Denver Post to ask for an archive check on any stories about a woman found dead at a motel in Aurora in 1977. Nothing there either.
By 3:30 Friday afternoon, sitting in the Denver Post library, he realized he had about an hour to ferret out information before government offices closed for the week, and he'd be on a plane back to New York. Plotting his next move, he stood near a table where I was sitting with Denver Post reporter Sadie Gurman, along with Foos and his wife, Anita. Suddenly, he noticed that Foos was handing out something.
"What are you doing?" he said. "You are giving out your card?"
"No, I'm giving out your card," said Foos.
"What? How do you have my cards?"
"I don't know. They were lying there on the table.
"I was trying to keep them."
"Here, Gay, I got one left," joked Foos, handing him a card.
"Come on, Gerald!"
Talese was already annoyed, thanks to a fruitless phone call with Mark Salley, the media relations director at CDPHE, who handled the vital records section. He'd tried everything with Salley, and gotten nowhere.
"All we're trying to do is determine that on a certain date – November 10, 1977 – a woman died at a certain address that I have," he told Salley. "We don't want names, next of kin. I don't want anything but confirmation that your department has records to confirm that a woman between the ages of 20 and 30 died in a motel in Aurora called the Manor House Motel. That's all we want."
Salley kept repeating that it was against state regulations to give out such information, but Talese refused to hang up until Salley gave him the number for Ron Hyman, the state's registrar of vital statistics.
By 3:45 p.m., Talese has gotten Hyman's voicemail for the second time. Hoping to find a better number, he walked over to consult with Barb Hudson, the library's crack researcher. Sitting with Gurman, I took the opportunity to find out what, exactly, this dead person had to do with the New Yorker article.
"I can't tell you, because it's contracted," said Foos. "I can't tell you the name, or what it's about. But it's about my secret life."
"He's not a murderer, or a cheater," said his wife.
"I'm not a serial killer," said Foos.
"I feel like if you have to say 'I'm not a serial killer–'" said Gurman.
"What's that mean?" Foos interrupted. "You ever met a serial killer?"
"I don't know," Gurman said.
"You know, there are one hundred in Denver? But they're just plotting right now. They're not acting, but they're thinking. Some of them are interested in guys. Some are interested in little children. Some are interested in school teachers, some are interested in high political guys or CEOs. Some are interested in nice looking girls like you, OK?" he said, looking at Gurman. "They will follow you around in secret, take pictures of you, follow you home, take a picture of where you live, find out how many you live with."
Just as we were trying to get our heads around that, Talese pulled up at the table to present his Hail Mary plan: Storming Hyman's office at CDPHE.
"We can report that they're not doing their job for which they get paid," he said. "Come on!"
I later called Salley to get his side of the story, and he was not impressed. "He just came across as someone who expected the state to bow to what he needed, as opposed to what the state statute says. According to that, a person's death records are confidential except for family members." Further, there is no searchable database about "how many people died in a certain hotel in a certain year," he said. And even if that did exist, it would be almost impossible to get the information "on a moment's notice on a Friday afternoon."
But Talese is a journalistic pit bull. After a dash through Friday's rush hour traffic, he strode into the CDPHE lobby, where a security guard named Hector didn't know who Ron Hyman was, but managed to get the facilities supervisor to deal with Talese in person. Like Salley, she repeated state regulations for death certificates.
"I don't know if they will just give that information out to someone other than that person," she said.
"The person's dead!" he said, exasperated.
"Have you talked to someone in the office?"
"They won't talk! The only person who had the courtesy to come down is you, after Hector here helped us. I'll tell you something. This does not put a good face on the state of Colorado, when they are so resistant. They should be cooperative. They should be really upset and shocked."
Things continue like this until she finally told him that Hyman was just not available.
"He's in a meeting? I can wait here till midnight. But if I don't see Ron Hyman, I'm going to be so unhappy!"
"They're all off-site at a meeting," she said. "I don't even know how to get hold of them. The whole division is off-site."
"Now they tell us! We came all the way from New York to come over here? And now we learn the man in charge is not even on site?"
Things continue going in circles. Finally, Talese headed back to the car without the information he wanted. Still, it doesn't feel like the end of the story, not by a long shot. And the mystery continues.
"The story never ends," said Talese. "Gerald was hedging a little bit. I want to tell you that I'm not telling you everything, because I can't at this point. When it reaches the point that the story is in galleys, I will personally call you up."
I can't wait. Stay tuned.


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A group of exercising Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school students now owns a Guinness World Record.
More than 1,100 fourth- and fifth-grade students set a record Feb. 1 as the largest Zumbatomic class in a single venue. Zumbatomic is a version of Zumba meant for children under 15.
You can watch video from the world record attempt above or by clicking here.
The students completed a 30-minute class featuring two certified instructors and dozens of helpers. Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines also participated in the class.
The record was part of a month-long challenge to get students at 19 schools to move at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week, as well as perform one nutritional practice each day this month.
The previous record was a class of 383 children in a Texas class last year.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Michael Jace is scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday for arraignment on a murder charge filed after his wife's shooting death last month.
The actor, who played a police officer on the television series "The Shield," did not enter a plea during his initial court appearance last month. Police say Jace shot his wife April multiple times in the family's Los Angeles home on May 19 while their young children were present. The boys were unharmed and are now living with relatives.
Police have not released a motive for the slaying but have said they are looking into whether financial or other domestic issues may have been involved. Jace's attorneys have said the case is still in its early stages and their investigation is ongoing.
April Jace's family has called her death a senseless act of domestic violence.
Police say Jace called 911 to report the killing. Their two children were at home at the time but were unharmed.
Audio of Jace's call has not been released, but fire officials released a 911 call from April Jace's father earlier this much in which he says the actor told him he had shot his wife.
"My son-in-law called me, and (texted) me, and said come get the kids because he shot April, our daughter," the caller, whose name was redacted from the audio, told a fire department dispatcher.
April Jace, 40, a financial aid counselor at Biola University, had three sons, including two boys under the age of 10 with Jace.
Michael Jace also appeared on the show "Southland" and had small roles in the movies "Planet of the Apes," "Boogie Nights" and "Forrest Gump."
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Mary N.C. Redd, a retired city public schools educator and active volunteer, died Aug. 17 of a cardiac arrest at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Ashburton resident was 88.
The daughter of a doctor and a homemaker, Mary Cornelia Nixon Camper was born at home in the 1400 block of N. Mount St. and was raised on North Carey Street.
"She was delivered at home by her father," said her daughter, Teresa Redd of Silver Spring.
After graduating from Douglass High School in 1942, she earned a bachelor's degree in 1946 from what was then Coppin State Teachers College.
Because the University of Maryland did not admit African-Americans at the time, the state paid for Mrs. Redd to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a master's degree in education in 1951. In 1966, she received a certificate in advanced study in education from the Johns Hopkins University.
She began teaching in 1946 in city elementary schools. Until retiring in 1980, she was a classroom teacher, reading specialist and administrator.
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Mrs. Redd later served as assistant principal at Lexington Terrace Elementary School and Highlandtown Elementary-Middle School before she was transferred to Arlington Elementary School as assistant principal in 1970.
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In her retirement, Mrs. Redd sold real estate, worked as an administrator for the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners, taught reading at Baltimore City Community College and volunteered for the Orton Dyslexia Society.
She also established a literacy program for adults at St. Katherine of Alexandria Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Redd studied watercolors at the Waxter Center and enjoyed taking cruises with friends and "dancing the night away," her daughter said. She also enjoyed thoroughbred horse racing and liked playing bridge and pinochle.
Funeral services will be held at noon Saturday at March West Funeral Home, 4300 Wabash Ave.
Mrs. Redd is also survived by her son, Rudolph Redd Jr. of Baltimore; a brother, Nixon Camper of Baltimore; two sisters, Ellen C. Johns and Elizabeth Jones, both of Baltimore; and two grandsons. A marriage to Rudolph Redd Sr. ended in divorce.


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This flexibility and the excellent radiometric and spectral performance designed into the instrument means that scientists can make use of MERIS data across many different fields, variously obtaining information on Earth's oceans, coastal zones, land surfaces and atmosphere - and potentially combining it with results from other Envisat instruments.
Since MERIS was launched as part of Envisat in March 2002 there have been several gatherings concerned with complex calibration and validation processes needed to 'fine-tune' instrument performance, but last week's MERIS User's Workshop 2003 was the first time that users of MERIS products had a chance to meet up, share initial results and exchange their views of MERIS with ESA and each other.
"The MERIS data users attending included principal investigators, students and value-adding companies," said Workshop organiser Peter Regner. "The feeling among attendees seems to be that such activities are an excellent communication tool and will be repeated in the future."
The User Workshop started on 10 November and was hosted by ESA at its ESRIN centre in Frascati, near Rome. Attendees were in for a busy four days, with more than 50 presentations and round tables packed into the schedule, together with poster sessions, training sessions in the BEAM (Basic ERS, Envisat (A)ATSR and MERIS Toolbox) software used for data processing and special sessions on key themes including water, land and atmosphere applications.
Olivier Arino, Head of Projects in ESA's Earth Observation Applications Department gave the Workshop an overview of projects being run by the Agency that use MERIS or similar instruments to attempt to develop operational services to the global community, responding to the requirements of key users. Work is already being done across a variety of fields such as carbon modelling, food security, marine pollution, fishery and snow mapping and desertification.
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As a pioneer in the field of ocean colour, Professor André Morel of the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris has had a long association with MERIS. During the Workshop he co-chaired a splinter session on MERIS water products. Accurate measurements along signature wavebands means water contents can be known to a high degree of accuracy - from suspended sediments to living phytoplankton.
"Our expectations were very high for this instrument," said Morel. "The scientific community was waiting a long time. Now at last the products are routinely available for use by scientists. Overall the results we are getting seem very positive and reliable. The performance of the MERIS instrument is living up to the promise of its original design."
Accurately measuring ocean colour with MERIS presents a real technical challenge, particularly because only 1% of the top-of-atmosphere signal actually comes direct from ocean colour - the 99% comes from the atmosphere. To banish the effects of atmospheric distortion for ocean colour study meant extensive study of signal alteration - and almost by default this knowledge also enabled improved observation of atmospheric constituents.
Something in the air
"MERIS was not originally envisaged as an atmospheric sensor, but we have found it works very well as one," said Prof. Jan-Peter Muller of University College London. "For instance, we can detect surface and cloud top pressure up to an accuracy of 100 metres, the presence of aerosols and also water vapour concentration up to an accuracy of 3%, which represents unprecedented accuracy.
"Water vapour is highly variable in the atmosphere, and knowledge of its distribution would be very useful for forecasting rainfall. MERIS's revisit time of three days is too low for operational weather forecasting, but it raises the suggestion that a version of the instrument might be flown on future weather satellites."
Ground work
Over solid ground, MERIS images provide information on land use and vegetation cover, and specific chlorophyll-linked spectral bands help quantify biomass concentration and condition.
Professor Jose Moreno of the University of Valencia detailed MERIS-related results from a July multi-spacecraft validation campaign carried out at the Barrax test site in La Mancha, Spain. The agricultural fields making up the site were characterised to a very high degree of detail, with more than 4000 ground samples taken, plus recordings of atmospheric conditions.
"Often you can have a good knowledge of the land surface corrections required but not the atmospheric corrections - or vice versa," said Moreno. "But with MERIS we have both, which means we can be more confident the data show what is really there.
"Being able to compare MERIS data with ESA's Proba micro-satellite was also useful. The main camera on Proba has four times the spectral bands on MERIS, and its resolution is 30 metres instead of 300 metres - so we could make out individual fields with Proba, to check them against what the larger-scale MERIS images were showing."
Microscopic killers
Since MERIS products became available in March 2003, Dr Cristina Rodríguez-Benito of Chile-based oceanographic company Mariscope Chilena has been using it to chart one very specific phenomenon: fish-killing algae blooms that threaten Chile's successful aquaculture industry.
"My interest is not only scientific research but also to focus this work on a direct application," said Rodríguez-Benito. "MERIS works better for the purpose of detecting algae blooms than comparable ocean colour instruments such as MODIS."
Formed from individually microscopic phytoplankton, algae blooms occur when favourable local conditions encourage their growth to 'bloom' out of control. Some algae species contain toxins that can poison humans who eat contaminated shellfish. Alternatively the spreading blooms can deplete water of oxygen as they decay, causing larger fish to suffocate.
Fish farms are especially vulnerable to algae blooms because fish cannot flee affected zones. The southern region of Chile has 360 fish farms in the ocean and 40 in freshwater, producing up to 450,000 tonnes of biomass annually. In 1997 alone, Chilean algae blooms caused losses totalling €10 million ($12 million).
Rodríguez-Benito's pilot project - recounted during the Workshop - is co-funded by Mariscope Chilena and Salmon Chile, the national fish-farming industry association. These institutions aim to investigate the feasibility of an operational satellite-based early warning service.
"As spring came to the southern hemisphere in October we have witnessed new blooms appearing," said Rodríguez-Benito. "In situ water testing, using an instrument called a Fluoroprobe, confirms the detection of five different algae classes. The total chlorophyll concentration measured using this fluorometer was successfully correlated with MERIS data."
"The project will continue until the beginning of 2004, as a first step. For the near future we also hope to make use of other Envisat instruments to simultaneously measure important variables like sea surface temperature and ocean currents. Knowing these will be necessary to make forecasting the drift of algae blooms a reality."
Looking forward
In concluding the Workshop on Thursday afternoon, Peter Regner thanked all participants for the very high quality contributions they made: "The Workshop discussions brought forth a number of valuable recommendations which will certainly be taken into consideration in the definition of the future MERIS exploitation plan."
He indicated that the next opportunity for the community to meet again will be next year's Envisat symposium, scheduled to take place from 6 to 10 September 2004 in Salzburg in Austria.


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Ride Home 11/10
The roads were slick and I added wet white paint to the things that I should try to avoid. When the roads are wet, I'm reticent to ride on anything other than nice, even pavement, which seems to be less and less the more that I look for it. From work to halfway down Massachusetts I rode behind a guy on a fixie who seemed to be struggling somewhat with the conditions. Somewhere along Massachusetts, he dumped off to the sidewalk and I was able to increase my speed to 5 miles per hour or so. Actually, I was riding faster than that, but not by much because I saw bus's taillights on the horizon and I found prudent to some distance between us. At one point on Mass, I unintendedly ran a red and luckily didn't suffer any negative consequences. I got lucky.
There's no trick to riding in Sheriden Circle. Just get in and get out and avoid the drivers turning onto 23rd.
The Q Street Boogaloo could totally be something, but it's not and so I'm appropriating it to describe the usual car dodge a bike commuter embarks upon as he heads east across town. If it's not the turning cars, it's the cars parking and if it's not both of those it's the trucks in the bike lane and if it's not that it's the bicyclists and the jaywalkers and maybe instead of all of those things, it's just me. At Q and New Jersey, I watched two drivers turn right on red without stopping, only narrowly avoiding me and the driver next to me and then jockey to turn left another block down the road. I said, aloud, "stop fucking around so I don't die" without really thinking about how terrible it is that just trying to get home makes me say something like that.
Fewer lightless bicyclists tonight because there were fewer bicyclists overall. Guess everyone took the bus home.
At the circle in front of the Capitol, a motorist declined to yield to me. His license plate indidcated the car was registered in Quebec. No sir, Je me souviens.
Near the Capitol, I rode up the driveway I always ride up (though this time had to yield, for the first time ever, to two drivers heading in the opposite direction) and noticed that parking spaces at the Capitol reserved for compact cars can (and do) easily accommodate Lexus SUVs. Fail.
Along East Capitol, a bus driver waived me in front of him before he pulled into a spot and it turned out another bicyclist was riding behind me. He had a grey mustache and said that bus drivers always treat him well. Really. Must be the mustache. Then I misheard him say something that I thought was "Bradley Whitford."
I stopped at the Safeway and bought, amongst other things, watercress and beer. The guy in front of me in line purchased, not amongst other things, elbow macaroni and relish and beer. When I got back out to my bike, I realized that my rear light 's battery was considerably depleted and my visibility was (and had been to that point) severely compromised. This is a problem, especially in light (haha!) of my recent light evangelism. Perhaps it's time to get new, brighter lights. I likewise worry about my front lights. I can barely see pedestrians and on Penn, given its poor design, this will be an increasingly terrible problem and I genuinely worry about riding into one. So, shopping woo.
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My headlight died just as I turned onto East Capitol for the home stretch and I thought I'd just ride it out...but then I thought about your light sermonizing (which I totally support, BTW) and stopped and busted out my headlamp that I reserve for the inky blackness of the CCT, but is totally unnecessary for around town...in town I role with the blinky. So I didn't have to ride light-less, which was a relief. I usually carry spare batteries, but I think I removed them from my backpack at some point. So now I'm determined to load my pack up with spare AAAs.ReplyDelete
I was just noticing today that my front light is garbage. It was $8, so I guess I shouldn't expect a lot. But I think I need a new one.ReplyDelete
Sorry things were so bad. My 2:30 p.m. ride to work was a little misty, ending a four- or five-day streak of best 2:30 p.m. rides ever, but the 11 p.m. ride home was glorious. These cool nights are pretty awesome when it's dry.ReplyDelete


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At the time of application to teacher education programs you must disclose any misdemeanors or felony convictions as well as college/university disciplinary actions. Failure to disclose an offense may result in expulsion from the program. Some universities may require a Federal background check (fingerprint) when you apply to the program, but all universities require the Federal background check prior to student teaching. Most university teacher education programs will review each incident on a case-by-case basis to determine whether the student should be admitted or allowed to continue in the program. Final approval of a recommendation made by the university is granted only by the Michigan Department of Education.
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- Illegal use of firearms
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