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DOVER — Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency will be on hand in Dover today to answer questions about new stormwater regulations being proposed for dozens of New Hampshire communities.
The EPA will hold a public meeting at the McConnell Center between 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. The event will take place inside room 306 of the building, located at 61 Locust St. The meeting will include a 45-minute presentation and overview of the new requirements being proposed in draft stormwater regulations unveiled by the EPA this month.
The rules would potentially require dozens of New Hampshire communities to pay for enhanced stormwater treatment measures, from street sweeping to mapping out stormwater infrastructure and monitoring for illegal discharges.
EPA spokesman Newton Tedder will discuss the new stormwater permits and answer questions from the public at the meeting, which is being hosted by the Seacoast Stormwater Coalition.
The EPA released a new draft of stormwater regulations this month that will affect as many as 60 New Hampshire communities. Meeting the requirements spelled out in the permits would cost municipalities, on average, between $78,000 and $829,000 per year over the length of the time the permits are in effect, according to the EPA.
The permits would require communities to develop stormwater management programs designed to control pollutants to the "maximum extent practicable," according to information provided by the EPA.
The 60 municipalities in New Hampshire that will be affected by the new permits are located in areas defined by the government as "urbanized," based on the 2010 census. The list includes a slate of local communities, including Dover, Durham, Rochester, Portsmouth, Newmarket and Exeter. Also on the list are state and federal facilities, such as universities, military bases and the New Hampshire Department of Transportation.
At a minimum, communities that receive the permits must comply with six EPA requirements. They include starting a public education program and soliciting public participation. Communities would also be required to search for "illicit discharge," manage run-off from construction sites and redevelopment projects and implement "good housekeeping in municipal operations," according to the EPA.
Communities affected by the new permits were notified that the new regulations were in the pipeline. Many are already under the jurisdiction of permits that have been in effect since 2003. The EPA also released new draft permits in 2008, but they never went into effect.
The stormwater treatment program will be a new addition for some New Hampshire communities, which are not already regulated by so-called "Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System" (MS4) permits. Locally they include Barrington, Epping, Newfields, Newmarket and Stratham.
However, Barrington and Epping, and many of the same communities could also be eligible for a waiver from the EPA. Also eligible to opt out of the stormwater permits are Lee, Madbury, New Castle and Newington.
New Castle is one of only two communities out of 17 that are eligible for a waiver that have not submitted formal requests to the EPA requesting a waiver, an EPA spokesman said this week.
The EPA's proposal around stormwater regulations comes at a time when many local communities are already dealing with tough new standards for wastewater treatment plants around Great Bay. Complying with the EPA regulations is expected to cost millions in Dover, Rochester, Newmarket and other Great Bay-area communities.
The new stormwater permits will not enforce any new nutrient standards for Great Bay, but they will impose new management practices on towns and cities that discharge stormwater into rivers and streams that feed into the bay, according to an EPA spokesman.
The EPA is accepting comments on the draft general permit for stormwater runoff through April 15. In addition to today's public hearing in Dover, another hearing will take place on March 14 at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Field Office at Pease International Tradeport. The session will run from 2-5 p.m.
More information about the EPA's draft permit is available online at: http://www.epa.gov/region1/npdes/stormwater/MS4_2013_NH.html.
Staff writer Michelle Kingston contributed to this report.


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Pakistan brings back death penalty
Pakistan's new government has ended a ban on the death penalty.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's new government, trying to appear determined to rein in escalating crime and militancy, has ended a ban on the death penalty, in a move condemned by international organisations as inhuman and retrograde.
Up to 8,000 people languish on death row in dozens of Pakistan's notoriously overcrowded and violent jails.
Once a moratorium is in place, reinstatement of capital punishment is rare, with more than 150 countries having already either abolished the death penalty or stopped administering it.
A 2008 moratorium imposed by Pakistan's previous government, praised at the time by global rights groups, expired on June 30.
"The present government does not plan to extend it," said Omar Hamid Khan, an interior ministry spokesman.
Pakistan's president must approve all executions. The government puts the number of people on death row at about 400. The method of execution is usually hanging.
"Pakistan is part of a dwindling minority of States who continue to retain the death penalty and carry out executions," the International Commission of Jurists said.
"The prospect of lifting the moratorium is all the more alarming given the extraordinarily high number of people on death row."
Khan said the new policy of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government was to execute all death row prisoners, except those pardoned on humanitarian grounds.
There is, however, no firm evidence showing the practice can serve as a deterrent to crime or extremism, according to the United Nations and human rights groups.
"As long as the death penalty is in place, the risk of executing innocent people can never be eliminated," rights group Amnesty International said.
Pakistan says capital punishment is key to deterring crime in places such as Karachi, a megacity of 18 million plagued by violence, as well as in the areas on its border with Afghanistan where Taliban militants launch daily attacks.
Papua New Guinea, one of the world's poorest and most corrupt countries, reinstated the death penalty in May and repealed its sorcery laws after a string of gruesome "witch" killings and gang-rapes.
Asked about Amnesty's criticism, Khan pointed to the fact that capital punishment was still in use in parts of the United States, a nation he said was home to the "best judicial system".
Pakistan's moratorium drew praise because of concerns its courts and police were too inept to ensure the accused a fair trial. Pakistan did, however, break its own rules in 2012, when it executed a convicted murderer and a former army serviceman.
The previous government of the Pakistan's Peoples Party, whose former chairman, Benazir Bhutto, was a fierce opponent of capital punishment, enforced the moratorium soon after taking power in 2008 under President Asif Ali Zardari.
Zardari, the widower of Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007, is due to step down later this year.

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Program notes are written by Dr. Joseph Milicia.
Program notes are written by Dr. Joseph Milicia.
Born Nelehozeves, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), 8 September 1841; died Prague, 1 May 1904.
Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C major, Op. 46, No. 1.
Dvorak's first set of eight Slavonic Dances was composed in 1878; No. 1 was first heard in Prague at a concert for the Association of Czech Journalists, 16 May 1878, Adolf Čech conducting. The work is scored for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets. 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, bass drum, triangle, cymbals, and strings. Performance time is about 4 minutes. The SSO performed it 18 November 1995, Guy Victor Bordo conducting.
Born Salzburg, Austria, 27 January 1756; died Vienna, 5 December 1791.
Symphony No. 36, in C major, K. 425 ("Linz")
Written in Linz, Austria and premiered in that city 4 November 1783. The score calls for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. Duration about 25 minutes. The SSO played the 'Linz' Symphony most recently with Guy Victor Bordo conducting, 17 November 2001.
This evening's concert is a second Night at the Opera, following last May's festival of overtures, interludes, arias and choruses. Tonight we will hear 17 selections from 11 operas by 7 composers, with our spotlight mostly on Italy. "Act I" begins with Mozart, then leaps ahead to Italian verismo, 1890-1900. "Act II" is devoted to Donizetti and Verdi, spanning 1835 to 1871, while "Act III" features more Verdi, flanked by epic moments in Wagner and Boito.
Born Hamburg, 7 May 1833; died Vienna, 3 April 1897.
Piano Concerto No. 2, in Bb major, Op. 73
Composed between 1878 and 1881; premiered 9 November 1881 with the composer at the piano and the Budapest National Theatre Orchestra, led by Alexander (Sandor) Erkel. The score calls for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. Duration is about 49 minutes.
This evening's concert is a celebration of movie music, focusing on selections from Hollywood blockbusters from 1980 to 2012, along with one older favorite and at least one TV show that became a movie franchise. Plus, we'll hear some very famous music from a very obscure Russian film.
Born 21 September 1874, Cheltenham, England; died 25 May 1934, London.
"Jupiter," from The Planets, Op. 32.
Composed in late 1914 as part of The Planets, which was orchestrated in 1917 and premiered in a private performance at the Queen's Hall, London, Adrian Boult conducting, 29 September 1918; first complete public hearing was 15 November, 1920, with the London Symphony Orchestra led by Albert Coates. "Jupiter" calls for a large orchestra of 2 piccolos, 2 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tenor and bass tubas, timpani (two players), bass drum, side drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, glockenspiel, 2 harps, and strings. The SSO played "Jupiter" at the gala inaugural concert of the Weill Center, 13 October 2001, Guy Victor Bordo conducting. Duration 8 minutes.
Born Bonn, 17 December 1770; died Vienna, 26 March 1827.
Leonore Overture No. 3.
Composed early 1806, and first performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien, 29 March of that year, Ignaz von Seyfried conducting. The score calls for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and strings. Performed by the SSO most recently on 20 October, 1990, Manuel Prestamo conducting, it lasts approximately 14 minutes.
This evening's concert is a night at the opera, with overtures, arias and scenes from 15 operas by 13 composers. "Act I" takes us from Mozart to Wagner, with rousing choruses by Leoncavallo, Weber and Verdi in between. "Act II" offers four scenes in which beautiful women draw men to them -- unintentionally in at least one case. And "Act III," opening with a boisterous march and a quiet vigil, offers two of the most thrilling scenes in opera: the soaring final trio and intimate duet of Der Rosenkavalier and the public spectacle of Boris Godunov's Coronation Scene.
Born Doborjan, Hungary, 22 October, 1811; died Bayreuth, Germany, 31 July, 1886.
Born Pesaro, Italy, 29 February 1792; died Paris, 13 November 1868.
The Barber of Seville: Overture
Written in 1813 as the overture for the opera Aureliano in Palmira, but repurposed as the overture of Il Barbiere di Siviglia for ithe latter's second production, in Bologna, premiered 16 August 1816. The score calls for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, bass drum, cymbals and strings. Performance time is about 8 minutes. The SSO's most recent performance was 4 February 2001, under the baton of Guy Victor Bordo.


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Just off the main PR-driven bulletin freeway this week is "news" of open-source web application frameworks and tools company Sencha… and its developer team's thoughts on Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Sencha has reviewed Google's recently released Android 5.0 Lollipop to see how it stacks up against, and impacts, web app development.
The firm points out (with good reason) that with Android now holding a dominant majority of the mobile device market share, the new OS provides a significant opportunity to improve features and UX for both developers and end users.
Android is said to hold a dominant 51.5% share of mobile devices in the US (and almost 85% globally) today.
Android 5.0 Lollipop benefits from a brand new look via Google's Material Design and boasts over 5000 new APIs.
Sencha's Ross Gerbasi (@rawss) blogs that Android 5.0 ships with Chrome for Android 38 as its default browser: "This is not a big change for most Android users as they have been able to access this browser from the Google Play Store for a while now," he said.
Gerbasi says that his team also knows that Chrome for Android 39 is already rolling out to people and expect that most "Lollipop" device owners will be updated soon enough.
The more interesting story for web developers lies in the new Android WebView.
"The new Android 5.0 WebView is now based on Chromium 37 — but probably the biggest change we see on Android 5.0 is the fact that the core WebView is no longer coupled to the Android OS. Google is now able to push updates, changes, and fixes to the WebView via the Google Play Store — allowing hybrid applications to benefit from more frequent updates than the whole Android OS release cycle. You can dig into all the info on this change by reading the Chromium WebView sections of the Google developer docs," writes Gerbasi.


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Councils could be forgiven for wondering if Government remains as committed to devolution and decentralisation of power, post Brexit, as it appeared to be before June's vote.
What started well and seemed to have support at the highest level of Government, with George Osborne's zealot like enthusiasm, doesn't appear to have the same prominence with new cabinet figures, indeed some fear that the agenda could simply fizzle out.


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Reading an excellent editorial over at Capitalism Magazine on Obama's end-game to destroy Israel ("Obama's Vision of the Middle East Means The Death of Israel"), I was once again reminded that the one thing that needs more emphasis in the commentataries on Obama's "objectives" or "intentions" is what columnist Ed Cline more than hints at -- the one key fact of Obama that most people can't seem to get their heads around, or refuse to consider as "conspiratorial", "unbelievable", "impossible": that Obama's intentions are not the random result of ignorance or incompetence, but have the deliberate, conscious and purposeful goal of destruction.
I've spoken about it more than a few times on this blog. (See especially "Good Night, America", but as a sampling of others, "Obama's End Game", "Obama's Communist Past", "Yet ANOTHER commie in Comrade Barack's closet", and for some real insight into who he could be working for, "How to Brainwash a Nation" and "KGB Today".)
In the case of Israel, his objective is the destruction of Israel, pure and simple. In the case of the United States, whether by profligate spending to bankrupt us, evisceration of our nuclear arsenal to make us defenseless (coming soon, evisceration of our conventional arsenal, too), or a healthcare law that is the germ of a future totalitarianism to enslave us, his goal is the literal destruction of the United States.
No one wants to say that. It's too "conspiratorial" and "unthinkable". If you're really naive, you'll say "mean-spirited."
I won't dwell here on the motivations for the apparent nihilism of Obama (is it nihilism if you do it in the service of some existential master?), but it has to be answered at some point to better understand the danger he poses everyone--even his own supporters. (For deeper motivations, read "Good Night, America.") But whoever or whatever he serves, what Obama stands for, even if he doesn't know it himself, is the primordial creature that has been stalking mankind for thousands of years, and which is now ready to pounce once again.
If I may paraphrase maybe too generously from Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead", it has to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-imposed delusion -- that Obama is simply "misguided" and "inexperienced" but is still "well-intentioned". He isn't. And our lives depend on everyone understanding that.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
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Five trends in fraud solutions
How leading financial firms are stepping up the game to protect data, customers, reputations and compliance
By Stu Bradley, Senior Business Director, SAS Security Intelligence Practice, and
David Stewart, Business Director, SAS Security Intelligence Practice
In spite of massive investments in cybersecurity technology, the average time to detect an intrusion is still typically measured in days or months, not minutes. After-the-fact analysis of questionable transactions might stop next week's similar fraud, but what about today's new tactics?
With the constantly changing variants of cyber attacks, financial firms can no longer simply rely on the known attack vectors profiled in existing perimeter or endpoint fraud solutions. Furthermore, most existing fraud solutions do not enrich the information with multiple data sources or provide the depth of analytics to make a difference. These systems tend to look at a narrow area of security risk but cannot scale to an enterprise perspective or use Big Data to detect and mitigate risks.
Against a backdrop of rising threats from fraudsters and high expectations from customers and regulators, five trends are reshaping the defense and giving financial institutions more power and protection than ever.
With a greater breadth and depth of data – plus the high-performance computing capabilities to crunch it – you can fully understand the behavior of an entity across the enterprise, or even across multiple organizations where information sharing exists.
1. High-performance computing redefines the possible.
With conventional IT platforms, it was impractical to analyze all relevant data in full context to uncover potential fraud – unless you could wait hours or days for results. Today's high-performance analytics can rapidly analyze massive amounts of data using technologies such as grid computing, in-database analytics and in-memory analytics.
For example, using in-memory analytics, simulations that once took hours now take seconds. Fraud analysts can now rapidly test multiple methods to determine which models work best. Speedier model development/testing means better models get deployed sooner, giving institutions more agile response to the flash fraud and zero-day threats that can manifest in online channels.
Hadoop brings high-performance data storage and processing to the fraud-fighting arsenal, operating on large clusters of commodity hardware. Hadoop makes it fast and affordable to support analytics processes that can find anomalies in millions of records.
Analytical insights can be delivered to visual interfaces and automated workflow systems. Imagine arming your investigative team with visualizations that clarify where to look, along with supporting detail about threats as they are developing, rather than days or weeks later.
2. Hybrid analytical techniques deliver richer insights.
By combining analytical approaches, you can detect and prevent more fraud with fewer false positives, protecting the firm while preserving the quality of the customer experience. For example:
- Hybrid models can use your firm's data at the core, consolidating data both internally and externally with a consortium model to create an even more predictive model.
- SAS' unique "signatures" approach captures nuances about how the user interacts with the system to detect variances that could indicate identity theft or malware.
- Neural network models use machine learning to interactively learn from the data without human intervention, so the algorithms become smarter and more accurate with every iteration.
3. Behavioral analytics transcend rules-based systems.
Fraudsters can easily out-maneuver rules-based systems, so it's essential to have adaptive analytics that can detect unknown risks and new ways of trying to break the bank.
A behavioral analytics approach captures behavioral patterns from every source and evaluates that information every time a transaction is scored. This process builds a deep profile of the historical norm for an account, card holder, customer, merchant, POS terminal, device, web session, etc. The more profiles available, the richer the understanding of whether a payment transaction or new product application is legitimate.
The end goal for behavioral analytics will be to identify potentially fraudulent behavior before a payment is made or a customer's account is compromised.
4. Investigative workflow becomes more efficient.
Firms need to become more efficient in detecting, triaging and building investigations on suspicious activity. Four important must-haves make this possible. The ideal fraud solution would:
- Stage the data so transactions can be bridged to associated accounts and those accounts to parties – and if applicable, to households, corporate parents or other networked entities.
- Aggregate work items for a subject, rather than require analysts to review separate work items. This reduces the number of widgets to be worked and gives analysts a more complete view of subject behavior.
- Present the most meaningful information. Why are there events on this subject? Who are the players in these transactions? What is normal for them? Does this merit further investigation?
- Automatically assemble alerts from multiple monitoring systems, prioritize higher-risk activities and auto-assign alerts to investigators based on the firm's unique rules and requirements.
A well-designed fraud solution will reduce queries to source systems, increase efficiency and provide governance through automated workflow for dual controls for investigation and filing of regulatory reports.
5. Financial institutions become crime-fighting partners.
Banks haven't gotten enough credit for the significant role they can play in working with law enforcement to help prevent, investigate and prosecute criminal activity. Leading institutions are building out this capability to be crime-fighting partners. They are establishing proactive intelligence units that scour negative news events, referrals, case data, social media, consortium data and cyber events to detect previously unknown risks. They are deploying in-memory data architectures that enable sophisticated analyses such as global search, text mining, visualization, and network analysis to piece together clues from masses of disparate data. When attacks occur, or when helping law enforcement work critical events, firms now have the tools to provide immediate answers.
What does the future hold?
If present trends continue, the art, science and technology of fraud solutions will improve in several ways:
- Stronger authentication. Given the millennial generation's demand for convenience and frictionless commerce, the biggest challenge will be authenticating users without impeding the customer journey. Innovative fraud operations will find ways to tighten controls without inconveniencing users, perhaps through some combination of biometrics, near field communications and analytics.
- More data for richer profiles. Models and signatures will incorporate more data, such as from biometrics, consortia, interface devices, digital voice recordings and other novel sources. Information sharing among merchants and institutions will become more prevalent and efficient. We will continue to see convergence of cyber data with behavioral profiles for enhanced fraud detection.
- High-performance fraud solutions. Real-time prevention will be faster and scale to higher transaction throughput. More firms will implement fraud solutions that can correlate billions of daily transactions and enrich that data with business context and threat insights across the enterprise. In so doing, they will create smarter data that can be analyzed in many different combinations and peer groups – across products and organizational entities – to find anomalous behavior that could look innocuous in local context.
The end game is to have a continuous picture of active security risks in real time, intelligently prioritized for further triage and investigation. That should look good to any firm that wants to avoid making headlines for a high-profile breach.
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Crematory claims 18 human heads from U.S. Customs
U.S. Customs officials at Chicago's O'Hare International held up a shipment of 18 human heads from Rome until the intended recipient -- a crematory -- stepped forward to claim them.
The embalmed heads, tagged as human specimens, were packed in three coolers shipped on a Lufthansa flight just before Christmas, according to a spokesman for the medical examiner's office, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The newspaper reported that the shipment was held up because the final destination was not clearly noted on all the documentation.
Customs then X-rayed the coolers and determined that they contained 18 human heads still covered in skin. One cooler was opened for a preliminary inspection, the medical examiner's spokesman said, according to the Tribune.
The Chicago Sun-Timesquoted Brian Bell, a Chicago-based spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, as saying, "We need to make sure that they are truly used for medical research purposes."
The Tribune reported that a crematory in Schiller Park, Ill., came forward with what appeared to be the proper documents after news of the unclaimed heads surfaced.
ABC News reported that researchers in Rome had been using the embalmed heads but shipped them to the United States for cremation at the facility near Chicago.
"The crematory has done nothing wrong. In fact, they were just here to hand all the paperwork over, and we're satisfied everything is on the up-and-up," Tony Brucci, chief of investigations at the Cook County medical examiner's office told ABC News.


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More WordCamp NYC videos and a great tutorial from the community round out the videos published this past week on WordPress.tv. Here's what you missed:
First, there's John Hawkins' talk from WordCamp NYC on how to build your very first WordPress plugin. He's given this talk at a handful of WordCamps this year, but it's always packed with great information and serves as a great introduction to building a very basic plugin.
Next, Automattician José Fontainhas gives an overview of how to properly provide for internationalization in your WordPress projects, including a brief look at the new GlotPress system. If you're building something for WordPress, you should take a look at this presentation to learn how easy it is to help the community translate your project. Much of the WordPress community is not English-speaking.
The last presentation from WordCamp NYC comes from Serena Epstein and Shannon Houser: a talk titled "WordPress As a Gateway Drug". It's about how the use of WordPress in an undergraduate coursework setting has influenced students to continue the creative process even post-graduation. It has a unique style and flavor—check it out.
And lastly, we were pointed in the direction of a wonderful example of a tutorial coming out of the WordPress community. In this case, it's Jesse P. Luna's howto on using the new WordPress.com geotagging feature. It's great to see these kinds of things come from dedicated WordPress users like all of you.
This is a great moment to remind you that if you have a WordPress feature you think could use a great tutorial, there's never a better time to create one and send it on to us! If you've seen a tutorial or have made one, drop us a line and let us know about it.
If you're looking for a suggestion, here's one: are you one of the many people who are working with WordPress 2.9-beta? There are some excellent new features coming in 2.9, and there will be lots of WordPress users looking for information on those features. Why not consider whipping up a brief and to-the-point tutorial on one of the new features coming in 2.9?
Have a great week!
One response on "Weekly Recap: Your First Plugin, Internationalization, WordPress at School, and Geotagging"
Ashlee Anderson
December 13, 2012 at 11:34 pm
I really enjoyed John's talk about how to build a wordpress plugin which is something that I've always wanted to do. Also I am excited to learn more about the geotagging feature and explore the possibilities of what could be done with this new feature.


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1001 schools register with Eduspace
More than 1000 schools have now registered to take part in projects and use the resources available on Eduspace. Designed in 2001 to give European youth an idea of how ESA and its partners use satellite data, the site is now accessed by schools in 67 countries all over the globe.
Its success is partly because it gives young people hands-on experience of using Earth observation data. The site contains information on how to carry out remote sensing and how to process satellite images for practical purposes, such as identifying local landmarks or finding out more about distant areas such as Africa. Students can even help to update Meteosat images of Europe by sending in local weather observations.
None of this can be achieved, of course, without the assistance of teachers and the site's first job is to encourage them to use Earth observation data in their lessons. Eduspace contains examples of the ways in which Earth observation data can be used and provides resources, such as satellite data and images, for use in schools.
Those responsible for Eduspace are keen to receive teachers' views on the type of material they find most useful as well as ideas on how to further improve the site. To this end, the first Eduspace Council of Teachers was held in Paris in April.
This gave teachers the opportunity to make their views known and to come up with suggestions on how to promote Eduspace within their own countries. For Eduspace staff this was an opportunity to introduce the new resources that will soon be available. As with the existing features, these can be downloaded free of charge and include:
- LEOworks version 2 - a specially adapted image processing software
- ERS and Landsat images for the whole of Europe
- Africa from Space – satellite data of African countries
- Envisat module – presents Envisat, the ESA satellite for environmental monitoring, its applications and selected images
- a new series of viewgraph presentations
- more project ideas
Earth observation data has many applications. Apart from being used to monitor all aspects of the environment, such as land use, climate change, oceans, sea ice and disasters of both human and natural origin, it can be used to map archaeological remains and to track animals in danger of extinction such as gorillas.
This makes it a useful resource for many subjects in the school curriculum, including teaching languages, as the site is already available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, and will soon be available in Danish.
The Eduspace site was developed by ESA for Eurisy, an organisation to promote educational and information activities for the advancement of space technology and its applications within Europe. It is now owned and operated by ESA with important contributions from other European space and education institutions.


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New Autism Risk Factors, Dad's Age and Preterm or Post-term Delivery
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It's Autism Awareness Month, and there's a lot that's unknown about autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), so we've been hearing quite a bit about the latest studies on the subject. Here's the latest scoop on some things that could increase a child's risk of having an ASD or having more severe ASD symptoms.
Dad's Age
Researchers have been unable to pinpoint genetic causes of ASD, but they do believe they're a factor. One new study suggests that the answer could be linked to the child's father's age. Several teams, including researchers at the Harvard/MIT Broad Institute, Yale University and the University of Washington worked together to analyze the DNA of 549 families with at least one family member with autism. They found that certain genetic material could become mutated as they're passed along to a child — about 14 percent of the people with autism has suspected mutations, which is about five times the normal rate. They found that the mutations can harm certain pathways in the brain, causing ASD symptoms. They also found that the number of those mutations increased with the father's age.
Being born Preterm or Post-term
Previous studies have suggested that preemies have higher rates of autism, but a new study from Michigan State University looks at post-term babies too. The study, which was published in the Journal of Autism and Development Disorders looked at data on nearly 4,200 mothers who had autistic children ages four through 21. The moms filled out questionnaires on their children's autism symptoms, and the researchers found that very preterm (born before 34 weeks gestation), preterm (34 to 37 weeks) and post-term (born after 42 weeks) autistic children had significantly higher screening scores for autism spectrum disorder than autistic children born full term (between 37 and 42) weeks. In other words, their symptoms were more severe if they were born before or after the full-term range.
"We think about autism being caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors," said researcher Tammy Movsas in a press release. "With preterm and post-term babies, there is something underlying that is altering the genetic expression of autism."
More research needs to be done on both fronts, but we're hoping these studies help scientists hone in on the true causes of autism.


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I don't usually see the bike cops. They usually come out a bit later when KC's night-life starts kicking in.
Then, Dora decided to help me fix my bike.
Not only did I have to replace the bent spoke and true the wheel up, I have been meaning to refurb the bottom bracket again. It's been noisy for the past few days. Last time that happened, it just needed to be cleaned up and greased.
I know a pipe wrench has no place in a bike tool kit, but the ISIS bottom bracket tool is just a little too big for my large adjustable wrench to get around.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
I don't usually see the bike cops. They usually come out a bit later when KC's night-life starts kicking in.
5 comments:
- David Glandon said...
Someday I will assemble enough courage to dissemble my bike. I have the big blue book of repair, just lack the tools, space and courage.
- December 03, 2008 12:43 PM
- Sirrus Rider said...
You have to watch out for cats with bike repair skills. After a they have had a couple hits of catnip you'll find they pawned all your parts and tools.
- December 04, 2008 2:59 AM
I'm like Crazy... without the book. I wanna take my bike apart but don't know where to start or what to do. I really need a 2nd bike before I start doing something stupid like that. I've had my bike 18 months now. It's looking pretty nasty. I need to clean it up. Haven't done ANY maintenance to it. Finally went and bought some chain lube and talked to my bike guy as to what I need to do to clean the ring/cassette/derailer. Wish me luck! (I'd pay good money to go over to Noah's house for just one evening! :)
- December 04, 2008 8:07 AM
- Noah said...
I've been pretty mechanically inclined since I was just a little kid. Bikes, though, are pretty simple contraptions. There are more parts in your chain than in the rest of your bike combined. Every link has four parts: two plates, a pin and a bushing, and most people treat "the chain" as one part, minus the master link.
Check out bicycle tutor, park tool repair instructions and of course sheldon brown.
I am not a professional bike tech (obviously, I used a pipe wrench!) but I do buy most of the tools as I need them, and I'm still learning more all the time. If you find yourself knee-deep in bike parts and want some quick advice, you can always email me (with the contact form on the right side of my site) or post a comment. I have probably done whatever you're trying to do or can figure out the answer.
- December 04, 2008 8:22 AM
Well, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only guy that has to get out the pipe wrench when I need to clean the bottom bracket!
For some reason, mine seems to be like yours. It doesn't take much to make it start creaking and I end up taking it apart to clean and re-lube it at least a couple of times each year.
- December 04, 2008 11:49 AM
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Though the final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 3 aren't due to take effect until 2016, ONC has already made the draft rules available for public comment. And comments, to be sure, the agency is getting.
While various groups have chosen their own details to critique, the general consensus seems to be that ONC is getting ahead of itself and ought to give Meaningful Use Stage 1 and 2 a good hard look first.
Accordng to a nice summary from iHealthBeat, here's where some of the major healthcare groups stand:
* The American Hospital Association is recommending that ONC fund a comprehensive evaluation of MU generally, and while it does, hold off on finalizing Stage 3 recommendations.
* CHIME, too, is asking ONC to evaluate the existing Meaningful Use program to decide whether achieving stage 3 is realistically possible by 2016.
* The Federation of American Hospitals is also arguing that ONC needs to evaluate current Meaningful Use requirements. Also, in its letter to ONC, the group argues that the existing structure of two years per stage doesn't cut it.
* The AMA weighed in with its own recommendation that ONC evaluate Meaningful Use as is before moving ahead. It also suggested changing some thresholds to make them more reachable; greater flexibility in program requirements; change the certification process to address usability; and improve HIT's capability to share patient data.
Personally, I think the idea of doing an extensive Meaningful Use evalulation sounds like a good one, and I hope ONC actually does so. When you're setting new standards that affect so many providers, why not gather some data on how existing standards work?


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Millions of Americans will again become heavier over the holidays. For many it's an experience as reoccurring as the Season itself. It seems almost inevitable that we overeat too often and exercise too little this time of the year. While the resulting weight gain is not always dramatic, getting rid off the extra pounds afterwards can be a real challenge.
"Americans probably gain only a pound during the winter holiday season, but this extra weight accumulates through the years and may be a major contributor to obesity later," finds one study conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In other words, even a little uptick in body weight each holiday season can add up over time until it becomes a potential health problem. For people who are already overweight or obese, the situation can be worse. Research by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) found that the average weight increase in this group was as much as five times higher. "These results suggest that holiday weight gain may be an important contributor to the rising prevalence of obesity," the NCBI study concluded.
Most Americans who gain weight between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve generally don't lose that weight ever again, says also Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiologist and talk show host on ABC. Some meals people eat during the holidays can add up to 2,000 calories or more, according to Dr. Oz, so they could actually put on an extra pound every day if they keep indulging like this. Once they become used to the higher calorie intake, it may seem like normal and they continue on that level.
So what can be done to prevent us from falling into the same trap year after year? While the holiday season is no time to start dieting because of all the temptations around us, there are a few tricks you can apply, says Registered Dietitian Marisa Moore. She suggests to keep tempting treats as much out of sight as possible. "Just seeing food can trigger the desire to eat," she warns.
Especially beware of calorie-laden drinks like eggnog, which can have 450 calories or more per glass. When you attend a party where lots of food will be served, "ruin your appetite" before you get there, Moore advises. Rather than arriving ravenous, grab a handful of protein and carbohydrate-rich snacks like nuts or cheese with some fruit. It will leave you less inclined to overload on heavier foods later.
Also, don't forget to maintain your exercise schedule between your partying. In fact, you may want to increase your workout efforts a bit for counterbalance.
Last but not least, don't forget to get enough sleep. Your full social calendar can wreak havoc on your body, says Moore. Lack of sleep and resulting exhaustion can contribute to weight gain as well because you are less likely to exercise restraint and keep your eating habits under control.
The more you are aware of your inclinations (some call it weaknesses), the easier it will be to work around them. Always have a plan ready for how much you are willing and able to consume without having to deal with dire consequences later.
Remember that the holidays are primarily there to reconnect with family and friends and to celebrate good times. Enjoying delicious food is certainly part of that, but it shouldn't be the main focus. Instead of standing around the buffet, you can hit the dance floor, or simply enjoy a good conversation with old and new friends that doesn't require more than you being your lovely self.
If you enjoyed this article, you may also enjoy reading "'Tis the Season for Weight Gain – And What (Not) to Do When Celebrating the Holidays"
Timi Gustafson R.D. is a registered dietitian, newspaper columnist, blogger and author of the book "The Healthy Diner – How to Eat Right and Still Have Fun"®, which is available on her blog, "Food and Health with Timi Gustafson R.D.", and at amazon.com. You can follow Timi on Twitter and on Facebook.


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Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D., was inaugurated as the 12th President in the 139-year history of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), the academic and professional leadership center of Reform Judaism, on Sunday, June 8, 2014, at 2 p.m. at Cincinnati's landmark Isaac M. Wise / K.K. B'nai Yeshurun / Plum Street Temple.
The Inauguration was attended by the international leaders of the Reform Movement, dignitaries from international academic institutions and organizations, and communal and civic leaders of Cincinnati, and featured the participation of leaders of the Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis, and HUC-JIR Board of Governors, and alumni, faculty, and students.
As HUC-JIR President, Dr. Panken leads the four-campus international institution of higher learning and seminary for Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR's campuses in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles and New York provide the academic and professional training programs for the Reform Movement's rabbis, cantors, educators, and nonprofit management professionals, and offer graduate programs for scholars of all faiths. HUC-JIR's 4,000 active alumni serve the Reform Movement's 1.5 million members and nearly 900 congregations, representing the largest Jewish denomination in North America, and the growing Progressive Movement in Israel and around the world.
Ordained by HUC-JIR in New York in 1991, Rabbi Panken has served as Vice President for Strategic Initiatives (2007-2010), Dean of the New York campus (1998-2007), and Dean of Students (1996-1998). He has taught Rabbinic and Second Temple Literature at HUC-JIR in New York since 1995, with research interests in the historical development of legal concepts and terms; narrative development; and development of holiday observances.
"I am greatly honored to serve as the President of HUC-JIR and to strive for ongoing innovation and creativity in strengthening our institution as the intellectual center of Progressive Judaism worldwide," stated Dr. Panken. "Our mission is to help our students grow into authentic Jewish thought leaders, able to articulate and advance their own visions of a rich Jewish life for a new and rapidly changing religious landscape. As we invigorate our partnerships with Reform synagogues and the larger Reform Movement, we will shape a compelling message that will have an impact on the largest denomination of Jews in North America and the growing Progressive Jewish community in Israel and worldwide. By nurturing the entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit of our faculty, staff, and students, we can bring forth new projects and programs that will reimagine Jewish learning, transform the Jewish community, and extend the College-Institute's leadership in Jewish higher education throughout the seminary and university worlds."
An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Dr. Panken earned his doctorate in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He currently serves on faculty for the Wexner Foundation and the Editorial Board of Reform Judaism Magazine, and has served on the Rabbinical Placement Commission, the Birthright Education Committee, the CCAR Ethics Committee, and in a variety of other leadership roles within the Reform Movement and greater Jewish community. Prior to teaching at the College-Institute, he served as a congregational rabbi at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City and as a rabbinical intern at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, NY. A native of New York City who graduated from Johns Hopkins University's Electrical Engineering program, Rabbi Panken is also a certificated commercial pilot and sailor. His publications include The Rhetoric of Innovation (University Press of America, 2005), which explores legal change in Rabbinic texts, and articles in leading academic journals and scholarly volumes. He has lectured widely at academic conferences and synagogues throughout North America and served as visiting faculty at universities in Australia and China.
Hebrew Union College was established in 1875 in Cincinnati by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the founder of American Reform Judaism, and is the first institution of higher Jewish education in America. Rabbi Panken's predecessors include Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (1875-1900); Acting President Rabbi Moses Mielziner (1900-1903); Acting President Rabbi Gotthard Deutsch (1903); Rabbi Kaufman Kohler (1903-1921); and Rabbi Julian Morgenstern (1921-1947), who rescued scholars and students from Nazi Europe. The Jewish Institute of Religion was founded in 1922 in New York by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (1922-1948), a pioneer of the American Zionist Movement and a social justice activist. The merger of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion took place in 1948, headed by Dr. Nelson Glueck (1947-1971), a renowned biblical archaeologist who established HUC-JIR's campuses in Los Angeles (1954) and Jerusalem (1963). He was succeeded by Dr. Alfred Gottschalk (1971-1996); Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman (1996-2000); Acting President Norman J. Cohen (2000-2001); and Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D. (2001-2013), who now serves as Chancellor.


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We checked out the wasp-like, turbo-charged version of the ATV flash memory stick a few months back and now we've got its big brother, the black and blue, 16GB version. It's still got the rubberised, 'ruggedized' shell that let us submerge the Turbo version in a bottle of water for a day without trouble, so the security conscious can even take your most vital data into the shower with you... if you must.
Not the fastest
It's not quite as fast as the original Turbo - you see it wasn't just a clever name - but still it's no slouch. Price-wise you can pick up cheaper 16GB drives like the excellent Corsair Voyager, which is a bit of a sticking point, but the design of the rubber housing is neat, especially the simple but incredibly effective cap holder.
It's certainly worth a look if you manage to find one around the £70 mark, which you should find happening once 32GB flash sticks become more readily available.


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Having a new account in IRCTC through IRCTC registration process reduces the effort which we have been putting to book railway window ticket.
IRCTC incomplete Registration? Register, Sign Up and IRCTC Login in 2020
Below are the 7 Steps to Register/Create New Account in IRCTC 2020
- Step1: Go to the official website
- Step2: Enter username and password
- Step3: Enter other personal details
- Step4: Submit the form
- Step5: Accept the IRCTC terms and conditions
- Step6: Successfully registered
- Step7: Email/mobile verification
IRCTC New Registration is required to book the ticket using IRCTC online. Without doing "IRCTC registration" or IRCTC Sign Up, Railway does not allow to book a ticket it does not allow any single service like PNR Status Check, Train Enquiry, Train Schedule, IRCTC Availability, TDR Filing, Premium Tatkal Service, Retiring Room Booking, Cancelling a Ticket, etc at all.
Every Indian should have an account in IRCTC as people all using very much familiar with the internet nowadays. 70% of people having mobile, smartphones nowadays and having internet facilities in their mobile for using WhatsApp especially ;), there are IRCTC apps are available to book a ticket or check PNR status from smartphones easily.
Here I am going to explain the process for IRCTC New Registration / IRCTC Sign Up Create New Account
IRCTC New Registration is very simple and easy. If you are a new user in IRCTC system then you need to create a new account, to create a new account in IRCTC click here
You need to fill correct and relevant information in the IRCTC New Registration form because if you will irrelevant information then your account will be treated as spam and your account might be deleted by the IRCTC Management team so be aware of the details you are going to fill in the form.
IRCTC Registration in 2020 / IRCTC Sign Up Process Create New Account
Let's start IRCTC Registration Form / IRCTC Sign Up Form Filling Process now:
First, go to this URL and click on the sign-up link available at left to the big Login button. Now you will be redirected to the IRCTC Registration form as shown below, thereafter below 7 steps to create an account.
Step1: (Go to Official Website)
To Register, Create a new account at www.irctc.co.in Go to https://www.irctc.co.in website and click on the Register button displayed on the top menu right side.
Now you will be redirected to the IRCTC Login Registration form as shown below, thereafter follow the below mentioned 6 more steps to create an account.
In the above form you can see the following fields:
Personal Details
User Name: It is a unique name/id that you must provide to hold an IRCTC account. Please enter the username here, one which you can easily remember.
IRCTC User id Example
For example, my name is Ankit so I'd prefer entering username such as 'ankit2015'
Security Questions/Password: A security question is a mandatory field and very useful for resetting a forgotten password. Sometimes it happens that you forget your password so with this feature you can reset your password by answering the security question.
Select the security question and enter the rememberable answer in the text field.
First/Last Name: Enter your first name and last name in this field. You can change this later.
Gender: Enter your gender here. Be careful about this field because this field value can not be changed later.
Marital Status: Select the correct value as applicable to you. This value can be changed later.
DOB: Enter your correct date of birth here.
Other Details
Occupation: Enter your occupation here by selecting the value such as Government, Private, Professional, etc.
Aadhar Card: It is not mandatory to enter Aadhar Card number but if you have, then please enter.
Email Id: It is a very important field. You must enter the valid email id here as it is very useful to identify you in the IRCTC system. Also needed for resetting your password in the future.
Mobile: Enter valid 10 digits mobile number here. This mobile will be verified through OTP (One Time Password) so re-verify it before submitting the form.
Nationality: Select the value as India always.
Residential Address, Flat/House Number, Country, PIN, State, City: Enter your full residential address and other details. These values can be changed later.
Captcha Image Text: It is an image containing text which asks the user to enter a correct value before submitting the form. This concept stops any virus/spam to enter the IRCTC Registration system.
Step2: (Enter Username and Password)
Enter a username and password in this step.
UserId or UserName is the user's Unique ID it is required for IRCTC to identify you in their system and required by you to login to their system.
Password - Enter a rememberable password. Please note Password must contain at least one capital character.
Step3: (Enter other personal details)
Go ahead and fill all the details Security Questions and answers, First name, Last name, Gender, Marital Status, DOB, Occupation, Aadhar Card, Email Id, Mobile, Nationality, Address, Country, PIN, State, City.
Note: When you reach at the 'ISD-Mobile' field, enter correct mobile number because verification code will be sent for confirmation.
Step4: (Submit the Form)
When all done then simply click on the I'm not a robot button.
Now submit the form by clicking on Register.
After clicking on the Register button, one pop-up will appear that will say-
'Your email id is......' and 'Mobile number is.....' will be validated. Press OK to continue.
Now re-verify both and press the OK button.
Step5: (Accept the IRCTC terms and conditions)
The system might present Terms and Conditions click on the 'I Agree Term And Conditions' button proceed.
Step6: (Successfully Registered)
After verifying your mobile number and Email id (on click of the link you received in IRCTC email) you will become a New member of IRCTC system and your IRCTC New Registration process is completed now :)
Step7: (Email/Mobile Verification)
Now check your mail id and mobile message box, you should get one OTP in email and verification code on mobile.
Note down both on a paper which you got in your email inbox and your mobile number.
After successfully IRCTC signs up/registered with IRCTC you will be able to use the following services:
- e-Ticket booking
- i-Ticket booking
- File TDR services (Ticket Deposit Services)
- Cancel Ticket
- PNR Status Check
- Train Schedules Check
- IRCTC Flight Services
- Premium Tatkal
Also, Check:
- How to Reset IRCTC Username and Password
- IRCTC Tatkal Ticket Booking /Reservation Tricks 2019
- 4 Steps Railway Parcel Booking Procedure
How to Login into IRCTC Using Created Username and Password Above?
Step1: (Go to the IRCTC login page)
Click here for IRCTC Login. A login form contains fields for username, password, and captcha field as shown below.
Step2: (Type username and password)
Enter your username you created in the above IRCTC New Registration process then followed by password and captcha and click on the Login button.
How to Verify IRCTC Registered Mobile Number and Email Id?
After clicking on the submit button user will have to verify their mobile number and email id through OTP.
- Click on "Verify Mobile No with OTP' and enter OTP (one time password) which you got on your mobile.
- Same for Email Id OTP, this OTP you will get in your email id.
Step3: (IRCTC login plan my travel, Book the ticket here)
That's all. You are done! you can see the home page of IRCTC now and by using the 'Plan My Journey' option you can book the ticket.
To know more about How To Book IRCTC Ticket click here
How to Register in IRCTC Through Mobile App IRCTC Connect
Here are the steps you need to follow:
- Download the IRCTC Connect App from Google Play.
- Click on IRCTC Connect App to open it.
- Observe that REGISTER button and click on it
- Fill your correct mobile number and email id then clicks on the Next button.
- Now verify your mobile number with email id to successfully register in IRCTC.
Problem: Sometimes you might get the error "wrong credentials" while logging into the system. wrong credentials mean in irctc is that either you entered the wrong username or password.
Solution: The solution of it is Re-verify your username and password, if it is correct then click on forget password link to reset your password then use the new password.
For any queries please post your questions in comment box. We will answer all your questions.


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DOVER — A mischievous monkey and his tall, faithful friend will be in Dover on Saturday, Jan. 12, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat will be visiting the Children's Museum of New Hampshire on that date to greet young fans and help promote the love of reading via the Books Alive program.
At this Books Alive event, museum staff will be reading Curious George stories by Margret and Hans "H.A." Rey throughout the day. The friendly costumed monkey character, accompanied by the Man with the Yellow Hat, will be popping in and out to greet children, exchange a hug or high-five, and pose for photos. There will also be a variety of monkey-inspired literacy, math and creative activities for children in the museum's large classroom.
The first Curious George story was published in 1941. Margaret and H.A. Rey produced six more stories featuring the mischievous monkey, with Hans mainly doing the illustrations and Margaret working mostly on the stories. All the Curious George books, including the seven original stories by Margaret and Hans, have sold over 25 million copies. George has become one of the most beloved and most recognizable characters from children's literature. His adventures have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, French, Afrikaans, Portuguese, Swedish, German, Chinese, Danish, and Norwegian.
All Books Alive activities are included with regular paid admission to the museum: $9 for adults and children over the age of 1 and $8 for seniors. Museum admission is free for Children's Museum of NH members and children under 1 year old.
The not-for-profit Children's Museum of New Hampshire is located in the center of Dover and offers two floors of hands-on, interactive exhibits for families to enjoy together. For more information, please visit www.childrens-museum. or


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Make Learning Irresistible
Monday September 19, 2016
Lunch Today: Chicken patty on a bun, Jell-O with fruit cocktail, fruit, juice, vegetable & milk
If you are interested in playing a sport at Sandpoint Middle School you must purchase an ASB sticker. The cost is $25.00 and can be purchased in the office.
Yearbooks are on sale for now for $20.00. The cost will increase to $25.00 starting November 1st.
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Ms. Smith-Hagadone, principal at Northside School, and Mrs. Marine are back at it again. We are super excited to take a new group of students on a science related 12 day trip to Costa Rica in June after school is out. The main emphasis of the trip is to teach about ecology in an experiential way. This trip is not a vacation or a camp. Students will be involved in work related to saving the rainforest and the animals that live in this habitat.
There will be a mandatory parent and student meeting on Wednesday, September 21st in Mrs. Marine's room (#15) from 6:00 - 7:00. Please stop by to room #15 before or after school if you have any questions.
Costa Rica News: Sorry for the typo error in the paper that was sent home about our trip to Costa Rica. The date is WEDNESDAY, SEPT 21ST, NOT THURSDAY!
The Middle School does not have room to store all the equipment that kids are bringing to school. You can no longer store it in the office so please do not take it in there. The Middle School will however help find a spot for our activities (golf,tennis) to place the equipment of the programs we sponsor. If you are a football or lacrosse player please make alternative plans in storing and retrieving your equipment.
Thank you.
Please help us with our 31st Annual Coats 4 Kids Drive! Cold days are just around the corner, and we want to make sure everyone has a coat to keep them warm! Drop off new or gently used coats, winter hats, scarves, gloves, mittens, and boots. We will accept all sizes from infants to adults. Starting September 9th until October 31 the donation box will be in the hall by the office.
Cross Country practice: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 2:30-4:15pm
Volleyball practice: Monday through Friday
7th grade 2:30-4:00pm
8th grade 4:00-6:00pm
Tennis practice at Travers Park: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 2:45-4:15pm
Wednesday 1:45-3:15pm
Golf practice: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 3:00-5:00pm. Bus route 9 after school 5th bus in line will take you to the Elks. Parents must pick you up at 5:00 or after practice.
First Volleyball games are Next Tuesday September 20th. 8th grade girls play here at SMS. Game starts at 3:30
7th grade girls play at Timberlake. Bus leaves at 2:00.
First Cross Country meet will be Next Thursday September 22 at Cherry Hill BMX. The bus will leave at 2:15.
8th graders: If you are interested in taking drivers ed there is information from Panhandle Driving School on the table in the hall by the office.
SMS has two lost and found areas. One is in the table area in the hallway near the school office, and the other area is the table at the 8th grade exit. Please check these areas for lost items. Thank you
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What a fun card this was to make!! Once again I borrowed a stamp set from my friend, but this little bear is so much fun I couldn't resist.
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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Alfred Marshall, English economist at the University of Cambridge, reconciled many neoclassical economic concepts and introduced many of the modern terms and diagrams used today by economists. His teaching covered marginal utility, elasticity of demand, production costs, and consumer surplus.


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Renée is Belgian singer-songwriter Renée Sys who was born in Sijsele, Belgium. Her debut album "Extending Playground" is filled with dreamy indie pop gems and was released last february on Zeal Records. The first single of the album "Dum, Dum, Dum" had some succes on the Belgian charts. The single is a perfect example of Renée's sultry and colourful vocals what makes the album perfect for lazy summer evenings. But my favorite song on the album is the sensitive piano track "Elegant Elephant"which in a way reminds of "Such A Lonely Soul" by Anna Ternheim, one of my favorite tracks of all time. But the album has much more to offer, be sure to give it a listen!
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How do Americans measure success?
For its August 2013 issue, Esquire Magazine crunched data from the U.S. Census, Council for Community and Economic Research, local housing market reports and interviews to find out how much Americans in these 24 cities thought they needed to earn to be considered successful.
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My sister LaDawn is letting me hitch a ride with her to our family reunion in Utah. Yea!!! I haven't been to visit family in Utah for over four years now. As stoked as I am for family fun, I will really miss Chris. I haven't spent a single day away from him since we have been married. I'm already experiencing some separation anxieties. Chris on the other hand can hardly contain his excitement (says me). He seems to think he will get all sorts of things done while I am gone. . . uh huh. . .
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Yea!! It will be so much fun with you, LaDawn, Tami, and us!!! We are super glad that you are coming!!
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oh Yea!!! I am so glad that you get to come up! I can't wait see you in a few days..
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Manny Ramirez 'feels great' after first A's at-bats
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Phoenix --
Manny Ramirez hit into a double play in his first at-bat with the A's, and grounded out to second in his other at-bat Friday.
The A's new designated hitter - who hadn't played in a game in nearly a year - knows he won't keep grounding out at that kind of rate as he regains his form.
"You better believe it," Ramirez said with a smile.
After his two plate appearances in the Cactus League opener, Ramirez said that his timing was better than he had expected and that he was happy that he was seeing the ball well.
"I feel great," he said. "I made contact."
Ramirez saw only three pitches in his two at-bats, and manager Bob Melvin chalked that up to being anxious to do something right away with a new team. Melvin noted that Ramirez's first grounder was hit "on the button."
Melvin anticipates Ramirez playing essentially every other day in Arizona, which probably translates to most home games.
"He needs some consistent at-bats early on so we can get an early read," Melvin said.
Ramirez retired April 8 after testing positive for performance-enhancing substances and must sit out the first 50 games of this season.
He said he loves the A's white shoes - he called the A's home whites "beautiful" - and added, "My friends call me and say, 'You look so good in green!' "
Ramirez has been generous with his time with A's hitters; on Friday, third base hopeful Josh Donaldson, who always has studied video of Ramirez hitting, spoke with the DH for a while.
"He's one of my favorite guys to watch, and now I get to pick his brain, watch all the drills he does," Donaldson said. "If I can pick up maybe just one little thing from a guy like that, it might help bring out my full potential."
Barton's setback: Daric Barton had an MRI exam earlier in the week after developing soreness in his surgically repaired right shoulder.
"Everything looked good, so I'll get back into it slowly," he said. "The biggest thing for me was to find out that it's fine."
Barton cannot throw until mid-March, and now maybe later than that, potentially affecting his ability to win the first-base job, but, he said, "My No. 1 concern is getting healthy. Then I'll worry about everything else. I just need to get back on the field."
Briefly: A's greats Sal Bando and Bert Campaneris were at Phoenix Muni, and Melvin introduced Bando to the team during the morning. ... The A's have an opening at third; asked if he can still play there, Bando, 68, laughed and said, "I can play there, but not very well." ... Bando said he will have to miss the A's ceremony honoring the 1972 championship team on April 21 because of a previous commitment. ... The games today and Sunday will air on 95.7 FM with the pregame show starting at 11:30 a.m.
Mariners 8, A's 5
Notable: Oakland pitchers gave up five homers, with two of them coming against reliever Grant Balfour. ... All of Seattle's runs came on homers. ... Eric Sogard hit Oakland's only homer, with two outs in the seventh. ... Wes Timmons, like Sogard a potential option at third, drove in two runs. ... Joey Devine and Pedro Figueroa had the only clean innings for the A's.
Quotable: "Today, anything in the air to right field winds up being a home run."
- A's manager Bob Melvin on the five homers his team allowed
Today's game: A's (Tyson Ross) at Mariners (Hector Noesi), 12:05 p.m. Radio: 95.7.
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MIAMI (AP) -- Jason Bay showed the kind of pop that prompted the Mets to give him that big contract.
The outfielder hit his fifth career grand slam in the Mets' five-run first inning and New York earned a three-game series sweep over the Miami Marlins with a 5-1 win on Sunday.
"It didn't feel any different -- that was the weird part. My first start in a week or whatever it's been, but I've done this a million times, it wasn't really that awkward," Bay said.
Chris Young (4-7) allowed one run and five hits in five innings. He walked one and struck out three as the Mets won for the seventh time in eight games.
The Mets wasted little time in getting to Mark Buehrle (12-12).
Ronny Cedeno led off the game with a double to deep center field and took third on Justin Turner's double. Turner hit a fly down the right-field line, where the ball landed just inside fair territory as right fielder Mike Stanton overran it.
Cedeno scored on David Wright's groundout. Following Scott Hairston's pop out, Buehrle walked Ike Davis and hit Kelly Shoppach with a pitch to load the bases.
Bay then drilled a 1-0 pitch into the right-center-field seats for his seventh home run. He went 2 for 4 and raised his average to .160 with 18 RBIs.
"I was just thrilled for Jason. To come out and hit that ball early, with the struggles he's had, serious injuries he's faced. It was his win today," Young said.
Now in the third year of a guaranteed four-year, $66 million contract, Bay has been reduced to a platoon player. He has played in 55 games this season, and has spent two stints (concussion, fractured rib) on the disabled list.
"I'm not out there trying to impress anybody or fake anything," Bay said. "It's obviously been a very trying time, and I take a lot of pride trying to be the same guy every day."
His approach has earned him respect, even if he hasn't been the star he was brought in to be.
"This guy's a professional," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "He understands. He's the first guy to stand up and say, 'Look, I'm not getting it done. I don't blame you for what's going on. I got nobody to blame but myself,'"
Buehrle gave up five runs and six hits in seven innings. He walked one, struck out three and hit a batter.
Justin Ruggiano's two-out double in the fifth scored Rob Brantly with Miami's run. Brantly had walked and took second on Buehrle's sacrifice bunt.
Miami has dropped four in a row and eight of 10.
NOTES: The Mets swept the Marlins on the road for the first time since May 25-27, 2007. New York also swept Miami at Citi Field earlier this year (April 24-26). . Six of Bay's seven homers have been hit on the road. . Miami recalled RHP Tom Koehler and LHP Dan Jennings from Triple-A New Orleans (Pacific Coast League League) before the game. . The Mets play in St. Louis on Monday, when RHP Collin McHugh (0-0) faces Cardinals RHP Joe Kelly (4-6, 3.61). . The Marlins will send RHP Ricky Nolasco (10-12, 4.78) to face Milwaukee RHP Mike Fiers (8-6, 2.85) on Labor Day.


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Elizabeth Warren is on the rise among Democratic voters, but she and other Democrats are less popular with the overall electorate, raising concerns about a bruising primary that could go on for the better part of the next year, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.
The survey also finds President Trump continuing to struggle, with economic concerns seemingly starting to affect his standing, leaving a cloudy picture about the 2020 presidential election.
Here are some key findings from the poll and how the results indicate what's ahead in 2020:
The Democrats
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Warren on the rise
Warren finds herself in a strong position with Democratic voters ahead of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate.
Seventy-five percent of Democratic voters now say they have a favorable impression of Warren — that's up from 53% in January, a 22-point jump from the last time the poll asked the favorability of candidates or potential candidates.
What's more, the percent of those saying they have a negative impression has gone down from 17% to 11%.
"Elizabeth Warren seems to be on the verge of starting to make significant and serious inroads into this contest," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducts the poll. He added, "Heading into the debate, she's very well-positioned."
Biden holding up
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who leads in most national polls of the Democratic contest, is also well-liked, but he has seen a decline since January — 71% of Democrats say they have a positive impression of Biden, a 5-point drop, and 22% don't, an 10-point increase in his negative rating.
"One of the initial senses of what Joe Biden presented was that he seemed to be less of a risk," Miringoff said, "but his performance so far has not been gaffe-proof, and as a result, people are not as comfortable and that opened up the door for others, and particularly Warren."
Biden has been taking most of the slings and arrows of his Democratic opponents, given his lead in the race, and his campaign would argue that he has held up well considering.
The broader electorate isn't quite sold on either Biden or Warren. Biden has the higher name recognition, and voters overall give him just a 45% favorable, 46% unfavorable rating. Voters are similarly split on Warren, who gets a 41% favorable and 42% unfavorable rating.
Sanders popular with the base but not the general electorate
Bernie Sanders, who has retained his loyal following, has seen an increase in his favorability rating among Democrats since officially declaring his candidacy. The Vermont senator has gone from 57% positive in January to 66% now. But it's a different story with the broader electorate: 55% of voters say they have an unfavorable impression of Sanders, while just 38% have a positive one.
"Bernie Sanders having over 50% negative has to be concerning to Democrats looking for electability," Miringoff noted.
Harris is now better known but also unpopular with general electorate
California Sen. Kamala Harris was also tested, but the difference of views of her between the primary and general election electorate are most striking. Harris has gone up 20 points with Democrats, as she has increased her name recognition, going from 36% favorable in January to 56% now. Back then, more than half of Democrats were either unsure or never heard of her. That's down to just a quarter of Democrats now.
So, she's worn well with Democrats, but not with a general electorate so far. Among registered voters, she has a 31% favorable, 42% unfavorable rating. (The poll did not test the favorability of the candidates with a general-election electorate back in January.)
"When you look at the national electorate," Miringoff said, "there's still a lot of work to be done on the part of Democrats to start attracting a positive reaction."
Democrats want to beat Trump
How the candidates fare with a general-election audience could be critical, as Democrats are increasingly saying beating Trump is more important than whether a candidate shares their position on most issues. In this poll, 58% said that, an increase from 54% in July and 46% in June.
The broader electorate continues to be split on whether the ideas they've heard from Democrats are going to take the country in the right direction (46%) or the wrong one (43%). That's a slight improvement from July when it was the mirror opposite. Still, more independents say their ideas move the country in the wrong direction (49%) than right one (42%).
The president's numbers
President Trump doesn't fare much better than his potential Democratic opponents. His overall approval rating is low (41%), a near-record number of people "strongly disapprove" of the job he's doing (45%), a record number disapprove of his handling of foreign policy (56%) and a majority say they will "definitely" vote against him in 2020 (52%).
It's the economy ... ?
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What's more, while the economy is buoying Trump — 51% overall and 53% of independents rate it as excellent or good — he has seen something of a bad economic summer. While the economy is still growing and unemployment is low, economic forecasts have turned gloomy with warning signs of a coming recession.
Trump's economic handling has taken a hit. More now disapprove (48%) than approve (47%) of it, a turnaround from July when a majority (53%) approved of his handling of the economy.
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Overall, Americans who responded were split, 47% to 46% on whether Trump's policies have strengthened or weakened the economy. And the number of people who think his policies have weakened the economy has increased 6 points since July.
And yet...
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Despite all that, more Americans think Trump will win reelection (46%) than lose (37%).
Just 5% of Republicans think he will lose, while 11% of Democrats think he will win and 14% are unsure. Independents, 49% to 32% think he's going to win.
The survey of 1,314 adults was conducted with live callers via telephone by The Marist Poll and has a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points. There are 1,160 registered voters with a margin of error of 3.8 percentage points. There are 542 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents with a margin of error of 5.6 percentage points.
The next Democratic debate is tomorrow. So who is best positioned to win over voters? A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that Senator Elizabeth Warren is in a strong place, registering as the, quote, "most well-liked of all the Democratic candidates." But Americans overall aren't that enthusiastic about this crop of Democrats or, for that matter, the incumbent president.
Let's dig into the poll results a little deeper with NPR senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro. Hi, Domenico.
DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Hi, Rachel.
MARTIN: So pretty good news for Senator Warren. What were you asking voters specifically about likability?
MONTANARO: Yeah, we're asking voters, you know, Democrats in particular, whether they had a favorable impression or unfavorable impression of the candidates who are going to be on stage tomorrow night. And Warren, you know, really popped. She's gone up 22 points since January. More than three-quarters of Democrats like her. Former Vice President Biden does pretty well, as does Bernie Sanders. But it's a different story for the general election for all of them.
MARTIN: And President Trump himself is not faring well either.
MONTANARO: No, he's not. I mean, you know, these Democratic candidates, it's essentially partisanship that's slipping in. You have them pretty split amongst the general election overall - Bernie Sanders, not very well-liked overall - 55%. And President Trump himself, his approval rating is only 41%, among the highest he's had for strongly disapproving at 45%. And it looks like a lot of the economic worries over the summer are starting to take a bit of a toll on him.
MARTIN: So does that mean that people think - clearly they have issues with his policies. According to your poll, does it mean they think he's going to lose?
MONTANARO: Actually, no, (laughter) that's kind of surprising here that most Americans or more Americans think he's going to win reelection than lose by a 46%-to-37% margin. You know, people have a mostly positive outlook on the economy, and that really is buoying him right now.
MARTIN: We also have a result from a special election in North Carolina that we need to talk about. This was for the House seat that was up for grabs. The Republican won, but the margin of victory was still pretty small. And this was someone President Trump had campaigned for. What should he and his reelection team take from this, if anything?
MONTANARO: Well, look, millions were spent by both sides on this. The Republican, Dan Bishop, won by only two percentage points. President Trump is already out tweeting about this, taking a measure of credit for going in there and helping put him over the edge. Less than 4,000 votes decided this race, and I think the most important thing is kind of what it means for politics going forward.
You know, Trump won this district by 12 points, and there are almost 30 districts that are held by Republicans where Trump did worse and won that district. So you have the idea, though, of how things are sort of being reshaped because this is a place where Bishop wound up winning and kind of juicing rural areas to be able to win. The suburban areas, the sort of wealthy areas in and around Charlotte, wound up going for McCready.
I think we're seeing a big crackup in the way and the kinds of voters who are going for each party, and, you know, it's going to be really interesting to see what that means for 2020. When it comes to the House races, you know, I'm not sure there are enough seats for Republicans to target without being able to win some of those suburbs.
MARTIN: All right, Domenico Montanaro, NPR's senior political editor and correspondent, breaking down the results of a recent poll and getting ready as we all look forward to the next Democratic presidential debate tomorrow night. Domenico, thank you.
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Community members fear that a homeless shelter will lower property values, cause crowding of competitive schools and pose safety issues for residents, who already feel the pressure of supporting another homeless shelter and a mental health facility in their neighborhood.
"When this was sold back in January, originally it was indicated that it was going to be a hotel/hostel. If you go on the website, you can see that it says you will be able to book a room, but when you call on the phone you get a robovoice and you can never actually book a room there," said one resident who didn't identify himself at another recent protest in front of the hotel. "For months, right until May 22, they were insisting it was going to be a hostel/hotel. Then suddenly, on June 6 at 4:45 p.m., 36 families were brought in and they signed the order, so now it's going to be a homeless shelter."
Douglas Apple, executive director for Samaritan Village, said, "We're here to talk about the program that just opened a few blocks of here. We have coordinated with all the elected officials, the community board, and it is our intention to work closely with the board, to ensure that the Pan Am serves residents and is part of the community.
"We are not here to add problems, we're not here to start issues," he added. "We'd invite anyone who's interested to visit any program of ours. We'd be happy to take people on tour to show the kind of program we run."
Apple promised that each family who comes through Pan Am will receive full support from their own personal case worker
"This is a program right now that has 90 families," Apple said. "These are mothers and children, fathers, individuals who through no fault of their own became homeless. We take our commitment seriously."
Apple said there are security cameras in the hallways, as well as outside providing 24-hour security.
"We did move in without notice. We understand the concern that that raises, and we're here to address that," Apple said.
Outside, the noise from the crowd swelled and inside, people began to grumble, so Apple added, "I understand that there's a lot of emotion behind this, but I would ask that we be respectful towards each other. We're committing to that."
The move comes on the heels of reassurance from Lisa Black, assistant director for the Department of Homeless Services (DHS), who told the board on May 22 that Pan Am was not suited for sheltering homeless families.
"The law in the city of New York requires all families with children to be sheltered in a facility that requires both a kitchen and a bathroom, so families are sheltered in apartment-style units," Black said then. "The hotel that was presented to us is just that—the hotel does not have kitchens, it does not have bathrooms. As is, it is not suitable for families with children."
Black said shortly afterwards that the contract for renovating the facility so it meets DHS standards would not cost more than $27 million, and that the cost of renovations to the hotel to accommodate residents would not be footed by taxpayers.
Lorraine Stephens of DHS said at the June 30th community meeting that the need for shelters in this city is currently overwhelming the department's already strained resources.
"Today, we have about 54,000 people in New York City in shelters. Of that, we have 11,000 families and about 23,000 children," she said. "This is not just a DHS crisis, this is a city-wide crisis. What's happening in our communities, we're not exactly sure of it. We need to make sure there are no families and children on the street."