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Upcoming training courses (R+OSGeo for spatio-temporal data analysis)
- 3-11 Sept 2012, Muenster (Germany): GEOSTAT
- June 11-22 2012, Zaragoza (Spain): Statistical analysis of geospatial data for environmental studies (course by Gerard Heuvelink and David G. Rossiter);
- April 1-3 2012, Wageningen: Sampling in space and time for survey and monitoring of natural resources, a 3-day course by Dick Brus;
- 23 Jan - 02 March 2012, Enschede: Geostatistics & Open-source statistical computing, Distance education course by David G. Rossiter;
- fall 2011, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada: R for Landscape Ecology Workshop Series;
- 12-16 December 2011, Wageningen: Geostatistics;
- 24-25 October 2011, Wageningen: Introduction to R for Statistical Analysis;
- 17-21 October 2011, Wageningen: Uncertainty propagation in spatial and environmental modelling;
- 18-24 September 2011, Belgrade: R+OSGeo in education (5 day course for PhD students);
- 10-11 September 2011, Redlands CA: Automated analysis of Automated analysis of DEMs using R+OSGeo (workshop at Geomorphometry 2011);
- 16-18 August 2011, Warwick, Coventry, UK: Use R 2011 offers several tutorials on using new packages;
- 24-31 July 2011, GEOSTAT 2011, IES Koblenz-Landau;
- 3-10 May 2011, Bergen: "Analysing spatial data", intensive course for PhD students;
- 11-17 April 2011, Geosciences Australia, Canberra: "Using R+OSGeo to process environmental data";
- 21-22 March 2011, IfGI, University of Muenster: Workshop on spatio-temporal data in R;
- 25-29 October 2010, Alterra, Wageningen University: PE&RC post-graduate course "Geostatistics";
- 12-13 October 2010, Web-inars on using R for monitoring Natural Resources run via USGS;
- 20(-23) July 2010, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA: Spatial Statistics tutorial at useR! 2010 conference;
- 5-16 July 2010, University of Amsterdam, Summer Courses Geo-ecological Data Analysis (SCGE-2010);
- 27 June - 4 July 2010, Plasencia, Spain: GEOSTAT 2010 Summer School for PhD students;
- 28 June - 7 July 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark: Ph.D. Summer School - Use of open source tools for spatial ecological modelling;
- 4 April - 5 May 2010, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Aarhus, Denmark: Geostatistics and GIS course;
- 8-12 March 2010, Soil and Water Science Department, Gainesville, Florida: Short course on Geostatistical Analysis of Environmental Data;
- 13 January - 28 April 2010, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Raleigh, USA: Course in Spatial Statistics in Climate, Ecology and Atmospherics;
- 29-30 August 2009, University of Zurich, CH: "Automated analysis of elevation data in R+SAGA/GRASS";
- 31 August - 4 September 2009, Academy for PhD Training in Statistics, UK: "Spatial and Longitudinal Data Analysis" by P.J. Diggle;
- 7 July 2009, Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, FR: half-day training tutorials in various new R packages;
- 16-18 June 2009, University of Southampton, UK: "Hierarchical modelling of spatial and temporal data: a 3-day course"; a one-day meeting on environmental and spatial statistics is scheduled for 16 June;
- 3–10 May 2009, MEDILS, Split, Croatia: GEOSTAT 2009 Summer School;
- 16-17 March 2009, Sheraton Palo Alto, California, USA: "Statistical learning and data mining" - a two-day course by T. Hastie and R. Tibshirani;
- spring 2009, e-Workshop hosted by Global GIS Academy "Spatial analysis in R";
Regular courses/meetings
- Aarhus Universiteit, DK: Courses from the Research Unit of Bioinformatics, Genetics and Statistics;
- Academy for PhD Training in Statistics, UK
- Arizona State University, USA: The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation e-learning courses;
- Bioconductor workshops;
- CSISS, University of California, Santa Barbara: Advanced Spatial Analysis workshops;
- Copenhagen University, DK: Hands-on training courses on spatial ecological modeling using R, GRASS and other open source tools;
- The University of Manchester, UK: CCSR Short Courses;
- University of Muenster, DE: IfGI Spring school;
- Global GIS academy e-learning courses;
- Lancaster University, UK: Short courses: R;
- Mango Solutions, UK: The R Language courses;
- Imperial college London, UK: Introduction to R courses;
- ITC, Enschede, NL: Geostatistics and Open-Source Statistical Computing (distance education course);
- useR! conferences (includes also workshop and training sessions);
- USGS web-inars on using R for monitoring natural resources;
- University of Oregon, Dept. Geography, USA: Geographic Data Analysis Using R courses;
- Wageningen University and Research, NL: PE&RC Postgraduate Courses;
People in Academia running courses on R
- Roger Bivand, NHH, Bergen, Norwey;
- Gilberto Câmara, National Institute for Space Research, Brasil;
- Bendix Carstensen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
- Ole Christensen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark;
- Peter Dalgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
- Jerome H. Friedman, Standford University, USA;
- John Fox, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada;
- Paul Galpern, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada;
- Trevor Hastie, Standford University, USA;
- Robert Hijmans, University of California, Davis, USA;
- Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, Wageningen University and Research, NA;
- Matthew C. Keller, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA;
- Petra Kuhnert, CSIRO, Australia;
- Michael Lachmann, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany;
- Edzer Pebesma, Universität in Münster, Germany;
- David G. Rossiter, ITC, Enschede, NL;
- Martin Theus, University of Augsburg, Germany;
Geostat 5-DAY training courses
The author of this website regularly organizes (with a group of colleagues: Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, Edzer Pebesma, Victor Olaya Ferrero, Roger Bivand, Olaf Conrad) a 5-days training course entitled "Spatio-temporal data analysis with R + SAGA + Google Earth". The objective of the course is to provide training to junior researchers interested to use R-based tools for analysis of spatially and temporally referenced data. The course is non-commercial, which implies that none of the lecturers is contracted or will receive any financial awards. The course consists of a balanced combination of theoretical and practical training and includes a one-day workshop where each participant can present their case studies and receive a valuable feedback.
To receive a notice about this summer school, please subscribe to the R-sig-geo mailing list, or send an e-mail to the course organizer, or insert a discussion point via this wiki.
The GEOSTAT 2011 summer school was held in IES Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
Teach-your-self literature
- Beginners:
- Beaudette, D., 2009. Open Source Software Tools for Soil Scientists, University of California at Davis.
- Braun, W.J., Murdoch, 2008. A First Course in Statistical Programming with R. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 174 p. ISBN 9780521694247
- Crawley, M.J., 2005. Statistics: An Introduction using R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN 0470022973
- Everitt, B.S., Hothorn, T., 2006. HSAUR: A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 325 p.
- Kabacoff, R.I., 2011. R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning publications, 472 p. ISBN 9781935182399
- Kuhnert, P., Venables, W.N., 2005. An Introduction to R: Software for Statistical Modelling & Computing. CSIRO Canberra, Australia, 362 p.
- R Development Core Team, 2008. An Introduction to R. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3900051127
- Venables, W.N., Smith, D.M., R Development Core Team, 2004. An Introduction to R. Network Theory Ltd, 156 p. ISBN 0954161742
- see also: Books on R
- USGS R course materials (teach yourself)
- Spatial data analysis/visualization in R:
- Baddeley, A., 2008. Analysing spatial point patterns in R. CSIRO Canberra, Australia.
- Bivand, R., Pebesma, E., Rubio, V., 2008. Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. Use R Series, 400 p. Springer, Heidelberg, p. 378.
- Diggle, P.J., Ribeiro Jr, P.J., 2006. Model-based Geostatistics. Springer Series in Statistics, 230 p.
- Reimann, C., Filzmoser, P., Garrett, R., Dutter, R., 2008. Statistical Data Analysis Explained Applied Environmental Statistics with R. Wiley, Chichester, 337 p.
- Theus, M., Urbanek, S., 2008. Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis: Principles and Examples. CRC Press, 277 p.


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And in fact there are some Democrats now -- there's a break in the Democrat wall around their party. There are five or six Democrats, elected Democrats in Washington who are now publicly expressing their thinking that we need fencing here, maybe a wall here, not the whole border, but there's some breakdown here. You know, the Democrats won the House in 2016, but a lot of Democrats won in districts where Trump was elected. And those Democrats I think are hearing from their constituents on this.
There's another interesting facet about this. There is some history taking place here. This manufactured crisis, and, by the way, I love Trump on this. Trump says, you know, everybody's looking for collusion. Well, look no further than the collusion between the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party on this whole business of this crisis being manufactured. And we have pointed out the collusion between the Drive-By Media and the Democrats with different montages illustrating this over the years starting with the now-famous gravitas montage.
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RUSH: I'm gonna kick off Open Line Friday with an email question. "Dear Mr. Limbaugh: Have you noticed that there has been very little polling -- almost no polling -- since Trump's Oval Office address to the nation earlier this week? And there was none of the usual stuff they do for presidential speeches. There was no 'snap poll' on CNN or any other network right after the speech. There was no online quickie, 'What do you think?' poll anywhere.
"There has been no polling data that we could find anywhere following Trump's speech. There weren't any Frank Luntz focus groups with any undecideds out there. They didn't gather any Trump voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and ask them if they're still behind Trump. The media didn't do any of the stuff they usually do. We have no idea what the valued and very wise independents thought of Trump's speech.
"Usually, Mr. Limbaugh, we get a flood of polls. We get a flood of reactions and focus groups here. The internet and Twitter are filled with polling data, focus group data after an Oval Office address like this. But not this time. Why? Why, Mr. Limbaugh, has there been literally no reporting of any public reaction to Trump's speech on Monday night?" Doesn't the question kind of answer itself, folks? Well, the short answer is it's because they... I'm sure they did do a couple of polls. I'm sure they did, in a flash way, sample public opinion. They didn't get the negative reaction to Trump they hoped for. But there's more. Hang on.
RUSH: So the first Open Line Friday call today is actually an email. "Mr. Limbaugh, why no polling data? Why no focus groups? Why no flash polls on the internet? Why not a single report of any public reaction to President Trump's Oval Office address on Tuesday night?" Let's go to the audio sound bites. This is Brad Parscale. He is the Trump reelection campaign manager. He was on the Fox News Channel last night. Question: "You said that according to your internal polls, the president has the highest numbers you've ever seen him at."
PARSCALE: We've been monitoring him over the entire two-year period and prior to that. But we kind of started it over when he became president and he got into office. And watching the data, you know, I started to see this rise as he started making this fight. And I'm not surprised by it. Because if you go back and you look... You look at the people that are kind of these swing voters, these people who possibly not like him for personality or different reasons, the No. 1 reason they will vote for him is because of his stance on border security.
RUSH: Bingo. So here you have the Trump campaign manager saying that their data, their internal data -- and it makes no sense for them to lie to themselves. Internal polling data campaign to campaign, candidate to candidate, politician to politician, that's the one result they don't lie to themselves about. They have to take that seriously. It's theirs. And their internal data shows Trump's at his highest level since this fight began. It makes perfect sense why the Drive-By Media would not be reporting a single public opinion reaction to Trump's Oval Office speech or even on the subject...
The public polling data that we do have is 93% of the American people think it's a major problem; 70% of the people support a national emergency declaration to solve this. And I want to go back. Grab sound bite No. 4. I want to go back to the day that basically sets the Drive-By Media off on their three-week narrative that I am president. It was December 19th. Let me see... The 19th? (muttering) Was that the last day I was here, the 20th? No. It was the middle of the week. It was close to the last day that we were here for the year, December 19th, and that was the day that I advised the president to walk away from the continuing resolution deal and go ahead and let the government shutdown.
RUSH ARCHIVE: I think the president ought to veto this. This is why he got elected. This is why people stick with him. This is why his support base has not abandoned him during this full-frontal effort of the Democrats and the media to destroy him. They've hung with him because of this. This issue predated Trump. The American people have been telling Washington for 25 years they don't want this, and the American people have continued to triumph. Washington continues to try to thwart the will of the people on this. Finally, the people elected somebody who actually said he meant what he was talking about regarding this, and they have stuck with him. The president should veto this thing, tell 'em he's not signing it, and leave for Mar-a-Lago today. He's not supposed to leave until the 21st. Somebody in the White House tell him I'll meet him on the first tee tomorrow.
RUSH: Well, we all know what happened. It was shortly after that little brief monologue that I got a direct message, an instant message from somebody delivering to me a message from the president. "Don't worry, I'm not signing this thing! I don't know who's telling you what, but we're not signing this. We're not signing the continuing resolution. I'm gonna veto this." I then shared those exact words, that exact story, and we were off -- and we're still in it.
Three weeks of the Drive-By Media claiming that Trump was on the verge of signing it until I raised hell, and somebody walked into the Oval Office and said (sputtering), "Mr. President! Mr. President, Rush Limbaugh... You're gonna lose Rush Limbaugh! Don't do it! Don't do it, sir," and Trump stopped. That's the story they told. You just heard it. Nobody ran in and told the president anything. The president sent somebody to tell me that I was worried about nothing. So let's see. Where are we?
Here we go. Sound bite Nos. 6 and 7 to continue the theme here. This is yesterday afternoon. This is CNN International. This is CNN around the world on a program called Hala Gorani Tonight. That's somebody's name. It's not a holiday. It's Hala Gorani Tonight, and she had on with her senior media reporter Oliver Darcy about the government shutdown. Now, this is yesterday afternoon, but they went back all the way before Christmas to explain how I shut down the federal government.
GORANI: Rush Limbaugh's a -- one of the, uh, far-right radio hosts. Here's what Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show.
RUSH: Looks like a lot of people's worst fears may be realized and that the president is getting ready to cave on getting any money from a wall in the current budget.
GORANI: How much influence do these types of commentators actually have on the president? Can we measure it?
RUSH: "How much influence do these types of commentators have...?" What type of commentator am I? What are these types of commentators? That was Hala Gorani, and she's reporting or asking the senior media reporter, Oliver Darcy. Here was the answer to his question. Again, this is yesterday afternoon.
DARCY: We know for sure that they have influence! He received so much blowback in right-wing media from individuals like Rush Limbaugh that he ended up reversing his decision, and our reporting indicates that it was in large part due to his critics. I think the president is very smart. He knows that the people his supporters watch are the people that are on Fox News and the people that are on talk radio like Rush Limbaugh. And he knows that if they start criticizing him, he's gonna be in trouble with the base. If someone like Rush Limbaugh is saying that the president's not being tough on the wall, he's not delivering on his promises, that's when it gets dangerous for Trump.
RUSH: People can't... You know, I tell you, folks, it's amazing how consistent these people are. In the early days of this program, you were the mind-numbed robots, incapable of independent thinking, unable to make up your own minds. You were nothing but a bunch of... Well, I was the Pied Piper, and you were the little animals running around and you didn't do anything until I told you to do it. So the presentation is always conservatives have no ability to think on their own. Every conservative is the result of evil influence from some savant. Now it's Trump.
Trump is the idiot. Trump is the guy that has no mind of his own, Trump is the guy incapable of independent thought. Trump will only do what certain types of commentators tell him to do. You see, the theme here is that Republicans/conservatives are idiots, incapable of proper independent thought and are the result of brainwashing or pied piperism or what have you. It's constant. I mean, it's been this way for 30 years, and I'm here to tell you, Donald Trump doesn't need to be told by anybody what the right thing to do on the border is.
He's only the leader of the issue. He is only the guy -- the one guy -- that's taking any action on it that the American people want taken on it. They voted for countless numbers of politicians to do this and not a single one of them has, certainly not to the extent that Trump has. The idea that Trump is the product of being influenced by certain types of commentators is just another creation of the idea that Trump is a blithering idiot and doesn't know what he's doing, doesn't really care about issues, doesn't really have a core.
He's just subject... (impression) "He's afraaaaid ! He's afraaaaid of Fox News. He's afraaaaid of losing his base. He's afraid of Matt Drudge, and so forth," and it's just the exact opposite. It's more evidence that they have no idea who Trump is, and they have no idea how to deal with him. By the way, the panic is now skyrocketing out there when news hit that the Trump administration is making plans to move on from Ruth "Buzzi" Ginsburg.
So the Ginsburg site's putting out news, "Hey, she's perfectly fine! The surgery that she just had says there's no remaining cancer, no further treatment will be needed." You can interpret this any number of ways. But there's panic setting in on that. Of course, if you thought the Kavanaugh fight was something, it was Romper Room compared to what happens if one of these libs on the court resigns. One more little sound bite before the break. This is Mara Liasson last night on (impression) "NPR All Things Considered." This is a bit of what she had to say.
LIASSON: Almost every poll shows that while border security is broadly popular with voters, the wall -- and shutting down the government to get a wall -- is not, except among Trump's core supporters. And now that Trump is promising to act alone if necessary, he's getting praise from some of the same conservatives that previously attacked him for waffling on the wall. Over the weekend, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners that Trump has to do this all by himself.
RUSH ARCHIVE: It remains a one-man show. Donald Trump against the Democrat Party and the media! We are very fortunate the guy does not cave.
RUSH: There must have been a best-of show that played "over the weekend" that she heard because everybody knows this is not a weekend show. But she said that I said it "over the weekend," and she's NPR. So they know.
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Twenty-seven people, including 18 children, have been killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to the Associated Press.
Another person was found dead at 36 Yogananda St. in Newtown, sources told The Courant.
Many of the shootings at the school took place in a kindergarten classroom, sources said. One entire classroom is unaccounted for.
The shooter -- identified by CNN as Ryan Lanza -- is dead, and the situation is secure, said State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance.
Another official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way, said the gunman apparently had two guns.
A law enforcement official in Washington said the attacker was a 20-year-old man with ties to the school and that one of the guns was a .223-caliber rifle.
Public records show that Lanza lived at 36 Yogananda St. at one point, and he is also listed as living at 1313 Grand St. in Hoboken, N.J. Police are searching that residence as well, sources say.
Three people were brought to Danbury Hospital, but their condition is unknown. The emergency room is on lockdown.
Shortly after 9:40 a.m., police reported that a shooter was in the main office of the school. A person in one room had "numerous gunshot wounds," police said.
Groups of students — some crying, some holding hands — were being escorted away from the school by their teachers. Some students were still in the school at 10:30 a.m., parents said.
Police were still searching the school at 11 a.m., and police dogs were brought in. Around noon, the triage area was broken down, stretchers were taken away and the SWAT team left the building.
School and local emergency officials were accounting for the children, who were released to their parents. Some parents were sequestered at the Sandy Hook fire department, directly in front of the school.
Other frustrated parents were desperately trying to get information from officials as they searched the school.
Vanessa Bajraliu, a 9-year-old fourth grader, heard the shots.
"I saw policemen -- lots of policemen in the hallway with guns," she said. "The police took us out of the school. We were told to hold each others' hands and to close our eyes. We opened our eyes when we were outside."
Her brother, 17-year-old Mergim Bajraliu, a senior at Newtown High School, was at his nearby home when he heard shots, he said. He first went to a neighbor's house.
"Then we heard sirens," he said.
He rushed to the school on foot and saw a girl being carried out, he said. She looked badly injured. Another girl had blood on her face, he said.
Mergim soon found his sister and took her away from the scene.
Parent Richard Wilford said his Sandy Hook second-grader, Richie, heard what he described as "pans falling" when gunshots rang out. He said that his son told him that the teacher went to go check, came back in and locked the door and told the students to stand in the corner.
"What does a parent think about coming to a school where there's a shooting" It's the most terrifying moment of a parent's life … you have no idea," said Wilford.
Brendan Murray, a 9-year-old 4th grader, said he was in the gym with his class when they heard "lots of banging." He said the teachers put the students in a nearby closet where they stayed for about 15 minutes before police officers told them to leave the building.
The boy said the students ran down a hallway where there were police at every door. He said "lots of people were crying."
Eight-year-old Alexis Wasik, a third-grader at the school, said police were checking everybody inside the school before they were escorted to the firehouse.
"We had to walk with a partner," she said.
One child leaving the school said that there was shattered glass everywhere. A police officer ran into the classroom and told them to run outside and keep going until the reach the firehouse.
Audra Barth, who was walking away from the school with her first-grade son and third-grade daughter, says a teacher took first-graders into the restroom after bullets came through the window.
Students at nearby Newtown High School on Berkshire Road were stunned Friday when they learned of the shootings.
Senior Alex Buttery said when she learned the shootings had taken place on Dickinson Drive – where the school is located – "I immediately thought of Sandy Hook," she said. "It's devastating."
Buttery, walking out of the school Friday afternoon with her friend Clare Donnelly, said she'd cried a lot today.
Donnelly said "it's hard to wrap your head around" the shooting. "It's difficult to watch [young children] go through this."
Junior Renee Henriquez said she was "shocked, speechless" by the shootings.
Buttery said she had been texting back and forth with her mother all day. "I went there," she said of Sandy Hook School. "I know the teachers. I'm just wondering who it is." Her mother, she said, was very emotional. They "know a lot of neighbors who go to Sandy Hook."
NHS student Stefanie Carr said she was having a hard time processing what had happened. "I just couldn't process how I felt. I'm still trying to get over it."
All of the students had the same question: "Why someone would do that to the children."
Newtown United Methodist Church opened the doors around noon after ministers there heard of the tragedy. Brad Tefft, a bereavement minister at the church, drove in and opened the doors.
"I better get down there. It's in our neighborhood," Tefft remembered thinking.
He created a sign that said "prayer vigil," which he placed out by the street, and also put a sign on the door saying sanctuary open.
"We are taught to listen and offer that cold cup of water when necessary," Tefft said.
As word spread of the magnitude of the tragedy in Newtown, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy talked on the telephone Friday with President Obama about the incident.
The conversation was part of the federal, state, and local response to the shootings.
"The governor is in the room with the families,'' Roy Occhiogrosso, Malloy's senior adviser, told Capitol Watch shortly before 1:30 p.m. Friday. "He is attempting to make sure they get the information they need. It is an unspeakable scene.''
State officials reacted with shock and alarm to the shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, where multiple people were killed this morning by a gunman.
House Republican leader Larry Cafero and Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams were both stunned upon hearing that 27 had been killed. Cafero put his hand over his mouth in an immediate reaction.
"The governor is on scene,'' Doba said. "He has spoken to the Department of Homeland Security and theFBI, which has pledged any resources we need.''
The state departments of public health, education, mental health and addiction services, and the state police are all working on the incident.
Incoming U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, who represents Newtown as part of the 5th Congressional District, said, "As a mother, I can only begin to imagine what the students, parents, teachers and staff of Sandy Hook Elementary must be experiencing. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone impacted by this horrific tragedy. While details are still emerging, I hope for the safety and well being of the children, teachers and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary and for the Newtown community.''
Incoming U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy arrived at the firehouse around 2:30 p.m. and went to talk with parents.
Afternoon buses and kindergarten has been cancelled. The entire Newton district is on lockdown, and other school districts took similar measures across the state.
In West Hartford, Superintendent Karen List sent a recorded message to families Friday noting an increased police presence at town schools after the Newtown shootings.
"It's really for reassurance," List said. Counselors will also be available for students at the schools, and West Hartford administrators are now creating a set of talking points for parents if they decide to explain the shootings to their children over the weekend.
A meeting of Farmington Valley-area superintendents that was scheduled for Friday was canceled.
"We need to be in our districts," List said. "We need to be communicating with our families, we need to be supporting our faculty and children."
In Waterbury, Wilby, Crosby and Kennedy high schools have canceled Friday's afternoon and night games, according to the school system. Other after-school activities for Waterbury schools will go on as planned, but there will be police on the premises.
The only mass shooting in the U.S. with more than 27 killed since the 1950s took place on April 16, 2007, when a student named Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in Blackburg, Va., before shooting himself.
- Staff writers David Owens, Dave Altimari, Josh Kovner, Marc O'Connell, Bill Leukhardt, Chris Keating, Samaia Hernandez, Denise Buffa, Steve Goode, Brian Dowling, Hilda Munoz, Jenny Wilson and Stephen Busemeyer contributed to this report. Associated Press reports are included.


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The Battle of Mill Springs: The Civil War Divides a Border State examines the history of one site and how it reflected divisions that ran across the United States. Below are materials for further exploration of the subjects this lesson considers.
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The Battle of Mill Springs
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The Civil War in Kentucky
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Pattaya has hosted raunchy mass tourism since US troops came for R&R during the Vietnam War. Uneven clean-ups of both pollution and the sex trade have resulted in crude contrasts: eyesores scar a potentially fine corniche; few swim in waters that are no longer dirtied by sewage; watersports and attractions draw families, go-go bars remain top of many visitors' must-see lists.
As if in a counterfeit Elmore Leonard novel, guys in vests pose with bikes, babes and Ray-Bans. Menus come in English, German, Arabic and Russian – nationalities that recur in lurid reports on underground activities in the Pattaya Mail. Yet mainstream tourists face little risk and some stay to open businesses, hence pubs called Rosie O'Grady's, Scot's Bar and Pat's Pies. Morphing into a town, Pattaya now boasts malls, 15 golf courses and a largely artificial culture. The centre is walkable, or you can flag down a songtaew anywhere.
The next bay south, longer, cleaner Jomtien Beach, has sparser boutique resorts, delectable seafood and fewer Pattaya-esque mistakes.
Bungee jumping, diving, fishing trips, golf, horse riding, jet skiing, kite surfing. paintballing, parasailing, speedboats, windsurfing.
Further information
Tourist information www.tourismthailand.co.uk
Useful website www.pattayacity.com
A favoured retreat for Bangkokians, this dagger-shaped isle immortalised by poet Sunthorn Phu is actually a national park. Chic resorts are now gentrifying its shambolic fringe of resorts with minimal amenities and aesthetics, but pricing out its young regulars. Boats from Baan Phe dock at Na Dan, near which the squeaky white sand of Had Sai Kaew starts the string of pretty east coast bays.
Beach massage, inflatable banana rides, jet skiing, mellow party scene, snorkelling.
Further information
Useful website www.kohsamet.com
Thailand's second largest island is one of 46 national park isles bordering Cambodia. Since ex-PM Thaksin proclaimed it the 'next Phuket' in 2002, a land-grab by developers has outpaced supposedly sensitive planning. Trucks shake and rumble the road around forested mountains, which contain three waterfalls. Ko Chang is named after an elephant-shaped southern headland. Though pachyderms aren't indigenous, Thais don't miss a trick, and there's a refuge at Ko Chang Elephant Camp runs elephant treks.
Boats dock at Tha Dan Kao, while shops, bars and restaurants centre on north-western Had Sai Khao beach. Dive shops access the so-so reefs (October-April/May) and offer watersports, including dinghy sailing on Klong Prao. Some head south to islands (open in dry season only) such as Ko Mak, which boasts white sand and internet, and the larger, ever more exclusive Ko Kood.
Canoeing and kayaking, diving, dinghy sailing, elephant trekking, hiking, massages and beauty treatments, snorkelling, Thai cooking courses.
Further information
Useful website www.kohchang.com
Founded as a royal spa, Hua Hin retains palaces, a quaint railway station and traces of fishing village charm, having restrained pollution, prostitution and development.
The king still lives at the art nouveau Phra Ratchawang Klai Kangwon ('Far from Worries Palace') in Hua Hin, but it's tourable when he's away. Its miles-long beaches stretch north past condos, resorts and the stunning teak Phra Ratchaniwet Marukhathaiyawan palace to Cha-am, a ho-hum resort catering to raucous Thai sanuk. South is Pranburi, a yachtie haven with designer hotels. Sand and water quality are middling, and weekends can get crowded.
Hua Hin's beaches are generally quieter south of the Sofitel towards Had Khao Takiap. The pace is picked up on Khao Takiap where a sandy beach ensemble of water sports, coconut palms and great Thai eateries has blossomed. Hua Hin has a walkable centre, but limited transport.
Diversions include golf and Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park (0 3261 9078), where you can kayak in wetlands amid karsts that inspired its '300 peaks' name.
Golf, kayaking, sailing.
Further information
Tourist information www.tourismthailand.co.uk
Ever-smarter hotels, restaurants, spas and villas upgrade Samui, but impair its water supply and landscape of sweeping beaches, rugged capes and forested hills. Yet somehow its laid-back roots remain: fishing, coconuts, backpacker huts, New Age pilgrims.
The commercial/official hub of Nathon port boasts Hainan-influenced teak shophouses, a market and great hawker food. Just south at Lipa Noi beach, Samui Dharma Healing Centre (Sawai Home Bungalows, www.dharmahealingintl.com) runs Buddhist fasts at simple beach huts. The North Coast water is less clear than in the east, but calm year-round. It spans Bophut, Samui's most charming village, and Had Bangrak – called Big Buddha Beach for the 12-metre (39-foot) statue in Wat Phra Yai – which is tranquil despite the cutely rustic airport nearby.
On the east, Chaweng's crescent of fine sand, swimmable waters and arching palms is both party central and a vaguely sleazy lesson in non-planning, boasting Samui's better shops. Over a ridge with giddying views, beautiful Lamai bay has crystal waters, lovely sands and boulders at the southern end. Two of these, Hinta Hinyai ('Grandpa and Grandma Rocks'), resemble genitals and have become a tourist trap. Lamai town is a mess, with poor restaurants and hostess bars. Roads then fork inland to Nam Tok Ta Nim waterfall, with mountain views en route, or around the quieter southern beaches at Laem Set and Taling Ngam.
Canopy jungle tours, clubbing, cycling, diving (Samui lacks reefs, but umpteen companies serve nearby coral - best May-Oct), sailing (yacht charter), sea canoeing and kayaking, sea cave tours, Thai cookery courses.
Fast facts
Further information
Tourist information www.tourismthailand.co.uk
Other useful websites www.kosamui.com/www.samuiguide.com
An hour by ferry from Samui, Pha-ngan is ten years behind, slightly less beautiful, but friendlier. It attracts a blend of backpackers, entrepreneurs, dreamers and wasters to its smaller, craggier, often reef-laden bays, despite erratic electricity and torturous transport. Coconuts and fishing remain village mainstays.
East of the commercial centre of Thong Sala port sits Wat Kow Tahm Meditation Centre (www.watkowtahm.org). The other ferry dock, Had Rin West, is rocky and shallow, and backs on to the headland's better beach, Had Rin East. Home of the Full Moon Parties, it would suit swimming and snorkelling were it not for the longtail traffic.
Many visitors still come for one thing only: Full Moon Inc. Every month up to 10,000 committed partyheads rave to the hard trance on Had Rin East at the world's biggest beach party.
'Turtle Island' resembles a turtle diving south to Ko Pha-ngan and Ko Samui. Rocky and jungly, it has a long western strand facing Ko Nang Yuan, three islets linked by a tri-star beach. Non-divers can feel out of place, but relish 11 quiet beaches, notably Leuk, Jansom and June Juea. Tao is walkable, but has bike taxis and a few songtaew.
Boasting good coral, swim-throughs and an abundance of large fish, the 24 dive sites have good visibility (late May-early Oct).
Diving, kayaking, snorkelling, wakeboarding, waterskiing.
Futher information
Useful website www.kohtaoonline.com
Koh Phuket
Thailand's largest, richest island (49km by 27km/30 by 17 miles) has been a trading post for millennia. A 19th-century tin rush turned Phuket City into the province's capital, drew Chinese settlers and left the rainforested hills scarred. From the 1970s Phuket mined an even richer seam: tourism. Fishing villages became smart resorts or ramshackle shanties, offering diving, yachting and 'eco-adventures'.
Over bridges from the mainland, Route 402 skirts Phuket International Airport and threads south to Phuket City past rubber plantations, the Heroines' Monument (to two women who helped repel the Burmese in 1785) and Kathu, where Ban Kathu Heritage Centre (Ban Kathu School, 0 7632 1246, open by appointment) hosts a dusty Mining Museum. Like Singapore, Melaka and Penang, Phuket City retains Sino-Portuguese shophouses and mansions, gaily decorated in Greco-Roman and 'lucky' Chinese motifs. Some tin baron homes along Thanons Yaowarat, Krabi, Thalang and Deebuk have become bars, boutiques or galleries; Chinpracha House (Thanon Krabi, 08 9646 9080, 9.30am-4pm daily) preserves that lifestyle perfectly. Named from bukit (Malay for 'hill'), Phuket City hugs Khao Rang hill. The park at the summit offers views west to Phang-nga bay and the Sea Gypsy village on Ko Siray.
Most tourists stay around the bays that scallop the western and southern coasts, and now at the long northern Mai Khao beach near Sirinart National Park (0 7632 7152/8226). Ao Bang Thao Mai fits hotels and golf courses of Phuket Laguna around lagoons in old mining pits, while many of the ritziest hotels, shops and villas snuggle in quieter Surin and Kamala beach. Tsunami-hit fisherfolk share Kamala beach with Phuket FantaSea (www.phuket-fantasea.com), a gaudy theme park with a vast buffet restaurant and a 3,000-seat theatre for a pyrotechnic spectacle, including elephants.
Ringed by hills, the crescent of Ao Patong is raw tourism, with pestering touts, gem stores, stalls selling fakes and hostess bars clogging the Soi Bangla strip. The developed lower west coast has arguably the best beaches, from broad, duned Karon to prettier, family-friendly Kata, where twin bays frame the snorkel-friendly Ko Pu islet. Kata Yai hosts September's windsurfing championships.
There are stunning views from beyond here, and particularly at the southern cape Laem Phrom Thep, which gets crowded at sunset. East around the cape arcs dramatically beautiful, windswept Nai Harn beach.
Try eco tours by Siam Safari (45 Thanon Chao Fa West, Chalong, 0 7628 0116, www.siamsafari.com), Phuket Union Travel (64/23 Thanon Chao Fa West, Chalong, 0 7622 5522-33, www.phuket-union.com) or Asian Premier Holidays (74/90 Poonphon Night Plaza, Phuket City, 0 7624 6260, www.asianpremier.com). Mountain bike specialists include Bike Tours (10/195 Thanon Kwang, Phuket City, 0 7626 3575, 01797 6540, www.biketoursthailand.com). Several 4WD tours twist through the jungles and plantations. Elephant treks are mostly short bush rambles; some include mangrove kayaking.
Canoe trips explore sea caves in the jungled karst islets soaring out of Phang-nga Bay. The eco-sensitive pioneer of this now often reckless mass activity, John 'Caveman' Gray, has split from Sea Canoe (0 7652 8839/40, www.seacanoe.net) to offer similarly inspirational tours at John Gray's Sea Canoe (0 7625 4505-7, www.seacanoe.com). Bring water, a T-shirt and sunscreen. Most boat tours of Ao Phang-nga National Marine Park take in 'James Bond Island' (Ko Tapu, where The Man with the Golden Gun was shot).
Phuket is Thailand's diving HQ, with a recompression chamber in Patong and 50-plus companies, including White & Blue Dive Club (0 7628 1007-8, www.white-bluedive.com), Dive Master (www.divemaster.net), Scuba Cat (0 7629 3120, www.scubacat.com) and South-east Asia Liveaboards (www.seal-asia.com). Aside from day trips, liveaboard tours take in dramatic reefs and pelagic fish at the Similan, Surin or Phi Phi islands. Access and visibility drop during the monsoon, when beach rip tides also make swimming risky.
Golf flourishes at Blue Canyon Country Club (165 Thanon Thepkasatri, Had Nai Yang, 0 7632 8088, www.bluecanyonclub.com), Phuket Golf & Country Club (80/1 Thanon Wichitsongkhram, 0 7631 9200, www.phuketcountryclub.com) and the Laguna (www.lagunaphuket.com).
Phuket is Asia's yachting hub. Boat Lagoon Marina (20/27 Thanon Thepkrasattri, www.phuket.com/sailing/marina) hosts charter giants Sunsail (www.sunsailthailand.com), yacht services, a hotel, a spa and restaurants. Day sailors may prefer the rather ramshackle Ao Chalong Yacht Club (Thanon Chaofa, www.acycphuket.com). Super-yachts berth at Yacht Haven Marina (0 7620 6704-5, www.yacht-haven-phuket.com), while Royal Phuket Marina (68 Thanon Thepkrasattri, www.royalphuketmarina.com) proffers swanky spas, cafés and champagne bars.
Further information
Tourist office www.tourismthailand.co.uk.
Useful websites Also consult Phuket Gazette (www.phuketgazette.com) and www.phuket-maps.com
A 70-kilometre (44-mile), one-hour drive north of Phuket, Khao Lak suffered most from the tsunami, but has recovered fairly well. Its long sweeping beach and parallel lush virgin forest remain two of the South's natural highlights. Although stretches of beachside land remain barren, resorts have reclaimed the prime sites.
Further information
Tourist office TAT, 73 Thanon Phuket, Phuket City (0 7621 2213/www.phukettourism.org).
Useful websites www.khaolak-info.net and www.khaolak.net.
Krabi Airport brought mass tourism to Laem Phra Nang, a breathtaking karst cape. Roadless and cut off by towering cliffs, the cape is getting ever-denser accommodation on the back-to-back bays of sandy West Railay and mangrovey East Railay. A trail leads past caves to the paradisical Had Phra Nang beach, home of sunbathers and full-moon rites to its cave's fertility deity.
Longtail ferries leave from humdrum Krabi Town, passing Susaan Hoi, a fossil shell beach, but most people reach it by boat from nearby Ao Nang, a laid-back hub of resorts, restaurants and internet cafés.
Agencies hawk trips to islands, reefs, lagoons and inland eco tours, including Sea Canoe (www.seacanoe.net), the scuba outfits Aqua Vision (0 7563 7415, www.aqua-vision.net) and Reef Watch (0 7563 2650, krabidir.com/reefwatch), and, in Krabi Town, Chan Phen Travel (145 Thanon Utarakit, 0 7561 2004).
Railay is a rock-climbing centre with hard après-climb partying. Climbing outfits offer training, most reputably are King Climbers (Ao Nang, 0 7563 7125; Railay, 0 7566 2096, www.railay.com).
Further information
Tourist information www.tourismthailand.co.uk
Useful websites www.krabi.com and www.railay.com
Inhabited mostly by Muslim Thais and chao lay (sea gypsies), fast-upgrading Ko Lanta Yai belongs to a National Marine Park blessed with dive sites and awesome karst outcrops. Down the sandy west coast from the northern pier hub, Ban Sala Dan, backpacker bungalows, lively bars and internet cafés crowd Had Khlong Dao and Ao Phrae-Ae ('Long Beach'). As the roads deteriorate south through Had Khlong Khoang, Had Khlong Nin and Ao Kantieng, designer getaways mix with ramshackle huts.
From Ban Sala Dan, land, boat and kayak trips explore the east coast's caves, mangroves, Muslim village life in Sangka-u, and Lanta, a town of old wooden shophouses. Other tours take in a bat cave and a seasonal waterfall.
Diving, kayaking.
The wondrous pelagic vistas of this island duo drew so many visitors since the 1980s that Phi Phi became a byword for development, from damaged reefs and brackish water to garbage overload. Damage to Maya Bay on Phi Phi Leh while filming The Beach proved minor compared with how the 2004 tsunami scoured the tourist village on the sandbar of Phi Phi Don. Thaksin hampered its recovery so it could be turned into an upmarket eco-resort, but with backpacker volunteer help the crowded mess of bars and guesthouses returned regardless. Areas unaffected by the wave have fared better.
Boat trips take in Leh's impenetrable cliffs, picturesque bays and the Viking Cave, so named for its mariner's murals, where men on bamboo scaffolds harvest swift's nests for the Chinese soup delicacy. The many scuba shops do early and late dives to avoid the daytripping hordes.
Boat trips, diving.
When to go
Thailand is tropical but has various climate zones. It stretches north to Himalayan foothills and south to a near-equatorial, rainforested peninsula with different monsoons in each ocean causing rain intermittently year round; most severe in late Oct-Dec in the Thai Gulf (Pacific Ocean) and June-Oct in Andaman Sea (indian Ocean), most pleasant in May-Oct and Nov-Mar respectively.
Tourist information
Thailand's official tourist information website (www.tourismthailand.co.uk) contains maps and e-brochures with useful information about things to do and transport in all major destinations.
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