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Horm Metab Res. 2013 May;45(5):391-3. doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1329987. Epub 2012 Dec 7.

High level of ATP citrate lyase expression in human and rat pancreatic islets.

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Childrens Diabetes Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.

A comparison of an enzyme's level in pancreatic islets with its level in other body tissues can give clues about the importance of a metabolic pathway in the islets. ATP citrate lyase plays a key role in the pyruvate citrate shuttle, as well as for the synthesis of short chain acyl-CoAs and lipid, and its level in human and rat pancreatic islets relative to other tissues has not been previously reported. We compared the level of ATP citrate lyase mRNA and enzyme activity in pancreatic islets of humans and rats and the INS-1 832/13 cell line to levels in liver, a lipid synthesizing organ, and also kidney. The mRNA level was much higher in human islets and rat islets than in liver and kidney of the same genus and the enzyme activity was 8-fold and 12-fold higher in islets of humans and rats, respectively, compared to liver of the same genus. These data support other evidence that indicates ATP citrate lyase is important for the pyruvate citrate shuttle and lipid synthesis in insulin secretion.

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Implementing the CHIMP Act: The Case for Federally Promulgated Criteria to Immediately Retire Chimpanzees from Laboratories to Sanctuary

February 05, 2013 Capaldo, T., Bailey, J., and Groff, K. (2012). Journal of Animal Welfare Law, Autumn 2012/Winter 2013. Science Papers

Over 900 chimpanzees continue to languish in laboratories in the U.S., the last remaining largescale user of chimpanzees for research.1 The U.S. government owns or financially supports nearly 600 of them.2 Some were wild-caught in Africa; others were born in a lab or sent from zoos, circuses, and animal trainers. Some were taught to communicate using sign language or raised in family settings - only to be sent into biomedical experimentation when funding ran out or they became too strong to manage. According to available information, more than one-third of all chimpanzees in laboratories - approximately 350 - are elderly3; the vast majority are not actively being used in research; most have been held for decades; and all are suffering. (excerpt)

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Holy shi- it's that guy! Mindblowing actor stuff.

Some of my favorites:

King Joffrey

Little kid in Batman Begins

Elijah Wood in Back to the Future 2 (Arcade kids) Billy Zane was in it too

Nathan Fillion in Saving Private Ryan

That's all for now...There's a ton more I remember but I'll probably start feeling really old
you non australians probably wouldnt get mindblown about this, but asher keddie who is the star of this popular australian tv show (the offspring)

was actually the scientist chick in xmen origins
Lol. She lives a few km from my house and I'm always seeing her at the supermarket.
Recently saw that Michael Shannon had a small part in Tigerland as well

But cant find a picture of it. Its the part where a Sgt is about to electrecute someone his nuts as a demonstration.

Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
Seth Gilliam

Teen Wolf Advisor

Baltimore Cop

Guard of Oz

Mobile Infantry

The Worst Person on the Cosby Show

She is also Kat from Heartbreak High, which is how I recognized her in The Matrix.
Loved Heartbreak High.

Drazic has had a few good cameo type roles of late. Few more bigger movies to come too.

  • The Hunter
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • 300: Rise of an Empire
Just noticed this one yesterday.

The KKK guy that Will Smith and Martin Lawrence mess with in Bad Boys 2:

is Agent Nelson Van Alden in Boardwalk Empire (Michael Shannon).

i could never take Michael Shannon seriously because of this

every time I see him I just picture him yelling "I GOT MY RIGHTS!" as he's getting thrown into a trunk


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BYOD – A Practical Approach

The major challenges with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are perhaps less about technology than they are about changing the mindset of IT departments in the face of the ongoing consumerisation of technology. Since the advent of personal computing in the 80’s, there has been a gradual shift to IT being a set of tools that surrounded an empowered user. However, the fact of the matter is that most of the IT that has been available simply wasn’t consumer ready. It was complex, expensive to own, insecure and impossible to manage. In the end, centralised IT was asked to take on the burden of fixing the mess.

The introduction of truly consumer ready devices and services has seen the realisation of the idea of the empowered user. Where the likes of IBM, Oracle and Microsoft were the biggest players in the first wave of IT, it is companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google who have been the dominant players in this second wave by creating an ecosystem of personal technology that is easy enough for a child to use at a price point that almost everyone can afford. The excitement generated by these new technologies means people want to use these new tools not only at home, but everywhere.

The fact that people are now prepared to pay for their own technology in exchange for the ability to have a choice in what they use hasn’t been lost on those who are asked to fund upgrades for ageing corporate infrastructure. The result is that BYOD is now firmly on most IT department’s radar. However, the people who want to BYOD don’t want to use it simply as a way of lowering IT’s overheads, they want it to continue being a tool that allows them to consume services that enable them to do their job better. They want their internal IT to give them the service levels they’ve grown used to, they want immediacy, and they want it now.

For IT departments to take advantage of the benefits of consumer IT and BYOD, they must begin to shift their focus away from being custodians of technology towards being a provider of a service. The delivery of this service-centric IT may in fact provide the necessary political and budget justification for creating a new IT foundation built on an agile data infrastructure. To ease the transition to BYOD, IT departments should take a four-phase approach.

  • Define your policy
    Publish a service catalogue of what applications and services can be consumed from tablets and smartphones from within the corporate environment, while simultaneously setting expectations around the use of public cloud technologies for sensitive data
  • Focus on quick wins
    Deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for laptop users. This is something that can deliver a reasonably quick win, allows a broad range of end user devices to be brought into the corporate environment, and elegantly solves a number of security and supportability problems
  • Continue the dialogue
    Establish an effective two way communication mechanism that allows users and IT to work together to prioritise which services need to be developed and deployed in-house, and which may need to be blocked or uninstalled
  • Develop the total solution
    Expand on, or integrate the initial VDI deployment into a larger Infrastructure as a Service offering that will form the foundation for Software and Storage as a Service offerings. These will fulfil much broader demands and allow the BYOD strategy to be completely successful

By focusing on quick wins, effective two way communication, and building an agile foundation for the future, BYOD efforts can be the catalyst for building a truly service driven IT department.

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FTC Director Jessica Rich to Headline Upcoming NAI Summit

We are thrilled to announce that Jessica Rich, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, will join us for a “fireside chat” at the 2016 NAI Summit on April 13 in San Francisco.

Ms. Rich is a well-respected expert in privacy and data protection whose appointment as bureau director at the FTC in 2013 was widely seen as a signal of the FTC’s continued focus on consumer privacy as a priority. She is a key regulator for our industry who has built the FTC’s privacy program from a small team to one of the agency’s signature projects.

In her current role, Ms. Rich oversees a staff of more than 450 attorneys, investigators, and support personnel working to stop fraud and deceptive advertising, protect privacy, and promote compliance with the consumer protection laws.

Her remarks will be especially relevant for Summit attendees who are focused on emerging technologies and cross-device advertising. Ms. Rich launched the FTC’s first initiatives involving mobile technologies, and has significantly expanded its work around mobile apps, mobile payments, social networks, and other new platforms. With several Summit panels dedicated to new technologies and the ways in which they intersect with our daily lives, Ms. Rich’s remarks will provide an interesting and timely kickoff for the event.

Ms. Rich has often noted that there is room for government and industry to work together to address the important issues around data collection and its use for digital advertising. She has commended our industry for taking strides to provide more choices for consumers. In particular, she praised NAI’s recent sensitive health standards because of our careful and thorough definition of “sensitive.”

We are looking forward to hearing from Ms. Rich in April. We hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be a an excellent start to a great event. Register today.

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WNC Fallon students present research at UNLV

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From left, WNC Fallon campus Professor Holly O'Toole, research students Ellona Gehman and Lana Quint, and WNC's Dr. Gary Evett present their research group's scientific poster at the 2nd Annual NIH INBRE Statewide Meeting at UNLV.

Two students from the Western Nevada College Fallon campus presented the results of their summer research Aug. 24 at UNLV.

Ellona Gehman and Lana Quint accompanied Dr. Gary Evett and Professor Holly O'Toole to the second annual INBRE (IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence) Statewide Meeting.

"This research was an opportunity that I was so thankful to have been a part of," Quint said. "I am thrilled, to say the least, to further my education so I can understand the complexity and undeniable importance of what we have learned in our short time of research."

INBRE, through the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH), gives hands-on research experience as well as exposes and trains students in a broad range of current cell biology, microbiology and molecular biological techniques used in research.

As undergraduate researchers, Gehman and Quint participated in presenting their poster to the other students and professors attending the event. The meeting also included the students attending presentations on bioinformatics and proteomics.

The purpose of INBRE-funded research is to provide students in NIH-underfunded states the opportunity to participate in collegiate biomedical research with the goal of funneling more students into doing biomedical research as a career, O'Toole explained.

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The school reported their students at WNC Fallon worked on research involving newly discovered mRNA-splice variants of cyclooxygenase-1 and their role in inflammation. This student-involved research will be continuing into the summer of next year. WNC students interested in participating in the summer of 2018 may contact Evett or O'Toole at the college.

Gehman recommends the program as a great experience as a Jump Start student to gain a look at and participate in real research.


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** UPDATE (02/01/08): Yay! Age of War finished first in the maxgames contest! You can check all the rankings there: www.gamestudios.com

To thank you guys, I fixed some bugs:
The 3rd special is longer, and wont stay forever if you die usign it
The final turret should no more reach the ennemy base
The special wont reload when paused
I reduced the damage of the double turrets a little

Thats it for now. Ill release some information on my next game soon on my website: www.interactivepixels.net
**YEAHHH thanks for the monthly voting!!! Wooot i love you all!

press space to pause the game

*Added difficulty choice when you start the game
*I think I fixed the invicible unit bug, sorry for the inconvenient

Take control of 16 different units and 15 different turrets to defend your base and destroy your ennemy.
In this game, you start at the cavern men's age, then evolve! There is a total of 5 ages, each with its units and turrets. I hope you have fun with this game! Sooo many hours of hard work.

Thanks to CyprusX who made many units to help me to make it in time for the contest. You rock man!

really fun!

i loved it i had 4 of the best turrets and 2 super soldiers to win :). I noticed a spelling error after you win you spelled enemy wrong you spelled it ennemy :o
But overall 5/5 10/10

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The game is great the artwork even better but theres only one thing is that when you get the Ion cannon tower u kill the ennemY's base when u miss his units

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Good game. keep making more!

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ramirezbloodline. you dumb mafucka, go download flash. and dont give a 1/10 score if you haven't watched/played it you dumb muthafucka. go rape a homeless.

on a serious note. excellent game. i cant say anything different from what everyone else is saying. looking forward to the next project.

I beat Impossible! It took a while but I did it, an easy was to do this is don't evolve for a long time using only cave men units trust me, if you don't believe me then try it!

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In New Jersey Premarital Agreements Now Require More Consideration Than Ever

If you are considering a prenuptial agreement, carefully review all aspects of the contract before signing. A recent revision to the New Jersey Uniform Premarital and Pre-Civil Union Agreement Act makes it harder than before to break that agreement, even if circumstances change. (1)

A prenuptial agreement, also referred to as a premarital or pre-civil union agreement in New Jersey, is a contract between two people contemplating a lifelong union. The contract outlines, among other things, distribution of assets should the relationship end. (2) One of the biggest problems is that couples enter into these contracts at a time when the dissolution of their relationship is the last thing on their minds. It is important not to let your emotional bliss stand in the way of looking at the contract realistically.

When drawing up prenuptial agreements, decisions are based on present circumstances. Over time those circumstances can change, making the agreement less equitable. The loss of a job, illness, injury or other disability can leave one person in need of greater support than when the original agreement was written. Under such circumstances, courts previously could be petitioned to revise the agreement so neither party is left living below the standard they enjoyed while in the relationship. (1)

Last month, Gov. Chris Christie signed into law revisions endorsed by the State Legislature making it more difficult to revise a prenuptial agreement. In short, courts now can only modify the agreement if it can be proven it was “unconscionable” at the time it was signed. Under the revisions, a prenuptial agreement would be considered “unconscionable” if one of the parties entered into it without being fully aware of the assets and liabilities of the other party and without waiving his or her right to be so informed. Such circumstances would still allow the court to invalidate the agreement. However, courts would no longer be able to invalidate a prenuptial agreement based on hardships that occurred after the agreement was signed. (1)

These revisions are not retroactive and apply only to pre-marital or pre-civil union agreements entered into or modified (by the affected parties themselves) after the revisions were signed into law, which was June 27, 2013. (1)

Despite these restrictions, prenuptial agreements, if done correctly, can save a couple both financially and emotionally should their relationship end. All 50 states recognize prenuptial agreements, meaning courts will defer to the terms of the agreement when ruling on distribution of assets in divorce cases, saving both time and court costs. What cannot be included in a prenuptial agreement, however, is anything to do with child custody or support. These matters are determined by courts based on a standard that takes the “best interests” of the children into consideration. (3)

In order for a prenuptial agreement to stand up in court, certain elements must be met. First, these contracts must be voluntarily executed, written agreements. Courts usually will not enforce oral agreements. Also, each party must make a full and fair disclosure of his or her financial rights and obligations, so that the agreement cannot be considered “unconscionable.” Finally, the involved parties themselves must execute the agreement and have it notarized. While it is recommended that each party have the agreement reviewed by their own attorneys, the attorneys cannot execute the contract.(3)

Prenuptial agreements are no longer something only the rich and famous bother with. They can be beneficial to anyone, so long as serious consideration is given to all terms before signing.


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If you have been arrested for a Marijuana Offense in LouisianaElizabeth B. Carpenter, Esq.  Our fees are always discounted for Marijuana Offenses.

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Appeals Court Considers Marijuana Reclassification

More than 10 years after it was initially filed, the latest petition to remove marijuana from Schedule Iof the Controlled Substances Act is finally giving the herb its day in court. The current classification lumps cannabis in with drugs such as heroin, LSD and mescaline.

The District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments this week in the case of Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration, providing an opening for medical marijuana reform advocates to challenge the conventional law enforcement contention that marijuana has a “high potential for abuse” and is “without accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.”

Joe Elford, Chief Counsel for Americans for Safe Access, described an endless cycle orchestrated by federal drug enforcers in an effective effort to keep marijuana on Schedule I indefinitely. He argued that the Department of Health and Human Services is actively stifling much-needed research into marijuana’s medical benefits, citing the Schedule I classification as the basis for controlling research. The DEA completes the cycle by arguing that marijuana can’t be removed from Schedule I because there isn’t enough available research. This strategy has for years put a stranglehold on any opportunity for federally-accepted research into the medical marijuana benefits found in other studies.

“They’ve created a catch-22 so that they never have to be responsible for moving marijuana off of Schedule I,” said Kris Hermes, spokesperson for Americans for Safe Access. “They’re placing politics before science.”

DEA attorney Lena Watkins argued that the federal government does allow for research into the medical efficacy of marijuana, and that there have been 15 such studies that have met the government’s exacting standards. When asked by the three-judge panel why those studies have not convinced the DEA that marijuana has a legitimate medical use, Watkins said, “we don’t have the final results yet.”

Watkins reminded the court that neither state legislatures nor voters are qualified to judge the accepted medical use of marijuana, and stressed that “marijuana is the most widely abused drug in America.”

“The DEA often argues that just by the fact that marijuana is used by so many in the United States, that it’s tantamount to having high potential for abuse,” Hermes said. “That’s a ludicrous standard, and it’s not consistent with the way it’s used by the FDA.”

Key Legal Hurdle

The issue that tripped up two prior appeals of marijuana’s classification may be the downfall of this effort as well: A plaintiff must prove that he’s been harmed in order to have legal standing to sue. Past attempts to reschedule the drug failed because the plaintiffs weren’t able to prove this to the court’s satisfaction.

Before adjourning, the appeals court ordered the plaintiffs to provide supplemental briefing to make their case for standing, indicating it could be a fatal stumbling block yet again.

“They’re taking the standing issue very seriously,” Hermes said.

The plaintiff in this case is Michael Krawitz, a disabled United States Air Force veteran. Krawitz uses medical marijuana in combination with more conventional medications to alleviate pain resulting from a military service injury. But Krawitz is being denied medical services by the Department of Veterans Affairs because he’s a medical marijuana patient.

Krawitz said marijuana’s Schedule I classification has “caused my fellow patients to be imprisoned, be denied work, be denied housing, be denied the right to a firearm, and be removed from transplant lists.”

“Despite being an Oregon card-holding medical marijuana patient, I’ve had to access medical treatment for my pain outside the VA,” Krawitz said, adding that “this is done openly as punishment to stop me from using cannabis.”

A Curious Question

Since the appeal of this petition was granted, medical marijuana advocates have argued that regardless of the outcome, the opportunity to bring evidence of marijuana’s medical benefits before a court is a victory in itself.

They may need to look for victories where they can, as Judge Merrick Garland asked one question that suggested an ominous outcome.

“Don’t we have to defer to the agency?” he asked, referring to the DEA. “We’re not scientists. They are.”

Far from being scientists, the DEA is a federal law enforcement agency operating within the Department of Justice.

Do you think that marijuana should be removed from Schedule I? How do you think it should be classified? Let us know in the comments section below.

Attorney Elizabeth B Carpenter has been a supporter of reforming Marijuana Laws for many years.  Currently, Louisiana has some of the harshest marijuana laws in the country, and it has the fifth-highest marijuana arrest rate in the United States.  Additionally, Louisiana has never had a law that effectively protects medical marijuana patients from arrest. In the last several sessions, Louisiana legislators have been too busy trying to increase marijuana penalties and refusing to introduce compassionate medical marijuana legislation.

Louisianans must form a united front and remain determined to stand up to the injustice of marijuana prohibition and accomplish decriminalization, no matter how long it takes to succeed.

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Two Ackman Investors Want More Details on JC Penney

Friday, 15 Mar 2013 01:57 PM

Two institutional investors with William Ackman's $12 billion hedge fund plan to reach out to the manager to get more information about the firm's big bet on ailing retailer JC Penney, whose stock has dropped 21 percent this year.

Officials with two state pension funds that, combined, oversee assets of more than $120 billion told Reuters they want Ackman to give them more information about Pershing Square Capital Management's portfolio and to say more about the long-range plan for turning around JC Penney's fashion lines.

The pension officials did not want to be identified because they had not yet set up their meetings with Ackman. The manager, whose fund is sitting on a roughly $500 million paper loss in JC Penney stock, declined to comment.

It's not uncommon for pension managers and institutional investors to seek a private meeting with hedge fund managers, especially when a big bet or a portfolio is underperforming.

The move by two of Ackman's investors is an indication that some investors are growing uneasy with Pershing Square's stake of 39 million shares in JC Penney, which the hedge fund began amassing in 2010.

"People are reading a lot about Bill Ackman these days and have questions, and while these kind of hedge funds can't speak to everyone, keeping their very largest clients informed will have benefits," said Don Steinbrugge, managing partner at investment consulting firm Agecroft Partners LLC, in Richmond, Virginia.

Pershing Square is up 3.6 percent for the year through February, compared with a 2.8 percent gain for the broader $2.6 trillion hedge fund industry.

The pension plan officials said they are also concerned about Ackman's other very large and public bet, an estimated $1 billion short position in shares of nutritional supplement company Herbalife. Ackman is betting that Herbalife will be exposed as an unsustainable pyramid scheme and the stock will collapse. He currently has a $200 million gain on that bet.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has taken a large stake in Herbalife and has engaged in a very public war of words with Ackman over the company.

Meanwhile, at least one prominent hedge fund manager is beginning to line up against Ackman on the short side on JC Penney. Reuters reported last week that York Capital and Morgan Stanley are shorting the debt of JC Penney, where Ackman sits on the board.

Earlier this week, market speculation that Ackman's handpicked CEO Ron Johnson might be leaving briefly pushed JC Penney shares up 5 percent on Tuesday.

But not all investors are pushing for Ackman to talk more about JC Penney. Given the fund's strong track record over the years and current gains, several investors said they are very happy with Ackman and his team.

Ackman often says he can't say too much about JC Penney because he is on the board. But in private with his own investors, Ackman would face fewer restrictions to be candid with investors about what should come next at the retailer.

"JCP entered into a 'Letter Agreement' with Pershing Square in which Ackman agreed to maintain the confidentiality of company information while he is on the board," said Damien Park, managing partner at consulting firm Hedge Fund Solutions, in Philadelphia. "This, however, does not restrict him from saying anything negative about the company, its management or board."

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FOUR MISSOURI COUPLE SET MATRIMOIAL JIECOR1> One of the most remarkable •women in Texas history was Sarah Sarah Standifer, Missouri-born. Sarah, Sarah, later Sarah Litton, adapted herself to t&e lusty, perilous, gaudy life of the early state without eren a backward look at the home she had left. She reared reared 14 children and presided, at the last without the help of her •ftusbapd, over a saloon' and hotel hotel which was the scene of many a drunken killing. Sarah married seven times, but always the same John Litton, her first 16ve. The status of Texas changed repeatedly while she ran her establishment at Hog-Eye,' a stop on an old emigrant trail between between Brenham and Austin,'and each time Sarah and John ma'de the friendly pesture of being remarried remarried under the new state. They ran up eventually,-a total of five civil and two tribal ceremonies, ceremonies, for they kept peace the same way with the Indian tribes. Sarah came to Texas with her mother, Elizabeth Standifer, a Missouri widow, and five other >oungsters almost exactly a century century ago. Enroute in their cov- - er-od- wagon, they-met- John Litton, Litton, and he took them to the home of his uncle, Lenian Parker. Parker. Elizabeth married Leman, and then John and Sarah set out upon upon their career of marriage. Hog-Eye, where they settled, made a convenient stage stop, and to the Litton inn came every every type of man the frontier had attracted, ranchers, gamblers, adventurers adventurers and outlaws. Sarah stayed serenly at her post, puffing puffing on her clay pipe, keeping an eye on the children and seeing that her customers got what they wanted. She went along just as quietly after John died shortly after the birth of their fourteenth fourteenth child. In its Centennial year, Texas is paying honor to Sarah Standifer Standifer and the others who were the first developers of what Is now one of tb,e richest states in the American union. The state's one hundredth birthday party, a $25,000,000 $25,000,000 World's Fair, opening in Dallas June 6, is its tribute to the pioneers. The six-month Texas Texas Centennial Exposition will be at the same time a dramatization of the glamorous past in which Sarah Standifer participated and a celebration of the achievements the men and women of her day made possible.

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NHTSA Joins Mississippi Department of Public Safety and Safety Advocates to Highlight Dangers of Child Heatstroke in Hot Cars

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Auto safety agency urges caregivers to think 'Where's baby? Look before you lock.'

JACKSON, Miss. – As Mississippi continues to endure record summer heat, David Strickland, Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), today joined Safe Kids President and CEO Kate Carr, Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner Albert Santa Cruz, Norman Collins, a grandparent advocate who lost his grandson to heatstroke, local health professionals and officials to discuss ways to prevent child deaths and injuries in hot cars and urge parents and caregivers to think "Where's baby? Look before you lock."

"This campaign is designed for families with young children, but it applies to everyone who cares about the safety of children," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "We hope these simple tips will save lives and help families avoid heartache."

Statewide, at least 13 children have lost their lives to vehicular heatstroke since 1998, with most deaths occurring among children ages 3 and younger. Heatstroke is the leading cause of non-crash, vehicle-related deaths for children under the age of 14.

In response to a growing incidence of heat-related deaths, NHTSA and Safe Kids Worldwide announced a new partnership to prevent heatstroke. As part of this joint effort, the nation's top auto safety agency and one of the country's most vocal child safety organizations have hosted nine events in nine states already this summer and will continue throughout September to highlight the dangers of heatstroke.

"Everything we know about this terrible danger to children indicates heatstroke in hot cars can happen to any caregiver from any walk of life – and the majority of these cases are accidental tragedies that can strike even the most loving and conscientious parents," said NHTSA Administrator Strickland. "We hope our campaign not only helps caregivers avoid accidentally harming a child but also clears up some of the misconceptions about the causes of child heatstroke in cars."

When outside temperatures are in the low 80s, the temperature inside a vehicle can reach deadly levels in only 10 minutes, even with a window rolled down two inches. Children's bodies in particular overheat easily, and infants and children under four years old are at the greatest risk for heat-related illness.

Data from the San Francisco State University Department of Geosciences show 33 children died last year due to heatstroke – medically termed "hyperthermia" – while there were at least 49 deaths in 2010. An unknown number of children are also injured each year due to heatstroke in hot cars, suffering ailments including permanent brain injury, blindness, and the loss of hearing, among others. Often heatstroke deaths and injuries occur after a child gets into an unlocked vehicle to play unbeknownst to the parent. Other incidents can occur when a parent or caregiver who is not used to transporting a child as part of their daily routine inadvertently forgets a sleeping child in the back of the vehicle.

"Whether you are a parent or caregiver, or just a concerned bystander, you can help save lives," says Kate Carr, president and CEO of Safe Kids Worldwide. "We are urging everyone to A.C.T: Avoid hypothermia-related deaths by never leaving your child alone in a car and always locking doors and trunks; Create reminders and habits for you and your child's caregivers to serve as a safety net to ensure you don't forget your child; and Take action if you see a child unattended in a vehicle by immediately calling 911."

In addition to Mississippi, NHTSA, Safe Kids, and their safety partners have already traveled to Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia and have additional visits planned for Missouri and Denver.

Through the partnership, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, NHTSA, Safe Kids, and their safety partners urge parents and caregivers to take the following precautions to prevent heatstroke incidents from occurring:

  • Never leave a child unattended in a vehicle – even if the windows are partially open or the engine is running and the air conditioning is on;
  • Make a habit of looking in the vehicle – front and back – before locking the door and walking away;
  • Ask the childcare provider to call if the child does not show up for care as expected;
  • Do things that serve as a reminder a child is in the vehicle, such as placing a cell phone, purse or briefcase in the back seat to ensure no child is accidentally left in the vehicle, writing a note or using a stuffed animal placed in the driver's view to indicate a child is in the car seat; and,
  • Teach children a vehicle is not a play area and store keys out of a child's reach.

If you see a child alone in a hot vehicle, immediately call 911 or the local emergency number. A child in distress due to heat should be removed from the vehicle as quickly as possible and rapidly cooled with water.

To learn more about NHTSA's "Where's baby? Look before you lock." campaign, visit

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Samsung Pay: Wider acceptance means bolder, faster, “tap and go” fraud

Even though I am somewhat of an Apple groupie, I couldn’t miss this week’s big announcement that Samsung Pay is soon to be the next mobile wallet launch promising to bring new benefits to consumers. Among the new benefits includes the promise that there will be wider acceptance at many more retail outlets than Apple Pay and an added ability to manage loyalty and gift cards. Samsung’s MST (Loop Pay, Magnetic Secure Transaction ) technology that is built into the new Galaxy 6 provides an easy tap-and go transaction virtually anywhere credit or debit cards are accepted. This should mean that as a consumer I do not have to “wonder” if my mobile wallet is an option. Now that is both really cool and convenient.

We all know at this point the issues connected to “card provision” fraud (putting the card on your phone) with Apple Pay, which was and still is a big challenge and contributed to all time high basis points of losses, according to the banks we talk to. Other countries such as the UK have already learned from those lessons and have been much more conservative in launching the Apple Wallet. Samsung Pay, like any mobile wallet, will require that consumers provision the card to the phone just like Apple Pay. But what is different for Samsung Pay is that if a fraudster takes a consumer’s card information and provisions it to a Galaxy 6 mobile phone, the fraud will be able to occur much faster.  The fraudster can adopt a fast tap-and-go approach to fraud, and use it to his advantage to boldly go after a new “market” of targets.

Here are some tips for banks preparing for Samsung Pay or any mobile wallet launch:

  • Ensure you are risk scoring the card provisioning event; send any risky events to the call center.
  • Ensure your call center has good voice biometric and authentication tools. These can prevent one fraudster from provisioning many cards to mobile phones where they may have the customer’s identity information.
  • Score your tokenized transactions, in context of your provisioning; your fraud system should connect the dots.
  • Ensure your fraud data models are tuned to track velocity – that includes knowing fraud patterns that are happening in rapid sequence.
  • Remember that MST “tap and go” transactions are considered card present transactions for liability reasons.
  • Educate your team at the bank, and know that your call center staff can be one of the best indicators of increasing fraud issues.
  • Measure your fraud losses from day one, have an escalation plan in place, secure buy-in to the plan among key bank stakeholders, and practice a dry run.
The launch of Samsung Pay can give your institution’s customers a safe, secure, and fun way to pay as long as you complete the entire fraud preparation check list. We now know that payment innovation requires fraud risk innovation and a launch of another kind – a mobile fraud risk action plan. Or, do we?
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Brexit & Government Spending

On Friday I will be meeting Sussex representatives of the National Farmers’ Union to discuss agricultural policy.

Farmers are understandably concerned about how farming will be supported when we leave the EU and are no longer members of the Common Agricultural Policy.

These practical issues underline the importance of a sensible approach to Brexit.  This week the House of Commons will again vote on the EU Withdrawal Bill before it goes to the Lords.

The Bill transfers EU law into domestic UK law, so that the country’s statute book is ready for the day we leave the EU, and gives Parliament the ability to alter and amend as it sees fit.

Also on Friday I will be meeting leaders of West Sussex County Council, with my fellow MPs in the county, for one of our regular updates.

We will be discussing a number of issues including social care, school funding and the local government finance settlement.  This year’s Provisional settlement was very challenging for West Sussex, which will see a reduction of over 50 per cent in its core funding (schools are funded separately).

Council tax rises cannot be the route out of this.  They are unpopular - council tax doubled under the last government - and in any case are limited by the Government.

Last week a Labour Shadow Minister and close ally of Jeremy Corbyn was forced to resign from the frontbench after he suggested big council tax rises for properties in band D and above, meaning that families would pay over £300 more a year, increasing taxes for a third of the country.

Councils have been forced to make big savings over the past few years as the country’s deficit has been reduced.  The real reductions in their budgets are a contrast with those for public services such as schools and the NHS which have been protected.

These protected services have undoubtedly faced cost pressures, but overall spending on them has been increased, not cut.  For instance, the NHS received an extra £437 million this year and £1.6 billion next year in the Autumn Budget, and there was also £1 billion extra social care funding this year.

In fact, this year real terms funding on the health service will be £12.5 billion higher than in 2010-11.  Remember this the next time you hear a politician furiously denouncing ‘cuts’ and demanding higher taxes to pay for higher spending.


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1. No Homework!

In a school district in the state of Florida, 20,000 elementary students have gotten great news for the start of the school year. They won’t have to do nightly homework. The leader of the Marion County school district has banned homework for all elementary school students and is instead asking parents to read to their children for 20 minutes every night. School Superintendent Heidi Maier said she made the decision because new research has found that reading to a child has more positive effects than homework, and young children do better in school when given a break from the daily demand of classes. Elementary students still will have to do research projects as homework from time to time. Friends often suggest good books to read. Think of books you have liked that you would recommend to friends for reading with their parents. Write a short book column for the newspaper suggesting three books for family reading — and why you like them.

Common Core State Standards: Writing opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

2. Here’s Your Purse!

A woman who lost her purse at South Carolina’s Lake Hartwell got it back this month — 25 years after she lost it! April Bolt’s purse was stolen from her husband’s boat at a dock in 1992 when they went out to dinner with her parents. This summer, a local man fishing with an 11-year-old relative hooked Bolt’s purse and reeled it in. Amazingly, when Ben Meyers opened the purse, he recognized Bolt’s name on the credit cards and contacted her. Except for some lost money, everything was as it had been when she had lost the purse, including credit cards from stores that no longer exist and baby pictures of her son. Unusual or odd events from the news often can inspire creative stories for books, TV or movies. With family or friends, use the newspaper or Internet to find and read a story about an unusual event. Use what you read to brainstorm an idea for a story that would begin right after the event, or just before it happened. Write the opening of your story.

Common Core State Standards: Writing narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events; conducting short research projects that build knowledge about a topic; reading closely what a text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.

3. This Hawk’s a Star

Tennis star Roger Federer set a new record this month when he won his eighth men’s championship at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in the European nation of Great Britain. But he’s not the only figure who has turned in top performances year after year. For the last 10 years, a trained hawk named Rufus has earned fame and a following for keeping pigeons off the surfaces of Wimbledon’s famous grass courts. Every morning at 5 a.m. during the tournament, Rufus is set loose to patrol the grounds and scare away pigeons, which sometimes can interrupt play by pecking at grass seed on the surfaces. “Rufus … is the chief pigeon scarer here at Wimbledon,” his handler Imogen Davis told CNN news. As a trained hawk, Rufus has many fans, including stars like Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal and 10,000 followers on Twitter. Animals and birds often can be trained to do unusual or interesting things. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about one. Use what you read, to draw a series of comic strips about the animal or bird, how it was trained or what it does.

Common Core State Standards: Using drawings or visual displays when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or points; conducting short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

4. Africa’s Tallest Tower

In the African nation of Kenya, a skyscraper being built in the city of Nairobi will set a record as the tallest building on the entire African continent. The foundation stone for a building to be known as “The Pinnacle” was laid recently as part of a two-tower, $200 million project that will include a hotel, residences, businesses and leisure facilities. The Pinnacle tower will be 984 feet tall, the same height as the world famous Eiffel Tower in France. While the tower will be the tallest in Africa, it is well short of the world’s tallest skyscrapers. In New York City, for example, the One World Trade Center soars 1,776 feet and the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet high. The world’s tallest building is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, which rises to a height of 2,717 feet in the Middle East city of Dubai. Every community has buildings that stand out. In the newspaper or online, find photos or stories about a building that stands out in your city or state. Use what you find to write a paragraph describing why the building stands out and why people in the community like it.

Common Core State Standards: Writing informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly; citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions.

5. Wow! A Solar Eclipse

People who follow the sun, the moon and the planets will get a special treat later this summer. On August 21, the moon will pass between the sun and the Earth, casting a shadow over much of the United States in a complete solar eclipse. The eclipse is the first in 100 years to cross the entire continental United States, making it a once-in-a-lifetime attraction for astronomers. Due to the moon’s orbit around the Earth, the eclipse shadow will first be observed in the state of Oregon in the Pacific Northwest and sweep across the country to South Carolina in the southeast corner of the country. Solar eclipses get a lot of attention because they are unusual events. With family or friends, use the newspaper or Internet to read about the solar eclipse coming on August 21. Use what you read to write a short TV news report, telling people how to watch, what to look for and things they may not know about solar eclipses.

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1. Setting Records in Space

At age 57, Peggy Whitson is the world’s oldest and most experienced female astronaut. And last month she set a new record aboard the International Space Station. Actually, she set a record OUTSIDE the space station, completing her eighth spacewalk while orbiting 200 miles above the Earth. Whitson’s seven-hour spacewalk gave her a record-setting 53 hours walking in space. Whitson, who is a member of America’s NASA space agency, will set another new record later this month, when she will mark her 534th day in space on a combined three missions to the space station. That will top Jeff Williams’ record for the most time spent in space by an American astronaut. Whitson made her first trip to the space station in 2002 and spent six months aboard. During her second mission in 2007, she became the first female space station commander in history. Her current mission is scheduled to end September 3. Astronauts perform a great many duties on space missions. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about an astronaut who is on a mission in space or training for a mission. Use what you read to draw a picture or illustration showing things the astronaut is doing. Use your reading to explain your drawing for the class.

Common Core State Standards: Using drawings or visual displays when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or points; engaging effectively in a range of collaborative discussions.

2. Amazing Wildflowers

In recent years the state of California has had a severe shortage of rain, but this winter the skies opened up to relieve the lack of water. As a result, wildflowers in the state are having a “super bloom” that is covering fields and hills that are usually dry. The amazing colors cover so much area that they can be seen from space in satellite photos. “Super blooms” occur when there is extra rainfall that allows wildflower seeds to sprout, grow and bloom. The winter rainfall was especially heavy this year because of the El Niño weather system. The “super bloom” of wildflowers in California is attracting thousands of tourists because the situation is rare and unusual. In the newspaper or online, find and study photos of California’s “super bloom.” Then write out the alphabet in two columns on a sheet of paper. For each letter, see if you can come up with an adjective to describe the “super bloom” situation. You may work in pairs or teams if you like.

Common Core State Standards: Applying knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts; conducting short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

3. Solar-Powered Coal Museum

You wouldn't expect a museum that focuses on the coal industry to run on anything but coal — but a mining museum in Kentucky is going solar. The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in the town of Benham is switching to solar power to save money. The museum, which tells the story of Kentucky coal mining, expects to save $8,000-$10,000 by using solar power generated by sunlight. Unlike coal, solar is a renewable energy source, and also produces less pollution. Twenty solar panels were installed in the project, which was funded by an outside foundation. The museum is run by Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. Because there is an endless amount of sunlight, solar power is considered a renewable energy source. As a class, discuss other types of energy that are considered renewable. Use the newspaper or Internet to find images that would illustrate renewable sources of energy. Use the images to create an art collage to call attention to “Renewable Energy.”

Common Core State Standards: Integrating information presented in different media or formats to develop a coherent understanding of a topic; conducting short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

4. Sapphires with a Risk

Sapphires are gems used to make jewelry for movie stars, celebrities, kings and queens. But in the African nation of Madagascar, an increase in mining for sapphires could endanger some of the Earth’s rarest creatures. Madagascar has become one of Africa's leading producers of the colored gems since they were first discovered in the island nation in the 1990s. As a result, there is now a “sapphire rush” to mine for them in one of the largest areas of rain forest that remains. Illegal and unlicensed miners have been flooding into the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor and are digging in sensitive natural areas in search of high-quality green and blue sapphires. The area is home to thousands of plant and animal species, including the largest known species of lemur — the Indri — as well as many rare birds and amphibians. Wildlife supporters have asked the Madagascar government to crack down on the illegal miners. When people want natural resources like sapphires or valuable minerals, there can be conflicts with people who want to protect natural areas. As a class, use the newspaper and Internet to find and closely read a story about a conflict over using natural resources. Use what you read to write a list of reasons people would want to use the resources and a list of reasons people would want to protect the area they are in. Discuss which reasons seem stronger to you.

Common Core State Standards: Reading closely what a text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; responding thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarizing points of agreement and disagreement.

5. Close Encounter

When people travel to other areas, they often want to see the wildlife that live there. A family from the state of New Jersey, however, wish they’d seen one less species when they traveled to Indiana. A 30-pound wild turkey crashed through their vehicle's windshield while they were driving to Chicago to catch a flight home after visiting a daughter at the University of Notre Dame. Driver John Tarabocchia and his three passengers suffered only minor cuts in the accident, but Tarabocchia had to make an emergency stop after the bird flew through the windshield and sprayed glass all over them. A local sheriff said he had “never seen something like that” in 31 years on the job. The turkey did not survive the crash. People often have to think quickly to deal with emergencies. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about someone showing quick thinking to handle an emergency. Use what you read to write a letter to the editor, praising the person for his/her quick action, and telling what other people could learn from it.

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RH.CCS.7 Grades 6-12: Students are asked to locate a country or geographical area on a map, connecting information with a specific location. Then, students answer a series of quiz questions based on a current news event happening in that location. Students must combine their prior knowledge with information presented in the question to determine the correct answers.

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School Psychology Resources Online

At School Psychology Resources, visitors can find information on numerous disabilities, special education law, parenting, and many other mental-health related topics. This site is useful not only for education professionals but also for parents of children with disabilities. This one-stop site provides characteristics of disabilities, offers ideas for teaching disabled students, and advocates for students with disabilities.

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Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 - Grey Mkt vs USA

Discussion in 'Lens Lust' started by koolk2, Mar 24, 2007.

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    Sep 9, 2006
    I've been considering this lens for a while. I got the chance to handle one at PMA a couple of weeks ago. Based on this and some discussion with other sports shooters I'm going to get one. While looking at pricing I've discovered a 25% price difference between grey mkt and USA versions. Sigma4less sells the grey mkt lens for $2159. The USA version at B&H costs $2699. While I've bought and sold used camera equipment since the late 70's this is the most I've ever spent for one item. I'm not worried about focus problems as I would expect to find this immediately and sent it back to the retailer for another copy. I'm more concerned about oil on the aperture blades or HSM problems after the 1 year warranty expires on the grey mkt lens. A 3 year Mack Warranty cost $60, but has lots of exclusions.

    I guess my question is: Is the USA version with its 4 year warranty worth an extra $500?
  2. get it at Sigma4less...
    I spoke with the person in charge of Sigma Service and as per Sigma they will
    repair, honor all warranties as long as you have original inovoice..

    I know this from first hand experience as I had a 120-300 2.8 that went in for service...
    great customer service dept....
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    I had the same dilema when I purchased my 120-300. I bought it from B&H and then heard about I was going to return the lens to B&H, but decided to check with Sigma first. According to Sigma, is not an "authorized" Sigma reseller and they sell gray market lens. Sigma will honor the 1 year warranty, with a sale receipt, on sigma4less purchases. The B&H lens comes with a 4 year warranty. For me it was worth the difference. I did purchase the uv filter and 2x tele from sigma4less and was very pleased with the speed of delivery.


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Donald (Don) Claude Schedler, 71, passed away March 12, 2018 surrounded by family and friends. Don was born in Buffalo, NY and spent most of his life in North Brevard. During the Vietnam War he served his country in the Navy aboard the USS Gilmore. In 2006, after a long career in the space program, he retired from United Space Alliance. His contributions, which included the Apollo and Shuttle programs, earned him NASA’s Exceptional Public Service Medal in 1997. Don had a passion for racing, and restoring cars and motorcycles which shaped a large part of his life. He was an avid Corvette enthusiast and a founding member of the Titusville Corvette Club. Don will be remembered most for his wit and humor which brought joy to all those who knew him.  He would have celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary in July. He was preceded in death by his father, Carl Stephen Schedler, mother Grace Reynolds Schedler, and sister Susan Schedler.  He is survived by his wife Carolyn D. Lynn Schedler of Titusville, his sons Steve Schedler and Nathan Schedler of Titusville, and Danny Schedler of Orlando, sister Sharon Glatthorn of Linville, NC, and brother Dick Schedler of Titusville. Memorial service will be held Friday March 23 at 10:30am at Cape Canaveral National Cemetery in Mims, FL

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Appalachian will partner with Middle Fork Elementary in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools on Laboratory School

Appalachian State University’s Reich College of Education (RCOE) will partner with Middle Fork Elementary School in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School (WS/FCS) district on a new laboratory school that will open during the 2018-19 school year. Middle Fork has named Tasha Hall Powell the school’s new principal.

Powell has served as assistant principal at Middle Fork since 2015. Before coming to Middle Fork, she was curriculum coordinator at Cook Elementary School and served as an instructional facilitator in the district office. She held a prior position as assistant principal in Cabarrus County from 2001 to 2009. She has a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University and a master’s and Education Specialist degree from Appalachian.

Appalachian was selected as one of eight institutions within the University of North Carolina system charged with establishing a laboratory school in districts with more than 25 percent of schools identified according to state guidelines as “low performing.” The University of North Carolina Board of Governors selected Appalachian because of the quality of its educator preparation program.

The RCOE and WS/FCS have a history of collaboration. The college has maintained a presence in the area since 2000, with literacy as a focus for teacher professional development. For example, the college’s reading education master’s program has offered courses in Winston-Salem since 2002, and many area teachers hold the M.A. degree and reading licensure from Appalachian.

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NWC rodeo team sponsors pro rodeo schools

Posted March 9, 2006

The Northwest College rodeo team kicked off its lineup of rodeo schools at the Heart Mountain Equestrian Center Friday, March 3.
About a dozen regional rodeo athletes attended the first of the three-day schools, which are being taught by world champions and national qualifiers.
From March 3-5, classes on saddle bronc and bareback riding were taught. National Finals Rodeo qualifier Jess Martin instructed the saddle bronc riders, while world champion
Larry Peabody taught the bareback bronc riders.
According to NWC rodeo coach Del Nose, the classes last week and the ones that will be offered later this month and during early April are an opportunity for both amateur and professional rodeo athletes to polish their skills. Each school also includes plenty of hands-on experience, proven stock, a review of chute procedures, training techniques and safety practices.
Nose also noted that each three-day class for various rodeo events can be taken for college credit.
"We're starting out with the basics," Nose said prior to the start of last week's saddle bronc and bareback riding classes. "We'll spend a lot of time on safety before they actually get
out and ride in the arena."
On Friday, Martin, who lives in Dillon, Mont., began his portion of class instruction with the importance of getting a saddle set up correctly for bronc riding. He worked individually with each student. For some, what Martin taught them was nothing new. For others, his instructions on proper saddle setup to how to get off a saddle bronc helped the students begin the road to breaking some bad habits that were already beginning to develop.
"What I try to do is teach them the basics," Martin said. "Each rider has his own personal preferences, and I just try to help them by teaching them things that can help them become a little bit better. The fun part is seeing it all come together for someone. For some, it all comes together on their 10th ride. For others, it takes years. It's different for everybody."
Martin, who has qualified for the National Finals Rodeo four times, hopes that his experience and lessons will help riders reach thatlevel where "it all comes together" so they can begin their journey down the road to success.
For those participating in the bareback bronc riding class, the focus was much the same as they learned basic techniques from Peabody, a former world champion, who also calls Montana home. Peabody won the world championship in 1984.
To aid in the class instruction, video footage was taken of all riders so they could review and evaluate their performances.
Dion Campbell, 14, of Wapiti, was one of about a dozen young students at last weekend's opening session. Campbell, a freshman at Cody High School, has been pursuing a career in rodeo since he was 8. He added that being able to learn from topnotch instructors like Martin is a big boost to what he's trying to accomplish.
"He's definitely someone you listen to," Campbell said. "He's been successful, and I've already learned several things from him that will help me get better."
Remaining classes will be taught for steer wrestling, calf roping and bull riding. Steer wrestlers will be able to learn from world champion Frank Thompson. Calf ropers will be trained by Maury Tate, a Dodge Circuit finals champion. The scheduled calf roping session is already filled, but a second session may be offered if enough interest is shown. Bull riders will be instructed by Jerry Shephard, another National Finals Rodeo qualifier.
Steer wrestling and calf roping will be taught March 24-26. Bull riding classes will take place March 31 through April 2. Like the previous classes, these will be taught at the Heart Mountain Equestrian Center.
The cost for each three-day school is $300, and scholarships are available. For more information on the classes, contact Del Nose at (307) 272-0221. He can also be reached via e-mail at del.nose@northwestcollege.edu.


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LONNEE HAMILTON'S son, Max, is only 4 and won't start kindergarten until the fall of 1998, but Ms. Hamilton, a writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, already feels as if she has fallen behind. Some other mothers have begun schmoozing with principals, checking out seminars and hiring private consultants to help them select the perfect public school for their 4-year-old. ''I know there are great public schools in New York City,'' Ms. Hamilton said recently. And she echoed the bewilderment experienced by scores of parents of soon-to-be kindergartners: ''I have no idea how you're supposed to find them.''

What alarms Ms. Hamilton most is the feeling that she has stumbled upon a few public school gems -- a school affiliated with a museum, for instance, and another supported by a local business. What if, she wondered, for every school she finds by chance, there's a more suitable one, which will teach Max the basics while nurturing his artistic side?

''There's this fear that if you miss one little trick, your child is going to miss out on something special,'' she said. ''I consider myself to be involved and educated and I ask questions. But still, it is real daunting.''

Gone are the days when Ms. Hamilton would have no choice but to send Max to the neighborhood school, P.S. 20, where just under half the third graders read at grade level, according to the state report cards released last week. Ms. Hamilton is still considering the neighborhood school. But these days, under a policy intended to offer children options other than their local schools, parents can enroll them in any public school in the city, as long as there is an available seat and the school is not one of the handful that uses an entrance exam to select students.

That, at least, is how it works in theory.

In reality, choosing a school is riddled with obstacles.

There is no central clearinghouse for selecting an elementary school, no comprehensive list of gifted programs or of schools that can accommodate youngsters from other neighborhoods, although some private preschools do have staff members assigned to help navigate the system.

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Then there is the problem of overcrowding. Many good schools are increasingly jammed and thus out of reach for youngsters outside their catchment area. When there are more applicants than seats for a noncompetitive school, the district superintendent decides who get in, usually first come, first served.

Competitive schools choose pupils based on test scores and inteviews. Some black and Latino parents have complained that they are steered away from programs devoted to gifted and talented students. Last year, following a complaint by the Brooklyn-based community group Acorn, the Federal Department of Education began an investigation into such accusations.

''Choice is the exception rather than the rule,'' said Jan Atwell, the chairwoman of the Educational Priorities Panel, a coalition of parents and civic groups. ''It's a real labyrinth that you have to go through.''

And who is most successful at negotiating that labyrinth? ''People that make the most of choice tend to be more affluent and better educated people,'' said Dr. Arthur Levine, the dean of Teachers College at Columbia University. ''Poorer families and less educated families -- they're not aware of the choices and they don't use them.''

And finally, there is the recalcitrance of some school officials, who are unwilling to direct parents to schools outside their district or alert them to deadlines. Often, these officials are wary of losing children, because that also means losing public money -- and especially losing students who do well on tests. ''They can't stop you,'' Clara Hemphill, a former editorial writer for New York Newsday who is writing a book on choosing a public school, said of school

officials. ''But they don't have to help you.''

In the 1994-95 school year, the Board of Education said, 20,000 youngsters sought to go to a school other than the one in their neighborhood. Of those, 3,333 ended up at a school outside their district and 8,573 chose one within their district. Many New Yorkers consider it a small miracle that they do manage to find good public schools. Dr. Levine offered these three tips: ''You've got to learn about schools that are open to you. You've got to learn about your choices. And you've got to learn about your kid.''

Almost everyone agrees: there is not one educational experience that works for every child. For instance, a small school may be ideal for a child who did not attend preschool, while an active child will be frustrated by a school that requires students to sit at their desks most of the day.

Parents should also arm themselves with basic information: schools' test scores, average class size and attendance.

But officials in schools where students score well on standardized math and reading tests cautioned parents not to look at test scores alone. ''I know there has to be achievement,'' said Sheila Huggins, principal of P.S. 98 in Douglaston, Queens. ''But I know that children have to be children.''

Ms. Huggins emphasized the more whimsical aspects of her school: how a kindergarten teacher gets on the floor with her students and rows an imaginary boat; how every class is filled with students' artwork; how vocabulary words dangle from the ceiling of a second-grade class, and how third graders help each other with math.

''Look at the faces of the kids,'' Ms. Huggins insisted. If they don't look excited to be learning, the school isn't doing its job.

Gail Foster, founder of the Toussaint Institute, a resource center directed at black and Hispanic parents, advised parents to visit schools and inquire about the next step for graduates. ''What schools do the children go to when they leave here,'' she suggested. ''In other words, what track is this school on?''

Ms. Hemphill pointed to what she called the school principal's vision.'' What, for example, is the philosophy on how to teach reading? Does he or she believe in segregating gifted children in a special class or include them in a mixed group? Is the principal a strict disciplinarian?

Know Whom to Ask: Teachers and Parents

Jennifer Hardy admits to being obsessed. Her 4-year-old daughter, Elsa, is kindergarten-bound in the fall. In the last 10 months, Ms. Hardy has attended two seminars and paid a private consultant $25 for a list of desirable schools, toured a half-dozen schools and talked with principals.

''I've gone a little overboard,'' Ms. Hardy confided. She declined to reveal her neighborhood school because she is considering using a relative's address to enable Elsa to attend the ideal school. ''I can't talk to a parent of a school-age child and not ask where they sent their kid to school and why they chose the school.''

Overboard? Perhaps only slightly. Experts familiar with the city school system recommend focusing on a district or several districts, based on either where you live or work, at least one year before your child begins school. Some say you really need two years to explore the system.

Call the school district office. Many districts have a staff member assigned to tell parents of their choices within the district. Some schools require specific forms, while others require a letter explaining your interest in a particular program. Deadlines for applying to competitive schools vary.

More elementary schools are offering open houses for parents, though some resist parents' requests to visit classrooms. Such resistance should be a red flag, parents' advocates say: if a school is unwelcoming to prospective parents, it is not likely to welcome parents' ideas later.

Some districts, like District 4 in East Harlem, have some alternative schools, mostly based on themes -- for instance, a junior high for girls -- that are open to students from throughout the district.

School districts and private organizations offer seminars to help parents that often include presentations by district officials and a list of theme programs.

Ask school officials about gifted programs open to students from beyond the immediate neighborhood. Most are fiercely competitive and require intelligence tests and interviews for kindergarten. At the Hunter College Elementary School, for instance, where an average of 1,200 applications pour in every year for 16 nursery school and 32 kindergarten slots, applicants have to score around the 98th percentile on the Stanford-Binet I.Q. test. Applicants are also tested as part of a small group on ''age-appropriate activities'' modeled after the school's curriculum. Polly Breland, the director of admissions, would not disclose details about the tests. The school is open only to Manhattan youngsters.

Often magnet programs, particularly in racially segregated neighborhoods, are open to students from throughout the city. But, Ms. Hemphill argued, gifted programs can be unfriendly to blacks and Hispanics. ''There's a natural tendency on the part of a lot of principals and a lot of superintendents to get middle-class kids into the school,'' she said. ''And in the society we live in, that often means white people.''

Know Where to Look: Near and Far

Often, the search for a school need go no farther than your own backyard. In the hoopla over school choice, the neighborhood school can be overlooked -- and that, education experts say, can be a mistake. It is usually within walking distance and can better nurture a sense of community. Most importantly, every child in New York City is guaranteed a place at the neighborhood school, no matter how crowded.

''I tell all parents to try their neighborhood school first,'' said Judith Baum, a spokeswoman for the Public Education Association, a nonprofit school advocacy group. ''That might be a very good school. They shouldn't write it off.''

But sticking to your neighborhood school may not always be sound judgment. According to a New York Times analysis of test scores, schools with relatively few poor students are likely to score higher on statewide math and reading tests, while schools with a high poverty rate are likely to fare poorly.

Nevertheless, not all poor children are shut out of good schools. Public School 88 in Highbridge in the Bronx, for example, draws all its students from the neighborhood: nearly all qualify for a free lunch, and a third are classified as limited English speakers. But about two-thirds of the third graders can read at grade level, according to the state report card, and a remarkable 34 percent read far above grade level.

Sometimes, schools in wealthy neighborhoods, where parents can afford private schools, have spots for pupils from other neighborhoods. For instance, the majority of children at P.S. 6 at East 81st Street and Madison Avenue -- widely regarded as the city's elite elementary school, with 93 percent of pupils' reading at grade level -- do not live in the school's catchment area but are admitted on the basis of test scores or because they have siblings at the school.

At P.S. 98 in Douglaston, Queens, children are admitted regardless of ability and yet, according to the state report card, 100 percent of students read at grade level. The school takes about a third of its students from two adjacent districts, which is why the school, which is in a wealthy, mostly white and Asian neighborhood, is racially integrated: one of four students is black.

Brian Lehrer, the radio talk show host, said he would not send his son, Nathan, 4, to his neighborhood school, P.S. 163 on the Upper West Side, because slightly less than a fourth of students read at grade level, according to the state.

So in 1995, two years before Nathan was to begin kindergarten, Mr. Lehrer and his wife, Victoria Dennis, a high-school social worker who was not working at the time, began exploring. They visited 10 schools in District 3 -- their local district -- and the adjacent District 2. They talked to principals, peeked into classrooms and consulted with other parents. They were aided by a staff person at their son's preschool whose job was to help parents negotiate the system. ''We are working harder to get him into kindergarten,'' Mr. Lehrer said, ''than I worked to get into graduate school.''

Perhaps most important, the couple paid close attention to their son's own talents and desires. Nathan seemed to have an aptitude for music, and Mr. Lehrer and Ms. Dennis discovered the Special Music School of America on West 67th Street, not far from their apartment. Relatively new, it seemed unlikely to be mobbed with applicants from inside or outside the district. ''We think it was our find,'' Mr. Lehrer confided.

Last month, it was among five schools -- three that required competitive exams -- the couple applied to. They are waiting to hear from each before deciding where to send Nathan this fall. In each application, they explained not only why the school would be good for Nathan, but also why they as parents would be good for the school. After all, they reasoned, the selection process is subjective; perhaps it would help to make it known that they would be enthusiastic volunteers and fund-raisers.

''It couldn't hurt,'' James Mazza, the superintendent of District 3, said simply.

Mr. Mazza noted that the process taught the couple another valuable lesson: how to distinguish between what Mr. Mazza calls ''a hot school'' and ''a good school.'' ''We know schools that are good that are not yet hot,'' he said. ''Those are the schools that have seats.''

In Manhattan, for instance, P.S. 234 in TriBeCa is so popular among neighborhood families that virtually no one from outside its catchment area can get in, said Ms. Baum of the Public Education Association. But the Manhattan Lab School for Gifted and Talented Education on East 95th Street generally has a few slots available, as does P.S. 183 on East 67th Street. ''P.S. 183 is as good as other schools that people are clamoring to get into,'' Ms. Baum argued. ''Manhattan New School is becoming hot. Everyone knows of P.S. 6: that's why it's a hot school. Everyone knows of P.S. 87: that's why it's a hot school.''

Know How To Get an Edge

''We're not susceptible to bribes,'' joked Dr. Aaron Friedman, the superintendent of District 26, whose schools in northeastern Queens consistently rank among the city's top achievers.

Dr. Friedman has met his share of desperate, pleading parents, usually from adjacent school districts who want their children to go to his schools. ''They come in sometimes with medical notes saying it's unhealthy for my child to go to school outside District 26,'' he said, explaining that only a few special circumstances can give a prospective transfer student an edge. An application for transfer is given extra weight if the parent can demonstrate that the child is in physical danger in the school for which he or she is zoned; police and court records are particularly important.

In most schools, siblings are granted special advantage: If you have a child at a school outside your neighborhood, you can usually enroll another. Race can sometimes offer an advantage if students of another race are predominant in a school.

Parents' advocates insist that relationships matter. It doesn't hurt, for instance, for parents to loudly advertise their willingness to volunteer at the school. ''Nowhere in the city,'' Ms. Atwell of the Educational Priorities Panel charged, ''do we have an unbiased school choice program.''

Nor, added Dr. Foster of the Toussaint Institute, would it hurt to know the officials who make the critical decisions. ''It is absolutely about who you know,'' she said. ''In a world where who you know counts, public schools are no exception.''

A Cram Course for Parents

THE public school application process varies from district to district. Your district superintendent should be able to guide you. A parent whose child is turned down by a school may appeal.

To find out your home district or the district that a particular school is in, and for general information on school choice, parents can call the Board of Education's Zoning and Integration Unit, (718) 935-3566. Every school has copies of the state's report card on math and reading test scores; parents can ask for a copy.

Here are some other resources for negotiating the school choice maze:

''Choosing a Public School in Community School District 2,'' available through the district office, (212) 330-9400.

92d Street Y offers an annual seminar on school choice in the fall, (212) 996-1100.

Public Education Association keeps school test scores and offers seminars for parents. (212) 868-1640.

Toussaint Institute offers an annual seminar aimed at black and Hispanic parents in the spring. (212) 422-5338

''Parent's Guide to Choosing a Public Elementary School in New York City,'' available from the office of the Manhattan Borough President. (212) 669-8300.

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The Tengger Desert in China is growing because of climate change. Around the world, many would-be parents are looking at effects like this and hesitating. Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times

Add this to the list of decisions affected by climate change: Should I have children?

It is not an easy time for people to feel hopeful, with the effects of global warming no longer theoretical, projections becoming more dire and governmental action lagging. And while few, if any, studies have examined how large a role climate change plays in people’s childbearing decisions, it loomed large in interviews with more than a dozen people ages 18 to 43.

A 32-year-old who always thought she would have children can no longer justify it to herself. A Mormon has bucked the expectations of her religion by resolving to adopt rather than give birth. An Ohio woman had her first child after an unplanned pregnancy — and then had a second because she did not want her daughter to face an environmental collapse alone.

Among them, there is a sense of being saddled with painful ethical questions that previous generations did not have to confront. Some worry about the quality of life children born today will have as shorelines flood, wildfires rage and extreme weather becomes more common. Others are acutely aware that having a child is one of the costliest actions they can take environmentally.

Rising waters are threatening low-lying areas like South Tarawa in Kiribati, a Pacific island nation. Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times

The birthrate in the United States, which has been falling for a decade, reached a new low in 2016. Economic insecurity has been a major factor, but even as the economy recovers, the decline in births continues.

And the discussions about the role of climate change are only intensifying.

“When we first started this project, I didn’t know anybody who had had any conversations about this,” said Meghan Kallman, a co-founder of Conceivable Future, an organization that highlights how climate change is limiting reproductive choices.

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That has changed, she said — either because more people are having doubts, or because it has become less taboo to talk about them.

Facing an uncertain future

If it weren’t for climate change, Allison Guy said, she would go off birth control tomorrow.

But scientists’ projections, if rapid action isn’t taken, are not “congruent with a stable society,” said Ms. Guy, 32, who works at a marine conservation nonprofit in Washington. “I don’t want to give birth to a kid wondering if it’s going to live in some kind of ‘Mad Max’ dystopia.”

Parents like Amanda PerryMiller, a Christian youth leader and mother of two in Independence, Ohio, share her fears.

“Animals are disappearing. The oceans are full of plastic. The human population is so numerous, the planet may not be able to support it indefinitely,” said Ms. PerryMiller, 29. “This doesn’t paint a very pretty picture for people bringing home a brand-new baby from the hospital.”

The people thinking about these issues fit no single profile. They are women and men, liberal and conservative. They come from many regions and religions.

A house party in Chicago organized by the group Conceivable Future. Credit Marya Spont-Lemus

Cate Mumford, 28, is a Mormon, and Mormons believe God has commanded them to “multiply and replenish the earth.” But even in her teens, she said, she could not get another point of doctrine out of her head: “We are stewards of the earth.”

Ms. Mumford, a graduate student in a joint-degree program at Johns Hopkins and Brigham Young Universities, plans to adopt a child with her husband. Some members of her church have responded aggressively, accusing her of going against God’s plan. But she said she felt vindicated by the worsening projections.

Smog shrouding Mexico City. When Cate Mumford, 28, saw similar pollution in China, she thought, “I’m so glad I’m not going to bring a brand-new baby into this world to suffer like these kids suffer.” Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times

A few years ago, she traveled to China, where air pollution is a national crisis. And all she could think was, “I’m so glad I’m not going to bring a brand-new baby into this world to suffer like these kids suffer.”

‘Some pretty strong cognitive dissonance’

For many, the drive to reproduce is not easily put aside.

“If a family is what you want, you’re not just going to be able to make that disappear entirely,” said Jody Mullen, 36, a mother of two in Gillette, N.J. “You’re not just going to be able to say, ‘It’s not really good for the environment for humans to keep reproducing, so I’ll just scratch that idea.’”

And so compromises emerge. Some parents resolve to raise conscientious citizens who can help tackle climate change. Some who want multiple children decide to have only one.

For Sara Jackson Shumate, 37, who has a young daughter, having a second child would mean moving to a house farther from her job as a lecturer at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. She is not sure she can justify the environmental impact of a larger home and a longer commute.

But for Ms. PerryMiller, the Ohio youth leader, the thinking went the opposite way: Once she had her first child, climate change made a second feel more urgent.

“Someday, my husband and I will be gone,” she said. “If my daughter has to face the end of the world as we know it, I want her to have her brother there.”

Laura Cornish, 32, a mother of two near Vancouver, said she felt “some pretty strong cognitive dissonance around knowing that the science is really bad but still thinking that their future will be O.K.”

“I don’t read the science updates anymore because they’re too awful,” she said. “I just don’t engage with that, because it’s hard to reconcile with my choices.”

‘The thing that’s broken is bigger than us’

People who choose not to have children are used to being called “selfish.” But many of them see their decision as a sacrifice.

Parenthood is “something that I want,” said Elizabeth Bogard, 18, a freshman at Northern Illinois University. “But it’s hard for me to justify my wants over what matters and what’s important for everyone.”

This attitude seems particularly common among people who have seen the effects of climate change firsthand.

Hemanth Kolla is from Hyderabad, in India, where drought and scorching heat waves have been deadly. He lives in California, where the threat of wildfires is increasing and a six-year drought only recently ended. Mr. Kolla, 36, said it felt wrong to have a child when he did not believe the world would be better for him or her.

And Maram Kaff, who lives in Cairo, said she had been deeply affected by reports that parts of the Middle East may be too hot for human habitation by 2100.

“I’ve seen how Syrian refugees, who are running from a devastating war, are being treated,” Ms. Kaff, 33, said in an email. “Imagine how my children will be treated if they have to flee their country due to extreme weather, drought, lack of resources, flooding.”

“I know that humans are hard-wired to procreate,” she said, “but my instinct now is to shield my children from the horrors of the future by not bringing them to the world.”

Ms. Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli, the founders of Conceivable Future, said that the predominant emotion at their gatherings was grief — and that the very existence of these conversations should spur political action.

“These stories tell you that the thing that’s broken is bigger than us,” Ms. Ferorelli said. “The fact that people are seriously considering not having children because of climate change is all the reason you need to make the demands.”

Most of the people interviewed, parents and non-parents alike, lamented having to factor climate change into their decisions at all.

“What kind of nightmare question is that?” asked Ms. Guy, the Washington nonprofit worker. “That we have to consider that?”

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IRVINE Music and cheering filled the Anteater Recreation Center on Friday as paper airplanes soared across the gym, looping and flying, twirling or flopping short.

Minutes earlier, participants were hunched over their aircraft around the perimeter of the gymnasium, turning standard white paper in to a fleet of paper planes. Some followed instructional videos on their cellphones, while experts worked diligently on their designs.

Pilots competed in three categories: farthest distance, longest air time and aerobatics, and for artistic flight. Participants had two chances to get the longest air time and farthest distance, and were challenged to pump up the audience before each throw. Regional winners from around the world will compete at the 2012 Red Bull Paper Wings World Final at Hanger-7 in Salzburg, Austria, in May.Â

The paper airplane contest was the culminating event of Greek Week, said Alex Kim, Greek Week chair and a competition judge. Throughout the week students in fraternities and sororities raised funds for UC Irvine’s Care-a-thon, which supports UCI’s neonatal intensive-care unit, he said.

Judges, a DJ and a student emcee pumped up the audience as participants stepped up to the line to send their planes into the air. Launches were preceded by dance moves, a cartwheel, and some planes soaring out of the designated runway and up onto the second floor. Techniques and intensity varied among the participants, who ranged from amateurs to engineers.

A friend helped Chloe Strasser construct her first paper airplane before the competition â€“ the first she had ever made. Strasser said she came to have fun and support the Greek system and her sorority, Sigma Kappa. The second-year student danced at the launch line for a few seconds before throwing her creation. Her plane fell short, but she didn’t seem to mind.Â

One competitor, Kevin Maghami, a veteran to the competition, was the East Coast Regional Winner for distance in 2010 and went on to compete in Austria. Maghami, a New York University graduate applying to medical school, said he threw out his shoulder at the World Final and did not end up placing.

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Maghami’s plane soared gracefully around the gym for 11.2 seconds, the longest air time of the day.Â He won first place at the UCI competition.Â

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