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Welcome to our last week with our Summer Scholar Families!
Yeah... I know it's not Sunday. My family was camping this last weekend, so I'm playing catch up now.
And... if you missed it last week, I'm offering a special on the Sun Scholars Summer Program through Sunday, June 19th. Find the details HERE. If you like what you see, and would like to learn more about my Sun Scholar Summer Program, click HERE.
Rubber Egg
Subjects: Science
Time: 5+ mins (with 1 week observation)
Supplies: Glass Cup or Jar, White Vinegar, Egg
Here is a scientific magic trick for your child to try with very interesting results!
· Place a raw egg into a tall glass cup. Have your child pour enough white vinegar into the cup to cover the egg. You will notice soon after that bubbles are forming on the shell of the egg.
· Set the egg aside. After 24 hours, carefully drain the vinegar from the cup, and again pour enough vinegar into the cup to cover the egg.
· This time, set aside where the egg will not be disturbed for 7 days. Do not touch it, but allow your child observe what is happening to the shell, or what is left of the shell at this point.
· After a week, carefully rinse the egg. Let your child hold it but be very gentle. What does it look like? How does it feel? Where did the shell go?
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Find the Rubber Egg Science sheet in the Printables section of this kit for the explanation of what is happening in this experiment.
this is from Week 11 - Hocus Pocus, of the Sun Scholar Summer Program
What have the Summer Scholar Families been up to?
My little ones dropped my camera, so it is in getting repaired, so I'm sorry there are no pictures. I really apologize. We have had such a great time with this program and look forward to the rest of the summer!! Thanks again.
We did the Secret Agent week this week. The kids really enjoyed the math puzzlers. They loved trying them out on their Dad when he got home. They also loved hiding the timer and trying to find it. We played that several times through the week. The I spy books were alot of fun. The secret decoder was also a big hit. We left secret messages all around the house and had fun decoding them. We even did a scavenger hunt with coded messages. The kids all loved earning their secret agent badges. What a fun week!! We have had a great time with this program and LOVE all the activities!!
The kids and I have been so excited to get back into the Sun Scholars program.
This week our kids had two favorite activities. Our daughter loved making the "Alphabet Beach Book", and our son loves science, so his favorite was the "Salt Water Science Fun".
I am continually amazed at the activities contained in the program. Our kids all like different things, and they are different ages. With this program it doesn't matter, everything works for all of them.
We are also a testament to how do-able the program is. With a two week old baby, we have still been able to fit the activities in to our lives and make them part of our daily routine, and I am able to help the kids with a baby in my arms. :)
We have also realized how well written the activities are. When I do have my hands full with the new baby, our 9 and 6 year old are able to read the activity cards out loud to me and we can talk about what we need and get things started. They understand the activity descriptions and really enjoy being a part of the planning.
On top of that, we really haven't left the house since the new baby was born. This program has given us so many things to do with the kids so that they don't get bored or frustrated because we are home bound for a few more weeks.
Every morning our daughter wakes up and asks, what are we doing with the "Sun" program today!!!
This week we decided to follow the unit called "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie".....I used this unit mostly with my preschooler instead of my 1st grader. We had a blast.
STORY TIME - I had to find the book at the library (we have every other book in the series except this one..lol)...we read the book, laughed a lot and then discussed it. We really got into the cause and effect part of the book...if you have a cookie, then you will need a drink of milk and so on. She loved the illustrations!
COOKIE COUNTING - using the great printables in the program, I printed and cut out 12 of the sugar cookies. I then put numbers on them from 1- 12. I asked Molly to put them in order for me. She had little trouble with it. Then I got out mini-M8M's (program suggested chocolate chips, but we love our M&M's)...I asked her to put the same amount of candies on each cookie as the corresponded with he cookie (ie - on the cookie that had the 6 on it, put 6 M&M's) This took a while as she counted and placed each on carefully on the cookies. Then we had fun eating them all up!
MICE TEACHINGS - We read short scholastic mini-book that had to do with mice counting (up to 10) and talking about it. She counted each mouse on each page (it had a cat in it as well, so you know this did not end well for the mice..lol). We also discussed and looked back at the pictures of the mice skeletons we found in our wall last month! (found a hole behind some molding and inside were two mice skeletons...SO COOL)
MILK MAGIC - on the more exciting experiments we have done in a while! The Sun Scholar Program provides some great hands on fun learning! This experiment was NO exception! Simple and fun for all the ages (2 - 5) of my children. If you take a plate (plastic or glass, no paper) and pour milk to cover the bottom of it. Then take 4 diff. color food colorings and place a dot of each close together in the center of the plate. Then take a cotton swab and place an end of that in the center of the plate (so that the food coloring dots surround it but don't touch it) and watch what happens! Then you take that cotton swap out and place a different one in the middle of the plate but this time have some dish soap in on the swab. Watch what happens this time....fireworks! Kids loved this and even had to do it for Daddy when he got home!
Great unit! Lots of fun and so many more things we will be trying with this unit!
Thanks again for letting me take part in the Summer program. It was really fun, and we're going to keep going on the program. Here's our last week for you: This week we did the Beach Party unit.
Go Fish 10: Math - I enjoyed helping the kids add up the math. For my older daughter I had her use the cards to add up to twenty. For my youngest one I had him add to ten, but mostly just put the numbers in the right order.
Ocean Waves – We made this early in the week, and it was a hit with my kids. I would find them constantly playing with it through the week.
Salt Water Science Fun – The kids had fun mixing the salt solution for the floating egg and seeing how much salt it took for the egg to float. We then used the salt water to freeze along with another cup of regular water.
Message in a Bottle – My kids loved this idea. They wrote to their cousins and were excited to put it into the bottle. We didn't mail it, but were able to get it delivered.
Jell-O Ocean Cups: Life Skills & Math – I love this idea, but we didn't have blue jell-o. So we made it with pudding and fish crackers. The kids LOVED to eat this, I enjoyed it too.
Fill the Bucket: Health – We made this a family party, but after filling the buckets we decided to wash the car since we were already wet. The kids loved this and I'm glad that we got out as washed our car when it was warm enough.
Thanks to the Summer Scholar Families for sharing with us this last month!
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FAIRFIELD — A dozen witnesses testified Tuesday in the preliminary hearing for a man accused of fatally shooting Vallejo police Officer James Capoot during a pursuit after a bank robbery in November 2011.
At the hearing in Solano County Superior Court in Fairfield, Vallejo police Officer Peppino Messina testified that defendant Henry Albert Smith looked directly at him as his Yukon Denali sped past his parked patrol car on Tuolomne Street at about 60 mph with Capoot in pursuit.
"He made eye contact," Messina said.
Smith, 39, of Fairfield, is charged with Capoot's murder on the afternoon of Nov. 17, 2011. He has also been charged with several special-circumstance allegations including lying in wait and killing a police officer to avoid arrest. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
Messina said he joined the chase, which ended when Capoot used his patrol car to make Smith's SUV spin out on Janice Street in a residential neighborhood.
Smith fled the vehicle as it was still moving, and Capoot gave chase on foot, Messina said.
"He was about 10 to 15 yards behind the suspect," Messina said of Capoot.
Messina also joined the foot chase but said he lost sight of the suspect and Capoot.
"I heard three shots. Two were one after another, then there was a two- to three-second pause and then the last shot," Messina said.
He said he saw the microphone that Capoot had been wearing on his uniform dangling over the top of a fence along the side yard of a home at 124 Janice St.
"I pushed the fence down to get to the backyard. I saw Jim lying face-down in the backyard. His arms were under his body," Messina testified.
Messina said he and his police dog searched the yard for the suspect then returned to help Capoot, who was unresponsive but making moaning sounds, Messina testified.
Messina and another officer who arrived took off Capoot's shirt and vest and began CPR, Messina said.
"I tried to get a carotid pulse, but didn't get anything," Messina said.
Capoot had been shot once in the back, and later died at a hospital.
The first witness to testify this morning was Jessica Arroyo, a teller at the Bank of America on Springs Road where the robbery occurred prior to the car chase.
Arroyo testified that she saw a man in the merchants' line covering his face with a bank bag, and that his skin looked strange. When he got to her station, she saw that he was wearing a mask, she said.
"He said, 'Put the money in the bag. Don't say anything, and don't push the button,'" Arroyo testified.
She emptied her top drawer, putting $3,000 into the bag.
Bank customer Nabil Saleh testified that the robber walked to the door, then ran when a security guard shouted at him, "Hey."
Saleh testified that he saw the man get into an SUV. The security guard told him to follow the car to get its license plate number, Saleh said.
Saleh said he stayed three to four car lengths behind the suspect's vehicle until Capoot pulled alongside him in his patrol car and asked, "Which vehicle?"
Capoot then sped off after the SUV with his lights and siren on.
Smith was arrested a short time after the shooting as he tried to enter a nearby home. This afternoon, Vallejo police officers testified that a .40-caliber Glock semiautomatic handgun was found in his pants pocket.
Lt. Lee Horton testified that he and Capt. Lori Lee were driving in the area of the shooting when they saw a man fitting the suspect's description in jeans and a gray shirt walking calmly across Janice Street.
Horton said that when he stopped the car, the man started to trot, heading to a home at 157 Janice St.
"He was banging and kicking on the door and saying, 'Let me in, the police are trying to kill me,'" Horton testified.
Horton said he ordered Smith — who had opened the home's exterior security door and was standing between that door and the wooden front door — to show his hands and get down on the ground. Smith slowly began to move to his knees, Horton said.
Officer Douglas Wilcox, who had also arrived at the scene, then pulled the security door away from Smith's body as Horton shot Smith twice with a Taser, without effect, Horton testified.
Wilcox also testified, saying he grabbed Smith's arm after Horton Tasered him and pulled him to the ground, then handcuffed him.
He said he then pulled Smith to his feet and searched him, and found the handgun in the left front pocket of Smith's pants. The gun had a bullet in the chamber and several rounds in the magazine, Wilcox testified.
Vallejo police Detective William Badour testified that the jeans and tennis shoes Smith was wearing when he was arrested were similar to those worn by the bank robber, who was captured on surveillance video.
Testimony will continue Wednesday in the preliminary hearing, which will allow a judge to determine whether there is enough evidence to hold Smith for trial. Capoot's wife and three daughters were in court Tuesday.
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|2008-01-05, 15:33
|Link #21
Like a falling star
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: A snowy town from 7 years ago....
Age: 26
To me, Rem is the best voice thus far, closely followed by Ryuk. Misa was better than I'd expected. I had imagined her voice to be slightly higher in pitch than it is, just very slightly, but she has the jovial attitude down as far as I can tell.
I'm not diasppointed. However, I still quite dislike L's voice. Even still, I do understand that topping Kappei Yamaguchi is quite impossibe by any standards.
|2008-01-08, 01:00
|Link #24
Join Date: May 2007
Location: gs series
Age: 29
well the dub of death note is ok
& by the the dub company of death note is also the same grouo that did animes like GS & others that is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ocean_Group
|2008-01-08, 17:31
|Link #26
History Fanatic
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Middle of no where
Age: 28
I think they have succeeded greatly in picking the perfect voices to the chars. I even think they sound better than the subbed version ( esp Ryuk whos voice is spot on). Misa Misa's voice - well it's already been said thats gd. Personally this has to be one of the best dubs out there - and so it shud given the awesomeness of the series
|2008-01-10, 12:23
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The Internet, ranging from the World of Warcraft------Deviantart----and much more!..My mostly WoW
Age: 26
Well...Misa's voice is like werid....It's not high enough and sounds mature...Misa's voice should be high and sound like an innocent child
|2008-01-15, 22:49
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An Intellectual Idiot
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Age: 26
|2008-02-07, 13:14
|Link #31
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
I agree, but L's voice is one of the dubs that I do like. In my opinion he sounds almost exactly like he looks, if you know what I mean. His dub voice sounds almost like an android or robot when he pronounces certain syllables, the voice actor is very talented.
|2008-02-07, 21:04
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Right behind you.
Age: 30
Frankly, this is one of the very few shows where I liked the english dub better than the japanese audio w/ subs. I found Light's and L's voices to be too high pitched in the japanese audio. Double goes for Amane Misa. God her voice was awful in the japanese audio. It was to me what a dog whistle is to animals.
I REALLY liked Light's voice and L's voice in the english dub. Even though some people might have found it bland/boring, I liked his kind of slovenly genius (he talked softly, kind of mumbled, and yet pulled off sounding like a genius 24/7, always thinking, and sounds how he looks). Even though I didn't like his character, Light's voice actor pulled off crazy-genius-god-complex-madman very well, I thought. I actually haven't finished it yet in English, since I watched it first in japanese, but I like both.
|2008-02-18, 20:28
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
In general I have to say that the dub is decent some characters are better then others. Ryuk, Rem, Misa, and Light had good voices, though certain characters such as L just sound off, but that is probably because of how use I am to hearing the Japanese voices.
|2008-03-10, 16:19
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God of his own ego
Join Date: Aug 2007
|2008-03-12, 11:47
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
L's English voice actor is amazing. Wow, the inflection quirks are perfect. And when he calls Matsuda/Matsui pretending to be some vapid chum, I thought that was extremely well done.
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Overall impression: While South Beach was once Miami's coolest spot to live and eat, proof that the hipsters have moved to the mainland is on full display at Blue Collar, open since this past January. This is Miami's MiMo (Miami Modern) Historic District, but gentrification is a slow process. Chef and owner Danny Serfer, 33, former chef de cuisine at Chef Allen's in Aventura, is ahead of the curve in this formerly shaky part of Biscayne Boulevard, which is convenient for anyone heading to downtown Miami. His restaurant offers a diner setting with above-average, honest American fare created by a chef who's paid his dues.
Quote: "I just wanted to make a place where I could go eat," Serfer says. "Simple. No pretense. Easy."
Ambience: It's not called Blue Collar for nothing. Metal lunch pails — of the sort workers at theauto plants where I grew up used to carry to work — decorate one gray wall. There are 22 seats (reproduction molded plastic Eames chairs), three stools plus some outdoor seating. The problem with Blue Collar is its setting. It's so small and so poorly ventilated that one busy evening we left smelling like we'd just worked a shift behind the stove making latkes. Sit outside while the weather allows.
Starters: The nosh/apps section of the menu includes excellent, served-year-round Hanukkah latkes ($8), creamy macaroni and cheese with trugole, cheddar and Parmesan ($10) and interesting Cuban sandwich spring rolls ($8) filled with serrano ham, manchego and pickles. They come with yellow-mustard mayo. The Veg Chalkboard ($4 each) is also full of perfect appetizers, including roasted beets and goat cheese; roasted butternut squash; curried cauliflower puree; cheese grits; French fries; sauteed kale; and the pickle of the day — okra was featured last week.
Entree excellence: Crispy skin snapper ($21) could be on the menu of a much-more-sophisticated restaurant and is served with rock-shrimp-vegetable fried rice, which will remind anyone weaned on Cantonesefood of the best of their childhood. The BC Entree Salad ($15) is a combination of crisp chicken, latke pieces, romaine, mesclun, bacon, blue cheese and Thousand Island Dressing. It's like something created in ahome kitchen. At lunchtime, I had the Big Ragout Sandwich ($13), a hollowed-out sesame-seeded, oversize crusty roll filled with pork-and-veal-shoulder brisket, mozzarella and Parmesan. Wow! Again, home cooking made better. While I liked Serfer's version of a shrimp po boy ($13), served on a toasted burger bun, my dining companion wanted a more-traditional roll and said the shrimp was too heavily battered instead of lightly dusted. The chalkboard menu includes three daily specials: ribs (baby backs, short ribs, spare ribs, prime rib) with warm potato salad; Parm (chicken, veal, pork, eggplant) with angel-hair pasta and red sauce; and braise (brisket, pot roast, oxtails, pork shoulder) with mashed potatoes and braising juices. There's also pan-roasted half organic chicken ($18), hanger steak ($19), a cheeseburger ($13) and a veggie burger ($12) made with corn, broccoli, peppers and onion. Most entrees come with something from the Veg Chalkboard.
Sweet! Serfer serves one of the best chocolate cakes ($7) ever. It's made with Valrhona chocolate and comes with a glass bottle of ice-cold whole milk. His butterscotch and Heath bar bread pudding with spicy whipped cream ($7) is also much loved.
Service: Unevenly efficient. The tattooed gals at lunchtime were much better than the slow-moving guys at dinner.
Insider tip: The parking lot in front of the motel is cramped. Look for parking along the north wall of the motel on 67th Street.
Liquid assets: A terrific beer selection, including Narragansett lager ($4), Dale Pale Ale ($6) and Golden Monkey ($8).
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305-756-0366, BlueCollarMiami.com
Cuisine: American
Cost: Inexpensive-moderate
Hours: Lunch weekdays, dinner daily, brunch Saturday and Sunday
Reservations: Not accepted
Credit cards: All major
Bar: Beer and wine
Sound level: Noisy when full
Outside smoking: Yes
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Parking: Free lot and street meters
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DURHAM, N.C. – Five Duke student athletes, the most in the four-year history of the Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership and Service Awards Program, were honored Wednesday evening for their service and leadership on the Duke campus.
Awards were won by Greg Akinbiyi (Football), Carrem Gay (Women's Basketball), Nick Tsipis (Men's Soccer), Bryan Morgan (Football) and Amanda Granson (Women's Tennis).
Akinbiyi, a graduating senior, was awarded the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, which recognizes selflessness, generosity of service, nobility of character, integrity and depth of spirituality. A four-year letterman and two-year starter at defensive end, Akinbiyi finished his career with 120 tackles, 21.5 tackles for loss and 6.0 quarterback sacks. In 2008, he led Duke in both tackles for loss, sacks and earned the program's Outstanding Defensive Lineman award. He also served as team captain as a senior.
Gay, another graduating senior, was the recipient of the William J. Griffith Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Durham and Local Communities, which is presented to a select number of graduating students for their efforts in the community and significantly impacting University life. A four-year letterwinner on the women's basketball team, Gay guided the Blue Devils to four straight NCAA Tournament appearances, including the 2006 National Championship game. She was an All-ACC Tournament first team selection, after notching a season-high 19 points to go along with 10 rebounds in the ACC title game.
The Lars Lyon Volunteer Service Award was presented to Tsipis, a rising junior, for his volunteer efforts outside of the Duke campus. A two-year letterwinner as a goalkeeper for the men's soccer team, Tsipis is an outstanding campus leader who was selected to represent Duke at the 2009 National Student-Athlete Development Conference. He also participated in the Coach for College program in Vietnam in 2008.
Morgan, a rising junior, and Granson, a rising senior, were honored with Leading at Duke Award. Both Morgan and Granson were recognized with the award for their outstanding contributions to the Duke and Durham communities.
A starting center as a sophomore in 2008, Morgan anchored an offensive line unit that reduced the number of sacks allowed from 45 in 2007 to 22. Granson, a three-year letterwinner for the women's tennis team, is part of the 16th-ranked doubles tandem that is 20-13 overall this season. She is 25-13 and ranked 74th in singles currently, while earning All-America honors for her doubles play in 2007. She sports a career record of 72-34 in singles and a 68-38 mark in doubles action.
Ten total student athletes were nominated for awards, also the most in the history of the event.
Other student-athletes receiving nominations were Lauren Gonzalez (Women's Swimming and Diving) for the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award, Ali Comolli (Field Hockey) for the Julie Anne Levey Memorial Leadership Award and Andrew Wolcott (Baseball), Matt Williams (Baseball) and Anna Farias-Eisner (Women's Cross Country and Track and Field) for the Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership/Service Award. Wolcott was nominated for Promotion of the Ideals of Community, Wolcott for Expanding the Boundaries of Learning and Farias-Eisner for Building Alliances through Collective Engagement.
The ceremony was held in Scharf Hall of the Michael W. Krzyzewski Center for Academic and Athletic Excellence.


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The Hollywood Reporter's May 11 issue features Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom (née Kim Schmitz) in a 5,700-word cover story. Described by Forbes as "one of the most celebrated hackers" in 1992, Dotcom was convicted of insider trading in 2002, pled guilty to embezzlement in 2003, and was arrested earlier this year in New Zealand in an international law enforcement operation that also shut down his popular cyberlocker site's 1,000-strong leased server farm in Virginia. At that time, while running his multimillion-dollar empire, Dotcom was ranked as the world's top player of the video game "Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3." Although it is clear he was also willing to play games with the legal boundaries of copyright law, he claims to have observed the requirements for a safe-harbor defense. "We can't be liable for actions of third parties," he said in a March television interview. "As long as we follow a regime of taking things down that are reported to us, which we have done over all these years, we are protected, according to the law." While awaiting trial, Dotcom is also recording hip-hop tracks and determined to mount a vigorous defense. His track record for being sensational and colorful is proven, and even includes a $10 million offer he made after Sept. 11, 2001, for information that would lead to the arrest of Osama bin Laden. This Hollywood drama starring Dotcom as copyright villain seems sure to keep us in suspense and seems capable of attracting fresh international attention.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk released the latest Special 301 report on April 30, listing countries with inadequate intellectual property protections. Similar to last year, the worst offenders list includes Canada, China, India, Russia, and more than a half-dozen others. Unlike last year, Ukraine has been moved back onto the priority watch list, and Malaysia and Spain have been completely removed due to improvements. Although Switzerland is not on the lists, the report singled out its lax attitude toward online piracy. Content industry groups Copyright Alliance, IIPA, MPAA, NMPA, and the RIAA welcomed this year's report and thanked the federal agencies that contributed to it. The RIAA said, "Thanks in great part to the work of the U.S. government over the past couple of decades, there are fewer and fewer places that are truly hospitable to piracy. ... There is increasingly broad recognition that fueling creativity through the protection of objects of creativity is an essential component of a nation's ability to economically compete in the 21st century, and for sustaining cultural diversity." Consumer advocates Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge complained that their input had been ignored and that inclusion on the lists was based on industry-provided data reflecting a narrow point of view.
On April 26 the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, by a 248–168 vote that reflected heavy Republican support. The result disappointed consumer advocates such as EFF and answered the question "Is CISPA another SOPA?" in the negative insofar as it did succeed in passing the House. As passed, there are various viewpoints on CISPA, including opposition from the software foundation Mozilla, Microsoft backing away from the bill, and the threat of a White House veto. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), the co-sponsors of the Senate bill S. 2105, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, said in a joint statement, "We congratulate the House for passing cyber information sharing and research and development legislation, necessary but by no means comprehensive elements of a cybersecurity legislative strategy. We are troubled House leaders blocked consideration of protections for critical infrastructure systems, ignoring the advice of our military and intelligence leaders as well as most cybersecurity experts. ... The Senate cybersecurity bill provides comprehensive protection for these systems. We look forward to debating and passing that bill so that we can conference with the House and produce legislation that secures the most critical systems on which all American people and businesses depend each day." So while CISPA as passed might be as dead as SOPA in the Senate, much of its language could be resurrected in a conference committee hybrid of the two bills.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will conduct a May 9 oversight hearing of U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel. Last year's hearing indicated strong bipartisan support for the IPEC's job performance.
A Senate vote is expected shortly to confirm Federal Communications Commission nominated commissioners Ajit Varadaraj Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel, who were nominated in November. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) had blocked their confirmation to spur action over a separate FCC issue but lifted his block on April 27.
May 15 is the reply deadline for the Copyright Office's request for information regarding crowdsourcing the data needed to turn its image scans of millions of records from 1870–1977 into a searchable database of copyright. The project's progress is covered in the office's blog, Copyright Matters: Digitization and Public Access.
In the ongoing story of Britain's High Court ordering UK Internet service providers to block infringing site the Pirate Bay, a ruling ordered ISPs Everything Everywhere, O2, Sky, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media to comply with the block, but BT's request for a delay was granted.
In the ongoing story of European Parliament's consideration and anticipated rejection of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, the rapporteur for the International Trade Committee David Martin submitted his formal recommendation to reject ACTA on April 25.
The Recording Academy actively represents the music community on such issues as intellectual property rights, music piracy, archiving and preservation, and censorship concerns. In pursuing its commitment to addressing these and other issues, The Recording Academy undertakes a variety of national initiatives. ArtsWatch is a key part of an agenda aimed at raising public awareness of and support for the rights of artists. To become more involved, visit Advocacy Action @ GRAMMY.com and sign up for Advocacy Action E-lerts.
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This was our second time to Onno's. What a nice place to go and relax with some great cold beer and great food.
We had lunch there, Try the Bacon Cheeseburger and Club sandwich. The burger was very yummy, served with fries and onion rings. Wash it down with an ice cold cerveza. Looking forward to lunch again next year!


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01.13.13: The No. 13 ranked (NJCAA DII poll) CCRI Lady Knights basketball team hosted the No. 15 rankled defending national champion Monroe College Mustangs form New Rochelle, NY in their final game of the CCRI basketball Invitational. The Lady Knights defeated the Mustangs 75-73 in overtime. With the victory the Lady Knights improve to 16-2 on the season their best start in program history!
In a game that has been marked on both team's calendars since they last played March 4th of 2012, in that game CCRI defeated Monroe 65-60 before Monroe went to win National Championship. Both teams were prepared for a fierce battle. Monroe struck the first blow as they jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead. However, the Lady Knights showed tremendous resilience to come back and take 1 10-8 lead at the 12:30 mark of the first half. The Lady Knights went on to take a 20-15 lead by the 8:45 mark of the first half. However, the battle-tested Mustangs were up to the task as they closed the gap to one point going into the break trailing 31-30.
In the second half, once again, Monroe came out firing and took a 51-43 lead with 12:17 left in the game. The Lady Knights closed the gap to three points 51-48 after a Lexi Barros (New Bedford, MA) 3-point play with 11 minutes left. As the game clock winded down it was clear that this game was going to be an instant classic. With a 64-62 lead Monroe had the ball and was on a fast-break attempting to extend the lead but Ahnyyah Jackson (Hackensack, NJ) made an excellent defensive play as she took a charge from an oncoming Jasmine McRoy to give the Lady Knights that ball back with a chance to tie the game. With 1:22 showing on the clock Barros used her creativity to dribble-drive past her defender and release a "tear drop" shot over the Monroe frontcourt defenders to tie the game 64-64. Both teams had chances to close out the game and the final opportunity for CCRI came with 30.3 remaining on the game clock and 30 on the shot. They drew up a play for Co-Captain Jahira Smith (Brooklyn, NY) who went one-on-one with one of the larger Mustang defenders and was able to get a turnaround jumper off with three seconds left that rattled in and out before Monroe secured the rebound and timeout with 1.1 remaining their final second heave was no good and the game went to overtime tied at 64-64.
As overtime began Monroe once again delivered another body blow as they scored the first six points to take a 70-64 lead with 3:09 remaining. It was gut-check time for the Lady Knights and they answered as only they could. Ahnyyah Jackson and Lexi Barros both went 2-2 from the free throw line to cut the lead to two points 70-68 with 2:43 left. Jenna Ayala (Paterson, NJ) sank a baseline jumper with 2:00 left to tie the game 70-70. Jackson would make two more free-throws to give CCRI a 72-70 lead with 1:22 left. Barros also scored to give CCRI a 74-70 lead with less than a minute left in OT. Monroe guard Jasmine McRoy sank a tough contested 3-pointer with 3.7 second left to cut the Lady Knights lead to one points 75-74. The Lady Knights were able to get the ball in-bounds after the tough 3-pointer to Barros who was subsequently fouled with a second left and made one of two free throws to give the Lady Knights a 75-73 lead Monroe's "Hail Mary" attempt at the buzzer was not good as the Lady Knights would win the battle 75-73.
Leading the way for the Lady Knights was Lexi Barros with 22 points and four steals and Ahnyyah Jackson scored 18 points including an impressive 9-9 form the free-throw line, many of those coming during crunch time, with three 3-popinters and five rebounds. Also helping CCRI was Captain Jahira Smith (Brooklyn, NY) with 14 points, four rebounds, three assist and two steals. The two steals for smith give her 201 steals for her career! She is the only Lady Knight to ever get 200 steals. Also helping the Lady Knights was Nyjah Porcher (New Britain CT) with eight points while ripping down a game-high 18 rebounds, including 14 defensive rebounds, Moe Plummer (Fairfield, CT) added seven points including a big second half 3-pointer, and Jenna Ayala added four points including the game-tying shot in overtime and added nine rebounds, eight defensively.
Head Coach Kate Lynch commented after the big victory: "This team has been through a lot of adversity especially over the last few weeks. What they have shown us is truly remarkable. They have such heart, passion, and a great work ethic. Through it all, they've kept their heads held high and have kept-on plugging away. They are a gifted group of young ladies. They have a goal in mind and will do anything and everything to reach it."
The Next game for the Lady Knights will be this Saturday the 19th when they will host the Colts of Orange County Community College from Middletown, NY at 1:00pm.
The Community College of Rhode Island, New England's largest comprehensive community college, enrolls nearly 18,000 students in credit courses and thousands more in non-credit and job training classes. Its athletic program boasts 12 varsity programs and an academic support program for all student-athletes.
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Tajh Boyd, Clemson, threw for five touchdowns, ran for three more scores and had 531 total yards to lead the No. 11 Tigers to a 62-48 win over North Carolina State.
Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M, threw for 267 yards and three TDs and ran for 100 yards and two more scores as the No. 9 Aggies beat Sam Houston State 47-28.
Montel Harris, Temple, rushed for a career-high 351 yards and seven TDs to help the Owls beat Army 63-32.
Devin Gardner, Michigan, threw for three touchdowns and ran for three more to help the No. 23 Wolverines rout Iowa 42-17.
Dri Archer, Kent State, ran for 241 yards and two long touchdowns to lead the No. 25 Flashes to their first Mid-American Conference title game with a 31-24 victory over Bowling Green.
Stephen Morris, Miami, threw for 413 yards and three scores to help the Hurricanes roll past South Florida 40-9.
Matt McGloin, Penn State, threw for a career-high 395 yards and hit Allen Robinson on three of his four TD passes in the Nittany Lions 45-22 win over Indiana. He also set school records for yards in a season (3,071), career touchdowns (45) and single-season completions (251).
Devonta Freeman, Florida State, ran for 148 yards and two TDs as the No. 10 Seminoles rolled past Maryland 41-14 to earn a spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.
Taylor Martinez, Nebraska, threw for 308 yards and two TDs to Kenny Bell while becoming the No. 16 Cornhuskers career passing leader in a 38-14 victory over Minnesota.
Isaiah Anderson, Oklahoma State, had a career-best 174 yards receiving and caught three long TD passes from Clint Chelf in his final home game, leading the Cowboys to a 59-21 win against No. 23 Texas Tech.
Brett Smith, Wyoming, threw for 412 yards and three TDs to lead the Cowboys to a 28-23 win over UNLV.
Rakeem Cato, Marshall, threw for 377 yards and three TDs and ran for another score in a 44-41 win over Houston.
Terrance West, Towson, rushed for 236 yards and two TDs in a 64-35 rout of New Hampshire.
Michael Colvin, Lehigh, passed for 362 yards and four TDs and ran for another score during a 38-21 win over Lafayette.
Terrence Lefall, Howard, ran 41 times for 253 yards and two TDs in a 41-34 win over Delaware State.
Dalyn Williams, Dartmouth, threw for 287 yards and three TDs and ran in another score in a 35-21 win over Princeton.
Ryan Aplin, Arkansas State, set a school record with 454 yards of offense and threw for four TDs in the Red Wolves 41-34 win over Troy. He also became the Sun Belt Conferences leading passer with 10,307 career yards.
6: Consecutive times Harvard has beaten Yale, a first for the Crimson in a rivalry that started in 1875.
13: Outright Ivy League titles by Pennsylvania after beating Cornell 35-28.
21: Touchdown passes by Alabamas AJ McCarron, setting a new single-season school record.
44: Career rushing touchdowns by Armys Trent Steelman, breaking the school record of 43 set by Glenn Davis in the mid-1940s.
64: Wins by South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier, tying him with Rex Enright for most in school history.
754: Total yards by Clemson in its 62-48 win over North Carolina State.
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69 years later, Normandy matters
D-Day amphibious landing on a beach at Normandy, France. (Copyright Associated Press)
More than two generations removed from an event, even one as monumental as World War II's D-Day, how do you grasp the reality of history to ensure that people today and in the generations to come remember sacrifice that turned back evil?
Organizers of a James Madison University study abroad trip, Civilization, Culture and Memory: Paris and Normandy, believe equipping future teachers with first-hand accounts of the events of June 6, 1944, and the ensuing weeks of the Normandy Invasion is the answer.
Dr. Michael J. Galgano, professor of history, and retired Lt. Col. Peter S. Combee, a 1980 JMU alumnus who teaches American military history in the Department of Military Science and who serves on the board of directors and as military historian for Normandy Allies Inc., are leading the July 6-27 study trip, a partnership between Normandy Allies and JMU.
Galgano believes the courses and travel experiences will benefit each of the 10 JMU undergraduate students and one University of Virginia student participating in the trip. "For those who are going to teach, I'd like to see more of a presence of the study of World War II and the importance of what Tom Brokaw calls 'the greatest American generation' in their classrooms. It seems that one way of preserving memory is through the classroom for the next generation of young people.
"For all of them, as American citizens, I'd like to see them have an appreciation and an understanding of the sacrifices Americans and people from other countries made to bring about an end to the Nazis. That's a very important lesson to learn that the collective confrontation of evil is important. It represents one way in which active citizenship is still a great value."
The students will begin their journey in Paris, where Galgano will teach history and culture through several walking tours of the city and visits to Rouen, Chartes and Mont St. Michel. "They'll get a sense of the prehistory, the history of World War II and the reconstruction of this region since then," Galgano said. "What stands out to me most vividly about the reconstruction is in many cases authorities went out of their way not to restore buildings to cover up what happened in the war," noting that marble structures were often repaired with concrete to preserve the structural integrity of buildings without completely restoring the appearance.
Students are doing much of their reading and research prior to the trip. "I don't want them carrying textbooks," Galgano said. Referring to oral histories on a BBC website and Library of Congress materials, students are writing several academic papers while they are stateside so they can immerse themselves in the French culture in July. One assignment is in preparation for participation in a ceremony at a British and American cemetery where students will present reflections on individual soldiers buried there. In the Canadian sector, students will place maple leaves on a monument to soldiers who were executed by German soldiers.
Such memorials are important in France. An estimated 10,000 French citizens maintain the graves of Allied and German fallen, Galgano said. "We want to study a combination of what happened during the Normandy invasion in the various sectors and the ideas of what happened, why it happened, how it happened and then how it is remembered in French memory. For me, that has become one of the most significant aspects, and I think it will be one of the most meaningful for the students. It's very much a part of the living French memory."
Combee, whose 22-year career in the Army has instilled a deep respect for Normandy and all it represents, said, "They understand loss and the sanctity of individualism and their own uniqueness as a country."
Drawing from his 20-plus trips to Normandy and details from a book he wrote for use by Normandy Allies, Combee will teach a separate course about the military operation. "Over 11 days we're studying the whole complexity of the battlefield," he said. Landing 150,000 troops on that June day, "it was a massive operation to coordinate."
"It's really a study of the tenacity of the American, British and French commandoes that went in on D-Day and their ability to fight through all the odds that were against them," Combee said. "A lot of the units were green, had never been bloodied in battle and experienced."
A lieutenant named Alvin Ungerleider was one of the young men who landed at Omaha Beach. He survived the onslaught, served in the Army, achieving the rank of general, until he retired in 1978 and helped establish the first Normandy Allies program. When JMU's partnership with Normandy Allies was established, Ungerleider's son, Daniel, a JMU alumnus, contacted Galgano to offer scholarship assistance to make participation in the program possible for a student and to honor his father's memory and service in the pivotal campaign at Normandy.
The study trip "is a very good mix of military history – planning, logistics and the execution of a historic event – but equally important is the historical memory and the blending of an American and French alliance that I think is very important for students to understand," Galgano said.
The history professor anticipates the trip's experiences will enlarge his students' perspectives of the host country. "I think we have a gross misunderstanding of France in our country and a very negative impression of France and the French," Galgano said. "I want my students to come away at least questioning that prejudice because the experience they will have will contradict it without any question. I think they will be amazed at how open, how friendly, how warm, how welcoming the French are."
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DOVER, Del. – Quarterback Shane McSweeny was a one-man wrecking crew, powering No. 7 Wesley to 42 consecutive second-half points to knock off fifth-ranked Linfield 49-34 in a second-round NCAA Division III playoff game Saturday at Scott D. Miller Stadium.
Wesley (11-1), a Division III independent, advances to the quarterfinals to play Mary Hardin-Baylor Saturday at noon in Belton, Texas.
McSweeny passed for 259 yards and two scores and rushed for another 174. He accounted for 256 total yards in the final two quarters as Wesley overcame a 27-7 halftime deficit.
Linfield, champion of the Northwest Conference, suffered its first defeat and closed the season at 10-1.
The Wildcats twice took 13-point leads in the first two quarters and led by 20 after scoring on the final series of the opening half. Josh Kay booted a pair of field goals in the first quarter, connecting from 27 and 26 yards as Linfield built a 6-0 lead.
The Wildcats faced a third-and-24 situation from their own 16-yard line when Wildcats tailback Josh Hill took a shovel pass 42 yards for a first down, keeping a drive alive. Six plays later, Linfield went on top 13-0 with 10:37 left in the second period.
On the ensuing possession, McSweeny passed 38 yards to Jeremiah Howe to the Linfield 46, then weaved his way for a touchdown that kept Wesley within striking distance.
Linfield came right back to push its lead to 13 points, marching 76 yards in eight plays for a touchdown. On third-and-goal from the 1, Inns tossed the ball to the endzone, where it ricocheted off the hands of Deidre Wiersma and into the arms of Buddy Saxon. The extra point made it 20-7 with 5:48 to go before intermission.
The Wildcats made it a three-score game in the closing minute of the half as Inns tossed a 33-yard bomb down the left sideline to Lucas Jepson, who caught the ball in stride at the goal line with 29 seconds left before the break. Kay's extra point made it 27-7 in favor of the visitors.
Inns amassed 296 yards passing in the first two quarters, completing 17-of-24 attempts. The Wildcats owned 342-181 advantage in total yards as the teams retreated to their respective locker rooms.
McSweeny, the Wolverines' primary offensive weapon, had 112 rushing yards at the intermission to go with 65 passing yards.
The second half was a different story.
Wesley caught a break to begin the third quarter, pouncing on a fumbled kickoff at the Linfield 28 that gave the Wolverines their best field position of the game to that point. McSweeny's pass to Steven Koudossou from the 15 found paydirt, drawing Wesley to with 13 once again, 27-14.
Linfield marched to the Wesley 13 and appeared ready to put the game out of reach, but Inns' pass was intercepted by Leon Jones at the 1 and returned 99 yards for touchdown with 4:02 left in the quarter.
After a punt by Jordan Walker pinned the Wolverines at their own 1, McSweeny needed just four plays to fashion another scoring drive, hitting Steven Koudoussou on a 28-yard pass play that gave Wesley its first lead of the game at 28-27.
The wheels came off the Linfield wagon after that. McSweeny teamed with towering tight end Sean McAndrew for a pair of touchdown passes four minutes apart, bolstering the Wolverines' lead to 42-27 with eight minutes to play. McSweeny then delivered the final punch, scoring on an 8-yard scamper with 4:40 to play.
Inns passed 19 yards to Deidre Wiersma for a touchdown with 1:47 left to make the score respectable.
"It was certainly a tale of two halves," Wildcats coach Joseph
Smith said. "I felt like probably the big momentum change obviously
was the opening kickoff (of the second half) where they made a nice
play and caused a fumble and I think that sparked a big
motivational change and momentum change.
"They did a great job of making some plays on the ball. I thought they made some great catches and we didn't match that."
Inns finished the game with a career-high 407 yards passing, completing 32-of-49 attempts. Jepson totaled six catches for 111 yards and Wiersma had eight receptions for 81 yards to lead the Wildcats.
Hill, who gained 51 yards in the first half, finished with just 65 on 11 carries. He also had five catches for 45 yards.
Wildcats tackle Tyler Steele was credited with a game-high 11 tackles, including three sacks. Drew Fisher had 10 tackles and Dominique Forrest had nine stops for the 'Cats.
The teams combined for nearly 1,000 yards of offense. Once the final statistics were tallied, Wesley had outgained Linfield 497-495. Both teams registered four sacks. The Wildcats turned the ball over three times - twice on fumbles - while forcing two Wolverine turnovers.
McSweeny passed for four touchdowns and ran for two others.
"We knew they were very explosive with a lot of great players on every side of the ball everywhere," Smith said. "I really felt like they had a really good defensive line. When they got going, they caused us a lot of problems up front and I thought that was a huge difference."
'CAT SCRATCH: Linfield traveled 2,452 miles for its playoff game, the furthest distance covered by a Linfield team in program history. . . temperature at kickoff was 58 degrees. . . Saturday's attendance was 921. . . Linfield is 0-4 road playoff games since joining the NCAA in 1998. . . the Wildcats also dropped close contests at St. Johns (2003), UW-Whitewater (2009) and St. Thomas (2010). . . freshman Mike Nardoni was transported to the hospital in the first quarter after suffering a violent hit on kickoff. . . Nardoni was treated and released and is expected to return to Oregon with the team. . . the Wildcats are should arrive on campus Saturday evening by 10 o'clock.
SO LONG SENIORS: The game marked the end of the road for 21
seniors: Playing their final games Drew Fisher, Taylor Skore, Nate
Dixon, Erik Koczian, Kole Krieger, Eric Biege, Deidre Wiersma,
James Testa, Aaron Hire, Aaron Williams, Kalae Parish, Bryan
Anderson, Eric Anderson, Christian Hanna, Hayden Mace, Jordan
Barnes, Buddy Saxon, Joell Reyes, Brent Shimabukuro, Sparky
Gonzalez and Tommy Patrick. . . Linfield's graduating class won 37
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LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain (all times local):
4:30 p.m.
A lawyer says a Russian businessman who has associated with a prominent critic of the Kremlin has died in London.
Andrei Borovkov told Russian media outlets on Tuesday that his client, Nikolai Gushkov, has died, but said he was unaware of the time and circumstances.
Reports in British and Russian media say Glushkov, who was in his late 60s, was found dead at his home in southwest London.
London's Metropolitan Police force says officers are investigating the "unexplained" death of a man found at a house in the New Malden area late Monday. It did not identify him by name.
Glushkov was a friend of Boris Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch who died in London in 2013. An inquest failed to determine whether he had killed himself or died from foul play.
London police say counterterrorism detectives are leading the investigation "as a precaution because of associations that the man is believed to have had."
Police say there is no evidence to suggest a link to the March 4 poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
3:50 p.m.
Britain's representative to the global chemical weapons watchdog says Russia has "failed for many years to declare chemical weapons development programs which date from the 1970s" and London has demanded that Moscow now "come clean."
Ambassador Peter Wilson told reporters Tuesday that London wants "Russia to declare these programs now."
British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday that a military-grade nerve agent was used in the attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia, and that Russia was "highly likely" to blame.
Wilson also refuted a claim by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Britain would be breaching the treaty that outlaws chemical weapons if it refuses to share with Moscow samples of the nerve agent.
3:35 p.m.
Britain's media regulator says Kremlin-backed news channel RT could lose its license to broadcast in the U.K. in the wake of the nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal.
The channel has repeatedly been criticized by regulator Ofcom for breaching impartiality standards, and some British lawmakers have called for it to be shut down.
The regulator said Tuesday that it has a duty "to be satisfied that broadcast licensees remain fit and proper to hold their licenses."
Ofcom said it had written to ANO TV Novosti, which holds RT's U.K. broadcast licenses, saying that if Russia is found to be behind the attack, "we would consider this relevant to our ongoing duty to be satisfied that RT is fit and proper."
Britain has given Russia until midnight Tuesday to explain how a Russian-made nerve agent came to be used in an English city, or face retaliatory measures.
3:10 p.m.
Denmark's prime minister has said "the use of chemical weapons in a peaceful English town ... brings back memories of the Cold War."
Lars Loekke Rasmussen was commenting Tuesday on the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in southern England.
Loekke Rasmussen told Denmark's TV2 that his country would consult "with our allies what countermeasures it can lead to."
The Danish government leader also expressed "sympathy with the people affected and solidarity with Britain."
May told Britain's Parliament it is "highly likely" Russia was to blame for the March 4 attack. British police and intelligence reports say that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripals were poisoned by a military grade nerve agent produced in Russia.
2:50 p.m.
The Russian Foreign Ministry says it has handed the British ambassador a note of protest regarding the accusations leveled against Moscow over last week's poisoning of an ex-Russian spy.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia remain hospitalized in critical condition after being exposed to a military-grade nerve agent.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed retaliatory measures if Russia offers no explanation for how the nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union came to poison the former spy and his daughter in a British city.
The Russian Foreign Ministry says it has summoned British Ambassador Laurie Bristow and handed him a protest note over the "baseless accusations" leveled against Russia. The ministry dismissed the reaction of British authorities to the attack as "provocative" and said it suspects the poisoning is "another unscrupulous attempt of the British authorities to discredit Russia."
2:30 p.m.
British police say the investigation into the chemical agent attack on a former Russian spy will last many weeks, and that they are not declaring a person of interest yet in the probe.
In a brief statement outside police headquarters, new counter-terror chief Neil Basu offered more details on the movements of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia before they were attacked in the English town of Salisbury on March 4. He appealed to the public to come forward if they saw the pair that day.
Basu says the public will see much police activity in and around the city over the coming days and that they should not be alarmed.
Basu also revealed for the first time that Skripal was a British citizen — a fact that might color the government's response to the incident.
2:15 p.m.
Germany's foreign minister says Berlin is "very concerned" about the poisoning of the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in England and is voicing solidarity with Britain.
Sigmar Gabriel said in a statement that he spoke by phone Tuesday with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. He said that "we condemn this attack with a banned chemical weapon in the strongest terms."
Gabriel said that the perpetrators must be brought to justice and added: "If it is confirmed that Russia is behind this, that would be a very serious matter."
Gabriel is to be replaced as foreign minister by Heiko Maas, who is a member of the same party, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government takes office on Wednesday.
1:45 p.m.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said "it sounds" like Russia was responsible for the poisoning of an ex-spy and his daughter in England.
Trump told reporters he will discuss the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in southern England with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday.
"It sounds to me that they believe it was Russia and I would certainly take that finding as fact," Trump said. He added the U.S. will condemn Russia if it agrees with Britain's findings.
His comments came after May told Parliament it is "highly likely" Russia was to blame for the attack.
British police and intelligence reports say that the Skripals were poisoned by a military grade nerve agent produced in Russia.
12:40 p.m.
British police have cordoned off a parking lot ticketing machine in the southwestern city of Salisbury as authorities retraced the steps of a former Russian spy and his daughter targeted in a chemical weapons attack.
The ticketing machine near a shopping center in Salisbury, 90 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of London, was covered by a tent similar to those at other sites where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were seen during a March 4 excursion into the city.
A bench where the pair were found and markers for Skripal's son and wife in a nearby graveyard are also beneath tents.
Authorities say the pair were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent and that Russia is "highly likely" to be behind it. Prime Minister Theresa May is demanding an explanation.
12:25 p.m.
The French Foreign Ministry says the nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain is "a totally unacceptable attack."
Without mentioning Russia, the ministry said in a statement that France repeatedly expressed "its refusal of impunity for those who use or develop toxic agents."
According to the statement, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian spoke with his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, to express France's solidarity to "a top and strategic ally."
12:20 p.m.
A senior European Union official is calling for an EU-wide response to the poisoning of a former spy amid questions over whether Russia is to blame.
European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said Tuesday that "we cannot have nerve gas being used in our societies. This should be addressed by all of us."
He told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, that "it is of the utmost importance that those who are responsible for what has happened see very clearly that there is European solidarity, unequivocal, unwavering and very strong."
Timmerman's appeal is a show of solidarity amid tense negotiations on Britain's departure from the EU next year.
Ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent in England last week and remain in critical condition.
British Home Secretary Amber Rudd says police and the domestic security service will look into a number of deaths in Britain that may be linked to Russia.
In a letter made public Tuesday, Rudd says the government takes seriously allegations that some 14 deaths may have some links to Russia.
"In the weeks to come, I will want to satisfy myself that the allegations are nothing more than that," Rudd said. "The police and MI5 agree and will assist in that endeavor."
BuzzFeed News reported in 2017 that some 14 deaths in Britain and the United States dating back to 2006 may have been linked to Russia. The cases include some prominent critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin including oligarch Boris Berezovsky and whistle-blower Alexander Perepilichny.
The list also includes former spy Alexander Litvinenko, killed by radioactive tea in 2006, a killing that British officials have linked to the Russian government.
11:50 a.m.
The British representative to the world's chemical weapons watchdog says it is highly likely that Russia is implicated in the nerve agent attack on a former spy and his daughter "by failure to control its own materials or by design."
Ambassador Peter Wilson told the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Tuesday that "I did not expect to have to brief this council on the first offensive use of a nerve agent of any sort on European territory since World War II."
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter had been poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed in the Soviet Union.
Wilson has called the attack "not just a crime against the Skripals. It was an indiscriminate and reckless act against the U.K., which put the lives of innocent civilians at risk." His comments to the closed-door meeting were tweeted by his delegation.
11:30 a.m.
The chairwoman of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament says Britain is trying to influence this weekend's Russian presidential election by accusing Moscow of poisoning an ex-spy.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent in an English city last week and are in the hospital in critical condition.
Valentina Matviyenko, who is the third most senior official in Russia, said on Tuesday the British prime minister's statement aims to "exert influence and pressure" on the March 18 vote.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday Russia is "highly likely" to be responsible for the attack.
11:20 a.m.
A former chief of Russia's main domestic intelligence agency says another post-Soviet nation could be the source of a rare nerve agent that Britain said was responsible for poisoning a Russian ex-spy in an English city last week.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday that Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter had been poisoned with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed in the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War.
Nikolai Kovalyov, former chief of the FSB, told the Russian news agency on Tuesday that Novichok used to be stored in different parts of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, which have since become independent nations, and that Ukraine or another post-Soviet nation could be the source of it.
Britain has asked the Russian ambassador in London to explain how the nerve agent turned up in the English city of Salisbury, leaving Skripal and his adult daughter in critical condition.
11:15 a.m.
Russian news agencies say the Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador in Moscow over the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy.
The foreign ministry was quoted by Russian wires as saying that the ambassador must visit the ministry later on Tuesday.
Britain says a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. It has demanded a response from Moscow.
10:40 a.m.
The chief of the world's chemical weapons watchdog says that those responsible for the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter "must be held accountable."
In a speech Tuesday to the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu said British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called him Monday evening to inform him of the results of investigations into the attack on 66-year-old Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia.
British Prime Minister Theresa May told Parliament that Russia is "highly likely" to blame for poisoning Skripal and his daughter with a military-grade nerve agent.
Uzumcu says that, "It is extremely worrying that chemical agents are still being used to harm people. Those found responsible for this use must be held accountable for their actions."
Uzumcu's comments to the closed-door meeting were released by the OPCW.
10:30 a.m.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia will only cooperate with Britain on the investigation into last week's poisoning of an ex-Russian spy if it receives samples of the nerve agent that is believed to have sickened the ex-spy and his daughter.
Lavrov told reporters on Tuesday Moscow's requests to see samples of the nerve agent have been turned down, which he called a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which outlaws the production of chemical weapons. He insisted that Russia is "not to blame" for the poisoning.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter had been poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed in the Soviet Union. May said Russia has until the end of Tuesday to explain how the substance ended up in Britain.
Lavrov said on Tuesday Moscow is willing to cooperate with the probe but suggested that London would be "better off" complying with its international obligations "before putting forward ultimatums."
9:35 a.m.
Britain's government is considering how to deal with the poisoning of an ex-spy as it awaits a Russian government response to its claim that Russian was involved.
Officials said Tuesday Prime Minister Theresa May is reviewing a range of economic and diplomatic measures.
May has said it is "highly likely" Russia was involved in the nerve agent poisoning of 66-year-old Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia. Both remain in critical condition.
The prime minister says Russia has until the end of Tuesday to explain its actions in the case, which focuses on a former Russian military intelligence officer who was convicted of spying for Britain and then released in a spy swap.
Former foreign minister David Miliband has urged May to seek support from Europe and the United States.


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St Antonius Catholic Church, Oberselters, Hesse, Germany
This church was the home of my German Burbach ancestors as far back as 1732. I have read the records of marriages and baptisms of this church. Oberselters was a small village outside of Bad Camberg. The Burbach family attended this church until recent times and may still be members there. The name still appears in the cemetery. My Great-great-grandfather Georg Burbach left Oberselters about 1848 and traveled to the nearby village of Villmar where he met and married Catharina Casperi. They remained in Villmar until 1856 when they immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin with their sons Hermann and Johann after burying their son Adam in Villmar in 1854.
We visited this church in 2003 and took this photo of an informational plaque posted on the wall.
Photo of St Antonius Church, Oberselters by ({Information |Description = Kirche St. Antonius Bad Camberg-Oberselters, Deutschland|Source = selbst fotografiert |Date = 26.01.2008|Author = Volker Thies (Asdrubal) |Permission = siehe unten |other_versions = }} used under the creative commons license.


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Boulder Creek March 28
Michelle Alton 3/29/2011 2:55:16 AMThis is gorgeous, Charles. Too bad Nature didn't think of veiling the water... #1365082
Nikki McDonald 3/29/2011 5:08:01 AMHow pretty is this :) Nice shutter speed on the water, Charles, and I like the composition, too, with the interest of the diagonal edge of the rock. #9323496
Randy D. Dinkins 4/27/2011 4:40:05 AMGreat shot, Charles; congratulations! #9372411
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Charles Cooper 4/27/2011 3:14:20 PMThank you all very much. I'm grateful to live in a place where such opportunities to hike shoot are available. #9374510
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PopGroup Lite lets you play 3- and 4-color modes for free!----------------------------------------PopGroup is a clean, polished, no-frills version of the classic "samegame" concept invented in 1985 by Kuniaki Moribe.Just pop groups of bubbles that have the same color. Sound easy? It is, unless you want a high score! You have to pop groups in the right order to form bigger groups and get more points.Compare PopGroup to other games based on the same concept:- Animations!!- Clear graphics that aren't distracting- No in-game ads! (better battery life)- Customize the "board" size- Widescreen mode and four game slots- International high score lists- and more...PopGroup is made by the developer of tChess Lite and Pro (the popular iPhone chess games), and Learn Chess (the Apple Staff Favorite e-book).
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Although Halloween just passed and we're only heading toward the holiday season, sometimes its fun to think ahead. To get you through the dreary winter with thoughts of spring, Aurora World Inc. is offering more than 180 Easter- and spring-themed plush products highlighted by new designs and materials, extensions of lines, and extensive programs for its retail partners.
Featured products include the Lopsie Wopsie Bunny and Sweet & Softer collections, as well as Miyoni Unlikely Friends, an animal pairing for one of Aurora's popular lines. Aurora and Hasbro have teamed up again to expand the Raggedy Ann doll collection with a new Gardener edition.


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40 Fabulous Readers' Rides - Toyota RidesPosted in Features on February 1, 2007
Vehicle: '96 Toyota Tacoma
Owner: Oliver Fleshman, Eugene, OR
Tires & Wheels: 34x10.50-15 LTB Swampers on 15x7 chrome
Suspension: Seven-pack leaves with military wrap
Drivetrain: 2.7L engine, Lock-Rite lockers front and rear, 4.10 gears
Performance Mods: K&N air filter, glasspacks
Other Doodads: Snorkel, Optima battery, Hella lights, winch with synthetic rope, custom rock sliders
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Breaking a front axle and having to get strapped out by a Samurai
Does everything work the way you want?: It needs 4.88 gears
Vehicle: '84 Toyota Pickup
Owner: Chris Engelvrecht, Rathdrum, ID
Tires & Wheels: 33x12.50R15 TSL radials on 15x10 American Racing Outlaw II
Suspension: 4-inch Tuff Country springs
Drivetrain: 22R engine, five-speed manual tranny, 5.71 gears
Performance Mods: Big cam
Other Doodads: 3-inch body lift
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Fell through ice into a 3-foot-deep puddle
Does everything work the way you want?: Needs a little more flex
Anything you would change: I want to put on a turbo and an intercooler
Vehicle: '97 Lexus LX470
Owner: Mark Brodis, Castle Rock, CO
Tires & Wheels: 315/75R16 Goodyear MTRs on 16x8 aluminum
Suspension: Old Man Emu springs with 1-inch spacers, custom drop-down brackets, and adjustable rear track bar
Drivetrain: 4.5L engine, factory electric lockers
Other Doodads: Slee Off Road rock sliders, ARB bull bar
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Using a Lexus to pulled out a huge F-350 that was stuck in the snow
Vehicle: '93 Toyota T-100
Owner: Bill Flad, Rochester, NH
Tires & Wheels: 35x12.50R15 Dunlop Mud Rovers on U.S. Wheel
Suspension: 5-inch Superlift with rear add-a-leaf, Rancho torsion bars
Drivetrain: 3.0L V-6, all stock
Performance Mods: K&N air cleaner
Other Doodads: Optima Yellow Top battery
Does everything work the way you want?: Works great
Anything you would change: Nope, it's my daily driver


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Hair Loss Remedy : Hair loss treatments could help you achieve that picture-perfect look - Author: Anthony Delar
For any hair loss treatment to be effective, it is essential to first know the exact cause of hair loss. Some hair shedding in men as well as women is normal. As hairs are shed at the end of their growth cycle and replaced by new ones, some degree of hair loss is normal. However, should you find any kind of abnormal hair loss; you can approach a medical professional for treatment.
Hair loss treatment medicines
Some people may choose to treat their hair loss with medicines while others are not as concerned about their thinning hair lines or even baldness. If a disease is the reason for your hair loss, then treating the disease may stop the hair loss. Or simply treating hair loss with prescription drugs can also reverse hair loss.
Treatment for hair loss does tend to boost self-esteem and one�s overall well-being. While some would willingly trade this with drug-related health inconsistencies, others would tread more carefully and make an informed decision. Some medicines could have harmful side effects but using the medicines under medical guidance can lessen the incidence of side effects.
Inherited hair loss (androgenetic alopecia) treatment aims to avoid hair loss, promote hair growth, and cover bald areas on the scalp. Since all individuals react differently to dissimilar medicines, everyone may not notice positive results or re-grow a full head of hair. The medicines include:
Minoxidil (Rogaine) is an over-the-counter topical solution that is sprayed on and rubbed into the scalp twice a day. Once use of this solution is stopped, you will lose all your re-grown hair in time.
Finasteride (Propecia) is a prescription-only medication for men. One 1mg pill must be taken once daily. However, it has not established its efficacy in women and is therefore not approved for use by women. In addition, women who are planning on becoming pregnant in the future should not take or handle crushed or broken tablets, because Finasteride can cause birth defects in a male foetus.
Even though treatment with medicines may slow hair loss and help hair re-growth, you much consider the following before making your decision. These include:
- You may not get as much hair growth as you expected
- Medicines for hair growth might have to be taken over the long term or all re-grown hair will fall out
- Your may have to pay for the medication from you own pocket because you insurance might not cover the medicine; medicines can be expensive
- Long-term use of these medicines may result in side effects that are not yet known; certain health conditions do not allow you to use these medications
- All hair loss treatments have their limitations.
Treatments Available for Hair Loss
There is not much that men or women can do to prevent inherited hair loss. This type of hair loss is a trait that carries itself in the DNA of the person. Nonetheless, not all hair loss is hereditary. There are cases where individuals have experienced hair loss while their parents and close relatives have not. This generally points a finger at other causes like stress, poor nutrition or even pollution. Premature hair loss may be result of drug use, stress, overwork, hair dyes and other chemicals, fungal infections and disease, among others.
Depending on the type of hair loss, treatments will normally differ. However, it is essential that first the cause of hair loss is established so that it becomes easy to embark on the type of treatment. For example, if treatment of a disease, like chemotherapy is the cause of hair loss then medicines may not necessarily have the potential to treat this hair loss. On the other hand, if stress is the cause of hair loss, then treatment may be used to repair damaged hair.
Some conditions produce small areas of hair loss, while others affect large areas of the scalp. Alopecia can affect hair on other parts of the body too � for example, the beard. Common causes of patchy hair loss are:
- Alopecia areata (patches of baldness that usually grow back)
- Alopecia totalis
- Traction alopecia (thinning from tight braids or ponytails)
- Trichotillomania (the habit of twisting or pulling hair out)
- Tinea capitis (fungal infection)
Alopecia areata, a common condition usually starts as a single, quarter-sized circle of perfectly smooth baldness. But normally patches do re-grow in three to six months without treatment. Sometimes, the hair may also grow back in white colour but later change back to its usual colour.
In another variant, when the old patches re-grow hair, they may be replaced by other patches.
An autoimmune condition, alopecia areata is said to occur when the body attacks its own hair follicles. Treatments for alopecia areata include injecting steroids into affected patches to stimulate hair growth. But this is not very practical for large areas of hair loss. Other treatments include oral steroids and ultraviolet light therapy. But the downside of this is that these could be toxic and impractical. In mild cases, patients generally comb over the affected areas. In severe cases, people have taken to wearing hairpieces; another option is shaving the scalp completely; this is a more excepted fashion statement in current times.
Hair loss may begin as Alopecia Areata and progress into Alopecia Totalis.
Alopecia totalis, the most extensive in form of the autoimmune disorder, actually affects the whole scalp and results in total baldness. Stress is thought to trigger this type of hair loss but people leading relatively stress-free lives have also experienced these symptoms.
Methotrexate and corticosteroids have been proposed as treatments.
Traction alopecia is normally caused as a result of tight braids and ponytails that pull hard on scalp hairs, damage dermal papilla and hair follicle and contribute to their falling out. It is therefore best to choose hairstyles that decrease pressure on the hair roots and will also avoid permanent damage.
Traction alopecia is reversible if diagnosed early, but may lead to permanent hair loss if it is undetected for a protracted period. Change in hair styles or medication treatments may reverse traction alopecia. Unfortunately, no medical treatment is available to reverse late-stage traction alopecia.
Trichotillomania refers to the habit of pulling out hairs or twisting them, sometimes unknowingly. In this condition the scalp and the eyelashes are also affected and show patches of broken-off hairs.
Treatment entirely depends on your behaviour change; you have to become aware of your problem and then deal with it
Tinea capitis is a fungal infection of the scalp. It mostly affects school-age children. Bald spots normally show broken-off hairs.
Treatment includes oral antibiotics that penetrate the hair roots and cure the infection, after which hair grows back.
Generalized hair loss includes conditions like:
Telogen effluvium normally means rapid shedding of hair after childbirth, fever, or after sudden weight loss. There is no medical treatment to correct this type of hair. In time the body adjusts to the changes and starts to work normally again.
Androgenetic alopecia has no medical cure. Normally the people facing this type of hair loss must stay with this condition or use prescription medication like Propecia for the long-term. Women do not have this option. Both men and women can both go in for hair transplants. But this is an expensive option.
No matter what the cause, hair loss is a difficult matter to confront. Moreover, individuals may not have control over the cause of their hair loss. Besides, multiple factors contributing to hair loss make treating the condition all the more difficult; but it is not impossible. Even in the most extreme cases, treatment solutions can generally be found.About the Author:
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HRH The Princess Royal officially opened the Hawk and Owl Trust's new education and visitor centre at its Sculthorpe Moor Community Nature Reserve, near Fakenham, North Norfolk.
Among the guests there to greet her were two local children, one dressed as a marsh harrier – this special bird regularly breeds there – and the other a peregrine – the emblem of the Hawk and Owl Trust, Britain's leading national charity dedicated to conserving wild birds of prey and their habitats.
Inside the centre the Princess saw displays introducing visitors to the birds of prey and other wildlife of Sculthorpe Moor, as well as its fascinating history. The reserve has many different habitats and, as the restoration work continues, an increasing number and variety of plants, birds and other animals.


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Consensus Report
Exposure Science in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy (2012)Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
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From the use of personal products to our consumption of food, water, and air, people are exposed to a wide array of agents each day—many with the potential to affect health. Exposure science investigates the contact of humans or other organisms with those agents (that is, chemical, physical, and biologic stressors) and their fate in living systems. Exposure science has been instrumental in helping us understand how stressors affect human and ecosystem health, and in efforts to prevent or reduce contact with harmful stressors. In this way exposure science has played an integral role in many areas of environmental health, and can help meet growing needs in environmental regulation, urban and ecosystem planning, and disaster management. There are increasing demands for exposure science information, for example to meet needs for data on the thousands of chemicals introduced into the market each year, and to better understand the health effects of prolonged low-level exposure to stressors. Recent advances in tools and technologies—including sensor systems, analytic methods, molecular technologies, computational tools, and bioinformatics—have provided the potential for more accurate and comprehensive exposure science data than ever before. This report provides a roadmap to take advantage of the technologic innovations and strategic collaborations to move exposure science into the future.
Key Messages
- Innovations in science and technology provide the potential for advances in exposure science. For example, cellular phone technology equipped with motion, audio, visual and location sensors and integrated with pollution measurement devices could be used to form sensing networks to collect personal exposure information on millions of people and ecosystems. Advances in genomic techniques and informatics can provide internal measures of exposures to multiple stressors in human populations and other organisms. However, the generation of large quantities of individualized exposure data might raise ethical considerations and issues of privacy protection.
- New challenges and new scientific advances mean that an expanded, integrated vision of exposure science—one that considers exposures from source to dose, over time and space, to multiple stressors, and from the molecular to ecosystem level— is now needed. This vision, dubbed "the eco-exposome," is defined as the extension of exposure science from the point of contact between stressor and receptor inward, into the organism; and outward, to the general environment including the ecosphere.
- Achieving this broader vision for exposure science will require an investment of resources and a substantial shift in how exposure science research is conducted and its results implemented. Implementing the vision will require research, transagency coordination, and education and training.
- The committee identified research needs that call for the development of existing and emerging methods and approaches, validation of methods and their enhancement for application on different scales and in broader circumstances, and improved linkages to research in other sectors of environmental health. The research needs are organized into several broad categories: research needed to develop effective responses to immediate and short-term public health and ecologic risks; supporting research that addresses past, current, and emerging outcomes; and addressing demands for exposure information among communities, governments, and industries. For each category, short-term (less than five years), intermediate-term (5-10 years), and long-term (10-20 years) goals are given.
- Exposure science is relevant to the mission of many federal agencies, and improved collaboration across agencies would help accelerate progress by promoting greater access to, and sharing of data and resources. The committee considers that Tox21, a collaboration among federal agencies and international partners established in response to the 2007 National Research Council report Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century, could be extended to exposure science and lead to the creation of Exposure21. In addition to engaging those stakeholders involved in Tox21, engagement of other federal agencies would be important.
Effective implementation of the committee's vision will depend on the development and cultivation of scientists, engineers, and technical experts with experience in multiple fields, in order to educate the next generation of exposure scientists and to provide opportunities for members of other fields to cross-train in the techniques and models used to analyze and collect exposure data. This includes the need for:
- An increase in the number of academic predoctoral and postdoctoral training programs in exposure science throughout the United States supported by training grants. NIEHS currently funds one training grant in exposure science; additional grants are needed.
- Short-term training and certification programs in exposure science for midcareer scientists in related fields.
- Development by federal agencies that support human and environmental exposure science, of educational programs to improve public understanding of exposure-assessment research, including ethical considerations involved in the research.
- To engage broader audiences, including the public, the committee suggests developing user-friendly and less expensive monitoring equipment to allow trained community members to collect and upload their own data, in partnership with researchers. This strategy could improve the value of the exposure data collected and make more data available to help set priorities and inform policy.