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Nuclear Waste In ContextFebruary 19th, 2012
What if I told you that a material existed with the following properties?
- It is highly radioactive. Because it is a very high energy alpha emitter, it is very radiotoxic. It also produces a long decay chain of daughters that emit high energy gamma and beta particles.
- It has a half-life of over one thousand years, making it difficult to dispose of and requiring long term storage considerations. Despite the relatively long half-life, it is still short enough to make it highly radiotoxic, especially because of the nature of the radiation it emits directly and through its daughters.
- It emits enough gamma radiation that a pure sample of the material can kill tissue on contact, after only exposure of a few minutes.
- The gamma radiation emitted by the material and its daughters is sufficient that if you sat next to a few dozen grams of the material, you could easily end up with acute radiation sickness in a matter of hours. In less than a day it could kill you.
- A pure sample emits enough radiation to create significant amounts of heat. The total decay heat is more than 100 watts per gram.
- It is chemically reactive, it forms compounds which readily dissolve in fresh and salt water. It may be mobile in the environment, but it also may cling to materials, making decontamination of areas difficult.
- It has a high biological uptake in most of its chemical forms.
- It may be persistent in the body and has a tendency to be incorporated into bones, replacing calcium. In such cases, it will not clear the body and has been associated with leukemia and bone cancer.
Such a substance does, in fact, exist: radium-226. Gram per gram it's more toxic than plutonium-239, the isotope most common in spent fuel. It's a highly energetic particle emitter that does not decay to a stable isotope but rather to a long chain of other radioactive substances. First it decays to radon-222, then to polonium-218, astatine-218, radon-218, lead-214, bismuth-214, polonium-214, thallium-210, lead-210, polonium-210 and finally lead-206, which is stable. For this reason, a chemically pure sample will actually increase in radioactivity until it reached equilibrium with its daughter products. Despite the relatively long half-life, it produces a great deal of radiation because for every decay of radium-226, there are decays of all the other daughters all the way down the line. Some of these emit high energy gamma rays. Radon poses some additional challenges. Because it is a gas, it may not remain in place and can result in the area around a radium-226 sample accumulating potentially dangerous concentrations of radon. The radon gas can also disperse, contaminating the area with further decay products.
Despite these dangers, radium-226 was once far more valuable than gold. For the first half of the 20th century, radium and its decay products were the most widely used radioisotope source for any purpose that required radioactive materials. It was used for cancer treatment, in the form of radium needles, external sources and devices that collected radon for use in irradiating tissue. Radium was commonly used in any circumstance where calibration sources were required, with many earth geiger counters coming with a radium-based test source. It was used in ion and moisture gauges, cold cathode vacuum tubes and combined with beryllium to produce small neutron sources. Radium was well known for its use in radiolumonescent paints. The paint was commonly used for clock and watch faces, allowing them to glow brightly without first having to be exposed to light. Larger concentrations were used for aircraft instrument dials, illuminated markers and cords. It was realized that the heat from radium could be used as a means of powering boilers or other thermal engines, but was far too expensive to ever be used in this capacity. It also was experimented with in early "nuclear battery" designs.
Radium-226 exists in small concentrations in uranium ore. To recover a single gram of the material, several tons of uranium ore must be processed. Still, because the material had so many uses and was so valuable, large operations existed all over the world to produce it. In the 1920′s, a gram of radium could cost as much as $120,000, (about 1.3 million USD in modern terms) though the price later fell to $75,000 due to more efficient production techniques. Radium needles could contain up to .1 grams of radium, making them worth more than ten thousand dollars. Because of this, radium was also used as an investment commodity. Radium needles and other radium sources were kept in bank vaults in the same way gold, silver and platinum might be kept.
Of course, radium is also pretty dangerous for the reasons mentioned above. Its chemical properties make it prone to contaminating areas and easily absorbed into the body, where it is distributed into bones and teeth, making it an especially persistent and damaging substance. It produces a great deal of alpha, beta and gamma radiation, which is not desirable for most situations. Its half life is inconveniently long for applications where disposal after a period of time is expected and the production of radon can be a danger and complicate its use. For radiolumonescent items, gamma radiation is not desirable and the energy of the alpha particles emitted by radium has a tendency to degrade the phosphorescent compounds in the paint over time. Radium was blamed for a number of deaths and illnesses, most notably in the "radium girls," who worked in clock factories, painting the hands and numbers of clocks with radium paint. Some were encouraged to lick their brushes to sharpen them, resulting in ingestion of large quantities of radium.
Because of this, radium-226 fell from favor as a radiation source for most applications as soon as synthetic, reactor-generated isotopes became available. By the 1960′s, safer, more well suited isotopes had taken over. Radiolumonescent items used soft beta emitting isotopes like prometium-147 and tritium. External cancer treatment or the irradiation of products used cesium-137 or cobalt-60. Cesium-137 became the most common isotope for testing and calibration of survey equipment, and for applications that required alpha radiation, synthetically produced polonium-210 or americium-241 became the isotopes of choice. Such isotopes produce forms of radiation more suited to their end use, rather than a hodgepodge of alpha, beta and gamma emissions of multiple energy levels. They tend to be shorter lived, allowing for small quantities to generate sufficient radiation and reducing the problems of long term disposal. Many are easily made into forms that are chemically inert, physically stable and not prone to dissolving in water or accumulating in organisms.
Today, radium-226 is no longer intentionally produced for its own use. It may occasionally be used in calibration source for spectrometry and a few other scientific applications, but only in relatively small quantities. Radium clocks and other luminescent items are still common in antique shops and are not generally considered to be a major hazard. However, some aircraft instruments and military items are radioactive enough to make them a concern for regulators (whether this is actually necessary is another matter.) Radium needles and therapeutic sources are unquestionably very dangerous. They still turn up from time to time, though most have been removed from the inventories of hospitals and other locations. Today they are treated as high level waste and must be carefully removed, isolated and disposed of at licensed facilities. The half-life and properties of radium can make it especially challenging.
Radium also contaminates numerous areas around the world due to past activities such as refining of radium, paint production, clock manufacturing and maintenance of aircraft with radium-painted instruments. Radium tends to be very difficult to clean up. It can contaminate local ground water, it may cling to soil or may become mobile in the local biosphere. Often, the only solution is to remove huge quantities of soil and transport it to an area where it can be immobilized and monitored.
What this has to do with nuclear waste:
By almost any standard, radium-226 is more toxic, more dangerous and more problematic than almost any other type of radioactive material. Like plutonium, it will persist for thousands of years, but it's far more toxic and more reactive. It's more difficult to immobilize than most substances in spent fuel and is usually in a form that is less chemically stable and contained. Gram per gram, it produces more heat than spent fuel or most transuric elements. Highly concentrated radium-226 makes spent fuel appear very tame. Even compared to more concentrated waste, such as the fission products generated by reprocessing, radium-226 is still more difficult to dispose of safely.
By the time production of radium-226 began to come to an end, in the mid 1950′s, about 2.5 kilograms had been produced worldwide. Yet that's only a tiny proportion of what exists on earth. Since radium-226 is natural, a decay product of uranium, huge quantities already exist on earth and always have. There are at least fourty trillion tonnes of uranium in earth's crust and billions of tons more dissolved in seawater. Many times more uranium exists in the earth's interior. For every one tonnes of raw uranium, there exists about .143 grams of radium-226. (note: value converted from reference in short tons). That means that there is already 5.72 million tonnes of radium-226 in earth's crust.
By comparison, the total world inventory of spent fuel is only 188,000 metric tonnes, although additional spent fuel is reprocessed, largely being reused, but with some remaining fission products and contaminated material for disposal. If the slightly radioactive uranium were removed from spent fuel, more than 90% of the mass would be gone, and the material, though more radioactive, would still be less toxic, less reactive and generally less hazardous than radium-226.
The bottom line is that there's more radium-226 in the environment we live in than spent fuel and gram per gram it's far more dangerous.
So why is this not a problem? Mostly because it's not heavily concentrated in any one place. If it were, that small area could be dangerous, but because most of the uranium on earth is distributed across the crust in relatively low concentrations, so is the radium. This one natural isotope has always been there and yet the sky is not falling. We all even have a fraction of a pictogram of it in our bodies. And while I'm not suggesting spent fuel should just be dispersed across the globe or dissolved away in the world's oceans, if it were, it would result in significantly less radioactivity than the radium-226 that is already there, which is only one of the many naturally occurring radioactive substances.
On a global scale, the hundreds of tonnes of spent fuel is just not a big deal. We obsess about preventing it from entering the environment, but forget that the environment already has a material in it that is far more dangerous and present in much larger quantities. If we can live in a world with that much radium-226, plutonium-239 and cesium-135 are really no big deal.
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Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. You may have sleep apnea if you snore loudly and you feel tired even after a full night's sleep.
There are two main types of sleep apnea:
If you think you might have sleep apnea, see your doctor. Treatment is necessary to avoid heart problems and other complications.
The signs and symptoms of obstructive and central sleep apneas overlap, sometimes making the type of sleep apnea more difficult to determine. The most common signs and symptoms of obstructive and central sleep apneas include:
Consult a medical professional if you experience, or if your partner notices, the following:
Many people don't think of snoring as a sign of something potentially serious, and not everyone who has sleep apnea snores. But be sure to talk to your doctor if you experience loud snoring, especially snoring that's punctuated by periods of silence.
Ask your doctor about any sleep problem that leaves you chronically fatigued, sleepy and irritable. Excessive daytime drowsiness (hypersomnia) may be due to other disorders, such as narcolepsy.
Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when the muscles in the back of your throat relax. These muscles support the soft palate, the triangular piece of tissue hanging from the soft palate (uvula), the tonsils, the side walls of the throat and the tongue.
When the muscles relax, your airway narrows or closes as you breathe in, and you can't get an adequate breath in. This may lower the level of oxygen in your blood. Your brain senses this inability to breathe and briefly rouses you from sleep so you can reopen your airway. This awakening is usually so brief that you don't remember it.
You may make a snorting, choking or gasping sound. This pattern can repeat itself five to 30 times or more each hour, all night long. These disruptions impair your ability to reach the desired deep, restful phases of sleep, and you'll probably feel sleepy during your waking hours.
People with obstructive sleep apnea may not be aware that their sleep was interrupted. In fact, some people with this type of sleep apnea think they sleep well all night.
Central sleep apnea, which is much less common, occurs when your brain fails to transmit signals to your breathing muscles. You may awaken with shortness of breath or have a difficult time getting to sleep or staying asleep. Like with obstructive sleep apnea, snoring and daytime sleepiness can occur. The most common cause of central sleep apnea is heart failure and, less commonly, a stroke. People with central sleep apnea may be more likely to remember awakening than are people with obstructive sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea can affect anyone. Even children can have sleep apnea. But certain factors put you at increased risk:
Sleep apnea is considered a serious medical condition. Complications may include:
People with sleep apnea may also complain of memory problems, morning headaches, mood swings or feelings of depression, a need to urinate frequently at night (nocturia), and a decreased interest in sex. Children with untreated sleep apnea may be hyperactive and may be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
If you or your partner suspects that you have sleep apnea, you'll probably first see your primary care doctor. However, in some cases when you call to set up an appointment, you may be referred immediately to a sleep specialist.
Because appointments can be brief, and because there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be well prepared for your appointment. Here's some information to help you get ready for your appointment, and what to expect from your doctor.
Your time with your doctor is limited, so preparing a list of questions ahead of time will help you make the most of your visit. For sleep apnea, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask additional questions during your appointment.
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Your doctor may ask:
Your doctor may make an evaluation based on your signs and symptoms or may refer you to a sleep disorder center. There, a sleep specialist can help you decide on your need for further evaluation. Such an evaluation often involves overnight monitoring of your breathing and other body functions during sleep. Home sleep testing is gaining in popularity, because it's often easier for you and less expensive. Tests to detect sleep apnea may include:
If you have obstructive sleep apnea, your doctor may refer you to an ear, nose and throat doctor (otolaryngologist) to rule out any blockage in your nose or throat. An evaluation by a heart doctor (cardiologist) or a doctor who specializes in the nervous system (neurologist) may be necessary to look for causes of central sleep apnea.
For milder cases of sleep apnea, your doctor may recommend only lifestyle changes, such as losing weight or quitting smoking. If these measures don't improve your signs and symptoms or if your apnea is moderate to severe, a number of other treatments are available. Certain devices can help open up a blocked airway. In other cases, surgery may be necessary.
Treatments for obstructive sleep apnea may include:
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). If you have moderate to severe sleep apnea, you may benefit from a machine that delivers air pressure through a mask placed over your nose while you sleep. With CPAP (SEE-pap), the air pressure is somewhat greater than that of the surrounding air, and is just enough to keep your upper airway passages open, preventing apnea and snoring.
Although CPAP is the most common and reliable method of treating sleep apnea, some people find it cumbersome or uncomfortable. Many people give up on CPAP, but with some practice, most people learn to adjust the tension of the straps to obtain a comfortable and secure fit. You may need to try more than one type of mask to find one that's comfortable. Some people benefit from also using a humidifier along with their CPAP system.
Don't just stop using the CPAP machine if you experience problems. Check with your doctor to see what modifications can be made to make you more comfortable. Additionally, contact your doctor if you are still snoring despite treatment or begin snoring again. If your weight changes, the pressure settings may need to be adjusted.
A number of devices are available from your dentist. You may need to try different devices before finding one that works for you. Once you find the right fit, you'll still need to follow up with your dentist at least every six months during the first year and then at least once a year after that to ensure that the fit is still good and to reassess your signs and symptoms.
Surgery is usually only an option after other treatments have failed. Generally, at least a three-month trial of other treatment options is suggested before considering surgery. However, for those few people with certain jaw structure problems, it's a good first option. The goal of surgery for sleep apnea is to enlarge the airway through your nose or throat that may be vibrating and causing you to snore or that may be blocking your upper air passages and causing sleep apnea. Surgical options may include:
Tissue removal. During this procedure, which is called uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP), your doctor removes tissue from the rear of your mouth and top of your throat. Your tonsils and adenoids usually are removed as well. This type of surgery may be successful in stopping throat structures from vibrating and causing snoring. However, it may be less successful in treating sleep apnea because tissue farther down your throat may still block your air passage. UPPP usually is performed in a hospital and requires a general anesthetic.
Removing tissues in the back of your throat with a laser (laser-assisted uvulopalatoplasty) isn't a recommended treatment for sleep apnea. Radiofrequency energy (radiofrequency ablation) may be an option for people who can't tolerate CPAP or oral appliances.
Other types of surgery may help reduce snoring and contribute to the treatment of sleep apnea by clearing or enlarging air passages:
Treatments for central and complex sleep apnea may include:
Along with these treatments, you may read or hear about different treatments for sleep apnea, such as implants. Although a number of medical devices and procedures have received Food and Drug Administration clearance, there's limited published research regarding how useful they are, and they aren't generally recommended as sole therapies.
In many cases, self-care may be the most appropriate way for you to deal with obstructive sleep apnea and possibly central sleep apnea. Try these tips:
Most alternative medicines for sleep apnea haven't been well studied. Acupuncture has shown some benefit in studies, but it still needs more study. Although it may be used in conjunction with standard treatments, acupuncture should not replace them. Talk to your doctor about any alternative treatment approaches you're considering.
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Coach Burt Bazzle notched the 500th win of his Green Wave baseball career Monday, a 2-0 victory over Goose Creek.
Bazzle took over as head coach of the Summerville High School baseball program in 1986. Among his other accomplishments is leading the Green Wave team to a Class AAAA state championship in 2003.
Freshman pitcher Sawyer Bridges tossed a one-hitter on his home field to pick up the win and help Bazzle met the career benchmark. The southpaw faced 21 batters in the game, fanning three and walking none. The only blemish to his performance was a single hit by Gator pitcher Cody Smith in the top of the seventh inning.
After Smith's hit, Summerville brought in closer Billy Peatross who got the next batter to ground into a double play to end the game. Goose Creek did put two other batters on base due to Summerville fielding errors.
"That was a strong pitching performance by Sawyer and then Billy at the end," Bazzle said. "Defensively all around we played well and we managed to scratch across a couple of runs. It wasn't an onslaught of hitting but we hit enough. I'm proud of them. That was a good comeback from our game Friday when we made some errors and gave the game away."
Summerville had six hits in the game. Johnston McCurry was 2 for 3 at the plate with two RBIs. Catcher Miles Goodwin was 2 for 2. TJ Hopkins and Craig Lilenthal had the other hits.
Smith faced 24 Wave batters, fanning five and only walking two.
Devonte Base opened the bottom of the third inning with a walk and then advanced on a wild pitch and groundout by Lilenthal. McCurry then drove him in with a single for the game-winning run.
Lilenthal singled in the fifth and then scored on McCurry's second single for the 2-0 margin.
Summerville had some players filling in for players who were injured and Bazzle said they stepped up.
"Michael Powell slid over to center field and did a good job and Craig Lilenthal went in at right field and got a big hit for us," the coach said. "John Eckley played well at third which isn't where he normally plays. I'm proud of those guys."
Summerville improved its record to 4-2 with the win.
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North Bennington has new school trusteesBy Patrick McArdle
Staff Writer | March 07,2013NORTH BENNINGTON — Officials at the Village School of North Bennington released a list this week of seven locals who have joined their board of trustees.
Jeb Gorham, Don McKenna, Jeanne McWaters, David Monks, Rachel Schumacher, Peter Niles and Meg Woolmington join local residents Brian McKenna and Eva Sutton on the board. Because the board oversees an independent school, its members are not elected. Biographies of the members of the board are expected to be posted to the website, vsnb.org, shortly.
The Village School of North Bennington, which will use the building and grounds of the North Bennington Graded School, is expected to open for the 2013-14 school year. The graded school, which is a public school, is scheduled to close at the end of the current school year so the independent school can open at the same site.
The School Board in the village, the North Bennington Prudential Committee, will continue to operate although they will now be considered a "non-operating district" because they don't operate a public school.
On Tuesday, voters approved the North Bennington school budget of $2,317,535. The budget had to be voted in two parts by state law because North Bennington spent more per pupil than the state average last year and the proposed budget is more than last year's budget adjusted for inflation.
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It finally has an official name, the new jailbreak for iOS 6.1 will be called the Evasi0n jailbreak and again all signs point to it arriving this Sunday. The team which goes by the name of Evad3rs announced via twitter that its site is now live and it is putting the final touches to the jailbreak's GUI (Graphical User Interface).
The official evasi0n 6.1 jailbreak: http://evasi0n.com -- Check regularly for updates! #evasi0n
The new jailbreak release date was originally teased as being on Super Bowl Sunday which is this Sunday. The images displayed on the Evasi0n site all show the number 3 on the calendar app which just happens to line up nicely with this Sunday's date of February 3.
The jailbreak will require no more than five minutes of your time and will need to be done by tethering your device to a Mac or PC for one time only. Your device will need to be running a minimum of iOS 6.0. The Evasi0n jailbreak will cover all iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini models. As usual, as soon as this is live, we will have a full how-to covering the new jailbreak.
So who is getting excited for Sunday now?
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Evasi0n will be the first untethered iOS 6.1 jailbreak, all signs again point to this Sunday
Really? The site was only announced by the Evad3r team a few hours before my post.
Excuse my somewhat noob post - I've only ever JailBroken once [that is on my current 4S] so maybe I'm asking a silly question.
I'm still running iOS5.0.1 on my 4S which was JB'd with Absinthe/greenpois0n pretty much soon after it was announced.
Will there be direct 'upgrade' route to evasi0n/6.1 or...
...will I have to un-JB my 5.0.1 [somehow] and then officially upgrade to 6.1 via Apple [OTA or iTunes] and THEN JB 6.1 with evasi0n? With this method I guess I lose everything I currently have set up along with tweaks, etc. So it'd be much preferable to avoid that and jump to 6.1 JB - not sure if this is possible though?
Hope someone can please advise!
Thanks for the reply, rpun13.
1] Will I be able to upgrade from JB 5.0.1 to un-JB6.01 without issues? I didn't realise that was possible. I guess it will break the JB - any issues with that?
2] I understand I will be able to use the new software (when released) to JB - do I then use xBackup to restore my Cydia tweaks?
3] Finally, you mentioned I should back up my phone in iTunes before beginning. Is this backup ever used in the 5.01 to 6.01 process? I'm wondering how SMS and app settings will be restored...
Thanks for your help!
1) No you cant just upgrade a jailbreak because you need to update to ios 6 which will automaitcally remove cydia (which is pretty much the jailbreak) You need to back up everything, upgrade to 6.01, then jailbreak again to get cydia back.
2) Yes after you jailbreak again, install xbackup again in cydia and you can restore the cydia apps you backed up.
3)Yes this is the backup of all your general apps and data that you want to bring over to ios 6. For the regular apps most settings should be the same, for the jailbreak apps it only works sometimes depending on the app after your restore using xbackup.
Just to clarify what rpun is telling you (if you still need it) after you back everything up, you do a restore via iTunes to 6.1, which will remove your jailbreak and put you on bone stock iOS 6.1. Then restore from your iTunes backup. Then Jailbreak using Evasi0n, then download xbackup and restore cydia apps. You can't upgrade straight from jailbroken 5.x to jailbroken 6.x because you can't install a prejailbroken version of iOS 6. Also make sure when you're initially running your "legit" (not xbackup) backup that you are backing up to iTunes and not to iCloud. Restoring from iCloud takes FOREVER.
rpun Im curious I just upgraded and re-JB my 4s today. everything was fine until i used xbackup to restore my JB apps. now i continue to get pushed into safemode. im slowly removing JB Apps that may be causing this but so far no luck and this is becoming a VERY LONG process that i did not want hence the reason for purchasing Xbackup. did you have this problem? if so what app(s) were causing the problem for you?
When I was on BB, I was installing every btra/hybred/new OS there was. However I have never done this for my Iphone. What functionality will I gain by doing this? Will I still be able to use the app store, or will I have to use an alternate?
Does it unlock any "hidden" parts of the chipsets of any functionality that were locked down by Apple? Will my iPhone work better, or can I just make it look better.
It will give you access to a lot of tweaks, from theming, which I'm sure you're familiar with coming from BB, to functionality tweaks like settings toggles in notification center among other things. One of my favorite tweaks is BossPaper, which allows you to set up wallpaper "slideshow" functionality, where it automatically changes your wallpaper at a set interval. It hasn't been updated in forever though so hopefully it will still work on iOS6. If you want to know what else you can do, just go through articles on this site. They report on all the cool jailbreak apps and tweaks.
EDIT: Sorry. Forgot which site I was on. Go to modmyi.com to get reviews on cool jailbreak tweaks.
The Jailbreak is already out now on the 31th of January... They set up another download page where you can download it now... www.evasi0nbreak.blogspot.com ... strange but nice :D
This asks you to do survey's in order to get anything. I think this is not the real site!
I have tethered jailbrake on ios 6.0.1 iphone 4,how should i preforme this jaibrake any advice...
update to 6.1 through apple and jailbreak but update first and do a back up
It's almost like that feeling that you get when you go into the dealership, and you have agreed on everything, and they tell you to come back later in the day with your check while they prep your car. You spend the rest of the day knowing you have a car, and it's good, but the excitement that you're going to get a new, better car later today is euphoric. It's that kind of feeling...
Oh, BiteSMS & LockInfo, how I've missed you so....
Thanks for that Claustin. I was just about to update my iPod 5 to the latest software. I will be happy when sunday arrives. I thought it might be forever before a JB became available for my iPod.
Different iOS 6.1 untethered jailbreak is arriving from Evad3rs Fan Club supported all iPhone / iPad Models. The good news is, the brand new team, which consists of well-known hackers MuscleNerd, pod2g, planetbeing and pimskeks, are planning to discharge evasi0n to the general public this Sunday, February 3rd, 2013. When Evasi0n is revealed, all iOS-based tools will be able to download mirror http://www.evasi0ndownload.com
Yay *happy dance* I miss my JB so much I will never restore again
i have ipad 3 6.0.1 should i restore it before i jailbreak or just backup


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The stated purpose of a new bell and bus schedule for Dorchester District Two is to advance academic achievement for all students, but some district parents are skeptical particularly over the high school schedule.
Parents and teachers filled most of the seats in Newington Elementarys media center Aug. 27 to participate in the first community meeting to discuss the proposed bell schedule changes for the start and end times to the school day.
After the presentation, parent Lisa Shindler said the proposed bell schedule would have a negative effect on her daughters senior year because of her after-school activities.
Her daughter, a junior at Ashley Ridge High School, has volleyball practice after school, and she also volunteers.
Shindler told The Summerville Journal Scene she plans to attend more of the community meetings about the bell schedule, and hopes by the end of all the sessions the district will have gathered more information.
I think they were open to the questions, but Im not sure if they resolved any of my questions, she said.
Parents couldnt directly ask questions but instead were given the opportunity to write down questions and concerns on cards and submit them to be read aloud by school officials.
A selection of district principals joined Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Sean Alford in giving the presentation to parents on the benefits of changing the bell schedule.
This is a topic we have discussed as an organization for a while, Alford said. We had the opportunity in an administrative meeting with over 70 of the districts leaders in when we began to talk, analyze and collaborate and came to the consensus that as it relates to our current bell schedule, we needed to do something different.
The proposed schedule calls for high school hours to run from 9:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.; middle schools from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.; and elementary schools from 7:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Currently, high school starts at 7:25 a.m. and ends at 2:55 p.m.; middle school starts at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m.; and elementary hours are 7:25 a.m. to 2:10 p.m.
The new schedule also has high school students being dropped off via bus at 9 a.m. instead of 6:15 a.m. Middle schools bus drop-off time would remain at 8 a.m. and elementary schools would remain at 7 a.m.
Any changes would take effect in the 2015-2016 school year.
DD2s presentation described a decrease traffic congestion, increase in the number of available buses and improved morning bus pick-up times if the district is able to change the bus schedule. The district says the proposed schedule would allow high school students more sleep, thereby improving their school performance.
Many of the parents questions revolved around the high school start times, particularly with how the new bell schedule would affect students who work or participate in extracurriculars after school.
Alford said as far as after-school jobs are concerned, DD2 offers school work programs, apprenticeships, internships and shadowing experiences that the district would rather have students participate in. He said community members are willing to support student work schedules.
We would like to be able to route students in that directions, he said. We are increasing the number of students participating in apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities and internships.
One of the presentation slides said the new bell schedule could provide opportunities for morning and afternoon practices, and should have minimal impact to game schedules.
Alford assured parents and teachers who attended the meeting that nothing is set in stone.
No decisions have been made, our mind is not made up, he said.
Cecilia Wilburn-Davis, fifth grade teacher at Newington Elementary and also a district parent, said she felt better about the new schedule after attending the meeting.
Wilburn-Daviss daughter Aminah Davis is a junior at Ashley Ridge and a cheerleader. Wilburn-Davis is concerned about her daughter having later evenings, but said the new schedule might allow her daughter more sleep.
I think Im less opposed to it now than I was before, Wilburn-Davis said.
Her daughter, however, disagreed, saying she likes getting through school earlier in the day. Id rather get it over with in the morning, she said. Maybe for a freshman coming into it, itd be normal. For me this is not familiar.
DD2 officials said the slideshow from Aug. 27s presentation will be posted on the districts website.
The next community meeting will be at Ashley Ridge High School on Sept. 9, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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