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Citizen Science: Reveling in Urban Ecology
I've always lived in cities, and I've always loved nature, but for most of my life I took the concept of "wild animals" in cities for granted. Sure, there are some birds, and squirrels, but so what?
It wasn't until I took an urban ecology class that my eyes were opened to how much you can learn just by watching wildlife in a city.
One of our major assignments for the class was simply to observe wildlife in two different types of urban locations every week for a semester, and write a paper about everything we learned.
I managed to spot about 40 species without any formal training or expertise, and since then the way I perceive urban wildlife has completely changed. If you want to give it a try, I've outlined a few tips to help you get started.
First pick two locations with different "habitat types" like an old residential neighborhood, a new residential neighborhood, a cemetery, an alley in a restaurant district (with dumpsters) or some nearby agricultural land (or even a community garden).
Ideally one of them can be your home (with you watching from a porch, balcony, or even just sitting outside), and the other one should be different so you can compare them later. I went with an old residential neighborhood and a cemetery.
Set a fixed day and time to observe each site so that you can see how the species change with the seasons independent of the time of day. Buy or borrow a bird identification book and a pair of binoculars, and be sure to pack a notebook and pen (and umbrella in case it rains).
When you arrive to your site, take note of the weather in your notebook (which will likely have a big impact on what you see in any given day) and find a comfortable place to sit (it should be the same spot facing the same direction every week, so choose carefully!). What sounds do you hear (both human and natural)? If you hear insects try and write down how they sound, or make a recording with your phone.
As you see each species, take your best guess as to what it is (a camera is great for being able to identify them later), but most importantly just watch them.
How do they look for food, and what do they eat? How do they respond to the sight or sound of other animals (predators, prey, competitors, etc.)? Where do they rest? You will eventually get a sense of how various elements of the urban landscape serve to provide habitat to different species. You'll also start to notice different species and different behavior as the weather changes. It may take some time to get used to spotting and focusing on wildlife, but with practice it will get easier.
At the end of the season (or when the weather gets too unpleasant for you to persist), take a look at your observations and reflect on what you've learned.
You may be surprised by the diversity of species you can spot in a city without any special training, and how much you learn about the way that they behave.
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(Photo: An urban cedar waxwing feeds on berries, common behavior in winter. Credit: Matt Miller/TNC)
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Thanks for your observation ideas. I do a lot of daily watching in my backyard. That's how I found out that butterflies can be aggressive with each other over food sources. I always see something interesting if I'm alert. Your article reminded me of an elegant article written by David George Haskell, biology prof at Sewanee who observed the same small area in the Sewanee woods for one year. It was published in the Sewanee Magazine, summer 2012 issue. Hope you have time to check it out. If you can't find it, I can send you a copy. One question: What is spatial analysis ?
Keep up your good work.
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JERSEY SHORE, Pa. (AP) -- This small, central Pennsylvania river town doesn't have beach homes or boardwalks, but it shares more than a name with the famous stretch of New Jersey coastline 250 miles to the east.
Both are among the thousands of places around the U.S. where people could face trouble in the years ahead because of the rising cost of government-mandated flood insurance.
Earlier this month, Congress sought to ease their fears of sky-high premiums by rolling back a 2012 reform ending the government's costly practice of offering subsidized insurance for older homes and businesses in flood zones. The president signed the bill Friday.
But while the law was widely hailed as a victory for people who had seen their bills triple, quadruple or even increase 15-fold overnight, pocketbook pain for many has merely been delayed.
As many as 1.1 million policyholders with subsidized government insurance will still be hit with steady rate increases. While no one is sure yet how high rates will go, there is cause for worry in cities and towns that rely on affordable policies to keep businesses afloat and prop up the local housing market.
Lifelong Jersey Shore residents Lurie and Michael Portanova bought up a row of quaint, 19th-century brick shops along the West Branch Susquehanna River and have been lovingly restoring them. They found out a few months ago that the annual flood insurance premium on two buildings they bought in 2012 had soared from less than $3,000 to a minimum of $26,868.
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The Associated Press analyzed records from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for roughly 18,500 communities in the National Flood Insurance Program where the government offers subsidized rates.
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FEMA's records also show why there is pressure to raise rates. Some communities with a large proportion of subsidized properties have been tremendously costly for the flood program. But there are just as many places where those policy discounts have cost taxpayers almost nothing.
The reform law signed by the president rolls back portions of a 2012 overhaul that took away subsidies immediately for any property that changed hands or was remapped into a higher risk flood zone. Both groups will now be able to continue paying subsidized rates.
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Escape From Colditz, Parker, 1973
First published by Parker in 1973, Escape From Colditz is now highly sought after by collectors. It appeared in the UK at around the same time as the well known TV series of the same name. If you were around at the time, you are probably humming the theme tune right now!
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Five people — two adults and three teens — have been charged with shooting two men late Tuesday in Chicago's South Chicago neighborhood.
Christian Ortiz, 29, of Romeoville, and Jesus Quintana Jr., 27, of Chicago, were each charged with two counts of aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm, police said. A 14-year-old boy, 15-year-old boy and 16-year-old boy were each charged with one count of aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm, police said.
The teens, whose names were not released, were turned over to Juvenile Advocacy for processing, police said.
The five are charged with two shootings moments apart late Tuesday in the South Chicago neighborhood.
The first shooting happened about 10:50 p.m. when a 23-year-old man was shot in the arm in the 2700 block of East 87th Street, police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said.
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Names, pictures and addresses of sex offenders are right at your fingertips. It's all on the internet now. We know where some of the registered sex offenders are in our neighborhoods but not all of them.
Right now the State Police have a backlog of 150 people who have registered but don't have their information on the Internet for you to use.
One family's struggle with getting this information out to the public has been very frustrating. Tonda McLaughlin. She knows a convicted sex offender who abused her son and is out of jail and back in the community.
But others don't because of what she considers a loophole in our system.
He was in a position of trust. But a few years ago Kim Skaggs shattered that trust pleading guilty to abusing a student during his time as band instructor at Hurricane High School.
Tonda McClaughlin "I know he's a sex offender and a predator but everyone else should be able to know that too. That's important now more than ever because Skaggs got out of prison in May."
As the mother of the victim she was notified. But when she logged on to the state's sex offender registry Skaggs wasn't there.
Tonda "We're told daily to check these sites, and we check them, and they're not there, we assume it's safe."
Lt. Michael Corsaro with the State Police says these things take time, "the Internet site should not be relied on."
This summer politicians strengthened the state's sex offender law! Police say it will speed up the process but it's still not going to be instantaneous. Sex offenders get three days to register and decide where they'll live once they are free. It's built in lag time. Corsaro says this registry, even with all its benefits, should still only be one tool for people.
Corsaro "the offenders that are registered are typically not the ones the public has to be as concerned about. It's the ones operating in secrecy and hasn't been caught yet. Those are the real dangers to society."
Lt. Corsaro says "Also, remember that the registry is a snap shot of where that offender is living. They're required to check in once a year but it doesn't mean those offenders are in that house for 365 days. They are free to go places."
Mcclaughlin's son is turning his pain into a mission. He plans to go into some aspect of law enforcement. Right now he speaks with children at an abuse shelter about his experience.
Kim Skaggs picture went on the sex offender website this month, two months after he was released from prison.
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Since we launched the Reporters' Lab at the 2012 CAR Conference one year ago, we've been focused on finding ways to get better tools into the hands of more working journalists.
We've come at that core mission from a few different directions. Some software solutions we develop ourselves. Others we test and review or discover in academia. But the next step — fostering widespread adoption of these tools and techniques among journalists — can be the most difficult part of the process.
We're certainly tackling this issue now as we look to grow and develop tools like the Video Notebook and the Raleigh Public Record's DocHive, software capable of turning scanned documents into structured data. But as I learned at the 2013 CAR Conference, the problem is also a challenge for larger organizations like Northwestern's Knight Lab and experienced development teams like the one behind DocumentCloud.
At a conference session Saturday morning, Northwestern's Rich Gordon broke down some of the most valuable lessons from a five-year study by Charles Schweik and Robert English of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, who tried to find out what makes open-source projects succeed or fail. After studying more than 80,000 projects on SourceForge, a publishing platform for open-source software, they found that four out of five were abandoned during the early stages of development.
Their complete findings are detailed in a book innocuously titled Internet Success, released in June. But Gordon said the key takeaways were what the successful projects had in common:
- Clearly defined vision
- Clearly defined audience
- Well-articulated and clear goals
- Modular software design
- Tasks of various sizes are available for developers to work on
Also on that list was effective project communication, including a good website, a bug tracking system and thorough documentation.
It's telling that these features are all characteristic of DocumentCloud, one of the most successfully deployed journalism tools to date.
While it may be tempting at first to attribute that success wholly to the financial support DocumentCloud received throughout its development cycle — first from the Knight News Challenge in 2009 and then from IRE in 2011 – it's clear there's something more at play here.
So what makes DocumentCloud so different from the open-source products that fail? And how can we replicate that level of success for other tools?
DocumentCloud Lead Developer Ted Han, who shared the stage with Gordon during the session, told the audience that the application's wide adoption was driven largely from the ground up. It takes only one reporter to sign up a newsroom for the service, and word spreads easily from there.
That's part of the reason DocumentCloud is used by news organizations big and small, from the The Poughkeepsie Journal to the Los Angeles Times.
But there's an even more important metric to note here. DocumentCloud's underlying open-source technologies — Backbone, Underscore and Document Viewer – are among the most watched projects on GitHub. That open ecosystem, along with its flexible application programming interface, allows more tech-savvy newsrooms to improve on the product and what it can offer both journalists and readers.
At a Thursday afternoon CAR conference session on using the DocumentCloud API, for example, L.A. Times Database Producer Ben Welsh detailed how his newsroom uses a custom application to help reporters and producers upload documents that feed directly into both the Times' collection and its website. The data desk released that code, in turn, back into the open-source ecosystem.
This underscores an important characteristic of DocumentCloud and one of Gordon's last takeaways from the open-source study: Developers of a successful project must also be users.
If there's a caveat to this discussion, it's that "success" doesn't mean the same thing in the open-source world as it does to a commercial enterprise. For the purposes of their research, Schweik and English defined success narrowly as an application that showed value for "at least a few users" with more than three releases.
DocumentCloud's users number about 6,000, while its count of active users is closer to 1,500. That's low in the start-up world, where most business models would require a much higher threshold to achieve sustainability. For tool development to work commercially, we'll need an entirely different incentive structure.
But Han said the DocumentCloud team still takes a lot of cues from the start-up model. The big difference between open-source and commercial start-ups, he told the audience during the Saturday morning session, is "less a question of how you operate and more a question of your values."
For all the lessons we can learn from practical examples like DocumentCloud, it's clear there's no one-size-fits-all solution to get these tools into the hands of more reporters. Whether here or at the Knight Lab, there's a spectrum of "products" in the journalism tool pipeline that range from pure experimentation to actual enterprise solutions, and exposing them all to the world effectively will take a lot of guessing and testing.
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Indiana freshman forward Noah Vonleh, despite all the praise and accolades he received in his high school career, still has the tunnel vision that got him to this point.
I just want to be great, he said. I just want to keep getting better and take my game to new levels.
That's why the 6-foot-10 forward put on more than 20 pounds when he got to Bloomington and now, at 240 pounds, is challenging point guard Kevin Yogi Ferrell in sprints.
That's why the former McDonald's All-American out of Haverhill, Mass., is in Cook Hall at all hours of the day – more, his teammates said, than any other Hoosier seems to be.
That's why Vonleh, who at 18 is the team's youngest player, might be the best player on this roster once the Hoosiers' season starts.
I think it's going to be a little adjustment, just adjusting to the speed of the game, playing against different defenses and seeing what's thrown at us, he said. But I think I should be ready to go.
Being a five-star recruit and one of the best players in the 2013 class wasn't enough for Vonleh. Neither is being a future NBA prospect.
Of course everyone's heard about his exploits as far as how much weight he's gained, how hard he works, IU assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Kenny Johnson said during the team's media day in October.
Vonleh is a combo forward who can dribble like a guard and is developing his three-point shot and perimeter game.
He was considered by scouting services to be one of the best rebounders in the 2013 class, and although he missed some preseason workouts because of an ankle injury, he's expected to make an immediate impact for the Hoosiers.
Noah's a little bit different than anyone we had at that point in time as far as being a young guy, associate head coach Tim Buckley said. He can set up shop down there on the block, he can get out on the floor and he can handle the ball and he can shoot the ball. His versatility, and also his explosiveness and power, isn't necessarily freshman-like.
Little about the New Hampton (N.H.) School graduate is. Senior forward Will Sheehey, the reigning Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year, who is also known for his competitive streak and work ethic, recognizes those traits in the youngest Hoosier.
He's like what you'd want a basketball player to look like if you were to create a player on your NBA game or whatever video game, Sheehey said. His motor is different. The kid plays hard. He's patient. He doesn't care about shots, touches, scoring, you know, and that's what you want. A lot of guys that are as highly recruited as him would come in and think the complete opposite, and so it's nice that he plays that hard.


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Which is better: The number 3.14 or a slice of lemon meringue pie?
Happy Pi Day!
This morning, while my housemate (a middle school science teacher) recited many more decimal places past 3.14 than I'll ever be able to remember, my mind focused on the other (and better) form of the word.
Pie. That's right, I was ready for some early-morning pie-baking. I'm really not that obsessed–though, I should tell you, I come from a family that has been known to drive several hours across Michigan to eat the state's best cherry pie, and I made a similar trip east of San Diego last week in search of apple pie. But had I not been asked to bring a dessert to a retirement dinner, I wouldn't have bothered baking today. Since the party fell on the mathematical holiday celebrated in schools, pie was really the only fitting choice. (National Pie Day actually falls in January.)
As spring tempts us with blooming daffodils and flirting sunshine, lemon meringue pie also seemed appropriate to welcome the season. It's too early for berries, too late for apples, and we're far from pumpkin time. Lemon meringue is at once tart and sweet, light and buttery, and will hopefully help us make it the last few days until spring and its bounty are truly here.
By the way, you may be wondering about the new face at the top of the Front Burner page. Stafford government has been my primary beat for the past year and a half, and now I'm excited to say, I'll be taking over this blog, as well as a chunk of healthcare. I'm looking forward to talking food with you all, and getting some discussions going about favorite recipes, ingredients, restaurants and trends, along with so much more. But more about my plans for this space another day, now it's time for pie.
Lemon Meringue Pie
from Gorgeous Cakes by Annie Bell
- Half a 16-ounce box of graham crackers (about 33 squares)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
- Finely grated zest and juice of 4 lemons
- 1 14-ounce can condensed milk
- 4 eggs, room temperature, separated
- 1/2 cup sugar (the recipe called for superfine, but I used regular granulated sugar and it seemed to work just fine)
Whizz crackers to fine crumbs in a food processor. Put in bowl, add butter, toss until crumbs are evenly coated. Press onto sides and bottom of an 8″ springform pan (3″ sides). Start with sides, then do bottom, pressing down with fingers.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. After zesting and before juicing, roll lemons on counter to release the juice. Combine zest and juice with condensed milk in a bowl, beating until you have a smooth cream. Beat in egg yolks and pour on top of crust.
In a clean and dry bowl, with clean beaters, beat the whites until they rise to a froth. Sprinkle sugar over them, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating well with each addition until you have a glossy stiff meringue.
Mound meringue on top of cream, taking it to the edge of the shell. Bake 30 minutes or until surface us lightly golden and crusty, and custard is set. Remove and cool. Run knife around the edge to loosen, then unhinge sides. Pie is best the day it's made. If you refrigerate it, bring it up to room temperature before serving.
(Once in college, my roommates and I made this pie and didn't let it cool down at all before digging in, straight from the pan. It tasted absolutely delicious warm, but the meringue promptly collapsed. I'd recommend at least letting it cool slightly before enjoying!)
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It's no secret the U.S. faces some big challenges with the size and capacity of its cybersecurity workforce. But putting a finer point on those challenges isn't as easy. An all-week event at Virginia Tech tried to answer those questions. At the 2014 U.S Cyber Challenge Summer Cyber Camp, attendees got intensive training on discrete cyber skills but also an overview of the overall workforce shortage, and where their specialized skills might be able to help. Mari Galloway, director of finance for the Women's Society of Cyber Jutsu, was one of the 45 participants in this week's event. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose about a few of her main takeaways.
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The Senate would like to grant new powers to federal chief information officers and update federal IT laws that haven't gotten much attention for the past dozen years. Those are a couple of the effects of new legislation the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved recently. One of the bills is the Senate version of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act -- the other is an update to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, which Senators have been trying to modify for the past several years, without much success. She said on In Depth with Francis Rose the proposals are a big step in the right direction.
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Let's get one thing clear – I was a Big Baby fan, and I had a really hard time when Danny Ainge shipped Glen Davis to the Orlando Magic. I suppose I got caught up in the hype that was Baby – the way he played the game so hard, the way he battled despite being undersized at his position, the way he seemed to step in and produce when a player like Kevin Garnett went down due to injury. And in the process I ignored all of the negatives – that Baby is undersized at his position, that he is immature, that he is more headache than Doc Rivers cared to deal with.
So when the trade went down I was the first to clam that Ainge had made a mistake. But now, with the lockout-shortened season drawing to a close, I can honestly say that I was wrong. As much as it pains me, I'll say it. Call it addition by subtraction, but the Celtics are far better off without Baby on the roster. But there's more. The player they received in return – Brandon Bass – has proven to be a major upgrade to Baby. Bass has come off the bench. Bass has started. In both cases, Bass has impressed. He's a far better shooter than Baby, as he continues to prove, game-in, game-out. This season Baby is shooting 40.9% from the field. Bass is connecting on 48.1% of his shots – and that's actually a down year for him. The previous two seasons in Orland, Mr. Bass shot 51.1% and 51.5% from the field. Baby is a career 44.0% shooter.
And then there's money – Bass is making $4.25 million in Boston, while Baby is making $6.3 million in Orlando. Clearly, Bass' number will change if Ainge hopes to retain his services next season. And given that Bass is the polar opposite of Baby in temperament, Ainge can't afford to not have Bass in the Celtics locker room when camp opens in the fall. Bass is key to the rebuilding / transition job underway in Boston, and losing him would put a major crimp in that effort.
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The Board of Regents met to act on the proposed 2011 recommended operating budget, and more
By Adam Overland
June 22, 2010
Presidential search advisory committee
The Board of Regents appointed a presidential search advisory committee during its June 10-11 meeting, as the University of Minnesota begins the search for its 16th president. Robert Bruininks concludes his ninth and last year as president of the University with the end of his contract in June 2011.
Regent Patricia Simmons will chair the search advisory committee, which consists of 12 members representing students, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the community.
The board discussed a charge for the search advisory committee as well as the characteristics they will be seeking in the new president.
Although there was some discussion as to whether the composition of the committee adequately represents the state, the board ultimately approved the selection by a vote of 11 to 1.
Regent Larson voiced concern that Minnesota's business community is not thoroughly represented on the committee. Regent Simmons responded that additional input was being sought through interviews with leaders in the Minnesota business community. "To date, we've completed interviews with nine major CEOs, there are three scheduled, and five in the pipeline," Simmons said.
Regent Johnson expressed concern with the high number of committee members from within the University. "I want to be respectful of this list—6 of 12 are professors of the U system. They are all well-qualified people, bright people who no doubt want what's best for this University. But human nature is such that if we want to do business differently—to change and have vision—that vision often comes from the outside," said Johnson.
Regent Simmons again responded, commenting not only that faculty must believe in the process in order to believe in the selection, but that professors bring critical insight to the task. "We very much need the ability to do due diligence on candidates, and the professors are better positioned than anyone to do that," Simmons said.
Chair Allen noted that it was important not to lose sight of the fact that the committee is an advisory committee, and will not select the next president of the University, but only advance semi-finalists. "When we look at the background of the advisory committee, we don't want to do so in the absence of this board—put the two of them together, and there is a lot of diversity and a lot of experience," said Allen.
The full list of members of the committee, as well as more information about the process, can be found at presidential search.
Effects of Health Reform on UPlan
During the June 10 meeting of the faculty, staff, and student affairs committee, the board was presented with the annual UPlan report, which included an assessment of the impact that federal and state health care reform legislation may have on the plan.
Law professor Fred Morrison told the board that many of the key operating principles of the UPlan are sound (including encouraging prevention and wellness programs—a key element of federal legislation—and not penalizing people for preexisting conditions) and may not be heavily impacted by the legislation, but that uncertainties and challenges remain.
Potential issues for the University will be the limits placed on the employee's share of the plan cost and on the overall cost of the plan, both of which could trigger penalties for the University and added cost for plan members.
"We'll need to keep employee share of the premium costs below thresholds, at least for lower-income individuals, so you don't trigger either the penalty or voucher, because both of those would be detrimental to the plan. Out-of-pocket costs for employees will need to be kept below the applicable limit," said Morrison.
While some preliminary rules of health reform will take effect from 2010-13, the federal plan begins to operate more fully in 2014, and in 2018 a "Cadillac tax" will take effect.
Beginning in 2014, for example, an employee who pays more than 9.5 percent of salary for employer-sponsored coverage will be entitled to switch to the new federal Health Insurance Exchange plans (to open in each state in 2014). The U would in that case pay a $3,000 federal "fee" for each employee. If the employee's share of the cost of employer-sponsored care exceeds 8 percent of the employee's total household income and that income is less than 400 percent of federal poverty level standards ($42,520/individual; $88,000/family), a voucher would be issued by the U in the amount of about $5,519 for an individual or $11,177 for a family, which the employee could then take to the exchange.
The Cadillac tax will be imposed if the employer contribution to the medical plan plus the employee share of the cost and any Flexible Savings Account money exceeds $10,200 (individual), or $27,500 (family). The tax will be 40 percent of the excess amount.
Commissioner of Human Services and chair of the governor's health cabinet Cal Ludeman also testified before the board. "You should be confident that the UPlan is a sophisticated, smart plan for U employees. But much like the state employee plan, it is on the Cadillac side—almost by any definition—because it is good," said Ludeman.
One way to avoid the Cadillac tax may be for the U to more aggressively promote wellness and to provide wellness rewards for actually achieving goals, not just for participation.
President's report
During his report to the board, President Bruininks provided the board with an update on the status of the Central Corridor Light Rail (CCLRT) project. Bruininks said that the April 21 agreement between the U and the Met Council provided a framework for critical issues necessary to protect the U's research, and that as a part of that process, the board approved a temporary easement for advanced traffic improvements on the U campus. While construction of the advance traffic improvements for CCLRT began in May, the work is only the first step in a four-year project.
Bruininks noted that since the April 21 agreement, the U's mediation team has been working to complete a comprehensive agreement, and he addressed the misconception that everything was decided in the April 21 agreement. "Although I think we've made considerable progress, there are still major issues that must be resolved. Mediation continues, and these sessions could produce an agreement by July, but I want to emphasize there are still very serious issues with long-term impact to the U's research along Washington Avenue," Bruininks said.
For ongoing construction information, see the U's Central Corridor construction website and sign up for regular email updates.
President's recommended FY 2011 operating budget
The president presented the recommended operating budget for fiscal year 2010-11 during the June 11 board meeting. The total budget challenge for the coming year is $152 million. The president's plan balances the budget with $47.1 million in new tuition revenue and another $104.9 million in unit reductions and resource adjustments. It's the second year in a row that the University of Minnesota faces a significant budget challenge due to the reduction in state funding, which now represents just 18 percent of the U's budget.
The budget resolution includes details related to employee compensation, which finalize the plan for reductions in faculty pay and authorizes the president to implement the same level of pay reduction for non-tenured faculty and academic staff. Under the plan, civil service and bargaining unit employees will take three days of unpaid furlough—equivalent to the 1.15 percent temporary salary reduction that faculty and P&A employees will take. Senior administrators' pay will be cut 2.3 percent. Employees have also been given the opportunity to take additional voluntary days. Money saved through voluntary furloughs will be directed back to the local unit to cover costs, the president said.
Provost Sullivan reported that the budget has involved cuts shared systemwide, including, for example, 11 fewer positions and 19 fewer course offerings in the College of Education and Human Development, 52 fewer positions and 145 fewer course offerings in the College of Liberal Arts (in 2010, the number of grad students in CLA was down 18 percent), and, over the last two years, a $36 million cut from central administration budgets. Senior vice president Robert Jones also reported 51 fewer faculty and staff positions in Extension, as well as a reduction in the number of state offices.
Senior vice president and dean of the Medical School Frank Cerra detailed reductions within the Academic Health Center (AHC), including a seven percent decrease in AHC administrative infrastructure, the closure of the geriatric dentistry program, layoffs including 40-45 staff members in the School of Dentistry and another 40-45 staff in the School of Veterinary Medicine, and the elimination of 2,000 adjunct faculty positions costing about $3,000 each from around the state, as well as vacated faculty positions. "When we've received vacated faculty positions, we strategically reassign them—you can guess that most of those are going into the research programs represented in the Biomedical Discovery District," said Cerra.
A public forum on the U's recommended FY 2011 operating budget was held June 14, during which the board heard about an equal number of comments from faculty and staff across the U, both in support of and critical of the budget proposal. The budget was ultimately approved by the board during the June 22 session. President Bruininks posted a message regarding the budget to his blog on June 22. For more information, see a PDF of the 2010-11 recommended operating budget.
Appointment of Regents Professors
The board appointed three new Regents Professors, the highest academic honor at the U. "These are very distinguished people, selected from about 40 to 50 applicants who were reviewed very intensively," said Bruininks.
The new Regents Professors include William Iacono, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, professor of psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and law, and adjunct professor of child development, College of Liberal Arts; Horace Loh, Frederick and Alice Start Professor and head of the department of pharmacology, Medical School; and Karen Seashore, Robert H. Beck Professor of Ideas in Education, professor in the department of organizational leadership, policy and development in the College of Education and Human Development.
The number of Regents Professors at the University now number 30, with a goal set some years ago by the president and provost to increase that number to one percent of faculty across the system. For more information, see Regents Professors.
Approval of schematic design for Cancer/Cardiovascular Complex
The Board of Regents' Facilities Committee approved the schematic design plan for the Cancer/Cardiovascular Complex. The original plan has been slimmed down by consolidating functions and repurposing space to lower the price tag without compromising the vision.
The building will be the gateway to the Biomedical Discovery District, with construction beginning in April 2011, and faculty and staff moving in 2013. It will house 63 principal investigators (new and existing).
The district will also create approximately 5,000 construction jobs for Minnesotans in the short term, and will attract an estimated $35-40 million annually in new research dollars, creating long-term jobs for Minnesotans in the biomedical industry. Every $1 million of federally sponsored research generates more than $2 million in new state business activity in the state.
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The Nuggets forward, who has been the subject of trade talk for months, said after the second day of training camp Wednesday he is content to suit up again for Denver on opening night.
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Observing the Atmosphere
The rising Sun being observed by SCISAT-1. SCISAT-1 records the solar spectrum as the sunlight passes through the Earth's atmosphere.
SCISAT-1 is designed to make observations of the Earth's atmosphere. The primary instrument onboard is an optical spectrometer which records the spectrum of the Sun, as sunlight passes through the Earth's atmosphere.
The process whereby the Sun is eclipsed by the Earth is called an occultation.
Astronomers use planetary occultations (which occur when a planet passes in front of a star) to determine the structure of a planet's atmosphere.
SCISAT-1 will use the occultation of the Sun (by the Earth) to make detailed determinations of the structure and chemistry of that part of the Earth's atmosphere which is too high to reach by balloon (or airplane) and too low to be accessed directly by orbiting satellites.
The orbit of SCISAT-1, as seen looking down on the Earth's North Pole. The scales are exaggerated to illustrate how SCISAT-1 "sees" sunlight which is transmitted through the Earth's atmosphere.
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The diagram above illustrates the method whereby SCISAT-1 observes the Sun as the sunlight passes through the Earth's atmosphere
In low Earth orbit (about 650 km for SCISAT-1) the satellite passes through the Earth's shadow once per orbit.
In this diagram the "halo" around the earth is meant to represent it's atmosphere (which is exaggerated in scale for purposes of illustration). The incident sunlight is indicated by arrows on the right hand margin of the diagram. Because of the Sun's very great distance from the Earth, the Sun's rays are essentially parallel, making the Sun visible from both sides of the Earth during the satellite's orbit.
As the satellite passes into the Earth's shadow the Sun appears to "set," during which time the Sun's light "grazes" the Earth's surface and passes through the Earth's atmosphere as it does so.
When the satellite emerges from the Earth's shadow the Sun appears to "rise" through the Earth's atmosphere.
The orbit of SCISAT-1, as seen looking down on the Earth's North Pole. The scales are exaggerated to illustrate how SCISAT-1 "sees" sunlight which is transmitted through the Earth's atmosphere.
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During these sunrise and sunset phases SCISAT-1 records the spectrum of the sunlight as the Sun's rays pass through the Earth's atmosphere.
The sunlight appears to change colour (as observed at sunset) as the path of the sunlight through the atmosphere increase in length. In addition, very specific wavelengths (colours) are removed from the transmitted beams of sunlight by atoms and molecules of various chemical substances which occur in the atmosphere.
Two main processes are responsible for changing the spectrum of the transmitted sunlight.
The first process is molecular scattering, whereby the shortest wavelengths are much more strongly scattered by air molecules than the longer wavelengths. The result is that longer wavelengths (red) are more easily transmitted through long optical paths in the Earth's atmosphere (hence a red sunset).
The second process, called absorption, results when atoms (and molecules) absorb very specific wavelengths. These absorbed wavelengths are unique to each kind of atom (or molecule).
Analysis (of the spectrum) of the transmitted light gives scientists clues about the chemical composition and chemical abundance of the molecules that make up the Earth's atmosphere.
The orbit of SCISAT-1, as seen looking down on the Earth's nightside equator. As the satellite orbits around the Earth it "sees" the sun through the Earth's atmosphere twice on each orbit giving it a "sunrise" view and a "sunset" view.
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Recall that, because of the Sun's huge distance from the Earth, it is "seen" by the orbiting satellite from both sides of the Earth. Although the diagram may seem to show two Suns, astute readers will recognize that it the same Sun, simply drawn twice for illustrative purposes.
Orbiting the Earth 15 times a day provides the satellite an opportunity to observe sunlight which has passed through the Earth's atmosphere during 15 brief "sunrises" and "sunsets", allowing 30 sets of observations per day.
During each sunrise and sunset the satellite records the intensity and wavelength of the transmitted sunlight. The observed light which interests scientists is the light which passes through layers of the Earth's atmosphere in heights ranging from 4 to 100 kilometres (above the Earth's surface).
The plane of SCISAT-1's orbit has been rotated so that the satellite "sees" sections of the Earth's atmosphere at higher latitudes.
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The combined rotation of the Earth (which moves its atmosphere with it) and the orbital motion of the satellite allow a major fraction of the Earth's atmosphere to be scanned over a period of several weeks.
In this way a three dimensional picture of the Earth's atmosphere can gradually be constructed.
The plane of SCISAT-1's orbit has been rotated so that the satellite "sees" sections of the Earth's atmosphere at higher latitudes.
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If the plane of the satellite's orbit is also oriented so that it "faces" towards the Sun, the time the Sun takes to rise and set increases. This occurs because the Sun (as seen from the satellite) rises and sets at an angle to the Earth's horizon, in exactly the same way that long lingering sunsets occur on Earth during the Canadian summer.
You may have noticed that the summer Sun does not set at right angles to the horizon, but rather at a more gentle angle...in fact above the arctic circle, the angle of the setting Sun is sometimes so shallow, the Sun fails to set at all!
A satellite is rarely "moved" into a new orbit because it requires a lot of (expensive) energy to do so. Furthermore, few satellites are equipped with rocket engines that are suitable for more than minor orbital adjustments.
The plane of SCISAT-1's orbit has been rotated so that the satellite "sees" sections of the Earth's atmosphere at higher latitudes.
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This precession, combined with the Earth's rotation, allows the satellite to make detailed, systematic observations which cover the entire Earth.
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Trent Williams Sustains Right Knee Injury In Redskins' Loss
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LANDOVER, Md. – Trent Williams sustained an undisclosed right knee injury early in the Washington Redskins' loss to Cincinnati on Sunday and was scheduled to undergo an MRI later that night.
Williams, the Redskins' left tackle, was injured on his team's second offensive play when he was trying to block Bengals defensive end Michael Johnson. He attempted to return on multiple occasions, but was out of the game for good after the fourth play of the third quarter.
"I mean, I could go left," Williams said. "I just had trouble going right. Didn't really want to risk giving up a big quarterback hit."
Jordan Black, who was out of the league last year and planned to retire before the Redskins signed him early in training camp, filled in at left tackle when Williams couldn't play.
"You can make excuses and say it's tough, but it's what I prepare, it's what we prepare for, and you've just got to be ready to get it done when it happens," Black said.
Maurice Hurt, a seventh-round draft pick last year who spent much of the season starting for the then-injured Kory Lichtensteiger at left guard, is the Redskins' emergency left tackle. The 6-foot-3, 329-pound Hurt began working at tackle during training camp, but that plan ended when Lichtensteiger required arthroscopic surgery on his right knee.
Williams played in only 10 games last season. He sustained a high right ankle sprain early in the season, forcing him from two games, and was suspended for the final four by the league after failing a drug test.
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