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Are cities getting hotter? As cities add roads, buildings, industry, and people, temperatures in the city rise relative to their rural surroundings, creating a heat island. These urban heat islands may be up to 10-15°F under optimum conditions. With increasing urban development, heat islands may increase in frequency and magnitude. Los Angeles, California, for example, has been 1?F hotter every decade for the past 60 years. These heat islands have impacts that range from local to global scales and highlight the importance of urbanization to environmental change.
What is an urban heat island?
An urban heat island is the name given to describe the characteristic warmth of both the atmosphere and surfaces in cities (urban areas) compared to their (nonurbanized) surroundings. The heat island is an example of unintentional climate modification when urbanization changes the characteristics of the Earth's surface and atmosphere.
Are there different types of urban heat islands?
There are three types of heat islands:
- canopy layer heat island (CLHI)
- boundary layer heat island (BLHI)
- surface heat island (SHI)
The first two refer to a warming of the urban atmosphere; the last refers to the relative warmth of urban surfaces. The urban canopy layer (UCL) is the layer of air closest to the surface in cities, extending upwards to approximately the mean building height (Figure 1). Above the urban canopy layer lies the urban boundary layer, which may be 1 kilometer (km) or more in thickness by day, shrinking to hundreds of meters or less at night (Figure 1).1 It is the BLHI that forms a dome of warmer air that extends downwind of the city. Wind often changes the dome to a plume shape.
Figure 1.
Schematic depiction of the main components of the urban atmosphere.
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Heat island types vary in their spatial form (shape), temporal (related to time) characteristics, and some of the underlying physical processes that contribute to their development. Scientists measure air temperatures for CLHI or BLHI directly using thermometers, whereas the SHI is measured by remote sensors mounted on satellites or aircraft. 2,3
What are the characteristics of heat islands?
Overall spatial form (shape) of the heat island
The isotherms, or lines of equal temperature, form a pattern that resembles an "island" loosely following the shape of the urbanized region, surrounded by cooler areas (Figure 2). There is often a sharp rise in the canopy-layer air temperature at the boundary of rural—suburban areas, followed by a slow and often variable increase towards the downtown core of the urban area where the warmest temperatures occur. The boundary layer heat island shows much less variability than the other heat island types and a cross-section shows its shape resembles a simple dome or plume with warmer air transported downwind of the city.
Figure 2.
Urban heat island characteristics.
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Heat island intensity
Heat island intensity is a measure of the strength or magnitude of the heat island. At night, the intensity of the canopy layer heat island is typically in the range of 1° to 3°C, but under optimum conditions intensities of up to 12°C have been recorded.4 The BLHI tends to maintain a more constant heat island intensity both day and night (~1.5° to 2°C). The SHI is usually most distinct during the day when strong solar heating can lead to larger temperature differences between dry surfaces and wet, shaded, or vegetated surfaces.
Surface characteristics and the heat island
The nature of the surface is a strong factor on the spatial patterns of surface and canopy layer air temperature in the city. The temperatures are higher in more densely built up areas, and lower near parks or more open areas (Figure 2). Surface temperatures are particularly sensitive to surface conditions: during daytime, dry, dark surfaces that strongly absorb sunlight become very hot, while lighter and/or moist surfaces are much cooler.2,3 Shading of the surface also helps control the temperature. (For visual examples of the surface heat island, see the "learn more" link, EPA Heat Island Pilot Project, at the end of the article.)
Temporal form of the heat island
All heat islands form because of the differences in the rates of warming and cooling of cities relative to their surroundings.
- CLHI: the heat island intensity increases with time from sunset to a maximum somewhere between a few hours after sunset to the predawn hours. During the day the CLHI intensity is typically fairly weak or sometimes negative (a cool island) in some parts of the city where there is extensive shading by tall buildings or other structures and a lag in warming due to storage of heat by building materials.
- SHI: is strongly positive both day and night due to warmer urban surfaces. Daytime SHI is usually largest because solar radiation affects surface temperatures.
- BLHI: is generally positive both day and night but much smaller in magnitude than CLHI or SHI.
How do heat islands form and how are they controlled?
A number of factors contribute to the occurrence and intensity of heat islands; these include
- weather
- geographic location
- time of day and season
- city form
- city functions
Weather, particularly wind and cloud, influences formation of heat islands. Heat island magnitudes are largest under calm and clear weather conditions. Increasing winds mix the air and reduce the heat island. Increasing clouds reduce radiative cooling at night and also reduce the heat island. Seasonal variations in weather patterns affect heat island frequency and magnitude.
Geographic location influences the climate and topography of the area as well as the characteristics of the rural surroundings of the city. Regional or local weather influences, such as local wind systems, may impact heat islands; for example, coastal cities may experience cooling of urban temperatures in the summer when sea surface temperatures are cooler than the land and winds blow onshore. Where cities are surrounded by wet rural surfaces, slower cooling by these surfaces can reduce heat island magnitudes, especially in warm humid climates.5
Time of day/season: Daytime impacts were discussed in the section called "Temporal form of the heat island." Seasons play a role, too. Heat islands of cities located in the mid latitudes usually are strongest in the summer or winter seasons. In tropical climates, the dry season may favor large heat island magnitudes.
City form comprises the materials used in construction, the surface characteristics of the city such as the building dimensions and spacing, thermal properties, and amount of greenspace. Heat island formation is favored by
- relatively dense building materials that are slow to warm and cool and store a lot of energy
- replacement of natural surfaces by impervious or waterproofed surfaces, leading to a drier urban area, where less water is available for evaporation, which offsets heating of the air
- lower surface reflectivity to solar radiation — dark surfaces such as asphalt roads absorb more sunlight and become much warmer than light-colored surfaces
City functions govern the output of pollutants into the urban atmosphere, heat from energy usage, and the use of water in irrigation. Anthropogenic heat, or heat generated from human activities, primarily fossil fuel combustion, can be important to heat island formation.6 Anthropogenic heating usually has the largest impact during the winter season of cold climates in the downtown core of the city.7 In select cases, very densely developed cities may have significant summertime anthropogenic heating that results from high energy use for building cooling.7
How do heat islands impact cities?
Heat islands have a range of impacts for city dwellers,4 including
- human comfort: positive (winter), negative (summer)
- energy use: positive (winter), negative (summer)
- air pollution: negative
- water use: negative
- biological activity (e.g., growing season length): positive
- ice and snow: positive
Summer heat islands can increase the demand for energy for air conditioning, which releases more heat into the air as well as greenhouse gas emissions, degrading local air quality.8 Higher urban temperatures in the daytime BLHI may increase the formation of urban smog, because both emissions of precursor pollutants and the atmospheric photochemical reaction rates increase.9,10 Heat islands may also directly impact human health by exacerbating heat stress during heat waves, especially in temperate areas, and by providing conditions suitable for the spread of vector-borne diseases.11,12
Biological solutions for alleviating urban heat islands?
The understanding of the physical mechanisms underlying heat island formation provides a basis to develop controls that may promote or alleviate heat islands, but in some cases the application of these controls is difficult. For example, widespread change of the urban surface geometry by spacing buildings is usually not feasible. However, other strategies are possible— for example, using white or other light-colored roofs and pavement.
A biologically related solution is to use vegetation to reduce urban heat. Vegetation provides important shading effects as well as cooling through evaporation. Some examples include:
- Planting trees around individual buildings to shade urban surfaces to reduce their temperature, especially roofs and south-, east-, and west-facing walls. The reduction in surface temperature also leads to substantial reductions in energy use for air conditioning.
Trees can also be used to shade roads and parking lots, which would otherwise become very hot during the day and which store heat for later release at night. Shading of vehicles in parking lots can reduce evaporative emissions from gasoline, which contribute to increased levels of urban ozone.
"Green roofs" use living vegetation on roofs in order to help reduce heat accumulation of buildings. For example, the city of Chicago has more than 80 municipal and private green roofs as of June 2004, including the first municipal green roof in the country, the City Hall rooftop garden. A green roof is much cooler than a traditional roof because a significant fraction of the absorbed energy is used to evaporate water rather than to heat the roof and the overlying air.
Creation of greenspace such as parks can be used to assist in cooling of neighborhoods,13,14 and an overall greening of the city can lead to a cooler urban atmosphere.15
These strategies can provide cost benefits. A building owner benefits from reduced energy consumption costs. Residents downwind of the urban area benefit from air quality improvements because:
- pollutants are deposited on trees
- greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions from air conditioning use are reduced
- emissions of volatile organic compounds that contribute to urban smog are lessened
- the rate of ozone formation is potentially reduced
The US Environmental Protection Agency has undertaken the Urban Heat Island Pilot Project as part of the Heat Island Reduction Initiative. Pilot cities include Baton Rouge, Chicago, Houston, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City.
Do urban heat islands affect global climate?
Urban heat islands themselves are not responsible for global warming because they are small-scale phenomena and cover only a tiny fraction of the Earth's surface area. However, there are some urban to global scale connections that are worth noting:
Approximately half of the world's population currently lives in cities, and this value is expected to increase to 61% by 2030.16 The high rate of urbanization, particularly in the tropics, means that increasing numbers of people will be exposed to impacts resulting from heat islands in the future.
Urban areas have historically been the site of some of the earliest established observation stations that are used to help construct the global surface temperature record used to document large scale climate changes. The effects of urbanization, and consequently urban heat islands, on these stations over time can lead to some "contamination" of the temperature record. The ability to fully remove these influences remains the subject of some debate since changes can occur independently of population17 and current techniques used to remove urban effects may be inadequate.17-19
Most greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change come from urban areas. These emissions therefore contribute to both local and global scale weather and climate modification.20 Further urbanization will increase emissions originating from cities. Investigation of the larger scale impacts of urban emissions is seen as an important area of future research.20
The climate modifications that have occurred in large cities over the past century show similarities in terms of the rates and magnitude expected with projected future climate changes. Therefore cities may serve as a model for assessing the impacts of, and adaptation strategies to, climate change on both local and global scales.4
These factors underscore the importance of urban climates not only to the local environment but also to the state of the environment for the planet as a whole.
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✚ Egyptian government attempts to suppress the media
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New York, August 16, 2012--President Mohamed Morsi's government and allies are pushing back against critical news coverage, suppressing critical journalists and state-run newspapers, putting a journalist on trial, and attacking three journalists on the street, according to news reports.
"This is a troubling backward step that Egypt's newly elected President Mohamed Morsi should not be taking," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney. "We urge President Morsi to reverse this course immediately and demonstrate his commitment to press freedom."
Several journalists have reported suppression at the state-run newspaper Al-Akhbar. The newspaper was among a number of prominent state-run dailies at which new editors-in-chief had been appointed by the Egyptian upper house of parliament, also known as the Shura Council, on August 7, according to news reports. The Shura Council's move was seen as a way for Morsi's government, which is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, to place regime sympathizers in powerful positions to control media coverage. Several private newspapers ran blank columns on August 9 in protest of the appointments, news reports said.
Still getting used to seeing the word "regime" be used about the Morsi administration… Has a good overview of the recent media clampdowns. It's too soon to tell whether this is the beginning of a new pattern of repression or isolated events related to the current atmosphere in Egypt (rumors of coup plots, bad old habits of editors trying to ingratiate themselves to the new regime, etc.) or a more consistent and deliberate policy. I doubt that Egypt's fairly vibrant media and its very active Journalists' Syndicate is going to take this lying down, however — indeed it may spur sharper action to change regulations on the media.
One particularly worrying thing ahead: there have been reports that the Constituent Assembly, which is still going ahead with the process of drafting a new constitution despite much uncertainty about its status, is said to have drafted a new version of Article 178 of the previous constitution, which it is using as a base model. A friend emailed the text, which could include prison penalties for publishing "information that damages Egypt's reputation":
"either by faslifying the truth or providing an innacurate/untruthful description or by highlighting inapropriate sights (?) or by any other means"
سواء اكان ذلك بمخالفة الحقيقة او اعطاء وصف غير صحيح او بابراز مظاهر غير لائقة او باية طريقة اخرى
This is very much Mubarak-era mentality.

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McLaren chairman Ron Dennis says the team could have kept hold of Lewis Hamilton if it had wanted to.
Hamilton left McLaren to join Mercedes at the end of 2012, ending a 13-year association with the team as he said he wanted a new challenge. However, Dennis believes that it's not a case of Hamilton choosing to leave, rather McLaren not being willing to offer him the conditions in which to remain with the team.
"I think it's wrong to portray that Lewis left this team," Dennis told CBI Magazine. "At the end of the day, you end up with a situation where you're going to separate if the circumstances aren't right. Life isn't about one person deciding anything. It's never that way. It's about circumstances.
"Everybody says: 'Am I bitterly this or bitterly that?' What? I'm a realist. Did we have the ability to create a situation where we could have stayed together? Categorically, yes. Would that have been the right thing to do? We didn't think so."
Dennis added that he wished Hamilton well in his future career, though hopes McLaren remains ahead of Mercedes.
"Whatever people choose to do at the end of a contractual period, the professional thing to do is to be supportive of the other side. We don't wish him every success at Mercedes - that's understandable, as he's obviously going to be a competitor - but we don't wish him anything negative."


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The FBI arrested a New York City woman Thursday for allegedly collecting fraudulent "funeral fund" donations for a child killed in the Newtown school massacre, claiming she was his aunt.
Nouel Alba, 37, of the Bronx was charged with making false statements to federal agents. She appeared before a U.S. magistrate in Hartford, Conn., and was released on a $50,000 bond. If convicted, Alba could face a maximum five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The FBI says Alba used her Facebook account, telephone and text messages to solicit donations for the "funeral fund" of 6-year-old Noah Pozner, the first to be buried of the 20 children and six educators slain Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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At ALBA's instruction, donor-victims sent money to a PayPal account controlled and accessed by ALBA. When contacted by FBI Special Agents investigating fundraising and charity scams related to the Newtown tragedy, ALBA falsely stated that she did not post information related to Newtown on her Facebook account, solicit donations or recently access her PayPal account. ALBA also falsely claimed to have immediately refunded any donations that she received.
"It is unconscionable to think that the families of the victims in Newtown and a sympathetic community looking to provide them some sort of financial support and comfort have become the targets of criminals," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Kimberly Mertz. "Today's arrest is a stern message that the FBI will investigate and bring to justice those who perpetrate Internet fundraising scams, especially those scams that exploit the most vulnerable in their time of shared sorrow."
NBC News reported last week that the scam began within an hour of the shooting. A woman wrote on her Facebook page, "All we know is 18 kids have been killed ... still no word on my nephew."
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Prosecutor says he may expand charges against Carroll aide
The bitter feud between Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll and a disgruntled aide escalated Monday as the aide's attorney called for a state arson investigation into a trash can fire in Carroll's office and the state attorney said he may expand the charges against the aide, Carletha Cole.
Leon County State Attorney Willie Meggs, who charged Cole last October with giving an illegally taped conversation to a newspaper reporter, told the Herald/Times that he is considering additional charges against her for illegally recording the conversation she had with Carroll's chief of staff, John Konkus.
In the recording, Konkus is heard blaming internal office problems on Gov. Rick Scott's former Chief of Staff Steve MacNamara and accusing the governor of "not leading." Cole has declined comment. Cole's attorney, Steven R. Andrews, denies his client made the recording.
After the recording surfaced on the Florida Times Union website last September, Cole, 51, was fired from her $42,500-a-year job as a senior program analyst for "conduct unbecoming."
Meggs said Monday he had hoped to settle the initial charges quietly, but said the tenor of the case changed last week when Cole's attorney filed documents in court alleging that Cole caught Carroll and her travel aide in a "compromising position."
"We may amend that and charge her with recording it, too,'' he said. "If you have to go to war, you go to war. I think we're at war.''
Illegally recording a conversation is a third-degree felony and it carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.
In court papers, Cole said Carroll had a vendetta against Cole after she allegedly discovered Carroll and her travel aide, Beatriz Ramos, in a sexual encounter in Carroll's state capitol office. Cole said Ramos then allegedly set fire to the trash can beneath her desk.
Cole, in the same court documents, alleged that the governor's office instructed staff to "covertly record" communications with the lieutenant governor's office and the press.
Carroll, a former Navy officer and mother of three, told the Associated Press last week that the allegations are " totally false and absurd." In reference to the sex allegations, she told a reporter with WTSP Channel 10 News in Tampa Bay over the weekend that black women who look like her "don't engage in relationships like that."
Ramos has refused comment, but told investigators that she accidentally set the trash can on fire with a cigar she had been given during a St. Patrick's Day party.
Meggs said he believes the media is being used by Cole and her attorneys in an attempt to discredit Carroll. He called Cole's allegations that there were secret recordings made in the governor's office "something that Cole has manufactured in her mind" and Meggs said he has "no indication of anybody secretly recording anybody" except the alleged recording made by Cole.
Andrews, Cole's attorney, confirmed that until recently both sides were attempting to settle the case amicably but efforts failed.
"We did try to resolve it and, as always, Mr. Meggs acted in good faith and was very fair,'' Andrews said. "Unfortunately, some things can't be resolved. It's a war, but not with him."
Andrews on Monday released a copy of a letter he sent to the state fire marshal demanding an investigation into the trash can blaze. He accused Capitol Police of destroying evidence, suggesting that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement botched the investigation, and implying that Carroll and Ramos covered it up.
"This request is not made without substantial indication that there was an apparent interference with this investigation with regards to its thoroughness and duration,'' Andrews wrote in letters to lawyers for the state fire marshal and Gov. Rick Scott.
Julius Halas, director of the Division of State Fire Marshal responded Monday that his office would not be investigating. He noted that the incident had been investigated by FDLE and the evidence, "a small partially smoked cigar and a burned match was subsequently destroyed by the investigating officer."
Brian Burgess, Scott's spokesman, criticized Andrews as as a defense attorney "doing his best to divert attention from the criminal proceedings that an independent, duly elected state prosecutor is pursuing against his client." He suggested " we should allow the legal process to proceed without turning this sad situation into a circus."
Andrews, however, suggested that the evidence was destroyed prior to the completion of the investigation. His letter points to an FDLE document that shows that the evidence was obtained and destroyed on the same day. He also cites a letter allegedly signed by Carroll that recommends FDLE investigator John Hamilton for a job with the Division of Alcoholic Beverages a day after he closed the fire investigation.
FDLE on Monday denied that agents prematurely destroyed the evidence and produced a conflicting document that indicates the evidence was destroyed two days after interviewing Ramos and having concluded the fire was an accident.
"The FDLE documents don't square with their statement issued today,'' Andrews said. "We are disappointed that the Fire Marshal declined to investigate this matter. It is understandable based upon the fact that the evidence has been destroyed."
After being fired, Cole began a campaign to implicate her former boss, alleging widespread misconduct in her office.
A Twitter account under Cole's name has posted links to an online petition calling for Carroll's impeachment. It had only a handful of signatures as of last week. Last month, Cole tweeted about her petition to ABC's Nightline, CNN contributor Roland Martin and several other national media outlets.
In court documents, Cole describes herself as a minister with two children and four grandchildren, and no prior criminal record. The former head of a public relations firm and publisher of a women's magazine, Cole was hired in Carroll's office for her expertise in the construction and design of Web pages, and claims she took the job rather than begin a seminary program at Harvard, court filings show.
Her personnel file shows that Cole also worked for JP Morgan Chase before joining Carroll's office. She also got permission from the governor's staff to continue her outside public relations work.


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The President said the declaration is a recognition of reality and is long overdue. He called his effort a new approach to seeking Middle East peace. Trump said he promised to bring very fresh thinking to the presidency.
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Scientists at the NASA mission center won't know for 14 minutes whether Curiosity lands safely as radio signals from Mars travel to Earth. If it succeeds, a video camera aboard the rover will have captured dramatic footage of the first landing on another planet.
NASA's most advanced planetary rover, the 1-ton Curiosity , the centerpiece of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, is slated to land at the Gale Crater on the night of Aug. 5 to look for chemical evidence of ancient life preserved within exposures near the base of a five-kilometers high mound of layered materials at the center of Gale crater (above).
To achieve the precision needed for landing (see diagram at bottom of page) safely inside Gale Crater, the spacecraft will fly like a wing in the upper atmosphere instead of dropping like a rock. To land the 1-ton rover, an airbag method used on previous Mars rovers will not work. Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., designed a "sky crane" method for the final several seconds of the flight. A backpack with retro-rockets controlling descent speed will lower the rover on three nylon cords just before touchdown.
During a critical period lasting only about seven minutes, the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft carrying Curiosity must decelerate from about 13,200 mph (about 5,900 meters per second) to allow the rover to land on the surface at about 1.7 mph (three-fourths of a meter per second). Curiosity is scheduled to land at approximately 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6).
"Those seven minutes are the most challenging part of this entire mission," said Pete Theisinger, the mission's project manager at JPL. "For the landing to succeed, hundreds of events will need to go right, many with split-second timing and all controlled autonomously by the spacecraft. We've done all we can think of to succeed. We expect to get Curiosity safely onto the ground, but there is no guarantee. The risks are real."
In early June, a NASA spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet, called Mars Odyssey, suffered a malfunction on one of its reaction wheels, an instrument that helps control the probe's attitude in space.* "Odyssey looks like it may not be where we expect it to be," said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters.
The glitch does not pose a risk to Curiosity's impending arrival at the Red Planet, officials said. But Mars Odyssey's original orbit would have given it a complete view of Curiosity's landing, so the probe had been pegged to act as an orbiting outpost to relay communications and data back to mission managers on Earth.
With Odyssey in the picture, mission managers may be able to confirm Curiosity's touchdown by 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT Aug. 6). Without Odyssey, however, mission controllers may not know the outcome of the landing maneuver until 10:35 p.m. PDT or later.
During the initial weeks after the actual landing, JPL mission controllers will put the rover through a series of checkouts and activities to characterize its performance on Mars, while gradually ramping up scientific investigations. Curiosity then will begin investigating whether an area with a wet history inside Mars' Gale Crater ever has offered an environment favorable for microbial life.
"Earlier missions have found that ancient Mars had wet environments," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Program at NASA Headquarters. "Curiosity takes us the next logical step in understanding the potential for life on Mars."
Curiosity will use tools on a robotic arm to deliver samples from Martian rocks and soils into laboratory instruments inside the rover that can reveal chemical and mineral composition. A laser instrument will use its beam to induce a spark on a target and read the spark's spectrum of light to identify chemical elements in the target.
Other instruments on the car-sized rover will examine the surrounding environment from a distance or by direct touch with the arm. The rover will check for the basic chemical ingredients for life and for evidence about energy available for life. It also will assess factors that could be hazardous for life, such as the radiation environment.
"For its ambitious goals, this mission needs a great landing site and a big payload," said McCuistion. "During the descent through the atmosphere, the mission will rely on bold techniques enabling use of a smaller target area and a heavier robot on the ground than were possible for any previous Mars mission. Those techniques also advance us toward human-crew Mars missions, which will need even more precise targeting and heavier landers."
The chosen landing site is beside a mountain informally called Mount Sharp. The mission's prime destination lies on the slope of the mountain. Driving there from the landing site may take many months.
Because of its history, 96-mile wide Gale Crater crater with its strangely sculpted mountain –three times higher than the Grand Canyon is deep–is the ideal place for Curiosity to conduct its mission of exploration into the Red Planet's past. Researchers plan to use Curiosity to study layers in the mountain that hold evidence about wet environments of early Mars.
"This may be one of the thickest exposed sections of layered sedimentary rocks in the solar system," said Joy Crisp, MSL Deputy Project Scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "The rock record preserved in those layers holds stories that are billions of years old — stories about whether, when, and for how long Mars might have been habitable."
An instrument on Curiosity can check for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path. Today the Red Planet is a radiation-drenched, bitterly cold, bleak world. Enormous dust storms explode across the barren landscape and darken Martian skies for months at a time. But data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggest that Mars once hosted vast lakes and flowing rivers.
"Gale Crater and its mountain will tell this intriguing story," says Matthew Golombek, Mars Exploration Program Landing Site Scientist from JPL. "The layers there chronicle Mars' environmental history."
"Be patient about the drive. It will be well worth the wait and we are apt to find some targets of interest on the way," said John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "When we get to the lower layers in Mount Sharp, we'll read them like chapters in a book about changing environmental conditions when Mars was wetter than it is today.
The Daily Galaxy via NASA and JPL
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Bloomberg: De Blasio's campaign 'racist'
Outgoing New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg laced into surging Democratic mayoral frontrunner Bill de Blasio in an interview published Saturday, saying he's run a "racist" campaign with just three days left in the primary race.
The remarks from Bloomberg about de Blasio, the city's Public Advocate who has showcased his biracial family on the campaign trail, came as the frontrunner is within striking distance of clearing the 40 percent mark in the primary vote that would prevent a runoff three weeks later.
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"… there's Bill de Blasio, who's become the Democratic front-runner," New York Magazine's Chris Smith asked Bloomberg early on in a wide-ranging interview. "He has in some ways been running a class-warfare campaign …"
"Class-warfare and racist," Bloomberg interrupted him.
"Racist?" Smith asked.
"I mean he's making an appeal using his family to gain support," replied Bloomberg. "I think it's pretty obvious to anyone watching what he's been doing. I do not think he himself is racist. It's comparable to me pointing out I'm Jewish in attracting the Jewish vote. You tailor messages to your audiences and address issues you think your audience cares about."
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He added, "But his whole campaign is that there are two different cities here. And I've never liked that kind of division. The way to help those who are less fortunate is, number one, to attract more very fortunate people. They are the ones that pay the bills. The people that would get very badly hurt here if you drive out the very wealthy are the people he professes to try to help. Tearing people apart with this "two cities" thing doesn't make any sense to me. It's a destructive strategy for those you want to help the most. He's a very populist, very left-wing guy, but this city is not two groups, and if to some extent it is, it's one group paying for services for the other. It's a shame, because I've always thought he was a very smart guy."
The remarks were widely greeted on Twitter as about as big a gift Bloomberg could have given to de Blasio, whose message that it's time for a change after 12 years of the billionaire mayor has resonated deeply with the Democratic primary electorate. Some Democratic strategists also speculated there could be a benefit to Bill Thompson, the lone black candidate in the race, who was the Democratic nominee in the 2009 mayoral race and who most polls show as the likeliest person to keep de Blasio under 40 percent.
The person the remarks seemed least likely to help was City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the candidate most closely aligned with Bloomberg, who has seen her former lead collapse in recent months.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama-Clinton echoes in NYC race)
De Blasio's son Dante, who sports an Afro hair style that's become well known on the campaign trail, appeared in one of his earliest and most effective campaign ads.
The candidate pushed back hard on the remarks, according to the Politicker website.
"If that's exactly what he said, it's obviously inappropriate and I'm surprised to hear him say it," said de Blasio, who at the time said he hadn't yet seen the piece.
Later he said, "I'm very proud of my family. I'm very proud of each and every member of my family and the way that they have handled themselves in a very difficult campaign."
As de Blasio and his family held an afternoon press conference in Brooklyn responding to Bloomberg's comments, his wife, Chirlane, tweeted at the mayor,
"@MikeBloomberg, enough of the patriarchal thinking. I am not property or a tool to be used or controlled. Stop the sexism!"
Quinn called the remarks from Bloomberg "unfortunate," according to reports.
Thompson, asked about the Bloomberg comments, called them "nonsense" and "ridiculous," according to New York Daily News reporter Erin Durkin's Twitter feed.
The attacks from Bloomberg and his aides against de Blasio have been welcomed by the Democratic frontrunner, whose aides say they think it has been a help. The most recent public poll, by Quinnipiac University, showed de Blasio at 43 percent.


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Get too close to this '69 Charger, and you'll catch the bug real bad
We like the way Mike Williams thinks. When it was time to buy a house, he bought a big empty slice of farmland near Orland, California, and proceeded to build a huge garage on it. Oh, and he put a urinal in it, too. "I didn't want to be sneaking around outside every time I had to use the bathroom," says Mike matter-of-factly. And the house? Uh, there isn't one, unless you count the trailer. We mention all this up front just to make sure you know Mike is a guy with his priorities clearly in order.
And like his castle, Mike's 1969 Dodge Charger is perfectly prioritized. Marked on its voluptuous flanks with the universal biohazard warning sign, you might easily mistake Mike's Charger as an homage to the boys from Hazzard county, but you'd be wrong. Mike is, in fact, a trauma nurse, and the familiar biohazard sign just seemed like a natural for a car with such a seductive carbon footprint.
Mopars, and Dodge Chargers in particular, hold a special place in Mike's heart. Growing up in Louisiana, Mike's grandpa, Talbot "Snake" Guillot, would often pick Mike and his brother up in his '66 Charger and drive to NASCAR races. "Actually, him and his buddies would sleep in the back, and I would drive! I was only 13. We used to go to races in Mobile, College Station, Talladega, and Atlanta. I used to stand up against the fence and listen to the engines roar by." (Think this could be the reason Mike is also working on a '74 Dodge Charger Petty-themed racer clone?)
Mike's upbringing in Baton Rouge might seem a million years and a million miles ago from his California life, but it still informs every bolt and every weld he touches. The silent, strong call from Mike's youth has reached out like a hidden magnetic force, in spite of seemingly random life events. Check it out: While working as an assistant manager at a Domino's Pizza in Baton Rouge in 1986, he got the chance to move to Paradise, California, and help open a new franchise. "At 20 years old, you think you're going to the beach or something," Mike deadpans. Unknown to the new franchise owner, Paradise was a retirement community, so the place went belly up in three months. (More deadpan: "Old people don't eat much pizza.") A girlfriend worked in one of Paradise's many nursing homes, so Mike decided to go to nursing school. Upon graduating nursing school, Mike worked in the local hospital's ER, then rode ambulances. And like a moth to a flame, the first time Mike worked the ambulance for the local bullring racetrack, life's crazy karma came back at him full force. All it took was one sniff of race fuel, and the fuse was lit.
"I started working the ambulances at the track and got back into it," Mike says. It wasn't long before he was racing pure stock. "You know, two-barrel carb, stock motor, stock body, limited on tires." They raced Chevelles and Camaros mostly, but Mike started out with a '67 Belvedere, and then a '69 Coronet that he built into a Richard Petty Superbird clone. "They almost didn't let me run that car because of the wing!"
Out of school and with a steady job, Mike was now hard on the throttle, but by 1998, racing was taking a mental toll. "I got tired of blowing stuff up," Mike says. "You work on them all week just to go racing on Friday. You get 30 minutes of seat time racing, and another racer will use you as a guardrail. It got to be too expensive. I just decided I wanted a nice street car instead." Then, while scouring a car show, he saw a '69 Charger that he snatched up for $1,500. The primered 318 ex-rental car barely ran, but Mike saw potential—even if only momentarily. When he got wind of a '69 Hemi Charger, he sold the 318 car to a local kid to raise the cash. Fortunately, Mike got the car back five years later in slightly better shape—and for the same $1,500—when the kid bailed on a stillborn Duke's clone project.
One lonely night in 2004 at his garage-mahal, Mike found himself gaping blankly at his welder, metal brake, Bridgeport, lathe, and his many boxes of tools. The silence was eerie. Then, the spirit of grandpa "Snake" Guillot paid a visit, hovering over the dormant B-Body. The inspiration of the Biohazard Charger emerged magically from the miasma as if Mike were staring into a crystal ball. The following day, Mike wasted no time and brought the car to Brian Dowdy at Golden Age Restorations, explaining his vision of Pepper Gray paint and contrasting matte black graphics with biohazard motif.
Back from paint, the empty roller reclaimed its silent corner of the shop, and over the next few years Mike gradually collected the parts to complete the Biohazard Charger. In the interim, he had built a '72 'Cuda for his niece, which played a small yet important part in the Biohazard's completion. When the 'Cuda was unveiled at the 2010 Mopars At The Strip in Las Vegas, it was a big hit, especially on the autocross, where Mike had a blast. To his good fortune, he met autocross legend and Hotchkis consultant, Mary Pozzi. "Mary Pozzi was up there, and talked with me a lot about the Hotchkis stuff, and that made me want to finish my Charger that much faster," Mike says. "In the meantime, I had a running, driving '70 Firebird that had given me the autocross bug real bad."
A project that had started in 1998 was now suddenly front and center, and subject to the full brunt of Mike's resources. He vowed to have Biohazard ready for the following spring, where he would take it to Mopars At The Strip (now Moparty At The Strip), the Speed Fest at Willow Springs, and the Mopar Spring Fling in Los Angeles. To pull off this Mopar hat trick, he'd need to act fast.
Mike began by mocking up the engine, suspension, K-member, trans, cooling system, and brakes. He built a custom radiator shroud, seam-welded the K-member, and sent those parts, along with the engine accessory brackets, power steering cooler, and motor mounts to Platinum Powdercoating (Chico, California). With those items in hand, Mike worked on the brakes, combining Wilwood hubs, Coleman rotors, and U.S. Brakes calipers in a home-brewed system using caliper brackets Mike built himself. This was done early on in order to establish the wheel offset, which Mike nailed down, thanks to a Wheel Works Tire MountMate fitment tool. A gentleman's agreement with Discount Tire allowed him to order just two Nitto NT05 tires (front and rear) in the sizes he wanted, with the caveat that he could exchange them if they didn't fit. Thanks to the Wheel Works tool, Mike found that the huge 275/40R18 and 295/45R18 Nittos would fit, if he ordered just the right size and offset wheels. The resulting custom 18×9 and 18×10 Budnik GTB alloys were powdercoated titanium and matte black, and fit like a dream inside the Charger's sexy fender bulges.
Mike liked what he saw from Hotchkis while in Las Vegas, so he decided to combine the heavy-duty Mopar Performance leaf springs and 1.125-inch diameter torsion bars he'd been collecting ("I don't know the part numbers because I bought them third-hand") with the Hotchkis control arms, strut rods, front sway bar, steering links, and Bilstein-sourced shocks. Mike also worked some upholstery skills in the mix, re-skinning the front and rear seats, and replacing the carpet with new stock.
With time running out, Mike realized he had to put his planned 512-inch Wedge on hold. That motor, which will get CNC-ported Edelbrock heads, a 440Source stroker kit, Holley Street Dominator intake, BCR girdle, and Mopar Performance STX22 .590-inch lift solid-roller cam, would have to wait. In the meantime, Mike "borrowed" the .030-over 440 from his '68 GTX. This "little" Wedge makes just 563 hp with a stock crank and rods, JE pistons, C&A rings, ported iron heads, Mopar M1 intake, Barry Grant 1,000-cfm carb, and a mild .540-inch lift COMP camshaft. The temporary bullet has been attached to a workhorse A833 four-speed and Centerforce Dual-Friction clutch, which acts on a rebuilt Dana 60 with 4.10 gears.
With just hours to spare, Mike hit the road this past April, making all three of his planned events. In the period between April 8 and April 17, the Biohazard Charger hit the Moparty At The Strip, where it ran 12.85/113 down the quarter-mile ("spinning First and Second"); the Speed Fest at Willow Springs, where it hit 135 mph on the straightaway; and the 25th Annual Mopar Spring Fling in L.A., where it wowed showgoers with its bombshell looks.
But don't think that the Biohazard's early success is making Mike complacent. The spirit of "Snake" Guillot is still present, urging Mike to take things up a notch. There's a fresh 512ci Wedge waiting in the wings, along with a Hemi-spec A833 and Gear Vendors overdrive. Gramps is also concerned about Mike's safety, and has telegraphed his preference for some supportive racing seats and harnesses, just like the "King" would use. We know he's got to be looking down on Mike real proud!
By The Numbers
1969 Dodge Charger
Mike Williams, 45 • Orland, CA
Best quarter-mile: 12.85 at 113 mph
Type: '69-vintage 440 Wedge big-block Mopar
Displacement: 446 ci
Compression ratio: 9.9:1
Oiling: Moroso deep pan, Melling oil pump and pickup
Rotating assembly: stock, shot-peened and polished stock rods, JE forged pistons
Cylinder heads: stock 452, bracket race port job, Manley 2.14/1.88 stainless valves
Camshaft: COMP Cams, .540-inch lift, 260/268 degrees duration at .050, 108 degrees lobe separation installed at 104 degrees
Valvetrain: Crane ⅜-inch chromoly pushrods, Crane ductile iron rocker arms, COMP lifters
Intake manifold: Mopar M1, port matched to heads
Carburetor: Barry Grant 1,000-cfm Silver Claw
Ignition: MSD 7AL3 box, Mopar Performance distributor
Fuel system: Carter high-volume mechanical, stock tank, ½-inch pickup, -8AN fuel line
Exhaust: Doug's 2-inch long-tube headers, custom 3-inch exhaust, Flowmaster 40 Series mufflers
Cooling: Mopar Performance water pump and housing, Northern aluminum radiator, dual SPAL 12-inch electric fans, custom shroud, overflow, and cover
Output: 563 hp at 5,600 rpm
Built by: B&B Performance & Machine, Redding, CA
Transmission: A833 23-spline four-speed manual, Centerforce Dual-Friction clutch
Rear axle: '68-vintage B-Body Dana 60 rearend, 4.10 gears in stock carrier, custom reinforced spring perches
Unibody: front K-member welded up and reinforced, custom skidplate
Steering: Firm Feel Stage 3 power steering with fast-ratio pitman arm
Front suspension: Hotchkis TVS upper control arms, strut rods, sway bar and steering links; Mopar Performance 1.125-inch torsion bars, Bilstein shocks
Rear suspension: custom heavy-duty rear leaf springs (five leaf), 2-inch lowering blocks, Bilstein shocks
Front brakes: Coleman 14×1.25-inch rotors, U.S. Brake calipers, Wilwood hubs
Rear brakes: Wilwood 12.19-inch rotors with U.S. Brake calipers
Wheels & Tires
Wheels: Budnik GTB, 18×9, 4.5-inch offset, front; 18×10, 5-inch offset, rear; matte black and titanium powdercoat
Tires: Nitto NT05, 275/40R18, front; 295/45R18, rear


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Andy Murray stars in yet another chapter of the abusive and frustrating UK-wants-a-local-to-win-Wimbledon saga. This year, there might be a fighting chance: though Murray has not been a part of the Roger/Rafa/Nole conversation that we've all been having for most of 2011 so far, the Scot did make some noise by taking the AEGON grasscourt warm-up. He followed that up with a vintage Murray performance in his first-round match at Wimbledon against Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver: a slow start, but an eventual 4-6 6-3 6-0 6-0 victory. (Prediction: Chris has Andy making it all the way to the semis.)
Perhaps those inspirational messages — printed onto his Head racquet bag — helped him out? FYI: comments posted on Head's FB page are chosen by a team (including Andy) and printed on a limited-edition racquet bag that Murray'll use throughout the fortnight. (Short and inspirational blurbs are encouraged.) More will be added for every round he plays. The bag will be signed after the tourney's end and will be raffled off to a fan. Nifty idea, but next time, let's take the design to the next level, ok? Think Stephen Sprouse.
Do you like me? Check "yes" or "no": Pass your note to Andy using this Head FB app.
More: Two more pics of the bag after the cut…
(Andy photos by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images; bag screengrab via Head FB page)


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(or: FanGraphs, Written by a Robot?)
FanGraphs Posts Where Everything After the Title Is Superfluous
- Jonathan Herrera Seizing the Opportunity in Colorado
- Vladimir Guerrero Is No Mariano Duncan
- Same Masterson, Different Results
- Iannetta Battles the BABIP Gods
- Bartolo Colon Returns To Prominence
- Ethier En Fuego
- Adams Continues To Dominate
- Carlos Santana's Patient Approach
- Fukudome's Oddly Productive Start
- Granderson Turns Power On To Start Season
- Roy Halladay Throwing Tons of Cutters
- Posada Looking Old in the DH Role
- Starlin Castro Shining Bright
- Brewers Extend Ryan Braun
- Vlad Guerrero Stumbling to Start 2011
- MLB Takes Over Dodgers, Expos Fan Nods Sadly
- Crawford Will Be Okay in Boston
And don't forget that these articles are all from the last two weeks. Let me repeat that. All of these articles were published in the last two weeks!
Now, here's a special bonus list! And these are only from the last two weeks as well.
FanGraphs Posts Where Only One Word after the Title Is Needed
- Jason Marquis, Pennant Race Linchpin?
- Are the Indians For Real?
- Could Ike Davis Be Better than We Think?
- An Entirely Different Matt Garza?
- Cameron Maybin: Already Worth It?
- John Danks: Ace?
- Is Jose Bautista the Best Hitter in the AL?
- Is Ryan Braun's Extension Worse Than Howard's?
- Will Brandon Wood Figure Things Out?
Full credit for the idea for this post belongs to "FagGraphs," perhaps Praiseball Bospectus' best commenter.
Update: Apparently, there's been a Twitter account dedicated to this for a little bit! And it's funny. Everyone please go check out FanGraphs As Tweets.


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Virtual Fieldtrips: Connecting students to culture, geography and the world
Ah, the fieldtrip! Brings back memories, doesn't it? Well, actually, the memory I always recall is not entirely a happy one. Sure the zoo was fun, but what I remember most was the bus breaking down, the monkey hitting my friend in the eye with a butterscotch candy and a dark-haired boy promptly throwing up when we walked into the hippo area. It was still fun, though, to get out of school for the day and explore what we were learning hands on. An opportunity for real-life engagement in the learning process. Unfortunately, with budget struggles, time constraints and often just a school's rural location, fieldtrips are few and far between for many schools.
More and more schools, however, as I've written before, are finding ways to take virtual fieldtrips (or VFTs) allowing students to participate in the same live, interactive experience without bus rides, transportation costs and loss of instructional time.
For example, the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC), a clearinghouse of organizations and institutions offering distance classes using Telepresence and other collaboration technologies, helped connect a 9th grade geography class at St. Thomas Aquinas High School (STA) to West Africa this last fall. The students participated in a long-distance interactive lesson on West African dance taught by Marc Kotz, owner of Born 2 Move Movement Adventure in Wisconsin. The class was able to discuss the geography and culture of Africa, and the group proceeded to enthusiastically engage in a "harvest dance" demonstrated by Kotz thousands of miles away.
Other virtual fieldtrip examples include students experiencing careers on and off the football field with the Professional Football Hall of Fame, a video conversation with a student and parent who recently visited the Great Barrier Reef, and even trips to visit with other students like the example of two New Jersey Middle Schools connecting to discuss a book they all read.
Have you been involved in any interesting fieldtrips lately?
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A pair of Robinson R66 turbine helicopters completed a six-week around-the-world flight on Sept. 15, an expedition organized by Moscow-based Robinson dealer Aviamarket.
R66 flying above la manche, during its around-the-world trip. Photo courtesy of Robinson
The company organized the flight in an effort to test the newly Russian type certified R66. The flight took the helicopters from Russia and across Europe before crossing the North Atlantic Ocean heading west over Canada, with a passage through Alaska and finally crossing the North Pacific Ocean to Siberia and back to Moscow. Crossing the Atlantic presented the biggest challenge of the trip, as it featured the longest stretches over water, the longest being 490 miles.
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NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- One-in-6 men don't want to get a skin cancer screening because they are afraid of what they will hear, a U.S. survey indicates.
Former NFL coach Bill Cowher, who is teaming up with several skin cancer organizations and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. on an educational campaign, Melanoma Exposed, said this fear of screening might account for men being almost twice as likely as women to die of melanoma.
The survey also found nearly two-thirds don't see a point in going to a dermatologist unless something is wrong, even while skin cancer incidence rates continue to rise.
The campaign is working with five professional football teams to spread the word about melanoma and bring free skin cancer screenings to the public via free skin cancer screenings at pro football events, the former head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers said.
Last year, these events screened nearly 2,000 people, identifying 26 potential melanomas. This year, the campaign is encouraging men to put their excuses aside and make skin cancer screenings a priority and catch melanoma in its early stages.
"As a former football coach, one of my biggest lessons to my players was about being accountable for their actions. I apply this 'no excuses' attitude to my health as well. There should never be any excuses for not taking the best possible care of your health," Cowher said in a statement. "Getting your skin screened by a dermatologist is quick and easy -- it takes about 10 minutes. Men need to face the truth and learn the facts about melanoma. By not getting screened early and routinely, they are putting themselves at greater risk."
The other groups taking part in putting on the education campaign include the Melanoma International Foundation, the Melanoma Research Alliance, the Melanoma Research Foundation and The Skin Cancer Foundation.


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CORNVILLE — Most days start around 4:20 a.m. for Bill Crumley, principal of Cornville Regional Charter School.
That's what time Crumley, who lives almost 70 miles away in Jackman, wakes up at to arrive at school just after 7 a.m. each morning.
The school, Maine's first charter elementary school, opened in October and is well into the year's routine.
"The newness has worn off and we've been at it for six weeks. We spent the whole first month really trying to familiarize ourselves with the students and assess where they were at so now we're into our real education program," Crumley said.
"It's exciting to be part of something so new and to have so many people excited about the school," said Jodie Mosher-Towle, 48, of Smithfield. Her twin sons, Hansen and Chance Towle, are in the fifth grade.
Many students arrive at school on a bus that the school, which is its own district, has hired. Because some students live far away, the bus has a set route with pickup locations that students have to get to if they don't live on the direct route.
"We live 30 minutes away and I have to drive them every day to the Skowhegan rest center to get the bus, but I don't mind. To me it's worth it," said Mosher-Towle, a stay-at-home mom originally from Skowhegan.
She was a math and science middle school teacher in Colorado and Connecticut before the family moved to Smithfield this year. She said that when her sons were in public school in Connecticut she had to supplement their education with worksheets she made herself, but now she feels they are getting everything they need.
At school in the morning, students have homeroom time and a morning meeting to discuss what will happen that day at school and any issues in the school — something that happened at recess or lunch or student feedback from a workshop the day before.
"I've been learning way more here," said third-grader Wyntyr Herrera, 8. "The first couple weeks were rough for me but now I'm used to it."
Herrera said that at her old school, Madison Elementary School, she was really shy. Now her classmates are begging her to let them have a chance to speak.
"It's smaller and I've gotten to know people more," she said, sitting on a carpet hugging two of her friends on a recent afternoon.
The students come from five school districts in the state, although 42 of the 60 live in Skowhegan-based School Administrative District 54, according to the superintendent's office there.
Ungraded classrooms
Students at Cornville are not separated by age. There is a combined kindergarten to second-grade classroom, a third- and fourth-grade classroom and a fifth- and sixth-grade classroom.
They are taught based on a model called proficiency learning, also known as standards-based education. Each student has a personalized learning plan and they are evaluated based on a four-level scale of how well they've learned a given skill. There are no grades.
Mosher-Towle said she really likes the way the school structures curriculum, which includes field trips and lots of student projects.
"At their old school they brought home the project from the first week of school on the last day of school because it was on the wall all year. Here, every time I go into the classroom the stuff on the walls is different," she said.
A recent unit her sons studied revolved around the book Walk Two Moons, which is about a Native American girl who travels west with her grandparents on a road trip.
"They made masks and headdresses and learned all the Native American tribes of Maine," she said. "I like the idea of reading a book and getting a lot of lessons out of it in all subjects."
Teacher Barbara Averill, who was a special ed teacher in the Farmington school district before joining the charter school, said she likes the curriculum because it adapts better to special needs students.
"I think the charter school does a really good job accommodating individual needs," she said. "It's not a problem if they are third graders working on second-grade work. It ends up being more disruptive to put them in the special ed room."
Averill said it has been challenging getting kids with learning and behavioral disorders to get used to a new school, but the combined classroom also makes it easier for kids with learning disabilities to stay in the classroom.
A long, productive day
After the morning meeting, students have a three-and-a-half hour block of reading, writing and math. They take a break for a snack and 30 minutes of physical fitness outdoors organized by their homeroom teacher. Lately kickball is a favorite.
Lunch is around noon and is followed by a 30-minute recess, a period of free outdoor activity.
"We like to make sure everyone gets their hour of fresh air every day," Crumley said.
"I like that we get a lot of recess and we get to be outside more," said Kanoa Bishop, 9, of Athens, during a forestry lesson on identifying trees by their leaves in the backyard of the school.
After lunch, students study science and social studies for 90 minutes. This may include science lab-type projects such as a recent one when students dissected owl waste. A speaker from The Chewonki Foundation, a wildlife conservation group, also talked about bat conservation.
To finish the day, students have 45 minutes to do an activity that they pick from a variety of options, including yoga, chess, crafts, origami, taekwondo and cooking.
Many are taught by volunteers or parents. Mosher-Towle said she and her mother are going to start teaching a French culture class and that as part of it she is looking at visiting the Franco American Heritage Center in Lewiston.
"It's really easy to get involved," she said. "At a public school there would be too much red tape. Here the students can go on field trips all day and come back at six o'clock. I want my kids to go on those trips that have to do with learning."
"I like having the interest groups everyday," said Bishop. He said that at his old school activities were held only once a week.
The day ends around 3:15 when students return to their homerooms, collect handouts from their teachers, pack their belongings and get on the bus.
It's a long day compared to the six-hour day Crumley said is normal at most public schools in Maine, but he said the structure of the day allows students to do their most intensive studying of the core subjects in the morning, followed by more unstructured activity in the afternoons.
The school has 60 students, a cap set by the state when the charter was granted, but it will expand to 90 next school year and 120, the maximum for the building, the year after that. It will also add two teachers to the staff each year for the next two years and add seventh and eighth grades.
"The state wants us to succeed, so we started small," said Crumley.
A former teacher and principal in the Jackman and Greenville-based school districts, Crumley, who will turn 70 in two weeks, said the charter school idea excited him even after he had been retired for six years.
"It's not one person trying to do something," said Mosher-Towle. "It's a group of people willing to do everything."
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Mercy Killers
As products of the original "punk" movement, the members of Mercy Killers carry the torch with the strength of 10 men. Growing up on bands like The Damned, T.S.O.L., Generation X and The Clash has provided Fairbaugh and Co. with the inspiration needed to create something new and refreshing, all the while keeping in mind the threatening poise and noise of their punk-rock forefathers. It is evident on their debut release that there is true chemistry between the members of this clandestine musical society…
…for this society rewards only the strong and shows mercy only to those deserving. It casts out weakness and cowardice like they were the black plague themselves. It has and will continue to strike its enemies with the sonic force of the atom bomb. And it embraces blood and flame like a mother does her new born baby. Welcome to the brotherhood of the Mercy Killers…
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MERCY: Compassion and forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm.
KILLER: A person, animal or thing that kills.
MERCY KILLERS: Craig Fairbaugh (Vocals/Guitar), Sam Soto (Bass/Vocals) and Colin Barill (Drums)
CRAIG FAIRBAUGH: It didn't take young Fairbaugh long to figure out what his calling in life would be. At a young age, picking up a guitar would set a course that has taken him to almost every corner of the globe, as well as into the company of Barrill and Soto. While on tour playing guitar with Transplants, friend and band-mate Tim Armstrong would tell Fairbaugh of the mysterious Mr. Soto. He described him as someone Fairbaugh should get in contact with. While on tour playing guitar with Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, he would meet Barrill in a smokey rock club in Dublin. Now, on a mission and out for blood, Fairbaugh leads this trio of misanthropes into the dark and sleepless world of Mercy Killing….
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SAM SOTO: Better known to friends (and enemies/victims) as Sampire, this young man would prove to be the sort of company a Mercy Killer would be wise in keeping. Soto was a member of Sluts For Hire, as well as co-founder of the group Original Sinners with Exene Cervenka of X. A Scorpio, he has an undying appreciation for taxidermy and a propensity for the macabre that would give even Vlad the Impaler himself the willies. Tonight, in a fearless attempt at keeping all ends low and all light as quiet as possible, he will prove himself a victor…
COLIN BARRILL: It took our fearless Mercy Killers to the far reaches of Ireland to find their rhythmic foundation. Barrill, a long-time member of punk group 'The Gurriers', was the final piece in forming this trio. Bringing great skill and death-defying stamina from his hometown of Dundalk, this young Irishman would become Fairbaugh and Soto's backbone. The demos that Fairbaugh and Soto recorded to a drum machine would be brought to life in a way that no one could have never expected…


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EATONTON, Ga. – The No. 2 Georgia College & State University golf team stands 10th of 17 teams after two rounds Monday at the Bobcat Invitational, hosted at Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee. Georgia College followed a first-round 300 with a 296 for plus-36 on the Par-70, 6,730-yard course.
Senior Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) is 14th at seven-over (74-73). Classmate Francisco Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and junior Billy Shida (Berkeley Lake, Ga.) are two strokes behind in 23rd, both following first-round 75s by shaving off a single stroke.
Junior Joe Young (Cochran, Ga.) shot a 151 over two rounds (76-75) and is 11-over par in 42nd. Freshman Taylor Smith (Mansfield, Ga.) is 71st with a 158, 18 over par.
Georgia College also put five players as individuals on the course, led by Matthew Yonz (Waycross, Ga.) at plus-12 in 47th (80-72), owning the best turnaround of any Bobcat today. Pat Garrett was 71st, his 81 and 77 putting him 18 over par. Freshman Bernardo Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina) had a pair of 81s in 82nd.
Sophomore Bayley Craig (Eatonton, Ga.) carded a 166 in 88th place, and junior Rich Crumpton (Eatonton, Ga.) was one slot behind with a 170.
The University of West Florida and Lynn University are tied atop the team leaderboard at plus-22 in 582 team strokes. Five behind is Belmont Abbey College in third. The individual leader is BAC's Peter Tarver Jones, putting up a tournament low 68 to go with his first round 71 and is the only golfer under par for the tournament. He holds off the duo of UWF's Otto Bonning and the University of North Alabama's Tyler Ekenberg by three.
The Bobcats hit the links for the final round of action Tuesday, March 23, as Smith tees off at 9:50 a.m. with golfers from UNC Pembroke and Nova Southeastern University.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Science News for Students is an award-winning, free online magazine that reports daily on research and new developments across scientific disciplines for inquiring minds of every age — from middle school on up.
This rewritable paper depends on disappearing ink
Have you ever made a mistake on something you printed from a computer? That paper probably went right into the recycling bin. Now you can erase your mistake and reuse that first sheet of paper. Scientists at Fujian Normal University in Fuzhou, China, coated one side of a regular sheet of printer paper with a heat-sensitive ink. A heated pen or printer makes the ink's blue color disappear, revealing the white paper below. To fix any errors, put the paper in the freezer and the ink will turn blue again. Words and pictures can remain visible on the paper for at least six months. — Alexandra Taylor
Read more: www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/ink
Welcome to the Arctic's all-night undersea party
Light feeds life. To scientists, the high Arctic's months-long darkness would seem like a prescription for ecosystem hibernation. New data instead show that Arctic sea life, such as plankton, whales and fish, remains surprisingly active and mobile during this time, with some creatures timing their movements and eating cycles to the rising and setting of the moon or the northern lights. The challenge: figuring out how to study these creatures without turning on lights. — Bethany Brookshire
Read more: www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/arctic
Bacteria and bugs will save us from the zombie apocalypse
Don't fear the walking dead. An entomologist and forensic archaeologist explain why people have little to fear from zombies. After death, electrical impulses from the brain stop and muscle cells don't get oxygen, which causes the body to stiffen. No muscle movement, no shambling zombie hordes. As the body breaks down, enzymes that are normally stored in cells to process waste start to destroy organ tissue. Bacteria and maggots join the party, slurping up the remaining cells except hair, tendons, skin and bones. So no need to break out the machete or chainsaw. — Bethany Brookshire
Read more: www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/zombie


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The Detroit Pistons have named Jeff Bower the team's general manager.
Bower was the coach at Marist College in New York last season; he resigned that position on Monday.
Bower was previously a general manager and coach with the New Orleans Hornets. He served as general manger from 2001 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2010. He first joined the Hornets in 1995 as a scout. The Hornets made four playoff appearances under his leadership.
Bower began his basketball career as assistant coach at Penn State University from 1983-1986.
"I'm pleased to welcome Jeff Bower to the Detroit Pistons organization," said Stan Van Gundy, Pistons head coach and president of basketball operations, in a statement.
"Jeff brings great basketball knowledge and NBA experience to our organization and he's enjoyed success in building teams. He's a great evaluator of talent and Jeff will bring solid leadership to our front office."
The Pistons hired Van Gundy last month.