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As the mother of a 3-and a-half year old who's just mastered toilet training, I'm not sure what to think of the new iPotty.
Unveiled last week at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the base of the iPotty looks like a regular ol' plastic toilet with removable bowl— but there's an adjustable stand attached, specifically for an iPad. Due out in March, the $40 iPotty is the brainchild of CTA Digital, which already makes a kiddie sized iPad play table.
Everyone's first reaction seems to be that the iPotty feels like a terrible idea, yet another way we're teaching our kids to rely on a constant stream of over-stimulation. Pulling out the iPad for long car rides and flights feels like one thing. But really, an iPad for your baby, in the loo?
As Mari-Jane Williams wrote on the Washington Post's parenting blog:
"They can't spend a couple of minutes in the bathroom without a video or game to keep them company? Do we really want children to grow up thinking that they can and must be engaged and entertained at all times?"
Indeed, the very idea of the iPotty makes Chani Sanchez, a writer and Brooklyn mom to a 7-year old, uncomfortable. "[It's] like the last sacred place— the toilet— has finally succumbed to the noise of the information age," says Sanchez, who doesn't think any of us thrive in a world so full of digital distraction.
Related: TODAY Moms' potty-training advice: Patience, and plenty of Cheerios
For Dina Light-McNeely, a mother with a 4-year old in Dallas, Texas, the bathroom is no place for technology of any kind — especially when toilet training.
"Potty training is a great time to connect with your child," Light-McNeely says. "Why add a barrier to the mix with a piece of technology. What's next, a robot parent?"
On the other hand, some toddlers have a really, really tough time with toilet training — and parents, by extension, need all the help they can get keeping those tiny rear ends on the potty long enough to teach them how to do their business.
As a mother who's spent many an hour on the shower mat, with both legs asleep, reading "Everyone Poops" and "The Gas We Pass," I have to wonder how bad a little iPad or iPhone help could really be.
Dr. Cynthia Mann, a pediatrician in Hamden, Conn, has not seen the iPotty, but she's not a fan of using the iPad or i-anything to keep a toddler seated during potty training. She prefers the old-fashioned approach on the shower mat, reading a few books to your little guy or gal to keep them settled long enough to accomplish the task at hand.
She says the biggest problem doctors in her practice, Whitney Pediatrics, see with young kids and the iPad, or similar interactive electronic devices, is that there's no discrete end or time-limited option.
"When it comes to toddlers, the hardest part of opening an iPad or any piece of equipment like that is turning it off," Dr. Mann explains. "A child is capable of going from one app to another, and it goes on and on."
Because 2- and 3-year olds don't really understand the concept of five or ten minutes, parents can find themselves facing a full-scale meltdown when it's time to close an iPad after the deed is done. Books, she points out, have a clear end point that make it easier for small children to grasp when it's over.
Dr. Mann also reminds parents of the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for children over 2, which limit total screen time to no more than two hours per day of educational, nonviolent programs, supervised by an adult. Toilet training with the iPotty, of course, would count toward that total.
"The big concern with something like the iPotty," says TODAY contributor and psychologist Michele Borba, "is the potential for addiction." Parents everywhere are witnessing the unattractive behavior the iPad and similar technology can unleash in their otherwise sweet toddlers. The danger, according to Borba, is that kids will become dependent on the iPad stimulation, and actually need it to relax to go to the bathroom.
But some child development experts see the iPad or iPod Touch quite differently—as a powerful incentive for kids who need that extra little nudge during the toilet training process. Maria Zimmitti, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in in Washington, D.C. who works with children and their families, and specializes in potty training consulting for parents and toddlers.
"Within the normal bell curve, most kids can sit on the potty perfectly fine," Zimmitti says. "But some children do have a really hard time with it, and it's quite frustrating for them and their parents."
So according to Zimmitti, there's absolutely nothing wrong with using the iPad as a motivator for potty training— the same way a parent might use a piece of chocolate or toy train as a reward for getting through the school day in dry pants.
"I have certainly recommended the iPad for parents as an incentive for their child to sit or go on the potty," she says. "The point is, we want to make them successful and proud of themselves. If the technology works to reward their behavior, there's nothing wrong with using it."
Of course, the secret to using the iPad successfully, she reminds parents, is that, like anything else, you need to set firm boundaries, and you need to stick to your rules.
There was nothing like an iPotty on the market last year, when Amy Pawlak, a mother of two toddlers in Barnard, Vermont, toilet trained her 3-and-half year old son, Sam. But she could see the usefulness of one.
"We used many incentives and forms of entertainment to lure Sam to sit and stay on the potty, including books, lollipops, and toy cars," says Pawlak, a registered nurse.
At one point, she placed a portable DVD player on a stool in the bathroom for him to watch while he waited on the potty.
"The DVD distraction definitely helped him become more comfortable sitting on the toilet," she says. "In my desperation to have one less child in diapers, I definitely would have purchased the iPotty or anything of the like that offered us hope."


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Hours of Operation
Lunchtime is taken very seriously throughout Portugal. Many businesses, particularly outside urban areas, close between 1 and 3 and then reopen for business until 6 or 7. Government offices are typically open 9–noon and 2–5. It's worth noting religious and public holidays, as most businesses grind to a halt, and even the local transport service may be reduced. Also, if the holiday falls on a weekend, then typically a Friday or Monday will also be a holiday.
Banks are open weekdays 8:30–3, with some branches open Saturday. Money exchange booths at airports and train stations are usually open all day (24 hours at Portela Airport in Lisbon).
Most gas stations on main highways are open 24 hours. In more rural areas, stations are open 7 am–10 pm. Note that gas stations can seem few and far between away from the towns and cities, so if you are planning to explore in the hinterland, always start out with a full tank of gas.
Museums and palaces generally open at 10 and close at 5 or 6, though some stay open into the evening; a few still close for lunch from 12:30 to 2. The 23 sites of the nationwide Directorate General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC) are closed Easter Sunday, May 1, December 24 and 25, January 1, and municipal holidays.
Pharmacies are usually open weekdays 9–1 and 3–7, and sometimes Saturday 9–1; 24-hour pharmacies operate in shifts; timetables of 24-hour pharmacies will be posted on the door.
Most shops are open weekdays 9–1 and 3–7, and Saturday 9–1. In December, Saturday hours are the same as weekdays. Shops often close Sunday. Hipermercados (giant supermarkets), supermercados (regular supermarkets), and shopping centers are typically open seven days a week from 10 am to midnight. In the seaside resorts of the Algarve, many shops, including souvenir shops and supermarkets, open all day between May and September.
New Year's Day (January 1); Mardi Gras (better known as Carnaval, held during the last few days before Lent); Good Friday; Easter Sunday; Liberty Day (April 25); Labor Day (May 1); Corpo de Deus (varies late May–early June); Camões Day (June 10); Assumption (August 15); Republic Day (October 5); All Saints' Day (November 1); Independence Day (December 1); Immaculate Conception (December 8); Christmas Day (December 25).
If a national holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, many businesses also close on the Monday or Friday in between, for a long weekend called a ponte (bridge). There are also local holidays when entire towns, cities, and regions grind to a standstill. Check the nearest tourist office for dates.

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Detail from "The Effects of Good Government in the Countryside" by
Ambrogio Lorenzetti,c.1338-40
Illustration from a Book of Poetry by Christine de Pisan,14th c. French School
Hunt with Hawks from the "Hours of Duke de Berry",1412-16
Hunt with Hawks from the "Hours of Duke de Berry",det.
Livre d'heures de Marguerite d'Orléans,deer hunt c. 1430
Queen Helena and her entourage during the ride to the shrine of Venus by
Martinus Opifex,1st half of 15th c.
Garden of Love at the Court of Philippe III le Bon, duc de Bourgogne,c. 1450
Garden of Love at the Court of Philippe III le Bon, duc de Bourgogne,det.
Horsewoman of Diamonds from the Visconti tarot deck by Bonifacio Bembo,c.1450
Horsewoman of Clubs from the Visconti tarot deck by Bonifacio Bembo,c.1450
Horsewoman of Spades from the Visconti tarot deck by Bonifacio Bembo,c.1450
La Fleur des Histoires by Jean Mansel,1450-80
Lady hunting with hawks,mid 15th. c.
Lady on horseback,mid. 15th. c.
Lady on horseback,mid. 15th. c.
Penthesilea as one of the Nine Female Worthies,1460-70
Venus and her children, the Wolfegg Housebook, c. 1475-1485
Venus and her children, the Wolfegg Housebook,det.
Saint Helena & Heraclius taking the Holy Cross to Jerusalem by Miguel Ximenes,1481
"Scènes de l'histoire de Busant",1480-90
Society on Horseback by Albrecht Durer,1490s
Society on Horseback,det.
A Couple on Horseback by Durer,1459
The Month of May from the Breviarium Grimani by Gerard Horenbout,
Alexander & Simon Bening c. 1510
The Month of May,det.
Noble woman at Horses and Lansquenet by Albrecht Durer,est. 1510-20
Otto, comte de Nassau and his spouse Adelheid van Vianen by Berend van Orley,c. 1530
Johan IV van Nassau and His Wife Maria van Loon by Barend van Orley,c.1530
Le Comte Engelbert I de Nassau et son épouse Jeanne de Polanen by Barend van Orley,c. 1530
Mencía de Mendoza and Enrique de Nassau on Horseback by Bernard van Orley,1530
A Drawing of a Horsewoman by Beham Hans Sebald,16th c.
Esther and Assuerus on Horseback,16th c. tapestry
The Hunt of Maximilian or the Hunts of Guise by Berand van Orley,16th c.
The Hunt of Maximilian or the Hunts of Guise,det
The Hunt of Maximilian or the Hunts of Guise,det.
A Noble Lady on Horseback,16th c. tapestry
Fete at Bermondsey by Joris Hoefnagel ,c. 1569
Fete at Bermondsey,det.
Deer Hunt,late 16th c.
A Portrait of an Unidentified Queen of Denmark,c. 1600
Marie de Medici on Horseback,French School 1620-30
L'Air or Autumn by Claude Deruet,det.
L'Air or Autumn by Claude Deruet,det.
Madame Saint-Baslemont by Claude Deruet,1630s
Margaret of Austria,Queen of Spain by Diego Velasquez,1634-35
Elisabeth of France,Queen of Spain by Diego Velasquez,1635-36
Cecilia Renata of Austria,Queen of Poland by Willem Hondius after Peeter de Rij,1641
Cecilia Renata of Austria,Queen of Poland,1843 engraving after the above image
Anne of Austria,Queen of France,attr. to Jean de Saint-Igny,1648
Anne of Austria on Horseback,1640-50
A Couple on Horseback by Gonzales Coques,1640-50
Couple on Horseback by Coques,1640-50
Couple on a Hunt by Aelbert Cuyp,1650s
Christina of Sweden on Horseback by Sebastien Bourdon,1653
View of the Chateau de Vincennes with Louis XIV and Marie Therese with their Court by
Frans van der Maulen,1669
View of the Palace of Fontainebleau with Louis XIV and Ladies by Frans van der Maulen,c.1669
View of the Palace of Fontainebleau,det.
Marie Therese of Spain,Queen of France on Horse,c. 1670s
Elizabeth Charlotte de Palatine,Duchesse de Orleans,1670s
Equestrian portrait of Marie Louise d'Orléans,Queen of Spain by Francisco Rizi,1679
Marie Anne,Princess of Conti by Bonnart,1683
Elizabeth Charlotte de Palatine,Duchesse de Orleans,1680s
Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchesse du Maine,c.1690
Anne Marie de Orleans,Duchess of Savoy,c.1700
Adelaide of Savoy,Dauphine de France by Pierre-Denis Martin,c. 1700-10
Adelaide of Savoy,Dauphine de France,det.
Marie-Louise Elizabeth,Duchesse de Berry,1710
Elizabeth Cahrlotte d'Orleans,Duchesse de Lorraine by Jean-Baptiste Martin,c.1710-15
Elizabeth Cahrlotte d'Orleans,Duchesse de Lorraine,det.
Lady on Horseback,c.1720
Marie Leszcynska on Horseback by Jean-Baptiste Martin,1725
Empress Elisabeth of Russia on a Hunt by Valentin Serov
Sir George Hampton and Family by Stephen Slaughter,c.1738
Elisabeth I of Russia by Georg Christoph Grooth,1743
Catherine the Great of Russia while Grand Duchess by Grooth,c.1744
Lady Mary Churchill at the Death of the Hare by John Wootton,1748
Equestrian portrait of Catherine the Great of Russia after Grooth,c.1750
The Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt by George Stubbs c.1760
Equestrian portrait of Catherine the Great by Virgilius Ericksen,1762
The Drummond Family by Johan Zoffany,c. 1769
Mr and Mrs Thomas Coltman by Joseph Wright of Derby,1770-72
John and Sophia Musters riding at Colwick Hall by George Stubbs,1777
Meeting in the Woods of Boulogne by Jean-Michel Moreau,1776
Portrait of Marie Antoinette in hunting attire by Louis Auguste Brun de Versoix,1781-82
Equestrian portrait of María Teresa de Vallabriga by Francisco de Goya,1783
Lady on Horseback by Jose Campeche,1785
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange by Tethart Phillipp Christian Haag,1789
Laetitia, Lady Lade on Horseback by George Stubbs,1793
Maria Louisa of Parma,Queen of Spain by Goya,1799
Equestrian portrait of Catherine of Wurtemberg by Antoine-Jean Gros 1810-20
An Amazon by Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin,1820-30
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Establishing paternity for children born outside of marriage gives children the same legal rights as children born to married parents. Children with legal fathers may have rights to benefits through their fathers such as:
Parents can voluntarily sign a Recognition of Parentage. Signing and properly filing the Recognition of Parentage form establishes the father and child relationship. If parents are not sure, they can have genetic testing done. Isanti County generally uses a DNA test done by swabbing the inside of the cheek to collect cells. The swabs are sent to an outside lab for testing. Another way to establish paternity is to have a court order adjudication.
Isanti County will establish an order for support if you don't already have one. We gather information about both parties and draft a proposed order that is served on both parties. If either party objects to the proposal, they can request a hearing where a judge will make the determination. If the parties do not object to the county's proposal, it will go to a judge for signature. After the judge signs the order, it gets filed with the Court Administrator's office and sent to both parties.
Most orders for support will order payments to be made via income withholding. The county will send notice to the payer's employer to withhold support and send it to the Minnesota Child Support Payment Center. If there is no employer, the payer is obligated to make the payments to the Minnesota Child Support Payment Center. The Minnesota Child Support Payment Center disburses the payments to the custodial parent.
You can get payment information by calling the Interactive Voice Response Line at 800-657-3512 outside the metro area, or 651-215-5630 in the metro area. You will need to know your MCI number and your personal identification number (PIN) to use the IVR Line. You can obtain those numbers from your local child support office. You can also access payment information through the Minnesota Child Support online system.
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Either party can request a review of their court order at any time, if they feel the order is no longer reasonable. An order would be unreasonable if either party's income changes, or the cost of medical/dental coverage changes, or child care costs have changed. To request a review, send in a written statement, stating the reasons you believe the order should be reviewed, to your local child support agency. You also have the option to request a modification through the courts. To make your own motion, you can obtain the documents from the Court Administrator's Office or online at the Minnesota Courts website.
Most orders will indicate the effective date in the order, but if there is no language to say when it is effective, we will start the charging on the first of the month following the date the judge signed the order.
The County Attorney and the Child Support Office do not represent either party in court. They represent the interest of the County and State to obtain a fair and just court order.
If one of the parties resides in a different state, we can start an interstate action asking the other state to establish or enforce the court order.
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U.S. Kids Exposed to 4 Hours of Background TV Daily: Study
Excessive exposure hinders ability to learn, doctors warn
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Younger kids, black children and the poor grow up with even more hours of background TV -- where the television is on but no one is watching or someone else in the home is viewing.
"I was floored with the amount of exposure we found," said study author Deborah Linebarger, associate professor of education at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Prior research has found that background TV (as opposed to actual TV viewing) appears to impede social skills, impulse control, and the ability to concentrate, focus and complete tasks.
"We think the problem may come from the sound effects, the changes in dialogue and voice pitch, which as a whole constantly recruits a kid's attention and causes them to shift back and forth between their play task and the TV," Linebarger said. "And that constant shifting makes it more difficult to learn how to concentrate and attend appropriately."
For the study, which was published online Oct. 1 in the journal Pediatrics, Linebarger and colleagues surveyed nearly 1,500 parents and caregivers of children between 8 months and 8 years of age in 2009.
The authors cite estimates suggesting the average American child engages in direct TV watching about 80 minutes per day from birth until age 6. Concerns about how such "foreground" exposure might hamper development have primarily centered on the potential long-term impact of violent and sexually explicit programming.
By contrast, concerns about background TV exposure have focused less on content and more on the overall distraction factor, with the idea being that background TV may threaten a child's ability to stay attentive and execute non-TV-viewing activities.
The survey participants were asked to keep a one-day diary regarding their child's background-TV exposure. They also were asked how many TVs they owned, how many were in a bedroom and how often a TV typically was on.
The result: For every minute of direct foreground TV viewing, children were exposed to roughly three minutes of indirect background TV, with the latter amounting to about 232 minutes per day on average.
Babies under 2 years old were the most exposed to background TV, at a rate of 5.5 hours per day, with exposure declining as children aged. Kids between 6 and 8 years old experienced a little less than three hours of exposure.
Kids in households living below the poverty line clocked in at about six hours per day, said Linebarger. Those in single-parent homes experienced more than five hours of exposure, versus less than four hours among those in two-parent homes.
The team also found that black children faced higher exposure levels than those in white households: 5.5 hours versus 3.5 hours.
Children with televisions in their bedrooms also logged more background TV exposure.
"What we have suggested is to watch with a purpose," Linebarger said. "Turn on a TV to watch a specific show and then turn it off when it's done. Don't have the TV on when you're eating or sleeping. And just try to be aware how much you have it on. It's challenging, but just being more mindful or conscious of when it's on can make a difference in your child's development."
David Bickham, a research scientist at the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital, seconded Linebarger's suggestions.
"TV is still a big presence in the American family, and there is pretty substantial data that shows that the presence of a TV can interfere with a child's play sessions," he said. "And four hours of background TV exposure a day is an awful lot. Over time, that certainly has the potential to have a long-term impact on children's learning skills and attention skills."
Bickham, who is also an instructor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, agreed that the TV should be off when no one is watching.
"That's not telling people not to watch at all," he said. "Just that we should be intentional viewers when we do."
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Phoenix –The Maricopa County Small Business Relief Program is entering a new phase, one that will enable more local businesses and non-profits (501(c)3) to get reimbursed for financial losses incurred during the pandemic.
"More than 300 businesses and non-profits received grants during phase one of the program in July," said Board of Supervisors Chairman Clint Hickman, District 4. "Now we want to open up this financial assistance to more organizations that have suffered financial losses during the pandemic because the success of our small business community is crucial to a full economic recovery."
The Board of Supervisors allocated $23 million in federal CARES Act funding for small business assistance. Approximately $2.4 million has been dispersed to date through the Small Business Relief Program. Starting on August 17, applications will be accepted for an expanded version of the program. Changes include:
Maricopa County is once again partnering with the Arizona Community Foundation to administer the program. Grants will be provided on a rolling, first come, first served basis until funding is exhausted or the grant period closes. Applications will be accepted from August 17 through October 2, 2020.
The grants will be open to businesses and non-profits across Maricopa County, except those in the cities of Phoenix and Mesa, since those cities also received significant CARES Act money and are operating similar programs.
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Observe the 2012 Venus transit!
June 5 brings the last Venus transit until 2117, when Venus will pass across the face of the sun -- the second of the only two Venus transits any of us will see in our lives. (The first, pictured in this lovely image from Bill Arnett, was in 2004, visible on the east coast of the US but not visible here in California.)
Venus is just a small spot against the vastness of the sun -- the skies won't dim like in an eclipse, and you need equipment to see it. So why should a non-astronomer care?
Mostly because it's so rare. Venus transits happen in pairs with more than a century between successive pairs: the last transit before 2004 was in 1882, and the next one after this week's won't happen until 2117. The entire 20th century passed without a single Venus transit.
They're historically interesting, too. It was in 1663 that Scottish mathematician James Gregory proposed that you could calculate the distance to the Sun by measuring a Venus transit, by observing at many different places on earth and measuring parallax. Edmund Halley (of Halley's Comet fame) tried this method during the Mercury transit of 1676, but since Mercury is so much closer to the sun and farther from us, the results weren't good enough. Unfortunately, Halley died in 1742, too early for the Venus transit of 1761.
But lots of other astronomers were ready, mounting expeditions that year to
Siberia, Norway, Newfoundland and Madagascar (some of these expeditions
were major adventures, and several books have been written about them).
They followed up in 1769 with expeditions to Hudson Bay, Baja
California, Norway, St Petersburg, Philadelphia...
and the first voyage of Captain Cook to Tahiti, where they
observed the transit at a location that's still called "Point Venus" today.
How to see the transit
First, if you don't have a telescope of your own, don't despair -- head to your local astronomy club. Here in the bay area there are dozens of clubs, and just about all of them have public star parties planned for the Venus transit. There are events planned at local science museums, planetaria and schools as well. A few bay area links: San Jose Astronomical Association, Peninsula Astronomical Society, San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers, San Francisco Amateur Astronomers, or any of the others on the AANC's list of Amateur Astronomy Clubs in Northern California or the SF Chronicle's list of astronomy clubs. And the Hubble Space Telescope will be watching the transit by looking at light reflected off the moon.
But suppose you're viewing it on your own?
Of course, this being a solar event, you can't look at it directly -- you need a filter or other apparatus. No need for a fancy H-alpha filter -- a white light solar filter is fine, the kind that covers the aperture of the telescope. (Don't use the kind that screw into the eyepiece! They can overheat and crack while you're looking through them.)
You don't need a big telescope. I used an Orion solar filter on my little 80mm f/7 refractor for the last Mercury transit and it worked great. And Venus is much larger than Mercury, at about 50 arcseconds versus Mercury's 12 (the sun is half a degree, or 30 arcminutes). So if you've seen a Mercury transit, you can imagine how much easier and more spectacular a Venus transit can be.
If you use binoculars, either make sure that you have solar filters for both sides, or keep one side covered at all times. If your telescope has a finderscope, keep it covered.
If you can't find a solar filter in time for the transit, you can set up your telescope to project the sun's image onto a white board or sheet of paper. (This is how Jeremiah Horrocks made the first known Venus transit observation.)
Use a cheap, low powered eyepiece for this:
the eyepiece will get hot, and you don't want to risk damaging a
fancy eyepiece. Be careful with solar projection -- make sure nobody
nearby can walk between the telescope and the surface you're using as
a projection screen, or place their hands or eyes in the light path.
A web search for solar projection
will uncover other tips.
You can project the sun's image with binoculars, too, so don't feel left out if you don't have a telescope. You'll definitely want a tripod mount. I tried binocular projection during last month's annular eclipse, and found it very fiddly to hold the binoculars just right. Don't count on being able to hold them steady while also looking for Venus on the projected image. If you don't have a tripod adapter (try Orion), cobble something together with duct tape and a block of wood, or whatever you have handy.
And do try to get a good white surface to project onto. Concrete worked well enough for the solar eclipse, but you'll want better resolution for Venus.
When does this all happen?
Seen from the bay area, Venus begins its ingress onto the disc of the sun on 3:06 PDT on the afternoon of June 5. The transit continues until after the sun sets at 8:26. So we won't get to see egress. Venus's exit from the face of the sun, but it's the mirror image of what we'll see at ingress.
Ingress has two parts: first contact, when the edge of Venus's disk first touches the outside of the sun's disk, and "internal ingress" or second contact, when Venus's disk is fully inside that of the sun. Second contact is the most interesting period of the transit, since it's when the "black drop effect" occurs.
And if you have a good telescope and filter and you're blessed with especially good seeing around the time of second contact, try looking for the aureole, an arc of light just outside of the solar disk made by the refraction of sunlight through Venus's atmosphere. Amazingly, the aureole has the same surface brightness as the sun's surface, and is said to be possible to see even through a solar filter. That's something you'll never see in a Mercury transit! (Follow the link on the image to see Lorenzo Comolli's amazing aureole photo in more detail, along with other great aureole images courtesy of the VT-2004 programme.)
Here's the time table for the bay area (from the table on NASA's eclipse website):
First contact: | 3:06:20 |
Internal ingress: | 3:23:56 |
Maximum transit: | 6:25:30 |
Sunset: | 8:26 |
At first contact, the sun will still be high for bay area observers, 60° up. By maximum transit the pair will have sunk to 21°, still plenty high enough to see the spectacle. Photographers will want to wait around for sunset for a chance at some spectacular photos, like the Bill Arnett photo at the top of this article, taken from Chicago.
Want more details or times from other locations? transitofvenus.org has plenty of links, as does Everything you need to know about next week's Transit of Venus.
Stay safe, and enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime event!
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It has been proven that smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors save lives. Massachusetts law requires that all residences be equipped with working smoke and CO detectors to alert occupants of fire or the presence of carbon monoxide. It is important that these detectors are maintained and replaced when necessary. Proper placement can make these detectors more effective. A fire prevention officer from the Gardner Fire Department would be glad to offer advice on how to keep your family safe.
Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Inspections
Massachusetts law requires that upon sale or transfer, all homes must be inspected for compliance with the smoke and carbon monoxide laws, and issued a certificate of compliance. It is the seller's responsibility to ensure that the property is in compliance. Before scheduling a smoke detector compliance inspection, you must either pay the fee online by electronic check or credit card, or at the Fire Department with a check or cash.For current requirements please visit the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services.
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After paying for your inspection, call (978) 632-1616 and select option 1 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and ask to schedule a smoke/CO inspection.
After a successful inspection for smoke detector compliance, the local fire department will issue a Certificate of Compliance indicating that the residence meets the smoke detector requirements.
Carbon Monoxide Detector Specifications for Homeowners
Before purchasing new detectors, be sure that you are buying the type and number that are required for your residence. Massachusetts requires both carbon monoxide detectors and PHOTOELECTRIC smoke detectors. As of December 1, 2016, any new battery powered smoke detector must have a 10 year sealed battery. Battery powered alarms that detect both CO and smoke must use a synthesized voice to alert occupants, and must have a "hush" button that silences the alarm. All smoke and CO detectors, battery or hard wired, must be UL listed; many detectors sold on the internet are not UL listed. The type and location of detectors is dependent on when your home was built or when the last substantial renovation was done. To avoid purchasing the wrong type, we recommend speaking to a fire prevention officer before the actual inspection. We recommend that you save any packaging and receipts from purchased alarms until after the inspection.
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The Internet can get pretty overwhelming sometimes. If you're like me, there are days when it feels like you can't stay on top of the endless stream of media. It seems impossible to discover the best content in all that noise.
But today offers a rare opportunity to slow down. It's a chance to reflect on 2012's biggest news events and see some of the best first-person stories, photos and videos that came out of those moments. We're revealing the 3rd Annual iReport Awards nominees – 36 examples of citizen journalism at its finest.
The nominated stories paint an intimate portrait of the topics and events that dominated the news cycle last year. A 10-year-old boy describes what it's like to live with autism. Beautiful photographs capture the sense of wonder among a crowd watching a Mars Curiosity rover broadcast. A personal essay recounts the horror of escaping the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater where a mass shooting took place.
Journalism has been forever changed – I'd argue for the better – thanks to the fact that people can interact with media organizations and share their opinions, personal stories, and photos and videos of news as it happens. This year's nominated iReports are prime examples of how participatory storytelling can positively affect the way we cover and understand the news.
People around the world posted more than 100,000 stories on CNNiReport.com last year. Out of that, 10,789 were vetted for CNN, which means they were fact-checked and approved to be broadcast on CNN TV or featured on CNN.com. And over the past few months, the iReport team and a panel of CNN producers sorted through all those stories to select 36 nominees in six categories: Breaking News, Original Reporting, Compelling Imagery, Personal Story, Commentary and, new this year, In-depth Storytelling.
Finding and curating notable stories is an essential component of iReport's success. The contributions we approve on a daily basis are backed by CNN reporting, and we love nothing more than helping those stories reach an even wider audience. The iReport Awards – now in their third year – give us a chance to celebrate those extraordinary efforts of the citizen journalists who produced them.
This year, for the first time ever, we'll also honor examples of standout citizen journalism and participatory storytelling that happened outside of iReport in a special section we're calling Excellence on the Web. Those honorees will be revealed along with the iReport Award recipients on May 14.
Just as notable as the stories themselves, though, are the people behind them. While some of the nominees are aspiring journalists or filmmakers, many are regular people who simply felt compelled to share their stories with the world.
They include Adele Raemer, an English teacher living along the Gaza Strip, who shared her feelings of fear and frustration after rocket attacks between the Palestinian territories and Israel ended a cease-fire. Her first-person take on the conflict offers more emotion than any news report could.
And when the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings left people all over the U.S. and world struggling to find words to cope with the tragedy, Richard Huffman reacted through action instead. The retired police officer cut up his National Rifle Association membership card on camera, in a simple yet powerful protest.
These are just a few of the incredible iReporters nominated in the 3rd Annual Awards. I'm proud to note that this year's nominees represent some of the highest-quality stories we've honored yet, and I look forward to continuing the tradition of celebrating standout citizen journalism in years to come.
I hope you'll take time today to explore the nominated stories. Enjoy the break from the Internet craziness – I promise it will still be there when you return.
How can you participate? Good question. Go check out the nominees, and make your pick for the Community Choice Award.


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In a study to be presented on Feb. 6 at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in New Orleans, researchers will report that noninvasive prenatal testing detected 83.2 percent of chromosomal abnormalities normally picked up by invasive diagnostic testing strategies, such as chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis. Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) using cell free DNA provides accurate screening for the common trisomies, including trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome), 18 (Edwards syndrome), and 21 (Down syndrome).
In this study, titled Rare Chromosome Abnormalities Detected by Current Prenatal Screening Compared to Expected Performance using Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT), 68,990 of 1,324,607 women tested positive for trisomy 18 or 21 when they underwent prenatal screening as part of the California Prenatal Screening Program between March 2009 and December 2012. Invasive diagnostic testing with CVS or amniocentesis was performed on 26,059 women who tested positive, and 2993 were found to have abnormal results. Of those chromosomal abnormalities, 2489 (83.2 percent) were abnormalities that would be detectable with NIPT, while 16.8 percent were less common aneuploidies that would not be detected.
One of the study's authors Mary Norton, M.D., said that more of the abnormal results were detectable in the women over 40, who are at higher risk for trisomy 13, 18 or 21. Conversely, fewer of the abnormalities in younger women would be detected by NIPT, as the risk for common trisomies is lower in this group, while the rare aneuploidies are not typically associated with maternal age.
"While noninvasive prenatal testing with cell free DNA presents some real advantages in accuracy of screening for Down syndrome, as with everything there is a trade-off. Traditional aneuploidy screening with serum and ultrasound markers has higher false positive rates, but in these false positive cases are some fetuses with significant abnormalities that would not be found with NIPT. It is very important that patients and providers understand this trade-off," said Norton, professor and vice chair for Clinical and Translational Genetics, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
"In prenatal genetic testing, patient preferences are really the most important driver," Norton continued. "With this test, the patient makes a tradeoff between NIPT, which is noninvasive and detects most, but not all chromosome abnormalities -- and is somewhat better in older women -- and amniocentesis or CVS, which detect more chromosome abnormalities [8 to 25 percent more, depending on age] but with a small risk of miscarriage due to the procedure.
For an older woman, detecting 83 percent with the noninvasive test may be good enough, while for a 25-year-old, failing to detect 25 percent [which may include rare aneuploidies not usually associated with age] may be of concern."
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Oklahoma Jobless Rate Climbs
KSCB News - November 21, 2012 8:13 am
Oklahoma's unemployment rate edged up to 5.3 percent in October – but the state still has one of the lowest rates in the country.
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission says the unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point from September's rate of 5.2 percent.
The agency says that Oklahoma added 1,300 nonfarm jobs in October despite losses in six of the state's 11 industry sectors. Professional and business services added 2,300 jobs while leisure and hospitality added 2,200 jobs.
The biggest losses came from construction, which decreased by 1,300 jobs, and educational and health services, which lost 700 jobs.
The national unemployment rate is 7.9 percent. Oklahoma's rate of 5.3 percent is the seventh-lowest in the country.