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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Near Boston, Preparing (or Panicking) for the Storm
Yahoo! News is gathering brief first-person accounts, photos and video from the severe winter weather in the northeastern United States. Here's one resident's story.
FIRST PERSON | Not all nor'easters are winter storms, but those that are often leave a lasting set of memories in native New Englanders. The current storm promises to be one, too. Two large storm systems combined to form what newscasters in the area are calling a "superstorm" -- and some are saying that amounts close to three feet of snow are possible, if not probable.
Some take it in stride; they'll ensure they've got necessities enough to ride out a few days of possible immobility and power loss. Others take it in a state of semi-panic; they'll wait until the last minute, then line up for gasoline or raid local supermarkets and convenience stores for anything they think they'll need. Milk, bread and water go first. Simple foodstuffs that don't require cooking generally follow -- breads, in particular.
And anything from rock salt to windshield washer fluid, fire starters to shovels, boots and gloves to flashlights and batteries.
My wife and I are more in the former than the latter category, so only had a few small errands to do. This morning, before the snow began, we re-topped a gas tank and tossed a tow rope, shovel, some cat litter and chemical lightsticks into the Jeep, and went out to get some food at a local pizzeria (Unchained Pizza, on Adams St. in Quincy). There's already more than an inch of wet snow on the ground.
We've walked the dog, and are now hunkering down to watch the storm roll in from our quiet corner of Milton, Mass.
If we need to go out, we know that there's a 7-Eleven up the street (Adams Street in Quincy, run by Dennis Lane) that will probably be open and accessible.
Regardless of the type of storm routine, nearly everyone will be off the roads at 4 p.m. -- governor's orders.
Stay safe, everyone.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/near-boston-preparing-panicking-storm-233700530.html
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New Guidance Will Enhance Sports Opportunities for Students with ...
Students with disabilities have reason to celebrate as they gain some headway in their fight for better, health, and greater participation in school activities. The Inclusive Fitness Coalition (IFC) and student athletes with disabilities all over the country today applauded guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Education?s Office of Civil Rights (OCR). The guidance clarifies schools? responsibilities under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehab Act) to provide athletic opportunities for students with disabilities.
The 2013 Dear Colleague Letter requires a holistic approach by schools seeking to comply with the Rehab Act and ensures that schools look broadly and proactively to include students with disabilities in athletic programs in order to satisfy their civil rights obligations to provide equal educational opportunities. The policies apply to all levels of education including both interscholastic and intercollegiate athletic opportunities.
The benefits of providing all students opportunities for exercise and sports participation go beyond justice and individual opportunity.
?Inclusion in athletics is how children learn from each other, build social skills and optimize their growth and development. The OCR guidance is a clear indication that athletics is an extremely important part of our educational system and that youth and young adults with disabilities must be afforded the same opportunities as their non-disabled peers,? said James Rimmer, Ph.D., who co-chairs the Inclusive Fitness Coalition and directs the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability. ?This should be part of a national strategy to lower obesity rates, which are disproportionately higher among youth with disabilities compared to their non-disabled peers.?
GAO study called for guidance
The guidance followed a 2010 study from the Government Accountability Office that found that students with disabilities receive fewer opportunities for physical activity and sports participation than students without disabilities. To help close the gap, the GAO called on the Department of Education to provide resources to assist states and schools in serving students with disabilities in physical activity settings. The GAO report also called for clarification of schools? responsibilities to provide athletic opportunities for students under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The Inclusive Fitness Coalition called for the GAO study, working with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and George Miller (D-CA).
Advocates Invoke Title IX
?OCR?s guidance is a landmark moment for individuals with disabilities, as it sends a loud message to educational institutions that students with disabilities must be provided opportunities for physical activity and sports equal to those afforded to students without disabilities,? said Terri Lakowski, policy chair of the Inclusive Fitness Coalition and nationally recognized sports policy advocate.
Lakowski, who has been a champion of equal physical activity and sports opportunities for women and girls under Title IX as well as students with disabilities for over ten years, added, ?We applaud OCR for its leadership and action, which we hope will pave the way for students with disabilities in sports the same way that Title IX has done for women.?
James R. Whitehead, CEO of the American College of Sports Medicine and co-chair of the Inclusive Fitness Coalition, said, ?Athletes with physical disabilities shone on the world stage at the Paralympic Games in London. These important steps taken to provide further guidance will help ensure that tomorrow?s world-class athletes find their way to sports in schools across our country like never before. The benefit of sport transcends that world stage; these athletes demonstrate that regular physical activity can have a positive impact on so many aspects of a young person?s life.?
This guidance opens the door for the vast expansion of opportunities for students with disabilities to participate in sports and physical activity programs in all levels of education. Beverly Vaughn, Executive Director of the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, who has developed and implemented a school-based model for disability sport says, ?We are ready and eager to work with schools across the country and show them that integrating students with disabilities into school athletic programs is not only feasible, but will greatly enrich the overall athletic experience for all students.
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world.?With more than?45,000?members and?certified professionals worldwide, ACSM is dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine. Contact ACSM at www.acsm.org.
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Friday, February 8, 2013
New map pinpoints cities to avoid as sea levels rise
See our interactive map of regional sea-level rises
SYDNEY, Tokyo and Buenos Aires watch out. These cities will experience some of the greatest sea level rises by 2100, according to one of the most comprehensive predictions to date.
Sea levels have been rising for over 100 years - not evenly, though. Several processes are at work, says Mah? Perrette of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Some land is sinking, some is rising. Stronger currents create slopes in sea surface, and since all things with mass exert a gravitation pull, disappearing ice sheets lead to a fall in sea levels in their surrounding areas.
Perrette has modelled all of these effects and calculated local sea level rises in 2100 for the entire planet. While the global average rise is predicted to be between 30 and 106 centimetres, he says tropical seas will rise 10 or 20 per cent more, while polar seas will see a below-average rise. Coasts around the Indian Ocean will be hard hit, as will Japan, south-east Australia and Argentina (Earth System Dynamics, doi.org/kbf).
New York's position may be less perilous than previously thought. A weakening of the Atlantic Gulf Stream will cause water to slop westwards, triggering a rapid rise on the eastern seaboard, but this will be counteracted by Greenland's weaker gravitational pull. The city is not out of the woods, though, warns Aim?e Slangen of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, whose own model suggests that Antarctica could lose a lot of ice, which would produce an above-average rise throughout the northern hemisphere.
For now, Perrette offers a warning to tropical countries. "You may have 120 centimetres of sea level rise on your coastline," he says. "Build defences."
This article appeared in print under the headline "Where not to be when seas rise up to meet us"
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Adonit shows off the new Jot Touch stylus at Macworld|iWorld 2013
Adonit was one of the first to launch a pressure sensitive Bluetooth stylus for the iPad back in July of last year. That original Jot Touch had quite a lot to like about it, including Adonit's trademark mechanical pencil-style construction and clear capacitive disk, but the new one takes it to the next level. Raphael Gomez of Adonit gave us the story at Macworld|iWorld 2013.
Gomex explained that the updated Jot Touch now includes palm rejection made possible by direct communication between the stylus and the app being used. Adonit has also bumped up the pressure sensitivity from 256 to 2048 levels, allowing for smoother, more natural transitions between thin and think points on lines and curves.
Now it's still not a digitizer like the the Wacom or the Galaxy Note, as the technology remains in the pen and not in the screen, but the different approach is starting to get similar results.
And thanks to Bluetooth 4.0, it's ultra-low power, and ultra-fast connecting.
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150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth, no need to duck
This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. The 150-foot object will pass within 17,000 miles of the Earth. NASA scientists insist there is absolutely no chance of a collision as it passes. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech)
This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. The 150-foot object will pass within 17,000 miles of the Earth. NASA scientists insist there is absolutely no chance of a collision as it passes. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Graphic shows details of a Feb. 15 asteroid that will come close to Earth.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? A 150-foot-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size.
But don't worry. Scientists promise the megarock will be at least 17,100 miles away when it zips past next Friday.
"No Earth impact is possible," Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said Thursday.
Even the chance of an asteroid-satellite run-in is extremely remote, Yeomans and other scientists noted. A few hundred satellites orbit at 22,300 miles, higher than the asteroid's path, although operators are being warned about the incoming object for tracking purposes.
"No one has raised a red flag, nor will they," Yeomans told reporters. "I certainly don't anticipate any problems whatsoever."
Impossible to see with the naked eye, the asteroid is considered small as these things go. By contrast, the one that took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was 6 miles wide.
Yet Asteroid 2012 DA14, as it's known for its discovery date, still could pack a wallop.
If it impacted Earth ? which it won't, scientists were quick to add Thursday ? it would release the energy equivalent of 2.4 million tons of TNT and wipe out 750 square miles. That's what happened in Siberia in 1908, when forest land around the Tunguska River was flattened by a slightly smaller asteroid that exploded about five miles above ground.
The likelihood of something this size striking Earth is once in every 1,200 years. A close, harmless encounter like this is thought to occur every 40 years.
The bulk of the solar system's asteroids are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and remain stable there for billions of years. Some occasionally pop out, though, into Earth's neighborhood
The closest approach of this one will occur next Friday afternoon, Eastern time, over Indonesia.
There won't be much of a show. The asteroid will zip by at 17,400 mph. That's roughly eight times faster than a bullet from a high-speed rifle.
The asteroid will be invisible to the naked eye and even with binoculars and telescopes will appear as a small point of light. The prime viewing locations will be in Asia, Australia and eastern Europe.
Observers in the U.S. can pretty much forget it. Astronomers using NASA's deep-space antenna in California's Mojave Desert will have to wait eight hours after the closest approach to capture radar images.
Scientists welcome whatever pictures they get. The asteroid offers a unique opportunity to observe something this big and close, and any new knowledge will help if and when another killer asteroid is headed Earth's way.
The close approach also highlights the need to keep track of what's out there, if for no other reason than to protect the planet.
NASA's current count of near-Earth objects: just short of 10,000, the result of a concentrated effort for the past 15 years. That's thought to represent less than 10 percent of the objects out there.
No one has ruled out a serious Earth impact, although the probability is said to be extremely low.
"We don't have all the money in the world to do this kind of work" for tracking and potentially deflecting asteroids, said Lindley Johnson, an executive with the Near-Earth Object observations program in Washington.
Indeed, when asked about NASA's plans to send astronauts to an asteroid in the decades ahead, as outlined a few years ago by President Barack Obama, Johnson said the space agency is looking at a number of options for human explorations.
One of the more immediate steps, planned for 2016, is the launch of a spacecraft to fly to a much bigger asteroid, collect samples and return them to Earth in 2023.
As for Asteroid 2012 DA14 ? discovered last year by astronomers in Spain ? scientists suspect it's made of silicate rock, but aren't sure. Its shape and precise size also are mysteries.
What they do know with certainty:
"This object's orbit is so well known that there's no chance of a collision," Yeomans repeated during Thursday's news conference.
Its close approach, in fact, will alter its orbit around the sun in such a way as to keep it out of Earth's neighborhood, at least in the foreseeable future, Yeomans said.
Johnson anticipates no "sky is falling thing" related to next week's flyby.
He and other scientists urged journalists to keep the close encounter in perspective.
"Space rocks hit the Earth's atmosphere on a daily basis. Basketball-size objects come in daily. Volkswagen-size objects come in every couple of weeks," Yeomans said.
The grand total of stuff hitting the atmosphere every day? "About 100 tons," according to Yeoman, though most of it arrives harmlessly as sand-sized particles.
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Online:
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html
University of Arizona: http://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu/
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Energy-efficient LED desk lamp from Satechi brightens your space and charges your devices
The Smart LED Desk Lamp from Satechi is the ultimate in energy-efficient desk lighting. ? It uses a bank of LEDs that use only 1/8th the energy used by an incandescent bulb and less than half that of a?fluorescent bulb. ?A touch panel toggles the lamp through four brightness levels: ?study mode (brightest, bluest light), [...]
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