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Dum Dum Kishore Bharati High School is a boys' school in Dum Dum. This school is affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for 10th Board exam (Madhyamik Pariksha/Secondary Examination) and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for the 12th Board exam (Uchcha Madhyamik/Higher Secondary Examination). Dum Dum Kishore Bharati School was established by Mihir Sengupta on 16 January 1965. It is considered as the best school in Dum Dum area, having a significantly good result in the board exams. This school also holds rank in H.S. exam. This school is eminent for their unique humanitarian and nature-conserving ceremonies such as blood donation camps, tree plantation programme, trekking, etc. Teachers of this school are enough caring and called 'dada' or 'didi'  as they are like real brothers or sisters.

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Camp Parks, home of the Army's 91st Division (Reserve), is located in the eastern reaches of the San Francisco Bay Area near the City of Livermore. The Parks Reserve Forces Training Area (PRFTA), historically known as Camp Parks, is located in the city of Dublin, California, South East of Oakland near the intersection of Interstate Highways 580 and 680.
Located in the Northern California Bay Area, Camp Parks RFTA is a vital part of the total Army in the Western United States. A sub-installation of Fort McCoy, Camp Parks is the only training facility within a short drive for 11,000-plus reservists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Firing ranges and a wide variety of training facilities are available. The post is home to state-of-the-art facilities: the Regional Training Site-Intelligence, Regional Training Site-Medical and the 91st DIV Battle Projection Center. Growth is on the horizon as new facilities have been built and more are programmed for construction in the near future.
Parks Reserve Forces Training Area (Camp Parks) has a primary mission of exercising the functions of command, training, security, administration, servicing and supply to all troop units, military activities, and other governmental agencies assigned or attached. The installation is operated by the U.S. Army Reserve Command, Atlanta, GA, as a direct reporting installation of Fort McCoy, WI. The readiness of today's Army Reserves is critical to national defense. Parks RFTAs area of responsibilities include providing services and training support to military units (active and reserve) and to other requesting organizations and activities. New and state-of-the-art training facilities have been built and more are being programmed.
Reserve units permanently stationed there conduct weekend inactive duty training throughout the year, and reserve component units travel here for their two-week annual training. Parks RFTA is ideally situated to provide total forces with meaningful training and offers the convenience of accessibility. Airports, freeways and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system provide easy access to the installation.
The U.S. Army has a significant impact on the State of California, especially in the Dublin-Livermore-Pleasanton Valley (Tri-Valley) of Northern California. The 91st Division constructed and opened a new Battle Projection Center, and a beautiful facility as their Division Headquarters. The front gate will soon be relocated on our southern border across from the BART station on Dublin Boulevard. Renovation of buildings now house a modern DoD Police Department, a Distance Learning Center, and the Bay Area Training Support Center. In the cantonment area are administrative and classroom buildings, upgraded troop billets, a remodeled dining facility, a modern lodging facility, an informative history center, and other support and training facilities that make everyone's stay much more pleasant. A facilities maintenance department (DPW) employs a small, dedicated work force.
The Troop Medical Clinic is staffed during annual training with medical personnel providing medical care to service personnel training here. Fire and emergency services are located on 5th Street at Building 636, and provide full response capabilities including fire, medical (EMTs), and fire prevention inquiries on a 24-hour basis. A small Post Exchange, located on Davis Avenue, is equipped to sell clothing and food. The DoD federal police, located in Building 692 (east of the post flagpole), are tasked with handling law enforcement and can be contacted 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Parks' offers safe refuge to special-status species and endangered wildlife. Environmental issues, concerns and protection questions can be addressed through the environmental office in Building 791.
Camp Parks, designated Parks Reserve Forces Training Area in 1980, is named after Rear Admiral Charles W. Parks, CEC, USN. It was built a Navy Base during World War II, and was commissioned Jan. 19, 1943 -- home to the Navy Seabees. Adjacent Camp Parks to the east, laid Camp Shoemaker and the U.S. Naval Hospital Shoemaker, also built during the war. The three Navy bases laying side by side were called "Fleet City." In 1946, at the end of World War II, the Secretary of the Navy disestablished the three facilities, and from 1946 to 1951, the Navy leased the land to the County of Alameda for use as a rehabilitation center. In 1947 the Santa Rita County Jail became operational.
In 1951, the Navy reacquired control of most of the land, with the exception of the county's 900 acres, and transferred the property to the U.S. Air Force. Although construction of Air Force facilities began in 1951, the official transfer of ownership occurred in 1953. The facility was renamed Parks Air Force Base and functioned as a basic training center, overseas replacement depot, and air base defense training area during the Korean War.
In July 1959, the installation was transferred to the United States Army. From 1959 to 1973, it was operated in a standby status under the jurisdiction of the Sixth United States Army, Presidio of San Francisco. In 1964, Sixth Army declared the entire installation excess, but was directed by the Department of the Army to retain 1600 acres for National Guard and Navy use. Between 1964 and 1973 much of the excess property was transferred to the County of Alameda and used as a Job Corps Training Center. The program taught academics and trade skills to underprivileged male youths. One of the youths enrolled in the program became boxing's heavyweight champion of the world ... George Foreman.
By 1973, the U.S. Army determined that Camp Parks was needed as a mobilization and training center for Reserve Components in the event of war or natural disaster. On Dec.11, 1980, the Army officially designated Camp Parks as a semi-active installation, renamed it Parks Reserve Forces Training Area, and declared it a subinstallation of the Presidio of San Francisco. On Oct. 1, 1992, Parks RFTA became a subinstallation of HQ, I CORPS and FORT LEWIS, Fort Lewis, Wash. With the reorganization of the Reserve Component, command and control passed from Forces Command Oct. 1, 1993, to the United States Army Reserve Command in Atlanta, Ga., and on Oct. 1, 1994, Parks RFTA became a direct-reporting installation of Fort McCoy, Wis.
Regional Training Site-Medical, Bldg. 860 provides new equipment training, sustainment training, and external evaluation subject matter experts to the total medical force.
104th Division (IT) (4th Bde CSS; 6th Bn PSS; 9th Bn PN/HS) provides MOS/NCOES training to soldiers to enhance the readiness of individual units.
Headquarters, 91st Division (Training Support), Bldg. 510 plans and conducts simulation exercises for Reserve Component battalions and brigades in the Fifth Army West Region. On order, assists CONUSA Mobilization Assistance Team, provides personnel augmentation and simulation support as directed. 1st Bn, 363rd Rgt, 3rd Bde, 91st DIV (TS), Bldg. 141 plans and conducts pre-mobilization training support for U.S. Army Reserve and Army National Guard units located in Northern California and Nevada. The Battalion also is prepared to establish a Defense Coordination Element which coordinates all Military Support to Civilian Authorities during disasters and incidents involving weapons of mass destruction. The battalion is organized into five teams and an HHD. Their parent headquarters is 3rd Brigade (TS), 91st Division located at Travis Air Force Base.
Equipment Concentration Site (ECS30) / Area Maintenance Support Activity (AMSA), Bldg. 730 provides organizational and direct support maintenance on automotive, heavy mobile, and communications for USAR units in the Bay Area.
Western Army Reserve Intelligence Support Center (WARISC) 418th MI Company, Bldg. 610 provides operational training for Reserve Component Military Intelligence soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines within its area of responsibility.
Navy Seabees (MU-303), Bldg. 611 transferred to Parks RFTA from Treasure Island, the Seabees are a construction unit and they repair and build.
Company B, 319th Signal Battalion, Bldg. 180 provides theater-wide communications and emergency communications equipment in a near battlefield or peacetime environment.
Camp Parrington is home to Detachment D of CBMU 303. The camp, consisting of a small building at the northwest corner of 5th Street and Fernandez Avenue, became home to the Bay Area Seabees two years ago after Naval Station Treasure Island closed. Although it may not be the newest unit to train at Camp Parks, Detachment D of CBMU 303 is certainly the most "historic." Camp Parrington, named after retired EOC Russ Parrington, is home to 94 Seabees Reservists. CBMU 303 is headquartered on Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California.
The Seabees provide a valuable service to Camp Parks. Since their mission upon mobilization is to maintain an advanced base, they train by repairing Army facilities on the sprawling base. In addition to refurbishing their own building, Building 611, last year the Seabees poured over 1,000 linear feet of new sidewalks on Camp Parks, according to Ens. John Hurlburt, OIC of the detachment. This year the detachment will construct a rappelling tower and renovate houses for the multi-service reserve base.
The History Center of the Parks Reserve Forces Training Area preserves artifacts from Camp Park's three military eras. Since late 1942, Camp Parks has been home to the Navy, Air Force and Army.
During World War II Camp Parks grew from a muddy expanse to a huge naval training and replacement center and took its place as a vital unit in the Navy Seabee program. In 1945 on its huge paved parade ground Camp Parks could muster more than 20,000 men and hundreds of officers. Few structures remain from Camp Parks Seabee days. Among them are the base commanders house, which overlooks the base from the top of a hill, and the art deco-style sign at the main gate on Dougherty Road in Dublin, California. All else is gone. The World War II buildings were razed after the war. Even the street numbering sequence changed to suit the Air Force. Surviving buildings are Korean War vintage, the streets are named after Air Force heroes and Congressional Medal of Honor awardees and hundreds of Army trucks fill a dozen motor pools.
Commissioned on January 19, 1943 as the Construction Battalion Replacement Depot, Camp Parks functioned as home for Seabees returning from the Pacific Theater of Operations. Battalions returned to the States after a year or more of arduous construction duty. They came to Camp Parks for medical treatment, military training and reorganization. The base housed up to 20 battalions at a time. Most battalions prepared for a second tour in the Pacific. Many Seabees were hospitalized, and those no longer fit for duty received their discharge. After leave, personnel were subjected to a rigorous training schedule. The battalions were brought back up to fighting strength.
This land-locked naval base sat adjacent to the quiet Bay Area towns of Dublin, Livermore and Pleasanton. Today, the intersection of Interstate Highways 580 and 680 is but a short distance from the southwest corner of the base. Much of the surrounding countryside is built up. Army units use some 2,300 acres north of the main camp for field exercises and weapons training. Camp Parks is located 28 miles east of Oakland, California.
East of the Seabee base, toward Livermore, Camp Shoemaker housed a Naval Hospital and Naval Training and Personnel Distribution Center. These facilities served the fleet in much the same manner as Camp Parks served the Seabees. Collectively the area was known as Fleet City.
After closing in 1946, Camp Parks sat unused until the Air Force established a basic training center in 1951. Known as Parks Air Force Base, the Air Force found it necessary to completely rebuild the base. The sea of Quonset huts and two-story wooden barracks had been dismantled following World War II. Base personnel were initially housed in temporary facilities and ate from a field mess. Training began in March 1952. The first group of Airmen who arrived at Camp Parks in the Summer of 1951 were transported to California on a troop train that felt like a cattle car. The base was in complete disarray when they arrived. The remaining buildings in poor shape. Otherwise, a few concrete pads were all that remained. The weeds were waist high. The weeds were pretty high. All the lower ranking Airmen, including the cooks, were out there cutting weeds down."
Closed and transferred to the control of the Presidio of San Francisco in 1959, the base remained in standby status until December 1980 when the Parks Reserve Forces Training Area was established by the Department of the Army.
Today, the sprawling base's mission is similar to its World War II mission. Thousands of National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers-and 94 Naval Reserve Seabees' train for war at Camp Parks. One occupant, 1st Brigade of the 91st Division trains Army units using computer simulators. The base supports some 11,000 San Francisco Bay Area Army Reserve and California National Guard Soldiers from 180 units. Many of these units train at Camp Parks for two weeks each summer.
In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended to realign Camp Parks Reserve Forces Training Area, CA, by relocating the 91st Div (TSD) to Fort Hunter Liggett, CA. This recommendation would improve operational effectiveness by putting the Training Division at the major training site in their regions (Fort Hunter-Ligget). Assuming no economic recovery, this recommendation could result in a maximum potential reduction of 69 jobs (43 direct and 26 indirect jobs) over the 2006 - 2011 period in the Oakland- Fremont-Hayward Metropolitan Statistical Area, which would be less than 0.1 percent of economic area employment.


Sciblogs | Do domestic cats really kill native wildlife?
Do domestic cats really kill native wildlife?
The commentary of the last few days following Dr. Gareth Morgan's media release has focussed too much on the messenger and how the message was delivered rather than understanding the problem and potential solutions. Some have described his views as extreme but whether or not they are extreme is less important than whether or not they are supported by evidence. Desicion-making in environmental policy should follow the evidence like it does in medicine, law and engineering. Let us move beyond the messenger and message and discuss evidence for a cat problem – is there a problem? – and the potential solutions that evidence informs – what solutions are best?
Studies show that there is enormous variation between our domestic cats in their propensity to kill native wildlife. Some cats rarely kill while others kill frequently. If your cat is killing it will sometimes return home with its kill, although some cats do this more than others and some not at all. In Dunedin, only about 1 in 4 domestic cats bring prey home . In a UK study about 40% of cats came home with their prey .
The interesting use of micro-cameras on domestic cats in the US – KittyCams – showed that only a quarter of cats' prey was brought home. About 30% of prey was eaten and 50% left uneaten at the kill-site. Thus, even if you never see you cat with prey, it may still be killing.
New Zealand studies of domestic cat killing have relied on estimates from documenting the prey a cat brings home and so certainly under-estimate how much killing domestic cats do. Nevertheless, these studies are instructive for their local relevance.
NZ studies show that 13 animals are brought home per year by cats. If that is a quarter of total kill then the figure inflates to around 50 animals a year – one per week per cat. But about a third of NZ domestic cats do not hunt . The reason why so many animals can be killed but a large number of domestic cats not hunt is that some cats kill an awful lot.
In the US study with KittyCams on 55 cats, 16 cats (29%) killed animals at an average rate of 2 animals per week. Most killed just one or two animals a week but some killed as many as 5 a week. Goodness – that would approximate 250 wildlife killed a year by one cat! Most domestic cats are not killing or killing only a little, but a few kill a tremendous amount.
We do not know at this time for New Zealand what most influences some domestic cats to hunt more than others. Characters of the cat like age and breed, or the owner's behaviour like how much time they spend home might be important. More research is required on this question because it may be that there are small measures an owner can take to substantially reduce a cat's killing. Nevertheless, we do know that you can reduce your cats kill rate of birds by as much as 50% by making it wear a bell  – please do. Cat collars with bells are a pre-cautionary, albeit imperfect, solution until we can contribute other solutions.
We also know that if native wildlife is more common where your cat lives, and the cat hunts, then they will kill more native wildlife . If you live near a park or reserve, or well treed neighbourhood, your cat is likely to be killing more native animals. If you live in an area without native wildlife – perhaps because introduced predators like cats prevent them from living there – then your cat will be killing native wildlife less often. The success of your local biodiversity santuary or your the neighbour's attempts to restore native wildlife to the area is likely to depend on reducing the number of rats, stoats, ferrets and cats where you live.
The Common Skink is a very widespread lizard species in New Zealand. Source: Trent Bell, www.landcare.org.nz.
You might also be surprised how much native wildlife is in yours and your neighbours' gardens. In surveys of Wellington and Dunedin suburbs native birds and reptiles are surprisingly common, although most residents are unaware of the reptiles. The US KittyCam study found that the prey brought to the residence underestimated the number of reptiles killed – they are more likely than birds to be left where they are killed.
Some, like the SPCA's Robert Kerridge, claim that well-fed domestic cats do not kill wildlife or the kill is trivial. The evidence shows that this is not true. In our neighbourhoods enough domestic cats are owned such that there will inevitably be some who kill a lot. Some of those killed will be native animals, especially where wildlife is common around local parks and reserves.


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your thoughs on American Football in London
Thread starter sliqwill
i will say im disappointed simply because i think this would be a great oppurtunity for the NFL and i think they are making a MAJOR faux pas by not having this a NATIONALLY TELEVISED GAME...this isnt in market for me today and i find it highly disappointing...i think they would be better suited playing this on a saturday where it is televised nationwide...
what do you think about this?
also what do you think about games out of the country in general? in the past they have only played preseason games on an international level.
Didn't know it wasn't a National Game now I gotta check if we'll be getting, that part was a MISTAKE. I'm guessing it's the 1st of many in the future to be played outside country.
Sycotic
I have a chance for it to be on my TV today, I hope it happens. ray:
GiantFan
My thoughts are the Giants better win or I'm going to get drunk and beat my wife tonight.
redandpewter55
Worst idea ever!
JoeyV
redandpewter55 said:
Football should NOT be played outside the US. Not even in Canada. It is an American sport plain and simple. On the other hand, the NFL is a business so I guess the more exposure they get the more money they can make.
HOORAY! I got the game and not Detroit!
Sycotic said:
i was thinking that, but the NFL opened everywhere with the NYG MIA game
Seahawklady
Well, I don't mind an NFL game being in either Mexico or Canada, at least the travel time is not that bad. I don't know if I am all that happy with games "across the pond" as it were.
I'd say Pre-Season, OK, but not regular season. There's only 16 games in the NFL regular season, and I think it's rather unfair for the 2 teams that are playing with all the travel and other BS involved. just my 2c.
sliqwill said:
you are not missing anything, believe me
oregonweim said:
I agree. Both teams look horrible and tired and out of it and the weather and the field sucks. This is not a good representation for the world. Except for Brandon Jacobs who is running people over and getting cheers. Still, really bad football. Dropped passes, dropped snaps, missed FGs, balls slipping out of hands.
GiantFan said:
Quiet you, we're winning!
cspears22
I understand the NFL wants to make the money, but I think that's just wrong to do to both teams.
Making them travel like that is just silly. I agree that Canada or Mexico isn't so bad, but since it's an american sport, it should be played here.
I would be pissed if I was a fan of a team, bought season tickets, and my team has to go play in London where most of them don't even care.
They've got their Football, even if there's not contact. Keep it that way.
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Discussion in 'Real Life Stories' started by Muncheese, May 8, 2006.
My buddy dropped by after school on Friday, we get together a few times a week for a joint or bowl from the bong, etc. My neighbor is a dealer, the ultimate convenience, so I walk by there and pick up a $20 bag (2 grams) of sour diesel. Never had it before but I heard about it and it smelled pretty good. So I cut it up and everything since my buddy lacks skills, and we went out to my garage to toke up. I rolled a nice size joint with it and I had enough left for a few bowl packs of my bong, so we smoked the joint down to a roach then went into the house to watch some tv.
An hour or so later I bring the bong out and back out we go. I usually drop a few pieces of the cut up weed while I'm packing the bowl, and this time was no different. I dropped a pretty big piece, and my friend bent over to pick it up while I lit the bowl. So he hands it to me and we pass the bong back and forth for a few hits, then I decide its time to add that piece off the floor. Once the spider webs are off I realize that it doesn't really look like weed, so I take a closer look and see that I've been picking apart a massive dead fly with my fingers, and had almost put it in the lit bowl. My buddy and I had a huge laugh at this, after I screamed like a little girl and threw the thing out the door.
We both had the munchies after awhile so we walked down to this fry truck on the corner and bought a bunch of stuff, the person inside kept making us repeat ourselves and then we had to wait like an hour (was probably 5 minutes) for our food. Walking home the whole block to my house, my cell phone rings and of course I answer it with my mouth full of hamburger. I guess my mom came home while we were out and asked where we were, I just waved from where we were standing and hung up the phone. My eyes always get red as hell so she noticed as soon as we got close enough, but my parents are cool with weed so I don't have to worry about them coming home at an inopportune time.
Later on, she had to leave to babysit some kids, then came back in the house and told us that she hit my buddies truck parked in the driveway. A huge 2005 Dodge Dakota against that little Sunfire she drives. We didn't really care since we were blazed off our asses, but we had to ride to the bodyshop with her and talk to some guy about it. Suprisingly, that didn't kill my buzz like I thought it would so everything went back to normal when we got home. Watched Anchorman and enjoyed the evening, until his dad called all pissed off and we yelled at each other over the phone. So it'll cost $1500 to fix his truck and $400 to fix her car. Glad it wasn't me.


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Tims Ford State Park plans First Day Hike
By Tabitha Evans Moore on December 27, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Tenn. — Start off 2023 on the right foot by getting outside and enjoying the local beauty and wonder that's available right here in our backyard with a First Day Hike at Tims Ford State Park on the Moore County, Franklin County line.
Tennessee State Parks' First Day Hikes are part of America's State Parks First Day Hikes initiative in all 50 states. Most hikes are free but each state park accepts donations. To see all the First Day Hikes being offered in our state on January 1, 2023, click here
Tims Ford State Park rangers will meet you at the Nature Center around 1:30 p.m. The group will hike the Lost Creek Overlook Trail from the overlook and back via the paved trail. Rangers designed First Day Hikes for all ages and abilities. The total hike distance will be around 2.3 miles. The hike should end around 3:30 p.m.
Temperatures that day should be around 60 degrees. Hikers will need to provide their own snacks and drinks. Food trucks may be onsite following the hike. Other hikes will be available at Henry Horton State Park in Chapel Hill, Old Stone State Park in Manchester, as well as South Cumberland State Park in Monteagle.
Tims Ford State Park in situated around the 10,700 acre Tims Ford Lake just outside of Moore County. It sits in the shadows of the Cumberland Plateau and offers hiking, swimming, camping, and numerous special event throughout the year. You can learn more or check out their events schedule at their Facebook page or on the Tennessee Stat Parks website or app. •
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S.F. public school parents found their voices during the pandemic. They're not done fighting for kids
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Aug. 13, 2021 Updated: Aug. 14, 2021 11:52 a.m.
Decreasing the Distance co-founders Kit Hodge (left), Cliff Yee, Cyn Wang, Meredith Willa Dodson and Yvette Byes Edwards helped lead the fight with the S.F. school district and the school board to finally get their kids back into classrooms.
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San Francisco's public schools have long been run by central office administrators and school board members. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and those groups let parents down big time — brushing off their concerns about distance learning harming their children — parents found a group that wanted to listen. They found each other.
Parent advocacy group Decreasing the Distance — founded in the thick of the pandemic— drew thousands of fellow fed-up parents to sign petitions demanding schools reopen safely, attend protests, advocate on social media and call in to endless and endlessly frustrating school board meetings to voice their discontent.
Supporters, including Mayor London Breed, hailed their advocacy in a city that was among the last in the country to welcome back any of its students — and will only now, on Monday, fully open middle schools and high schools for the first time in 17 months. Opponents, including some school board members and teachers union leaders, waved them off as adversarial complainers. But, let's be real, when it came to the school district, there was a lot to complain about.
The group became so controversial, somebody even hurled eggs at parents and kids marching near City Hall on the first anniversary of schools closing.
Well, this parent group doesn't consider its work complete just because San Francisco has finally decreased the distance between kids and their teachers. In fact, it's only just begun.
The group has formed a nonprofit called the San Francisco Parent Coalition. It will have a paid staff after it finalizes funding from undisclosed education foundations. It is developing a fiscal sponsor in Community Initiatives to provide infrastructure like human resources and payroll support. It has an impressive and diverse board of directors. It has members from 85 schools and is seeking more; membership is free.
And it intends to ensure parents play a far bigger role in district decision making — like, for example, making sure the district communicates with parents before making unilateral changes such as its recent overhaul of scores of school start times and early dismissals on Wednesdays with no parent input.
"There was something missing in San Francisco, and that is parents' voices," said Yvette Byes Edwards, a board member and mother of two boys in the district. "We answer only to our children. We answer to no one else."
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That's how the coalition differs from the Parent Advisory Council, a group of parent volunteers that's supposed to advise the school board, but can only participate if members get pre-approved by the same people they're supposed to advise.
The school board in February famously rejected the nomination of Seth Brenzel, a gay dad who would have been the Parent Advisory Council's only man and only member of the LGBTQ community. The board declined to appoint him because he's white and the 10-member council already had three other white people. Nobody else applied.
Well, Brenzel is now a board member for the San Francisco Parent Coalition instead. He's also pulled his daughter from the school district, and she will start fifth grade at a private school. He said he still wants to help the school district improve because all San Franciscans should care about the public schools, not just those who have kids in them.
"There's so much work to be done, and we should be uniting and working together," he said.
Parents for Public Schools is another nonprofit in San Francisco, but it mostly seeks to help families navigate the confusing enrollment process and stays out of politics.
I met most of the new coalition's board members outside the school district headquarters on Franklin Street the other day, as school board members arrived for a meeting. The parents and board members, who've clashed repeatedly in the past year, said hello, and the coalition said it wants to work with everyone who puts kids' needs first.
Whether that commitment goes the other way remains to be seen. Board President Gabriela López didn't return a request for comment. Neither did a spokesperson for the school district.
Faauuga Moliga, vice president of the school board, said he always welcomes more parental involvement.
"I appreciate the work they did as Decreasing the Distance, and I look forward to working with them as the San Francisco Parent Coalition," he said.
Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said, "We would hope that the rebranding and move to permanency indicate a commitment to work collaboratively with all students, families and educators, which would be a refreshing shift."
Many parents are die-hard supporters. Chanel Blackwell, whose son, a 10th-grader, hasn't been inside a classroom since March, 2020, said he didn't pay attention in Zoom school, spent his time playing video games and grew sad.
When Blackwell learned about Decreasing the Distance, she formed a chapter of sorts at her son's school, learning how to read up on the latest public health guidelines and speak at school board meetings. "They showed me how to get stuff done," Blackwell said.
Seth Brenzel, who was rejected by the S.F. school board for a position on the Parent Advisory Council, is now a board member for the San Francisco Parent Coalition.
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The coalition's to-do list is long. The group will weigh in on who should be the new superintendent to replace Vince Matthews, who's retiring and with whom the group meets monthly.
Members also want to help to ease the shortage of aftercare slots, bridge the academic achievement gap and curb the enrollment drop.
Beth Kelly, another public school mom and member of the coalition, keeps an eagle eye on the district's enrollment and budget documents. In February, Moody's downgraded the district's bond ratings and called its financial outlook "negative" in part because of poor governance.
"There needs to be structural reform of SFUSD, and nobody's thinking about it," Kelly said. "And all the while, they've been denigrating parents and totally disregarding them."
Edwards knows that denigration well. She said she was shocked by the opposition toward Decreasing the Distance, particularly those on social media who claimed only white parents wanted their kids back in the classroom. Edwards is Black and saw her sons struggle academically and emotionally during the pandemic.
"It got wildly, unexpectedly political," Edwards said. "Conversations related to race, class and sometimes the nastiness directed at us was something I don't think I've ever experienced in my entire adult life."
The coalition has formed so it will have the ability to make political endorsements, but it hasn't taken a stand on the recall attempt of three school board members. That campaign has now gathered 51,500 signatures, just slightly more than the required number to get on the ballot. But it's unlikely all of those are valid, and the group seeks to collect 19,000 more signatures by its deadline of Sept. 7.
The coalition said it will educate voters about school board candidates, but all members recoiled when asked if they personally would run.
"Next question!" joked Cliff Yee, a board member and father of two kids in the district.
There's time for that. First, they're focused on a safe and successful return to the classrooms for all students. It's been a long time coming.
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All Aboard the Titanic - Skills and Knowledge for Parents
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Six Fantastic Facts About Titanic
1) Titanic was built by a company called White Star Line. She was completed and ready for the ocean on 31 March 1912, after three years in construction in Belfast, Ireland.
2) And she was no ordinary ship, Titanic was the most impressive and luxurious ship of her time! She was the biggest, too, measuring 28 metres wide, 53 metres tall and 269 metres long — that's about the length of three football fields!
3) On 10 April 1912, Titanic set out on her maiden voyage (first big journey), taking people from Southampton, England, to New York, USA. On route, she called by Cherbourg in France and Queenstown in Ireland to pick up more passengers.
Boats are traditionally referred to as 'she'. Historians think this may be the result of links in our language to Ancient English. Or perhaps it dates back to the idea of goddesses protecting ships on dangerous journeys!
4) Titanic's full title was RMS Titanic. Any idea what RMS means? It stands for 'Royal Mail Steamer'. As well as passengers, the ship carried nearly 3,500 sacks of letters, packages and documents.
5) There were over 2,200 people on board Titanic, 900 of which were crew members. The passengers included holiday makers, business men and people hoping to start a new life in America.
6) Life on board Titanic depended on who you were and how much money you had…
First class: the wealthiest people travelled in first class, located at the top of the ship, and boy did they travel in style! They slept in private, spacious suites and enjoyed delicious food in an elaborate dining room. They had access to lots of facilities, like cafes, a swimming pool, squash courts, barber shop and a reading and writing room.
Second class: not too shabby, either, second class accommodation consisted of cabins with two or four beds and a sofa, storage facilities, a sink and a mirror. Second class passengers could also enjoy an outdoor promenade, relaxation room, library and dining room.
Third class: the third class facilities were much more basic, but they were still far better than those on other boats at that time. Located at the bottom of the ship, cabins slept up to ten people and each had a sink and mirror. There was also a dining room where food was served three times a day. But the big down side? All 700 third class passengers had to share two bathtubs!


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Live Coronavirus World Updates – The New York Times
Beating a pandemic slump shouldn't mean sacrificing the planet, European leaders warn.
With the global paralysis induced by the coronavirus, levels of pollution and carbon emission are dropping — leaving bluer skies, visible mountains, splendid wildflowers. Even Venice's famously murky canals are running clear.
But nature's revival has come at enormous cost, with Europe's economy projected to decline 7.4 percent this year. The New York Times's chief diplomatic correspondent, Steven Erlanger, says many leaders, diplomats and experts are bracing for a battle over whether reviving the economy now requires an end to ambitious and potentially disruptive plans to permanently reduce carbon emissions.
The European Union began the year promoting a plan for a rapid transformation of the economy toward a carbon-neutral future — "the Green Deal" — which Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the bloc's executive arm, has declared should be "the motor for the recovery." She has important support from President Emmanuel Macron of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany.
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe were already worried about the pain of a green transition, however. And poorer countries of the south fear a new inequality as bigger, richer countries like Germany and France can subsidize their industries far more lavishly.
The shape of those subsidies will be a battleground, too. Mr. Macron has tied new funding for the airline Air France-KLM to carbon reduction. But a former European official, Stefan Lehne, sees "a huge conflict" between "saving the jobs of companies on edge of bankruptcy and investing in new jobs."
"There will be a lot of pressure to go back to the status quo ante as much as possible," he said.
The mayor of Seoul, South Korea, ordered all of the city's bars and nightclubs closed indefinitely on Saturday after the discovery of a new cluster of dozens of coronavirus cases in a country that for weeks had reported about 10 new infections a day.
A 29-year-old man from Yongin, south of Seoul, tested positive on Wednesday. While investigating his contacts, South Korean epidemiologists learned that he had visited three nightclubs in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in the capital, last Saturday.
They immediately began tracing 1,500 people believed to have been in those nightclubs around that time. So far, 27 patients have been found who went to the clubs or had contact with people who did, a senior disease-control official said at a news briefing on Saturday.
But the mayor, Park Won-soon, gave a higher figure, saying at least 40 patients were connected to the nightclubs and the 29-year-old patient, and said officials were still seeking more than 1,000 people believed to have been in the nightclubs.
The cluster has emerged as the country started relaxing social-distancing restrictions. The South Korean soccer league was back underway on Friday, starting just days after the country's baseball league began its season.
Mr. Park said that nightclub patrons who had failed to wear face masks had put at risk South Korea's efforts to bring the coronavirus under control.
"Just because of a few people's carelessness, all our efforts so far can go to waste," he said.
By now we know — contrary to false predictions — that the novel coronavirus will be with us for a rather long time.
"Exactly how long remains to be seen," said Marc Lipsitch, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "It's going to be a matter of managing it over months to a couple of years. It's not a matter of getting past the peak, as some people seem to believe."
Two recent studies provide a picture of how the pandemic could play out. The first, out of the University of Minnesota, describes three possibilities following the current wave of initial cases: "peaks and valleys" that gradually diminish over a year or two; a larger peak in the fall or winter, with smaller waves thereafter, similar to what transpired during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic; or an intense spring peak followed by a "slow burn" with less-pronounced ups and downs.
The second study, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, projected a similarly wavy future characterized by peaks and valleys. Social distancing is turned "on" when the number of Covid-19 cases reaches a certain prevalence in the population, so as not to overwhelm the health care system, and turned "off" when cases drop to a lower threshold, perhaps 5 cases per 10,000.
What is clear overall is that a one-time social distancing effort will not be sufficient to control the epidemic in the long term, and that it will take a long time to reach herd immunity. Lacking a vaccine, our pandemic state of mind may persist well into 2021 or 2022 — which surprised even the experts.
"We anticipated a prolonged period of social distancing would be necessary, but didn't initially realize that it could be this long," Stephen Kissler, a postdoctoral fellow who worked on the Harvard study, said.
Covid-19 has upended daily life in much of the world for so long that the idea of traveling to another country or state seems like the stuff of dreams. But in the last week or so, as the idea of opening up to travelers has gained traction, some countries are taking concrete steps.
But for many places, international flights carrying leisure travelers remain on hold or are banned outright, and the process of reopening remains speculative. The focus, instead, is on internal tourism, to be followed at some point by foreign tourism.
Ignoring health warnings and its powerful neighbor Russia, the former Soviet nation of Belarus staged a military parade on Saturday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Red Army's defeat of Nazi Germany, parading soldiers and tanks through the center of its capital, Minsk, as crowds of spectators, mostly without masks, gathered to watch.
While Russia canceled its parade in Red Square because of the coronavirus and settled for a military flyby over Moscow's mostly empty streets, Belarus went ahead with Victory Day celebrations after its authoritarian leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, called the coronavirus pandemic a "psychosis."
Mr. Lukashenko has encouraged people to attend commemorations for the end of World War II in Europe, claimed at the start of the pandemic that riding tractors, sitting in saunas and drinking vodka would vanquish the virus, and has repeatedly played down the risk of infection.
Over two million people died in Belarus during World War II, and Mr. Lukashenko said this week that the government "simply cannot cancel the parade," despite growing concerns that the virus is spreading fast across the country. He invited foreign leaders to attend. None showed up. Russia said it would send its ambassador.
With a population of 9.5 million, Belarus has reported just 21,000 infections, far fewer than the nearly 200,000 reported by more populous Russia, a close but increasingly irritated ally.
In Russia, which remains under lockdown, President Vladimir V. Putin left his country residence for the first time in weeks to attend a low-key ceremony in the rain outside the Kremlin, laying a bouquet of red roses on the tomb of the unknown soldier.
In a brief speech marking what he called "our most important and most cherished holiday," Mr. Putin said, "We pay tribute and endlessly honor the monumental and selfless heroism of the Soviet people."
Like many world leaders, Taiwan's vice president, Chen Chien-jin, is fighting to keep the coronavirus at bay. He is tracking infections, pushing for vaccines and testing kits and reminding the public to wash their hands.
But unlike most officials, Mr. Chen, who is in the final weeks of his term, is a Johns Hopkins-trained epidemiologist and an expert in viruses.
Mr. Chen, 68, is known affectionately in Taiwan as "elder brother," and many credit him with helping the island avoid the sort of catastrophic outbreak that has overwhelmed many countries. It has reported about 400 coronavirus cases and six deaths.
As a top health official during the SARS crisis in 2003, Mr. Chen pushed to prepare for the next outbreak by building isolation wards and research laboratories.
"Evidence is more important than playing politics," he said in a recent interview.
But Mr. Chen is also at the center of a global battle over the narrative about how the virus spread worldwide. He says Taiwan tried to warn the World Health Organization — where it is pushing for membership — in late December about the potential for the virus to spread from person to person but was ignored. The W.H.O. has rejected the accusation.
Mr. Chen's prominence has made him a frequent target of criticism by mainland Chinese commentators, who have accused the government of using the pandemic to seek independence for Taiwan, which China's government considers part of its territory.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is back.
On Saturday night, in a nearly empty arena in Jacksonville, Fla., U.F.C. 249 will make the world's biggest mixed martial arts organization the first major North American sport to return from an industrywide shutdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Of course, the U.F.C.'s president, Dana White, would have preferred not to take a hiatus at all, even as the rapid spread of the virus shut down sports events across the country. Instead White pressed forward with plans to stage U.F.C. 249 on April 18, looking toward a lightweight title matchup in Brooklyn between the Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov and the American Tony Ferguson that had been years in the making.
When the New York State Athletic Commission refused to approve the event, the U.F.C. clung to its date while scouting new locations. Nurmagomedov, the U.F.C.'s lightweight champion, eventually dropped out, unable to leave his native Dagestan because of pandemic-related travel restrictions. He was replaced by Justin Gaethje, a top lightweight contender.
On Friday night, U.F.C. officials said one of their fighters, Ronaldo Souza, a Brazilian middleweight nicknamed Jacare, had been pulled from U.F.C. 249 because he had tested positive for the coronavirus earlier in the day.
It was 8 a.m. Tuesday in St. Louis when the American chess grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, ranked second best in the world, moved his pawn to E4.
It was 6:30 p.m., and over 8,000 miles away in Nashik, India, when his opponent, Vidit Gujrathi, responded from his home, just seconds after Caruana's opening: pawn to E5.
And so began the Online Nations Cup, an unprecedented international team chess tournament borne of the coronavirus pandemic.
While the outbreak has forced most sports around the world to shut down, chess has not only found a way to carry on — it is thriving in some ways. In the past several weeks there has been a surge in grass roots participation in chess to go along with a few high-profile professional events online.
This past week, the Online Nations Cup brought 36 of the world's top players together in their homes across multiple time zones, from Brooklyn to Beijing. They have been moving pieces on their laptop chessboards in a competition that, at its core, is the same game they would contest under normal conditions.
The tournament can be seen on multiple platforms, has a record purse of $180,000 and is being broadcast in a dozen languages.
Spain will be split in two as of Monday, after the government selected areas of the country with a low risk of coronavirus infection to move to the next phase of easing the lockdown. The country's two largest cities, Madrid and Barcelona, are in regions that will have to maintain restrictions on the movement of people until their coronavirus numbers improve.
The provinces that passed the safety requirements hold 51 percent of Spain's population, the government said on Friday. The new rules allow gatherings of up to 10 people, as well as the reopening of bars and restaurants for outdoor dining. Small shops and businesses like hairdressers can also take clients without a booking, while outdoor markets can reopen.
Ahead of the government's decision, 15 of the 17 regions of Spain had applied to be fast-tracked to reopen under the next phase of the government's plan, which it said it hoped would bring the country into a "new normalcy" by late June.
Spain's daily death toll from the coronavirus fell to 179 on Saturday, down from 229 on the previous day, the Health Ministry reported, bringing the overall total to 26,478.
A protest demanding more assistance for the poor as Afghanistan grapples with the spread of Covid-19 turned deadly on Saturday, with at least six people dead after security forces opened fire.
About 100 people, mostly day laborers who have lost any economic prospect after lockdowns went into effect, had gathered outside the provincial governor's office in Ghor Province, in the west of the country, seeking aid and food, officials said. The security forces fired when the numbers grew and the protesters tried to make their way into the compound.
At least four civilians, including an employee of a local media organization, were killed and 12 others wounded, the provincial police chief, Mohamed Amin Ahmadzai, said. He added that the protest had been infiltrated by armed men who opened fire and pelted rocks at security forces; he said two police officers were also killed and 10 others wounded.
"This wasn't a protest — this was an evil conspiracy of the enemy," Mr. Ahmadzai said.
Mohammad Aref Aber, the governor's spokesman, said: "The protesters were in front of the provincial governor's building asking for help, and we do not have anything to help them with."
Afghanistan has recorded 4,333 cases of Covid-19 so far and 115 deaths. But officials warn that the actual spread is most likely much wider and undetected because of extremely limited testing capacity.
The major cities have gone under some extent of lockdown, hurting an economy where about 80 percent of the population was already near the poverty line, living on $1.25 a day.
President Jair Bolsonaro is "perhaps the biggest threat to Brazil's Covid-19 response," the renowned scientific journal The Lancet said in an editorial on Saturday, arguing that the president's dismissal of the dangers posed by the virus had sowed confusion among Brazilians.
"He needs to drastically change course or must be the next to go," The Lancet said of Mr. Bolsonaro in the editorial, calling the recent ouster of two ministers "a deadly distraction in the middle of a public health emergency."
Brazil has reported nearly 150,000 coronavirus cases and over 10,000 deaths, making it the worst-hit country in Latin America. A study published this week by Imperial College London that analyzed the transmission rate of the virus in 48 countries found Brazil had the highest rate of transmission.
But Mr. Bolsonaro has interacted with supporters without wearing masks, and has called the virus that has killed nearly 275,000 people worldwide a "little flu." He has also regularly clashed with state governors who have imposed lockdowns to try to protect their populations.
When asked by journalists last month about the rapid spread of the virus in the country, Mr. Bolsonaro replied: "So what? What do you want me to do?"
In neighboring Paraguay, President Mario Abdo Benítez has said that the efforts to contain the spread of the virus could be hampered by Brazil's outbreak, calling it "a great threat for our country." Half of the Paraguay's 563 confirmed cases have been of people coming from Brazil, Mr. Benítez said.
A vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a halt to all armed conflicts because of the pandemic was blocked on Friday by the United States, apparently because it contained language indicating support for the World Health Organization.
President Trump has accused the W.H.O., an arm of the United Nations, of a bias toward China and a failure to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, which was first seen in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December. Mr. Trump suspended American funding of the W.H.O. last month, a significant financial blow to the organization.
Diplomats said the Security Council resolution, which underwent several revisions aimed partly at satisfying U.S. objections, had nearly reached the stage where it could be put to a vote. But the United States delegation informed other council members in an email on Friday that it still could not support the measure.
Tensions between China and the United States over the coronavirus have paralyzed any possible action to fight the pandemic by the Security Council, the most powerful body at the United Nations. Its resolutions have the force of international law.
Even though the cease-fire resolution would probably have done little to halt armed conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya and other trouble spots, it was seen as an important expression of backing for Secretary General António Guterres, who has been calling for such a cease-fire since March.
In the midst of an aggressive campaign by Kenya's government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the country was hit by a blackout that affected neighboring Uganda on Saturday. The countries' power grids are interconnected.
In a statement, Kenya Power and Lighting Company announced "a system disturbance which occurred on our transmission network at 5:49 a.m. this morning." The cause of the power cut to the national grid was not immediately clear. But blackouts in the country are not uncommon, especially in rainy seasons.
By the evening, both companies issued statements saying that power had been restored.
Uganda has recorded 98 coronavirus cases but no deaths. The International Monetary Fund said this week that the country would receive an emergency loan worth $491.5 million to help cushion its economy from the impact of the outbreak as key sectors of the East African economy, including tourism, have taken a heavy blow from the crisis.
Kenya's government has faced growing criticism for its response to the pandemic — particularly its use of quarantine centers. Hundreds of residents in the East African nation said they were put in quarantine for breaking curfew or not wearing masks. And many said they were told they had to pay to leave after testing negative for the virus.
The government has also been accused of going to extreme measures to contain the virus: In the first 10 days of a national curfew, police officers killed at least six people while trying to enforce the lockdown, according to Human Rights Watch.
The illusionist team Siegfried & Roy dazzled Las Vegas crowds for 35 years, combining the glitz of sequined costumes with smoke-and-laser magic and the circus thrills of exotic animals. Under their spells, a white tiger turned into a beautiful woman, a six-ton elephant vanished, a tiger floated out over the audience and half of the duo, Roy Horn, turned himself into a python.
Mr. Horn died from complications of Covid-19 on Friday in Las Vegas, where he lived, according to his publicist. He was 75.
He and his partner, Siegfried Fischbacher, had one of the most successful productions in Las Vegas history. It ended on Oct. 3, 2003, when Mr. Horn, on his 59th birthday, was mauled by a 400-pound white tiger who lunged at his throat and dragged him offstage before a stunned, sold-out crowd of 1,500 at MGM's Mirage hotel-casino. His windpipe had been crushed and an artery carrying oxygen to his brain was damaged; he suffered a stroke and partial paralysis on his left side.
In February 2009, Siegfried & Roy made one final appearance with a tiger, a benefit performance in Las Vegas. They officially retired from show business in 2010.
The organizers of an already truncated version of the Vuelta a España, one of the sport's three grand tours along with the Tour de France, said on Saturday that they had abandoned parts of two stages to be held in neighboring Portugal. The race was unable to satisfy safety requirements of three cities: Oporto, Matosinhos and Viseu.
"We have to be flexible and understand these kinds of decisions and changes," Javier Guillén, the race director said in a statement.
There is skepticism that the schedule announced this week by the International Cycling Union — racing starting on Aug. 1 and continuing until the end of October for men, early November for women — will come to fruition.
It is unclear how race organizers can stop large crowds from gathering along public roads. The sport also involves hundreds of cyclists riding in closer proximity than is allowed under most physical distancing rules.
The Amaury Sport Organization, which owns the Tour de France and is a major shareholder in the Vuelta, has repeatedly pushed for some kind of season to be salvaged. Cycling team owners have been more mixed in their reaction. Some have forecast ruin without racing, while others have suggested that they won't enter their riders if the virus remains a threat.
With all public and private gatherings banned in Singapore and people trying to cope by exercising outside, the authorities have found a human-free way to patrol a park and gently remind visitors to observe social-distancing measures.
The four-legged machine, named Spot and developed by Boston Dynamics, can shimmy, moonwalk and climb stairs. Spot also has a bark, of sorts: A speaker that allows the robot's remote handlers to issue commands — in this case, a recorded message in a female voice.
"Let's keep Singapore healthy," Spot said Friday while sauntering down a path at a local park. "For your own safety and for those around you, please stand at least one meter apart. Thank you."
Spot's deployment comes as other countries wrestle with similar issues of crowds seeking some relief from isolation in city parks and other open spaces. New York City, hard-hit by the coronavirus, plans to limit entry to some parks to prevent crowds and the spread of infections.
If Spot manages to last through a two-week trial, more robots could be deployed to patrol parks in Singapore, where a relentless surge in infections linked to migrant worker dormitories has shown no sign of stopping. The city-state has had more than 22,000 infections, with 753 recorded on Saturday.
Reporting was contributed by Steven Erlanger, Choe Sang-Hun, Siobhan Roberts, Raphael Minder, Andrew Higgins, Javier C. Hernández, Chris Horton, Elian Peltier, Elaine Yu, Adbi Latif Dahir, Mujib Mashal, Asadullah Timory, Peter Robins, Yonette Joseph, Rick Gladstone, Daniel Politi, Lauren Sloss, Robert D. McFadden, Peter Baker, Michael Crowley, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman, Matthew Rosenberg, Jim Rutenberg and Victor Mather.
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Who Put These Undergrads In Charge Of A Nuclear Reactor?
by Ella Morton October 5, 2015
Reed College Research Reactor
World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.
The Reed College nuclear reactor. (Photo: Sarah Brumble)
Three years ago, as Ilana Novakoski was settling into her freshman year on campus at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, she saw "the most bizarre poster I've ever seen." Written on it was a question that made little sense to her: "Do you want to be a nuclear reactor operator?"
Intrigued, Novakoski investigated, and discovered the poster was real and the question legitimate. As she was told during a tour of the reactor—led by a purple-haired man in a wizard hat—the liberal arts college is home to the only nuclear reactor in the world run by undergraduate operators.
The reactor, established in 1968, is used for research and analysis, both by students at the 1,400-person college and on behalf of outside agencies. It uses a process called Neutron Activation Analysis, in which a sample—liquid, solid, or gas—is placed in the reactor and made radioactive by being bombarded with neutrons. The elements of the irradiated sample each then emit distinctive gamma rays. By measuring these gamma rays, an experimenter can identify what elements are in a sample.
This can be useful for things like analyzing rock samples and identifying contaminants in an industrial sample, but also has surprisingly broad applications outside the physical sciences. It's "great for artifacts," says Margie Oxley, a reactor operator and history major studying ancient China. "We had this one experiment where we had pieces of an ancient vase. By putting them into the reactor and activating certain metals, we could identify the metals and trace the trade routes that the vases went on thousands of years ago."
Unlike Novakoski, Oxley knew about the Reed reactor before arriving on campus. Not only that, but she was "pretty obsessed with it," she says: "I just thought it was a great idea that I could operate a reactor and not have to be a science major."
The reactor does not tie directly into any particular area of study—there is no nuclear engineering department at Reed—but any student at the college is welcome to use it for experiments. Likewise, the reactor operator training program is open to all students. Though the majority of Reed's 40 undergrad operators are physical science majors, there are also English, history, economics, and psychology majors.
The Reed reactor pool. (Photo courtesy of Noah Lerner)
To become licensed operators, students must take a seminar two nights per week and participate in practical training tasks. After one academic year, they may take the seven-hour licensing exam administered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government agency that regulates the nation's nuclear reactors.
During their training phase, the student operators learn to irradiate samples, which can involve putting unexpected things into the reactor. "I put a bunch of my stepmother's cosmetics in the reactor to see what sort of heavy metals were in them," says operator Marin Sklan. Oxley and fellow operator Noah Lerner "irradiated some chocolate samples from both the local student store and from China" to see if there were any adulterants inside.
Once they have become licensed, students can conduct reactor experiments on behalf of visitors, companies, and other institutions. Hawkins recalls irradiating samples from a Nigerian uranium mine to determine whether there was a contaminant problem there. "There wasn't," she says. "They decommissioned the samples, so I have them sitting on my coffee table—16 tubes of water and red dust."
"We call ourselves 'the funnest reactor in the United States,'" says Oxley. In-jokes, double entendres, and reactor-related puns are plentiful in the "joke logbook," which sits alongside the real logbook of standard operating procedures. The joke book contains "infinite double entendres about inspecting fuel elements and vital area accesses," says fellow operator Natalie Hawkins. A sophomore majoring in biology, she cites the reactor as "half the reason" she chose to study at Reed.
The playful spirit among the operators can occasionally be problematic in the eyes of the nuclear regulatory agency. The NRC, says Oxley, "isn't always a huge fan of how much fun we have." For example, they "couldn't really think of a reason why we weren't allowed to have a rubber duck on top of our nuclear reactor pool, but they just didn't like it." The government agency instructed Reed's operators to complete an official form proving the duck wasn't dangerous. The form required a lot of work, so the students relented and removed the duck from the pool. "I feel like the NRC are our parents," says Oxley.
Ilana Novakoski handling fuel. (Photo courtesy of Ilana Novakoski.)
With so much irradiation happening, some visitors who take a tour of the facility wonder if it's safe. "Everyone comes in thinking it's going to be like Chernobyl," says Oxley, but "it's pretty much impossible for our reactor to melt down." Reed says that if the worst imaginable accident were to happen at the reactor, anyone present "would have to leave the room." That would be the extent of the fallout, both literally and figuratively.
"People are more scared of nuclear energy than they should be," says Helena Pedrotti, a reactor operator and math and economics double major. As one of the students running the operator training program, Pedrotti says the incoming trainees have an "expectation that everyone else knows more about nuclear physics than they do, but the reality is that they all come in completely blind." From what she's seen, "nobody knows how a reactor really works, even if they are a physics major."
"The thing I find about the reactor," says Sklan, who is majoring in English, "is that it kind of takes care of the other half of my brain." A senior currently working on a collection of poetry that will comprise her final thesis, Sklan says that being an operator gives her "an outlet to be really analytical and quantitative and scientific."
Reactor Operations Manager Christina Barrett at the console. (Photo courtesy of Ilana Novakoski)
Novakoski, too, has found a way to balance both sides of her brain. Initially planning to major in theater, she switched to chemistry because she enjoyed working at the reactor so much. As a freshman, she even wrote a musical devoted to the Reed reactor. It included outlandish stage directions—"have a fog machine going the whole time"; "two pounds of confetti should be used"—and featured lyrics like the following:
I can calibrate a meter
Pump the primary through a heater
I've memorized every sort of system chart
I can operate under direction
Perform contamination detection
But I don't know how to fix a broken heart
When she had finished writing the 20-minute musical, Novakoski left a copy of it in the joke log book and promptly forgot about it. Two years later, she had just finished training a new group of operators. They were wrapping up a staff meeting when something unexpected happened. "All of a sudden there was this fog machine going," she recalls. The lights dimmed, and two students, illuminated by a flashlight, began to sing. The musical she wrote as a freshman was being performed—in its entirety.
A few of the newbies had found the pages in the joke log book and decided to stage "Reactor! The Fermi Award-Winning Musical" as a thank you at the end of their training. Lerner, who wrote music to accompany Novakoski's lyrics, says they even added a small part for her. "We brought her up from the audience as part of the show and gave her cue cards," he says. Novakoski remembers it as "one of the highlights of my year."
Noah Lerner and Helen Zhang perform a duet from Reactor! The Fermi Award-Winning Musical. (Photo courtesy of Noah Lerner)
Experiences like this, says Lerner, show that the reactor program has created a vibrant community of people united by a rare set of circumstances. "It's a really neat prospect: a nuclear reactor at a tiny little school," he says. "I'm really happy to be a part of it."
Hawkins agrees: "When are you ever going to be given the chance to be inside of a nuclear reactor, let alone have the opportunity to mess with the structure and the nucleus of an atom?" To have had the reactor experience at Reed, she says, is to have been given "a superpower."
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Africa (Petrarch)
Africa (Perpetuum Jazzile album)
Streets...
Streets (ice cream)
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
.Africa is the proposed Internet generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) for the African and Pan African communities and users wherever they may reside. The .africa gTLD serves as a regional domain for individuals and entities based in and out of Africa.
The .Africa gTLD has not yet been delegated to any organization as registry operator. The .Africa application that was submitted by DotConnectAfrica Trust is now the subject of an unresolved disagreement with ICANN (DCA Trust vs ICANN) following an Independent Review Panel (IRP) Process that was invoked by DCA Trust under ICANN's accountability mechanism in October 2013. The IRP was administrated by the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) New York, US.
DCA Trust had passed all the new gTLD applicant evaluation criteria, but before the Initial Evaluation (IE) result was issued, a Governmental Advisory Committee GAC Objection Advice that had been issued in Beijing in April 2013 was later accepted by the ICANN Board in early June 2013 which caused the ICANN Board to instruct ICANN staff that DCA Trust's .Africa new gTLD application will not be approved. This had caused the non-completion of the evaluation of DCA Trust's application; which then led DCA Trust to challenge the ICANN Board decision through a series of accountability mechanism.
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Africa is an epic poem in Latin hexameters by the 14th century Italian poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). It tells the story of the Second Punic War, in which the Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy, but Roman forces were eventually victorious after an invasion of north Africa led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the epic poem's hero.
Africa and De viris illustribus were partially inspired by Petrarch's visit to Rome in 1337. According to Bergin and Wilson (p. ix). It seems very likely that the inspirational vision of the Eternal City must have been the immediate spur to the design of the Africa and probably De viris illustribus as well. After returning from his grand tour, the first sections of Africa were written in the valley of Vaucluse. Petrarch recalls
The fact that he abandoned it early on is not entirely correct since it was far along when he received two invitations (from Rome and from Paris) in September 1340 each asking him to accept the crown as poet laureate. A preliminary form of the poem was completed in time for the laurel coronation April 8, 1341 (Easter Sunday).
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Africa is 2009 Perpetuum Jazzile album. By large most successful song from the album is a capella version of Toto's "Africa", the performance video of which has received more than 15 million YouTube views since its publishing in May 2009 until September 2013.
"Africa" (D. Paich/J. Porcaro/T. Kozlevčar) – 6:18
"Kadar sem sama"
"Earth Wind & Fire Medley"
"Poletna noč" (M. Sepe/E. Budau/T. Kozlevčar) – 4:20
"Aquarela do Brasil" (A. Barroso/A. Barroso/T. Kozlevčar) – 5:34
"Prebujena"
"Libertango" (Astor Piazzolla) – 3:09
"Só danço samba"
"Prisluhni školjki" (J. Golob/M. Jesih/T. Kozlevčar) – 4:15
"Bee Gees Medley" – 8:42
"No More Blues / Chega de saudade" (A. C. Jobim/V. de Moraes/T. Kozlevčar) – 3:22
"Will You Be There // Ecce quomodo moritur iustus"
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Streets... is an album by British folk musician Ralph McTell. It was McTell's most successful album, entering the UK album chart on 15 February, 1975 and remaining there for twelve weeks. It opens with McTell's hit single, "Streets of London".
All titles by Ralph McTell except * Trad. arr. Ralph McTell.
"Streets of London"
"You Make Me Feel Good"
"Grande Affaire"
"Seeds of Heaven"
"El Progresso"
"Red Apple Juice" *
"Heron Song"
"Pity the Boy"
"Interest on the Loan"
"Jenny Taylor/Je N'Étais Là"
"Lunar Lullaby"
Ralph McTell - guitars, piano, accordion, harmonica, marimba, vocals
Pete Berryman - lead guitars, rhythm guitar
Jerry Donahue - lead guitar
Mike Piggott - guitar, fiddle, violin
Rod Clements - bass
Dave Pegg - bass
Danny Thompson - double bass
Rabbit Bundrick - piano
Rod Edwards - piano
Danny Lane - drums, percussion
Bob Kerr - saxophone, horns
Sandy Spencer - cello
Alan "Madswitcher" Harris - jaws harp
Andrew Cronshaw - zither
Prelude - backing vocals
Maddy Prior - soprano
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Streets (also known as Walls in other countries) is an Australian ice-cream brand owned by the multi-national British-Dutch company Unilever. The company established a long term contract with dairy company Dairy Farmers.
Founding and history
Streets was founded in Corrimal, New South Wales, in the 1930s by Edwin "Ted" Street and his wife Daisy and is now Australia's largest ice-cream manufacturer. He set up a distribution depot at Bexley and then a factory where products were manufactured at in the Sydney suburb of Turrella until 1996, when production moved to a new facility in Minto. Today most cream-based products are produced at Minto, while water-based products are imported from Asia.
Streets introduced the Paddle Pop in 1953, and sold over ninety million units by centuries end. It ls per capita the world's best selling ice cream.
Corporate logo
The logo that it uses is the same Heartbrand logo that HB Ice Cream in Ireland use, Wall's ice cream, Good Humor, GB Glace, Selecta and Kibon use in the United Kingdom, United States, Philippines and Brazil respectively; all brands are owned by Unilever.
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Sounding the Seventh Trumpet is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold, released on January 31, 2001 by Good Life Recordings, and re-released by Hopeless Records on March 19, 2002, featuring slightly different cover art. The album was recorded in November 2000 at Westbeach Recorders in California. Although the album only sold 300 copies in its first week of release, the album has sold 370,000 copies worldwide with 310,000 sold in America, as of November 2010. The title 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet' takes its name from the Book of Revelation, specifically referencing chapter 11 and the sounding of the last (seventh) trumpet, showing the end of the world. Valary DiBenedetto (M. Shadows' future wife) performs vocals on the track "The Art of Subconscious Illusion." The album was released as 2x12 vinyl, LP, 33 ⅓ RPM, Purple on 2008 in US. Sounding the Seventh Trumpet is widely agreed as Avenged Sevenfold's heaviest album, with chugging guitars, very little clean vocals, and The Rev's blistering drums.
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Laura Davis is a multi-award-winning Australian stand-up comedian and writer, based in London.
Since making her name in 2008 as a national finalist in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival RAW competition, Laura has returned to MICF ten times with eight different solo shows, garnering a reputation as one of the most talented and distinctive acts performing at the festival. Her sixth offering, Ghost Machine, won her both the Golden Gibbo and the Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy Award in 2015. Marco Polo, her 2016 show for MICF and the Adelaide Fringe Festival, won her the prestigious Comedy Channel Moosehead Award.
Laura made her Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2017 with Cake in the Rain and returned 2018 with a reprise of Ghost Machine. Both shows received widespread critical acclaim and secured subsequent runs at London's Soho Theatre. This summer will see Laura return to the Fringe with her latest show, Better Dead than a Coward.
Laura was a writer on the seventh and eighth seasons of ABC TV's Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell, Australia's long-running satirical news and current affairs program, and she has also performed stand-up on ABC TV's Comedy Up Late, MICF Upfront Gala and ABC Comedy Next Gen Special.
Laura has also been a guest on several of the UK's leading podcasts, including The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Comedian's Comedian Podcast and The Guilty Feminist.