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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A convicted felon planned to burglarize a San Fernando Valley home but ended up kidnapping a 10-year-old girl at knifepoint and sexually assaulting her after his partner in crime fled, authorities revealed Wednesday.
The details were included in charges that were brought against Tobias Summers, a 30-year-old transient who remains a fugitive, and his 29-year-old accomplice, Daniel Martinez.
According to police, Summers broke into the house in the middle of the night March 27 while Martinez waited in a getaway car. Summers emerged from the home with the girl and they both got in the car.
Martinez drove a short distance and then abandoned the vehicle and disappeared. Summers took the girl to a vacant home nearby where he held her captive, police said.
At some point, according to a criminal complaint, Summers sexually assaulted her and forced her to pose for nude photos. The girl turned up about 12 hours later after the harrowing ordeal, disoriented and disheveled.
Police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said it was unclear why Summers abducted the girl but investigators don't believe he had targeted her when he initially went to the home.
Summers was charged with kidnapping burglary and nearly three dozen counts of sexual assault. If convicted, he faces multiple life terms in prison.
Martinez was charged with one count each of kidnapping and burglary. He faces a maximum 12-year prison term if found guilty. A phone message left for deputy public defender Robert Kayne was not immediately returned.
The girl was snatched from her bedroom and was found wandering near a Starbucks about six miles away. She was barefoot, had bruises and scratches, and wasn't wearing the same clothes she had on when she vanished.
Both men have had problems with law enforcement in the past. Summers has a criminal record dating back to 2002 that includes arrests for robbery, battery and grand theft auto. Court records show Martinez has been convicted of burglary and grand theft.
Police have received more than 130 tips in recent days regarding Summers, who they believe may have fled to San Diego or Mexico and changed his appearance by shaving his head.


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In the LXWR this week we have part 1 and 2 of Steven Rosenberg's farewell to Fedora. why Glyn Moody is rooting for Microsoft, a long overdue look at XFCE, Dr. Tony Young's final (or is it?) installment in his switching to KDE 4.4 adventures and the Linux foundation releases their annual list of who writes Linux. Enjoy!
Goodbye Fedora, welcome back Debian, Part 1: I really did like Fedora 13. I liked it enough to solve more than a handful of problems. I liked it enough to use a proprietary graphics driver for the first time (didn't like that; not only was it outside the package-management system and hard to update, it didn't perform so well either). I love the Fedora community, the openness that's everywhere, the lack of pretense. But just as everything was roses, furry kittens and such when I first ran Fedora 13 with the 2.6.33 Linux kernel, it started to go dark with the change — in mid-cycle, mind you — to the 2.6.34 kernel.
Open Source Does Not Need Monetising: It's common to hear commentators and business leaders justifying practices that wouldn't be recognised as "open source" by many of us on the grounds that they have to make money somehow. Actions that deny the software freedoms of end users – and even developers – appear like a fungus, spuriously justified by the need for profit. Phrases like "we can't give everything away" garnish the thought, and it's easy to be drawn into sympathising with them. But they are wrong. Open source itself is not about making money – that's the job of its participants. Open source is the pragmatic product and projection of software freedom.
How a "Welded-to KDE 3.5 User" Began a Move to KDE 4.4 – Part 2: In this second part of a two part guest editorial and tutorial Dr. Tony Young (an Australian Mycologist by trade) shares his trials, tribulations, successes and disappointments in working with the new version of KDE. In this installment he configures media players, K3b, Crossover Office, Lucid and Post Script and his final thoughts on his adventures.
Why I'm Rooting for Microsoft: It will not have escaped your notice that the patent system has been the subject of several posts on this blog, or that the general tenor is pretty simple: it's broken, and nowhere more evidently so than for software. Anyone can see that, but what is much harder is seeing how to fix it given the huge vested interests at work here.
The bad guys are worried – did we win?: Recently two pieces of first class anti-free software diatribe hit the headlines. The first is Microsoft's "please don't use OpenOffice.org" video and the second is Steve Jobs' anti-Android rant. Both are pretty shallow attempts at deflection and have been rightly called out as actually endorsing the subject of the attack as a valid opponent. In both cases it does seem to say that Microsoft and Jobs are concerned enough about OpenOffice.org and Android respectively that they need to tell the rest of us how bad they are.
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Goodbye Fedora, welcome back Debian, Part 2: Review of Debian Squeeze: I've been keeping my eye on Debian Squeeze (and Sid) for the past few months via live images, and in the course of the release's life there have been changes in the application lineup. Notable inclusions in the now-frozen Squeeze are the Ubuntu Software Center as an alternative way of managing applications. Yep, you read right: Debian is using the Ubuntu Software Center. It looks like Debian's developers are in a more cooperative mood than they get credit for. I for one am glad to see such cross-pollination between Ubuntu and Debian.
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Better Startup Experience (Graphical Boot Sequence)
The startup experience needs to be flicker-free, seamless and shiny. To do this we are getting rid of RHGB and writing a new program, Plymouth, that starts earlier (even before / is mounted!), doesn't require an X server, and gets rid of a lot of the noise during startup.
Plymouth will requires DRM kernel modesetting drivers to get pretty graphics, but will have a text mode fallback for systems without driver support.
- Name: RayStrode, KristianHoegsberg, JonMcCann, PeterJones, DavidAirlie, JeremyKatz et al
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 10
- Last updated: 2008-07-08
- Percentage of completion: 52%
F9 had kernel modesetting for Intel hardware. Ray has been working on a prototype rhgb replacement called Plymouth. It was put on hold while kernel modesetting was maturing, and has been revived after F9. Modesetting is again in flux, though, in rawhide, since there are two memory managers in play. These are the long anticipated TTM memory manager from tungsten graphics, and the newer GEM memory manager from Eric Anholt at Intel that supercedes TTM. Kristian is trying to get GEM into rawhide soon.
The current plymouth sources can be found here: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=plymouth;a=summary . There are plymouth packages in rawhide already, modesetting drivers, aren't, so most people won't be able to see graphical boot up yet. Having said that, we enable the text plugin by default now. Anyone using rawhide will see it, although it's sort of ugly and flickery. Live images now also run plymouth in their initrd.
The new startup sequence (including quiet kernel, quiet grub, plymouth, smooth transition to the login screen) has been demonstrated at the Red Hat Summit and was shown informally to various people at FUDcon.
Requires changes to grub, mkinitrd, initscripts, gdm, X, possibly other packages. rhgb will be replaced by Plymouth. The extent of this project is getting a graphical boot sequence that is polished and professional looking.
Boot up could be made faster, too, but that issue is orthogonal and should be tracked separately .
Test Plan
- Verify that boot without rhgb in the kernel cmdline gives a traditional text mode boot sequence
- Verify that failure to set a mode in initrd falls back to a clean and simple text mode boot sequence
- Verify that the graphical boot sequence contains only a single mode switch from blank text mode to graphical mode, and that there is a smooth transition from the startup animation to the login screen
- Verify that entering encryption passwords works both in the graphical case and in the fallback case
- Verify that specifying a mode in the kernel commandline works
- Verify that failure messages from service startup can inspected after boot
- Verify that dropping to a shell on critical errors works
This feature depends on plymouth getting into F10. It also depends on a ton of other things...
For a smooth and shiny experience, we want
- the mode should be changed early from text mode to the most optimal graphics mode available
- the mode should not be changed more than once
- there should be no other uncontrolled transitions
- there should be no text messages, unless the user presses Escape to see them
- there should be good, smooth transitions
The fallback if mode-setting fails or is unavailable is text mode.
Timeline of the current bootup
|grub info
|kernel boot
|initrd drivers
|text login
|gnome startup
|user session
Plan for improving this
- do away with mode switch for grub menu by default (ie, don't show the image unless "needed")
- Kristian currently has a patch for this. You press and hold ctrl (or any key) during boot up and the menu appears. It's in rawhide now, but the default configuration isn't making use of it.
- make kernel, nash and init obey the quiet option
- There are patches for these, though the kernel keeps sneaking messages in.
- switch to graphical mode in the initrd, draw an animation and keep it running until gdm starts up
- We have an animation but need there are some changes we need to make to the X server and GDM to keep the transitions smooth
- rhgb goes away
- rhgb is already gone
- make the X server started by gdm take over the existing vt, mode and framebuffer content
- krh has a patch which adds a -nr ("no root") option which makes the root window keep the framebuffer contents that were around when X started
- improve the transitions animation -> gdm -> session
- firstboot runs on the gdm X server
This lets us start with a blank screen in text mode, then a single switch to graphics mode, then an animation, then the login screen fades in.
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|initrd drivers
|gnome startup
|user session
One complication is support for encrypted disks. This may require us to ask for a password in the initrd, before we have X or toolkits. The proposal for acceptable input-handling (at least as far as keyboard layouts are concerned) is to write an xkb-to-console-converter.
- Make grub not display a splash image unless the user holds down ctrl to get to a menu. Grub will have a near zero timeout, but users will be able to hold the key down at the bios before grub shows up.
- Make grub not report which choice was selected if the user didn't pick a choice #239760
- Make drm drivers/mode-setting happen in the upstream kernel (see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0705.2/0893.html)
- Put drm drivers in the initrd
- If rhgb is in the kernel commandline, switch mode in initrd, use drmfb on vt7
- If rhgb is not in the kernel commandline, we still run plymouthd and it handles input but we just don't do the graphical plugins. This lets us consistently be able to count on plymouth being available
- Put animation drawing app in the initrd, keep initrd mounted until that app exits
- For selecting the mode, make s-c-d set a kernel commandline like rhgb:mode=1600x1200 or similiar
- Open question: what about multihead ? answer for now: all heads painted in background color except one chosen randomly with animation
- Display animation all the way from initrd until gdm comes up, keep initrd mounted until it exits
- Redirect init output early on to a pseudo-terminal
- Have something that buffers the output, can buffer it on the initrd
- If something happens that drops us to a shell (filesystem errors), hook up a framebuffer console with the pseudo-terminal
- If there are warnings in the saved bootup messages, show a "Show boot messages" button on the login screen and/or in the notification area
- Need to start X on the existing vt, not set mode (unless we are still in text mode), preserve existing framebuffer content
- Coordinate session startup. fade in ? might be able to do something nice if we have compositing
- krh to get GEM in rawhide. GEM is a key component to getting shared graphics between X and plymouth.
- plymouth needs to be ported to use libdrm api for modesetting. It currently uses standard kernel ioctls on /dev/fb for getting a front buffer to render to. By using libdrm we'll be able to set the mode intellibly in multihead environments, place X's mouse cursor off center before X is even started, etc. This api is still in flux, though.
- plymouth's password entry needs to be smarter about boundries. You can currently type past the edge of the entry
- we need to update rc.sysinit to call plymouth hide-splash before jumping to a sulogin. Right now plymouth keeps going on top of the sulogin, so the user never knows what's happening.
- We need to update mkinitrd to use plymouth ask-for-password --command="cryptsetup luksOpen ..." instead of doing plymouth --ask-for-password > password.txt; cryptsetup luksOpen ... password.txt. The new --command interface allows plymouth to call cryptsetup in a loop if the user mistypes password.
- rc.sysinit also needs to use plymouth ask-for-password where it asks for passwords
- We need to make plymouth support font rendering after root fs is mounted, so auxillary encrypted block devices can have a prompt string.
- We need to add a -hidecursor (ajax already has a patch from someone) and -nr (don't clear frontbuffer) options to X to make the transition from plymouth to X smoother.
- We need to update GDM to use those option.
- We need to update GDM to not set it's background, and instead just use what was shown during plymouth
- We need to make plymouth always run, even if rhgb isn't on the command line, so we still get boot logging and nash's daemonize command doesn't get confused.
- Turn on silent grub mode
- Need to run art by fedora-art-list for opinions and potential changes
- Need to figure out what to do on shutdown. This probably means having a plymouth client command to activate the daemon and show splash
- Need to figure out what to do on wake up from hibernate. We can probably show a still image, but no animation.
- Right now we get events about boot from the legacy init scripts. Might be nice to get events in a more upstart friendly way.
- Might be good to detect a failure during boot up and show it to the user at the login screen via a notification area icon.
- Add all the changes we did to mkinitrd to mkliveinitrd so we can have plymouth for live images too (jeremy to look into this)
Contingency Plan
If things don't work out as expected, we can bring back rhgb from the dead.
Release Notes
Q: LuyaTshimbalanga: What happened to early-login project?
- Ray Strode: early-login was ditched a while ago, though, Jon Nettleton recently started something similiar. See fedora-desktop-list
Q: MartinJürgens: The shutdown experience should also be nice and shiny. Would be nice if this spec would include that.
- Ray Strode: potentially, although I'd like shutdown to just be 'kill all processes that have open files' and cut power
Q: MikePetullo: There is an effort to bring encrypted root filesystems to Fedora. One of the weaknesses of our work so far is that we can't provide an internationalized encryption key prompt very early in the boot process (i.e., in the initrd). Could this better startup feature allow us to do this?
- Ray Strode: Given that encrypted block devices are slated for F9, i think we have to bring this into account. I talked to Jeremy Katz about this last week some. The answer to the i18n problem, may be to use icons instead of text. We could potentially have text, but it means bringing in my libraries, potentially translations, etc


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E-Man wrote:migya wrote:I really get disgusted with Nelson's lack of use of Randolph and BWright. One or both could provide enough at PF, with rebounding and shot blocking especially. No point trading for an expensive big name big when Nelson just isn't the coach for a player like that
jury's still out as far as wright's concern IMO for this season. he was getting decent tick especially by nellie standards for a young big. of course this was before his injury. hopefully when he comes back he can work his way back to the starting 4 spot.
I still don't think BWright has had enough of a chance. He does provide things the team nees, like shot blocking and rebounding, though his rebounding has been worse than some expected, he still provides in areas the team needs. Both he and Randolph are pretty cheap right now and can only get better, so they must be given at least a good chance, like a month of 30mins and over, to really see what they can do


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I would like to point your attention to two great e-books that I have read recently.
The first is Epic Jesus, by Frank Viola. This was originally delivered as a conference message, and was then converted into a short e-book. This little book brings a stunning revelation of Christ throughout the scriptures, and brings God's eternal purpose into view. The book is about 20 pages, and can be purchased here for $3.99. The original audio message is available for free at this link as well.
Secondly, I would like to point you to an e-book titled Junia is Not Alone, by scholar Scot McKnight. It's another short read, but well worth your time. Here's the product description from amazon.com:
In this fierce essay, leading Bible scholar Scot McKnight tells the story of Junia, a female apostle honored by Paul in his Letter to the Romans—and then silenced and forgotten for most of church history. But Junia's tragedy is not hers alone. She's joined by fellow women in the Bible whose stories of bold leadership have been overlooked. She's in the company of visionary women of God throughout the centuries whose names we've forgotten, whose stories go untold, and whose witness we neglect to celebrate.
Not only does this book highlight the important role women play in the scriptures, it gives some insight into how we have arrived with our english translations of the Bible.
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HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — Imagine all those staunch Sixers fans falling for a skinny Boston kid raised four miles from the enemy Celtics' home court.
Get ready, Philly, here comes Nerlens Noel.
Maybe a love affair rising from the failed ashes of Andrew Bynum isn't so far-fetched. After all, Noel's outdated box-top hair-do is inspired by his fave entertainer, Philadelphia's own Will Smith from his days as the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
"Everything's for a reason," the 76ers rookie center told NBA.com last week, referring to the ACL tear in his left knee that derailed his near-certain path to becoming the No. 1 pick.
"I definitely feel the injury is a blessing in disguise, and I feel that Philly is perfect as to my style, and definitely my playing style. I'm just always playing hard, working for everything and, of course, the city of Philadelphia itself having the die-hard fans they do and just being a blue-collar city."
When the home fans will get their first look at the one-year Kentucky wonder remains uncertain.
Noel's relentless recovery is ongoing. The devastating injury occurred on Feb. 12 in just his 24th collegiate game, the result of a hustle play the Wildcats' center didn't have to attack. He could have surrendered the breakaway layup against against rival Florida. He sprinted, closed the gap, leaped and swatted the ball away from behind. His 106th block had him on pace to threaten 2012 No. 1 pick Anthony Davis' school-record from the season before. Noel crashed to the floor and didn't get up.
More than four months later at the NBA Draft, Noel waited. He slid from No. 1 to No. 6.
"I don't regret making that play," Noel said. "I definitely wanted to put my team in the best position to win and I'm not mad at myself for making that play. That's just who I am."
Since undergoing surgery on March 12, and up until just last week, the 19-year-old Noel slept, ate and rehabbed in Birmingham, Ala., punching work-week-like hours to rebuild his knee under the supervision of renowned surgeon Dr. James Andrews and esteemed physical therapist Kevin Wilk. He's finally seeing evidence of all that hard work.
"I feel great. I'm really starting to feel like my old self, being able to have my explosiveness. But I'm definitely being careful with it," Noel said. "From Day 1, every time I was in rehab, the last few reps, I would just think how bad I want to get on the court because of how much I want to prove to myself that I can get back and be the player I want to be."
NBA training camps open in about two weeks, but it will still take time before Noel can get down to serious preparations with Philly. He began with baby steps back on the court about two months ago, but contact team drills will be off limits, and a debut date is not yet being discussed, at least not publicly. He has always hoped to play by Christmas.
"I want to be 100 percent confident not only physically, but mentally coming back from it," Noel said.
He's only now getting to know the city, having moved to Philadelphia about 10 days ago. He dropped off some boxes there, then he traveled to Lexington to attend a Wildcats alumni game and then to Los Angeles for a Reebok photo shoot, where he revealed the company will encourage his retro "Fresh Prince" fashion sense. Moving to Philly earlier in the summer wasn't really an option. He and the Sixers' No. 11 pick, Michael Carter-Williams, remain the only first-round picks yet to sign their rookie contracts.
Salaries for first-round picks are slotted, so there's no contract dispute here. The bottomed-out, 76ers, now under the guidance of general manager Sam Hinkie, are conserving cap space as they slowly fill out the roster. Then they'll ink their draft picks. Unsigned players are prohibited from using team facilities and working with training and coaching staffs.
"It's not too disappointing. I'm definitely working as much as I can and staying focused. That will come," Noel said. "They're making strategic moves right now so I definitely understand, but that's not stopping me from rehabbing and getting back to where I want to be."
Hinkie has a vision of where that one day will be. He traded All-Star point guard Jrue Holiday to New Orleans to make Noel the centerpiece of his rebuild. Listed at 6-foot-10 at Kentucky, Noel measured 6-foot-11 3/4 with shoes at the Draft Combine in May. His several-inches-high flat-top reminds of the classic line uttered by the late Chick Hearn in the movie "Fletch:" He's actually 6-5, with the afro 6-9." Noel might actually top 7-foot.
His hair even has its own Twitter account (@NoelsFlatTop). Among its more than 2,700 followers is Noel, who doesn't know who started the account when he was a top recruit.
Noel's height, with or without the flat-top, is of lesser concern than filling out his long slender frame that's equipped with a 7-foot-4 wing span. Noel weighed 216 pounds as a freshman and dropped to 206 post-surgery, a weight that could never survive in the NBA trenches. He's up to 221 and wants to get close to 230 by the time he plays in an NBA game.
As he gets older, he knows he'll have to continually get stronger to bang with the East's big boys such as the Pacers' 7-foot-2, 280-pound center Roy Hibbbert. Noel said he's already enlisted Hibbert, who has his own array of old-school post moves, to aid his low-post development. That is an aspect of Noel's game that barely exists at the moment, and some question if it ever will.
Noel averaged 10.5 ppg at Kentucky mostly off dunks, but he said he's capable of becoming a steady offensive weapon in the NBA.
"Especially with my work ethic and my focus, I'll be able to do that," Noel said. "The things he teaches me, mix it with my mobility, add a little flavor to it, I can develop an offensive game."
First things first, and that's regaining full strength in his knee. But don't worry Philly, the Boston kid is on his way.


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The Chapel Choir and the Symphonette at Hope College will both be touring during the college's spring break.
The Chapel Choir and the Symphonette at Hope College will both be touring during the college's spring break.
The choir will be performing in Michigan and Ontario, Canada, and the Symphonette will be traveling to the East Coast with performances in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Chapel Choir will perform in Toronto in Ontario on Friday, March 14; in Sudbury, Ontario on Sunday, March 16; and in Mason on Monday, March 17. The choir will also present its annual post-tour "Home" concert on Monday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, located at 195 W. 13th St., at 13th Street and Maple Avenue in Holland.
The Symphonette will perform in Flint on Thursday, March 13; in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, March 14; in East Stroudsburg, Pa., on Saturday, March 15; in Colts Neck, N.J., on Sunday, March 16; and in Belmar, N.J., and Sommerville, N.J., on Monday, March 17.
The Chapel Choir was organized in 1929 and began touring annually in 1953. In addition to touring extensively in the United States and Canada, the choir has made a European tour seven times, most recently in May 2005.
The members are selected by audition. The choir is directed by Dr. Brad Richmond, who is associate professor of music and director of choral activities at Hope.
The Symphonette was organized in 1953. The group has toured coast-to-coast in the United States, and has also performed in two provinces in Canada, the British Isles, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The Symphonette last traveled abroad in May 2007, performing in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.
The Symphonette's members are selected each year from the college symphony orchestra. The Symphonette is directed by Dr. Gabe Southard, assistant professor of music. Sarah Southard, an oboist, will be performing with the group as a guest soloist.
The Chapel Choir and Symphonette each maintain active local performance schedules. Both groups have also made numerous radio and television appearances, including the nationally televised "Hour of Power" from Garden Grove Church in California. Both groups are also featured in Hope's nationally broadcast Christmas Vespers program each December.


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Early on this Super Tuesday primary night, Rick Santorum appears to be headed for what he can legitimately claim is a two-person race for Republican nomination. With early returns in, it appears he'll win Oklahoma and Tennessee, with a good chance for a victory in North Dakota, and perhaps a narrow win in Ohio, which would be huge.
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Teacher Introduction
Global warming has become one of the most pressing issues facing the United States and the world. The following webquest, based on the Koshland Science Museum's exhibit Global Warming: Facts and Our Future, was designed primarily to introduce high school and middle school students to the complicated issues surrounding global warming and climate change. Through participating in a fictitious scenario, students will take an active role in determining how and why climate is changing and how humans may have contributed to these changes. Students become climate scientists, policy analysts, economists, energy experts, and urban planners as they learn about climate science, environmental impacts, policy initiatives, and renewable energy choices. Upon completion of their individual tasks, student teams present their findings and make recommendations that address the situation.
How To Use This Activity: Ideally, the webquest should be used in preparation for visits to the Koshland Science Museum or for extended learning afterward. However, the activity can also be completed online. The webquest will introduce students to the concepts of global warming, climate change, and sustainable energy sources.
In the classroom, this webquest activity can be used in many different ways To encourage cooperative learning, students should be divided up into groups of five and each student in the group should assume the role of one of the climate action team members. Working in a group allows students to experience the way a real-world investigative team operates. Alternatively, students can complete the webquest individually and investigate all five roles by themselves. Either way, students should be required to share their findings with the class by creating a presentation using multimedia whenever possible.
This webquest is designed to take approximately one week. To shorten the activity, students could complete only the group work section, which should take one class period.
You can find more information about the webquest in the following sections
Flowchart and worksheets - Graphical flowchart of student activities and corresponding worksheets.
Science Education Standards - The National Science Education Standards relevant to this activity.
Evaluation - Rubric for evaluating student achievement
Suggested Websites and Resources
Flowchart and Worksheets
The following worksheets are used in this webquest.
Individual worksheets
Climate Scientist
Policy Analyst
Energy Expert
Urban Planner
Science Standards
Science Standards
The Global Warming Webquest is modeled on recommendations made in the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) and meets the following Inquiry and Science Content standards:
For Middle School Students
Content Standard A – Understanding about Scientific Inquiry
"Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations."
Students work with peers and consider the evidence that informs decisions related to climate change to draw links between evidence and explanations.
Content Standard B – Physical Science
"Students should develop an understanding of properties of matter, motion and forces and transfer of energy."
Students learn the transfer of energy through models illustrating the "greenhouse effect." Students are given an opportunity to better understand factors that contribute to changes in the Earth's climate, including the Earth's orbit variation in solar emission and ocean circulation, and changes in greenhouse gases and aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere.
Content Standard C – Life Science
"Students should develop an understading of regulation and behavior and populations and ecosystems."
Students develop a deeper understanding of populations and ecosystems as they learn about possible impacts of global climate change and changing ecosystems. Adaptations among organisms and populations are likely as temperature and water availability fluctuates.
Content Standard D – Earth and Space Science
"Students should develop an understanding of the Earth in the solar system."
Through data and information presented on global atmospheric patterns and the role of oceans in climate , students develop a better understanding of the structure of Earth as a system, Earth's geographic history, and Earth's role in the solar system. Students also learn that solar energy is the Earth's main source of energy and that climate patterns, seasons, and ecosystems depend on the input, transformation, and retention of solar energy.
Content Standard E – Science and Technology
"Students should develop understandings about science and technology."
Students will observe the many ways in which scientists have collected data and predicted future climate change. Methods of data collection and analysis are explained. Data from the last century are used in computer models to understand patterns over time.
Content Standard F - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
"Students should develop understanding of natural hazards and risks and benefits."
Students gain a better understanding of natural hazards as they relate to global climate patterns. As students examine potential impacts of climate changes, they are challenged to think about estimating rates of change, types of natural disasters and possible locations of those disasters.
Content Standard G – History and Nature of Science
"Students should develop an understanding of science as a human endeavor and nature of science."
The webquest activity examines the impact of human endeavors on the climate system and how that information can be used to predict future events.
For High School Students
Content Standard A – Understanding about Scientific Inquiry
"Students should develop understandings about scientific inquiry, recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models and communicate and defend a scientific argument."
Through the "use of empirical standards, logical argument and skepticism" students analyze the data presented, evaluate how they were generated, and consider their validity and significance of in predicting potential global climate change. Students use evidence to support and defend their positions, and think logically and critically about potential future consequences of global climate change.
Content Standard B – Physical Science
"Students should develop understandings of chemical reactions, conservation of energy and the increase in disorder, and interactions, of energy and matter."
Students explore the role of greenhouse gases in natural and amplified warming. Students also explore evidence of human impacts and changing CO2 levels and are required to apply their knowledge of dynamic systems, data analysis, and the interactions of matter and energy. Students look at methods of collecting and interpreting evidence. Students use computer models to apply knowledge of chemical interactions and their consequences to forecast a changing but uncertain climatic future.
Content Standard C – The Cell
"Students should develop understanding of the intersependence of organisms, and matter, energy and organization in living systems."
Students explore how the carbon cycle, cellular functions, chemical reactions, and human population size and activities affect the environment. Data from prehistoric climates allow students to apply their understanding of matter, energy, and organization in past living systems to think critically about the impacts of human behavior. Students use models to predict the effects of future climate change on health and disease, agriculture, changing water resources, and loss of biodiversity.
Content Standard D – Earth and Space Science
"Students should develop understanding of energy in the Earth system."
The webquest activities give students a chance to work with scientific evidence to examine the effects of the Earth's energy balance on climate. Students investigate evidence for global warming through deep time, collect data on past changes, and compare those data with more recent data and with changes in human population sizes and activities.
Content Standard E – Science and Technology
"Students should develop understandings of understandings about science and technology."
The webquest activities provide opportunities for students to gather and analyze data developed by advanced technology and modeling systems. Students see how the amounts and forms of data increase as new technologies are developed and employed.
Content Standard F – Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
"Students should develop understandings of environmental quality, natural and human induced hazards, and science and technology in local, national and global challenges."
The webquest activities allow students to work in collaborative teams to collect data, think about their implications, and consider potential future global challenges. After students understand the science, they have opportunities to discuss implications for public policy and economics.
Content Standard G – History and the Nature of Science
"Students should develop understandings of science as a human endeavor and the nature of scientific knowledge."
Students learn that scientists share their methods and data, review each other's work, and come to differing conclusions about results. Working as scientists, students discuss the data provided, share their interpretations, pose additional questions, and debate the significance of climate uncertainties in the future.
Download the Evaluation Rubric.
Alternate Activities
Global Warming Webquest Sugested Websites and Resources page
Suggested Websites:
National Academy of Sciences :
National Academy of Sciences - Global Change
State Government:
Energy Quest (State of California)
State of California - Climate Change Portal
Federal Government:
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
US EPA Climate Change Kids Site
US EPA Climate Change
NOAA Climate Prediction Center
NOAA Climate Program Office
NOAA Paleoclimatology
NASA's Earth Observatory
EIA Energy Kids Links
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Implications of Climate Change (IPCC)
UNEP-GRID-Arendal Climate Change
Scientific Organizations:
AAAS Climate Change Newsroom
AAAS Power Up! On-Line Energy Game
The Discovery of Global Warming On-line Textbook
Princeton University Carbon Mitigation Initiative
The Stabilization Triangle: A Concept & Game (Princeton University CMI)
Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide Carleton College - Teaching Climate Change
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) :
Teachers' Guide to High Quality Educational Materials on Climate Change and Global Warming (Carnegie Mellon)
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
UCS - The Great Green Web Game
UCS - Just the Facts
UCS - Climate Choices
Energy Hog
NRDC's Green Squad
The Keystone Center - Climate Status Investigations
The Nature Conservancy Climate Change Initiative
California Global Climate Change & Energy
National Energy Education Development Project
Renewable Energy Policy Project and Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
Earth Day Network
Sloan Career Cornerstone Center (Careers in Science)
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Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
New York Times Science - Global Warming
Time Magazine Special Report - Global Warming
ABC News - Hot Zone: Global Warming
PBS - NOW: Global Warming
PBS - NOVA Frontline: Global Warming
PBS - NOVA Frontline: Warnings From the Ice
PBS - Scientific American Frontiers: Hot Times in Alaska
PBS - NOVA Online Adventures: Tracking El Nino
PBS - NOVA: Sinking City of Venice
NPR - Science Friday
NPR - Tech Nation
National Geographic - Global Warming
National Geographic Kids - Melting Away
Seed Magazine - Climate Change Cribsheet
Science Museums:
Exploratoriam - Science From the Poles/Climate Change
Exploratorium - Climate Change
Real Climate Blog
Suggested DVDs:
The Great Warming
An Inconvenient Truth
National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth
Discovery Channel - Global Warming: What You Need to Know with Tom Brokaw
Kilowatt Ours
Suggested Books:
The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
Kirstin Dow and Thomas Downing
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Tim Flannery
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Elizabeth Kolbert
Climate Change: Turning Up the Heat
A. Barrie Pittock
The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
Eugene Linden
An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
Richard B. Alley
Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
Mark Bowen
The North Pole Was Here - Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World
Andrew C. Revkin
Climate Change and Biodiversity
Edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah
Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007
The Editors of Science
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America 's Energy Future
Jeff Goodell


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It's no surprise that Paul Ryan's budget passed the House of Representatives recently, although it is refreshing that 10 Republicans voted against it. Nor is it any surprise that Mitt Romney is also for this budget and has embraced it, and Paul Ryan, who has in turn endorsed him.
So we have a look at what the Republicans want to do with the budget. Number one, they want to cut taxes for the rich even more than now. This budget also doesn't lower the debt very much - which shows that lowering the debt is not their priority, but only lip service to those who don't look closely at the details.
This budget would hurt so many people who are not rich. Medicare, one of the most popular programs we have, would change to a voucher program, with seniors hoping to find a benevolent insurance company who would accept their "voucher" and provide them with the health care they need. Good luck with that.
Prescription drug costs would rise again. The budget also slashes $3.3 trillion from other programs for low-income citizens, hurting not only the elderly, but the disabled and the poor. There is absolutely no concern for anyone in the middle or lower class income levels.
This budget cuts jobs and slashes investments in programs such as highway spending, education, basic research, sustainable energy, and more.
In contrast, we have another budget. It won't pass, maybe won't even come to a vote, but it shows what could happen if the Democrats win back the House of Representatives in November. It is the budget for all, from the Progressive Caucus of the Democratic Party in the House.
This budget helps put Americans back to work, charts a path to responsible deficit reduction, enhances our economic competitiveness, rebuilds the middle class, and invests in our future, according to the Progressive Caucus website.
There are no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, and it asks those who benefit most in this country to pay a fair share. This was common policy until recently, when greed took over.
The budget provides $2.9 trillion in job-creating opportunities. This would help those seeking employment.
Without devastating programs that almost all Americans want, this budget would achieve $6.8 trillion in deficit reduction.
This budget returns us to a more fair tax policy.
It brings the troops home.
It helps to protect families.
The contrast is clear - the choice is clear as well.
What kind of society do we wish for the future? One where the majority of people matter, and have a fair shake. Or one which caters to the wealthy far beyond their share?
This is not about class warfare - that is just a Fox News talking point, which is now echoed by all the Republican candidates for the nomination. We should have room for people of all income levels - and all of them should benefit from our American society as American citizens. This is the way it was in the past, and there is no reason that it cannot be that way again.
A good reminder for our budget process would be - do no harm.
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4th of July, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu (Jesu) Christi 2013
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South Dakota State 3rd in Sporting News Summit League Rankings
It's the question area college basketball fans have been asking: just how good will defending Summit League champs South Dakota State be without Nate Wolters this season?
One early answer? Not as good.
The 2013-14 Sporting News College Basketball Yearbook is the first to hit newsstands, and in his breakdown of the Summit League, John Akers of the Basketball Times, has the Jackrabbits slipping to third place behind North Dakota State and conference newcomer Denver.
South Dakota is picked sixth.
The Sporting News Projections:
1. North Dakota State
2. Denver
3. South Dakota State
4. Omaha
5. Western Illinois
6. South Dakota
7. Fort Wayne
SDSU is not only the defending regular season champs in the Summit, they have won the conference tournament each of the last two years.
Jordan Dykstra, South Dakota StateMarshall Bjorklund, North Dakota State
Taylor Braun, North Dakota State
Justin Simmons, Omaha
Chris Udofia, Denver
Top Player: Chris Udofia, Denver
Top Newcomer: Ja'Rob McCallum, IUPUI
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text: All Eyes on Spring Weather March 19, 2013 07:38 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Schafer Top Producer Editor Email With planting season nearing, weather may make or break the 2013 crop. Here's the outlook. With March nearly half over, planting conditions and weather forecasts are top-of-mind. In some southern states, planters are already rolling. "Corn planters rolling here," reports a southeast Arkansas farmer to AgWeb's Crop Comments. "Temps could be a little warmer, but we take what we get." A farmer from Fayetteville County, Texas, already has some corn up. "Our moisture is kind of iffy but our corn should come up. Soil seems very cold for Texas this time of year. The corn below was planted Feb. 22." The Market Impact of Rain Needed moisture in hard red winter wheat areas are lowering prices. Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State extension economist, says the biggest reason wheat price declined was improved soil moisture in both the corn and HRW wheat growing areas. "Moisture over the hard red winter wheat area trumps just about any other market factor." Learn more about weather's market impact and the spring weather outlook, with this video from AgDay: Brad Rippey, USDA Meteorologist, says overall drought conditions are improving. "So if you look at the major row crops in the Midwest, which includes corn and soybeans, we do have a fairly favorable moisture situation at least in the top soil moisture levels heading into Spring," he says. "The overall picture is certainly better than we were this time last year, especially for the Midwest. We still have a lot of concerns from California to the central and southern plains however." Even though some areas of the country have put the drought behind them (See: Drought Conditions Cease in Eastern Corn Belt), many areas are still suffering. For a recent AgWeb poll, more than 1,800 people have shared their answer to: How long do you expect the drought to last in your area? Around 33% of the votes are for more than one year. See the individual state results: Red = More than 1 year Orange = 6-12 months Yellow = 3-6 months Green = My area has recovered from drought Check Your Weather Forecast What's in store for your area? AgWeb offers these weather forecasting tools: Pinpoint Weather: A suite of information that lets you view weather conditions, forecasts and rainfall down to the field level. Among the more exciting features of Pinpoint Weather is its ability to track storm movements and speed. By rolling your cursor over the storm icon on the map, you can see where a storm is heading and what time it will arrive. Daily Temperature Ranges: The daily high and low temperatures for your region. Observed Rainfall: Precipitation levels within the last six hours. Crop Moisture Levels: An index that tells you how much moisture is in the ground. Long-Range Temperature Outlook: Will it be hotter or colder than normal during the next week, month, or three months? These charts show the future. Severe Weather Forecast: Can you expect any weather hazards today? This chart outlines possibilities for floods, blizzards, and other dangerous conditions. Palmer Drought Index: An index that measures drought conditions throughout the country. Cumulative Rainfall: Check to see how much rain has fallen in your region within the last day, week, or even three months. Back to news


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Is Lady Gaga's 'ARTPOP' Tour Flopping?
The web is full of unsubstantiated reports that Lady Gaga's artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball Tour is a flop that isn't moving tickets. Well, a Live Nation bigwig has gone on record to address those allegations.
The truth is the The ARTPOP Ball is far from a flop. In fact, it's quite the opposite.
Arthur Fogel, the chairman of Live Nation's global touring divisions, dismissed the reports as "ridiculous," delivering facts and figures. The tour is at 80% capacity sold in North American and Europe, despite not even launching until May, which means the tour is close to selling out and should sell out by the time the shows roll around.
"The run with Gaga over the last two tours has been incredibly successful, and this one is shaping up no differently," Fogel told Billboard.
Six more North American shows will be announced shortly, as well as fourth O2 gig in London. Struggling tours don't add shows; they axe them.
Additionally, the 29 North American shows have grossed $26 million in ticket sales already, which shakes out to about $900,000 per show. That doesn't sound like a failing tour, either.
Fogel also addressed Gaga's June show in Milwaukee, which was said to be a dud. He revealed the show has sold more than 14,000 tickets, is grossing $961,000 and it's still three months away.
"I just don't know how this s—t gets any traction without people doing their homework," he said. He also scoffed at the report that the tour put Live Nation in the red by $30 million, saying, "Just a complete fool would say something like that and it could only come from somebody who has an agenda, because it makes absolutely no sense, on any level."
If the tour was losing that kind of scratch, Live Nation would have stanched the bleeding and moved to scrap it by now.
A lot of these reports about Gaga flopping are often the work of Gaga haters. Do a little digging and you will find items with shaky facts (and others that appear rather well-researched, too) that seem to relish in taking down Gaga while celebrating her peers. That is very much an agenda.
While 'ARTPOP' without a doubt did not perform as many had expected and hoped and was on of 2013's biggest disappointments, Gaga is not on the mat, down for the count. She is coming out swinging again.