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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Real-Time Parking Startup ParkMe Launches An Android App
Real-time parking startup ParkMe wants to help find you parking -- in real-time. The company, which originally started out on the Web, has been making a big push behind mobile apps, which is really smart, because most times when you're looking for parking, you're not on a PC, but you have a smartphone nearby. And it just launched on Android.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/6UIkSEunc5E/
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Hartford School Board Appoints Four School Principals; Postpones A Fifth After Union Concerns
HARTFORD ? ?
The board of education confirmed the appointments of four school principals Tuesday night, including new leaders for Jumoke Academy at Milner School, Breakthrough Magnet School and Pathways Academy of Technology and Design.
But in a rare move, the Hartford Federation of Teachers publicly objected to a fifth administrator, Gerardo Heredia, who has been acting principal at America's Choice at S.A.N.D. School since 2011. The district sought to make that a permanent appointment; the board postponed a vote on him.
Union President Andrea Johnson said the union has filed numerous grievances against Heredia and has lodged complaints about "unfair labor practices." One area of concern, Johnson said, involves teacher evaluations.
"Unfortunately, teachers fear speaking freely at S.A.N.D. School," Johnson told the board, saying there was a "fear of retribution."
Heredia declined to comment when reached late Tuesday.
After Superintendent Christina Kishimoto asked if it was "appropriate" for Johnson to air detailed concerns ? "I feel you're violating my constitutional rights," Johnson responded ? the five board members at the meeting decided to postpone their vote on Heredia.
The other principal candidates received unanimous board approval.
Karen Lott will soon take over at Milner, a low-performing school on Vine Street that is completing its first year as part of the state Commissioner's Network. Lott, the principal of Brennan-Rogers School of Communication and Media in New Haven, will receive a $131,355 salary and begins July 1.
In the city's Behind the Rocks neighborhood, Breakthrough Assistant Principal Julie Goldstein will be just the second person to lead the 355-student magnet school on Brookfield Street, following Norma Neumann-Johnson.
Neumann-Johnson, a proponent of the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation case who founded Breakthrough in her push for quality integrated education, is retiring after a 45-year career in the Hartford school system. Breakthrough practices character education and is the only public school in Connecticut to use mindfulness-based stress reduction, a form of meditation, in classes each day, according to Goldstein.
After the board's vote, Neumann-Johnson gave Goldstein a bouquet of flowers.
Goldstein told the board that becoming a principal was a personal "culmination." In 1990, right out of college, she started as a Teach for America high school language arts teacher in Los Angeles before becoming a social worker and, eventually, an administrator who was mentored by Neumann-Johnson. Her salary is set at $115,388.
At Pathways, a technology-focused, regional magnet high school, the new principal will be David Goldblum, now an assistant principal at New Haven's James Hillhouse High School. Goldblum replaces longtime school leader Steven Dellinger-Pate, who accepted an administrative job in the district's central office starting in July.
Goldblum, whose salary will be $120,657, will oversee Pathways' move from its temporary location in Windsor to a $40 million building being constructed near Goodwin College in East Hartford. The new school should be ready for students and staff by February 2014, Dellinger-Pate said.
The board also approved Jay Mihalko as the permanent principal at Noah Webster Microsociety Magnet School, effective Wednesday. Mihalko has been acting principal this year at the high-performing West End school where Tuesday's meeting was held. The district listed his salary as $113,930.
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Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb
In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013 aerial photo, emergency responders make their way down a street of damaged homes following Monday's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Kim Johnson Flodin)
In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013 aerial photo, emergency responders make their way down a street of damaged homes following Monday's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Kim Johnson Flodin)
This aerial photo shows the remains of houses in Moore, Okla., following a tornado Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/Steve Gooch)
Storm clouds build in the distance beyond tornado-ravaged homes Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
The rubble of a destroyed neighborhood is strewn about a neighborhood in Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Many homes were stripped to their foundations Monday by a tornado which moved through the area. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
An aerial view of an entire neighborhood destroyed by Monday's tornado is shown Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Everything had to come together just perfectly to create the killer tornado in Moore, Okla.: wind speed, moisture in the air, temperature and timing. And when they did, the awesome energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
On Tuesday, the National Weather Service gave it the top-of-the-scale rating of EF5 for wind speed and breadth, and severity of damage. Wind speeds were estimated at between 200 and 210 mph. The death count is 24 so far, including at least nine children. The United States averages about one EF5 a year, but this was the first in nearly two years.
To get such an uncommon storm to form is "a bit of a Goldilocks problem," said Pennsylvania State University meteorology professor Paul Markowski. "Everything has to be just right."
For example, there must be humidity for a tornado to form, but too much can cut the storm off. The same goes with the cold air in a downdraft: Too much can be a storm-killer.
But when the ideal conditions do occur, watch out. The power of nature beats out anything man can create.
"Everything was ready for explosive development yesterday," said Colorado State University meteorology professor Russ Schumacher, who was in Oklahoma launching airborne devices that measured the energy, moisture and wind speeds on Monday. "It all just unleashed on that one area."
Several meteorologists contacted by The Associated Press used real time measurements, some made by Schumacher, to calculate the energy released during the storm's 40-minute life span. Their estimates ranged from 8 times to more than 600 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb, with more experts at the high end. Their calculations were based on energy measured in the air and then multiplied over the size and duration of the storm.
An EF5 tornado has the most violent winds on Earth, more powerful than a hurricane. The strongest winds ever measured were the 302 mph reading, measured by radar, during the EF5 tornado that struck Moore on May 3, 1999, according to Jeff Masters, meteorology director at the Weather Underground.
Still, when it comes to weather events, scientists usually know more about and can better predict hurricanes, winter storms, heat waves and other big events.
That's because even though a tornado like the one that struck Moore was 1.3 miles wide, with a path of 17 miles long, in meteorological terms it was small, hard to track, rare and even harder to study. So tornadoes are still more of a mystery than their hurricane cousins, even though tropical storms form over ocean areas where no one is, while this tornado formed only miles from the very National Weather Service office that specializes in tornadoes.
"This phenomenon can be so deadly you would think that something that catastrophic, that severe would lend itself to understanding," said Adam Houston, meteorology professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "But we're fighting the inherent unpredictability of these small-scale phenomena."
Unlike hurricanes, which forecasters can fly through in planes and monitor with buoys and weather stations, usually over a period of days, tornadoes form quickly and normally last only a matter of minutes. While meteorologists and television hosts chase tornadoes and try to get readings, it's not usually enough. This storm lasted 40 minutes ? long for a regular tornado but not too unusual for such a violent one, said research meteorologist Harold Brooks at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla.
Still, the conditions needed to form such a violent and devastating tornado were there and forecasters knew it, warning five days in advance that something big could happen, Brooks said.
By Monday morning, forecasters at the National Weather Center, home of the storm lab and storm prediction center, knew "that any storm that formed in that environment had the potential to be a strong to violent tornado," he said.
"This is a pretty classic setup," Brooks said.
Tornadoes have two main ingredients: moist energy in the atmosphere and wind shear. Wind shear is the difference between wind at high altitudes and wind near the surface. The more moist energy and the greater the wind shear, the better the chances for tornadoes.
But just because the conditions are right doesn't mean a violent tornado will form, and scientists still don't know why they occur in certain spots in a storm and not others, and why at certain times and not others.
On Monday, the moist energy came up from the Gulf of Mexico, the wind shear from the jet stream plunging from Canada. "Where they met is where the Moore storm got started," Brooks said.
With the third strong storm hitting Moore in 14 years ? and following roughly the same path as an EF5 that killed 40 people in 1999 and an EF4 that injured 45 others in 2003 ? some people are wondering why Moore?
It's a combination of geography, meteorology and lots of bad luck, experts said.
If you look at the climate history of tornadoes in May, you will see they cluster in a spot, maybe 100 miles wide, in central Oklahoma, Houston said. That's where the weather conditions of warm, moist air and strong wind shear needed for tornadoes combine, in just the right balance.
"Central Oklahoma is a hot spot and there's a good reason for it," Houston said. "There's this perfect combination where the jet stream is strong, the instability is large and the typical position for this juxtaposition climatologically is central Oklahoma."
And the timing has to be perfect. Earlier in the year, there's not enough warm moist air, but the jet stream is stronger. Later, the jet stream is weaker but the air is moister and warmer.
The hot spot is more than just the city of Moore. Several meteorologists offer the same explanation for why that Oklahoma City suburb seemed to be hit repeatedly by violent tornadoes: Bad luck.
Of the 60 EF5 tornadoes since 1950, Oklahoma and Alabama have been struck the most, seven times each. More than half of these top-of-the-scale twisters are in just five states: Oklahoma, Alabama, Texas, Kansas, and Iowa. Less than 1 percent of all U .S. tornadoes are this violent ? only about 10 a year, Brooks said.
The United States' Great Plains is the "best place on Earth" for the formation of violent tornadoes because of geography, Markowski said. You need the low pressure systems coming down off the Rocky Mountains colliding with the warm moist unstable air coming north from the Gulf of Mexico.
Scientists know the key ingredients that go into a devastating tornado. But they are struggling to figure out why they develop in some big storms and not others. They also are still trying to determine what effects, if any, global warming has on tornadoes. The jet stream can shift to cause a record number of tornadoes ? or an unusually low number of them.
Early research, much of it by Brooks, predicts that as the world warms, the moist energy ? or instability ? will increase, and the U.S. will have more thunderstorms. But at the same time, the needed wind shear ? the difference between wind speed and direction at different altitudes ? will likely decrease.
The two factors go in different directions and it's hard to tell which will win out. Brooks and others think that eventually there may be more thunderstorms and fewer days with tornadoes, but more tornadoes on those days when twisters do strike.
"Tornadoes are perhaps the most difficult things to connect to climate change of any extreme," said NASA climate scientist Tony Del Genio. "Because we still don't understand all the factors required to get a tornado."
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The National Weather Center; http://www.nwc.ou.edu/
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
PFT: Jets rookie QB Geno Smith learned his lessons
Getty ImagesIf Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano ever gets tired of having to tell people Josh Freeman is his starting quarterback, someone should probably mention to him that it?s kind of his own fault.
Schiano started singing like Tammy Wynette again in relation to Freeman Monday, the day after he was quoted as saying he was ?not against? the notion of starting rookie Mike Glennon instead.
?We have a starting quarterback, and it?s Josh Freeman,? Schiano said, via Stephen Holder of the Tampa Bay Times.
According to the report, Schiano said he?s trying to be honest, and doesn?t mean to put pressure on Freeman by saying such things in the national media.
?I guess nationally, they don?t sit here with me every day like you guys [local media] do,? Schiano said. ?From the day we arrived, our whole program has [been based on] competition, . . . That?s what we believe in. It?s the most competitive sports league in the world. It?s competition, and I love it.
?But we have our starting quarterback, and it?s Josh Freeman. I?m not looking to find another.?
If he really wanted to clear things up, he could always, you know, stop leaving the door open a crack every time he talks about Glennon.
Or, if he wanted a stronger statement on Freeman and how much he loves him under center, he could give him a new contract to replace the final year of his rookie deal.
But it doesn?t appear at the moment that Schiano intends to do either.
And that?s fine, as long as everyone?s clear about the implication sent by those actions.
He likes Freeman, right up until the point he decides he doesn?t.
So Schiano?s apparently going to have to keep clarifying all the things that he keeps saying, whether to the national or local media.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Cartoon / illustration for small business marketing campaign ...
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I need a single-frame cartoon drawn up of three birds sitting in a grape vine, having a conversation. The style can be a simple line drawing and be in B+W, but I'd need high-res jpeg or vector files supplied.
Exact details of the cartoon and conversation between the characters will be supplied to shortlisted proposals.
The winning bidder will also need to supply a quick concept sketch of their drawing for approval before working on and delivering the finished file.
I'd suggest the sketch would take half an hour, and the finished work and file deliverables would be a further two hours' work.
Please give a full cost estimate of the job in your proposal.
Any questions, just ask! Good luck.
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German minister calls EU move on China solar 'grave mistake'
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said the European Commission made a "grave mistake" by agreeing to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China and urged the Commission to work to prevent the eruption of a trade conflict.
"It's a grave mistake," Roesler told Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday.
He said China already warned the duties on solar panels would harm bilateral trade. "That shows: punitive import duties are the wrong instrument."
Roesler told the Sunday newspaper that the German government has repeatedly warned of the consequences of punitive import duties against China's solar industry. Germany is one of the world's leading export nations.
"The German industry is very concerned and quite rightly," Roesler said. "I expect the Commission to do everything to prevent a trade conflict. The Commission has to seek a resolution with negotiations and dialogue instead of threats."
Germany's BDI industry association warned at the weekend about negative consequences for Germany's export-oriented industry of the Commission's move to impose average import duties of 47 percent on solar panels from China.
(Reporting by Ralf Bode and Soeren Amelang; Writing by Erik Kirschbaum; Editing by Thomas Krumenacker and Maria Sheahan)
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