salem keizer school closures

All this positive talk about automated telephone Salem-Keizer School District's Got me thinking.

We have four school-age children, and every one, I get a phone call from the same subject, the subject is not present, contact or lockdowns. This is very annoying in class, during the meeting, and at the end of the day, when the selection of voice mail. As a parent, I have my phone near me, even in situations that others have them, or leave them somewhere else.

I understand the purpose of reporting participation. But as the functions and the invitations, I prefer the old way of classrooms and teachers in the past. My kids used to be home of art was hand-written invitations to the house, opened the book fair and other activities. Unfortunately, I noticed that the precious memories of mothers are less likely to come home.

My opinion is that the computer system that uses only a minimum attendance or school closures and lockdowns.

space shuttle launch

Quick Quiz:? When the space shuttle Discovery launch was delayed often provides the International Space Station (ISS), how many crew will be back, you say? Put 6-1/2.

Sporting a sleek bronze helmet with a cool Iron Man-reflective screen, plus a tight white uniform, then head to the local gym, the extra half of R2. Think pencil-neck Power Ranger and no legs.

R2 is a waist-up is part of a humanoid robot - a prototype "robonaut" may be just as at home, a factory production line, to restore the power converters on the outside of the station, or holding a button while an astronaut losing trainer Colbert cranky.

Launch of space shuttle Discovery last: it was the shuttle program is worth?

Indeed, half of the interchangeable parts, the ISS can only be exchanged for people in space suits, "says Ron Diftler, robonaut Project, Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston. Preparations for the spacewalk is time-consuming, and outside of the lock of the work downright dangerous.

"Our goal is to robonaut to build a robot to approach the capacity of a spacesuited astronaut," said Mr. Diftler. "If we do so, the robot has multiple roles."

In addition, to obtain some of the more routine spacewalk tasks for the robot to relieve astronauts of mundane tasks in the drive. The robot can also act as a sort of apprentice plumber.

lincoln tunnel accident

For more information about the accident was the middle of Manhattan with the Lincoln Tunnel tubes earlier this morning.

According to the New York Fire Department, two buses collided with a motorcycle in the tunnel.

The motorcyclist was seriously injured and taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan with a broken shoulder and femur, the FDNY spokesman said. The crash victim was intubated in the hospital, the spokesman added.

A total of 52 people were injured in the incident. Some were treated on the spot, while 13 took Roosevelt Hospital in New York.

North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Co-Director Jeff Welz talked Port Authority officials estimate that the central tube will remain closed for a good part of the day as officials investigate the accident.

Welz said that New Jersey sent eight ambulances to standby at the end of the Lincoln Tunnel.According Weehawken Jersey City Medical Center spokesman, Mark Rabson, the Weehawken Volunteer Ambulance first team on the spot after the accident.

Rabson said JCMC was one of many that have responded to the scene, but not patients, because it was easier for emergency vehicles was wounded in the Manhattan of the tunnel traffic.