European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 stars and stripes Mideast edition june 2007 britons make first Hurricane predictions by Jessica Gresko the associated press Miami British govern ment forecasters Are predict ing that the Atlantic Hurricane season May not be As Busy As their american counterparts it is most Likely that 10 More tropical storms will form from july to the British forecasters said an expected Cooling trend in at lactic Ocean surface Waters favors fewer tropical storms than in recent the Brit ish meteorologists said in their first Ever Hurricane season the British scientists did not predict a number of Hurri canes that would form or How Many would become As american forecasters there is a 70 percent Chance that the number of storms will be in the Range of seven to according to the in government forecasters predicted 13 to 17 tropical storms in the season that runs from june 1 to the National oceanic and atmospheric administration scientists said they expect seven to 10 tropical storms to become hurricanes and three to five of them in the Strong cat Matt Huddleston at the met a weather tracking Agency within the British ministry of said its numbers Are based on a Brand new forecasting sys tem using a global climate Huddleston said his offices prediction is based on a so called dynamical More like what is used for daily weather Ameri can forecasters do not currently use that Model for seasonal the met office ran but did not fake Public their Model in the 2005 and 2006 they correctly predicted the change from the Active 2005 season to the below Normal 2006 the met office study Sand More deadly than Sharks by Mike Stobbe the associated press Atlanta Waves and Sharks Arent the Only dangers at the More than two dozen Young people have been killed Over the past decade when Sand holes collapsed on report a Tjerandson doctors who have made warning of the risk their personal since at least 20 children and Young adults in the United states have died in Beach or Back Yard Sand and at least eight others died in austra new zealand and the United according to a letter from the doctors published in this weeks Issue of the new England journal of among them was Matthew who died from a col lapse at an after prom Beach party in in May the 17yearold was play ing football with friends when he jumped for a pass and fell Back Ward into an Lightfoot deep Hole someone had dug would be rescuers made the problem worse by caving in More Sand As they tried to approach people at the scene said he May have been buried 15 min said his people have no Conception of How dangerous this she in an interview this Sand Hole collapses occur horrifyingly said Bradley Maron of Harvard medical the reports Lead victims became completely submerged in the Sand when the Walls of the Hole unexpectedly leaving virtually no evidence of the Hole or location of the wrote an internal Medicine Resi a former be came interested in the topic in the summer of he was vacation ing with his family on marthas Vineyard when he and his Minnesota cardiologist Barry saw a lifeguard respond ing to a collapse that engulfed an 8yearold the girl thanks to a dramatic but it left a big impression on who spent years tracking and writ ing about similar its been almost like a vendetta for said Dennis who runs the Beach patrol in the marthas Vineyard Community of Edgartown and was Marons Boss that people naturally worry about Spla Shier like shark at the Marons re search found there were 16 Sand Hole or Tunnel deaths in the from 19902006 compared with 12 fatal shark for the same Peri according to University of Florida and Bradley Maron thinks the san related deaths Are less Well documented than shark at the father and son based their report largely on news Media accounts and internet most of the incidents were from the past 10 when internet reports were they counted 31 recreational Sand Hole deaths since 1985 in the United United Australia and new they counted another 21 incidents in which a person was rescued from a in several cases by bystanders who performed the mostly ranged in age from 3 to 21 with the average age about unattended construction Sites have Long posed and one incident in the doctors compilation involving three girls who died in East in 1998 occurred in a rain soaked Clay when an embankment col those if added to the bring the death tally to Maron and others advise the Public not to let Young kids play in Sand and not to get in a Hole deeper than your on marthas life guards Are instructed to order children and adults out of any Hole deeper than a Childs and to kick Sand in to fill Arnold some parents pro say youre ruining my kids Day i say i dont Arnold and now web cams to Proctor exams by Justin Pope the associated press the number of College students taking courses online is creating a Tough dilemma for educators who want to prevent do you Trust students to take an exam on their own computer from Home or even though it May be easy to sneak a peek at the textbook or do you Force them to trek to a proctored test detracting from the convenience that Drew them to online classes in the first place the dilemma is one reason Many online programs do Little testing at but some new technology that places a Cam Era inside students Homes May be the Way of the future As Long As students dont find it too this Troy University in Alabama will begin rolling out the new camera technology for Many of its approximately online about a third of whom Are at Mil itary installations around the the made by based software is similar in Many respects to other test taking it locks Down a computer while the test is being preventing students from searching files or the the latest version also includes fingerprint to help ensure the person taking the test int a Douglas president of software Demon Strates Friday in hardware used to Monitor distance learning test takers at Remote but the new development is a Small web Cam and microphone that is set up where a Stu Dent takes the the camera Points into a reflective which allows it to capture a full 360degree the first prototype was made with a Christmas when the exam the device records audio and software detects significant noises and motions and flags them in the an instructor can go Back and watch Only the portions flagged by the soft Ware to see if anything untoward is going on a student making a phone leaving the room and if there is a sudden surge in performance the inventors admit its far from a perfect defense against a determined but a human test Proctor int necessarily bet and the camera at least ensures that those people that Are taking classes at a distance Are on a level playing said Dou Glas software secures president and Troy graduate students will Start using the device starting this and undergraduates a year software secure says it has talked to other distance learning a potential future Market is the standardized testing 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