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Season’s first snowfall slightly early DeKalb County gets trace amount of winter’s harbinger versity Meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste’s suggestion, anyway. The DeKalb County area got a trace amount of snow Tuesday but isn’t expected to have any more precipitation until Monday or Tuesday. Then, it likely
By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com DeKALB – It might be a good idea to rake up any leaves in your yard this weekend. That’s Northern Illinois Uni-
will be rain. Tuesday’s snowfall was surprising for some, but only slightly earlier than usual. “As a matter of fact, we should get in the last week of October a 10th of an inch of
snow, so we’re only a few days early,” Sebenste said. The Interstate 80 corridor got hit the hardest Tuesday, with LeSalle-Peru and Earlville getting about an inch of snow and Princeton receiving about 1.3
inches of snow, he said. The Quad Cities got about 3 inches of snow – enough that some residents were posting photographs of snowmen on Facebook, Sebenste said. While precipitation will hold off for about a week, the
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Nuclear officers left blast door open The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Photos by Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com
ABOVE: Roger Christensen, a teacher at Clinton Rosette Middle School, helps Edgar Hernandez (left), 13, as Hernandez works on a science lab using a laptop Monday in DeKalb. BELOW: Kevin Davis, 14, watches an instructional video on a laptop before conducting a science lab at the middle School.
District 428 planning for ‘paperless classrooms’ by 2016 By ARCADIA KUST
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eKALB – By the start of the 2016 school year, DeKalb School District 428 plans to provide all curriculum and materials in a paperless format. This doesn’t mean there won’t be any text books or hard copies of materials available, but that there will be electronic options for everything. The plan is part of the district’s “oneto-one initiative,” meaning there will be a computing device for every student in every classroom. The type of device will vary by grade level, said Doug Moeller, who will take over as district superintendent this summer. Elementary
students likely will use iPads, but by high school they more likely will be using laptops or Chromebooks, an Internet-dependent laptop from Google. “The devices are going to change,” said Moeller. “In four years, who knows what’s going to be available?” A few teachers already have been chosen to take part in a pilot one-toone program. One of them, Clinton Rosette Middle School teacher Roger Christensen, already has all of his students using Chromebooks during daily lessons. “It’s a mix of me teaching and students learning on the computer,”
WASHINGTON – Twice this year alone, Air Force officers entrusted with the launch keys to nuclear-tipped missiles have been caught leaving open a blast door that is intended to help prevent a terrorist or other intruder from entering their underground command post, Air Force officials have told The Associated Press. The blast doors are never to be left open if one of the crew members inside is asleep – as was the case in both these instances – out of concern for the damage an intruder could cause, including the compromising of secret launch codes. Transgressions such as this are rarely revealed publicly. But officials with direct knowledge of Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile operations told the AP that such violations have happened, undetected, many more times than in the cases of the two launch crew commanders and two deputy commanders who were given administrative punishments this year. The blast door violations are another sign of serious trouble in the handling of the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The AP has discovered a series of problems within the ICBM force, including a failed safety inspection, the temporary sidelining of launch officers deemed unfit for duty and the abrupt firing last week of the two-star general in charge. The problems, including low morale, underscore the challenges of keeping safe such a deadly force that is constantly on alert but is unlikely ever to be used. The crews who operate the missiles are trained to follow rules without fail, including the prohibition against having the blast door open when only one crew member is awake, because the costs of a mistake are so high. The officers, known as
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