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July 20, 2016
Julian, CA.
Volume 31 - Issue 50 ISSN 1937-8416
New Pre-Kindergarten For FourYear-Olds At Julian Elementary Beginning August 10th Julian Elementary is offering a year-round class class called Pre-Kindergarten. Taught by Mrs. Katy Angel, an experienced & fully-credentialed teacher, students born before September 2, 2012 are eligible. This class is five days per week and will mirror the regular school year calendar. Students will be able to arrive as early as 7:00 in the morning and depart at 11:30, or stay and continue on with the fabulous Kymm Hansen at Cub Club until 5:00. Fees will depend on the age of the student due to public school funding, but $25/day payable monthly for all teaching days is a baseline. (An example is August 2016: 16 teaching days so $400 would be the cost.) Scholarships are being arranged offering a sliding fee schedule based on need and student age. Contact the Julian Elementary School (Jennifer Evins 765-0661), or just come by and get the details and a tour. A wait-list, based on age is being filled; prospective students need apply by Thursday, July 28.
Chamber Picnic And Merchant Of The Year Announcement
Its picnic time again for the Julian Chamber of Commerce. The Country style theme fits right in with the location at Menghini Winery, where the event is to be held July 20th, a Wednesday, at 6 pm. Non members are welcome but the dinner price is $20.oo per person instead of $15.oo per person for members. The picnic fare will be catered by Harry and Sabina Horner, owners of Wynola Pizza and Bistro. The delicious main dishes are: Tri Tip beef, pulled pork, BBQ Ribs, BBQ chicken with side dishes of baked beans, potatoes, and a special green salad with parmesan cheese. Liz Smothers , owner of the Julian Pie Co. will provide cookies for the dessert. Drinks are not included, however, the No Host Bar has exceptional choices, water is also for sale. The attire for the evening is country western themed, but not required, guys you can wear your Hawaiian if you must. Join the fun, food and festivities which include the announcement of the Merchant of the Year and awards for outstanding citizenship in our community Music will be provided by David Klump. Last year a giant tent was placed on the lawn so that the sun would shield picnic goers, everyone seemed to enjoy the shade and the gala atmosphere. So, this year the tent is back, music, great food and mingling will be enjoyed again.
Planning What You Group Votes Should Know Not To Act On About Your Hoskings Ranch New Chip Card Once again the Hiosking Ranch development too up the bulk of the Planning Group meeting as residents once again tried to convince the group to reverse their previous action of approving the project. The decision was made to send a letter to County Planning and Development clarifying their position, that they had approved only a site map and not the entire project. During the discussion it was decided that the group had no authority to rule on the proper implementation of the Williamson Act, and that the issue should be decided by County Staff and the State. The members of the public in attendance urged the group to stay neutral and not send any signal to the County that the group was for against the development. Also on the agenda was approval for improvements to Nickel Beer Company property including the new solar panels and modifications requested by the Architectural Review Board. Tom Nickel was present to explain his compliance with the requested changes and the group approved the rest of the project to go forward pending the necessary County permits. The November Election will see six seats up for re-election or filling by new members. Interested parties have until August 12, 2016 to file paperwork with the Registrar of Voters office- 5600 Overland Ave,Suite # 100, San Diego, CA 92123. Next planning Group meeting is scheduled for August 12, downstairs at the Town Hall, 7pm.
by Stephanie Ericksen
Chip cards and chip-enabled merchants put America on the way to the next level of payment security for consumers, businesses and financial institutions. (NAPSA) - Hundreds of millions of chip cards have been distributed to help strengthen the security of the U.S. payments system. Instead of swiping these cards, you'll be asked to insert your card in the terminal and keep it there until prompted to remove. Whether you're using one for the first time or are getting used to the subtle differences between chip and magnetic stripe, here are a few things to keep in mind. • Chip cards are a weapon against fraud. Each time you insert your chip card into a chip-enabled terminal, the tiny computer embedded generates a unique single-use code. Because that code is different in every transaction, the data flowing through retailers' systems is much less appealing to hackers. Even if they steal the data, it's nearly impossible for them to use it to create a fake or counterfeit copy of your card. By January 2016, counterfeit fraud dollars at U.S. chip-enabled merchants had fallen by 26 percent from the year before. • Don't worry if you don't have a chip card yet. Whether you're paying with a Visa chip or magnetic stripe card, you're still
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BLM Shooting Regulations In Effect As Of July 1st
Due to the obvious fire threat the County of San Diego is currently experiencing, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued shooting guidelines. BLM has designated all federal land closed to all firearms shooting until advised to the contrary. The BLM Regulations will be placed on the San Diego Sheriff's website and expand on the directive that other than in defense of person, it shall be unlawful for anyone to discharge any pistol, revolver, shotgun, rifle, or any other firearm or device fired or discharged with explosives during any period in which a high-fire hazard has been declared by the California Department of Forestry. Toward this end, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department will: Increase patrols around known shooting areas to include BLM land. Apply appropriate ordinances and penal codes as they relate to shooting, firearms, ammunition, magazine capacity etc. to assist in proactive fire prevention. Educate shooters of the potential fire dangers and advise them of the Cal Fire suppression costs associated with an accidental fire. Rural Deputies will physically respond to all calls of shooters on or around BLM land. The San Diego Sheriff's Department will work with Fish and Game as well as the U.S. Forest Service to support successful prosecution of state offenders. It's up to all of us to keep fire danger to a minimum and everyone's cooperation will help keep San Diego County from risk. Questions may be directed to Captain Hank Turner at the San Diego Sheriff's Alpine Station, 619-659-2600.
protected by Visa's Zero Liability policy, which guarantees that you won't be held responsible for unauthorized charges made with your account. • Verification isn't always needed. Small purchases for everyday items, which account for more than 70 percent of transactions, can be processed without a signature or a PIN. • You can choose signature or PIN. Some merchants require cardholders to enter a PIN for purchases with a debit card. If you ever have a problem signing for your debit purchases with a Visa card, let the company know. Both PIN and signature are supported by chip cards. Signature-based cards are more common in the U.S. and you can use your chip card with a signature, even in countries where PINs are common. • Chip transactions are getting faster. Payment networks are working on ways to make chip transactions faster. For example, Visa's Quick Chip for EMV speeds up checkout by streamlining card processing. Once a merchant's chip terminal is updated, customers can dip and remove their EMV chip card from the terminal, typically in two seconds or less, without waiting for the transaction to be finalized. • The transition to chip is accelerating. Each week, about 23,000 new merchant locations turn on chip terminals. The U.S. already has more Visa chip cards continued on page 3
Cracking The Code On Curiosity
Curiosity Wanes As Kids Grow Up. Here's How Parents And Teachers Can Re-Ignite The Spark.
by: Hank Pellissier (www.greatschools.org)
“I have to write a stupid outer space story in class next Tuesday,” says my 11-year-old daughter. “I hate astronomy. It’s so boring.” “Boring?” I say. “You don’t see the universe as … amazing?” “Too far away,” she grumbles. “And I just don’t care.” She trudges to her room to examine the assignment’s three reference papers. My daughter — let’s call her Hailey — is cheerfully giddy 99 percent of the time. But her consternation about a cosmic assignment worries me. I’m one of those science nerds who fantasizes about space travel. I speculate about life on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, and, of course, colonizing Mars. Potentially habitable exoplanets. I am very curious about them — why isn’t Hailey? But then, she’s fascinated by soccer, a passion I find confounding at best. I wish I could transform my daughter’s interest in astronomy from a tiny dead speck like 2013 RZ53, into a hypergiant star like UY Scuti. Where’s her curiosity? What is curiosity, anyway? This childlike state is essential to human consciousness; one 2007 study found that preschool children ask an average of 107 questions per hour. Yet it remains a conceptual curiosity. • Child development guru Jean Piaget defined curiosity as “the urge to explain the unexpected.” • Curiosity researcher Daniel Berlyne characterized it as “an optimum amount of novelty, surprisingness, complexity, change, or variety.” • Research psychologist Susan Engel suggested curiosity “can be understood as the human need to resolve uncertainty.” Despite so many definitions, curiosity still seems to dance at the edge of understanding. It may be as old as humankind, but only in very recent years have neuroscientists attempted to understand exactly how it works. The inquisitive ones Meandering through the vaults of pubmed.gov in search of studies that would help me crack the code on my daughter’s curiosity, I learn that inquisitiveness is highly predictive of intelligence. A 2002 study that identified “high stimulation seeking” (meaning highly curious) 3-year-olds found that at age 11, they had higher academic grades, superior reading ability, and IQ scores 12 points higher than their less inquisitive peers. Curiosity also helps us maintain our intelligence — by protecting against mental decline. A study of older Minnesotans published in JAMA Neurology, found that keeping curiosity alive reduces Alzheimer’s risk and delays its onset by 8.7 years. I also learned that curiosity has a powerful emotional component. It works on our pleasure center:
the dopamine rush delivered by curiosity resembles the rush obtained when we win at the racetrack, inhale nicotine, or gobble chocolate. But the curiosity habit is more fragile than, say, a nicotine addiction. In her recent book The Hungry Mind Susan Engle chronicles how children begin losing curiosity at a relatively young age: “When they’re between the ages of 5 and 12, their curiosity diminishes.” Why? Engel suggests that childhood curiosity diminishes because of lack of listening support from adults. Kathy Koch, author of How Am I Smart? A Parent’s Guide to Multiple Intelligence echoes this view: “Too many children tell me they stop asking questions because parents and teachers respond too often with statements like these: ‘You don’t need to know that.’ ‘Look it up yourself.’ ‘That’s not important.’ … Not allowing children to ask questions and not taking their questions seriously are easy ways we shut down the logicsmart intelligence.” Engel also notes that the decline of curiosity coincides with schooling. “[Curiosity] that is ubiquitous in toddlers is hard to find at all in elementary school,” she says. A recent breakthrough in curiosity research piques my interest. At the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis psychologist Matthias Gruber studies how the brain files long-term memories of events. His recent study with researchers Bernar Gelman and Charan Ranganath — published in Neuron — found that curiosity changes the brain in ways that enhance learning. The study tested the memory of participants on a series of topics that they had rated in regards to their curiosity. Participants also underwent MRIs during parts of the study. Basically, when the brain’s curiosity was triggered, thereby releasing dopamine, the person later could remember “incidental information.” In other words, participants didn’t just remember more about the topics they were curious about, but they remembered more information about unrelated topics when their brain had recently experienced a spike in curiosity. The magic spark The research has convinced me that curiosity is the magic spark I need to ignite in my weary little girl, but how? Hailey is oddly radiant Tuesday, like the star Canopus in the southern hemisphere. Today she has to write the dreaded “stupid outer space story,” so I thought she’d be miserable, but she dashes off smiling before I can question her. With Matthias Gruber working only 75 minutes from my home, I meet with him at a Starbucks in Davis, CA, to chat about his research. His PhD was on long-
term memory encoding; his determination to comprehend the neurology of memory led him to his present investigation of curiosity. “We looked at the neurocorrelates of curiosity – and we found that dopamine, the ‘wanting system,’ is only active when you’re in the curious state,” Gruber explained. Research suggests that dopamine should now be more associated with our need to discover things, of wanting to know more, than making us feel pleasure. It keeps us motivated. Dopamine drives our goaldirected behavior. It causes us to want, desire, seek out, and search. It may have kept cavemen alive. When asked if dopamine and curiosity have implications for education, Gruber says he assumes that good teachers are already doing it instinctively. “If they turn on the ‘wanting system’ in their classrooms, the hippocampus works better,” he explains, referring the part of the brain associated with long-term memory storage. “If teachers find a way to inspire each student by telling them something every student wants to know, they will all remember the incidental information. Once the ‘wanting system’ is turned on, it remembers everything.” I find myself explaining that I was an odd student who got either an A+ or a C- because I was either wildly interested in the subject, or paralytically bored. “How would you teach math so that it’s not boring?” I ask. “That was one of my C- subjects.” “Have the students solve complicated, world real-life problems,” he suggests. When asked what sparked his curiosity about psychology, he smiles. “I had an excellent professor who taught memory,” he recalls. “Dr. Karl-Heinz Baeuml at University of Regensburg. He sparked my curiosity and warmed up my hippocampus. Learning should be a ‘flow experience.’ ” “My daughter doesn’t like astronomy,” I blurt out, suddenly. “She says ‘outer space is too big.’ What’s wrong with her?” Matthias doesn’t hesitate. “Her teacher,” he suggests, “needs to find a little detail in astronomy that fascinates her, something to spark her. Once she catches fire, she will love the subject.” Driving home, I wonder about what made me love astronomy. What sparked my interest? Then I flash on a memory: Gazing at the stars after eating s’mores at Boy Scout campouts in the Sierras and listening to a goldentongued counselor point out Orion’s Belt. Universe downsized; curiosity upsized Arriving home, I discover that Hailey is glowing, like Venus in early summer. “How did you like continued on page 11
Julian Chamber Annual Merchants Picnic
Wednesday, July 20th,www.visitjulian.com 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm - Menghini Winery