bond funds with local residents i evaluated three play grounds in district 5 from buchanan mall to groton. on prosac i've been on there and [speaker not understood] analyst reports from districts about rpd project developments and changes to access. i headed up a five member working group that developed an outreach policy for opd. it was warmly received by prosac but not yet adopted by management. outside the city i've spent at least a week a year at camp mesa every year since 1976. and for several years i volunteered in [speaker not understood] the camp in advance. just giving you reasons why i have a little bit of experience about this. eight years ago i supported the resolution adopted by the board to prohibit privatization at camp messer. when my kids were young i took them hiking and camping and backpacking trips and years ago when my kids were entering high school i was a volunteer course leader at [speaker not understood] and volunteer adult leader for the mcentire high school [speaker not understood] program. i could go on, but a few years ago i worked with folks in d5 and d7 to t

what is considered -- what is now considered a once in a century coastal flooding in new london and groton along the thames river could occur as frequently as every 17 years. modeling sea rise is more difficult than predicting other effects of climate change because there are so variables related to the sea levels. in any scenario, the seas are expected to rise. what happens to the climate depends on a multitude of factors around the globe from deforestation in tropical areas to the burning of fossil fumes for energy -- fossil fuels for energy sait houghton, the head of woods hole research center. one important distinction is weather and climate are different. climate future does not predict when and where it will rain, instead it's patterns such as overall warmer temperatures or the greater likelihood for violent floods such as tornadoes or floods. theory climate change -- for climate change, it's more general trends and i'm quoting now, for climate change it's more general trends and as part of that, it's how do extreme changes as a result also of global warming. as more erratic and extr