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BREAKING: USGA and R&A propose sweeping changes to golf rules in effort to simplify game

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NASA Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1


  February 28, 2017 
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-025
Houston Students to Speak to NASA Astronaut on International Space Station
Astronaut Peggy Whitson
Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA, 4-H alumna, will speak to Hartsfield Elementary 4-H Club students in Houston about her experience as an astronaut.
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Students from Hartsfield Elementary 4-H Club of the Houston Independent School District in Texas will speak with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station at 10 a.m. EST Friday, March 3. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson will answer questions from students assembled on the campus of the Animal and Environmental Sciences Magnet at Hartsfield Elementary. Whitson launched to the space station on Nov. 17, 2016.

Media interested in covering the event should contact Ashley Anthony at aanthon3@houstonisd.org. Hartsfield Elementary is at 5001 Perry St. in Houston.

Expeditionary Skills for Life, a NASA and 4-H partnership, highlights important skills including teamwork, cultural competency, leadership, followship and communication. The program is designed to take participants through educational expeditions that will help them learn and practice skills that can be applied to almost every aspect of life. Whitson, a 4-H alumna, has played a major role in this partnership.

This in-flight education downlink is an integral component of the NASA Office of Education's efforts to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning in the United States. Linking students directly to astronauts aboard the space station through the agency Office of Education's STEM on Station activity provides authentic, live experiences in space exploration, space study and the scientific components of space travel, while introducing the possibilities of life in space.

Find out more about the NASA/4-H partnership at:

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Mild February brings an end to a dry Winter

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Mild February brings an end to a dry Winter


Preliminary statistics show that the 2016/17 winter has been dry and mild compared to the long-term average. Meanwhile, early February statistics show a milder than average month to end the season.

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Employment and labour market

Working and workless households in the UK: Oct to Dec 2016

Of the 20.7 million households (where at least 1 member is aged 16 to 64) in the UK, 11.9 million (57.7%) were classed as working, up 107,000 or 0.6 percentage points over the past year.

5.7 million households (27.5%) had a mix of least 1 working and 1 workless adult, down 55,000 or 0.3 percentage points over the year.

There were 3.1 million households (14.8%) classed as workless, down 72,000 or 0.3 percentage points over the last year.


People, population and community

Social protection: European comparisons of expenditure, 2007 to 2014

The UK spent 17.5% per capita more than the European average on social protection in 2014.

UK Social protection expenditure in the children and families categories fell every year between 2010 and 2014.

Social protection expenditure in the old age category fell by 0.2% per recipient in the year to 2014.


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