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Rendezvous with Titan
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Darmstadt, Germany
|Huygens' probe will enter Titan's thick atmosphere and may record alien thunder on its microphone.
Credit: ESA
For nearly a decade, scientists around the world have been waiting patiently for the European Space Agency's Huygens probe to arrive at its destination: Saturn's giant moon Titan. Now, as the Huygens science team gathers at ESA's control center in Darmstadt, Germany, that wait is almost over. In less than 24 hours, Huygens will descend down through Titan's thick shroud of fog, taking a host of measurements along the way. The data the probe sends back will reveal Titan in far more detail than any previous mission has offered. Results from Hugyens may also provide a key to the origin of life on Earth.
|What happened to Titan's nitrogen? Comparison of Titan with Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Earth. Click image for larger view. Image Credit: NASA/JPL
Like Earth, Titan has a thick atmosphere rich in nitrogen. Previous missions to the outer solar system have also detected methane in its atmosphere. Methane is composed of carbon and hydrogen. This has led scientists to speculate that Titan is a prebiotic laboratory of sorts. If methane and nitrogen are present, they say, then perhaps in the 4.5 billion years since the solar system formed, more complex organic molecules have had time to form.
Investigators doubt that life ever took hold on Titan. It's much too cold there: the average temperature on the moon's surface is about minus 180 Celsius, or minus 292 Fahrenheit. But even at these frigid temperatures, chemical reactions still take place. So investigators are keen on learning just how far organic chemistry has progressed there.
One of the mysteries researchers hope will get resolved by Huygens is whether or not there are lakes of liquid methane on Titan's surface. On Earth, methane is present in its gaseous form. But because of the freezing temperatures and high atmospheric pressure on Titan, it could exist there as a liquid.
"Methane can exist as a solid or a liquid or a gas on Titan. And you could have methane rain, in principle. The organic smog is settling out of the atmosphere," and accumulating on the ground." Over the age of the solar system, there's enough to produce an ocean of liquid methane-ethane on the surface," said Marty Tomasko of the Universit of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Tomasko heads Huygens' DISR (Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer) team.
|Scientists puzzle over images that resemble complex landforms. Click image for larger view. Image Credit: NASA/JPL
Scientists expected to find bodies of liquid methane on the surface, perhaps even an ocean. These could serve as a source for the methane that has been detected in Titan's atmosphere. Methane gas in the atmosphere breaks down and dissipates quickly. For Titan to have so much of it in its atmosphere, it must have a source that constantly replenishes it.
Huygens science team members expected, by this point in the Cassini-Huygens mission, to have detected liquid on Titan's surface through a phenomenon known as "specular reflection." If you've ever flown over a smooth body of water, such as a lake or a river, on a sunny day, you may have noticed that when the sun strikes its surface at just the right angle, the surface acts like a mirror, producing a very bright reflection. This is known as a specular reflection.
If large bodies of liquid were present on Titan's surface, their specular reflections should have shown up in images captured as Cassini flew by Titan earlier in the Cassini-Huygens mission. But no such bright spots have been seen, leaving scientists wondering whether they need to revise their ideas about the source of the methane in Titan's atmosphere.
|Titan's changing face as dark and light patches rotate in circulation. Image Credit: JPL/Space Science Institute
The problem, says Tomasko, could be that "the resolution from the orbiter [Cassini] is limited to about one kilometer. There could be smaller pools. There could be small streams and lakes. They could be covered with some kind of organic sludge. There are lots of things that could be there." Morover, during each of Cassini's flybys of Titan, the spacecraft was able to search for specular reflections on only a narrow swath of Titan's surface. Huygens, which during its descent will take hundreds of more-detailed images, over a wide area of Titan's surface, should be able to provide a definitive answer to this question.
The probe's descent through Titan's atmosphere will begin shortly after 11:00 AM GMT (5:00 AM EST). Two and a half hours later, Huygens will reach the moon's surface. If it is not damaged by the impact, it may continue to make measurements for as much as two hours longer. The first data are expected to arrive back on Earth shortly after 5:00 PM GMT (11:00 AM EST).
Related Web Pages
Saturn Edition, Astrobiology Magaz.
Saturn's Rings in UV
Cassini Closes In on Saturn
Saturn– JPL Cassini Main Page
Lord of the Rings
Space Science Institute, Imaging Team Boulder, Colorado
Saturn: The Closest Pass
Prebiotic Laboratory
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Meet Callie and Gus, two seemingly ordinary babies. Cute and adorable, sweet and innocent. That is until their mother___s backs are turned at which point all hell___ I mean HECK breaks loose. Join them as they battle each other around the world in a number of separate tales including a Ben Hur style stroller race of destruction and a trip to the vets complete with John Woo hamster action.


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Here are a few disparate odds and ends, several of them Red Wings-related, for your perusal:
The Red Wings will head to the White House for a presidential Stanley Cup championship reception on Tuesday, and the Red Wings' website posted a 9-image retrospective gallery of the Red Wings' White House visits, including glimpses of some old friends, conspicuous politicians, and bad haircuts...
Red Wings vice president Jimmy Devellano discussed the sticky wicket that is rushing prospects to the NHL with the Toronto Sun's Lance Hornby. Devellano believes that the presence of six 2008 draftees on NHL teams' opening night rosters is simply a sign of the times:
October 13, Toronto Sun: The Detroit Red Wings, with eight straight 100-point seasons and four Cups in 10 years need not worry about rushing any high first-round picks into the fray, unless some team is dumb enough to offer them in a trade.
But senior vice-president Jim Devellano says there's nothing wrong with fast tracking today's kids.
"Thanks to the (salary cap), you get them at a reasonable price for the first three years," Devellano said on Saturday night as he watched Schenn and the Leafs play the Canadiens.
"Losing a year off free agency is a tough decision, but if the kid can play at this level...we did it with Steve Yzerman at 18 and he was an exceptional player. We tried it with Shawn Burr and it didn't. I don't think there's any question a kid such as Schenn can play in the NHL."
Clubs have up to 10 games to decide if they want to keep the first rounders in the NHL or return them to their junior-aged teams. This afternoon, [Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Luke] Schenn and [St. Louis Blues prospect Alex] Pietrangelo will be opposing each other at the Air Canada Centre.
As it's Canadian Thanksgiving today, the Canadian Press's Dean Bennett discusses the release of One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments, a newly-released book by CP writer James Bisson, and Bennett says that debating the 100 selections comes naturally. To wit:
October 13, Canadian Press: Why is Raptor Vince Carter winning a slam dunk contest ranked at No. 64, but there's no mention of Ontario's James Naismith nailing a peach basket to a wall in 1891 to invent the game? And why the snub to the world-beating Edmonton Grads women's basketball team of the 1920s and 30s? And where's the nod to the Detroit Red Wings' famed 1950s all-Canadian Production Line? The opening of SkyDome? The closing of The Forum? Manon Reaume? Foster Hewitt?
In the "national media" department, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Mark Bradley discusses Red Wings forward Marian Hossa's appearance on Sports Illustrated's cover on a purely regional (Detroit/Canada) basis:
October 13, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Marian Hossa, cover boy
Marian Hossa was featured on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated, but the achievement carries a Ford-Frick-style asterisk. The Hossa cover was issued only in Detroit and Canada. Everyone else in the continental U.S. received the issue with [M]anny Ramirez on the front. As Arash Markazi of SI.com notes, the NHL hasn't been featured on the main run of an SI cover since October 2002.
Given that the sport has such a high profile in the ol' US of A, perhaps I should explain that Marian Hossa, who now plays for the Detroit Red Wings, used to play for the Thrashers, the Atlanta-based entry in something known as the National Hockey League. Perhaps I should also explain that ice hockey is a game played on ... well, ice.
This press release offers up an unusual seasonal note:
October 13, MarketWatch: Want to have the most unique pumpkin on your block? Then head to Market Fresh, a produce market and specialty food store on Southfield Road in Beverly Hills, where a caricature artist will draw your likeness on a pumpkin, free of charge. Choose your pumpkin from the large display outside the store, then come inside where a caricature artist will "personalize" the pumpkin by drawing your image on it with a permanent marker. The drawing is free. However, customers must pay for their pumpkin, which costs $5.99.
In addition to the caricatures of Market Fresh customers, the artists are also immortalizing some of the Detroit Red Wings and local celebrities. These pumpkins will be on display in the store, and then given to the children's ward of Beaumont Hospital for their Halloween celebration.
"Some of the Detroit Red Wings players donated autographed pucks to go with their pumpkin caricatures, so the kids at Beaumont will have a lasting treasure to take home after Halloween," said Johnny Karmo, Market Fresh owner and manager. "We did something similar a few years ago, and the kids really got a kick out of it," he added.
The Plymouth Whalers are engaging in a significant charity promotion this Thursday:
October 13, PlymouthWhalers.com: The primary colors of the Ontario Hockey League's Plymouth Whalers are blue and green. The primary colors found on a hockey player after a collision are black and blue. The Whalers will be skating for an excellent cause of a different color on Friday, October 17 at 7:05pm when they take on the Niagara IceDogs at Compuware Arena during the team's first annual Pink Out! For Breast Cancer Awareness.
The event is first for the Whalers and something they hope to make an annual event during the month of October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month as well as Hockey Fights Cancer Month.
"Our Pink Out! is a chance for our players, our sponsors and our fans to rally together to increase breast cancer awareness and raise funds in a way that is familiar and fun for us. We promise it will be pink. And, it will be memorable," said Denise Ronayne, Plymouth Whalers Director of Sales and Marketing. "We are so grateful to all of our corporate partners who helped us make this event relevant in our community. And importantly, there's a natural tie-in with the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, who will receive the proceeds."
Plymouth Whalers owner Peter Karmanos, Jr. - who is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Compuware Corporation - established the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in 1995. Based in midtown Detroit, Karmanos is one of 41 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. Caring for more than 6,000 new patients annually on a budget of $216 million, conducting more than 700 cancer-specific scientific investigation programs and clinical trials, the Karmanos Cancer Center is among the nation's best cancer centers.
The Whalers were recently affected by cancer with the passing of co-owner Thomas Thewes, who lost his battle with Leukemia on September 28. In addition, Mary Beth Bloom - a land parent of Plymouth Whalers defenseman Leo Jenner and a breast cancer survivor - will drop a ceremonial faceoff at the start of the game. "It would be an honor to represent all the women and men with breast cancer," said Bloom.
And Darren McCarty will appear in the November issue of "Inked" magazine, alongside New York Islanders defenceman Brendan Witt. The NHL's media website provided this preview (PDF) of McCarty discussing his tattoos.


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2 Kings 2:11 Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Join us for two days with Joshua Mills and Dr. Kaye Beyer.
Just as Elijah "suddenly" went up into heaven by a whirlwind. We believe there are going to be "suddenlies" at this event that will transform your life forever! God is moving by his spirit in the earth today and signs, wonders and miracles are the result when the Glory comes "suddenly"!
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An anointed Minister of the Gospel, Recording Artist, Keynote Conference Speaker and Author, Joshua Mills worships and preaches by standing within the cloud and ministering directly from the glory unto the people. He has written well over 600 songs and is known for his ability to lead people into spontaneous worship. During his services signs and wonders are commonplace with manifestations of supernatural oil and gold dust, creative healings, supernatural weight-loss, financial miracles, Angelic visitation and heavenly encounters.
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Dr. Kaye Beyer has been saved since 1967. She is a precious saint of God who has some of the most radical faith you might have ever come into contact with. She believes God for the supernatural no matter what the natural realm looks like. While flowing in a unique prophetic gifting, she also ministers the joy of the Lord to the hurting and those who have lost loved ones. Many times the "Joy anointing" will physically manifest and she will minister out of that anointing to the people. Supernatural healings have also been reported in many of her meetings around the world.
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SOUTHWICK – One man is in the hospital after nearly drowning when the canoe he was in capsized on the North Pond section of Congamond Lake, officials said.
Police received a call at 1:46 a.m. Sunday that the canoe had capsized. One person was safe on shore, but the other was missing in the water.
A police officer used a neighbor' s boat to locate the second occupant of the canoe who was floating in the water.
The person was transported to Noble Hospital in Westfield. No information is being released about the occupants of the boats or the man's condition.
The incident is under investigation.


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Nile, the cat who brought home lost mail and gifts, is dead at 17
Nile, the cat featured in the Reporter for retrieving mail, went missing last week in the Mercerwood neighborhood. His owner, Mindy Stern, wrote to the Reporter that Nile was found on Friday, March 30.
A few hours ago, we got a call from a neighbor in response to the fliers we distributed to all the homes in the range we knew that Nile patrolled. They just noticed a cat huddled next to their neighbors' garage, unmoving. We rushed over and confirmed that it was, indeed, Nile.
He looked very peaceful, fully stretched out, but was certainly dead and rigid.
Shlomo (Stern's husband, who is a veterinarian) examined him and found absolutely no sign of trauma — he must have just laid down and died.
On Sunday, the last day we saw him, we woke up to find our entire front lawn strewn with "gifts" from Nile — dozens of paper scraps, plastic bags, etc.
Shortly after the Reporter ran the article about Nile (October 2010), he came home one day with a very elegant but soaking wet lady's slip-on shoe, a mule. It was in two-tone leather, with a fancy heel, size 23 1/2, made in Taiwan. When it dried, I tried it on and it fit me perfectly. I jokingly told Nile to bring me the other one, and referred to it as 'The Cinderella Slipper.' About four months later, he delivered the matching shoe.
We have no idea where or how he found the shoes, or any of the other things he gifted us. For the past week, every time we came home and saw that outside the house was clean, we knew that Nile was not around.
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It's been a wild ride in mobility over the past year. With so many changes, I wondered if the "Q4/13 Lopez Research Enterprise Mobility Benchmark" would reveal any big changes in concerns and attitudes. The results were filled with mostly good news. Overall the data has stayed relatively consistent over the past six months.
Big Data topped the list of IT's top priorities (68) while mobile was a close second (66). This isn't surprising given the media hype and companies desires to harness the wealth of data that is available in social media and other areas. These two priorities are actually closely related in some ways. Mobility is a new source of the big data that firms must store and analyze.
In my opinion, contextual services are the next wave of mobility. Contextual services will help companies deliver the right information, at the point of need or desire, to customers and partners. These contextual services aren't possible without big data storage, processing and new analytics software.
Security surfaced as the top mobile concern with 72 percent of the surveyed leaders ranking it as their top concern. This isn't surprising given the influx of new devices that range from smartphones to Google glasses. Will the Dick Tracy smart watch finally get it's day in the sun? Possibly. If so, smart watches will be just one of the many connected devices that IT leaders have to manage and secure. The Internet of Things (IoT) will create a need for businesses to revisit their security strategies.
Mobile application development strategies came in a close second. What was once a debate of mobile versus HTML-5 has tempered a bit. Most organizations recognize that you need to select the right tool for the job. To this end, companies are reviewing cross-platform tools and native application development tools. Surprisingly, only 53% of the firms surveyed have an official enterprise mobility strategy. Successful mobile deployments require planning. Without proper planning, companies will waste both time and money on designing the wrong applications and services.
Maribel Lopez is the CEO and mobile market strategist for Lopez Research, a market research and strategy consulting firm that specializes in communications technologies with a heavy emphasis on the disruptive nature of mobile technologies. AT&T has sponsored this blog post.


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LAKETON TOWNSHIP — Three horses were killed Saturday night after they escaped from a paddock in Laketon Township, ran onto West River Road, where they were struck by two vehicles.
The horses had escaped from a paddock in the 1100 block of West River Road near Auble Road, Muskegon County Sheriff's Sgt. Eric Ridout said.
Ridout said the horses ran into the road and were struck by a westbound minivan and a car traveling eastbound shortly after 7 p.m.
There were four occupants in the van and two in the car, said Ridout. One man reported a minor injury and declined treatment, Ridout said.
Police blocked traffic on West River Road between Auble and Hyde Park roads for about an hour.
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By Pat Jenkins
The Dispatch
The days of overnight parking of semi-truck trailers in unincorporated areas of Pierce County are numbered.
The County Council has voted to ban semi-trailers from being left overnight along roadsides in residential neighborhoods of certain unincorporated areas of the county.
In those locales – including outside of Eatonville and in Frederickson, Spanaway, South Hill, Parkland, Midland and Gig Harbor – the parking restriction will be in effect from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on public streets.
Council members cited the safety of pedestrians, motorists and bicyclists as reasons for the eight-hour ban, which affects commercial drivers of semi-trucks.
Councilman Jim McCune said he received "repeated complaints from people in these parts of the county, asking us to do something to keep their streets clear" of the trucks and trailers, which he described as "unwanted obstructions."
Violating the new rule, which takes effect Aug. 1, will result in $175 fines issued by the county Sheriff Department.
McCune noted the impact on truck drivers could have been worse.
"Rather than an all-out ban that could have potentially had negative effects on businesses and the economy, the council reached this compromise, and I'm pretty pleased with the result," he said.
Councilman Rick Talbert Another sponsor of the ordinance, Councilmember Rick Talbert said the issue of where tractor-trailers can be parked overnight – there are only a limited number of those locations, he observed – will be addressed by the council separately.
"The fact is that neighbors (in areas where the ban will be in effect) were experiencing an increase in these incidents, and something needed to be done to help curb that," said Talbert. "And the drivers who were offloading their trailers weren't just catching a few winks and moving on. They'd leave their trailers parked in these neighborhoods indefinitely, creating not just an eyesore but significant safety concerns, as well."
Jim Tutton, vice president of Washington Trucking Association, attributes such concerns to a lack of facilities where trucks can be parked overnight, according to trucking industry reports.
Washington Trucking Association is an advocate for interests of the trucking industry.
Pierce County's overnight ban was approved by the council July 15. Seven days later, the council passed a revised version of the legislation. The initial version's language unintentionally expanded the ban to include other types of large work trucks, council members said. They amended the legislation to specify semi-trailers.


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The Political Costs of the 2009 British MPs' Expenses Scandal
Edited by Jennifer Van Heerde-Hudson
In May 2009, the Daily Telegraph began publishing un-redacted expenses claims made by British MPs showing how, and the extent to which, some MPs took advantage of an unregulated expenses system. This study examines the evolution and political consequences of this 2009 British MPs' expenses scandal and argues that despite claims at the time of a revolution in British politics, it in fact had a limited, short-term impact. Beginning with the efforts of journalist Heather Brooke and the role of the Freedom of Information Act in exposing the scandal, the book examines the scandal's electoral impact and how it affected public perceptions of wrong-doing and probity amongst politicians. It also notes the many opportunities MPs had to reform parliamentary expenses, and gives special consideration is given to the media's role in reporting the scandal but also to the role of Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority in reforming expenses.
Legislative Codecision in the European Union: Experience over Twenty Years and Implications
This volume takes stock of twenty years of practising and studying codecision in the European Union (EU) and examines the procedure's long-term implications for the EU's institutions, politics and policies. The introduction of co-legislation between the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament in 1993 raised the prospect of increased parliamentary involvement in EU decision-making and promised a new era of more transparent, inclusive and accountable policy-making. This collection draws together contributions from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to analyse the extent to which codecision has delivered the expected gains and to review the unexpected effects that have followed from its introduction, such as the growing informalisation of EU decision-making. Using a combination of in-depth qualitative case studies, wider quantitative analyses, practitioners' insights and a review of the procedure's democratic legitimacy the contributions offer a holistic assessment of the effect of co-decision on the political system of the EU.
|Judicial independence is generally understood as requiring that judges must be insulated from political life. The central claim of this work is that far from standing apart from the political realm, judicial independence is a product of it. It is defined and protected through interactions between judges and politicians. In short, judicial independence is a political achievement. This is the main conclusion of a three-year research project on the major changes introduced by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and the consequences for judicial independence and accountability. The authors interviewed over 150 judges, politicians, civil servants and practitioners to understand the day-to-day processes of negotiation and interaction between politicians and judges. They conclude that the greatest threat to judicial independence in future may lie not from politicians actively seeking to undermine the courts, but rather from their increasing disengagement from the justice system and the judiciary.
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Special Advisers: Who they are, what they do and why they matter
This book is the most detailed study yet carried out of special advisers. The Constitution Unit's research team, led by Dr Ben Yong and Professor Robert Hazell, assembled a comprehensive database of over 600 special advisers since 1979. They conducted written surveys, and interviewed over 100 special advisers, ministers and officials from the past thirty years. They conclude that special advisers are now a permanent and indispensable part of Whitehall, but are still treated as transient and temporary. The book concludes with practical recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of special advisers through improvements to their recruitment, induction and training, support and supervision, and strengthening their accountability.
Croce, Gramsci, Bobbio and the Italian Political Tradition
Richard Bellamy (ECPR, December 2013)
This book gathers together fifteen classic essays by leading scholar Richard Bellamy, tracing the history of Italian political thought from Beccaria to Bobbio. Written over the past 25 years, they constitute the first account in English of the modern Italian political tradition. The author pays special attention to the different ways Italian theorists have linked politics and ethics, and their various conceptions of the state and of democracy. The resulting variations on Machiavellian themes gave rise to distinctively Italian understandings of Liberalism, Marxism, Fascism and Socialism, which were all associated with a peculiarly realist account of democracy. Among the thinkers discussed are Cesare Beccaria, Antonio Genovesi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Gentile, Antonio Gramsci, Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca and Norberto Bobbio.
Democratic Justice and the Social Contract
Albert Weale (OUP, August 2013)
This book offers a theory of democratic justice. According to the theory, justice emerges from collective agreement among political associates who enjoy approximate equality of power. Such situations can be seen as social contracts, and we find an empirical model for social contracts in the examples of successful common property resource regimes. In these regimes, participants craft collective rules of access to the means of production on an equal basis and producers are entitled to the full fruits of their labour. To interpret this theoretically an account of practical rationality in terms of individual and public deliberation is required.
The Contemporary House of Lords: Westminster Bicameralism Revived
This book provides the first detailed portrait of the post-1999 Lords, explaining who sits in the chamber, how it operates, and crucially what policy impact it has. Its membership is shown to be more diverse and modern than many would assume, and its influence on policy to be substantial.
Neil Mitchell (NYU Press, 2012)
This book asks what can we expect from a political leader in a country like Britain or the United States when its soldiers kill civilians or mistreat prisoners? After Abu Ghraib or Bloody Sunday what happens next? The book argues that accountability is a very severe test for political leaders, despite the democratic folk lore of the buck stopping with them. The book provides an analysis of why leaders behave as they do, and what can be done about it.
The Politics of Coalition How the Conservative-Lib Dem Government Works
Robert Hazell and Ben Yong (Hart, 2012)
The Politics of Coalition tells how the Coalition has fared in the different arenas of the British
political system: at the Centre; within the Departments; in Parliament;
in the parties outside Parliament, and in the media. It will be of
interest to politicians, policy makers, academics, students and anyone
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Does FOI Work? The Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on Central Government in the UK
Robert Hazell, Ben Worthy and Mark Glover (Palgrave, August 2010)
This book is the first systematic evaluation of FOI anywhere in the world. It evaluates the performance of the Act against its objectives,
and its impact on Whitehall. The book draws upon evidence from interviews with officials, plus FOI requesters and journalists as well as stories in the national press. Each chapter draws on case studies to make particular points and bring the study to life. It also compares developments in the UK to those in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.
Thomas Christiansen and Christine Reh. Constitutionalizing the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
This book by Thomas Christiansen and Christine Reh is published by Palgrave Macmillan in its European Union Series. The book offers an in-depth and systematic account of the formal and informal dynamics of constitution building in Europe from the 1950s to the present day. It analyses the nature of this process and looks in detail at the informal and incremental elements of constitutionalization, at the formal mechanism of treaty reform, and at the more recent, explicit attempt to create a "European Constitution". The authors introduce the various actors involved in this process, discuss the structural opportunities and constraints of constitutional choice, and take the reader through the stages of EU treaty reform from agenda-setting to ratification. Having charted the trajectory of constitutionalization over time, the authors conclude with a discussion of recent developments and an outlook towards the EU's constitutional future.
Constitutional Futures Revisited: Britain's Constitution to 2020.
Robert Hazell's book, written by a team of leading political
scientists and lawyers, forecasts the impact of all the recent
constitutional reforms on the UK's key political institutions, and the
constitution as a whole.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
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Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy
Richard Bellamy (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
|Cecile Laborde's book, Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy has just been published in the Oxford Political Theory series at Oxford University Press.
David Hudson co-edited this volume which provides a wide-ranging discussion of both the potential and the problems arising from the application of multi-level governance literature to the monetary and financial domain.
Routledge 2005; reprinted in paperback 2008.
Mapping Communicable Disease Control Administration in the UK - David Rowland
This report is part of the Nuffield Trust grant to UCL entitled the 'changing nature of the state in health' and focuses on the impact of devolution in the UK and the increased Europeanisation of the health sector on the UK NHS. The report sets out the impact that devolution and Europeanisation have had on the structure of communicable disease control in the UK. It raises important questions about the co-ordination of this important function in the context of multi-level governance and examines the new administrative innovations which have resulted from the devolution of power within the UK.
The Legalization of Human Rights Multidisciplinary Perspectives - Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Çali
This text scrutinizes the extent to which legal codification shapes the human rights ideal, and surveys its ethical, political and practical repercussions. How does the law influence what we think about rights? What more is there to such rights than their legal protection? To what extent is legal concept of rights, their holders, those responsible for thier protection, in line with the moral concept the law is supposed to codify? This book introduces a new concept and phenomenon: "Legalization", a process by which legal codification and specification is taken to determine the boundaries of a concept to the exclusion of other practices and disciplines. The text goes on to discuss the consequences of this phenomenon."
Business and Government: Methods and Practice - David Coen and Wyn Grant
This is the third volume in "The World of Political Science" book series sponsored by Research Committee 33 on The Study of Political Science as a Discipline (RC 33), one of about 50 Research Committees of the International Political Science Association (IPSA).
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- While most of the state's 11 billionaires hail from the Detroit area, the top two spots still belong to West Michigan natives.
The state's richest are amongst the 1,645 billionaires who made it onto the Forbes Magazine's World's 2013 richest list, in an issue that hits newstands this month.
The magazine reported the fortune of the world's billionaires grew by a $1 trillion to $6.4 trillion.
The wealthiest of Michigan's deep pockets are those of Hank and Doug Meijer, with an estimated net worth of $8.5 billion. The brothers, who share chairmanship duties of the Walker-based supercenter chain Meijer Inc., ranked 153rd on the list. The private, family-owned retailer with 204 stores across five states does not disclose sales figures.
Read the full story: Meijer brothers, Amway's Rich DeVos still richest in Michigan, reports Forbes
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Psychiatric patients at the UK's Broadmoor Hospital have been assessed in the first health monitoring trial using contactless camera-based technology
CST – Computer Simulation Technology (CST) has announced the acquisition of Aurora Software and Testing, SL (AURORASAT), a provider of tools for the analysis, synthesis and design of passive microwave components
Certara, a provider of decision support technology and consulting services specialising in drug development and healthcare, has announced that it has established two Phoenix Centers of Excellence in Asia
IBM has joined forces with Siemens Healthineers in a five-year deal aimed at helping healthcare organisations to provide better-value care to patients
Competition in the HPC processor market is building with the news that Adapteva, a specialist in the design of energy efficient accelerator chips and compute modules, has created a new 1024-core processor – thanks, in part, due to a grant from the US, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), together with colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands have discovered a way to significantly improve computer memory performance
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A new supercomputer, operated by the EPCC, will provide services to accelerate product development for business users. This new supercomputer will be used to dramatically reduce the time taken for businesses to bring new products to market – providing a competitive advantage for business users
ARM has announced an on-chip interconnect technology designed to increase data throughput for HPC, data centre and cloud applications
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BATON ROUGE -- The Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved legislation Monday allowing a stand-in to be named for the economist who has been a member of the state's revenue forecasting panel since its inception in 1989.
The committee passed Senate Bill 640 to allow Louisiana State University economist Jim Richardson to name a designee to attend a meeting of the Revenue Estimating Conference or allow Richardson to attend by telephone or teleconference. The measure now goes to the Senate floor for debate.
Senate President John Alario, R-Westwego, the bill's sponsor, said the legislation is needed in case Richardson, who is recovering from heart surgery, is unable to make the meeting.
The conference provides estimates to the Legislature on the amount of money available to budget based on taxes and other revenue sources.
Alario said the next meeting of the council will probably be in early May. He said he is hopeful Richardson can attend in person but if he cannot the legislation is needed.
The House is expected to approve the state budget bill in early May and send it to the Senate around that time.
Alario said the interim appointee must be a private or public university professor with an expertise in revenue forecasting.
The decision of the conference on budget projections has to be unanimous. The other three members include the House speaker, the Senate president and the governor -- and all three can send designees except the economist.
The panel also sent to the full Senate, on a 9-1 vote, a proposed constitutional amendment by Sen. Sherri Smith Buffington, R-Shreveport, that would prohibit lawmakers and the governor from spending money in the Medicaid Trust Fund for the Elderly for other purposes.
Buffington said she wants to place the ban in the Constitution so federal money goes to help pay fees for nursing homes for the elderly and the poor.
She said that if the money is spent for any other purpose, the federal government can make the state repay the money. She said she is aware of no plans for that now, but there are no guarantees that future governors and legislators may not try to shift the dollars.
"This is belt and suspenders," Buffington said of her Senate Bill 82.
Buffington's measure will need a two-thirds vote in the Legislature; if it survives there, it must be approved by voters in the Nov. 6 election.


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Tickets for the show, which will be at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 21 and also includes Papa Roach and Saving Able, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. They are $39.75 apiece and are available at the box office or through Ticketmaster, 373-7000.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Jacquez Hall rushed for 176 yards on 30 carries and also returned an interception 55 yards for a touchdown as Restoration Academy held on for a 38-31 win over Tuscaloosa Academy in AISA AAA, Region 1 action Thursday night at Birmingham-Southern's Panther Stadium.
Hall scored on runs of 1 and 7 yards and the Bulldogs (1-0, 1-0) got a clutch 96-yard kickoff return from Jalen Smith.
Tuscaloosa Academy quarterback Keonte Chambers rushed for 148 yards on 23 carries and brought the visitors to within 38-31 on his 1-yard touchdown run with 2:24 remaining.
Chambers even recovered the ensuing on-sides kick, but the Knights failed to move the ball.
-- Play of the Game: After Tuscaloosa Academy had closed to within 32-24 late in the third quarter, Smith took the ensuing kickoff 96 yards to give the Bulldogs a 38-24 cushion and that touchdown would make the difference in the 38-31 victory.
-- By the Numbers: Former Auburn and NFL linebacker Reggie Torbor made his debut as the Restoration coach, replacing DeWayne Coker, who was 62-26 in 10 years. …Restoration, which moves up to Class AAA, won the Class A state championship in 2012 and was the runner-up last year while Tuscaloosa Academy won the AAA state title in 2012 and lost in the first round last year. …The Bulldogs, already missing four starters, lost four more starters on a team with a roster of 27.
-- Game ball: Hall did the trick for the Bulldogs, coming in after an injury to Rashad Mosley in the first quarter. Mosley missed most of last year with a torn ACL and will have x-rays on his leg this weekend.
-- Coachspeak: "We fought hard and it was a good win for us," said first-year coach Reggie Torbor. "We had some guys to go in that didn't expect to play and really stepped it up. When you lose eight starters and only have 27 players, that's tough."
-- They Said It …: "I was just trying to make a play," Smith said of his kickoff return. "I was ready to put them away. It was good to get the win, but we didn't play as well as we've been practicing."
"I felt great out there," Hall said. "I thought we were awesome. We had to make a lot of plays, but I thought the whole team stepped up."
-- Next week: Restoration Academy will travel to Hooper Academy while Tuscaloosa Academy also hits the road next week against Pickens Academy.


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SOCCER: TJ's Dahl, Beamer's Hoefel named All-State
A pair of Federal Way soccer players were named first-team, All-State earlier this week by the Washington State Soccer Coaches Association.
Jefferson senior Lindsey Dahl and Beamer junior Jenny Hoefel were selected by WSSCA members and other high school coaches.
Dahl was truly a goal-scoring machine for the Raiders during her stellar career. Dahl finished this season with an amazing 28 goals and five assists for TJ in just 18 matches. In total, the Raiders scored 41 goals during the season and their second-highest goal scorer finished the year with three. As a junior, Dahl was named first-team all-state. She was the co-Most Valuable Player in the SPSL North, finishing with 20 goals and four assists to lead the SPSL. She had six multi-goal games, including three hat tricks.
During her career, Dahl scored a grand total of 63 goals for Jefferson, including nine as a freshman and six as a sophomore.
Dahl is also very accomplished in track and field. As a sophomore and junior, she qualified for the state meet in multiple individual events.
Hoefel burst onto the scene this season for the SPSL South Division champion Titans. She led Beamer in scoring and was named the Most Valuable Player in the SPSL South.
Hoefel finished the season with 18 goals and seven assists for the Titans. She had seven multi-goal games and seemed to get better as the season progressed. In Beamer's first-round state tournament win over Issaquah, Hoefel finished with a pair of goals. She also had multiple goals in four-straight matches in the middle of the season for the Titans.
Beamer senior Jasmine Brilliante was named to the Class 4A second-team. Brilliante was the leader of the Titans' ultra-talented midfield. Brilliante was a first-team, All-SPSL South selection by the league's coaches after finishing second to Hoefel in scoring for the Titans. Brilliante tallied 11 goals and had two assists.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the hardware can disengage from the tracks.
The drop side can detach creating a space.
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It could be just the remnants of the SAD way of life refusing to let go but I've always had the understanding that you should have protein at each meal and every day. Now, I've spent the last three years reading book after book, listening to podcast after podcast, reviewing website and forums and have found varying thoughts on the amount of protein and I'm confused.
I understand that with Primal/Paleo WOE you should be focusing on less/no processed carbs and more good fats but I just heard yet another theory that says that you don't need to eat MEAT each day. Their theory was that it was better to eat meat 4-5 times a week and make sure it's organic and grass-fed (or cage-free, etc) than to eat mass-produced meat and eggs at each meal. The general thought is you don't need THAT much protein and it's better to ensure that the quality of the meat is better than the quantity.
The quality of my meat is an issue, as I just can't afford to be eating Primally AND making sure my meat products are the best. Each week I ensure that at least my chicken is the best possible, but the beef, eggs, and occasional pork is not.
So, my question is then just how much protein do we really need daily, weekly, etc? Do any of you find that you now eat less meat and still feel great, are healthy, and have lost weight?


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Breast Feeding at School?
Does your local high school have a room where mothers can go and breastfeed their babies? When I had my first baby, my BF's mother was allowed to bring my daughter to school so that I could nurse her. Pumping didn't work very well for me, and I would start to feel engorged if I couldn't nurse a couple of times during the day. I'm pregnant again and most of the pregnant girls in this district go to an alternative school. I elected to stay in regular classes because I think the classes are more challenging..
NOPE most of the pregnant girls drop out after baby honestly
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TRENTON — A week after U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg's death upended the New Jersey political world, its future — at least for the next few months — will become clearer today.
Anyone planning to run in the special primary in August must file their nominating petitions by 4 p.m., with at least 1,000 voter signatures attached.
Democrats already have a crowded field of big-name contenders.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker and U.S. Rep Rush Holt (D-12th Dist.) have officially announced their candidacies. U.S. Rep Frank Pallone (D-6th District) announced his intention to run late Sunday night. He has scheduled a press conference for this afternoon at the Division of Elections in Trenton.
And Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver told top Democrats at a closed-door meeting last night that she too wants the seat in Washington.
"She had made it clear to me right now that she has about 1,500 signatures and right now she plans on running," said state Assemblyman Jerry Green (D-Union), who said his discussion with Oliver occurred separately from the meeting.
At the meeting, held at the East Brunswick Hilton, four sources said Democrats also discussed the possibility of filing a lawsuit in federal court to challenge Gov. Chris Christie's decision to hold a special general election in October, instead of one simultaneous with the November general election. The sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss a private meeting.
The only prominent Republican to announce a run is Steve Lonegan, the former mayor of Bogota and a conservative activist.
There could, of course, be others who file petitions by today's deadline.
Christie, who last week appointed state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa to serve as interim senator, scheduled the primary for Aug. 13, and a special general election for Oct. 16. The winner of the general election will serve out the remainder of Lautenberg's term, which expires in January 2015.
Chiesa, a Republican, takes office today and plans to be in Washington for debates this week. He does not plan to run for the seat.
Staff writer Matt Friedman contributed to this report
Related coverage:
• Lautenberg's death turns N.J. political scene upside down
• Christie outlines special election for Lautenberg's U.S. Senate seat
• Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver tells Dems she's running for U.S. Senate
• Booker announces U.S. Senate run, creating blockbuster primary race
• Special U.S. Senate race heats up as Holt enters
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Google giving out Fishtank Google TV devices for developers
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Crossing party lines, former Democratic North Shore City Councilman Jerome O'Donovan yesterday endorsed GOP District Attorney Daniel Donovan's run for attorney general.
"Dan Donovan has been a tremendous prosecutor who has aggressively targeted crime on Staten Island," said O'Donovan, who campaigned against Donovan in the 2003 district attorney race. "While I will support Democrats for other federal, state and local offices in November, this is different."
O'Donovan, who served in the Council from 1981 to 2001, said Donovan "has always lived by his oath of office and commitment to justice."
Said O'Donovan, "It doesn't matter what your political affiliation is, Dan Donovan has the character and integrity to clean up the mess in Albany."
"Whether as a decorated Marine in Vietnam, or in his two decades in the City Council, Jay O'Donovan put his country and his community first," said Donovan. "His endorsement, across partisan political lines, means a great deal in our effort to change the culture of dysfunction and corruption in Albany."
It's not the first time that O'Donovan, the Democratic candidate for borough president in 2001, has backed a Republican.
O'Donovan stirred anger among Democrats last year when he endorsed GOP City Councilman James Oddo (R-Mid-Island/Brooklyn) for re-election.
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- To Paige Pierce, the refusal by many health insurers to pay for treatment of autism is blatant discrimination.
"What if your child had a broken leg and went to the hospital and your insurer said, 'Sorry, we don't cover broken legs,'" said Pierce, whose 20-year-old son has autism.
The days of denying autism coverage appear to be numbered. Assemblyman Joseph D. Morelle, D-Rochester, and Sen. Charles J. Fuschillo, R-Merrick, announced Thursday night Gov. Andrew Cuomo has agreed to support a bill that would require health insurers to pay for screening, diagnoses and treatment of autism.
The bill was unanimously approved last week by state lawmakers and is awaiting Cuomo's signature. A similar bill was vetoed last year by former Gov. David Paterson, who estimated it would increase health insurance costs for state and municipal employees by about $70 million annually.
"This is a major step toward parity for a childhood developmental disorder that is increasingly common and affects more and more families every day," Morrelle said in announcing the agreement with Cuomo's office.
Pierce is executive director of Families Together in New York State, a nonprofit Albany-based advocacy group that supported the bill. "Why is it OK to discriminate against one particular ailment and not others?" she said.
Autism is a developmental disability. There are several different forms of autism included under the label of autism spectrum disorders. All are characterized by varying degrees of impairment in communication and social skills, and repetitive behaviors. Autism affects an estimated one in 110 children nationwide. It is more common than pediatric cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined. There is no cure for autism and no one knows what causes it. There are many different therapies and medications.
A health insurance industry lobbyist predicted mandating coverage of autism services will boost Medicaid costs, property taxes and health insurance premiums. "At a time when the state has been looking to rein in the cost of health care, we shouldn't be imposing new costs," said Leslie Moran, senior vice president of the New York Health Plan Association.
The proposed law does not impose any age or dollar limits on coverage, making it more comprehensive than the bill Paterson vetoed last year. The bill calls for coverage of behavioral treatment, therapeutic care, pharmacy care, psychological care, psychiatric care and medical care.
Moran said the financial impact of this bill on property taxpayers and insurance premiums will be even greater than last year's bill.
Autism Speaks, a national advocacy group that funds autism research, estimated that health insurance premiums for New Yorkers would increase by 0.27 percent to 0.63 percent after six years of coverage for autism services. The estimate is based on experience in 25 other states that have enacted similar bills.
Pierce of Families Together said it is more costly to deny insurance coverage to people with autism.
"Without it, these kids will be on the taxpayers' dime for the rest of their lives," she said. "The financial burden to the state will be significant."
Denial of insurance coverage is a big problem for many parents of autistic children, said Carroll Grant, director of the Margaret L. Williams Developmental Evaluation Center at Upstate Medical University. Many of the children evaluated at the center have autism.
About half of the area's health insurers will not pay for evaluations, leaving families with bills of $2,000 to $3,000, she said. Some school districts do not have staff capable of diagnosing autism and developing plans to address the child's needs, she said.
Some parents spend up to $50,000 a year out of pocket paying for therapies and other autism-related expenses, putting their homes at risk, according to Autism Speaks.
Fuschillo said many families are going broke paying to care for autistic children because their insurance companies refuse to provide coverage.
"It's long past time to give these families access to treatment coverage just like any other condition, and ensure that they are not denied services solely because of an autism diagnosis," he said in a prepared statement.


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I have a few models of some of my favourite jets I won off of ebay, but I would like to get serious and buy higher quality ones, not "toys". I did a google search and found Atlantic models, but they seem to be quite expensive. Are they worth the price? I pretty much want B738, B744, and B772 in CO, BA, LY liveries. Perhaps a few Airbuses as well perhaps B6 colours.
On a side note, I noticed Cessna sells models of the Citation series, but offers no catalogue with pictures. Anybody seen any of these?


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, who this week has been touring parts of his Second Congressional District both new and old, told a Washington, D.C., newspaper that a government shutdown is growing ever likelier.
That's because, Huizenga argued, Democratic leaders in Congress have put additional revenues on the table as what is sure to be brutal negotiations over the nation's debt limit and spending cuts draw near.
Speaking to the right-leaning Washington Examiner, Huizenga said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's assertion that the U.S. needs additional revenues raised the likelihood that the government would shut down with no agreement by its self-imposed late February deadline.
The Examiner's "Washington Secrets" blog cited "top leadership aides" and House Speaker John Boehner as saying the GOP will fight tooth-and-nail for dollar-for-dollar spending cuts.
The paper also said aides are predicting a 50-50 or better chance of a shutdown:
"We will have all GOP members united with Speaker Boehner and the leadership," said a House leadership adviser. "The president has gotten the last nickle of new tax for the remainder of his presidency."
Key advisers said the initial result will likely be a shutdown. Two top aides put the likelihood at 50 percent.
But in a call to Secrets, Michigan Rep. Bill Huizenga said, "It went up, frankly, hearing Pelosi say that revenues and tax rates aren't done."
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The amount expected to be raised over 10 years by the fiscal cliff bill is more than $600 billion.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the bill also will increase the nation's debt by nearly $4 trillion over 10 years. That figure does not factor any potential future spending cuts or other reforms.
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With the first day of trout fishing season in southeastern Pennsylvania approaching on Saturday, March 30, it's time to talk trout. And, for those willing to share a bit of their trout fishing experience and trout knowledge, there will be chances to win selections of trout lures or baits. We're looking for your thoughts, comments and tales in four categories: 1. What is the biggest mistake newcomers to the sport of trout fishing always seem to make? And, how can they avoid or overcome that mistake? (25-100 words) 2. Share one of your great memories from first days past. (75-200 words) 3. What is the best lure (not bait) you ever used for trout? And, what was so great about it? (75-200 words) 4. What is the best off-the supermarket-shelf bait you ever tried for trout? How did you do with that bait? Why? (75-200 words). Send your entries – individually – to Marcus Schneck at firstname.lastname@example.com. Only entries with name, phone number and hometown of the person submitting them will be considered. Permission to publish the entry with name and hometown of the entrant is granted upon entry. Individuals may submit one entry in each of the four categories in each of the four categories. For example, an individual entering all four categories each week would finish the contest with a dozen entries total (three per category). The contest ends on the first day of the season.
A team of hunters led by Chris Shugart, of Millersburg, weighed in four rabbits totaling just over 11 pounds to capture the $800 first prize in the recent third annual team rabbit hunt of the Harrisburg Beagle Club, which drew a field of 51 teams, the most for any organized rabbit hunts in the area in recent years. Shugart individually claim the $250 prize for the single overall heaviest rabbit. Teams and their rabbit-chasing beagles came from throughout southern Pennsylvania, from Reading to Altoona, according to Jim Kiser, president of the club. The hunters bagged more than 340 rabbits.
3The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art, Millersburg, will launch its 2013 Discovery Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 14, with a program on "Pollinator-Friendly Gardens." Penn State Master Gardener Shawna Raymond will discuss simple steps that anyone can take, using native plants, to bring their yard to certification as an official Pollinator-Friendly Garden and assist declining pollinator insect populations. Admission is $5 per person. Center members can use their membership coupons to receive half-price admission. Advance tickets are available for purchase in the Center's gift shop, by phone at 717-692-3699 or on the Center's website.
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Spending time outdoors is the No. 1 reason given by American hunters for participating in their sport, with 92 percent including that on their list of reasons in a recent poll at www.HunterSurvey.com. Seeing wildlife and enjoying "the peace and quiet of the outdoors" each received nods from 87 percent, followed by the challenge of the sport, 80 percent; time with friends and family who hunt, 74 percent; and providing food for friends and family, 70 percent. Southwick Associates designs and conducts the surveys at HunterSurvey.com, ShooterSurvey.com and AnglerSurvey.com.
The Central Pennsylvania Conservancy and Pine Grove Furnace State Park in Gardners will launch a youth internship program, focusing on conservation leadership and citizenship, for students aged 13-15 July 14-19 at the Ironmaster's Mansion in the park. Led by teachers, practitioners and community leaders, the program aims to draw inspiration from Maurice K. Goddard, one of Pennsylvania's greatest leaders in conservation. It's being funded by the South Mountain Partnership, an alliance of organizations working to preserve and enhance the cultural and natural assets. Cost for the program is $350 per students. More information at www.goddardleadership.org.
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Google Gets Patent On Multi-User Face Unlock
We've already found the code in Jelly Bean for multi user support. It's nothing new, even if it isn't working very well. At least we know Google is working on it! They just acquired a patent that uses Face Unlock to differentiate between multiple users. This is of course the next step, and hopefully this system will be done by the next Android version next year.


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Skip to comments.Quinn & Rose - Americas Morning Show - February 24, 2012
Posted on 02/24/2012 2:56:42 AM PST by sneakers
Before yunz head dahntahn to work, or start to red up the house nat, join us every morning for coffee (or whatever gets yinz started) and maybe some serious discussion of the issues (or not!)
Listen to the Quinn & Rose Morning Show at:
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http://wysl1040.com/ (Rochester, NY)
http://www.640whlo.com/main.html (Akron, OH) (airs later from 9-12)
http://www.wncoam.com/main.html (Ashland, OH)
http://www.talkradio560.com/ (Frostburg, MD)
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Friday Snap!
Mornin' everybuddy!
Good morning, A. Morgan! Sneakers and I were wondering, are you on FB? We'd like you to join our little group if you are. :o)
Good morning!
FReepmail incoming.
Good morning, sneaks! I actually slept through the night, late night for you and me yakking last night. How are you feeling this morning?
Good mornin'!
A taste of winter this weekend and then temps in the 40's, 50's, and 60's! WOO-HOO!
Hussein's energy speech. More of the same, shift the blame. He'll probably open the strategic resource which does nothing but weaken the military.
Facebook group????
I slept well too. I feel great! Good thing. I have a lot of box-lifting to do today. Ahhhh, the labors of a paper-shuffler..............
I'm LONGING for spring! We're putting out our coldframe this weekend. Going to fill it with dirt and get some seeds in. We'll be planting cold-hardy seeds. When March first hits, I'll be starting plants in pots indoors. I'm itchin' to get started!
The LEFT is CRAZY!
Several of us on the Q&R listers have started our own private preppers group on FB. With the cost of gas going up, everything is going to continue to get pricier. Plus, there are so many unknowns in the future, we all wanted to learn to be prepared for any emergency. If you're interested, let us know! The more the merrier!
Savage says "liberalism is a mental disorder". I am really starting to believe it.
I went to the local Dollar Tree.. they had just put out a display of vegetable and herb seeds.. regularly $3.95.. for a buck! The vegetable pack has beefsteak tomato , KY wonder green bean, straight eight cucumber, carrot, radish seeds.
Check it out if you have a Dollar Tree store.
Good morning n'@!
Now the story I have been waiting to hear. Two of our soldiers were killed by an Afghani soldier WE trained... And Buh-Rock apologizes for the book burning. I guess this is one of Obama's "standing with the Muslims" if the winds of blah, blah, blah change.
Unbelieveable! Yep, 'ingrates' is the work (sp?) I'm so sick of the loony muzzles. That moon-rock worshipping cult has got to go!
ack! 'work' = 'word'!
We do have a Dollar Tree! I'll check it out.
Also, I got several seed catalogs in the mail. I'm particularly interested in Baker Seed Co. All their seeds are heirloom.
I listened to Savage last night...I have to admit that to you—because yesterday I was alone at work (my late day) and I went Beck thru Savage. And my battery light didn't even come. Lolz...I need a 12 step program.
If they had only burned a pile of bibles Barky Obumbo would be honoring them at the WhoreHouse.
That's disgusting. And are you hearing Quinn talking about the ROP guy that got arrested for yelling ala akbar (I know - it's spelled wrong), and they said it was not a security issue!
Dollar Geeneral also had a nice selection yesterday. Mrs p6 and a couple of the neighbors arestarting to put pots out. One problem developing though. There is a herd of deer...5-8...bedding down 40-50 feet from our front door a few times a week. They are eating a lot and don't scare.
islam-lover obama, I'm convinced, hates Christians and Christianity in general. Can it get any more clear that he is NOT a Christian??
A real American President would tell Karzai to go to hell!
I am stunned from that story. Glad to know able bodied male passengers took care of the situation.
I quit listening to Beck and Savage.. I grew very, very tired of Beck's craziness .. and Savage he's all over the place like a shock jock.
I am so glad I don't fly anymore.
Heck yeah, super duper secret, too, bunker and all! LOL
I have panels from a brother for the intentions of making a coldframe out of them. I think it's time to do so. Quinn stated at the top of the show he's been warming of cooling trends since mid-1990's due to the sun's cycles and all (I remember them!) so we're going to want these.
Oooh, will check it out! Thanks!
The four of them—Beck, Rush, Hannity, and Savage keep me same on he long days.
Last night Savage was reading foreclosure ads for million dollar properties. I kinda enjoyed that (there is a FR thread too!)
I wonder what Karzai wants the punishment for the soldiers to be—beheading?
This is an outrage. Palin and Gingrich called out Obama on his grovelling—good for them.
I remember 1972 and wearing a jacket most of the summer, met a woman whose husband and Eddie Rickenbacker used to race trains to crossings.
Had to look up Eddie - there's someone who lived a full life!
"islam-lover obama, Im convinced, hates Christians and Christianity in general. Can it get any more clear that he is NOT a Christian?"
You mean to say that Ruvrund Wrong's "God Damn America" temple is not a church? hahaha
As for Obumbo, I do not see him as a Muzie,
I think he is an atheist, but politically he will side with the Muzies.
I like it!
You're probably right. An atheist and a COWARD! Bad combination. He'll sell us out to anybody who is a threat!
Up at my usual time, listening to the podcasts from yesterday. I sure missed a lot on this show! Today's plans - currently making Fuddrucker's buns for later (no Jambalaya today, bro said save it for another time); housework; prep - planting some seeds; prep - organizing; feed the crew taking down a tree. :o)
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WASHINGTON - Retail sales plunged far more than expected in December, ending a dismal holiday season with a record sixth straight monthly decline, and there's no relief in sight as consumer demand remains weak.
The Commerce Department reported yesterday that retail sales dropped 2.7 percent last month, more than double the 1.2 percent decline that Wall Street expected.
The December sales drop, which followed a November revision downward to 2.1 percent, confirmed private-sector reports that retailers had suffered the worst holiday season since at least 1969. For the entire year, retail sales were down 0.1 percent, a sharp turnaround after a 4.1 percent gain in 2007. It was the first time the annual retail sales figure has fallen on government records going back to 1992.
Analysts predict the recession - already the longest in a quarter-century - will continue until the second half of this year.
In a separate report, the Commerce Department said businesses cut their inventories by 0.7 percent in November, the largest decline in seven years and the third straight month that stockpiles were reduced as companies scramble to cope with huge declines in sales. Total business sales fell by a record 5.1 percent in November, the government said.
Also yesterday, regional department store chain Gottschalks Inc. put itself up for sale and said it had filed to reorganize in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Elsewhere, luxury department store retailer Neiman Marcus Group Inc. on Tuesday said it was cutting about 375 jobs.


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Fennville Public Schools posted their closure on the school system's Facebook page. Wayland Union Schools and the Allegan Tech Center are also closed Thursday.
Wayland schools have been closed since Monday, according to the district's Facebook page. The school closed Monday due to boiler problems and Tuesday because of the weather.
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