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Apr 14, 2011

Looming U.S. Government Shutdown Sign of Future Financial Crisis

BY KERRI SHANNON, Associate Editor, Money Morning
Washington for months has been tangled in a messy political debate over the 2011 federal budget. The newest deadline to reach a budget deal - April 8 - is just a couple of days away.

European Interest Rate Hike May Foretell Shift in Fed Policy

BY JON D. MARKMAN, Contributing Writer, Money Morning
Stocks traded with all the precision of a baseball skipping into the Boston Red Sox outfield over the past week, which is to say it was pretty sloppy. The major equity averages settled near the flat line, but it was a mess getting there after the European Central Bank raised rates for the first time since mid-2008, there was a 7.1 magnitude aftershock in Japan, and Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) bought a rival chip maker at incredible premium.

Silver Investing Strategies: The Outlook for the "Other" Precious Metal

Money Morning Staff Reports
Silver rose as high as $41.98 an ounce this week - a 31-year high - and has remained above the $40-an-ounce level. That means that the "other" precious metal is up about 32% so far this year - and has more than doubled since Money Morning recommended it to readers in early September.


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SPACE, Astronomy News, Apr 14, 2011

The cold, thin, glorious line of star birth
Discover Magazine (blog)
Apparently supernovae have been going off all over the galaxy for quite some time, their expanding gas stirring up the ethereally thin material of interstellar space. In fact, these filaments are considered by astronomers to be dense, but the air in ...
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Discover Magazine (blog)
High flying astronomy with German instrument
PhysOrg.com
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is a joint project between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA). It is funded on behalf of the DLR by the Federal Ministry of Economics and ...
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PhysOrg.com
Event celebrates 50 years of human space flight
The University of Alabama Crimson White
The date marked the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight, accomplished by Russian Yuri Gagarin. To commemorate the occasion, William Keel, professor ofastronomy, presented the past 50 years of spaceflight and “the way the future was. ...
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The University of Alabama Crimson White
Is space shuttle Endeavour worth hundreds of millions of dollars to LA?
Christian Science Monitor
Space shuttle Atlantis will follow, in late June, and that will end the space shuttle program. At that point, these displays will be the only reminders of the shuttle program, notes Edward Devinney, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Villanova ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Hunting for Planets from the Comfort of Your Own Home
TIME
(Watch TIME's video on Galileo and the year of astronomy.) Indeed, says astronomer Chris Lintott, currently at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, this isn't the first time the untrained human brain has been able to help astronomers out. ...
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Interview with Helen Keen: combining science and comedy in It Is Rocket Science
Den Of Geek
I've tried to bring lots of characters that people might not necessarily know about from astronomyand space into the story. Everybody knows the story of Galileo being persecuted and disbelieved, but the stories that we start with in the first episode ...
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Canadian radar helps keep astronauts safe from space rocks
Canada.com
"Operational decisions are made every day based on what our radar detects," says Peter Brown, a Western astronomy professor and one of the operators of the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar. NASA uses the real-time data provided by the radar to track the ...
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Friends, colleagues reeling after Yale student from Scituate dies in lab accident
The Patriot Ledger
Michele Dufault, a senior physics and astronomy student, was a month from graduation at the university in New Haven, Conn. She was working in a machine shop in the school's Sterling Chemistry Lab on Tuesday when officials believe her hair became ...
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Institute for Scientific Research Opening Its Doors to BC Community
Boston College Chronicle
For the past two years, Research Astronomer Tom Kuchar has taught an astronomy class to students in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. There are also pending proposals for an undergraduate course on space weather and for a graduate ...
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Veteran Space Reporters Win Big Honors
Space.com
Harwood has been covering space – both spaceflight and astronomy – for more than 27 years. In addition to serving as CBS News Space Consultant, Harwood often contributes to CNET, Spaceflight Now and The New York Times. ...
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Hunting for the Milky Way's Heaviest Stars
Space Ref (press release)
... astronomers have used powerful telescopes sensitive to X-ray and infrared radiation to find evidence for a substantial population of X-ray emitting massive stars. This image shows infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope near the plane of ...
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Space Ref (press release)
Powerhouse Science Center Receives $7 Million Grant From Proposition 84
Placer County Online
Features inside the Earth & Space Sciences Center include a 150-seat full-dome Planetarium Theater that will take visitors beyond astronomy to study nature education, and an expanded Challenger Learning Center providing simulated NASA space missions. ...
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NASA scientist urges Chicago kids to walk on Mars
Medill Reports: Chicago
He said that put him on the path to study space science at the University of Iowa. In college, his instructors encouraged him to look beyond astronomy to geology. “From looking at Mars, to standing on Mars and discovering what's there,” he said. ...
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Medill Reports: Chicago
A tidy boxed life!
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
First human in space "Competition has always been the fuel that drives people to go the distance for improvement and advancement. I have a particular interest in space and astronomy, and the story of the first human being to reach space and ...
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Moon, Saturn shine bright for gazers
Lake Zurich Courier
On Tuesday, Astronomy Magazine recognized the Lake County society as one of the top six groups in the country for its outreach activities. "That's amazing," said Cheng, of Buffalo Grove, as he peered into a scope. "The craters go a mile down? ...
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Edmonton folk-pop singer Kenya Kondo releases debut album
Edmonton Journal
Kondo moved to Canada in 2001 to begin studies in astronomy at the University of Alberta and completed a degree in physics and math several years later, leading an acoustic jam/cover band in his spare time. He met the woman who became his wife and ...
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Library program to explain matter and energy throughout the cosmos
NorthJersey.com (press release)
Astronomy is more than a profession for Manning, it's his love and it shows in all he does. Attend this program for people of all ages and interests about the objects and forces in the universe from the very small to the very large. ...
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While the sun shines
The Week
The company, which has just announced its attractions for this summer, also has round-the-year programmes on activities like astronomy and rifle shooting for children between age 9 and 16. Inme was actually the coming together of several like-minded ...
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The Week
Climate change from black carbon depends on altitude
EurekAlert (press release)
(Other types of aerosols reflect the sunlight back out into space, providing a cooling effect.) The climate effect of black carbon is difficult to quantify because these particles heat the air around them, affecting clouds even before they begin to ...
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THE COSMOS: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE (DVD)
Film Threat
The only bonus feature on the DVDs is a photo gallery of the Apollo astronauts, but that's okay: this is a nice introduction to astronomy for anyone who wants a broad overview of the subject. Hopefully we'll see updated versions of “Cosmos” as new ...
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What's On - from April 14
West Sussex County Times
HORSHAM Astronomy Group meet on the first Wednesday of the month for talks, occasional observing sessions, and for sharing advice on astronomical techniques at Christ's Hospital. Please contact our secretary, Richard Griffith via our website at ...
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Evidence of Big Bang May Disappear in 1 Trillion Years - Yahoo! News
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Fifty years of spaceflight : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
Space and Astronomy news daily – SpaceInfo.com.au. Space and Astronomy news daily .....SpaceInfo … astronomy and space exploration news and images, ...
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ESO - ann11018 - Space Scoop: Astronomy News for Children
ann11018 - Space Scoop: Astronomy News for Children . Life has just become much easier for parents and educators dealing with enthusiastic children curious ...
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NASA announces new homes for shuttle orbiters after retirement ...
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The News Tribune - CBC, Heritage to offer astronomy degree (print)
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SPORTS, Athletics News, Apr 14, 2011


Chad Masters will be the
athletic director and football
coach at Tolton Catholic.
Tolton High School AD has Masters plan
Columbia Daily Tribune
With the school opening its doors exclusively to ninth- and 10th-graders for the first year and expecting a starting enrollment of around 100 students, most of the team sports — football, basketball, soccer, volleyball — will begin with junior ...
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 Prep sports saviors
American Chronicle
At Winfield and other schools, new soccer fields have been created to ease the load on football stadiums. Auxiliary gyms, which require much more in the way of bricks and mortar, are just starting to catch up. Basketball may be the trickiest, ...
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SVL to add five schools in 2012, expanding to 15 members
Midland Daily News
The expansion means that the SVL will be split into two geographical divisions for many of its sports, including football, girls' and boys' basketball, boys' and girls' soccer, volleyball, baseball, and softball. One division will consist of Mount ...
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Sports Star Keeley's an all-round football talent
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
This week's Advocate Junior Sports Star nominee plays Aussie rules, indoor soccer, touch football, athletics, swimming, and his favourite - rugby league. The year 6 pupil at St Patrick's Primary School Asquith has played league since he was 4, ...
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Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Gettys to return, guide TWCA boys hoops
Houston Chronicle
The Woodlands Christian Academy is building quite an athletics program and looks to continue that process with the addition of a new football coach and boys' basketball coach. Reid Gettys, of University of Houston Phi Slamma Jamma fame, who took over ...
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2011 Academic Awards presentation
TexasSports.com
It's a proud moment for everybody,” said Brian Davis, Associate Athletics Director for Football Academic Services. “You have to earn a 3.0 to be invited. That's not easy. Earning a 4.0 at The University of Texas is getting more difficult, ...
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TexasSports.com
Times' top 10 "community" schools
Tampabay.com (blog)
But its true identity is forged in Pirates athletics. You can still hear Pirate football games online (a concession to 21st-century technology), and some home baseball games feature all the smells of a country carnival. Until Wesley Chapel High ...
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Cutting sports is more than a game
Albany Times Union (blog)
... athletics help define a community. You won't get nearly as close to the core of the local character and culture on the Tuesday in May when school board seats and school budgets are voted upon as you might on a fall afternoon at a soccer or football ...
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Get to know Rob Anspach
Hofstra University Hofstra Chronicle
Athletically, obviously losing football is a huge difference, but what they have done as far as changing conferences, all of the facility renovations, the new field hockey field, the soccer field being re-done—just all of those things for athletics ...
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Athletes, Parents Get Tips on Navigating the Maze of College Recruiting
Patch.com
By Christopher Shott | Email the author | 11:00am The panel for Tuesday's Collegiate Athletic Recruiting Workshop held at Barrington High included, from left: Chris Flint (head women's soccer coach at Bryant University), Sean Livingston (head men's and ...
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Student known for devotion to LSU sports large and small
LSU The Reveille
Clark fondly remembers the 2008 football game against Troy, a contest that cemented his love for LSU sports. LSU came back from 28 points down to win. "People were leaving, and I just was not leaving," he said. "I knew the game was not over. ...
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VanKuiken earns award of merit at conference
Fenton Tri County Times
The school has hosted 37 state tournaments in 12 different sports as well. And the Holly athletic program has improved as well. The varsity football team made the playoffs for the second time in her tenure at Holly. The Holly boys and girls tennis ...
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The great Friday flight: How Vassar got its students back
The Miscellany News
From theater to sports to off-campus trips, the beginning of the weekend has always been an important and interesting part of the Vassar student's life. Athletic competition played a significant role in the start of the Vassar weekend of generations ...
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AU to add women's lacrosse in 2013
TribLocal
Aurora University offers all 18 Northern Athletics Conference sponsored sports plus men's lacrosse as a member of the Midwest Lacrosse Conference. NAC men's teams include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor track ...
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Massabesic's Spear looking ahead to move, will miss school
Biddeford Journal Tribune
Among them may be a proposed synthetic turf multi-purpose field that could be used for sports such as football, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey. There are no such plans for the facilities at Massabesic. “Budgets are tough everywhere,” he said. ...
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Get a kick out of soccer? Not this kind
Kansas City Star
Any parent who has a child who participates in youth athletics has probably experienced bad sportsmanship. I've seen and heard plenty of incidents over the years, including during half-time of my daughter's soccer game earlier this month, ...
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Siemon, Hoffman are Athletes of the Year; Phipps honored for FAR service
Yellow Jackets Sports Information
Niemiec, a senior from Holland, Mich., was a two-time NCCAA All-American on the soccer field and the national tournament's Most Outstanding Offensive Player for the runner-up Yellow Jackets. The Don and Nedra Callan Sports Ministry Awards were ...
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The Cheap Seats, April 13
The Tennessean
Here's the county's largest school, by far, and they play a grand total of THREE (out of nine) sports on the school's grounds (basketball, wrestling and volleyball). Soccer (girls and boys), tennis, football, baseball and softball all play off of the ...
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KSU's new AD is fresh from national stage
Marietta Daily Journal
Williams had one when he played college football at the University of Massachusetts. He had another when he got his first job in college athletics at the University of Utah in 1993. Now, Williams has the biggest opportunity of his career, becoming the ...
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Moms Q&A: Should or Shouldn't Your Children Play Sports?
Patch.com
Do you think it's essential for your child to experience sports? Is it inappropriate to make your child participate in athletics? Join the Kent Patch Moms Council with your thoughts on youth sports.
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Youth urged to utilise recreational facilities
Sowetan
She was speaking during the official handing over of a sports complex and a library. The sports complex, which comprises an athletics track, a soccer pitch and change rooms, was built at a cost of R2million. Addressing community members, Thusi said the ...
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Sowetan
Fan reaction: KC Chiefs preseason schedule announced
Yahoo! Sports
I'd rather be watching soccer at this point. William Browning is a fan of Missouri State University athletics after living in the area 15 years. Born in St. Louis, he is a lifelong St. Louis Cardinals fan and a transplanted KC Chiefs fan. ...
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Yahoo! Sports
UCF still waiting on Big East
ESPN (blog)
UCF athletics director Keith Tribble told The Orlando Sentinel for Wednesday editions, "We're sitting on the sideline trying to monitor the situation." UCF and Houston are thought to be among the top potential candidates to join the Big East. ...
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Sports shorts
Foster's Daily Democrat
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased on line at www.rochestershof.com ($2 service fee will apply), at the Elks Lodge, Collins Sports, Lachapelle & Higgins Insurance Agency or Profile Insurance Group. ROCHESTER — Rochester Spring Youth Soccer sign-ups ...
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COLUMN: NHL playoffs as good as it gets
The Statesman
Simply put, there is nothing better in all the world of professional sports than the Stanley Cup Playoffs. – Matt Sonnenberg is a senior majoring in print journalism. Matt is an avid fan of Aggie athletics and can be found on the front row of every ...
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Withers: Finding allies in the sports community
365Gay.com (blog)
Taylor takes a pragmatic view of homophobia in sports. Sure he knows the language of social justice, but understands the sports world responds to wins and losses. One way to sell the idea of a more tolerant athletic world is to focus on the bottom line ...
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Think The Royal Family Doesn't Love Sports? Don't Be Daft
The Post Game
Prince William, for example, holds the position of president of the English Football Association, one of the oldest and most powerful national governing bodies in the soccer world. Last year, the Prince threw his weight behind England's ultimately ...
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Sports briefs
The Salem News
North Shore Tech/Essex Aggie is looking for a head coach and assistant coaches for boys soccer and girls volleyball. Candidates should send a letter of interest and resume to John Lynch, coordinator of athletics, health and student activities, ...
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Wallin honoured as top female athlete
St. Albert Gazette
“It was like taking a step back and just appreciating all the U of A has provided for me with academics and athletics. Overall it was just a great experience full of emotion.” Wallin is only the third player from the Pandas' soccer program to win the ...
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Outer Loop Sports Show 4/13
News & Observer (blog)
Watch this week's Outer Loop Sports Show, the weekly show that breaks down Triangle high school athletics with emphasis on the areas covered by our community sports editors J. Mike Blake, D. Clay Best and Nate Taylor. On this week's show, ...
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Men's Soccer Adds Five Players for 2011
C.W. Post Athletics
... in the classroom, and to the CW Post athletics family.” O'Leary hails from Levittown, and played for Division Avenue, where he was an all-conference player. He plays club soccer for the Garden City Gladiators, an NERP Premier club team. ...
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Big 12 Conference and Fox Sports Media Group Announce Landmark 13-Year Rights ...
TexasTech.com
IRVING, Texas - The Big 12 Conference and Fox Sports Media Group have reached a 13-year agreement for exclusive cable rights to 40 football games per season, as well as to a variety of Olympic sports events and Conference championships. ...
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Spring brings new promise to CU athletics
CU Columbia Spectator
I've always paid more attention to the sports in the spring season than any other—my passion for men's soccer is a whole different story, so let's ignore that—and there's a very simple reason. These teams win. Not the odd game. ...
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Chicago Fire Supports the Launch of the UNO Soccer Academy
Bleacher Report
Both the Chicago Fire Head Coach, Carlos De Los Cobos and Head Coach of UIC's Men's Soccer Team expressed that by having a Soccer Academy that focuses on Academics and Athletics, many talented players will have a greater probability of obtaining a ...
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Bleacher Report
Courage in Athletics Award
WHIZ
WHIZ Media Group and the Fieldhouse are looking for nominees for the Courage in Athletics Award. It was created in 2002 and is dedicated to Seth Dille who never let his Cerebral Palsy keep him from playing soccer and running track. ...
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Man shares passion for cricket with area kids
Annapolis Capital
He won't let himself believe it, pointing out that until soccer was introduced to American youth athletics in the 1960s, many people said the same thing about that sport. "Everywhere I've gone, kids love cricket," he said. "Our entire challenge is to ...
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Annapolis Capital
Scholar-Athletes Win Supporter
Wall Street Journal
Recently, Mr. Alexander contributed $25000 to Right to Dream, a 12-year-old organization with a residential middle school in the eastern region of Ghana that uses sports, specifically soccer, as a way to build leaders and encourage study. ...
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NFL and players get ready for talks
Irish Times
Former Irish Olympian James Nolan from Offaly is named as the athletics team manager while Paul Cassin from Coolock, Dublin is appointed as the team manager to the football seven-a-side. Denis Toomey from Blackrock, Cork, will again hold the position ...
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Irish Times
Tom pitches to succeed
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Tom is also a handy soccer player with All Saints Hunters Hill Soccer Club. He has also been asked to try out for the Gladesville-Hornsby Football Association talent identification academy, which is a feeder club to the Central Coast Mariners in the ...
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Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Marauders make Mosen main mentor
Hamilton Scores!
Constantly striving to provide outstanding coaching, the McMaster Department of Athletics and Recreation is excited to announce the appointment of Brett Mosen as head coach for the Marauder women's soccer team. Mosen joins the Marauders with a coaching ...
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Ask the Experts: Advising patients on sports activity following joint arthroplasty
Ortho SuperSite
Despite these recommendations, some patients choose to participate in heavy labor and sports. Iorio: Patients participate in athletic activity for a variety of reasons other than competition. Physical and mental health improvements are byproducts of ...
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Ortho SuperSite
Mazzaferro Named Finalist for Walter Byers Scholarship
Auburn Tigers
"To be one of the top six in the country is unbelievable - all the hard work in academics, athletics and beyond really does pay off. I know there are so many great candidates throughout the nation and being a finalist is an achievement on its own. ...
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Auburn Tigers
The pursuit of excellence
FavStocks
Most socialists want the most stringent tests and selection to ensure the leading football and athletics teams in the country only contain the best sports people. They encourage vigorous selection, promotion on merit, tough training regimes, ...
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Cross country teams bond during relay for charity
Flagler College Gargoyle
Bonus explained that every year all the sports teams have to do some sort of community service project. The cross country teams decided to use the relay as theirs and raised $3500. He said $2400 went to the Flagler College Athletics Boosters, ...
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Kids Can Learn from the Pros at First Annual Tampa Bay Youth ...
By Press Release
Tampa, FL (April 2011) – On Saturday, April 23, 2011, kids of all ages with big league dreams will have the opportunity to learn from the pros at the first annual Tampa Bay Youth Sports Expo presented by The Skills Center, a nonprofit, sport-based ... Formed in 2007, The Skills Center's mission is to strategically utilize athletics, not merely as recreation, but as the mechanism to accelerate academic achievement and create a personal bank of life skills for young people. ...
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology , Apr 14, 2011


Two Georgia Tech Savannah Graduate Students Receive Prestigious NSF Fellowships
Newswise (press release)
Their research studies will have a significant impact on civil engineering challenges for coastal regions.” The Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, is one of the world's premier research universities. ...
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Three Baylor Students Win National Science Foundation Graduate Research ...
Baylor University
Three Baylor students - Greg Bond, George Montanez and Eduardo Torrealba - have been accepted into the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which supports graduate students in science, technology, engineering and ...
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Scientific Website Features Research On Inflammation, Oral And Systemic ...
Dentistry Today
Antioxidants are a promising technology for addressing inflammation in the oral tissues, and several research studies are underway. Two scholarly review articles published in 2011, have surveyed the field of research studies regarding antioxidants and ...
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Community-Wide Programs to Encourage Exercise Might Fall Short
Health Behavior News Service
“When we looked at the available research, we observed that research studies that had been conducted didn't universally work,” said Philip RA Baker, Ph.D., an adjunct public health professor from Queensland University of Technology, in Australia. ...
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Lab of Ornithology's March Migration Madness
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
The Lab uses its bio-acoustic technology beyond the bird world, contributing to marine acoustic research as well as terrestrial studies with stations all over the world. At its marine stations, one concentration is understanding the effect of noise ...
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TÃœBÄ°TAK to intensify R&D, innovation in energy
Today's Zaman
In this file photo PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and TÜBİTAK President Nükhet Yetiş are seen during a Council for Science and Technology meeting last year. The fact that Turkey's energy portfolio depends heavily on fossil fuel imports and that it uses its ...
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Today's Zaman
Technology helps diagnose soldiers
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
The two-pronged approach involves developing technology for use by combat medics and for general use within the hospital setting. The first method of research aims to create technology that enables a combat medic or emergency medical technician on a ...
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University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
Yellowstone Supervolcano bigger than previously thought
North Denver News
Funding came from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Consortium for Electromagnetic Modeling and Inversion, which Zhdanov heads. The new study says nothing about the chances of another cataclysmic caldera (giant crater) eruption at ...
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Elsevier launches new online research tool, Methods Navigator - 13 Apr 2011
Knowledgespeak
Clinical research charities, research professionals and patient representatives are also participating in the development of the UKCTG. Technology research services firm Gartner, Inc., US, has released a report titled 'Forecast: Media Tablets by Open ...
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Brain Size and Shrinkage Predicts Alzheimer's Disease in Study
Bloomberg
“These are preliminary results that are not ready to be applied outside of research studies right now, but we are optimistic that this marker will be useful in the future.” The volunteers were about 75 years old when they were scanned. ...
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Came close to getting married four times: Tata
Business Standard (blog)
Financial services companies rely on research to understand technologies and to track the dynamics of the market and the main players. However, other services companies may survive very satisfactorily with little or no R&D cost, other than the ...
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FBI requests WVU students for data study
The Daily Athenaeum
"In 45 minutes, they are participating in a project that could have a huge impact on how identification technology is used in the future," said Jeremy Dawson, research assistant professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical ...
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Altered Statesman
Good Times
He frequently serves as guest editor of the tri-annual newsletter from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a local psychedelic research organization that recently published the second edition of “Mavericks of the Mind” ...
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Five Idaho State University faculty members honored as Outstanding Researchers
Idaho State University
Mark McBeth is a professor of political science. Building on his doctoral research, in the 1990s he published influential studies of rural environmental attitudes, showing that, contrary to the accepted theory, rural residents are concerned about the ...
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Idaho State University
Muscle protein study could shape cardiac disease research
Medill Reports: Chicago
Previous studies have failed to achieve this level of detail, according to Tom Irving (no relation to Malcom), a biophysicist at Illinois Institute of Technology. “These guys are exquisite experimentalists,” he said. “They're the best in the business. ...
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Medill Reports: Chicago
Did you hear the one about the biologist who had twins?
KVAL
Cain is a senior lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College, London. His research interests include the history of evolutionary studies, the history of American science, and the history of natural history. ...
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KVAL
Giant fire-bellied toad's brain brims with powerful germ-fighters
EurekAlert (press release)
Ren Lai and colleagues point out that scientists know little about the germ-fighting proteins in amphibian brains, despite many studies showing that amphibians synthesize and secrete a remarkably diverse array of antimicrobial substances in their skin. ...
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IBioLaunch™ Technology Versatility Confirmed In Peer-Reviewed Scientific ...
TheStreet.com (press release)
By Business Wire 04/13/11 - 08:30 AM EDT iBio, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: IBIO) today announced release of results from a series of scientific studies of the breadth of product applicability of its iBioLaunch™ technology. The results were published in a ...
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Oral Bioavailability of Octreotide Using Aegis' Intravail ® Formulation ...
Marketwire (press release)
This study highlights the extension of the use of Intravail® beyond earlier published studies describing non-invasive delivery of peptides via metered nasal spray delivery where Intravail® has been shown to be highly effective for non-invasive delivery ...
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Vivisection Or Death: Part III, No Other Options
Opposing Views
However, it is disingenuous, and routine, when she seeks to justify her experiments in terms of advances in medical care while in reality she is doing basic science research and hence advancing science in general. One final thought on the no other ...
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How Smarter Parking Technology Will Reduce Traffic Congestion
Mashable
Between 8% and 74% of traffic in congested downtown areas is caused by people cruising for parking, according to a report by UCLA professor Donald Shoup who synthesized studies from 70 years of research on the subject. The paper indicates that drivers ...
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GM Crops Found To Disrupt Animals' Livers & Kidneys By Research Review
Treehugger
... pay attention: A new paper published in Environmental Sciences Europe (h/t Institute for Responsible Technology reviews 19 studies of mammals fed GM soybean and corn as well as raw data from another one on rats and finds some disturbing results. ...
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Treehugger
Invasive mussels causing massive ecological changes in Great Lakes
Eureka! Science News
... of a paper scheduled for publication in the April 15 edition of the journal Environmental Science & Technology. "We're talking about massive, ecosystem-wide changes." Evans is a research fellow at the UM School of Natural Resources and Environment. ...
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Eureka! Science News
One in four households goes without healthy food
HealthCanal.com
Australia may be considered the lucky country, but many households face "food insecurity" or the limited ability to access adequate amounts of nutritional-appropriate foods, according to new research by Queensland University of Technology (QUT). ...
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Interact's Insights Seminars
Bizcommunity.com
Using technology to improve on traditional research methodologies. New viable platforms for research were identified as well as real case studies to demonstrate how their practical application works. Using technology to enhance customer centricity and ...
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Celsion Announces Issuance of US Patent Covering ThermoDox ® Technologies
Marketwire (press release)
Additional information on the Company's ThermoDox® clinical studies may be found at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Primary liver cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer and ranks as the fifth most common solid tumor cancer. ...
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Pico-Tesla Reports Promising Results from Pilot Study of Magneceutical ...
Business Wire (press release)
This was a small study, but given the results, it certainly warrants a larger study, as this is a difficult disease and the current options for treatment are problematic,” said Miguel Trevino, MD, Medical Director, Innovative Research of West Florida, ...
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Male-dominated Field of Science Explained
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Takeuchi is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at UB in the engineering and chemistry departments and serves as co-director of the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). Takeuchi's message focused on participation and ...
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Iran Announces Supply of Home-Produced N. Fuel to Tehran Research Reactor
Fars News Agency
The Iranian parliament rejected the deal after technical studies showed that it would only take two to three months for any country to further enrich the nuclear stockpile and turn it into nuclear metal rods for the Tehran Research Reactor, ...
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Fars News Agency
National Environmental Policy Act; Sounding Rockets Program; Poker Flat ...
Space Ref (press release)
Recent Earth science-based missions have furthered the understanding of ozone depleting substances in the upper atmosphere. Such studies are critical for the continual refinement of theories and research on the topics of ozone depletion, global warming ...
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Reading a woman's signals for intimacy
Medill Reports: Chicago
Earlier studies reported that a woman's voice does alter, and this change occurs when she is ovulating. Men recognize the change and respond, studies concluded. Though more research is needed, the new study suggests that non-verbal cues may be the real ...
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Medill Reports: Chicago
New Clinical Studies Reinforce the LAP-BAND® System is a Safe and Effective ...
PR Newswire (press release)
These two new studies support that the advanced product technology of the LAP-BAND® AP System, combined with surgical technique and patient aftercare result in positive clinical outcomes. The LAP-BAND® System has an 18-year safety and effectiveness ...
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David C. Owen Joins Consensus Research Group as Managing Consultant
PR.com (press release)
Owen will play a key role in the planning, design and analysis of public policy research studies on behalf of Consensus clients in the investment community, NGO and academic institutions, health care, information technology, real estate development and ...
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Locally Developed Cancer Fighting Drug Moves One Step Closer To Clinical Trial
Medical News Today (press release)
The research has been generously supported by two major funders over the years: the Terry Fox Research Institute; and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Important safety studies were also completed with the support of Canada's Centre ...
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Amunix Signs Research Collaboration With Biogen Idec for Next Generation Long ...
Marketwire (press release)
The partnership will combine Amunix's protein half-life engineering expertise, based on its proprietary XTEN technology, and Biogen Idec's broad range of capabilities in research, manufacturing and clinical development of recombinant blood factors for ...
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No shoes needed: Barefoot running research starting to reveal benefits
Yahoo! Sports
Science is now explaining why barefoot running is a great idea and feels good as well. Researchers at the Skeletal Biology Lab at Harvard University have been exploring the dynamics of barefoot running, and they're beginning to suspect that shoeless ...
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Professor Kevin Howley
DePauw University
Much of Howley's research examines independent media that tries to insulate itself from market pressures and government interference of the sort that undermines high-caliber journalism. His work has appeared in Journal of Radio Studies, ...
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DePauw University
Shale gas is not a credible 'new green message'
The Guardian
There are no health reports, no scienfitic studies, and no peer review data of any kind. The entire website is an amatuer NIMBY project full of baseless accusations. One crappy Youtube video isn't science. If it was the Climate Change Deniers would be ...
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IBM, Caltrans and UC Berkeley Aim to Help Commuters Avoid Congested Roadways ...
PR Newswire (press release)
In a technology advance that will ultimately help drivers around the world avoid rush hour traffic jams, IBM Research has developed a new predictive modeling tool that will allow drivers to quickly access personalized travel recommendations to help ...
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Dramatic Business Climate of Semiconductor Industry and Supply Chain Discussed ...
Business Wire (press release)
... via technology roadmaps in end-use markets. The organization was founded in 1994 by a group of semiconductor industry experts. Semico offers custom consulting, portfolio packages, individual market research studies and premier industry conferences.
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New evidence that chronic ulcerative stomatitis is an autoimmune disease
EurekAlert (press release)
"In previous studies, we identified that CUS patients had specific autoantibodies –antibodies produced by an immune response to the body's own tissue – but we weren't sure whether these autoantibodies were contributing to CUS or part of a benign ...
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Economics 101: Long Material, Short Certified Idiots
The Market Oracle
Paul S. Samuelson (1915-2009), the economist who propelled MIT to the forefront of economic studies after World War II, was interviewed by the Atlantic in 2008: "The 1980s trained Macroeconomists - like... Ben Bernanke and so forth -- became a very ...
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TC at AERA 2011
TC Columbia University
Her research was cited for its "impact, relevance to diversity, and contribution to teacher education" and for adding "exemplary innovations in research on diversity;" TC's EdLab Team is participating in seven presentations on the use of technology and ...
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IDC Predicts Smart Systems Microprocessor Cores to Double to Over 12 Billion ...
Marketwire (press release)
The IDC report will be the first in a series of quantitative studies that size and forecast the adoption of technologies, including programmable microprocessors, systems on a chip (SoCs), high-level embedded OSes, and pervasive connectivity ...
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Online Learning: The Pros And Cons Of K-12 Computer Courses
Huffington Post
The Department of Education's review of online learning studies' main finding was that: "Few rigorous research studies of the effectiveness of online learning for K-12 students have been published. A systematic search of the research literature from ...
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Bibliography of Major and Minor Publications discussing Library ...
By Bhushan
Doctoral research in Library and Information Science in India”, by Satija, M.P. DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology, V 18(1), January 1998. “The Relevance of Ph.D Research: A case Study of LIS” by Ramansu Lahiri, University News, ...
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Scripps Research scientists identify mechanism of long-term memory ...
Using advanced imaging technology, scientists from the Florida campus of ... These two studies are the newest in a series of six studies on the topic ... Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! ...
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Harrisburg University - Consumer Insights Research Laboratory ...
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology ... News and Events » News » Consumer Insights Research Laboratory Seeks Participants for Studies ...
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Green Technology and Environmental Science News: Yellowstone ...
... and research professor of geophysics and a coordinating scientist of the Yellowstone ... In the new study, images of the Yellowstone plume's electrical ... Seismic and ground-deformation studies previously showed the top of the ...
www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/42579
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His main research areas are innovation and science policy and modes of ... on public and private internationalisation strategies in science and technology, ... Jakob has studied at the University of Mannheim, Germany and Dartmouth ...
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